The guy's theory is, if he keeps buying the same game in different formats, maybe one of them will actually work and get his money's worth.
Reminds me of the lady determined to get her money's worth from the Nigerian scammers, she kept sending them more money in hopes that they will eventually pay up.
I say they launch all the nukes at the polar ice caps, breaking off chunks of ice and send them floating towards equator where they will be used to cool off the world where it is hottest.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a giant block of ice just off the coast of Jamaica? They can finally become champion bobsledders. It would be the greatest beach/ski-resort ever. It's a win-win situation. Let's do it! It's not like we can screw things up any more than what we have already.
I have no friggen idea wtf you're talking about or anyone else who says digital tv has poor reception.
The ones bitching about loss of signal in digital tv are people who have less discriminating taste and don't mind watching fuzzy shit on their analog tv and are used to seeing constant snow on their tv.
Now why the god damn delay? So what if some schmuck doesn't have tv for a few weeks? Are people that addicted to TV that they can't live without it?
bitch-bitch-bitch- in 1969 people went to the moon. Half a century later we're struggling with small potatoes, and struggling for 4 more months...
I'd like to add to that, the best place I can think of for putting an SSD would be a laptop since SSD:
has lower energy consumption
is faster than any physical hard drive you can get for a laptop
has less heat to dissipate
is immune to physical abuse
Those are the qualities you want in a laptop hard drive and SSD has all of them. I guess that's why most (or all) SSD's come in 2.5" size (for laptops) instead of the more prevalent standard desktop hard drive size of 3.5" or other standards that are specific to desktop machines.... they belong in laptops.:)
I feel the same way about hard drives! No sense spending thousands trying to guess which technology isn't going to be obsolete or which one isn't going to have tons of problems.
Back when I first got my computer, 3000MB was a huge hard drive and it cost several thousand dollars. Today 80GB hard drive is considered a small hard drive. In 10 years 100TB hard drive will be standard.
Fine with me. That's probably about the time I'll finally give up my tried and true 40MB hard drive for something new.
// end sarcasm
My point is: technology always evolves. Yesterday's CRT, today's LCD, tomorrow's OLED, next week's Lasers, next month's Holoprojectors.
My computer cost under $800 and runs it just fine with all settings on high.
The people who pay $4000 for a 'rig' do it as a hobby. Some people build fast cars, some people build model airplanes, some people build shiny computers as a hobby, and there are even some people that piss all over other people's hobbies as a hobby.
You're saying Crysis is incredibly unimpressive, compared to what? I would like to know what is so much more impressive as to make Crysis look incredible unimpressive.
I'm amazed that it even makes 1W difference. These devices don't really have an on/off state, they're constantly on, always recording. The only real way of turning them off is to unplug them.
I take a shit every day and it is perfectly normal activity, as normal as breathing and eating. It is also a loving act because seriously, who wouldn't be proud of a good solid bowel movement? I know I am. Some people might think it's obscene but let's face the fact: everybody poops!
It may be a loving act and it may be as normal as breathing, but that means nothing when you're asking if it is socially acceptable to display in public. Sorry to poop on your parade.
I clicked on this article thinking I could maybe find some really cool open source piece of software that I haven't seen yet. I am completely unimpressed, the list is barely anything more than a bunch of Linux distros.
Here's my personal favorite open source project I discovered in 2008: Spring Engine http://spring.clan-sy.com/
Normally I would refrain from commenting on such a common mistake, but this isn't MSNBC or Fox News. Slashdotters should know difference between a bit and a byte.
The main problem with ME wasn't that it was crap. (It *was* crap and you do need to configure the hell out of it to make it acceptable, but that's true for every Microsoft operating system.)
The problem with ME was that it was Windows 98 in disguise, with all the limitations of Windows 98 and perfume thrown on it just to make it look new. No matter how much they tried to hide it, Windows 95/98/ME were just graphical shells running on DOS.
You have to remember it's illegal only because of Disney and Sonny Bono. They lobbied for the laws because they had vested interest of hundreds of billions of dollars. Those hundreds of billions of dollars went into creating an industry of bureaucratic gobbledygook whose only job is to be a middle man supposedly to make it easier for the artists to distribute their creations. In the age of Internet the middle man is a hindrance, not a facilitator. The artist no longer needs a publisher to distribute content to the masses. The middle man's job is obsolete, but this is his career, and he doesn't know how to do anything else. Being middle man is what puts bread on his dinner table, it's what puts gifts under his Christmas tree, it's what puts a 25 million dollar yacht in his marina. So of course he is going to fight tooth and nail for his job, even though nobody needs him and nobody wants him.
