Actually, you're NOT Nintendo's target market. You're Sony/Microsoft's target market. Nintendo's market is for the late teens to early 30's that plays video games for fun, not to engage in the violence that they can't perform in the real world.
And when the hell did the console market become a war? A PS2 in a home doesn't preclude a GameCube in the same space. I've had a PS2 for a couple of years now, and I love the thing, but I want a GameCube because Nintendo offers games that the PS2 and XBox don't. While they focus on thud-and-blunder/race/shoot/crush/bitchslap games, Nintendo focuses on making games what they should be -- fun diversions that make you think a little bit, and put a smile on your face.
Case in point -- my girlfriend digs video games. Watch her play Final Fantasy X or something similar on the PS2, and you'll seldom see her smiling...she's more focused on making sure her characters are levelling up, finding shit, etc. With a game on a Nintendo system, you see a lot more grinning, hear more smack-talking, and generally get the impression that the experience is more rewarding than gaming on the PS2.
Don't get me wrong, though -- we're not throwing out the PS2. I still need my Madden fix, which is great fun, SOCOM's good after a long day at the office, and I bought Robotech: Battlecry for the PS2 b/c I didn't want to wait for the GameCube version (though I would have had to buy a new one). But, yeah, a GameCube will definitely be taking up a space on our entertainment center in the near future.
...US Navy submarines and will be used for real-time image processing...
Did this stand out to anyone else? Image processing on a sub? I wasn't aware that they could see underwater. But I'll bet that's what's being worked-on here... Hmmm.
...do we get to have floating cities and flying cars and a 2-day workweek pushing a single button like on the Jetsons? If it ain't anytime soon, I'm going to get myself frozen until said date arrives.
1. Add a heat sheild. 2. Add pressure suit. 3. Increase altitude to 62 miles. 4. Find X-Prize team loony enough to let someone jump out the door. ... 6. Profit.
(Seriously, as an occasional skydiver/former paratrooper, this sounds like a f--king blast.)
I said most, not all. And after using IRC extensively in the mid-90's, I'm convinced that a minimal-law system of government will never fucking work.:-)
...It doesn't lend itself to big databases, cross-correlation, et cetera, and all the big evil things which are made possible with global tracking...
Sure it does...if you missed it, some of the coverage mentioned that multiple base stations can be linked together to provide a "neighborhood watch" function, which is pretty cool. From the sound of it, there's not much to stop you from linking up base stations on a nationwide network...the trick there, of course, is knowing which items you're looking for. Something like this would be great for tracking stolen bicycles, for example. A WozNet tag in the down tube makes it impossible to fuck with, short of cutting apart the frame, thereby ruining it.
You could do some other really cool shit, like keeping track of where bike racers are on a course at any given moment -- which would make more sense to Joe Average than telling him that Lance Armstrong (Vive Le Lance!) has a 35 second lead over Jan Ullrich.
Everyone gets all worried about Big Brother, of course, but Jesus Christ, do you think that the U.S. Government really gives a fuck about where your Trek Madone 5.9 or your limited edition X-Men #500 with the supermegaholographic RealPlatinum(TM) has run off to? Of course not.
If you want your Libertarian minimal-government-involvment society (as many Slashdot posters/readers seem to), you need to have a system in place to police yourself and your belongings. WozNet is one of those.
Hell, a keg can be it's own propulsion system. Shake thoroughly, straddle keg, point tap, expel fluid. (See also: Allen Steele short story "Free Beer And The William Casey Society" and the Simpsons episode where Homer gets to be an astronaut and the Bloom County strips where Steve Dallas got to go into space -- "in space, it's never Miller Time.")
...will we be handing out EULAs to anyone that wants to have diplomatic ties with us?
"...By installing this embassy, you absolve the United States Government of any responsibility for lost revenue, citizens, or infrastructure. Furthermore, you agree that you will not attempt to negatively influence the revenue, citizens, or infrastructure of the United States..."
This may have been modded as Funny, and probably repeatedly so, but it's also very insightful. Certain things become more functional in an "overcrowded" situation -- things like structured high-bandwidth communications systems.
It's also fun to watch people being herded into the subways in Tokyo at rush hour. Provided you're not claustrophobic, that is.
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1.) Nothing unhealthy about the upright position on a double-diamond frame as compared to a recumbent, if the upright bike is properly fitted to the rider.
