i don't question the practicality. I admire the fun in it. I do question labeling this as environmentally friendly and green. Resources are consumed keeping that eel alive. The filters are plugged into ac power. food has to be raised and brought to the eel. the eel probably needs the water heated to about 86f. The eel probably needs full spectrum lighting. It's about as environmentally friendly as running your christmas tree off of D cell batteries.
the article is pretty terse. if it's part of a broader display that goes on about how eels themselves generate so much power and wouldn't it be cool if we found a way to mimic the eel and generate clean power from consuming goldfish, well that would be better (unless you are a goldfish).
Of course, according to conventional wisdom, the eel isn't really a good example. It too generates power by consuming biomass and oxygen and emits carbon dioxide.
I've had exotic fish (and reptiles, etc). They all require specific environments maintained at the right temperature. The water requires filtration. Often they require special lighting. You have to feed them. None of that stuff comes for free. I don't think you can make a closed energy loop out of an eel.
I don't want to be tracked. Unfortunately i don't like where this is going either. This isn't like a do not call list where you can register a distinct end point and prove that someone called you when you were clearly on the list. The tracking isn't based on a hard identification. It's a fuzzy id. They are trying to aggregate actions made by some checksum built out of whatever info you can get from a client of a web app. How can either side prove that you are or are not that checksum?
What exactly are we proposing? A law stating that you can't save publicly observable data about the users of your site? What goes on the do not track list? How is this enforced? Regular raids that compare data to some master database of browser configurations? That still puts me in the same situation of having to tell some government body what software i'm running at any time. If i'm one of the really paranoid users, i'm probably going to try to obfuscate my signature anyway so when i suspect someone might be tracking me in a non personally identifiable way, how can i prove it.
I'd rather see legislation around what kind of information is required to gain access to my finances. For example: a checksum of browser plugins and my name should not be enough to get a credit card.
My evidence is largely anecdotal, but the enterprise market seems to be huge. I make marketing apps for a large international brewing company. They have thousands of devices in the field. Their staff take these devices to events and whatnot and use all this custom software. We have other clients coming in constantly telling us how their sales force has adopted ipads, but they want something custom and branded to really wow people.
They love the devices so much that we are now making enterprise apps for their sales and distribution forces. Granted, the other thing that apple has managed to do that it's competitors are failing to do is produce devices that do not come with expensive plans. Most of the enterprise staff that we are supporting are using ipods and ipads. I think there's been a huge uptake in these devices for use by sales and marketing forces as an alternative to laptops and tablets. In fact, the programs i am responsible for used to be based around windows tablets.
all of my clients are sensitive to the fact that iOS is NOT the easiest platform in the world to develop for. Many that i have talked to are sort of waiting with baited breath for something like an iPad from MS because they realize that form factor / experience coupled with an easy development platform would be ideal.
oh well, i guess in my small world, there are only millions of potential customers in sales and marketing forces, whereas in the consumer space there are billions. i guess i understand that. It still seems to me that MS is competing with the Apple and Google of 4 years ago rather than today.
My thoughts exactly. I've been doing enterprise app development for IOS. the topic of jailbreaking comes up frequently. it's always quickly dismissed. The idea of a corporation of any size basing operations or strategy around unsupported hardware is pretty silly. What i find really bizzare is that windows phone 7 had no mechanism for enterprise deployment of apps. All along i thought their marketing of amazing xbox live integration was going to rub enterprise customers the wrong way.
I didn't read TFA, but WTF is a search ranking? Is it some universal standard governed by laws and some ISO committee? I was always under the impression that it was an arbitrary number computed by the search engine to order results. I've also always assumed that the search ranking value was a function of multiple factors including the "how much do we want to see this at the top of the list" value.
I'm a fanboi, and i think Apple made a boneheaded move here. I think they should allow the android magazine on the app store. However, android magazine people. Why are you making a stupid magazine app? Why aren't you doing this as an HTML5 app?
On the iPad it's a stunning tech demo. But at 3 short levels, I wouldn't go so far as to call it a game.
Why not? My first experience with the game left me feeling that it's pretty shallow. I even noted how for all it's graphic splendor it's nowhere near as compelling as angry birds or cut the rope.
I still think that's true, but when i played it again i found i actually did kind of like it. There is a bit of strategy to selecting the right gun. I realized i wasn't good at getting the ammo pickups and it would be beneficial to picking off as many easy guys as possible with the handgun. It helps to pay attention to the various enemies and prioritize your targets. You achieve a higher score by paying attention and really trying to play. I even went through a level again to better my score.
