It wouldn't be more cost effective if the federal government wasted less resources, but it does. It's inefficient, and allocates resources poorly. The states know better which things need a higher priority than the federal government. Or are you trying to say that the guy that oversees all 50 states knows each state better than the one guy in each state that is only responsible for their own state?
I won't buy a motherboard without USB 3.0 and 6Gbs SATA on it, but I don't really need more than 2 6Gbs links, and a few 3Gbs links which is what the X79 will have on it. I can always toss in a USB card if i need more USB 3.0 ports (just like I have right now in my X58 box), it works just fine. X79 adds what I can't add in with additional cards, like quad channel memory (vs X58's tri-channel memory that wasn't all that efficient -- better than dual channel, but not 50% better). Hopefully with the quad channel being a power of two again, it's efficiency will be much better.
Just for sake of completeness, not all timezone changes are in increments of an hour. There are multiple that do half hour, some do two hours, and I've seen quarter hours.
Alternate Reality (The city) came out 2 years before Dungeon Master with Alternate Reality (The dungeon) coming out a couple years after that, and was clearly the games that started the genre, although Dungeon Master definitely improved on it significantly.
Your arrogant attitude would get you dismissed from an interview with me even quicker than the "10+ years" BS.
It's arrogant to assume that during an interview that the interviewer won't walk away laughing? I'd really hate to have been on some of your interviews if you think this is standard, even expected, behavior. I don't think you'll be in a position to be interviewing me for anything any time soon, so I think I'm pretty safe here.
Now that's funny! You're mighty sensitive for such an experienced developer. {eye-roll}
Not sure what made you think I was sensitive, but I already know that you've got less than 20 years experience as a programmer, your in your late 20's, or more likely early 30's.
I think that says more about yourself than anything. If I ever met you in an interview, I highly doubt you'd walk away laughing. In any case, you'll probably feel different when you've grown up some.
I agree. It costs $50 for 8GB of ram these days. Complaining because your machine runs like crap when it only has 1GB is silly. My desktop has 12GB and I'm about to replace it with another with 32GB in the next few months. My phone has 32GB of memory and I'm considering replacing it with one that has 64GB. Cry moar about your 1GB of ram and stop holding the rest of the world back with your cheap ass.
I loved ME1, was disappointed in ME2, and I suspect that ME3 will be more like ME2 than 1, so I'd buy if it came on steam, but I'll pass if it's origin only.
The problem with 1. is who gets to determine how much that invention should have cost? I've worked with interns that have taken weeks to do a problem I can do in 5 minutes. Just because someone spent time and money doing something doesn't justify it's cost.
That is not a problem. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it a problem.
Anything can be reversed engineered.
Anything can be reverse engineered given infinite time, money, and resources. Not everything can be efficiently reverse engineered.
Oh, and up until August, when we did get the UK shows on BBC America, it was in standard definition, and not very good standard definition either. It was easier, faster, and looked so much better from the torrent sites (so I hear).
I would say UK TV shows are just about as bad. Up until recently, we couldn't get the UK shows here for 6 months either (Doctor Who, Torchwood). Still couldn't get Being Human. Of course they remade an American version of Being Human, and it's a season or two behind the UK version. So it's not just American TV, it's media companies around the world that are bad.
I was so annoyed by EA's decision to not release BF3 on steam.
Me too. So much so that I refuse to buy BF3, and I was really looking forward to it. I refuse to have a special EA downloader just because they are too pig headed and control freaks to release it on steam. Sorry EA, you have definitely lost one sale, and probably more than one, because there are other games you make that if you pull the same stuff I won't be buying those either (Need for Speed the run). I'll just play skyrim and borderlands 2 instead.
Well 480i is interlaced to start, which makes for a very bad computer screen. Every other line is painted every other screen refresh, and while today it's much better, TVs of the era were so inaccurate that while in theory they could display 640x480, anything beyond 320x200 was so inaccurate that the screen would often look blurry, jumpy, and/or every other line was off-shifted, so most computers didn't even try.
Some of the numbers and reports are grossly overblown. For example, there is an estimated 409 million PCs sold in 2011 vs 20 million tablets. If each tablet sold constitutes a lost PC sale (which in the vast majority of cases it doesn't.. It's in addition to a PC, not a PC replacement), it would be hard to notice the impact. You would see PC sales increasing at a measly 10% per year rather than it's normal 14.8%.
It's a trend, and it may have an impact in 3-5 years, perhaps, but that day isn't today. It also shouldn't be ignored, and it appears that Microsoft isn't ignoring it (Window 8 being largely a tablet friendly enhancements). Time will tell.
TVs (SDTVs that is) had terrible resolution, giving at best 40x25 (320x200)
When displaying lots of text. I guess one problem is that people thought displaying lots of text was the only thing a computer could do.
