The reason why you can't get any practial application out of it is simple biology 101. When organisms evolve, survival of the fittest only means that the organism passes genetic material to a reproduced organism derived from itself. This *Does_Not* mean that the organism is the best at anything.
That why you build virtual snipers into your virtual ecology that take joy in murdering the Timmys of your simulation.
Or set up a Doom type interface to it and do the dirty work yourself!;-)
I don't see why people want ot spend ridiculous amounts of money on overpriced and under-capacity devices.
I while ago I wanted a CD player that would play.mp3s. Now since its taken so ling I want a CD player that will do.mp3,.ogg, and.flac. And I want it cheap, and if it plays.wma I still won't buy it.
They could make the mp3 watch take voice commands. So people can stare at you as you whisper into your cuff and then make nodding motions as you hold the earphone in place.
Just better hope nobody in the area is doing anything wrong.:-)
But in the end Dave destroys (murders?) the computer
But who gave Dave that idea?
Note how HAL bounced back nine years later, and the rest of the crew were still dead or worse.
Of course it boiled down to conflicting orders given to HAL by people who didn't know what they were doing. If you HAD to do everything you were told you'd probably go crazy and kill people too. (shame HAL wasn't programmed to not kill, I guess Asimov could have better inspired the people making/programming HAL. "Kill me!", "I'm sorry dave, I can't do that.", "Kill yourself!", "Okie Dokie Davie.", *pop*)
A fucking GameBoy was designed from the ground up to play games. Does that mean it is better than the XBox?
Well, if you could get an X-Box for $100 (not the best condition I'd guess), nail one of the controllers to the top, and replace the powersupply with four AA batteries.
I think you'll find the Gameboy soundly whoops the X-Box.:-)
Now, if they sold hideously bulky Gameboys for $300 the playing field would be a bit more leveled. But at that point you might as well get the portability add-on for the Gamecube.
Is Nintendo Sony's next victim? All Sony has to do is come out with a portable PS1 that can compete with the AGB in terms of battery life, and they're set.
I bid them good luck, as this handheld will have to figure out a really efficient way to twirl the cd and bop the read head around. Otherwise it'll be sucking down batteries like no tomorrow. Even then it will be more of a luggable system and less of a handheld, at a higher price point too.
PS1 might be able to compete with the portable Gamecube as far as battery life goes. But then it'll get smeared graphically.
If the N64 had died right away, sure I still would have gotten Goldeneye... but would I have gotten Perfect Dark or Majora's Mask? I don't think so.
I think so.
The Zelda game is made by Nintendo, and they tend to produce only for themselves. Rare made Perfect Dark and is partially owned by Nintendo, oddly enough they only tend to produce for Nintendo.
Nintendo has more than their own console to rely on. And even if it did fail (Nintendo 64 was arguably a failure), they'd probably still support it. I doubt they'll support a competitor's console.
It's a downward view of a deactivated nuclear missile still in the silo at the Titan Missile Museum outside of Tucson. The view extends about 20 floors below ground. If I were to have taken this photo in 1981 versus 2001, I would have been shot on sight.:)
"Most things in here don't react too well to bullets."
Try ice sculptures. Plenty of ice (bits), just a matter of getting a cast and shaping your free bits to resemble the sculpture. If you keep doing that the real sculptor will loose his market. But thats the hazard of catering to the ice sculpture market in eskimo land.
Its nice to see people trying to see this from mid-field...
Take some pills. Someone said it wasn't stealing. I went into specifics and called it what it was, market erosion. While pirated software does not magically zap money out of the poor third world programmers that are trying to feed the ethiopians, it does hold great promise of reducing the potential demand in their product.
If you can't accept this as a slightly more complex issue than holding up the local quicky-mart then I feel sorry for you. I don't mean to imply that just because it isn't direct stealing its perfectly A-OK, it isn't (other extremists for which I also feel sorry for might think so).
It is the eroding of their market. This works with your car analogies too. If I give out 1000 copies of a porche (not at the cost of removing the original) I would be eroding the porche market. This can't be disputed as easily as the stealing argument. Not to say this can't effectively be stealing. But its not necessarily a 1 copy to 1 lost sale ratio, and at zero cost to the developer, beyond the lost sale, calling it direct and outright stealing just confuses people.
Obviously.
Having said that, I fail to see how stealing software is any different from stealing a piece of hardware. You wouldn't steal a car, would you, if you were a poor college student and really needed one? You wouldn't steal a television, would you?
I wouldn't steal a car, but theres no law against cheaply replicating it. The owner is deprived of nothing, and I get something I can rip apart and convert into a gas powered water-fountain.
I wouldn't even copy a TV though, nothing on it, CRTs are annoying and dated.
In fact, having rebuilt my kernel with the new Intel compiler, the P4 just screams and leaves the Athlon in the dust.