To me, those are all hallmarks of a game. Do i have an objective? check. Does skill impact my performance more than luck? check. If i try can i actually do better? check. Is there some means to verify that I am doing better? check. If there was some minimum level requirement to qualify as a game, then asteroids and pac-man wouldn't be games.
Does it break any new ground in game design? not really. Is it the most compelling game on the platform? probably not, but tastes vary. Is the atmosphere 1990's id cliche that appeals to young adolescent males? yes. Still I would say it's a solid game that stands on it's own. From a certain point of view the whole experience is more polished and cohesive than Doom (definately Quake). Though it's obviously not breaking the new ground that those titles did.
This is all highly speculative. it's one thing to have a gold locket appraised at 2.4 million. It's another thing to actually find someone who will pay 2.4 million for it.
Ah! So the 7 items are pointers to some instance at some memory address in the storage part of the brain! Like a computer!
I'm not sure why everyone is getting so pedantic over the definition of computer. Isn't it just a construct that given a set of inputs will give you some output? Maybe there's an expectation that the paths input takes to output are reconfigurable. That kind of starts to sound like a brain. It processes raw data. It's programable. Heck, even algorithms that work in the computer world work in the brain. I found I had been using a merge sort to organize socks long before I encountered it in cs.
What system did you grow up using? I'm in the us. I can't imagine what a 20 degree c. Day feels like. I don't have a good idea how fast 42 kph is. But If you tell me you have 2 liters of something, I have no trouble envisioning it.
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i forgot some other byproducts of eel generated power. Methane, Amonia. Some yucky sludge.
i don't question the practicality. I admire the fun in it. I do question labeling this as environmentally friendly and green. Resources are consumed keeping that eel alive. The filters are plugged into ac power. food has to be raised and brought to the eel. the eel probably needs the water heated to about 86f. The eel probably needs full spectrum lighting. It's about as environmentally friendly as running your christmas tree off of D cell batteries.
the article is pretty terse. if it's part of a broader display that goes on about how eels themselves generate so much power and wouldn't it be cool if we found a way to mimic the eel and generate clean power from consuming goldfish, well that would be better (unless you are a goldfish).
Of course, according to conventional wisdom, the eel isn't really a good example. It too generates power by consuming biomass and oxygen and emits carbon dioxide.
I've had exotic fish (and reptiles, etc). They all require specific environments maintained at the right temperature. The water requires filtration. Often they require special lighting. You have to feed them. None of that stuff comes for free. I don't think you can make a closed energy loop out of an eel.
The Sun, being the most abundant source of renewable energy.
Oh please. There's only so much hydrogen in there, and it's turning to helium at an alarming rate!
I have an aircraft carrier in my freakin' shopping cart! I'm only two steps away from owning an aircraft carrier! God! I love the freakin future!
I don't want to be tracked. Unfortunately i don't like where this is going either. This isn't like a do not call list where you can register a distinct end point and prove that someone called you when you were clearly on the list. The tracking isn't based on a hard identification. It's a fuzzy id. They are trying to aggregate actions made by some checksum built out of whatever info you can get from a client of a web app. How can either side prove that you are or are not that checksum?
What exactly are we proposing? A law stating that you can't save publicly observable data about the users of your site? What goes on the do not track list? How is this enforced? Regular raids that compare data to some master database of browser configurations? That still puts me in the same situation of having to tell some government body what software i'm running at any time. If i'm one of the really paranoid users, i'm probably going to try to obfuscate my signature anyway so when i suspect someone might be tracking me in a non personally identifiable way, how can i prove it.
I'd rather see legislation around what kind of information is required to gain access to my finances. For example: a checksum of browser plugins and my name should not be enough to get a credit card.
people will shift from bitterly complaining about the ruling class to smugly complaining about the ruling class. it will be totally different.
Once they bust this copper theft ring the papers will proclaim:
"Coppers put Stopper on Copper Choppers"
that's so weird! my name is Firstname Lastname, but i live in Town. It's just a few miles up the road from City.
My evidence is largely anecdotal, but the enterprise market seems to be huge. I make marketing apps for a large international brewing company. They have thousands of devices in the field. Their staff take these devices to events and whatnot and use all this custom software. We have other clients coming in constantly telling us how their sales force has adopted ipads, but they want something custom and branded to really wow people.
