In certain applications, like raising an arbitrarily high number to a very high non-integer power, if one were to create a very specialized machine, would it be possible to create a machine that could give the high accuracy in less time? Of course, you'd probably need a machine that could spin at a very high speed in order to get the necessary clocks, but if one were to use numbers that could be expressed rationally, but are very large, it at least in my semi-limited knowledge, could be a savings of time.
Yup, it's 6000 watts, the station in question used to be 3000 watts. I agree that to our bodies, it's not doing that much, but to electronic type it can do some serious stuff (I happen to live behind some pretty serious power lines, and about 1/2 mile from a 50,000 watt station), and under the right conditions, can cause bloody hell with electronics; I used to hear the radio station (the huge one, not the 6000 watt one) on the speaker from my old 2400 modem.
Yes, but we were in Beta most of that time - they're a stable release!
Dunno about that, considering some of my co-workers, I'd say that we were Alpha most of that time, and we're finally getting into Beta stage; the human genome has finally hit a code freeze, now it's just getting rid of the pesky stability problems (tay sachs, etc).
Same thing is happening to a neighborhood near where I live. An average sized (6000 watts) AM radio station is reeking havok with a neighborhoods electronic devices because of all the interference its putting off. TVs, VCRs and computers will play Korean music out of the speakers, the picture will be nonexistant, and the people have to buy some pretty heavy duty shielding in order to have their items halfway useable. I'd love to post a link to the news article, but the only paper that has the story is not yet on the internet, so, neither is the story.
N'Sync and their ilk will never remove themselves from this death grip. Their entire song style, group makeup, even personalities are created by some guy in Florida whose name escapes me. If the current system were to collapse, those would be the first to disappear, and the real people would still create good music.
And it's very true that the big labels only protect each other. Small labels like Farren Music will never get any real recognition or play by the big radio stations because they (the stations) are all but owned by the members of RIAA.
I mean, what are the bloody gory details. I want to know who, what, where, when, why, and most importantly how much. Anyone have a better link that has relevant information like how much it'll cost everyone in the long run?
There's still the different seed value that you'd need to take into consideration. On racing games, sure it's not going to make much of a difference if the seeding is a little bit off, chances are, you're still going to be (mostly) in the same position. Now you take a deathmatch game, where you're randomly teleported into the level, you're going to need some syncing to make sure that when your console says that you're in one part of the level, the other guy's console doesn't say you're on the opposite side of the level. I'm just curious on how Sony's communicating with the two consoles, if it's through a known feature of the controller (like the control port), or through some means not known to mere mortals.
Lemme guess, a fellow SoCaler, those d*mn things are everywhere around where I am. Sound like lawnmowers, and have none of the charm of an American or European muscle car.
Anyways, I'd definately consider purchasing a few packs of these stickers, mostly for guerilla tactics agianst walls, etc of the local shopping centers, where you can occasionally find people taking up 4 parking spots. C'mon, vend 'em out, or lemme know where to get the stickers so I can print out a few score.
I've seen some solvent at those home warehouse stores (home despot, etc) that claims that it'll get rid of any sticker, label, etc, without harming the paint. Haven't tried it much myself, but I've got to get some hardware a bit later anyways, I may pick some up to debrand some of my private property that I haven't "personalized" with my oil paints yet.
Coward! You're supposed to use the 200mph, aluminum tape bumper stickers on the Souther Baptist minister. Besides, more often than not, he'd rather be caught romancing a rattlesnake than be caught driving a Lexus; he'd probably drive a Lincoln
I am a college student, and occationally, I do brand myself with some major multinational conglomerate, usually when the rest of my clothes are being washed, but those are clothes given to me as gifts, etc. Of the clothes that I buy for myself, however, I prefer obscure semi-geek clothes, iron on transfer clothing, etc. It's just a lot more fun wearing an "Off the Leash" shirt, and seeing the more "normal" people stare in confusion.
Though I agree with your thoughts on branded clothing being overly expensive. $100 for a tee shirt with some guy's name all over it, fugetaboutit
All I care about are the MP racing games, GT 2 rocks, and if it plays with a decent quality, mini PS will make it into my grubby little hands.
However, I've got a question, how do they expect to sync a game between the two consoles? The mobile adapter appears to connect to the second controller socket, which would seem to cause some havoc if you play a game not designed for the semi-multiplayer adapter (different random number seeds, lagtime, etc.). Anyone else have more to add?
In an ideal world, polititians will be straighforward about their life, their polities, etc, and put their plans right out on the table. Instead, we get the current system, where polititians philander, cheat, dupe the public, etc. Will I think that the Internet will change things, maybe a little, but for the most part, the parties will keep trying to make all their policies and ways about reaching a means seem noble, and anything else evil, or more recently, uncompassionate.
