Yes but IIRC, textbook drawings of atoms usually look nothing like the physical reality (since simplified drawings never show the electrons forming a cloud around the nucleus and greatly shrink the scale of the distance between the electrons and nucleus for simplicity). So it's not surprising that we would expect the physical reality vs. the drawings of the molecules to be very different too.
A TivoHD with cablecard most certainly *doesn't* work if your cableco uses Switched Digital Video (SDV). The last time I tried out Tivo, I found that out the hard way (when a bunch of my HD channels disappeared).
It still seems bizarre to me that you have to pay a yearly fee to even watch over-the-air broadcasts in the UK. People in the U.S. complain when MS asks them to pay $45 a year for Xbox Live. I can't imagine the uproar that would follow here if you asked people to pay $65 a year just to watch TV with a lousy rabbit-ear antenna. I guess it might be worth that to lose the advertisements, but that's only on the BBC channels, not all the others.
Yes, it is true. You can see the list for yourself from an old post of my (I'm too lazy to repost it). Five years has been the standard for console generations since the 70's.
Unfortunately, Champions Online got pushed from a set release date to "To be announced" recently (just like 360 version of Age of Conan did just before it disappeared). I suspect the 360 version is now dead.
I would point out the multitude of problems with that response, but I'm not going to start yet another PC vs. console pissing contest, thank you. Suffice it to say that the PS3 is getting some MMO's on their console finally, but MS is not. And I think a truly next generation console needs to expand its capabilities to handle all game genres.
The standard has always been 5 years, even through the early 80's console collapse and several recessions. IMHO, any console maker who ignores this (especially in this competitive market) does so at their own peril. It was Sony's attempt to drag out the PS2 cycle to 6 years that allowed the 360 to finally gain a foothold over Sony to begin with.
The 360 is nearing the end of the typical console lifespan (which has always been about 5 years, give or take) and is getting a bit long in the tooth anyway. A DVD drive and 4-year-old CPU are already starting to hold it back (several new games are coming out for it that will have to span across several DVD's, versus one bluray for the PS3). They really should be looking at a new generation console soon (for 2010 or, at least, 2011). If they wait too long, Sony is going to start trouncing them with the stronger hardware of the PS3.
And this time MS, for the love of God, please put some effort into making a hardware design that doesn't cause another RROD fiasco, or take a step BACKWARDS with no standard hard drive. That was just shameful.
On a personal note, how about making your online architecture a little more friendly to MMO's? The PS3 has several in the pipeline, and you don't have any. There are only so many FPS's and racing games I can put up with before I want some innovation. Backwards compatibility probably wouldn't hurt either. Just my opinion.
I actually tried going back to Tivo about a year ago, after having used a cable company DVR from a couple of years. I used to really love my old Tivo back in the day (it had the best program guide of any DVR out there, and a lot of great bonus features too). But I ended up going back to the cableco for several reasons. It wasn't just the added cost (I was willing to spend a little extra up front and per month for the superior interface). It was a bunch of little stuff that Tivo has failed to innovate on in years. Their viewing queue is still only 30 minutes (it's been that way since the Series 1, while everyone else has went to a 1-2 hour queue). They still don't allow an option upscale their SD content for HDTV's (this may not sound like much, but it means the TV has to make an annoying adjustment every time you switch from a SD to HD channel and vice-versa). And, even excusing the lack of upscaling, the channel switching time on the Series 3 is still slow as Christmas. Their cablecard support is still a pain to actually get set up (this isn't entirely their fault, but still). And, at the time I went back at least, they still didn't offer support for Switched Digital Video (SDV), which meant that I couldn't watch several of my HD channels on digital cable (a big deal breaker for me, since my cableco was adding all their new HD channels with SDV).
They still have the best interface and programming guide out there, bar none. And they have added a lot of neat features like Netflix streaming/podcast streaming/etc. But, even as a big former fan, there were just too many problems for me to put up with it. They really need to stop concentrating on the glitzy stuff like new apps and start concentrating on upgrading some of their core features (seriously, still a 30 minute queue?!?). Their tech just isn't keeping up with even the bland generic DVR's.
