I wonder if MS is taking a stab at stream processing, which is a threat to Intel. Since obviously this is step towards enabling rendering on Larrabe, which is essentially a great big multi-core x86 CPU in a GPUs clothing. Little code change would be needed to get a full DX10 render path running on a larrabe chip. Since vendors are not going to stop putting under powered GPUs in laptops and mainstream desktops, it makes sense to meet all needs in the middle. AMD want's to put a GPU and CPU on the same die, fine, but Intel + Microsoft are obviously gearing up for one general purpose many-core CPU to do all things.
Older OSes can't utilise newer cpu instructions and other hardware functions. On the same hardware, the older OS may be slower. Of course code optimised for newer versions 64-bit/SSE/MMX will do much more per clock cycle than old 386 compatible binaries. But there are other reasons - improvements to processor scheduling, threading etc that extract much more power out of the latest and greatest. However without the newer hardware functions available, the more sophisticated kernel will be just an overhead.
So yes Microsoft(et al) claims are not untrue, but this is all behind the scenes and may be misleading.
The problem is that patterns emerge from any random system. If you have enough desert, eventually you'll find structures that look artificial to an observer (Face on mars anyone?), these would have emerged entirely by chance.
For all the complexity of life on earth, it is a tiny tiny pocket of entropy fighting life which has been granted by a terrific increase in entropy in our sun which has been burning for billions of years. I'm sorry but I don't see intelligent design anywhere. That we emerged entirely by accident is entirely plausible and doesn't violate any natural laws. Thus any alternative theory has a hell of alot to account for.
Generally SD looks noticeably better when upscaled on a respectable HDTV. Especially when the person has upgraded from a CRT, old rear projection or some older not so good panel TV. Also, a current HDTV will have superior colour &/ contrast (often artificially boosted) than the older SD screen.
These factors would account for a good fraction of the statistic the being rest of the would be accounted for by the Idiot Factor - or to be fair, that many people have slightly off eyesight, or may be just sitting too far away.
With this kind of SSD throughput it doesn't become necessary for an OSS to use cpu cycles populating a a file cache in memory. Which is the technique that hides the slack performance of modern storage compared to system ram.
Infact you could swap ALOT of process memory out of ram, and only experience a tiny percieved slow down in application performance. To put a number guesstimate on it: you could run a application with a footprint 5-10 times bigger than system memory with only a small percent reduction in performance in the worst scenario. Another side effect is you would not see much OS performance scaling as you increased system ram.
This would be the first time a storage device would significantly saturate system memory bandwidth.
Indeed Intels SSD has a internal NCQ like command queue system to mask latency of the host. Common storage controllers are (obviously) not up to the job.
1gb/s from a single drive, that finally brings storage speed back in line with moore's law, which only capacity has followed it seems.
But getting there slowly right? We will have our jetpacks one day! The rocket pack used reportedly has a 45 second flight time, the gorge crossing took 20 seconds.
Its not a jet pack exactly but the Martin Jetpack is one you will be able to buy, and has a flight time in the range of hours... and runs on gasoline.
"How about just releasing everything world-wide, at the same time, instead of a handful of countries, or different dates for only a selected few countries?"
Oh you mean, releasing the content, in a manner which matches up with the way data can be moved today, and the way people expect to be able to consume it: in realtime
When I first encountered Napster I truly believed it was the start of a revolution. I considered it a matter of months before some kind of legit business model was made out of it.
I also believed with some money it would improve massively, and within a few years cds would be a thing of the past. I stopped holding my breath when the first few, half-wit lawsuits arrived a fewyears later....
Your dead right. Addiction as a problem is really a manifestation of a fault in the system which also gives us our drive to survive and succeed.
Like most human behaviors, it's a useful trait 90% of the time. 10% of time when it gets out of hand, you can consider it an illness requiring remedy.
This is why tagging the term addiction on any problem for an individual brings up all kinds of issues. Genuine addiction is very neurological/chemical, other examples may be inaccurately labeled addiction but the fault is actually behavioral. The lay person's understanding of the clinical definition is clearly different.
