I'm still not over why people would use Crysis as an example of a game that's beyond its time. I've watched it be played (granted, not on the highest spec'd system) and have seen screenshots (from some of the highest spec'd systems), and it just seems like it's horribly optimized--if at all.
I can pull out Call of Duty 4 on my 7900GT and play it with almost everything max'd and it looks beautiful, with AA. I'd have trouble achieving the same performance from Crysis, so it gets all sorts of jagged edges and what not.
Is this a problem of modern software or modern hardware? I'd say that it's Crysis's problem, not my hardware. It's relatively easy to code a game that will deliver subpar FPSes on any card; it's much harder to code a game that'll look good and play well on a graphics card solution released in the past few years.
In Apple's case, I can use another player (assuming I don't mind losing iTMS, which was crippled by the record industry). In MS's case, I have to use another OS, which isn't always pratical.
was continue bashing nokia? or you thing touch sensitivity and a a higher res is a bad thing?
Uhm, notice how the higher res comes with a larger screen? iPhone: 163 ppi. n95: 154 ppi.
iPhone still wins, but your higher res argument pales in comparison to the following: GPS, 3G/UMTS, 5mp camera, a lighter/more compact phone, microSD-compatible, 3d graphics acceleration, longer talk time, and unlocked status (at least here; in Singapore, your iPhones are still locked, while you can buy a n95 in a perfectly fine, unlocked condition). Oh, and you can use your n95 as a Bluetooth modem for your laptop. Let's see the iPhone do that (with the current firmware).
I'm not quite sure if you just stopped reading after "Shall we continue," but the n95 has far more happy features than the iPhone. The GP poster was right; RDF it is.
Oh, and about the touch sensitivity thing? The n95 has an actual keypad. Some people need to actually be able to type quickly, y'know?
(And, no, I don't have either phone. I actually have a touch-screen HTC Hermes, with qwerty keyboard. For me, a tactile keyboard is about 400x more useful than the omg!-touch-shiny-factor, but to each their own.)
If the bee is more than an tiny distance from the phone, the bee would never notice anything, because the energy levels would be so low.
Someone seems to be discounting the fact that huge transmitting towers exist as well. Which, of course, are often not placed directly in the middle of prime real-estate / urban areas, but close enough to produce a high-quality signal - i.e. perhaps where these pollinating bees exist.
Full VGA screen, Wi-fi 802.11b, 3g (UMTS), GSM+GPRS, Bluetooth, 520mhz Bulverde XScale. However, it is Windows Mobile 5... but with the above link, there is a project to port Linux to it. Oh, and it's also got the keyboard in a Tablet PC-esque convertible style.
The rouge state of Taiwan is part of Peoples Republic of CHINA. Do not lend support and credibility to Taiwan seperatists backed by US thugs by refering to it as Taiwan. Taiwan is Chinese soil.
Hehe. So... how should we refer to it as? The Republic of China? I believe the PRC refers to it as the Taiwanese province...
Note that almost all Linux phones are shipped in Asia -- I have never seen a Linux phone for sale in the United States, but plenty of Windows phones and a few Symbian ones.
The Motorola Ming ships outside of Asia as the Motorola A1200. You might've seen that around.
I still want to set up my Asterisk server with speech recognition, though, so that people can either dial or say the extension they want. It'd also be neat to pick up the phone, say "Call Mom" to the dial tone and have it call my aunt for me.
You should try a Microsoft Pocket PC Phone with Voice Command, then. It seems that voice-to-speech synthesis is much harder than if you have a set of expected voice commands to work with already. In a good environment, I can almost always get the right result with "call foo", "open foo-application", or "play foo-song". When problems crop up, it's generally because living in Asia causes one to have to work with some pretty funky names.
Or you could keep it simple and keep their trademarked brand names separate!
Sure, it's an Merge & Acquisition, since ATi gets a bit of AMD, but why is it necessary to create new arbitrarily ordered acronyms for comedic effect on Slashdot? Oh. Right.
The Republic of China is free and democratic (presumably; the last election was somewhat contested and the current president has an approval rate of about 6%)...
