40 year old virgin had a pretty cool scene playing Mortal Kombat for the Nintendo 64. Granted its not a newer system, but I still play the 64 all the time.
I'd NEVER charge a family member to help out... especiailly my sister. I would tell her to deal with it once she did screw it up (she's done this before)... but this is not because its a waste of time to help out. I do it to teach her a point. That you have to use common sense with computers. I do ultimately fix it for her, just to be what a big brother should be, but AFTER she's realized that she's not going to get to use myspace if she keeps doing ignorant things... By no means does this mean i will ever CHARGE her. Its un-brotherly to do something like that.
The IRS did the same thing to me. They sent a letter to me stating that something had gone wrong with my online taxes. When i got the letter, then envelope had been opened. In plain sight, right on the front of the first page was my full social security number, full name, address, and telephone number. They might as well have given them my credit card numbers and bank accounts while they're at it. I'm still furious that it was their own stupidity that did this, despite dealing with millions of taxpayers that receive the same letters.
Fundamental constants are constant only when e=mc^x where is 2. BUT, if fundamental constants aren't always constant than e=mc^x where x would be 15. Staggeringly enough cosmotologists are quite constantly requiring several levels of education in the physics demographic where the ratio of a proton's mass to that of an electron. Although electrons are relative to space/time, they have no meaning whatsoever within this post. The ratio of a persons mass to that of an electoral's is quite overwlemingly staggeringly different when compared to that of the average single white godfearing spiderfearing arachnophobe. Although Spiders are relatively small, they are enormously titanic relative to atoms and those minature beings called protons, neutrons and electroscopes.
eh, maybe i should have added the little/sarcasm at the bottom... didnt mean it to be literal... the post above me said something about how people dont read the article and dont know what virtualization means;p
maybe this means I can finally toss out the old MS OS... Lack of developement software support is my only reason for staying, despite the gaggins sensation i get everytime i have to boot windows:(
haha
Considering this new developement, it looks like AOL will make it EVEN HARDER to cancel their service.. Charging your phone company by the minute for each call you make attempting to cancel.
People like WHAT? From my experience, halo two is like halo one except LESS FUCKING GOOD!
"LESS FUCKING GOOD!" by what means? flaimbait? or do you have something that can back up this BOLD statement?
If its because of the "weapon whoring" theres this thing called MLG... When everyone has the same weapons its a game of skill not a game of who can keep the power weapons the longest... if you have no skill, then yes, I see how you could think its worse. But then, thats your oppinion, theres thousands out there that disagree with you.;p
Most of the other stuff you kinda got me on... I knew nothing about the PC version or the hype... but not many players online that I play with (not always just my friends) dont seem to have known about it either.
Yes, the people who play online may comprise some of the more casual gamers, but are mainly part of your "4 xboxes = a night of fun" crew.
In MY experience, however, most of the people that actually still play halo today are those "4 xboxes = a night of fun crew". That's enough a selling point in itself.. how many of those "4 xboxes = a night of fun crew" pay for Live now, just because of Halo/Halo2?
This isnt true... most of the people I know never played halo until at least a year after it was released, myself included.. I think it's one of the better games because the features are so easily accessible...
Granted the PC version isnt nearly as good (in different ways) as the XBox version. With Halo 1, what drew me in was the fact that you could literally have parties using XBoxes.. Grab 4 boxes and link them up and play 16 person halo... Its a great way to get together with friends, and I think that social idea was the selling point...
Halo2 just followed in its footsteps, adding online support let these people "practice" online for when they went to these parties... People like that are what made halo so great... it was the social aspect, not the difficulty of the game, or how easy it is to connect to live.... OR marketing...
I personally don't even remember ever seeing anything about halo until my friends were playing it in parties... which didnt happen until almost a year after its release. I play on XBox Live all the time now, and the story seems to be the same... So you can rule out Marketing.
"First of all: Profit? These are university physicists, not a company trying to trick you into buying something. The most they profit will be a pat on the back from the physics community."
I take it you didnt get the joke reffered to here...
"New business model:
1. Buy super quantum computer
2. ???
3. Profit!
We now know step 2. Shut the computer off and go for a long weekend."
It's sort of an Inside Joke coming from a South Park Episode Last night... Where these "Underwear Gnomes" were stealing underwear. Their "business model" consisted of (literally written on a blackboard in the gnome hideout):
1. Steal Underwear
2. ?????