I may be completely wrong here, but I'm under the impression that the kernel should only be using a very tiny fraction of the CPU. Meaning that most speed gains you get by recompiling it would be quite negligible, and not the 3x speed gains you suggest.:-)
(in any case, what sort of bleeep CPU grinds to a halt like that just because it had normally compiled code running through it?)
However, if it _will_ break your budget, or you want to spend that money on a bunch of X-10 equipment for a semi-Jetson-type house, then run conduit and pull strings.
I like X-10 and all, but its not a serious home control system. If you want to be cool then wire up a control mechanism where commands run on separate lines and directly into a centralized controlling system. Gone are the lame delays, jamming and false commands from powerline noise (which any tech person should have plenty of), overadvanced socket-end bits, etc.
Just because I can have a star lamp in my living room that turns on by itsself at night and a remote that can buzz me in the front door doesn't make X-10 an invunerable one-size fits all juggernaut of home automation.
Go hardwired automation if you're serious about it.
look, ive doen this to two differnet houses. Its going to cost you a LOT less to do wireless. Just take the plunge...that wired shit is going to be antiquated as hell in a few years.
Just as long as the frequencies don't get jammed up by people with the same idea and you don't mind broadcasting your net (and having it easily jammable).
Oh, and the whole cheaper to interface wires than get fancy RF cards when the standards take another notch up.
That is if Anandtech is correct on its chip assumptions. Until i see otherwise, the Xbox supports 1080i games.
Okay, heres the math:
Maximum encoder chip input resolution, 768P
Second highest endocer output, 720P
Highest encoder output, 1080I
768 720, second highest level completely suppored
1080 gets 48 extra lines, a chunk of extra scaling artifacting a TV can do just as well on it's own, the visual bandwidth of a 540 line display, and all the other wonderful potential drawbacks to interlaced displays.
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The reason why you can't get any practial application out of it is simple biology 101. When organisms evolve, survival of the fittest only means that the organism passes genetic material to a reproduced organism derived from itself. This *Does_Not* mean that the organism is the best at anything.
;-)
That why you build virtual snipers into your virtual ecology that take joy in murdering the Timmys of your simulation.
Or set up a Doom type interface to it and do the dirty work yourself!
I don't see why people want ot spend ridiculous amounts of money on overpriced and under-capacity devices.
.mp3s. Now since its taken so ling I want a CD player that will do .mp3, .ogg, and .flac. And I want it cheap, and if it plays .wma I still won't buy it.
I while ago I wanted a CD player that would play
I think this is a reasonable request...
They could make the mp3 watch take voice commands. So people can stare at you as you whisper into your cuff and then make nodding motions as you hold the earphone in place.
:-)
Just better hope nobody in the area is doing anything wrong.
Now, being able to phone from the station to America for only a few dollars, that's probably a little over-optimistic...
;-)
Money was worth more when the movie was made.
Then again I remember no other references to value of money. That coulda been half his life savings.
But in the end Dave destroys (murders?) the computer
But who gave Dave that idea?
Note how HAL bounced back nine years later, and the rest of the crew were still dead or worse.
Of course it boiled down to conflicting orders given to HAL by people who didn't know what they were doing. If you HAD to do everything you were told you'd probably go crazy and kill people too. (shame HAL wasn't programmed to not kill, I guess Asimov could have better inspired the people making/programming HAL. "Kill me!", "I'm sorry dave, I can't do that.", "Kill yourself!", "Okie Dokie Davie.", *pop*)
Commander Taco has spoken. :-)
This is the first time in Game Console history that a company has maintained market leadership through two generations of console technology.
Wow, the next generation console battle is over already?
I'd better save up for a 2001 Okama Gamesphere then...
My little sister told me the other day that she wanted Windows XP.
...
Her reply was that the commercials made it look cool.
I would personally hate to be flung into the air and left to be blown about the wind and stuff.
A fucking GameBoy was designed from the ground up to play games. Does that mean it is better than the XBox?
:-)
Well, if you could get an X-Box for $100 (not the best condition I'd guess), nail one of the controllers to the top, and replace the powersupply with four AA batteries.
I think you'll find the Gameboy soundly whoops the X-Box.
Now, if they sold hideously bulky Gameboys for $300 the playing field would be a bit more leveled. But at that point you might as well get the portability add-on for the Gamecube.
Is Nintendo Sony's next victim? All Sony has to do is come out with a portable PS1 that can compete with the AGB in terms of battery life, and they're set.
I bid them good luck, as this handheld will have to figure out a really efficient way to twirl the cd and bop the read head around. Otherwise it'll be sucking down batteries like no tomorrow. Even then it will be more of a luggable system and less of a handheld, at a higher price point too.
PS1 might be able to compete with the portable Gamecube as far as battery life goes. But then it'll get smeared graphically.
Sony is no competition to the Gameboy Advance.
If the N64 had died right away, sure I still would have gotten Goldeneye... but would I have gotten Perfect Dark or Majora's Mask? I don't think so.
I think so.
