Sounds like a very demented alternate version of The Matrix trilogy. Actually, maybe a pornographic version of The Matrix. They do cover all the humans in a slick gel after all.
I wonder what they'd block out instead of the sun when the robots inevitably go bad . . .
2 Xbox 360s (one wired, one wireless through ICS on laptop) each with 1 controller 1 2.4GHz Cordless phone (Uniden something or other) 1 Wireless router (WRT54G) 3 Laptops running on 802.11g (Netgear WG511T, Buffalo USB Adapter, Intel PRO Wireless adapter)
I haven't seen a single problem and all network/gaming/phone performance is good to excellent (relatively speaking). Having multiple 2.4Ghz devices in one house can always be problematic. When I used to work retail electronics I had plenty of customers complain about WiFi and phones interrupting each other. Besides, doesn't Bluetooth use a 2.4GHz signal too (and thus, the PS3 controllers)? Correct me if I'm wrong on that one.
Gee, that sounds like what Europe and Japan seem to offer people at a fraction of the cost, except crappier and more expensive. Way to go AT&T! I love when telecoms are looking out for the consumer's best interest.
Microsoft plans on releasing its new feature, "Locations", with the next release candidate of Internet Explorer 7. It requires a small version of MS-SQL Server to be installed, which will be included, and requires 1GB ram and 3GB free hard disk space.
Wait until someone figures out the structure of the wirelessly transmitted packets. Would it be weird if all of a sudden you're talking to a friend and some hax0r is transmitting his pr0n directly to your head?
I see an "I Spy" like possibility where Eddy Murphy sees Owen Wilson getting his ass beat in the middle of a boxing match.
Is Dubya making Slashdot posts now? Giving someone with a title like "unproportional" a 5 seems like a disproportionate thing to do for the rest of us who don't make up words:P
that this bill went down the tubes. After all, Ted Stevens only wanted it so he could do packet prioritization when one of this staff sends him an Internet.
How many studies show the percentage of slack-jawed irresponsible parents that:
a) Allow their children to play these games
b) Don't pay any attention to the behavior/attitude their children exhibit
c) Blame the media and games for the abhorrent misbehavior of their progeny
Seriously, I love how skewed all of this is. Heaven forbid any parent is responsible for what their child does anymore; no, it's clearly because of games. Parents, pay attention to what your child does/watches/plays and what they do with their friend when they're at their friend's house (and the friends' parents need to do the same), and studies like this can stop inciting uneducated prejudice against video games. I can understand that it can have psychological side effects on children, but guess what else has a psychological side effect on your children, GOOD PARENTING!
I'm not sure what you're doing in your gui, but here's my own $.02. (Note: this is Java related more than anything else, though my thoughts could be extended to C# I'm sure)
If you're going to have several smaller windows in your app (dialog boxes and such), I would suggest possibly creating some wrapper classes that have the the basic dimensions and alignments for the template you're trying to follow, so that you're not repeating code like assigning sizes and buttons and such.
As far as design goes, you could try a factory setup and have several wrapper classes (as mentioned before) that are allocated in some static class somewhere and make calls for different parts of the GUI using reflection. This would cut down on memory usage but thread safety could become an issue.
Code repetition can be a tricky thing to assuage depending on the scope of it. As others have said, that's not always an indication that you should go write another class to handle it, but if you're calling several methods of GUI objects and they happen to be the same methods, wrapper classes may be a good fit for you.
That book about the scandal sheds a lot of light of just how screwed over customers have been the past decade+. If anything Verizon has a moral obligation to start something like this from the fact that their customers have been paying extra for it for years and the fact that America is getting its ass kicked in regards to infrastructure compared to some countries in Europe and Japan. China is also planning on sinking billions into its infrastructure as well, so it's about time one of these money whoring telecoms stop the douchebaggery and start fucking doing something instead of syphoning capital out of its customers for service in which the cost doesn't justify the performance. Maybe this will trigger Comcast, ATT, Qwest and others to stop their stupid fucking complacency and start doing something to improve this companies infrastructure instead of holding their monopolies and using the legal system to force out municipally owned service.
Then again, I've never associated telecoms with ever doing anything moral, intelligent or in the best interest of the consumer.
There's fans from every camp here on Slashdot for consoles: Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. However, something to keep in mind despite whatever your affiliation is, if any:
This is a BAD thing
All of this, if it comes true, will equal gross complacency. Marketing analysts are preaching a damning future for the PS3 (though I rarely, if ever, take marketing analysts seriously), and though some people are cheering this on, they only should be if they're an enemy of the video game industry. Suggesting that Microsoft would buy them out is herecy; and to call yourself a fan of anything having to do with video games whilst rooting for such an outcome is hipocrisy in its truest form.
