[i]but where does it say in the bible that the bible is the only truth[/i]
In the Bible it says all scripture is inspired by God; by extension because God is infalliable the writing is infalliable.
How do we know they're not lying about that? It's inspired by God. Why is it inspired by God? It says in there... Repeat till fade.
The difference is anyone can open a Blog, with little or no skill and a web connection. While you can get a column in the WSJ with little or no skill, you need a whole lot more than a net connection.
While the rhetoric in the article is pretty positive, if you actually read what they're saying and not how they're saying it, it's not that great.
It consumes less than a 3800 X2? Isn't the fact that a laptop chip is even being *compared* to a dual core desktop chip in terms of power consumption quite worrying? And for that same "little big less power" they're getting a "little bit less speed"? I thought this was all about performance per Watt?
Actually it's not Microsoft users who love getting raped, it's early adopters. And a damn good thing too: without early adopters, we patient and reasonable consumers wouldn't get good products with all the design kinks worked out.
Cohen is a very smart guy... you only have to read his blog or even just take a look at Bittorrent to see this. It could be possible that he built the Bittorrent Search Engine (which was certainly an unexpected development) as a straw man for the xxAA to knock down.
This is really a good thing. Now it can be claimed that Bittorrent has introduced legitimising technologies at it's core the media will probably report it as such. To the average P2Per, there is no difference and people can continue to get what they want from their original sources. This hopefully will boost BT's image as a legitimate content delivery system whilst not touching P2P. Infact, the clueless xxAA might even step down their assault on Bittorrent now that they have got controls in. (Although admittedly they would have to be very stupid to do that.)
We have nationalities, we're not from Britianland.
Yah... we're from Britain, which also includes the letters "Brit". Personally I've never minded being called a Brit and have always thought of it as a semi-affectionate term... I could be wrong on that but nevermind.
Actually no, the UK government doesn't own TV any more than the US Governemnt does. The BBC (by no means the only broadcaster in the UK) recieves a liscence fee from the public who have a TV. This fee is only charged if you have a television (In theory, although they often have a hard time believing you don't have one if you actually don't) and the money is never seen by the governemnt. It is not paid for with taxes.
In addition, the BBC wouldn't actually be the ones paying for the switchover, so the liscence fee is in fact a mute point here.
The subsidisation in the US is supposed to be on Digital enabled TV sets for consumers; which the governemnt certainly don't "own" in the UK.
Assuming you mean on Earth, so we take G to be 9.8N and a copy of Windows Vista (boxed of course) would weigh 0.5KG, dropping it from a height of 1M: M*G*H would tell us that 0.5*9.8*1= 4.9ms^-1
Early reports indicate the IRC backdoor is used by the propagator of the virus to bombard you with random chat messages from #windowshelp. So far the most common phrases appearing are "how do i reformat" and "how do i download the internet?"
Having never used Cedega before, I was wondering what the noticeable drop in framerate would be as opposed to when the games were running natively in Windows XP? Hopefully some of what horsepower the computer is throwing at the game is refunded in that it doesn't have to run XP in the background, but I'd assume the net performance change is in the negative direction.
Does anyone regularly use Cedega to play 3D FPS and if so are they playable with a non-cutting edge system? (thinking last generation card or whatever.)It would be nice to lose the XP install on my Hard Drive.
At the end of the article the comment section asked how this could be turned into a social and profitable Business. The games industry has clearly taken the lead in this course of action. Even companies who are often considered tyranical by many gamers such as EA include vast swathes of modding tools with their games and have sections on their websites dedicated to link to mods.
With my recent purchase of Battlefield 2 I recieved a full modding kit (which is also available online) including map editor and tutorials on how to use 3rd party programs. Thought to accomodate modding even goes into the development of the game: BF2 is scripted using Python, as many other games (the recent interview with the Civ4 dev team highlighted this: they used Python so the game could be extensively moddable.
Many games companies even put up with some blatant copyright infringment. I work on http://ta-mod.com/ which is a mod for the Battlefield Series of games, turning it into a Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun styled interface. Legally, EA could waltz in and shut us down for infringing their intellectual property on the C&C series, but they are fully aware of our activities and they seem to be quite enthusiastic about it.
