Anyone reading this article will see a big red "DUH!" in their mind. They're taking astronauts, presumable 30+ years old, and having them perform various experiments in alternate gravity situations. 30 years of experience on earth with 9.8m/s^2 gravity will surely look like hard-coded parameters when you try tossing a ball in zero-g for 5 minutes. Now if they could bear a child up in weightlessness, and raise that kid in space, teaching him to play catch without gravity, then that kid would be just as messed up once he'd return home and tried to play his game.
Brains do not store any hard-coded information, they just adapt; once they've adapted to something, it takes an equal amount of effort to change that knowledge. Say you've been playing Pacman for the last 20 years, and can pull a perfect game up to the 112th level. Then you play Virtual Fighter for the first time in your life, and get your ass savagely beat within 4 seconds. DUH! Your knowledge of Pacman's rules and strategies means nothing once you move to a new game. Same thing applies here.
It's so damned useful I have trouble finding uses for it. It used to be a vast realm of quality information and entertainment, now it's just a vast realm of banner ads and spam. I don't care whether the Fortune 500 members consider it 'useful', they weren't the target audience to begin with.
In other news, wearing plaid may cause sterile pregnancy among young virgin schoolgirls.
Seriously, I can attest to the 'rejected people tend to be more violent and aggressive', because I am grossly violent and aggressive (I actually factor in 'destroyed gadgets' into my monthly budget).
Am I dumber than I used to be ? Well yes, but not because of being turned down once too many. The brain is like a muscle, keep it in shape and it will work well. Let it sleep for a few years and it will become a lump of silly-putty. Being rejected often will make you depressive. Being depressed will put you and your brain to sleep for prolonged periods. So by the time you crawl out of your darkness, BAM! you're a retard. You need to get those neurons back into shape, to restore your former I.Q.
It'd be like Ford seeing GM starting to put airbags in their cars, but not doing it, because it's the popular thing and been proven to save lives
Funny, it's my personal belief that airbags are the stupidest most dangerous thing in a car. I'd rather lunge forward and get bruised against my seatbelt than have my neck smashed by a high-impact balloon. Airbags might save one out of ten lives, but it severely shortens the other nine.
In a serious crash, instead of being bruised and somewhat bludgeoned, the airbag will outright kill you in one fierce snap. In milder cases where the airbag does indeed keep you safe, well you would have been just fine without the airbag.
Do F1 drivers use airbags ? Hell no, but they have much better seat belt restraints, at the expense of commodity. Indeed, today's seatbelt does hold you in the seat, but it tends to lead your head into the side panels and/or window, because of the asymmetry of the belts. Lots of work to be done there.
Anyways, to get back on topic, competition is normal and healthy. Remote administration is the next great fad, and everyone is trying to implement it, although lots of people have it all wrong. If microsoft can do this right, and properly integrate it into the OS, then it's a _GOOD THING_ because it will allow much better control of the remote PC. Keep in mind they're not doing this for us techies, we'll keep on using VNC for our needs and all will be good. They're doing this with the corporate support staff in mind, where a dozen or less techs must support thousands of workstations scattered across the continent. Anything that gets closer to 'being there' is an improvement, and an important one.
Distributing roms for free hurts big whores like Hasbro because they bought all the rights to classic games, for the sole purpose of selling blasphemous remakes that serve only to tarnish the reputation of the golden classics like Missile Command, Frogger and Battlefield. It's a good thing Namco is still holding on to PacMan and friends.
Why don't they just shift frequencies ? The 2.4ghz range is an unlicensed spectrum, anyone can do whatever the hell they want with it, within reasonable power limits. If they're afraid of being squashed by WiFi then it's tough luck.
These things already exist, to some extend. They're called Body Shakers, and you bolt them tightly to your car to generate intense vibrations in the sub-40hz range.
I'm guessing they just found a lighter material that allowed them to create a full-range body-shaker-type-thing.