Think about it people, how long have we been stuck with Windows XP now? Five years. How long was Internet Explorer stuck in the 5's and 6's? Even longer. Now, you have the Firefox's and Opera's gaining steam, so IE 7 is in the midst (not saying it's necessarily good). Ubuntu, OSX and even smaller rivals like ReactOS are making their own impacts. Microsoft knows it has to compete with others now to avoid losing marketshare, so something Vista this way comes.
Once again, complacency is bad.
Microsoft taking over Sony's throne in the console market would be quite unfavorable. Want to be stuck with the XBox 360 another decade? With Nintendo moving over toward more of an overall experience rather than raw performance, this leaves a deficit of competition for Microsoft. They have no reason to pour millions into R&D for the next console to lose money on initially if there's no market to capture.
Sony seems to be making a LOT of textbook mistakes, similar to those that can be found on the console tombstones of Atari and 3DO. Let's hope that history doesn't repeat itself for the sake of the industry.
So, seeing as how vista limits you to 480p unless you use HDCP, I can only imagine what would come of this. Maybe they'll only let you run at 1080p unless you get a pc and monitor capable of some new equally-ultra-crippled hardware drm scheme and the lead-pipe sized uhdcp cable to use it:P
They may as well go register the domain myspace.edu since they're now the bastard child of a smart concept for college students/alumni and that cesspool of social gangrene.
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Sounds like a very demented alternate version of The Matrix trilogy. Actually, maybe a pornographic version of The Matrix. They do cover all the humans in a slick gel after all.
I wonder what they'd block out instead of the sun when the robots inevitably go bad . . .
My setup:
2 Xbox 360s (one wired, one wireless through ICS on laptop) each with 1 controller
1 2.4GHz Cordless phone (Uniden something or other)
1 Wireless router (WRT54G)
3 Laptops running on 802.11g (Netgear WG511T, Buffalo USB Adapter, Intel PRO Wireless adapter)
I haven't seen a single problem and all network/gaming/phone performance is good to excellent (relatively speaking). Having multiple 2.4Ghz devices in one house can always be problematic. When I used to work retail electronics I had plenty of customers complain about WiFi and phones interrupting each other. Besides, doesn't Bluetooth use a 2.4GHz signal too (and thus, the PS3 controllers)? Correct me if I'm wrong on that one.
Hopefully they give them the Flash-animated 36/24/36 blond haired blue eyed stiletto wearing temptress officer with a whip in tow on their desktops.
When will this be available in key-chain form?
- not being bitten, scratched or otherwise suffering an infectious injury from a carrier
They're HIV/AIDS victims, not zombies . . .
Gee, that sounds like what Europe and Japan seem to offer people at a fraction of the cost, except crappier and more expensive. Way to go AT&T! I love when telecoms are looking out for the consumer's best interest.
/sarcasm off
Microsoft plans on releasing its new feature, "Locations", with the next release candidate of Internet Explorer 7. It requires a small version of MS-SQL Server to be installed, which will be included, and requires 1GB ram and 3GB free hard disk space.
12:03 AM MST, Digg now has an Out Of Service landing page
Wait until someone figures out the structure of the wirelessly transmitted packets. Would it be weird if all of a sudden you're talking to a friend and some hax0r is transmitting his pr0n directly to your head?
I see an "I Spy" like possibility where Eddy Murphy sees Owen Wilson getting his ass beat in the middle of a boxing match.
So how long before a Sony exec starts offering a bounty for the Blu-ray discs that remain on shelves?
Additionally, does anyone know of them making this ridiculous claim with Beta-Max? We all know how well that went.
Honestly, the fact that Sony said they're declaring themselves the winner of the war is something I'd expect to see on The Onion.
Unproportional?
:P
Is Dubya making Slashdot posts now? Giving someone with a title like "unproportional" a 5 seems like a disproportionate thing to do for the rest of us who don't make up words
that this bill went down the tubes. After all, Ted Stevens only wanted it so he could do packet prioritization when one of this staff sends him an Internet.
Between this standard and REST, it looks like we have some very lazy web services, RESTing and RELAX NG all the time . . .
So we're cutting back on Ipods and Segways when he likes to drive Mercedes Benz and BMW vehicles?
Maybe we should place sanctions on things we produce that he likes.
