Ignoring the content of the bill, the constitution allows the President 10 days excluding Sundays to sign or veto the bill or else it becomes law by default... EXCEPT if Congress adjourns, in which case there wouldn't even be a discussion about overturning the veto since they're away.
So what's the big deal? Bush's got the constitutional authority (for real for a change) to drag his feet for that long. Is it that within these days they're still wiretapping? Let's choose our battles, here... they've been doing it for YEARS and another 10 days is just a drop in the bucket.
90% of Marketing and Sales department employees, including those big names. The focus is that while these guys might have been responsible for all the Wii-love puff pieces within the last year, they're not decision makers or technology makers or region licensing. Plus, judging from how my father feels about his middle-management job inside Sales (for another company), these guys get a lot of pressure and flak when things go wrong that aren't really under control so it's no surprise they'll see it as just another gig.
What really gets me suspicious is that I always see "SF or NYC" in stories regarding this move. Has no one decided yet? Hell, if my job asked me to follow them moving to either City A or City B, I'd probably not commit anything until I knew which one, also.
Too bad GP2X is only "open source" instead of open source:
The GP2X firmware uses a significant amount of GNU GPL code, including MPlayer for its media functions and the Linux kernel for its OS. The GPL requires for the release of the source code to users of the binary application (i.e. GP2X users); however, the source code was not released when the GP2X was released to consumers.
It's a fun little gadget with its own merits, yes. But on in personal belief system, on which everyone is entitled to their own, building off of GPL and then not honoring the license is worse on the karma scale than obviously proprietary lockout schemes.
The article's short but sweet. A curious thing he mentioned was that Sony had to tell developers that they wouldn't set the world alight by porting their PS2 games into it, which was what the first batch essentially was.
Meanwhile Nintedo's handheld power has always been behind their console power. While it didn't eliminate straight-ports, it quickly exposed ports for being gimped versions of full games... meaning a lot of portable development went towards unique games unlike their more homebodied cousins.
I'm not going to hand Nintendo that on a platter, though. It's probably just a side effect of trying to get rediculous battery life out of portable systems. Sony on the other hand just wanted to trump the competitors on brute force alone and win the checkbox wars. It's a neat gadget, though, and it's finally hitting its stride thanks to developers finally developing the right kinds of games for it.
So, as always, it's always comes down to the games themselves. With great power comes great responsibility.
"Uh, this isn't from 'Apple'. It's from a tech publication."
Which is MY point. The site isn't a consumer's guide. Being able to run Windows isn't unique to the MacBook Pro on the Apple line. Would a consumer not know it can run Windows? Maybe... but I certainly don't expect every single article about a hardware revision to include it.
There isn't even a conference or "special event" regarding this. I can still see this as being news, but for drooling fanboy action there's plenty going on over there where the iPhone display is standing.
As far as RTFA, when the first line reads: "MacBook Pro has received its latest periodic makeover, making the machine faster, leaner and greener, the company announced Tuesday."
the tone has been set. Is it too much to ask that they at least PRETEND to distance themselves? Let's not turn a good revision on a great product into a circle-jerk, shall we?
I for one do NOT welcome our new commercials-as-news overlords.
"Also, while Apple folks and other tech-savvy folks may know the Intel-based Macs run Windows, why does the news article not even mention that?"
How come they don't mention they come with iLife? How come they don't mention the OS has a *nix underbelly? How come they don't mention that Macs plug into the wall?
Perhaps Apple itself wants to position its hardware away from Windows and being "PC-like." Perhaps it's not relevant to the discussion regarding a simple hardware revision. Perhaps that comment is just a desire to see any Apple news be a commercial.
I can't speak for Fortran but what standard C++ mechanisms are there for threading? If they added stuff to the CLR, shouldn't it have gone through the organizations that maintain them? Weird compiler extensions are bad for cross-compatiblity. (Which I guess is the point since Intel compilers -> Intel CPUs -> No other CPU manufacturers).
Besides, threading is still an OS specific venture. Do these optimizations just work by looking for calls to fork() or the Windows alternative?
I'd rather they take my code and automagically compile sections to take advantage of SSE invisibly.
By use of "should have a right" I'm interpreting this as you being in favor of a government imposed standard of television while children could be around.
If there was no regulation, it'd be crazy to think that primetime would basically be "The Fuck Hour" where a different celebrity goes on the tube to say the f-word for 44 minutes not including commericial breaks that include urges for you to "stop drinking that shit and drink XYZ Cola." Maybe on a few channels, sure, but when government makes it a standard everyone has to fall in line or else.