What makes it special is that it's not Palm. Palm makes nice little toys, but they're outrageously overpriced. Just look at Handspring's Visor for a great example : they licensed Palm OS for their own hardware, and made a lighter, cheaper PDA for the rest of us. Lock-in is evil, remember that.
I have no idea what this game is, but it looks pretty cool. Am I correct in guessing that it's another quality space rpg in the veins of Master of Orion and Ascendancy ?
If so, then why aren't they porting it over to x86 ? I want my hands on this!
Just drop by any half-decent electronics shop and buy a 40-pin connector. Remove the old guy, solder in the new one, then cross your fingers and plug it in (not in that particular order).
Just be careful when moving the circuit board away from the steel casing. As long as you don't expose the platters you should be fine.
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Blame it on the Karma Kap (tm). I have nothing better to do since I've been at 50 for ages.
No they don't. MP3 players are indie music's greatest stimulant. Why ? Because indie artists post their music to newsgroups and websites for FREE, to make themselves heard and hopefully gain a following of loyal fans.
Just look at the russian group PPK, whose dance tune "Resurrection" went from an MP3.com top-charter to a dancefloor hit, playing nightly in clubs around the world. I personally think it's not _that_ good, but the important bit here is that they broke out on their own, with very little commercial promotion. They're not an RIAA-manufactured shite band, they handle their own production and they sell vinyl to DJ's for _COMMERCIAL USE_. Anyone can download the tunes for free on their website, and zip them over to their Rio, Nomad or Music Keg.
Nothing in that process entitles Hilary Rosen's minions to a single penny. The RIAA did nothing to help this band out, indeed the critical mass of RIAA-produced crap only serves to flood the market and shroud the indie productions.
Indie bands should start suing the RIAA before it becomes practically infeasible to even produce your own music. Why should _WE_ pay the RIAA when it is they who are raping our ears ?
looks like Canada has just made buying an mp3 player a reason for a trip over the border
There's another argument against the law : It will severely hurt retail electronics sales. MP3 players are a hot item at every Future Shop and other megastores. If they are suddenly taxed to hell, people just won't buy them anymore and the retailers will start throwing lawyers around.
Indeed, she just capitalized on the highly mediatized suicide of Mr Cobain, and has been riding the waves ever since. Nobody knew her before that event, because her stuff sucked. Now that she's a 'star', people suddenly think she's intelligent and talented. I wouldn't even toss her a dollar if she were singing on the street.
The problem is simple : CRT's work with scanlines, not pixels. They need an analog source, just like a TV set. LCD's on the other hand are directly adressable matrices of pixels, perfectly suited for digital transmission.
For a CRT, doing the D/A conversion inside the monitor is asking for trouble. Do you realize how much current is charged up inside that box ? I think it would be an electronic challenge to perform reliable data conversion within inches of the tube.
Sure, maybe the first to display infinite recursion in its acronym, but it still doesn't make any sense. Might as well call it the DONK "Dumb Ol' NERD Kit" where NERD = "Not Every Retard's DONK"
Nonsense is nonsense, no matter how many times you repeat it.
I'm curious : How can we tell that this 'bright light' is the same as the comet we're seeing now ? I say the next big bright space light I see, I'll name it the Billco Comet so that confused people in another 300 years can say "Hey, some idiot named Billco thought this mars lander was a comet. Ha!"
Bah.. perhaps, but I'd still go weekly if there were something worth half-watching, but there isn't. Instead I've been filling up my 'entertainment' time playing DDR at the local arcade.. which is even less intellectually stimulating. oh well
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That is so very gay.. it's INIGO, as in "Not blue". Luckily geeks don't dig college football, else you would be swimming in tomatoes by now.
