You could check out the Cowon Q5W. It competes with the high-end Archos PMPs. I have a Cowon A2 and for the kind of player it is, it's easily the best one I've used. Though the next player I plan on getting will be Cowon's successor to the D2, whatever that will be, as the idea of just swapping out high-capacity SD cards works for me.
Well I assumed it wasn't the first-ever. I was speaking more in terms of the mainstream consumer market. The 360's is indeed based on PowerPC and obviously wasn't IBM's first foray into multiple cores.
The XBox 360 has a triple-core CPU, and that was one of the earliest multi-core (certainly of those over 2 cores) processors on the market I think. So, it never sounded wrong to me ^^
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The internet is bound to kill newspapers for one reason or another eventually anyway. I can't really take issue with Craigslist being a good, cheap middleman. Enough companies "make the most of their income potential" (EXXON, eBay, etc.) to offend MY sense of fairness, hahah.
Oh man you gave me an idea for a NEW JAMES BOND MOVIE PLOT! A villain who secretly owns controlling stock in big wheelchair manufacture/sale companies engineers a virus that keeps fetuses from fully developing legs. This way he would have at least an entire generation that would buy his wheelchairs, and he'd make a BAZILLION dollars! Also he would have a wheelchair-bound henchwoman who is really hot and at the end it turns out she can actually walk (and fight using mad karate skills) but James Bond knew this all along because he slept with her twice already.
Indeed, to call creationism (aka "ID") a theory is to misuse the word in either of its connotations. If the colloquial sense is used, then it mislabels evolution. If the scientific sense is used, it mislabels creationism.
Furthermore, any scientific knowledge that is taught in schools ALWAYS has to undergo extensive peer review, be verified to a large degree of certainty, and generally be regarded as "fact" (in the colloquial sense) by the scienific community at large. If you wanted to add something you discovered to what is taught in physics courses in high school, you can expect it to be very heavily scrutinized by the scientific community and generally go through a lengthy process before it even makes its way into a book, let alone to a board of education to evaluate that book.
Creationists want to skip everything but the last step. They go straight to the boards of education, to the parents, etc. Because nothing they claim can legitimately go through any sort of scrutiny to begin with. They're basically trying to "cheat" their way into education.
Cleveland's weather IS terrible, though. I live in Columbus and the only thing that can convince me to drive up there is Steve Nash playing vs. LeBron. ^^
But yeah, it's all about what people are used to. I lived in the UK a bit and when weather dropped to around freezing the response was a lot like what it is here when it's 20 below.
Yeah, ATI (well, AMD) and nVidia would not be able to make nearly the kind of money they still do if most PCs came with respectable video cards:-/
I did put in an 8800 GTS the day after I bought my machine. The card is HUGE, and I was lucky to have enough spare cables of various kinds and lengths that I was able to even fit it in ^^
Some of what you said is undeniable, but some of it is total bollocks my man. Cross-browser coding DOES take longer whenever you have a need to code two different implementations for 2+ different browsers. Unless you're using external JS libraries for event handling and AJAX (which have done the cross-browser code for you), you have to explicitly accomodate more than one event model. Even capturing key strokes is different on IE and other browsers. And you're not "hacking for IE" in these cases, either. This isn't the same thing as having it choke on some selectors in CSS.
And let's face it, if you entirely avoid anything that isn't implemented/rendered the same way across all browsers, then you're limiting your design and functionality SEVERELY in many cases. If you want any kind of sophisticated interactivity and you don't want to limit your users to either only IE or only non-IE, you will have to put in some time and effort to accomodate the choices. And this does take time and effort, there's no two ways about it.
As for claims like "coding to standards reduces maintenance costs and saves bandwidth"... they won't always be true when it comes to web development. If you or someone else has to migrate a site to/from IE, or add some complicated interface elements via JavaScript, there will definitely be maintenances costs associated with taking code written to only follow W3C reccomendations and changing it to work with IE as well. Saving bandwidth... that's a negligible gain considering you won't be dramatically reducing your CSS/JavaScript file sizes just by avoiding cross-browser work.
