I own a MacBook Alu with the new no-button-touchpad mouse. I'm using that one and it's working very well - in fact, I find trackpad/touchpad implementations on other laptops in comparison unusable.
However, the acceleration of normal computer mice (which I would say are essential for gaming) is so bad on MacOSX, it's unbearable. I've also tried various software trying to correct that problem, but somehow I couldn't come close to the Windows mouse acceleration profile.
For that reason I play all games on Windows, even those directly supported by MacOSX.
If I remember correctly, it was Hamburg were at the train station speakers were playing classical music. The tourist guide told us it's to scare away drug addicts, as they cannot stand high-pitched sounds like those in classical music.
btw it would also solve the unemployment problem which many people opposing advanced robotic autonomy are afraid of - in the sense that the robots are not going to make our jobs superfluous...
I always have the impression it would be better to use robotic technology as body implants to improve human capabilities. Read: Why should we create robots instead of us becoming the robots/cyborgs? Wouldn't this sort of solve the controlling problem at the root? Of course such a choice might have it's own perhaps unpleasant implications, which I haven't thought of yet...
Although the company already has some patent, they might be reluctant to publish more details about their technology economic reasons, to strengthen their market position or something like that.
Isn't it more important to solve problems than to employ some technology just for the sake of employing it?
I'm interested in model checking and working on diagnosability analysis for my BSc thesis, but not because I think it's cool per se. My objective is to help building highly dependable spacecraft, and for that objective approaches leveraged by model checking seem the way to go.
My point is, one should look for interesting problems, challenges, or specialized areas, then pick the technology (most likely IT based) that is best to solve it. There maybe shouldn't be generic academic IT curricula ("Computer Science"), but more specialized ones ("Bioinformatics", "Financial Informatics", "Critical System Design", whatever).
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OK after this moment of glory let's RTFA...
Yayyyy! ;D
I'm offering 10:1 I get modded flamebait for not drinking the Linux Kool-Aid.
You sneaky little reverse psychologist... BTW I'm offering 10:1 I get modded troll for using reverse psychology myself.
I own a MacBook Alu with the new no-button-touchpad mouse. I'm using that one and it's working very well - in fact, I find trackpad/touchpad implementations on other laptops in comparison unusable. However, the acceleration of normal computer mice (which I would say are essential for gaming) is so bad on MacOSX, it's unbearable. I've also tried various software trying to correct that problem, but somehow I couldn't come close to the Windows mouse acceleration profile. For that reason I play all games on Windows, even those directly supported by MacOSX.
If I remember correctly, it was Hamburg were at the train station speakers were playing classical music. The tourist guide told us it's to scare away drug addicts, as they cannot stand high-pitched sounds like those in classical music.
This might make me unpopular here...
[OT] Slashdot is a nice place to learn about rhetoric, methinks. [/OT]
btw it would also solve the unemployment problem which many people opposing advanced robotic autonomy are afraid of - in the sense that the robots are not going to make our jobs superfluous...
I always have the impression it would be better to use robotic technology as body implants to improve human capabilities. Read: Why should we create robots instead of us becoming the robots/cyborgs? Wouldn't this sort of solve the controlling problem at the root? Of course such a choice might have it's own perhaps unpleasant implications, which I haven't thought of yet...
... is the number!
essentially no information on what the stuff is
Although the company already has some patent, they might be reluctant to publish more details about their technology economic reasons, to strengthen their market position or something like that.
Well they needed something to make the score even. That's diplomacy ^^
You will never shut down the real Napster.
You should rephrase your question, it is "service provider," not "content producer."
Would it ever get old?
Isn't it more important to solve problems than to employ some technology just for the sake of employing it? I'm interested in model checking and working on diagnosability analysis for my BSc thesis, but not because I think it's cool per se. My objective is to help building highly dependable spacecraft, and for that objective approaches leveraged by model checking seem the way to go.
My point is, one should look for interesting problems, challenges, or specialized areas, then pick the technology (most likely IT based) that is best to solve it. There maybe shouldn't be generic academic IT curricula ("Computer Science"), but more specialized ones ("Bioinformatics", "Financial Informatics", "Critical System Design", whatever).
the old-fashioned way of creating a brain. plus a few other organs as a side product...
I suppose Greasemonkey could filter those technically more invasive advertisements too.
What I'm afraid of, as is mentioned above, is that the content itself becomes much more biased - towards the $$$.
Makes me imagine a Clippy with a rifle that shoots at non-authorized users who try to read your documents ^^