No, the resolution was terrible even when not displaying text. The graphics were just as bad, usually limited to 320x200x4 colors, sometimes 16. Take for example the Atari ST which could do 640x480 resolution with 64k colors, which simply wasn't possible on a TV.
Only the low end of the computing market at the time used TVs as their monitors, and that was done as a cost saving measure, not a technical prowess feature.
Then I guess making presentations on a monitor large enough for everyone in the room to see wasn't considered a valid use back then. How exactly did tools such as PowerPoint take off?
I also don't ever seem to recall seeing a powerpoint presentation being made on a TV, because well, powerpoint was on the PC (which never used a TV0, and the Macintosh (which also never used a TV). They were used on large projectors displaying 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768 resolutions (or better). Not sure where you thought you saw a lot of your powerpoint presentations on large TV's, and I'm sure it could be done, but it was rare.
What does monitor compatibility have to do with our discussion?
But to answer your question, even the higher end 8-bit micros weren't compatible with the TVs, but that is because TVs (SDTVs that is) had terrible resolution, giving at best 40x25 (320x200) with very low color depths. Only the low end of the computing market at the time used TVs as their monitors, and that was done as a cost saving measure, not a technical prowess feature. Even Apple didn't use TVs as their monitors, nor did the IBM PC. Only the Atari 400/800, and the C64 did.
Here's the actual numbers, but I stand corrected, there actually was one year that revenue dipped (2009): Date / Employees / Revenue June 30, 2011 90,412 $69.94B June 30, 2010 88,596 $62.48B June 30, 2009 92,736 $58.44B June 30, 2008 91,259 $60.42B June 30, 2007 78,565 $51.12B June 30, 2006 71,172 $44.28B June 30, 2005 61,000 $39.79B June 30, 2004 57,086 $36.84B June 30, 2003 54,468 $32.19B June 30, 2002 50,621 $28.37B
I have news for you, but the NES wasn't the first gaming machine that used cartridges. It never replaced the 8-bit micros. The cartridge based gaming systems (Atari 2600, collecovision, etc) were actually around before the 8-bit micros, and long before the NES.
Microsoft isn't in trouble. And as for hurting sales... Sales haven't ever declined, not a single year -- ever. Go spread your FUD elsewhere, the actual numbers are easy to see if you look.
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It wouldn't be more cost effective if the federal government wasted less resources, but it does. It's inefficient, and allocates resources poorly. The states know better which things need a higher priority than the federal government. Or are you trying to say that the guy that oversees all 50 states knows each state better than the one guy in each state that is only responsible for their own state?
I won't buy a motherboard without USB 3.0 and 6Gbs SATA on it, but I don't really need more than 2 6Gbs links, and a few 3Gbs links which is what the X79 will have on it. I can always toss in a USB card if i need more USB 3.0 ports (just like I have right now in my X58 box), it works just fine. X79 adds what I can't add in with additional cards, like quad channel memory (vs X58's tri-channel memory that wasn't all that efficient -- better than dual channel, but not 50% better). Hopefully with the quad channel being a power of two again, it's efficiency will be much better.
Just for sake of completeness, not all timezone changes are in increments of an hour. There are multiple that do half hour, some do two hours, and I've seen quarter hours.
The TZ list actually says they copied from them.
Are you looking for a government bailout?
Alternate Reality (The city) came out 2 years before Dungeon Master with Alternate Reality (The dungeon) coming out a couple years after that, and was clearly the games that started the genre, although Dungeon Master definitely improved on it significantly.
...I highly doubt you'd walk away laughing.
Your arrogant attitude would get you dismissed from an interview with me even quicker than the "10+ years" BS.
It's arrogant to assume that during an interview that the interviewer won't walk away laughing? I'd really hate to have been on some of your interviews if you think this is standard, even expected, behavior. I don't think you'll be in a position to be interviewing me for anything any time soon, so I think I'm pretty safe here.
Now that's funny! You're mighty sensitive for such an experienced developer. {eye-roll}
Not sure what made you think I was sensitive, but I already know that you've got less than 20 years experience as a programmer, your in your late 20's, or more likely early 30's.
I think that says more about yourself than anything. If I ever met you in an interview, I highly doubt you'd walk away laughing. In any case, you'll probably feel different when you've grown up some.
Some of us were using .NET before it was officially released.
Perhaps you don't understand what memory is.
I agree. It costs $50 for 8GB of ram these days. Complaining because your machine runs like crap when it only has 1GB is silly. My desktop has 12GB and I'm about to replace it with another with 32GB in the next few months. My phone has 32GB of memory and I'm considering replacing it with one that has 64GB. Cry moar about your 1GB of ram and stop holding the rest of the world back with your cheap ass.
I loved ME1, was disappointed in ME2, and I suspect that ME3 will be more like ME2 than 1, so I'd buy if it came on steam, but I'll pass if it's origin only.
