It's one thing when a free torrent link is slow or not working well, but totally different when a commercial service I pay for doesn't live up to expectations.
Agreed, for those who cannot for whatever reason Blizard updates become a long trip into amature hour.
You would think they would at least provide a direct download at a reasonable bit rate if not comparable to the BT scheme. But no, you're pretty much reliant on non-blizard redistribution if you cannot get your ports open.
Why does Blizard feel it is entitled to my upstream bandwidth to service other customers?
I'm developing a game based around trashing hexus.net web servers, but Slashdot already dominates this genre. What advice do you have for new developers entering an already crowded/mature space?
Maybe I'm missing something, but the article doesn't explain why they don't simply place two cameras back to back, then use their software to splice the result and apply the correct perspective.
The "nifty" part of the software is that it works with typical video equipment and interpolates the surroundings from older video frames and some guesswork at the edges of the field of view.
All they say about it is that "it's against the laws of physics to take a 360 degree photo. That just seems odd.
It is not, they're just ill informed or have mispoke. If you have the cash you can get a 360 degree camera. The lens are typically shaped in a more convex way and point "up" essentially using the portion closer to the edge of the lens as the light gathering surface.
I think the same thing every time that I read about some silly "fuel cell powered device" replacing existing rechargeable devices. I don't want to carry fuel cells with me, and I don't want to purchase them. I can always find a free or nearly free outlet to plug in to.
While you're standing around for the next 8 hours or so waiting for the thing to finish charging you can wonder where we're using our fuel cell powered devices.
All of these fuel cell researchers need to realize that if we a device doesn't already physically consume fuel, no one is likely to migrate to a device that does.
Yes, we all need to realize that because you don't understand the issue the rest of us shouldn't work on a solution.
How dumb can these incredibly smart people be!
Oh just fuck off now. You should have been a blowjob.
For me, when I first heard about E-books I immediately thought "no cost of shipping, no middleman warehouse distribution, no physical cost to print/bind, no brick and mortar store paying electricity, rent, stocking risky books at a premium, they'll be dirt cheap!" I was wrong.
That's because the publisher looked at those exact same issues and said "I'll be rich"!
Are you crazy, by the time they implement those features there will only be about 49.5 million left for marketing!
It's going to take way more than that to get everyone to understand the difference between 7 products with the same name.
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What will get me to upgrade?
Software that only runs on Vista.
The word was used correctly by the grandparent post. Just because *you* can't separate an appropriate word from it's current fad status doesn't mean everyone can't.
Your ignorance of context and the underlying metaphor doesn't make the comment any less interesting.
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reality check time:
Reality check time? Here's some reality for you.
No matter how much they say they hate Microsoft they still don't like anything else well enough to switch.
People bitch about their spouse, kids, friends, and how miserable their life is. But that doesn't mean the current situation is worse than a divorce. There is no glorious rainbow, pot of gold, or greener grass. If there were, they wouldn't be complaining.
Had I kept the iPod down to a lower level, say at 0.75 or 0.5 - then I simply wouldn't be able to hear it - so, perhaps the problem is not the music players, but rather, an increase in noise from other locations? For example, traffic?
Headphones with active noise canceling will help with that. Where I used to keep the volume at 75% or more, I now rarely bump it above 30%.
Is bad management 100% of the problem? I think even the biggest MS astro turfer has to admit that integrating windows with non microsoft platforms can be a huge headache.
Having problems in IT may not be 100% management's fault.
Going live with an untested system without a backup plan is solely the managements fault.
Indeed. From reading the article it looks like the people doing the talking don't really know much about anything (except spin).
No matter how anyone wants to skew blame, the administration decided to start the year without adequate testing, or a backup plan.
"In fact, through our research the last few days, we have found an advisory on the Apache website that states, 'Please note that at this time, Windows support is entirely experimental and is recommended only for experienced users."
Apparently by "advisory" he means the documentation and release notes on the download page under the headding "IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APACHE USERS".
Agreed, windows ships with such a lousy synth and samples it's near impossible for midi files to sound anything like music.