In the past, the music labels were wealthy dealers. Over the years they have degraded to street thugs trying to earn customers by scaring them into submission. Soon they will degrade into those hobos that try to earn money by cleaning your windshield using bunched up soggy newspapers at traffic lights. Nobody needs them, nobody wants them. Don't touch my car you hobo!
The whole thing about not being able to fold paper more than 8 times is just nonsense. The folding ability depends entirely on thickness, size, and pliability of the sheet. If you use a 5x3" super heavy and glossy photo paper I doubt you can get more than 5 folds, on the other hand if you use a huge sheet of very thin pliable paper you will easily get 8 folds and beyond.
She proved it already, before the mythbusters:
http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
The fan is controlled by a thermal sensor so it's not running full speed all the time and that means it's fairly quiet most of the time. It's not much louder than a standard power supply fan.
I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed this. Their blatant misuse of units is irritating and shows their lack of knowledge.
But they are right in saying a computer booting up doesn't use 16 hours worth of power. I work in a cube farm and most people don't turn their computers off at night, some people even leave CPU intensive screen savers on without any monitor power down feature, so their CPU is thrashing all night long and their monitor is showing everything for nobody to see.
According to TFA, the whole point of this experiment was to see if it was possible to run Crysis at the highest settings at maximum resolution with FSAA and anisotropic filtering.
The media companies make it sound like copyright is a way of limiting your rights, but it was created with the intent of creating more diversity in content by limiting the rights of the content distributors (like MPAA). It used to have clauses which ensured the consumer's rights wouldn't be stifled (such as fair use). Why was copyright law created?? Because with the invention of the printing press things could be mass replicated much easier, the idea behind copyright was to limit who could print/sell stuff, taking power from printing press/distributor and giving it back to content creator, to allow people to create and distribute new content instead of letting the printing press have a field day selling us the same old crap making huge profits. Copyright law was created so that the content creator would be properly compensated. So that the consumer wouldn't be subjected to the same crap over and over again with no new works being created.
The copyright law was made to protect the content creator and the content user. The copyright law was created to stifle the content distribution companies like MPAA, not the consumer. I don't know when this changed, but whoever had the wonderful idea of copyright would probably jam a sharp stick in his eyes if he saw what crud the content distributors have turned this law into.
The copyright law has obviously failed in the past half a century and content distributors have too much power now. It's time for another copyright law with the original intent of protecting the consumer and the content creator and to make sure media conglomerates like MPAA don't make huge profits from nothing.
There's no reason why a CD should cost $20 (and only a dime going to the creator) when the manufacturing cost of CD is in pennies... just my two cents. Sharing is caring. Let's try to put an end to the tyrannical misuse of copyright law. Thanks for reading!
There's all this confusion about this Copyright law... The media companies made it sound like it's a way of limiting your rights, but it was created with the intent of creating more diversity in content by limiting the rights of the content distributors. In fact it used to have clauses which ensured the consumer's rights wouldn't be stifled (such as fair use). Why was copyright law created?? Because with the invention of the printing press things could be mass replicated much easier, the idea behind copyright was to limit who could print/sell stuff, taking power from printing press/distributor and giving it back to content creator, to allow people to create and distribute new content instead of letting the printing press have a field day selling us the same old crap making huge profits. Copyright law was created so that the content creator would be properly compensated. So that the consumer wouldn't be subjected to the same crap over and over again with no new works being created.
The copyright law was made to protect the content creator and the content user. The copyright law was created to stifle the content distribution companies like MPAA, not the consumer. I don't know when this changed, but whoever had the wonderful idea of copyright would probably jam a sharp stick in his eyes if he saw what crud the content distributors have turned this law into.
The copyright law has obviously failed in the past half a century and content distributors have too much power now. It's time for another copyright law with the original intent of protecting the consumer and the content creator and to make sure media conglomerates like MPAA don't make huge profits from nothing.
There's no reason why a CD should cost $20 (and only a dime going to the creator) when the manufacturing cost of CD is in pennies... just my two cents. Sharing is caring. Let's try to put an end to the tyrannical misuse of copyright law. Thanks for reading!
