The real product as far as I'm concerned with iD games is as much the mods you get for free from the community as the game itself. There have been some amazing mods over the years.
I like the Doom 3 engine, but the game itself was lack luster. It does say a lot that the game still looks pretty good years later, but the gameplay hasn't aged well at all. I still get a blast out of playing Wolf3d, Doom and Quake, but Doom 3 was a serious snore. As much as people complained about DNF, it was at least fun to play and funny.
That's what I want to know. Supposedly the parent company is looking to sell T-Mobile. Personally, I'd expect somebody like Centurylink to buy it up. Centurylink bought Qwest a while back and provides internet in many states, owning a cell business as well would make it much more competitive with folks like Verizon and allow for it to roll out improved services much more quickly.
Ultimately it's hard to say, but I would expect for somebody that isn't currently a major player in the cell phone market to buy T-Mobile. Assuming it isn't spun off.
Vertical integration isn't illegal provided that the company doesn't use it to harm the competition. Amazon right now represents a vertically integrated publisher where they own all steps from production to distribution and in some cases even the reader you read on. They haven't been sued for antitrust violations nor will they likely any time soon as they're still disrupting the industry and bringing more competition to the market.
Depending upon how Google handled it they could definitely bring competition via a vertical monopoly. Remember being a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing market position is.
I think the relevant bit here is that there are some lies that are so big that even government agencies can't look the other way. This would be one of them. AT&T would have brought a bunch of low paying call center jobs back to the US and laid off a significant number of technicians that would no longer be needed to maintain the duplicate infrastructure.
I'm not sure how anybody could possibly buy the notion that prices would go down when competition is reduced form 4 to 3 companies. And probably from there to 2 companies.
I live in a populated area, no GSM doesn't work any better than CDMA does. My reception with Sprint was significantly better than my reception with AT&T. Where the former uses CDMA and the latter uses GSM. A few minutes ago I tried to call a friend and despite having 4 bars I wasn't able to complete the call. I got through, but there wasn't any ability to talk.
There are never definite answers, the lack of a definite answer isn't sufficient to prevent taking meaningful action to combat climate change. If you're wanting a perfect model, it's not going to happen ever.
In this case the record goes back many thousands of years. Sugesting that it's only 50 years is ignorant. But more than that the Earth isn't 14 billion years old, it's only about 4.5bn years old. The climate record itself via ice cores and tree rings goes far further back than just 50 years.
On top of that it's pretty well understood that climate changes tend to happen rather slowly under normal conditions. I'm not aware of any other period where the composition of the atmosphere changed this much this quickly naturally. There have been some substantial eruptions and impacts, but the resulting changes don't last as long as the ones we've been causing.
The problem is that the GOP won't accept any tax increases and general considers allowing tax cuts to expire to be a tax increase. What's worse is that a lot of the GOP politicians signed fealty pledges to Norquist that they wouldn't raise taxes. Why precisely none of those politicians have been arrested is beyond me, they're not allowed to sign such pledges. Ultimately Norquist himself ought to be tried for sedition.
Ultimately, the GOP wasn't willing to play ball and hasn't for the entire congress. They've overtly promised to take things to gridlock and stated their top goal of getting the White House in 2012. To date they've been willing to bankrupt the nation in order to accomplish it.
Well, no it's the next big thing, they just need to fix the chips. What you're suggesting is tantamount to declaring the Sopwith Camel to not be the next big thing because it couldn't manage a flight across the Atlantic. What they're doing with Bulldozer is revolutionary and it's going to take time for them to get it right.
It's way too soon to call Bulldozer dead. Unlike Itanium it does run standard software just fine, although it should do much better with software that's compiled for it. The cost certainly will come down and the performance will improve, the leap to this type of an architecture is more or less inevitable as time progresses.
AMD has been way behind before, but this time they have a better position as their video cards are still quite good and can make use of them to speed the process up. I wouldn't personally count Bulldozer out for the count at this point.
You mean apart from how short sighted it is? The way that he's talking about Bulldozer you'd think that it was another Itanium. But, unlike Itanium AMD ought to be able to fix what's wrong with it in the future. The basic idea behind it is sound.
