If this were as advanced as some of you guys are making it out to be, blindness, deafness, and paralysis would be a thing of the past.
We have achieved some great leaps in those fields. There was a woman who spent a lot of money to get an electric eye implanted in her. And she could identify shapes of objects placed within 4 feet of her. She described it as many tiny bumps appearing and disappearing rapidly, but otherwise couldn't describe it. And even those with lesser deafness can get hearing aids. And like that XKCD comic, Somewhere in a lab there are monkeys controlling robotic arms with just their brains. We've made simulations that you interact with using just your thoughts, by processing the brainwaves you emit.
While we don't understand the inner-workings of the brain, we understand its input-output enough to use it. It's like Object Oriented programming, and we just don't have the API.
Yeah, I'd say this guy doesn't know anything about the realities of the business. At what point did he think that EA or Activision wanted to make enough money for anyone but the top Execs?
On the Plus side - All of Valve's titles from Half Life 2 Onwards have used modified versions of the Source Engine. They have a high amount of Operability between them all - I can run Half Life 2 on the L4D Engine, I can run Episode 2 on the Episode 1 engine (though trying a newer game with an older engine has led to some small bugs, its never been game crashing except for Cases with Portals involved). They have even been curtious enough to make a version of the Original Half Life that runs in Source.
So, should Valve make their latest Source game operable in Linux, pretty much ALL of their previous titles will run in Linux. I think thats why they see this as a viable move. It's not so much of an issue of porting 1 game over at a time, its like porting 1 game over, then doing bug fixes across multiple games, and you've finished porting your entire game legacy.
We've all been afraid for some time that Valve was going to ditch the PC and focus on consoles, because just about every other PC Game developer has. IF Valve follows through with this (and its a big IF), this will reaffirm my faith in them that they acknowledge the PC as the best platform for first person shooters bar none.
I mean, from a business standpoint, yes, facebook is great for drumming up marketting, developing business, and maintaining relations with clients. However, just yesterday we ran across this little gem. A worm that targets facebook and other social networking sites specifically.
Surprise Surprise, one our sales ladies got infected. Now that we've cleaned it off we still have to assess the damage. She could have spread it to the rest of the sales team, her clients, the CEO (who is on her friends list)... But of course she isn't going to give US any information, that'd be invading her privacy.
I know, you guys are going to say "Tell her to warn others and let her deal with it then", which is what we did, but obviously if she doesn't adequately deal with it, the problem is going to circle back to us with other sales people.
The worse it gets, the more me and my colleagues wished we could see the raw data and draw our own conclusions.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of listening to reports. I'm tired of hearing scientists say this and scientists say that.
Give me some FACTS, and I'll draw my own conclusions. If I'm wrong, you can correct me, and show me where I'm wrong. If you can't do that, I know who is lying.
I'd argue that its actually WORSE then the first one. They try this whole, the cube is messing with the 4th dimension, time, all throughout the movie. While I like the idea of multiple dimensions and even the idea of folding of space-time, its like they didn't do their research very well.
I have this thing about bad movies, its hard to explain. It's not exactly like the whole, "It's so bad its funny" kind of thing, its something more than that. I can't really explain it. I KNOW something is terrible, but I can almost feel this connection that the actor either loved or hated delivering that line, or that the storywriter couldn't figure out what to put there, or the director wanted a different scene but they couldn't budget it...
I guess they had their hopes up really high and didn't want the public to know if ET was out there before the government had time to prepare some form of press conference.
But honestly, I think its all a clever ruse. We'll get some bogus data on some random #'ed star, and the open source signal analyzers will derive that there is something there. After an intense round of "Whats going on?" and people wasting their lives away to decode the message, we'll learn that it was all a viral marketting campaign for a new Michael Bay Transformers movie.
This is the first video I saw on it. It was also published in National Geographic, IIRC. Not that that really makes a study like that any more credible.
Actually I saw this interesting documentary, and one of the reasons humans excel over animals is that we "learn" instead of "understand".
With two test groups, one of children, the other of chimpanzees.
The first test there is a black box. The instructor shows them to tap the top of the box with a stick, tap the sides of the box, slide a piece on the top over, and turn a crank, and out comes a tasty treat. The kids follow this exact process and get rewarded with candy. Chimpanzees also follow this process and get treated with their own kind of reward (I think it was peanuts or something).