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The guy's theory is, if he keeps buying the same game in different formats, maybe one of them will actually work and get his money's worth. Reminds me of the lady determined to get her money's worth from the Nigerian scammers, she kept sending them more money in hopes that they will eventually pay up.
I say they launch all the nukes at the polar ice caps, breaking off chunks of ice and send them floating towards equator where they will be used to cool off the world where it is hottest.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a giant block of ice just off the coast of Jamaica? They can finally become champion bobsledders. It would be the greatest beach/ski-resort ever. It's a win-win situation. Let's do it! It's not like we can screw things up any more than what we have already.
I have no friggen idea wtf you're talking about or anyone else who says digital tv has poor reception.
The ones bitching about loss of signal in digital tv are people who have less discriminating taste and don't mind watching fuzzy shit on their analog tv and are used to seeing constant snow on their tv.
Now why the god damn delay? So what if some schmuck doesn't have tv for a few weeks? Are people that addicted to TV that they can't live without it?
bitch-bitch-bitch- in 1969 people went to the moon. Half a century later we're struggling with small potatoes, and struggling for 4 more months...
I'd like to add to that, the best place I can think of for putting an SSD would be a laptop since SSD:
... they belong in laptops. :)
has lower energy consumption
is faster than any physical hard drive you can get for a laptop
has less heat to dissipate
is immune to physical abuse
Those are the qualities you want in a laptop hard drive and SSD has all of them. I guess that's why most (or all) SSD's come in 2.5" size (for laptops) instead of the more prevalent standard desktop hard drive size of 3.5" or other standards that are specific to desktop machines.
I feel the same way about hard drives! No sense spending thousands trying to guess which technology isn't going to be obsolete or which one isn't going to have tons of problems.
// end sarcasm
Back when I first got my computer, 3000MB was a huge hard drive and it cost several thousand dollars. Today 80GB hard drive is considered a small hard drive. In 10 years 100TB hard drive will be standard.
Fine with me. That's probably about the time I'll finally give up my tried and true 40MB hard drive for something new.
My point is: technology always evolves. Yesterday's CRT, today's LCD, tomorrow's OLED, next week's Lasers, next month's Holoprojectors.
My computer cost under $800 and runs it just fine with all settings on high.
The people who pay $4000 for a 'rig' do it as a hobby. Some people build fast cars, some people build model airplanes, some people build shiny computers as a hobby, and there are even some people that piss all over other people's hobbies as a hobby.
You're saying Crysis is incredibly unimpressive, compared to what? I would like to know what is so much more impressive as to make Crysis look incredible unimpressive.
I'm amazed that it even makes 1W difference. These devices don't really have an on/off state, they're constantly on, always recording. The only real way of turning them off is to unplug them.
I take a shit every day and it is perfectly normal activity, as normal as breathing and eating. It is also a loving act because seriously, who wouldn't be proud of a good solid bowel movement? I know I am. Some people might think it's obscene but let's face the fact: everybody poops!
It may be a loving act and it may be as normal as breathing, but that means nothing when you're asking if it is socially acceptable to display in public. Sorry to poop on your parade.
Breastfeeding is supposed to be for the first 6 months to a year. Not two years.
I clicked on this article thinking I could maybe find some really cool open source piece of software that I haven't seen yet. I am completely unimpressed, the list is barely anything more than a bunch of Linux distros.
Here's my personal favorite open source project I discovered in 2008: Spring Engine http://spring.clan-sy.com/
my 2 cents
I think the summary meant 30GB, not 30Gb.
Gb is a gigabit and GB is a gigabyte, so 1GB = 8Gb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit
Normally I would refrain from commenting on such a common mistake, but this isn't MSNBC or Fox News. Slashdotters should know difference between a bit and a byte.
The main problem with ME wasn't that it was crap. (It *was* crap and you do need to configure the hell out of it to make it acceptable, but that's true for every Microsoft operating system.)
The problem with ME was that it was Windows 98 in disguise, with all the limitations of Windows 98 and perfume thrown on it just to make it look new. No matter how much they tried to hide it, Windows 95/98/ME were just graphical shells running on DOS.