Personally, I don't know how they could have gone that round as I have an earlier Zecate E-350 and it's more than enough for the things that I typically do, with great battery life as well. One of the things that people really need to understand is that very little software exists that plays to the strength of these chips which means that the performance isn't as good as it could be. Time will tell whether or not OpenCL takes over enough to make up for it, but in the mean time the results are going to look ugly.
And Unknown Lamer took a pretty nasty potshot at AMD in that last sentence without any particular justification.
Most likely Oracle doesn't want the product but is contractually obligated to buy it. And if the product is no longer available they can stop buying it without breaching their contract. I would assume that would be because Oracle now sells SPARC servers, but I'm not familiar enough with these systems to know.
It's entirely probable that the terms of the contract contain an escape clause if the platform is discontinued. However it's unlikely that the terms of the agreement stipulated that IBM couldn't pay Intel to continue manufacturing the chips.
Ultimately, if Oracle wins the suit that would be very bad indeed as companies should be allowed to pay for products to be continued indefinitely. The big concern with antitrust law would typically be for companies to pay other companies not to produce chips or to lock them into one vendor.
Precisely how is this anticompetitive? It might screw over Oracle's ability to sell these companies new hardware, but ultimately this is market forces in action. IBM has found it to be more profitable to pay Intel to continue producing the chips that it needs in order to maintain those computers so that the contracts can continue to their completion. And if there aren't any contracts in play, then I'm not sure why it is that Oracle can't do something similar. I'm not sure I see how this is any different from any other time that a company buys components to maintain aging equipment.
Ultimately Itanium isn't that old, Intel was manufacturing the 80386 until only a few years back.
People try to reform the spelling from time to time. It just happens that Webster was the only person that's had any luck doing so. Germany has been trying to reform German for decades now, and it's been a hit or miss proposal for them as well.
The PRC last I heard was seriously considering going back to regular Chinese rather than simplified.
Ultimately there's a lot of inertia that has to be overcome and once you loosen up on things enough for that to happen you're never really sure what's going to take. Also people tend to greatly over estimate the prevalence of "standard" English or standard whatever language.
I disagree, the human brain is still a lot faster than these computerized gadgets are. Compare calculating the trajectory of a flying object in your head versus on a computer and you'll see what I mean. Our brains do it almost instantaneously in cases where we are likely to need to do it and yet it takes a computer a lot longer to get you the same information.
Now, if you work for NASA or the DoD and are calculating fast moving objects over long distances then technology has the edge, but for most people it's both over kill and slower.
Precisely, ADHD is almost certainly overdiagnosed at this point, but it clearly does exist. I'm sure that there are cases where other issues inadvertently get diagnosed as ADHD, but it's hard to explain away the people who genuinely want to be organized and in control of their focus for which nothing but medication helps.
Same tends to go for other trendy diagnoses as well. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome was heavily diagnosed in the 90s and mysteriously the rate has plummeted in the last decade or so.
You're right it depends, do you want the kid to be socially crippled or not. It's getting harder and harder to find jobs that don't require one to play well with others. Hell, even engineers, those bastions of social interaction, are being expected to work on teams for most projects.
I don't personally like it, but it's reality, if you've kids that are socially inept their earning power and quality of life is going to reflect that.
Actually, around here the libraries are mostly used by the well off. Or at least those are the people I see when I go to the library. The poor people don't seem to be interested in literature or the resources that the library has available. With the possible exception of the computers and a few workshops. But those things are also available from other places.
When it comes to government services you tend to get what your officials demand. If they demand low quality fly by night services that's what you get. If they demand high quality services and provide funding that's what you tend to get. Especially if you have an active citizenry that demands it.
Better move to a more literate part of the country. Around here our libraries have huge numbers of books. They do offer other services as well, like computers, DVDs and seminars, but the vast majority of the space is dedicated to books.
Hey, now, credit where credit's due. We're not the ones that decided to spell grey, centre, theatre, and myriad other words in a way that's non-intuitive. Not to mention the numerous grammatical oddities that exist in British English and not American English.
Yes, but there are no references to inalienable rights in the constitution. All the rights in the constitution can be revoked with a constitutional amendment. And even to that extent, it's pursuit of happiness which isn't the same thing as happiness.
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Yes and some of the products they've been cancelling they haven't even been cancelling, just replacing with a newer product.
