Yah but if Hilary spearheads the study, inevitably it will be found that games influence younger minds to become violent or make poor decisions.
Conversly, if Take-Two spearheaded the study and it was found that videogames are great for kids in the ways the article discusses, and that football is just as bad as we think videogames are, then the study will washed out by the political masses as being biased.
My TimeWarner supplied DVR can hold ~35 hours of NON-HD content. Mix in some HD and the quantity of content drops.
Now you show me this item and say it can record all the shows on TV for a month..thats 672 hours at least, for just one can it view? Is this HD or non-HD content? What will this due to the bandwith coming into my apt? They'll need an awfully large pipe to get in all 400 of my channels.
This summary / article really don't tell me anything useful other than a vaporware update.
Wireless is a thing of the future, everything, eventually, will be wireless (unless an evironment or process forbids it).
Also, combining devices is also a thing of the future..it doesn't make sense to have 3 different devices with three different chargers that can't communicate, or communicate with some beat-arse protocol
It was destined that the iPod, since it is the defacto portable music player would become wireless, integrated with a cellphone, and eventually into a PDA/ICBM launcher.
The integration could go the other way, with the cellphone becoming the Mp3 player, but since the iPod is proven, and has a large fan-base (who in all likely-hood own cellphones), going in this direction will snare many more people.
FYI - I am an Electrical Engineer, working at a power company that is currently investigating this technology...
With that being said, the modification of the power system for use in a smaller area is very minimal depending on the type of installation. There are various different ways that technologies are going at the problem of getting the data from the power-line to the customer.
To get it in the vicinity of the customer, they put a modem, or something equivalent, at the circuit exit of the substation which would then in burn be connected to the internet via fiber or some other sort of heavy data-tranismission protocol.
The signal is then sent down the line and piped into a customers house one of many ways, one being a wireless connection from the pole-top to their house. Others being a coupling device transfers the signal from the several thousand volt (up to 14kV) to the 120V/240V wire into your home....from there you can plug a modem into a power outlet, and voila...
For the record....I know a reasonably large amount of people, both tech-saavy and neophyte. I do not know of anyone that consistently, if ever, has paid for a legal music download.
That being said, I do know people that download music illegaly, and there are those that purchase CDs..
These statistics suggest that over 1/3 of the people I know that listen to music, use pay-to-listen/download services? I have trouble swallowing this..
I don't see a reason this won't be uphelp, it doesn't seem reasonable that a company can say "you have to use my product x with my product y or use neither at all" and then try to quash a fair-market solution...
Granted, Apple says you have to use OSX on genuine or certified fake (wtf is that??) but if a solution comes up like PearPC does that mean that its against what Lexmark is fighting, or just violating the EULA?
Does anyone know if the mission plan is similar to this....
Build a spaceship and accessories that will get us to Mars safely and quickly, but then to test it on trips to and from the moon?
It seems that developing hardware and software for a Moon trip. Then developing more hardware and software for a Mars trip might be a little cumbersome and expensive.
IMHO, it would be more beneficial for us to build the Mars equipment, and fly it around space for a few months (simulate a trip to Mars in time duration), but always be within a (relatively) short & safe distance from Earth.
That would seal the deal for me, and probably many others.
I think that it isn't outside of reason, its touted that the GBA is just as powerful as the SNES, so the hardware requirements apparently are close to being met....
I'm really on the fence with this one, for the record I am a geek, with wireless access in my residence, and would definetly use it if offered by a muncipality.
I understand how free wifi would potentially bring boom to a growing economic area, but should we all pay for it out of pocket?
Afterall, we aren't paying for the water / sewage / electricity / heat of growing businesses, why should we pay for their internet?
But then there is this... if we might be better off paying for it from a private compnay, ala verizon. That way we'll get it at a better price (no muni's are even close to efficient), and people that don't want it don't pay for it.
In my opinion, one of the most important aspects of a laptop is how well it enters and leaves sleep mode. Use an Apple laptop for an idea of how close to ideal you can get.
My IBM laptop, an older model, does not sleep well, the battery may last a little longer, but its not dead like an Apple laptop is. Perfect entering and exiting sleep mode, and Linux will get a toe-hold
I think that I have to disagree with you, to a degree. While I give you that there are a lot of rehashed plotlines (aliens on mars), the introduction of new technology into videogames does give designers more options.
When the nintendo was first released, who would have believed that we'd be able to play head to head, across the globe on the internet from our couches? This new technology incorporated into home entertainment systems does allow designers to
try new things, go out on a limb. Even the advanced microprocessors in the PS2 allow us to model physics in a more realistic sense (your favorite Katamari)...
Before Katamari, you never would have thought about a game like that, not a million years, but whos to say that exact thing isn't going happen with the new Playstation or XBOX? Certainly not you, me, or anyone else here....
