maybe I missed it but they didn't mention if they're planning on calculating it in realtime with a physics processor or the computer's processor if one doesn't have one or if they're going to use the equations to pre-render it to look really realistic then just play the animation non-dynamically. I'd much prefer the second because though it would look the same every time, they could perfect it and maybe have multiple versions of it. Plus then when I use the biosludge gun from Unreal Tournament and spray 100 gobs of goo all over the playing field, my computer doesn't have to slow down to a slideshow while it tries to calculate how it will flow off every corner and into every crack on the map and stuff. Game makers always say games will never freeze but as soon as I fly 1000 helicopters across the screen in C&C Generals, uh ohhhh slowdown.
Who else thinks microsoft should pay them if they release it to the public as a crack? I sure as hell won't buy Vista until it's gone and I can play and backup my damn media that I already bought in full quality, so it's gonna shoot Vista's sales through the roof.
whatever's in my body lets me eat like 6000 calories a day, sit on my ass, and never gain a pound. I don't want people copying that! I better encode my internal chemicals with DRM so people can't decode and copy me.
What if Jackass comes out with a Jackass the Movie 2 tie in game for the Wii where you beat eat other with the wiimote and get points for it. Extra points for nut shots! Now that's quirky and original to the max! I'd play it;)
If you actually owned an in game item in any online game, that would mean that you could go to their server in person, download the file storing the data about the item onto a USB drive, and take it home. So obviously you don't own the files and can't sell them. But OOPS MMOG companies seem to have forgotten that you own the right to USE the item/character/file. If you didn't, you couldn't play the game at all now could you? And here's where the important distinction comes in and why no court case can ever be won against ppl that sell virtual properties: It's against the company's rules to trade accounts for example, but COMPANIES CAN'T MAKE LAWS! They think they can but they can't. They even pretend like they can but they still can't. All they can do is put in the Terms of Use that they'll punish you if you break their own rules that they made up. And no, that punishment can't be jailtime and can't be a fine unless they prove you damaged them. The most they can do is ban you and delete your account. There's no real law at all being broken. If they make rules about how you can use the virtual property then so be it but that still doesn't make it actually illegal.
Plus as an added bonus, I'll tell you what is illegal. Companies looking at what you did on eBay an banning you for it (only in paid subscription games though). If companies ban you for trading in game currency for real money in a paid subscription based game and it doesn't say anywhere in the EULA that they can ban you for ANY REASON or NO REASON, you can actually sue them and win. That's because companies can't run your life outside the game. They can't legally tell you what you can and can't do when you're not playing. That's against dozens of laws (in the US.) For example, if my friend and I play Runescape and he gave me a ride to school when my car broke down and I gave him a million gp cuz he was so nice, that's wouldn't get me banned. But suddenly if someone was nice enough to give me $10 through an eBay auction and in exchange I traded them 1 million in game currency, that's illegal? Guess again! By banning you without a terms of use or eula stating that they can do it for no reason, they can't actually make their own federal law that says "you cannot do _______ in the real world if it influence the way you trade in game" any more than Walmart can charge you extra because you just bought a new car at the dealership next door. If they ban you for an action you took in the real world outside the game, take them to court and you're rich or at least will end up with your subscription fee back. And in case you think that's BS, I know of at least one person who did it and won 2 years ago.
learn how to read, kid. DLP looks a lot better than regular projectors. Have you seen those shitty projectors that do like 10,000 colors and the bulb wears out all the time? Yeah, DLP looks just a hair better than that (thus the lol because it's so obvious but to stupid people apparently not)
wow they made a circuit with 100GB/cm2 that we'll never see in a real memory device for like ever. Good thing I can hop on over to inPhase and store 300 GB on a 130mm by 3.5 mm disc (that's 350 GB/in2 density which I think is like 25 GB/cm2) and have it up and running at my business in like a week for like $4000. Not exactly a wise idea to try to invent something that might just barely beat something that's commercially available right now because by the time it's ready for commercial applications, holographics will blow it away. The discs have a shelf life of 50 years or 10 million read cycles in use and the read write speeds are insane. Sorry to have kinda killed the wow factor but it's not that wow after all:-P Btw what ever happened to the "nano punch stamps" that could hold like 10 terabytes on a 1 inch square area by impacting the 0's and 1's a couple nanometers apart that was reported on slashdot a long time ago?