The real product as far as I'm concerned with iD games is as much the mods you get for free from the community as the game itself. There have been some amazing mods over the years.
I'd mod you up if I had points.
I like the Doom 3 engine, but the game itself was lack luster. It does say a lot that the game still looks pretty good years later, but the gameplay hasn't aged well at all. I still get a blast out of playing Wolf3d, Doom and Quake, but Doom 3 was a serious snore. As much as people complained about DNF, it was at least fun to play and funny.
That's what I want to know. Supposedly the parent company is looking to sell T-Mobile. Personally, I'd expect somebody like Centurylink to buy it up. Centurylink bought Qwest a while back and provides internet in many states, owning a cell business as well would make it much more competitive with folks like Verizon and allow for it to roll out improved services much more quickly.
Ultimately it's hard to say, but I would expect for somebody that isn't currently a major player in the cell phone market to buy T-Mobile. Assuming it isn't spun off.
Vertical integration isn't illegal provided that the company doesn't use it to harm the competition. Amazon right now represents a vertically integrated publisher where they own all steps from production to distribution and in some cases even the reader you read on. They haven't been sued for antitrust violations nor will they likely any time soon as they're still disrupting the industry and bringing more competition to the market.
Depending upon how Google handled it they could definitely bring competition via a vertical monopoly. Remember being a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing market position is.
I think the relevant bit here is that there are some lies that are so big that even government agencies can't look the other way. This would be one of them. AT&T would have brought a bunch of low paying call center jobs back to the US and laid off a significant number of technicians that would no longer be needed to maintain the duplicate infrastructure.
I'm not sure how anybody could possibly buy the notion that prices would go down when competition is reduced form 4 to 3 companies. And probably from there to 2 companies.
I live in a populated area, no GSM doesn't work any better than CDMA does. My reception with Sprint was significantly better than my reception with AT&T. Where the former uses CDMA and the latter uses GSM. A few minutes ago I tried to call a friend and despite having 4 bars I wasn't able to complete the call. I got through, but there wasn't any ability to talk.
There are never definite answers, the lack of a definite answer isn't sufficient to prevent taking meaningful action to combat climate change. If you're wanting a perfect model, it's not going to happen ever.
In this case the record goes back many thousands of years. Sugesting that it's only 50 years is ignorant. But more than that the Earth isn't 14 billion years old, it's only about 4.5bn years old. The climate record itself via ice cores and tree rings goes far further back than just 50 years.
On top of that it's pretty well understood that climate changes tend to happen rather slowly under normal conditions. I'm not aware of any other period where the composition of the atmosphere changed this much this quickly naturally. There have been some substantial eruptions and impacts, but the resulting changes don't last as long as the ones we've been causing.
The problem is that the GOP won't accept any tax increases and general considers allowing tax cuts to expire to be a tax increase. What's worse is that a lot of the GOP politicians signed fealty pledges to Norquist that they wouldn't raise taxes. Why precisely none of those politicians have been arrested is beyond me, they're not allowed to sign such pledges. Ultimately Norquist himself ought to be tried for sedition.
Ultimately, the GOP wasn't willing to play ball and hasn't for the entire congress. They've overtly promised to take things to gridlock and stated their top goal of getting the White House in 2012. To date they've been willing to bankrupt the nation in order to accomplish it.
Well, no it's the next big thing, they just need to fix the chips. What you're suggesting is tantamount to declaring the Sopwith Camel to not be the next big thing because it couldn't manage a flight across the Atlantic. What they're doing with Bulldozer is revolutionary and it's going to take time for them to get it right.
It's way too soon to call Bulldozer dead. Unlike Itanium it does run standard software just fine, although it should do much better with software that's compiled for it. The cost certainly will come down and the performance will improve, the leap to this type of an architecture is more or less inevitable as time progresses.
AMD has been way behind before, but this time they have a better position as their video cards are still quite good and can make use of them to speed the process up. I wouldn't personally count Bulldozer out for the count at this point.
You mean apart from how short sighted it is? The way that he's talking about Bulldozer you'd think that it was another Itanium. But, unlike Itanium AMD ought to be able to fix what's wrong with it in the future. The basic idea behind it is sound.
