I also had someone drop off a package on my porch. What's funny was that I knew it was coming that day so I was sitting at the computer pressing refresh on the UPS site like every 5 minutes. I go to do a refresh and a new entry is listed "Dr Porch".
I'm thinking, WTF? Doctor Porch?
So I go outside to look and the $200 item I purchased is sitting on the porch next to the door, where if it would have rained it would have probably been ruined... And believe me, in Florida, it has a good chance of raining anytime even if the sky is 100% clear it could still rain in 30 minutes.
Star Wars Galaxies is an interesting case of a game using randomly generated content.
The reasoning was that many players would come from existing games which had already invested several years accumulating content.
These players would come to SWG, which is brand new, so it was necessary to "fill" it with content. The only way to do this without hiring a few thousand people to create content was to make it randomly generated.
While their work is quite technically impressive (their terrian generator got some kind of award), it will never compare to manually-created content becuase people easily detect patterns -- once they do, they cease to be interesting.
Until we get the technology to use something truely worth of the label of 'artificial intelligence', I don't think we'll see automatically-generated content ever compare with manually-created content.
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Rebooting an always-on system shouldn't be all that difficult. I'd imagine you just need to reset the CPU's registers and start the OS's initialization process.
One question: how in hell do you domesticate a black widow?!
Just like you domesticate all spiders...
- Select spider - Click to bring up radial menu - Click "Tame" - Repeat previous steps until successful - Click to bring up radial menu - Click "Store"
For example: I seem to recall that several of the parade floats have wireless receivers for the purpose of playing parade music through onboard speakers.
IIRC, the recievers only serve to trigger a change in the pre-recorded musical sequence that was stored on the float. If so, you would not be able to do much more than the equivalent of skipping tracks on a CD.
the court had not permitted the jury to consider information on the validity of the patent filed in 1994.
WTF?
So the PTO hands out patents left and right with the assumption that "they'll get knocked down in court if they're not valid claims".
Then the courts come around and exterminate the ability to disprove the validity?
WTF???
And what else pisses me off is I feel heistant to really say anything strongly negative about the US government, becuase The Department of Homeland Security (AKA Big Brother) is watching.
While we're at it, if we can't trust the people to spend money wisely, why can we trust them to pick the government? We should also close the "voting loophole".
I thought they did just that in the last presidential election?
2) All those complicated traffic signs. They're just awefully confusing, aren't they? For instance, the word 'Yield' could cause problems for may people. Wouldn't 'Stop' just be so much easier to understand?
You jest, but I've seen plenty of instances where a stop sign was used where a yield sign would be perfectly appropriate.
All it takes is one idiot to ruin it for everyone else.
I swear that nearly every single intersection which has a "No Turn on Red" sign came about as the result of some idiot who didn't pay attention, turned on red, and killed someone.
5-way intersections always have a "No Turn on Red" sign simply because they assume the typical person will be too dumb to handle the situation correctly. What's sad is they're probably right.
I don't know why we can't just stop giving out drivers licenses to dumb people, so the rest of us can get where we are going efficiently.
One complaint from a study is that the green traffic lights are actually too bright.
We've had them here in Boca Raton, FL for about two years now. Initially they were way too bright, but lately I've either adapted to them or (more likely) they've dimmed a bit since then.
They're still notably brighter than the normal incandescent traffic lights, but at least now they aren't so blindingly bright at night..
I tried darting my eyes around to see if they have a refresh rate, and as best as I can tell, they don't appear to be refreshed. Perhaps a solution to the blinding problem would be to use a circuit which breaks them in by using an on/off refresh cycle which speeds up over a period of months.
We have this at my place of work. It's actually quite impressive - the UPS is about the size of a small car and the generator about the size of a UPS truck...
Though 'tis a lot of overkill now that we moved all of our production servers to a co-location center. =)
Their heavy initial draw means they don't work with X-10 style remote controls
I use x10 appliance switches with compact flourescent lights and they work fine. I've not had a problem in the two years since I started using them. These are the switches that you plug into the wall, then plug the light into the switch.
Now as for the x10 wall switches that work in place of a traditional wall switch, there is a problem here since flourescent lights circuits don't seem to allow the small trickle of current necessary for the switch to recieve a signal to turn on or off.
Obviously dimmer-controlled switches will not work either...
I think I remember reading a while ago that on any average dark night there will be about one meteor per minute or two that should be visible to the naked eye.
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I also had someone drop off a package on my porch. What's funny was that I knew it was coming that day so I was sitting at the computer pressing refresh on the UPS site like every 5 minutes. I go to do a refresh and a new entry is listed "Dr Porch".
I'm thinking, WTF? Doctor Porch?
So I go outside to look and the $200 item I purchased is sitting on the porch next to the door, where if it would have rained it would have probably been ruined... And believe me, in Florida, it has a good chance of raining anytime even if the sky is 100% clear it could still rain in 30 minutes.
Ok maybe I'm a noob, but what good is a FPS game with two monitors? Wouldn't your view be centered where the two montitors meet?
It would seem to me like only an odd number of monitors would be good for playing games...
Star Wars Galaxies is an interesting case of a game using randomly generated content.
The reasoning was that many players would come from existing games which had already invested several years accumulating content.
These players would come to SWG, which is brand new, so it was necessary to "fill" it with content. The only way to do this without hiring a few thousand people to create content was to make it randomly generated.
