I mean, taking MGS4 as an example, that game renders all cutscenes in-game, yet _still_ fills up a whole dual layer BD, meaning 50 GB of textures and sound (minus some GB of double content for better reading performance, I know).
The Japanese ISO is apparently 46.6GB, and it seems like 16GB of that is just padding. The MGS4 game data is 30GB, minus around 2.5GB for Metal Gear Online. It looks like the cutscenes take up around 12GB (I gathered that from the names of some of the files). There is a japanese site with a full folder listing of the files and their respective sizes.
All I could find was this pic though:
http://i32.tinypic.com/2b1574.jpg (1600 x 1000)
9. Program Caching
...A simple toolbar notification stating 'Vista is caching your programs to improve speed. Click here for more information', would end all the confusion.
What a terrible idea. Why not just display it on the startup screen under "new features"? Toolbar notifications, especially the ones that require you to close them before they disappear, are one of the biggest Windows annoyances.
I always find it amusing when people use the Web to sulk about the faults of XML.
Anyway, this is what Google has to say: However, protocol buffers are not always a better solution than XML â" for instance, protocol buffers would not be a good way to model a text-based document with markup (e.g. HTML), since you cannot easily interleave structure with text. In addition, XML is human-readable and human-editable; protocol buffers, at least in their native format, are not. XML is also â" to some extent â" self-describing. A protocol buffer is only meaningful if you have the message definition (the.proto file).
Or maybe, as an artist, you want your work exposed to as many people as possible and iTunes is the #1 music distributor in the world. Is it bigger than The Pirate Bay?
Why do you think burning to optical media is a good backup solution... I didn't say I did. But since you asked, optical media is a great backup solution for things like music cd's. Make a 1-1 copy of the original, and shelve it. Only listen to the backup.
Waiting 3 hours to burn a terabyte *is* crazy if you consider that it might fail at 90%.
And just imagine how long data verification would take. And what if verification fails?
If only Spinoza choose to call his God-concept by any other name, his ideas would be understood more frequently for what they are: atheism in awe for the Beauty of Nature and the Universe; not theism, or pantheism, etc.
"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from religious indoctrination received in youth." - Einstein
Anyone ever considered using the PS3 for stuff like this? Seems like you have all the processing power you need (relatively speaking), but what else would you need to take into consideration?
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what his motives were or that the Syrian SMS's were fake, or that the 3 other cartoons were fake as well. The point is that these were some of the main driving forces behind the riots.
As an aside, Jens Kaiser just admitted that he lied back then. Who's to say he's not lying now to cover his own ass? Given the situation, I'm sure many others would do exactly the same.
No, the cartoons were published in the muslim world by muslims in their own papers!
And they faced the consequences. People protested, boycotted, and even rioted.
Don't make the mistake of thinking all Muslims are "perfect" as far as their religion goes.
It's not because cartoons were published depicting Mohammed as a terrorist, it's because cartoons were published. This is something that's completely forbidden in their Religion.
It doesn't matter if they depicted Mohammed as a peace-loving hippie, the reaction would have probably been the same.
Another big factor was the spread of fabricated cartoons and the incitement of violence through rumours spread via sms messages.
And of course, the fact that a few years ago Jyllands-Posten rejected Jesus cartoons on the grounds that their readers would find them offensive.
Ghost in the Shell material always seemed pretty heavy and kind of inaccessible to me. I liked the issues posed by the above question but the technical jargon they use and details they go into sometimes causes me to turn the channel. There are other anime series (like Evengelion) that I feel suffer greatly when they are bogged down by a lot of pseudoscience explanations.
If you feel this way about GITS: SAC, then you'll probably like GITS: SAC 2nd Gig even less. It deals with the various aspects Particularism, "viral marketing" of memes in society, the global conscious, and "meta-thinking" (I made up that term:P).
Personally, I enjoyed both series, although 2nd Gig does present a few (?) intellectual stumbling blocks for the philosophically uninitiated.
To be honest, I'd probably do the same thing if I thought they made a mistake. Imagine what it must have been like for him and his family finding out he was HIV+
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I mean, taking MGS4 as an example, that game renders all cutscenes in-game, yet _still_ fills up a whole dual layer BD, meaning 50 GB of textures and sound (minus some GB of double content for better reading performance, I know).
The Japanese ISO is apparently 46.6GB, and it seems like 16GB of that is just padding. The MGS4 game data is 30GB, minus around 2.5GB for Metal Gear Online. It looks like the cutscenes take up around 12GB (I gathered that from the names of some of the files). There is a japanese site with a full folder listing of the files and their respective sizes. All I could find was this pic though: http://i32.tinypic.com/2b1574.jpg (1600 x 1000)
9. Program Caching
...A simple toolbar notification stating 'Vista is caching your programs to improve speed. Click here for more information', would end all the confusion.
