It is like science, it doesn't matter who comes up with the evidence or the theory to explain it. The only thing that matters whether it's correct or not.
I guess, however I think the joule, watt, newton, tesla, ampere, degree celsius, degree fahrenheit, volt and many others would probably have something to say about it.
Hundreds and thousands of man hours would have been spent by private corporations on research into things which would be useful to the common man.
You're right. The pharmaceutical companies drug race to create the next Viagara over the next cancer cure really has shown how useful their research can be to the common man. And how much Corporate and private university R&D is funded by government grants from organizations like the NIH and the NSF? I would say quite a bit. Companies tend to spend only about 1% of sales on R&D - not that much, especially when compared with how large their budgets need to be.
My question would be, what can I expect training to be like? Obviously I would expect to go through some kind of basic training similar to regular recruits, but what kind of technical training would occur? If I'm in ROTC and getting a Bachelors or Associates in Computer Science or Math, is there some form of advanced training that is necessary? What platforms/technologies can I expect to use? Are there different types - networking, application security or even some form of hardware protection? How about encryption?
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You think adding the Government would help improve mapping products? I'll keep my tax dollars, thanks.
I would point out that Government funding is the reason that you are able to A) connect to thousands of computers/websites across the globe right now, and B) the reason that you even have a "computer" sitting on your desk. Ironically, this funding is also the reason that satillites in space can provide us with overhead images that you see in Google Maps and the like as well.
Things will improve in what, 10 years? 20 years? We're still dealing with ethernet speeds of MAYBE 100mbps from your content provider. Gigabit ethernet from your provider to your home is so far off it's not even worth contemplating. Until then you still have the same old 25 gigs to download over your 100mb line. I'm not holding my breath for downloadable content.
Hell, I own a PS3 and I still don't trust the data I store on the hard drive. There's no backup! I'd rather have the physical copy of the disk. My electronic stuff is backed up on my linux server with RAID 1 and serves as a media server to the PS3 anyways. I don't use that hard drive.
My point is that even if HD content gets to the downloadable stage, without reliable data backup I think a lot of people will see it as just a novelty in the beginning. It'll take years for it to catch up with the physical medium. So, figure 5 years at least to upgrade the network, and 5 years to stabilize, you're looking at 10 years for agressive progress at least.
I'm not saying it's justified, but equating abortion clinic bombers with people who bomb embassies because of cartoons is ludicrous. One is a place that is actually carrying out a physical process of ending life that they believe should be protected. The other is just... cartoons.
I think you just did say it's justified - you're saying they're not the same thing. I would say that bombings in general end lives and thus are the same thing. You argue the ends justify the means. That's like saying it's okay that you murder a homeless person versus murdering a police officer - something that many states in the US agree with, by the way. It's a capital crime to kill a police officer. It's not always a capital crime to kill a homeless person. I would argue that in both cases a human being is dead and it doesn't matter who they are. Killing someone is not justifiable in any situation.
This has been pointed out before, but Sony has already won a few format wars. They were the creator of the 3.5" floppy (or 90mm disk in UK, right?) and partnered with Phillips to create the Compact Disc.
I'm going to agree with you on the 640p whatever comments. I really don't care that Halo did some weird resolution tricks - I saw the game for the first time this week and it looks pretty good for a next gen game. Not Crysis good, but better than say Resistance did on the PS3.
However, I don't agree with this comment:
but consoles aren't the place to be looking for good FPS multiplayer gaming anyways.
I think that Xbox Live really set the bar in this last gen and you can see games like Warhawk (split screen multiplayer on a dedicated server) set the bar this gen. Matchmaking and dedicated servers really are going to become a staple this time around, and I don't think that the PC can claim this as much anymore. Especially now that UT3 supports mouse and keyboard on PS3 and most likely will do so for 360 as well.
The original Halo really kind of pushed things ahead when it was originally released for multiplayer on a console. I expect that it should do so in this gen as well.
