Nintendo's problem is that they seem to think more is better, but you can only look at one fucking screen at a time. I believe that, while this kind of gimmick may not intrinsically harm the sales of a video game system (The DS / 3DS seems to do OK) it certainly doesn't help it, and simply adds to the cost.
The only kinds of games I can think of where having a second screen makes sense are something like a multiplayer card or Scrabble game, where you can see your tiles or cards on your Wii U controller's screen but the main play surface is on the TV, and how many games like that are there for the Wii U? It seems pretty expensive to buy a couple extra of the big tablet style controllers just so you can play Scrabble or cards.
Apple has still failed to take responsibility for the massive failure rate of the 2008 Mac Pro. They also never fixed the Titanium PowerBook hinge issue. Apple's generally tried to sweep any massive issues like this under the rug.
Just use a high powered rifle and turn his skull into pink mist. It's not cruel, death is instantaneous, and it only costs a dollar. Less if you use surplus ammo.
One of the techniques mentioned in the catalog sends 2W of power over a 150 MHz (!) bandwidth. Just how would you detect this transmission? I don't really even know if there are receivers this wide-banded but the NSA must have them if they are receiving the transmissions.
Please explain how a transmission with such a small power density can be 'easily' detected. I'd like to know - I have been thinking about this for a while and I have no answer. I'm a radio amateur so I know a bit about the subject.
Where in the Constitution does it say anything at all about marriage? This is the problem with education these days - people have no idea what the Constitution even is.
I'm afraid you don't understand the purpose of lobbying. When AT&T buys enough lawmakers to get a big bunch of free money, they are also buying a promise for regulators to look the other way. In any event, did you read the bill(s) that granted AT&T this money? Somehow I doubt if they are even obligated to lay one inch of new cable, though the wording might imply otherwise to a non-lawyer.
It seems that firearm ownership rights are the only Constitutional issue that this Supreme Court intends on correctly dealing with. At least it's a start - our other rights emanate from the 2nd Amendment.
The issue that is at hand here is that a public library stores books so that they are available to the public. An e-book library doesn't store books or data - it's all rented except for the hardware. One budget misstep and your library goes dark forever. If Amazon decides to change the terms of the deal, you're out of a library.
The medium is an important part of the information, because some media are more stable and reliable than others. Sure, a fire can torch a library accidentally, but one business can not decide to invalidate the library.
Not paranoid enough. The NSA doesn't need to look at bugs that are present in Windows and then craft exploits the hard way. They can simply either use a National Security Letter and force Microsoft to include any vulnerability they wish, or even just use their agents in place inside Microsoft to plant the desired bugs. Most likely it is a combination of the two at work.
Now the ChiCom and the RBN and so forth, they might have a use for these bug reports. But the NSA? Fah!
Actually the term "operating system" in the classic sense means an entire system, kernel, utilities, and userland applications. Everything that the user(s) needs to perform their daily work and other functions they use their computer for. In the classic (correct) sense what you and I casually refer to as an operating system is more technically classed as an environment. The kernel is simply a kernel and ideally can be swapped out for another transparently as long as the interfaces between the environment and the kernel are the same.
Hope this helps, it is good to say what you mean when using technical jargon. Of course, to Grandma, the computer is the OS, the hard drive is that big box that sits between nthe power strip and the TV, and a kernel is the storage format for popcorn.
I'm an amateur radio operator and incandescents are the only lamps that are guaranteed not to cause RFI. Even lot to lot variations in halogen, LED, and CFi bulbs nominally of the same brand and specifications can vary wildly with RFI. Also brown power in this area tends to blow through the energy saving type bulbs, so at $20 a pop and with half the life of a good quality incandescent I am wasting gobs of money.
But yes it's also about freedom. The do-gooders in government should have no right to tell me that I can't use a certain light bulb.
They aren't banned, as you can still buy the rough service bulbs. Newcandescent among others sells them for $2-3 a pop, and they have a 10000 hour life instead of the 1000 hour life that normal bulbs claim. They are cheaper and the light is easier on the eyes than any of the alternatives available at this time. Go rough service, I have a whole case on order and they should last me for decades.
For many years the only way to achieve a vertical orientation on a home computer was to use a Radius monitor, which (for a long time, maybe always?) was only available for the Macintosh. They were very neat - hinged so that you could rotate it and with an orientation sensor, you could freely switch between wide screen horizontal and "tall screen" vertical orientation. There was no need to actually choose which mode you were in manually, as the monitor would sense which orientation it was in and adjust accordingly.
