Some people take old electronics and make sculptures out of it. This lady makes moving animals out of old electronics junk. If I also recall there was a guy back in the early 2000's that made a life-size dinosaur sculpture out of old electronics gear...I couldn't find a link to it though, I think I saw it in Wired Mag. Apparently the point of the dinosaur was to represent how much electronics junk the average American consumed in their lifetime.
I am sure there are plenty of other examples of such a thing.
It is good to see that "change Delete to Remove from Desktop in Recycle Bin" is one of the items on the wishlist. I know that that (along with dubious security flaws and bugs in previous Windows versions) has always just bugged the heck outta me. Windows is just so darn good these days that it only needs a few cosmetic fixes.
Yes that is what I was trying to say. It doesn't really matter what OS is on the computer as long as it works. But for some people they take this as a victory for Linux that it is getting on some budget computers @ Wal-Mart...which doesn't really matter too much if people don't know any better.
My point being that they may just buy the computer and not even know that they are using Linux or that it even matters. This doesn't really show that Linux is ready for all the masses, just the ones that buy it in $200 bargain computers for word processing and internet, which is a small representation of Linux on the desktop.
This sounds good and all, getting Linux to the teeming masses...but at the same time the people that might buy a computer at Wal-Mart are probably people that don't even know what Linux is or even what Windows is and that there is even any difference. Some people may have just bought these because, Hey!, $200 for A WHOLE COMPUTER is a steal, right?!
of games have successful 2-Player Cooperative modes. Contra, Double Dragon, Toejam & Earl, Gauntlet, Final Fight...the upcoming game Army of 2 is specifically designed to be played ONLY as a co-op game, and if you don't have a buddy to play with it throws a bot in there to duke it out with you. The whole game is designed so that 2 players are required to make it through the levels.
The synopsis of TFA does say at the very top: "A tongue-in-cheek article just published by the Archaeological Institute of America".
Some people just read the headline and then post "Why would they write this?!" I mean, I can understand not reading TFA, but at least read TF article synopsis!
I am glad that this has been moderated as "Funny". For a second there I thought you were actually serious. After reading the article, it has become apartment to me that our country has a lot worse problems than readily available digital cameras or even Islamofascists.
Whether or not nanotechnology replaces disk drives and digital storage media in ten years is only part of the question. What is likely is that one or more different technologies will start edging out typical magnetic storage in the coming decade. I am still waiting for my holographic storage media the size of a postage stamp.
...which is exactly why we need to scrap the physical media and distribute music in lossless digital formats such as FLAC or WAV or something like that. As internet connections get faster and become more commonplace, it won't be unreasonable to download an album in a lossless format at 96k/24-bit format, which will please people that like the convenience of digital audio, as well as the audiophiles that enjoy higher quality recordings. Even now, it is probably more cost effective to download an album in a lossless format than it is to get in the car and drive to the store to buy a CD that cost money to produce in a factory in China.
I for one welcome our new digitally distributed brainwave beat overlords!
I'm just afraid that they're going to try to maneuver putting their software on instead of the Linux kernel and we'll have to deal with Windows/Internet Explorer's horrible insecurities on a global level. Don't we already deal with Windows/IE's horrible insecurities on a global level?
SanDisk lawyers, broadswords in hand, march valiantly to battle to defend their precious EEPROMS. The evil ninja lawyer forces of LG and Kingston lurk in the shadows to prey upon the unwary EEPROMS and pillage their secretz for fortune and glory!
If you don't believe the chinese government arranged this purposefully, well, maybe you've had too much lead exposure. But on the other hand, if you don't believe it, maybe you haven't had enough.
Ubuntu is doing the right thing in a lot of ways...although I don't think that they should be adopting all the fancy 3D effects right now. I am glad that the flashy effects are only optional in Ubuntu, as opposed to in Vista where its all flash all the time. Mac OSX is much more toned down in the effects department, although when I use a Mac or other Apple products, I feel that I am being forced to do things in the Mac way.
People generally don't really buy such "specialty gaming peripherals", especially not the mass gaming market. While the idea itself is rather cool (although it would be cooler if it had electric shocks for the masochistic among us), these kinds of devices just never seem to catch on.
The video game market has seen all kinds of niche peripherals throughout the years...octagonal rings to stand in, treadmills to run on, gloves and goggles to wear, scores of vibrating chairs and seats, weird orbs and wheels and hands-free input devices...loads and loads of things. People just don't really buy them because they either don't work as well as intended, they only work well with a couple of different games, or the peripheral is just too damn expensive for most of us.
However, where such oddities really shine is in the arcade. It would be awesome to build arcade game unit that incorporated different input or sensory technologies which would really immerse the player into another world. Arcade games are perfect for that sort of thing because a whole game is built around the external unit.
No matter what Apple appears to be on the surface, they are a much different company than they were back then. They do still have a lot of creativity in their designs, but they have slowly turned into a personal electronics company, no matter how much they say that the Mac is still their number one priority.
I'm not sure how much of an impact Woz could make at Apple these days. Apple has the hardware up to snuff now, but I would argue that they could do a lot more fine-tuning on their operating system. Some of the design choices they are making with OSX seem kind of odd to me.
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Even trolls need electricity.