Oh, and I'm sick and tired of the 8 hour FPS games. I want 20 hours minimum. That's a game. 8 hours is too short for entertainment value.
Wish I had my modpoints left from this afternoon...
This guy has no right to privacy. He specifically consented to Circuit City fixing his PC. It's not as though they invaded his home and took the PC away. It also sounds as though he took very little if any action to conceal the files, so they were right out there in the open. If his neighbor had been fixing his PC at his home and found these files, he'd still have no right to privacy.
I'm not going to start a flamewar because they're stupid, but check out that link (which obviously no one else checked out which is why you got marked interesting) which generates 29,000 hits. Eight out of the first 10 results are from November and December 2006, or one year ago. One is from May, the other is from July. If this problem was so rampant, I think it would have much more recent activity. On the other hand, I would say that this is a more serious and documented problem and generates 800,000 hits.
In the long run, it's cheaper. How much do batteries cost? How much does a new controller cost? How often do you have to replace the controller with rechargable batteries? How often do you have to replace the double AA batteries?
Listen troll, I own a PS3 and I've never ever had the controller lose connection. I've had the damn console for a year, and I've never had an issue with that. So where the heck are you getting your information? And why on earth would you want a controller with AA batteries? I actually prefer the battery inside the controller so that I don't have to deal with switching them out when the battery dies.
Yeah...this does sound a little suspicious. You think it would have been noted before. I don't have a 360 so I can't comment. What is the PS3 doing to avoid this I wonder?
Note that if this is true and the 360 really is using the 2.4ghz spectrum, you could point to this as evidence that selling their own wireless gizmo separately to make extra cash kind of came back to bite them in the ass - Sony would have figured this out pretty quickly when the wireless internet and the wiress controllers didn't work well together.
Hey 2006! It's great to meet you. I'm so happy you didn't notice the pricedrops this year. Yes, they sold the console for $600 one year ago. But I think you'd have to be a moron or live in Europe to pay that much at this point. And based on the fact that you cite dollars and not euros/pounds/yen/canadian, I doubt the latter applies to you.
Second, Greenpeace does provide suggestions, just not offered as part of the report. You can find links to their reports by starting here. This one (PDF warning!) provides suggestions for ways to reduce environmental impact in electronics. Personally, I don't see why it's Greenpeace's responsibility to dictate to a company how to make their product. Nor do I think that company wants Greenpeace to interfere in their design.
If there's misinformation in the report, that's something that should be addressed. But do we really need more policy makers interfering in the technology industries? I think we have enough of that already.
However, the PS3 does allow you to install linux (in a hypervisor of course) and program a few of the SPUs individually, which means for $600 bucks you get a nice multi-core machine that you can program. IBM's distributed framework for CELL also works with the PS3 as well.
Of course, those who have botnets usually don't pay for their CPU resources...
The PS3 isn't hard to develop for if you have any kind of clue about programming. Infinity Ward is already showing that. The install base is increasing fast so developers are going to be interested in keeping sales going. It's this ongoing meme that the PS3 is so hard to develop for that hurts it. However, Sony released a huge tookpack back in January targeting developers with issues on the PS3. If the development house doesn't use it, it's their own fault when the code doesn't run well.
Somebody else has already pointed out that it was EA's fault, not really Valve's which is true. But it's also true that Infinity Ward did what other developers haven't - developed from scratch for the PS3. You can't port 360/PC code well to the PS3 platform. It's the painful truth. I love my PS3 but I fear that this kind of lack of portability really may hurt the platform.
On the other hand, porting from the PS3 to the 360 has had some success to my knowledge. Maybe that's the way these developers should go?
Some commenters on the blogs I've read are quick to write this off as Gabe Newell hating on the PS3. I really don't think that's it. It's just that EA couldn't code for a non-Microsoft platform if it's life depended on it. Everything they put out for the PSP had bugs (two Maddens, NCAA Football, Sims 2), and now bugs on HL for the PS3. I've decided that EA couldn't code themselves out of a black box.
