Exactly. About a decade ago I gave up PC gaming because I was sick of buying games only to find out my $299 computer wouldn't play them. I can pop any brand new game in my console and it just works. I find it hard to believe I'm having less fun in MW2 because it's only DX9.
Simple solution to the screen watching cheat - just accept it. It adds an interesting new element to the game. I remember back in the Halo 1 days the advantage would go to the players that could instantly glance and interpret what they saw.
I literally bought a game, had to hack away the protection, and then I could play it on my computer.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of like how my Linux computer won't play a Blu-Ray from walmart, but it does just fine with one from the pirate bay.
Moore's law isn't some sort of natural occurrence, it's economics. If hardware pulls ahead, hardware engineers switch to writing software. If software pulls ahead they switch to writing hardware.
Digital wires interfere with each other via RF. There's no way to make a DSP chip complex enough to do digital voice or video without first having a very firm grasp of RF. Meaning "primitive" digital transmissions would be on-off keying at 100 baud or something like that. Which is as detectable from space as AM radio.
[citation needed.] The shuttle starts off with about 10^13 joules (2.4 kilotons) of chemical energy, so neglecting inefficiency/friction it would be roughly the magnitude of a snuke.
FTFWikipedia:
The figure of 56 kbit/s is derived from its implementation using the same digital infrastructure used since the 1960s for digital telephony in the PSTN, which uses a PCM sampling rate of 8,000 Hz used with 8-bit sample encoding to encode analogue signals into a digital stream of 64,000 bit/s.
However, in the T-carrier systems used in the U.S. and Canada, a technique called bit-robbing uses, in every sixth frame, the least significant bit in the time slot associated with the voice channel for Channel Associated Signaling (CAS). This effectively renders the lowest bit of the 8 speech bits unusable for data transmission, and so a 56 kbit/s line used only 7 of the 8 data bits in each sample period to send data, thus giving a data rate of 8000 Hz × 7 bits = 56 kbit/s.
Amen. I don't know about computer games, but on XBOX Live one person in the match is selected as the host/server. So they have to upstream one copy of everything to each player. You'd better hope they have FIOS.
I don't see any technical reason not to offer symmetric packages. I've always assumed it's to curb P2P *grumble*
Sure, not following the old rules is great. Your theory can be that the Flying Spaghetti Monster pushes objects around with his noodly appendages. But at the end of the day, your theory *must* be reducible to "objects fall down" or else it doesn't describe our universe. Therefore any new theory is always going to be reducible to Newton or any other "objects fall down" theory.
We already have clean, safe fusion energy in the form of solar panels. The barriers to a more "direct" approach to fusion are therefore clearly a matter of technology. In what way is that a pipe dream?
While I agree that the Shuttle gets a bad rap on safety, the fact that in 32 manned flights, Apollo, Mercury and Gemini lost just one crew and zero vehicles is pretty remarkable.
Don't worry, I'm sure in time the shuttle will be remembered as a white elephant rather than a death trap;)
Is that you, Tom Cruise? Things can go wrong in your body and they don't need a cause. You don't need to smoke to get cancer. Same thing with depression. You can bring depression upon yourself, for example with stress, but it's often just a genetic hormone deficiency. My depression hit suddenly, and I tried everything to cure it, over the course of two years. Eating different, fish oil, more vacation, rigorous exercise, more religion, less religion. Nothing worked. Still woke up at 3am wanting to kill myself. On a regular basis.
Went on Lexapro and I've been totally fine ever since.
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Heh, you're wrong AND you're an asshole. Good job.
Exactly. About a decade ago I gave up PC gaming because I was sick of buying games only to find out my $299 computer wouldn't play them. I can pop any brand new game in my console and it just works. I find it hard to believe I'm having less fun in MW2 because it's only DX9.
Simple solution to the screen watching cheat - just accept it. It adds an interesting new element to the game. I remember back in the Halo 1 days the advantage would go to the players that could instantly glance and interpret what they saw.
