In goes to show you how crudely we are forced to learn about other planets, in a technique that amounts to bludgeoning you subject with a stick to see what's inside. I'm sure there was a point in history when this was also the most effective means of studying wasp's (the flying kind) nests.
Still not quite. As in an a FPS, an MMO game client typically interpolates between position updates from the server. High latency causes characters to appear to "teleport" if they vear off of the path that the client predicted they would follow. In an FPS, this can cause a direct hit, as percieved by the client, to actually be a miss. In a game like WoW, you don't need accuracy to target a mob and the only "slowness" in the client interface manifests itself when trading items with the world or other players (which I can only assume involves some transactional DB).
You think Intel makes good space heaters? The office that I'm moving into is currently a staging area for an SGI Origin 350... That's a shared memory space heater for you younguns.
No comment on the eInk displays looking good or not (although if you have photoshop, you can print some text at 170 dpi 2-bit to simulate the resolution and color depth in the specs) however I think the nano pic you linked has a simulated image on the screen. In fact, if you look at the product shot on the side of an iPod box, you'll see that the display is rendered at the print resoluation (probably 600 dpi) with a disclaimer indicating that the image is in fact "simulated"
(embrace and maybe not assimilate this time?) Ha ha ha. Yeah, right.
"I am Locutus of Borg. You will be embraced. Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons and escort us to Sector 001. If you attempt to intervene, we will give you a really big hug."
Failure to use the Bcc: field for mass mailings (especially if the parties in the To: Cc: etc. fields don't know each other directly) is another pet peave of mine.
Fortunately the admins at my school weren't foolish enough to create an open distro list with the whole school on it, but my RA was. They did give the student government access to the undergrads alias once...that was a bad idea.
yeah and this one time, in college, the RA sent an email to all the people on my floor, and then some guy replied to everyone and so some other guy replied to him saying "hey, don't send it to the list," but he was a total idiot because he replied to everyone too...
Security against terrorism will always have the tendency of preventing a certain type of attack from happening _again_. Since you can't protect against everything, you should at least force the terrorists to become more creative by protecting against the vectors of attack they've used in the past.
One of my favorite "uncommon" mappings was what I used to use for Half Life. That game brought back the "use" button I had left behind with Doom 2, and also required manual reload. Mouse wheel down was reload and mouse wheel up was use. It was very natural, and a much better use of the wheel than weapon cycle. Also, neither reload nor use are such drastic commands as to make a mapping for Mouse3 (i.e. wheel click) un-desirable.
"When are we going to do something about it? We can't let them impose their failed, outdated, and inefficient business model through threats, pressures and silence. We must speak out. I am wiling to travel the world (as I am doing now in conferences all over Spain) to tell my story, and they will not silence me. The truth has to be known. But I need your help."
Please forward this message to ten of your friends and add your name to the list at the bottom of the message. If you are the 100th, 200th, 300th etc person please forward a copy of the message to jorge@cortell.net
I'll clarify the ones I know: CLEC : competitive local exchange carrier SBC : I believe he is refering to the phone company SBC LATA : Local Access Transport Area RBOC : Regional Bell Operating Company (i.e. SBC)
Don't know PSAP. Google suggests "Public Safety Answering Point"
Its up to you...I don't really know why I wrote it with the bang in my post...i'm usually prety inconsitent about that (and other things like spelling, capitalizing I when writing informally online, etc.)
Here's an amusing read on the subject of how to write these names (Yahoo! E*Trade Macy*s et al)
Show me where in the liscense it says that once you publish Wikipedia content that you have to make that content available indefinetaly. The problem isn't that they will make unauthorized changes to the content, the problem is that Wikipedia doesn't want to become dependant on free hosting that can be pulled out from under it at the discression of the donor. At least by diversifying, they won't find themselves in a position of having a ton of web traffic and no host to serve it should one of their hosting sponsors back out.
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...Yes, specialization marches on as the key to technological advances.
In goes to show you how crudely we are forced to learn about other planets, in a technique that amounts to bludgeoning you subject with a stick to see what's inside. I'm sure there was a point in history when this was also the most effective means of studying wasp's (the flying kind) nests.