The People's Republic of China (the [formerly] communist one) is the one that has the Great Firewall of China.
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Broadband is cheap in concentrated city areas of China. Think about it. If you have most of your subscribers in one very small location, typically in business districts and high-rise condominiums (we're talking about the large cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and if you want to include Hong Kong SAR), it's not hard to provide cheap broadband access.
Of course, the broadband here isn't that speedy for individual users. I'm typing this on (stolen) wifi access from an apartment in Shanghai and I can barely hit 100kBps, tops. Typically, accessing US sites is slow, with around 10kBps transfer rates. But e-mail isn't time-critical, so I'd assume that an always-on connection of any speed encourages spam as in this case.
Programming, at least in the largest international school in the world (with an American curriculum), is not introduced in computer classes except in Robotics (sparingly) and AP Computer Science in high school. We don't even have the AB program for APCS, which uses Java.
About 150,000 people die a day. 1 in 10,000 of the world's population is about 600,000, give or take a couple thousand.
Even if my estimates are a bit off, it's less than a week for that to happen. Much less 5 years. Certain diseases also take a large percentage of those 150,000 people dying a day... And we don't care or notice at all (or much).
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I'm still not over why people would use Crysis as an example of a game that's beyond its time. I've watched it be played (granted, not on the highest spec'd system) and have seen screenshots (from some of the highest spec'd systems), and it just seems like it's horribly optimized--if at all.
I can pull out Call of Duty 4 on my 7900GT and play it with almost everything max'd and it looks beautiful, with AA. I'd have trouble achieving the same performance from Crysis, so it gets all sorts of jagged edges and what not.
Is this a problem of modern software or modern hardware? I'd say that it's Crysis's problem, not my hardware. It's relatively easy to code a game that will deliver subpar FPSes on any card; it's much harder to code a game that'll look good and play well on a graphics card solution released in the past few years.
My Vista tablet runs at less than 60 watts. That's a full-fledged Core 2 Duo, 3 gigabytes of RAM, Intel GMA X3100 (yes, a joke, but it runs Aero).
My XP computer, which I migrated from, runs at 550 watts.
A quick search tells me that it's entirely likely that many others will go my way. Power efficiency will probably be advancing faster than Vista; thank God.
Bravo for your calculations, though; I wouldn't've thought of the consequences of Vista in that-a-way.
Don't use Verizon!
At the risk of being wrong, may I show you this refuting comment: "Quicktime is in fact Mac OS's Audio and Video subsystem".
That is, if you believe everything on
The ThinkPad, de facto, is term used by Lenovo to demarcate their business-class machines. "Home" laptops are sold purely under the Lenovo brand.
Hope that helps; cheers.
Uhm, notice how the higher res comes with a larger screen? iPhone: 163 ppi. n95: 154 ppi.
iPhone still wins, but your higher res argument pales in comparison to the following: GPS, 3G/UMTS, 5mp camera, a lighter/more compact phone, microSD-compatible, 3d graphics acceleration, longer talk time, and unlocked status (at least here; in Singapore, your iPhones are still locked, while you can buy a n95 in a perfectly fine, unlocked condition). Oh, and you can use your n95 as a Bluetooth modem for your laptop. Let's see the iPhone do that (with the current firmware).
I'm not quite sure if you just stopped reading after "Shall we continue," but the n95 has far more happy features than the iPhone. The GP poster was right; RDF it is.
Oh, and about the touch sensitivity thing? The n95 has an actual keypad. Some people need to actually be able to type quickly, y'know?
(And, no, I don't have either phone. I actually have a touch-screen HTC Hermes, with qwerty keyboard. For me, a tactile keyboard is about 400x more useful than the omg!-touch-shiny-factor, but to each their own.)
Someone seems to be discounting the fact that huge transmitting towers exist as well. Which, of course, are often not placed directly in the middle of prime real-estate / urban areas, but close enough to produce a high-quality signal - i.e. perhaps where these pollinating bees exist.
No kidding... How about "pixels"?
