Looks like when it comes down to a choice between video games and female attention, these days, videogames are winning out.
Or Bachelor 2 was really damn smart, and knows how to pull women.
A baseball stadium filled with thousands of other women was watching this take place, and wondering why he chose the playstation over an attractive woman. Wonder/mystique is a well known (to non-slashdotters) technique for cultivating attraction.
A lot of other women are going to come running like in the lower portion of the image here. He's not only getting a playstation, but he's going to get a lot of phone numbers being thrown at him by other attractive women who were also at singles night at the giants stadium.
50 dates plus a PS2, now that's a winner.
Heck, he might even land a gamer girl who only wants him for his PS2!
Patents are not for some little guy to sit on and block everyone out of the market. That's stupid. They're for the little guy to block EVERYONE ELSE out of the market. Patents do NOT GUARANTEE you the ability to be IN the market. That's what you need before you spend the copius amount of money that is needed for a solid patent.
Patents should be used as a competitive advantage. They are not evil. They are vital to the growth of small technology companies, as they are protections and competitive advantages to avoid getting trampled by some of the tech-mammoths out there. Startups usually have the ability to create whatever they have patented, and it allows them time to get on their feet and make some money on the idea before they get trampled.
Another note: Does anyone else see the trend of Microsoft paying out huge settlements right now? Either their lawyers got too expensive, or they're trying to clean up their image, and get out of the legal spotlight. I'm suspicious, but money flow is good for the economy, even if it is probably going to an anti-linux warchest fund.
I agree completely. I witnessed this very often in Cross Country, you had a mix of all types: The ballers, the wrestlers trying to lose weight, the track sprinters and mid distance, as well as many other types of people all with varying social skills. This varied experience will be ultimately positive, and running is a pretty healthy lifelong sport.
Anyway, addressing the parent post, I suggested that one of my really geeky math genius friends join cross country, and he was a pretty bad runner, but he had a positive attitude. He never ran varsity, but he did end up scoring a few points for JV, and it really did give him a significant improvement in social skills and self esteem. I think he even became comfortable around girls.
Plus if he has to run away from bullies, it will help.
You are qualified as a Medical Doctor. Go to a lab like the one I work in, a combination of Electrical/Biomedical research. You're very qualified from a medical side, you can take classes at the school (there is probably one near you too, so you probably won't have to move) Get a job doing research, and take classes on the side. You can get publications and patents, and it is a good use of your medical background as well.
I'm assuming you're not worried about money, and this route will probably not pay much. You will be doing engineering and the firmware or GUI side of CS likely, but you were a little vague in the post.
Sounds like he wants to be a venture capitalist. Coming from a gaming background, he would be most qualified to fund similar startups. It will be interesting to keep an eye on him and see what happens.
Ususally founders get out when the growth curve of the company stops being exponential.
1993. Secret of Mana, and the multitap. Makes your friends forget about their families and come over to play it. Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening came out about this time too for gameboy.
1994. Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, FFIII, and Breath of Bire, Megaman X. I was broke as soon as I had saved up my 69.99 each time. Damn that was expensive.
Our University gets money from things like this, and that is a good thing. If companies didn't have to license patents from WARF, do you think that they would donate money to the university for more research? I'm not optimistic that they would. This is a way to fund more research, which in turn attracts more top talent to Wisconsin (Madtown, I don't know where the U-Dub came from), making it a better school.
If you work in a lab here and get a patent through warf, the school gets something like 80% and the creator gets 20%. This is another reason that we have some really great professors here, it's like profit sharing.
WARF originated from a professor adding a vitamin to milk to cure rickets. The school has made so much money from that patent that it has developed into a very good institution, contributing to the world's fight.
I'm not sure that sony can say the same thing about the playstation 2, especially with all of the productivity the PS2 costs us:)
The SP has a huge base of games, and a well established market, costs 1/3 as much. If you want audio, buy an IPOD. And at the price they want, you could buy both an IPOD and an SP.
