This article is based on Left4Dead 2, which use DirectX9. It's not relevant anymore. It's from years ago. Microsoft improved DirectX A LOT since then.
Yes, now DirectX takes up even more memory, is even more unstable and I have even more version installed than ever before.
PC Graphics have not improved since Crysis in 2007. The Technologies improved, maybe even DirectX but the developers have not. One of the big things MS has screwed up with Direct is is backwards compatibility, so a lot of Dev's are still doing Direct X 9 because going DX 10/11 only cuts out a lot of their potential market.
Add the effects of Consolisation into this one and graphics will not improve unless there is a major change in the industry.
We're long passed time to get onto OpenGL. In the late 90's there were a few of OpenGL game on Windows (Homeworld for one) but since then video card manufacturers have dropped the ball on OpenGL and developers have become complacent and lazy relying on DirectX. It's going to be pretty difficult to stop mainstream devs from suckling at the teat of DirectX and to get ATI/Nvidia to pick up their game.
Now instead of no-name or proxy companies holding giants hostage, the giants themselves will become the hostage takers,
Wrong, this is the current scenario.
Joe Little Guy can only afford a $100/h lawyer despite having a rock sold case is killed by delaying tactics from $1000/h lawyers from Giant Corp. It doesn't matter if Giant Corp is right or wrong, they can use this system to beat the little guy senseless with delaying tactics.
However if Giant Corp had to pay Joe Little Guy's lawyers at the end, it doesn't matter how long they delay the case (in fact it just increases the amount they have to pay) and Joe can afford a higher priced lawyer if he has a rock solid case as it will be Giant Corp paying the bill (so Joe Little Guy's budget doesn't matter).
The situation you describe does not and has not occurred in nations with a loser pays system. It does occur in the American system.
That's a problem of games downgraded to play on consoles, either technically, or because console players want simple games to have fun, not necessarily ridiculously complex games like PC gamers.
I dont think there is anything wrong with simple games. The problem is when they try to create more complex games and dumb them down for the console by having the computer take over functions handled by the computer. Every FPS on consoles has a shocking amount of auto-aim, all a player needs to do is point in the general direction and press the "go" button
Bioshock II was still a great game, but it was strictly inferior to the first, and vastly less complicated and confusing. Your mileage will vary according to this though.
Bioshock 1 was terrible disappointment. Dumbed down user interface, no inventory management, the players hand held (highlighting of usable objects, no way to really die). It was so disappointing I never bothered with any of the successors.
This is a serious problem but I was referring to graphics, the PS3 is a 8 year old PC and the Xbox360 is a 10 year old PC hardware wise. They aren't capable of supporting graphics that my 2008 PC could do, no FSAA but developers want to try to make graphics look better without newer hardware. So you end up with a lot of cheap looking bloom and dust effects (or other particle effects) and more of them as you cant use more modern effects. So many of these effects are used inproperly with consoles, Mass Effect is a big offender on the bloom/lens flare front whilst CoD overuses the dust effects like they're going out of fashion.
Er... I think it's a bit much to refer to the PS3's Cell CPU as 'off-the-shelf'!
Apart from a few niche PCI development boards, the PS3 was pretty much the only thing to use the Cell.
Excluding the Wii and the Xbox 360 of course, both of which use the similar Cell processors all of which are Power Architecture (as used in IBM's System P line and at the time of the PS3's release aslo used in Macs). Calling them custom built processors is a stretch at best when IBM have been selling them in other systems for years before the PS3 or Xbox 360.
GEICO and Progressive ad campaigns generate giggles, but they're being dumped because they actually don't generate any increase in revenue.
Such ad campaigns are deliberately designed to be annoying. They know its a negative effect but they also know it gets in your head. You're more likely to remember something you dislike rather than so the theory goes you'll remember the name Progressive or GEICO because you dislike their ads. This unfortunately does work, but not all the time. Most people aren't smart enough to determine why they remember "progressive" let alone make a conscious decision to avoid them because of their annoying ad (more often than not, these are the people who claim "advertising doesn't affect them").
