> I'm sure others can think of plenty of other insanely improbable examples.
How about a fish that fed on the brainwaves of verbal activity, excreting thoughts compatible with the brain it's most proximate to, usually by way of it being stuck in one's ear.
Yeah, look at how sqlite has languished by being public domain. No sooner was it released than it was snapped up and closed off and now no one can download the free version anymore.
I suspect they're doing it to be cute, and it's probably just recipes contributed by google employees. Here's the link to Hormel's take on it: http://www.spam.com/legal/spam/
7 core. One SPE's disabled, and another one is running the hypervisor. Only one of those cores is a full-blown CPU.
The Xenon's got 6 full cores at the same clock speed as the Cell's CPU core. They are in-order though, and well, it's sure been a bitch getting linux booting on it (there was a hack that succeeded, but it got patched and locked out. Those eFuses are a bitch.)
Hormel has been very cool about the whole "spam" label. I know, if they were to fight it now, they'd lose, but they didn't fight it even when there were commercial "Anti-Spam" products just hitting the market.
All they ask is one thing: that you not spell it in ALL-CAPS when referencing the email variety of spam. That's still their trademark. And I don't think it's too much to ask.
Black Friday is generally not the highest sales day, but it is probably the biggest spike. The weekend before Christmas is traditionally the busiest, but most of the retail staff has gotten used to it. There also tend to be less people crashing the gates at the crack of dawn in later weeks, just a steady flow instead.
Sony has been making a per-unit profit on the PS2 for years. It's going to take them a while to get the same on the PS3, but it'll likely happen too. The DVD format, BTW, was also a big cost for Sony when the PS2 came out, but it worked out well for them. Sony is arrogant, but not entirely stupid.
> I'd buy a 360 for their exclusives if it just came with a damn integrated wifi adapter.
I can never figure out the huge demand for this sort of thing. Are you in the habit of toting your console around to starbucks? Most people have a switch that has a wifi AP built into it, so it's not like it couldn't stream off your laptop anyway. I can see the appeal of one less wire, but it's a pretty minor aesthetic thing, considering that at the least you need the HDMI (or more likely the bulky component cable plus audio) and the gi-freakin-normous power supply connected too.
Your credence given to television news is just charmingly naïve. I really don't mean to come off as patronizing, but since when did parroting something that's so obviously bogus on its face make it into actual fact?
sorry, that should read "most peoples LinkedIn connections". I get these ridiculistic "Websurf too-period-oh" gizmotronic contrapulations confused all the time.
LinkedIn doesn't do ranking, and it certainly doesn't let you throw random goofy nonsense into your profile. Most peoples facebook connections look like a merge of the user's local area of the org chart of every company they've worked at.
If I ever go onto facebook, I don't think I'd go "ranking" my friends. Talk about an unfeature.
> The red-to-black has always been the theory explaining why its called Black Friday.
Possibly the most dubious backformation (i.e. "made up shit") I've ever heard. It's called Black Friday because it's a bad day to be in the trenches in retail.
> Emulating Intel and Nvidia hardware on a Power4 system with an ATI GPU it even more difficult than it sounds.
I doubt they needed to do any significant GPU emulation -- that's what DirectX is for. I suspect the games that used nVidia-specific graphics routines are probably the same ones that have graphical artifacting, lowered framerate, or just don't have compatibility. As for the x86, it's a really well-known target, and Microsoft bought the leading PPC->x86 emulator company.
The BC updates are also quite large, so a good chunk of it may be recompiles or large binary patches to the original titles.
I especially love how running eval() with code that has a syntax error causes the whole interpreter to completely exit. Writing an interactive REPL must be a total bitch.
It's rather like they took perl with all its faults, and stripped off what was left that it actually did right.
> No longer do you have to wade through some exchange with a computer to figure out if you have messages
Huh, I just hold down "1" for about 3 seconds and hear "you have no new messages". It's a digital control, no need to wiggle it til it responds. Blind users tend to like buttons as long as they've got tactile feedback.
Arguably, so is the Xenon. The Cell is perhaps better in some ways, but I don't think anything on the 360 has really yet taken advantage of all 6 cores either.
I really really really don't want to see anyone "win", because if they do, we lose. But Sony does need to do better. Given the media companies they own, not having movie download services from day 1 was just inexcusable. Do they even have it now?
I'll get a PS3 for the linux system when the framebuffer is even capable of playing HD video smoothly. The way it is now, even XBMC runs circles around it.
