As I recall, it's actually the sand worms (or rather their younger form - sand trout) that sequestered water and effectively terraformed the planet's surface so that it'd be suitable for adult sand worms, for whom water is poisonous.
I'm not going to get excited about this until I see it reviewed on Top Gear. I bet the Stig could get it up to at least 9 nanometers per 10 electric pulses.
I have a dual-screen setup with my main monitor on the right, so the left-handed, fixed menu really is a pain: either I make it collapse, and then have to target a very slim pixel-wide bar to un-collapse it, or I have to leave it there and waste screen space.
My setup at work (software engineer) is what you described: dual-screen, main on the right with the windows start bar collapsed on the left side so it's in the "middle". After quickly getting used to targeting the pixel-wide bar instead of heavy-handing the cursor to one side I found the bar was in the ideal place to be reached quickly from either monitor. That's my personal preference.
But I agree, I don't see why the menu location shouldn't be customizable.
Entering IDDT once reveals the whole map. Twice reveals monsters and I believe rockets also show up on the map. You could run around playing it as sort of an indoor bastardized version of Asteroids.
... from the hunchbacked lab assistant union.
This technology could mean the death of the time honored skilled trade of mad science related grave robbery.
I'm curious if/how they'll overcome the fact that the display (contact) now moves with your eye. A computer monitor is stationary and your eyes dart around the screen focusing on a small portion at a time, the rest being varying degrees of peripheral vision. Are there going to be tiny MEMS gyros/accelerometers to detect the movement of the eye and shift the display image accordingly? Otherwise I'd think you could only (usefully) see the part of the display closest to the central focal point.
Am I the only one who's starting to think that as soon as we put all of our eggs in the solar energy basket, somebody will come along and say that we're almost out of sun?
And as soon as we put all of our space travel eggs in the spice harvesting basket, somebody will come along and oppress all of humanity for 3500 years.
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4 pins should be enough for anybody.
I'm not saying it was aliens ...
Besides, we need people to magnify the Casimir effect if we're to ever get wormhole technology.
Increase the surface area with a series of (complementary) deep grooves and ridges?
As I recall, it's actually the sand worms (or rather their younger form - sand trout) that sequestered water and effectively terraformed the planet's surface so that it'd be suitable for adult sand worms, for whom water is poisonous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune)#Sandworm_life_cycle
My favorite programming term: Heisenbug.
Maybe the placebos are getting more effective!
There are tribes in South America that think eating shrimp is disgusting (and with some justification), but who will scarf down a cricket with relish.
Oh, well as long as you put relish on it, count me in! Maybe a little horseradish too for kick?
I'm not going to get excited about this until I see it reviewed on Top Gear. I bet the Stig could get it up to at least 9 nanometers per 10 electric pulses.
Don't forget this.
I have a dual-screen setup with my main monitor on the right, so the left-handed, fixed menu really is a pain: either I make it collapse, and then have to target a very slim pixel-wide bar to un-collapse it, or I have to leave it there and waste screen space.
My setup at work (software engineer) is what you described: dual-screen, main on the right with the windows start bar collapsed on the left side so it's in the "middle". After quickly getting used to targeting the pixel-wide bar instead of heavy-handing the cursor to one side I found the bar was in the ideal place to be reached quickly from either monitor. That's my personal preference.
But I agree, I don't see why the menu location shouldn't be customizable.
16 contact points ought to be enough for anybody. No one will need more than 16 contact points for multi-touch input.
He will need a very pointy hat.
Also it should double as a sniper rifer ... just in case he needs to fight off any alien invasions on the way down.
Well, where do you think baby asteroids come from?
Were they African or European dragonflies?
Great, now my boss will be asking me to increase our microcontroller's ROM size with a software update.
Entering IDDT once reveals the whole map. Twice reveals monsters and I believe rockets also show up on the map. You could run around playing it as sort of an indoor bastardized version of Asteroids.
That must be why you need a spaceship to shoot moonbugs.
Gasoline used to be life.
Of course. Obviously they had to postpone their launch after this totally-not-a-misfiring-rocket thing turned up!
... from the hunchbacked lab assistant union. This technology could mean the death of the time honored skilled trade of mad science related grave robbery.
Hey hey, give him the benefit of doubt. It could just as easily be part of an infinite loop.
Great Scott!
I'm curious if/how they'll overcome the fact that the display (contact) now moves with your eye. A computer monitor is stationary and your eyes dart around the screen focusing on a small portion at a time, the rest being varying degrees of peripheral vision. Are there going to be tiny MEMS gyros/accelerometers to detect the movement of the eye and shift the display image accordingly? Otherwise I'd think you could only (usefully) see the part of the display closest to the central focal point.
Am I the only one who's starting to think that as soon as we put all of our eggs in the solar energy basket, somebody will come along and say that we're almost out of sun?
And as soon as we put all of our space travel eggs in the spice harvesting basket, somebody will come along and oppress all of humanity for 3500 years.