Yeah, China accidentally...... had swedish DNS and US/Chile ISPs accidentally route through Chinese servers? Pretty sure the Chinese government can't control stupidity, unless you are suggesting that they have mind control abilities.
Well it was a silly point since kent state videos aren't banned in us anyways (AFAIK). The rest of it is totally true. I'm sure you could probably think of a video that fits other than kent state too.
Is Professor Xavier being politically correct nowadays? Being 48,000 years old is a cool super power but she's dead so I fail to see how she could help fellow mutants.
If the source is verified to be wikileaks does it matter what site they post on? I hate twitter, and I mean, quite a bit. But it doesn't make info posted on their less valid. Just less thorough.
Yeah, and that helps the workers. But just because the chinese workers can prove they are innocent doesn't mean they won't have people against them. Like in the U.S. the government hired lawyers for GITMO detainees being called al queada seven. I can see something similar but government supported happening towards these employees.
Yeah, bill gates and warren buffet the two people who have donated more to charity than anyone else are clearly evil. And them not publicizing every little talk they have is secret evil. Fucking conpiracy theorist nuts.
My bad on LEDs, poor fact checking on my part. And inkjet printers were really group invented but I'd give siemens the majority of the credit.
As for IBM there isn't really two companies. And there is no such thing as IBM Personal Computing. So I assumed you meant IBM which is clearly far FAR more innovative.
"International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an information technology (IT) company. The Company operates under five segments: Global Technology Services segment (GTS); Global Business Services segment (GBS); Software segment; System and Technology segment, and Global Financing segment."
No, the problem is that your BOSS upset the status quo which might result in you being unhireable jobless and perhaps tossed in a prison. If Google went to their employees and said 'alright guys, here is what we are going to do, if you dont want to risk it you can quit now'. Maybe they did, but I doubt it. So you can see the unfairness.
Agreed that the Chinese people lose. But.... So does the Chinese government and so does Google. Google is throwing away MANY MANY millions of dollars maybe billions to do what they think is right. And China is getting a fuck ton of bad press, and their science industry is hurt by this, hurting the people does hurt the goverment.
Dell invented direct purchases which lowered costs. And they came up with customer customization. Which made building computers yourself fairly redundant, it used to be neccessary to build yourself to get a good computer you liked. They also started on-site service.
HP invented LEDs which you've likely seen. Higly accurate timers/clocks (used for telecommunications/satelites). Programmable calculators. Highly accurate measuring laser (used in computer fabrication). Advanced chromatography which helped with chemical analysis. Inkjet printers, molecular logic gates, DVD-RW. Made memory chips smaller and developed a possible replacement for some transistors.
IBM puts the rest of them to shame though. I mean they've been awarded MULTIPLE nobel prizes in physics. Invented fractals... you know that mr. mandelbrot guy, worked at IBM. The best think to come from IBM.... I'd have to say hard-drives. High-temperature super-conductors are good too. Same with DRAM, scanning tunnelling microscopes and FORTRAN. Also, they are the ones that moved from aluminum wires to copper interconnects which was a huge boost in efficiency.
I'm not saying Apple wasn't innovative. It wasn't bad really. But saying Apple is more innovative than IBM is truly insane.
They have such computers. You can fill a computer with liquid and then use a bubble machine from a fish tank to keep it cool enough. That is if you are looking for performance. BUT people have also made no moving parts computers with low heat/power chips. And huge ass heatsinks. So it is totally doable.
I don't keep music on my laptop either. Have 70,000songs on the server though... Spinning disks on that all the way. But I could see using an ssd in my laptop.
Once copyright issues get worked out CDs and the like will die at an alarming rate. Nearly everyone will have access to the net so buying things on disk will become pointless.
Xerox made the mouse, not apple. As well, Xerox designed a PDA device... was never made but the GridPad preceded the Newton. The newton flopped anyways, followed by PDAs flopping in favour of smartphones (Which was all Nokia btw). But yes, the newton was more pocketable than the gridpad, So I give points for that.
3 button mice were around in 1968, Apple's first mouse came out in 1983, their first 2 button mouse in... 2005? and it had glitchy sensors so that it could still look like 1 button.
For the DS there are animation apps, ebook readers, todo lists/calendars/agendas, messenger clients like msn, alarm clocks, video/mp3players (one is a clone of the ipod, circle scroll and all), manga readers, oekaki apps, web browsers, all kinds of musical apps (pianos to fully featured synth apps), VNC to your PC or ssh, and a shit tons of games.
