It sounds like they are into the whole casual thing, which if he doesn't wanna get more PS3 games I'd say put together one of those E350 AMD DVD player sized PCs together, slap on Steam, and let the kids go to town.
Let me tell ya with two teen boys Steam is like manna from heaven, the Xmas sale is always full of great games dirt cheap, so i can just tell them "here is what you have to spend, go nuts" and let them load up. Of course they both have decent gaming PCs but for casual gaming the E350 not only works great but slap a 1Tb drive in it and its a great media tank as well. with all the indies signing onto Steam they could have new games practically every day for cheap or free and the E350 kits are dirt cheap.
But buying another console now would be retarded, we all know they are all gonna release new systems (Nintendo already has) soon and until you see which are the winners and which the losers buying a console now would just be dumb. You either get ancient tech like the X360 or a console that frankly could turn into another Gamecube, whereas the E350 will look nice in a TV cabinet, will let you play netflixs and watch all your shows, and with Win 8 just $40 the 10 foot UI for kids is one of the few things Win 8 is actually good at so it seems like a no brainer to me, get the HTPC.
I think what the guy is trying to say is his programs are written VERY badly, and instead of saving state after each step of the calculations its an "all or nothing" kind of deal he has going where ANY failure at all throws his badly programming ass back to the start.
Which if that is the case i gotta say...he deserves to be sent back to the beginning every time any damned thing goes wrong, because he is a dumbass. if he can split the damned load to 1024 CPUs he can damned well save the fucking state because those same messages that HAVE TO BE SENT to keep the 1024 cores on the same page can ALSO be used to send state data.
so i think we can see the problem cheekyboy, he's doing it back asswards and wrong.
Insightful? Really? sigh its a damned shame how ignorant people can be, let me try to educate those who obviously don't know better. If I say "I hate Obama, I think he is a lousy president because of Obamacare" that would NOT mean I hate black people, that would mean that I hated the policies of this president (don't really care about Obamacare so don't start, just an example for discussion purposes) and BY THAT SAME TOKEN if somebody says "The Israel policies are against international law" that does NOT equal "lets kill some Jews" okay? what is so fucking hard to understand?
Of course we ALL know what this really is, its the simple fact that those that support Zionist expansive policies use the race card more often than Al Sharpton (which just FYI one can be a Jew and not support Zionist expansion, there is quite a few Jews that don't support it) because they want to DERAIL ALL DISCUSSION because they know that if anybody looked at what they were actually doing, what with the bulldozing and the blockades, well then people would see they are being just as fucking NASTY to the Arabs as apartheid was to blacks, so the only choice is to scream "THAT'S RACIST!" to try to derail discussion.
so in conclusion lets get this straight, one can hate the POLICIES of any country or even leader and NOT hate the race of the leader or people, just as I'm sure there are many in the EU that don't like a lot of America's policies but that doesn't mean they wish Americans would die, because unlike this frankly bullshit tactic designed to derail discussions they have enough of a brain to understand that the policies of a country should not be used to arbitrarily hate a people, any more than those in the USA hated the Russian people for being behind the Iron Curtain...GET IT NOW??
You sir are an asshole and you SUCK LOL! You know how damned long i tried to get that fast run (you know the one) in YYZ before giving up? My fingers just aren't fucking long enough to get the kind of reach required to pull that one off, although i still love to play Freewill or Limelight when i get a chance.
And while I have a nice korg 01-W i noodle on i never went for the foot pedals, I was usually too busy on the bass to be multitasking like that. I don't get to play as often either but I have all my sweet sweet gear, my Squire pro tone 5 (the one that made Fender cancel the pro Tone line because people were buying those instead of MIA Fenders, heavy as hell but solid Swamp Ash with a thick bottom like you wouldn't believe), a Fender JP-90 (one of the best MIA basses they made IMHO, its light but has a thick punchy tone with sweet low end and tasty highs) A Washburn 1982 Force B4 pawnshop special I've had so many guys try to buy off me because I went all "artistic" on it, painted the headstock and pickguard with glitter nail polish and found some 1940s style pinup girls to put on the body, and no matter which i play it goes through my Zoom B1X (love that expression pedal and it has great clean tones) into my actual British Trace Elliot 250w 210 combo, which will seriously shake your foundations while being so clean you can't even imagine.
And all of that came about because of two men, Gene Simmons for the showmanship and of course Geddy Lee for truly inspiring me to reach beyond myself and try to really get to new levels on my playing. I mean you hear Bastille Day or Spirit Of Radio or Fly By Night or of course the holy grail of "damn you'll never pull it off" which is of course the ultimate kick ass finger breaker La Villa Strangiato, I mean how could any bass player NOT be inspired by that? Rush and early Motown are frankly two "You MUST hear this" for ANY bass player IMHO.
I do think its funny that you mostly played guitar whereas I was "A bass player trapped in a guitarist's body" because my first instrument was a guitar but i just kept putting bigger and bigger strings and trying to get a deeper and deeper tone until one day a neighbor whose brother played in a band said "You've got the wrong instrument bud, what you want is a bass!" and when he took me to his house and his big brother plugged in that 72 Fender P-bass and draped it across my little 14 year old self? THAT was it, i knew I would NEVER be happy with the limitations of a guitar. while I appreciate a good guitarist frankly nothing will do it for me like a big rumbling percolating bass line, preferably that I'm laying down nice and thick...man I GOT to get me another band after the holiday, that is all there is to it!
Well frankly you shouldn't be writing programs that need every damned core of a 1024 node PC and using an OS that can't shift the load on a fail, should you?
hell most of these units are running Linux and if it is one thing i give Linux props for its being able to be customized for big ass jobs like this. Have a 10%-20% leeway when it comes to nodes and have the OS simply move the load from node 146 to 187(B) for backup and call it a day. again while this isn't 2+2 frankly its not this insurmountable problem like they are making it out to be, this IS doable with a little thought beforehand.
And that is gonna magically work for carbon? Noooo, they will use Malaysia and China and India to make their products with pipes blasting out the pollution, just FYI but a full 15% of china's farmland is now polluted with heavy metals and other run offs from the factories, not only that but they'll do this WHILE assraping the poor with carbon taxes AND fucking the ever growing working poor by making sure only a fool would build shit in America!
America Fuck yeah, only care about the top 3% yeah!
But if you actually buy their bullshit I have a nice game of three card monty you should play, i bet you are SURE to find the lady! This carbon credit garbage is gonna have about as much affect on supposed AGW as my farts do on global warming, aka none. All you do is move the problem somewhere else, which so happens to have the lax environmental laws that the businesses want, and you get to bleed what little the working poor and middle class had and hand it to the fat fucks at the top that already live like Gods.
When you have Mr Inconvenient Truth farting around in a stretch limo and a fucking LEAR JET and saying that because he PAYS HIMSELF credits from his OWN COMPANY that he is fucking carbon neutral? I mean how much fucking bullshit are you gonna swallow before you see you are being had? This would be like preachers bitching at you for getting a fucking blowjob while they film themselves having an orgy with underage girls but telling you "You see, God gives us special rights because we are tight like that" and you actually buying it!
Its a scam, its a con, I don't give a shit if you are for or against AGW the "solution" being offered here is nothing but an excuse to empty your wallet and hand it over to the guys at the top AGAIN. Seriously follow the money, look up the players its the SAME ONES that cleaned your ass out for 700 billion + with the housing bubble and not only made profits on the upturn but stuck YOU with every bad bet they made in Vegas...err Wall Street, and now they want to DO IT AGAIN and you are gonna fucking listen to these fucking clowns?
Oh FUCK NO, please God tell me my fellow Americans aren't gonna be so fucking retarded they fall for a scam from a group that has done NOTHING but scam, by having it wrapped in "save the whales!" bullshit?
Actually he can make more money off the bug by selling his services for lectures and consulting than he can by just selling it to Google. Having a rep of finding vulnerabilities in major software like Chrome will get you more work, whereas that check will be gone quick enough.
Ohhh AC, why did you have to open that can of worms? Frankly Ballmer should have been FIRED over the PFS fiasco, here you have a successful and GROWING online rental business that was actually making people WANT to go out and buy Windows compatible players, and not only that it was actually a damned competitive alternative to the iTunes monopoly because it gave people the ability to have ALL the music they could possibly want for one low price every month, so what does Ballmer do? Does he capitalize on this growing business, use it to get that coveted slot in the media business he so obviously craved by talking to the movie studios and coming out with a PFS for video to compliment the PFS for audio?
Oh fuck no, that is what a good and competent CEO would do! Instead Ballmer burns ALL his bridges with the player manufacturers by taking a big wet shit on their growing market, leaving them with a ton of players with a now useless feature, and for what? So he could yet again try to turn MSFT into a badly done, half baked, and truly pathetic Apple ripoff...which fails quicker than you can say "Shit brown Zune".
if there is ONE thing we can take away from the reign of Steve "ZOMFG I want an iPad too!" Ballmer it is this: Take ANY product they announce such as this, think "How could I fuck this up royally, so nobody will want this damned thing and it'll flop miserably?" and odds are Steve will have come up with a dozen stupider moves than you could possibly imagine that will torpedo the product so badly Woot! will have trouble selling the leftovers at one fifth the price. Its gotten so bad that MSFT announces a product and I think "Cue the stupid moves that kill the product in three, two, one.." because its like he can't help it, Ballmer just HAS to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Since I never heard of it I have NO clue what any of that has to do with what i said, but I'll take your word for it. The thing is when trying to talk about music and playing, at least for me, frankly the English vocabulary is woefully lacking when it comes to descriptors when it comes to emotions and music, you either come off sounding like a hippy or like a Vulcan, there really just isn't words that describe a lot of this stuff.
I'll give an example, there was this gig I was playing with the band I was with which was kinda a poppy Weezer kind of group, real eclectic bunch in a couple of clean cut college boys, a really great country rock guitarist and drummer, and my big biker ass. The crowd was just loving it, I actually got down from the stage and was dancing with a couple of girls with my bass, it was THAT kind of a groove, but it was like me and the audience were just feeding off each other, as their spirits would rise and they'd get more pumped so would I, by the end of the gig I look down and the pearl white pickguard was stained red where I had torn the calluses off my fingers which I swear i didn't feel, and i found out later that a friend of the band had videotaped the show and when we watched it back it was like...well it was almost like that wasn't me. Frankly I had to go back on several songs to learn WTF I was playing there because all that energy I got from the audience...well it made me a better player that night, I don't know how else to put it.
And THAT is the problem, how in the fuck do you describe that feeling to someone who has never felt it? A friend who used to race stock cars said he knew EXACTLY what I was talking about, because frankly he couldn't find words to describe the pure emotional rollercoaster he went through when he raced, he said it would be like trying to describe what its like to skydive and only coming up with "You jump out of a plane, a chute opens, you land". Sure that is technically what happens, but that doesn't in any way, shape, or form describe what it would feel like to actually skydive.
so I apologize if my vocabulary is woefully lacking, but when it comes to describing what its like to have that perfect moment, where everyone is in perfect sync and everything just flows so fucking perfect, well its like trying to describe a rainbow to a blind person, I just don't have the words that would allow me to convey what that feels like.
Exactly, although i have to say its pretty damned stupid when you think about it. Not only have they been cranking the X360 for so long they can whip those off on the cheap, but frankly this doesn't sound any better than what we are already seeing baked into more and more TVs and STBs. I mean why would I want this when my TV could play casual time wasters already? But having a $100 X360 that can play the whole X360 catalog AND do all the media stuff AND the casual AND be the media hub of the house? Sounds like a winner to me.
But as long as Steve Ballmer is in charge Smart and Microsoft will probably be two words that repel each other like magnets. after all this IS the guy that ignored all the beta testers AND reviewers and shoved both Vista and Win 8 half baked, shoved the X360 with a fatal cooling flaw, not to mention gave us "winners" like the Zune, The Kin, GFWL, and killing playsforsure, which had built up a pretty damned respectable media rental business, for the megaflop that was Zune market....so yeah, smart and MSFT are two things that just don't go together ATM.
But unlike in those days, where you had to basically go down row after row hunting for a bad solder joint or dead tube, this problem seems to be...well frankly easily fixed with just a little thought. After all we already have diagnostic programs for all the basic components, RAM, CPU, HDD, etc so i don't see why those programs couldn't be cooked into a ROM and give us a simple pass/fail indicator light on the front of the node. if you wanted you could have a pass/fail light for each of the major components but frankly just a simple pass/fail for the node would be all that it would take, then you just yank and replace the node and worry about diagnosing what went wrong with the bad node later...or hell even never, just have the unit sent off and refurbed where they can test all the components and then sell off the refurbed unit or put it back in storage for when another node dies.
Frankly with the ability to make little embedded ARM chips that take less than a watt and can run simple programs off a ROM like a diagnostics I don't see why this would be a problem, it just takes a little thought in the design beforehand.
While all of the problems you point out ARE problems frankly if the hooks were there that just wouldn't matter, I've heard bands with frankly poor recordings but damn if you didn't end up playing them over and over because the hooks were just too damned good!
With Rush they were all about writing smart melodic songs that were catchy as hell, The Trees, Xanadu, hell all of Moving Pictures, distant Early warning...these songs you just couldn't help but play over and over. I remember spending weeks trying to learn some of the more intricate stuff NOT because it was intricate, but because it was so damned anthemic you just wanted to play along!
You listen to the new stuff? Its just...its again not that they are bad its just the hooks aren't there. I've listened to all the later stuff at least twice through from start to finish and afterward I can't even remember a single song, the hooks just aren't there. the last Rush song I actually sang along to was "Time Stand Still" but even that wasn't the big sweeping anthems that were were so damned good at back in the day, I'll enjoy Time Stand Still if it comes on but I don't keep it in my CD player like I did Moving Pictures or even Exit Stage Left, because the hooks? Just not there.
So again I agree 100% with everything you said, those are ALL problems, but if the hooks were there frankly you'd put up with it and just wish they'd release a cleaner CD, instead you listen once or twice and put it away, no different than the new AC, its just not got that great catchy tasty hooks like they used to have. And as I said my oldest is 20, prime music listening age and he says the same thing, the new stuff simply isn't as good. So its not a rose colored glasses deal but instead they just ran out of gas. And I had clockwork Angels...I ended up giving it away, there was just nothing there that got me invested in the album. No true anthems, no songs that made you soar, it was technically good as far as the playing but sounded...soulless, for want of a better term.
