"...tell me why I need to rush out and buy a PS3 right away?"
Texture quality. The PS2 has always had a deplorably pathetic amount of video RAM, and it shows - especially in big games like SoC where the same tiny aliased texture is reused and remapped all over the place. The PS2 has had a lot of really, really fun games that were just painful to look at because of this, and since Sony actually has competition this time around, they've been forced to give developers enough VRAM to make games a hell of a lot less ugly.
Famitsu Weekly scores are a pretty worthless benchmark of how good or bad a game is. Just like American publications, Famitsu is 99% hype - in fact, in recent years Famitsu has been known for handing out some of the most absurdly high reviews of any game magazine - for example, giving a score of 8/10 to Shadow the Hedgehog, which was panned by almost every other game critic on earth.
"Darwin Awards aside, what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"
Most of the people I've talked to who thought evolution had stopped with the arrival of homo sapiens were either too stupid to extrapolate and realize that if something had been going on for four billion years, it would probably keep on going.
HLTV doesn't really seem to apply here - it looks like Microsoft isn't so much patenting the spectating concept and patenting the idea of making a portal that centralizes a bunch of different spectating concepts. It's still a bullshit patent, but of a different source.
Anyone familiar with the American media knows that our "journalists" spend a lot more time recounting what they've picked up off the wire services and corporate/government press releases than they do actually attempting to enlighten the public . Why anyone would expect bloggers to be any less lazy and worthless than CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or most newspapers is beyond me.
Someone still has to make and sell the hardware, and that company will probably be just as happy to sell you a support contract as Cisco is. And if you're building them yourself, chances are that you'll be saving enough money that you'll be able to keep a few spares on hand.
Apple isn't a victim of anything - the people in charge are just full of themselves. Being able to even stay in business selling computers at margins three to four times the industry average made Jobs and co. arrogant enough to assume that consumers are so stupid they'll pay $99 for a cheap leather iPod case with a design that completely counters the excellent design of the iPod itself.
Of course, this might actually not be a bad strategy. The Republican party managed to take control of the USA by insulting the entire nations intelligence, so maybe Apple can make even more money by doing the same.
You want a real sign of the endtime? A bunch of idiots who believe that, against odds and logic, their book of magic fairy tales is the right one, and that the world is about to end because some guy had a bad dream 1900 years ago and took notes after he woke up.
If America ever needed proof that our public education system isn't doing a good job, it's that these rapture idiots are popping out of the woodwork. It's foolish to believe that there's an invisible man in the sky who popped the universe into being, but believing that he's going to lay waste to it all just because some old fart had a nightmare is just plain stupid. All these rapture weirdos need to do humanity a favor, and go join their God a little early, and leave the rest of us to enjoy civilization in peace.
How many years has Wal-Mart been selling a dirt cheap Linux system online without generating enough demand to bother putting it on store shelves? Dell isn't promoting the Linux desktop because there isn't enough demand for a Linux desktop to make it worth the bother. Linux nerds already buy Dell machines and install Linux themselves, so there's no point marketing to them, and the last thing Joe Blow on the street wants is to try and learn to use another operating system after finally learning how to use Windows update without paying the geeks at the Best Buy service counter to do it for him.
Most consumers don't care about Linux. They definately aren't asking for Linux. And that's not going to change, because for the most part, the Linux/Open-Source community is a bunch of *NIX hackers writing code for themselves.
"The 14 PC's are running either Windows 95, Windows 98, and XP Home Edition and I find this rather abhorrent."
So has anyone actually asked you to look into moving the PCs to a new operating system, or are you just a zealot trying to cram Linux down peoples' throats? You aren't going to win anyone over to Linux by being an arrogant prick and dumping a new OS on them just to show off how 31337 you are because you know how to install Linux and configure X.
You've apparently never been to Washington. A Washington, DC MMO would mostly involve drinking coffee while talking about politics with ivy leage grads, boring cocktail parties, and avoiding the urge to shove tourists down escalators.
Someone is going to make a lot of money selling Chinese digital-to-component adapters for all these HDTV owners - at least if HDTV actually goes anywhere.
Blizzard should really release a "jam packed ironforge auction house" benchmarking tool. It's been over a year since WoW came out, and that place is STILL the most trying thing any game can throw at a computer.
"Given that many of the same apps run on both Mac and PC platforms, why don't more people bench Mac vs. PC?"
Because most Mac users don't buy Macs for the hardware. There may have been a few in the last three years who picked up a G5 just to have gobs of RAM to use for crazy HD video editing stuff, but most Mac users run Apple for the OS, and don't really care if the Apple systems are a little slower.
My college (where I am also on the IT staff) has a hybrid approach - workstations for power hungry software laptops can't easily handle but everyone still needs a laptop - and the only big hurdle for us seems to be liability issues. Because we don't want to get sued by someone who believes that we broke his laptop, the IT staff cannot offer any support beyond basic support for connecting to the networks, printers, and fileservers. It's actually a pretty good policy, tho, because it has forced a lot of students to actually learn how to install/remove software, how to maintain their computers, and how to go get help from a professional when things break, which is a damned important concept in the design world, since most design firms don't have on-site tech support.
