It's pretty clear that Nintendo has somehow acquired a kiddie image. However, when I actually look at game lists for the PSP and DS and look at titles that at least have a hope of being "good", I don't really see much of a distinction between games that would be appealing to mature audiences between PSP and DS. If anything, the DS matches count and adds greater variety to the mix with games like Advance Wars that the PSP, sticking to more stereotypical genres like plain shooters and rpgs, just won't offer.
Also, I have no idea how much Nintendo is spending on their carts for DS, but its obviously less than $30 bucks a pop, being many games launch at that price. Also, I thought that solid state memory was the FUTURE of computing...in fact, how many times has this been brought up on/. in the past week?
This is a misconception. Japan has a gigantic military: cost $45.841 billion (2004). They also have fairly advanced military technologies established so if a war broke out, Japan could easily rapidly develop a massive, powerful military force. Also mind you those expenses are pretty much at total peacetime, without any of the war costs the US has been eating over the past however many decades. So yes, Japan's "defense force" is nothing to ignore. Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html
This is a misconception. Japan has a gigantic military: cost $45.841 billion (2004). They also have fairly advanced military technologies established so if a war broke out, Japan could easily rapidly develop a massive, powerful military force. Also mind you those expenses are pretty much at total peacetime, without any of the war costs the US has been eating over the past however many decades. So yes, Japan's "defense force" is nothing to ignore. Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html
This technology seems to me to open as many unique exciting possibilities as when semiconductor technology first emerged. First of all, if you actually RTFA, these microchips generate no heat, which also suggests that they are very low power. Remember, not every microchip in the world today is your over clocked dual core Athlon 64, but rather are useful things like stepper motor controllers and what not. The fact is, this may allow an alternative method to make some of the thousands of silicon based components used in devices today cheaper or more efficient for use. Any new approach is always good for the technological community assuming it even has the potential for any benefits.
Also, I fail to see where the susceptibility of such devices to external magnetic fields would be any more exaggerated than those of devices employing electrical circuits, and dare I say that these devices may not be susceptible to "unacceptable" issues with silicon devices like ESD? Try waving a magnet over some parts of your motherboard or power supply when its in use at close range, but do so at your own risk.
Uh, we know the first two p(momentum, vector) values(and that's if we know the mass of the asteroid, which isn't necessarily true), but not the second two. In my math classes, we learned that was 1 equation (vector valued) and two unknown vectors. I don't think anyone can solve that, and no, conservation of kinetic energy won't work because the internal energy changes big time in most non-particle scale collisions. In Mechanics, many of our college educated comrades learned of a way to resolve this textbook documented issue with the simple aide of a constant e, which details the elasticity of the interaction. Unfortunately, e is not easy to determine through theory, and is also just a model (and a bad one at that), and therefore an experiment is usually called for (and usually a lot of them). 'Nuff said.
That wasn't my point. My point was that shoving random updates at users in a way thats totally different than everyone else in FOSS is not good, among other things. The actual functional ease isn't the issue at all.
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I see your point, but using stand alone package installers and the like defeats the main purpose of the distribution system over just a plain old bacon and eggs OS like Windows. This is supposed to make the distro system easier to deploy mainly by administrators, but reducing the level of case-by-case support they have to dish out. For the home user, such solutions may work more easily, but it still defeats the whole point of a distro. For example, if a similar update attitude was suddenly adopted by all the dozens of projects used in the modern distro, one can clearly see how soon it would be before the whole thing would just fall apart.
I know, and thats why I'm using it. I think that a majority of/.ers who do alot of strange but not high-importance web browsing should be using the beta over the newer 1.0.7 to help Mozilla debug the thing. I think it has potential as a decent update, but is currently in a position where they need a good test base. I didn't mean to suggest that admins should be putting this monster on workstations though!
This certainly is good news for this news to be reconfirmed, but I still have a few more general questions about big N's online gaming:
1) First Party? - Does this just mean plain old first party titles or also the many more Nintendo-only type developers. In other words, will I be playing online Fire Emblem someday free of charge?