How many studies show the percentage of slack-jawed irresponsible parents that:
a) Allow their children to play these games
b) Don't pay any attention to the behavior/attitude their children exhibit
c) Blame the media and games for the abhorrent misbehavior of their progeny
Seriously, I love how skewed all of this is. Heaven forbid any parent is responsible for what their child does anymore; no, it's clearly because of games. Parents, pay attention to what your child does/watches/plays and what they do with their friend when they're at their friend's house (and the friends' parents need to do the same), and studies like this can stop inciting uneducated prejudice against video games. I can understand that it can have psychological side effects on children, but guess what else has a psychological side effect on your children, GOOD PARENTING!
I'm not sure what you're doing in your gui, but here's my own $.02. (Note: this is Java related more than anything else, though my thoughts could be extended to C# I'm sure)
If you're going to have several smaller windows in your app (dialog boxes and such), I would suggest possibly creating some wrapper classes that have the the basic dimensions and alignments for the template you're trying to follow, so that you're not repeating code like assigning sizes and buttons and such.
As far as design goes, you could try a factory setup and have several wrapper classes (as mentioned before) that are allocated in some static class somewhere and make calls for different parts of the GUI using reflection. This would cut down on memory usage but thread safety could become an issue.
Code repetition can be a tricky thing to assuage depending on the scope of it. As others have said, that's not always an indication that you should go write another class to handle it, but if you're calling several methods of GUI objects and they happen to be the same methods, wrapper classes may be a good fit for you.
"A few scientists think younger humans may be more vulnerable to the transmissions, because of thinner skulls."
Awesome, now when I call my stepfather thick headed, I can link him to the source of that claim.
I am able to write unefficient code
Why don't you find time to nail down grammar before you pursue your inefficient code.
That book about the scandal sheds a lot of light of just how screwed over customers have been the past decade+. If anything Verizon has a moral obligation to start something like this from the fact that their customers have been paying extra for it for years and the fact that America is getting its ass kicked in regards to infrastructure compared to some countries in Europe and Japan. China is also planning on sinking billions into its infrastructure as well, so it's about time one of these money whoring telecoms stop the douchebaggery and start fucking doing something instead of syphoning capital out of its customers for service in which the cost doesn't justify the performance. Maybe this will trigger Comcast, ATT, Qwest and others to stop their stupid fucking complacency and start doing something to improve this companies infrastructure instead of holding their monopolies and using the legal system to force out municipally owned service.
Then again, I've never associated telecoms with ever doing anything moral, intelligent or in the best interest of the consumer.
There's fans from every camp here on Slashdot for consoles: Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. However, something to keep in mind despite whatever your affiliation is, if any: This is a BAD thing All of this, if it comes true, will equal gross complacency. Marketing analysts are preaching a damning future for the PS3 (though I rarely, if ever, take marketing analysts seriously), and though some people are cheering this on, they only should be if they're an enemy of the video game industry. Suggesting that Microsoft would buy them out is herecy; and to call yourself a fan of anything having to do with video games whilst rooting for such an outcome is hipocrisy in its truest form. Think about it people, how long have we been stuck with Windows XP now? Five years. How long was Internet Explorer stuck in the 5's and 6's? Even longer. Now, you have the Firefox's and Opera's gaining steam, so IE 7 is in the midst (not saying it's necessarily good). Ubuntu, OSX and even smaller rivals like ReactOS are making their own impacts. Microsoft knows it has to compete with others now to avoid losing marketshare, so something Vista this way comes. Once again, complacency is bad. Microsoft taking over Sony's throne in the console market would be quite unfavorable. Want to be stuck with the XBox 360 another decade? With Nintendo moving over toward more of an overall experience rather than raw performance, this leaves a deficit of competition for Microsoft. They have no reason to pour millions into R&D for the next console to lose money on initially if there's no market to capture. Sony seems to be making a LOT of textbook mistakes, similar to those that can be found on the console tombstones of Atari and 3DO. Let's hope that history doesn't repeat itself for the sake of the industry.
Turning hydrogen into fossil fuels. Now THAT would be something to see.
So, seeing as how vista limits you to 480p unless you use HDCP, I can only imagine what would come of this. Maybe they'll only let you run at 1080p unless you get a pc and monitor capable of some new equally-ultra-crippled hardware drm scheme and the lead-pipe sized uhdcp cable to use it :P
They may as well go register the domain myspace.edu since they're now the bastard child of a smart concept for college students/alumni and that cesspool of social gangrene.