1 is solved by these autonomous cars (the old lady would not be allowed to drive), 2 sounds like a failure at parking by the minivan driver which would also be solved by an automated car parking in a better spot, 3&4 are perfect examples of why humans should not be driving as their poor eyesight and tendency toward paranoia creates imaginary problems.
2. Consoles use GPUs and CPUs the same as PCs do. There is a longer update cycle in place, but whenever each cycle ticks they adopt all the new technology that has been developed during the lifetime of a console. As such, it makes sense for the console makers to encourage such development.
They even adopt new technology inside a cycle, though it's often used to improve power efficiency and lower cost.
Hmm, I have a cheap Nokia 3120 classic and it has a forward facing VGA camera for video conversations (in addition to the higher resolution camera on the back). I thought such features were standard nowadays as this phone belongs in the cheapo category.
Indeed. Here in the EU companies bought up old coal plants in eastern europe that would have been shut down anyways due to them being uncompetitive and modernized/closed them to get carbon credits.
But AFAIK this article is not about carbon credits.;)
And we (Canada) are wasting our economy with such a high proportion of our exports being raw materials (I think it's something like 90%), instead of refining/processing them within our borders before export,
If doing so was competitive, then people would be doing it. One would assume it isn't competitive due to regulation/high costs. Therefore the most profitable (optimal) solution actually is to sell things as raw materials as the refined product could not be sold at a competitive (the correct) price.
thus creating jobs (and higher-level ones to boot).
Jobs either exist or don't, they cannot be "created". In the current regulatory (Canadian regulation, undervalued Chinese currency) and price (demand for refined product, cost of labor) environment the jobs don't exist.
And even if so, it doesn't account for the phones that don't have one or more of them.
This problem has always existed and isn't relevant. Either a software requires a piece of hardware or it doesn't, usually a user wouldn't even need a software that requires a certain kind of hardware unless they have the hardware in question.
Well the post that started this thread was pointing out that this is proof of Hollywood running out of ideas, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that this $300 movie is standard Hollywood fare. Who knows, maybe the dude will make an awesome movie with a great plot, but that is not what he got hired for (if this short movie really was the reason he got the deal).
Some of them are far too large (e.g. WC, Maraudon) and take a long time even with a max level character due to the distances involved (not to mention getting lost!). Better design of their layout would help. On the other hand SFK is very nice and I look forward to its HC version.
Like the other poster mentioned the badge system has been expanded upon since 3.2, you now get emblems in 5mans that can be used to buy items of the previous tier which means that you can pretty much start raiding the newest raid after gearing up in 5mans. Also, you don't need BIS to be able to raid, a player who knows his rotations and doesn't stand in fires will easily outdps someone who just runs around in epics with no knowledge of their class.
While your post contained interesting information, it wasn't really relevant to the grandparent (try reading more than the first line, i.e. the part where he mentions that he does not use CB anymore). I also find it amusing that you immediately categorized him as "one of the guys screwing up communications on the amateur bands". You also forgot to end your post with "get off my lawn".
The parent post would of course sound less stupid if I actually used the word lossy instead of lossless. My proofreading skills seem to have atrophied a bit due to the lack of posting on slashdot.
Audio CD's do not contain.WAV files, they contain audio in the CD-DA format. That the Audio for Windows format (.WAV) usually is used to contain uncompressed audio has no bearing on the fact that WAV files can even contain losslessly compressed audio (e.g. mp3).;)
So therefore the average users, or the people who provide the majority of votes, would never vote for DRM.
Have you tried speaking with said average users? The ones I have talked about the matter with have all been on the side of DRM/stringent copyright because "otherwise everyone will pirate and there will be no more music/movies/software". Some might even invoke the "Amiga theory", which is that Commodore died because of rampant piracy (even though it died because the Amiga was no match for consoles in the gaming front and no match for PCs on the software front).
No, in a true democracy people will get precisely what they want, which is why we are all suffering and will continue to suffer in the future due to all the nice things our predecessors wanted.
This isn't possible, as the guest OS cannot get more memory allocated to itself than has been assigned to it. Let's say you have five guest machines that "share" all their memory through this new feature. If you gain access to one of the machines and completely rewrite all the memory it has inside it, you still have only doubled the memory usage as the host os allocates the new memory for the guest os. Rewriting in the same memory multiple times will not increase memory usage any more than that as it will still be writing in the same memory area the host os allocated. Even if the attacker was able to gain access to all five machines and rewrote their memories, the host os would still only have five times as much memory usage as in the beginning (which is pretty much the way it is now without KSM).
So worry not, this should not be exploitable. *knocks on wood*
How much memory did the images use in total before the change (i.e. how big was the savings in %)?
Of course, every byte is precious as long as it doesn't affect performance, but it would be interesting to know how much more images one can expect to run on one computer.:)
Don't be ridiculous, America wasn't even discovered when elected representatives were running around in fear giving up liberties to their dictator here in Europe. This has been going back and forth for millennia and mankind is just too stupid to permanently break the cycle.
Sharding or instancing is the only possible solution to this. Less updates = lag. When you get to somewhere like Ironforge, the lag gets unbearable. If you don't display some characters, mobs would be dying for no apparent reason (perhaps even ones you attack). Players might pop in and out like Christmas lights. That just won't work.
