Jeez, they ought to put that guy in next year's Loebner Prize contest. If all the human participants were like him, even Eliza could win the gold medal.
Anyhow, I don't dream much at all. Two young kids means that deep sleep is a rare luxury.
Theoretically, this ought to mean you dream more, unless you really are getting no sleep at all. Pretty much everyone dreams, but remembering that you've done so when you awake is thought to be a factor of how you wake up. If you are awakened suddenly while dreaming (say by an alarm clock, or maybe two young kids) you're far more likely to realise that you were dreaming than someone who woke up gradually, who will probably have no memory of dreaming at all.
What I've noticed though is that the people who buy them don't seem to care...
Sure they'll die, but I doubt they'll die just because there's something better on the market.
I dunno, I know a few people who probably would die if you told them there was something better than an iPhone on the market.
while giving the finger (thumb to you Brits) with the other
Somewhat off-topic of me, but I'm curious - where on earth did you hear "giving the thumb"? I'm a brit, and I've never heard that expression before in my life.
Re:Wikipedia -- 42143900% Increase in Results!
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That's amazing! It's almost as though Wikipedia didn't exist back then!
I think I must have misunderstood the summary. In what way does installing a piece of piece of software onto something "create a machine smaller and lighter than the MacBook Air"?
Also, does installing software on a machine really void the warranty? If you reload the original OS from recovery disks before sending it back, how would the manufacturer even know?
It's strange,/. summaries are usually so clear and well-written.
Isn't the reaction of the test subjects likely to have been influenced by the fact they're not using their own PC? They're sat in a lab, with researchers having given them exact instructions of what to do, and they're suddenly confronted with unexpected dialogs. They just want to get rid of them and get on with the task at hand, possibly not taking as much care of the PC as they would their own.
You've just explained why the studios are currently charging $30 per disk. Some people are buying a few disks (like you), some are buying none (like me) and some are buying loads despite the price.
In a year or two, when the price has come down to DVD levels, you'll start to replace your DVD collection, and I might start to buy the odd disc here and there. The studio hasn't lost anything, they've simply gained from every disk sold at double the reasonable price level in the mean time.
I think you might be confusing bitrate (e.g. 128 kbit/s MP3) with sample rate (e.g. 44.1kHz CD). The bitrate of uncompressed CD-quality PCM audio is 1411.2 kbit/s, more than ten times that of the MP3 format I mentioned. I can assure you that I can tell the difference between those!
Audio CDs are generally encoded as 48khz, 16bit, 1411kbps PCM audio
Minor correction, audio CDs are encoded with a sample rate of 44.1khz, not 48khz.
Around the time of the initial development of CDs, audio was often stored using video recorders, since hard drives were an impractical choice back then. 44,100 samples per second suited both the NTSC and PAL formats, so this format was common at the time, and that's why this non-round number was originally chosen for the CD format too.
The summary states that the card is 1GB in size, so that's plenty of room to store the audio in 24-bit 48kHz quality (arguably the highest quality the human ear can distinguish) and still leave room for extras. They could step up to 2GB pretty cheaply if they want to go to 96kHz.
Sadly I doubt many people would notice if the audio was in 128 kbit/s MP3 format.
Regular slashdot users will remember the site's article from a few weeks ago, which analysed the Best Gaming PCs that Money can Buy.
Whereas regular Slashdot editors might remember how the last article was panned by readers, and might have ceased spamming us with articles from this site.
They might also remember to capitalise the name of their own site, but I guess all this is too much to hope for.
This is ridiculous. Google stated quite clearly when they removed this language from Chrome's terms and conditions: the reason they were there in the first place is because they were copied from the terms and conditions of another product. Now it's a story that some other Google products have the same terms and conditions as Chrome?
Then we privatised British Telecom, and turned it into just another big company which exists only to take as much of our money as it can, while providing as little service as it can get away with.
Oh no! Exec dabbled with left wing ideology in youth! By the way I was a member of the Socialist Worker Student Society when I was a student because I was trying to impress a girl. Why would anybody care?
I can see why this would be harmful to his career. As soon as word got out that, at some point in his past, he actually cared about people, his reputation as a business executive would be ruined. He might never get another six-figure salaried job again.
People who are "active in politics... play a significant institutional, economic, social or religious role... 'likely to breach public order.'"?
So that would be a database of politicians, CEOs and cult leaders then? So long as this database is freely accessible to all on the net, it sounds like a great idea to me.
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Jeez, they ought to put that guy in next year's Loebner Prize contest. If all the human participants were like him, even Eliza could win the gold medal.
People said stuff like that to Apple and Atari as well :)
So you're saying Yahoo has a 50% chance to pull through?
Anyhow, I don't dream much at all. Two young kids means that deep sleep is a rare luxury.