Fault lays about 90% on EA and about 10% on Valve for trusting EA's coders. If this actually is the case, then it definitely will tarnish Valve's reputation which has been pretty good (barring initial Steam issues) to this point.
No, this is the place to mention that, and then your peers will vote for it here.
Also, while it's nice to see widespread support, Vendetta Online has been doing this for quite a while, and you can find a comprehensive list of Linux-supporting MMO's here. Submitting that as a story would have born that out, no doubt.
The sales haven't been beating the Wii. That's all fine and dandy, as neither is the "mature" 360. But when you line up the sales, you see that the PS3 is on track with the 360. Sure, it's comparatively weak up until this point, but the sales rates have been exactly the same.
Combine that with the fact that the PS3 is outselling the 360 in Japan, and it just doubled the 360's sales for last week (less than a month after the Halo 3 release) and even beat the Wii, and I'd say it's too early to put a death knell in the PS3 for this holiday season. You still have UT3 and Haze coming out, along with many other games on the horizon. Price cuts and game releases are both what hte consumer has asked for and what Sony is giving them. To write the console off this early is crazy.
You mean like Poker, a card game where the players get cards from the same deck?
While I'm not an expert in CCG, I think I would argue that randomness plays a larger part in Poker then in a game like Magic. How random is this game when you can choose the cards you wish to put in your deck before the game begins? That's like stacking a deck in Poker so you always get a flush...
I used to love the Netbeans GUI builder - it basically did everything for me with no problems. However, once I took an acutal UI Design course where we wrote the code from scratch, I found it easier to design and write the code without hte builder than with it. The GUI builder doesn't really let you modify the structure of the code that much (which makes sense since it's automated) so you end up with this huuuuge initialization function and crazy callback setups that really don't scale well at all. It's nice if you're building a small front end, but for complex GUIs or for MVC it gets a bit hairy and hard to manage, especially with code control and multiple developers.
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It is like science, it doesn't matter who comes up with the evidence or the theory to explain it. The only thing that matters whether it's correct or not.
I guess, however I think the joule, watt, newton, tesla, ampere, degree celsius, degree fahrenheit, volt and many others would probably have something to say about it.
Hundreds and thousands of man hours would have been spent by private corporations on research into things which would be useful to the common man.
You're right. The pharmaceutical companies drug race to create the next Viagara over the next cancer cure really has shown how useful their research can be to the common man. And how much Corporate and private university R&D is funded by government grants from organizations like the NIH and the NSF? I would say quite a bit. Companies tend to spend only about 1% of sales on R&D - not that much, especially when compared with how large their budgets need to be.
My question would be, what can I expect training to be like? Obviously I would expect to go through some kind of basic training similar to regular recruits, but what kind of technical training would occur? If I'm in ROTC and getting a Bachelors or Associates in Computer Science or Math, is there some form of advanced training that is necessary? What platforms/technologies can I expect to use? Are there different types - networking, application security or even some form of hardware protection? How about encryption?
You think adding the Government would help improve mapping products? I'll keep my tax dollars, thanks.
I would point out that Government funding is the reason that you are able to A) connect to thousands of computers/websites across the globe right now, and B) the reason that you even have a "computer" sitting on your desk. Ironically, this funding is also the reason that satillites in space can provide us with overhead images that you see in Google Maps and the like as well.
Things will improve in what, 10 years? 20 years? We're still dealing with ethernet speeds of MAYBE 100mbps from your content provider. Gigabit ethernet from your provider to your home is so far off it's not even worth contemplating. Until then you still have the same old 25 gigs to download over your 100mb line. I'm not holding my breath for downloadable content.
Hell, I own a PS3 and I still don't trust the data I store on the hard drive. There's no backup! I'd rather have the physical copy of the disk. My electronic stuff is backed up on my linux server with RAID 1 and serves as a media server to the PS3 anyways. I don't use that hard drive.
