I spent $900 on a 21" Professional Series Viewsonic P815(Review. Pic.) about five years ago
Wierd. I did exactly the same thing, at about the same time.
I still think it was the best computer investment I've ever made. 5 years later, I have *zero* desire to upgrade it. It's been a real luxury, at a very low cost in the long run.
FYI: I use Windex on mine all the time, with no ill effects whatsoever.
Never. First-person perspective will obviously never go away. "Being the character" is simply a natural way of interacting with a game. Given that, the only question is what you'll do as the character, and combat is probably the most primally "exciting" activity a person can engage in (apart from the obvious). And modern combat uses guns.
The FPS is the union of the most intuitive UI with the most popular human interests. It will always be a very large portion of the gaming world.
VNC is a common payload to set up once a machine is compromised, and I think that makes it a valid target.
The spyware message for VNC very clearly states that it is legitimate software, and recommends ignoring the warning it if you knew that it was installed on your machine.
I finally retired mine just last year. It was the card that finally made PC audio a commodity, as it was the first consumer card to hit the CD-quality level. Every card since has just added mostly useless bells & whistles.
I was astounded at the most recent National Geographic's article on evolution.
After reading the cover teaser "Was Darwin Wrong?", I was absolutely expecting articles of exactly the sort described in this story. One article by a scientist arguing the validity of evolution, and one by some guy apologetically describing creationism and other pseudoscience.
Instead, the article opens with a teaser page asking the same question. Following that is a page with a giant screaming "NO". I laughed my ass off. And nowhere to be found was the sad little counterpoint article -- the magazine actually had the guts to commit to a single point of view.
The best thing now will be reading the letters to the editor in 2 months. The fundamentalists will be calling for blood, and it'll be interesting to see how the editors respond.
And to reiterate the points of everyone refuting you, you're talking out of your ass.
They could launch dozens of these things for less than the price of an orbital surveilance satellite, which is perfectly "feasible" today. And the blimps would be far easier to maintain and upgrade.
There are even four indicator lights on the motherboard that an Apple Care person will tell you to look at the lights, and depending on what's lit up, can tell you the state of different sub-systems.
But first they force you to admit that there are actually five lights.
It would be nice to have a DC power standard for household use. Something like a central DC adapter that provided 12V DC to all the wall sockets alongside regular AC. It could get rid of all those damned wall wart adapters forever.
Most of it is useless trivia, but to most people, that comes across as intelligence...
Any one fact by itself is "useless trivia". But assorted "useless trivia" questions are just a way of gathering a random sampling of the entire body of knowledge that someone has.
If you're going to reliably answer a question about who happened to be president in a given year, then you pretty much have to know the entire chronology of the presidency.
I'm curious about a related issue: is it necessary to wire neurons a->a, b->b, c->c between the "brain" end of the bundle and the "eye end"? If you could establish any 1:1 connection set, could the brain learn to interpret the signal as vision, or does it have to be mapped in a certain way?
I'm just wondering how much precision is really required, and how much the brain can compensate for after the fact.
Does it even make sense to think of the optic nerve as a bundle of parallel wires?
The sample file is indeed very close to legal XML. If it is so close, why not go the last mile and make it legal?
My guess based on looking at the file is that they really really wanted that data block to line up nice, without having to worry about XML whitespace issues or character escaping. Seems pretty stupid to me.
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Apparently you bought the version of Half Life 2 that didn't include the first antlion level. Yeesh.
This is an easy one. The official "year of the CD ROM" was the year Myst was released -- 1993.
Wierd. I did exactly the same thing, at about the same time.
I still think it was the best computer investment I've ever made. 5 years later, I have *zero* desire to upgrade it. It's been a real luxury, at a very low cost in the long run.
FYI: I use Windex on mine all the time, with no ill effects whatsoever.
Curses. Beat me to the punch.
Never. First-person perspective will obviously never go away. "Being the character" is simply a natural way of interacting with a game. Given that, the only question is what you'll do as the character, and combat is probably the most primally "exciting" activity a person can engage in (apart from the obvious). And modern combat uses guns.
The FPS is the union of the most intuitive UI with the most popular human interests. It will always be a very large portion of the gaming world.
In other words, it assumes that it's not 1990.
<Cue rant on why it's impossible for you to read mail any other way than in a text-mode reader over SSH. Gimme a frickin' break.>
That must be why iPods are never used for playing pirated music.
The spyware message for VNC very clearly states that it is legitimate software, and recommends ignoring the warning it if you knew that it was installed on your machine.
I finally retired mine just last year. It was the card that finally made PC audio a commodity, as it was the first consumer card to hit the CD-quality level. Every card since has just added mostly useless bells & whistles.
That's not saying much on the moon, where a parachute is about as effective as a brick at slowing the descent of an object.
That's "Klaatu barada nikto".
Except that the Delorean was a piece of crap when compared to its contemporaries. A 140hp rust bucket was lame even back then.
After reading the cover teaser "Was Darwin Wrong?", I was absolutely expecting articles of exactly the sort described in this story. One article by a scientist arguing the validity of evolution, and one by some guy apologetically describing creationism and other pseudoscience.
Instead, the article opens with a teaser page asking the same question. Following that is a page with a giant screaming "NO". I laughed my ass off. And nowhere to be found was the sad little counterpoint article -- the magazine actually had the guts to commit to a single point of view.
The best thing now will be reading the letters to the editor in 2 months. The fundamentalists will be calling for blood, and it'll be interesting to see how the editors respond.
Feed them to the poor.
And to reiterate the points of everyone refuting you, you're talking out of your ass.
They could launch dozens of these things for less than the price of an orbital surveilance satellite, which is perfectly "feasible" today. And the blimps would be far easier to maintain and upgrade.
But first they force you to admit that there are actually five lights.
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They're morons, pure and simple.
It would be nice to have a DC power standard for household use. Something like a central DC adapter that provided 12V DC to all the wall sockets alongside regular AC. It could get rid of all those damned wall wart adapters forever.
Any one fact by itself is "useless trivia". But assorted "useless trivia" questions are just a way of gathering a random sampling of the entire body of knowledge that someone has.
If you're going to reliably answer a question about who happened to be president in a given year, then you pretty much have to know the entire chronology of the presidency.
I'm just wondering how much precision is really required, and how much the brain can compensate for after the fact.
Does it even make sense to think of the optic nerve as a bundle of parallel wires?
You don't "file a case" to defeat a patent. You release a product that uses the patented work, and wait for them to come to you.
Yet another obligatory "Modded xbox with xbmc can do this" post here. I stream movies in pretty much any format off an SMB share on my pc.
My guess based on looking at the file is that they really really wanted that data block to line up nice, without having to worry about XML whitespace issues or character escaping. Seems pretty stupid to me.
"Scientific progress goes BOINC?"