Nobody can tell you what the next revolutionary idea is, nobody has thought of it yet, so for you to declare that these consoles won't have anything except a shiny coat of paint is ridiculous...
I'm just sick to death of hearing the 'no new idea' trolls
I am very confident that someone involved with the movie realized this was an error, but you must also realize that a good portion of the population that sees the movies, buys the toys etc. may very well answer phones for a living, and not understand the subtleties of space exploration as well as a veteran/.'er.
It wouldn't have been exciting if nothing unexpected happens...even if the even isn't accurate...
If you really want an explanation: Maybe the computer sensors detect the large mass of the nearby planet, and create the artificial gravity field in a particular orientation in order to generate a sense of 'up & down' when in close proximity to something like a planet.
All this talk of the mice, but what of 'high-performance' mousepads? I recently upgraded from a regular wooden desk to a 20$ job, I can't remember the name of the company, something 1080, but the mouse just glides across it. I personally think this was an excellent upgrade to make, not only for gaming, but overall computing pleasure...I'm even contemplating purchasing a second for my work machine...
I have a MS natural keyboard and a 5 button optical intellimouse.
Anyone else wondering if possibly this is actually just a pay service where you will receive timely updates to the OS to fix potential virii / vulnerability infection???
what happens with your iMac on one year, when the new one is released with a blazing new videocard? You either buy a new one, or you cry yourself to sleep everynight.
With the PowerMac you just slot in a new card to one of the built in slots.
To summarize, the PowerMac offers a lot more potential than the iMac, you're paying for all of the future possibilities...
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Yah but if Hilary spearheads the study, inevitably it will be found that games influence younger minds to become violent or make poor decisions.
Conversly, if Take-Two spearheaded the study and it was found that videogames are great for kids in the ways the article discusses, and that football is just as bad as we think videogames are, then the study will washed out by the political masses as being biased.
Lose - Lose situation
My TimeWarner supplied DVR can hold ~35 hours of NON-HD content. Mix in some HD and the quantity of content drops.
Now you show me this item and say it can record all the shows on TV for a month..thats 672 hours at least, for just one can it view? Is this HD or non-HD content? What will this due to the bandwith coming into my apt? They'll need an awfully large pipe to get in all 400 of my channels.
This summary / article really don't tell me anything useful other than a vaporware update.
Wireless is a thing of the future, everything, eventually, will be wireless (unless an evironment or process forbids it).
Also, combining devices is also a thing of the future..it doesn't make sense to have 3 different devices with three different chargers that can't communicate, or communicate with some beat-arse protocol
It was destined that the iPod, since it is the defacto portable music player would become wireless, integrated with a cellphone, and eventually into a PDA/ICBM launcher.
The integration could go the other way, with the cellphone becoming the Mp3 player, but since the iPod is proven, and has a large fan-base (who in all likely-hood own cellphones), going in this direction will snare many more people.
FYI - I am an Electrical Engineer, working at a power company that is currently investigating this technology...
With that being said, the modification of the power system for use in a smaller area is very minimal depending on the type of installation. There are various different ways that technologies are going at the problem of getting the data from the power-line to the customer.
To get it in the vicinity of the customer, they put a modem, or something equivalent, at the circuit exit of the substation which would then in burn be connected to the internet via fiber or some other sort of heavy data-tranismission protocol.
The signal is then sent down the line and piped into a customers house one of many ways, one being a wireless connection from the pole-top to their house. Others being a coupling device transfers the signal from the several thousand volt (up to 14kV) to the 120V/240V wire into your home....from there you can plug a modem into a power outlet, and voila...
In other related news, 57% of all internet browsers in the US either: Have been able to navitage to getfirefox.com and/or Have a porn addiction
For the record....I know a reasonably large amount of people, both tech-saavy and neophyte. I do not know of anyone that consistently, if ever, has paid for a legal music download.
That being said, I do know people that download music illegaly, and there are those that purchase CDs..
These statistics suggest that over 1/3 of the people I know that listen to music, use pay-to-listen/download services? I have trouble swallowing this..
as if having the bsod on your pc wasn't bad enough, now you can hang it on your wall!
I've never realized this, but you're right. I watched them in order, without ep3, but you definetly hit the nail on the head.
If I had mod points, I would have...
I don't see a reason this won't be uphelp, it doesn't seem reasonable that a company can say "you have to use my product x with my product y or use neither at all" and then try to quash a fair-market solution...
Granted, Apple says you have to use OSX on genuine or certified fake (wtf is that??) but if a solution comes up like PearPC does that mean that its against what Lexmark is fighting, or just violating the EULA?
Does anyone know if the mission plan is similar to this....
