Sure, this is true. But no one was asking for a guarantee or expecting one. Fact is, it will not likely improve, and it's optimistic to think someone out there will maintain the current level of quality/service. But it will still be there in some fashion.
What I think will improve are the development tools. An area where pretty much all companies skimp on (skimp is probably a generous term) even when the tools are part of the released product.
As an asside... You ever meet someone who spends hours and hours rolling and customizing D&D characters? You may know a few that wrote their own lousy stories too. Well now they have a whole damn ready to go content complete MMORPG. This is exciting! I made my own shitty game back in the day. Had a few people that were polite enough to play through it, as lousy as it was. But I made it, and that was awesome.
Watch the second part of Pierre Thomas' report Tuesday on "World News with Charles Gibson."
A recent study by the Department of Education found that 31 percent of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate in the nation's largest 100 public school districts.
I would add that extended education (a large part of what the Public School System gears students for) no longer offers the guarantee of a good job. A problem that has more to do with the way our nation and it's corporations have choosen to do business.
Add to that the economic conditions in the areas the article is discussing (in it's own inflamitory and missleading way) and you get a system that looks pretty useless to someone who is actually working hard for an education.
People have given a particular senator a hard time for a stupid joke gone wrong, but he is somewhat right in either case. Because the fact is, for some the military really is the only way out of poverty (if you consider a military wage a livable one).
Exactly. Even if the law was explicitly about e-mail, treating the letter of the law in the same fashion a computer interprets code is not appropriate. It is important for the law to be clear, but part the judge's job is wrangling with what we are trying to do with the law versus what actually got written down.
is that your purchases are tied to your console and not your account. Fine for nintendo, but what happens if your console is out of warranty. A much more reasonable solution would have been to associate your content with your account rather than the console. Similar to what apple does with it's iTunes store.
Look at you, what with your facts and references. It took you so long to write your reply that the moderators have moved on and your reply will long languish at 2, but I love you.
(You don't want rumble in a wireless controller because it's bad for battery life, and the current trend is towards wireless). So rumble is cut from the feature list.
I don't know, the Metroid rumble pack doesn't seem to do much to the life of my DS. And the battery is driving a display, backlight, wifi, and processors to boot. I'd have to say power is pretty much a non-issue for a missing rumble feature in the Sony controller.
A. Your credit history tells much more about you than your dead kids medical problems. B. If you're going to screw your creditors how long till you screw us for a "good" cause. C. There are pleanty of aid organizations that take care of A without you having to do B. D. Outside of a world where your credit score *is* your resume, interview, and represenative your argument is weak.
E. Regarding D, it's also so easy and inflamitory it'll get you +5 insightful before I finish writing this comment. I wish I had beat you to it.
In my book, this means that 46 percent of the women we'll never have a chance of doing a favorable impression on. Not much of a chance to begin with, but now - no chance!
I suspect that 46 percent of women already had a "nerd" over to fix their computer.
Don't fret, as long as they don't talk there is still the other 54 percent.
Yes, durability has improved tremendously. Also, they aren't using it for swap. Most of the files that will get cached here are things the OS developer knows (or the system obsreves) are going to be asked for frequently. Data will also be saved here sometimes to avoid spinning up the disk.
The sum of these writes are not going to exceed the durability (some millions of writes was the last spec I saw) of modern flash in any reasonable time frame.
Also, if someone is abusing the technology or just keeps the same drive around that long the whole system doesn't fail, it just becomes a bog standard disk. Since a write failure is known at the time it is written you don't even loose data.
Usually it begins as dismay when the installer crashes.
Followed by confusion when the developers message boards are bursting at the seams with people complaining about the same handfull of issus. Of course the front, and support pages mention nothing.
Perhaps a bit of joy that I find some obscure board that the workaround usually involves using virtual drive software to get around the copy protection.
Sadness when I find that my CD rom drive doesn't support the features needed by the emulation software to rip the image with the copy protection.
The tears start flowing when I break down and download a no-cd crack only to find that it also installs a keylogger/spy app.
Margins on volume have no effect either I'm sure...
Simple greed to exploit the brand they created by cutting their costs and the capabilities of the hardware and pocketing the profits.
That's business, anyone whom has ever sold you anything has done that. Don't like it, don't buy it. Linksys didn't come out with the v5 to piss Linux nerds off, they did it because they save a shit ton of money with the new design.