Ok so, kids who spend alot of time playing 'WoW' because they don't fit in socially, whats the problem? They'll probably learn some social skills in the game, whereas if they remain marooned in real life they will just become socially isolated as a lot of these kids do.
If some young person was doing some useful task, with the same pattern of compulsive behavior, would it still be called addiction by the concerned parent observing?
Further, isn't it really actually rather funny how any reasonable analysis (anything other than knee-jerk finger pointing) of issues for young people boils right down to social problems and deficient parenting?
Scratch that, what the hell am I saying: if we didn't have bullying in schools and a social structure that marginalizes eccentrics and intellectuals we wouldn't be able to breed the sub population of scientists and engineers that make the world a better place to live.:D... Go bully some nerds and make sure they're never invited to parties! We need smart technical people to fix our planet, we can pump gas into their Ferraris, but ahah, their still nerds!
Ultimately any scheme has to choose the lesser of two evils... ok so we have to destroy civil liberties in order to directly save lives, if that is actually what the outcome is. With terrorism, the powers that be have erroded alot of rights, and don't seem to be getting the results forgetting for a momment terrorism is a vague and perhaps over-hyped threat. Now that's the first world example. How about a country with a less perfect civil rights record.
... for those who are pessimists: One day we may all have embedded microchips that scan and detect various common pathogens and notify you once you become infected. Suddenly you find you've picked up the latest influenza_avian.vir, you get stopped at the airport by the scanners - sorry sir we can't let you on the plane your implant is broadcasting a pathogen... you find your suddenly unable to get on to a public bus or into a shopping mall... and so on. This would be a setup from merely being tagged as infected. I would hope they plan to embed these microchips deep enough to be removed. Because that's exactly what these people would try. Add to that this is a discouragement from getting tested and being honest about HIV status.
How about employees that come up with their own style of work flow? Would this require management to ensure the way staff are preparing food doesn't infringe any patents?
If you've read Accelerando by Charles Stross the occupation of Manfred Macx the novel's protagonist does exactly what this company does. Stross terms this a Venture Alturist. He goes a step further with his character, whom not only sits on patents so the trolls can't get at 'em, but spends time alot of time furiously dreaming ideas and patenting them.
But really this is a bit "Honestly officer, I picked it up before someone stole it."
I have no idea what makes games a special case. If we need to rein in the used games industry then we also need to rein in used DVDs, used computers, used books, used VHS because the publishers/makers of those products are not seeing any money from the resale.
Well then we should also close down libraries and burn all the books and have everyone use a DRM'd digital reader. Since one single book can be read by hundreds even thousands of people without the publisher and author ever seeing a penny.
I certainly make use of my local government run library, I'm a shameless pirate!
FTFA:
"The theory behind the novel coffee cup is the same one used by rockets to draw fuel into their engines while flying through weightless conditions in space, Pettit said."
Bit of a mistake there, or an out of context missquote: a space vehicle under acceleration doesn't really experience 'weightlessness' therefore there isn't really any problems with scavenging tanks. Surface tension would help to get engines and turbopumps started, logically.
"shouldn't she (in theory) just be able to wait the 90 or so minutes till the next orbit and grab it when the two orbits intersect?"
Very unlikely.
"if two objects in basically identical orbits exchange momentum, then their new orbits will intersect at the same place the original exchange took place."
Well the two orbits are only different by the momentum that the astronaut imparted, just a nudge. It will very slowly move away from the ISS before moving back in that general direction, yes, crudely put. Yes the two ellipses will kind-of intersect again, and it may be easier to retrieve. But it's not as simple as that.
1. Orbits drift, their never perfect.
2. Orbial mechanics mean an object pushed in front of the ISS would reach a higher Aphelion and lower Perihelion, and have a different orbital period, ever so slightly out of sync so what you say wouldn't work. If pushed perpendicular to the orbit the behaviour is different also. Either way changed mommentum means bag won't float back to where it was pushed out from.
