Why not people? I've been skeptical of this technology for a while, because I can't see it producing a useful amount of energy. I'm not an engineer though. I do wonder, however, why they don't put these into sports arenas. If you put them under the fans seats, every time the fans started to move while cheering, you'd harvest the energy they produce. Even here, though, I wonder if the amount of energy produced would be enough to offset the creation energy.
You didn't bother to read the comment you were responding to. The OP decided to throw in a comment about windows vista that should be labeled off topic, considering the article it's in response to. However, here on slashdot, you get instant karma for bashing/supporting windows, regardless of the relevance. This is what the AC was stating.
See, the thing is that it doesn't have to be gimicky. There have been a lot of bad with motion capture control, but there have been a few gems. I remember there being an arcade shooter a few years back, where instead of pressing a pedal to duck, you literally had to duck to the side. It was incredibly immersive. Personally, I'd love to see a natal "Punchout" game, where you actually had to punch and dodge.
I think the issue is that game developers have had a few decades of hand-only input. Give them a few years with this new technology, and we're bound to see something that will blow our minds.
I always remembered these things having a strong following among both hackers, and the children of the rich. There's a market there, now if only the chinese company can lower the cost so it doesn't seem like you're buying an actual pet without any of the benifits of having a live animal.
While normally I'd agree with you, Valve games tend to keep the quality high with their releases. And with Steam, they don't have to make games for income anymore, so anything they do create is created out of love of the craft. This is probably why they constantly miss their deadlines. They have enough money that missing a deadline is preferable to releasing a crappy product.
I understand this, and in a 200 person lecture hall, you do lose out. I had many classes like this at my school, and my school (georgia tech) was constantly on the princeton review's worst teacher list. Even in these cases, however, you still had a TA who could sit and work with you in smaller settings. In theory, you could have an online TA, but this creates another problem - How are the attractive bimbos going to get through the classes if they can't physically sleep with their TA?
You ignore the benifit gained by being on campus with the professors and the students. With online classes, you do cut down on costs, but at the cost of human interaction. Your lessons become canned scripts, instead of lessons (hopefully) tailored to each class. You also lose the student culture, which is a huge part of college education. I cannot tell you how much I learned working with students in other fields, and the only reason we interacted is because we were in the same building together. Not only that, but it tempered my social skills, so that when I reached the working world, I understood how to interact with others.
Outdated indeed. The new tactics of war are about guerrilla battles, and small nimble forces that can wear down the enemy overtime. Using a nuke on them is like trying to swat a fly with a grenade.
I'm not sure about most places, but the one camera that nailed me managed to take two high res photos of my car. One before I crossed into the intersection with the red light, and one after I was in the intersection with the red light. I would imagine this is standard practice.
Might i suggest capitalism here? Most places allow you to pay for alternative forms of energy. If your typical coal plant is uping it's rates, at some point, alternative energy sources will become cost effective. If they raise their rates, they will end up screwing themselves in the end.
Heck, almost nothing except for humans even uses FIRE for energy, and that one's dead obvious.
Not trying to disprove you here, but I would argue that humans haven't even mastered everything that can be done with heat. You don't see humans raising islands out of the depths of the ocean yet.
sight, hearing, touch, feel, taste, comparison shop?
This isn't a sixth sense, no matter how you spin it. at least i hope that the heightened consumer knowledge would not be considered a valid way of perceiving the world.
And exactly what do they mean by "hallucinations?"
I've had a lot of experiance with sleep deprevation thanks to school and poor job choices. From what I've seen, hallucinations caused by lack of sleep are what happens when your body slips into a dream state without properly shutting down. IE i'll be sitting in a chair, working, when i start to dream. I'm not asleep, at least not in the same way that I am when I really pass out. I'm simply halfway between sleeping and awake. I see the same room in front of me, but people may appear, i may hear noises, anything that would happen in a dream. if it's too crazy, i snap back into being alert and fully awake.
it's not the fact that we can avoid it, it just cheapens slashdot. Slashdot stopped the april fools jokes to appear to be a legitimate news organization, so why do we now have to suffer through Idle? At least april fools was once a year.
I understand that graffiti is often little more than vandalism today, but don't dismiss it completely. Graffiti is a tool for communication, and when other forms of communication are being censored or cut, it becomes very powerful. Graffiti is noticible, and can transmit a message to thousands of viewers, for very little cost. Take a look at the works of Banksy on the palestinian walls. This might sway you.
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Why not people? I've been skeptical of this technology for a while, because I can't see it producing a useful amount of energy. I'm not an engineer though. I do wonder, however, why they don't put these into sports arenas. If you put them under the fans seats, every time the fans started to move while cheering, you'd harvest the energy they produce. Even here, though, I wonder if the amount of energy produced would be enough to offset the creation energy.