Making content semantic... that's neither here nor there. Whether you code to accomodate one browser or multiple, you can still separate content from design to the same degree. You don't gain anything in this department by sticking to just IE or just Mozilla-based browsers or whatever else.
So, in short, there's a distinction between "hacking" for a browser and accomodating their various document models, etc. And by the way, one doesn't only have to know of IE's limitations in these cases. Not only is IE capable of a number of "fancy" or even legitimately useful things that other browser are not, but other browsers have bugs of their own that may need to be taken into account. Just off the top of my head, Firefox does not handle z-indices of 10000+ well, even though the maximum is more like 2147483657.
No... I got a $1100 HP machine that came with Vista, 3 GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU but the video card was rubbish. Seriously, take a look at what you can pick up at Best Buy and note how few computers come with a half-decent graphics card, if any at all.
After all, a great number of people who have Vista indeed do not have the firepower to run it at optimum performance.
Oh, that's not even the main issue with the statement made by the diabetic woman. Her premise was "a right to demand ___" which isn't really what we're talking about. Indeed, no-one has a right to demand whatever they're not entitled to by some sort of contract (social, legal, etc.), so if there is no such contract (there isn't as far as most websites are concerned, right?) then it's a moot point. This isn't about outlining an inalienable right in a new amendment to the Constitution. It's about ethical obligations and responsibilities that we feel web developers may or may not have.
There's nothing virtuous about making an internal app cross-browser compatible if everyone's using one particular browser and the app is known to not have a particularly long lifespan. You will have no problems in that scenario. However, browser get updated, and as they do, you can run into the same issues as going to another browser altogether.
So, I wouldn't even phrase this as a cross-browser compatibility issue, so much as a future-proofing task. If you use well-formed code and a strict doctype, then even when you go from IE6 to IE7 (staying within the IE product line), you can have your pages look differently.
So even if your company were to stick with Internet Explorer through its entire lifetime, you would need to design web apps in such a way that they would render and function well under browser *updates.*
Mind you, every browser has its pitfalls, so don't only look for issues in IE if you're not limiting users' choices.
You'd be right if not for the fact that most computers don't come with the video card that this requires. RAM, CPU, sure. But the video card that's still in most computers these days can run WoW at best. If this browser needs something with 256Mb of RAM in the video card, then this is intended for, well, nobody.
The variable ships in Macross Frontier look pretty wicked as well. Though the show itself so far is a little insane (the part in the original Macross/Robotech where Minmei is rescued by being grasped from mid-air from a plane's cockpit? they re-did it! T_T)
You have a completely misguided view of how all of this works (i.e. you are wrong). People don't download music they would have otherwise surely bought. In fact that's usually not the case. To say it's always a choice of "buy or download for free" is to be disingenuous, because it is as likely to simply "download for free or not do nothing." As for why, it could be to sample something before choosing to purchase it. It could be because $1/song or $15/CD is too expensive for many people and they couldn't afford to pay even if downloading for free weren't an option.
So, most downloads are NOT lost sales even in theory.
Oh, by the way, the whole "you don't have the right to download it" rhetoric is misleading. You don't have the right to distribute. That's the right the RIAA+gang is claiming infringement of. Piracy is ripping + distributing. Downloading is not piracy.
But... Spielberg doesn't take the "best of" approach. He takes the "John Williams go write music for me" approach, which is as traditional as you can possibly get.
Most of those are rubbish, though. If you want someone who's enthusiastic about the character and not just capitalizing on the "superhero craze" (Rise of the Silver Surfer? good grief that was horrid, to say nothing of X3 or Spiderman 3), you need to go with someone else. Nolan did a decent job with Batman Begins, Singer did a good one with the first 2 X-Men (but not Superman Returns), but neither can work alone. Singer's been saved by fantastic editing in the past (Usual Suspects I give credit almost entirely to the editor; Singer had no clue what he was even making if you watch interviews and commentary), so I don't trust him on his own but if he has the right people around him he can make something really good.
