And maybe hundreds of millions of years ago they also thought:
"It's not worth going to that barren rock because it would take 10,000 years to get there, but let's fire off a probe filled with genetic material at that rock and see if anything evolves -- y'know for shits and giggles"
Why is this a different "sense" organ? Because it uses the sense of "touch"?
Is a handheld compass also an "on-body" circuit? How about a handheld electronic compass that beeps when you're pointing north?
This story is a nothingburger. The concept here appears to be "but this was strapped to the writers' ankle". As if the pseudo-prosthetic reference has relevance here. The writer would have experienced the same revelations of orientation with dashboard GPS.
The Christians are just pissed that their "moral" outrage seems to so consistently coincide with extremely popular titles.
So much so, in fact that marketing firms are now going so far as to stage 'faux Christian outrage' in the hopes that the outrage itself is the thing that contributes to the hits. This of course must be very annoying for the Christians who were hoping that the world was actually listening to what they were saying. It turns out that marketing departments haven't really been listening to the Christians at all, but instead -- happily noting the simultaneous occurance of increased revenues with the angry mobs of yammering Christians.
Which is as it should be of course. Trying to ram one's morality down the throats of others is generally regarded as poor form.
If one puts this into a political analogy: You're advocating fascism. I'm advocating democracy.
Because what if businesses could do whatever they wanted? What if open market forces actually dictated success and failure? What if people could speak their minds? There'd be chaos! Far better to have a society where everything is perfected by the strong hand of government. = APPLE.
No seriously. Apple hates geeks. This isn't flamebait, btw.
Apple loves the image-conscious, visual-creative crowd that accepts the functionality they're given, wrapped up in beautifully designed packages.
But ultimately Apple's corporate strategy can be summed up in one word: Control. They want to control where you buy your music, what you do with your devices, and how you interact with other users. All of this 'control' of course is driven by profit motives.
But geeks ultimately represent a loss of control. Geeks love to tinker... They love to expand functionality. They're innovators. And worst of all from Apple's perspective: They create options.
Options are the enemy of a carefully structured system which drives users towards Apple's sacred points-of-purchase.
Options are the opposite of 'control'.
For all of Apple's "Think Different" public image, the reality is that Apple encourages nothing of the sort: "Think Alike" is the mission. And they prove it at every turn.
Apple fanboys will probably mod this flamebait. It isn't. I have multiple computers and phones, and own an iPhone and a Mac. But I'm constantly being made aware that my PC represents a nearly infinite amount of options in every usage category -- where Apple railroads me into a pre-approved (albeit always compatible) solution.
The power requirements would be minimal, and you could run a few similar boxes through a monitor-switch so you wouldn't even need a dedicated monitor....
There were very, very few classes I ever took that gave me more than I could have read in a book. Almost everything I have learned, I have learned from reading on my own time.
And 90% of my professors were not particularly bright people -- although they all had long lists of credentials. (I went to a top university).
In a nutshell: College is an absurdly overpriced system of structured reading. Why our society demands such a bizarre institution, I have no idea. Perhaps it is a way to force the uninterested and the undisciplined to do what they wouldn't normally do.
I believe in books (and the web of course)
Structure is for those who wouldn't or can't learn without it. Why extol a system which provides support for those who need it in order to learn anything?
Let's be clear about some issues with this question --
For one.. let's talk about "aim": The third person shooter can never be a natural "shooter" in the sense that aiming one's weapon will always be a product of interface, and not visceral line-of-sight.
This of course, is fine for some games -- but if we're going to call a game a "shooter", then we should incorporate the visceral sense of "aim" into that definition.
If "aim" is something that is virtualzed -- as it is in 3rd person shooters -- then the game is by definition not as visceral -- and *may* not be as immersive. (But of course this all depends on one's definition of "immersive". If one defines a visceral -- "real" experience as "immersive" then 1st person wins. If one defines other plot/strategic elements as immersive -- then maybe not....) .