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Anyone reading this article will see a big red "DUH!" in their mind. They're taking astronauts, presumable 30+ years old, and having them perform various experiments in alternate gravity situations. 30 years of experience on earth with 9.8m/s^2 gravity will surely look like hard-coded parameters when you try tossing a ball in zero-g for 5 minutes. Now if they could bear a child up in weightlessness, and raise that kid in space, teaching him to play catch without gravity, then that kid would be just as messed up once he'd return home and tried to play his game.
Brains do not store any hard-coded information, they just adapt; once they've adapted to something, it takes an equal amount of effort to change that knowledge. Say you've been playing Pacman for the last 20 years, and can pull a perfect game up to the 112th level. Then you play Virtual Fighter for the first time in your life, and get your ass savagely beat within 4 seconds. DUH! Your knowledge of Pacman's rules and strategies means nothing once you move to a new game. Same thing applies here.
It's so damned useful I have trouble finding uses for it. It used to be a vast realm of quality information and entertainment, now it's just a vast realm of banner ads and spam. I don't care whether the Fortune 500 members consider it 'useful', they weren't the target audience to begin with.
In other news, wearing plaid may cause sterile pregnancy among young virgin schoolgirls.
Seriously, I can attest to the 'rejected people tend to be more violent and aggressive', because I am grossly violent and aggressive (I actually factor in 'destroyed gadgets' into my monthly budget).
Am I dumber than I used to be ? Well yes, but not because of being turned down once too many. The brain is like a muscle, keep it in shape and it will work well. Let it sleep for a few years and it will become a lump of silly-putty. Being rejected often will make you depressive. Being depressed will put you and your brain to sleep for prolonged periods. So by the time you crawl out of your darkness, BAM! you're a retard. You need to get those neurons back into shape, to restore your former I.Q.
But I was just getting the hang of P2P, now I need to get a new computer for P3P ?
It'd be like Ford seeing GM starting to put airbags in their cars, but not doing it, because it's the popular thing and been proven to save lives
Funny, it's my personal belief that airbags are the stupidest most dangerous thing in a car. I'd rather lunge forward and get bruised against my seatbelt than have my neck smashed by a high-impact balloon. Airbags might save one out of ten lives, but it severely shortens the other nine.
In a serious crash, instead of being bruised and somewhat bludgeoned, the airbag will outright kill you in one fierce snap. In milder cases where the airbag does indeed keep you safe, well you would have been just fine without the airbag.
Do F1 drivers use airbags ? Hell no, but they have much better seat belt restraints, at the expense of commodity. Indeed, today's seatbelt does hold you in the seat, but it tends to lead your head into the side panels and/or window, because of the asymmetry of the belts. Lots of work to be done there.
Anyways, to get back on topic, competition is normal and healthy. Remote administration is the next great fad, and everyone is trying to implement it, although lots of people have it all wrong. If microsoft can do this right, and properly integrate it into the OS, then it's a _GOOD THING_ because it will allow much better control of the remote PC. Keep in mind they're not doing this for us techies, we'll keep on using VNC for our needs and all will be good. They're doing this with the corporate support staff in mind, where a dozen or less techs must support thousands of workstations scattered across the continent. Anything that gets closer to 'being there' is an improvement, and an important one.
Distributing roms for free hurts big whores like Hasbro because they bought all the rights to classic games, for the sole purpose of selling blasphemous remakes that serve only to tarnish the reputation of the golden classics like Missile Command, Frogger and Battlefield. It's a good thing Namco is still holding on to PacMan and friends.
More like Direct-E, yet another heap-leak-disguised-as-an-API in DirectX.
Why don't they just shift frequencies ? The 2.4ghz range is an unlicensed spectrum, anyone can do whatever the hell they want with it, within reasonable power limits. If they're afraid of being squashed by WiFi then it's tough luck.
These things already exist, to some extend. They're called Body Shakers, and you bolt them tightly to your car to generate intense vibrations in the sub-40hz range.
I'm guessing they just found a lighter material that allowed them to create a full-range body-shaker-type-thing.
Some people are smarter and don't call Asus, Creative or NVidia. They call their local asian importer and buy new gear before the sun sets.
