Ah, thanks for the info. The CSW62 does indeed sound like a good unit. Unfortunately, I've heard nothing else about it, and I ordered the Audio Authority one already. I don't expect to dislike the AA unit, but if I do, the CSW62 is definitely on my list of items to research.
Luckily for me, programming IS what I love doing. It's human nature to fear the unknown, and I feel that fear every time I do something 'new' in programming.
Most of the time, the 'new' thing is only slightly new, and the fear is unnoticeable. But when learning a new language, or dealing with a new technology/idea for the first time, it's quite strong. (Ajax comes to mind, as I didn't know enough javascript to spit at.) If you let that fear rule you, you'll never get anywhere.
Sounds like you didn't have fear, but another issue. Non-interest, it sounds like. I feel the same about almost everything except programming. Hehe. You could offer me 10x my salary to work in an automotive garage and I'd turn it down. I would simply hate that 40 hours of every week, and life would suck no matter how much money I made.
As for being Yoda-esque... Yeah, I was thinking zen/matrix after I wrote it, but yeah. Luckily, it's not my idea and I don't have to take responsibility for it.;) I picked it up from Xtreme Programming. (I usually don't mention that as it brings out the anti-XP zealots and my point is lost in the ensuing chaos.)
" I would have absolutely NO IDEA how to even begin writing it. "
That's called 'fear' in the world of programming. Instead of digging into an open source project, or just jumping in and seeing what you could do, you turned away, and asked others to make it easy for you. Learn to recognize your fear, and you can master it.
All programmers feel it, some of the best just mastered it without ever thinking about it. None of us were handed this information on a silver platter. If you spent enough time in college to learn enough programming to be a master, you'd be retired when you were done.
The fastest way to learn programming is to jump in, not to go to school.
It was assumed that you'd know that since Apple was competing against it, it was a Microsoft thing. As the only thing we talk about that has to do with Microsoft is Vista, that was assumed as well. Since everyone knows Aqua is the window style that Apple uses, Aero must be MS Vista's window style.
That, or you could read ANY article about Vista, there they talk about it like it's the best thing since sliced bread.
I had actually given up. I was looking for anything up to like $300. I checked out numerous reviews online, and if they didn't have the issue I had, then there were other, worse issues.
Oddly, even my cheapest solutions didn't have any signal problems... Just the switch-off on a black screen.
Their site lists the unit for $220, and I'm going to just buy it from them. I don't mind paying for quality.
I played it on the PC and XBox 360, all the way through both times. I even got the full 1000 points on the 360, and I completed 2 guilds and the main quest on the PC. I did not encounter a single bug. I don't find it hard to believe they played it 'long enough for the judges to see what they're judging'.
It had bugs, there's no doubt. But they were most out of the way things and the majority of gamers did not experience them. Don't be fooled by the vocal minority.
The game was enough fun that I spent over 100 hours on it without getting bored. Not many games can claim that for me. It's easily first place.
Thanks:) The cheap switchers don't even auto-switch, and they still have this problem. I just didn't want to be out that much money and find it did that.
Excellent, that's what I wanted to hear. I've probably spent half that on crappy switchers already. (Manual, or bad autosensing.) I'll gladly drop the money for a good one and be done.
One of the worst problems with 'auto sensing' switches is the no-signal detection. Quite a few games/movies/tv shows will use a black, then white, then black image to represent lightning or other things. This freaks out most switchers and causes them to turn off (some will turn right back on, a second later). This is obviously a hassle.
Have you had this happen to you? Does it shut off/switch immediately, or does it wait a few seconds to be sure?
Ditto that. I've been unable to find hide nor hair of such a beast on Yahoo Music, though. I see where I can be forced to download their proprietary player and buy music through it, but I refuse to do that, even if the end result is an MP3.
Does your coat-hanger trick work for an entire building, even if the wire is neck-high?
While more expensive, the silly string trick does its job well. The wire trick would be much more useful for searching for miles, instead of a closed-in building.
If you NEED a reason, because they have more experience than you.
The point is that you shouldn't need a reason. It's the proper and polite thing to do. The very fact that you object to this tilts you towards the non-conformist, non-teamwork attitude that is the real reason we aren't as innovative (relatively speaking) as we used to be.