These were available since roughly the Macintosh IIx days.
And as usual no individuals will be held personally accountable for this. Perhaps a general censure will occur, or a mocking speech stating that they didn't do anything wrong thinly veiled as an apology.
Canadians often mock America but it seems that you guys have achieved banana republic status too.
If you believe in the latter you are also a commie.
Creative works or "pap" as I like to call them, are hardly necessary for human culture, and inn fact are probably not even useful except as a way to kill time. Human creativity can be bottled and sold, but this is not how it has to be.
Anyway this "we built this" kind of Commie-speak shouted by Obamatards is insidious. Stop it.
Sadly games these days do aim to either re-enact some previous hit, or target the sub-moronic gamer segment. Many are infected with pay-to-win and pay-to-play-the-whole-game (AKA DLC) models, which makes the experience more frustrating and less immersive. Those that are not infected with either of the micro-moneitzation schemes are still usually either a rehash of Doom, Tetris, or Super Mario Brothers.
The really interesting games, the ones that are time tested and / or not derivative, are usually found on the PC. I am thinking of games like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft (not by bag but still interesting), Nethack, Toribash, and even classics like Freeciv or Star Control II (released for free as the Ur-Quan Masters) all of which have replayability and challenge far exceeding anything the big name studios are churning out. The main reason is that there appears to be a very limited market for a truly original, challenging, or involved game and this market is not pursued aggressively.
I started to replay Skyrim recently, but I have sort of trailed off, wondering why I should bother. I get tired of all the fake Nord accents, the endless fetch or kill quests, the silly dungeons, and the fact that it's just the same shit over and over again. This is the state of easily 99% of games, once you are hand-held through their little story the game loses all interest.
Sadly, all this has made me lose interest in almost all games, excepting the few I mentioned above. It's kiddie shit and moron fodder, with almost nothing for the thinking person in there any more.
These academics are eager to obtain the status that publication in a journal is seen to convey. It is good for their career, and they make valuable social connections with influential gatekeepers. We are told that publication in a journal means that a competent authority has verified or at least pondered the research.
Turns out that this is all bullshit, and that the only people who benefit are the publishing houses and the gatekeepers. Academics are spineless or they would have eschewed this worthless system years ago. They simply don't want to risk their careers by rebelling against the journals, because often times the people on the tenure review boards are also working for the journals.
Ironically, the very purpose of these journals (vetting and verifying) seems broken as people get fake, non-reproducible research published and therefor accepted as fact all the time.
Something smells in the ivory tower. It started smelling decades ago, when supra-geniuses suggested that schools be run more like businesses. Deliberate subversion or just lots of stupid brilliant academics in a circle jerk, blinded by each others' jizz?
It's pretty clear that the Mann crew plotted to deny access to their data, assassinate the reputations of scientists, and redefine the meaning of peer review by insinuating their cronies into positions of power in academic journals, as well as having pet journalists who they could use to spread their lies.
Climatology, and AGW in particular, suffered an enormous blow thanks to the CRU and while you can deny it, and pretend Climategate wasn't the final nail in its coffin, the truth is that the world no longer believes in "climate change" enough to allow it to be the excuse for massive social engineering any more. Not least because none of the proposed solutions would do much good regarding the climate, and are just basic Commie bullshit warmed over with a green camouflage suit.
The "Old-style" BSD license was a problem for Stallman, but consider this: Why would anybody except a person using software that originated from Berkeley use that license? BSD type licenses for software not from Berkeley never had the Berkeley clause.
If you take an island made of porous volcanic rock or coral, it will "sink" over time. relative to the ocean's level. However there are plenty of sea level gauges that show a negligible rise (less than 1cm) in average sea level over centuries.
The Royal Navy operates the longest-running one of these, and the sea levels are fine.
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Nintendo's problem is that they seem to think more is better, but you can only look at one fucking screen at a time. I believe that, while this kind of gimmick may not intrinsically harm the sales of a video game system (The DS / 3DS seems to do OK) it certainly doesn't help it, and simply adds to the cost.