Two roughly equivalent products, the v5 costs x to make the v4 costs x+y. The sensible thing if you must produce both (which they don't) is to bump the price of the v4 so the margins are the same. Which actually is a lot when you have to build, track, support, and promote a product.
That the price difference is less than 10 bucks is pretty suprising.
People looking for laws on scrogging tots use words like "pedophilia". Perverts wouldn't use "pedophilia" to search for hot NAMBLA sanctioned action.
Ask.com's effort is so limited that it serves no purpose other than as a marketing effort at being "family friendly" and working to "protect" your children. When in fact the effort is basically non existant, willfully frail and ultimately counter productive.
Actually, mine was even shorter as "NewsForge shares a new Web site, OSvids.com, that shows video clips of various Linux distributions in action." on my Web site. I couldn't think of anything else to add. Basically, it is K.I.S.S.
KISS indeed. But is it really "digstyle" if the link goes to the acutal subject instead of a maze of AdSense driving blog posts with the exact same summary?
HOw is it any more proprietary then Toshiba's HD-DVD (or whomever the designing company is)? This isn't a rhetorical question, I just don't know how.
It isn't more proprietary. Sony's blu-ray is deffinately superior in a lot of ways, the most important from Sony's perspective is that it is Sony who get's all of the royalties. That is at least a decades worth of very fat checks.
Both techs seem to be upgrades with associated licensing fees for the tech. Do DVD's lack any licensing fee's to whomever originally designed it?
DVD does have a (not insignificant) licensing fee attatched to the tech.
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Sure, this is true. But no one was asking for a guarantee or expecting one. Fact is, it will not likely improve, and it's optimistic to think someone out there will maintain the current level of quality/service. But it will still be there in some fashion.
What I think will improve are the development tools. An area where pretty much all companies skimp on (skimp is probably a generous term) even when the tools are part of the released product.
As an asside...
You ever meet someone who spends hours and hours rolling and customizing D&D characters? You may know a few that wrote their own lousy stories too. Well now they have a whole damn ready to go content complete MMORPG. This is exciting!
I made my own shitty game back in the day. Had a few people that were polite enough to play through it, as lousy as it was. But I made it, and that was awesome.
But you can save them to a CD or email them to yourself and activate them on your home PC.
If we're talking about iTunes. Yes you can. Up to 5 pc's simultaneously.
Even without your help they tip their own hand...
And the problem is not only in the big cities.
Watch the second part of Pierre Thomas' report Tuesday on "World News with Charles Gibson."
A recent study by the Department of Education found that 31 percent of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate in the nation's largest 100 public school districts.
I would add that extended education (a large part of what the Public School System gears students for) no longer offers the guarantee of a good job. A problem that has more to do with the way our nation and it's corporations have choosen to do business.
Add to that the economic conditions in the areas the article is discussing (in it's own inflamitory and missleading way) and you get a system that looks pretty useless to someone who is actually working hard for an education.
People have given a particular senator a hard time for a stupid joke gone wrong, but he is somewhat right in either case. Because the fact is, for some the military really is the only way out of poverty (if you consider a military wage a livable one).
Exactly. Even if the law was explicitly about e-mail, treating the letter of the law in the same fashion a computer interprets code is not appropriate. It is important for the law to be clear, but part the judge's job is wrangling with what we are trying to do with the law versus what actually got written down.
is that your purchases are tied to your console and not your account. Fine for nintendo, but what happens if your console is out of warranty. A much more reasonable solution would have been to associate your content with your account rather than the console. Similar to what apple does with it's iTunes store.
It will be hard to do that, mostly because that is the f'ing definition of extortion.
My advice. Make note of it, and move any money you need to out of their hands. Tell your friends and family. Nod sagely when the shit hits the fan.
Look at you, what with your facts and references. It took you so long to write your reply that the moderators have moved on and your reply will long languish at 2, but I love you.
Like a fat kid loves cake.
(You don't want rumble in a wireless controller because it's bad for battery life, and the current trend is towards wireless). So rumble is cut from the feature list.
I don't know, the Metroid rumble pack doesn't seem to do much to the life of my DS. And the battery is driving a display, backlight, wifi, and processors to boot. I'd have to say power is pretty much a non-issue for a missing rumble feature in the Sony controller.
Not that I'll miss it.
A. Your credit history tells much more about you than your dead kids medical problems.
B. If you're going to screw your creditors how long till you screw us for a "good" cause.
C. There are pleanty of aid organizations that take care of A without you having to do B.
D. Outside of a world where your credit score *is* your resume, interview, and represenative your argument is weak.
E. Regarding D, it's also so easy and inflamitory it'll get you +5 insightful before I finish writing this comment. I wish I had beat you to it.