Personally, I don't know how they could have gone that round as I have an earlier Zecate E-350 and it's more than enough for the things that I typically do, with great battery life as well. One of the things that people really need to understand is that very little software exists that plays to the strength of these chips which means that the performance isn't as good as it could be. Time will tell whether or not OpenCL takes over enough to make up for it, but in the mean time the results are going to look ugly.
And Unknown Lamer took a pretty nasty potshot at AMD in that last sentence without any particular justification.
Most likely Oracle doesn't want the product but is contractually obligated to buy it. And if the product is no longer available they can stop buying it without breaching their contract. I would assume that would be because Oracle now sells SPARC servers, but I'm not familiar enough with these systems to know.
It's entirely probable that the terms of the contract contain an escape clause if the platform is discontinued. However it's unlikely that the terms of the agreement stipulated that IBM couldn't pay Intel to continue manufacturing the chips.
Ultimately, if Oracle wins the suit that would be very bad indeed as companies should be allowed to pay for products to be continued indefinitely. The big concern with antitrust law would typically be for companies to pay other companies not to produce chips or to lock them into one vendor.
Precisely how is this anticompetitive? It might screw over Oracle's ability to sell these companies new hardware, but ultimately this is market forces in action. IBM has found it to be more profitable to pay Intel to continue producing the chips that it needs in order to maintain those computers so that the contracts can continue to their completion. And if there aren't any contracts in play, then I'm not sure why it is that Oracle can't do something similar. I'm not sure I see how this is any different from any other time that a company buys components to maintain aging equipment.
Ultimately Itanium isn't that old, Intel was manufacturing the 80386 until only a few years back.
People try to reform the spelling from time to time. It just happens that Webster was the only person that's had any luck doing so. Germany has been trying to reform German for decades now, and it's been a hit or miss proposal for them as well.
The PRC last I heard was seriously considering going back to regular Chinese rather than simplified.
Ultimately there's a lot of inertia that has to be overcome and once you loosen up on things enough for that to happen you're never really sure what's going to take. Also people tend to greatly over estimate the prevalence of "standard" English or standard whatever language.
Why would you ever get a tattoo on your pet woodpecker? Is that even legal?
I disagree, the human brain is still a lot faster than these computerized gadgets are. Compare calculating the trajectory of a flying object in your head versus on a computer and you'll see what I mean. Our brains do it almost instantaneously in cases where we are likely to need to do it and yet it takes a computer a lot longer to get you the same information.
Now, if you work for NASA or the DoD and are calculating fast moving objects over long distances then technology has the edge, but for most people it's both over kill and slower.
Precisely, ADHD is almost certainly overdiagnosed at this point, but it clearly does exist. I'm sure that there are cases where other issues inadvertently get diagnosed as ADHD, but it's hard to explain away the people who genuinely want to be organized and in control of their focus for which nothing but medication helps.
Same tends to go for other trendy diagnoses as well. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome was heavily diagnosed in the 90s and mysteriously the rate has plummeted in the last decade or so.
You're right it depends, do you want the kid to be socially crippled or not. It's getting harder and harder to find jobs that don't require one to play well with others. Hell, even engineers, those bastions of social interaction, are being expected to work on teams for most projects.
I don't personally like it, but it's reality, if you've kids that are socially inept their earning power and quality of life is going to reflect that.
Actually, around here the libraries are mostly used by the well off. Or at least those are the people I see when I go to the library. The poor people don't seem to be interested in literature or the resources that the library has available. With the possible exception of the computers and a few workshops. But those things are also available from other places.
When it comes to government services you tend to get what your officials demand. If they demand low quality fly by night services that's what you get. If they demand high quality services and provide funding that's what you tend to get. Especially if you have an active citizenry that demands it.
Better move to a more literate part of the country. Around here our libraries have huge numbers of books. They do offer other services as well, like computers, DVDs and seminars, but the vast majority of the space is dedicated to books.
Hey, now, credit where credit's due. We're not the ones that decided to spell grey, centre, theatre, and myriad other words in a way that's non-intuitive. Not to mention the numerous grammatical oddities that exist in British English and not American English.
Come on now, we've had Bud for decades.
Yes, but there are no references to inalienable rights in the constitution. All the rights in the constitution can be revoked with a constitutional amendment. And even to that extent, it's pursuit of happiness which isn't the same thing as happiness.