Someone either dropped those muon antineutrinos, broke them, and then swept the whole thing under the rug, or they sold them for chocolate frogs. "They were never there!" Yeah, right.
Old T.V. would be optimal, but there are folks out there doing a/v conversions of 2600s/selling A/V converted 2600s. Check the hardware part of the AtariAge forum or post there and ask about it. Just from a quick search found this post that might help also. And there is the Flashback 2 (if you can find any on eBay, etc.). If you want to use Stella though, buy a few classic USB joystick controllers from legacyengineering. It took a while for Curt to get the first batch made, but they've continued making them (in different colors also). Classic gamingrocks.
Just incrementally back up the entire Matrix. You can roll it back a decade or two to play your Atari game.
I know this is a joke, but I think the general sentiment is good. In addition to just emulating the games, you really need to experience them as they were meant to be played. For example, even the effect available in Stella (a 2600 emulator) to simulate phosphorescence in old T.V. screens is awesome, but it still isn't quite the same as playing it on a real Atari with various older television models. However, emulation is at least a huge step in the right direction!
This is why the belief in a higher being is important to sanity and happiness. Science will fail you.
Try to make your trolls a little less obvious next time.
Yeah, I guess that was a little harsh. However, it makes it no less true. We just aren't capable of doing it all ourselves. The more people we think we know, the deeper in the hole we are.
The reason most IT workers don't fit well in the medical field as they all have what some would diagnose as ADD/ADHD. ADD and ADHD don't mesh well with medicine.
About the post and the topic of the commencement address: The thing that is wrong with many people's understanding imo is that medical practitioners simply cannot fit as much information into their heads and work with it quickly enough to provide the kind of care that some would argue that everyone should have, with the technology and information available. What many of these practitioners do (especially those in general medicine/internal medicine) for many, if not most, ailments is to guess. It is an educated guess using inadequate technology for the job. And doctors are not gods, although some may think they are close at times with the power of life and death over some or many. It is just an imprecise art. This is why the belief in a higher being is important to sanity and happiness. Science will fail you.
If you'd RTFA, you'd know they weren't talking about introducing the bacteria, but the biological surfactant they produce.
Granted. But are you so sure they'll adequately separate the bacteria from the surfactant they produce? Regardless of whether the bacteria eat oil or aren't even meant to be put into the ocean, if they are part of the process and people are in a hurry, mistakes will be made.
It's not necessarily hidden for just the first few seconds. It's based on mouse movement. If you mouse over the page, the text fades in. If you just open the site, the search box has an active cursor, so you type your query, hit enter, and you're off without ever seeing any of the clutter they've added.
BTW- you can make the text stay their constantly by altering the user-agent.
Now if only they'd get rid of that awful text fading in. What's that about?
Totally agreed. I wish they would take a survey of all of their new surprise features so people could thumbs up or down them. It's amazing how so many smart people can't understand the importance of allowing people to provide feedback on their homepage. Whoever the idiot is fronting the homepage for the last few years needs to be tanked, imo.
To all those that +1 Insightful, you are not true Zappa fans. If you were a true Zappa fan you would have either voted +1 Funny or you wouldn't have been reading Slashdot (for reasons that if I explained here I would be modded -1 on). If you mod this as Insightful, you are a moron, and -1 on you (for any reason). Hail the Libertarian party!
If you waited to buy your books based upon impending releases, you'd never end up buying any books at all.
Which is why I don't typically buy books anymore, unless they are fiction. The future should involve subscriptions to experts writing on popular topics getting paid, but I don't see how we'll all transition to that. Ebook subscriptions are kind of neat, but still lame compared to instant Google results.
I think it is a valid point that Nintendo will have to battle it out with Apple a bit. You can't knock that the app store has a ton of games, and these are in fact competing with the DS and other handheld gaming devices.
Web OS is based on javascript and HP thinks well of it enough to have significantly invested part of their future on it. Apple is betting on Gianduia. Chrome OS was not ahead of its time, it just happened to be one of the leaders.
Sorry- I didn't mean to say that it was a bad review. I just got the overall impression that someone was trying to sell me on the CMS rather than the book. I think it was a very good review though.
iPad is the first Apple product in the last ten years (that I can think of) that has generated a visible rift in those who were previously supporting Apple. From the poor naming of the device to almost everything about it, some people that are big into Macs think it sucks. Now even Ellen DeGeneres is bashing it. I think Apple needs to really think about how it is going to bring the community back together.
Now to axe the latin protocol prefix, colon, slashes and dots. Also, what about those with disabilities- it is visual after all. We need "thought domains"- but wait, what about those with impaired mental capacities? Domains by intuitition would work. But what about parallel universes! Argh.
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This is a gambler's fallacy problem.
I agree. They have a problem and they need to admit it.
Someone either dropped those muon antineutrinos, broke them, and then swept the whole thing under the rug, or they sold them for chocolate frogs. "They were never there!" Yeah, right.
