Hense why terms like "Broke" and "violated" and such are in "quotation marks."aashell13 said:
In this case, it indicates the word in question isn't literal, but "literal."
OnLive Founder Claims "Impossible" Wireless Breakthrough
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In this case, it indicates the word in question isn't literal, but "literal."
Judging from the name of thing its probably not violate the laws of physics so much as working around it. It sounds like he wants to use a distributed system where you use more tech working in tandem so that each working at max capacity works together to achieve results that go over max capacity for a single unit. Its basically how a multicore processor goes faster then any single core could. Now that's just me taking a stab at it but it sounds a bit more reasonable then "he done broke physics".
TheIronRuler said:
Those contracts usually have a time period so it could be a phasing out program. It doesn't have to be right away. You could also have companies who weren't into mobile service (like ISP) to break into the market, kind of like phone companies have entered into the subscription tv service.
I will be following this with interest. If this actually works, which, hey, I think we're all hoping for, then this will be amazing. And will welcome us to the future.
See, I think they are going for the medium gamers. The people tired of trying to play BlackOps against 10 year olds with too much time on their hands. You know, the average working American. The ones that grew up with the Nintendo, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, but don't have the time or money to plunk down on $60 games and $200-$400+ consoles. While I have been fortunate enough to own a 360, a lot of people my age (mid 20s) have to choose between eating/paying rent and playing video games, which is perfect for a service like Onlive.draythefingerless said:
In addition, I have really no lag during any of my games. Its a pretty smooth gameplay, minus a few hiccups that come from my crap connection, not from OnLive. Statistically, the US actually has one of the slower internet connection speed averages, where other countries easily double and triple our speeds.
I also have yet to pay for the service itself, just for the games that I want to "rent" or "buy". I believe that was their initial plan, to have everyone pay something like $5.99 for the service and then pay for the games, but that was dropped shortly after it started. Now they have a subscription service for like $9.99 a month, you get to play any game as long as you want. Or you can just buy a 1-2 day "Playpass" for a specific game at like $2.99 or you can buy the game outright for anywhere between $9.99 - $49.99 (depending on how new it is).
OnLive is still trying to find its niche market. But I think they have decided to settle on the average 20-30 year old American that wants to get back into gaming without the ridiculous expense. In a few years, they will be able to expand out a little further to other markets as they get better content.
Just calling their service "filet mignon 100 miles away" is the complete opposite of what they are actually doing. They are bringing larger, more hardware intensive games to consumers with mid level PCs (single core, 1GB RAM, lower level video card... typical HP and Dell buyers from a few years ago). Hell the whole thing works on a wireless network as well with few to no interruptions.
Why do you include Math in this statement? Math is an internally consistent system of laws that is connected to the physical world only through other real-world systems use of Math to represent themselves.smv1172 said:
Every theorem added to Math is first rigorously proven using theorems that have been rigorously proven using theorems that have been rigorously proven all the way down to the fundamentals of Mathematics. The fact that Math has no reliance on anything outside of itself allows these proofs to be forever valid, as there are no unknown factors to be later discovered.
Physics uses Math to describe itself, but Physics is not Math.
"there is still the problem of the cell phone business relying entirely on the ignorance of the average person to leverage insane profits."
Yeah and not just cell phones, internet too, just look at fiber optics for an example of that (at least in the USA.) Don't know how much its limited elsewhere. Having only one provider is a big part of the problem too.
Yeah and not just cell phones, internet too, just look at fiber optics for an example of that (at least in the USA.) Don't know how much its limited elsewhere. Having only one provider is a big part of the problem too.
Things that were considered impossible by science have been proven possible in the past so it is possible that he "broke the laws of physics". The whole classical mechanics to quantum comes to mind. However I speculate that this is actually a work around and not a break. That is he was clever and got around some assumption in the proof that was thought to be valid. I haven't read the patent though so this is pure speculation.
Man, where was the all powerful buggy whip and railroad conglomerates when the car came along? CAuse, apparently, bloated companies can completely crush all technological innovation, which is why I'm still using a radio and wearing spats!
I refuse to get a cell phone, too. Stupid things, absolute scam. Cell phones are pretty expensive for what you get, have absolutely horrid workmanship in them (fall apart criminally fast) and the companies pull jank that no legitimate phone service provider ever would.gmaverick019 said:
Someone needs to learn the scientific definition of theory, as you'll find it isn't how we use it in regular conversation, a theory is made up of facts and laws and will never become a fact and law because it is already considered higher than them.smv1172 said:
