"Pre-N" was just a fancy marketing ploy be Belkin; their "Pre-N" products was made well before even Draft 1 was released. It is proprietary, and when the 802.11n draft is standardized, will probably not be upgradeable to the standard, and will only be backwards compatible to 802.11g with other wireless devices.
1) Sony limited production of the unit
2) Sony cut the price of the Ps3 in Japan by 20% before launch
Nothing to make good PR by cutting your made-up price and making very little product, so you can boast about how it sold out, while there are still plenty of people elsewhere unhappy about unit availability and pricepoint.
Both reasons why I personally won't be waiting with bated breath for one. (That and I've been abducted by PC games)
MS will require all PC software & games be XP compatible (...)
Back in the 80's, several software companies made Nintendo games that were not Nintendo certified (they did not want to pay for the certification). Many of these games were buggy and not fun to play. They ended up marring Nintendo's name bacuse the games were for the NES, even though they were not certified by Nintendo. Nintendo ended up taking these companies to court and successfully sued them because the 3rd parties made their platform look bad, faultless of Nintendo. Had the games been ceritifed and debugged by Nintendo, the problems could have been avoided.
The consumer doesn't always care who makes the game or not, nor do they always care who developes the driver. If the software fails, most of the time they will blame the console or OS for the failure, regardless of a developer's shoddy programming.
Now, that's not to say that MS is wholly innocent, obviously (security wholes, bad MS communications protocols, etc.). But they have every right to ensure that 3rd party apps should work with their OS to ensure a minimal amount of problems. This is espcially important for a sold product. No one's going to complain much about OSS stuff because it's free. But when people pay for an OS like Windows or Mac OS, they want it to work, and they don't care if the problem is caused by a third party's programming.
Maybe it's just me, but somehow I don't see combining high frequencies with cumbustable gas very safe. I know they're only talking about radio waves, but since they have warning stickers at gas stations about pumping gasoline and using your cell phone at the same time... myabe I'm just paranoid...
Some people are worrying about the world's next-generation particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to open for business next year at CERN's facility on the Franco-Swiss border.
So we might loose France and Switzerland? What's the problem here?
If one of their 10M customers requested a stop to spam from certain senders, then by all means, the ISP should block those senders for that particular customer.
However, when they block those senders for all of their customers, without prior consent, then they are overstepping their bounds.
I fail to understand why ISPs have taken it upon themselves to dictate who is a "legitiamte" sender, and who is a "spammer". There are many 3rd party anti-spam services whom people pay to do that. Provided, they don't catch everything, but most people will agree that some false postives are better than getting cut off completely because their contact's address falls within a certain sender domain determined (by who knows) to be a "spamming" sender.
I can understand ISPs protecting their bandwidth, but blocking entire email domains is the worst way to do it. Invest some infrastructure in smart technology, etc. Otherwise, you might as well start with "aol.com" if you plan to stop spammers the old-fashioned way.
I just can't fathom why people are investing IT infrastructures in a sinking city, extremely susceptible to flooding because it's below sea level. Eletronics under several feet of water don't perfrom very well.
People should instead invest in putting buildings above sea level, instead of losing all of their investment when the next levee breach happens. Venice did this quite well IIRC. After that happens, then you can worry about gigabit connectivity and public wireless Internet.
What I found most humorous when I read this article in PCMag (wish I had it in front of me for conciseness) is how he claimed that "desktops didn't work" because CSS "is broken."
Firstly, I'm sure the computer world won't stop dead in it's tracks becuase one web programming architecture has "issues".
Secondly, designing a web page with dynamic content using CSS is not for the faint of heart, yet alone a savant.
Dvorquack might be more appropriate, judging from this much ado about nothing:/
... in a red state afraid of change? Why does this not suprise me? Holy underwear! They've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen. They must do something about this, immediately, immediately, immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. You are the weakest link goodbye. You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what she says on the show right? Isn't it? You are the weakest link goodbye. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult me in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart girl you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!
Hideous. What is that, a radar dish on the middle?
Do they seriously want me to put that in my house? Were do I find enough clearance for the radar dish to rotate?
One of the reasons I don't like some game movies is that, for some reason, the movie producer, director, etc. feels that they need to change the plot or storyline.
Take the movie Doom for instance:
Game plot: Scientists on a Martian moon accidentally open a portal to Hell (or someplace like it), demons come out, people become possesed, etc., etc. Scary as hell, fun to play, full of adrenaline and "Holy s**t moments, etc.
Movie plot: Scientists on a Martian moon start messing around with DNA resquencing and create an army of zombies and mutants. It's Dawn of the Dead or Resident Evil - in SPACE!
The question I ask is WHY? What was wrong with the orignal plot? Besides maybe some abstrat religious connotations of Hell, there was no good reason IMHO to mess with the recipe.
IMHO, as I have alwasy been told, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." When Hollywood decides to make Coke inte New Coke, they shoot themselves in the foot, wondered why the movie wasn't a smashing success, forget the lesson they learned, and repeat the whole process over again.
There are some decent and even great game movies (Resident Evil is one I liked), but I find these few and far between the steaming piles such as Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter.
Laying fiber costs billions of dollars on a national scale. Telcos want to utilize as much of the existing (copper) infrastructure as possible. They'll probably lay fiber to a neighborhood, and use the latest ADSL 2 / 2+ or VDSL technology to deliver service to homes in that neighborhood through the exisitng copper.
Much cheaper than getting fiber into everyone's house, which has to be layed down, burried, and junctioned at fiber termination devices.
Does anyone play that anymore? How well is it doing based against other MMOs such as WoW, Coh/ CoV, EQ, EQ2, etc.?
What's going to make these games unique? What will drawpeople to the game, or people away from other MMOs, besides licensing? Most gamers aren't fooled by licensing gimmicks anymore (Star Wars Masters of Taras Kasi anyone?), so unless there's innovation or new gameply/ mechanics involved that will appeal to old and new gamers alike, it will be an uphill battle.
Think the only appeal a games like this would have is being the lucky person to be on TV. But hey, if there aren't a lot of people who play the game, your odds of winning increas at least;)
Agreed re: NVidia's superiority, but my Fry's was either out or way overpriced ($100+ over online prices), unless I wanted a cheap 6600 series stopgap (was looking for something with better specs).
I'm an nVidia fan, but after scouring NewEgg, Froogle, Amazon, PriceWatcher, and local stores for a decent 6800 series card, and comming up empty handed or seeing $350+ prices, I was a bit dissapointed.
I was in the market for a new AGP card for the holidays, since moving to PCI-E meant I would have to replece the mob AND the CPU. Like someone else posted, I couldn't find a decent NVidia AGP card on the market except on eBay, for at least a hundred dollars over retail price. I ended up going with an ATI X850 Pro on sale on Buy.com for $230 after instant rebate.
Nvidia has already lost me as a customer (at least for the time being). I was pretty upset that they nearly dropped all AGP platforms so they could sell mobos with their nForce chips, and expect me to fork out all the cash just to upgrade my video card.
I think they realized too late that ATI is still supporting AGP quite a bit, and are now shuffling to stop the hemmoraging.
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"Pre-N" was just a fancy marketing ploy be Belkin; their "Pre-N" products was made well before even Draft 1 was released. It is proprietary, and when the 802.11n draft is standardized, will probably not be upgradeable to the standard, and will only be backwards compatible to 802.11g with other wireless devices.
Is this new technology? If so, where did they get all that footage for the cop video shows I watch on FX when I'm bored before now?
1) Sony limited production of the unit 2) Sony cut the price of the Ps3 in Japan by 20% before launch
Nothing to make good PR by cutting your made-up price and making very little product, so you can boast about how it sold out, while there are still plenty of people elsewhere unhappy about unit availability and pricepoint.
Both reasons why I personally won't be waiting with bated breath for one. (That and I've been abducted by PC games)
Gads, where's the coffee machine?
Back in the 80's, several software companies made Nintendo games that were not Nintendo certified (they did not want to pay for the certification). Many of these games were buggy and not fun to play. They ended up marring Nintendo's name bacuse the games were for the NES, even though they were not certified by Nintendo. Nintendo ended up taking these companies to court and successfully sued them because the 3rd parties made their platform look bad, faultless of Nintendo. Had the games been ceritifed and debugged by Nintendo, the problems could have been avoided.
The consumer doesn't always care who makes the game or not, nor do they always care who developes the driver. If the software fails, most of the time they will blame the console or OS for the failure, regardless of a developer's shoddy programming.
Now, that's not to say that MS is wholly innocent, obviously (security wholes, bad MS communications protocols, etc.). But they have every right to ensure that 3rd party apps should work with their OS to ensure a minimal amount of problems. This is espcially important for a sold product. No one's going to complain much about OSS stuff because it's free. But when people pay for an OS like Windows or Mac OS, they want it to work, and they don't care if the problem is caused by a third party's programming.