3. Profit!!!
The joke was that no matter what, they couldnt figure out what the second step was... How do you link Stealing underwear to making profit?:P
This is complete speculation man... theres no basis for this claim..
People start rumors because of that stupid root kit crap that Sony put out... which, by the way, was in an unrelated division of Sony that doesnt have direct relations with the gaming division
Even so, there probably will be some method of DRM incorporated in the future.. but it will not be restricted to the original buyer... thats just stupid economically... completely screwing the resale value... look at gamestop, or any other shops like it, they'll make no money on used systems. If they wont make money, sony will lose out on money. No-one will like that, so it wont happen any time soon. (this is speculation as well, but if you consider the economics involved it doesnt make sense, logically)
What about the Twin Paradox? This is Time travel.
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"Going forward is easy. The hard part is not dying."
This post was modded funny... which it is funny in a sense, but its also completely true... Just read about Einstien's twin paradox... it shows that time is relative to your velocity...
The twin paradox in a nutshell
2 Twins exist.
One twin hops in his space ship and travels near the speed of light... (this is currently impossible as you would most certainly die(note the parent))
One twin stays on earth.
For the one thats travelling fast, time to him looks like normal time, his watch clicks every second, etc...
BUT, when he looks back at earth, everything is going real SLOW.
The second twin, who's sitting on earth minding his busines, sees time go by normal, his watch ALSO clicks with every second...
BUT, when he looks at the other in the space ship, he's moving real fast...
When the other returns to earth, his watch is ahead of the one who stayed on earth, and is officially older than the other, be it by a few seconds or whatever.
I can't remember what the eqaution for this is, I wrote a research paper on the twin paradox a while back where I explained all this in detail and showed proof through several examples and calculations.
The point is... time isn't necesarily the same at each speed, and to assume the eqaution Dx/Dy is irrefutable truth then you are assuming that time is always the same... Read more about it on http://www.howstuffworks.com/ theres a little there on the twin paradox.
---expanding....
even if the number of people wasnt 60, but was 19 as the/. article says, it would still be less than 827 GB each... again, still not completely impossible. of course they would have to be pretty dedicated downloaders;p
I think 14 TB each calculation might be a bit off...
they said 23,000 CD's, which are 700 Mb each...
23,000 * 700 = 16,100,000 Mb
Divided among all 60 people...
16,100,000 / 60 = 268,333.33
all being converted into Mb/Gb or whatever it ends up being around
262 gigabytes each person....
Personally, I know more than 10 people that have 200 Gb hard drives that arent even in the computer field.
one IT person could grab a couple 200 GB hard drives or a 400GB Hard drive and easily rack up 260+ GB in music/whatever...
One thing i find interesting is... did all 60 people download different music? if so... thats a crap load of music... I'm betting that at least 40% of all the music downloaded were duplicates of the same songs
my point altogether is, its not hard for people to get less than 300 GB each.. now, im sure those people didnt ALL have that much, some probably had alot more, but averaged out, its entirely possible.
The main selling point IMO are games like Halo2 where people games are actually fun with more than 12 people playing... It makes it easier to have an online option than cramming 4 Xbox's into a house and cabling them all together.
As to the other games.. Like you said, the average player only has a few games, but its when they find that one game that is awesome online..
And the main reason XBox live ever had any success, was because a game like that already existed before it was created. Halo. People loved Halo in big groups, and online play only made it better... I dont know any statistics, but i'll bet 100$ that at least 75% of the XBox Live players started out on Live with Halo 2.
First of all, google is awesome from my point of view.. We needed some big financial power to speak out about what people have been complaining about for years. The US imposing its power on everyone... doing whatever the hell it wants, whenever the hell it wants to do it.
Second, The google vs. china thing... As people have said before, it was either google be completely filtered itself from every single person in china (DRASTICALLY cutting its user base), OR they could comply.. keeping that ENTIRE user base, but only providing them 80% of the info, instead of 100%....
Third, google vs US... IF the law was turned down, WHY must they go to extremes to back up their case. And IF they do need to back this up, then why cant they just ask google for statistics, instead of RAW Details. It would be so much more accurate because they could encorporate how many sites with pornographic data are reached via google with SAFE SEARCH enabled... How many kids know enough to turn off safe search on google? And if they're old enough to know how to turn it off, then they should be old enough to be responsible enough to recognize when they have come to a site that they're not looking for. Taking direct data from google doesnt incorporate the fact that there are filters in place already, it completely ignores that, and thats the what they're goal is... get the data, and who cares by what means we got it.