My point is that even if HD content gets to the downloadable stage, without reliable data backup I think a lot of people will see it as just a novelty in the beginning. It'll take years for it to catch up with the physical medium. So, figure 5 years at least to upgrade the network, and 5 years to stabilize, you're looking at 10 years for agressive progress at least.
I'm not saying it's justified, but equating abortion clinic bombers with people who bomb embassies because of cartoons is ludicrous. One is a place that is actually carrying out a physical process of ending life that they believe should be protected. The other is just... cartoons.
I think you just did say it's justified - you're saying they're not the same thing. I would say that bombings in general end lives and thus are the same thing. You argue the ends justify the means. That's like saying it's okay that you murder a homeless person versus murdering a police officer - something that many states in the US agree with, by the way. It's a capital crime to kill a police officer. It's not always a capital crime to kill a homeless person. I would argue that in both cases a human being is dead and it doesn't matter who they are. Killing someone is not justifiable in any situation.
This has been pointed out before, but Sony has already won a few format wars. They were the creator of the 3.5" floppy (or 90mm disk in UK, right?) and partnered with Phillips to create the Compact Disc.
I'm going to agree with you on the 640p whatever comments. I really don't care that Halo did some weird resolution tricks - I saw the game for the first time this week and it looks pretty good for a next gen game. Not Crysis good, but better than say Resistance did on the PS3.
However, I don't agree with this comment:
but consoles aren't the place to be looking for good FPS multiplayer gaming anyways.
I think that Xbox Live really set the bar in this last gen and you can see games like Warhawk (split screen multiplayer on a dedicated server) set the bar this gen. Matchmaking and dedicated servers really are going to become a staple this time around, and I don't think that the PC can claim this as much anymore. Especially now that UT3 supports mouse and keyboard on PS3 and most likely will do so for 360 as well.
The original Halo really kind of pushed things ahead when it was originally released for multiplayer on a console. I expect that it should do so in this gen as well.
Oh, and I'm sick and tired of the 8 hour FPS games. I want 20 hours minimum. That's a game. 8 hours is too short for entertainment value.
Wish I had my modpoints left from this afternoon...
This guy has no right to privacy. He specifically consented to Circuit City fixing his PC. It's not as though they invaded his home and took the PC away. It also sounds as though he took very little if any action to conceal the files, so they were right out there in the open. If his neighbor had been fixing his PC at his home and found these files, he'd still have no right to privacy.
This is a Darwin Award nominee in my mind.
I'm not going to start a flamewar because they're stupid, but check out that link (which obviously no one else checked out which is why you got marked interesting) which generates 29,000 hits. Eight out of the first 10 results are from November and December 2006, or one year ago. One is from May, the other is from July. If this problem was so rampant, I think it would have much more recent activity. On the other hand, I would say that this is a more serious and documented problem and generates 800,000 hits.
In the long run, it's cheaper. How much do batteries cost? How much does a new controller cost? How often do you have to replace the controller with rechargable batteries? How often do you have to replace the double AA batteries?
Listen troll, I own a PS3 and I've never ever had the controller lose connection. I've had the damn console for a year, and I've never had an issue with that. So where the heck are you getting your information? And why on earth would you want a controller with AA batteries? I actually prefer the battery inside the controller so that I don't have to deal with switching them out when the battery dies.
See I thought that the 360 was using bluetooth. I didn't realize they weren't.
or are you just happy to see me?
Yeah...this does sound a little suspicious. You think it would have been noted before. I don't have a 360 so I can't comment. What is the PS3 doing to avoid this I wonder?
Note that if this is true and the 360 really is using the 2.4ghz spectrum, you could point to this as evidence that selling their own wireless gizmo separately to make extra cash kind of came back to bite them in the ass - Sony would have figured this out pretty quickly when the wireless internet and the wiress controllers didn't work well together.
Hey 2006! It's great to meet you. I'm so happy you didn't notice the price drops this year. Yes, they sold the console for $600 one year ago. But I think you'd have to be a moron or live in Europe to pay that much at this point. And based on the fact that you cite dollars and not euros/pounds/yen/canadian, I doubt the latter applies to you.
