[quote]Actually there is a place in Washington State (the northwest of the the US)[/quote] That's how I tend to view Washington, too: as northwest of the US. Kind of like how Texas is just south of the US. Put in Civ IV terms: "The people of Washington are rightfully asking to join the Canadian empire. Allow to join? (Yes No) ". You gotta watch out for that cul
Would you have a Batman screensaver, by any chance?
24" X 1.5 = 36". 1080 * 1.5 = 1620. You get the same screen, it's just 1.5X bigger, and you sit further away. I don't think the market is flocking to put dual 36" TV's on their office desks, though.
[quote]It does not make sense to spend more - unless you check the DPI. Most of those 32 inchers only do 720 DPI, and you want a more than that for a computer (1080 is HD, and 1280 for a computer is minimum).[/quote] Then it seems like 36" is where this starts to make more sense. Compensate for the DPI by adding more I. A hypothetical shrink of that 1080 DPI 36" TV down to 24" would get you 1620 DPI. HD 36" are sitting around $550. 24" monitors are around $350.
[quote]and a 32" tv that claims to be monitor-capable.[/quote] Is this a new trend/no-so-new trend? 32" TV's are the same price (or even cheaper) than the 24" and 27" monitors nowadays. Is it making more sense now to just get a low-end TV rather than a high-end monitor? How do the refresh rates, resolutions, contrast ratios, etc. compare? I assume these TV's are accepting HDMI inputs and you can hook it directly to your video card?</p
I might be full of baloney, I'm not a lawyer. :D What do you call a bunch of lawyers skydiving out of an airplane? Skeet.
You guys are really hurting my feelings. You don't know what I do for a living. I'm going to need your names and contact information.
Even the free market regulates store hours sometimes. All the farmers' markets in my area, you have to open shop at exactly 8am and close at exactly 12pm, to be fair to everybody. And that's even if you're sold out at 10--you still have to remain open until 12. Otherwise people would be trying to open shop at 6am to try & increase sales, and soon they're sold out at 8am. Then everybody else feels the pressure to be there at 6am, and you've pretty much screwed
[quote]And we haven't even mentioned the Prophecy storyelements yet. Those are pure gold for those who liked the story in StarCraft. In Utter Darkness especially especially made me immersed.[/quote] Utter Darkness was amazing. A chilling prophecy with a sad ending--but it didn't actually happen. It certainly chilled me. I think that's an awesome storyline. And I could identify with it, because I remember the dark feeling I got from the "new" Kerr
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Most chips are manufactured in Taiwan, not Japan. However, Taiwanese companies do get raw materials from Japan. I don't think this impact will be that pronounced. Fujitsu fabs some display stuff, and that would get hit. If a tsunami hit Hsinchu, Taiwan, though, it would not be good for us, unless you own a bunch of stock in IBM. 2/3rd's of everything involving silicon comes from there.
Now is probably a good time to buy beachfront property in the North Pacific.
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[quote]Rebellion is Upon Us[/quote] Yes. The American people are fed up. Congress is reckless with their spending, Wisconsin workers aren't treated right, Texas is ready to secede, and we're tired of still being in Iraq and Afghanistan, slavery should be outlawed, southern states have the constitutional right to leave the Union.... ...oh, we're talking about a space game?
The best time for cruises isn't even in Spring. The best time for cruises is the first & second week of December. Unless you're talking Alaska--the best time for Alaska is May. The best time for chocolate is February??? Isn't there a certain day that happens in mid-February? I think it happened exactly one month ago today.
Math is fine. It's posting algebraic equations on an internet site that I've given up on. Happy Pi Day, by the way.
Humanity's great advances in technology are all fine and wonderful, just not right after I just bought my brand new computer.
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Troops are targetable as they're travelling in H5. However, no doubt in my mind that untargettable is easier to implement.
I'm still waiting for Stardock to show up at South by Southwest. Feel free to stop by anytime.
[quote] some ppl just dont have much time to play[/quote] Then don't buy the game. Would you buy a set of golf clubs and then pay someone to play golf with them for you? WTF
Paying to buy the game and then paying to have someone play the game for you...that's just retarded.
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[quote]Well, normally it's "reduce the role of the QA team", and the tools to do that are Unit Test Suites , Continuous Integration or at least Nightly Builds , and often further automated tests.[/quote] Let's see: unit test, integration, nightly builds. Who do you think does all thos
That's a very down-to-earthy report. Nice aesthetics, too. Certainly a lot less straining to read than most earnings releases, financial reports, etc. I read from the public companies, which tend to contain a lot of legalese and jargon. Looks like Stardock took my advice on re-releasing Elemental, so as to get a new set of reviews. That makes sense. Once your game gets reviewed, that's your review. That's just how the de facto system works. Th
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[quote][quote] 3. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.[/quote] Irrelevant for a software company.[/quote] "Eliminate the QA team by not coding bugs into the software in the first place." Um...yeah.... How's that working out?
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[quote]However, I do have some concerns going forward. I think it might be easy to manage a small firm and ensure good quality products. However, with the release of Elemental it seems Stardock is beginning to transition from a small firm, that can be easily managed from the top-down by a single individual, to a much larger bureaucracy.[/quote] I don't think that is what's happening. I think Stardock was a one-man show--Brad--who worked crazy hard, and
I don't like the idea of a single MMO at all. Back when I played Ultima Online, they had a virtual monopoly on the market, and they had player-killing. I told them I didn't want to play if they would not offer worlds with no-player-killing option--all the same maps, quests, everything, just no player-killing. Ultima Online told me basically, "screw you, if you don't like player-killing then get yourself a gang of friends to go out and quest with".
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If the internet was not shut off, we would be getting word from numerous people on the streets telling us what is REALLY going on. That is the risk the governments think they can't afford. That's what this is all about: propaganda, pure and simple. I've gotten word from someone in Egypt, what is really gong on there is NOTHING like what we're hearing in the media. The media keeps saying "Tahrir Square, Tahirir Square", and that's not even where all th