2.) Which is why recumbents climb slower than hell and I've never had a recumbent rider out-sprint me, right?
3.) Just like a recumbent, when your chest is practically face-on to the wind, right? That's not very aerodynamic, either.
4.) They're perfectly comfortable, again, if you get a bike that fits you properly. I've ridden 24-hour races, both on the road and on the mountain bike, and been *fine* the next day...legs a little sore from exertion, but my back/shoulders/neck were perfectly fine.
5.) Silly-looking? You mean like riding a Barcalounger with wheels?
I'd give up cycling before I rode a recumbent. You might as well be riding a sofa. Furthermore, all the technologies you use on your recumbent were pioneered on road bikes, mountain bikes, or lawn furniture first.
That's exactly what I'm referring to, actually. In the bike community we refer to it as "scandium"...same as when we say "titanium"...what we're referring to is alloys of titanium.
Well, given that I've been racing bicycles for 15 years now, I think that the biggest advances have to be lightweight suspensions and disc brakes on mountain bikes, integrated shift/brake levers on road bikes, and scandium as a frame material.
Scandium's a pretty new development -- gives you the weight of aluminum with the durability and "liveliness" of steel...
Carbon fiber -- I've never liked, not even Trek's OCLV -- too much of a "dead" feel to the ride...
For my road bike, I too, am on aluminum, but I'm going back to steel this fall -- because, in the end, steel is real. I can get a bike similarly equipped to my aluminum one, at a similar weight (steel's got some great new alloys), with the feel and responsiveness I've always loved...
I could write forever on this subject, so I'll just shut up now.:-)
M2P2 is a much more viable alternative -- no massive sheets to drag around, low power consumption, and a clever way of doing things. More on it here and here and here and here and here.
...this is an opinion article ("in our opinion") and reeks strongly of a slant in favor of mass-tort attorneys.
Article Translation: "We need all the weapons we can get to launch mass-tort lawsuits, and it's not fair that a judge might have to judge something other than the guilt or innocence of the defendent. Not that they're innocent...we wouldn't sue them otherwise, would we?"
I may sound bitter, but I work for a large legal company (not a firm) and have to deal with the mass-tort vampires all day.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see companies that knowingly fuck over the consumer get their comeuppance, but at the same time, throwing out this ruling would open the floodgates for millions of lawsuits over the smallest infractions that a lawyer could find a scientist to support.
But are things like iTunes store the future, or is it streaming?
There's this really weird mindset that seems to take hold in techie circles that there's only one given solution to an issue...that aside, why is only one of these going to be the future? Christ, AM/FM survived alongside records, cassettes, and CDs...why's the Internet going to be any different?
Furthermore, produce evidence that you can prove is unmodified in any way. Digital signatures aren't legal in a lot of places, why should digital logs be any different?
Furthermore, what are you doing? Querying IP numbers and seeing who's offering what? If that's the case, your argument will hold damned little water -- IANAL, but I don't believe you can sue someone in civil court for intent, and if you downloaded it from the defendent, there was no theft involved, because you already own the music, right? Right.
Good lord, I'm glad you clarified who Tim Brown was, otherwise I would have thought he was an aging wide reciever for the Oakland Raiders.
Double plus good that that name wasn't attached to an article about black holes, then.
Disclaimer: If you don't watch football, you won't find this funny and shouldn't waste your mod points. You might not even find it funny if you do watch football because, well, I'm half-awake right now and can't be a good judge of what's funny.
I'd prefer it if business model patents were of shorter duration. NetFlix is great, but with Walmart trying to muscle in on the action, I'm sure that NetFlix was starting to sweat a bit. This gives NetFlix the time it deserves to profit from its efforts.
Honestly, a start-up like NetFlix deserves to have its business model protected for ~5 years, so that it can get on its feet, establish its brand recognition and not get crushed under the MicrosoftOfRetail, WalMart.
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Actually, you're NOT Nintendo's target market. You're Sony/Microsoft's target market. Nintendo's market is for the late teens to early 30's that plays video games for fun, not to engage in the violence that they can't perform in the real world.
And when the hell did the console market become a war? A PS2 in a home doesn't preclude a GameCube in the same space. I've had a PS2 for a couple of years now, and I love the thing, but I want a GameCube because Nintendo offers games that the PS2 and XBox don't. While they focus on thud-and-blunder/race/shoot/crush/bitchslap games, Nintendo focuses on making games what they should be -- fun diversions that make you think a little bit, and put a smile on your face.
