Re:Wikipedia article on the number is down too.
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I wish I had mod points today, that's probably the most lucid post on the subject as of yet. The rest are all just luggage combination jokes or alternate encodings. So you'll have to settle for a +1 Insightful in my reply. *tips hat*
I read Digg on a daily basis first thing in the morning and again at lunch time for news stories I may not see elsewhere. I Digg, Bury, or consciously do not vote on each of the most popular stories. Sometimes, rarely, I even submit a story. So I guess the answer would be "Yes, Digg is still as revelant as it once was."
Of course I also read Fark, Slashdot, and CNN.com everyday too, so what do I know.
The one thing commercial P2P companies always seem to forget is to compensate the end user for their bandwidth. If they tracked how much you upload and "purchased" your bandwidth using store credit or something, then this might be a viable model. However, if they don't do that they'll find themselves throttled to a trickle in my house since I have better uses for the bandwidth, which I pay for, than to give it to some company which isn't even compensating me for it.
Have you even played God of War II? The difficulty modes go Mortal, Spartan, God, then Titan. Which means that unless you compare God Mode from the first to Titan mode from the second the comparison is not valid.
If you assume that the easy modes are the same difficulty and Titan is equivalent to God mode than the normal mode for 2 would be easier than 1 given a linear progression in difficulty. 2/4 2/3. It's simple math. Having beaten the second in Spartan mode and not being able to make it past the first set of enemies in Titan mode I was merely asking if perhaps he was jumping the gun in his conclusions.
It is easier, but GoW didn't have an ultra-hard titan mode either. Its not really fair to compare the difficulty unless you're on the hardest setting of both games. GoW - 3 difficulty levels : GoW II - 4 difficulty levels.
Re:Securing a wireless router and using the NDS...
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I believe with openwrt you can put 2 vlans on the wireless interface. On the first vlan you would configure WEP and the second WPA. Thats the nice thing about a linux router, you can set it up however you want.
I don't think you would have much luck using the manufacturer firmware for the project.
I recently used this on my last job for max stack depth analysis. A good tool I must say, fairly cheap as well for a corporate budget. The user interface is a bit rough, not very pretty, but I hear its improved a lot over the years. I think I would insist of getting a WebEx demo or something since I doubt I even touched 2% of the program's features.
I too have worked as a contractor doing avionics work. What really surprises me in all of this is that there was no hardware watchdog, or way to reset the box on the way back. I used to work on multi-function displays, ADIs, HSIs, TCAS, etc... The adage goes that no information is better than old information so after going blank, it should have come back up in less than a minute. The fact that the failure state entered by crossing the dateline was persistent after a reboot is criminal negligence, these are people's lives here. Pilots have breakers for everything, they would have cut power and restored it after exhausting all other options, the fact it still was not operational says a lot, none of it good.
I just played it for the first time on my friends 72" plasma, and the cursor was much more accurate than I'm used to (of course my tv is only a 28" LCD so it could have been that). I've played the new monkey ball too, and I thought the controls for that were pretty rough, but maybe if I play more I'll get better. I sucked at red steel, but thats mostly because I kept moving both hands at the same time when you need to gesture with them independently. Maybe I'm overconfident, but I think when I master the controls it'll go pretty smooth.
According to the article Red Steel is based on the Unreal 2 engine. And the game play on that is great. I was a little worried about the accuracy of the WiiMote, but after playing the game it proved to be much more accurate than other games, meaning that the driver for WiiMote input used by Red Steel is much more sophisticated than the other games and not a hardware problem as I had originally feared, but I digress.
There was no subsidy, but there was a considerable amount spent by Cingular updating their software to support things like the visual voicemail and other new and innovative features that you can only get with the iPhone. The 2 yr contracts will help them recoup the development costs for this effort.
If you google those rural facilities, say 'Google Ann Arbor' a google jobs link is the first hit. When you click on the job descriptions you'll notice they are looking for people to scan books, an IT staff for infrastructure needs, and HR for staffing.