This has all of nothing to do with the Segway. It's a tricycle with the center of gravity moved forwards. It is significantly less stable than the Segway, and it's almost certainly more uncomfortable.
Wait, really? You mean to say that if I have the right hardware, I could conceivably get free wireless access (at least to Wikipedia) anywhere -- and there's no system of authentication to shut it down without shutting down every existing Kindle?
That seems like huge news.
If true, I'm surprised there aren't black market chips that do this.
OR -- best case scenario -- make use of natural caves. Mars has canyons which put the Grand Canyon to shame. To think that we can't find natural shelter on Mars is absurd. We need to stop thinking of the wide open terrain that our previous expeditions went to, and start thinking about places where radiation is minimal.
Heh... I'm glad you don't work in product development. If you call the PSP's "ability" to (sometimes) run games that have been ripped and converted, or run (at reduced framerate and with bugs) through an emulator a "feature", well then... your market would be very small...
What are the chances this has military applications? The energy output seems relatively insignificant for the cost. But the capability of "beaming" this much energy to earth strikes me as useful from a strategic standpoint.
First off, there are domain names like cars.com that one might have surmised would be very valuable -- and would not have been name squatting. How is this not "what the domain name system is for"?
Or are you one of the Slashdot socialists who generally believes that profit is evil and that capitalists destroyed the Interweb?
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...Mr. Race will attempt to lose his virginity...
And maybe hundreds of millions of years ago they also thought:
"It's not worth going to that barren rock because it would take 10,000 years to get there, but let's fire off a probe filled with genetic material at that rock and see if anything evolves -- y'know for shits and giggles"
Why is this a different "sense" organ? Because it uses the sense of "touch"?
Is a handheld compass also an "on-body" circuit? How about a handheld electronic compass that beeps when you're pointing north?
This story is a nothingburger. The concept here appears to be "but this was strapped to the writers' ankle". As if the pseudo-prosthetic reference has relevance here. The writer would have experienced the same revelations of orientation with dashboard GPS.
A legend of a man... eating birds?
What's next? Some kind of ...fried chicken?
Wait...what?
"The cell phone was secured to the camera and constantly reported its GPS location via text message."
Sure the GPS part of the phone would work, but is anyone skeptical of the SMS bit? How could this possibly have been within tower range?
The Christians are just pissed that their "moral" outrage seems to so consistently coincide with extremely popular titles.
So much so, in fact that marketing firms are now going so far as to stage 'faux Christian outrage' in the hopes that the outrage itself is the thing that contributes to the hits. This of course must be very annoying for the Christians who were hoping that the world was actually listening to what they were saying. It turns out that marketing departments haven't really been listening to the Christians at all, but instead -- happily noting the simultaneous occurance of increased revenues with the angry mobs of yammering Christians.
Which is as it should be of course. Trying to ram one's morality down the throats of others is generally regarded as poor form.
Does that mean there are no video surveillance cameras in Massachusetts? Or is the owner of every single surveillance camera breaking the law?
If one puts this into a political analogy: You're advocating fascism. I'm advocating democracy.
Because what if businesses could do whatever they wanted? What if open market forces actually dictated success and failure? What if people could speak their minds? There'd be chaos! Far better to have a society where everything is perfected by the strong hand of government. = APPLE.
No seriously. Apple hates geeks. This isn't flamebait, btw.
Apple loves the image-conscious, visual-creative crowd that accepts the functionality they're given, wrapped up in beautifully designed packages.
But ultimately Apple's corporate strategy can be summed up in one word: Control. They want to control where you buy your music, what you do with your devices, and how you interact with other users. All of this 'control' of course is driven by profit motives.
But geeks ultimately represent a loss of control. Geeks love to tinker... They love to expand functionality. They're innovators. And worst of all from Apple's perspective: They create options.
Options are the enemy of a carefully structured system which drives users towards Apple's sacred points-of-purchase.