What a terrible idea. Why not just display it on the startup screen under "new features"? Toolbar notifications, especially the ones that require you to close them before they disappear, are one of the biggest Windows annoyances.
I always find it amusing when people use the Web to sulk about the faults of XML.
Anyway, this is what Google has to say: .proto file).
However, protocol buffers are not always a better solution than XML â" for instance, protocol buffers would not be a good way to model a text-based document with markup (e.g. HTML), since you cannot easily interleave structure with text. In addition, XML is human-readable and human-editable; protocol buffers, at least in their native format, are not. XML is also â" to some extent â" self-describing. A protocol buffer is only meaningful if you have the message definition (the
This requires just one persistent connection and is extremely scalable.
On every phone I've used so far, maintaining an open connection destroys battery life. I wonder how Apple is going to pull this off...
Waiting 3 hours to burn a terabyte *is* crazy if you consider that it might fail at 90%. And just imagine how long data verification would take. And what if verification fails?
If only Spinoza choose to call his God-concept by any other name, his ideas would be understood more frequently for what they are: atheism in awe for the Beauty of Nature and the Universe; not theism, or pantheism, etc.
"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from religious indoctrination received in youth." - Einstein... some people somewhere are not happy with some things.
OS X ain't done til Firefox wont run
Anyone ever considered using the PS3 for stuff like this? Seems like you have all the processing power you need (relatively speaking), but what else would you need to take into consideration?
Bundling free services with Microsoft products? I smell a lawsuit.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what his motives were or that the Syrian SMS's were fake, or that the 3 other cartoons were fake as well. The point is that these were some of the main driving forces behind the riots.
As an aside, Jens Kaiser just admitted that he lied back then. Who's to say he's not lying now to cover his own ass? Given the situation, I'm sure many others would do exactly the same.
I don't think anyone's going to argue that, but it's not the 'West' that has a problem with this.
No, the cartoons were published in the muslim world by muslims in their own papers!
And they faced the consequences. People protested, boycotted, and even rioted.
Don't make the mistake of thinking all Muslims are "perfect" as far as their religion goes.
It's not because cartoons were published depicting Mohammed as a terrorist, it's because cartoons were published. This is something that's completely forbidden in their Religion.
It doesn't matter if they depicted Mohammed as a peace-loving hippie, the reaction would have probably been the same.
Another big factor was the spread of fabricated cartoons and the incitement of violence through rumours spread via sms messages.
And of course, the fact that a few years ago Jyllands-Posten rejected Jesus cartoons on the grounds that their readers would find them offensive.
Ghost in the Shell material always seemed pretty heavy and kind of inaccessible to me. I liked the issues posed by the above question but the technical jargon they use and details they go into sometimes causes me to turn the channel. There are other anime series (like Evengelion) that I feel suffer greatly when they are bogged down by a lot of pseudoscience explanations.
:P).
If you feel this way about GITS: SAC, then you'll probably like GITS: SAC 2nd Gig even less. It deals with the various aspects Particularism, "viral marketing" of memes in society, the global conscious, and "meta-thinking" (I made up that term
Personally, I enjoyed both series, although 2nd Gig does present a few (?) intellectual stumbling blocks for the philosophically uninitiated.
For some reason, I found this bit quite amusing:
From a GUI point of view, it may even edge out over Linux.
Who is the intended audience? Casual or Power-users? I doubt my Gran would be particularly interested in MBR's and partitions and what not...
Go To Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective
// A challenge to the reader to rewrite without using goto's
There's an interesting bit of code at the bottom of the page.
int parse()
{
Token tok;
reading:
tok = gettoken();
if (tok == END)
return ACCEPT;
shifting:
if (shift(tok))
goto reading;
reducing:
if (reduce(tok))
goto shifting;
return ERROR;
}
To be honest, I'd probably do the same thing if I thought they made a mistake. Imagine what it must have been like for him and his family finding out he was HIV+
I leave myself open to corrections
Addendum: Prostitutes lose HIV immunity
A group of prostitutes thought to be immune to HIV have now become infected, causing dismay to scientists hoping to develop an Aids vaccine.
For interest's sake:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4432564.stm
Some 14 months later he was offered another test by doctors, which came back negative.
He sought compensation but has apparently been told there is no case to answer because there was no fault with the testing procedure.
> Do you mean the "muslim immigrants
As far as I understand it, a lot, if not the majority, of these rioters were BORN in France.
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