3. Earths gravity is slightly lumpy which slightly perturbs orbits. The moons gravity has a little effect as well.
4. Even at that altitude there is a slight drag from earths atmosphere which will have a different effect on objects of different surface area and density.
I'm not expert, I far grasp orbital mechanics entirely, but there are probably more reasons why the bag wouldn't return to where it was nudged out from. Infact it'd be highly unlikley to encounter the ISS again at all.
Which is a good thing, because if that did happen happen to encounter the ISS again it could have significant delta of velocity and be quite a hazard.
Also, interestingly, I have heard NASA makes sure any object that potentially could be lost in space has a trackable radar signature, in case of situations like this.
From RTFAing the fine air filtration and UV sterilisation seem to be the only inovations on this 10x overpriced compared to something that sits in the corner of most homes doing the same job with the same level of efficiency! The only benefit here is dedicate purpose design for plumbing into a residence. I'll hack my own for half the price, thanks.
I'm sitting looking at a $200/200watt/24 litre per day dehumidifier with a pretty good dust filter on it. I wonder if I could put that 50-pack of UV leds I bought to use here...
**feels dehumidifer hack coming on**
In the event of civil disaster I would be perfectly happy drinking water from my dehumidifer as is, which should supply enough water for 4-6 people per day when hooked up to an inverter hooked up to a 12~24VDC source (ie car/truck), which would be better quality than mains supply water in some cases.
People utterly forget dehydration kills you (~72hours) long before water born illnesses merely make you sick in (48hours-7days to kill in a fraction of cases). You also can't beat boiling your water, something people in far away places seem to not know, or just not be able to do with resources (which comes back to infrastructure, which is the problem causing scarce water resources).
The pertinant point here is why come up with a $1200 magic uber water thingee that's a reinvention of the wheel and priced out of range of people who need it / no good in the third world? That price gets you a small solar panel or wind turbine and a standard dehumidifer and 4-6 appreciative third world folk who have enough clean driking water a day to live> **Spawns firefox tab or two** Hmm ok, for less than $1200 I have a parts list for 500 watt wind turbine, 24DC->240AC inverter, 2x 26L per day Dehumidifiers, HEPA filters, UV lamps... shipping to third world countries is extra though.
How old are you really? Mental function doesn't significantly decline until after 40. The slope gets alot steeper at 60 though. If your under 40 and having problems remembering things already -don't quote me I'm no expert- that's not really a good sign at all. Two large components other than gene programming (predispositions to dementia, Alzheimer's etc) are lifestyle and diet.
I would suggest you could mitigate your claimed decline in sharpness by:
1. Brain training. This can mitigate just about any mental problem at least to some extent, the brain has tremendous ability to recover from damage, ie stroke, people re-learning to talk/walk etc. In theory you could stave off.
2. Diet. It's all been said but put into three simple rules:
1. Protein. Get all your protein from fish and plant sources, top up with free range (for good reason) poultry including egg white (cholesterol is only in the yolk, egg white is excellent food), only a small amount of red meat. Cannot stress the free range point enough - eating a animal -in quantity- that was unhealthy in life cannot be healthy.
2. No refined carbohydrates. No sugar, no high fructuse corn syrup, no milled white flour/rice flour/refined starchy products. Avoid thickeners. You might as well eat sugar - if you put white flour in your mouth you will find it tastes sweeter than wholemeal: This is because your saliva is converting it direct to glucose. Potatoes: are not much better being carb-dense try sweet potatos and more exotic root vegetables which are usually packed with fibre and antioxidants.
3. Good fats. Eat oily fish daily. Herring, Salmon (not grain and antibiotic feed farmed crap), not too much Tuna (or other mercury packed fish like shark). Plant sources are excellent. Flaxseed (linseed oil) and nuts.
A fourth rule should be eating your greens, but I didn't include that because that's a given. The majority of the carbohydrate you should eat every day should be coming from vegetables raw or cooked, and then the rest from wholegrains and fruit.