No homebrew = no worries = no fun
thats no stick
I don't have a TV with the proper inputs anymore.
Old T.V. would be optimal, but there are folks out there doing a/v conversions of 2600s/selling A/V converted 2600s. Check the hardware part of the AtariAge forum or post there and ask about it. Just from a quick search found this post that might help also. And there is the Flashback 2 (if you can find any on eBay, etc.). If you want to use Stella though, buy a few classic USB joystick controllers from legacyengineering. It took a while for Curt to get the first batch made, but they've continued making them (in different colors also). Classic gaming rocks.
Just incrementally back up the entire Matrix. You can roll it back a decade or two to play your Atari game.
I know this is a joke, but I think the general sentiment is good. In addition to just emulating the games, you really need to experience them as they were meant to be played. For example, even the effect available in Stella (a 2600 emulator) to simulate phosphorescence in old T.V. screens is awesome, but it still isn't quite the same as playing it on a real Atari with various older television models. However, emulation is at least a huge step in the right direction!
This is why the belief in a higher being is important to sanity and happiness. Science will fail you.
Try to make your trolls a little less obvious next time.
Yeah, I guess that was a little harsh. However, it makes it no less true. We just aren't capable of doing it all ourselves. The more people we think we know, the deeper in the hole we are.
So what? I don't have Comcast.
In retrospect, I wish I went into medicine.
The reason most IT workers don't fit well in the medical field as they all have what some would diagnose as ADD/ADHD. ADD and ADHD don't mesh well with medicine. About the post and the topic of the commencement address: The thing that is wrong with many people's understanding imo is that medical practitioners simply cannot fit as much information into their heads and work with it quickly enough to provide the kind of care that some would argue that everyone should have, with the technology and information available. What many of these practitioners do (especially those in general medicine/internal medicine) for many, if not most, ailments is to guess. It is an educated guess using inadequate technology for the job. And doctors are not gods, although some may think they are close at times with the power of life and death over some or many. It is just an imprecise art. This is why the belief in a higher being is important to sanity and happiness. Science will fail you.
* Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
* Dramatic Chipmunk
* "Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday
* Numa Numa
If you'd RTFA, you'd know they weren't talking about introducing the bacteria, but the biological surfactant they produce.
Granted. But are you so sure they'll adequately separate the bacteria from the surfactant they produce? Regardless of whether the bacteria eat oil or aren't even meant to be put into the ocean, if they are part of the process and people are in a hurry, mistakes will be made.
Exactly. The bacteria will feed on the masses of oil, grow into films of unimaginable size and thickess!
Until the oil is consumed and they all die.
Some other possible scenarios:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
But what will the birds say?
It's not necessarily hidden for just the first few seconds. It's based on mouse movement. If you mouse over the page, the text fades in. If you just open the site, the search box has an active cursor, so you type your query, hit enter, and you're off without ever seeing any of the clutter they've added.
BTW- you can make the text stay their constantly by altering the user-agent.
Now if only they'd get rid of that awful text fading in. What's that about?
Totally agreed. I wish they would take a survey of all of their new surprise features so people could thumbs up or down them. It's amazing how so many smart people can't understand the importance of allowing people to provide feedback on their homepage. Whoever the idiot is fronting the homepage for the last few years needs to be tanked, imo.
To all those that +1 Insightful, you are not true Zappa fans. If you were a true Zappa fan you would have either voted +1 Funny or you wouldn't have been reading Slashdot (for reasons that if I explained here I would be modded -1 on). If you mod this as Insightful, you are a moron, and -1 on you (for any reason). Hail the Libertarian party!
You could pretty much apply that to anything.
If you waited to buy your books based upon impending releases, you'd never end up buying any books at all.
Which is why I don't typically buy books anymore, unless they are fiction. The future should involve subscriptions to experts writing on popular topics getting paid, but I don't see how we'll all transition to that. Ebook subscriptions are kind of neat, but still lame compared to instant Google results.
I think it is a valid point that Nintendo will have to battle it out with Apple a bit. You can't knock that the app store has a ton of games, and these are in fact competing with the DS and other handheld gaming devices.
It's merely a flesh wound!
Web OS is based on javascript and HP thinks well of it enough to have significantly invested part of their future on it. Apple is betting on Gianduia. Chrome OS was not ahead of its time, it just happened to be one of the leaders.
Sorry- I didn't mean to say that it was a bad review. I just got the overall impression that someone was trying to sell me on the CMS rather than the book. I think it was a very good review though.
iPad is the first Apple product in the last ten years (that I can think of) that has generated a visible rift in those who were previously supporting Apple. From the poor naming of the device to almost everything about it, some people that are big into Macs think it sucks. Now even Ellen DeGeneres is bashing it. I think Apple needs to really think about how it is going to bring the community back together.
Now to axe the latin protocol prefix, colon, slashes and dots. Also, what about those with disabilities- it is visual after all. We need "thought domains"- but wait, what about those with impaired mental capacities? Domains by intuitition would work. But what about parallel universes! Argh.