Can you name MORE conformist societies than those? And yet, it's NOT holding them back, is it?
No, instead we need to develop the proper conformity, instead. Conforming to a non-ideal is going to be less than perfect. Instead of encouraging them to all be just like all the non-thinking losers, encourage a paradigm change. (I always wanted to say that. -sigh-)
You don't want them to be loose cannons, you want them to be free-thinkers that still conform to society's ideals. Being respectful to your elders does not prevent you from inventing the next sliced-bread. Quite the opposite, actually. The teamwork encouraged by that respect will provide the right atmosphere for thinking.
You cannot do your best thinking when you are worried that every co-worker will stab you in the back the first chance they get.
Teamwork is essential. No, we shouldn't be stamping out conformism. We should be redirecting it.
In the past, single-person breakthroughs were possible because the issues were relatively simple. Today, we have much more lofty goals in mind. Curing cancer, antigravity, etc etc... Not going to be the work of a single individual. We aren't studying the universe anymore, we're trying to control it.
The Wii is getting to be more plentiful, though. I've actually managed to buy 2. (1 for my nephews for Christmas.) Stores are getting regular shipments, some of them a couple times a week or more. (Toys R Us, where I got mine, seems to be getting them 2 or 3 times a week.) You still have to be a little lucky to get 1, but nothing like launch. It's predicted that they'll be sitting on shelves, waiting for buyers, by Christmas. I believe that prediction.
Not that I'm against the 360. I've had a ton of fun with mine since I bought it a few months back.
Maybe, just maybe, most of those have the top spot on Google because when people want google maps, they go to google.com and search for 'maps'. And groups. And spreadsheets. I do that quite a lot, rather than go to maps.google.com.
It's entirely possible that they aren't even affecting these searches AT ALL. That natural tendencies put them at the top.
BTW, restaurants and dining didn't produce any Google stuff at all, from what I could see.
Maybe you are still not being clear, because his point is valid. Maybe you meant 'cannot read ANY of the information remotely.' Your statement says that you don't mind if it can be read remotely, as long as some of the information is still not remote-readable.
Cannot read all = might read some. It's the contrapositive, see?
Cannot read any = can read none.
The GP was stating that if you are so uncaring about your details, you might as well post them here. It'd be just as safe as walking around the mall with your RFID card blaring for anyone with an RFID reader.
Does your 'no ads' campaign apply to movies as well? If not, why not? Movies are dated the same as games. The ads in the movies will be out-dated just as quickly. And even the same reasons apply... It'll jar you back to reality.
As for Introversion... I agree that their games are fun, but they aren't in the same class as Halo and Half Life. It's like saying 'Movies shouldn't be expensive. Look at the Sundance film festival.'
And okay, I won't tell you the games will be cheaper. But the ads might just keep them from becoming more expensive, at least for a while.
I'm just saying, if when they first land on Pern, if they were drinking Coke it wouldn't bother me a bit. But if 2 generations later, they were still drinking Coke... Nuh uh.
Well it would depend on where you are. 18th century, no. Pern, depends. 2025 New York, no problem.
Obviously, the advertisement has to fit the environment. If it doesn't fit, then it will be a major problem. If a real-life item throws you out of the make-believe world, even when it fits, then you've got some serious reality issues.
(Pern depends because the first pern book was scifi, where the others were after they totally lost technology and were fantasy.)
1) The company will. The other seeders are just to reduce load, if they exist.
2) Yeah, major problem.
3) Average user doesn't know jack about bandwidth and won't care.
4) Yeah, this is bad.
5) Not true. There are BT clients that prioritize the beginning of the file and tend to download it first. It could be used to stream, just not as nicely as normal streaming.
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Ah, thanks for the info. The CSW62 does indeed sound like a good unit. Unfortunately, I've heard nothing else about it, and I ordered the Audio Authority one already. I don't expect to dislike the AA unit, but if I do, the CSW62 is definitely on my list of items to research.
Luckily for me, programming IS what I love doing. It's human nature to fear the unknown, and I feel that fear every time I do something 'new' in programming.
;) I picked it up from Xtreme Programming. (I usually don't mention that as it brings out the anti-XP zealots and my point is lost in the ensuing chaos.)
