Well, it depends on the application. In my case, I'm writing a clustered simulation program, and HT does miraculous things. It's so good, that I find it implausible that a dual-core system will do better. In my tests, a computer can literally do twice as much work in a given amount of time if it has HT turned on. In theory, dual core shouldn't more than double performance, so, for my application, I doubt there will be a performance gap at all. I'll know for sure in a couple of weeks; I've got some low-end Pentium D systems on their way.
You would be ok with running an ad-supported OS in your church? There's no moral dilemma in adding commercials to your church services?
Did you miss the episode of the Simpsons where Homer's model rocket hits the church, Mr. Burns pays to fix it, and he introduces changes to make it more profitable? "Get your money changed! Right here in the temple!"
Oh, you know what they're talking about. Billions and billions of devices to "service" you. Ever increasing "penetration." What, you think this guy is wrong aobut the future of the internet?;)
It's not rocket science. You know what is aesthetically pleasing to your eye, go with it.
No! That's actually exactly my problem... I don't know what's aesthetically pleasing, to me or anyone else. I mean, I'd like to dress well, and I can tell when I'm not... but I can't go into a store, see something on the rack, and have any idea whether it'll look good on me or not, and if so, with what.
At the moment, there are 2 ways I could manage to dress well: 1) Try on every permutation of everything in every store. Clearly, this is a bad option; it's O(n^2), stores are constantly changing their stock, and it doesn't allow for the possibility of a shirt from one store going well with pants from another. Also, I don't pay much attention to fashion, and strange new things tend to bother me initially, so some of my favorite clothes are things that I didn't like when I first tried them on. 2) The "queer eye" technique: Get a more fashion-conscious friend to go clothes shopping with me. This is the method I currently use, but it's a bit trickier to set up than just shopping on my own. A lot of my university friends have moved away, and the most fashion-conscious one left is pretty busy. So, as it stands now, I go shopping about once a year or so, then my clothing style slowly deteriorates until the next shopping trip.
If there were a third option, like the one described above (a fashion line with guidelines about what goes together), that would be freaking awesome. I'd love it. Now, it'd be kind of funny if it caught on, because everyone would still be able to recognize the nerds, they'd just have a much better consistent look about them... I'd still go for it. As long as it actually looked good, of course.
My favorite email from Amazon started with the line, "We've noticed that customers who have purchased Crusade: The Complete Series have also ordered The Flintstones: The Complete Fourth Season."
Now, I'm sure the sample "people who bought Crusade" was pretty small, so perhaps their software got confused. It just seemed pretty funny that there is apparently some sort of tie-in between liking Crusade (a failed Babylon 5 spin-off, for those Slashdotters who may not be that particular sort of geek) and liking The Flintstones. And not just Flintstones in general... season 4 of the Flintstones, specifically.
I'm sure there's a psychology paper in there somewhere.
I suspect the specs are pretty much finalized... Google may have them. Maybe. The 360 ships next week, as opposed to the PS3, which ships at some point in the nebulous future.
Why are you asking this? You do know about the internet, right? You can just type stuff like this into Google, and it comes back with answers right away, without being a sarcastic jerk.
To be fair, I think Nintendo is likely to be the first console maker to exploit VR-type technology, if/when the technology gets up to snuff. It's just not there yet. You point out that the Virtual Boy didn't go so well... neither did the Power Glove, but they're bringing back that idea now that the technology has improved. The lesson to be learned from Virtual Boy isn't, "3d visors are a bad idea," it's, "3d visors with poor framerates and red wireframe graphics are a bad idea."
But yeah. A visor on the Revolution seems highly implausible. Maybe a couple of console generations from now, but not yet.
See, the crazy thing about these NASA guys is, they can see the asteroid coming, determine its speed, and calculate where it's going to be when their ship gets there. I think they use math, and numbers and things. Terribly complex, I'm sure. Anyway, since the asteroid won't be swerving around or stopping for take-out or anything, or if it will, it will do so predictably, they can actually work all the details out from Earth, and an onboard computer can handle the finer details.
I'm afraid the movies have steered you wrong in this one, rare instance.
Well, you may have lost one excuse for not answering the phone, but you just need to get more creative.. First of all, if you do answer, realize that this won't improve reception. You can still always pull the "Oh, I'm going through a tunnel..." "...you're breaking up... what was that?..." Done!
There are a number of other options too. None are quite as good as the battery one, but you could try: 1) I forgot to turn the ringer back on after ___________ (e.g. movie, meeting) 2) I was _______ (somewhere loud) and didn't hear it ring. 3) In the bathroom. No reasonable person answers their phone in the bathroom. If you're going to use this one, start drinking more water. It'll make it more plausible that you're always in the bathroom, and it's good for you!