Lastly, if the child porn act passed... how on earth would the enforce it? The US has practically no control over illegal activities online (probably bc they try to make everything illegal).
This is pretty much just a rant, some probably doesnt make sense. If it doesnt, just dont comment on that, try to respond to what you understand, or what you think you understand, this way theres alot less misconceptions about what im saying.
I agree with Ivan, I would rearrange that list a bit, but overall the concept of M$ itself being 1 on the list, rearranged or not, is pretty insulting to our collective intelligence.
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40 year old virgin had a pretty cool scene playing Mortal Kombat for the Nintendo 64. Granted its not a newer system, but I still play the 64 all the time.
"I wonder what would happen if we created a beowulf cluster of them?" possibly, but first we need to know... does it run Linux?
im sure he meant there are MORE security issues with older software
I'd NEVER charge a family member to help out... especiailly my sister. I would tell her to deal with it once she did screw it up (she's done this before)... but this is not because its a waste of time to help out. I do it to teach her a point. That you have to use common sense with computers. I do ultimately fix it for her, just to be what a big brother should be, but AFTER she's realized that she's not going to get to use myspace if she keeps doing ignorant things... By no means does this mean i will ever CHARGE her. Its un-brotherly to do something like that.
The IRS did the same thing to me. They sent a letter to me stating that something had gone wrong with my online taxes. When i got the letter, then envelope had been opened. In plain sight, right on the front of the first page was my full social security number, full name, address, and telephone number. They might as well have given them my credit card numbers and bank accounts while they're at it. I'm still furious that it was their own stupidity that did this, despite dealing with millions of taxpayers that receive the same letters.
I heart 3 the Mart of Wall...
Fundamental constants are constant only when e=mc^x where is 2. BUT, if fundamental constants aren't always constant than e=mc^x where x would be 15. Staggeringly enough cosmotologists are quite constantly requiring several levels of education in the physics demographic where the ratio of a proton's mass to that of an electron. Although electrons are relative to space/time, they have no meaning whatsoever within this post. The ratio of a persons mass to that of an electoral's is quite overwlemingly staggeringly different when compared to that of the average single white godfearing spiderfearing arachnophobe. Although Spiders are relatively small, they are enormously titanic relative to atoms and those minature beings called protons, neutrons and electroscopes.
ahh, I see... I was off topic i supose, but we were both right. Mine was just 1 way encryption, but a form of encryption none-the-less.
its used in alot of places to encrypt passwords... hence "encryption"
Wasnt MD5 Encryption once referred to as Unbreakable ??
eh, maybe i should have added the little /sarcasm at the bottom... didnt mean it to be literal... the post above me said something about how people dont read the article and dont know what virtualization means ;p
maybe this means I can finally toss out the old MS OS... Lack of developement software support is my only reason for staying, despite the gaggins sensation i get everytime i have to boot windows :(
haha
Considering this new developement, it looks like AOL will make it EVEN HARDER to cancel their service.. Charging your phone company by the minute for each call you make attempting to cancel.
If its because of the "weapon whoring" theres this thing called MLG... When everyone has the same weapons its a game of skill not a game of who can keep the power weapons the longest... if you have no skill, then yes, I see how you could think its worse. But then, thats your oppinion, theres thousands out there that disagree with you.
Most of the other stuff you kinda got me on... I knew nothing about the PC version or the hype... but not many players online that I play with (not always just my friends) dont seem to have known about it either.
In MY experience, however, most of the people that actually still play halo today are those "4 xboxes = a night of fun crew". That's enough a selling point in itself.. how many of those "4 xboxes = a night of fun crew" pay for Live now, just because of Halo/Halo2?
This isnt true... most of the people I know never played halo until at least a year after it was released, myself included.. I think it's one of the better games because the features are so easily accessible... Granted the PC version isnt nearly as good (in different ways) as the XBox version. With Halo 1, what drew me in was the fact that you could literally have parties using XBoxes.. Grab 4 boxes and link them up and play 16 person halo... Its a great way to get together with friends, and I think that social idea was the selling point... Halo2 just followed in its footsteps, adding online support let these people "practice" online for when they went to these parties... People like that are what made halo so great... it was the social aspect, not the difficulty of the game, or how easy it is to connect to live.... OR marketing... I personally don't even remember ever seeing anything about halo until my friends were playing it in parties... which didnt happen until almost a year after its release. I play on XBox Live all the time now, and the story seems to be the same... So you can rule out Marketing.