I went from being a typical geek where Mountain Dew and pizza were two significant food groups, this is fine as a teenager as I was active. But when I found my brain getting foggy at my desk job and a growing beer belly I got myself sorted out. Back on the mountain bike, and don't eat crap. Simple. Interestingly I found my mental function to not only improve, but I had a particular new found clarity and energy. The difference was compelling.
Once theres a web engine within games it makes something new possible. I presume one the key applications they had in mind (other than just browsing while your on a loading screen) was ingame advertising. Both to target advertising to the gamer while they are waiting for something to happen or being able to actually render standard web banner ads into areas of the game environment.
I see this having huge potential in CAD & design applications. Spatial controllers for CAD I've found to leave much to be desired. Gestures and natural motion are a huge improvement. This paradigm of interface will all hinge on a killer app, sure the engineering has been done and from what I can tell it works, effectively, but there are so many brilliantly engineered ideas that are simply nothing more than that. Implementing a Good(tm) product, and getting a market for it is a whole different story. I would expect to see this kind of thing first coming to market as a expensive niche product for CAD/VR visualation set ups, or perhaps being bundled with a game that supports it. Many of these new things never get off the ground, not at least until the price/performance ratio reaches a point it becomes compelling.
Anyone remember that direct mind controller thing from OCZ? No? This'll be forgotten too...
My version of the analogy: This is more like them suing the highway maintenance/construction contractors, shipping companies and car/truck manufacturers, for the traffic of contraband and stolen goods on public road infrastructure.
Meanwhile pressuring local body government to require transparent trunk lids and a search checkpoint for every single vehicle passing through for illict substance/stolen goods at the expense of traffic flow. Throw in a Toll booth for all traffic that returns money to the legal body representing the shops that had stuff shoplifted from.
Car analogies fit so well... in this case information technology infrastructure is crucial for business.
How about suing the traffic cops for not policing the roads? That holds more water...
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I wonder if MS is taking a stab at stream processing, which is a threat to Intel. Since obviously this is step towards enabling rendering on Larrabe, which is essentially a great big multi-core x86 CPU in a GPUs clothing. Little code change would be needed to get a full DX10 render path running on a larrabe chip. Since vendors are not going to stop putting under powered GPUs in laptops and mainstream desktops, it makes sense to meet all needs in the middle. AMD want's to put a GPU and CPU on the same die, fine, but Intel + Microsoft are obviously gearing up for one general purpose many-core CPU to do all things.
Older OSes can't utilise newer cpu instructions and other hardware functions. On the same hardware, the older OS may be slower. Of course code optimised for newer versions 64-bit/SSE/MMX will do much more per clock cycle than old 386 compatible binaries. But there are other reasons - improvements to processor scheduling, threading etc that extract much more power out of the latest and greatest. However without the newer hardware functions available, the more sophisticated kernel will be just an overhead.
So yes Microsoft(et al) claims are not untrue, but this is all behind the scenes and may be misleading.
The problem is that patterns emerge from any random system. If you have enough desert, eventually you'll find structures that look artificial to an observer (Face on mars anyone?), these would have emerged entirely by chance.
For all the complexity of life on earth, it is a tiny tiny pocket of entropy fighting life which has been granted by a terrific increase in entropy in our sun which has been burning for billions of years. I'm sorry but I don't see intelligent design anywhere. That we emerged entirely by accident is entirely plausible and doesn't violate any natural laws. Thus any alternative theory has a hell of alot to account for.
Generally SD looks noticeably better when upscaled on a respectable HDTV. Especially when the person has upgraded from a CRT, old rear projection or some older not so good panel TV. Also, a current HDTV will have superior colour &/ contrast (often artificially boosted) than the older SD screen.
These factors would account for a good fraction of the statistic the being rest of the would be accounted for by the Idiot Factor - or to be fair, that many people have slightly off eyesight, or may be just sitting too far away.
Simple: Swap file.
With this kind of SSD throughput it doesn't become necessary for an OSS to use cpu cycles populating a a file cache in memory. Which is the technique that hides the slack performance of modern storage compared to system ram.