2) Nintendo Management for 3rd Party Titles? - I would gladly pay a monthly fee to one source for my online gaming needs that I can relatively trust, like Nintendo, than a billion developers separately. So I certainly hope it will be broken into basically a free and then upgraded subscription service, where the upgraded service would include all you can eat 3rd party online gaming, or at least Nintendo managed 3rd party billing. I think this is especially important because I don't think 3rd party devs will want to put up with the mess of self-management, and revolution will just result in having not many 3rd party online titles.
3) Some Sort of Meet-up Service? - I think Nintendo has a stellar idea with the self contained gaming social networks idea, but I certainly hope that they have a good way devised to have people expand this said social network, or I have a feeling it will be an unused feature, especially because I just don't see Revolution being the mainstream console of the next-generation.
Yeah, and apples fall from trees because thats what they want to do, not gravity. Gravitational acceleration is just a model we use to approximate what happens!
C'mon, physics is about models, or the physics answer for absolutely everything would be "we don't know, we just have a working model". Hell, even concepts like "human being" or "rock" are really just working models of more complicated processes that we still can't fully detail. The fact is, a good, predicative, working model is usually better to express whats going on than the standard "We don't know, and will probably never know".
Yes, the one main problem I've always had with FF and the Mozilla suite before it was its horrid slowness. Especially on older hardware I usually find myself using something like links2 or konqueror(when in KDE) instead, unless they run into issues. 1.5b1 seems to have taken a step in improving this, but I still think it could get a bit better.
Indeed, this is the dark side to Firefox, its stand alone update cycle. Its not friendly to extension developers, confuses and annoys users and administrators, and worse of all makes the whole Distribution based system the rest of FOSS uses go to pot.(Some people just want to run a version that comes with the distro without constant worrying and compatibility issues.) I think Firefox's special position at the head of the FOSS movement has made them focused too much on runing their own tight ship and not enough about letting their users do the same.
Even the geekiest of us use manuals etc in paper form...The fact is, reading several hundred pages of text off an LCD just doesn't feel natural to me, and probably never will.
I'm not a big fan of Apple, but OSX has one cost advantage over Windows XP, and that is hardware utilization. OSX can use those dual G5's to their full potential, while my Athlon 64x2 is largely rotting with XP Pro. From a cost standpoint, people investing in newer hardware probably aren't getting their money's worth by running XP on it, even the 64 -bit flavor. Its basically like being able to buy a large pizza for less than a pizza half the size, but having to throw a fourth of it away. PCs still clearly deliver more power per dollar than macs, even with this in mind, but its the sort of annoyance that I don't think/.ers should totally ignore.
As a developer who has tinkered mildly with Vista betas, I have no idea what this request is asking... Sadly, with the stream of feature cuts, I don't see how most developers will be changing their ways from XP at all, as most new Vista features are aesthetic or not of general interest to developers. I suppose they could be implying more x86-64 optimizations and the like, but I was under the impression that developers were gearing up for that already. I'm sure as Vista launch day approaches, developers may find more things to concern themseleves with, but right now I think Microsoft shouldn't worry about selling them on basically XP with next-gen hardware support.
Still, a major flaw in these FOSS for schools arguments is that while saving money on the OS would be super nice for schools, the OS cost is almost nothing compared to hardware costs, maintenance costs on the hardware(which CAN have a lower TCO with windows if you can get some CS teachers, for example, to maintain the network which is more likely with windows), and then electricity costs to run the hardware, infrastructure, and HVAC systems. Fact is, after all of this, MS can merely negotiate a lower license to the school the instant they start to get serious about FOSS, and I think almost any IT decision maker would see going with Windows is the best choice to make for the user demographic in question once the price tag drops a bit. The key to making FOSS more attractive is to making low power, lower performance desktops have a bigger market share; machines that reduce hardware costs and hardware operating costs, and tend to benefit most from FOSS because of a tendency for lower/more flexible operating requirements. Then FOSS will have a substantive advantage, instead of just a lower price tag, and schools may look at it a bit more seriously.