The only kinds of games I can think of where having a second screen makes sense are something like a multiplayer card or Scrabble game, where you can see your tiles or cards on your Wii U controller's screen but the main play surface is on the TV, and how many games like that are there for the Wii U? It seems pretty expensive to buy a couple extra of the big tablet style controllers just so you can play Scrabble or cards.
Apple has still failed to take responsibility for the massive failure rate of the 2008 Mac Pro. They also never fixed the Titanium PowerBook hinge issue. Apple's generally tried to sweep any massive issues like this under the rug.
Just use a high powered rifle and turn his skull into pink mist. It's not cruel, death is instantaneous, and it only costs a dollar. Less if you use surplus ammo.
That is really an amazing speech codec. You could fit 18 (9 full duplex) voice conversations on a standard 5.6 KB/Sec modem link with it.
One of the techniques mentioned in the catalog sends 2W of power over a 150 MHz (!) bandwidth. Just how would you detect this transmission? I don't really even know if there are receivers this wide-banded but the NSA must have them if they are receiving the transmissions.
Please explain how a transmission with such a small power density can be 'easily' detected. I'd like to know - I have been thinking about this for a while and I have no answer. I'm a radio amateur so I know a bit about the subject.
Where in the Constitution does it say anything at all about marriage? This is the problem with education these days - people have no idea what the Constitution even is.
I'm afraid you don't understand the purpose of lobbying. When AT&T buys enough lawmakers to get a big bunch of free money, they are also buying a promise for regulators to look the other way. In any event, did you read the bill(s) that granted AT&T this money? Somehow I doubt if they are even obligated to lay one inch of new cable, though the wording might imply otherwise to a non-lawyer.
It must be nice to be as idealistic as you.
It seems that firearm ownership rights are the only Constitutional issue that this Supreme Court intends on correctly dealing with. At least it's a start - our other rights emanate from the 2nd Amendment.
The issue that is at hand here is that a public library stores books so that they are available to the public. An e-book library doesn't store books or data - it's all rented except for the hardware. One budget misstep and your library goes dark forever. If Amazon decides to change the terms of the deal, you're out of a library.
The medium is an important part of the information, because some media are more stable and reliable than others. Sure, a fire can torch a library accidentally, but one business can not decide to invalidate the library.
Dead trees are still the best thing going.
Not paranoid enough. The NSA doesn't need to look at bugs that are present in Windows and then craft exploits the hard way. They can simply either use a National Security Letter and force Microsoft to include any vulnerability they wish, or even just use their agents in place inside Microsoft to plant the desired bugs. Most likely it is a combination of the two at work.
Now the ChiCom and the RBN and so forth, they might have a use for these bug reports. But the NSA? Fah!
Consumer robotics started off closed? Hero Jr. would like to disagree with you on that one. Once his wheels are unstuck from the carpeting that is...
Actually the term "operating system" in the classic sense means an entire system, kernel, utilities, and userland applications. Everything that the user(s) needs to perform their daily work and other functions they use their computer for. In the classic (correct) sense what you and I casually refer to as an operating system is more technically classed as an environment. The kernel is simply a kernel and ideally can be swapped out for another transparently as long as the interfaces between the environment and the kernel are the same.
Hope this helps, it is good to say what you mean when using technical jargon. Of course, to Grandma, the computer is the OS, the hard drive is that big box that sits between nthe power strip and the TV, and a kernel is the storage format for popcorn.
I'm an amateur radio operator and incandescents are the only lamps that are guaranteed not to cause RFI. Even lot to lot variations in halogen, LED, and CFi bulbs nominally of the same brand and specifications can vary wildly with RFI. Also brown power in this area tends to blow through the energy saving type bulbs, so at $20 a pop and with half the life of a good quality incandescent I am wasting gobs of money.
But yes it's also about freedom. The do-gooders in government should have no right to tell me that I can't use a certain light bulb.
They aren't banned, as you can still buy the rough service bulbs. Newcandescent among others sells them for $2-3 a pop, and they have a 10000 hour life instead of the 1000 hour life that normal bulbs claim. They are cheaper and the light is easier on the eyes than any of the alternatives available at this time. Go rough service, I have a whole case on order and they should last me for decades.
For many years the only way to achieve a vertical orientation on a home computer was to use a Radius monitor, which (for a long time, maybe always?) was only available for the Macintosh. They were very neat - hinged so that you could rotate it and with an orientation sensor, you could freely switch between wide screen horizontal and "tall screen" vertical orientation. There was no need to actually choose which mode you were in manually, as the monitor would sense which orientation it was in and adjust accordingly.