Well projectors have needed lots of lamp replacements and people still use them. Plus, DLP looks a lot better lol. Now I don't know of any projector lamps that lasted like 100 hours but I know some that are under 1000 and people are just like whatever. As long as Toshiba keeps replacing them for free and giving good warranties then it's just like another product you may have heard of. I mean come on, how many people do you know that had their iPod break and they're like all like OMG DIE APPLE! NEVER BUY ONE! And I swear at least 1/4 of all iPods made broke but Apple fixes em for free and people seem happier to get something free than they would be if it had not broken in the first place. Dunno what the name of that psycological effect is but it works apparently.
you forgot the calculation for the energy in calories it takes carrying around more weight during the day which makes a huge difference and evens it out at some point.
only people with pathetic genes that would have died in a real natural selection environment gain weight that way WHILE EATING A NORMAL 2500 CALORIE DIET. People don't just get fat, they eat fat. Every pound gained is a bare minimum of 3500 calories that they ate and didn't burn. That's one single pound! You'd have to jog for like 8 hours to burn that. Gaining weight has almost nothing to do with exercise, it's all about how much people eat. Which is easier: not eating an entire bag of chips ahoy, or getting up and exercising for 2 hours to burn the equivilant in calories? That's right, intake is about a 100x bigger factor. I do just about nothing all day and I'm only 155 pounds at 5'11" because my body doesn't turn extra calories into fat, it burns them later and makes me not hungry in the meantime...you know, like the human body is actually supposed to work before fatties with endless hunger and no self control came along. If you took even the most basic biology or health class, you know all that is exactly true and if U disagree then you're just a FAID (Fat Ass In Denial)
Who the hell comes out with studies like this? Whos idea is it to waste money studying and interviewing people to come up with useless stats like this and what are they trying to do? Since almost everyone uses computers, almost everyone knows that they're usefull for just about everything, and almost everyone knows that there's rarely something wrong with people who spend "too much" time on them, I guess we're left with the logical assumption that it's either the Amish or really old politicians sponsering these stupid studies. I bet they presented the stat in the way they did disregarding that like 90% of that time occurred at work. Ugh, why don't they just stop living in the 90's and give up their ridiculous notions that everyone who uses a computer is an antisocial loser and shouldn't.
Which is more likely...terrorists to sneak into the country with a full missile setup and be able to set it up and launch it undetected or them hijacking a plane and using the defenses to not get shot down. Hmmm...
I say coat all of our satellites in mirror coat chrome and home they don't hit any parts that can't be chromed:P Then again, there's other ways of stopping light, especially if you know it's coming
"the isolated fish enzyme killed 99 percent of H5N1 viruses"
yay, it left the ones that are immune so they can spread instead. Just give em some zinc and echinacea and chicken soup lol.
you gotta wonder when the first real-world conflict (aka war) would start from something that happened in Second Life. Those ppl take it way too seriously. I wouldn't even put it past the North Koreans to invade South Korea so they can steal all the silk from Silkroad Online (an MMORPG) That crazy leader guy has kidnapped movie stars from south korea to make a movie that he wrote ffs! Let's hope he doesn't start playing second life.
"There is no way to report a vulnerability safely."
not digitally so just send the company an actual real letter about it with no return address. TADA!
and to think that the computing power could have been used to find a cure for cancer or aliens (cancer cure yes, cure for aliens no, just finding aliens)
It looks like a total rip off of Grouper but that's okay cuz if it works the way they say it does, it kicks Grouper's ass several times over in features and functionality. btw I hope it has a little animation of the file being put into one of those containers and the bank and sucked up a tube cuz that's totally cool:-)
actually I know exactly what they are. String theory explains everything, and everything includes quantum physics. The fact that an atom may or may not emit radiation determines by how a string vibrates and maybe even if it does at all or not but anyway, then like some particle that goes along with another particle make up the radiation that comes off and one's radiation and the other is a physical particle and they both vibrate differently but are both strings and blah blah blah. And the cat thing is where a radioactive substance has an equal chance of radiating or not and it's completely super-exact random and if a radiation detector receives radiation, it radiated and the sensor trips a thing that kills the cat but if nobody and nothing is "observing" (a term nobody can explain fully yet) the result then neither and both of the results happened. Why this is stupid is because you'd have to "observe" it to find out if that's true but then one of the outcomes would come into being in this universe. But then again, I could say little magic multi-dimensional unicorns carry the cat off to la la land where it turnes into a black hole and travels faster than the speed of light to every point in the universe at once (like war 10 lol) until something observes the event and nobody could disprove it and there is NO WAY TO TEST IT. So that's why it's incredibly stupid. Yes it's not directly linked to string theory but string theory explains all particles and all energy so yeah, it's related to string theory because quantum physics has to do with how particles and energy (aka string then) act.