There are pleanty of freely available samples (ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/awe32/soundfonts/8Re alGS20.zip - should help considerably) and you can find something that will improve the experience considerably.
came to work this morning and found out my company is buying Nanos for all the employees (Our CEO is on the Apple board and we've had a very good year). So I'm on the verege of creaming in my shorts until I find out that although I work harder and longer than half the people here, I won't be getting one becuase technically I'm an Intern.
[bitter]If I see one more Nano story I will smash my keyboard over my crappy CRT. Nano can go fuck itself.[/bitter]
You can always bring one of Creative's players to work.
Paint it orange.
Another more current quote from this years 2nd quarter conference call at Apple's Site
In short, it is revealed in the Q and A that iTMS profits are (drumroll please)...
A little above break even.
I disagree. Apple makes money on the iTMS. I will now post the same amount of proof as you did to prove my point.... Ok done. Thus proving that apple makes money on the iTMS. Case closed on that one.
Annoyed, I bothered to use Google for a whole 1.5 seconds and came up with this juicy bit...
How the hell is this comment insightful? People confuse a postive Apple comment and agreement with insight? (followed by stupidity
If a comment gets positively moderated (+5 no less) maybe you should read it again. Perhaps a perusal of the parent might be in order. Spend a few minutes thinking about why you might be mistaken.
For instance, when I read your post my first thought was "hey, maybe I missed something". Unfortunately upon even modest scrutiny your arguments are not only wrong, they are non sensical in the context of the discussion.
Since I'm feeling magnanimous toward your dumbass self, I'll spell it out.
1: The new iPod nano offers exceptional *VALUE* to the *CONSUMER* in comparison to currently available memory products. The only 4 gig flash drive sold by Compusa is $431.99 By comparison, the 4 gig nano plays music, shows photos, and stores data. And it packs a 14 hour battery to boot. Cost, $250. The best price for the nastiest piece of hardware from a mail order warehouse can barely compete on price and looses utterly on features.
This is disputed all the time...(more bullshit)
2: Steve Jobs himself has said on several occasions the iTMS is basically a front for selling iPods and there is little profit in the venture. Pay attention or use Google. Most importantly, know when you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
3: Math is easy. Too bad you didn't learn any. If you can read a press release, multiply, and divide, you can figure out that iTMS content is not what's filling up these devices.
It's not particularly nice looking, either, so Apple probably wouldn't want their style of name on it regardless.
Indeed, for the most part it looks as if Apple's contribution to the device was making iTunes recognise it.
(I'd like to hope that Newell actually knows all this and is just posturing in he middle of his Steam pimping and that this doesn't reflect reality in Valve's world!)
I think that sums it up right there. If it's hard to port game code it's going to slow the rate at which the Steam conveyor can continue to deliver fat sacks of cash to his wallet.
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Agreed, for those who cannot for whatever reason Blizard updates become a long trip into amature hour.
You would think they would at least provide a direct download at a reasonable bit rate if not comparable to the BT scheme. But no, you're pretty much reliant on non-blizard redistribution if you cannot get your ports open.
Why does Blizard feel it is entitled to my upstream bandwidth to service other customers?
Unprofessional.
I'm developing a game based around trashing hexus.net web servers, but Slashdot already dominates this genre. What advice do you have for new developers entering an already crowded/mature space?
Maybe I'm missing something, but the article doesn't explain why they don't simply place two cameras back to back, then use their software to splice the result and apply the correct perspective.
The "nifty" part of the software is that it works with typical video equipment and interpolates the surroundings from older video frames and some guesswork at the edges of the field of view.
All they say about it is that "it's against the laws of physics to take a 360 degree photo. That just seems odd.
It is not, they're just ill informed or have mispoke. If you have the cash you can get a 360 degree camera. The lens are typically shaped in a more convex way and point "up" essentially using the portion closer to the edge of the lens as the light gathering surface.
Having cancer is awfully expensive. If this works, it can be insanely expensive and still be a screaming deal in the long run.
In fact, regardless of what it actually costs to produce I would imagine it will be "insanely expensive" until the patent expires.
This is mostly a webvertisment/reference for deploying GFS on HP Proliant server hardware.
While you're standing around for the next 8 hours or so waiting for the thing to finish charging you can wonder where we're using our fuel cell powered devices.
All of these fuel cell researchers need to realize that if we a device doesn't already physically consume fuel, no one is likely to migrate to a device that does.