Its much much worse than this. A static charge has a current of 0 ampere by definition. And 40kV is not that much for a static potential at all. Plus, "static field" is not a term I'm familiar with at all as an EE student, but I do know that any Electric Field is a function of volts over distance, which would give an electric field units of V/m!!! This article is just atrocious!
Computers are tools, and that's the way a good admin needs to view them as. The fact is, a nailgun is easier to use and often better to use than a hammer, yet they still aren't quite as popular. Productive users should be given tools they are comfortable with and that also get the job done. They should not be expected to adapt beyond their wishes without good reason(usually no other choice or irresistible savings/benefits), as productive users often have better things to do than play with software. Why do you think that computer engineering firms still have IT departments when most engineering types know MUCH more about the machines they're on than the people they call on for issues? Productivity users simply do not have time and more over shouldn't be allowed to worry about the computing systems they use, because this is unproductive use of company time! The issue here isn't as simple as intellect or usability but is giving clients what they want to use, because ultimately that's the whole point of an IT/IS system: increased productivity.
The other main issue to address is software migration. Again, you may think that for things as simple as corporate databases or productivity suites migration shouldn't be a huge deal, but a lot of industries employ software tools that have code where the main understandability issue isn't a software engineering type issue, but a more technical/scientific one. For example, a Biotech firm may have software that their biochemists worked with programmers to create. Should these biochemists be taken off their current assignments just to redevelop the same software they have for a different OS due to a security issue? This could result in a loss of millions of dollars in productivity.
And, to respond to your last claim, new warehouse management systems can result in thousands of dollars in productivity gains, while learning a new login screen usually can't do a company much good. The fact is, until portability becomes a big issue in initial internal development, support for old and often insecure OSes and software is a necessary evil.
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It's pretty clear that Nintendo has somehow acquired a kiddie image. However, when I actually look at game lists for the PSP and DS and look at titles that at least have a hope of being "good", I don't really see much of a distinction between games that would be appealing to mature audiences between PSP and DS. If anything, the DS matches count and adds greater variety to the mix with games like Advance Wars that the PSP, sticking to more stereotypical genres like plain shooters and rpgs, just won't offer.
/. in the past week?
Also, I have no idea how much Nintendo is spending on their carts for DS, but its obviously less than $30 bucks a pop, being many games launch at that price. Also, I thought that solid state memory was the FUTURE of computing...in fact, how many times has this been brought up on
This is a misconception. Japan has a gigantic military: cost $45.841 billion (2004). They also have fairly advanced military technologies established so if a war broke out, Japan could easily rapidly develop a massive, powerful military force. Also mind you those expenses are pretty much at total peacetime, without any of the war costs the US has been eating over the past however many decades. So yes, Japan's "defense force" is nothing to ignore. Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html
This is a misconception. Japan has a gigantic military: cost $45.841 billion (2004). They also have fairly advanced military technologies established so if a war broke out, Japan could easily rapidly develop a massive, powerful military force. Also mind you those expenses are pretty much at total peacetime, without any of the war costs the US has been eating over the past however many decades. So yes, Japan's "defense force" is nothing to ignore. Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html
This technology seems to me to open as many unique exciting possibilities as when semiconductor technology first emerged. First of all, if you actually RTFA, these microchips generate no heat, which also suggests that they are very low power. Remember, not every microchip in the world today is your over clocked dual core Athlon 64, but rather are useful things like stepper motor controllers and what not. The fact is, this may allow an alternative method to make some of the thousands of silicon based components used in devices today cheaper or more efficient for use. Any new approach is always good for the technological community assuming it even has the potential for any benefits.
Also, I fail to see where the susceptibility of such devices to external magnetic fields would be any more exaggerated than those of devices employing electrical circuits, and dare I say that these devices may not be susceptible to "unacceptable" issues with silicon devices like ESD? Try waving a magnet over some parts of your motherboard or power supply when its in use at close range, but do so at your own risk.
