I'm fairly certain that I have read many times over the years that accidents at home create more costs for insurance companies than any other activity. That is, people are more likely to fall down their stairs than having a car or mountaineering accident. In fact, whenever I read/heard about this it was in the context of insurance companies' campaigns to reduce home risks, like "don't stack a chair onto a table to reach to the ceiling."
Dunno if there is a correlation between home accidents and weight, though.
Iwata is admitting that the Wii isn't as powerful as it should be
There is no "admitting". He is just repeating what he has said all along: that it makes no sense to deck out a game console with HD and all kinds of gadgets when the end result costs $600. That, and that Nintendo cannot (and actually has no intention to) subsidize such a system in the way that Microsoft (and Sony to a smaller extent) can and is willing to do.
That is, Nintendo will release a next-generation system when the technological advances allow a significant jump in gameplay improvement at a ca. $249 price point. Makes sense to me.
There certainly is an objective difference between having most of the great movies of human history available on one format, compared to having access to maybe most of the major hollywood releases of two years on the other.
Oh, but I didn't even comment on the quality difference at all. I just said that the fact that a large percentage of major movie releases of the last 6 months came out in HD does not constitute a compelling buying argument for me. I just consider most of those movies not worth owning, as I would not watch them repeatedly. Heck, most are painful to watch once, even in a good movie theater.
Dude, did something eat your BR discs? Don't shit your pants because I have no interest buying any of these movies. You might also consider expanding your world view. Your method to deduce social and economical status from a guy's HD buying preferences is missing a few variables.
It's hard to say what a recording "should sound like" since you were rarely there. So I'd recommend "go with the one that sounds best to you". And you forgot to mention that all speaker comparisons (all audio comparisons, really) are useless if you don't control for the same volume, since the human ear usually qualifies the louder sound as better. Oh, and you completely neglected speaker positioning, which has a huge impact. There are plenty guides out there, but IMO the best for the interested home user is this: http://www.audiophysic.de/aufstellung/index_e.html
Not true. As I said in another reply, Ubuntu does have an optional iso with updated modules. I installed 7.10 (Gutsy) RC1 today, and the install menu offers to include these updates. I'm sure 6.06 (Dapper) is the same, even though I am unable to find the download link.
Gosh, get off my case everyone!;) Contrary to what you all (directed at the other replies too) seem to assume, I'm obviously not saying that the lack of photos is evidence that these things exist and were there, actually I doubt it. I was just opposed to the cocksure way the OP seemed to imply that the lack of photos is proof that they don't.
It's nice that you linked to the photo, but I don't really care about yet another example that was shot in conditions that have nothing whatsoever in common with the conditions on a rally, and EOS 350 with a 75 - 300 mm zoom is a loooooooong way from the phone camera the OP talked about.
Finally, I don't know which kind of rally this was, but I know that a long time ago I was at a rally during the course of which a police car drove over a girl 3 times (forward - backward - forward) before driving away with screeching tyres. I stood maybe 5 m away. This was before cameras were everywhere, but the rally was high-profile and there was a whole lot of journalists and photographers there. When the girl sued, not a single photograph could be found. So, please.
Yeah, I overlooked that. Though for Ubuntu 6.06 there is an optional iso with updated drivers that accompanies the install CD. I'd like to provide the link but it is too well hidden or I'm too stupid.
Do I have to point out that (a) you shouldn't take these things so literally, the blurb said that the bots were the size of dragonflies, not that they behaved like them in every detail to make catching them easier - I didn't think I had to spell it out; (b) "on a rally" is not the same as "at a mountain lake" - it's more hectic and so far nobody actually planned on having to make photos of flying spy bots.
Many types of tear gas and non-lethal ballistics have been tested on our own people
Same with chemical weapons tested on US soldiers during the cold war. And with tests of nuclear weapons.I wonder what drugs they feed the US population that makes so many people forget these well-publicized events.
Exactly. It did download SP2 for me, but it was funny, in a way, to watch the add/remove software application. First it would download patches after patches, and the list in add/remove grew longer and longer. After some rebooting it found and downloaded SP2, and after installing it, the add/remove list was short because it had removed all those patches again. I mean, wtf?
That's patently not true, or only true on very standards-compliant machines. For example, the driver to work around a laptop's usually broken ACPI implementation is with high likelihood not on the Windows CD. So are other laptop drivers.