And before someone calls me an old fuddy duddy I am currently listening to Five Finger Death Punch and even a few Pink songs, if a song has great hooks and a catchy groove I'll be happy to listen to it but the new Rush and AC is pretty much hook free, like I said they just run out of gas. Considering how much great music they have put out Rush ought to do like AC and just tour on the back catalog, the people would love the shows (hell I'd be first in line, a friend went and said they played 90% new stuff and was just meh) and lets face it, those guys could play a 5 hour show of just the great back catalog tunes and have a TON of songs to choose from. Now if you'll excuse me i think I'll listen to Bastille Day and maybe break out my acoustic bass and try to keep up with Geddy in his prime. i won't succeed but its a hell of a workout and just...fun.
Yeah because the acid rain (and the jobs those factories had) simply went to China which as long as we have globalism is all you will EVER do, you will simply move the problem to a third world country that don't play by your rules.
Again not a problem for the 3% that will make out like Gods, after all they have been bleeding the third world for decades, who gives a fuck about yellow and brown people? hell they can suck a tail pipe, what matters is the rich get richer! America Fuck Yeah! Gonna screw the poor and the third world together yeah..
The trick with an older deer to make the meat good is a salt rub followed by an overnight marinade, the salt opens up the cells and lets it absorb more of the marinade that really makes it juicy. Its also good in slow cooked soups and chili, and of course ground into hamburger with a little pork and beef you can make some killer meatballs.
We southerners don't like to waste meat so we usually have a trick for pretty much every occasion when it comes to preparing meat. If you ever get some tough meat again, salt rub and marinade overnight and you will have some tasty mouth watering meat the next day. trust me with that trick you can be handed steaks as tough as shoe leather and the next day people will be lined up to get some of that steak, it'll be tender and the marinade will be so nicely embedded in the meat they frankly won't need any sauces, the flavor will just explode when you take a bite.
Cap and trade IS A SCAM which is what he was pointing out, the few rich (like Al Gore and Goldman Sachs) that are set to cash in already have their own little "carbon shelters" so the higher costs YOU pay won't affect THEM, after all they can offshore to China who has already said they won't play our little three card monty, or in the case of Rev Al he pays HIMSELF carbon credits from HIS OWN COMPANY, which would be like me moving money from my left to right pocket, calling it "wealth redistribution" and getting a fricking tax break for it!
You wanna solve this problem? fine tell the NIMBYs to STFU and watch how easy it would be WITHOUT enriching the leeches like rev Al and Goldman Sachs... We build a "people's car" and a "people's truck" both of which run on diesel, so that as we ramp up bio-diesel production we can just switch everyone over without throwing away their vehicles, we make them at under $20k each and THEN have a "cash for clunkers" to get rid of all those gas hogs still on the road. We also build a combination of nuclear reactors and renewables, we build a reprocessing reactor next to the main reactor, as well as running test programs with new designs like Thorium, and we supplement that with renewables wherever we can...tada!
See how easy that was? But then those leeches like rev Al and pals couldn't drain money out of the pockets of the poor while shipping factories to China...can't have that now can we? With bio-diesel we could take those greenhouse gases and recycle them for fuel, there is even a pilot program in the UK that is getting the carbon straight from the seawater so they will actually help the oceans while they are at it. you get rid of the gas hogs, and because we can build diesel engines that get damned good gas mileage not only would we be recycling the carbon output of the factories we'd boost the national gas mileage while we are at it.
But sadly that will NEVER happen, because the leeches have already figured out how to game the fuck out of carbon credits which is why they are pushing so hard for it. After all their factories in China won't be affected, so why should they care? They even have the one who cooked up credit default swaps, the scam that let them package junk mortgages as AAA writing the carbon credit rules! What a perfect scam for the elite 3% that will make tons bleeding the poor! It won't do a fucking thing about AGW, but who cares? The rich get richer, that is the REAL point!
No but sadly there is a Lord Of The Cockrings porno out there, I don't know which is worse the mockbusters (although frankly I found "American Battleship" more believable than Battleship) or the porn take offs. Although, just to be fair, you just have to feel sorry for Chyna getting painted completely lime green for the Avengers porno, I don't even wanna know how long it took to paint her head to toe like that. At least with the LOTR porno they just dressed up like a renfair.
Its the HOOKS man, the hooks just aren't there. As a bass player i can tell you there is just something...magical for want of a better term when you're playing and you just hit this...perfect sequence where you have the whole audience just moving in a perfect groove like, like, its almost like everything becomes connected, its like this perfect groove that everything just falls into and you just can't help but go with the groove like a wave.
But I can tell you its DAMNED hard to get that going just right, I know that if I'm not given a decent drummer that can read where i'm going and give me the right back up its just gonna trainwreck and trying to write a truly good hook on a timetable? Damned near impossible, it just don't work that way.
The fact that AC and Rush put out so many great hits in the past meant that at that particular moment in time everything was fucking PERFECT, all the musicians could read each other like books and once one of them starting on a groove the others would pick it up and build on it and the next thing you know BAM! they've got a killer song. Unfortunately chemistry is just one of those things you can't fake, either you are all on the same page or you're not. I have played with guitarists that at one time we just fucking gelled sooo damned good, when they would start playing I didn't have to be told a damned thing because I KNEW, just by the feel and the mood and the tempo EXACTLY where they were gonna go and likewise When I would start to percolate a nice thick bottom they knew EXACTLY where I was gonna go and would compliment my groove so fucking perfectly you'd swear we must have played that song a million times when we were making it up on the spot, but years later I get a chance to play with them and its just.....its not like anybody is BAD,its just you have had different experiences and just don't really feel and understand the person you are playing with so there is this...friction that keeps the parts from gelling, like a grinding gear that once worked wonderfully it just doesn't really...fit in that slot anymore.
I know that probably sounds hippy and weird but its really fucking HARD to describe what it feels like to just be in that zone playing, I've always said its almost like my brain has shut down and its just my emotions pouring through the fingers, i have to go back and listen just to figure out some passages because its almost like it isn't me that is playing it, because without the instrument in my hand I'm just not able to feel or express like that.
And that is what i think happened to AC and Rush, its not like any of them have gotten BAD, on the contrary that many years with their instruments they are more skilled that ever, but its not skill that writes the great hook, its emotion, its feeling that groove and just letting it flow and becoming this one living thing, you are just in this perfect zone and it all just flows, but these guys have grown apart and just don't have that ability anymore.