These were available since roughly the Macintosh IIx days.
And as usual no individuals will be held personally accountable for this. Perhaps a general censure will occur, or a mocking speech stating that they didn't do anything wrong thinly veiled as an apology.
Canadians often mock America but it seems that you guys have achieved banana republic status too.
If you believe in the latter you are also a commie.
Creative works or "pap" as I like to call them, are hardly necessary for human culture, and inn fact are probably not even useful except as a way to kill time. Human creativity can be bottled and sold, but this is not how it has to be.
Anyway this "we built this" kind of Commie-speak shouted by Obamatards is insidious. Stop it.
Sadly games these days do aim to either re-enact some previous hit, or target the sub-moronic gamer segment. Many are infected with pay-to-win and pay-to-play-the-whole-game (AKA DLC) models, which makes the experience more frustrating and less immersive. Those that are not infected with either of the micro-moneitzation schemes are still usually either a rehash of Doom, Tetris, or Super Mario Brothers.
The really interesting games, the ones that are time tested and / or not derivative, are usually found on the PC. I am thinking of games like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft (not by bag but still interesting), Nethack, Toribash, and even classics like Freeciv or Star Control II (released for free as the Ur-Quan Masters) all of which have replayability and challenge far exceeding anything the big name studios are churning out. The main reason is that there appears to be a very limited market for a truly original, challenging, or involved game and this market is not pursued aggressively.
I started to replay Skyrim recently, but I have sort of trailed off, wondering why I should bother. I get tired of all the fake Nord accents, the endless fetch or kill quests, the silly dungeons, and the fact that it's just the same shit over and over again. This is the state of easily 99% of games, once you are hand-held through their little story the game loses all interest.
Sadly, all this has made me lose interest in almost all games, excepting the few I mentioned above. It's kiddie shit and moron fodder, with almost nothing for the thinking person in there any more.
These academics are eager to obtain the status that publication in a journal is seen to convey. It is good for their career, and they make valuable social connections with influential gatekeepers. We are told that publication in a journal means that a competent authority has verified or at least pondered the research.
Turns out that this is all bullshit, and that the only people who benefit are the publishing houses and the gatekeepers. Academics are spineless or they would have eschewed this worthless system years ago. They simply don't want to risk their careers by rebelling against the journals, because often times the people on the tenure review boards are also working for the journals.
Ironically, the very purpose of these journals (vetting and verifying) seems broken as people get fake, non-reproducible research published and therefor accepted as fact all the time.
Something smells in the ivory tower. It started smelling decades ago, when supra-geniuses suggested that schools be run more like businesses. Deliberate subversion or just lots of stupid brilliant academics in a circle jerk, blinded by each others' jizz?
It's pretty clear that the Mann crew plotted to deny access to their data, assassinate the reputations of scientists, and redefine the meaning of peer review by insinuating their cronies into positions of power in academic journals, as well as having pet journalists who they could use to spread their lies.
Climatology, and AGW in particular, suffered an enormous blow thanks to the CRU and while you can deny it, and pretend Climategate wasn't the final nail in its coffin, the truth is that the world no longer believes in "climate change" enough to allow it to be the excuse for massive social engineering any more. Not least because none of the proposed solutions would do much good regarding the climate, and are just basic Commie bullshit warmed over with a green camouflage suit.
They're both related to the personification of Finnish patriotism, Unnclle Sammio. He wears all black and sports a hat made of kippers.
The "Old-style" BSD license was a problem for Stallman, but consider this: Why would anybody except a person using software that originated from Berkeley use that license? BSD type licenses for software not from Berkeley never had the Berkeley clause.
So there really is no problem at all.
I wonder what it costs to buy a Slashvertisement? Probably not that much, considering all the hare-brained crap we see featured in them.
I will hand it to them, though - this one is dumber than most of the ones I have seen.
If you take an island made of porous volcanic rock or coral, it will "sink" over time. relative to the ocean's level. However there are plenty of sea level gauges that show a negligible rise (less than 1cm) in average sea level over centuries.
The Royal Navy operates the longest-running one of these, and the sea levels are fine.
Just so you know, you can't sue a Federal Government agency without its permission.