we'll see who has the last laugh when I read the digestive system 1.1 update change log:-P I still don't see how I'm still alive if I drank pure water all night while sweating like crazy. There were actually salt crystals all over my eyelashes and face and stuff and I didn't take in any electrolytes at all, all night. Though I am usually very dehydrated so maybe I absorbed the water out of my blood really fast cuz everything needed it...but then I'm still short on a massive amount of electrolytes. So with my electrolytes plummeting and my pure water intake skyrocketing and she was only drinking, not sweating, I don't see how that could possibly be the cause of death if I'm still alive. I think she just didn't the Wii so she killed herself and it's a coverup or conspiracy to shut down the radio station.
wow, what a bold, scary strategy considering that about 99% of streaming internet radio for example is captured in almost full quality internally on the sound card by changing the recording device to stereo mixer (or WAV on older ones I think) and pressing record. DRM won't change that because it would still be getting it from the sound card's final output. Who the heck tries to steal the audio data out of the place its cached or something like that that DRM could actually protect. That's why intel motherboard manufactureres agreed to disable the stereo mixer to work as a recording device on most recent motherboard after they found out a ton of people were stealing music that way. Of course, they have to then cross their fingers and hope people don't hook the digital out to the digital in port, which loses almost no quality and record it that way And all this useless protection is on top of the fact that most podcasts and other streaming audio is really low quality, and thus undesireable for most ppl that download it to steal it. Well at least they're wasting their time and money doing stupid stuff like this and not something really restrictive and effective.
that's exactly why it's lived so long. It's interesting because of the math and patterns but completely useless up until now. I think it got started by some misinterpreted findings in an experiment or a shaky conclusion about something in physics that formed some unproveable theories. The implications of certain things in string theory would make some crazy cool inventions, which is another reason why they just refuse to drop it but yeah, I can't think of one single usefull thing that's come out of it. Far from it considering all the grants that have gone into its study. All that money could have been put into a study that goes the other direction, using physics we know and use now to discover and invent more that we didn't know and we'd be flying around in ion jetpacks by now. That would be a nice, steady, straight road to go down while you can see string theory out doing donuts in a dusty field far off of the road and the chances of it meeting up with the road and coming up with something usefull are very slim. Kinda reminds me of finding techniques to calculate pi farther. The goal is stupid but oh yay, they developed new ways to calculate giant floating point calculations and now graphics cards are faster. La dee da, and that wasn't the original intention. They just got lucky with a side effect and it's really not all that important. Of course, the pi calculating computers could have been processing folding and curing cancer and we for sure know that would be the outcome eventually so I suggest all around, we study things we know will pay off instead of just dumb stuff.
Someone mentioned in an earlier article about string theory here on slashdot something to this effect:
String theory is a joke to study. No seriously, it's a joke. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to here it, does it make a sound? You can't study it because nobody can be around to hear it. I know! Let's write a paper about its utter complexity and impossibilty and try to guess whether it does make a sound or not. Same BS with parts of string theory. If you measure it, does it change the result? If you can't measure whether or not schroedinger's cat died, it must be in some sort of magic suspended indecision state and ha ha ha you can't prove otherwise because then you'd be measuring it. What a stupid, made up field to study. Yeah, humans have some siginificance in physics when it comes to witnessing events instead of just being a bunch of atoms. Ugh, stupid!
