Is there some sort of verification process win2k has to go through to receive updates, like XP? If so, you're SOL if either the MS servers go down or they decide they don't want to support win2k anymore.
Furthermore, there's no telling how much money this never-been-done-before advertising was worth. It may have cost us xxyy in CO2, however an alternative, spending $2 000 000 for 30 seconds of superbowl commercial space [an arbitrary guess], may have cost us 4xxyy in CO2 between the time and gas spent creating the commercial, and all the energy wasted running everybody's televisions those 30 seconds, etc.
[Somewhat offtopic] Good catch on RE4. It simply wasn't nearly as fun as the reworked Gamecube RE, and the new RE0. As a matter of fact, I lost interest in both of those games as soon as I got a weapon upgrade beyond the pistol. Being able to burn the corpses also made the game less fun. There wasn't anything quite like being on your last 2 clips of ammo, walking through the room for the fifth time (where nothing has happened the past four times), you've got 25% health left, and as soon as you open the door to the room you hear a zombie come back to "life" and start stalking after you. You empty the first clip, zombie's still alive. You get down to 3 shots left, zombie dies, you're safe, adrenaline level falls and think "holy shit that was the funnest 30 seconds I've played in a long time."
Contrast that experience to RE4 or RE when you get the shotgun, fights are over in 10 seconds, you feel a lot less threatened, etc. The first half of the game has always been more fun for me, after that it turns into an action game.
I would think that the more links between different processes, the more responsive of a system you'd have. While the Linux design may be more clean, if you have to traverse multiple processes to do what you want then this could lead to performance degredation.
Maybe this is why Windows XP has _always_ felt faster than Linux to me (no matter the Window manager). I remember before we had the pre-empt kernel option. The terminal felt much, much slower then.
Huh? Nintendo came out said (and proved through actions) that the Wii was not about graphics, but gameplay. Why should it be a surprise that Epic took that to heart and decided not to invest in getting it's latest engine to run on underpowered hardware?
And really, is this a loss for Epic or Nintendo? If a killer game comes out using unreal 2 I think I'd still buy it. I think you're missing the very obvious point: if Epic doesn't port the Unreal 3 engine to Wii, then that's Y games that won't be appearing on the Wii.
Here's how it works:
1). Publisher creates game for Xbox360 using Unreal 3 engine 2). Publisher realizes he can rework the control scheme, turn down the model polygon count and texture resolution, and recompile the code for the Wii engine at marginal extra development cost. The profit and revenue generated from hitting an extra market (of 10+ million consoles or however many Wii's are out there) far outweighs the porting cost. 3). Publisher sells video game for not only Xbox360, but Wii also 4). ??? 5). Profit!
If the engine isn't there the Wii can't play the game.
In a world where some of the best scientific minds can (typically) make more money producing drug which will give you a nice tanned look Well I guess if you aren't concerned with preventing cancer, then yeah, you could look at it in that kind of light[heh]. There's a very real need for such a drug; when's the last time you were able to get an injection that applied sunscreen to your skin all over for several weeks?
a). we don't have kids b). if we don't have any kids, then we're certainly not married c). social networking? What is this adjective "social" you are talking about?
What's wrong with.mp4? Off the top of my head I can think of a very good reason why we shouldn't call it MP4. Some non-tech saavy person asks a Best Buy sales rep (who doesn't know what it is) what it is [so he makes something up] and I bet you he'd say something like "oh it's kindof like MP3 but newer and better. It supports 1080p HD-Audio" [customer nods as if to let you think that they understand].
In this case having a name that doesn't make you think of a common audio compression standard would be helpful.
If Microsoft get this patent Can anyone explain the grammar rule for why corporations are sometimes considered to be groups of people, in a context when it doesn't look like they should be? In this case, we aren't really talking about the collection of individuals at Microsoft, because "they" aren't getting the patent. The "entity" of Microsoft, the "corporation", so to speak, is the one getting the patent.
I've seen this done before but I'm wondering what the reasoning is behind it. I always thought subject verb agreement was the rule of thumb. Only way I could see the OP's grammar being right is if the subject gets treated as a plural subject (which like I said before, it's a single corporation, we don't care much about the plurality of the individuals that are a part of it).
Not trying to be grammar police or anything, just wondering. Anyone care to explain?
