My kids have been playing Roblox for over three years now, they still play it excessively. Everyone here is still all giddy about Minecraft, and they play that too, but Roblox is more fun. It just doesn't have the geek 'buzz' that Minecraft has. But the possibilities in Roblox are so much greater than Minecraft. You could implement Minecraft in Roblox, but not the other way around...
Same experience here, my 9 and 12 year olds lost interest in Lego Universe in a short time. By contrast, ROBLOX has maintaned their interest for years, although Minecraft gets about equal time these days. Lego Universe was too tightly controlled, not free form enough. ROBLOX has improved considerably in the last year, and it lets them do anything from simple local building to playing online in user-created games to learning how to code in LUA to script their own block behaviors.
I don't think this is as evil as it sounds. Your voice is not exactly a secret, and someone having a voiceprint of your specific voice is like knowing the hash of your password. They would be able to identify you but not impersonate you. Nearly all of the information is thrown away, only a relatively small set of parameters needed to distinguish your speech from someone else's is stored. Saying that they'll be able to synthesize your voice using information stored in a voiceprint is fantasy.
Border Patrol already does this in the Southwest. If you drive through New Mexico, Arizona on I-10 or on to California on I-8, there's a good chance you will be subjected to a checkpoint. The vast majority of arrests at these checkpoints are people with a small amount of pot who never thought they would be searched with no probable cause driving on a US interstate. All it takes is one of their dogs alerting on your car.
No. They don't take coins, so it doesn't really matter what they charge. You have to pay with a card.
Incidentally, we've found they're great on multi-day road trips with the kids, you can pick up a movie at a RedBox when you stop for lunch, the kids can watch it, and you can return it the next day 800 miles from where you rented it.
I've yet to see any explanation of exactly what he was arrested for. I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to lose money in the stock market, even large amounts of it. What's the criminal activity here?
I thought that was hilarious, but as I was reading it, it seemed rather unlikely that someone could come up with that entire thing in time to be the first post. And of course, he didn't. Everything after the first paragraph is copied from someone named Dick Masterson, "the most chauvinistic man alive". http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/why-women-hate-sex/
For those of you who missed this in the 90's, there is some great stuff on Tsutomu's site. The voicemails are pretty funny, even if most of them are fake, and you can replay Mitnick's telnet sessions to Tsutomu's machines in real time.
http://takedown.com/evidence/index.html
This would require a mutation rate not unlike the Haggunennons of Azizatus Three. Their genetic structure, based on the quadruple-striated octo-helix, is so chronically unstable, that far from passing their basic shape onto their children, they will quite frequently evolve several times over lunch.
I think you're right, but this is confusing and not explained well at all in the article. I had assumed the article was mixing up "plug" and "port," because it doesn't make much sense for the jack/port to be large enough to accept an existing plug - if you're trying to make it thinner by cutting the plug in half, you're not going to keep using a 3.5mm cylinder for the jack. I can't find the patent application with the illustrations, but it sounds like they're covering a bunch of applications including a jack that has large and small ports, small-port only jacks, and magnets in the large port hole to keep a half-plug held captive?
I remember playing basically the same game on an Exidy Sorceror in the late 1970s. Launch the (rock|bird) over the wall to knock down a tower. There was no touch screen, so you had to manually type in your angle and velocity. But it's just an evolution of the same game. Sort of like Arkanoid was an evolution of Breakout. Both games held my interest for about 3 minutes.
Did you READ the article? It's not fear mongering, nor does it have anything to do with technology, or efficiency. At the historical growth rate, in 1400 years we will be consuming more energy than the Sun produces. There's no fear mongering there, there's no technology that will prevent it, it's a simple calculation. But, it does assume the rate of growth equal to the rate over the last 400 years.
Building a 4mm thick sphere of 100% efficient solar collectors at an earth's radius around the sun seems like a lofty goal within 1400 years. The only assumption is that the laws of thermodynamics don't change. That is the only assumption made that would make any difference.
"Jay Maisel is a hack."
No kidding. It's just a picture of Miles Davis playing a trumpet, the only thing special about it is that he got lucky and it got used for the cover of a very famous album. No one went out and bought Kind of Blue because of the awesome cover art.
Two things - First, they never showed the system being used with more than one large display controller. They show it being used in conjunction with normal wiimotes. It's unclear whether more than one is supported. Second, the controller is dumb, and simply streams the display that is generated by the console, so it doesn't need expensive processing power or storage.
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My kids have been playing Roblox for over three years now, they still play it excessively. Everyone here is still all giddy about Minecraft, and they play that too, but Roblox is more fun. It just doesn't have the geek 'buzz' that Minecraft has. But the possibilities in Roblox are so much greater than Minecraft. You could implement Minecraft in Roblox, but not the other way around...
