The DS also has a built in mic. Mostly I've seen it utilized in-game such that the player has to talk or yell or blow on the mic (e.g. in the latest Zelda you blow on the mic to blow out a candle). There's also potential here to collect ambient (audio) noise from the environment and integrate that somehow into the game. Combined with the wifi sampling, and you could have a very interesting way to change the game in very populous / busy areas.
It's been a long time since I was doing hardcore HTML myself. A sibling post mentions two specific tags. And while I would probably concede that the core HTML tagset is mostly supported, they added in all kinds of quirky layout weirdness, as well as kludgy hacks to compensate for sloppy HTML coders. End result is that a lot of standard and valid HTML pages would either be totally broken or just look weird in IE, and a lot of pages that look perfectly fine in IE look like a table barfed up its lunch in Firefox and it's cousins, or Opera. This is generally a lot better than it used to me, and a lot of it was because of weirdness in their CSS and JavaScript implementations, but I used to see it often enough before CSS was in vogue.
If it hadn't been for the fact that HTML was already in use before they came along to the browser market, I'm sure they'd have long since put forth their own version of it. Um... *cough cough* You've never written a web page have you?
No no no... You don't expect "a lot more" than a gigabyte. You expect at minimum exactly one gigabyte. In the computer industry, a gigabyte is exactly 1024 megabytes, which each of which is exactly 1024 kilobytes, which in turn is exactly 1024 bytes. It doesn't matter what something "has always been" because in this context it means something different; they are domain-specific technical jargon which are well defined to be 2^30 bytes, 2^20 and so on.. So the common usage of "the SI-prefix G" really is not directly applicable. But to get to the point, if you tell someone they are getting a gigabyte and you knowingly only give then one billion bytes, then you are either incompetent or dishonest. So which is it, Seagate? Assholes or liars?
Once it's converted to a 2 CD set, it's not longer a "DVD Movie" any more than it's a "24mm Reel Movie". By saying specifically that it's a DVD movie, they are implying that there is somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 - 9 gigs of data in MPEG-2 format. I understand what you're saying, but c'mon! This was a terrible story summary.
PS 64Gbit storage? Really?? Why would you specify storage in bits, contrary to the established convention? I didn't RTFA because I have WAY too much porn to view and catalog here, so I'll just assume it's the submitter and editor who are the morons, and not the article writer or the company's press release. At first I thought it was about a new kind of flash with a super high access and transfer speed, but then I realized it was just about a not very impressive thing at all.
I would wear a suit just because I look damn good in it. Honestly, I think I would tend to trust a science or engineering professor that looked just a little off, over a straight-laced type.
I agree with this sentiment completely. I think our disagreement was a matter of mere semantics. Actually, you are saying what I myself have been saying for years, and I imagine thousands if not millions of geeks and engineers the world over have been echoing the same sentiment as well.
I personally was very disappointed when Apple switched over to x86. I understand why they did it though. It was more a business decision than a technical one. IBM couldn't deliver, so they moved to someone who could. I think as a whole the consumer has benefited, but I can't help feeling the longterm implications will not be quite so rosy. Even barring the "obsolete" portions of legacy support in modern x86-64 platforms, they are still built around that original conception of what Intel thought a microprocessor should be 30 years ago.
Apple (when it switched to PPC and hell, when it switched to Intel) and Transmetta (with their inovative processor line) have both proved that legacy support doesn't have to mean you are locked in to a particular hardware breed. If the x86 processor disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with something else engineered to be efficient from the ground up, I think we would all benefit tremendously. My understanding is that most of the x86 stuff is done with microcode now, and architecturally the modern chips are more RISC-like anyways. It's just a matter of when it happens and who will reap the benefits.
the only major differences being the BIOS APIs Actually, there's quite a bit of legacy crap in your average bios. If you ever studied assembly programming on an x86 processor, it becomes rather apparent rather quickly. I don't recall which interrupt it was, but as just one example, the original bios that IBM shipped had a bug in one of the routines. They forgot to code a final pop into the procedure, so users had to counter-intuitively manually pop the stack after the interrupt returned. But of course, they couldn't fix the problem, because then every piece of software that used this bios routine would suddenly break. Now, 30 years later, we still have to deal with this mess.
No. What is affecting the peace of the entire world at the moment is war. Ah, very astute. GP forgot that there can only be one cause for anything, ever. The environment does not affect us because... War on terr'r? Brilliant!
1) This guy is using the computer in question as a file server. 99% of what it is doing will benefit greatly from a large disk cache.
2) "this all assumes that your OS is smart enough to only load in application pages as they are used rather than loading the entire app in at launch." Wouldn't that result in a *gasp* delay?? I don't want to start up firefox and have to wait several seconds when I enter a URL because the HTTP request module isn't loaded into RAM yet.
"Things like illegally violating copyright, and hiding what we're doing and who we are?"
Um... none of those things are likely to get you thrown in prison.
The big hoo-haw is that people are seeing this as Ubuntu costing more for the same computer. The reality is that the Ubuntu system costs less, but the windows one, by grace of corporate partnerships, has a commercially subsidized upgrade package available. Make no mistake, the windows box does always cost more in every comparable configuration; you just not the one paying for it.
That's why you just remove the hard drive and slurp the relevant files onto your workstation directly. No chance of them tracking your actions that way.
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Who do you know that surfs in Oregon?..
