Man, I remember when my 40 Mb hard drive was sufficient for my needs, including an office suite and several of the latest games at the time. CDs seemed ridiculously huge as a storage medium. Who would possibly need 650Mb on a single disk? That's crazy!
Anyway, my point is, even if we accept your wacky hypothesis that nobody legitimately fills their 120Gb drives these days, it seems obvious that our storage needs will increase in the future. If there isn't any imaginable way to use a disk like this now, there will be soon.
I've never been to Disney World, but... what does this mean? Do they have some sort of odor generators at the lines that often don't work properly? What's a "faulty odor?"
But, I will make a fortune farming...uh...mouse ears...to sell on ebay.
Good lord! You must be talking about the mouse-ear hats. Right? Because for a second there, I was pretty sure you were planning on repeatedly killing Mickey and ripping his ears off. It just wasn't fitting with my impression of how this game was going to work.;)
Well, maybe I'm exagerrating a bit there.;) But it's a really good game! I have a couple of things to add to the review.
For one thing, it's just plain straight-up fun. Most games these days seem to be going for pulse-pounding intensity, or frustrating challenges... there's obviously a place for those things, but I found Lego Star Wars to be a refreshing change of pace.
I also really liked the convenience of the multi-player mode, where a second player can join or leave at any time, with the computer taking over for them as need be. I have the PC version, and I think this feature would be even better on one of the consoles.
One more thing struck me: you can play as basically any character in the game. If they made a model for it, you can play as it. A lot of game developers wouldn't let you play as a high-jumping quad-lightsaber-wielding robot, presumably because it would be difficult to balance or something. In Lego Star Wars, it's not a problem.
Overall, I was just really impressed with this game. It's well-done, a lot of fun, and I'd recommend it to just about anyone.:)
Anyway, wouldn't it be correct in a context such as, "Greedo was about to shoot Han, but Han shot him first"? That is, "first" as in "before Greedo had a chance to shoot." Seems ok to me.
If that doesn't fly, let me suggest, "Greedo didn't shoot first." It states that the version of the tale where Greedo is shown shooting first is innacurate, while still being somewhat catchy.
The power that computers and global internetworking have given us must be taken with some measure of responsibility for the technology to be safe.
Just to clarify for any comic book geeks who missed it, halber_mensch is just applying that important lesson that Peter Parker learned from Uncle Ben to the current situation. "With great power comes great responsibility.";)
"Right now we give you a library card with a bar code attached to it. This is just a bar code, but it's built in," West said.
So patrons used to scan their library card and they could use the computer? There is no difference now except a database of information tied to a fingerprint that can easily be looked into by employees, LEOs, and possible thieves.
Actually, there is a difference. Barcodes are super easy to forge, using just the internet and any printer with better than dot-matrix quality. All you need is the little number on the bottom.
Fingerprints can also be copied, of course, but it's not nearly as easy.
If you accept that it's super important to know exactly who's using the library's computers, then fingerprints are definitely better than barcodes.
The worst part about the whole "meme" phenomenon was that it was hard to complain about it without calling it a "meme." As in, "The 'meme' meme is the most annoying meme ever memed!"
Are the browser wars really back? Has anyone tried the new Netscape? Given that they pretty much peaked around 4.7 or something like that, or earlier depending on who you ask, I just don't see any reason to even try it. What is Netscape likely to give me that Firefox can't?
Try not to worry about comments like that. If slashdot posted a story titled "Google employee crosses the street" (on the front page, of course, it's got "Google" in the title), there would still be people who would see it as the last straw and say "So much for 'Do no evil.'" It's hard to predict what about crossing the street they would consider "evil," but someone would seriously be offended, somehow.
Maybe something like, "It was probably because there was a black guy on the side of the street they were on. Google are racist bastards!"
Beta [not actually ready for widespread use / public consumption]
Somebody's not really familiar with Google's definition of "Beta," I take it?
It's news, because it will almost certainly affect people in the near future, because ads will start showing up in their RSS feeds. There weren't ads in RSS feeds before. See? News!
It might be easier if you have no idea how to really use a computer, and are not willing to learn.
If they're talking about the "cost of patching," they're talking about large corporations. Large corporations have people in charge of IT who, we hope, have some idea how to use a computer.;)
It really doesn't take much to patch most new-ish linux systems.
emerge sync && emerge -uD world
is probably one of the most complicated, and that's all there is too it.
But look at the track record... this is Will Wright, who has a history of making games that people enjoy, as opposed to Peter Molyneux, who has a history of making games that don't live up to his hype.
What if they market it as a fantasy game in Kansas? "Play in a fantastical dream world, where one type of creature can mysteriously transform into another, more advanced creature!"
So, what? They're going to sue everyone who's seeding copyrighted material, and force them to stop? The problem with that is, legal proceedings are slow enough that by the time they go through, those particular seeders would likely have already stopped anyway, and been replaced by new seeders.
It is not without reason that fewer people are signing up, it might be related to a lack of prospects or something...
I think it's kind of surprising how many fewer CS students there are, though. I just got my BCS last year, and there were over 120 CS students who started at the same time as me (not sure how many graduated). Do you know how many students applied to CS at my school this year? 12.
Huh. That's going to cut down on their course options.
See, now... that's more copyright infringement!;) You didn't even cite a source... does that make it plagiarism or something too?
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That may be because Microsoft and Sony started with impressively powerful base hardware, then started saying things about innovating with peripherals. Nintendo's claims about innovative peripherals sounded more like they were making excuses for having a weaker system.
Anyway, "innovative peripherals" sounds great in theory, and I hope that at least one of these three companies can deliver.
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Inevitable? Are you sure? Seems to me, we find ways of filling however much space is available.