And even if a Windows installation is done in 60 minutes, what can you do after that? Write in Notepad, i guess. To install all the applications and assorted crap like codecs that a general user will need usually takes a few more hours. In contrast, an Ubuntu installation is also done in 60 minutes tops, but is then ready to go with all applications for general usage (and codecs will be downloaded on demand, unlike Windows, *cough* Divx *cough*).
Of course, only when your Windows CD is old do you understand how crappy Windows is. I recently had the honor to install Win XP Pro SP1, and boy was that annoying. Of course there are many downloads with such an old release, a linux distro would not be fundamentally different (though it seems to me that for the amount of patches Windows downloaded, it should have included apps too, like a distro does). But I assure you that a linux distro would not reboot 20 times in the process. Boot, log in, Windows Update finds patches. Dl, install. Reboot. Login, it finds more patches. Dl, install, reboot, login. It finds more patches, and so on and so on. Why the fuck can't it download everything at once?
Are you serious? windows is such a bitch to troubleshoot that nobody even tries anymore. Everyone with a clue just reimages when it inevitably starts to act up, home users and corporate IT departments alike. In Linux distros I have wonderful logging by the kernel and the apps, and I can run the apps from the cmd line where they will spit out lots of useful info, and often even have a --debug or --verbose switch. (Not even counting that if that doesn't help, I can recompile with debug symbols and just attach a debugger.)
Windows, in contrast, is so obfuscated that often you cannot even find out what is wrong in reasonable time (i.e., faster than a reimage). The Event Viewer in the computer management app is a sick joke.
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I'm fairly certain that I have read many times over the years that accidents at home create more costs for insurance companies than any other activity. That is, people are more likely to fall down their stairs than having a car or mountaineering accident. In fact, whenever I read/heard about this it was in the context of insurance companies' campaigns to reduce home risks, like "don't stack a chair onto a table to reach to the ceiling."
Dunno if there is a correlation between home accidents and weight, though.
Not far off:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
You have no clue about the music business. Try again
Or might it be that more CPU cycles does not equate more gameplay fun? The horror!
Iwata is admitting that the Wii isn't as powerful as it should be
There is no "admitting". He is just repeating what he has said all along: that it makes no sense to deck out a game console with HD and all kinds of gadgets when the end result costs $600. That, and that Nintendo cannot (and actually has no intention to) subsidize such a system in the way that Microsoft (and Sony to a smaller extent) can and is willing to do.
That is, Nintendo will release a next-generation system when the technological advances allow a significant jump in gameplay improvement at a ca. $249 price point. Makes sense to me.
There certainly is an objective difference between having most of the great movies of human history available on one format, compared to having access to maybe most of the major hollywood releases of two years on the other.
Oh, but I didn't even comment on the quality difference at all. I just said that the fact that a large percentage of major movie releases of the last 6 months came out in HD does not constitute a compelling buying argument for me. I just consider most of those movies not worth owning, as I would not watch them repeatedly. Heck, most are painful to watch once, even in a good movie theater.
Dude, did something eat your BR discs? Don't shit your pants because I have no interest buying any of these movies. You might also consider expanding your world view. Your method to deduce social and economical status from a guy's HD buying preferences is missing a few variables.
very major studio release in the last 5 or 6 months is coming out on HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or both
So that's what, three movies worth watching, maybe one worth buying?
Actually I wanted to add to my reply, "thanks for an otherwise great post", but I botched it. So, thanks :)
It's hard to say what a recording "should sound like" since you were rarely there. So I'd recommend "go with the one that sounds best to you". And you forgot to mention that all speaker comparisons (all audio comparisons, really) are useless if you don't control for the same volume, since the human ear usually qualifies the louder sound as better. Oh, and you completely neglected speaker positioning, which has a huge impact. There are plenty guides out there, but IMO the best for the interested home user is this: http://www.audiophysic.de/aufstellung/index_e.html
next time you apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, or emerge world, or whatever mechanism you use, you're pwned
How do you plan to sign the packages with a valid key?
http://www.cowonglobal.com/
Not true. As I said in another reply, Ubuntu does have an optional iso with updated modules. I installed 7.10 (Gutsy) RC1 today, and the install menu offers to include these updates. I'm sure 6.06 (Dapper) is the same, even though I am unable to find the download link.