Personally I can't see how anyone thought it was a good move to label Apple technicians "Geniuses". If they were geniuses, they would be doing something useful.
Apple thought it did. Apple needs to maintain the image that their products are for the "discerning" and "Intelligent" buyer despite the opposite being true (don't know how to use a computer, get a Mac because they're soooo simple). You cant have such a person serviced by an ordinary technician. No, they have to be serviced by a genius even if all the genius can say is buy a new Mac.
When you see someone getting out of a BMW in a BMW ad, they are a suave mid 30's business man in well tailored suit, square jaw, slightly ruffled hair, a hint of stubble and possibly an attractive woman in a low cut dress in the passenger side. Why do they use this image instead of Billy-Bob in his latest designer flannel (the on with only two holes in it)? Because BMW need to maintain an image of luxury and exclusiveness despite their cars becoming more common.
People say that there is no such thing as bad publicity. That isn't the case. Ask BP what it was like to be in the news constantly for the oil spill.
The saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity" is true when you're not trying to manipulate public opinion/thoughts.
This is true for a lot of companies, just to get or stay in the public consciousness. Companies like Microsoft, McDonalds, Citibank and Walmart aren't really hurt by negative publicity and benefit by it by simply being mentioned. Even BP wasn't harmed by the negative publicity from the oil spill, they were harmed more by the loss of production (x barrels per day removed from the revenue stream).
However the reverse is true for companies that are trying to maintain an image such as Apple, BMW and Rolex. If the "Prius" control error happened to a BMW (or Lexus, considering many Lexus' are just re-badged Toyota's) the brand would have suffered greatly, losing a chunk of it's luxury status. As it stands, Toyota is still considered a highly reliable brand despite the Prius issues. Because Apple needs everyone to think a certain way about it to support its business model, negative publicity is very harmful to them. Hell, this is why Toyota and Lexus are different brands, no one likes a Camry, Land Cruisers are too blue collar so a Toyota can never be luxury, but a Lexus... well that's different(TM).
If dressing better helps me earn a larger paycheck or get the next promotion then I'm all for it.
It doesn't.
There are two ways to get a raise or promotion.
1. Get the boss to like you.
2. Earn it through good work.
I've see so many useless people who spend a lot of time preening themselves wonder why they get passed over for promotion by scruffy people wearing un-ironed shirts. The reason for this is because the scruffy individual has proven they can handle the job and have earned a lot of real money for the company. Put simply, they dont look like a million dollars, they are a million dollars.
Within a few weeks of my arrival the office in general started dressing better. Now even those in the casual camp are dressing better and putting in some effort to personal appearance.
I used to play a lot of games when I was younger and cut my teeth on titles like Doom, Quake, Half-Life, on up to Far Cry and Half-Life 2 where I kind of got away from the whole thing. Recently I made a Windows install and decided to see what state the industry was in these days. My God was I blown away by the lighting and effects in Crysis Warhead. But equally I came away puzzled that it just didn't seem like I could "see" anything. It all just looked the same to me. Enemies blended into the background and everything just seemed to be running together. I thought maybe I was getting old so its nice to see somebody else agrees with my sentiments.
Crysis Warhead would not be a good example, it was designed to be visually disorienting and that was used very well in its gameplay (same with FarCry and Crysis). I understand what you're saying, a lot of modern games are like that unintentionally.
However graphics have not improved since Crysis (Crysis and Warhead had the same engine, it just ran a hell of a lot better in Warhead) and that was 2008 IIRC. I played Deus Ex:HR recently and couldn't notice a single improvement, in fact they covered up a lot with bloom. I found a lot of textures in DX:HR to be too low resolution for most monitors (I run a 24" 1920x1200, considering a lot of PC's now run 1920x1080 it's not that far off from the average) and it became extremely obvious they were not designed to be veiwed on PC monitors. Most notably the posters which had the titles in letters but the actual text was scribblings.
But DX:HR's problem was not the textures, rather the bloom which is why a lot of games tend to have to highlight objects the player can interact with. Rather than creating proper detail, they use the graphical equivalent of cheap parlor tricks (like trying to kill the player with bloom). Reading the article they point out the level of detail in older games like System Shock 2 or the original Deus Ex where there was a lot of detail in the background but it did not overwhelm what the player was doing in the foreground. A lot of little things in DX I didn't notice until the 2nd or 3rd play through and I thought this was a nice touch.