Same experience here, my 9 and 12 year olds lost interest in Lego Universe in a short time. By contrast, ROBLOX has maintaned their interest for years, although Minecraft gets about equal time these days. Lego Universe was too tightly controlled, not free form enough. ROBLOX has improved considerably in the last year, and it lets them do anything from simple local building to playing online in user-created games to learning how to code in LUA to script their own block behaviors.
Well for one thing, it's going to be machined out of a solid block of aluminum.
That's German for "The Java! The!"
I don't think this is as evil as it sounds. Your voice is not exactly a secret, and someone having a voiceprint of your specific voice is like knowing the hash of your password. They would be able to identify you but not impersonate you. Nearly all of the information is thrown away, only a relatively small set of parameters needed to distinguish your speech from someone else's is stored. Saying that they'll be able to synthesize your voice using information stored in a voiceprint is fantasy.
Border Patrol already does this in the Southwest. If you drive through New Mexico, Arizona on I-10 or on to California on I-8, there's a good chance you will be subjected to a checkpoint. The vast majority of arrests at these checkpoints are people with a small amount of pot who never thought they would be searched with no probable cause driving on a US interstate. All it takes is one of their dogs alerting on your car.
No. They don't take coins, so it doesn't really matter what they charge. You have to pay with a card. Incidentally, we've found they're great on multi-day road trips with the kids, you can pick up a movie at a RedBox when you stop for lunch, the kids can watch it, and you can return it the next day 800 miles from where you rented it.
I don't get the bewareoftheleopard tag for this article. These people _want_ their house torn down, not the other way around!
Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "OS" that I hadn't previously been aware of.
I imagine they'll just do the same thing that mwave did, and branch out into watches, jewelry, and pet supplies...
I've yet to see any explanation of exactly what he was arrested for. I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to lose money in the stock market, even large amounts of it. What's the criminal activity here?
What's really pushing the envelope here is that this method works both on ships AND boats!
I thought that was hilarious, but as I was reading it, it seemed rather unlikely that someone could come up with that entire thing in time to be the first post. And of course, he didn't. Everything after the first paragraph is copied from someone named Dick Masterson, "the most chauvinistic man alive". http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/why-women-hate-sex/
For those of you who missed this in the 90's, there is some great stuff on Tsutomu's site. The voicemails are pretty funny, even if most of them are fake, and you can replay Mitnick's telnet sessions to Tsutomu's machines in real time. http://takedown.com/evidence/index.html
This would require a mutation rate not unlike the Haggunennons of Azizatus Three. Their genetic structure, based on the quadruple-striated octo-helix, is so chronically unstable, that far from passing their basic shape onto their children, they will quite frequently evolve several times over lunch.
I see it now, that's exactly right. Good work, your single sentence clearly described what two pages of patent claims couldn't.
I think you're right, but this is confusing and not explained well at all in the article. I had assumed the article was mixing up "plug" and "port," because it doesn't make much sense for the jack/port to be large enough to accept an existing plug - if you're trying to make it thinner by cutting the plug in half, you're not going to keep using a 3.5mm cylinder for the jack. I can't find the patent application with the illustrations, but it sounds like they're covering a bunch of applications including a jack that has large and small ports, small-port only jacks, and magnets in the large port hole to keep a half-plug held captive?
I remember playing basically the same game on an Exidy Sorceror in the late 1970s. Launch the (rock|bird) over the wall to knock down a tower. There was no touch screen, so you had to manually type in your angle and velocity. But it's just an evolution of the same game. Sort of like Arkanoid was an evolution of Breakout. Both games held my interest for about 3 minutes.
Did you READ the article? It's not fear mongering, nor does it have anything to do with technology, or efficiency. At the historical growth rate, in 1400 years we will be consuming more energy than the Sun produces. There's no fear mongering there, there's no technology that will prevent it, it's a simple calculation. But, it does assume the rate of growth equal to the rate over the last 400 years.
Building a 4mm thick sphere of 100% efficient solar collectors at an earth's radius around the sun seems like a lofty goal within 1400 years. The only assumption is that the laws of thermodynamics don't change. That is the only assumption made that would make any difference.
What we REALLY need are light bulbs that understand the binary language of moisture vaporators.
Porn has sound?!!
What about this "Apple Wheel" thingy? Sounds like a terribly interesting project to me!
"Jay Maisel is a hack." No kidding. It's just a picture of Miles Davis playing a trumpet, the only thing special about it is that he got lucky and it got used for the cover of a very famous album. No one went out and bought Kind of Blue because of the awesome cover art.
Two things - First, they never showed the system being used with more than one large display controller. They show it being used in conjunction with normal wiimotes. It's unclear whether more than one is supported. Second, the controller is dumb, and simply streams the display that is generated by the console, so it doesn't need expensive processing power or storage.