That's all fine and dandy except that once you get out of the major US cities with public transportation, how is a 16 year old, or for that matter a legally adult 18 year old, supposed to get around? How are they supposed to get their first job? Etc., etc. ad infinitum. The point is, you have to choose an age, and it seems to me that 2 years before your legal adulthood isn't too bad of an idea. That gives you 2 years to drive and learn how to drive before you move out on your own and have to really start fending for yourself (theoretically).
Not to mention it gives you 2 years to do something stupid in the car without the full force of the law bearing down on you.
Kind of like what Tapwave tried to do with their Zodiac product. (Note, Tapwave's site isn't coming up for some reason, so here's a review of the Zodiac.)
I'm not sure if I'm just extremely ignorant about how VPC works or if this guys is trolling here...
Why should this be if the processor in Windows and OSX is the same? Because you're still running on a virtual PC. You basically have an extra layer of software which translates the signals and requests from your virtual OS to the OS that's actually interfacing with the hardware. There's always going to be slowdown when you have an extra translation step involved - that's a simple fact that you can't get around.
If these new Intel Macs sell well, the game developers should be able to make games run on the Mac fairly easily. Maybe you should define "fairly easily." I haven't programmed in a while but... well, you're wrong. Again, hardware has nothing to do with this as the programmers will be writing their games to place calls to APIs specific to each OS. I believe the days where the games actually directly interfaced with the hardware have been gone pretty much since the DOS days.
For other Windows software, such as special vertical apps, virtual PC works reasonably well, even now on a PPC based Mac. It should be much better on the new Macs since there is no emulation. Am I just completely missunderstanding how VPC works here? From what I always thought, all VPC does is translate the api calls of whatever OS your running in it to the api calls of your native OS. It's still emulating, no matter what the underlying hardware structure is.
In short, if you're using VPC, your apps that you're running on your virtual OS are still going to be slower. Even if you are running another version of OSX on VPC, that second version of OSX is still going to perform slower than normal simply becuase VPC will still be intercepting any and all data flow to and from the virtual machine.
Yeah, I apparently was also one who got confused between the headline and the actual wording in the article. I blame the writer of the article for apparently not knowing that there is a clear distinction between ban and boycott. I also blame myself for just quickly scanning the article since I was at work.
The Get Rich Or Die Tryin jab was my subtle attempt at trying to add some humor. Either way, my point still stands that the MA rated game should be treated no differently in the stores than an R rated movie. I realize that some parents will still buy it for their kids, but I blame the parents for their lack of parenting than I would blame the makers of the game or anybody else. I'm a firm believer in the games rating system. It's just too bad that more parents don't pay attention to it.
Really, 2 things need to happen in the gaming industry. 1) We, the mature adult gamers out there need to let more parents know that we do exist and that games like GTA are made for us. 2) It's abundantly clear that many parents still do not know about or pay attention to the games rating system. The more attentive parents are aware of it, sure. But what the industry could really use is a massive PR campaign regarding the ratings system with commercials taken our during popular adult programs such as one of the multitude of CSI's, and with ads placed in popular adult magazines, such as (no I'm not immediately thinking of Playboy!) Time and those leagues of women's magazines that litter the grocery store checkout lanes. And they need to be good adverts -- ads that will actually draw the consumers' attention to them. So far, all I've ever seen done to explain a games rating might be a short explanation at the end of an ad for GTA or something.
I don't know. Maybe I may have missed some ads like these, but I'm also not the typical American consumer (I.E. I despise CSI and Law & Order). I'm not the kind of person to whom these advertisements should be targetted.
The difference is that games like this aren't intended for kids. They are intended for young adults like myself who grew up on video games and who still play them semi-regularly. Why villify this game and not similar movies like Get Rich Or Die Tryin?
I really wish people would get over this misconception that video games are only for kids.
I also wish groups like this would get over theirself and stop trampelling all over people's free speech rights.
As did the old television show Time Trax. They even came up with their own slang term for white people: "Blanco." Personally, I don't see what was wrong with "Cracker."
Good novel, though. I'm still trying to figure out why it was billed as his most controversial, however. I would have thought Stranger In A Strange Land would hold that honor seeing as I've seenit labeled as the "Hippy Bible" in essays before.
I have mod points, but I felt that I might be better able to help here by depositing my own $.02.