I dont think games have too much detail, in fact I don't think they have enough detail but modern games have too much of the wrong detail, bloom, dirt/dust effects and so on used too much or incorrectly so developers have to compensate by coating interact-able objects in bright yellow highlight so the player knows they are there.
So the question becomes, who will get screwed over the hardest? Right now I'm betting on Samsung, simply because Apple has way more... um... "thermonuclear" experience.
Actually I'd say Apple because they have more experience at losing court cases and Samsung have a much faster release schedule (So if Apple by some force of corruption gains a ban on the Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S5 will be mere weeks away from release, Apple haven't released a new phone in 3 or 4 years).
Thats pretty much the crux of the law suit. Apple does not want to compete on fair grounds with other manufacturers so they are using the legal system to try to prevent competitors from competing.
As for the case itself, Apple has a greater chance of losing because they made the claim. They have to prove it conclusively whilst Samsung only have to cause enough doubt on Apple's claim to prevent them from doing that (I.E Samsung don't have to conclusively disprove Apple's claim).
You've got to shift your viewpoint a little if you want to understand what's going on around you. The idea that free speech is the most holy ideal is rubbish. Naturally people generally don't want the government to have the power to suppress political speech and the like, but at some point you have to decide things like if it's reasonable to have some right to privacy (like in your own home), and how far these other rights extend when in conflict with each other.
This kid chose to reach out into a public place to harass and intimidate someone. If you allow people to be chased out of public light by intimidation and harassment then you wind up with less freedom, as your personal freedoms to pursue things like sports are hindered by those who would hide behind free speech.
I understand you're pointing out the "Fire in a crowded theater" exception to free speech but what the kid wrote wasn't too bad. Yep he was an idiot but at best the he should have had a stern talking to by the cops and his parents.
Even with Hendrix, compare Little Wing to All Along the Watch Tower to Star Spangled Banner.
That's not really relevant, because at least the two latter ones are both cover songs: AAtWT was written and performed by Bob Dylan first, and SSB obviously was not Jimi's own song, though he certainly added his own interpretation of it. I can point to lots of bands that released albums full of cover songs. Heck, I'm sure if Katy Perry made an album of cover songs, they'd also sound different from each other.
Theres a lot of other Hendrix songs I could list such as Purple Haze.
As to your second point, Destiny's Child (Beyonce) did a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit, it sounded remarkably like their other songs (in fact it was one of their other songs over the music for Teen Spirit). Dont be so certain Katy Perry is even capable of performing a different style, from my perspective it's a fairly bad assumption.
Thanks for the sarcasm, snark, and general condescension which eclipse an otherwise valid point. You're a real asset to the Internet.
He was right and he did eclipse your point completely, the big difference is your point was so far from valid it could have been in a completely different universe.
Gmail's "tags" operate in the same fashion as Outlook's "folders" with one really, really big exception... I can have the same email in more than one tag. For example if I wanted to reference an email in regards to multiple technolgoies (I.E. "Nagios" and "Citrix") I can do this in Gmail but not in Outlook (it could only go in the "Nagios" _OR_ "Citrix" folder).
When I put a tag on an email, it puts it in a folder, when I remove a tag it removes it from that folder. The difference is just in the name.
It goes to show how "developed" India is, when it actually has a sewage crisis, water crisis and now this.
Depends where in India. Like most developing countries there are cities and towns that look like they rival the top modern European and American cities. Then drive 20 K's out of town and find shanties and shacks. Take a look at Bangkok (Thailand, I know but you're more likely to go there than India), in the Rachetwan district (city centre) you'll find glass skyscrapers, BMW dealerships, chain stores and banks. Take a 10 minute ride on the Skytrain and you'll find this changes very quickly, buildings with corrugated tin walls, very run down apartment blocks and so forth. Just like in the west, the best infrastructure tends to coalesce where money is concentrated its just a lot more obvious in the developing world.