Whoever directed the new Iron Man movie (I'm too lazy to check right now) seems to have potential, although until I see the movie I can't say for sure.
As for who I would personally want to adapt anime I like (GitS NOT being one of them; I find Shirou's work overrated and generally everything Production I.G. does to be trash), I'd have to pick Edward Zwick or possibly Christophe Gans. Zwick in particular seems to know what he's doing in all aspects of film-making.
And Robotech. (First person to say "no, Macross" is gonna get pistol-whipped. In the US something named Robotech would make 5x as much money as something named Macross, even if it's the same movie.)
Nerv? Man I don't watch many hacker movies, but from what I understood whoever's in charge of Nerv can just send a couple of hundred-meter-tall biomechs at whatever the problem happens to be and I imagine it would be a problem no longer.
Pshh what a hobo. I have over $300,000,000 in MY setup, and that's just on the speakers, amplifiers, and TV stand made entirely out of platinum and marble-sized black diamonds. Now granTED I have someting like 25 Exabytes of storage now in that setup, and my speakers are powered by the spinning of the Milky Way's central black hole, I don't even have close to MY dream theater, which includes 3 dungeon floors guarded by dragons and ninjas, chests that appear out of thin air containing a map and a compass, a roller coaster built entirely out of carbon fiber Legos, a girlfriend, and a Maybach Exelero to drive around the spaces between my 3000 rows of seats....
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You could check out the Cowon Q5W. It competes with the high-end Archos PMPs. I have a Cowon A2 and for the kind of player it is, it's easily the best one I've used. Though the next player I plan on getting will be Cowon's successor to the D2, whatever that will be, as the idea of just swapping out high-capacity SD cards works for me.
Well I assumed it wasn't the first-ever. I was speaking more in terms of the mainstream consumer market. The 360's is indeed based on PowerPC and obviously wasn't IBM's first foray into multiple cores.
The XBox 360 has a triple-core CPU, and that was one of the earliest multi-core (certainly of those over 2 cores) processors on the market I think. So, it never sounded wrong to me ^^
The internet is bound to kill newspapers for one reason or another eventually anyway. I can't really take issue with Craigslist being a good, cheap middleman. Enough companies "make the most of their income potential" (EXXON, eBay, etc.) to offend MY sense of fairness, hahah.
Oh man you gave me an idea for a NEW JAMES BOND MOVIE PLOT! A villain who secretly owns controlling stock in big wheelchair manufacture/sale companies engineers a virus that keeps fetuses from fully developing legs. This way he would have at least an entire generation that would buy his wheelchairs, and he'd make a BAZILLION dollars! Also he would have a wheelchair-bound henchwoman who is really hot and at the end it turns out she can actually walk (and fight using mad karate skills) but James Bond knew this all along because he slept with her twice already.
Genius plot.
Indeed, to call creationism (aka "ID") a theory is to misuse the word in either of its connotations. If the colloquial sense is used, then it mislabels evolution. If the scientific sense is used, it mislabels creationism.
Furthermore, any scientific knowledge that is taught in schools ALWAYS has to undergo extensive peer review, be verified to a large degree of certainty, and generally be regarded as "fact" (in the colloquial sense) by the scienific community at large. If you wanted to add something you discovered to what is taught in physics courses in high school, you can expect it to be very heavily scrutinized by the scientific community and generally go through a lengthy process before it even makes its way into a book, let alone to a board of education to evaluate that book.
Creationists want to skip everything but the last step. They go straight to the boards of education, to the parents, etc. Because nothing they claim can legitimately go through any sort of scrutiny to begin with. They're basically trying to "cheat" their way into education.