I bet the bandwidth they're leasing is for hosting this among many of their other possibly unannounced projects. Which will have their own facility. Now imagine if they had some sort of cache synchronization routine between these facilities. And each one were devoted to cataloging the web servers hosted by that and neighboring ISPs, you think that might improve the performace of their search engine? Sorry, while I doubt all of Google's motivations are benign, they are supposed to make money after all, I seriously doubt they are planning to create a bandwidth shortage.
The parent poster is hardly a troll, knowing many homosexuals, I think this is accurate, considering most are style conscious and/or artists, MacOS fits their needs.
What I think he meant to troll with was "9 out of 10 MacOS users prefer homosexuals," there, fixed it for you.
This is great news for Linux, but is there even an end in sight for this case? I know if its not done right it could unleash years of appeals as well. Any Lawyers in the house have any idea when this case will wrap up?
Its my understanding that Stargate: Atlantis is not ending. Additionally, these movies are allegedly going to launch a new Earth based Stargate series as well, it just won't be Stargate: SG1 anymore.
Can someone please post the link to where I buy the unlocking software? After spending $3K on my C2D MacBook Pro, you really think I care about paying another $5?
Sure it could have been a penny, but that may have been construed as trying to sell the feature for less than market value. I'm not an accountant, but I know that you can get in trouble for stock options granted at less than estimated market value for a private (unlisted) company, therefore you have the pick the lowest number that can be seen as a reasonable value. I was lucky to get my shares at $0.02 a piece since when I was granted the options the startup company I started working at had yet to make their first sale. A year later they had to grant options at $0.50 and up.
In all honesty $5 is cheap for a draft-N card. Consider the alternative of buying a PCMCIA Wireless N card and tell me its not a deal?
I doubt that. Toshiba has made a 3 layer HD DVD disc. The current Blu Ray discs are only 2 layers. From what I heard Toshiba has designed discs of both formats at 10 Layers, considering that you get more data per layer of a Blu Ray disc it will still be bigger. Plus they have already made a 6 layer Blu Ray disc with a capacity of 200 GB. And we all know 51 is much less than 200. If it were an apples to apples comparison, it may have been a nail in Blu Ray's coffin. However, when you compare the largest Blu Ray disc produced, to the largest HD DVD disc produced, Blu Ray still has a clear advantage in capacity.
I think they are intentional omissions at this point. Better to feature freeze the Gen 1 iPhone until the code base and schematics mature a little than try to give you everything with their first venture into the market.
I think the real innovation they're providing is coming from tighter integration with their partners in the industry, Cingular, Yahoo, and Google, not from the tech specs of the phone itself. I expect the Gen 2 iPhone will have more features in line with a state of the art device.
I think Apple is showing a lot of wisdom by keeping this initial device simpler, even if it is a little underpowered for this crowd since it will prevent a lot of bad press about instability. That said, I'm waiting for the Gen 2 iPhone before I even consider buying one.
You're funny. I'd like to know where you heard they had a drop in traffic after all that publicity (care to cite some sources)? Everything I remember reading about it last year said they had a three-fold surge in traffic.
That car looks awesome. I wonder how it handles or if it will ever hit a showroom floor. Also doesn't this allow Ford to make SUV's which guzzle more gas even if it never makes it to mass production? Since this will raise the average mpg of their entire fleet.
Ok, I'll bite. However I think stores may start revising their return policies for these hot items once they flood back onto their shelves after the Christmas season is over and everyone who wasn't able to sell their's on ebay returns it. The stores know that they lose potential holiday sales because of this, scalper's aren't returning unsold tickets after the event.
People who were willing to buy one as a gift for a relative, now will not be buying it at all and total sales will drop. Whether or not they will sell once returned remains to be seen. The Wii is going to be hard to come by for a while yet, but I predict seeing a PS3 on the shelf will not be an uncommon occurrence after the new year.