First, the original article should link to the original Greenpeace report.
Second, Greenpeace does provide suggestions, just not offered as part of the report. You can find links to their reports by starting here. This one (PDF warning!) provides suggestions for ways to reduce environmental impact in electronics. Personally, I don't see why it's Greenpeace's responsibility to dictate to a company how to make their product. Nor do I think that company wants Greenpeace to interfere in their design.
If there's misinformation in the report, that's something that should be addressed. But do we really need more policy makers interfering in the technology industries? I think we have enough of that already.
However, the PS3 does allow you to install linux (in a hypervisor of course) and program a few of the SPUs individually, which means for $600 bucks you get a nice multi-core machine that you can program. IBM's distributed framework for CELL also works with the PS3 as well.
Of course, those who have botnets usually don't pay for their CPU resources...
The PS3 isn't hard to develop for if you have any kind of clue about programming. Infinity Ward is already showing that. The install base is increasing fast so developers are going to be interested in keeping sales going. It's this ongoing meme that the PS3 is so hard to develop for that hurts it. However, Sony released a huge tookpack back in January targeting developers with issues on the PS3. If the development house doesn't use it, it's their own fault when the code doesn't run well.
Somebody else has already pointed out that it was EA's fault, not really Valve's which is true. But it's also true that Infinity Ward did what other developers haven't - developed from scratch for the PS3. You can't port 360/PC code well to the PS3 platform. It's the painful truth. I love my PS3 but I fear that this kind of lack of portability really may hurt the platform.
On the other hand, porting from the PS3 to the 360 has had some success to my knowledge. Maybe that's the way these developers should go?
Some commenters on the blogs I've read are quick to write this off as Gabe Newell hating on the PS3. I really don't think that's it. It's just that EA couldn't code for a non-Microsoft platform if it's life depended on it. Everything they put out for the PSP had bugs (two Maddens, NCAA Football, Sims 2), and now bugs on HL for the PS3. I've decided that EA couldn't code themselves out of a black box.
Fault lays about 90% on EA and about 10% on Valve for trusting EA's coders. If this actually is the case, then it definitely will tarnish Valve's reputation which has been pretty good (barring initial Steam issues) to this point.
No, this is the place to mention that, and then your peers will vote for it here.
Also, while it's nice to see widespread support, Vendetta Online has been doing this for quite a while, and you can find a comprehensive list of Linux-supporting MMO's here. Submitting that as a story would have born that out, no doubt.
The sales haven't been beating the Wii. That's all fine and dandy, as neither is the "mature" 360. But when you line up the sales, you see that the PS3 is on track with the 360. Sure, it's comparatively weak up until this point, but the sales rates have been exactly the same.
Combine that with the fact that the PS3 is outselling the 360 in Japan, and it just doubled the 360's sales for last week (less than a month after the Halo 3 release) and even beat the Wii, and I'd say it's too early to put a death knell in the PS3 for this holiday season. You still have UT3 and Haze coming out, along with many other games on the horizon. Price cuts and game releases are both what hte consumer has asked for and what Sony is giving them. To write the console off this early is crazy.
You mean like Poker, a card game where the players get cards from the same deck?
While I'm not an expert in CCG, I think I would argue that randomness plays a larger part in Poker then in a game like Magic. How random is this game when you can choose the cards you wish to put in your deck before the game begins? That's like stacking a deck in Poker so you always get a flush...
I used to love the Netbeans GUI builder - it basically did everything for me with no problems. However, once I took an acutal UI Design course where we wrote the code from scratch, I found it easier to design and write the code without hte builder than with it. The GUI builder doesn't really let you modify the structure of the code that much (which makes sense since it's automated) so you end up with this huuuuge initialization function and crazy callback setups that really don't scale well at all. It's nice if you're building a small front end, but for complex GUIs or for MVC it gets a bit hairy and hard to manage, especially with code control and multiple developers.
Just my opinion.