Still not quite. As in an a FPS, an MMO game client typically interpolates between position updates from the server. High latency causes characters to appear to "teleport" if they vear off of the path that the client predicted they would follow. In an FPS, this can cause a direct hit, as percieved by the client, to actually be a miss. In a game like WoW, you don't need accuracy to target a mob and the only "slowness" in the client interface manifests itself when trading items with the world or other players (which I can only assume involves some transactional DB).
Knowing amazon they've patented this .. even though it's a known technique etc.
Indeed...prior art in hotornot.com
GPU stands for General Purpose Unit right? Or was is Generic Processing Unit? I can't remember.
You think Intel makes good space heaters? The office that I'm moving into is currently a staging area for an SGI Origin 350 ... That's a shared memory space heater for you younguns.
No comment on the eInk displays looking good or not (although if you have photoshop, you can print some text at 170 dpi 2-bit to simulate the resolution and color depth in the specs) however I think the nano pic you linked has a simulated image on the screen. In fact, if you look at the product shot on the side of an iPod box, you'll see that the display is rendered at the print resoluation (probably 600 dpi) with a disclaimer indicating that the image is in fact "simulated"
An aggregated diamond nanorod is forever.
(embrace and maybe not assimilate this time?)
Ha ha ha. Yeah, right.
"I am Locutus of Borg. You will be embraced. Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons and escort us to Sector 001. If you attempt to intervene, we will give you a really big hug."
Two year contract technology has already brought cell phones down into the $0.00 to $0.99 price range.
"Which printer company did you say you worked for?"
"A major one."
Failure to use the Bcc: field for mass mailings (especially if the parties in the To: Cc: etc. fields don't know each other directly) is another pet peave of mine.
Fortunately the admins at my school weren't foolish enough to create an open distro list with the whole school on it, but my RA was. They did give the student government access to the undergrads alias once...that was a bad idea.
yeah and this one time, in college, the RA sent an email to all the people on my floor, and then some guy replied to everyone and so some other guy replied to him saying "hey, don't send it to the list," but he was a total idiot because he replied to everyone too...
In other news: ZZ Top members arrested for counterfeiting
Like this?
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000230050640/
Not software, perhaps, but it will get the job done.
Security against terrorism will always have the tendency of preventing a certain type of attack from happening _again_. Since you can't protect against everything, you should at least force the terrorists to become more creative by protecting against the vectors of attack they've used in the past.
There were restrictions on the size of the blade you could cary. Pocket knives (and box cutters) were allowed on planes before 9/11
One of my favorite "uncommon" mappings was what I used to use for Half Life. That game brought back the "use" button I had left behind with Doom 2, and also required manual reload. Mouse wheel down was reload and mouse wheel up was use. It was very natural, and a much better use of the wheel than weapon cycle. Also, neither reload nor use are such drastic commands as to make a mapping for Mouse3 (i.e. wheel click) un-desirable.
-- Why can't we moderate posts "incoherent"?
Yours, for instance.
Wouldn't they be just as likely to come out socially inept and stupid?
Just sayin'
"When are we going to do something about it? We can't let them impose their failed, outdated, and inefficient business model through threats, pressures and silence. We must speak out. I am wiling to travel the world (as I am doing now in conferences all over Spain) to tell my story, and they will not silence me. The truth has to be known. But I need your help."
Please forward this message to ten of your friends and add your name to the list at the bottom of the message. If you are the 100th, 200th, 300th etc person please forward a copy of the message to jorge@cortell.net
Thanks.
I'll clarify the ones I know:
CLEC : competitive local exchange carrier
SBC : I believe he is refering to the phone company SBC
LATA : Local Access Transport Area
RBOC : Regional Bell Operating Company (i.e. SBC)
Don't know PSAP. Google suggests "Public Safety Answering Point"
~Adam
Its up to you...I don't really know why I wrote it with the bang in my post...i'm usually prety inconsitent about that (and other things like spelling, capitalizing I when writing informally online, etc.)
Here's an amusing read on the subject of how to write these names (Yahoo! E*Trade Macy*s et al)
http://www.theslot.com/webnames.html
Show me where in the liscense it says that once you publish Wikipedia content that you have to make that content available indefinetaly. The problem isn't that they will make unauthorized changes to the content, the problem is that Wikipedia doesn't want to become dependant on free hosting that can be pulled out from under it at the discression of the donor. At least by diversifying, they won't find themselves in a position of having a ton of web traffic and no host to serve it should one of their hosting sponsors back out.