Infact you could swap ALOT of process memory out of ram, and only experience a tiny percieved slow down in application performance. To put a number guesstimate on it: you could run a application with a footprint 5-10 times bigger than system memory with only a small percent reduction in performance in the worst scenario. Another side effect is you would not see much OS performance scaling as you increased system ram.
This would be the first time a storage device would significantly saturate system memory bandwidth.
Indeed Intels SSD has a internal NCQ like command queue system to mask latency of the host. Common storage controllers are (obviously) not up to the job.
1gb/s from a single drive, that finally brings storage speed back in line with moore's law, which only capacity has followed it seems.
But getting there slowly right? We will have our jetpacks one day! The rocket pack used reportedly has a 45 second flight time, the gorge crossing took 20 seconds.
Its not a jet pack exactly but the Martin Jetpack is one you will be able to buy, and has a flight time in the range of hours... and runs on gasoline.
linkage: http://www.martinjetpack.com/
I'll park it next to my Moller flying car. This technology should be available be available in the late 90's, right after the manned mars missions.
"How about just releasing everything world-wide, at the same time, instead of a handful of countries, or different dates for only a selected few countries?"
Oh you mean, releasing the content, in a manner which matches up with the way data can be moved today, and the way people expect to be able to consume it: in realtime
When I first encountered Napster I truly believed it was the start of a revolution. I considered it a matter of months before some kind of legit business model was made out of it.
I also believed with some money it would improve massively, and within a few years cds would be a thing of the past. I stopped holding my breath when the first few, half-wit lawsuits arrived a fewyears later....
As an experiement re-read TFA substituting the terms for "games" "gamer" etc to "sports" "sports fan". Try it.
Your dead right. Addiction as a problem is really a manifestation of a fault in the system which also gives us our drive to survive and succeed.
:D ... Go bully some nerds and make sure they're never invited to parties! We need smart technical people to fix our planet, we can pump gas into their Ferraris, but ahah, their still nerds!
Like most human behaviors, it's a useful trait 90% of the time. 10% of time when it gets out of hand, you can consider it an illness requiring remedy.
This is why tagging the term addiction on any problem for an individual brings up all kinds of issues. Genuine addiction is very neurological/chemical, other examples may be inaccurately labeled addiction but the fault is actually behavioral. The lay person's understanding of the clinical definition is clearly different.
Ok so, kids who spend alot of time playing 'WoW' because they don't fit in socially, whats the problem? They'll probably learn some social skills in the game, whereas if they remain marooned in real life they will just become socially isolated as a lot of these kids do.
If some young person was doing some useful task, with the same pattern of compulsive behavior, would it still be called addiction by the concerned parent observing?
Further, isn't it really actually rather funny how any reasonable analysis (anything other than knee-jerk finger pointing) of issues for young people boils right down to social problems and deficient parenting?
Scratch that, what the hell am I saying: if we didn't have bullying in schools and a social structure that marginalizes eccentrics and intellectuals we wouldn't be able to breed the sub population of scientists and engineers that make the world a better place to live.
Ultimately any scheme has to choose the lesser of two evils... ok so we have to destroy civil liberties in order to directly save lives, if that is actually what the outcome is. With terrorism, the powers that be have erroded alot of rights, and don't seem to be getting the results forgetting for a momment terrorism is a vague and perhaps over-hyped threat. Now that's the first world example. How about a country with a less perfect civil rights record.
... for those who are pessimists: One day we may all have embedded microchips that scan and detect various common pathogens and notify you once you become infected. Suddenly you find you've picked up the latest influenza_avian.vir, you get stopped at the airport by the scanners - sorry sir we can't let you on the plane your implant is broadcasting a pathogen... you find your suddenly unable to get on to a public bus or into a shopping mall ... and so on. This would be a setup from merely being tagged as infected. I would hope they plan to embed these microchips deep enough to be removed. Because that's exactly what these people would try. Add to that this is a discouragement from getting tested and being honest about HIV status.
How about employees that come up with their own style of work flow? Would this require management to ensure the way staff are preparing food doesn't infringe any patents?