The problem with 1. is who gets to determine how much that invention should have cost? I've worked with interns that have taken weeks to do a problem I can do in 5 minutes. Just because someone spent time and money doing something doesn't justify it's cost.
That is not a problem. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it a problem.
Anything can be reversed engineered.
Anything can be reverse engineered given infinite time, money, and resources. Not everything can be efficiently reverse engineered.
Oh, and up until August, when we did get the UK shows on BBC America, it was in standard definition, and not very good standard definition either. It was easier, faster, and looked so much better from the torrent sites (so I hear).
I would say UK TV shows are just about as bad. Up until recently, we couldn't get the UK shows here for 6 months either (Doctor Who, Torchwood). Still couldn't get Being Human. Of course they remade an American version of Being Human, and it's a season or two behind the UK version. So it's not just American TV, it's media companies around the world that are bad.
I was so annoyed by EA's decision to not release BF3 on steam.
Me too. So much so that I refuse to buy BF3, and I was really looking forward to it. I refuse to have a special EA downloader just because they are too pig headed and control freaks to release it on steam. Sorry EA, you have definitely lost one sale, and probably more than one, because there are other games you make that if you pull the same stuff I won't be buying those either (Need for Speed the run). I'll just play skyrim and borderlands 2 instead.
The venturi buckeye bullet isn't an EV, it's hydrogen powered.
Sorry, here it goes into much more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#Evolution_of_standards
Well 480i is interlaced to start, which makes for a very bad computer screen. Every other line is painted every other screen refresh, and while today it's much better, TVs of the era were so inaccurate that while in theory they could display 640x480, anything beyond 320x200 was so inaccurate that the screen would often look blurry, jumpy, and/or every other line was off-shifted, so most computers didn't even try.
Some of the numbers and reports are grossly overblown. For example, there is an estimated 409 million PCs sold in 2011 vs 20 million tablets. If each tablet sold constitutes a lost PC sale (which in the vast majority of cases it doesn't.. It's in addition to a PC, not a PC replacement), it would be hard to notice the impact. You would see PC sales increasing at a measly 10% per year rather than it's normal 14.8%.
It's a trend, and it may have an impact in 3-5 years, perhaps, but that day isn't today. It also shouldn't be ignored, and it appears that Microsoft isn't ignoring it (Window 8 being largely a tablet friendly enhancements). Time will tell.
TVs (SDTVs that is) had terrible resolution, giving at best 40x25 (320x200)
When displaying lots of text. I guess one problem is that people thought displaying lots of text was the only thing a computer could do.
No, the resolution was terrible even when not displaying text. The graphics were just as bad, usually limited to 320x200x4 colors, sometimes 16. Take for example the Atari ST which could do 640x480 resolution with 64k colors, which simply wasn't possible on a TV.
Only the low end of the computing market at the time used TVs as their monitors, and that was done as a cost saving measure, not a technical prowess feature.
Then I guess making presentations on a monitor large enough for everyone in the room to see wasn't considered a valid use back then. How exactly did tools such as PowerPoint take off?
I also don't ever seem to recall seeing a powerpoint presentation being made on a TV, because well, powerpoint was on the PC (which never used a TV0, and the Macintosh (which also never used a TV). They were used on large projectors displaying 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768 resolutions (or better). Not sure where you thought you saw a lot of your powerpoint presentations on large TV's, and I'm sure it could be done, but it was rare.
What does monitor compatibility have to do with our discussion?
But to answer your question, even the higher end 8-bit micros weren't compatible with the TVs, but that is because TVs (SDTVs that is) had terrible resolution, giving at best 40x25 (320x200) with very low color depths. Only the low end of the computing market at the time used TVs as their monitors, and that was done as a cost saving measure, not a technical prowess feature. Even Apple didn't use TVs as their monitors, nor did the IBM PC. Only the Atari 400/800, and the C64 did.
Here's the actual numbers, but I stand corrected, there actually was one year that revenue dipped (2009):
Date / Employees / Revenue
June 30, 2011 90,412 $69.94B
June 30, 2010 88,596 $62.48B
June 30, 2009 92,736 $58.44B
June 30, 2008 91,259 $60.42B
June 30, 2007 78,565 $51.12B
June 30, 2006 71,172 $44.28B
June 30, 2005 61,000 $39.79B
June 30, 2004 57,086 $36.84B
June 30, 2003 54,468 $32.19B
June 30, 2002 50,621 $28.37B
I have news for you, but the NES wasn't the first gaming machine that used cartridges. It never replaced the 8-bit micros. The cartridge based gaming systems (Atari 2600, collecovision, etc) were actually around before the 8-bit micros, and long before the NES.
Microsoft isn't in trouble. And as for hurting sales... Sales haven't ever declined, not a single year -- ever. Go spread your FUD elsewhere, the actual numbers are easy to see if you look.