Theoretically, this ought to mean you dream more, unless you really are getting no sleep at all. Pretty much everyone dreams, but remembering that you've done so when you awake is thought to be a factor of how you wake up. If you are awakened suddenly while dreaming (say by an alarm clock, or maybe two young kids) you're far more likely to realise that you were dreaming than someone who woke up gradually, who will probably have no memory of dreaming at all.
next time your mother asks you to tidy your basement
There, fixed that for ya.
Since I'm not American, and Slashdot is (loosely) a scientific or technical publication
For extremely large values of "loosely".
Sounds like an interesting report, but I can't spare the time to read it.
games based in Adobe's Flash platform and which run in a web browser with no download
Flash apps work without downloading Flash these days? That's pretty damn sweet.
What I've noticed though is that the people who buy them don't seem to care... Sure they'll die, but I doubt they'll die just because there's something better on the market.
I dunno, I know a few people who probably would die if you told them there was something better than an iPhone on the market.
Zelda definitely takes the cake.
Yes, but the cake is a lie.
How can we have a discussion about video game music where no-one has mentioned Portal? Possibly the best use of music in a game ever.
while giving the finger (thumb to you Brits) with the other
Somewhat off-topic of me, but I'm curious - where on earth did you hear "giving the thumb"? I'm a brit, and I've never heard that expression before in my life.
That's amazing! It's almost as though Wikipedia didn't exist back then!
YOU HAD LOWER CASE CHARACTERS?
(Sigh. Good job we didn't have lameness filters in my day.)
I think I must have misunderstood the summary. In what way does installing a piece of piece of software onto something "create a machine smaller and lighter than the MacBook Air"?
Also, does installing software on a machine really void the warranty? If you reload the original OS from recovery disks before sending it back, how would the manufacturer even know?
It's strange, /. summaries are usually so clear and well-written.
Isn't the reaction of the test subjects likely to have been influenced by the fact they're not using their own PC? They're sat in a lab, with researchers having given them exact instructions of what to do, and they're suddenly confronted with unexpected dialogs. They just want to get rid of them and get on with the task at hand, possibly not taking as much care of the PC as they would their own.
Are they entirely certain they haven't just invented a frog exaggerator?
You've just explained why the studios are currently charging $30 per disk. Some people are buying a few disks (like you), some are buying none (like me) and some are buying loads despite the price.
In a year or two, when the price has come down to DVD levels, you'll start to replace your DVD collection, and I might start to buy the odd disc here and there. The studio hasn't lost anything, they've simply gained from every disk sold at double the reasonable price level in the mean time.
I think you might be confusing bitrate (e.g. 128 kbit/s MP3) with sample rate (e.g. 44.1kHz CD). The bitrate of uncompressed CD-quality PCM audio is 1411.2 kbit/s, more than ten times that of the MP3 format I mentioned. I can assure you that I can tell the difference between those!
Audio CDs are generally encoded as 48khz, 16bit, 1411kbps PCM audio
Minor correction, audio CDs are encoded with a sample rate of 44.1khz, not 48khz.
Around the time of the initial development of CDs, audio was often stored using video recorders, since hard drives were an impractical choice back then. 44,100 samples per second suited both the NTSC and PAL formats, so this format was common at the time, and that's why this non-round number was originally chosen for the CD format too.
The summary states that the card is 1GB in size, so that's plenty of room to store the audio in 24-bit 48kHz quality (arguably the highest quality the human ear can distinguish) and still leave room for extras. They could step up to 2GB pretty cheaply if they want to go to 96kHz.
Sadly I doubt many people would notice if the audio was in 128 kbit/s MP3 format.
Regular slashdot users will remember the site's article from a few weeks ago, which analysed the Best Gaming PCs that Money can Buy.
Whereas regular Slashdot editors might remember how the last article was panned by readers, and might have ceased spamming us with articles from this site.
They might also remember to capitalise the name of their own site, but I guess all this is too much to hope for.
This is ridiculous. Google stated quite clearly when they removed this language from Chrome's terms and conditions: the reason they were there in the first place is because they were copied from the terms and conditions of another product. Now it's a story that some other Google products have the same terms and conditions as Chrome?
until the magazine can read to me while I'm on the toilet, and answer my questions, or rebuttal my comments
I'm looking forward to the day when it can befixal your grammar.
Then we privatised British Telecom, and turned it into just another big company which exists only to take as much of our money as it can, while providing as little service as it can get away with.
Oh no! Exec dabbled with left wing ideology in youth! By the way I was a member of the Socialist Worker Student Society when I was a student because I was trying to impress a girl. Why would anybody care?
I can see why this would be harmful to his career. As soon as word got out that, at some point in his past, he actually cared about people, his reputation as a business executive would be ruined. He might never get another six-figure salaried job again.
People who are "active in politics... play a significant institutional, economic, social or religious role... 'likely to breach public order.'"?
So that would be a database of politicians, CEOs and cult leaders then? So long as this database is freely accessible to all on the net, it sounds like a great idea to me.