I'd agree that there's such a thing as a good moral code, but I think you'd have to agree there's a difference between legislating a repressive moral code on society at large versus enforcing a code of conduct on an individual ostensibly agreed to it beforehand.
Sorry, my own writers are on strike, but I see everyone else is busy mad-libbing their own attitudes toward their hate of all things sitcoms and reality tv as if that's all there ever was out there. You think you're gaining some kind of "cred" with your oh-so-jaded attitudes?
> So that must be why you can download and run 360 games?
Yeah, with a modchip that makes the DVD report all media as official. Gosh, a bit-for-bit copy of the game can fool the system, who'da thunk it. Of course I said it was completely bulletproof and uncrackable too. Golly, you're so smart, you sure showed me.
Disbarred. He's currently a member of the Bar, they want him off. Where the name "bar" comes from is something an actual lawyer will have to chime in and tell you. Probably an abbreviation of "barrister", though I don't know what that means either.
Actually, the specific sanction they're looking for isn't publicly known. But he's been up in front of the disciplinary panel before, and there's supposedly 50 separate ethics complaints, from different states, including claims of lying to clients and judges. I imagine the complaint is on pacer somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look for it right now (and pacer gets expensive whenever Jack Thompson is involved due to his love of numerous rambling polemic filings)
Jack Thompson is a "good thing" and if he gets disbarred he might be replaced by someone more intelligent to fight the cause he is fighting.
Yes, and if they conduct their campaign with the same ethics as John Bruce Thompson, they'll be disbarred too. Fred Phelps was disbarred, and he's still the sort of living boundary marker of the religious right everyone can point to. Don't imagine JT will stop making his silly squawking noises either.
Besides, JT isn't just about videogames -- he was an intolerant, intolerable sanctimonious, bullying, pouting, litigous son of a bitch before he ever heard of Grand Theft Auto. He's just getting some richly deserved payback, and that itself sends a message.
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> I'm sure others can think of plenty of other insanely improbable examples.
... :)
How about a fish that fed on the brainwaves of verbal activity, excreting thoughts compatible with the brain it's most proximate to, usually by way of it being stuck in one's ear.
But proof denies faith and all that
Yeah, look at how sqlite has languished by being public domain. No sooner was it released than it was snapped up and closed off and now no one can download the free version anymore.
I suspect they're doing it to be cute, and it's probably just recipes contributed by google employees. Here's the link to Hormel's take on it: http://www.spam.com/legal/spam/
7 core. One SPE's disabled, and another one is running the hypervisor. Only one of those cores is a full-blown CPU.
The Xenon's got 6 full cores at the same clock speed as the Cell's CPU core. They are in-order though, and well, it's sure been a bitch getting linux booting on it (there was a hack that succeeded, but it got patched and locked out. Those eFuses are a bitch.)
Hormel has been very cool about the whole "spam" label. I know, if they were to fight it now, they'd lose, but they didn't fight it even when there were commercial "Anti-Spam" products just hitting the market.
All they ask is one thing: that you not spell it in ALL-CAPS when referencing the email variety of spam. That's still their trademark. And I don't think it's too much to ask.
Black Friday is generally not the highest sales day, but it is probably the biggest spike. The weekend before Christmas is traditionally the busiest, but most of the retail staff has gotten used to it. There also tend to be less people crashing the gates at the crack of dawn in later weeks, just a steady flow instead.
I've been in retail. It sucks. In general.
> I'm an owner of 4 dead PS2s, and one mildly working PS2.
And I've only ever owned one. The consistent factor here appears to be you.
Sony has been making a per-unit profit on the PS2 for years. It's going to take them a while to get the same on the PS3, but it'll likely happen too. The DVD format, BTW, was also a big cost for Sony when the PS2 came out, but it worked out well for them. Sony is arrogant, but not entirely stupid.
> I'd buy a 360 for their exclusives if it just came with a damn integrated wifi adapter.
I can never figure out the huge demand for this sort of thing. Are you in the habit of toting your console around to starbucks? Most people have a switch that has a wifi AP built into it, so it's not like it couldn't stream off your laptop anyway. I can see the appeal of one less wire, but it's a pretty minor aesthetic thing, considering that at the least you need the HDMI (or more likely the bulky component cable plus audio) and the gi-freakin-normous power supply connected too.