Come on, man.... you had two letters to keep track of, in one sentence, and you managed to screw it up.;) The contract said that they can A me if I B, but you've got them B'ing because I A'd. Actually, considering what most school rules are like, that could turn out to be kind of funny.
Example: If you drink alcohol, we will suspend you. Becomes: Every time you get suspended, we do a shot. School discipline as a drinking game for the administration.
It's a misleading excerpt. If you RTFA, they're not claiming that PVP was literally the first gaming comic... note the quotes around "real". They even mention one that came earlier. The claim in the article is that PVP was the first one that mattered, or something along those lines. The "real" beginning of the current crop of gaming webcomics. Or...you know... something like that. I don't really know what they're getting at there, but the statement is clearly not meant to be taken literally.
It's not even about the real life money. Even if they could somehow stop the exchanging of online goods for real life money... the gamers are still going to have insane amounts of real life time invested in their imaginary stuff. A lot of these people play these MMORPGs for hours every day, for months on end working towards various goals.
So put yourself in their place. If you've put hundreds of real-life hours into obtaining an imaginary super-sword 10000 or something, and then somebody finds a way to steal it from you, it's not going to matter if it couldn't have been exchanged for real-life money. You're still going to be pissed. You hopefully won't kill the person... but it's as reasonable a motivation for murder as anything (that is to say, it's not very reasonable at all, but if you're the murdering sort, it seems like it'd do the trick).
The controller can be used in a variety of ways, including attaching modules to it. Don't like swinging the controller around in your action-RPG? Slap on the analog stick module, and you're good to go. As an added bonus, it's more ergonomic than current controllers, because you don't need to keep your hands together.
As for the FPS thing... it may be hard to keep pointing at the screen, but I can't see it being worse than trying to play an FPS with a thumb-stick. Though, of course, if that's what floats your boat, you can still do it. And that is awesome.
I know motion sensitive controllers have been done before, but they haven't been done this cleverly (with the modules, and such), nor has the technology been up to par (as it hopefully is in the Revolution).
Yeah... their tests did seem to be... lacking in finesse.
One thing I would like to know is how well it stands up to bending. Can you grab a nano by the ends and snap it in two? Is it safe to just throw a nano in my back pocket and carry on about my life (sitting on it at weird angles occasionally)?
Their tests indicated that it handles certain types of impacts and a very particular type of pressure (straight down while it's lying flat) fairly well, but I'm getting more of a "Hulk smash" vibe than any useful information.
Thank you for the example! This is exactly what I was talking about. I don't understand this.
Yes, Firefly's "style" of characters and dialogue is similar to Buffy. But how is that awful? What TV shows are you watching?
I can see how someone might be turned off by the setting of either show (or both). "Vampires? That's weird!" or "Space...western? No, no, no...this doesn't make any sense at all!" are both fine with me. They are somewhat narrow-minded viewpoints, I think, but I can at least comprehend how someone might think that way. But complaining about the characters and dialogue?
See, I suspect, that due to super coolness (that's the technical term), it's a crapload more expensive than LCD based technology. Think about what people would be willing to pay for something like this.
Yes, maybe they're really cheap to make, and you could sell 10 million of them for $50 each and make a bit of a profit... but I suspect you could also sell 50,000 of them for $10,000 each, and get the same amount of net income, with 0.5% of the expenses.
So, I'm thinking that regardless of manufacturing costs, I can't afford one of these things. And that makes me sad.:(
Hehe...when the argument is, "It's just old people that don't like games," and you start your counter-argument with, "When I was a kid..." you've already lost.;)
Other examples would be "Back in my day" and any reference to the "good old days.";)
Anyway. I disagree with you personally, but I see where you're coming from, and of course you're entitled to your opinion. Are you consistent about it, at least? Are you also troubled by movies like "Gone in 60 Seconds"? (first car stealing movie I could think of)
It's not even "marketing language" or whatnot... Apple didn't blow this out of proportion, the Slashdot summary did. I read the summary, and thought, "Wow, that's pretty crazy!" Then I RTFA (sorry, I'm not really a frequent slashdotter), and I couldn't figure out where the person writing the summary got their crazy ideas.
I'm pretty sure Apple's description of the mouse explained how it actually works, and somebody misunderstood something (or maybe only read part of it) and started making random assumptions.
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Well, it depends on the application. In my case, I'm writing a clustered simulation program, and HT does miraculous things. It's so good, that I find it implausible that a dual-core system will do better. In my tests, a computer can literally do twice as much work in a given amount of time if it has HT turned on. In theory, dual core shouldn't more than double performance, so, for my application, I doubt there will be a performance gap at all. I'll know for sure in a couple of weeks; I've got some low-end Pentium D systems on their way.
You would be ok with running an ad-supported OS in your church? There's no moral dilemma in adding commercials to your church services?