The traditional industries can learn this lesson. If they bundled Rip/Mix/Burn programs with their music/movies just as PC Gamer developers do I would actually feel pushed to buy the content as the value added from something which you can add to infinitely over time is so much greater than a passive disk which you watch/listen to then put back. They would be adding value to their product, reaping a PR victory and not expending more than 20c per unit sold for a printed CD including the modding tools. If they don't include the tools, people will get them from somewhere else - it's a question of keeping their market.
This is preposterous! The US has produced a number of excellent scientific theorum in recent times, including Intelligent Design and Intelligent Falling
If this can do what it's boasting it will certainly come in handy for Graphic heavy desktop environments such as the Aero Glass Theme Windows Vista is using. If a Linux GUI (ho ho ho) can provide an experience as rich as Aqua or Aero and base it on this software rendering it could make leaps and bounds on the desktop as more savvy system admins decline to purchase the latest gaming card so they can run Vista.
Obviously I realise that a lot more is needed before desktop Linux taxes off, but if someone could capitalise on this we could have a decent GUI utilised without pissing all over Linux's reputation for not taxing hardware too heavily. (Personally I prefer an understated GUI which uses no resources, but obviously there is a market for eye candy.)
While I'm sure nobody is particularly thrilled or compelled to rush out and get a PSP so they can use one of these, It sure does present a great way of getting the UMD content onto a PC (albeit through an analogue in) on a VIVO equipped PC of some kind. In the days of DRM, analogue is your friend.
I think we've been conned. When BluRay and HDDVD were first compared, we were shown the capacities and speeds. BluRay was hugely superior. Now we've been told about BDROM's DRM which doesn't even allow streaming of content, and that HDDVD doesn't have any region codes and requires (albeit DRM'd) ripping to PC, which is at least better than the current DVD format. I have always supported BDROM becuase of the superior capacity etc, but over the past week taking into account the developments which have come to light I'm starting to seriously rethink which side I'm taking.
Obviously, it could just be a case of HDDVD seeing how unpopular they are and making some changes to their strategy late in the day to get some support which they wouldn't have done if we hadn't originally shunned them.
...becuase users of these PCs will no longer associate "Teh Intarnet" solely with clicking the little Blue E on their desktop. At least having the concept of multiple browsers is a good boost for anyone looking to diversify the browsers being used.
This could be very useful for what John Carmack said he would like to see more of in his speeech: less repeating textures in games (which he described as a "basic form of compression") and more single textures. After capturing the models using some sort of scanner a Deep-Paint like system (as opposed to traditional UVW map or texture repeaters) could be used in conjunction with the brush to give it texture... and you have a high quality copy of the object from the real world as a textured 3d model.
Lego is the original "Rip, Remix and Burn" passtime and I'm glad to see that they're sticking to their heritage. Three cheers for lego! Can you imagine the MPAA packaging ripping, video editing and burning tools with all that extra space on the DVDs?
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How do we know they're not lying about that? It's inspired by God. Why is it inspired by God? It says in there... Repeat till fade.
The difference is anyone can open a Blog, with little or no skill and a web connection. While you can get a column in the WSJ with little or no skill, you need a whole lot more than a net connection.
It consumes less than a 3800 X2? Isn't the fact that a laptop chip is even being *compared* to a dual core desktop chip in terms of power consumption quite worrying? And for that same "little big less power" they're getting a "little bit less speed"? I thought this was all about performance per Watt?
So when do you plan on switching to Windows?
This is really a good thing. Now it can be claimed that Bittorrent has introduced legitimising technologies at it's core the media will probably report it as such. To the average P2Per, there is no difference and people can continue to get what they want from their original sources. This hopefully will boost BT's image as a legitimate content delivery system whilst not touching P2P. Infact, the clueless xxAA might even step down their assault on Bittorrent now that they have got controls in. (Although admittedly they would have to be very stupid to do that.)
As in those presenting the current crop of alternate theories have a leg to stand on? This is really news to me.
