I can't see the point of it : wouldn't a cheap console be better for simple gaming ?
This isn't supposed to connect you to the internet. I'd be suprised if it even had a web browser. The modem is there to set up up for multiplayer games and the hard drive is there to more effectively store saved games. Previously, storing data onto those memory chips would have been difficult to work around- you'ld only be granted a very small amount of space.
Additionally, the processor is extremely well for rendering for games. It is not well designed to deal with normal day to day functions. There is no real use for slapping on a keyboard because the machine really isn't designed to deal with that sort of thing.
Remember, this box is only going for $200 or whatever. There is only so much you can do with that kind of budget.
As somebody pointed out a few days ago, shouldn't they be learning valuable research skills by going out and finding these sources on their own?
I think Cliff is doing us a service when he posts questions like this. I am personally interested in fields like nanotechnology, but I don't have the time to wade through present day journals to find relevant information on things well outside my field. Some of you work in this field. You can provide me with a general understanding far more easily than wading through three years worth of Deutchland Medical Journal of Collected Nanotechnology Research and other such BS so that I can be "enlightened".
This is really the beauty of Slashdot. It brings together people who know an awful lot about neat fields and people who would like to dabble in said neat fields, but don't know where to start. Hopefully you can provide me with information about nanotech and unidentified planets in galaxies far away, and I will be able to provide you with insight on my field, organic chemistry. By Morficflux asking these questions, I get an opportunity to learn cocktail party information about things that I would otherwise, not be able to discuss. The title of Slashdot is "News for Nerds", but it is also "Stuff that Matters".
Constitution of the United States of America Article I, Section 9
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
This is an old law. It applied when the States were like their own little nations and travel between the states was rare. The rise of the Sears catalog brought up similar issues, but at the time the government was more conservative about constitution changes.
Now days this is less of an issue. We're much more willing to change our constitution to suit present day needs. Infact, we should when the initial laws become unfair.
Remember, the Constitution of the United States was only meant to be a temporary document. It was initially thought that a new document of similar nature should be written every twenty years or so. We have the right to bare arms and the right to raise militia specifically so that we, the people, will not be thwarted when we aim to change the constitution.
I will be buying a house this summer, and as part of the upgrades I will be doing, there will be a small camera mounted to the outside of the house, filming the street 24 hours a day.
The government has GIS satellites with one meter resolution now. They have for a little while. They can photograph you walking on the street. They can photograph you through windows. This technology was used semi-publicly for the first time tracking Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.
Geologists also have access to GIS. They only are allowed to use it for land charting at three meter resolution. A handful of colleges can do this and generally you need to be keyed into rooms. No layman has access to this technology at all.
You can go buy your video camera, but remember that what ever you can do, they can do better.
With the complex system they were using (creating a VU meter for the Boston Pops), I believe that an interactive game would not have been difficult to pull off.
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I can't see the point of it : wouldn't a cheap console be better for simple gaming ?
This isn't supposed to connect you to the internet. I'd be suprised if it even had a web browser. The modem is there to set up up for multiplayer games and the hard drive is there to more effectively store saved games. Previously, storing data onto those memory chips would have been difficult to work around- you'ld only be granted a very small amount of space.
Additionally, the processor is extremely well for rendering for games. It is not well designed to deal with normal day to day functions. There is no real use for slapping on a keyboard because the machine really isn't designed to deal with that sort of thing.
Remember, this box is only going for $200 or whatever. There is only so much you can do with that kind of budget.
don't forgot the research monger, IBM.
/serious/nano/
http://www.research.ibm.com/topics
and
http://www.research.ibm.com/atomic/nano/
As somebody pointed out a few days ago, shouldn't they be learning valuable research skills by going out and finding these sources on their own?
I think Cliff is doing us a service when he posts questions like this. I am personally interested in fields like nanotechnology, but I don't have the time to wade through present day journals to find relevant information on things well outside my field. Some of you work in this field. You can provide me with a general understanding far more easily than wading through three years worth of Deutchland Medical Journal of Collected Nanotechnology Research and other such BS so that I can be "enlightened".
This is really the beauty of Slashdot. It brings together people who know an awful lot about neat fields and people who would like to dabble in said neat fields, but don't know where to start. Hopefully you can provide me with information about nanotech and unidentified planets in galaxies far away, and I will be able to provide you with insight on my field, organic chemistry. By Morficflux asking these questions, I get an opportunity to learn cocktail party information about things that I would otherwise, not be able to discuss. The title of Slashdot is "News for Nerds", but it is also "Stuff that Matters".
My two cents. Up my score or flame on.
400 Gigabits Per Square Inch
except that it's fifty inches deep!!!111
Constitution of the United States of America
Article I, Section 9
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
This is an old law. It applied when the States were like their own little nations and travel between the states was rare. The rise of the Sears catalog brought up similar issues, but at the time the government was more conservative about constitution changes.
Now days this is less of an issue. We're much more willing to change our constitution to suit present day needs. Infact, we should when the initial laws become unfair.
Remember, the Constitution of the United States was only meant to be a temporary document. It was initially thought that a new document of similar nature should be written every twenty years or so. We have the right to bare arms and the right to raise militia specifically so that we, the people, will not be thwarted when we aim to change the constitution.
I will be buying a house this summer, and as part of the upgrades I will be doing, there will be a small camera mounted to the outside of the house, filming the street 24 hours a day.
The government has GIS satellites with one meter resolution now. They have for a little while. They can photograph you walking on the street. They can photograph you through windows. This technology was used semi-publicly for the first time tracking Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.
Geologists also have access to GIS. They only are allowed to use it for land charting at three meter resolution. A handful of colleges can do this and generally you need to be keyed into rooms. No layman has access to this technology at all.
You can go buy your video camera, but remember that what ever you can do, they can do better.
This link suggests that MIT has done something similar to the Tetris hack, but that it had an automated light pattern:
.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1993/green_bldg_vu_meter/in dex.html
http://hacks
With the complex system they were using (creating a VU meter for the Boston Pops), I believe that an interactive game would not have been difficult to pull off.
It was indeed done in the Green Building.