In my book, this means that 46 percent of the women we'll never have a chance of doing a favorable impression on. Not much of a chance to begin with, but now - no chance!
I suspect that 46 percent of women already had a "nerd" over to fix their computer.
Don't fret, as long as they don't talk there is still the other 54 percent.
Am I missing something here?
Yes, durability has improved tremendously. Also, they aren't using it for swap. Most of the files that will get cached here are things the OS developer knows (or the system obsreves) are going to be asked for frequently. Data will also be saved here sometimes to avoid spinning up the disk.
The sum of these writes are not going to exceed the durability (some millions of writes was the last spec I saw) of modern flash in any reasonable time frame.
Also, if someone is abusing the technology or just keeps the same drive around that long the whole system doesn't fail, it just becomes a bog standard disk. Since a write failure is known at the time it is written you don't even loose data.
I'd go as far to say most games evoke emotions...
Usually it begins as dismay when the installer crashes.
Followed by confusion when the developers message boards are bursting at the seams with people complaining about the same handfull of issus. Of course the front, and support pages mention nothing.
Perhaps a bit of joy that I find some obscure board that the workaround usually involves using virtual drive software to get around the copy protection.
Sadness when I find that my CD rom drive doesn't support the features needed by the emulation software to rip the image with the copy protection.
The tears start flowing when I break down and download a no-cd crack only to find that it also installs a keylogger/spy app.
Followed by anger when what game there is, sucks.
Need I say more?
.83 to .67 each.
Around here it's frequently the case that new/recent releases, unencumbered 12-15 song albums with artwork and packaging are sold at retail for 9.99.
or
If we could get some fella to ride a horse to death across the midwest with a bag of CD's we could get the cost per song under 50 cents.
I don't see people with exclamation marks over their heads. I must have out leveled their quests... or I'm a lowbie :S
This is a feature, in this game you have to make up your own quests or join a guild.
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Or get a job.
At those speeds, debris punches holes in metal just as easily.
Reminiscent of Star Trek?
Or the draft.
Margins on volume have no effect either I'm sure...
Simple greed to exploit the brand they created by cutting their costs and the capabilities of the hardware and pocketing the profits.
That's business, anyone whom has ever sold you anything has done that. Don't like it, don't buy it. Linksys didn't come out with the v5 to piss Linux nerds off, they did it because they save a shit ton of money with the new design.
Two roughly equivalent products, the v5 costs x to make the v4 costs x+y. The sensible thing if you must produce both (which they don't) is to bump the price of the v4 so the margins are the same. Which actually is a lot when you have to build, track, support, and promote a product.
That the price difference is less than 10 bucks is pretty suprising.
Slashdot is composed largely of wankers prattling on about things they know nothing about.
Obviously Ask.com hates children.
People looking for laws on scrogging tots use words like "pedophilia". Perverts wouldn't use "pedophilia" to search for hot NAMBLA sanctioned action.
Ask.com's effort is so limited that it serves no purpose other than as a marketing effort at being "family friendly" and working to "protect" your children. When in fact the effort is basically non existant, willfully frail and ultimately counter productive.
Now that's f'n hot!
Now seems as good a time as any for gazing into the pixels of moral decay!
There are quite a few options other than just flickr.
The free WWW account provided by your own ISP (or others) for instance?
Not very Web 2.0, but cheap as free and reliable.
Actually, mine was even shorter as "NewsForge shares a new Web site, OSvids.com, that shows video clips of various Linux distributions in action." on my Web site. I couldn't think of anything else to add. Basically, it is K.I.S.S.
KISS indeed. But is it really "digstyle" if the link goes to the acutal subject instead of a maze of AdSense driving blog posts with the exact same summary?
to port of Barbie Horse Adventures.
HOw is it any more proprietary then Toshiba's HD-DVD (or whomever the designing company is)? This isn't a rhetorical question, I just don't know how.
It isn't more proprietary. Sony's blu-ray is deffinately superior in a lot of ways, the most important from Sony's perspective is that it is Sony who get's all of the royalties. That is at least a decades worth of very fat checks.
Both techs seem to be upgrades with associated licensing fees for the tech. Do DVD's lack any licensing fee's to whomever originally designed it?
DVD does have a (not insignificant) licensing fee attatched to the tech.