They love the devices so much that we are now making enterprise apps for their sales and distribution forces. Granted, the other thing that apple has managed to do that it's competitors are failing to do is produce devices that do not come with expensive plans. Most of the enterprise staff that we are supporting are using ipods and ipads. I think there's been a huge uptake in these devices for use by sales and marketing forces as an alternative to laptops and tablets. In fact, the programs i am responsible for used to be based around windows tablets.
all of my clients are sensitive to the fact that iOS is NOT the easiest platform in the world to develop for. Many that i have talked to are sort of waiting with baited breath for something like an iPad from MS because they realize that form factor / experience coupled with an easy development platform would be ideal.
oh well, i guess in my small world, there are only millions of potential customers in sales and marketing forces, whereas in the consumer space there are billions. i guess i understand that. It still seems to me that MS is competing with the Apple and Google of 4 years ago rather than today.
maybe the writer is going for a PHD in fear mongering.
The article spins a good yarn about how evil and underhanded the facebook button is, then puts a facebook like button right at the bottom.
My thoughts exactly. I've been doing enterprise app development for IOS. the topic of jailbreaking comes up frequently. it's always quickly dismissed. The idea of a corporation of any size basing operations or strategy around unsupported hardware is pretty silly. What i find really bizzare is that windows phone 7 had no mechanism for enterprise deployment of apps. All along i thought their marketing of amazing xbox live integration was going to rub enterprise customers the wrong way.
I didn't read TFA, but WTF is a search ranking? Is it some universal standard governed by laws and some ISO committee? I was always under the impression that it was an arbitrary number computed by the search engine to order results. I've also always assumed that the search ranking value was a function of multiple factors including the "how much do we want to see this at the top of the list" value.
I'm a fanboi, and i think Apple made a boneheaded move here. I think they should allow the android magazine on the app store. However, android magazine people. Why are you making a stupid magazine app? Why aren't you doing this as an HTML5 app?
On the iPad it's a stunning tech demo. But at 3 short levels, I wouldn't go so far as to call it a game.
Why not? My first experience with the game left me feeling that it's pretty shallow. I even noted how for all it's graphic splendor it's nowhere near as compelling as angry birds or cut the rope.
I still think that's true, but when i played it again i found i actually did kind of like it. There is a bit of strategy to selecting the right gun. I realized i wasn't good at getting the ammo pickups and it would be beneficial to picking off as many easy guys as possible with the handgun. It helps to pay attention to the various enemies and prioritize your targets. You achieve a higher score by paying attention and really trying to play. I even went through a level again to better my score.
To me, those are all hallmarks of a game. Do i have an objective? check. Does skill impact my performance more than luck? check. If i try can i actually do better? check. Is there some means to verify that I am doing better? check. If there was some minimum level requirement to qualify as a game, then asteroids and pac-man wouldn't be games.
Does it break any new ground in game design? not really. Is it the most compelling game on the platform? probably not, but tastes vary. Is the atmosphere 1990's id cliche that appeals to young adolescent males? yes. Still I would say it's a solid game that stands on it's own. From a certain point of view the whole experience is more polished and cohesive than Doom (definately Quake). Though it's obviously not breaking the new ground that those titles did.
Can it play regular CDs or DVDs?
use physical media inside the car? I bet you have one of those cars with the hand crank in the front to start it as well.
This is all highly speculative. it's one thing to have a gold locket appraised at 2.4 million. It's another thing to actually find someone who will pay 2.4 million for it.
...like a balloon and... something bad happens!
Ah! So the 7 items are pointers to some instance at some memory address in the storage part of the brain! Like a computer!
I'm not sure why everyone is getting so pedantic over the definition of computer. Isn't it just a construct that given a set of inputs will give you some output? Maybe there's an expectation that the paths input takes to output are reconfigurable. That kind of starts to sound like a brain. It processes raw data. It's programable. Heck, even algorithms that work in the computer world work in the brain. I found I had been using a merge sort to organize socks long before I encountered it in cs.
What system did you grow up using? I'm in the us. I can't imagine what a 20 degree c. Day feels like. I don't have a good idea how fast 42 kph is. But If you tell me you have 2 liters of something, I have no trouble envisioning it.
you forgot bacteria gives host mutant healing factor and near indestructibility. and it's in a BAD GUY!
The bacteria they made in the lab likes the acidity of concrete. What about the mutant bacteria that the bacteria in the crack makes?
"and they have a built-in self-destruct gene that prevents them from proliferating away from the concrete target."
That never works in the movies. One cosmic ray and the gene is replaced by another one that says," invade humans and turn them into statues."
bezier?