(p1 + p2)[)[initial]=(p1 + p2)[final]
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Uh, we know the first two p(momentum, vector) values(and that's if we know the mass of the asteroid, which isn't necessarily true), but not the second two. In my math classes, we learned that was 1 equation (vector valued) and two unknown vectors. I don't think anyone can solve that, and no, conservation of kinetic energy won't work because the internal energy changes big time in most non-particle scale collisions. In Mechanics, many of our college educated comrades learned of a way to resolve this textbook documented issue with the simple aide of a constant e, which details the elasticity of the interaction. Unfortunately, e is not easy to determine through theory, and is also just a model (and a bad one at that), and therefore an experiment is usually called for (and usually a lot of them). 'Nuff said.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Collision
That wasn't my point. My point was that shoving random updates at users in a way thats totally different than everyone else in FOSS is not good, among other things. The actual functional ease isn't the issue at all.
I see your point, but using stand alone package installers and the like defeats the main purpose of the distribution system over just a plain old bacon and eggs OS like Windows. This is supposed to make the distro system easier to deploy mainly by administrators, but reducing the level of case-by-case support they have to dish out. For the home user, such solutions may work more easily, but it still defeats the whole point of a distro. For example, if a similar update attitude was suddenly adopted by all the dozens of projects used in the modern distro, one can clearly see how soon it would be before the whole thing would just fall apart.
I know, and thats why I'm using it. I think that a majority of /.ers who do alot of strange but not high-importance web browsing should be using the beta over the newer 1.0.7 to help Mozilla debug the thing. I think it has potential as a decent update, but is currently in a position where they need a good test base. I didn't mean to suggest that admins should be putting this monster on workstations though!
This certainly is good news for this news to be reconfirmed, but I still have a few more general questions about big N's online gaming: 1) First Party? - Does this just mean plain old first party titles or also the many more Nintendo-only type developers. In other words, will I be playing online Fire Emblem someday free of charge? 2) Nintendo Management for 3rd Party Titles? - I would gladly pay a monthly fee to one source for my online gaming needs that I can relatively trust, like Nintendo, than a billion developers separately. So I certainly hope it will be broken into basically a free and then upgraded subscription service, where the upgraded service would include all you can eat 3rd party online gaming, or at least Nintendo managed 3rd party billing. I think this is especially important because I don't think 3rd party devs will want to put up with the mess of self-management, and revolution will just result in having not many 3rd party online titles. 3) Some Sort of Meet-up Service? - I think Nintendo has a stellar idea with the self contained gaming social networks idea, but I certainly hope that they have a good way devised to have people expand this said social network, or I have a feeling it will be an unused feature, especially because I just don't see Revolution being the mainstream console of the next-generation.
Yeah, and apples fall from trees because thats what they want to do, not gravity. Gravitational acceleration is just a model we use to approximate what happens! C'mon, physics is about models, or the physics answer for absolutely everything would be "we don't know, we just have a working model". Hell, even concepts like "human being" or "rock" are really just working models of more complicated processes that we still can't fully detail. The fact is, a good, predicative, working model is usually better to express whats going on than the standard "We don't know, and will probably never know".
Yes, the one main problem I've always had with FF and the Mozilla suite before it was its horrid slowness. Especially on older hardware I usually find myself using something like links2 or konqueror(when in KDE) instead, unless they run into issues. 1.5b1 seems to have taken a step in improving this, but I still think it could get a bit better.
Indeed, this is the dark side to Firefox, its stand alone update cycle. Its not friendly to extension developers, confuses and annoys users and administrators, and worse of all makes the whole Distribution based system the rest of FOSS uses go to pot.(Some people just want to run a version that comes with the distro without constant worrying and compatibility issues.) I think Firefox's special position at the head of the FOSS movement has made them focused too much on runing their own tight ship and not enough about letting their users do the same.
I'll keep using 1.5 beta 1, thank you.