I went through a lot of stress last year. Among other things, between being laid off, a girlfriend who was completely off her rocker (but who wouldn't accept any help), evacuating New Orleans, and eventually settling down in a strange new city where I know absolutely nobody, I could probably say that last year was probably the most stressful year I'd ever had. That said, I can't imagine not having those memories of the events and the memories of the ammount of stress I was under. Although I probably wouldn't elect to experience any of those events again, I'm not sorry that they occurred. You see, because of everything that happened, I was able to find out just what kind of person I really am.
Not to sound too mystical about it, but I was able to find a certain inner strength that has been lacking from my personality for a large part of my life. I'm sure somebody wiser than I has said it before, but through adversity will we find strength. As a certain starship captian once put it: my pain -- that is, my painful memories -- is what makes me who I am. People may not realize it, but those rough experiences will make us stronger than we ever were before.
I think the idea of a trauma pill is ridiculous. Anti-depressants? Sure, why not? Sometimes people do need some help coping with the stress in their life, but to just ignore it completely - to forget that it is even there? Well, that's just a bad idea.
According to a lot of my college friends, Ritalin and Adderall (spelling?) will do just that. Conversely, if they wanted to think more creatively they would usually do a couple of bong hits.
YMMV, Don't Try This At Home, etc., etc...
Personally, I've found that getting enough sleep generally has the same effects you're describing. Note, I said enough - there's a fine line between not enough and too much. You probably want to walk that line for best results.
I think you may be missing the point here. This is the kind of thing you send to your parents or perhaps your non-technical friends in lieu of a traditional postcard. You may have a digital camera of your own, but are you going to want to print them out for less technical friends and family? The item is supposed to be cheap so that it can be regarded as disposable. As long as the batteries last a reasonable ammount of time, I can see a use for this.
Maybe they can even take advantage of that Apple patent that combines the LCD screen and the camera into one unit so that you can still have the whole back of the postcard to write on.
(I'm looking for the link regarding the Apple patent, but I can't find it. Somebody posted it on/. yesterday...)
Actually, Outlook 2003 does a remarkably effective job at filtering out SPAM. Add to that that the fact that many of my pop servers have spam filtering built in now and I get remarkably little spam. Maybe 5 - 10 a day.
As for the PST size, the new Outlook 2003 PSTs allow for sizes greater than 2GB. I converted to that format one day when I was really bored and didn't feel like using my computer for about an hour. The only other benefit that Outlook offers over other mail clients is the ability to check your older Hotmail account (if you still use it).
Not at all. The point is that locking your tires up is a laughably inefficient means of stopping compared to applying braking pressure at the threshold of adhesion of the tires. (From all of my readings, the only situation where locking your tires might (big might) be more efficient is on sand where skidding will form a wedge in front of the tires.)
I've been trying this every night since college, and I can attest that it doesn't work. But that's not going not going to keep me from trying again tonight!
In Arkansas, starting at age 14 you are allowed to take the written test. I really don't remember the difficulty of the exam, but I have a natural knack for cramming and taking tests so I wouldn't be the best judge. I would estimate about 33% of my classmates failed this test.
When you pass the written test, you receive your learner's permit which only allows you behind the wheel with a licensed adult over the age of 21 (or was it 25?) in the passenger seat. No method of logging time behind the wheel is used.
6 months after the issue date of your learner's permit, you are allowed to take the driving portion. This varies from place to place within the state, but not by too much. Mine consisted of, backing out of my parking space, driving around the block and pulling back into the space forwards (no reverse parking, no parallel parking, etc.). If you performed satisfactorily (how could you not?), you were granted your license, albeit with a restriction that you had to drive with a licensed adult until your 16th birthday.
In the more rural areas, such as where I lived, a good portion of kids were awarded hardship licenses which basically negated the licensed adult restriction as long as the driving was to and from school and to and from work. Theoretically, a kid can legally drive alone at 14 years and 6 months in Arkansas. I had my licnese at 14 years and 8 months, but my parents wouldn't allow me to apply for the hardship license. (Good for them!) Of course, I was operating tractors on the public roads by about the time I turned 11 or 12. There are no licenses requried for that.
As an addendum, on my 16th birthday, on my very first time driving alone, I hit a patch of black ice and spun my car. I didn't hit anything, but I was scared shitless. There's nothing like that little lesson to teach a young kid to be careful when they drive.