I'll never forget what an engineer told me when I was recording a song with one of the previous bands i had played with.I had spent a LOT of time on this song coming up with a very intricate but tasty bass line I wanted for the song, and I had played it enough live i could do that riff in my sleep. But when it came time to play the song in the studio while i did the riff i wanted in the first bridge we had been having a great day and we were all into it and I just completely forgot the riff and played what I was feeling then, this wild abandoned fun that we were having together. So afterwards I tell the engineer I want to punch in and replace the second bridge with the riff and he said "Are you shitting me? No way, no way in HELL do you want to screw that up! What you did in the first bridge was cool but the second is just fricking FUN with a capital F, and it fits everything soooo damned good, don't mess it up" and sure enough it got to that second bridge and I pointed out the difference and they played that part back a few times and they were all
I think most would say it "won" (I'm not the guy you were responding to, but I've seen a lot of people saying it won because they still sell PS2s) simply because its still supported and with THIS long to work on it most devs just by the length of time they've dealt with the hardware have it pretty down pat.
But folks have to remember that the Xbox 1 was shoved out the door quickly to get them a foot in the door, so naturally once they had a new unit they'd pull the plug. I mean it was a Celeron P3 with a Geforce 1/2, those weren't great specs to start with but they could make it quick and cheap and get it out the door. if you've ever looked at the inside of the Xbox 1 its strictly COTS, this let them crank it out quickly, but trying to get a P3 now wouldn't be easy, but sony owns the chip and can just have more PS2 emotion engines made.
but I think this will work with the PS4, they can just replace any AMD quad with a later model quad and just have the software run the same, as far as the games are concerned an APU will be an APU, its not like X86 quads aren't a mature tech by now.
Well I'm sorry i didn't think to bookmark it, but the current rumor is an AMD quad with the now standard turbo and gating so it can drop down when doing light loads and kick it up for heavy gaming, along with a midrange GPU baked in, which the rumor was it'll be a 6 series like an HD6570 with a few features of the 7 series baked in. To offset the memory bandwidth they are gonna have a small amount of the fast stuff as a buffer, there weren't sure but I'd say 128Mb-256Mb of fast memory like SRAM or the EDRAM (I believe that is the correct name) would perfectly compliment the 2Gb-4Gb (I'd bet on 4 myself) of standard DDR 3 they'd have onboard.
So I personally think its a smart move, as you said they can move up chips later if they wanted to save costs (since you want all of them to play the same games going higher power wouldn't make sense) and with a lightweight embedded OS frankly those specs are pretty damned good without breaking the bank or making Sony take a bath on each unit. Games will be easy to port, multimedia will be damned good, and that chip should crank out most of today's PC games in 1080p with Windows, with an embedded it would rock.
Well the fact that I had Win 8 on this frankly damned nice looking custom tower, with a nice 2.8Ghz AMD dual with 4Gb of RAM and a DVD burner all wrapped up in this nice shiny black and red case and I don't get a SINGLE nibble? And that same unit is being carried out of my shop not 5 days later when Win 7 was put on it?
Well frankly I don't know what more evidence people need, hundreds of folks walked through those doors and never gave a thought to buying it but the EXACT SAME SYSTEM with a copy of Win 7 Home on it and it was gone before the end of the week, what else can you say? if that isn't the public speaking I don't know what is.
Well it depends on the place bro, you should come hunt in AR some year, we get huge bucks and does but you gotta work for 'em which is why they get so big. We're talking lots of gully and hollows, lots of stickers and brush, but you'll get you some tasty deer if you work for it.
But frankly not only am i nut dealing with a case of cold balls (the days are warm but the early morning hours are damp and chilly here) but being a computer tech when would I find the time? hell i got the nurse at my last checkup drilling me on Black Friday and where the best places to buy the tech on her shopping list, with us tech guys somebody is needing something all the time. Between that and the fact a lot of the SMBs will happily give you more work if you are willing to come do it on a weekend when they are closed or have shorter hours? Well there just ain't enough time in the day as it is, hells bells I got games from last year's Xmas sale i still haven't fired up, just no time.
Only if the hunter is a bad shot. My father used to hunt with a compound bow and those that went with him were always amazed that any deer he hit would drop within a foot of where he hit it, but we used to have a bunch of hay bales set up in the backyard and he practiced at several ranges and measured how deep each hit went and got it to the point it was muscle memory.
So its all about the hunter, and frankly I think every hunter should have to take a basic skills test to show they can actually hit what they are aiming at correctly. With the correct aim and posture you can drop a large animal like a deer VERY quick, but you have to be patient, line up the shot, and apply just the right amount of force to do the job.
Hell that is the same thing I did, I've seen AC in concert a couple times now and while they put on a hell of a show there is A REASON why they nearly always stick to the back catalog, and that is because the new stuff just isn't as catchy anymore.
I feel the same way about Rush, while they can still write and play just as tasty as before the later stuff? the hooks...just aren't there. Right after Roll the Bones they just seemed to run out of gas. Where is the next Tom Sawyer? or New World Man? They just haven't been able to match the way they were able to just get those songs stuck in your head. And I've given ALL the later stuff by AC and Rush a fair shake, listening straight through a couple times each, but...its just not there, that "spark" for a lack of a better term, that just made those tunes latch onto your brain and not let go.
And before anybody says its because I'm old my oldest boy is just turning 20 and going to college, perfect rock n' roll listening age, and he said "Meh, those just don't make me want to keep playin' 'em...BTW where is your AC greatest CD at?" LOL. So I'd say its the simple fact that the well has run dry, they have just run out of catchy tunes in the barrel and what we are getting is just the trailings.
Well I hate hypocrites and straw men and appeals to emotion so i try my damnedest to make things as straight forward and logical as possible. And if you disagree? Please feel free to respond, as long as it isn't the usual emotional "You suck and have stupid hair!" and instead a logical explanation of why you think I'm wrong, preferably with citations, i am MORE than happy to debate any point. The wise man knows there is more out there than he could possibly ever know and I have no problem changing my stance when evidence, instead of just emotion or fanboi-ism, is presented.
Hell I still get hate mail and death threats from the FOSSie crowd, and the occasional online stalker, just for pointing out that in the consumer and SMB sector where I work their product just doesn't cut the mustard. I just love when they call me their version of nigger, which is the ever present "Ur a shill!" when I was one of the FIRST to sound off that Vista had serious issues and Windows 8 is frankly unsuitable for purpose, if you don't have a tablet don't bother is what I'm telling folks.
So thanks I try, I can't say I've always succeeded to completely keep emotion out, but I do try to be fair and keep an open mind. I know many get emotional or worse the "ballclub" mentality with a lot of subjects but I think of you just lay it out as a simple argument you can cut through the bullshit and look at the problem logically, and this is supposed to be a geek site, not the Yahoo! comments section for crap's sake, so we shouldn't have everything turned into those jingoistic "us vs them, if you don't think as I do you're a retard" crap that everybody goes to the yahoo! comments to laugh at. Maybe I'm wrong but I think we should at least strive to be above that, and approach things from a logical technical bent if we are gonna call this a geeks site. I mean what did politics and religion have to do with the subject? Not a damned thing, so just call out the bullshit simply and logically and move on, that's all you can do.
From what I've read its not about the money, its about harming the brand. they think LOTR slots is like putting out LOTR Malt Liquor and don't want to cheapen the brand with tacky shit like that, while the WB says they can do pretty much what they want.
While i don't really have a horse in this race i can see their point, you have to draw the line somewhere or the WB will be putting out any damned thing they can with the license just to milk those last bucks..like I said imagine limited edition LOTR "Green Dragon" malt liquor and crap like that.