Yes, we all need to realize that because you don't understand the issue the rest of us shouldn't work on a solution.
How dumb can these incredibly smart people be!
Oh just fuck off now. You should have been a blowjob.
For me, when I first heard about E-books I immediately thought "no cost of shipping, no middleman warehouse distribution, no physical cost to print/bind, no brick and mortar store paying electricity, rent, stocking risky books at a premium, they'll be dirt cheap!" I was wrong.
That's because the publisher looked at those exact same issues and said "I'll be rich"!
Are you crazy, by the time they implement those features there will only be about 49.5 million left for marketing! It's going to take way more than that to get everyone to understand the difference between 7 products with the same name. ----- What will get me to upgrade? Software that only runs on Vista.
Your ignorance of context and the underlying metaphor doesn't make the comment any less interesting.
Reality check time? Here's some reality for you.
No matter how much they say they hate Microsoft they still don't like anything else well enough to switch.
People bitch about their spouse, kids, friends, and how miserable their life is. But that doesn't mean the current situation is worse than a divorce. There is no glorious rainbow, pot of gold, or greener grass. If there were, they wouldn't be complaining.
Headphones with active noise canceling will help with that. Where I used to keep the volume at 75% or more, I now rarely bump it above 30%.
Having problems in IT may not be 100% management's fault.
Going live with an untested system without a backup plan is solely the managements fault.
Indeed. From reading the article it looks like the people doing the talking don't really know much about anything (except spin). No matter how anyone wants to skew blame, the administration decided to start the year without adequate testing, or a backup plan. "In fact, through our research the last few days, we have found an advisory on the Apache website that states, 'Please note that at this time, Windows support is entirely experimental and is recommended only for experienced users." Apparently by "advisory" he means the documentation and release notes on the download page under the headding "IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APACHE USERS".
Your average user should not be doing that. The average user doesn't care.
Agreed, windows ships with such a lousy synth and samples it's near impossible for midi files to sound anything like music. There are pleanty of freely available samples (ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/awe32/soundfonts/8Re alGS20.zip - should help considerably) and you can find something that will improve the experience considerably.
No, this is the only existing issue on Cisco brand routers.
The defcon attack isn't scheduled to exist until the patch is published in February.
This site perhaps?
You can always bring one of Creative's players to work.
Paint it orange.
A little above break even.
Another more current quote from this years 2nd quarter conference call at Apple's Site In short, it is revealed in the Q and A that iTMS profits are (drumroll please)... A little above break even.
From FastCompany
Meanwhile, the $15 million or so that iTunes has generated in revenue thus far is statistically meaningless even for Apple. Case closed, indeed.
If a comment gets positively moderated (+5 no less) maybe you should read it again. Perhaps a perusal of the parent might be in order. Spend a few minutes thinking about why you might be mistaken.
For instance, when I read your post my first thought was "hey, maybe I missed something". Unfortunately upon even modest scrutiny your arguments are not only wrong, they are non sensical in the context of the discussion.
Since I'm feeling magnanimous toward your dumbass self, I'll spell it out.
1: The new iPod nano offers exceptional *VALUE* to the *CONSUMER* in comparison to currently available memory products.
The only 4 gig flash drive sold by Compusa is $431.99
By comparison, the 4 gig nano plays music, shows photos, and stores data. And it packs a 14 hour battery to boot. Cost, $250.
The best price for the nastiest piece of hardware from a mail order warehouse can barely compete on price and looses utterly on features.
This is disputed all the time...(more bullshit)
2: Steve Jobs himself has said on several occasions the iTMS is basically a front for selling iPods and there is little profit in the venture. Pay attention or use Google. Most importantly, know when you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
3: Math is easy. Too bad you didn't learn any. If you can read a press release, multiply, and divide, you can figure out that iTMS content is not what's filling up these devices.
In short you are an ignoramus with a big mouth.
It's not particularly nice looking, either, so Apple probably wouldn't want their style of name on it regardless. Indeed, for the most part it looks as if Apple's contribution to the device was making iTunes recognise it.
Well Mr. Dumbass thank you for pointing out the obvious for us while missing the point of the post.
I think that sums it up right there. If it's hard to port game code it's going to slow the rate at which the Steam conveyor can continue to deliver fat sacks of cash to his wallet.