Guess there's not much reason to not be able to afford a second, that 200 dollar Linux PC from Walmart would fit the bill pretty nicely. Still waiting on a decent cheapo laptop to come with linux tho, there are some out there but they're kinda shoddy.
I think there's some psychological condition that some major burn victims have when they have to have complete facial reconstructive surgery, even if their new face doesn't appear horrific, getting used to someone else staring you back in the face in the mirror might be quite a shock to someone. Now imagine its their entire body that has changed.
I could see modified clones being used. A gender swapped clone, a clone with blue eyes, fixed genetics to avoid diseases and cancer, etc. If you could move your brain to a new clone and keep this up long enough I could see people building a "perfect self", by fixing all the defects in each new iteration that they found in the previous body.
So long as you're only fixing "defects", such as illnesses, cancer, etc. I think its a marvelous idea. But once you start talking about putting your brain in another body is a whole nother mess in itself because it trivializes the point of having a body in the first place. We may as well just be floating brains.
I have a few older movies from my library in DivX, though most now are XviD. I definitely do not want to go through all 100+ of them and transcode to H.264 though. Besides, most DVD players play DivX and XviD just fine, so why move to 264?
"The fact is that the vast majority of businesses do not want homogeneous IT infrastructures," Pund-IT analyst King said. "Instead, they want to be able to better and more easily manage their IT assets no matter what hardware or OS platforms they buy. Microsoft and Novell deserve congratulations on their one-year anniversary, but the needs of Linux and Windows customers are as much responsible for the partnership as the companies themselves.'"
I dont think any of that actually means anything. No really, it sounds like a bunch of Manager type talk but nothing concrete. All ideas and no real tangibles.
Its funny how people forget that EVERY project starts out as just an idea. Considering Google's size and apparent commitment to this, I'd say its a pretty large chance that at least SOMETHING will happen. Maybe it'll be as big as the iPhone's hype... or maybe it will suck. Who's to say, lets wait and find out!
I don't doubt some people will absolutely love the game for its different atmosphere than other MMORPG's
however, after playing it I can say it play EXACTLY like other MMORPGs. You still grind, you still pick up weapons and money from monsters who must have eaten another person to have gotten them (unless monsters have some kind of secret monetary and trade system exactly like the player does). Oh, and there's really no point in trying to use your FPS skills for trying to get head shots or jumping around to make yourself harder to hit: its all stats based anyway.
Installing software via Ubuntu's Add/Remove app is the greatest thing, way better than dragging to install. I still can't figure out how to uninstall some of my OSX apps that were installed into the control panel instead of in the apps folder:P
because any _rational_ person who has 300 million dollars likely isn't dumb enough to waste it all when instead they can be living happily off of the interest, rather than going double or nothing.
well actually it is linux and perhaps even OSX, as whats happening is that linux is merely using the default setting on the Hard drive, therefore the manufacturer is setting it, most likely in anticipation that the OS (windows) will change it anyway.
its all really just a big foam finger blame pointing game
I think its someone trying to yet again instill a sense of doubt in the rest of us that real musicians think they're music is merely a product, and not a work of art. I seriously doubt Prince gives a shit.
key word you said there is "rough", which doesn't really cut it. documents must be standardized and show up exactly the same from program to program in order to be an efficient standard. plus there's the whole litigation thing where some of microsofts IP may be non-implementable from the OOXML specs.
as you significantly increase the number of people on a project, you can actually decrease the productivity and even quality of the project as a whole, and this is mainly since Man-months can only apply to more linear types of developments... programming however is far from linear.
the other thing too is that when there's more people, there's more meetings, and more time spent making even relatively simple decisions, which in turn holds up development. Of course it doesn't help when you outsource the development and so you then wait weeks or months to get the results from those decisions, which may in turn require changes to the original decision and so on.
in a nutshell, the best thing any development project can do is to figure out where that sweet spot is for quantity and quality.
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Use the force as you progress through the NCAA college basketball championship and March madness! Use powers such as force speed to cross the court in less than a second, force jump to slam dunk with a white midget, force push to knock over other players without causing a foul, and more... just don't use force lightning on the ball, or you'll get a penalty for exploding the ball!
The only problem I have with it, is that Grand Theft Auto was an actual term wayyy before the game came out. Its similar in case to that one Guitar Hero-like game that had the name Rockstar in it... Rockstar is just a word, so when that crappy rock singer says "I wanna be a rockstar", it has NOTHING to do with the company that created a series of games named after an official phrase for when someone goes on a car stealing spree.
the link about the Gnome achievement was pretty awesome and definitely a clever addition. This is the reason why games have indeed progressed since Pong.
or after playing the demo, you can decide for yourself whether you like it or not.
and to be quite honest after playing the demo, there was really no reason to buy the game. Its not groundbreaking in any way, and I couldn't help but feel bored while playing the demo.
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Guess there's not much reason to not be able to afford a second, that 200 dollar Linux PC from Walmart would fit the bill pretty nicely. Still waiting on a decent cheapo laptop to come with linux tho, there are some out there but they're kinda shoddy.