Actually, the harsh fact is that most of the educational software that parents can buy for their kids only comes in Windows versions (sometimes Mac). You can argue that this SHOULDN'T be the case, but it doesn't change the fact that it IS the case. A parent buying a computer as an education tool for a child (especially a young child) would be foolish to choose Linux over Windows.
And calling the grandparent a troll won't change the fact that he made several good points.
Do they even TRY to adjust for the fact that fat people avoid getting health care most of their lives (because they're more likely to get tired of getting harassed by their doctor about their weight every time they go in for even a flu shot), drink more than thin people (getting shit on regularly can have that effect on people), and have crappier jobs than their normal-sized counterparts with the consequent lower incomes and inferior health care (because it's a lot harder to get hired)?
I'm not pretending that obesity has no effect on someone's health. But it just irks the hell out of me that these sensational studies always fail to adjust for these sorts of related factors in favor of the sensational (and grant whoring) headline of "Obesity correlates with such-and-such other calamity." I'm sure you could produce a study arguing that obesity makes you stupid too, by simply failing to adjust for the fact that the obese are often geographically concentrated in areas (like the American South) where public education is shit and poverty is high.
Why don't we just say that fat people are worse than Hitler and be done with it? You know, the way we've already done with anyone who dares smoke anything other than marijuana (which is somehow magically good for you), or who eats meat, or who drives an SUV (which some self-righteous asshole will probably link to sudden infant death syndrome in some future study), or any of the hundred other things that are going to kill us all any day now.
Is it any coincidence that the medical profession was once closely linked to the idea that all illness was caused by immoral behavior?
Long Term Evolution is going nowhere. No way are the cable and DSL big boys ever going to let the wireless companies trump them (they'll buy them out if they have to).
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Yes but IIRC, textbook drawings of atoms usually look nothing like the physical reality (since simplified drawings never show the electrons forming a cloud around the nucleus and greatly shrink the scale of the distance between the electrons and nucleus for simplicity). So it's not surprising that we would expect the physical reality vs. the drawings of the molecules to be very different too.
You'll use the laptop to finally divorce your wife, right?
Nonsense. The U.S. went there to bring them freedom and apple pie. They should thank us for such a wonderful gift.
That's 1,500 Yen.
A TivoHD with cablecard most certainly *doesn't* work if your cableco uses Switched Digital Video (SDV). The last time I tried out Tivo, I found that out the hard way (when a bunch of my HD channels disappeared).
It still seems bizarre to me that you have to pay a yearly fee to even watch over-the-air broadcasts in the UK. People in the U.S. complain when MS asks them to pay $45 a year for Xbox Live. I can't imagine the uproar that would follow here if you asked people to pay $65 a year just to watch TV with a lousy rabbit-ear antenna. I guess it might be worth that to lose the advertisements, but that's only on the BBC channels, not all the others.
Well, that and having a cute girl in your cast.
Yes, it is true. You can see the list for yourself from an old post of my (I'm too lazy to repost it). Five years has been the standard for console generations since the 70's.
Unfortunately, Champions Online got pushed from a set release date to "To be announced" recently (just like 360 version of Age of Conan did just before it disappeared). I suspect the 360 version is now dead.
I'm not talking about godawful PS2 ports. I mean a modern MMO, obviously.
It's tragic. South America was always such a peaceful place before those damned video games came in!
I would point out the multitude of problems with that response, but I'm not going to start yet another PC vs. console pissing contest, thank you. Suffice it to say that the PS3 is getting some MMO's on their console finally, but MS is not. And I think a truly next generation console needs to expand its capabilities to handle all game genres.
The standard has always been 5 years, even through the early 80's console collapse and several recessions. IMHO, any console maker who ignores this (especially in this competitive market) does so at their own peril. It was Sony's attempt to drag out the PS2 cycle to 6 years that allowed the 360 to finally gain a foothold over Sony to begin with.
The 360 is nearing the end of the typical console lifespan (which has always been about 5 years, give or take) and is getting a bit long in the tooth anyway. A DVD drive and 4-year-old CPU are already starting to hold it back (several new games are coming out for it that will have to span across several DVD's, versus one bluray for the PS3). They really should be looking at a new generation console soon (for 2010 or, at least, 2011). If they wait too long, Sony is going to start trouncing them with the stronger hardware of the PS3.