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maybe I missed it but they didn't mention if they're planning on calculating it in realtime with a physics processor or the computer's processor if one doesn't have one or if they're going to use the equations to pre-render it to look really realistic then just play the animation non-dynamically. I'd much prefer the second because though it would look the same every time, they could perfect it and maybe have multiple versions of it. Plus then when I use the biosludge gun from Unreal Tournament and spray 100 gobs of goo all over the playing field, my computer doesn't have to slow down to a slideshow while it tries to calculate how it will flow off every corner and into every crack on the map and stuff. Game makers always say games will never freeze but as soon as I fly 1000 helicopters across the screen in C&C Generals, uh ohhhh slowdown.
Who else thinks microsoft should pay them if they release it to the public as a crack? I sure as hell won't buy Vista until it's gone and I can play and backup my damn media that I already bought in full quality, so it's gonna shoot Vista's sales through the roof.
whatever's in my body lets me eat like 6000 calories a day, sit on my ass, and never gain a pound. I don't want people copying that! I better encode my internal chemicals with DRM so people can't decode and copy me.
What if Jackass comes out with a Jackass the Movie 2 tie in game for the Wii where you beat eat other with the wiimote and get points for it. Extra points for nut shots! Now that's quirky and original to the max! I'd play it ;)
If you actually owned an in game item in any online game, that would mean that you could go to their server in person, download the file storing the data about the item onto a USB drive, and take it home. So obviously you don't own the files and can't sell them. But OOPS MMOG companies seem to have forgotten that you own the right to USE the item/character/file. If you didn't, you couldn't play the game at all now could you? And here's where the important distinction comes in and why no court case can ever be won against ppl that sell virtual properties: It's against the company's rules to trade accounts for example, but COMPANIES CAN'T MAKE LAWS! They think they can but they can't. They even pretend like they can but they still can't. All they can do is put in the Terms of Use that they'll punish you if you break their own rules that they made up. And no, that punishment can't be jailtime and can't be a fine unless they prove you damaged them. The most they can do is ban you and delete your account. There's no real law at all being broken. If they make rules about how you can use the virtual property then so be it but that still doesn't make it actually illegal.
Plus as an added bonus, I'll tell you what is illegal. Companies looking at what you did on eBay an banning you for it (only in paid subscription games though). If companies ban you for trading in game currency for real money in a paid subscription based game and it doesn't say anywhere in the EULA that they can ban you for ANY REASON or NO REASON, you can actually sue them and win. That's because companies can't run your life outside the game. They can't legally tell you what you can and can't do when you're not playing. That's against dozens of laws (in the US.) For example, if my friend and I play Runescape and he gave me a ride to school when my car broke down and I gave him a million gp cuz he was so nice, that's wouldn't get me banned. But suddenly if someone was nice enough to give me $10 through an eBay auction and in exchange I traded them 1 million in game currency, that's illegal? Guess again! By banning you without a terms of use or eula stating that they can do it for no reason, they can't actually make their own federal law that says "you cannot do _______ in the real world if it influence the way you trade in game" any more than Walmart can charge you extra because you just bought a new car at the dealership next door. If they ban you for an action you took in the real world outside the game, take them to court and you're rich or at least will end up with your subscription fee back. And in case you think that's BS, I know of at least one person who did it and won 2 years ago.
learn how to read, kid. DLP looks a lot better than regular projectors. Have you seen those shitty projectors that do like 10,000 colors and the bulb wears out all the time? Yeah, DLP looks just a hair better than that (thus the lol because it's so obvious but to stupid people apparently not)
wow they made a circuit with 100GB/cm2 that we'll never see in a real memory device for like ever. Good thing I can hop on over to inPhase and store 300 GB on a 130mm by 3.5 mm disc (that's 350 GB/in2 density which I think is like 25 GB/cm2) and have it up and running at my business in like a week for like $4000. Not exactly a wise idea to try to invent something that might just barely beat something that's commercially available right now because by the time it's ready for commercial applications, holographics will blow it away. The discs have a shelf life of 50 years or 10 million read cycles in use and the read write speeds are insane. Sorry to have kinda killed the wow factor but it's not that wow after all :-P Btw what ever happened to the "nano punch stamps" that could hold like 10 terabytes on a 1 inch square area by impacting the 0's and 1's a couple nanometers apart that was reported on slashdot a long time ago?