"You tell people I'm a ROCKET SCIENTIST?!!!" - Sheldon Cooper
Uh, that would be 7 kiloGRAMS, not 7 kilotons. It's far cheaper to just drop 7 kg of TNT out of an airplane.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%28.5*1kg*%288km%2Fs%29^2%29+%2F+%284.184+gigajoules+%2F+ton%29
I literally bought a game, had to hack away the protection, and then I could play it on my computer.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of like how my Linux computer won't play a Blu-Ray from walmart, but it does just fine with one from the pirate bay.
Like this?
This is a waste of a comment but I must say you made me sneeze coffee. Best post ever.
Facetious and insightful aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, there's a word for it.
Moore's law isn't some sort of natural occurrence, it's economics. If hardware pulls ahead, hardware engineers switch to writing software. If software pulls ahead they switch to writing hardware.
It's what plants crave!
Except of course for planets which happen to have Stargates or Cylons, all of which look like Vancouver.
Duh... shrink ray!
Digital wires interfere with each other via RF. There's no way to make a DSP chip complex enough to do digital voice or video without first having a very firm grasp of RF. Meaning "primitive" digital transmissions would be on-off keying at 100 baud or something like that. Which is as detectable from space as AM radio.
Actually it heats up because it's slowing down ;)
[citation needed.] The shuttle starts off with about 10^13 joules (2.4 kilotons) of chemical energy, so neglecting inefficiency/friction it would be roughly the magnitude of a snuke.
FTFWikipedia:
The figure of 56 kbit/s is derived from its implementation using the same digital infrastructure used since the 1960s for digital telephony in the PSTN, which uses a PCM sampling rate of 8,000 Hz used with 8-bit sample encoding to encode analogue signals into a digital stream of 64,000 bit/s. However, in the T-carrier systems used in the U.S. and Canada, a technique called bit-robbing uses, in every sixth frame, the least significant bit in the time slot associated with the voice channel for Channel Associated Signaling (CAS). This effectively renders the lowest bit of the 8 speech bits unusable for data transmission, and so a 56 kbit/s line used only 7 of the 8 data bits in each sample period to send data, thus giving a data rate of 8000 Hz × 7 bits = 56 kbit/s.
Amen. I don't know about computer games, but on XBOX Live one person in the match is selected as the host/server. So they have to upstream one copy of everything to each player. You'd better hope they have FIOS.
I don't see any technical reason not to offer symmetric packages. I've always assumed it's to curb P2P *grumble*
Isn't that a lot of wasted effort compared to a fork?
Sure, not following the old rules is great. Your theory can be that the Flying Spaghetti Monster pushes objects around with his noodly appendages. But at the end of the day, your theory *must* be reducible to "objects fall down" or else it doesn't describe our universe. Therefore any new theory is always going to be reducible to Newton or any other "objects fall down" theory.
We already have clean, safe fusion energy in the form of solar panels. The barriers to a more "direct" approach to fusion are therefore clearly a matter of technology. In what way is that a pipe dream?
Well, yes. The law of conservation of energy states that ALL energy is perpetual. Perhaps you're thinking of perpetual energy production.
While I agree that the Shuttle gets a bad rap on safety, the fact that in 32 manned flights, Apollo, Mercury and Gemini lost just one crew and zero vehicles is pretty remarkable.
;)
Don't worry, I'm sure in time the shuttle will be remembered as a white elephant rather than a death trap
Is that you, Tom Cruise? Things can go wrong in your body and they don't need a cause. You don't need to smoke to get cancer. Same thing with depression. You can bring depression upon yourself, for example with stress, but it's often just a genetic hormone deficiency. My depression hit suddenly, and I tried everything to cure it, over the course of two years. Eating different, fish oil, more vacation, rigorous exercise, more religion, less religion. Nothing worked. Still woke up at 3am wanting to kill myself. On a regular basis.
Went on Lexapro and I've been totally fine ever since.