Also, I'm highly doubtful that locking the brakes on dry pavement will stop you faster than anti-locking brakes. From my own personal experience it takes longer to stop and you have less control so it appears to me that this is just FUD.
That is correct. The coefficient of friction between your brake pads and brake rotors is generally higher than the coefficient of friction between your tires and the road surface. If that's not the case, then you're screwed.
Christ, and here I was about to make a smart-alec comment about actually knowing how to castrate a bull (I learned some things growing up in Arkansas), but I think you just took all the fun out of it for me.:-P
OT, but my biggest complaint about the Atlanta area SCCA club is that the event registration is online only and is only open between certain dates. I always seem to forget to register and it's less convenient than the local regions in New Orleans and Baton Rouge which would let you show up and reigster and race on the spot. A minor inconvenience, I know, but a frustration I experienced on a couple of occasions.
You know, I think one commedian came up with the best idea I've heard yet. I think it may have been Louis Black. Whomeever it was, they proposed that we stick a big metal spike on the center of the steering wheel. Then maybe people will be a little more careful about their driving.
That said, I put a lot of blame on the metrics we use to decide who can and cannot receive a license. My driving test consisted soles of me backing out of the parking space, driving around the block, and parking back in the parking space. What a joke.
Blame it on the lack of wisdom as a youth. I got started in the PC world, and back in around 1997/98 Outlook seemed to be the better Windows (family computer, so no Linux) client and I've used it ever since. For that matter, it's not that Outlook is a terrible mail client. In fact, I've become even more fond of it since the release of Outlook 2003. Still, I would rather extricate myself from the Microsoft monopoly as much as possible on my personal computer. I know I'll never fully be able to do it (I support Windows PCs for a living, so I feel I should use one at home in order to maintain my familiarity with the OS), but it would be nice to at least get away from anything of Microsoft's that is "web enabled." Or whatever term the marketing department uses these days.
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Does this one come close? http://www.patentlysilly.com/patent.php?patID=6785 577
That's all fine and dandy except that once you get out of the major US cities with public transportation, how is a 16 year old, or for that matter a legally adult 18 year old, supposed to get around? How are they supposed to get their first job? Etc., etc. ad infinitum. The point is, you have to choose an age, and it seems to me that 2 years before your legal adulthood isn't too bad of an idea. That gives you 2 years to drive and learn how to drive before you move out on your own and have to really start fending for yourself (theoretically).
Not to mention it gives you 2 years to do something stupid in the car without the full force of the law bearing down on you.
Kind of like what Tapwave tried to do with their Zodiac product. (Note, Tapwave's site isn't coming up for some reason, so here's a review of the Zodiac.)
Or a slightly modified Oqo.
Looks like Ivan256 didn't exactly get snowed in the original article: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174126&c id=14483668
Boy deserves a cookie for his insight...
I'm not sure if I'm just extremely ignorant about how VPC works or if this guys is trolling here...
Why should this be if the processor in Windows and OSX is the same?
Because you're still running on a virtual PC. You basically have an extra layer of software which translates the signals and requests from your virtual OS to the OS that's actually interfacing with the hardware. There's always going to be slowdown when you have an extra translation step involved - that's a simple fact that you can't get around.
If these new Intel Macs sell well, the game developers should be able to make games run on the Mac fairly easily.
Maybe you should define "fairly easily." I haven't programmed in a while but... well, you're wrong. Again, hardware has nothing to do with this as the programmers will be writing their games to place calls to APIs specific to each OS. I believe the days where the games actually directly interfaced with the hardware have been gone pretty much since the DOS days.
For other Windows software, such as special vertical apps, virtual PC works reasonably well, even now on a PPC based Mac. It should be much better on the new Macs since there is no emulation.
Am I just completely missunderstanding how VPC works here? From what I always thought, all VPC does is translate the api calls of whatever OS your running in it to the api calls of your native OS. It's still emulating, no matter what the underlying hardware structure is.
In short, if you're using VPC, your apps that you're running on your virtual OS are still going to be slower. Even if you are running another version of OSX on VPC, that second version of OSX is still going to perform slower than normal simply becuase VPC will still be intercepting any and all data flow to and from the virtual machine.
Yeah, I apparently was also one who got confused between the headline and the actual wording in the article. I blame the writer of the article for apparently not knowing that there is a clear distinction between ban and boycott. I also blame myself for just quickly scanning the article since I was at work.