Technology is at a point where TV ratings are broadcast along the signals and just about any TV purchased in the last 10 years has had the ability to block based on content down to the individual program level. I have no sympathy for parents who can't read the page and a half of instructions included with their TV which will let them protect the kids they're always crying to politicians about.
When my nephews are over and want to watch TV, I set the kiddie profile suitable for their age. Primetime Nick isn't primetime Playboy TV and it won't ever be. Their business model is based on being kid friendly.
What people like me advocate for is the elimination of silly laws and regulations that stem from a nanny-state mentality. While The Free Market(tm) doesn't solve everything on it's own, this is certainly one of those issues where the industry will settle itself into niches and, in the end, everyone is left happy because everyone has choice.
I remember when WOTC was satisfied to just make good games. Now it seems like all they do is try to keep anyone else from making games.
You have Hasbro to thank for that, of which Wizards is a wholly owned subsidiary. While generally considered a big payday for a company and/or salvation from bankruptcy (I don't recall how they were doing financially in 1999, other than the Wizards store nearby was open for like a whole 3 months before closing), it's a little like selling it's soul to the corporate giants.
Except the MPAA can't summon police forces to take care of inside jobs... that would be civil infractions that wouldn't immediately carry criminal charges (maybe they can peg fraud or something, but IANAL).
If camming is made illegal in the letter of the law, however, now they don't have to do any work though their Intenal Affairs departments. Fighting whatever percentage of priacy that comes from cams can basically become outsourced to government.
Quite true. I also found the quote 'Our first task at id is as a single studio developer' to be quite telling in that regard, especially when, from my perspective, id games have become synonymous with "Game Graphics Engine Technical Demo++"
With Unreal and Source taking strides, maybe technology is getting to a point where the return on investment of in-depth super genius work in a graphics engine is too low to justify.
After all: Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. - John Carmack
I'm not sure that's such a fair comparison: Starcraft isn't likely to cannibalize sales and if Blizzard gets a good ROI from this new project, the success of WoW in comparison is moot... IF the teams developing aren't being pulled away from maintaining and enhancing WoW in a way that matters. Looking at the later half of EQ, most of the staff wound up replaced by less experienced (read: cheaper) developers to maintain it since at that time the code base was mature enough that nothing could be messed with that would destroy the world as players knew it.
I'll assume they did the math and figured it'd be a good investment. Blizzard is a business first, after all.
Meanwhile, if they made a new MMOG to top themselves with WoW, they risk the new project cannibalizing their own subscribers. Back in the day I played Everquest and with new-at-the-time games like Anarchy Online and Planetside I still couldn't bring myself to pay for more than one online game since A) the new game consumes time, B) time is linked to progress in MMOGs by design, C) I'm paying full price regardless of how many hours I actually use each period.
I think some were expecting fire, wrestling, and a Mortal Kombat style finish. It's not the job of these head honchos (even though Gates isn't really chair anymore) to bash the other guy. Especially not in public.
I throw in comments as I see them. If I just spent hours tracing dragon code, I'm sure as hell going to put a comment in there so I don't have to do it again.
It's simple. People who fall under the umbrella of "Sex Offenders" don't deserve rights, or freedom, or voting privilages. They aren't permitted to live in certain places, move without carpet bombing notifications to the neighborhood, or even walk by certain areas. According to some in our society, they should be executed, castrated, or put away for life.
I find it funny that Myspace was asked to filter for "sex offenders" before it was asked to filter for terrorists or murderers. No, wait, funny isn't the word. What am I looking for? Pathetic, sad, alarming, depressing?
Actually, since all humans are "possible sex offenders", MySpace should simply not let anyone use [their] service if they want to avoid "possible sex offenders".
"Summary: Don't expect a massive graphics update (unless they change it up a lot past the beta), games like Cod3, GoW, Oblivion all have better graphics. If you like Halo 2 you will like this game. If you hated Halo 2 you will hate this game. Maybe the single player experience will be more of a wow factor."
From the summary I just had to think that Beta is too late to start playing around with your game's assets. Seems to me that the disappointing graphics update according to fans has forced the devs to run back to the art teams for more splash.
I thought beta players were under NDA preventing public discussion of suckage, though. Can any H3 beta players fill me in?
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Ignoring the content of the bill, the constitution allows the President 10 days excluding Sundays to sign or veto the bill or else it becomes law by default... EXCEPT if Congress adjourns, in which case there wouldn't even be a discussion about overturning the veto since they're away.
So what's the big deal? Bush's got the constitutional authority (for real for a change) to drag his feet for that long. Is it that within these days they're still wiretapping? Let's choose our battles, here... they've been doing it for YEARS and another 10 days is just a drop in the bucket.