This is one of the big reasons Communist parties are so popular in the poorer regions of India, very little infrastructure is built there.
These days consoles are generally far more powerful than your average PC with custom hardware
Wow, spoken like someone who's just guessing.
The consoles are NOT more powerful then PC's, do you even read what's going on?
This, Consoles are PC hardware that's now 6-8 years out of date. The PS3 runs an off the shelf Geforce 6 series GPU (6600 or 6800 from memory) combined with off the shelf IBM Cell processors and a pitifully small amount of RAM. It was never more powerful than a PC, not even on it's release day.
Nividia have released 10, count them 10, new GPU series since releasing the GPU being sold in PS3's today. It wasn't even cutting edge when it was released, I was running a Geforce 8800 GT in my PC on that day.
That's the template used by NBC for their CORPORATE emails. Replace "first.last" with the name of any exec and that's the amazingly private super-secret personal details the journalist had his account killed for.
The NBC executive was called Gary Zenkel.
This post would be a violation of Twitters TOS!
The problem with this is that Gary.Zenkel@nbcuni.com goes to his personal assistant(s). A direct email would be something like GZ1324@nbcuni.com. Seeing as it would appear as "Gary Zenkel" to people who have him in their address book (read: anyone who is permitted to mail him directly). Either that or his email address is configured not to accept mail from external sources. This is a basic self preservation measure for high ranking execs who are high priority targets to spammers, scammers and hawkers.
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This article is based on Left4Dead 2, which use DirectX9. It's not relevant anymore. It's from years ago. Microsoft improved DirectX A LOT since then.
Yes, now DirectX takes up even more memory, is even more unstable and I have even more version installed than ever before.
PC Graphics have not improved since Crysis in 2007. The Technologies improved, maybe even DirectX but the developers have not. One of the big things MS has screwed up with Direct is is backwards compatibility, so a lot of Dev's are still doing Direct X 9 because going DX 10/11 only cuts out a lot of their potential market.
Add the effects of Consolisation into this one and graphics will not improve unless there is a major change in the industry.
Insightful
Is it time: Yes
Will it happen: No
We're long passed time to get onto OpenGL. In the late 90's there were a few of OpenGL game on Windows (Homeworld for one) but since then video card manufacturers have dropped the ball on OpenGL and developers have become complacent and lazy relying on DirectX. It's going to be pretty difficult to stop mainstream devs from suckling at the teat of DirectX and to get ATI/Nvidia to pick up their game.
trouncing them because Samsung is a shit company that can't create anything in the consumer space worth owning
Show me an Apple smartphone that can do half of what Galaxy Nexus can, then we'll talk.
Half, you are a harsh taskmaster.
I would have said a quarter of what the Galaxy Nexus can do.
Wrong, this is the current scenario.
/h lawyer despite having a rock sold case is killed by delaying tactics from $1000 /h lawyers from Giant Corp. It doesn't matter if Giant Corp is right or wrong, they can use this system to beat the little guy senseless with delaying tactics.
Joe Little Guy can only afford a $100
However if Giant Corp had to pay Joe Little Guy's lawyers at the end, it doesn't matter how long they delay the case (in fact it just increases the amount they have to pay) and Joe can afford a higher priced lawyer if he has a rock solid case as it will be Giant Corp paying the bill (so Joe Little Guy's budget doesn't matter).
The situation you describe does not and has not occurred in nations with a loser pays system. It does occur in the American system.
That's a problem of games downgraded to play on consoles, either technically, or because console players want simple games to have fun, not necessarily ridiculously complex games like PC gamers.
I dont think there is anything wrong with simple games. The problem is when they try to create more complex games and dumb them down for the console by having the computer take over functions handled by the computer. Every FPS on consoles has a shocking amount of auto-aim, all a player needs to do is point in the general direction and press the "go" button
Bioshock II was still a great game, but it was strictly inferior to the first, and vastly less complicated and confusing. Your mileage will vary according to this though.
Bioshock 1 was terrible disappointment. Dumbed down user interface, no inventory management, the players hand held (highlighting of usable objects, no way to really die). It was so disappointing I never bothered with any of the successors.