While their work is quite technically impressive (their terrian generator got some kind of award), it will never compare to manually-created content becuase people easily detect patterns -- once they do, they cease to be interesting.
Until we get the technology to use something truely worth of the label of 'artificial intelligence', I don't think we'll see automatically-generated content ever compare with manually-created content.
Rebooting an always-on system shouldn't be all that difficult. I'd imagine you just need to reset the CPU's registers and start the OS's initialization process.
It's a shame we don't have an equivalent these days to the "NO CARRIER" message =)
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You beat me to the explanation.
There are whole companies designed just for handling these legal documents.
First, unlike silk worms and bees, they don't spin webs as long as you feed them and keep them comfy.
Oh the bee webs! I've heard of entire cities wiped out when a hive of bees gets organized!
One question: how in hell do you domesticate a black widow?!
Just like you domesticate all spiders...
- Select spider
- Click to bring up radial menu
- Click "Tame"
- Repeat previous steps until successful
- Click to bring up radial menu
- Click "Store"
* Note: Requires Novice Creature Handler profession
bring on the processor cube!
Holy thermal meltdown Batman!
For example: I seem to recall that several of the parade floats have wireless receivers for the purpose of playing parade music through onboard speakers.
IIRC, the recievers only serve to trigger a change in the pre-recorded musical sequence that was stored on the float. If so, you would not be able to do much more than the equivalent of skipping tracks on a CD.
Sweet. Perhaps this does have the makings for a Jurassic-Park style ending after all...
the court had not permitted the jury to consider information on the validity of the patent
filed in 1994.
WTF?
So the PTO hands out patents left and right with the assumption that "they'll get knocked down in court if they're not valid claims".
Then the courts come around and exterminate the ability to disprove the validity?
WTF???
And what else pisses me off is I feel heistant to really say anything strongly negative about the US government, becuase The Department of Homeland Security (AKA Big Brother) is watching.
Hmm.. if we could configure our terminals to be 1024 characters wide and 768 characters tall, this could work wonders =P
Insert lame joke about trolls in WarCraft and trolls on Slashdot here.
If you think that's bad, you should see the jokes about a lack of nerfs in SWG, as contrasted with the abundace of nerfs to SWG. =)
The difference is simple:
When Democrats grow government, the result is usually a lot of humble-salary jobs to indivudal citizens.
When Republicans grow government, the result is usually a few big contracts to large corporations.
While we're at it, if we can't trust the people to spend money wisely, why can we trust them to pick the government? We should also close the "voting loophole".
I thought they did just that in the last presidential election?
Disney also saves millions of dollars in taxes every year because it is both a 'local government' and a company.
This allows Disney to:
This seems stupid. Don't states want to promote high tech industry moving into their state?
Being an a-thiest who enjoys science fiction, I was insulted that this movie was a trojan horse meme for the support of religious faith.
I didn't just dislike this movie, it pissed me off.
2) All those complicated traffic signs. They're just awefully confusing, aren't they? For instance, the word 'Yield' could cause problems for may people. Wouldn't 'Stop' just be so much easier to understand?
You jest, but I've seen plenty of instances where a stop sign was used where a yield sign would be perfectly appropriate.
All it takes is one idiot to ruin it for everyone else.
I swear that nearly every single intersection which has a "No Turn on Red" sign came about as the result of some idiot who didn't pay attention, turned on red, and killed someone.
5-way intersections always have a "No Turn on Red" sign simply because they assume the typical person will be too dumb to handle the situation correctly. What's sad is they're probably right.
I don't know why we can't just stop giving out drivers licenses to dumb people, so the rest of us can get where we are going efficiently.
One complaint from a study is that the green traffic lights are actually too bright.
We've had them here in Boca Raton, FL for about two years now. Initially they were way too bright, but lately I've either adapted to them or (more likely) they've dimmed a bit since then.
They're still notably brighter than the normal incandescent traffic lights, but at least now they aren't so blindingly bright at night..
I tried darting my eyes around to see if they have a refresh rate, and as best as I can tell, they don't appear to be refreshed. Perhaps a solution to the blinding problem would be to use a circuit which breaks them in by using an on/off refresh cycle which speeds up over a period of months.
We have this at my place of work. It's actually quite impressive - the UPS is about the size of a small car and the generator about the size of a UPS truck...
Though 'tis a lot of overkill now that we moved all of our production servers to a co-location center. =)
Their heavy initial draw means they don't work with X-10 style remote controls
I use x10 appliance switches with compact flourescent lights and they work fine. I've not had a problem in the two years since I started using them. These are the switches that you plug into the wall, then plug the light into the switch.
Now as for the x10 wall switches that work in place of a traditional wall switch, there is a problem here since flourescent lights circuits don't seem to allow the small trickle of current necessary for the switch to recieve a signal to turn on or off.
Obviously dimmer-controlled switches will not work either...
Meteors occur all the time.
I think I remember reading a while ago that on any average dark night there will be about one meteor per minute or two that should be visible to the naked eye.
[...] and the next version will control your telescope for you (if your telescope supports this, of course, unless your computer has SkyNet support).
D'oh! So that's how it starts! Robotic telescopes will someday evolve to take over and destroy us all!
Quick! Lets burn down the observatory so this never happens!