If you've read Accelerando by Charles Stross the occupation of Manfred Macx the novel's protagonist does exactly what this company does. Stross terms this a Venture Alturist. He goes a step further with his character, whom not only sits on patents so the trolls can't get at 'em, but spends time alot of time furiously dreaming ideas and patenting them.
But really this is a bit "Honestly officer, I picked it up before someone stole it."
I have no idea what makes games a special case. If we need to rein in the used games industry then we also need to rein in used DVDs, used computers, used books, used VHS because the publishers/makers of those products are not seeing any money from the resale.
Well then we should also close down libraries and burn all the books and have everyone use a DRM'd digital reader. Since one single book can be read by hundreds even thousands of people without the publisher and author ever seeing a penny.
I certainly make use of my local government run library, I'm a shameless pirate!
New Zealand has had cellphone jammers in prisons for some time now because of the issue.
Linky: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4174128a11.html
FTFA:
"The theory behind the novel coffee cup is the same one used by rockets to draw fuel into their engines while flying through weightless conditions in space, Pettit said."
Bit of a mistake there, or an out of context missquote: a space vehicle under acceleration doesn't really experience 'weightlessness' therefore there isn't really any problems with scavenging tanks. Surface tension would help to get engines and turbopumps started, logically.
"shouldn't she (in theory) just be able to wait the 90 or so minutes till the next orbit and grab it when the two orbits intersect?"
Very unlikely.
"if two objects in basically identical orbits exchange momentum, then their new orbits will intersect at the same place the original exchange took place."
Well the two orbits are only different by the momentum that the astronaut imparted, just a nudge. It will very slowly move away from the ISS before moving back in that general direction, yes, crudely put. Yes the two ellipses will kind-of intersect again, and it may be easier to retrieve. But it's not as simple as that.
1. Orbits drift, their never perfect.
2. Orbial mechanics mean an object pushed in front of the ISS would reach a higher Aphelion and lower Perihelion, and have a different orbital period, ever so slightly out of sync so what you say wouldn't work. If pushed perpendicular to the orbit the behaviour is different also. Either way changed mommentum means bag won't float back to where it was pushed out from.
3. Earths gravity is slightly lumpy which slightly perturbs orbits. The moons gravity has a little effect as well.
4. Even at that altitude there is a slight drag from earths atmosphere which will have a different effect on objects of different surface area and density.
I'm not expert, I far grasp orbital mechanics entirely, but there are probably more reasons why the bag wouldn't return to where it was nudged out from. Infact it'd be highly unlikley to encounter the ISS again at all.
Which is a good thing, because if that did happen happen to encounter the ISS again it could have significant delta of velocity and be quite a hazard.
Also, interestingly, I have heard NASA makes sure any object that potentially could be lost in space has a trackable radar signature, in case of situations like this.
From RTFAing the fine air filtration and UV sterilisation seem to be the only inovations on this 10x overpriced compared to something that sits in the corner of most homes doing the same job with the same level of efficiency! The only benefit here is dedicate purpose design for plumbing into a residence. I'll hack my own for half the price, thanks.
I'm sitting looking at a $200/200watt/24 litre per day dehumidifier with a pretty good dust filter on it. I wonder if I could put that 50-pack of UV leds I bought to use here...
**feels dehumidifer hack coming on**
In the event of civil disaster I would be perfectly happy drinking water from my dehumidifer as is, which should supply enough water for 4-6 people per day when hooked up to an inverter hooked up to a 12~24VDC source (ie car/truck), which would be better quality than mains supply water in some cases.
People utterly forget dehydration kills you (~72hours) long before water born illnesses merely make you sick in (48hours-7days to kill in a fraction of cases). You also can't beat boiling your water, something people in far away places seem to not know, or just not be able to do with resources (which comes back to infrastructure, which is the problem causing scarce water resources).