Case in point -- my girlfriend digs video games. Watch her play Final Fantasy X or something similar on the PS2, and you'll seldom see her smiling...she's more focused on making sure her characters are levelling up, finding shit, etc. With a game on a Nintendo system, you see a lot more grinning, hear more smack-talking, and generally get the impression that the experience is more rewarding than gaming on the PS2.
Don't get me wrong, though -- we're not throwing out the PS2. I still need my Madden fix, which is great fun, SOCOM's good after a long day at the office, and I bought Robotech: Battlecry for the PS2 b/c I didn't want to wait for the GameCube version (though I would have had to buy a new one). But, yeah, a GameCube will definitely be taking up a space on our entertainment center in the near future.
XBox? Why bother?
Ah, thanks. Being former Army, the concept of the periscope never even occured to me.
...US Navy submarines and will be used for real-time image processing...
Did this stand out to anyone else? Image processing on a sub? I wasn't aware that they could see underwater. But I'll bet that's what's being worked-on here... Hmmm.
Dear SCO,
Please lick my sweaty asshole.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Dan
...do we get to have floating cities and flying cars and a 2-day workweek pushing a single button like on the Jetsons? If it ain't anytime soon, I'm going to get myself frozen until said date arrives.
If I'm not mistaken, the WoZ general specifics said it would transmit at 20kbits/sec...now I'm wondering if this is the tech. Anyone know?
1. Add a heat sheild.
2. Add pressure suit.
3. Increase altitude to 62 miles.
4. Find X-Prize team loony enough to let someone jump out the door.
...
6. Profit.
(Seriously, as an occasional skydiver/former paratrooper, this sounds like a f--king blast.)
I said most, not all. And after using IRC extensively in the mid-90's, I'm convinced that a minimal-law system of government will never fucking work. :-)
...It doesn't lend itself to big databases, cross-correlation, et cetera, and all the big evil things which are made possible with global tracking...
Sure it does...if you missed it, some of the coverage mentioned that multiple base stations can be linked together to provide a "neighborhood watch" function, which is pretty cool. From the sound of it, there's not much to stop you from linking up base stations on a nationwide network...the trick there, of course, is knowing which items you're looking for. Something like this would be great for tracking stolen bicycles, for example. A WozNet tag in the down tube makes it impossible to fuck with, short of cutting apart the frame, thereby ruining it.
You could do some other really cool shit, like keeping track of where bike racers are on a course at any given moment -- which would make more sense to Joe Average than telling him that Lance Armstrong (Vive Le Lance!) has a 35 second lead over Jan Ullrich.
Everyone gets all worried about Big Brother, of course, but Jesus Christ, do you think that the U.S. Government really gives a fuck about where your Trek Madone 5.9 or your limited edition X-Men #500 with the supermegaholographic RealPlatinum(TM) has run off to? Of course not.
If you want your Libertarian minimal-government-involvment society (as many Slashdot posters/readers seem to), you need to have a system in place to police yourself and your belongings. WozNet is one of those.
Hell, a keg can be it's own propulsion system. Shake thoroughly, straddle keg, point tap, expel fluid. (See also: Allen Steele short story "Free Beer And The William Casey Society" and the Simpsons episode where Homer gets to be an astronaut and the Bloom County strips where Steve Dallas got to go into space -- "in space, it's never Miller Time.")
Hey, THOSE THINGS ARE REAL.
...will we be handing out EULAs to anyone that wants to have diplomatic ties with us?
"...By installing this embassy, you absolve the United States Government of any responsibility for lost revenue, citizens, or infrastructure. Furthermore, you agree that you will not attempt to negatively influence the revenue, citizens, or infrastructure of the United States..."
This may have been modded as Funny, and probably repeatedly so, but it's also very insightful. Certain things become more functional in an "overcrowded" situation -- things like structured high-bandwidth communications systems.
It's also fun to watch people being herded into the subways in Tokyo at rush hour. Provided you're not claustrophobic, that is.
1.) Nothing unhealthy about the upright position on a double-diamond frame as compared to a recumbent, if the upright bike is properly fitted to the rider.
2.) Which is why recumbents climb slower than hell and I've never had a recumbent rider out-sprint me, right?