TBH it is almost as good as a phone with windows mobile. So.. thats a pretty big homebrew group.
DS is wicked easy to play custom games on. Hell there are dozens of apps that are actually useful for the DS. And the only thing you need to run homebrew games/roms costs sub 20$. So if they tried to stop people from doing so it was a really pitiful attempt.
Gimmicks that become standards are called innovations.
And the DS is a game system, for you know, FUN. Slashing a sword by slashing your screen is FUN. I imagine looking around the little world by moving your head (or tilting 'the world') will also be FUN.
And if you read the fucking article you'd realize you were talking about the wrong thing entirely. This is not about 3d as in different images to each eye. This is 3d as in perspective changes as you move your head. This creates a window effect, as in, it feels like the screen is a window rather than a flat surface with pictures. I can imagine all kinds of games where you are looking in on things. With tilt sensors you could make it even better. Imagine you are looking inside a box of creatures. And by shaking the ds or rocking it from side to side you can complete various puzzles.
Of course some implementations will feel gimmicky BUT. Gimmicks can be fun in this case. A little taste of the unexpected is good. The machine showing you something you wouldn't have guessed. For example, in the phantom hourglass, there is a part in the game where you have to transfer a seal (displayed on top screen) to a paper (on the bottom screen), to pass you have to close the DS, which of course presses the two together, brilliant. Forcing you to think outside the box or in different ways is a good thing.
What enhances fun for you if not new and unexpected experiences?
3d is the future though. Even if it is also eye-candy there is good reasoning for having it. If you went back 1000 years and asked if people wanted a 2d or 3d display they'd all say 3d. You are just USED to 2d. So no, it isn't a fad at all.
But there is another way to get 3d... it IS called the DS. Just hold your face realllly close and you can get 3d by having different images on each screen. tada. While stupid looking I don't imagine that is a big issue.
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And laser printers could be given to them all and still save money.
Ya think that'd have been in the article then huh...
Yeah, China accidentally...... had swedish DNS and US/Chile ISPs accidentally route through Chinese servers? Pretty sure the Chinese government can't control stupidity, unless you are suggesting that they have mind control abilities.
Well it was a silly point since kent state videos aren't banned in us anyways (AFAIK). The rest of it is totally true. I'm sure you could probably think of a video that fits other than kent state too.
Is Professor Xavier being politically correct nowadays? Being 48,000 years old is a cool super power but she's dead so I fail to see how she could help fellow mutants.
If the source is verified to be wikileaks does it matter what site they post on? I hate twitter, and I mean, quite a bit. But it doesn't make info posted on their less valid. Just less thorough.
Yeah, and that helps the workers. But just because the chinese workers can prove they are innocent doesn't mean they won't have people against them. Like in the U.S. the government hired lawyers for GITMO detainees being called al queada seven. I can see something similar but government supported happening towards these employees.
Yeah, bill gates and warren buffet the two people who have donated more to charity than anyone else are clearly evil. And them not publicizing every little talk they have is secret evil. Fucking conpiracy theorist nuts.
My bad on LEDs, poor fact checking on my part. And inkjet printers were really group invented but I'd give siemens the majority of the credit.
As for IBM there isn't really two companies. And there is no such thing as IBM Personal Computing. So I assumed you meant IBM which is clearly far FAR more innovative.
"International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an information technology (IT) company. The Company operates under five segments: Global Technology Services segment (GTS); Global Business Services segment (GBS); Software segment; System and Technology segment, and Global Financing segment."
The goal would be giving access to information for the Chinese people. NOT gaming... I know this is /. but even so priorities!
3:1 still (Fascinating that the average chinese person weighs 75% of that of an american almost EXACTLY.... 180lbs vs 135lbs)
No, the problem is that your BOSS upset the status quo which might result in you being unhireable jobless and perhaps tossed in a prison. If Google went to their employees and said 'alright guys, here is what we are going to do, if you dont want to risk it you can quit now'. Maybe they did, but I doubt it. So you can see the unfairness.
Agreed that the Chinese people lose. But.... So does the Chinese government and so does Google. Google is throwing away MANY MANY millions of dollars maybe billions to do what they think is right. And China is getting a fuck ton of bad press, and their science industry is hurt by this, hurting the people does hurt the goverment.