The Zelda game is made by Nintendo, and they tend to produce only for themselves. Rare made Perfect Dark and is partially owned by Nintendo, oddly enough they only tend to produce for Nintendo.
Nintendo has more than their own console to rely on. And even if it did fail (Nintendo 64 was arguably a failure), they'd probably still support it. I doubt they'll support a competitor's console.
...if only my Intel webcam was supported. Intel isn't supporting it. *!#$@!!
It's a downward view of a deactivated nuclear missile still in the silo at the Titan Missile Museum outside of Tucson. The view extends about 20 floors below ground. If I were to have taken this photo in 1981 versus 2001, I would have been shot on sight. :)
"Most things in here don't react too well to bullets."
An ugly remote controlled jukebox!
And soon it will have light control? Like I did with my user port hack on a Commodore 64?
Wow, cutting edge here...
Its not quite selling snow to an Eskimo.
Try ice sculptures. Plenty of ice (bits), just a matter of getting a cast and shaping your free bits to resemble the sculpture. If you keep doing that the real sculptor will loose his market. But thats the hazard of catering to the ice sculpture market in eskimo land.
Its nice to see people trying to see this from mid-field...
Take some pills. Someone said it wasn't stealing. I went into specifics and called it what it was, market erosion. While pirated software does not magically zap money out of the poor third world programmers that are trying to feed the ethiopians, it does hold great promise of reducing the potential demand in their product.
If you can't accept this as a slightly more complex issue than holding up the local quicky-mart then I feel sorry for you. I don't mean to imply that just because it isn't direct stealing its perfectly A-OK, it isn't (other extremists for which I also feel sorry for might think so).
It is the eroding of their market. This works with your car analogies too. If I give out 1000 copies of a porche (not at the cost of removing the original) I would be eroding the porche market. This can't be disputed as easily as the stealing argument. Not to say this can't effectively be stealing. But its not necessarily a 1 copy to 1 lost sale ratio, and at zero cost to the developer, beyond the lost sale, calling it direct and outright stealing just confuses people.
Obviously.
Having said that, I fail to see how stealing software is any different from stealing a piece of hardware. You wouldn't steal a car, would you, if you were a poor college student and really needed one? You wouldn't steal a television, would you?
I wouldn't steal a car, but theres no law against cheaply replicating it. The owner is deprived of nothing, and I get something I can rip apart and convert into a gas powered water-fountain.
I wouldn't even copy a TV though, nothing on it, CRTs are annoying and dated.
Its market erosion.
Especially for overpriced must-have software. (whatever that is.)
Wall warts are ugly!
But floor slugs are better?
(okay, you get enough of them you can stack them in neat ways...)
In fact, having rebuilt my kernel with the new Intel compiler, the P4 just screams and leaves the Athlon in the dust.
:-)
I may be completely wrong here, but I'm under the impression that the kernel should only be using a very tiny fraction of the CPU. Meaning that most speed gains you get by recompiling it would be quite negligible, and not the 3x speed gains you suggest.
(in any case, what sort of bleeep CPU grinds to a halt like that just because it had normally compiled code running through it?)
I'm sorry, I need my computer on all the time because my heating otherwise sucks.
I'm all for saving the whales and freeing the malloc()s, but not at the expense of freezing to death.
That and someday these OGRs will be useful for something...
However, if it _will_ break your budget, or you want to spend that money on a bunch of X-10 equipment for a semi-Jetson-type house, then run conduit and pull strings.
I like X-10 and all, but its not a serious home control system. If you want to be cool then wire up a control mechanism where commands run on separate lines and directly into a centralized controlling system. Gone are the lame delays, jamming and false commands from powerline noise (which any tech person should have plenty of), overadvanced socket-end bits, etc.
Just because I can have a star lamp in my living room that turns on by itsself at night and a remote that can buzz me in the front door doesn't make X-10 an invunerable one-size fits all juggernaut of home automation.
Go hardwired automation if you're serious about it.
look, ive doen this to two differnet houses. Its going to cost you a LOT less to do wireless. Just take the plunge...that wired shit is going to be antiquated as hell in a few years.
Just as long as the frequencies don't get jammed up by people with the same idea and you don't mind broadcasting your net (and having it easily jammable).
Oh, and the whole cheaper to interface wires than get fancy RF cards when the standards take another notch up.
On another subject, the slashcode needs smarter handling of less than and greater than characters in "Plain Old Text" posting modes.
That is if Anandtech is correct on its chip assumptions. Until i see otherwise, the Xbox supports 1080i games.
Okay, heres the math:
Maximum encoder chip input resolution, 768P
Second highest endocer output, 720P
Highest encoder output, 1080I
768 720, second highest level completely suppored
1080 gets 48 extra lines, a chunk of extra scaling artifacting a TV can do just as well on it's own, the visual bandwidth of a 540 line display, and all the other wonderful potential drawbacks to interlaced displays.
This is my final post on the subject.