I don't see why the lack of horsepower/bandwidth on the client's side can only be rectified through game design. Of course, a game can't use infinite amounts of bandwidth but most MMO's these days seem to be designed with 56k modems in mind...
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1 is solved by these autonomous cars (the old lady would not be allowed to drive), 2 sounds like a failure at parking by the minivan driver which would also be solved by an automated car parking in a better spot, 3&4 are perfect examples of why humans should not be driving as their poor eyesight and tendency toward paranoia creates imaginary problems.
That sounds like an effective way to kill off income from returning players.
They even adopt new technology inside a cycle, though it's often used to improve power efficiency and lower cost.
Hmm, I have a cheap Nokia 3120 classic and it has a forward facing VGA camera for video conversations (in addition to the higher resolution camera on the back). I thought such features were standard nowadays as this phone belongs in the cheapo category.
Ahem.
You're off by about 4.5 billion years unless something has changed recently.
What else would a sick person do at home other than play games and watch television? It's not like you can sleep 24/7...
Indeed. Here in the EU companies bought up old coal plants in eastern europe that would have been shut down anyways due to them being uncompetitive and modernized/closed them to get carbon credits.
;)
But AFAIK this article is not about carbon credits.
If doing so was competitive, then people would be doing it. One would assume it isn't competitive due to regulation/high costs. Therefore the most profitable (optimal) solution actually is to sell things as raw materials as the refined product could not be sold at a competitive (the correct) price.
Jobs either exist or don't, they cannot be "created". In the current regulatory (Canadian regulation, undervalued Chinese currency) and price (demand for refined product, cost of labor) environment the jobs don't exist.
This problem has always existed and isn't relevant. Either a software requires a piece of hardware or it doesn't, usually a user wouldn't even need a software that requires a certain kind of hardware unless they have the hardware in question.
Good visual effects - check
:P
Epic music - check
Illogical plot (certainly dropping a bomb would be easier than marching through Uruguay) - check
Yep, he is certainly Hollywood material.
Some would argue that FX is the only thing Hollywood is good at.
Well the post that started this thread was pointing out that this is proof of Hollywood running out of ideas, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that this $300 movie is standard Hollywood fare. Who knows, maybe the dude will make an awesome movie with a great plot, but that is not what he got hired for (if this short movie really was the reason he got the deal).
Some of them are far too large (e.g. WC, Maraudon) and take a long time even with a max level character due to the distances involved (not to mention getting lost!). Better design of their layout would help. On the other hand SFK is very nice and I look forward to its HC version.
Like the other poster mentioned the badge system has been expanded upon since 3.2, you now get emblems in 5mans that can be used to buy items of the previous tier which means that you can pretty much start raiding the newest raid after gearing up in 5mans. Also, you don't need BIS to be able to raid, a player who knows his rotations and doesn't stand in fires will easily outdps someone who just runs around in epics with no knowledge of their class.
It won't make some of the extremely long low level dungeons themselves fun though. Hopefully this is remedied in the next expansion.
While your post contained interesting information, it wasn't really relevant to the grandparent (try reading more than the first line, i.e. the part where he mentions that he does not use CB anymore). I also find it amusing that you immediately categorized him as "one of the guys screwing up communications on the amateur bands". You also forgot to end your post with "get off my lawn".
Thank you.
The parent post would of course sound less stupid if I actually used the word lossy instead of lossless. My proofreading skills seem to have atrophied a bit due to the lack of posting on slashdot.
Audio CD's do not contain .WAV files, they contain audio in the CD-DA format. That the Audio for Windows format (.WAV) usually is used to contain uncompressed audio has no bearing on the fact that WAV files can even contain losslessly compressed audio (e.g. mp3). ;)
Have you tried speaking with said average users? The ones I have talked about the matter with have all been on the side of DRM/stringent copyright because "otherwise everyone will pirate and there will be no more music/movies/software". Some might even invoke the "Amiga theory", which is that Commodore died because of rampant piracy (even though it died because the Amiga was no match for consoles in the gaming front and no match for PCs on the software front).
No, in a true democracy people will get precisely what they want, which is why we are all suffering and will continue to suffer in the future due to all the nice things our predecessors wanted.
This isn't possible, as the guest OS cannot get more memory allocated to itself than has been assigned to it. Let's say you have five guest machines that "share" all their memory through this new feature. If you gain access to one of the machines and completely rewrite all the memory it has inside it, you still have only doubled the memory usage as the host os allocates the new memory for the guest os. Rewriting in the same memory multiple times will not increase memory usage any more than that as it will still be writing in the same memory area the host os allocated. Even if the attacker was able to gain access to all five machines and rewrote their memories, the host os would still only have five times as much memory usage as in the beginning (which is pretty much the way it is now without KSM).
So worry not, this should not be exploitable. *knocks on wood*
How much memory did the images use in total before the change (i.e. how big was the savings in %)?
:)
Of course, every byte is precious as long as it doesn't affect performance, but it would be interesting to know how much more images one can expect to run on one computer.
Don't be ridiculous, America wasn't even discovered when elected representatives were running around in fear giving up liberties to their dictator here in Europe. This has been going back and forth for millennia and mankind is just too stupid to permanently break the cycle.
And you seemed credible until you dismissed his argument due to presentation.
I don't see why the lack of horsepower/bandwidth on the client's side can only be rectified through game design. Of course, a game can't use infinite amounts of bandwidth but most MMO's these days seem to be designed with 56k modems in mind...