The control better be tight on this thing. The GBA SP has some seriously tight control (IMHO), and it's comfortable. Battery life needs to be at least 10 hours to stand a chance, 20 would be competitive with the SP.
This is a matter of preference, but the D-PAD on this thing looks like one of those round things, where L could end up being UL, L, DL, or D. I hate those things.
At 300-400 USD, they'd better not be re-releasing SNES/Genesis/etc. games for this thing, as in the point here.
These games still exist in arcade board format somewhere. Get a supergun and then you can play it on your tv as long as the board is good. I have an early 90's TMNT Board myself, purchased here,, and it is sweet. It also makes it fairly legal for me to play it on MAME (It would be more so if I dumped it myself).
Microsoft will buy out this little company (now held by some big guns like Sony). Sony and partners acquired it for 453 million, and MS has so much money they will settle for buying the patent at a ridiculous markup my guess is ~8-10 Billion.
THEN they stomp anybody else who tries to compete with them. Patents are meant to be a barrier to entry for the competition, and that is what Microsoft will use it for.
Yes, but doesn't it suck when you are on one of the 25 planes that has an 'incident'?
I personally don't mind not having cell phone contact for a few hours (flying domestically, that is). Americans also tend to speak really loud into their phones, and that would be annoying. I like planes kept quiet for sleepers like me.
Maybe a burst connection for 5 minutes every hour for people writing emails. And if the airlines charged a lot per KB, it would help on the continual fight against bankruptcy.
I know I'm not the only one that renamed Barret Mr. T.
In FF1, My White Mage and Black Mage are always Whitney and Blake, truncated to Whit and Blak of course:P. Damn that 4 Character limit! I bet that it has been fixed in Chronicles.
The Thief/Ninja is always Kain, I seem to remember reading a review of Phantasy Star II (for the sega genesis) and seeing this cool guy named Kain.
Here's a really geeky one (I know I'm not alone in this):
In Might and Magic: World of Xeen I used to name the characters after girls I liked! I ended up going out with a few of them later on (when I stopped playing RPGs), but I never told them the truth--one was a cleric, the other was a mighty fine sorceress.
That would be a hell of a power bill to transmit a signal to other TVs and Radios. There aren't that many pirate band TV and radio stations. The sheer cost would prevent people from putting random crap like webcams on the waves. Most likely just radical political groups would throw their money into a system like this.
The antennas that are needed would be rather expensive, although you could probably broadcast to your neighbors. Perhaps a Neighborhood Broadcast, about something that would actually apply. This then becomes like local radio and Public Television (on a slightly smaller scale)
'We have stupid radios not because we haven't figured out how to make them smart but because there's been little reason to make them smart.' (From the article, did you read it?)
Right, the receiver is VERY cheap to make, so at the cost of some bandwidth (meaning the width of the signal in the frequency domain, not bit rate/bit transmission), everyone can listen. If we start making smart radios, not everyone could afford one, and things like old cars wouldn't get upgraded, etc. The user base wouldn't be large enough to support the technology, and it will flop. There is still little reason to make them smart.
My point is, that of course you can make something run on only one frequency, and there should be enough of the Frequency Spectrum to go around, but the hardware complications of the receivers, let alone the transmitters make it a little more complicated and more expensive than consumers would want than he made it seem in the article.
Finally, I'm just talking about the stupidity of changing regular radio, as entrenched as the system is.
New technologies like bluetooth already use frequency hopping in the ISM band, and that is what is probably meant. The author blurred the lines a bit there.
Am I the only one that noticed that her Wishlist is empty? Maybe she has a Fairy Godmother in the Amazon...... OK, not funny. Most people that have a materialism craze like this (assuming she buys this stuff) would have a huge wishlist. I think it's likely that she gets some form of kickback from Amazon.
Another thing that makes me suspicious is the Coffee table book reviews. If she loves to read, she would probably get novels as opposed to books about Venice. Who knows. That just didn't click with me.
They are probably doing it for the PR. They will probably lose, but they will get a fair bit of PR (public relations -- free advertising) from it. They also will get some credit for 'fighting the good fight' even though mod chips can be used to aid copyright violations.