Build a spaceship and accessories that will get us to Mars safely and quickly, but then to test it on trips to and from the moon?
It seems that developing hardware and software for a Moon trip. Then developing more hardware and software for a Mars trip might be a little cumbersome and expensive.
IMHO, it would be more beneficial for us to build the Mars equipment, and fly it around space for a few months (simulate a trip to Mars in time duration), but always be within a (relatively) short & safe distance from Earth.
Next step, GBA games.
That would seal the deal for me, and probably many others.
I think that it isn't outside of reason, its touted that the GBA is just as powerful as the SNES, so the hardware requirements apparently are close to being met....
This is correct. Many areas of Africa finally getting some cash in hand, or from the US, are skipping the wired step, and going right to wireless.
Its easiar to put up a tower then it is to string miles of conductor.
Hell, 90% the people my age at work don't have land lines, they have cellphones.
I'm really on the fence with this one, for the record I am a geek, with wireless access in my residence, and would definetly use it if offered by a muncipality.
I understand how free wifi would potentially bring boom to a growing economic area, but should we all pay for it out of pocket?
Afterall, we aren't paying for the water / sewage / electricity / heat of growing businesses, why should we pay for their internet?
But then there is this... if we might be better off paying for it from a private compnay, ala verizon. That way we'll get it at a better price (no muni's are even close to efficient), and people that don't want it don't pay for it.
In my opinion, one of the most important aspects of a laptop is how well it enters and leaves sleep mode. Use an Apple laptop for an idea of how close to ideal you can get.
My IBM laptop, an older model, does not sleep well, the battery may last a little longer, but its not dead like an Apple laptop is. Perfect entering and exiting sleep mode, and Linux will get a toe-hold
I think that I have to disagree with you, to a degree. While I give you that there are a lot of rehashed plotlines (aliens on mars), the introduction of new technology into videogames does give designers more options.
When the nintendo was first released, who would have believed that we'd be able to play head to head, across the globe on the internet from our couches? This new technology incorporated into home entertainment systems does allow designers to try new things, go out on a limb. Even the advanced microprocessors in the PS2 allow us to model physics in a more realistic sense (your favorite Katamari)...
Before Katamari, you never would have thought about a game like that, not a million years, but whos to say that exact thing isn't going happen with the new Playstation or XBOX? Certainly not you, me, or anyone else here....
Nobody can tell you what the next revolutionary idea is, nobody has thought of it yet, so for you to declare that these consoles won't have anything except a shiny coat of paint is ridiculous...
I'm just sick to death of hearing the 'no new idea' trolls
I am very confident that someone involved with the movie realized this was an error, but you must also realize that a good portion of the population that sees the movies, buys the toys etc. may very well answer phones for a living, and not understand the subtleties of space exploration as well as a veteran /.'er.
It wouldn't have been exciting if nothing unexpected happens...even if the even isn't accurate...
If you really want an explanation: Maybe the computer sensors detect the large mass of the nearby planet, and create the artificial gravity field in a particular orientation in order to generate a sense of 'up & down' when in close proximity to something like a planet.
I never found tracking to be a problem, but the actual physical movement of the mouse is a lot easiar to start and finish accurately on these pads...
i think its probably because the coefficient of static and kinetic frcction are almost the say (IAAE - I am an engineer)
That's the one, thanks.
All this talk of the mice, but what of 'high-performance' mousepads? I recently upgraded from a regular wooden desk to a 20$ job, I can't remember the name of the company, something 1080, but the mouse just glides across it. I personally think this was an excellent upgrade to make, not only for gaming, but overall computing pleasure...I'm even contemplating purchasing a second for my work machine...
I have a MS natural keyboard and a 5 button optical intellimouse.
Anyone else wondering if possibly this is actually just a pay service where you will receive timely updates to the OS to fix potential virii / vulnerability infection???
No, but it makes me, and many other cheap people jealous...
what happens with your iMac on one year, when the new one is released with a blazing new videocard? You either buy a new one, or you cry yourself to sleep everynight.
With the PowerMac you just slot in a new card to one of the built in slots.
To summarize, the PowerMac offers a lot more potential than the iMac, you're paying for all of the future possibilities...
one word...Holocaust?
Tatoos may be a good way to ID these people, but in all seriousness, I think using a Tat' for identity's sake has become very, very taboo.
Not to say that their crime doesn't deserve worse, it certainly does, but there other ways.
Why don't they just give them all t-shirts they have to wear instead?
In 10 years its going to be there anyways, lets save the taxpayers some $$$ and cut to the chase.
Wellll, because what if all these stories are no longer posted because there was a fee required?
Fark, Google and the like wouldn't have much news to link to if the news was never posted...
I personally don't really enjoy about:blank