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I wish I had mod points today, that's probably the most lucid post on the subject as of yet. The rest are all just luggage combination jokes or alternate encodings. So you'll have to settle for a +1 Insightful in my reply. *tips hat*
I read Digg on a daily basis first thing in the morning and again at lunch time for news stories I may not see elsewhere. I Digg, Bury, or consciously do not vote on each of the most popular stories. Sometimes, rarely, I even submit a story. So I guess the answer would be "Yes, Digg is still as revelant as it once was."
Of course I also read Fark, Slashdot, and CNN.com everyday too, so what do I know.
The one thing commercial P2P companies always seem to forget is to compensate the end user for their bandwidth. If they tracked how much you upload and "purchased" your bandwidth using store credit or something, then this might be a viable model. However, if they don't do that they'll find themselves throttled to a trickle in my house since I have better uses for the bandwidth, which I pay for, than to give it to some company which isn't even compensating me for it.
Have you even played God of War II? The difficulty modes go Mortal, Spartan, God, then Titan. Which means that unless you compare God Mode from the first to Titan mode from the second the comparison is not valid. If you assume that the easy modes are the same difficulty and Titan is equivalent to God mode than the normal mode for 2 would be easier than 1 given a linear progression in difficulty. 2/4 2/3. It's simple math. Having beaten the second in Spartan mode and not being able to make it past the first set of enemies in Titan mode I was merely asking if perhaps he was jumping the gun in his conclusions.
It is easier, but GoW didn't have an ultra-hard titan mode either. Its not really fair to compare the difficulty unless you're on the hardest setting of both games. GoW - 3 difficulty levels : GoW II - 4 difficulty levels.
I believe with openwrt you can put 2 vlans on the wireless interface. On the first vlan you would configure WEP and the second WPA. Thats the nice thing about a linux router, you can set it up however you want.
I don't think you would have much luck using the manufacturer firmware for the project.
I recently used this on my last job for max stack depth analysis. A good tool I must say, fairly cheap as well for a corporate budget. The user interface is a bit rough, not very pretty, but I hear its improved a lot over the years. I think I would insist of getting a WebEx demo or something since I doubt I even touched 2% of the program's features.
I too have worked as a contractor doing avionics work. What really surprises me in all of this is that there was no hardware watchdog, or way to reset the box on the way back. I used to work on multi-function displays, ADIs, HSIs, TCAS, etc... The adage goes that no information is better than old information so after going blank, it should have come back up in less than a minute. The fact that the failure state entered by crossing the dateline was persistent after a reboot is criminal negligence, these are people's lives here. Pilots have breakers for everything, they would have cut power and restored it after exhausting all other options, the fact it still was not operational says a lot, none of it good.
I just played it for the first time on my friends 72" plasma, and the cursor was much more accurate than I'm used to (of course my tv is only a 28" LCD so it could have been that). I've played the new monkey ball too, and I thought the controls for that were pretty rough, but maybe if I play more I'll get better. I sucked at red steel, but thats mostly because I kept moving both hands at the same time when you need to gesture with them independently. Maybe I'm overconfident, but I think when I master the controls it'll go pretty smooth.
According to the article Red Steel is based on the Unreal 2 engine. And the game play on that is great. I was a little worried about the accuracy of the WiiMote, but after playing the game it proved to be much more accurate than other games, meaning that the driver for WiiMote input used by Red Steel is much more sophisticated than the other games and not a hardware problem as I had originally feared, but I digress.
There was no subsidy, but there was a considerable amount spent by Cingular updating their software to support things like the visual voicemail and other new and innovative features that you can only get with the iPhone. The 2 yr contracts will help them recoup the development costs for this effort.
If you google those rural facilities, say 'Google Ann Arbor' a google jobs link is the first hit. When you click on the job descriptions you'll notice they are looking for people to scan books, an IT staff for infrastructure needs, and HR for staffing.
I bet the bandwidth they're leasing is for hosting this among many of their other possibly unannounced projects. Which will have their own facility. Now imagine if they had some sort of cache synchronization routine between these facilities. And each one were devoted to cataloging the web servers hosted by that and neighboring ISPs, you think that might improve the performace of their search engine? Sorry, while I doubt all of Google's motivations are benign, they are supposed to make money after all, I seriously doubt they are planning to create a bandwidth shortage.