The Get Rich Or Die Tryin jab was my subtle attempt at trying to add some humor. Either way, my point still stands that the MA rated game should be treated no differently in the stores than an R rated movie. I realize that some parents will still buy it for their kids, but I blame the parents for their lack of parenting than I would blame the makers of the game or anybody else. I'm a firm believer in the games rating system. It's just too bad that more parents don't pay attention to it.
Really, 2 things need to happen in the gaming industry. 1) We, the mature adult gamers out there need to let more parents know that we do exist and that games like GTA are made for us. 2) It's abundantly clear that many parents still do not know about or pay attention to the games rating system. The more attentive parents are aware of it, sure. But what the industry could really use is a massive PR campaign regarding the ratings system with commercials taken our during popular adult programs such as one of the multitude of CSI's, and with ads placed in popular adult magazines, such as (no I'm not immediately thinking of Playboy!) Time and those leagues of women's magazines that litter the grocery store checkout lanes. And they need to be good adverts -- ads that will actually draw the consumers' attention to them. So far, all I've ever seen done to explain a games rating might be a short explanation at the end of an ad for GTA or something.
I don't know. Maybe I may have missed some ads like these, but I'm also not the typical American consumer (I.E. I despise CSI and Law & Order). I'm not the kind of person to whom these advertisements should be targetted.
The difference is that games like this aren't intended for kids. They are intended for young adults like myself who grew up on video games and who still play them semi-regularly. Why villify this game and not similar movies like Get Rich Or Die Tryin?
I really wish people would get over this misconception that video games are only for kids.
I also wish groups like this would get over theirself and stop trampelling all over people's free speech rights.
As did the old television show Time Trax. They even came up with their own slang term for white people: "Blanco." Personally, I don't see what was wrong with "Cracker."
Good novel, though. I'm still trying to figure out why it was billed as his most controversial, however. I would have thought Stranger In A Strange Land would hold that honor seeing as I've seenit labeled as the "Hippy Bible" in essays before.
I have mod points, but I felt that I might be better able to help here by depositing my own $.02.
I went through a lot of stress last year. Among other things, between being laid off, a girlfriend who was completely off her rocker (but who wouldn't accept any help), evacuating New Orleans, and eventually settling down in a strange new city where I know absolutely nobody, I could probably say that last year was probably the most stressful year I'd ever had. That said, I can't imagine not having those memories of the events and the memories of the ammount of stress I was under. Although I probably wouldn't elect to experience any of those events again, I'm not sorry that they occurred. You see, because of everything that happened, I was able to find out just what kind of person I really am.
Not to sound too mystical about it, but I was able to find a certain inner strength that has been lacking from my personality for a large part of my life. I'm sure somebody wiser than I has said it before, but through adversity will we find strength. As a certain starship captian once put it: my pain -- that is, my painful memories -- is what makes me who I am. People may not realize it, but those rough experiences will make us stronger than we ever were before.
I think the idea of a trauma pill is ridiculous. Anti-depressants? Sure, why not? Sometimes people do need some help coping with the stress in their life, but to just ignore it completely - to forget that it is even there? Well, that's just a bad idea.
According to a lot of my college friends, Ritalin and Adderall (spelling?) will do just that. Conversely, if they wanted to think more creatively they would usually do a couple of bong hits.
YMMV, Don't Try This At Home, etc., etc...
Personally, I've found that getting enough sleep generally has the same effects you're describing. Note, I said enough - there's a fine line between not enough and too much. You probably want to walk that line for best results.
Here's the link to the patent: http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/38/apple-integrated-sen sing-display
Sounds like an interesting technology that I would one day like to see developed.
I think you may be missing the point here. This is the kind of thing you send to your parents or perhaps your non-technical friends in lieu of a traditional postcard. You may have a digital camera of your own, but are you going to want to print them out for less technical friends and family? The item is supposed to be cheap so that it can be regarded as disposable. As long as the batteries last a reasonable ammount of time, I can see a use for this.
/. yesterday...)
Maybe they can even take advantage of that Apple patent that combines the LCD screen and the camera into one unit so that you can still have the whole back of the postcard to write on.
(I'm looking for the link regarding the Apple patent, but I can't find it. Somebody posted it on
Stick is the CLI of driving.
Best quote I've read all day.