I'd stay away from Cingular if I were you. I switched to T-Mobile, tried the new SIM on my old phone, and noticed that there was a noticeably better sounding voice on the other end when using T-Mobile.
Dropped calls means nothing if the conversation sounds worse than an AM radio. I've had two dropped calls in the last five months that I've had T-Mobile, one of which I suspect was my friend's phone (it sucks). When I was on Cingular I was using a particular word rather frequently..."What?"...I think I'll take a dropped call every five months over not being able to hear what the other person is saying.
The TI-83+ has something like this build in. Hardly anybody knows about it, and I bet if they did, you wouldn't be allowed to use one on the SAT/ACT. It's under the Math button, first Tab, last option. Read about it in the book if you feel like using it, but basically it does this algebraic solving you speak of.
For those worrying, FireHose exists to help filter crap submissions from the good ones(*). Obviously, if the stories we saw on the front page were simply those voted to the top of the FireHose, then we'd be left with another Digg. This is the last thing everybody wants. As such, the editors and mods are only using FireHose to help find worthwhile stories.
(*)I emailed the editors about this and they assured me that no, Slashdot was not headed in the direction of Digg.
So your objection is that it might be used for torture? Do you also object to batteries? Water and seranwrap? A long sock with a bar of soap in it? Any tool can be misused, that doesn't detract from it's benefits. How about perfectly legal, safe, controlled protesting?
That's what I see this being used for. Gov't doesn't like a). What they're protesting about (IE the protesters are right, the gov't knows it, and doesn't want the word to spread) b). How many people are involved (same fear as above, word could spread)
So just use a non-lethal weapon that leaves no mark to get rid of the people with no consequences!
That's the issue here, there's a much smaller barrier to disbanding legal protesting than there was before existence of this weapon.
I thought I'd point out this common spelling/grammatical mistake. Many people make it, especially in the online community; especially on Slashdot. I made this same mistake for years.
Lose =/= Loose. One involves no longer being in possession of something; the latter involves letting it go.
Before you mod me troll, please realize I mention this with the kindest of intentions. In general, people are less likely to discredit what you have to say if the syntax in which you express the thought is clear and of good form. Yes, if a person fusses over spelling mistakes they need a life, and their opinion and support probably don't matter. But one day, one of us may be the President and, given how history repeats itself, I'd hate for that person to make this mistake on national television by, say, correcting a child in class on how he spelled one of the words in his sentence on the chalkboard. We should be looking at how close we can get to being correct, not how many spelling mistakes we ought to forgive.
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Is there some sort of verification process win2k has to go through to receive updates, like XP? If so, you're SOL if either the MS servers go down or they decide they don't want to support win2k anymore.
WHERE'S THE MOUNTAIN DEW!?!?!
My paypal is welcometothefifties@timetobuildthem.com.
What if we pushed for legislation to move downloading copyright material from a civil breach to a criminal one?
That should make it much easier for us to deal with then.
Furthermore, there's no telling how much money this never-been-done-before advertising was worth. It may have cost us xxyy in CO2, however an alternative, spending $2 000 000 for 30 seconds of superbowl commercial space [an arbitrary guess], may have cost us 4xxyy in CO2 between the time and gas spent creating the commercial, and all the energy wasted running everybody's televisions those 30 seconds, etc.
[Somewhat offtopic] Good catch on RE4. It simply wasn't nearly as fun as the reworked Gamecube RE, and the new RE0. As a matter of fact, I lost interest in both of those games as soon as I got a weapon upgrade beyond the pistol. Being able to burn the corpses also made the game less fun. There wasn't anything quite like being on your last 2 clips of ammo, walking through the room for the fifth time (where nothing has happened the past four times), you've got 25% health left, and as soon as you open the door to the room you hear a zombie come back to "life" and start stalking after you. You empty the first clip, zombie's still alive. You get down to 3 shots left, zombie dies, you're safe, adrenaline level falls and think "holy shit that was the funnest 30 seconds I've played in a long time."
Contrast that experience to RE4 or RE when you get the shotgun, fights are over in 10 seconds, you feel a lot less threatened, etc. The first half of the game has always been more fun for me, after that it turns into an action game.
it can be very good design.
I would think that the more links between different processes, the more responsive of a system you'd have. While the Linux design may be more clean, if you have to traverse multiple processes to do what you want then this could lead to performance degredation.Maybe this is why Windows XP has _always_ felt faster than Linux to me (no matter the Window manager). I remember before we had the pre-empt kernel option. The terminal felt much, much slower then.