If Walmart or Microsoft is going to take over the world, don't moan about it, BUY THEIR STOCK! You'll OWN a piece of it, and probably MAKE SOME MONEY in the process. These corporations exist not for oppression, but rather to make money for their shareholders.
I don't support Microsoft, and I think my money could be invested better in other places, but if I believed they were going to own India and China, I'd consider buying a piece of that pie.
For engineers to be consultants in a small consulting firm, they need a professional engineering license. If you're with a large company, then you probably won't need it.
I don't know anything about other professions needing certification for cunsulting, but they would probably add a little bit to your rate.
Mars will then be 100 times further than the moon from our planet. The moon is about 350,000 miles from earth, and mars will be about 35 million. It took about 3 days to get to the moon, on the Apollo 8 Mission.
This means it would take about 300 days to get to Mars, one way (assuming similar rates of travel). I guess you could use more fuel in the beginning to get a higher inital velocity and maybe cut that time down.
Anyone else care to speculate/correct my estimations?
I agree that blue is cool. But for backlighting and in a Mobile Phone I'd like to have a white LED backlight. Nokia has been doing this for a little while. It's a close second to blue in a lot of cases. More expensive though.
I changed the LED in my Nintendo to blue a month ago. I don't know if people are more shocked by the fact that my nintendo works, or that the LED is blue instead of the usual blinking red.
This also reminds me of the gameboy pocket with a blue(I think) backlighting.
You're still perhaps considered a student, so IAESTE (The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience)is an international work exchange program to 86 countries for students.
IAESTE US is sponsored by AIPT(American International Practical Training or something like that). This one is for professionals looking to work for a few years abroad.
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Looks like when it comes down to a choice between video games and female attention, these days, videogames are winning out.
Or Bachelor 2 was really damn smart, and knows how to pull women.
A baseball stadium filled with thousands of other women was watching this take place, and wondering why he chose the playstation over an attractive woman. Wonder/mystique is a well known (to non-slashdotters) technique for cultivating attraction.
A lot of other women are going to come running like in the lower portion of the image here. He's not only getting a playstation, but he's going to get a lot of phone numbers being thrown at him by other attractive women who were also at singles night at the giants stadium.
50 dates plus a PS2, now that's a winner.
Heck, he might even land a gamer girl who only wants him for his PS2!
Patents are not for some little guy to sit on and block everyone out of the market. That's stupid. They're for the little guy to block EVERYONE ELSE out of the market. Patents do NOT GUARANTEE you the ability to be IN the market. That's what you need before you spend the copius amount of money that is needed for a solid patent.
Patents should be used as a competitive advantage. They are not evil. They are vital to the growth of small technology companies, as they are protections and competitive advantages to avoid getting trampled by some of the tech-mammoths out there. Startups usually have the ability to create whatever they have patented, and it allows them time to get on their feet and make some money on the idea before they get trampled.
Another note:
Does anyone else see the trend of Microsoft paying out huge settlements right now? Either their lawyers got too expensive, or they're trying to clean up their image, and get out of the legal spotlight. I'm suspicious, but money flow is good for the economy, even if it is probably going to an anti-linux warchest fund.
Examples of metagaming abound.
I agree completely. I witnessed this very often in Cross Country, you had a mix of all types: The ballers, the wrestlers trying to lose weight, the track sprinters and mid distance, as well as many other types of people all with varying social skills. This varied experience will be ultimately positive, and running is a pretty healthy lifelong sport.
Anyway, addressing the parent post, I suggested that one of my really geeky math genius friends join cross country, and he was a pretty bad runner, but he had a positive attitude. He never ran varsity, but he did end up scoring a few points for JV, and it really did give him a significant improvement in social skills and self esteem. I think he even became comfortable around girls.
Plus if he has to run away from bullies, it will help.