Some people take old electronics and make sculptures out of it. This lady makes moving animals out of old electronics junk. If I also recall there was a guy back in the early 2000's that made a life-size dinosaur sculpture out of old electronics gear...I couldn't find a link to it though, I think I saw it in Wired Mag. Apparently the point of the dinosaur was to represent how much electronics junk the average American consumed in their lifetime. I am sure there are plenty of other examples of such a thing.
It is good to see that "change Delete to Remove from Desktop in Recycle Bin" is one of the items on the wishlist. I know that that (along with dubious security flaws and bugs in previous Windows versions) has always just bugged the heck outta me. Windows is just so darn good these days that it only needs a few cosmetic fixes.
Yes that is what I was trying to say. It doesn't really matter what OS is on the computer as long as it works. But for some people they take this as a victory for Linux that it is getting on some budget computers @ Wal-Mart...which doesn't really matter too much if people don't know any better.
My point being that they may just buy the computer and not even know that they are using Linux or that it even matters. This doesn't really show that Linux is ready for all the masses, just the ones that buy it in $200 bargain computers for word processing and internet, which is a small representation of Linux on the desktop.
This sounds good and all, getting Linux to the teeming masses...but at the same time the people that might buy a computer at Wal-Mart are probably people that don't even know what Linux is or even what Windows is and that there is even any difference. Some people may have just bought these because, Hey!, $200 for A WHOLE COMPUTER is a steal, right?!
Yeah my new computer shipped with malware installed to...Windows Vista.
My brain can stretch like silly putty.
of games have successful 2-Player Cooperative modes. Contra, Double Dragon, Toejam & Earl, Gauntlet, Final Fight...the upcoming game Army of 2 is specifically designed to be played ONLY as a co-op game, and if you don't have a buddy to play with it throws a bot in there to duke it out with you. The whole game is designed so that 2 players are required to make it through the levels.
The synopsis of TFA does say at the very top: "A tongue-in-cheek article just published by the Archaeological Institute of America". Some people just read the headline and then post "Why would they write this?!" I mean, I can understand not reading TFA, but at least read TF article synopsis!
I am glad that this has been moderated as "Funny". For a second there I thought you were actually serious. After reading the article, it has become apartment to me that our country has a lot worse problems than readily available digital cameras or even Islamofascists.
Yes...SEX toys on demand. Now I can make that crazy 5-way dildo I always dreamed of.
Whether or not nanotechnology replaces disk drives and digital storage media in ten years is only part of the question. What is likely is that one or more different technologies will start edging out typical magnetic storage in the coming decade. I am still waiting for my holographic storage media the size of a postage stamp.
...which is exactly why we need to scrap the physical media and distribute music in lossless digital formats such as FLAC or WAV or something like that. As internet connections get faster and become more commonplace, it won't be unreasonable to download an album in a lossless format at 96k/24-bit format, which will please people that like the convenience of digital audio, as well as the audiophiles that enjoy higher quality recordings. Even now, it is probably more cost effective to download an album in a lossless format than it is to get in the car and drive to the store to buy a CD that cost money to produce in a factory in China.
I for one welcome our new digitally distributed brainwave beat overlords!
SanDisk lawyers, broadswords in hand, march valiantly to battle to defend their precious EEPROMS. The evil ninja lawyer forces of LG and Kingston lurk in the shadows to prey upon the unwary EEPROMS and pillage their secretz for fortune and glory!
I hope they going into such topics as Cup & Saucer, Eiffel Tower, and Jacobs Ladder. I could never figure out that darned ladder!
Ubuntu is doing the right thing in a lot of ways...although I don't think that they should be adopting all the fancy 3D effects right now. I am glad that the flashy effects are only optional in Ubuntu, as opposed to in Vista where its all flash all the time. Mac OSX is much more toned down in the effects department, although when I use a Mac or other Apple products, I feel that I am being forced to do things in the Mac way.
People generally don't really buy such "specialty gaming peripherals", especially not the mass gaming market. While the idea itself is rather cool (although it would be cooler if it had electric shocks for the masochistic among us), these kinds of devices just never seem to catch on.
The video game market has seen all kinds of niche peripherals throughout the years...octagonal rings to stand in, treadmills to run on, gloves and goggles to wear, scores of vibrating chairs and seats, weird orbs and wheels and hands-free input devices...loads and loads of things. People just don't really buy them because they either don't work as well as intended, they only work well with a couple of different games, or the peripheral is just too damn expensive for most of us.
However, where such oddities really shine is in the arcade. It would be awesome to build arcade game unit that incorporated different input or sensory technologies which would really immerse the player into another world. Arcade games are perfect for that sort of thing because a whole game is built around the external unit.
Uh...why would I want to spend money on a Piece of Shit?
No matter what Apple appears to be on the surface, they are a much different company than they were back then. They do still have a lot of creativity in their designs, but they have slowly turned into a personal electronics company, no matter how much they say that the Mac is still their number one priority. I'm not sure how much of an impact Woz could make at Apple these days. Apple has the hardware up to snuff now, but I would argue that they could do a lot more fine-tuning on their operating system. Some of the design choices they are making with OSX seem kind of odd to me.
Sorry Roger, you tiger now.