The DS also has a built in mic. Mostly I've seen it utilized in-game such that the player has to talk or yell or blow on the mic (e.g. in the latest Zelda you blow on the mic to blow out a candle). There's also potential here to collect ambient (audio) noise from the environment and integrate that somehow into the game. Combined with the wifi sampling, and you could have a very interesting way to change the game in very populous / busy areas.
It's been a long time since I was doing hardcore HTML myself. A sibling post mentions two specific tags. And while I would probably concede that the core HTML tagset is mostly supported, they added in all kinds of quirky layout weirdness, as well as kludgy hacks to compensate for sloppy HTML coders. End result is that a lot of standard and valid HTML pages would either be totally broken or just look weird in IE, and a lot of pages that look perfectly fine in IE look like a table barfed up its lunch in Firefox and it's cousins, or Opera. This is generally a lot better than it used to me, and a lot of it was because of weirdness in their CSS and JavaScript implementations, but I used to see it often enough before CSS was in vogue.
No no no... You don't expect "a lot more" than a gigabyte. You expect at minimum exactly one gigabyte. In the computer industry, a gigabyte is exactly 1024 megabytes, which each of which is exactly 1024 kilobytes, which in turn is exactly 1024 bytes. It doesn't matter what something "has always been" because in this context it means something different; they are domain-specific technical jargon which are well defined to be 2^30 bytes, 2^20 and so on.. So the common usage of "the SI-prefix G" really is not directly applicable. But to get to the point, if you tell someone they are getting a gigabyte and you knowingly only give then one billion bytes, then you are either incompetent or dishonest. So which is it, Seagate? Assholes or liars?
Once it's converted to a 2 CD set, it's not longer a "DVD Movie" any more than it's a "24mm Reel Movie". By saying specifically that it's a DVD movie, they are implying that there is somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 - 9 gigs of data in MPEG-2 format. I understand what you're saying, but c'mon! This was a terrible story summary.
PS
64Gbit storage? Really?? Why would you specify storage in bits, contrary to the established convention? I didn't RTFA because I have WAY too much porn to view and catalog here, so I'll just assume it's the submitter and editor who are the morons, and not the article writer or the company's press release. At first I thought it was about a new kind of flash with a super high access and transfer speed, but then I realized it was just about a not very impressive thing at all.
I would wear a suit just because I look damn good in it. Honestly, I think I would tend to trust a science or engineering professor that looked just a little off, over a straight-laced type.
I agree with this sentiment completely. I think our disagreement was a matter of mere semantics. Actually, you are saying what I myself have been saying for years, and I imagine thousands if not millions of geeks and engineers the world over have been echoing the same sentiment as well.
I personally was very disappointed when Apple switched over to x86. I understand why they did it though. It was more a business decision than a technical one. IBM couldn't deliver, so they moved to someone who could. I think as a whole the consumer has benefited, but I can't help feeling the longterm implications will not be quite so rosy. Even barring the "obsolete" portions of legacy support in modern x86-64 platforms, they are still built around that original conception of what Intel thought a microprocessor should be 30 years ago.
Apple (when it switched to PPC and hell, when it switched to Intel) and Transmetta (with their inovative processor line) have both proved that legacy support doesn't have to mean you are locked in to a particular hardware breed. If the x86 processor disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with something else engineered to be efficient from the ground up, I think we would all benefit tremendously. My understanding is that most of the x86 stuff is done with microcode now, and architecturally the modern chips are more RISC-like anyways. It's just a matter of when it happens and who will reap the benefits.
That how the old saying goes in Tennessee--I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee.
If I could say "fucking insensitive cunt" at school, I would be soooo happy...
1) This guy is using the computer in question as a file server. 99% of what it is doing will benefit greatly from a large disk cache. 2) "this all assumes that your OS is smart enough to only load in application pages as they are used rather than loading the entire app in at launch." Wouldn't that result in a *gasp* delay?? I don't want to start up firefox and have to wait several seconds when I enter a URL because the HTTP request module isn't loaded into RAM yet.
Northern Minnesota, eh? I bet they are very tech-savvy.
> They're not allowed to spend more than some tiny percentage of GNP on defence
I sure wish that was a provision we had in our constitution. Here, the cap is at something like 220%.
Oh, for a second I thought we were talking about the Zune...
Actually, that's a preposition. Unless you're talking about "he won", which is preterite tense but not strictly a participle in this usage.
"Things like illegally violating copyright, and hiding what we're doing and who we are?" Um... none of those things are likely to get you thrown in prison.
"You appear to conclude that America is responsible for everything"
That would be a valid line of reasoning, except that usually it's safe to assume that America *is* respinsible.
It's not a "violation" of anything if it's all officially sanctioned. Just another way of redistributing copyrights to the people of Antigua.
>wait, which war did reagan start?
*cough* Iran-Contra *cough*
>engineers know butkus about history, sociology, language, and politics
After programming, my 2 great loves are historical socio-linguistics and writing. So much for your theory.
(And I think you mean "bupkis".)
The big hoo-haw is that people are seeing this as Ubuntu costing more for the same computer. The reality is that the Ubuntu system costs less, but the windows one, by grace of corporate partnerships, has a commercially subsidized upgrade package available. Make no mistake, the windows box does always cost more in every comparable configuration; you just not the one paying for it.
Hahahah
That is a sad commentary on a bleak world, but so beautifully put. Thank you.
That's why you just remove the hard drive and slurp the relevant files onto your workstation directly. No chance of them tracking your actions that way.