Well projectors have needed lots of lamp replacements and people still use them. Plus, DLP looks a lot better lol. Now I don't know of any projector lamps that lasted like 100 hours but I know some that are under 1000 and people are just like whatever. As long as Toshiba keeps replacing them for free and giving good warranties then it's just like another product you may have heard of. I mean come on, how many people do you know that had their iPod break and they're like all like OMG DIE APPLE! NEVER BUY ONE! And I swear at least 1/4 of all iPods made broke but Apple fixes em for free and people seem happier to get something free than they would be if it had not broken in the first place. Dunno what the name of that psycological effect is but it works apparently.
you forgot the calculation for the energy in calories it takes carrying around more weight during the day which makes a huge difference and evens it out at some point.
only people with pathetic genes that would have died in a real natural selection environment gain weight that way WHILE EATING A NORMAL 2500 CALORIE DIET. People don't just get fat, they eat fat. Every pound gained is a bare minimum of 3500 calories that they ate and didn't burn. That's one single pound! You'd have to jog for like 8 hours to burn that. Gaining weight has almost nothing to do with exercise, it's all about how much people eat. Which is easier: not eating an entire bag of chips ahoy, or getting up and exercising for 2 hours to burn the equivilant in calories? That's right, intake is about a 100x bigger factor. I do just about nothing all day and I'm only 155 pounds at 5'11" because my body doesn't turn extra calories into fat, it burns them later and makes me not hungry in the meantime...you know, like the human body is actually supposed to work before fatties with endless hunger and no self control came along. If you took even the most basic biology or health class, you know all that is exactly true and if U disagree then you're just a FAID (Fat Ass In Denial)
Who the hell comes out with studies like this? Whos idea is it to waste money studying and interviewing people to come up with useless stats like this and what are they trying to do? Since almost everyone uses computers, almost everyone knows that they're usefull for just about everything, and almost everyone knows that there's rarely something wrong with people who spend "too much" time on them, I guess we're left with the logical assumption that it's either the Amish or really old politicians sponsering these stupid studies. I bet they presented the stat in the way they did disregarding that like 90% of that time occurred at work. Ugh, why don't they just stop living in the 90's and give up their ridiculous notions that everyone who uses a computer is an antisocial loser and shouldn't.
Which is more likely...terrorists to sneak into the country with a full missile setup and be able to set it up and launch it undetected or them hijacking a plane and using the defenses to not get shot down. Hmmm...
I say coat all of our satellites in mirror coat chrome and home they don't hit any parts that can't be chromed :P Then again, there's other ways of stopping light, especially if you know it's coming
Omg I didn't realize it has no real keyboard. That's gonna kill it pretty fast considering all what it's supposed to be able to do.
"the isolated fish enzyme killed 99 percent of H5N1 viruses"
yay, it left the ones that are immune so they can spread instead. Just give em some zinc and echinacea and chicken soup lol.
you gotta wonder when the first real-world conflict (aka war) would start from something that happened in Second Life. Those ppl take it way too seriously. I wouldn't even put it past the North Koreans to invade South Korea so they can steal all the silk from Silkroad Online (an MMORPG) That crazy leader guy has kidnapped movie stars from south korea to make a movie that he wrote ffs! Let's hope he doesn't start playing second life.
"There is no way to report a vulnerability safely."
not digitally so just send the company an actual real letter about it with no return address. TADA!