The parent poster is hardly a troll, knowing many homosexuals, I think this is accurate, considering most are style conscious and/or artists, MacOS fits their needs.
What I think he meant to troll with was "9 out of 10 MacOS users prefer homosexuals," there, fixed it for you.
(This is gonna kill my karma)
This is great news for Linux, but is there even an end in sight for this case? I know if its not done right it could unleash years of appeals as well. Any Lawyers in the house have any idea when this case will wrap up?
Its my understanding that Stargate: Atlantis is not ending. Additionally, these movies are allegedly going to launch a new Earth based Stargate series as well, it just won't be Stargate: SG1 anymore.
Yeah, because shipping broken drivers gets much better press than charging for features not originally advertised.
Can someone please post the link to where I buy the unlocking software? After spending $3K on my C2D MacBook Pro, you really think I care about paying another $5?
Sure it could have been a penny, but that may have been construed as trying to sell the feature for less than market value. I'm not an accountant, but I know that you can get in trouble for stock options granted at less than estimated market value for a private (unlisted) company, therefore you have the pick the lowest number that can be seen as a reasonable value. I was lucky to get my shares at $0.02 a piece since when I was granted the options the startup company I started working at had yet to make their first sale. A year later they had to grant options at $0.50 and up.
In all honesty $5 is cheap for a draft-N card. Consider the alternative of buying a PCMCIA Wireless N card and tell me its not a deal?
*lowers voice to whisper* Those are display boxes, they don't actually have a console inside of them.
Oops, make that an 8 Layer Blu Ray Disc, at 25 GB per Layer.
I doubt that. Toshiba has made a 3 layer HD DVD disc. The current Blu Ray discs are only 2 layers. From what I heard Toshiba has designed discs of both formats at 10 Layers, considering that you get more data per layer of a Blu Ray disc it will still be bigger. Plus they have already made a 6 layer Blu Ray disc with a capacity of 200 GB. And we all know 51 is much less than 200. If it were an apples to apples comparison, it may have been a nail in Blu Ray's coffin. However, when you compare the largest Blu Ray disc produced, to the largest HD DVD disc produced, Blu Ray still has a clear advantage in capacity.
I think they are intentional omissions at this point. Better to feature freeze the Gen 1 iPhone until the code base and schematics mature a little than try to give you everything with their first venture into the market.
I think the real innovation they're providing is coming from tighter integration with their partners in the industry, Cingular, Yahoo, and Google, not from the tech specs of the phone itself. I expect the Gen 2 iPhone will have more features in line with a state of the art device.
I think Apple is showing a lot of wisdom by keeping this initial device simpler, even if it is a little underpowered for this crowd since it will prevent a lot of bad press about instability. That said, I'm waiting for the Gen 2 iPhone before I even consider buying one.
You're funny. I'd like to know where you heard they had a drop in traffic after all that publicity (care to cite some sources)? Everything I remember reading about it last year said they had a three-fold surge in traffic.
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That car looks awesome. I wonder how it handles or if it will ever hit a showroom floor. Also doesn't this allow Ford to make SUV's which guzzle more gas even if it never makes it to mass production? Since this will raise the average mpg of their entire fleet.
Ok, I'll bite. However I think stores may start revising their return policies for these hot items once they flood back onto their shelves after the Christmas season is over and everyone who wasn't able to sell their's on ebay returns it. The stores know that they lose potential holiday sales because of this, scalper's aren't returning unsold tickets after the event. People who were willing to buy one as a gift for a relative, now will not be buying it at all and total sales will drop. Whether or not they will sell once returned remains to be seen. The Wii is going to be hard to come by for a while yet, but I predict seeing a PS3 on the shelf will not be an uncommon occurrence after the new year.
It may cheer you up to go watch PS3 auctions end below MSRP with no reserve set. I know that just made my day a little brighter.