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It sounds like they are into the whole casual thing, which if he doesn't wanna get more PS3 games I'd say put together one of those E350 AMD DVD player sized PCs together, slap on Steam, and let the kids go to town.
Let me tell ya with two teen boys Steam is like manna from heaven, the Xmas sale is always full of great games dirt cheap, so i can just tell them "here is what you have to spend, go nuts" and let them load up. Of course they both have decent gaming PCs but for casual gaming the E350 not only works great but slap a 1Tb drive in it and its a great media tank as well. with all the indies signing onto Steam they could have new games practically every day for cheap or free and the E350 kits are dirt cheap.
But buying another console now would be retarded, we all know they are all gonna release new systems (Nintendo already has) soon and until you see which are the winners and which the losers buying a console now would just be dumb. You either get ancient tech like the X360 or a console that frankly could turn into another Gamecube, whereas the E350 will look nice in a TV cabinet, will let you play netflixs and watch all your shows, and with Win 8 just $40 the 10 foot UI for kids is one of the few things Win 8 is actually good at so it seems like a no brainer to me, get the HTPC.
I think what the guy is trying to say is his programs are written VERY badly, and instead of saving state after each step of the calculations its an "all or nothing" kind of deal he has going where ANY failure at all throws his badly programming ass back to the start.
Which if that is the case i gotta say...he deserves to be sent back to the beginning every time any damned thing goes wrong, because he is a dumbass. if he can split the damned load to 1024 CPUs he can damned well save the fucking state because those same messages that HAVE TO BE SENT to keep the 1024 cores on the same page can ALSO be used to send state data.
so i think we can see the problem cheekyboy, he's doing it back asswards and wrong.
Insightful? Really? sigh its a damned shame how ignorant people can be, let me try to educate those who obviously don't know better. If I say "I hate Obama, I think he is a lousy president because of Obamacare" that would NOT mean I hate black people, that would mean that I hated the policies of this president (don't really care about Obamacare so don't start, just an example for discussion purposes) and BY THAT SAME TOKEN if somebody says "The Israel policies are against international law" that does NOT equal "lets kill some Jews" okay? what is so fucking hard to understand?
Of course we ALL know what this really is, its the simple fact that those that support Zionist expansive policies use the race card more often than Al Sharpton (which just FYI one can be a Jew and not support Zionist expansion, there is quite a few Jews that don't support it) because they want to DERAIL ALL DISCUSSION because they know that if anybody looked at what they were actually doing, what with the bulldozing and the blockades, well then people would see they are being just as fucking NASTY to the Arabs as apartheid was to blacks, so the only choice is to scream "THAT'S RACIST!" to try to derail discussion.
so in conclusion lets get this straight, one can hate the POLICIES of any country or even leader and NOT hate the race of the leader or people, just as I'm sure there are many in the EU that don't like a lot of America's policies but that doesn't mean they wish Americans would die, because unlike this frankly bullshit tactic designed to derail discussions they have enough of a brain to understand that the policies of a country should not be used to arbitrarily hate a people, any more than those in the USA hated the Russian people for being behind the Iron Curtain...GET IT NOW??
You sir are an asshole and you SUCK LOL! You know how damned long i tried to get that fast run (you know the one) in YYZ before giving up? My fingers just aren't fucking long enough to get the kind of reach required to pull that one off, although i still love to play Freewill or Limelight when i get a chance.
And while I have a nice korg 01-W i noodle on i never went for the foot pedals, I was usually too busy on the bass to be multitasking like that. I don't get to play as often either but I have all my sweet sweet gear, my Squire pro tone 5 (the one that made Fender cancel the pro Tone line because people were buying those instead of MIA Fenders, heavy as hell but solid Swamp Ash with a thick bottom like you wouldn't believe), a Fender JP-90 (one of the best MIA basses they made IMHO, its light but has a thick punchy tone with sweet low end and tasty highs) A Washburn 1982 Force B4 pawnshop special I've had so many guys try to buy off me because I went all "artistic" on it, painted the headstock and pickguard with glitter nail polish and found some 1940s style pinup girls to put on the body, and no matter which i play it goes through my Zoom B1X (love that expression pedal and it has great clean tones) into my actual British Trace Elliot 250w 210 combo, which will seriously shake your foundations while being so clean you can't even imagine.
And all of that came about because of two men, Gene Simmons for the showmanship and of course Geddy Lee for truly inspiring me to reach beyond myself and try to really get to new levels on my playing. I mean you hear Bastille Day or Spirit Of Radio or Fly By Night or of course the holy grail of "damn you'll never pull it off" which is of course the ultimate kick ass finger breaker La Villa Strangiato, I mean how could any bass player NOT be inspired by that? Rush and early Motown are frankly two "You MUST hear this" for ANY bass player IMHO.
I do think its funny that you mostly played guitar whereas I was "A bass player trapped in a guitarist's body" because my first instrument was a guitar but i just kept putting bigger and bigger strings and trying to get a deeper and deeper tone until one day a neighbor whose brother played in a band said "You've got the wrong instrument bud, what you want is a bass!" and when he took me to his house and his big brother plugged in that 72 Fender P-bass and draped it across my little 14 year old self? THAT was it, i knew I would NEVER be happy with the limitations of a guitar. while I appreciate a good guitarist frankly nothing will do it for me like a big rumbling percolating bass line, preferably that I'm laying down nice and thick...man I GOT to get me another band after the holiday, that is all there is to it!
Oh and Happy Turkey day to you and yours!
Well frankly you shouldn't be writing programs that need every damned core of a 1024 node PC and using an OS that can't shift the load on a fail, should you?
hell most of these units are running Linux and if it is one thing i give Linux props for its being able to be customized for big ass jobs like this. Have a 10%-20% leeway when it comes to nodes and have the OS simply move the load from node 146 to 187(B) for backup and call it a day. again while this isn't 2+2 frankly its not this insurmountable problem like they are making it out to be, this IS doable with a little thought beforehand.
And that is gonna magically work for carbon? Noooo, they will use Malaysia and China and India to make their products with pipes blasting out the pollution, just FYI but a full 15% of china's farmland is now polluted with heavy metals and other run offs from the factories, not only that but they'll do this WHILE assraping the poor with carbon taxes AND fucking the ever growing working poor by making sure only a fool would build shit in America!
America Fuck yeah, only care about the top 3% yeah!
But if you actually buy their bullshit I have a nice game of three card monty you should play, i bet you are SURE to find the lady! This carbon credit garbage is gonna have about as much affect on supposed AGW as my farts do on global warming, aka none. All you do is move the problem somewhere else, which so happens to have the lax environmental laws that the businesses want, and you get to bleed what little the working poor and middle class had and hand it to the fat fucks at the top that already live like Gods.
When you have Mr Inconvenient Truth farting around in a stretch limo and a fucking LEAR JET and saying that because he PAYS HIMSELF credits from his OWN COMPANY that he is fucking carbon neutral? I mean how much fucking bullshit are you gonna swallow before you see you are being had? This would be like preachers bitching at you for getting a fucking blowjob while they film themselves having an orgy with underage girls but telling you "You see, God gives us special rights because we are tight like that" and you actually buying it!