Very clever.
And really, is this a loss for Epic or Nintendo? If a killer game comes out using unreal 2 I think I'd still buy it. I think you're missing the very obvious point: if Epic doesn't port the Unreal 3 engine to Wii, then that's Y games that won't be appearing on the Wii.
Here's how it works:
1). Publisher creates game for Xbox360 using Unreal 3 engine
2). Publisher realizes he can rework the control scheme, turn down the model polygon count and texture resolution, and recompile the code for the Wii engine at marginal extra development cost. The profit and revenue generated from hitting an extra market (of 10+ million consoles or however many Wii's are out there) far outweighs the porting cost.
3). Publisher sells video game for not only Xbox360, but Wii also
4). ???
5). Profit!
If the engine isn't there the Wii can't play the game.
1 megabit IS 128 kilobytes. I'm not sure what you're getting at but if they said "CIR of 2 Mbps" then 250KBps would be 6KBps short of 2Mbits/second.
Most people refer to CE as Civil Engineering. CompE should be used to avoid confusion.
If your server room is cold and dark, something is very wrong. Dark? Maybe. Cold? No problems there.
Should YouTube be the ones appealing to the political community?
Hopefully Google is.
This story has no place on Slashdot, as
a). we don't have kids
b). if we don't have any kids, then we're certainly not married
c). social networking? What is this adjective "social" you are talking about?
I kid, I kid [sorry].
In this case having a name that doesn't make you think of a common audio compression standard would be helpful.
I've seen this done before but I'm wondering what the reasoning is behind it. I always thought subject verb agreement was the rule of thumb. Only way I could see the OP's grammar being right is if the subject gets treated as a plural subject (which like I said before, it's a single corporation, we don't care much about the plurality of the individuals that are a part of it).
Not trying to be grammar police or anything, just wondering. Anyone care to explain?
I'd stay away from Cingular if I were you. I switched to T-Mobile, tried the new SIM on my old phone, and noticed that there was a noticeably better sounding voice on the other end when using T-Mobile.
Dropped calls means nothing if the conversation sounds worse than an AM radio. I've had two dropped calls in the last five months that I've had T-Mobile, one of which I suspect was my friend's phone (it sucks). When I was on Cingular I was using a particular word rather frequently..."What?"...I think I'll take a dropped call every five months over not being able to hear what the other person is saying.
The TI-83+ has something like this build in. Hardly anybody knows about it, and I bet if they did, you wouldn't be allowed to use one on the SAT/ACT. It's under the Math button, first Tab, last option. Read about it in the book if you feel like using it, but basically it does this algebraic solving you speak of.
For those worrying, FireHose exists to help filter crap submissions from the good ones(*). Obviously, if the stories we saw on the front page were simply those voted to the top of the FireHose, then we'd be left with another Digg. This is the last thing everybody wants. As such, the editors and mods are only using FireHose to help find worthwhile stories.
(*)I emailed the editors about this and they assured me that no, Slashdot was not headed in the direction of Digg.
That's what I see this being used for. Gov't doesn't like
a). What they're protesting about (IE the protesters are right, the gov't knows it, and doesn't want the word to spread)
b). How many people are involved (same fear as above, word could spread)
So just use a non-lethal weapon that leaves no mark to get rid of the people with no consequences!
That's the issue here, there's a much smaller barrier to disbanding legal protesting than there was before existence of this weapon.
Who is your credit agency? Citi only charged me ~0.16 cents on a $10 refill on a foreign music download service.
I thought I'd point out this common spelling/grammatical mistake. Many people make it, especially in the online community; especially on Slashdot. I made this same mistake for years.
Lose =/= Loose. One involves no longer being in possession of something; the latter involves letting it go.
Before you mod me troll, please realize I mention this with the kindest of intentions. In general, people are less likely to discredit what you have to say if the syntax in which you express the thought is clear and of good form. Yes, if a person fusses over spelling mistakes they need a life, and their opinion and support probably don't matter. But one day, one of us may be the President and, given how history repeats itself, I'd hate for that person to make this mistake on national television by, say, correcting a child in class on how he spelled one of the words in his sentence on the chalkboard. We should be looking at how close we can get to being correct, not how many spelling mistakes we ought to forgive.