This is a serious problem but I was referring to graphics, the PS3 is a 8 year old PC and the Xbox360 is a 10 year old PC hardware wise. They aren't capable of supporting graphics that my 2008 PC could do, no FSAA but developers want to try to make graphics look better without newer hardware. So you end up with a lot of cheap looking bloom and dust effects (or other particle effects) and more of them as you cant use more modern effects. So many of these effects are used inproperly with consoles, Mass Effect is a big offender on the bloom/lens flare front whilst CoD overuses the dust effects like they're going out of fashion.
Er... I think it's a bit much to refer to the PS3's Cell CPU as 'off-the-shelf'!
Apart from a few niche PCI development boards, the PS3 was pretty much the only thing to use the Cell.
Excluding the Wii and the Xbox 360 of course, both of which use the similar Cell processors all of which are Power Architecture (as used in IBM's System P line and at the time of the PS3's release aslo used in Macs). Calling them custom built processors is a stretch at best when IBM have been selling them in other systems for years before the PS3 or Xbox 360.
These two articles should help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture
Broadway is the Cell used in the Wii and Xenon in the Xbox360.
GEICO and Progressive ad campaigns generate giggles, but they're being dumped because they actually don't generate any increase in revenue.
Such ad campaigns are deliberately designed to be annoying. They know its a negative effect but they also know it gets in your head. You're more likely to remember something you dislike rather than so the theory goes you'll remember the name Progressive or GEICO because you dislike their ads. This unfortunately does work, but not all the time. Most people aren't smart enough to determine why they remember "progressive" let alone make a conscious decision to avoid them because of their annoying ad (more often than not, these are the people who claim "advertising doesn't affect them").
Personally I can't see how anyone thought it was a good move to label Apple technicians "Geniuses". If they were geniuses, they would be doing something useful.
Apple thought it did. Apple needs to maintain the image that their products are for the "discerning" and "Intelligent" buyer despite the opposite being true (don't know how to use a computer, get a Mac because they're soooo simple). You cant have such a person serviced by an ordinary technician. No, they have to be serviced by a genius even if all the genius can say is buy a new Mac.
When you see someone getting out of a BMW in a BMW ad, they are a suave mid 30's business man in well tailored suit, square jaw, slightly ruffled hair, a hint of stubble and possibly an attractive woman in a low cut dress in the passenger side. Why do they use this image instead of Billy-Bob in his latest designer flannel (the on with only two holes in it)? Because BMW need to maintain an image of luxury and exclusiveness despite their cars becoming more common.
People say that there is no such thing as bad publicity. That isn't the case. Ask BP what it was like to be in the news constantly for the oil spill.
The saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity" is true when you're not trying to manipulate public opinion/thoughts.
This is true for a lot of companies, just to get or stay in the public consciousness. Companies like Microsoft, McDonalds, Citibank and Walmart aren't really hurt by negative publicity and benefit by it by simply being mentioned. Even BP wasn't harmed by the negative publicity from the oil spill, they were harmed more by the loss of production (x barrels per day removed from the revenue stream).
However the reverse is true for companies that are trying to maintain an image such as Apple, BMW and Rolex. If the "Prius" control error happened to a BMW (or Lexus, considering many Lexus' are just re-badged Toyota's) the brand would have suffered greatly, losing a chunk of it's luxury status. As it stands, Toyota is still considered a highly reliable brand despite the Prius issues. Because Apple needs everyone to think a certain way about it to support its business model, negative publicity is very harmful to them. Hell, this is why Toyota and Lexus are different brands, no one likes a Camry, Land Cruisers are too blue collar so a Toyota can never be luxury, but a Lexus... well that's different(TM).
and insist that everyone call you Captain.
Erm, Captain.
Command staff wear gold shirts, not red. Now kindly stand over there and wait for that console to explode.
If dressing better helps me earn a larger paycheck or get the next promotion then I'm all for it.
It doesn't.
There are two ways to get a raise or promotion.
