Comment Re:Chrome OS will fail. (Score 1) 103
You never have mod points when you need them... I couldn't agree more with you.
Comment Re:So, I'm looking at the Presidio right now in GE (Score 1) 95
Download the latest version, and under Layers, and 3D Buildings there's a checkbox for Trees.
Comment Maybe boring for you guys, but not for everybody (Score 2, Interesting) 95
As the network admin for a wireless ISP, we use Google Earth as a sort of 'first approximation' (along with RadioMobile) to do preliminary site-surveys, estimating whether its even worth our time to roll a truck for an attempted install. This looks like a great addition to an invaluable tool to me!
Comment Re:This irks me (Score 1) 188
FYI, I have the Vibrant (T-Mobile variant), and received an OTA update last week. It resolved my GPS issues, and I'm pretty happy with the phone. I just saw a post yesterday that the Galaxy-S phones are rolling out 2.2 (Froyo) in the Scandanavian region now, with updates for the rest of the world coming. Just hang in there...
Comment Re:A veteran Civilization fan... (Score 1) 380
When both of my kids were newborns, I used to volunteer to give them their nightly bottles, just so that I could play Civ II while holding them.
Comment Re:Blech (Score 1) 126
Well, we're not using BES, but I just swapped the SIM from my old BB Curve to a Samsung Vibrant. Worked fine.
An Early Look At Civilization V 286
c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."
Comment Re:Go 2nd Hand Cisco (Score 1) 268
That's just how we started. They're great little layer-3 switches, and can be had for cheap ($200-300) on the used market. Check out Network Hardware Resale, PICS, or Network Liquidators. We've gotten 6503's with a sup720 for less than $13k.
Comment The Reason Slashdot Posted (Score 1) 202
We're all missing why this was posted to slashdot. I too was outraged by the numbers and finally realized that this post was about the *RESPONSE* to the Wall Street article, not the article itself.
I'll bet not one of us has read the response at http://mashable.com/2010/01/13/app-store-piracy/ . Let's do that before hanging someone.
Comment Re:Why would you want to keep the telephone number (Score 1) 239
Why would you want to keep the telephone number?
Long term? You don't. But as the world moves to SIP or some other telephony solution that runs on the internet, some people in the world will be stuck for some time on a POTS exchange with a simple phone that can only dial numbers. So what if that exchange didn't have to use the normal international phone network but could use DNS to find a SIP server to route the call to directly over the internet?
Comment Re:It makes sense really (Score 2) 325
But you need to get a nunchuk to play certain games: 25 dollars.
Since when was Player 1's Nunchuk accessory eliminated from the standard bundle?
unless they're some hokey peripheral game like WiiFit, where you're going to pay 100 dollars.
It's not the only peripheral game. Cross-platform peripheral games include DDR, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band, even on your favored X [] O. And if you're including MotionPlus in the Wii's price, do you plan to include Natal in the 360's or Eye in the PS3's?
Want to buy Mario Kart and get two little steering wheel controllers? 90 dollars.
The Wii Wheel is a piece of plastic. There are third-party replacements: after you buy the game and one wheel, additional wheels cost $15 or so.
Comment Re:It makes sense really (Score 1) 325
720x480 is a really low resolution. It doesn't matter what marketing people call it, it's still pixelated and blurry.
I'm using the best output right now and it doesn't look much better than the standard one. There's no interlace-induced flickering - that's about it.
There's a Wii/GC emulator called Dolphin that can render Wii games at any res you like. It looks excellent, way better than the real thing.
Despite the poor resolution they were designed for, Wii games generally have sufficiently high model complexity and texture quality to look quite good in high resolutions. It's a shame it can't be taken advantage of.
I'm using the best output right now and it doesn't look much better than the standard one. There's no interlace-induced flickering - that's about it.
There's a Wii/GC emulator called Dolphin that can render Wii games at any res you like. It looks excellent, way better than the real thing.
Despite the poor resolution they were designed for, Wii games generally have sufficiently high model complexity and texture quality to look quite good in high resolutions. It's a shame it can't be taken advantage of.
Comment Re:And (Score 1) 258
Well, China has a standing army of about 3.4 million people (+1.2 million reserve). And 823,286,135 people fit for military service. According to Wikipedia.
They may not have as good weapons, but they have much better brains.
And in case of an emergency... No country in the world can stop over 800 million people!
Comment Re:"Friendly AI" (Score 1, Informative) 258
Well, suppose your Mom was at a restaurant having dinner, and it got blown up, killing her and most of the rest of the clientele, and you learned that the restaurant was bombed without warning because a "high value target" was supposed to have been there, but wasn't. (This has happened, and it was no accident.) I assume, based on the above, you would feel that "them's the breaks," but I can assure you that many people would conclude that the people dropping the bombs don't really care much as to whether civilians were killed or not, and you don't have to dig very deep to learn that in reality many of the people at the receiving end of such incidents do indeed feel that the people behind the bombs deserve punishment.
Just because you are upset and may want retribution, you are still going to see the distinction between this and someone intentionally killing your mother.
No one said that accidental deaths are meaningless. But jollyreaper was claiming that there is no distinction between the intentional murder and accidental deaths (or even collateral damage). I think stdarg's example was spot on.
Comment Re:Who cares about the humans (Score 1) 336
They should absolutely tie into the storyline (or at least the same universe). It's easy: either tell the story of the alien ship that the Nostromo found (cool, but unlikely), or just make sure everybody dies, or have the story end up being covered up by the Company, and that's the reason they send the Nostromo to check out that distress signal.