90% of Marketing and Sales department employees, including those big names. The focus is that while these guys might have been responsible for all the Wii-love puff pieces within the last year, they're not decision makers or technology makers or region licensing. Plus, judging from how my father feels about his middle-management job inside Sales (for another company), these guys get a lot of pressure and flak when things go wrong that aren't really under control so it's no surprise they'll see it as just another gig.
What really gets me suspicious is that I always see "SF or NYC" in stories regarding this move. Has no one decided yet? Hell, if my job asked me to follow them moving to either City A or City B, I'd probably not commit anything until I knew which one, also.
Since the internet is so dangerous, maybe Congress should recommend that we duck and cover?
I also hear that the sharp corners on the sides of buildings might hurt my tootsies. Clearly we need toe-stubbing awareness month.
Too bad GP2X is only "open source" instead of open source:
The GP2X firmware uses a significant amount of GNU GPL code, including MPlayer for its media functions and the Linux kernel for its OS. The GPL requires for the release of the source code to users of the binary application (i.e. GP2X users); however, the source code was not released when the GP2X was released to consumers.
It's a fun little gadget with its own merits, yes. But on in personal belief system, on which everyone is entitled to their own, building off of GPL and then not honoring the license is worse on the karma scale than obviously proprietary lockout schemes.
The article's short but sweet. A curious thing he mentioned was that Sony had to tell developers that they wouldn't set the world alight by porting their PS2 games into it, which was what the first batch essentially was.
Meanwhile Nintedo's handheld power has always been behind their console power. While it didn't eliminate straight-ports, it quickly exposed ports for being gimped versions of full games... meaning a lot of portable development went towards unique games unlike their more homebodied cousins.
I'm not going to hand Nintendo that on a platter, though. It's probably just a side effect of trying to get rediculous battery life out of portable systems. Sony on the other hand just wanted to trump the competitors on brute force alone and win the checkbox wars. It's a neat gadget, though, and it's finally hitting its stride thanks to developers finally developing the right kinds of games for it.
So, as always, it's always comes down to the games themselves. With great power comes great responsibility.
"Uh, this isn't from 'Apple'. It's from a tech publication."
Which is MY point. The site isn't a consumer's guide. Being able to run Windows isn't unique to the MacBook Pro on the Apple line. Would a consumer not know it can run Windows? Maybe... but I certainly don't expect every single article about a hardware revision to include it.
There isn't even a conference or "special event" regarding this. I can still see this as being news, but for drooling fanboy action there's plenty going on over there where the iPhone display is standing.
As far as RTFA, when the first line reads:
"MacBook Pro has received its latest periodic makeover, making the machine faster, leaner and greener, the company announced Tuesday."
the tone has been set. Is it too much to ask that they at least PRETEND to distance themselves? Let's not turn a good revision on a great product into a circle-jerk, shall we?
I for one do NOT welcome our new commercials-as-news overlords.
"Also, while Apple folks and other tech-savvy folks may know the Intel-based Macs run Windows, why does the news article not even mention that?"
How come they don't mention they come with iLife? How come they don't mention the OS has a *nix underbelly? How come they don't mention that Macs plug into the wall?
Perhaps Apple itself wants to position its hardware away from Windows and being "PC-like." Perhaps it's not relevant to the discussion regarding a simple hardware revision. Perhaps that comment is just a desire to see any Apple news be a commercial.
(Also, I obviously didn't RTFS. If you'll excuse me I'll put on the paper bag.)
And by CLR I obviously mean CRT. You maniacs! You blew it all to .NET!
Sounds like snake oil to me.
I can't speak for Fortran but what standard C++ mechanisms are there for threading? If they added stuff to the CLR, shouldn't it have gone through the organizations that maintain them? Weird compiler extensions are bad for cross-compatiblity. (Which I guess is the point since Intel compilers -> Intel CPUs -> No other CPU manufacturers).
Besides, threading is still an OS specific venture. Do these optimizations just work by looking for calls to fork() or the Windows alternative?
I'd rather they take my code and automagically compile sections to take advantage of SSE invisibly.
And to think I squandered my mod points this morning.
By use of "should have a right" I'm interpreting this as you being in favor of a government imposed standard of television while children could be around.
If there was no regulation, it'd be crazy to think that primetime would basically be "The Fuck Hour" where a different celebrity goes on the tube to say the f-word for 44 minutes not including commericial breaks that include urges for you to "stop drinking that shit and drink XYZ Cola." Maybe on a few channels, sure, but when government makes it a standard everyone has to fall in line or else.
Technology is at a point where TV ratings are broadcast along the signals and just about any TV purchased in the last 10 years has had the ability to block based on content down to the individual program level. I have no sympathy for parents who can't read the page and a half of instructions included with their TV which will let them protect the kids they're always crying to politicians about.