Its a scam, its a con, I don't give a shit if you are for or against AGW the "solution" being offered here is nothing but an excuse to empty your wallet and hand it over to the guys at the top AGAIN. Seriously follow the money, look up the players its the SAME ONES that cleaned your ass out for 700 billion + with the housing bubble and not only made profits on the upturn but stuck YOU with every bad bet they made in Vegas...err Wall Street, and now they want to DO IT AGAIN and you are gonna fucking listen to these fucking clowns?
Oh FUCK NO, please God tell me my fellow Americans aren't gonna be so fucking retarded they fall for a scam from a group that has done NOTHING but scam, by having it wrapped in "save the whales!" bullshit?
Actually he can make more money off the bug by selling his services for lectures and consulting than he can by just selling it to Google. Having a rep of finding vulnerabilities in major software like Chrome will get you more work, whereas that check will be gone quick enough.
Ohhh AC, why did you have to open that can of worms? Frankly Ballmer should have been FIRED over the PFS fiasco, here you have a successful and GROWING online rental business that was actually making people WANT to go out and buy Windows compatible players, and not only that it was actually a damned competitive alternative to the iTunes monopoly because it gave people the ability to have ALL the music they could possibly want for one low price every month, so what does Ballmer do? Does he capitalize on this growing business, use it to get that coveted slot in the media business he so obviously craved by talking to the movie studios and coming out with a PFS for video to compliment the PFS for audio?
Oh fuck no, that is what a good and competent CEO would do! Instead Ballmer burns ALL his bridges with the player manufacturers by taking a big wet shit on their growing market, leaving them with a ton of players with a now useless feature, and for what? So he could yet again try to turn MSFT into a badly done, half baked, and truly pathetic Apple ripoff...which fails quicker than you can say "Shit brown Zune".
if there is ONE thing we can take away from the reign of Steve "ZOMFG I want an iPad too!" Ballmer it is this: Take ANY product they announce such as this, think "How could I fuck this up royally, so nobody will want this damned thing and it'll flop miserably?" and odds are Steve will have come up with a dozen stupider moves than you could possibly imagine that will torpedo the product so badly Woot! will have trouble selling the leftovers at one fifth the price. Its gotten so bad that MSFT announces a product and I think "Cue the stupid moves that kill the product in three, two, one.." because its like he can't help it, Ballmer just HAS to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Since I never heard of it I have NO clue what any of that has to do with what i said, but I'll take your word for it. The thing is when trying to talk about music and playing, at least for me, frankly the English vocabulary is woefully lacking when it comes to descriptors when it comes to emotions and music, you either come off sounding like a hippy or like a Vulcan, there really just isn't words that describe a lot of this stuff.
I'll give an example, there was this gig I was playing with the band I was with which was kinda a poppy Weezer kind of group, real eclectic bunch in a couple of clean cut college boys, a really great country rock guitarist and drummer, and my big biker ass. The crowd was just loving it, I actually got down from the stage and was dancing with a couple of girls with my bass, it was THAT kind of a groove, but it was like me and the audience were just feeding off each other, as their spirits would rise and they'd get more pumped so would I, by the end of the gig I look down and the pearl white pickguard was stained red where I had torn the calluses off my fingers which I swear i didn't feel, and i found out later that a friend of the band had videotaped the show and when we watched it back it was like...well it was almost like that wasn't me. Frankly I had to go back on several songs to learn WTF I was playing there because all that energy I got from the audience...well it made me a better player that night, I don't know how else to put it.
And THAT is the problem, how in the fuck do you describe that feeling to someone who has never felt it? A friend who used to race stock cars said he knew EXACTLY what I was talking about, because frankly he couldn't find words to describe the pure emotional rollercoaster he went through when he raced, he said it would be like trying to describe what its like to skydive and only coming up with "You jump out of a plane, a chute opens, you land". Sure that is technically what happens, but that doesn't in any way, shape, or form describe what it would feel like to actually skydive.
so I apologize if my vocabulary is woefully lacking, but when it comes to describing what its like to have that perfect moment, where everyone is in perfect sync and everything just flows so fucking perfect, well its like trying to describe a rainbow to a blind person, I just don't have the words that would allow me to convey what that feels like.
Exactly, although i have to say its pretty damned stupid when you think about it. Not only have they been cranking the X360 for so long they can whip those off on the cheap, but frankly this doesn't sound any better than what we are already seeing baked into more and more TVs and STBs. I mean why would I want this when my TV could play casual time wasters already? But having a $100 X360 that can play the whole X360 catalog AND do all the media stuff AND the casual AND be the media hub of the house? Sounds like a winner to me.
But as long as Steve Ballmer is in charge Smart and Microsoft will probably be two words that repel each other like magnets. after all this IS the guy that ignored all the beta testers AND reviewers and shoved both Vista and Win 8 half baked, shoved the X360 with a fatal cooling flaw, not to mention gave us "winners" like the Zune, The Kin, GFWL, and killing playsforsure, which had built up a pretty damned respectable media rental business, for the megaflop that was Zune market....so yeah, smart and MSFT are two things that just don't go together ATM.
But unlike in those days, where you had to basically go down row after row hunting for a bad solder joint or dead tube, this problem seems to be...well frankly easily fixed with just a little thought. After all we already have diagnostic programs for all the basic components, RAM, CPU, HDD, etc so i don't see why those programs couldn't be cooked into a ROM and give us a simple pass/fail indicator light on the front of the node. if you wanted you could have a pass/fail light for each of the major components but frankly just a simple pass/fail for the node would be all that it would take, then you just yank and replace the node and worry about diagnosing what went wrong with the bad node later...or hell even never, just have the unit sent off and refurbed where they can test all the components and then sell off the refurbed unit or put it back in storage for when another node dies.
Frankly with the ability to make little embedded ARM chips that take less than a watt and can run simple programs off a ROM like a diagnostics I don't see why this would be a problem, it just takes a little thought in the design beforehand.
While all of the problems you point out ARE problems frankly if the hooks were there that just wouldn't matter, I've heard bands with frankly poor recordings but damn if you didn't end up playing them over and over because the hooks were just too damned good!
With Rush they were all about writing smart melodic songs that were catchy as hell, The Trees, Xanadu, hell all of Moving Pictures, distant Early warning...these songs you just couldn't help but play over and over. I remember spending weeks trying to learn some of the more intricate stuff NOT because it was intricate, but because it was so damned anthemic you just wanted to play along!
You listen to the new stuff? Its just...its again not that they are bad its just the hooks aren't there. I've listened to all the later stuff at least twice through from start to finish and afterward I can't even remember a single song, the hooks just aren't there. the last Rush song I actually sang along to was "Time Stand Still" but even that wasn't the big sweeping anthems that were were so damned good at back in the day, I'll enjoy Time Stand Still if it comes on but I don't keep it in my CD player like I did Moving Pictures or even Exit Stage Left, because the hooks? Just not there.
So again I agree 100% with everything you said, those are ALL problems, but if the hooks were there frankly you'd put up with it and just wish they'd release a cleaner CD, instead you listen once or twice and put it away, no different than the new AC, its just not got that great catchy tasty hooks like they used to have. And as I said my oldest is 20, prime music listening age and he says the same thing, the new stuff simply isn't as good. So its not a rose colored glasses deal but instead they just ran out of gas. And I had clockwork Angels...I ended up giving it away, there was just nothing there that got me invested in the album. No true anthems, no songs that made you soar, it was technically good as far as the playing but sounded...soulless, for want of a better term.