Options are the opposite of 'control'.
For all of Apple's "Think Different" public image, the reality is that Apple encourages nothing of the sort: "Think Alike" is the mission. And they prove it at every turn.
Apple fanboys will probably mod this flamebait. It isn't. I have multiple computers and phones, and own an iPhone and a Mac. But I'm constantly being made aware that my PC represents a nearly infinite amount of options in every usage category -- where Apple railroads me into a pre-approved (albeit always compatible) solution.
Tossing your AGP card makes sense, but have you considered throwing in an absolutely minimal ISA VGA card?
e.g: http://www.cablesonline.net/25isavgavidc.html
The power requirements would be minimal, and you could run a few similar boxes through a monitor-switch so you wouldn't even need a dedicated monitor....
There were very, very few classes I ever took that gave me more than I could have read in a book. Almost everything I have learned, I have learned from reading on my own time.
And 90% of my professors were not particularly bright people -- although they all had long lists of credentials. (I went to a top university).
In a nutshell: College is an absurdly overpriced system of structured reading. Why our society demands such a bizarre institution, I have no idea. Perhaps it is a way to force the uninterested and the undisciplined to do what they wouldn't normally do.
I believe in books (and the web of course)
Structure is for those who wouldn't or can't learn without it. Why extol a system which provides support for those who need it in order to learn anything?
Let's be clear about some issues with this question --
For one.. let's talk about "aim": The third person shooter can never be a natural "shooter" in the sense that aiming one's weapon will always be a product of interface, and not visceral line-of-sight.
This of course, is fine for some games -- but if we're going to call a game a "shooter", then we should incorporate the visceral sense of "aim" into that definition.
If "aim" is something that is virtualzed -- as it is in 3rd person shooters -- then the game is by definition not as visceral -- and *may* not be as immersive. (But of course this all depends on one's definition of "immersive". If one defines a visceral -- "real" experience as "immersive" then 1st person wins. If one defines other plot/strategic elements as immersive -- then maybe not....)
.
"Unless every student has a Kindle and an unlimited budget, I don't see how that need is going to be met,' "
What part of "New England Prep School" did you not understand, Keith?
This has all of nothing to do with the Segway. It's a tricycle with the center of gravity moved forwards. It is significantly less stable than the Segway, and it's almost certainly more uncomfortable.
Wait, really? You mean to say that if I have the right hardware, I could conceivably get free wireless access (at least to Wikipedia) anywhere -- and there's no system of authentication to shut it down without shutting down every existing Kindle?
That seems like huge news.
If true, I'm surprised there aren't black market chips that do this.
OR build underground.
OR -- best case scenario -- make use of natural caves. Mars has canyons which put the Grand Canyon to shame. To think that we can't find natural shelter on Mars is absurd. We need to stop thinking of the wide open terrain that our previous expeditions went to, and start thinking about places where radiation is minimal.
Heh... I'm glad you don't work in product development. If you call the PSP's "ability" to (sometimes) run games that have been ripped and converted, or run (at reduced framerate and with bugs) through an emulator a "feature", well then... your market would be very small...
I'd rather have a phone that plays PS1 games than a phone that talks to my PS3.
You'd think someone would realize that there's an instant bestseller with any handheld version of a past (non-handheld) console ...
What are the chances this has military applications? The energy output seems relatively insignificant for the cost. But the capability of "beaming" this much energy to earth strikes me as useful from a strategic standpoint.
Shouldnt there be an age requirement on Slashdot?
Ok, lighten up.
First off, there are domain names like cars.com that one might have surmised would be very valuable -- and would not have been name squatting. How is this not "what the domain name system is for"?
Or are you one of the Slashdot socialists who generally believes that profit is evil and that capitalists destroyed the Interweb?
Imagine being able to choose any domain name you wanted.... ... and choosing "Symbolics.com".
Smart Bomb or Hyperspace?