Most of the time, the 'new' thing is only slightly new, and the fear is unnoticeable. But when learning a new language, or dealing with a new technology/idea for the first time, it's quite strong. (Ajax comes to mind, as I didn't know enough javascript to spit at.) If you let that fear rule you, you'll never get anywhere.
Sounds like you didn't have fear, but another issue. Non-interest, it sounds like. I feel the same about almost everything except programming. Hehe. You could offer me 10x my salary to work in an automotive garage and I'd turn it down. I would simply hate that 40 hours of every week, and life would suck no matter how much money I made.
As for being Yoda-esque... Yeah, I was thinking zen/matrix after I wrote it, but yeah. Luckily, it's not my idea and I don't have to take responsibility for it.
" I would have absolutely NO IDEA how to even begin writing it. "
That's called 'fear' in the world of programming. Instead of digging into an open source project, or just jumping in and seeing what you could do, you turned away, and asked others to make it easy for you. Learn to recognize your fear, and you can master it.
All programmers feel it, some of the best just mastered it without ever thinking about it. None of us were handed this information on a silver platter. If you spent enough time in college to learn enough programming to be a master, you'd be retired when you were done.
The fastest way to learn programming is to jump in, not to go to school.
It was assumed that you'd know that since Apple was competing against it, it was a Microsoft thing. As the only thing we talk about that has to do with Microsoft is Vista, that was assumed as well. Since everyone knows Aqua is the window style that Apple uses, Aero must be MS Vista's window style.
That, or you could read ANY article about Vista, there they talk about it like it's the best thing since sliced bread.
I had actually given up. I was looking for anything up to like $300. I checked out numerous reviews online, and if they didn't have the issue I had, then there were other, worse issues.
Oddly, even my cheapest solutions didn't have any signal problems... Just the switch-off on a black screen.
Their site lists the unit for $220, and I'm going to just buy it from them. I don't mind paying for quality.
I played it on the PC and XBox 360, all the way through both times. I even got the full 1000 points on the 360, and I completed 2 guilds and the main quest on the PC. I did not encounter a single bug. I don't find it hard to believe they played it 'long enough for the judges to see what they're judging'.
It had bugs, there's no doubt. But they were most out of the way things and the majority of gamers did not experience them. Don't be fooled by the vocal minority.
The game was enough fun that I spent over 100 hours on it without getting bored. Not many games can claim that for me. It's easily first place.
Thanks :) The cheap switchers don't even auto-switch, and they still have this problem. I just didn't want to be out that much money and find it did that.
Excellent, that's what I wanted to hear. I've probably spent half that on crappy switchers already. (Manual, or bad autosensing.) I'll gladly drop the money for a good one and be done.
One of the worst problems with 'auto sensing' switches is the no-signal detection. Quite a few games/movies/tv shows will use a black, then white, then black image to represent lightning or other things. This freaks out most switchers and causes them to turn off (some will turn right back on, a second later). This is obviously a hassle.
Have you had this happen to you? Does it shut off/switch immediately, or does it wait a few seconds to be sure?
Oh, where are the mod points when you need them. -finishes laughing before he dies of asphyxiation-
Ditto that. I've been unable to find hide nor hair of such a beast on Yahoo Music, though. I see where I can be forced to download their proprietary player and buy music through it, but I refuse to do that, even if the end result is an MP3.
Different tools for different situations.
Does your coat-hanger trick work for an entire building, even if the wire is neck-high?
While more expensive, the silly string trick does its job well. The wire trick would be much more useful for searching for miles, instead of a closed-in building.
If you NEED a reason, because they have more experience than you.
The point is that you shouldn't need a reason. It's the proper and polite thing to do. The very fact that you object to this tilts you towards the non-conformist, non-teamwork attitude that is the real reason we aren't as innovative (relatively speaking) as we used to be.
Japan, China, Britain?
Can you name MORE conformist societies than those? And yet, it's NOT holding them back, is it?
No, instead we need to develop the proper conformity, instead. Conforming to a non-ideal is going to be less than perfect. Instead of encouraging them to all be just like all the non-thinking losers, encourage a paradigm change. (I always wanted to say that. -sigh-)
You don't want them to be loose cannons, you want them to be free-thinkers that still conform to society's ideals. Being respectful to your elders does not prevent you from inventing the next sliced-bread. Quite the opposite, actually. The teamwork encouraged by that respect will provide the right atmosphere for thinking.
You cannot do your best thinking when you are worried that every co-worker will stab you in the back the first chance they get.
Teamwork is essential. No, we shouldn't be stamping out conformism. We should be redirecting it.
In the past, single-person breakthroughs were possible because the issues were relatively simple. Today, we have much more lofty goals in mind. Curing cancer, antigravity, etc etc... Not going to be the work of a single individual. We aren't studying the universe anymore, we're trying to control it.
"lol grammer"
lol spelling
They are the same 'type'. They are both products of Nintendo. If Nintendo's product A kills sales from Nintendo's Product B, it's 'cannibalizing it.'
In fact, they're not just both product, but video game systems. The only difference is that one is hand-held, and the other is not.
The Wii is getting to be more plentiful, though. I've actually managed to buy 2. (1 for my nephews for Christmas.) Stores are getting regular shipments, some of them a couple times a week or more. (Toys R Us, where I got mine, seems to be getting them 2 or 3 times a week.) You still have to be a little lucky to get 1, but nothing like launch. It's predicted that they'll be sitting on shelves, waiting for buyers, by Christmas. I believe that prediction.
Not that I'm against the 360. I've had a ton of fun with mine since I bought it a few months back.
No plans to buy a PS3, though.
Maybe, just maybe, most of those have the top spot on Google because when people want google maps, they go to google.com and search for 'maps'. And groups. And spreadsheets. I do that quite a lot, rather than go to maps.google.com.
It's entirely possible that they aren't even affecting these searches AT ALL. That natural tendencies put them at the top.
BTW, restaurants and dining didn't produce any Google stuff at all, from what I could see.
Maybe you are still not being clear, because his point is valid. Maybe you meant 'cannot read ANY of the information remotely.' Your statement says that you don't mind if it can be read remotely, as long as some of the information is still not remote-readable.
Cannot read all = might read some. It's the contrapositive, see?
Cannot read any = can read none.
The GP was stating that if you are so uncaring about your details, you might as well post them here. It'd be just as safe as walking around the mall with your RFID card blaring for anyone with an RFID reader.
So no Need For Speed games for you, eh? Too bad. You're missing a lot of fun there. Quite a few sports games with banners in them, too... Here's a link that'll get you started on all the sports games you won't play. http://www.vedrashko.com/advertising/2006/04/ads-i n-ea-sports-games-1994-1998.html
Does your 'no ads' campaign apply to movies as well? If not, why not? Movies are dated the same as games. The ads in the movies will be out-dated just as quickly. And even the same reasons apply... It'll jar you back to reality.
As for Introversion... I agree that their games are fun, but they aren't in the same class as Halo and Half Life. It's like saying 'Movies shouldn't be expensive. Look at the Sundance film festival.'
And okay, I won't tell you the games will be cheaper. But the ads might just keep them from becoming more expensive, at least for a while.
I'm just saying, if when they first land on Pern, if they were drinking Coke it wouldn't bother me a bit. But if 2 generations later, they were still drinking Coke... Nuh uh.
Well it would depend on where you are. 18th century, no. Pern, depends. 2025 New York, no problem.
Obviously, the advertisement has to fit the environment. If it doesn't fit, then it will be a major problem. If a real-life item throws you out of the make-believe world, even when it fits, then you've got some serious reality issues.
(Pern depends because the first pern book was scifi, where the others were after they totally lost technology and were fantasy.)
1) The company will. The other seeders are just to reduce load, if they exist.
2) Yeah, major problem.
3) Average user doesn't know jack about bandwidth and won't care.
4) Yeah, this is bad.
5) Not true. There are BT clients that prioritize the beginning of the file and tend to download it first. It could be used to stream, just not as nicely as normal streaming.
Azureus != Bit Torrent
Firefox != World Wide Web
See what I did there? Azureus did not invent Bit Torrent. They weren't even the first clone.
You mean like stability? Oh wait, isn't that one of the things they DON'T have?