3.) Just like a recumbent, when your chest is practically face-on to the wind, right? That's not very aerodynamic, either.
4.) They're perfectly comfortable, again, if you get a bike that fits you properly. I've ridden 24-hour races, both on the road and on the mountain bike, and been *fine* the next day...legs a little sore from exertion, but my back/shoulders/neck were perfectly fine.
5.) Silly-looking? You mean like riding a Barcalounger with wheels?
I'd give up cycling before I rode a recumbent. You might as well be riding a sofa. Furthermore, all the technologies you use on your recumbent were pioneered on road bikes, mountain bikes, or lawn furniture first.
That's exactly what I'm referring to, actually. In the bike community we refer to it as "scandium"...same as when we say "titanium"...what we're referring to is alloys of titanium.
Well, given that I've been racing bicycles for 15 years now, I think that the biggest advances have to be lightweight suspensions and disc brakes on mountain bikes, integrated shift/brake levers on road bikes, and scandium as a frame material.
:-)
Scandium's a pretty new development -- gives you the weight of aluminum with the durability and "liveliness" of steel...
Carbon fiber -- I've never liked, not even Trek's OCLV -- too much of a "dead" feel to the ride...
For my road bike, I too, am on aluminum, but I'm going back to steel this fall -- because, in the end, steel is real. I can get a bike similarly equipped to my aluminum one, at a similar weight (steel's got some great new alloys), with the feel and responsiveness I've always loved...
I could write forever on this subject, so I'll just shut up now.
Damn! Here I thought T3 was a movie about excessive bandwidth. Now I don't wanna see it.
Um, just so we're clear, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Please go back, do some research and get back to me with reliable numbers.
M2P2 is a much more viable alternative -- no massive sheets to drag around, low power consumption, and a clever way of doing things. More on it here and here and here and here and here.
...this is an opinion article ("in our opinion") and reeks strongly of a slant in favor of mass-tort attorneys.
Article Translation: "We need all the weapons we can get to launch mass-tort lawsuits, and it's not fair that a judge might have to judge something other than the guilt or innocence of the defendent. Not that they're innocent...we wouldn't sue them otherwise, would we?"
I may sound bitter, but I work for a large legal company (not a firm) and have to deal with the mass-tort vampires all day.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see companies that knowingly fuck over the consumer get their comeuppance, but at the same time, throwing out this ruling would open the floodgates for millions of lawsuits over the smallest infractions that a lawyer could find a scientist to support.
But are things like iTunes store the future, or is it streaming?
There's this really weird mindset that seems to take hold in techie circles that there's only one given solution to an issue...that aside, why is only one of these going to be the future? Christ, AM/FM survived alongside records, cassettes, and CDs...why's the Internet going to be any different?
Yeah, well, the White House leaned on the courts to overturn that one, too. Funny how being rich will help you out like that...
The Lottery: a $1 investment in the chance of a Get Out of Jail Free card.
Mmmmmm...patching iceberg holes with cellophane tape. Thanks, Microsoft.
To the RIAA I say: "Produce the evidence."
Furthermore, produce evidence that you can prove is unmodified in any way. Digital signatures aren't legal in a lot of places, why should digital logs be any different?
Furthermore, what are you doing? Querying IP numbers and seeing who's offering what? If that's the case, your argument will hold damned little water -- IANAL, but I don't believe you can sue someone in civil court for intent, and if you downloaded it from the defendent, there was no theft involved, because you already own the music, right? Right.
Move along, please.
Good lord, I'm glad you clarified who Tim Brown was, otherwise I would have thought he was an aging wide reciever for the Oakland Raiders.
Double plus good that that name wasn't attached to an article about black holes, then.
Disclaimer: If you don't watch football, you won't find this funny and shouldn't waste your mod points. You might not even find it funny if you do watch football because, well, I'm half-awake right now and can't be a good judge of what's funny.
I'd prefer it if business model patents were of shorter duration. NetFlix is great, but with Walmart trying to muscle in on the action, I'm sure that NetFlix was starting to sweat a bit. This gives NetFlix the time it deserves to profit from its efforts.
Honestly, a start-up like NetFlix deserves to have its business model protected for ~5 years, so that it can get on its feet, establish its brand recognition and not get crushed under the MicrosoftOfRetail, WalMart.