In the second test, the box is identical, except for one thing. Instead of being black, the entire box is made of clear plexiglass. As an adult you could easily observe instantly that tapping the top and sides of the box, and sliding the item on top, do absolutely nothing. The only thing required to get the treat is to turn the crank. However, EVERY CHILD tested (and I believe it was more than a dozen) repeated the unnecessary steps, whereas only 1/3rd of chimps followed the steps, showing that 66% of Chimps were able to understand what was going on.
Upon first reflection I thought they meant to say that children are idiots and chimpanzees clearly know whats going on, and are by far more intelligent than we've realized. But the documentary goes on to explain that this is actually a feature of human behavior that has promoted societal growth. Without the ability to ignore understanding and simply reproduce activities, mankind might not have reached the level it has today.
Ebay is a good place to start. TradeKey and a few others are fine. I mean you might get lucky with Craigslist or Kijiji.
Best way is to find these kinds of auction sites, and put just 1 up on as many as possible. Whichever one sells first is where you put the rest, or if you're lucky, they'll all sell, and you'll be able to rinse-repeat with your remaining. Just be carefull not to post the whole lot on many sites, should more than one bid start on 2 different sites and you can't fill both orders.
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As much as I would have loved to hear about this mod like a year ago, I see the words Beta and I see that Mektek is releasing 4 for free.
'Tis a shame.
I don't get it, could you try explaining this in some other manner I might understand?
That's impressive. Most chicks use both hands and 4 orifices.
Chew on that one for a while.
If this were as advanced as some of you guys are making it out to be, blindness, deafness, and paralysis would be a thing of the past.
We have achieved some great leaps in those fields. There was a woman who spent a lot of money to get an electric eye implanted in her. And she could identify shapes of objects placed within 4 feet of her. She described it as many tiny bumps appearing and disappearing rapidly, but otherwise couldn't describe it.
And even those with lesser deafness can get hearing aids. And like that XKCD comic, Somewhere in a lab there are monkeys controlling robotic arms with just their brains. We've made simulations that you interact with using just your thoughts, by processing the brainwaves you emit.
While we don't understand the inner-workings of the brain, we understand its input-output enough to use it. It's like Object Oriented programming, and we just don't have the API.
Yeah, I'd say this guy doesn't know anything about the realities of the business. At what point did he think that EA or Activision wanted to make enough money for anyone but the top Execs?
You have absolutely NO idea how much this made my day. You think your head exploded? I gibbed every single one of my limbs in the process!
On the Plus side - All of Valve's titles from Half Life 2 Onwards have used modified versions of the Source Engine. They have a high amount of Operability between them all - I can run Half Life 2 on the L4D Engine, I can run Episode 2 on the Episode 1 engine (though trying a newer game with an older engine has led to some small bugs, its never been game crashing except for Cases with Portals involved). They have even been curtious enough to make a version of the Original Half Life that runs in Source.
So, should Valve make their latest Source game operable in Linux, pretty much ALL of their previous titles will run in Linux. I think thats why they see this as a viable move. It's not so much of an issue of porting 1 game over at a time, its like porting 1 game over, then doing bug fixes across multiple games, and you've finished porting your entire game legacy.
We've all been afraid for some time that Valve was going to ditch the PC and focus on consoles, because just about every other PC Game developer has. IF Valve follows through with this (and its a big IF), this will reaffirm my faith in them that they acknowledge the PC as the best platform for first person shooters bar none.
Buzz doesn't have farmville. Until you see another site that has such strong developer support for applications, you won't see Facebook dethroned.
It doesn't stop facebook from being the vector & entry point for malware.
Both with Privacy AND with security.
I mean, from a business standpoint, yes, facebook is great for drumming up marketting, developing business, and maintaining relations with clients. However, just yesterday we ran across this little gem. A worm that targets facebook and other social networking sites specifically.
Surprise Surprise, one our sales ladies got infected. Now that we've cleaned it off we still have to assess the damage. She could have spread it to the rest of the sales team, her clients, the CEO (who is on her friends list)... But of course she isn't going to give US any information, that'd be invading her privacy.
I know, you guys are going to say "Tell her to warn others and let her deal with it then", which is what we did, but obviously if she doesn't adequately deal with it, the problem is going to circle back to us with other sales people.