Bigger disks just mean higher-quality media files that fill them just as fast. More bandwidth? Higher-quality media can flood that pretty quickly too.
I dunno. I just don't see storage media growing faster than consumers' ability to fill it with stuff.
Man, I remember when my 40 Mb hard drive was sufficient for my needs, including an office suite and several of the latest games at the time. CDs seemed ridiculously huge as a storage medium. Who would possibly need 650Mb on a single disk? That's crazy!
Anyway, my point is, even if we accept your wacky hypothesis that nobody legitimately fills their 120Gb drives these days, it seems obvious that our storage needs will increase in the future. If there isn't any imaginable way to use a disk like this now, there will be soon.
Good lord! You must be talking about the mouse-ear hats. Right? Because for a second there, I was pretty sure you were planning on repeatedly killing Mickey and ripping his ears off. It just wasn't fitting with my impression of how this game was going to work.
Well, maybe I'm exagerrating a bit there. ;) But it's a really good game! I have a couple of things to add to the review.
:)
For one thing, it's just plain straight-up fun. Most games these days seem to be going for pulse-pounding intensity, or frustrating challenges... there's obviously a place for those things, but I found Lego Star Wars to be a refreshing change of pace.
I also really liked the convenience of the multi-player mode, where a second player can join or leave at any time, with the computer taking over for them as need be. I have the PC version, and I think this feature would be even better on one of the consoles.
One more thing struck me: you can play as basically any character in the game. If they made a model for it, you can play as it. A lot of game developers wouldn't let you play as a high-jumping quad-lightsaber-wielding robot, presumably because it would be difficult to balance or something. In Lego Star Wars, it's not a problem.
Overall, I was just really impressed with this game. It's well-done, a lot of fun, and I'd recommend it to just about anyone.
Eh... those aren't very catchy, though.
Anyway, wouldn't it be correct in a context such as, "Greedo was about to shoot Han, but Han shot him first"? That is, "first" as in "before Greedo had a chance to shoot." Seems ok to me.
If that doesn't fly, let me suggest, "Greedo didn't shoot first." It states that the version of the tale where Greedo is shown shooting first is innacurate, while still being somewhat catchy.
Just to clarify for any comic book geeks who missed it, halber_mensch is just applying that important lesson that Peter Parker learned from Uncle Ben to the current situation. "With great power comes great responsibility."
Actually, there is a difference. Barcodes are super easy to forge, using just the internet and any printer with better than dot-matrix quality. All you need is the little number on the bottom.
Fingerprints can also be copied, of course, but it's not nearly as easy.
If you accept that it's super important to know exactly who's using the library's computers, then fingerprints are definitely better than barcodes.
The worst part about the whole "meme" phenomenon was that it was hard to complain about it without calling it a "meme." As in, "The 'meme' meme is the most annoying meme ever memed!"
That's a very good point. I mean, there are ways around that, but they'd be very implementation-dependant and most of them are probably a bit sketchy.
But then... if you're administrating 2000 computers, Gentoo probably isn't the best choice for them.
Ah. Yes. I see that now, though somehow I missed it then.
;)
You know what I like? Forums where you can modify or delete your comments when you realize they're retarded.
Firefox is open source.
Now, you've got me there. Uh...brand recognition? Maybe?
Man, they came out with a patch in under 24 hours! Microsoft would've waiting at least a couple of months.
Are the browser wars really back? Has anyone tried the new Netscape? Given that they pretty much peaked around 4.7 or something like that, or earlier depending on who you ask, I just don't see any reason to even try it. What is Netscape likely to give me that Firefox can't?
Try not to worry about comments like that. If slashdot posted a story titled "Google employee crosses the street" (on the front page, of course, it's got "Google" in the title), there would still be people who would see it as the last straw and say "So much for 'Do no evil.'" It's hard to predict what about crossing the street they would consider "evil," but someone would seriously be offended, somehow.
Maybe something like, "It was probably because there was a black guy on the side of the street they were on. Google are racist bastards!"
Somebody's not really familiar with Google's definition of "Beta," I take it?
It's news, because it will almost certainly affect people in the near future, because ads will start showing up in their RSS feeds. There weren't ads in RSS feeds before. See? News!
I believe he may be including lost productivity while employees are rebooting.
If they're talking about the "cost of patching," they're talking about large corporations. Large corporations have people in charge of IT who, we hope, have some idea how to use a computer.
It really doesn't take much to patch most new-ish linux systems. is probably one of the most complicated, and that's all there is too it.
But look at the track record... this is Will Wright, who has a history of making games that people enjoy, as opposed to Peter Molyneux, who has a history of making games that don't live up to his hype.
What if they market it as a fantasy game in Kansas? "Play in a fantastical dream world, where one type of creature can mysteriously transform into another, more advanced creature!"
So, what? They're going to sue everyone who's seeding copyrighted material, and force them to stop? The problem with that is, legal proceedings are slow enough that by the time they go through, those particular seeders would likely have already stopped anyway, and been replaced by new seeders.
It makes the system more fault-tolerant.
I think it's kind of surprising how many fewer CS students there are, though. I just got my BCS last year, and there were over 120 CS students who started at the same time as me (not sure how many graduated). Do you know how many students applied to CS at my school this year? 12.
Huh. That's going to cut down on their course options.
See, now... that's more copyright infringement! ;) You didn't even cite a source... does that make it plagiarism or something too?
That may be because Microsoft and Sony started with impressively powerful base hardware, then started saying things about innovating with peripherals. Nintendo's claims about innovative peripherals sounded more like they were making excuses for having a weaker system.
Anyway, "innovative peripherals" sounds great in theory, and I hope that at least one of these three companies can deliver.