Now, the problem I see with putting everything out on the table, is that if you do, you get rid of all the fun of watching your favorite politicos (Gore, Bush, et al) change their positions on every issue in five minute intervals, because we've finally nailed them to the wall on where they stand.
You do anything with a computer they don't like, they throw you in jail and take your 'puter away. They act as if putting up a few things that were posted purely of ignorance and anger as the same as breaking into the Pentagon and selling secret plans for the Stealth Bomber to the Iraqis. Of course, this is a small town, and if they don't like something, they'll put you in jail, and find the law you broke later.
I find it frightening that the society that supposedly encourages individuality actively opresses those whose actions are harmless but not marketable. You say your mind, like they say you have a right to, you get sent in for "reeducation". Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness, they've become a joke in Amerika.
There was an article on/. about a month ago about a project to create a prot of MP4 for the Macintosh. If you want you can click right here and get more deets/discussion.
And I think that this will affect DeCSS minimally, because unfortunately, the corporatist (not capitalist, hasn't been capitalist for a while) government that exists here in Amerika will bend over backwards anyway to satisfy their "intrests", in other words, the people who receive their kickbacks.
and be broken up by this consent decree? It sounds like not only does Microsoft want to be able to continue doing business as usual, they want to force the government to do the company's research. Imagine if they had done this kind of "action" with the Bell System? We'd still have cr*ppy phone lines and no choice.
No, Microsoft has not killed the creativity of the industry. It's alive and well, and doing what it's done all along, hacking in silence for the sheer thrill of it all. Occasionally, the small hacks, the fixes, the conglomerations of the hacks of the people around them come together and create something that the world has never seen before, and that looks like it came out of nowhere.
The heroes come from where they always have, the masses of people in a community. The next hero could be working in his college dorm, coding with the stereo blaring and roomates begging for him to turn off the damn light. The next hero could be working in his cubicle right now, silently contemplating a project brought by the higher-ups. The heros are there, they just haven't commited their act that gets them noticed yet.
Microsoft hasn't killed the industry, not by a long shot. Any industry, such as this one, that works very close to pure thought will have its Prima Donnas that come out after a while, but they fade in time. Where are Burroughs, DEC, etc? They used to be big, maybe huge, but the industry moved on without them, their moment was over. We're already starting to see that with Microsoft, they've all but peaked, and are falling back down.
So the pioneers always die, in the end. But they're replaced, and the coding goes on. So, let's take a moment to praise Donald Davies' life, and then get back to creating more greatness. I'm sure that's what he would want.
Okay, Apogee, you can send in the lawyers, I think that Shadow Warrior wasn't worth the $10 I paid for it out of the bargain box. Now, I thought Duke Nukem was mediocre, but not nearly as good, or playable as Quake or even Doom. I have Balls of Steel, so I say Bring it On.
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Isn't Jack Valenti one of these units? I mean, he's a big wheel in the MPAA, and he seems to be biting a lot of people on the ass as of late.
In certain applications, like raising an arbitrarily high number to a very high non-integer power, if one were to create a very specialized machine, would it be possible to create a machine that could give the high accuracy in less time? Of course, you'd probably need a machine that could spin at a very high speed in order to get the necessary clocks, but if one were to use numbers that could be expressed rationally, but are very large, it at least in my semi-limited knowledge, could be a savings of time.
Yup, it's 6000 watts, the station in question used to be 3000 watts. I agree that to our bodies, it's not doing that much, but to electronic type it can do some serious stuff (I happen to live behind some pretty serious power lines, and about 1/2 mile from a 50,000 watt station), and under the right conditions, can cause bloody hell with electronics; I used to hear the radio station (the huge one, not the 6000 watt one) on the speaker from my old 2400 modem.
Dunno about that, considering some of my co-workers, I'd say that we were Alpha most of that time, and we're finally getting into Beta stage; the human genome has finally hit a code freeze, now it's just getting rid of the pesky stability problems (tay sachs, etc).
Same thing is happening to a neighborhood near where I live. An average sized (6000 watts) AM radio station is reeking havok with a neighborhoods electronic devices because of all the interference its putting off. TVs, VCRs and computers will play Korean music out of the speakers, the picture will be nonexistant, and the people have to buy some pretty heavy duty shielding in order to have their items halfway useable. I'd love to post a link to the news article, but the only paper that has the story is not yet on the internet, so, neither is the story.
Well, what about creative license, or perhaps a dog license (for CujoDoom :-) ). Now that would be veery eenteresting...
Going to the store
Buying spam and eggs
Eating them will cause
pain
and fear
that
I'll puke
Sorry, I guess I'll put my crazy beatnik clothing back in the closet.
And it's very true that the big labels only protect each other. Small labels like Farren Music will never get any real recognition or play by the big radio stations because they (the stations) are all but owned by the members of RIAA.