The pertinant point here is why come up with a $1200 magic uber water thingee that's a reinvention of the wheel and priced out of range of people who need it / no good in the third world? That price gets you a small solar panel or wind turbine and a standard dehumidifer and 4-6 appreciative third world folk who have enough clean driking water a day to live> **Spawns firefox tab or two** Hmm ok, for less than $1200 I have a parts list for 500 watt wind turbine, 24DC->240AC inverter, 2x 26L per day Dehumidifiers, HEPA filters, UV lamps... shipping to third world countries is extra though.
How old are you really? Mental function doesn't significantly decline until after 40. The slope gets alot steeper at 60 though. If your under 40 and having problems remembering things already -don't quote me I'm no expert- that's not really a good sign at all. Two large components other than gene programming (predispositions to dementia, Alzheimer's etc) are lifestyle and diet.
I would suggest you could mitigate your claimed decline in sharpness by:
1. Brain training. This can mitigate just about any mental problem at least to some extent, the brain has tremendous ability to recover from damage, ie stroke, people re-learning to talk/walk etc. In theory you could stave off.
2. Diet. It's all been said but put into three simple rules: 1. Protein. Get all your protein from fish and plant sources, top up with free range (for good reason) poultry including egg white (cholesterol is only in the yolk, egg white is excellent food), only a small amount of red meat. Cannot stress the free range point enough - eating a animal -in quantity- that was unhealthy in life cannot be healthy. 2. No refined carbohydrates. No sugar, no high fructuse corn syrup, no milled white flour/rice flour/refined starchy products. Avoid thickeners. You might as well eat sugar - if you put white flour in your mouth you will find it tastes sweeter than wholemeal: This is because your saliva is converting it direct to glucose. Potatoes: are not much better being carb-dense try sweet potatos and more exotic root vegetables which are usually packed with fibre and antioxidants.
3. Good fats. Eat oily fish daily. Herring, Salmon (not grain and antibiotic feed farmed crap), not too much Tuna (or other mercury packed fish like shark). Plant sources are excellent. Flaxseed (linseed oil) and nuts.
A fourth rule should be eating your greens, but I didn't include that because that's a given. The majority of the carbohydrate you should eat every day should be coming from vegetables raw or cooked, and then the rest from wholegrains and fruit.
I went from being a typical geek where Mountain Dew and pizza were two significant food groups, this is fine as a teenager as I was active. But when I found my brain getting foggy at my desk job and a growing beer belly I got myself sorted out. Back on the mountain bike, and don't eat crap. Simple. Interestingly I found my mental function to not only improve, but I had a particular new found clarity and energy. The difference was compelling.
Once theres a web engine within games it makes something new possible. I presume one the key applications they had in mind (other than just browsing while your on a loading screen) was ingame advertising. Both to target advertising to the gamer while they are waiting for something to happen or being able to actually render standard web banner ads into areas of the game environment.
I see this having huge potential in CAD & design applications. Spatial controllers for CAD I've found to leave much to be desired. Gestures and natural motion are a huge improvement. This paradigm of interface will all hinge on a killer app, sure the engineering has been done and from what I can tell it works, effectively, but there are so many brilliantly engineered ideas that are simply nothing more than that.
Implementing a Good(tm) product, and getting a market for it is a whole different story. I would expect to see this kind of thing first coming to market as a expensive niche product for CAD/VR visualation set ups, or perhaps being bundled with a game that supports it. Many of these new things never get off the ground, not at least until the price/performance ratio reaches a point it becomes compelling.
Anyone remember that direct mind controller thing from OCZ? No? This'll be forgotten too...
My version of the analogy: This is more like them suing the highway maintenance/construction contractors, shipping companies and car/truck manufacturers, for the traffic of contraband and stolen goods on public road infrastructure.
Meanwhile pressuring local body government to require transparent trunk lids and a search checkpoint for every single vehicle passing through for illict substance/stolen goods at the expense of traffic flow. Throw in a Toll booth for all traffic that returns money to the legal body representing the shops that had stuff shoplifted from.
Car analogies fit so well... in this case information technology infrastructure is crucial for business.
How about suing the traffic cops for not policing the roads? That holds more water...
If nobody carried guns... then one wouldn't need to carry a gun to defend oneself? In my country the police don't even carry guns.