And this time MS, for the love of God, please put some effort into making a hardware design that doesn't cause another RROD fiasco, or take a step BACKWARDS with no standard hard drive. That was just shameful.
On a personal note, how about making your online architecture a little more friendly to MMO's? The PS3 has several in the pipeline, and you don't have any. There are only so many FPS's and racing games I can put up with before I want some innovation. Backwards compatibility probably wouldn't hurt either. Just my opinion.
I actually tried going back to Tivo about a year ago, after having used a cable company DVR from a couple of years. I used to really love my old Tivo back in the day (it had the best program guide of any DVR out there, and a lot of great bonus features too). But I ended up going back to the cableco for several reasons. It wasn't just the added cost (I was willing to spend a little extra up front and per month for the superior interface). It was a bunch of little stuff that Tivo has failed to innovate on in years. Their viewing queue is still only 30 minutes (it's been that way since the Series 1, while everyone else has went to a 1-2 hour queue). They still don't allow an option upscale their SD content for HDTV's (this may not sound like much, but it means the TV has to make an annoying adjustment every time you switch from a SD to HD channel and vice-versa). And, even excusing the lack of upscaling, the channel switching time on the Series 3 is still slow as Christmas. Their cablecard support is still a pain to actually get set up (this isn't entirely their fault, but still). And, at the time I went back at least, they still didn't offer support for Switched Digital Video (SDV), which meant that I couldn't watch several of my HD channels on digital cable (a big deal breaker for me, since my cableco was adding all their new HD channels with SDV).
They still have the best interface and programming guide out there, bar none. And they have added a lot of neat features like Netflix streaming/podcast streaming/etc. But, even as a big former fan, there were just too many problems for me to put up with it. They really need to stop concentrating on the glitzy stuff like new apps and start concentrating on upgrading some of their core features (seriously, still a 30 minute queue?!?). Their tech just isn't keeping up with even the bland generic DVR's.
Actually, the harsh fact is that most of the educational software that parents can buy for their kids only comes in Windows versions (sometimes Mac). You can argue that this SHOULDN'T be the case, but it doesn't change the fact that it IS the case. A parent buying a computer as an education tool for a child (especially a young child) would be foolish to choose Linux over Windows.
And calling the grandparent a troll won't change the fact that he made several good points.
The other countries just never added pads and helmets to rugby because they couldn't afford them.
In that case, throw the ball to Chris Chambers.
Yes, because it wasn't the British who coined the term "soccer" in the first place. Oh wait...yeah it was.
Well, then it's not the *entire* world is it then?
You should meet the aliens living on it.
They're tougher than Chuck Norris (and that was supposed to be impossible too).
Self-righteous, bigoted European douchebag detected.
Thanks for the insight. I'll let Steve Wozniak know how stupid he is.
Do they even TRY to adjust for the fact that fat people avoid getting health care most of their lives (because they're more likely to get tired of getting harassed by their doctor about their weight every time they go in for even a flu shot), drink more than thin people (getting shit on regularly can have that effect on people), and have crappier jobs than their normal-sized counterparts with the consequent lower incomes and inferior health care (because it's a lot harder to get hired)?
I'm not pretending that obesity has no effect on someone's health. But it just irks the hell out of me that these sensational studies always fail to adjust for these sorts of related factors in favor of the sensational (and grant whoring) headline of "Obesity correlates with such-and-such other calamity." I'm sure you could produce a study arguing that obesity makes you stupid too, by simply failing to adjust for the fact that the obese are often geographically concentrated in areas (like the American South) where public education is shit and poverty is high.
Why don't we just say that fat people are worse than Hitler and be done with it? You know, the way we've already done with anyone who dares smoke anything other than marijuana (which is somehow magically good for you), or who eats meat, or who drives an SUV (which some self-righteous asshole will probably link to sudden infant death syndrome in some future study), or any of the hundred other things that are going to kill us all any day now.
Is it any coincidence that the medical profession was once closely linked to the idea that all illness was caused by immoral behavior?
Long Term Evolution is going nowhere. No way are the cable and DSL big boys ever going to let the wireless companies trump them (they'll buy them out if they have to).