You didn't bother to read the comment you were responding to. The OP decided to throw in a comment about windows vista that should be labeled off topic, considering the article it's in response to. However, here on slashdot, you get instant karma for bashing/supporting windows, regardless of the relevance. This is what the AC was stating.
See, the thing is that it doesn't have to be gimicky. There have been a lot of bad with motion capture control, but there have been a few gems. I remember there being an arcade shooter a few years back, where instead of pressing a pedal to duck, you literally had to duck to the side. It was incredibly immersive. Personally, I'd love to see a natal "Punchout" game, where you actually had to punch and dodge. I think the issue is that game developers have had a few decades of hand-only input. Give them a few years with this new technology, and we're bound to see something that will blow our minds.
my roommate had two rabbits (which became 6...) that she refused to name for that very reason.
I always remembered these things having a strong following among both hackers, and the children of the rich. There's a market there, now if only the chinese company can lower the cost so it doesn't seem like you're buying an actual pet without any of the benifits of having a live animal.
While normally I'd agree with you, Valve games tend to keep the quality high with their releases. And with Steam, they don't have to make games for income anymore, so anything they do create is created out of love of the craft. This is probably why they constantly miss their deadlines. They have enough money that missing a deadline is preferable to releasing a crappy product.
I wish I had mod points to give to you here.
I understand this, and in a 200 person lecture hall, you do lose out. I had many classes like this at my school, and my school (georgia tech) was constantly on the princeton review's worst teacher list. Even in these cases, however, you still had a TA who could sit and work with you in smaller settings. In theory, you could have an online TA, but this creates another problem - How are the attractive bimbos going to get through the classes if they can't physically sleep with their TA?
You ignore the benifit gained by being on campus with the professors and the students. With online classes, you do cut down on costs, but at the cost of human interaction. Your lessons become canned scripts, instead of lessons (hopefully) tailored to each class. You also lose the student culture, which is a huge part of college education. I cannot tell you how much I learned working with students in other fields, and the only reason we interacted is because we were in the same building together. Not only that, but it tempered my social skills, so that when I reached the working world, I understood how to interact with others.
Outdated indeed. The new tactics of war are about guerrilla battles, and small nimble forces that can wear down the enemy overtime. Using a nuke on them is like trying to swat a fly with a grenade.
I'm not sure about most places, but the one camera that nailed me managed to take two high res photos of my car. One before I crossed into the intersection with the red light, and one after I was in the intersection with the red light. I would imagine this is standard practice.
Might i suggest capitalism here? Most places allow you to pay for alternative forms of energy. If your typical coal plant is uping it's rates, at some point, alternative energy sources will become cost effective. If they raise their rates, they will end up screwing themselves in the end.
Heck, almost nothing except for humans even uses FIRE for energy, and that one's dead obvious.
Not trying to disprove you here, but I would argue that humans haven't even mastered everything that can be done with heat. You don't see humans raising islands out of the depths of the ocean yet.
wouldn't that be sight?
sight, hearing, touch, feel, taste, comparison shop? This isn't a sixth sense, no matter how you spin it. at least i hope that the heightened consumer knowledge would not be considered a valid way of perceiving the world.
This is supposed to be a news site. Is there any purpose to this article other than blatant Microsoft bashing?
"lack of sleep will case hallucinations.
And exactly what do they mean by "hallucinations?"
I've had a lot of experiance with sleep deprevation thanks to school and poor job choices. From what I've seen, hallucinations caused by lack of sleep are what happens when your body slips into a dream state without properly shutting down. IE i'll be sitting in a chair, working, when i start to dream. I'm not asleep, at least not in the same way that I am when I really pass out. I'm simply halfway between sleeping and awake. I see the same room in front of me, but people may appear, i may hear noises, anything that would happen in a dream. if it's too crazy, i snap back into being alert and fully awake.
agreed. but again, it was a once a year thing, which kept the joke from getting old.
it's not the fact that we can avoid it, it just cheapens slashdot. Slashdot stopped the april fools jokes to appear to be a legitimate news organization, so why do we now have to suffer through Idle? At least april fools was once a year.
come on, surely we could upload 4chan instead..
As 4chan will be the death of english, at least they'll know why they can't understand the old texts.
I understand that graffiti is often little more than vandalism today, but don't dismiss it completely. Graffiti is a tool for communication, and when other forms of communication are being censored or cut, it becomes very powerful. Graffiti is noticible, and can transmit a message to thousands of viewers, for very little cost. Take a look at the works of Banksy on the palestinian walls. This might sway you.
Can we start tagging this one as PleaseStop as well?