Actually, Outlook 2003 does a remarkably effective job at filtering out SPAM. Add to that that the fact that many of my pop servers have spam filtering built in now and I get remarkably little spam. Maybe 5 - 10 a day.
As for the PST size, the new Outlook 2003 PSTs allow for sizes greater than 2GB. I converted to that format one day when I was really bored and didn't feel like using my computer for about an hour. The only other benefit that Outlook offers over other mail clients is the ability to check your older Hotmail account (if you still use it).
Not at all. The point is that locking your tires up is a laughably inefficient means of stopping compared to applying braking pressure at the threshold of adhesion of the tires. (From all of my readings, the only situation where locking your tires might (big might) be more efficient is on sand where skidding will form a wedge in front of the tires.)
I've been trying this every night since college, and I can attest that it doesn't work. But that's not going not going to keep me from trying again tonight!
In Arkansas, starting at age 14 you are allowed to take the written test. I really don't remember the difficulty of the exam, but I have a natural knack for cramming and taking tests so I wouldn't be the best judge. I would estimate about 33% of my classmates failed this test.
When you pass the written test, you receive your learner's permit which only allows you behind the wheel with a licensed adult over the age of 21 (or was it 25?) in the passenger seat. No method of logging time behind the wheel is used.
6 months after the issue date of your learner's permit, you are allowed to take the driving portion. This varies from place to place within the state, but not by too much. Mine consisted of, backing out of my parking space, driving around the block and pulling back into the space forwards (no reverse parking, no parallel parking, etc.). If you performed satisfactorily (how could you not?), you were granted your license, albeit with a restriction that you had to drive with a licensed adult until your 16th birthday.
In the more rural areas, such as where I lived, a good portion of kids were awarded hardship licenses which basically negated the licensed adult restriction as long as the driving was to and from school and to and from work. Theoretically, a kid can legally drive alone at 14 years and 6 months in Arkansas. I had my licnese at 14 years and 8 months, but my parents wouldn't allow me to apply for the hardship license. (Good for them!) Of course, I was operating tractors on the public roads by about the time I turned 11 or 12. There are no licenses requried for that.
As an addendum, on my 16th birthday, on my very first time driving alone, I hit a patch of black ice and spun my car. I didn't hit anything, but I was scared shitless. There's nothing like that little lesson to teach a young kid to be careful when they drive.
Also, I'm highly doubtful that locking the brakes on dry pavement will stop you faster than anti-locking brakes. From my own personal experience it takes longer to stop and you have less control so it appears to me that this is just FUD.
That is correct. The coefficient of friction between your brake pads and brake rotors is generally higher than the coefficient of friction between your tires and the road surface. If that's not the case, then you're screwed.
Arkansas has had a law like this for years, and from what I can tell it has had little effect. Nobody enforces it. Pricks.
Christ, and here I was about to make a smart-alec comment about actually knowing how to castrate a bull (I learned some things growing up in Arkansas), but I think you just took all the fun out of it for me. :-P
I am impressed with your knowledge, however.
OT, but my biggest complaint about the Atlanta area SCCA club is that the event registration is online only and is only open between certain dates. I always seem to forget to register and it's less convenient than the local regions in New Orleans and Baton Rouge which would let you show up and reigster and race on the spot. A minor inconvenience, I know, but a frustration I experienced on a couple of occasions.
The new ones do. I think they may have even come on the last couple of model years of the last generation of Vipers.
You know, I think one commedian came up with the best idea I've heard yet. I think it may have been Louis Black. Whomeever it was, they proposed that we stick a big metal spike on the center of the steering wheel. Then maybe people will be a little more careful about their driving.
That said, I put a lot of blame on the metrics we use to decide who can and cannot receive a license. My driving test consisted soles of me backing out of the parking space, driving around the block, and parking back in the parking space. What a joke.
Blame it on the lack of wisdom as a youth. I got started in the PC world, and back in around 1997/98 Outlook seemed to be the better Windows (family computer, so no Linux) client and I've used it ever since. For that matter, it's not that Outlook is a terrible mail client. In fact, I've become even more fond of it since the release of Outlook 2003. Still, I would rather extricate myself from the Microsoft monopoly as much as possible on my personal computer. I know I'll never fully be able to do it (I support Windows PCs for a living, so I feel I should use one at home in order to maintain my familiarity with the OS), but it would be nice to at least get away from anything of Microsoft's that is
"web enabled." Or whatever term the marketing department uses these days.