And before someone calls me an old fuddy duddy I am currently listening to Five Finger Death Punch and even a few Pink songs, if a song has great hooks and a catchy groove I'll be happy to listen to it but the new Rush and AC is pretty much hook free, like I said they just run out of gas. Considering how much great music they have put out Rush ought to do like AC and just tour on the back catalog, the people would love the shows (hell I'd be first in line, a friend went and said they played 90% new stuff and was just meh) and lets face it, those guys could play a 5 hour show of just the great back catalog tunes and have a TON of songs to choose from. Now if you'll excuse me i think I'll listen to Bastille Day and maybe break out my acoustic bass and try to keep up with Geddy in his prime. i won't succeed but its a hell of a workout and just...fun.
Yeah because the acid rain (and the jobs those factories had) simply went to China which as long as we have globalism is all you will EVER do, you will simply move the problem to a third world country that don't play by your rules.
Again not a problem for the 3% that will make out like Gods, after all they have been bleeding the third world for decades, who gives a fuck about yellow and brown people? hell they can suck a tail pipe, what matters is the rich get richer! America Fuck Yeah! Gonna screw the poor and the third world together yeah..
The trick with an older deer to make the meat good is a salt rub followed by an overnight marinade, the salt opens up the cells and lets it absorb more of the marinade that really makes it juicy. Its also good in slow cooked soups and chili, and of course ground into hamburger with a little pork and beef you can make some killer meatballs.
We southerners don't like to waste meat so we usually have a trick for pretty much every occasion when it comes to preparing meat. If you ever get some tough meat again, salt rub and marinade overnight and you will have some tasty mouth watering meat the next day. trust me with that trick you can be handed steaks as tough as shoe leather and the next day people will be lined up to get some of that steak, it'll be tender and the marinade will be so nicely embedded in the meat they frankly won't need any sauces, the flavor will just explode when you take a bite.
Cap and trade IS A SCAM which is what he was pointing out, the few rich (like Al Gore and Goldman Sachs) that are set to cash in already have their own little "carbon shelters" so the higher costs YOU pay won't affect THEM, after all they can offshore to China who has already said they won't play our little three card monty, or in the case of Rev Al he pays HIMSELF carbon credits from HIS OWN COMPANY, which would be like me moving money from my left to right pocket, calling it "wealth redistribution" and getting a fricking tax break for it!
You wanna solve this problem? fine tell the NIMBYs to STFU and watch how easy it would be WITHOUT enriching the leeches like rev Al and Goldman Sachs... We build a "people's car" and a "people's truck" both of which run on diesel, so that as we ramp up bio-diesel production we can just switch everyone over without throwing away their vehicles, we make them at under $20k each and THEN have a "cash for clunkers" to get rid of all those gas hogs still on the road. We also build a combination of nuclear reactors and renewables, we build a reprocessing reactor next to the main reactor, as well as running test programs with new designs like Thorium, and we supplement that with renewables wherever we can...tada!
See how easy that was? But then those leeches like rev Al and pals couldn't drain money out of the pockets of the poor while shipping factories to China...can't have that now can we? With bio-diesel we could take those greenhouse gases and recycle them for fuel, there is even a pilot program in the UK that is getting the carbon straight from the seawater so they will actually help the oceans while they are at it. you get rid of the gas hogs, and because we can build diesel engines that get damned good gas mileage not only would we be recycling the carbon output of the factories we'd boost the national gas mileage while we are at it.
But sadly that will NEVER happen, because the leeches have already figured out how to game the fuck out of carbon credits which is why they are pushing so hard for it. After all their factories in China won't be affected, so why should they care? They even have the one who cooked up credit default swaps, the scam that let them package junk mortgages as AAA writing the carbon credit rules! What a perfect scam for the elite 3% that will make tons bleeding the poor! It won't do a fucking thing about AGW, but who cares? The rich get richer, that is the REAL point!
No but sadly there is a Lord Of The Cockrings porno out there, I don't know which is worse the mockbusters (although frankly I found "American Battleship" more believable than Battleship) or the porn take offs. Although, just to be fair, you just have to feel sorry for Chyna getting painted completely lime green for the Avengers porno, I don't even wanna know how long it took to paint her head to toe like that. At least with the LOTR porno they just dressed up like a renfair.
Its the HOOKS man, the hooks just aren't there. As a bass player i can tell you there is just something...magical for want of a better term when you're playing and you just hit this...perfect sequence where you have the whole audience just moving in a perfect groove like, like, its almost like everything becomes connected, its like this perfect groove that everything just falls into and you just can't help but go with the groove like a wave.
But I can tell you its DAMNED hard to get that going just right, I know that if I'm not given a decent drummer that can read where i'm going and give me the right back up its just gonna trainwreck and trying to write a truly good hook on a timetable? Damned near impossible, it just don't work that way.
The fact that AC and Rush put out so many great hits in the past meant that at that particular moment in time everything was fucking PERFECT, all the musicians could read each other like books and once one of them starting on a groove the others would pick it up and build on it and the next thing you know BAM! they've got a killer song. Unfortunately chemistry is just one of those things you can't fake, either you are all on the same page or you're not. I have played with guitarists that at one time we just fucking gelled sooo damned good, when they would start playing I didn't have to be told a damned thing because I KNEW, just by the feel and the mood and the tempo EXACTLY where they were gonna go and likewise When I would start to percolate a nice thick bottom they knew EXACTLY where I was gonna go and would compliment my groove so fucking perfectly you'd swear we must have played that song a million times when we were making it up on the spot, but years later I get a chance to play with them and its just.....its not like anybody is BAD,its just you have had different experiences and just don't really feel and understand the person you are playing with so there is this...friction that keeps the parts from gelling, like a grinding gear that once worked wonderfully it just doesn't really...fit in that slot anymore.
I know that probably sounds hippy and weird but its really fucking HARD to describe what it feels like to just be in that zone playing, I've always said its almost like my brain has shut down and its just my emotions pouring through the fingers, i have to go back and listen just to figure out some passages because its almost like it isn't me that is playing it, because without the instrument in my hand I'm just not able to feel or express like that.
And that is what i think happened to AC and Rush, its not like any of them have gotten BAD, on the contrary that many years with their instruments they are more skilled that ever, but its not skill that writes the great hook, its emotion, its feeling that groove and just letting it flow and becoming this one living thing, you are just in this perfect zone and it all just flows, but these guys have grown apart and just don't have that ability anymore.