1. Get the boss to like you.
2. Earn it through good work.
I've see so many useless people who spend a lot of time preening themselves wonder why they get passed over for promotion by scruffy people wearing un-ironed shirts. The reason for this is because the scruffy individual has proven they can handle the job and have earned a lot of real money for the company. Put simply, they dont look like a million dollars, they are a million dollars.
Within a few weeks of my arrival the office in general started dressing better. Now even those in the casual camp are dressing better and putting in some effort to personal appearance.
Just so you know: your coworkers hate you.
They dont hate him, They pity him.
If he had common sense do you really think he would be asking a bunch of nerds for fashion advice?
You are assuming it's a He. You fail common sense (see submitter's name for reasonable doubt).
You're assuming that just because the submitter is using a female name they are actually female.
I could be a dog in Sweden for all you know.
Whinging is coming.
I used to play a lot of games when I was younger and cut my teeth on titles like Doom, Quake, Half-Life, on up to Far Cry and Half-Life 2 where I kind of got away from the whole thing. Recently I made a Windows install and decided to see what state the industry was in these days. My God was I blown away by the lighting and effects in Crysis Warhead. But equally I came away puzzled that it just didn't seem like I could "see" anything. It all just looked the same to me. Enemies blended into the background and everything just seemed to be running together. I thought maybe I was getting old so its nice to see somebody else agrees with my sentiments.
Crysis Warhead would not be a good example, it was designed to be visually disorienting and that was used very well in its gameplay (same with FarCry and Crysis). I understand what you're saying, a lot of modern games are like that unintentionally.
However graphics have not improved since Crysis (Crysis and Warhead had the same engine, it just ran a hell of a lot better in Warhead) and that was 2008 IIRC. I played Deus Ex:HR recently and couldn't notice a single improvement, in fact they covered up a lot with bloom. I found a lot of textures in DX:HR to be too low resolution for most monitors (I run a 24" 1920x1200, considering a lot of PC's now run 1920x1080 it's not that far off from the average) and it became extremely obvious they were not designed to be veiwed on PC monitors. Most notably the posters which had the titles in letters but the actual text was scribblings.
But DX:HR's problem was not the textures, rather the bloom which is why a lot of games tend to have to highlight objects the player can interact with. Rather than creating proper detail, they use the graphical equivalent of cheap parlor tricks (like trying to kill the player with bloom). Reading the article they point out the level of detail in older games like System Shock 2 or the original Deus Ex where there was a lot of detail in the background but it did not overwhelm what the player was doing in the foreground. A lot of little things in DX I didn't notice until the 2nd or 3rd play through and I thought this was a nice touch.
I dont think games have too much detail, in fact I don't think they have enough detail but modern games have too much of the wrong detail, bloom, dirt/dust effects and so on used too much or incorrectly so developers have to compensate by coating interact-able objects in bright yellow highlight so the player knows they are there.
So the question becomes, who will get screwed over the hardest? Right now I'm betting on Samsung, simply because Apple has way more... um... "thermonuclear" experience.
Actually I'd say Apple because they have more experience at losing court cases and Samsung have a much faster release schedule (So if Apple by some force of corruption gains a ban on the Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S5 will be mere weeks away from release, Apple haven't released a new phone in 3 or 4 years).
Thats pretty much the crux of the law suit. Apple does not want to compete on fair grounds with other manufacturers so they are using the legal system to try to prevent competitors from competing.
As for the case itself, Apple has a greater chance of losing because they made the claim. They have to prove it conclusively whilst Samsung only have to cause enough doubt on Apple's claim to prevent them from doing that (I.E Samsung don't have to conclusively disprove Apple's claim).
The V for Vendetta universe is HERE!
Ain't it quaint when they call it the "free" world?
That world isn't here until we have a FORMER united states.
You've got to shift your viewpoint a little if you want to understand what's going on around you. The idea that free speech is the most holy ideal is rubbish. Naturally people generally don't want the government to have the power to suppress political speech and the like, but at some point you have to decide things like if it's reasonable to have some right to privacy (like in your own home), and how far these other rights extend when in conflict with each other. This kid chose to reach out into a public place to harass and intimidate someone. If you allow people to be chased out of public light by intimidation and harassment then you wind up with less freedom, as your personal freedoms to pursue things like sports are hindered by those who would hide behind free speech.