Can robots.txt be configured to disallow crawling images? Because I'm getting the impression that if it can, this case should be thrown out with Perfect 10 ordered to use robots.txt, and if it can't, then the standard needs updating to stop cases like this from going forward in the future.
I'm all for it if it can get rid of some of the more irritating commercials that pop up during some really popular podcasts. I wouldn't pay $7 a month for anything less than an excellent daily news source, but cheap design tutorial vids to watch while I'm at the gym would be better than trying to skip the commercials.
What you're clearly missing here is that Take-Two/Rockstar never had any chance at controlling this and coming out on top. It didn't matter what Take-Two/Rockstar said in their own defense, because this entire story exists because the American news media serves mainly to titilate its audience with twisted facts taken out of context followed by a lot of outright lies. And nobody was ever going to come to Take-Two/Rockstar's aid, because they're just a bunch of rich white nerds making games for a living, they don't fit into popular concepts of victims needing defense.
Take-Two/Rockstar are just as much a victim of America's depraved acceptance of a media that's little better than the state-controlled media of facist regimes than it is the developer's own stupidity.
1. iPod movies wouldn't sell enough copies to save Blockbuster from the impending Bankruptcy and shutdown of all locations that don't start renting porn. 2. How many people who don't have iPods don't have broadband? I have a 6 mbps cable connection at home, and even though it's only about four blocks to the nearest Blockbuster, I'd still just download the movie and save myself the bother of leaving the house.
This sounds at lot like those promised CD burning stations that never went anywhere, or the mp3 sale stations that never went anywhere. A lame idea well behind the times.
I'm just not interested in any of the games on the 360. If anyone ever releases a game that isn't just a sequel/sports/clone I might care, until then, I can just keep playing my existing consoles.
Why is it wrong? That's an issue for economic philosophers to debate. But Best Buy didn't fire people for doing something that may or may not have been wrong - they were fired for pissing off a bunch of young loudmouthed consumers who immediately started bitching about it online, which lead to bad publicity that will cost a hell of a lot more to fix than the bundling made for Best Buy. Anyone stupid enough to do something like this is a big liability to a firm like Best Buy, so it makes a lot of sense to just drop the axe.
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"...tell me why I need to rush out and buy a PS3 right away?"
Texture quality. The PS2 has always had a deplorably pathetic amount of video RAM, and it shows - especially in big games like SoC where the same tiny aliased texture is reused and remapped all over the place. The PS2 has had a lot of really, really fun games that were just painful to look at because of this, and since Sony actually has competition this time around, they've been forced to give developers enough VRAM to make games a hell of a lot less ugly.
Famitsu Weekly scores are a pretty worthless benchmark of how good or bad a game is. Just like American publications, Famitsu is 99% hype - in fact, in recent years Famitsu has been known for handing out some of the most absurdly high reviews of any game magazine - for example, giving a score of 8/10 to Shadow the Hedgehog, which was panned by almost every other game critic on earth.
"Darwin Awards aside, what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"
Most of the people I've talked to who thought evolution had stopped with the arrival of homo sapiens were either too stupid to extrapolate and realize that if something had been going on for four billion years, it would probably keep on going.
HLTV doesn't really seem to apply here - it looks like Microsoft isn't so much patenting the spectating concept and patenting the idea of making a portal that centralizes a bunch of different spectating concepts. It's still a bullshit patent, but of a different source.
Anyone familiar with the American media knows that our "journalists" spend a lot more time recounting what they've picked up off the wire services and corporate/government press releases than they do actually attempting to enlighten the public . Why anyone would expect bloggers to be any less lazy and worthless than CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or most newspapers is beyond me.
Someone still has to make and sell the hardware, and that company will probably be just as happy to sell you a support contract as Cisco is. And if you're building them yourself, chances are that you'll be saving enough money that you'll be able to keep a few spares on hand.
"Is Apple a victim of its own success?"
Apple isn't a victim of anything - the people in charge are just full of themselves. Being able to even stay in business selling computers at margins three to four times the industry average made Jobs and co. arrogant enough to assume that consumers are so stupid they'll pay $99 for a cheap leather iPod case with a design that completely counters the excellent design of the iPod itself.
Of course, this might actually not be a bad strategy. The Republican party managed to take control of the USA by insulting the entire nations intelligence, so maybe Apple can make even more money by doing the same.
"When did religious conviction become ignorance?"
When was religious conviction ever anything else?
You want a real sign of the endtime? A bunch of idiots who believe that, against odds and logic, their book of magic fairy tales is the right one, and that the world is about to end because some guy had a bad dream 1900 years ago and took notes after he woke up.
If America ever needed proof that our public education system isn't doing a good job, it's that these rapture idiots are popping out of the woodwork. It's foolish to believe that there's an invisible man in the sky who popped the universe into being, but believing that he's going to lay waste to it all just because some old fart had a nightmare is just plain stupid. All these rapture weirdos need to do humanity a favor, and go join their God a little early, and leave the rest of us to enjoy civilization in peace.