I'll never forget what an engineer told me when I was recording a song with one of the previous bands i had played with.I had spent a LOT of time on this song coming up with a very intricate but tasty bass line I wanted for the song, and I had played it enough live i could do that riff in my sleep. But when it came time to play the song in the studio while i did the riff i wanted in the first bridge we had been having a great day and we were all into it and I just completely forgot the riff and played what I was feeling then, this wild abandoned fun that we were having together. So afterwards I tell the engineer I want to punch in and replace the second bridge with the riff and he said "Are you shitting me? No way, no way in HELL do you want to screw that up! What you did in the first bridge was cool but the second is just fricking FUN with a capital F, and it fits everything soooo damned good, don't mess it up" and sure enough it got to that second bridge and I pointed out the difference and they played that part back a few times and they were all
I think most would say it "won" (I'm not the guy you were responding to, but I've seen a lot of people saying it won because they still sell PS2s) simply because its still supported and with THIS long to work on it most devs just by the length of time they've dealt with the hardware have it pretty down pat.
But folks have to remember that the Xbox 1 was shoved out the door quickly to get them a foot in the door, so naturally once they had a new unit they'd pull the plug. I mean it was a Celeron P3 with a Geforce 1/2, those weren't great specs to start with but they could make it quick and cheap and get it out the door. if you've ever looked at the inside of the Xbox 1 its strictly COTS, this let them crank it out quickly, but trying to get a P3 now wouldn't be easy, but sony owns the chip and can just have more PS2 emotion engines made.
but I think this will work with the PS4, they can just replace any AMD quad with a later model quad and just have the software run the same, as far as the games are concerned an APU will be an APU, its not like X86 quads aren't a mature tech by now.
Well I'm sorry i didn't think to bookmark it, but the current rumor is an AMD quad with the now standard turbo and gating so it can drop down when doing light loads and kick it up for heavy gaming, along with a midrange GPU baked in, which the rumor was it'll be a 6 series like an HD6570 with a few features of the 7 series baked in. To offset the memory bandwidth they are gonna have a small amount of the fast stuff as a buffer, there weren't sure but I'd say 128Mb-256Mb of fast memory like SRAM or the EDRAM (I believe that is the correct name) would perfectly compliment the 2Gb-4Gb (I'd bet on 4 myself) of standard DDR 3 they'd have onboard.
So I personally think its a smart move, as you said they can move up chips later if they wanted to save costs (since you want all of them to play the same games going higher power wouldn't make sense) and with a lightweight embedded OS frankly those specs are pretty damned good without breaking the bank or making Sony take a bath on each unit. Games will be easy to port, multimedia will be damned good, and that chip should crank out most of today's PC games in 1080p with Windows, with an embedded it would rock.
Well the fact that I had Win 8 on this frankly damned nice looking custom tower, with a nice 2.8Ghz AMD dual with 4Gb of RAM and a DVD burner all wrapped up in this nice shiny black and red case and I don't get a SINGLE nibble? And that same unit is being carried out of my shop not 5 days later when Win 7 was put on it?
Well frankly I don't know what more evidence people need, hundreds of folks walked through those doors and never gave a thought to buying it but the EXACT SAME SYSTEM with a copy of Win 7 Home on it and it was gone before the end of the week, what else can you say? if that isn't the public speaking I don't know what is.
Well it depends on the place bro, you should come hunt in AR some year, we get huge bucks and does but you gotta work for 'em which is why they get so big. We're talking lots of gully and hollows, lots of stickers and brush, but you'll get you some tasty deer if you work for it.
But frankly not only am i nut dealing with a case of cold balls (the days are warm but the early morning hours are damp and chilly here) but being a computer tech when would I find the time? hell i got the nurse at my last checkup drilling me on Black Friday and where the best places to buy the tech on her shopping list, with us tech guys somebody is needing something all the time. Between that and the fact a lot of the SMBs will happily give you more work if you are willing to come do it on a weekend when they are closed or have shorter hours? Well there just ain't enough time in the day as it is, hells bells I got games from last year's Xmas sale i still haven't fired up, just no time.
Only if the hunter is a bad shot. My father used to hunt with a compound bow and those that went with him were always amazed that any deer he hit would drop within a foot of where he hit it, but we used to have a bunch of hay bales set up in the backyard and he practiced at several ranges and measured how deep each hit went and got it to the point it was muscle memory.
So its all about the hunter, and frankly I think every hunter should have to take a basic skills test to show they can actually hit what they are aiming at correctly. With the correct aim and posture you can drop a large animal like a deer VERY quick, but you have to be patient, line up the shot, and apply just the right amount of force to do the job.
Hell that is the same thing I did, I've seen AC in concert a couple times now and while they put on a hell of a show there is A REASON why they nearly always stick to the back catalog, and that is because the new stuff just isn't as catchy anymore.
I feel the same way about Rush, while they can still write and play just as tasty as before the later stuff? the hooks...just aren't there. Right after Roll the Bones they just seemed to run out of gas. Where is the next Tom Sawyer? or New World Man? They just haven't been able to match the way they were able to just get those songs stuck in your head. And I've given ALL the later stuff by AC and Rush a fair shake, listening straight through a couple times each, but...its just not there, that "spark" for a lack of a better term, that just made those tunes latch onto your brain and not let go.
And before anybody says its because I'm old my oldest boy is just turning 20 and going to college, perfect rock n' roll listening age, and he said "Meh, those just don't make me want to keep playin' 'em...BTW where is your AC greatest CD at?" LOL. So I'd say its the simple fact that the well has run dry, they have just run out of catchy tunes in the barrel and what we are getting is just the trailings.
Well I hate hypocrites and straw men and appeals to emotion so i try my damnedest to make things as straight forward and logical as possible. And if you disagree? Please feel free to respond, as long as it isn't the usual emotional "You suck and have stupid hair!" and instead a logical explanation of why you think I'm wrong, preferably with citations, i am MORE than happy to debate any point. The wise man knows there is more out there than he could possibly ever know and I have no problem changing my stance when evidence, instead of just emotion or fanboi-ism, is presented.
Hell I still get hate mail and death threats from the FOSSie crowd, and the occasional online stalker, just for pointing out that in the consumer and SMB sector where I work their product just doesn't cut the mustard. I just love when they call me their version of nigger, which is the ever present "Ur a shill!" when I was one of the FIRST to sound off that Vista had serious issues and Windows 8 is frankly unsuitable for purpose, if you don't have a tablet don't bother is what I'm telling folks.
So thanks I try, I can't say I've always succeeded to completely keep emotion out, but I do try to be fair and keep an open mind. I know many get emotional or worse the "ballclub" mentality with a lot of subjects but I think of you just lay it out as a simple argument you can cut through the bullshit and look at the problem logically, and this is supposed to be a geek site, not the Yahoo! comments section for crap's sake, so we shouldn't have everything turned into those jingoistic "us vs them, if you don't think as I do you're a retard" crap that everybody goes to the yahoo! comments to laugh at. Maybe I'm wrong but I think we should at least strive to be above that, and approach things from a logical technical bent if we are gonna call this a geeks site. I mean what did politics and religion have to do with the subject? Not a damned thing, so just call out the bullshit simply and logically and move on, that's all you can do.
From what I've read its not about the money, its about harming the brand. they think LOTR slots is like putting out LOTR Malt Liquor and don't want to cheapen the brand with tacky shit like that, while the WB says they can do pretty much what they want.
While i don't really have a horse in this race i can see their point, you have to draw the line somewhere or the WB will be putting out any damned thing they can with the license just to milk those last bucks..like I said imagine limited edition LOTR "Green Dragon" malt liquor and crap like that.