Standing in front of Micro$oft Headquarters:
You see the fortress of doom in front of you, a massive ogre is guarding the door.
Shoot Ogre
I leave the rest to your imagination.
It does not kill gerbils
It shows that aliens will always have one glaring weakness so obvious that it takes only 1000 years to find it.
It does not have Natalie Portman in it (god the trolls are going to eat me alive for that one)
It shows that a glass dome can support an alien craft, even when shattered
It shows that aliens use glass instead of more exotic materialle.
That's about it. The movie, by and large sucked. End of story
I mean, what are the bloody gory details. I want to know who, what, where, when, why, and most importantly how much. Anyone have a better link that has relevant information like how much it'll cost everyone in the long run?
There's still the different seed value that you'd need to take into consideration. On racing games, sure it's not going to make much of a difference if the seeding is a little bit off, chances are, you're still going to be (mostly) in the same position. Now you take a deathmatch game, where you're randomly teleported into the level, you're going to need some syncing to make sure that when your console says that you're in one part of the level, the other guy's console doesn't say you're on the opposite side of the level. I'm just curious on how Sony's communicating with the two consoles, if it's through a known feature of the controller (like the control port), or through some means not known to mere mortals.
Anyways, I'd definately consider purchasing a few packs of these stickers, mostly for guerilla tactics agianst walls, etc of the local shopping centers, where you can occasionally find people taking up 4 parking spots. C'mon, vend 'em out, or lemme know where to get the stickers so I can print out a few score.
I've seen some solvent at those home warehouse stores (home despot, etc) that claims that it'll get rid of any sticker, label, etc, without harming the paint. Haven't tried it much myself, but I've got to get some hardware a bit later anyways, I may pick some up to debrand some of my private property that I haven't "personalized" with my oil paints yet.
Coward! You're supposed to use the 200mph, aluminum tape bumper stickers on the Souther Baptist minister. Besides, more often than not, he'd rather be caught romancing a rattlesnake than be caught driving a Lexus; he'd probably drive a Lincoln
Though I agree with your thoughts on branded clothing being overly expensive. $100 for a tee shirt with some guy's name all over it, fugetaboutit
However, I've got a question, how do they expect to sync a game between the two consoles? The mobile adapter appears to connect to the second controller socket, which would seem to cause some havoc if you play a game not designed for the semi-multiplayer adapter (different random number seeds, lagtime, etc.). Anyone else have more to add?
So, now that Slashdot's part of the All-Encompasing VA Linux Empire, does this mean we have to start calling CmdrTaco Darth?
Now, the problem I see with putting everything out on the table, is that if you do, you get rid of all the fun of watching your favorite politicos (Gore, Bush, et al) change their positions on every issue in five minute intervals, because we've finally nailed them to the wall on where they stand.
I find it frightening that the society that supposedly encourages individuality actively opresses those whose actions are harmless but not marketable. You say your mind, like they say you have a right to, you get sent in for "reeducation". Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness, they've become a joke in Amerika.
Yep, she's bigger than metallica in the pop circles ever since her bastardization of American Pie a year ago.
And I think that this will affect DeCSS minimally, because unfortunately, the corporatist (not capitalist, hasn't been capitalist for a while) government that exists here in Amerika will bend over backwards anyway to satisfy their "intrests", in other words, the people who receive their kickbacks.
and be broken up by this consent decree? It sounds like not only does Microsoft want to be able to continue doing business as usual, they want to force the government to do the company's research. Imagine if they had done this kind of "action" with the Bell System? We'd still have cr*ppy phone lines and no choice.
The heroes come from where they always have, the masses of people in a community. The next hero could be working in his college dorm, coding with the stereo blaring and roomates begging for him to turn off the damn light. The next hero could be working in his cubicle right now, silently contemplating a project brought by the higher-ups. The heros are there, they just haven't commited their act that gets them noticed yet.
Microsoft hasn't killed the industry, not by a long shot. Any industry, such as this one, that works very close to pure thought will have its Prima Donnas that come out after a while, but they fade in time. Where are Burroughs, DEC, etc? They used to be big, maybe huge, but the industry moved on without them, their moment was over. We're already starting to see that with Microsoft, they've all but peaked, and are falling back down.
So the pioneers always die, in the end. But they're replaced, and the coding goes on. So, let's take a moment to praise Donald Davies' life, and then get back to creating more greatness. I'm sure that's what he would want.
Okay, Apogee, you can send in the lawyers, I think that Shadow Warrior wasn't worth the $10 I paid for it out of the bargain box. Now, I thought Duke Nukem was mediocre, but not nearly as good, or playable as Quake or even Doom. I have Balls of Steel, so I say Bring it On.