To the poster:
You are qualified as a Medical Doctor. Go to a lab like the one I work in, a combination of Electrical/Biomedical research. You're very qualified from a medical side, you can take classes at the school (there is probably one near you too, so you probably won't have to move) Get a job doing research, and take classes on the side. You can get publications and patents, and it is a good use of your medical background as well.
I'm assuming you're not worried about money, and this route will probably not pay much. You will be doing engineering and the firmware or GUI side of CS likely, but you were a little vague in the post.
Good Luck!
Sounds like he wants to be a venture capitalist. Coming from a gaming background, he would be most qualified to fund similar startups. It will be interesting to keep an eye on him and see what happens.
Ususally founders get out when the growth curve of the company stops being exponential.
Saturn Controller Pinout
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GamesX
I prefer the SNES to LPT converter myself. It worked perfectly until recently, when I installed DirectX 9
SNES centric comments:
1993. Secret of Mana, and the multitap. Makes your friends forget about their families and come over to play it.
Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening came out about this time too for gameboy.
1994. Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, FFIII, and Breath of Bire, Megaman X. I was broke as soon as I had saved up my 69.99 each time. Damn that was expensive.
So do I.
:)
Our University gets money from things like this, and that is a good thing. If companies didn't have to license patents from WARF, do you think that they would donate money to the university for more research? I'm not optimistic that they would. This is a way to fund more research, which in turn attracts more top talent to Wisconsin (Madtown, I don't know where the U-Dub came from), making it a better school.
If you work in a lab here and get a patent through warf, the school gets something like 80% and the creator gets 20%. This is another reason that we have some really great professors here, it's like profit sharing.
WARF originated from a professor adding a vitamin to milk to cure rickets. The school has made so much money from that patent that it has developed into a very good institution, contributing to the world's fight.
I'm not sure that sony can say the same thing about the playstation 2, especially with all of the productivity the PS2 costs us
The SP has a huge base of games, and a well established market, costs 1/3 as much. If you want audio, buy an IPOD. And at the price they want, you could buy both an IPOD and an SP.
The control better be tight on this thing. The GBA SP has some seriously tight control (IMHO), and it's comfortable. Battery life needs to be at least 10 hours to stand a chance, 20 would be competitive with the SP.
This is a matter of preference, but the D-PAD on this thing looks like one of those round things, where L could end up being UL, L, DL, or D. I hate those things.
At 300-400 USD, they'd better not be re-releasing SNES/Genesis/etc. games for this thing, as in the point here.
Maybe he just forgot, but I didn't see any mention of a gameboy in that room. Oh well, his loss.
These games still exist in arcade board format somewhere. Get a supergun and then you can play it on your tv as long as the board is good.
I have an early 90's TMNT Board myself, purchased here,, and it is sweet. It also makes it fairly legal for me to play it on MAME (It would be more so if I dumped it myself).
Microsoft will buy out this little company (now held by some big guns like Sony). Sony and partners acquired it for 453 million, and MS has so much money they will settle for buying the patent at a ridiculous markup my guess is ~8-10 Billion.
THEN they stomp anybody else who tries to compete with them. Patents are meant to be a barrier to entry for the competition, and that is what Microsoft will use it for.
Yes, but doesn't it suck when you are on one of the 25 planes that has an 'incident'?
I personally don't mind not having cell phone contact for a few hours (flying domestically, that is). Americans also tend to speak really loud into their phones, and that would be annoying. I like planes kept quiet for sleepers like me.
Maybe a burst connection for 5 minutes every hour for people writing emails. And if the airlines charged a lot per KB, it would help on the continual fight against bankruptcy.
In FF1, My White Mage and Black Mage are always Whitney and Blake, truncated to Whit and Blak of course
The Thief/Ninja is always Kain, I seem to remember reading a review of Phantasy Star II (for the sega genesis) and seeing this cool guy named Kain.
Here's a really geeky one (I know I'm not alone in this):
In Might and Magic: World of Xeen I used to name the characters after girls I liked! I ended up going out with a few of them later on (when I stopped playing RPGs), but I never told them the truth--one was a cleric, the other was a mighty fine sorceress.