Even the geekiest of us use manuals etc in paper form...The fact is, reading several hundred pages of text off an LCD just doesn't feel natural to me, and probably never will.
I'm not a big fan of Apple, but OSX has one cost advantage over Windows XP, and that is hardware utilization. OSX can use those dual G5's to their full potential, while my Athlon 64x2 is largely rotting with XP Pro. From a cost standpoint, people investing in newer hardware probably aren't getting their money's worth by running XP on it, even the 64 -bit flavor. Its basically like being able to buy a large pizza for less than a pizza half the size, but having to throw a fourth of it away. PCs still clearly deliver more power per dollar than macs, even with this in mind, but its the sort of annoyance that I don't think /.ers should totally ignore.
As a developer who has tinkered mildly with Vista betas, I have no idea what this request is asking... Sadly, with the stream of feature cuts, I don't see how most developers will be changing their ways from XP at all, as most new Vista features are aesthetic or not of general interest to developers. I suppose they could be implying more x86-64 optimizations and the like, but I was under the impression that developers were gearing up for that already. I'm sure as Vista launch day approaches, developers may find more things to concern themseleves with, but right now I think Microsoft shouldn't worry about selling them on basically XP with next-gen hardware support.
Still, a major flaw in these FOSS for schools arguments is that while saving money on the OS would be super nice for schools, the OS cost is almost nothing compared to hardware costs, maintenance costs on the hardware(which CAN have a lower TCO with windows if you can get some CS teachers, for example, to maintain the network which is more likely with windows), and then electricity costs to run the hardware, infrastructure, and HVAC systems. Fact is, after all of this, MS can merely negotiate a lower license to the school the instant they start to get serious about FOSS, and I think almost any IT decision maker would see going with Windows is the best choice to make for the user demographic in question once the price tag drops a bit. The key to making FOSS more attractive is to making low power, lower performance desktops have a bigger market share; machines that reduce hardware costs and hardware operating costs, and tend to benefit most from FOSS because of a tendency for lower/more flexible operating requirements. Then FOSS will have a substantive advantage, instead of just a lower price tag, and schools may look at it a bit more seriously.
Its much much worse than this. A static charge has a current of 0 ampere by definition. And 40kV is not that much for a static potential at all. Plus, "static field" is not a term I'm familiar with at all as an EE student, but I do know that any Electric Field is a function of volts over distance, which would give an electric field units of V/m!!! This article is just atrocious!
Computers are tools, and that's the way a good admin needs to view them as. The fact is, a nailgun is easier to use and often better to use than a hammer, yet they still aren't quite as popular. Productive users should be given tools they are comfortable with and that also get the job done. They should not be expected to adapt beyond their wishes without good reason(usually no other choice or irresistible savings/benefits), as productive users often have better things to do than play with software. Why do you think that computer engineering firms still have IT departments when most engineering types know MUCH more about the machines they're on than the people they call on for issues? Productivity users simply do not have time and more over shouldn't be allowed to worry about the computing systems they use, because this is unproductive use of company time! The issue here isn't as simple as intellect or usability but is giving clients what they want to use, because ultimately that's the whole point of an IT/IS system: increased productivity. The other main issue to address is software migration. Again, you may think that for things as simple as corporate databases or productivity suites migration shouldn't be a huge deal, but a lot of industries employ software tools that have code where the main understandability issue isn't a software engineering type issue, but a more technical/scientific one. For example, a Biotech firm may have software that their biochemists worked with programmers to create. Should these biochemists be taken off their current assignments just to redevelop the same software they have for a different OS due to a security issue? This could result in a loss of millions of dollars in productivity. And, to respond to your last claim, new warehouse management systems can result in thousands of dollars in productivity gains, while learning a new login screen usually can't do a company much good. The fact is, until portability becomes a big issue in initial internal development, support for old and often insecure OSes and software is a necessary evil.
I think whatever embedded OS TI runs on those things is at least as cool as Linux, so I'm sure we can let this pass...