I second wikileaks. It's got everything -- anonymity, copyright infringement, and (the ability, at least) classified documents. I'm surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
on the fly reconfigurable FPGA I've often thought that was the eventual course for making computers more like the human brain. We give up speed in specific, pre-defined problems for flexibility and higher speed for general problems with the ability to adapt to new ones (at least theoretically). With scripting languages, you could swap out, in real time, the most used functions into FPGAs. Need a fast string analyzer for the next ten minutes? Done. Need some fast array sorting for an hour? Done.
Of course, I'm a software guy, so I can't say how feasible this really is, but the ability to reprogram 75% of the functionality of the chips would seem to be a good solution to almost every problem.
'Duh'. Multicore processing? Are you fucking kidding me? You have to go out of your way to buy a computer that doesn't have multiple cores. Hybrid core? Wouldn't that be covered with the video cards opening up and letting generic code run on their processors? The rest are completely obvious in the same way. Anyone who's been watching computers for the past year could have compiled that list.
From playing the PC version, I can tell you that there were two potion rooms. First there was the potion room for the copy protection, where it would ask for a specific section from the manual (which my dad had photocopied from the guy at his work that he got the game from), and then I also saw him get into the cheat room where you drink a potion for the level you want to go to.
Thats like giving someone a car with no wheels, engine, gas tank, doors, windows, seats or seat belts, and wondering why nobody wants your gift. Bullshit. It's like giving someone a car with no knobs on the radio so they can't turn it on unless they use some pliers. Pretty much everyone on this forum could easily bypass the restrictions placed on this network, so what's the big deal? Let the restrictions comfort the old folks and help parents protect their children from content they don't want them to see. For those people who think that parents shouldn't shield their children, fine, but let the parents who want to shield their children do it as long as they're not breaking the law.
Your whole post is one big overreaction. The government mandates the project, therefore it can't allow obscene material into it. If you don't like it, vote for people who want obscene material to be freely viewed by minors, but don't hold your breath for the day when a majority of Americans feel the same way.
This is the super bowl version, hence the reference to bo jackson not being in the game. I made damn sure that it was tecmo super bowl and not tecmo bowl.
This was the best football game ever. It really captured everything that's fun about the game, and it's simple enough that you don't have to be able to move the joystick 30 different ways at the same time.
There are a lot of advantages of natural light over fluorescent in terms of productivity and employee satisfaction. I don't know if you're talking $10,000 worth of advantage, but it is a factor.
Chaney and friends make millions on no-bid contracts I tend to trust sources that spell the name of the vice president correctly. It makes me feel like you're regurgitating someone else's points rather than deciding yourself.
Those pills work by increasing the size a certain percentage - 15-20% usually. Perhaps the change was too small for you to notice, even though they worked correctly? I got 3 inches out of it, myself.
Provide the damn support. Make it simple, easy to use and easy to understand. Support's the sort of thing that makes you customers for life or loses customers for life. Giving them long hold times, poor service, or even someone with an accent will taint their experience with that product forever. Whenever someone comments on the computer, the owner will tell the story of the bad service. When they go to buy their next computer, they'll buy anywhere else unless there's a very compelling reason to stick with Dell.
p.s. the accent comment also means any strong accent, even southern or north eastern ones. Strong accents are, however, easier to find outside of the country.
Engineer: "I don't care what you read in 'Feudal Lords Monthly', if you want this castle to be secure, we need 2000 foot tall walls, 700 feet thick with a moat of pure acid that's 200 feet deep."
Lord: "But I read that this spell of invisibility and Norton(tm) balsa wood framework is just as good. It leads the industry!"
Before, data structures would only perform well in 50-100 threads. With this work, he has it up to over 700 threads, but it hasn't been load tested yet. There's a good chance that he's on the forefront of the next generation of data structures, there's a good chance that his work will be included in the java core (although that's not saying much considering).
In actuality, it's David Bowie that has the creepy electrical powers; Tesla was good, but Bowie worked better for the movie.
Personally, I'm in the group that thinks Flight of the Conchords did it by the power of Bowie. They took acid, then caused the trees to explode by playing David Bowie music for them. Even though Bowie himself wasn't there, the music still had that much power.
Yes, but knowing what you're changing is important. Films can be good and important and overall very awesome because directors walk into the film knowing what works and what doesn't, and it took them 50 years to get to the point they're at now. It's even made dumb films better because even bad directors can use the lessons that have been learned.
Gaming as a whole is like a toddler right now, with more failures than successes and not fully sure what can be accomplished. We may find that games are awful places to examine relationships, or we might find that tragedy can be more poignant in games than in any other media. We don't know yet because games just aren't to that point. Festivals like this, where they celebrate games that attempt to be meaningful, help us to understand the limits and learn what works and what doesn't.
What happened to state's rights? Slavery and institutional racism. The southern states used their rights to oppress a race, and the baby got thrown out with the bathwater.
It's going to be a while. People who were undergrads when napster was out aren't even able to run for president yet. When these people are the politicians and the dominant party, what new issues will they be missing out on? Will we be seen as a stodgy class that refuses to give up these stupid privacy laws that make it so that the darn kids can't join 15 sites at once? Perhaps the pendulum will swing the other way, and they'll be getting angry because we're not letting artists control their works, because nobody can get a job writing software because president Stallman (or similar) refuses to recognize any actionable copyright or patents.
The real answer is smaller federal government and less laws so that thigns can be decided on a smaller scale or not decided by the government at all. Too bad there aren't any parties that run on that platform in the US.