That would be a hell of a power bill to transmit a signal to other TVs and Radios. There aren't that many pirate band TV and radio stations. The sheer cost would prevent people from putting random crap like webcams on the waves. Most likely just radical political groups would throw their money into a system like this.
The antennas that are needed would be rather expensive, although you could probably broadcast to your neighbors. Perhaps a Neighborhood Broadcast, about something that would actually apply. This then becomes like local radio and Public Television (on a slightly smaller scale)
'We have stupid radios not because we haven't figured out how to make them smart but because there's been little reason to make them smart.'
(From the article, did you read it?)
Right, the receiver is VERY cheap to make, so at the cost of some bandwidth (meaning the width of the signal in the frequency domain, not bit rate/bit transmission), everyone can listen. If we start making smart radios, not everyone could afford one, and things like old cars wouldn't get upgraded, etc. The user base wouldn't be large enough to support the technology, and it will flop. There is still little reason to make them smart.
My point is, that of course you can make something run on only one frequency, and there should be enough of the Frequency Spectrum to go around, but the hardware complications of the receivers, let alone the transmitters make it a little more complicated and more expensive than consumers would want than he made it seem in the article.
Finally, I'm just talking about the stupidity of changing regular radio, as entrenched as the system is.
New technologies like bluetooth already use frequency hopping in the ISM band, and that is what is probably meant. The author blurred the lines a bit there.
They spent so much time pondering if they could. They never stopped to consider if they should.
This could get out of hand, but I'm an optimist. Let's just be careful, and explore.
Am I the only one that noticed that her Wishlist is empty? Maybe she has a Fairy Godmother in the Amazon... ... OK, not funny. Most people that have a materialism craze like this (assuming she buys this stuff) would have a huge wishlist. I think it's likely that she gets some form of kickback from Amazon.
Another thing that makes me suspicious is the Coffee table book reviews. If she loves to read, she would probably get novels as opposed to books about Venice. Who knows. That just didn't click with me.
They are probably doing it for the PR. They will probably lose, but they will get a fair bit of PR (public relations -- free advertising) from it. They also will get some credit for 'fighting the good fight' even though mod chips can be used to aid copyright violations.
Good Luck Lik-Sang!
If Walmart or Microsoft is going to take over the world, don't moan about it, BUY THEIR STOCK! You'll OWN a piece of it, and probably MAKE SOME MONEY in the process. These corporations exist not for oppression, but rather to make money for their shareholders.
I don't support Microsoft, and I think my money could be invested better in other places, but if I believed they were going to own India and China, I'd consider buying a piece of that pie.
For engineers to be consultants in a small consulting firm, they need a professional engineering license. If you're with a large company, then you probably won't need it.
I don't know anything about other professions needing certification for cunsulting, but they would probably add a little bit to your rate.
1.544 Mbps (a T-1) divided by 5000 users is going to be SLOW. I don't think that that would be worth $20. I hope I misread the previous post.
Mars will then be 100 times further than the moon from our planet. The moon is about 350,000 miles from earth, and mars will be about 35 million. It took about 3 days to get to the moon, on the Apollo 8 Mission.
This means it would take about 300 days to get to Mars, one way (assuming similar rates of travel). I guess you could use more fuel in the beginning to get a higher inital velocity and maybe cut that time down.
Anyone else care to speculate/correct my estimations?
I agree that blue is cool. But for backlighting and in a Mobile Phone I'd like to have a white LED backlight. Nokia has been doing this for a little while. It's a close second to blue in a lot of cases. More expensive though.
I changed the LED in my Nintendo to blue a month ago. I don't know if people are more shocked by the fact that my nintendo works, or that the LED is blue instead of the usual blinking red.
This also reminds me of the gameboy pocket with a blue(I think) backlighting.
You're still perhaps considered a student, so IAESTE (The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience)is an international work exchange program to 86 countries for students.
IAESTE US is sponsored by AIPT(American International Practical Training or something like that). This one is for professionals looking to work for a few years abroad.