When my nephews are over and want to watch TV, I set the kiddie profile suitable for their age. Primetime Nick isn't primetime Playboy TV and it won't ever be. Their business model is based on being kid friendly.
What people like me advocate for is the elimination of silly laws and regulations that stem from a nanny-state mentality. While The Free Market(tm) doesn't solve everything on it's own, this is certainly one of those issues where the industry will settle itself into niches and, in the end, everyone is left happy because everyone has choice.
I remember when WOTC was satisfied to just make good games. Now it seems like all they do is try to keep anyone else from making games.
You have Hasbro to thank for that, of which Wizards is a wholly owned subsidiary. While generally considered a big payday for a company and/or salvation from bankruptcy (I don't recall how they were doing financially in 1999, other than the Wizards store nearby was open for like a whole 3 months before closing), it's a little like selling it's soul to the corporate giants.
So does this mean that Pirates > Ninjas after all?
The concise wisdom of Parent post in response to Grandparent is awe-inspiring.
Except the MPAA can't summon police forces to take care of inside jobs... that would be civil infractions that wouldn't immediately carry criminal charges (maybe they can peg fraud or something, but IANAL).
If camming is made illegal in the letter of the law, however, now they don't have to do any work though their Intenal Affairs departments. Fighting whatever percentage of priacy that comes from cams can basically become outsourced to government.
Well, there goes my idea of opening a game shop where all the employees are topless women.
You mean to tell me I can't sell games indecently? Oh, the sorrow. I guess I'll just open it up in New Jersey.
Quite true. I also found the quote 'Our first task at id is as a single studio developer' to be quite telling in that regard, especially when, from my perspective, id games have become synonymous with "Game Graphics Engine Technical Demo++"
With Unreal and Source taking strides, maybe technology is getting to a point where the return on investment of in-depth super genius work in a graphics engine is too low to justify.
After all:
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
- John Carmack
I'm not sure that's such a fair comparison: Starcraft isn't likely to cannibalize sales and if Blizzard gets a good ROI from this new project, the success of WoW in comparison is moot... IF the teams developing aren't being pulled away from maintaining and enhancing WoW in a way that matters. Looking at the later half of EQ, most of the staff wound up replaced by less experienced (read: cheaper) developers to maintain it since at that time the code base was mature enough that nothing could be messed with that would destroy the world as players knew it.
I'll assume they did the math and figured it'd be a good investment. Blizzard is a business first, after all.
Meanwhile, if they made a new MMOG to top themselves with WoW, they risk the new project cannibalizing their own subscribers. Back in the day I played Everquest and with new-at-the-time games like Anarchy Online and Planetside I still couldn't bring myself to pay for more than one online game since A) the new game consumes time, B) time is linked to progress in MMOGs by design, C) I'm paying full price regardless of how many hours I actually use each period.
Exactly. So take that away from him and he's got nothing left.
Is there honestly this much drama in other competitions? I suppose using a later board revision is akin to "doping up" for the triathalon.
AFAIK, they're not making another "The Wizard", so, what's in it for the ex-champion except lack of bragging rights?
I completely agree.
I think some were expecting fire, wrestling, and a Mortal Kombat style finish. It's not the job of these head honchos (even though Gates isn't really chair anymore) to bash the other guy. Especially not in public.
They leave that for the marketing folks.
I throw in comments as I see them. If I just spent hours tracing dragon code, I'm sure as hell going to put a comment in there so I don't have to do it again.
It's simple. People who fall under the umbrella of "Sex Offenders" don't deserve rights, or freedom, or voting privilages. They aren't permitted to live in certain places, move without carpet bombing notifications to the neighborhood, or even walk by certain areas. According to some in our society, they should be executed, castrated, or put away for life.
I find it funny that Myspace was asked to filter for "sex offenders" before it was asked to filter for terrorists or murderers. No, wait, funny isn't the word. What am I looking for? Pathetic, sad, alarming, depressing?
Actually, since all humans are "possible sex offenders", MySpace should simply not let anyone use [their] service if they want to avoid "possible sex offenders".
;)
We can only hope.
"Summary: Don't expect a massive graphics update (unless they change it up a lot past the beta), games like Cod3, GoW, Oblivion all have better graphics. If you like Halo 2 you will like this game. If you hated Halo 2 you will hate this game. Maybe the single player experience will be more of a wow factor."
From the summary I just had to think that Beta is too late to start playing around with your game's assets. Seems to me that the disappointing graphics update according to fans has forced the devs to run back to the art teams for more splash.
I thought beta players were under NDA preventing public discussion of suckage, though. Can any H3 beta players fill me in?