We have nationalities, we're not from Britianland. Yah... we're from Britain, which also includes the letters "Brit". Personally I've never minded being called a Brit and have always thought of it as a semi-affectionate term... I could be wrong on that but nevermind.
In addition, the BBC wouldn't actually be the ones paying for the switchover, so the liscence fee is in fact a mute point here.
The subsidisation in the US is supposed to be on Digital enabled TV sets for consumers; which the governemnt certainly don't "own" in the UK.
Assuming you mean on Earth, so we take G to be 9.8N and a copy of Windows Vista (boxed of course) would weigh 0.5KG, dropping it from a height of 1M: M*G*H would tell us that 0.5*9.8*1= 4.9ms^-1
Early reports indicate the IRC backdoor is used by the propagator of the virus to bombard you with random chat messages from #windowshelp. So far the most common phrases appearing are "how do i reformat" and "how do i download the internet?"
Does anyone regularly use Cedega to play 3D FPS and if so are they playable with a non-cutting edge system? (thinking last generation card or whatever.)It would be nice to lose the XP install on my Hard Drive.
Personally, I think this looks very impressive, and it will be interesting to see how it pans out.
...This is about as close to a Linux port as WoW is gonna get I think...
Oh wait...
With my recent purchase of Battlefield 2 I recieved a full modding kit (which is also available online) including map editor and tutorials on how to use 3rd party programs. Thought to accomodate modding even goes into the development of the game: BF2 is scripted using Python, as many other games (the recent interview with the Civ4 dev team highlighted this: they used Python so the game could be extensively moddable.
Many games companies even put up with some blatant copyright infringment. I work on http://ta-mod.com/ which is a mod for the Battlefield Series of games, turning it into a Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun styled interface. Legally, EA could waltz in and shut us down for infringing their intellectual property on the C&C series, but they are fully aware of our activities and they seem to be quite enthusiastic about it.
The traditional industries can learn this lesson. If they bundled Rip/Mix/Burn programs with their music/movies just as PC Gamer developers do I would actually feel pushed to buy the content as the value added from something which you can add to infinitely over time is so much greater than a passive disk which you watch/listen to then put back. They would be adding value to their product, reaping a PR victory and not expending more than 20c per unit sold for a printed CD including the modding tools. If they don't include the tools, people will get them from somewhere else - it's a question of keeping their market.
This is preposterous! The US has produced a number of excellent scientific theorum in recent times, including Intelligent Design and Intelligent Falling
Is anyone not on a budget?
Obviously I realise that a lot more is needed before desktop Linux taxes off, but if someone could capitalise on this we could have a decent GUI utilised without pissing all over Linux's reputation for not taxing hardware too heavily. (Personally I prefer an understated GUI which uses no resources, but obviously there is a market for eye candy.)
While I'm sure nobody is particularly thrilled or compelled to rush out and get a PSP so they can use one of these, It sure does present a great way of getting the UMD content onto a PC (albeit through an analogue in) on a VIVO equipped PC of some kind. In the days of DRM, analogue is your friend.
Fortunately nobody had to trust the US to *invent* the Internet. Yeah, we were all too busy trusting Al Gore...
Obviously, it could just be a case of HDDVD seeing how unpopular they are and making some changes to their strategy late in the day to get some support which they wouldn't have done if we hadn't originally shunned them.
...becuase users of these PCs will no longer associate "Teh Intarnet" solely with clicking the little Blue E on their desktop. At least having the concept of multiple browsers is a good boost for anyone looking to diversify the browsers being used.
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This could be very useful for what John Carmack said he would like to see more of in his speeech: less repeating textures in games (which he described as a "basic form of compression") and more single textures. After capturing the models using some sort of scanner a Deep-Paint like system (as opposed to traditional UVW map or texture repeaters) could be used in conjunction with the brush to give it texture... and you have a high quality copy of the object from the real world as a textured 3d model.
Lego is the original "Rip, Remix and Burn" passtime and I'm glad to see that they're sticking to their heritage. Three cheers for lego! Can you imagine the MPAA packaging ripping, video editing and burning tools with all that extra space on the DVDs?