and to think that the computing power could have been used to find a cure for cancer or aliens (cancer cure yes, cure for aliens no, just finding aliens)
It looks like a total rip off of Grouper but that's okay cuz if it works the way they say it does, it kicks Grouper's ass several times over in features and functionality. btw I hope it has a little animation of the file being put into one of those containers and the bank and sucked up a tube cuz that's totally cool :-)
actually I know exactly what they are. String theory explains everything, and everything includes quantum physics. The fact that an atom may or may not emit radiation determines by how a string vibrates and maybe even if it does at all or not but anyway, then like some particle that goes along with another particle make up the radiation that comes off and one's radiation and the other is a physical particle and they both vibrate differently but are both strings and blah blah blah. And the cat thing is where a radioactive substance has an equal chance of radiating or not and it's completely super-exact random and if a radiation detector receives radiation, it radiated and the sensor trips a thing that kills the cat but if nobody and nothing is "observing" (a term nobody can explain fully yet) the result then neither and both of the results happened. Why this is stupid is because you'd have to "observe" it to find out if that's true but then one of the outcomes would come into being in this universe. But then again, I could say little magic multi-dimensional unicorns carry the cat off to la la land where it turnes into a black hole and travels faster than the speed of light to every point in the universe at once (like war 10 lol) until something observes the event and nobody could disprove it and there is NO WAY TO TEST IT. So that's why it's incredibly stupid. Yes it's not directly linked to string theory but string theory explains all particles and all energy so yeah, it's related to string theory because quantum physics has to do with how particles and energy (aka string then) act.
you're right, I don't believe it can do anything to stop PCI sound cards :)
we'll see who has the last laugh when I read the digestive system 1.1 update change log :-P I still don't see how I'm still alive if I drank pure water all night while sweating like crazy. There were actually salt crystals all over my eyelashes and face and stuff and I didn't take in any electrolytes at all, all night. Though I am usually very dehydrated so maybe I absorbed the water out of my blood really fast cuz everything needed it...but then I'm still short on a massive amount of electrolytes. So with my electrolytes plummeting and my pure water intake skyrocketing and she was only drinking, not sweating, I don't see how that could possibly be the cause of death if I'm still alive. I think she just didn't the Wii so she killed herself and it's a coverup or conspiracy to shut down the radio station.
wow, what a bold, scary strategy considering that about 99% of streaming internet radio for example is captured in almost full quality internally on the sound card by changing the recording device to stereo mixer (or WAV on older ones I think) and pressing record. DRM won't change that because it would still be getting it from the sound card's final output. Who the heck tries to steal the audio data out of the place its cached or something like that that DRM could actually protect. That's why intel motherboard manufactureres agreed to disable the stereo mixer to work as a recording device on most recent motherboard after they found out a ton of people were stealing music that way. Of course, they have to then cross their fingers and hope people don't hook the digital out to the digital in port, which loses almost no quality and record it that way
And all this useless protection is on top of the fact that most podcasts and other streaming audio is really low quality, and thus undesireable for most ppl that download it to steal it. Well at least they're wasting their time and money doing stupid stuff like this and not something really restrictive and effective.
that's exactly why it's lived so long. It's interesting because of the math and patterns but completely useless up until now. I think it got started by some misinterpreted findings in an experiment or a shaky conclusion about something in physics that formed some unproveable theories. The implications of certain things in string theory would make some crazy cool inventions, which is another reason why they just refuse to drop it but yeah, I can't think of one single usefull thing that's come out of it. Far from it considering all the grants that have gone into its study. All that money could have been put into a study that goes the other direction, using physics we know and use now to discover and invent more that we didn't know and we'd be flying around in ion jetpacks by now. That would be a nice, steady, straight road to go down while you can see string theory out doing donuts in a dusty field far off of the road and the chances of it meeting up with the road and coming up with something usefull are very slim. Kinda reminds me of finding techniques to calculate pi farther. The goal is stupid but oh yay, they developed new ways to calculate giant floating point calculations and now graphics cards are faster. La dee da, and that wasn't the original intention. They just got lucky with a side effect and it's really not all that important. Of course, the pi calculating computers could have been processing folding and curing cancer and we for sure know that would be the outcome eventually so I suggest all around, we study things we know will pay off instead of just dumb stuff.
Someone mentioned in an earlier article about string theory here on slashdot something to this effect:
String theory is a joke to study. No seriously, it's a joke. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to here it, does it make a sound? You can't study it because nobody can be around to hear it. I know! Let's write a paper about its utter complexity and impossibilty and try to guess whether it does make a sound or not. Same BS with parts of string theory. If you measure it, does it change the result? If you can't measure whether or not schroedinger's cat died, it must be in some sort of magic suspended indecision state and ha ha ha you can't prove otherwise because then you'd be measuring it. What a stupid, made up field to study. Yeah, humans have some siginificance in physics when it comes to witnessing events instead of just being a bunch of atoms. Ugh, stupid!