I think there's some psychological condition that some major burn victims have when they have to have complete facial reconstructive surgery, even if their new face doesn't appear horrific, getting used to someone else staring you back in the face in the mirror might be quite a shock to someone. Now imagine its their entire body that has changed.
So long as you're only fixing "defects", such as illnesses, cancer, etc. I think its a marvelous idea. But once you start talking about putting your brain in another body is a whole nother mess in itself because it trivializes the point of having a body in the first place. We may as well just be floating brains.
when you can build a dumber mouse!
I have a few older movies from my library in DivX, though most now are XviD. I definitely do not want to go through all 100+ of them and transcode to H.264 though. Besides, most DVD players play DivX and XviD just fine, so why move to 264?
"The fact is that the vast majority of businesses do not want homogeneous IT infrastructures," Pund-IT analyst King said. "Instead, they want to be able to better and more easily manage their IT assets no matter what hardware or OS platforms they buy. Microsoft and Novell deserve congratulations on their one-year anniversary, but the needs of Linux and Windows customers are as much responsible for the partnership as the companies themselves.'"
I dont think any of that actually means anything. No really, it sounds like a bunch of Manager type talk but nothing concrete. All ideas and no real tangibles.
just reminds me of the black knight from quest for the holy grail who refuses to admit defeat until finally admitting a draw when he's a quadroplegic.
Its funny how people forget that EVERY project starts out as just an idea. Considering Google's size and apparent commitment to this, I'd say its a pretty large chance that at least SOMETHING will happen. Maybe it'll be as big as the iPhone's hype... or maybe it will suck. Who's to say, lets wait and find out!
It obvious that they see Linux as a threat, otherwise why would they be so hostile? They're clearly afraid.
its pretty much like assassinating terrorist leaders, there'll always be another assbag to take his place
I don't doubt some people will absolutely love the game for its different atmosphere than other MMORPG's
however, after playing it I can say it play EXACTLY like other MMORPGs. You still grind, you still pick up weapons and money from monsters who must have eaten another person to have gotten them (unless monsters have some kind of secret monetary and trade system exactly like the player does). Oh, and there's really no point in trying to use your FPS skills for trying to get head shots or jumping around to make yourself harder to hit: its all stats based anyway.
Installing software via Ubuntu's Add/Remove app is the greatest thing, way better than dragging to install. I still can't figure out how to uninstall some of my OSX apps that were installed into the control panel instead of in the apps folder :P
because any _rational_ person who has 300 million dollars likely isn't dumb enough to waste it all when instead they can be living happily off of the interest, rather than going double or nothing.
I'd rather have my cake and then throw it at someone, preferably through a portal whose opposite end is directly on top of them :)
well actually it is linux and perhaps even OSX, as whats happening is that linux is merely using the default setting on the Hard drive, therefore the manufacturer is setting it, most likely in anticipation that the OS (windows) will change it anyway.
its all really just a big foam finger blame pointing game
must be a case by case thing... I mean my mac is cool and all, but Ubuntu it is not
I think its someone trying to yet again instill a sense of doubt in the rest of us that real musicians think they're music is merely a product, and not a work of art. I seriously doubt Prince gives a shit.
key word you said there is "rough", which doesn't really cut it. documents must be standardized and show up exactly the same from program to program in order to be an efficient standard. plus there's the whole litigation thing where some of microsofts IP may be non-implementable from the OOXML specs.
as you significantly increase the number of people on a project, you can actually decrease the productivity and even quality of the project as a whole, and this is mainly since Man-months can only apply to more linear types of developments... programming however is far from linear.
the other thing too is that when there's more people, there's more meetings, and more time spent making even relatively simple decisions, which in turn holds up development. Of course it doesn't help when you outsource the development and so you then wait weeks or months to get the results from those decisions, which may in turn require changes to the original decision and so on.
in a nutshell, the best thing any development project can do is to figure out where that sweet spot is for quantity and quality.
thats Fighting Whities to you sire!
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Knights of the Old NCAA '09
Product Description:
Use the force as you progress through the NCAA college basketball championship and March madness! Use powers such as force speed to cross the court in less than a second, force jump to slam dunk with a white midget, force push to knock over other players without causing a foul, and more... just don't use force lightning on the ball, or you'll get a penalty for exploding the ball!
The only problem I have with it, is that Grand Theft Auto was an actual term wayyy before the game came out. Its similar in case to that one Guitar Hero-like game that had the name Rockstar in it... Rockstar is just a word, so when that crappy rock singer says "I wanna be a rockstar", it has NOTHING to do with the company that created a series of games named after an official phrase for when someone goes on a car stealing spree.
the link about the Gnome achievement was pretty awesome and definitely a clever addition. This is the reason why games have indeed progressed since Pong.
Assuming they learn some lessons from these iTouch and iPhones, perhaps they'll come out with something less closed off as Apples offerings are.
or after playing the demo, you can decide for yourself whether you like it or not.
and to be quite honest after playing the demo, there was really no reason to buy the game. Its not groundbreaking in any way, and I couldn't help but feel bored while playing the demo.