Your credence given to television news is just charmingly naïve. I really don't mean to come off as patronizing, but since when did parroting something that's so obviously bogus on its face make it into actual fact?
sorry, that should read "most peoples LinkedIn connections". I get these ridiculistic "Websurf too-period-oh" gizmotronic contrapulations confused all the time.
LinkedIn doesn't do ranking, and it certainly doesn't let you throw random goofy nonsense into your profile. Most peoples facebook connections look like a merge of the user's local area of the org chart of every company they've worked at.
If I ever go onto facebook, I don't think I'd go "ranking" my friends. Talk about an unfeature.
> The red-to-black has always been the theory explaining why its called Black Friday.
Possibly the most dubious backformation (i.e. "made up shit") I've ever heard. It's called Black Friday because it's a bad day to be in the trenches in retail.
> Emulating Intel and Nvidia hardware on a Power4 system with an ATI GPU it even more difficult than it sounds.
I doubt they needed to do any significant GPU emulation -- that's what DirectX is for. I suspect the games that used nVidia-specific graphics routines are probably the same ones that have graphical artifacting, lowered framerate, or just don't have compatibility. As for the x86, it's a really well-known target, and Microsoft bought the leading PPC->x86 emulator company.
The BC updates are also quite large, so a good chunk of it may be recompiles or large binary patches to the original titles.
> PHP should have been a template language for perl
It was a template language for perl, originally.
I especially love how running eval() with code that has a syntax error causes the whole interpreter to completely exit. Writing an interactive REPL must be a total bitch.
It's rather like they took perl with all its faults, and stripped off what was left that it actually did right.
> No longer do you have to wade through some exchange with a computer to figure out if you have messages
Huh, I just hold down "1" for about 3 seconds and hear "you have no new messages". It's a digital control, no need to wiggle it til it responds. Blind users tend to like buttons as long as they've got tactile feedback.
> The Cell processor inside the PS3 is way cool
Arguably, so is the Xenon. The Cell is perhaps better in some ways, but I don't think anything on the 360 has really yet taken advantage of all 6 cores either.
I really really really don't want to see anyone "win", because if they do, we lose. But Sony does need to do better. Given the media companies they own, not having movie download services from day 1 was just inexcusable. Do they even have it now?
I'll get a PS3 for the linux system when the framebuffer is even capable of playing HD video smoothly. The way it is now, even XBMC runs circles around it.
I'd agree that there's such a thing as a good moral code, but I think you'd have to agree there's a difference between legislating a repressive moral code on society at large versus enforcing a code of conduct on an individual ostensibly agreed to it beforehand.
<elitist crap>
<broad general dismissal>
Sorry, my own writers are on strike, but I see everyone else is busy mad-libbing their own attitudes toward their hate of all things sitcoms and reality tv as if that's all there ever was out there. You think you're gaining some kind of "cred" with your oh-so-jaded attitudes?
> So that must be why you can download and run 360 games?
Yeah, with a modchip that makes the DVD report all media as official. Gosh, a bit-for-bit copy of the game can fool the system, who'da thunk it. Of course I said it was completely bulletproof and uncrackable too. Golly, you're so smart, you sure showed me.
> extorsion
Is that when someone untwists your knickers?
Disbarred. He's currently a member of the Bar, they want him off. Where the name "bar" comes from is something an actual lawyer will have to chime in and tell you. Probably an abbreviation of "barrister", though I don't know what that means either.
Actually, the specific sanction they're looking for isn't publicly known. But he's been up in front of the disciplinary panel before, and there's supposedly 50 separate ethics complaints, from different states, including claims of lying to clients and judges. I imagine the complaint is on pacer somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look for it right now (and pacer gets expensive whenever Jack Thompson is involved due to his love of numerous rambling polemic filings)
Jack Thompson is a "good thing" and if he gets disbarred he might be replaced by someone more intelligent to fight the cause he is fighting.
Yes, and if they conduct their campaign with the same ethics as John Bruce Thompson, they'll be disbarred too. Fred Phelps was disbarred, and he's still the sort of living boundary marker of the religious right everyone can point to. Don't imagine JT will stop making his silly squawking noises either.
Besides, JT isn't just about videogames -- he was an intolerant, intolerable sanctimonious, bullying, pouting, litigous son of a bitch before he ever heard of Grand Theft Auto. He's just getting some richly deserved payback, and that itself sends a message.
The 360 has a hypervisor too. It's just smaller. Probably more secure as a result, too.