You have to remember it's illegal only because of Disney and Sonny Bono. They lobbied for the laws because they had vested interest of hundreds of billions of dollars. Those hundreds of billions of dollars went into creating an industry of bureaucratic gobbledygook whose only job is to be a middle man supposedly to make it easier for the artists to distribute their creations. In the age of Internet the middle man is a hindrance, not a facilitator. The artist no longer needs a publisher to distribute content to the masses. The middle man's job is obsolete, but this is his career, and he doesn't know how to do anything else. Being middle man is what puts bread on his dinner table, it's what puts gifts under his Christmas tree, it's what puts a 25 million dollar yacht in his marina. So of course he is going to fight tooth and nail for his job, even though nobody needs him and nobody wants him. In the past, the music labels were wealthy dealers. Over the years they have degraded to street thugs trying to earn customers by scaring them into submission. Soon they will degrade into those hobos that try to earn money by cleaning your windshield using bunched up soggy newspapers at traffic lights. Nobody needs them, nobody wants them. Don't touch my car you hobo!
The whole thing about not being able to fold paper more than 8 times is just nonsense. The folding ability depends entirely on thickness, size, and pliability of the sheet. If you use a 5x3" super heavy and glossy photo paper I doubt you can get more than 5 folds, on the other hand if you use a huge sheet of very thin pliable paper you will easily get 8 folds and beyond. She proved it already, before the mythbusters: http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
The fan is controlled by a thermal sensor so it's not running full speed all the time and that means it's fairly quiet most of the time. It's not much louder than a standard power supply fan.
I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed this. Their blatant misuse of units is irritating and shows their lack of knowledge. But they are right in saying a computer booting up doesn't use 16 hours worth of power. I work in a cube farm and most people don't turn their computers off at night, some people even leave CPU intensive screen savers on without any monitor power down feature, so their CPU is thrashing all night long and their monitor is showing everything for nobody to see.
According to TFA, the whole point of this experiment was to see if it was possible to run Crysis at the highest settings at maximum resolution with FSAA and anisotropic filtering.
The media companies make it sound like copyright is a way of limiting your rights, but it was created with the intent of creating more diversity in content by limiting the rights of the content distributors (like MPAA). It used to have clauses which ensured the consumer's rights wouldn't be stifled (such as fair use). Why was copyright law created?? Because with the invention of the printing press things could be mass replicated much easier, the idea behind copyright was to limit who could print/sell stuff, taking power from printing press/distributor and giving it back to content creator, to allow people to create and distribute new content instead of letting the printing press have a field day selling us the same old crap making huge profits. Copyright law was created so that the content creator would be properly compensated. So that the consumer wouldn't be subjected to the same crap over and over again with no new works being created. The copyright law was made to protect the content creator and the content user. The copyright law was created to stifle the content distribution companies like MPAA, not the consumer. I don't know when this changed, but whoever had the wonderful idea of copyright would probably jam a sharp stick in his eyes if he saw what crud the content distributors have turned this law into. The copyright law has obviously failed in the past half a century and content distributors have too much power now. It's time for another copyright law with the original intent of protecting the consumer and the content creator and to make sure media conglomerates like MPAA don't make huge profits from nothing. There's no reason why a CD should cost $20 (and only a dime going to the creator) when the manufacturing cost of CD is in pennies... just my two cents. Sharing is caring. Let's try to put an end to the tyrannical misuse of copyright law. Thanks for reading!
There's all this confusion about this Copyright law... The media companies made it sound like it's a way of limiting your rights, but it was created with the intent of creating more diversity in content by limiting the rights of the content distributors. In fact it used to have clauses which ensured the consumer's rights wouldn't be stifled (such as fair use). Why was copyright law created?? Because with the invention of the printing press things could be mass replicated much easier, the idea behind copyright was to limit who could print/sell stuff, taking power from printing press/distributor and giving it back to content creator, to allow people to create and distribute new content instead of letting the printing press have a field day selling us the same old crap making huge profits. Copyright law was created so that the content creator would be properly compensated. So that the consumer wouldn't be subjected to the same crap over and over again with no new works being created.
The copyright law was made to protect the content creator and the content user. The copyright law was created to stifle the content distribution companies like MPAA, not the consumer. I don't know when this changed, but whoever had the wonderful idea of copyright would probably jam a sharp stick in his eyes if he saw what crud the content distributors have turned this law into.
The copyright law has obviously failed in the past half a century and content distributors have too much power now. It's time for another copyright law with the original intent of protecting the consumer and the content creator and to make sure media conglomerates like MPAA don't make huge profits from nothing.
There's no reason why a CD should cost $20 (and only a dime going to the creator) when the manufacturing cost of CD is in pennies... just my two cents. Sharing is caring. Let's try to put an end to the tyrannical misuse of copyright law. Thanks for reading!