This is just what I needed to fix that old High Density disk drive in my XT
W00t!
What makes it special is that it's not Palm. Palm makes nice little toys, but they're outrageously overpriced. Just look at Handspring's Visor for a great example : they licensed Palm OS for their own hardware, and made a lighter, cheaper PDA for the rest of us. Lock-in is evil, remember that.
I have no idea what this game is, but it looks pretty cool. Am I correct in guessing that it's another quality space rpg in the veins of Master of Orion and Ascendancy ?
If so, then why aren't they porting it over to x86 ? I want my hands on this!
Just drop by any half-decent electronics shop and buy a 40-pin connector. Remove the old guy, solder in the new one, then cross your fingers and plug it in (not in that particular order).
Just be careful when moving the circuit board away from the steel casing. As long as you don't expose the platters you should be fine.
Blame it on the Karma Kap (tm). I have nothing better to do since I've been at 50 for ages.
No they don't. MP3 players are indie music's greatest stimulant. Why ? Because indie artists post their music to newsgroups and websites for FREE, to make themselves heard and hopefully gain a following of loyal fans.
Just look at the russian group PPK, whose dance tune "Resurrection" went from an MP3.com top-charter to a dancefloor hit, playing nightly in clubs around the world. I personally think it's not _that_ good, but the important bit here is that they broke out on their own, with very little commercial promotion. They're not an RIAA-manufactured shite band, they handle their own production and they sell vinyl to DJ's for _COMMERCIAL USE_. Anyone can download the tunes for free on their website, and zip them over to their Rio, Nomad or Music Keg.
Nothing in that process entitles Hilary Rosen's minions to a single penny. The RIAA did nothing to help this band out, indeed the critical mass of RIAA-produced crap only serves to flood the market and shroud the indie productions.
Indie bands should start suing the RIAA before it becomes practically infeasible to even produce your own music. Why should _WE_ pay the RIAA when it is they who are raping our ears ?
There's another argument against the law : It will severely hurt retail electronics sales. MP3 players are a hot item at every Future Shop and other megastores. If they are suddenly taxed to hell, people just won't buy them anymore and the retailers will start throwing lawyers around.
Indeed, she just capitalized on the highly mediatized suicide of Mr Cobain, and has been riding the waves ever since. Nobody knew her before that event, because her stuff sucked. Now that she's a 'star', people suddenly think she's intelligent and talented. I wouldn't even toss her a dollar if she were singing on the street.
Indeed, Americans spew alot more bullshit!
The problem is simple : CRT's work with scanlines, not pixels. They need an analog source, just like a TV set. LCD's on the other hand are directly adressable matrices of pixels, perfectly suited for digital transmission.
For a CRT, doing the D/A conversion inside the monitor is asking for trouble. Do you realize how much current is charged up inside that box ? I think it would be an electronic challenge to perform reliable data conversion within inches of the tube.
Sure, maybe the first to display infinite recursion in its acronym, but it still doesn't make any sense. Might as well call it the DONK "Dumb Ol' NERD Kit" where NERD = "Not Every Retard's DONK"
Nonsense is nonsense, no matter how many times you repeat it.
I'm curious : How can we tell that this 'bright light' is the same as the comet we're seeing now ? I say the next big bright space light I see, I'll name it the Billco Comet so that confused people in another 300 years can say "Hey, some idiot named Billco thought this mars lander was a comet. Ha!"
Bah.. perhaps, but I'd still go weekly if there were something worth half-watching, but there isn't. Instead I've been filling up my 'entertainment' time playing DDR at the local arcade.. which is even less intellectually stimulating. oh well
That is so very gay.. it's INIGO, as in "Not blue". Luckily geeks don't dig college football, else you would be swimming in tomatoes by now.
I don't mind, the Chinese can have USA, as long as they don't 'invade' Canada, else we'll have to unleash an army of Great Beavers upon them.