IANAE (engineer), but I've heard of other applications where accelerometers were used to keep track of position. I would guess that they just need to (numerically) integrate a couple times to get the velocity and position vectors successively.
but maybe $30 is a lot in comparison to the rest of the equipement used for the wall radar
The article indicates that the target sale price for this RADAR unit will be $1000-$1500 per device. With the accelerometer you mentioned, I guess they will have to bump that price to $1030-$1530.:)
It's just sad that it came out of a game house instead of application programmers.
Wrong. Mentor Graphics have been doing gesture-based input for some time. I have personally seen it in one of their products at my work a couple of years ago. Also, read comment #8 (sorry, can't get <a> hyperlink to work).
Typing R is the same as the Repeat gesture. This is the number one time saver. Just as graffiti is fine for jotting a quick note, I don't want to be scrawling all day.
Didn't know about that one. That is awesome; I find it ironic that the Repeat gesture is one of the most difficult gestures to get the game to recognize.
Don't waste a bookmark on your temple: Space,Space goes to your temple, and Space,Space again returns to your previous view.
This would be really cool, because this may eliminate the need to do gestures. Just hit space-space, charge up the miracle at the temple with one simple right-click, then hit space-space again and cast it at the desired location. I have to try it and see...
I got bit for being too lazy to read the README yet again...
A strengthening economy?! Which economy are you talking about? The one I live in is experiencing a real slowdown. Sales in many industries are slipping, and a number of corporations are laying off employees.
"was it Napster?"
It may have had something to do with it, but I don't think it's the only possible explanation.
More specifically, the law is broken when both you and your friend each possess one or more copies of the CD. The act of copying the CD itself (no matter who does it) is not illegal (for now:).
In the first case, your friend can avoid breaking the law only if he returns both CDs to you after he makes the copy.
That's it exactly! If you did find a girl at an arcade, 99% of the time they were with a boyfriend or husband, and most of the time the girl looks insanely bored.
Finding a single girl at an arcade is extremely rare. It's usually not the right place to look.
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Katz may not be aware but there is an increasing uproar that education is relying far too much on computers and net access instead of teaching important things like reading, writing, and math. An article in one of the IEEE magazines last year (or was the year before?), basically said too much emphasis was being put on computers for learning when the returns from using them was small compared to traditional teaching methods.
The Singularity refers to any point at which intelligence superior to that of human intelligence emerges within our civilization. Technically, it also refers to the exponential acceleration of technological development that would take place when such an intelligence arises (to be honest, I have doubts that this acceleration will actually occur, which is a retraction of my earlier post). I.e., it is expected that this superior intelligence would be able to spawn a more superior intelligence, which would spawn an even more superior intelligence, and so on. I thought that a link to Vernor Vinge's essay may be helpful (it's a good read).
You are correct that machines may never acquire many of the facets of human intelligence (then again, they may). However, the Singularity can also happen when human intelligence is augmented through technology. The concerns expressed are about what will happen to the (non-augmented) human civilization when this superior intelligence comes to be.
Unless we have underestimated the complexity or nature of human intelligence, I see the Singularity as an inevitability. Furthermore, I see three posibilities for the Singularity:
1. We become pets/useless to the machines, or we are wiped out.
2. We become Neo-Amish.
3. We become part of the Singularity.
I say we work on making 3 the outcome.
sorry this is so short. Don't have much time to type.
If you still have doubts that the Voodoo5 6000 was displayed "at a tradeshow somewhere" (ECTS), then you can read another report here from eurogamer.net. It gives a little more information about 3dfx's showing, including how they put a sticker over the upper right hand corner of the screen so you couldn't see the frame rate from cg_drawfps:)
This is what you do: modify the open source CueCat driver so that it does send back some product information to their servers whenever you scan. However, don't have it send back the info on the product you scan each time. Rather, make it send back the info on the same product (e.g. make it look like the only thing you ever scan is your Red Hat Linux box).
Then, I bet TC will come up with a real reason to have a lawsuit:)
One argument against yours (which is a form of Pascal's Wager) is that you may have chosen the wrong religion and displeased the God(s) . Then you would end up in the unpleasant afterlife just like the non-believer, even though the non-believer is also incorrect. Furthermore, you would have wasted all of the time it takes to follow your religion, whereas the non-believer would have that time to do other things.
So which religion is the right one? According to South Park it was the Mormon religion. So do yourself a favor and make sure you don't miss any more episodes!:^)
IMO, it is legitimate players that keep interest in a game going. These are people that are interested in continously testing and honing their skills, hence they keep playing to learn and improve as well as have fun.
Cheaters only serve to kill interest in a game by angering and frustrating those who want to play for real. If too many people cheat, eventually there will be no one left playing except cheaters and lamers, and everyone who is left will get bored.
Now about the bullies: it is true that some players will be discouraged by players that beat the snot out of them. But there are other players that respect their abilities and skill and use them as inspiration and motivation to improve themselves. This is something that a cheater will never be able to do.
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That's the point. They shouldn't have even filed the f*cking suit.
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IANAE (engineer), but I've heard of other applications where accelerometers were used to keep track of position. I would guess that they just need to (numerically) integrate a couple times to get the velocity and position vectors successively.