Did you miss the episode of the Simpsons where Homer's model rocket hits the church, Mr. Burns pays to fix it, and he introduces changes to make it more profitable? "Get your money changed! Right here in the temple!"
Oh, you know what they're talking about. Billions and billions of devices to "service" you. Ever increasing "penetration." What, you think this guy is wrong aobut the future of the internet? ;)
No! That's actually exactly my problem... I don't know what's aesthetically pleasing, to me or anyone else. I mean, I'd like to dress well, and I can tell when I'm not... but I can't go into a store, see something on the rack, and have any idea whether it'll look good on me or not, and if so, with what.
At the moment, there are 2 ways I could manage to dress well:
1) Try on every permutation of everything in every store. Clearly, this is a bad option; it's O(n^2), stores are constantly changing their stock, and it doesn't allow for the possibility of a shirt from one store going well with pants from another. Also, I don't pay much attention to fashion, and strange new things tend to bother me initially, so some of my favorite clothes are things that I didn't like when I first tried them on.
2) The "queer eye" technique: Get a more fashion-conscious friend to go clothes shopping with me. This is the method I currently use, but it's a bit trickier to set up than just shopping on my own. A lot of my university friends have moved away, and the most fashion-conscious one left is pretty busy. So, as it stands now, I go shopping about once a year or so, then my clothing style slowly deteriorates until the next shopping trip.
If there were a third option, like the one described above (a fashion line with guidelines about what goes together), that would be freaking awesome. I'd love it. Now, it'd be kind of funny if it caught on, because everyone would still be able to recognize the nerds, they'd just have a much better consistent look about them... I'd still go for it. As long as it actually looked good, of course.
That would be awesome!
"This robotic character from the on-line comic Penny Arcade is known for his aggressive love of fruit."
*sigh* That's not going to happen on Jeopardy, is it?
My favorite email from Amazon started with the line, "We've noticed that customers who have purchased Crusade: The Complete Series have also ordered The Flintstones: The Complete Fourth Season."
Now, I'm sure the sample "people who bought Crusade" was pretty small, so perhaps their software got confused. It just seemed pretty funny that there is apparently some sort of tie-in between liking Crusade (a failed Babylon 5 spin-off, for those Slashdotters who may not be that particular sort of geek) and liking The Flintstones. And not just Flintstones in general... season 4 of the Flintstones, specifically.
I'm sure there's a psychology paper in there somewhere.
I suspect the specs are pretty much finalized... Google may have them. Maybe. The 360 ships next week, as opposed to the PS3, which ships at some point in the nebulous future.
Why are you asking this? You do know about the internet, right? You can just type stuff like this into Google, and it comes back with answers right away, without being a sarcastic jerk.
To be fair, I think Nintendo is likely to be the first console maker to exploit VR-type technology, if/when the technology gets up to snuff. It's just not there yet. You point out that the Virtual Boy didn't go so well... neither did the Power Glove, but they're bringing back that idea now that the technology has improved. The lesson to be learned from Virtual Boy isn't, "3d visors are a bad idea," it's, "3d visors with poor framerates and red wireframe graphics are a bad idea."
But yeah. A visor on the Revolution seems highly implausible. Maybe a couple of console generations from now, but not yet.
See, the crazy thing about these NASA guys is, they can see the asteroid coming, determine its speed, and calculate where it's going to be when their ship gets there. I think they use math, and numbers and things. Terribly complex, I'm sure. Anyway, since the asteroid won't be swerving around or stopping for take-out or anything, or if it will, it will do so predictably, they can actually work all the details out from Earth, and an onboard computer can handle the finer details.
I'm afraid the movies have steered you wrong in this one, rare instance.
Well, you may have lost one excuse for not answering the phone, but you just need to get more creative.. First of all, if you do answer, realize that this won't improve reception. You can still always pull the "Oh, I'm going through a tunnel..." "...you're breaking up... what was that?..." Done!
There are a number of other options too. None are quite as good as the battery one, but you could try:
1) I forgot to turn the ringer back on after ___________ (e.g. movie, meeting)
2) I was _______ (somewhere loud) and didn't hear it ring.
3) In the bathroom. No reasonable person answers their phone in the bathroom. If you're going to use this one, start drinking more water. It'll make it more plausible that you're always in the bathroom, and it's good for you!
I'm sure you can come up with some on your own.
Come on, man.... you had two letters to keep track of, in one sentence, and you managed to screw it up. ;) The contract said that they can A me if I B, but you've got them B'ing because I A'd. Actually, considering what most school rules are like, that could turn out to be kind of funny.
Example: If you drink alcohol, we will suspend you.
Becomes: Every time you get suspended, we do a shot. School discipline as a drinking game for the administration.
