Agree with comments above concerning home rolled gaming PC as best option, however the answer to the X-Box One vs. Play Station 4 question that was asked is clearly X-Box One, for the following reasons:
1. Best exclusive titles (i.e. Forza, Halo).
2. New version of Kinect works amazingly well.
3. Better home media center integration/functionality (can control everything through voice and gestures).
4. Supporting a US company vs. Japanese (yes, I know both are made in China).
This. There are basically two types - flash and laser. They detect the camera by scanning to sense flash, autofocus, the CCD device or even the camera itself through machine vision analysis and dazzle the camera with light to ruin the image or video capture. Easy enough to have the fixed position vehicle cameras excluded, either through strategic placement of the "anti-paparazzi" devices or by programming the smarter devices. To keep paparazzi outside the vehicle from capturing images of the occupants would require multiple devices on the outside of the vehicle. To keep people inside from taking pictures would require more units inside the vehicle.
Note: There these devices are legal, moral and ethical when used to protect the privacy of law abiding people (although paparazzi in the UK are thinking of challenging them in court on the basis they are depriving them of their goods). In my opinion, it is the paparazzi who are the law breaking, immoral and unethical scoundrels in this transaction, and they deserve far worse than just having their privacy invading photos ruined.
If the theory is true that anti-matter is normal matter traveling backwards through time, then anti-Hydrogen can fall upwards without violating GR. From the Hydrogen atom's perspective while traveling backwards through time it is falling downwards. We watch the process while traveling forwards through time and from our perspective we see it happen in reverse, thus it appears to us the "anti" Hydrogen atom is falling upwards. This way GR is not violated.
Increased employee morale
Labor savings from having one less IT technician who used to order and set-up laptops and work stations
On the con side I see:
Increased IT hardware costs (everyone has the best of everything)
Increased labor cost from high paid users spending days and days researching, ordering, installing and repairing systems
Increased hardware and software cost from loss of corporate mass purchasing contracts
Interoperability issues (different software, versions, formats, etc...)
Exposure to system intrusion, viruses, data loss, data theft, etc...
IMHO looks like the con's outway the pro's (at least with today's technology).
Lived in Shanghai for two years until last month. I could always VPN out through the Great Firewall of China to a server outside China (in Japan). It was slow but reliable.
If MS comes out with a Halo 3 X-Box with Halo 3 paint scheme and Halo 3 controllers and Halo 3 headset, even if it costs >$750, they'll sell a million of them on September 25, 2007. It makes me conflicted, but I would be standing in line at Best Buy at midnight to get mine. If asked, I'd say it was for my 12 year old .
Uh, it could happen quite easily. Companies wouldn't have to share gaming technology or infrastructure. All you need is a games industry standard for avatars. A standards conforming avatar model would reside on a local hard drive and be accessed by games/games servers. Easy Peasy! Any volunteers for an avatar standard commitee?
Open source means more to/.'ers than simply publishing source code. It means involvement of the community of programmers giving their time for free to build test, and maintain free software.
As a business model, this definition of open source ultimately will be bad for programmers and the software industry. It lowers pay in the industry and demand for programmers, which is bad enough in itself but will also disincentivize young people from choosing programming/CS as a career.
We need healthy, profitable companies selling software generating cash flow that pays programmers handsomely. We need to start thinking of IT as a profession, and work together to elevate the profession as a whole.
What think you?
Please don't be quick to assume that all users of high end graphics cards are gaming freaks.
I do CAD/CAE/CAM with ProE/Wildfire/Mechanica on a system with twin Xeons, 4 gig sdram, Nvidia Quadro FX 4000 video Card (bought for $1,661), triple 60 gig high speed drives, etc... In my case a high end video card isn't needed to boost gaming frame rates but to create and edit large models consisting of lots of assemblies and lots & lots of parts.
BTW sure am glad the next version of Windows (Vista) will handle more than 4 gig of ram!
I heard through the grape vine that the reason for deciding to make the HD optional was supply chain issues. In the panicked rush to beat the PS3 to market, MS realized that they couldn't get enough HD's in time to support the X-Box 360 launch, so decided to make the HD optional. I also heard that they have told retailers to expect shortages of the premium package including the HD through the holiday season.
Can any/.'ers vet this info?
