...and they will be $2.99, 30 seconds long, have terrible sound quality, and most of the money will go to AT&T. Cell phone ringtones are the biggest scam ever.
What's the deal with everyone saying "DSL is slow" these days? Is everyone really buying into Comcast's hype? Indeed, if you live really far from the CO, you probably can't get fast DSL. But I know for a fact that Speakeasy offers 6.0/768 DSL. More expensive, yes. But I'm just saying, DSL isn't limited to the 1.5/384 that Verizon offers.
I'm not sure if it's throttling or not, but lately my Comcast access has been dreadfully slow, intermittently, and only for web pages. As in, I can download at 500kb/sec from FileShack by I cannot get to Gmail without waiting 60 seconds for the page to load. Talking to Comcast hasn't helped, as they insist that the problem is on our end, even though it's been fine for the 8 months since we got it, and we haven't changed any setup on our end.
It is terribly annoying, but then, we have no choice, because we can't get service from any other providers in our apartment.
I pretty much had the exact same experience. I tried to use the Boost Graph Library to create a visibility graph for a motion planning problem, and while it eventually did work, it was painful to get it working. At one point, I spent 3 hours (!!) trying to get the program to just compile. Errors were awful, kinda like STL errors but on steroids. In a standard-size terminal, each error took up about 8 lines.
And they weren't helpful errors, mind you. Due to some template magic, something had broken, and instead of telling me what really happened, Boost (at some point during compilation) replaced a template with an actual class called boost::error_property_map_not_found. What followed was a slew of errors saying that boost::error_property_map_not_found did not support the + operation, or the - operation, or...you get the idea.
The library seems plenty powerful. I think it would benefit from more examples, though. LOTS more examples.
guy 1: hey, wanna play a game? guy 2: sure. guy 1: ok, lay down. guy 2: ok. [lies down] guy 1:/sit;/stand;/sit;/stand;/sit;/stand guy 2: OMG WTF ARE YOU DOING
As I see it, right now the biggest threat to PC games is DirectX 10. If developers want to use the new features of DirectX 10, then they completely exclude the whole segment of the market that doesn't have Vista yet (or never will). So instead, they develop for the next-gen consoles that have all the new features and no worry of excluding half the platform's user base. The sad thing is, Microsoft wins either way.
Unfortunately it seems this is the way most things are dealt with in our (American) society. School was like this (one kid screws up, nobody gets to go to recess). Roads are like this (a few idiots keep cutting people off taking a right-on-red, and now there's a NO TURN ON RED sign and nobody can). The government is like this (one big terrorist attack, and now everyone is suspected of being a closet terrorist).
Apparently officials don't have time to deal with the real offenders and they'd rather just screw everyone over collectively for the wrongdoings of a few.
MacDonalds buys a MINI and gets one of these keyfobs with the phrase "McDonalds - i'm lovin' it", and then either a) parks their MINI right under the sign and pays someone to sit there all day, or b) drops the keyfob right under the sign somewhere and leaves it there. Presto - free McDonalds advertising! (minus the price of the MINI)
What if Apple did open up the phone, and Skype made their service available on it. Now the Apple iPhone is in fact competing with the Cisco iPhone...and who does Cisco sue? It's not Apple's fault, they didn't make the software. And it's not Skype's fault, they just ported their software to someone else's new platform. I'm really wondering, what could Cisco do about it?
Isn't this like sending letters to cigarette manufacturers urging them not to sell to minors? Sure they're not supposed to, but that's where half the sales come from:-/ I would think Microsoft won't try too hard to appease him...
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Best game ever. With commentary!.
What the fuck? There's no floor?!
...and they will be $2.99, 30 seconds long, have terrible sound quality, and most of the money will go to AT&T. Cell phone ringtones are the biggest scam ever.
"I'm going to become rich and famous when I invent a device to stab people in the face over the internet."
What's the deal with everyone saying "DSL is slow" these days? Is everyone really buying into Comcast's hype? Indeed, if you live really far from the CO, you probably can't get fast DSL. But I know for a fact that Speakeasy offers 6.0/768 DSL. More expensive, yes. But I'm just saying, DSL isn't limited to the 1.5/384 that Verizon offers.