They also have extensive experience with rocks.
The worse it gets, the more me and my colleagues wished we could see the raw data and draw our own conclusions.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of listening to reports. I'm tired of hearing scientists say this and scientists say that.
Give me some FACTS, and I'll draw my own conclusions. If I'm wrong, you can correct me, and show me where I'm wrong. If you can't do that, I know who is lying.
I'd argue that its actually WORSE then the first one. They try this whole, the cube is messing with the 4th dimension, time, all throughout the movie. While I like the idea of multiple dimensions and even the idea of folding of space-time, its like they didn't do their research very well.
I have this thing about bad movies, its hard to explain. It's not exactly like the whole, "It's so bad its funny" kind of thing, its something more than that. I can't really explain it. I KNOW something is terrible, but I can almost feel this connection that the actor either loved or hated delivering that line, or that the storywriter couldn't figure out what to put there, or the director wanted a different scene but they couldn't budget it...
On the other hand, this will likely produce a whole stream of deliberately inaccurate analyses with ulterior motives behind them.
But with the data public, it'll be easier to shoot them down for picking, choosing, skewing, and what else.
There is no reason why this kind of data should ever be "secret"
It's silly because we already found the alien signals during the great harmonic convergence.
I guess they had their hopes up really high and didn't want the public to know if ET was out there before the government had time to prepare some form of press conference.
But honestly, I think its all a clever ruse. We'll get some bogus data on some random #'ed star, and the open source signal analyzers will derive that there is something there. After an intense round of "Whats going on?" and people wasting their lives away to decode the message, we'll learn that it was all a viral marketting campaign for a new Michael Bay Transformers movie.
Just remember, you heard it here first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIAoJsS9Ix8
This is the first video I saw on it. It was also published in National Geographic, IIRC. Not that that really makes a study like that any more credible.
Huh, I stand mistaken. I seem to recall it very html based click this link click that link when I tried it like 2 or 3 years ago.
I was never really into Farmville and Mafia wars, but I don't think they use flash.
I mean, I know there are lots of games that DO use flash on Facebook, but the biggest ones I can recall don't. Maybe jetman or whatever it was called.
No, they sniped the engineers, not the marketting team.
Google isn't THAT dumb.
Actually I saw this interesting documentary, and one of the reasons humans excel over animals is that we "learn" instead of "understand".
With two test groups, one of children, the other of chimpanzees.
The first test there is a black box. The instructor shows them to tap the top of the box with a stick, tap the sides of the box, slide a piece on the top over, and turn a crank, and out comes a tasty treat. The kids follow this exact process and get rewarded with candy. Chimpanzees also follow this process and get treated with their own kind of reward (I think it was peanuts or something).
In the second test, the box is identical, except for one thing. Instead of being black, the entire box is made of clear plexiglass. As an adult you could easily observe instantly that tapping the top and sides of the box, and sliding the item on top, do absolutely nothing. The only thing required to get the treat is to turn the crank. However, EVERY CHILD tested (and I believe it was more than a dozen) repeated the unnecessary steps, whereas only 1/3rd of chimps followed the steps, showing that 66% of Chimps were able to understand what was going on.
Upon first reflection I thought they meant to say that children are idiots and chimpanzees clearly know whats going on, and are by far more intelligent than we've realized. But the documentary goes on to explain that this is actually a feature of human behavior that has promoted societal growth. Without the ability to ignore understanding and simply reproduce activities, mankind might not have reached the level it has today.
Sure you can, you just gotta deprive it of oxygen.
Wait - did you mean remaining alive while stopping the process?
Then no one is christian. Because everything can be traced back to because someone said so.
You know, we joke about it, but whatever the porn industry backs usually ends up being the winner in format wars.
Blu Ray, VHS...
The only favour you're doing is helping droids, not iPhone customers.
Ebay is a good place to start. TradeKey and a few others are fine. I mean you might get lucky with Craigslist or Kijiji.
Best way is to find these kinds of auction sites, and put just 1 up on as many as possible. Whichever one sells first is where you put the rest, or if you're lucky, they'll all sell, and you'll be able to rinse-repeat with your remaining. Just be carefull not to post the whole lot on many sites, should more than one bid start on 2 different sites and you can't fill both orders.