HTC Universal is the closest so far. Look it up at http://xda-developers.com/
Full VGA screen, Wi-fi 802.11b, 3g (UMTS), GSM+GPRS, Bluetooth, 520mhz Bulverde XScale. However, it is Windows Mobile 5... but with the above link, there is a project to port Linux to it. Oh, and it's also got the keyboard in a Tablet PC-esque convertible style.
The rouge state of Taiwan is part of Peoples Republic of CHINA. Do not lend support and credibility to Taiwan seperatists backed by US thugs by refering to it as Taiwan. Taiwan is Chinese soil.
Hehe. So... how should we refer to it as? The Republic of China? I believe the PRC refers to it as the Taiwanese province...
Note that almost all Linux phones are shipped in Asia -- I have never seen a Linux phone for sale in the United States, but plenty of Windows phones and a few Symbian ones.
The Motorola Ming ships outside of Asia as the Motorola A1200. You might've seen that around.
I still want to set up my Asterisk server with speech recognition, though, so that people can either dial or say the extension they want. It'd also be neat to pick up the phone, say "Call Mom" to the dial tone and have it call my aunt for me.
You should try a Microsoft Pocket PC Phone with Voice Command, then. It seems that voice-to-speech synthesis is much harder than if you have a set of expected voice commands to work with already. In a good environment, I can almost always get the right result with "call foo", "open foo-application", or "play foo-song". When problems crop up, it's generally because living in Asia causes one to have to work with some pretty funky names.
An evolutionary development of the Newton platform could easily beat almost any other device on the market today, though.
Oh noes! How many Newtons will have to die for the perfect Newton to be complete? Think of the children! (:
Or you could keep it simple and keep their trademarked brand names separate!
Sure, it's an Merge & Acquisition, since ATi gets a bit of AMD, but why is it necessary to create new arbitrarily ordered acronyms for comedic effect on Slashdot? Oh. Right.
Microsoft Office Bug #84782642 >> Not critical
Spell-check does not notice misspelled words.
The Republic of China is free and democratic (presumably; the last election was somewhat contested and the current president has an approval rate of about 6%)...
The People's Republic of China (the [formerly] communist one) is the one that has the Great Firewall of China.
Broadband is cheap in concentrated city areas of China. Think about it. If you have most of your subscribers in one very small location, typically in business districts and high-rise condominiums (we're talking about the large cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and if you want to include Hong Kong SAR), it's not hard to provide cheap broadband access.
Of course, the broadband here isn't that speedy for individual users. I'm typing this on (stolen) wifi access from an apartment in Shanghai and I can barely hit 100kBps, tops. Typically, accessing US sites is slow, with around 10kBps transfer rates. But e-mail isn't time-critical, so I'd assume that an always-on connection of any speed encourages spam as in this case.
and there is never a shortage of weather!
There is, however, a shortage of space on which to place those alternative energy sources...
Of course, don't take my word for it... take the word of my webserver
8 more days to 500! woo! (FreeBSD4.11)
Everyone! Commence ddos attack!
Programming, at least in the largest international school in the world (with an American curriculum), is not introduced in computer classes except in Robotics (sparingly) and AP Computer Science in high school. We don't even have the AB program for APCS, which uses Java.
You'll end up with cycling passwords of "hello" and "password" every three weeks.
1 in 10,000 people, mmm?
About 150,000 people die a day. 1 in 10,000 of the world's population is about 600,000, give or take a couple thousand.
Even if my estimates are a bit off, it's less than a week for that to happen. Much less 5 years. Certain diseases also take a large percentage of those 150,000 people dying a day... And we don't care or notice at all (or much).
The lesson is to do as they did. Duh. What else would you learn in business school?
It's a joke.
Through my rather comprehensive sources, I have found that one of these laptops will be able to run Duke Nukem Forever quite nicely.
;)
Additionally, the AtomChip laptops are one of Duke Nukem Forever's launch partners. I look forward to getting my hands on one of these puppies.
The jobs that someone could leave school at 16 and be trained to do by their employer tend to be the ones that can't be offshored.
Well, then, to become an IT technician job trainer I go!