Plus, the chances of me getting a backer for my "buttered toast and cat" turbine are much improved. Fantastic. Don't even try, PETA will shut you down before you can get any serious headway. That's what happened with MIT's monkey-weasel-mulberry bush bomb.
If only there were a large, dedicated community of introverts who could help him!
The only down side is that we might scare away NewYorkCountryLawyer since he has morals and standards. There's a good chance we'd get a lot of RIAA lawyers to the site, though...
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I second wikileaks. It's got everything -- anonymity, copyright infringement, and (the ability, at least) classified documents. I'm surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
Of course, I'm a software guy, so I can't say how feasible this really is, but the ability to reprogram 75% of the functionality of the chips would seem to be a good solution to almost every problem.
'Duh'. Multicore processing? Are you fucking kidding me? You have to go out of your way to buy a computer that doesn't have multiple cores. Hybrid core? Wouldn't that be covered with the video cards opening up and letting generic code run on their processors? The rest are completely obvious in the same way. Anyone who's been watching computers for the past year could have compiled that list.
From playing the PC version, I can tell you that there were two potion rooms. First there was the potion room for the copy protection, where it would ask for a specific section from the manual (which my dad had photocopied from the guy at his work that he got the game from), and then I also saw him get into the cheat room where you drink a potion for the level you want to go to.
You can have your moon; I believe Messrs. Montana, Rice and Taylor will again be my weapon(s) of choice.
They licensed Fox, does that count?
note: regular Fox, not Fox News.
Your whole post is one big overreaction. The government mandates the project, therefore it can't allow obscene material into it. If you don't like it, vote for people who want obscene material to be freely viewed by minors, but don't hold your breath for the day when a majority of Americans feel the same way.
Strange, you don't look all that new to me...
This is the super bowl version, hence the reference to bo jackson not being in the game. I made damn sure that it was tecmo super bowl and not tecmo bowl.
This was the best football game ever. It really captured everything that's fun about the game, and it's simple enough that you don't have to be able to move the joystick 30 different ways at the same time.
I'm going to buy a DS just for this game.
There are a lot of advantages of natural light over fluorescent in terms of productivity and employee satisfaction. I don't know if you're talking $10,000 worth of advantage, but it is a factor.
Those pills work by increasing the size a certain percentage - 15-20% usually. Perhaps the change was too small for you to notice, even though they worked correctly? I got 3 inches out of it, myself.
Provide the damn support. Make it simple, easy to use and easy to understand. Support's the sort of thing that makes you customers for life or loses customers for life. Giving them long hold times, poor service, or even someone with an accent will taint their experience with that product forever. Whenever someone comments on the computer, the owner will tell the story of the bad service. When they go to buy their next computer, they'll buy anywhere else unless there's a very compelling reason to stick with Dell.
p.s. the accent comment also means any strong accent, even southern or north eastern ones. Strong accents are, however, easier to find outside of the country.
It's easier than what the RIAA makes us do for two and a half songs.
This has been a struggle for centuries.
Engineer: "I don't care what you read in 'Feudal Lords Monthly', if you want this castle to be secure, we need 2000 foot tall walls, 700 feet thick with a moat of pure acid that's 200 feet deep."
Lord: "But I read that this spell of invisibility and Norton(tm) balsa wood framework is just as good. It leads the industry!"
Before, data structures would only perform well in 50-100 threads. With this work, he has it up to over 700 threads, but it hasn't been load tested yet. There's a good chance that he's on the forefront of the next generation of data structures, there's a good chance that his work will be included in the java core (although that's not saying much considering).
In actuality, it's David Bowie that has the creepy electrical powers; Tesla was good, but Bowie worked better for the movie.
Personally, I'm in the group that thinks Flight of the Conchords did it by the power of Bowie. They took acid, then caused the trees to explode by playing David Bowie music for them. Even though Bowie himself wasn't there, the music still had that much power.
Yes, but knowing what you're changing is important. Films can be good and important and overall very awesome because directors walk into the film knowing what works and what doesn't, and it took them 50 years to get to the point they're at now. It's even made dumb films better because even bad directors can use the lessons that have been learned.
Gaming as a whole is like a toddler right now, with more failures than successes and not fully sure what can be accomplished. We may find that games are awful places to examine relationships, or we might find that tragedy can be more poignant in games than in any other media. We don't know yet because games just aren't to that point. Festivals like this, where they celebrate games that attempt to be meaningful, help us to understand the limits and learn what works and what doesn't.
It's going to be a while. People who were undergrads when napster was out aren't even able to run for president yet. When these people are the politicians and the dominant party, what new issues will they be missing out on? Will we be seen as a stodgy class that refuses to give up these stupid privacy laws that make it so that the darn kids can't join 15 sites at once? Perhaps the pendulum will swing the other way, and they'll be getting angry because we're not letting artists control their works, because nobody can get a job writing software because president Stallman (or similar) refuses to recognize any actionable copyright or patents.
The real answer is smaller federal government and less laws so that thigns can be decided on a smaller scale or not decided by the government at all. Too bad there aren't any parties that run on that platform in the US.
If only there were a large, dedicated community of introverts who could help him!
The only down side is that we might scare away NewYorkCountryLawyer since he has morals and standards. There's a good chance we'd get a lot of RIAA lawyers to the site, though...
Kind of like how the brain uses heuristics and previous knowledge to recognize images instead of actually solving the problem (whatever that means)?