I understand you're pointing out the "Fire in a crowded theater" exception to free speech but what the kid wrote wasn't too bad. Yep he was an idiot but at best the he should have had a stern talking to by the cops and his parents.
Even with Hendrix, compare Little Wing to All Along the Watch Tower to Star Spangled Banner.
That's not really relevant, because at least the two latter ones are both cover songs: AAtWT was written and performed by Bob Dylan first, and SSB obviously was not Jimi's own song, though he certainly added his own interpretation of it. I can point to lots of bands that released albums full of cover songs. Heck, I'm sure if Katy Perry made an album of cover songs, they'd also sound different from each other.
Theres a lot of other Hendrix songs I could list such as Purple Haze.
As to your second point, Destiny's Child (Beyonce) did a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit, it sounded remarkably like their other songs (in fact it was one of their other songs over the music for Teen Spirit). Dont be so certain Katy Perry is even capable of performing a different style, from my perspective it's a fairly bad assumption.
Thanks for the sarcasm, snark, and general condescension which eclipse an otherwise valid point. You're a real asset to the Internet.
He was right and he did eclipse your point completely, the big difference is your point was so far from valid it could have been in a completely different universe.
Gmail's "tags" operate in the same fashion as Outlook's "folders" with one really, really big exception... I can have the same email in more than one tag. For example if I wanted to reference an email in regards to multiple technolgoies (I.E. "Nagios" and "Citrix") I can do this in Gmail but not in Outlook (it could only go in the "Nagios" _OR_ "Citrix" folder).
When I put a tag on an email, it puts it in a folder, when I remove a tag it removes it from that folder. The difference is just in the name.
It goes to show how "developed" India is, when it actually has a sewage crisis, water crisis and now this.
Depends where in India. Like most developing countries there are cities and towns that look like they rival the top modern European and American cities. Then drive 20 K's out of town and find shanties and shacks. Take a look at Bangkok (Thailand, I know but you're more likely to go there than India), in the Rachetwan district (city centre) you'll find glass skyscrapers, BMW dealerships, chain stores and banks. Take a 10 minute ride on the Skytrain and you'll find this changes very quickly, buildings with corrugated tin walls, very run down apartment blocks and so forth. Just like in the west, the best infrastructure tends to coalesce where money is concentrated its just a lot more obvious in the developing world.
This is one of the big reasons Communist parties are so popular in the poorer regions of India, very little infrastructure is built there.
These days consoles are generally far more powerful than your average PC with custom hardware
Wow, spoken like someone who's just guessing.
The consoles are NOT more powerful then PC's, do you even read what's going on?
This, Consoles are PC hardware that's now 6-8 years out of date. The PS3 runs an off the shelf Geforce 6 series GPU (6600 or 6800 from memory) combined with off the shelf IBM Cell processors and a pitifully small amount of RAM. It was never more powerful than a PC, not even on it's release day.
Nividia have released 10, count them 10, new GPU series since releasing the GPU being sold in PS3's today. It wasn't even cutting edge when it was released, I was running a Geforce 8800 GT in my PC on that day.
first.last@nbcuni.com
That's the template used by NBC for their CORPORATE emails. Replace "first.last" with the name of any exec and that's the amazingly private super-secret personal details the journalist had his account killed for.
The NBC executive was called Gary Zenkel.
This post would be a violation of Twitters TOS!
The problem with this is that Gary.Zenkel@nbcuni.com goes to his personal assistant(s). A direct email would be something like GZ1324@nbcuni.com. Seeing as it would appear as "Gary Zenkel" to people who have him in their address book (read: anyone who is permitted to mail him directly). Either that or his email address is configured not to accept mail from external sources. This is a basic self preservation measure for high ranking execs who are high priority targets to spammers, scammers and hawkers.
Those Americans, cant even speak proper Spanish.
Yes. I'm still wondering why Murdoch and his FOX ties to hacking haven't resulted in an arrest. Why are CEO's immune while 'regular' people are not?
I believe the two in question are Asian 'regular' people.