Cleveland's weather IS terrible, though. I live in Columbus and the only thing that can convince me to drive up there is Steve Nash playing vs. LeBron. ^^
But yeah, it's all about what people are used to. I lived in the UK a bit and when weather dropped to around freezing the response was a lot like what it is here when it's 20 below.
Yeah, ATI (well, AMD) and nVidia would not be able to make nearly the kind of money they still do if most PCs came with respectable video cards :-/
I did put in an 8800 GTS the day after I bought my machine. The card is HUGE, and I was lucky to have enough spare cables of various kinds and lengths that I was able to even fit it in ^^
Some of what you said is undeniable, but some of it is total bollocks my man. Cross-browser coding DOES take longer whenever you have a need to code two different implementations for 2+ different browsers. Unless you're using external JS libraries for event handling and AJAX (which have done the cross-browser code for you), you have to explicitly accomodate more than one event model. Even capturing key strokes is different on IE and other browsers. And you're not "hacking for IE" in these cases, either. This isn't the same thing as having it choke on some selectors in CSS.
... they won't always be true when it comes to web development. If you or someone else has to migrate a site to/from IE, or add some complicated interface elements via JavaScript, there will definitely be maintenances costs associated with taking code written to only follow W3C reccomendations and changing it to work with IE as well. Saving bandwidth... that's a negligible gain considering you won't be dramatically reducing your CSS/JavaScript file sizes just by avoiding cross-browser work.
And let's face it, if you entirely avoid anything that isn't implemented/rendered the same way across all browsers, then you're limiting your design and functionality SEVERELY in many cases. If you want any kind of sophisticated interactivity and you don't want to limit your users to either only IE or only non-IE, you will have to put in some time and effort to accomodate the choices. And this does take time and effort, there's no two ways about it.
As for claims like "coding to standards reduces maintenance costs and saves bandwidth"
Making content semantic... that's neither here nor there. Whether you code to accomodate one browser or multiple, you can still separate content from design to the same degree. You don't gain anything in this department by sticking to just IE or just Mozilla-based browsers or whatever else.
So, in short, there's a distinction between "hacking" for a browser and accomodating their various document models, etc. And by the way, one doesn't only have to know of IE's limitations in these cases. Not only is IE capable of a number of "fancy" or even legitimately useful things that other browser are not, but other browsers have bugs of their own that may need to be taken into account. Just off the top of my head, Firefox does not handle z-indices of 10000+ well, even though the maximum is more like 2147483657.
No... I got a $1100 HP machine that came with Vista, 3 GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU but the video card was rubbish. Seriously, take a look at what you can pick up at Best Buy and note how few computers come with a half-decent graphics card, if any at all.
After all, a great number of people who have Vista indeed do not have the firepower to run it at optimum performance.
Oh, that's not even the main issue with the statement made by the diabetic woman. Her premise was "a right to demand ___" which isn't really what we're talking about. Indeed, no-one has a right to demand whatever they're not entitled to by some sort of contract (social, legal, etc.), so if there is no such contract (there isn't as far as most websites are concerned, right?) then it's a moot point. This isn't about outlining an inalienable right in a new amendment to the Constitution. It's about ethical obligations and responsibilities that we feel web developers may or may not have.
There's nothing virtuous about making an internal app cross-browser compatible if everyone's using one particular browser and the app is known to not have a particularly long lifespan. You will have no problems in that scenario. However, browser get updated, and as they do, you can run into the same issues as going to another browser altogether.
So, I wouldn't even phrase this as a cross-browser compatibility issue, so much as a future-proofing task. If you use well-formed code and a strict doctype, then even when you go from IE6 to IE7 (staying within the IE product line), you can have your pages look differently.
So even if your company were to stick with Internet Explorer through its entire lifetime, you would need to design web apps in such a way that they would render and function well under browser *updates.*
Mind you, every browser has its pitfalls, so don't only look for issues in IE if you're not limiting users' choices.