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but maybe $30 is a lot in comparison to the rest of the equipement used for the wall radar
:)
The article indicates that the target sale price for this RADAR unit will be $1000-$1500 per device. With the accelerometer you mentioned, I guess they will have to bump that price to $1030-$1530.
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It's just sad that it came out of a game house instead of application programmers.
Wrong. Mentor Graphics have been doing gesture-based input for some time. I have personally seen it in one of their products at my work a couple of years ago. Also, read comment #8 (sorry, can't get <a> hyperlink to work).
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Typing R is the same as the Repeat gesture. This is the number one time saver. Just as graffiti is fine for jotting a quick note, I don't want to be scrawling all day.
Didn't know about that one. That is awesome; I find it ironic that the Repeat gesture is one of the most difficult gestures to get the game to recognize.
Don't waste a bookmark on your temple: Space,Space goes to your temple, and Space,Space again returns to your previous view.
This would be really cool, because this may eliminate the need to do gestures. Just hit space-space, charge up the miracle at the temple with one simple right-click, then hit space-space again and cast it at the desired location. I have to try it and see...
I got bit for being too lazy to read the README yet again...
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The 1.34 screensaver still crashes every once in a while. Annoying.
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ESR's article has the same advice, interestingly enough...
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The link to the story is now here, since "today" is no longer "Monday". Looks like it will only be good for a week.
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A strengthening economy?! Which economy are you talking about? The one I live in is experiencing a real slowdown. Sales in many industries are slipping, and a number of corporations are laying off employees.
"was it Napster?"
It may have had something to do with it, but I don't think it's the only possible explanation.
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More specifically, the law is broken when both you and your friend each possess one or more copies of the CD. The act of copying the CD itself (no matter who does it) is not illegal (for now :).
In the first case, your friend can avoid breaking the law only if he returns both CDs to you after he makes the copy.
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If you did find a girl at an arcade, 99% of the time they were with a boyfriend or husband,
Damn, forgot to take out my Speak&Spell and do a grammar check.
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That's it exactly! If you did find a girl at an arcade, 99% of the time they were with a boyfriend or husband, and most of the time the girl looks insanely bored.
Finding a single girl at an arcade is extremely rare. It's usually not the right place to look.
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'nuff said.
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How about "Standard Model Takes a Dent"?
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Katz may not be aware but there is an increasing uproar that education is relying far too much on computers and net access instead of teaching important things like reading, writing, and math. An article in one of the IEEE magazines last year (or was the year before?), basically said too much emphasis was being put on computers for learning when the returns from using them was small compared to traditional teaching methods.
Slashdot has had a discussion on this topic, FYI.
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Maybe the rest of the U.S. should adopt California's power deregulation policies. That should cut some of the pollution, at least.
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You are correct that machines may never acquire many of the facets of human intelligence (then again, they may). However, the Singularity can also happen when human intelligence is augmented through technology. The concerns expressed are about what will happen to the (non-augmented) human civilization when this superior intelligence comes to be.
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Furthermore, I think I still want a mouse. A touch screen interface is OK, but finger smudges can be annoying when playing Quake3.
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- 1. We become pets/useless to the machines, or we are wiped out.
- 2. We become Neo-Amish.
- 3. We become part of the Singularity.
I say we work on making 3 the outcome.sorry this is so short. Don't have much time to type.
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If you still have doubts that the Voodoo5 6000 was displayed "at a tradeshow somewhere" (ECTS), then you can read another report here from eurogamer.net. It gives a little more information about 3dfx's showing, including how they put a sticker over the upper right hand corner of the screen so you couldn't see the frame rate from cg_drawfps :)
This is what you do: modify the open source CueCat driver so that it does send back some product information to their servers whenever you scan. However, don't have it send back the info on the product you scan each time. Rather, make it send back the info on the same product (e.g. make it look like the only thing you ever scan is your Red Hat Linux box).
:)
Then, I bet TC will come up with a real reason to have a lawsuit
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Have a nice day!
Didn't you see South Park last week?!?
:^)
One argument against yours (which is a form of Pascal's Wager) is that you may have chosen the wrong religion and displeased the God(s) . Then you would end up in the unpleasant afterlife just like the non-believer, even though the non-believer is also incorrect. Furthermore, you would have wasted all of the time it takes to follow your religion, whereas the non-believer would have that time to do other things.
So which religion is the right one? According to South Park it was the Mormon religion. So do yourself a favor and make sure you don't miss any more episodes!
Great, now you've given the RIAA a tidy checklist of stuff to shut down >:P
IMO, it is legitimate players that keep interest in a game going. These are people that are interested in continously testing and honing their skills, hence they keep playing to learn and improve as well as have fun.
Cheaters only serve to kill interest in a game by angering and frustrating those who want to play for real. If too many people cheat, eventually there will be no one left playing except cheaters and lamers, and everyone who is left will get bored.
Now about the bullies: it is true that some players will be discouraged by players that beat the snot out of them. But there are other players that respect their abilities and skill and use them as inspiration and motivation to improve themselves. This is something that a cheater will never be able to do.