It's sort of an Inside Joke coming from a South Park Episode Last night... Where these "Underwear Gnomes" were stealing underwear. Their "business model" consisted of (literally written on a blackboard in the gnome hideout):
1. Steal Underwear
2. ?????
3. Profit!!!
The joke was that no matter what, they couldnt figure out what the second step was...
How do you link Stealing underwear to making profit?
"I really want to get code out there, I don't want just... money. Money's not enough." -Chris BiBona
Now in the record books... completely interprets the feelings of all open source programmers, and those who program for the fun of it.
This is complete speculation man... theres no basis for this claim..
People start rumors because of that stupid root kit crap that Sony put out... which, by the way, was in an unrelated division of Sony that doesnt have direct relations with the gaming division
Even so, there probably will be some method of DRM incorporated in the future.. but it will not be restricted to the original buyer... thats just stupid economically... completely screwing the resale value... look at gamestop, or any other shops like it, they'll make no money on used systems. If they wont make money, sony will lose out on money. No-one will like that, so it wont happen any time soon. (this is speculation as well, but if you consider the economics involved it doesnt make sense, logically)
The twin paradox in a nutshell
2 Twins exist.
One twin hops in his space ship and travels near the speed of light... (this is currently impossible as you would most certainly die(note the parent))
One twin stays on earth.
For the one thats travelling fast, time to him looks like normal time, his watch clicks every second, etc...
BUT, when he looks back at earth, everything is going real SLOW.
The second twin, who's sitting on earth minding his busines, sees time go by normal, his watch ALSO clicks with every second...
BUT, when he looks at the other in the space ship, he's moving real fast...
When the other returns to earth, his watch is ahead of the one who stayed on earth, and is officially older than the other, be it by a few seconds or whatever.
I can't remember what the eqaution for this is, I wrote a research paper on the twin paradox a while back where I explained all this in detail and showed proof through several examples and calculations.
The point is... time isn't necesarily the same at each speed, and to assume the eqaution Dx/Dy is irrefutable truth then you are assuming that time is always the same... Read more about it on http://www.howstuffworks.com/ theres a little there on the twin paradox.
I know it was software and whatnot, but the article compared it to Compact Disks, so i made the same comparison ;p
---expanding.... even if the number of people wasnt 60, but was 19 as the /. article says, it would still be less than 827 GB each... again, still not completely impossible. of course they would have to be pretty dedicated downloaders ;p
I think 14 TB each calculation might be a bit off...
they said 23,000 CD's, which are 700 Mb each... 23,000 * 700 = 16,100,000 Mb
Divided among all 60 people... 16,100,000 / 60 = 268,333.33
all being converted into Mb/Gb or whatever it ends up being around 262 gigabytes each person.... Personally, I know more than 10 people that have 200 Gb hard drives that arent even in the computer field.
one IT person could grab a couple 200 GB hard drives or a 400GB Hard drive and easily rack up 260+ GB in music/whatever...
One thing i find interesting is... did all 60 people download different music? if so... thats a crap load of music... I'm betting that at least 40% of all the music downloaded were duplicates of the same songs
my point altogether is, its not hard for people to get less than 300 GB each.. now, im sure those people didnt ALL have that much, some probably had alot more, but averaged out, its entirely possible.
The main selling point IMO are games like Halo2 where people games are actually fun with more than 12 people playing... It makes it easier to have an online option than cramming 4 Xbox's into a house and cabling them all together.
As to the other games.. Like you said, the average player only has a few games, but its when they find that one game that is awesome online..
And the main reason XBox live ever had any success, was because a game like that already existed before it was created. Halo. People loved Halo in big groups, and online play only made it better... I dont know any statistics, but i'll bet 100$ that at least 75% of the XBox Live players started out on Live with Halo 2.
This is pretty much just a rant, some probably doesnt make sense. If it doesnt, just dont comment on that, try to respond to what you understand, or what you think you understand, this way theres alot less misconceptions about what im saying.
I agree with Ivan, I would rearrange that list a bit, but overall the concept of M$ itself being 1 on the list, rearranged or not, is pretty insulting to our collective intelligence.