Dell invented direct purchases which lowered costs. And they came up with customer customization. Which made building computers yourself fairly redundant, it used to be neccessary to build yourself to get a good computer you liked. They also started on-site service.
HP invented LEDs which you've likely seen. Higly accurate timers/clocks (used for telecommunications/satelites). Programmable calculators. Highly accurate measuring laser (used in computer fabrication). Advanced chromatography which helped with chemical analysis. Inkjet printers, molecular logic gates, DVD-RW. Made memory chips smaller and developed a possible replacement for some transistors.
IBM puts the rest of them to shame though. I mean they've been awarded MULTIPLE nobel prizes in physics. Invented fractals... you know that mr. mandelbrot guy, worked at IBM. The best think to come from IBM.... I'd have to say hard-drives. High-temperature super-conductors are good too. Same with DRAM, scanning tunnelling microscopes and FORTRAN. Also, they are the ones that moved from aluminum wires to copper interconnects which was a huge boost in efficiency.
I'm not saying Apple wasn't innovative. It wasn't bad really. But saying Apple is more innovative than IBM is truly insane.
Are you giving an endorsement then?
They have such computers. You can fill a computer with liquid and then use a bubble machine from a fish tank to keep it cool enough. That is if you are looking for performance. BUT people have also made no moving parts computers with low heat/power chips. And huge ass heatsinks. So it is totally doable.
I don't keep music on my laptop either. Have 70,000songs on the server though... Spinning disks on that all the way. But I could see using an ssd in my laptop.
Once copyright issues get worked out CDs and the like will die at an alarming rate. Nearly everyone will have access to the net so buying things on disk will become pointless.
True, I guess my issue is saying apple is the most innovative company... next to nintendo. Which is just crazyness the two are miles apart.
Xerox made the mouse, not apple. As well, Xerox designed a PDA device... was never made but the GridPad preceded the Newton. The newton flopped anyways, followed by PDAs flopping in favour of smartphones (Which was all Nokia btw). But yes, the newton was more pocketable than the gridpad, So I give points for that.
... 2005? and it had glitchy sensors so that it could still look like 1 button.
3 button mice were around in 1968, Apple's first mouse came out in 1983, their first 2 button mouse in
For the DS there are animation apps, ebook readers, todo lists/calendars/agendas, messenger clients like msn, alarm clocks, video/mp3players (one is a clone of the ipod, circle scroll and all), manga readers, oekaki apps, web browsers, all kinds of musical apps (pianos to fully featured synth apps), VNC to your PC or ssh, and a shit tons of games.
TBH it is almost as good as a phone with windows mobile. So.. thats a pretty big homebrew group.
DS is wicked easy to play custom games on. Hell there are dozens of apps that are actually useful for the DS. And the only thing you need to run homebrew games/roms costs sub 20$. So if they tried to stop people from doing so it was a really pitiful attempt.
Gimmicks that become standards are called innovations.
And the DS is a game system, for you know, FUN. Slashing a sword by slashing your screen is FUN. I imagine looking around the little world by moving your head (or tilting 'the world') will also be FUN.
And if you read the fucking article you'd realize you were talking about the wrong thing entirely. This is not about 3d as in different images to each eye. This is 3d as in perspective changes as you move your head. This creates a window effect, as in, it feels like the screen is a window rather than a flat surface with pictures. I can imagine all kinds of games where you are looking in on things. With tilt sensors you could make it even better. Imagine you are looking inside a box of creatures. And by shaking the ds or rocking it from side to side you can complete various puzzles.
Of course some implementations will feel gimmicky BUT. Gimmicks can be fun in this case. A little taste of the unexpected is good. The machine showing you something you wouldn't have guessed. For example, in the phantom hourglass, there is a part in the game where you have to transfer a seal (displayed on top screen) to a paper (on the bottom screen), to pass you have to close the DS, which of course presses the two together, brilliant. Forcing you to think outside the box or in different ways is a good thing.
What enhances fun for you if not new and unexpected experiences?
3d is the future though. Even if it is also eye-candy there is good reasoning for having it. If you went back 1000 years and asked if people wanted a 2d or 3d display they'd all say 3d. You are just USED to 2d. So no, it isn't a fad at all.
There is a video which proves it right....
But there is another way to get 3d... it IS called the DS. Just hold your face realllly close and you can get 3d by having different images on each screen. tada. While stupid looking I don't imagine that is a big issue.