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Agree with comments above concerning home rolled gaming PC as best option, however the answer to the X-Box One vs. Play Station 4 question that was asked is clearly X-Box One, for the following reasons: 1. Best exclusive titles (i.e. Forza, Halo). 2. New version of Kinect works amazingly well. 3. Better home media center integration/functionality (can control everything through voice and gestures). 4. Supporting a US company vs. Japanese (yes, I know both are made in China).
This. There are basically two types - flash and laser. They detect the camera by scanning to sense flash, autofocus, the CCD device or even the camera itself through machine vision analysis and dazzle the camera with light to ruin the image or video capture. Easy enough to have the fixed position vehicle cameras excluded, either through strategic placement of the "anti-paparazzi" devices or by programming the smarter devices. To keep paparazzi outside the vehicle from capturing images of the occupants would require multiple devices on the outside of the vehicle. To keep people inside from taking pictures would require more units inside the vehicle. Note: There these devices are legal, moral and ethical when used to protect the privacy of law abiding people (although paparazzi in the UK are thinking of challenging them in court on the basis they are depriving them of their goods). In my opinion, it is the paparazzi who are the law breaking, immoral and unethical scoundrels in this transaction, and they deserve far worse than just having their privacy invading photos ruined.
If the theory is true that anti-matter is normal matter traveling backwards through time, then anti-Hydrogen can fall upwards without violating GR. From the Hydrogen atom's perspective while traveling backwards through time it is falling downwards. We watch the process while traveling forwards through time and from our perspective we see it happen in reverse, thus it appears to us the "anti" Hydrogen atom is falling upwards. This way GR is not violated.
On the pro side I see:
Increased employee morale
Labor savings from having one less IT technician who used to order and set-up laptops and work stations
On the con side I see:
Increased IT hardware costs (everyone has the best of everything)
Increased labor cost from high paid users spending days and days researching, ordering, installing and repairing systems
Increased hardware and software cost from loss of corporate mass purchasing contracts
Interoperability issues (different software, versions, formats, etc...)
Exposure to system intrusion, viruses, data loss, data theft, etc...
IMHO looks like the con's outway the pro's (at least with today's technology).
If it did, I'd buy it at any cost!
Lived in Shanghai for two years until last month. I could always VPN out through the Great Firewall of China to a server outside China (in Japan). It was slow but reliable.
The next generation of nuclear power reactors is on the drawing boards today, and they aren't pressurized liquid sodium.
I agree. If you find out how to turn off the "funny" comments please let me know.
If MS comes out with a Halo 3 X-Box with Halo 3 paint scheme and Halo 3 controllers and Halo 3 headset, even if it costs >$750, they'll sell a million of them on September 25, 2007. It makes me conflicted, but I would be standing in line at Best Buy at midnight to get mine. If asked, I'd say it was for my 12 year old .
Another poorly written Slash Dot summary. The article has a completely different perspective.
Uh, it could happen quite easily. Companies wouldn't have to share gaming technology or infrastructure. All you need is a games industry standard for avatars. A standards conforming avatar model would reside on a local hard drive and be accessed by games/games servers. Easy Peasy! Any volunteers for an avatar standard commitee?
Open source means more to /.'ers than simply publishing source code. It means involvement of the community of programmers giving their time for free to build test, and maintain free software.
As a business model, this definition of open source ultimately will be bad for programmers and the software industry. It lowers pay in the industry and demand for programmers, which is bad enough in itself but will also disincentivize young people from choosing programming/CS as a career.
We need healthy, profitable companies selling software generating cash flow that pays programmers handsomely. We need to start thinking of IT as a profession, and work together to elevate the profession as a whole.
What think you?
Please don't be quick to assume that all users of high end graphics cards are gaming freaks.
I do CAD/CAE/CAM with ProE/Wildfire/Mechanica on a system with twin Xeons, 4 gig sdram, Nvidia Quadro FX 4000 video Card (bought for $1,661), triple 60 gig high speed drives, etc... In my case a high end video card isn't needed to boost gaming frame rates but to create and edit large models consisting of lots of assemblies and lots & lots of parts.
BTW sure am glad the next version of Windows (Vista) will handle more than 4 gig of ram!
I heard through the grape vine that the reason for deciding to make the HD optional was supply chain issues. In the panicked rush to beat the PS3 to market, MS realized that they couldn't get enough HD's in time to support the X-Box 360 launch, so decided to make the HD optional. I also heard that they have told retailers to expect shortages of the premium package including the HD through the holiday season. Can any /.'ers vet this info?