... err America Prevails!
Wow, a Firefox quote. I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie. Props!
Maybe it's just me, but somehow I don't see combining high frequencies with cumbustable gas very safe. I know they're only talking about radio waves, but since they have warning stickers at gas stations about pumping gasoline and using your cell phone at the same time... myabe I'm just paranoid...
So we might loose France and Switzerland? What's the problem here?
(j/k) :)
Wow. I'll believe it when I see its "perfection" :p
However, when they block those senders for all of their customers, without prior consent, then they are overstepping their bounds.
I fail to understand why ISPs have taken it upon themselves to dictate who is a "legitiamte" sender, and who is a "spammer". There are many 3rd party anti-spam services whom people pay to do that. Provided, they don't catch everything, but most people will agree that some false postives are better than getting cut off completely because their contact's address falls within a certain sender domain determined (by who knows) to be a "spamming" sender.
I can understand ISPs protecting their bandwidth, but blocking entire email domains is the worst way to do it. Invest some infrastructure in smart technology, etc. Otherwise, you might as well start with "aol.com" if you plan to stop spammers the old-fashioned way.
"Smooth"
People should instead invest in putting buildings above sea level, instead of losing all of their investment when the next levee breach happens. Venice did this quite well IIRC. After that happens, then you can worry about gigabit connectivity and public wireless Internet.
Tell me, Mr. Romero, how much do clothes cost in the Matrix?
Firstly, I'm sure the computer world won't stop dead in it's tracks becuase one web programming architecture has "issues".
Secondly, designing a web page with dynamic content using CSS is not for the faint of heart, yet alone a savant.
Dvorquack might be more appropriate, judging from this much ado about nothing :/
... in a red state afraid of change? Why does this not suprise me? Holy underwear! They've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen. They must do something about this, immediately, immediately, immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. You are the weakest link goodbye. You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what she says on the show right? Isn't it? You are the weakest link goodbye. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult me in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart girl you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!
Sorry, couldn't resist. Carry on...
Does one have to have a mental disability to work at Nintendo these days?
Hideous. What is that, a radar dish on the middle? Do they seriously want me to put that in my house? Were do I find enough clearance for the radar dish to rotate?
Take the movie Doom for instance:
Game plot: Scientists on a Martian moon accidentally open a portal to Hell (or someplace like it), demons come out, people become possesed, etc., etc. Scary as hell, fun to play, full of adrenaline and "Holy s**t moments, etc.
Movie plot: Scientists on a Martian moon start messing around with DNA resquencing and create an army of zombies and mutants. It's Dawn of the Dead or Resident Evil - in SPACE!
The question I ask is WHY? What was wrong with the orignal plot? Besides maybe some abstrat religious connotations of Hell, there was no good reason IMHO to mess with the recipe.
IMHO, as I have alwasy been told, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." When Hollywood decides to make Coke inte New Coke, they shoot themselves in the foot, wondered why the movie wasn't a smashing success, forget the lesson they learned, and repeat the whole process over again.
There are some decent and even great game movies (Resident Evil is one I liked), but I find these few and far between the steaming piles such as Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter.
Much cheaper than getting fiber into everyone's house, which has to be layed down, burried, and junctioned at fiber termination devices.
It must be funny, because I just spat soda on mey beyboard. Gotta clean it... again...
Does anyone play that anymore? How well is it doing based against other MMOs such as WoW, Coh/ CoV, EQ, EQ2, etc.?
What's going to make these games unique? What will drawpeople to the game, or people away from other MMOs, besides licensing? Most gamers aren't fooled by licensing gimmicks anymore (Star Wars Masters of Taras Kasi anyone?), so unless there's innovation or new gameply/ mechanics involved that will appeal to old and new gamers alike, it will be an uphill battle.
Think the only appeal a games like this would have is being the lucky person to be on TV. But hey, if there aren't a lot of people who play the game, your odds of winning increas at least ;)
I'm an nVidia fan, but after scouring NewEgg, Froogle, Amazon, PriceWatcher, and local stores for a decent 6800 series card, and comming up empty handed or seeing $350+ prices, I was a bit dissapointed.
Nvidia has already lost me as a customer (at least for the time being). I was pretty upset that they nearly dropped all AGP platforms so they could sell mobos with their nForce chips, and expect me to fork out all the cash just to upgrade my video card.
I think they realized too late that ATI is still supporting AGP quite a bit, and are now shuffling to stop the hemmoraging.