How many years has Wal-Mart been selling a dirt cheap Linux system online without generating enough demand to bother putting it on store shelves? Dell isn't promoting the Linux desktop because there isn't enough demand for a Linux desktop to make it worth the bother. Linux nerds already buy Dell machines and install Linux themselves, so there's no point marketing to them, and the last thing Joe Blow on the street wants is to try and learn to use another operating system after finally learning how to use Windows update without paying the geeks at the Best Buy service counter to do it for him.
Most consumers don't care about Linux. They definately aren't asking for Linux. And that's not going to change, because for the most part, the Linux/Open-Source community is a bunch of *NIX hackers writing code for themselves.
"The 14 PC's are running either Windows 95, Windows 98, and XP Home Edition and I find this rather abhorrent."
So has anyone actually asked you to look into moving the PCs to a new operating system, or are you just a zealot trying to cram Linux down peoples' throats? You aren't going to win anyone over to Linux by being an arrogant prick and dumping a new OS on them just to show off how 31337 you are because you know how to install Linux and configure X.
"I'd say the DC one sounds more interesting. At least the dicks around you would be smart dicks."
Touche - you've pretty much pointed out why I'd rather chat with Washingtonians that start playing Warcraft again.
You've apparently never been to Washington. A Washington, DC MMO would mostly involve drinking coffee while talking about politics with ivy leage grads, boring cocktail parties, and avoiding the urge to shove tourists down escalators.
"Just posting this story probably puts me on their radar."
You're missing the point - with TIA, everyone is always on the radar.
Someone is going to make a lot of money selling Chinese digital-to-component adapters for all these HDTV owners - at least if HDTV actually goes anywhere.
Blizzard should really release a "jam packed ironforge auction house" benchmarking tool. It's been over a year since WoW came out, and that place is STILL the most trying thing any game can throw at a computer.
"Given that many of the same apps run on both Mac and PC platforms, why don't more people bench Mac vs. PC?"
Because most Mac users don't buy Macs for the hardware. There may have been a few in the last three years who picked up a G5 just to have gobs of RAM to use for crazy HD video editing stuff, but most Mac users run Apple for the OS, and don't really care if the Apple systems are a little slower.
My college (where I am also on the IT staff) has a hybrid approach - workstations for power hungry software laptops can't easily handle but everyone still needs a laptop - and the only big hurdle for us seems to be liability issues. Because we don't want to get sued by someone who believes that we broke his laptop, the IT staff cannot offer any support beyond basic support for connecting to the networks, printers, and fileservers. It's actually a pretty good policy, tho, because it has forced a lot of students to actually learn how to install/remove software, how to maintain their computers, and how to go get help from a professional when things break, which is a damned important concept in the design world, since most design firms don't have on-site tech support.
Can robots.txt be configured to disallow crawling images? Because I'm getting the impression that if it can, this case should be thrown out with Perfect 10 ordered to use robots.txt, and if it can't, then the standard needs updating to stop cases like this from going forward in the future.
I'm all for it if it can get rid of some of the more irritating commercials that pop up during some really popular podcasts. I wouldn't pay $7 a month for anything less than an excellent daily news source, but cheap design tutorial vids to watch while I'm at the gym would be better than trying to skip the commercials.
What you're clearly missing here is that Take-Two/Rockstar never had any chance at controlling this and coming out on top. It didn't matter what Take-Two/Rockstar said in their own defense, because this entire story exists because the American news media serves mainly to titilate its audience with twisted facts taken out of context followed by a lot of outright lies. And nobody was ever going to come to Take-Two/Rockstar's aid, because they're just a bunch of rich white nerds making games for a living, they don't fit into popular concepts of victims needing defense.
Take-Two/Rockstar are just as much a victim of America's depraved acceptance of a media that's little better than the state-controlled media of facist regimes than it is the developer's own stupidity.
1. iPod movies wouldn't sell enough copies to save Blockbuster from the impending Bankruptcy and shutdown of all locations that don't start renting porn.
2. How many people who don't have iPods don't have broadband? I have a 6 mbps cable connection at home, and even though it's only about four blocks to the nearest Blockbuster, I'd still just download the movie and save myself the bother of leaving the house.
This sounds at lot like those promised CD burning stations that never went anywhere, or the mp3 sale stations that never went anywhere. A lame idea well behind the times.
Whine all you want, Will Wright's rich, and you're just a loser with nothing better to do than talk shit about people on the web.
I'm just not interested in any of the games on the 360. If anyone ever releases a game that isn't just a sequel/sports/clone I might care, until then, I can just keep playing my existing consoles.
Why is it wrong? That's an issue for economic philosophers to debate. But Best Buy didn't fire people for doing something that may or may not have been wrong - they were fired for pissing off a bunch of young loudmouthed consumers who immediately started bitching about it online, which lead to bad publicity that will cost a hell of a lot more to fix than the bundling made for Best Buy. Anyone stupid enough to do something like this is a big liability to a firm like Best Buy, so it makes a lot of sense to just drop the axe.