Gosh, get off my case everyone! ;) Contrary to what you all (directed at the other replies too) seem to assume, I'm obviously not saying that the lack of photos is evidence that these things exist and were there, actually I doubt it. I was just opposed to the cocksure way the OP seemed to imply that the lack of photos is proof that they don't.
It's nice that you linked to the photo, but I don't really care about yet another example that was shot in conditions that have nothing whatsoever in common with the conditions on a rally, and EOS 350 with a 75 - 300 mm zoom is a loooooooong way from the phone camera the OP talked about.
Finally, I don't know which kind of rally this was, but I know that a long time ago I was at a rally during the course of which a police car drove over a girl 3 times (forward - backward - forward) before driving away with screeching tyres. I stood maybe 5 m away. This was before cameras were everywhere, but the rally was high-profile and there was a whole lot of journalists and photographers there. When the girl sued, not a single photograph could be found. So, please.
Yeah, I overlooked that. Though for Ubuntu 6.06 there is an optional iso with updated drivers that accompanies the install CD. I'd like to provide the link but it is too well hidden or I'm too stupid.
Uh ... then Windows should offer to update itself, just like Ubuntu does. Heh.
Do I have to point out that (a) you shouldn't take these things so literally, the blurb said that the bots were the size of dragonflies, not that they behaved like them in every detail to make catching them easier - I didn't think I had to spell it out; (b) "on a rally" is not the same as "at a mountain lake" - it's more hectic and so far nobody actually planned on having to make photos of flying spy bots.
Somehow, you know, these photographs don't look like they were hip shots on a rally.
Many types of tear gas and non-lethal ballistics have been tested on our own people
Same with chemical weapons tested on US soldiers during the cold war. And with tests of nuclear weapons.I wonder what drugs they feed the US population that makes so many people forget these well-publicized events.
There really is no more 'too bad nobody had a camera'.
Have you ever tried to take a picture of a dragonfly, in flight, with the camera on your mobile?
I work faster when I'm really root. I'll just use a strong password.
Faster to trash your machine, yeah.
Exactly. It did download SP2 for me, but it was funny, in a way, to watch the add/remove software application. First it would download patches after patches, and the list in add/remove grew longer and longer. After some rebooting it found and downloaded SP2, and after installing it, the add/remove list was short because it had removed all those patches again. I mean, wtf?
That's patently not true, or only true on very standards-compliant machines. For example, the driver to work around a laptop's usually broken ACPI implementation is with high likelihood not on the Windows CD. So are other laptop drivers.
And even if a Windows installation is done in 60 minutes, what can you do after that? Write in Notepad, i guess. To install all the applications and assorted crap like codecs that a general user will need usually takes a few more hours. In contrast, an Ubuntu installation is also done in 60 minutes tops, but is then ready to go with all applications for general usage (and codecs will be downloaded on demand, unlike Windows, *cough* Divx *cough*).
Of course, only when your Windows CD is old do you understand how crappy Windows is. I recently had the honor to install Win XP Pro SP1, and boy was that annoying. Of course there are many downloads with such an old release, a linux distro would not be fundamentally different (though it seems to me that for the amount of patches Windows downloaded, it should have included apps too, like a distro does). But I assure you that a linux distro would not reboot 20 times in the process. Boot, log in, Windows Update finds patches. Dl, install. Reboot. Login, it finds more patches. Dl, install, reboot, login. It finds more patches, and so on and so on. Why the fuck can't it download everything at once?
Windows is much easier to troubleshoot
Aaaaahahahahaaaaa! *wipestearsfromeyes*
Are you serious? windows is such a bitch to troubleshoot that nobody even tries anymore. Everyone with a clue just reimages when it inevitably starts to act up, home users and corporate IT departments alike. In Linux distros I have wonderful logging by the kernel and the apps, and I can run the apps from the cmd line where they will spit out lots of useful info, and often even have a --debug or --verbose switch. (Not even counting that if that doesn't help, I can recompile with debug symbols and just attach a debugger.)
Windows, in contrast, is so obfuscated that often you cannot even find out what is wrong in reasonable time (i.e., faster than a reimage). The Event Viewer in the computer management app is a sick joke.