You'd be right if not for the fact that most computers don't come with the video card that this requires. RAM, CPU, sure. But the video card that's still in most computers these days can run WoW at best. If this browser needs something with 256Mb of RAM in the video card, then this is intended for, well, nobody.
The variable ships in Macross Frontier look pretty wicked as well. Though the show itself so far is a little insane (the part in the original Macross/Robotech where Minmei is rescued by being grasped from mid-air from a plane's cockpit? they re-did it! T_T)
You have a completely misguided view of how all of this works (i.e. you are wrong). People don't download music they would have otherwise surely bought. In fact that's usually not the case. To say it's always a choice of "buy or download for free" is to be disingenuous, because it is as likely to simply "download for free or not do nothing." As for why, it could be to sample something before choosing to purchase it. It could be because $1/song or $15/CD is too expensive for many people and they couldn't afford to pay even if downloading for free weren't an option.
So, most downloads are NOT lost sales even in theory.
Oh, by the way, the whole "you don't have the right to download it" rhetoric is misleading. You don't have the right to distribute. That's the right the RIAA+gang is claiming infringement of. Piracy is ripping + distributing. Downloading is not piracy.
With that sort of "clarification," I'm not sure either of those reach any level of "cool" at all...
But... Spielberg doesn't take the "best of" approach. He takes the "John Williams go write music for me" approach, which is as traditional as you can possibly get.
You're confusing Spielberg with Lucas.
Most of those are rubbish, though. If you want someone who's enthusiastic about the character and not just capitalizing on the "superhero craze" (Rise of the Silver Surfer? good grief that was horrid, to say nothing of X3 or Spiderman 3), you need to go with someone else. Nolan did a decent job with Batman Begins, Singer did a good one with the first 2 X-Men (but not Superman Returns), but neither can work alone. Singer's been saved by fantastic editing in the past (Usual Suspects I give credit almost entirely to the editor; Singer had no clue what he was even making if you watch interviews and commentary), so I don't trust him on his own but if he has the right people around him he can make something really good.
Whoever directed the new Iron Man movie (I'm too lazy to check right now) seems to have potential, although until I see the movie I can't say for sure.
As for who I would personally want to adapt anime I like (GitS NOT being one of them; I find Shirou's work overrated and generally everything Production I.G. does to be trash), I'd have to pick Edward Zwick or possibly Christophe Gans. Zwick in particular seems to know what he's doing in all aspects of film-making.
And Robotech. (First person to say "no, Macross" is gonna get pistol-whipped. In the US something named Robotech would make 5x as much money as something named Macross, even if it's the same movie.)
Jackie Chan
Van Damme (well, maybe not that effective)
Chuck Norris
Makoto Nagano
Stallone
Nerv? Man I don't watch many hacker movies, but from what I understood whoever's in charge of Nerv can just send a couple of hundred-meter-tall biomechs at whatever the problem happens to be and I imagine it would be a problem no longer.
Pshh what a hobo. I have over $300,000,000 in MY setup, and that's just on the speakers, amplifiers, and TV stand made entirely out of platinum and marble-sized black diamonds. Now granTED I have someting like 25 Exabytes of storage now in that setup, and my speakers are powered by the spinning of the Milky Way's central black hole, I don't even have close to MY dream theater, which includes 3 dungeon floors guarded by dragons and ninjas, chests that appear out of thin air containing a map and a compass, a roller coaster built entirely out of carbon fiber Legos, a girlfriend, and a Maybach Exelero to drive around the spaces between my 3000 rows of seats....
Macs aren't just for blue-haired old ladies. Or for floating boats. They are also for a subset of things that PCs do!
Sadly, as my car only gets 15 mpg, I am not allowed by law to own a Mac. Oh well.
Did you see the new commercial with the PC doing yoga, his urdhva mukha svanasana was total rubbish! Mac wins again.