I'm not sure if it's throttling or not, but lately my Comcast access has been dreadfully slow, intermittently, and only for web pages. As in, I can download at 500kb/sec from FileShack by I cannot get to Gmail without waiting 60 seconds for the page to load. Talking to Comcast hasn't helped, as they insist that the problem is on our end, even though it's been fine for the 8 months since we got it, and we haven't changed any setup on our end.
It is terribly annoying, but then, we have no choice, because we can't get service from any other providers in our apartment.
I pretty much had the exact same experience. I tried to use the Boost Graph Library to create a visibility graph for a motion planning problem, and while it eventually did work, it was painful to get it working. At one point, I spent 3 hours (!!) trying to get the program to just compile. Errors were awful, kinda like STL errors but on steroids. In a standard-size terminal, each error took up about 8 lines.
And they weren't helpful errors, mind you. Due to some template magic, something had broken, and instead of telling me what really happened, Boost (at some point during compilation) replaced a template with an actual class called boost::error_property_map_not_found. What followed was a slew of errors saying that boost::error_property_map_not_found did not support the + operation, or the - operation, or...you get the idea.
The library seems plenty powerful. I think it would benefit from more examples, though. LOTS more examples.
guy 1: hey, wanna play a game? /sit; /stand; /sit; /stand; /sit; /stand
guy 2: sure.
guy 1: ok, lay down.
guy 2: ok. [lies down]
guy 1:
guy 2: OMG WTF ARE YOU DOING
Ooh, I wonder if I got any email.
Damn, no email.
Oh, I wonder if I got any email...
As I see it, right now the biggest threat to PC games is DirectX 10. If developers want to use the new features of DirectX 10, then they completely exclude the whole segment of the market that doesn't have Vista yet (or never will). So instead, they develop for the next-gen consoles that have all the new features and no worry of excluding half the platform's user base. The sad thing is, Microsoft wins either way.
...and hit your face. I hope you didn't really need that.
SMOKE
Microsoft: "Well, what if we give you a nicer looking start menu too?"
Now you're talking.
"Like putting on a Ferrari?" I think I speak for most of us when I say, you just made that one up.
Code monkey offer buy you soda, tell you sweater look nice...
That's funny. Mine says "Windows XP Pro".
...and don't forget to take the red stapler on your way out the door ;)
Unfortunately it seems this is the way most things are dealt with in our (American) society. School was like this (one kid screws up, nobody gets to go to recess). Roads are like this (a few idiots keep cutting people off taking a right-on-red, and now there's a NO TURN ON RED sign and nobody can). The government is like this (one big terrorist attack, and now everyone is suspected of being a closet terrorist).
Apparently officials don't have time to deal with the real offenders and they'd rather just screw everyone over collectively for the wrongdoings of a few.
Nice highways you have there. It would be a shame if something were to...happen to 'em.
See AWESOME, INC. v. THE GOVERNMENT, 123 U.S. 1337 (1492). What, I don't get +5 Informative?
MacDonalds buys a MINI and gets one of these keyfobs with the phrase "McDonalds - i'm lovin' it", and then either a) parks their MINI right under the sign and pays someone to sit there all day, or b) drops the keyfob right under the sign somewhere and leaves it there. Presto - free McDonalds advertising! (minus the price of the MINI)
What if Apple did open up the phone, and Skype made their service available on it. Now the Apple iPhone is in fact competing with the Cisco iPhone...and who does Cisco sue? It's not Apple's fault, they didn't make the software. And it's not Skype's fault, they just ported their software to someone else's new platform. I'm really wondering, what could Cisco do about it?
Isn't this like sending letters to cigarette manufacturers urging them not to sell to minors? Sure they're not supposed to, but that's where half the sales come from :-/ I would think Microsoft won't try too hard to appease him...
...or did anyone else read the summary as "TrendMicro is selling Vista expoits for $50,000 a pop"
This can't be true, because everyone knows The Internet is For Porn.
Heh, oh wait, that's TODAY. Oops. Looks like I won't be getting a Wii til '08 then...