It's a misleading excerpt. If you RTFA, they're not claiming that PVP was literally the first gaming comic... note the quotes around "real". They even mention one that came earlier. The claim in the article is that PVP was the first one that mattered, or something along those lines. The "real" beginning of the current crop of gaming webcomics. Or...you know... something like that. I don't really know what they're getting at there, but the statement is clearly not meant to be taken literally.
It's not even about the real life money. Even if they could somehow stop the exchanging of online goods for real life money... the gamers are still going to have insane amounts of real life time invested in their imaginary stuff. A lot of these people play these MMORPGs for hours every day, for months on end working towards various goals.
So put yourself in their place. If you've put hundreds of real-life hours into obtaining an imaginary super-sword 10000 or something, and then somebody finds a way to steal it from you, it's not going to matter if it couldn't have been exchanged for real-life money. You're still going to be pissed. You hopefully won't kill the person... but it's as reasonable a motivation for murder as anything (that is to say, it's not very reasonable at all, but if you're the murdering sort, it seems like it'd do the trick).
Um... people get jailed in Monopoly all the time. In fact, they go directly to jail, without even passing "Go".
I don't really understand your other examples. But I'll take your word for it.
Are you sure you read the article?
The controller can be used in a variety of ways, including attaching modules to it. Don't like swinging the controller around in your action-RPG? Slap on the analog stick module, and you're good to go. As an added bonus, it's more ergonomic than current controllers, because you don't need to keep your hands together.
As for the FPS thing... it may be hard to keep pointing at the screen, but I can't see it being worse than trying to play an FPS with a thumb-stick. Though, of course, if that's what floats your boat, you can still do it. And that is awesome.
I know motion sensitive controllers have been done before, but they haven't been done this cleverly (with the modules, and such), nor has the technology been up to par (as it hopefully is in the Revolution).
Yeah... their tests did seem to be... lacking in finesse.
One thing I would like to know is how well it stands up to bending. Can you grab a nano by the ends and snap it in two? Is it safe to just throw a nano in my back pocket and carry on about my life (sitting on it at weird angles occasionally)?
Their tests indicated that it handles certain types of impacts and a very particular type of pressure (straight down while it's lying flat) fairly well, but I'm getting more of a "Hulk smash" vibe than any useful information.
Perhaps I'm misreading this, but... if you're comparing it to the output from a dot-matrix printer, isn't that exactly "paper-like"?
Thank you for the example! This is exactly what I was talking about. I don't understand this.
Yes, Firefly's "style" of characters and dialogue is similar to Buffy. But how is that awful? What TV shows are you watching?
I can see how someone might be turned off by the setting of either show (or both). "Vampires? That's weird!" or "Space...western? No, no, no...this doesn't make any sense at all!" are both fine with me. They are somewhat narrow-minded viewpoints, I think, but I can at least comprehend how someone might think that way. But complaining about the characters and dialogue?
I just don't get it.
What I don't understand is why there are people who aren't Joss Whedon fanboys.
Well, now, that depends. For example, if you get a girl to go to the paleontology section of the library with you, that might be considered "cool."
But what about the summary? Was that giving examples of what the slashdotters were supposed to follow up with?
LOLZ! I installed the wrong drivers once! Hilarious!
Another time I spilled water on my laptop, and lost my saved email! Hahaha!
What?
On the other hand, the guy who pointed that colon cancer can, in fact, be significantly funnier than these stories... that was awesome.
I think it should be fine as long as they don't bring in any gigafauna.
;)
Am I the only person here who's never heard of "megafauna" before, and thinks it's a funny word?
See, I suspect, that due to super coolness (that's the technical term), it's a crapload more expensive than LCD based technology. Think about what people would be willing to pay for something like this.
:(
Yes, maybe they're really cheap to make, and you could sell 10 million of them for $50 each and make a bit of a profit... but I suspect you could also sell 50,000 of them for $10,000 each, and get the same amount of net income, with 0.5% of the expenses.
So, I'm thinking that regardless of manufacturing costs, I can't afford one of these things. And that makes me sad.
Hehe...when the argument is, "It's just old people that don't like games," and you start your counter-argument with, "When I was a kid..." you've already lost. ;)
Other examples would be "Back in my day" and any reference to the "good old days.";)
Anyway. I disagree with you personally, but I see where you're coming from, and of course you're entitled to your opinion. Are you consistent about it, at least? Are you also troubled by movies like "Gone in 60 Seconds"? (first car stealing movie I could think of)
It's not even "marketing language" or whatnot... Apple didn't blow this out of proportion, the Slashdot summary did. I read the summary, and thought, "Wow, that's pretty crazy!" Then I RTFA (sorry, I'm not really a frequent slashdotter), and I couldn't figure out where the person writing the summary got their crazy ideas.
I'm pretty sure Apple's description of the mouse explained how it actually works, and somebody misunderstood something (or maybe only read part of it) and started making random assumptions.