In the year after the next's Madden you'll actually have to purchase the players from EA before actually playing the game. And the ball. And rent the stadium.
You can also... erm... "tip" the referee by just entering your credit card information.
They could make a robot that beats human players at air-hockey but they were not able to make a watchable video or it in action? I guess it is all about specialization.
If you had 60 secs to get a college student excited about wanting to study and research life extension, what would you say besides the obvious 'live-forever' meme?
Think of how long you could take to complete college.
I see them as related because just like IE-bug hacks weren't necessary to build sites, they were (ab)used and became a de-facto standard. Flash/Silverlight are many times not necessary and still (ab)used as to be nearing de-facto standard too. If Adobe pulls the plug on the Flash plugin for Linux or let it's version fall behind many sites will not display properly on Linux just like many don't display properly on Firefox (due to IE-bug hacks).
Although I agree with you, no one is forced into using these technologies, look at the way the Internet is today. Many sites employ IE specific bugs to render and end up being displayed wrong or not at all in other browsers that are fully standards-compliant. "Force"-feeding people with this proprietary and often crappy technologies tends to bind people to these technologies in the long run and slow down improvement therefore diminishing quality.
... is to use Shock collars on Government Officials and have the public vote on which should be activated when those officials go against the will of the public or when they are just stupid. Now that would be democratic.
You can just call them and complain that you don't agree with this. But while the call to support fee is US$ 2, the call to complain fee is US$ 10. Well, what a bargain!
This IS a novel way of using the technology. You're making it into something we all know how to use... a good old fashioned book. This makes it much more appealing to a broader (read: older) audience who don't want to "learn something new". Sure, but then again if someone really does not want to learn something new then probably he will stick with the book and the development is pointless anyway. It is a nice functionality but then again the resource could have been put into eye-tracking, voice-recognition...
Mimicking real paper takes away focus that could be spent in developing novel ways of using the available technology.
There are so many more interesting things you can try to develop.
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Yes, as in "you drink so much you pass out and don't drive".
I'm guessing that about 95% of /. geeks have high speed internet access of at least 2MB/s download. Use it!
I use dial-up you insensitive clod!
In the year after the next's Madden you'll actually have to purchase the players from EA before actually playing the game. And the ball. And rent the stadium.
You can also... erm... "tip" the referee by just entering your credit card information.
if that was the case I'm sure robots would be able to beat us quite easily.
They could make a robot that beats human players at air-hockey but they were not able to make a watchable video or it in action? I guess it is all about specialization.
1000 year old whisky.
It is sure to spice up the "you must be new here" meme.
If you had 60 secs to get a college student excited about wanting to study and research life extension, what would you say besides the obvious 'live-forever' meme?
Think of how long you could take to complete college.
Has any research been done on how extreme longevity affects a person psychologically?
Yes, but I can't recall the conclusion.
Using that metric, neither are the C64 and the Amiga?
That's because the US does not use metric.
And in Soviet Russia Pidgin uses you.
Solitaire and minesweeper.
What about find tail to grep then sleep after fsck?
I see them as related because just like IE-bug hacks weren't necessary to build sites, they were (ab)used and became a de-facto standard. Flash/Silverlight are many times not necessary and still (ab)used as to be nearing de-facto standard too. If Adobe pulls the plug on the Flash plugin for Linux or let it's version fall behind many sites will not display properly on Linux just like many don't display properly on Firefox (due to IE-bug hacks).
Although I agree with you, no one is forced into using these technologies, look at the way the Internet is today. Many sites employ IE specific bugs to render and end up being displayed wrong or not at all in other browsers that are fully standards-compliant. "Force"-feeding people with this proprietary and often crappy technologies tends to bind people to these technologies in the long run and slow down improvement therefore diminishing quality.
... is to use Shock collars on Government Officials and have the public vote on which should be activated when those officials go against the will of the public or when they are just stupid. Now that would be democratic.
I think the site was slashdotted, as I am getting errors trying to download the tool.
Jack, is that you?
I have an unusual name and thus most of my results turned out to be relevant
Jesus, I don't think you have an unusual name. I also don't think that most of the search results would turn out to be relevant to you, unless...
You can just call them and complain that you don't agree with this. But while the call to support fee is US$ 2, the call to complain fee is US$ 10. Well, what a bargain!
No one needs broadband, just like 640k ought to be enough for everyone.
An account on Slashdot. But no trolling, please.
Your retina are belong to us.
Mimicking real paper takes away focus that could be spent in developing novel ways of using the available technology.
There are so many more interesting things you can try to develop.