Recently I looked on my phone trying to get it to connect to my Wifi and noticed that of all the signals it was picking up (about 9) mine was the only one NOT using WEP. Its surprising that people are so incredibly clueless about the technology they use. It's not like it would take that much effort to learn a little about your router before you plug it in.
I am sure in this crowd I'll get booed...but what would I use this for? I can already stream HD video. I suppose it might be good if I was downloading HD videos for viewing later, I guess amazon is letting you do that now. But my bandwidth I get on basic FIOs is more than enough about 99% of the time. I find more often that the source is the bottleneck not my pipe. I'd rather see them focusing on widening their pipes so they can't whine and complain (or charge you to hell) when people actually use the bandwidth they're given.
So traditional pitching machines that have thrown balls just fine and are more efficient at doing so don't count? The funny thing is this is still just a purpose built arm that throws a ball sort of like a human, it can't do anything useful or anything else at all for that matter. Call me when a robot can walk out on the field and throw a ball after it finished driving itself to the ball park.
Exactly! It's not like games have been costing more lately. I remember 20 years ago buying a computer game at or around release cost....$50-60 bucks. Now? Same price. So games haven't gone up with inflation at all so if anything they cost less now than they did back then. People who sit around and complain that games cost too much are selfish morons who don't want to pay for something that costs a lot of money to make.
I constantly see comments on here about how phones and tablets are crippled devices that could never be real tools because you can't do things like programming on them. Then MS (the great and scary evil thing) makes something you can program on and now it's "lame, late, not good enough". Just come to grips with your biases please.
But think of all the security that this would bring to the world. They could just bounce the amount of money you make versus what you are spending it on and find out if there are any discrepancies. If there are discrepancies then you must be doing something bad with your money like buy drugs...or girl scout cookies. If you're doing this then you're a druggy/pedo/fatty and therefore must be jailed. If you're saving it under your mattress then you must have no faith in the system and therefore must be jailed.
Any PC with with HDMI out and a TV to attach it to is poof a HTPC. You can work your way up from there, want TV signal? Get a USB TV tuner and plug it in (Win 7 comes with media center, if you refuse to use windows there's LinuxMCE but that breaks from your easy for anybody criteria). Not sure what else you really need to make this work, that's all I did. If you don't want to build one and want something other than a desktop get a Dell Zino or Asus EEE Pc or any number of other cheap options out there.
Ok you got me on the ESPN3.com thing, I didn't think about how there was some sort of ISP interaction there...I don't give two $h!ts about sports so don't really use it much except for family members.
The Wii gives a rather limited view of the internet's content. Another walled garden. Try a media center pc and then see if you can sell it. With an HTPC you can watch ESPN3.com and get a large amount of sports, and watch msnbc shows on their site along with Netflix. It seems like everyone is over looking the obvious choice trying to use the latest wizbang (apple tv, google tv, etc etc).
Look at the terms this article uses "content hungry", "addicted", "crazed", etc. It's still portrayed as though people doing this are the super video hungry watching five screens at once out of control people. It's the exact opposite though! I made this switch and haven't looked back because I don't watch a ton of TV and when I do I want to just watch what I want to watch not whatever is on right now. When they envision people watching video over the net they get this vision of some cyber geek in the basement with neon lights all over and 20 TVs when they should be thinking about their bread and butter audience of moms, dads and kids.
It's still portrayed as though people doing this are the super video hungry watching five screens at once "crazy" people. It's the exact opposite though! I made this switch and haven't looked back because I don't watch a ton of TV and when I do I want to just watch what I want to watch not whatever is on right now. When they envision people watching video over the net they get this vision of some cyber geek in the basement with neon lights all over and 20 TVs when they should be thinking about their bread and butter audience of moms, dads and kids.
where do you work??? I work with several women (coders) and they are just like everyone else and I have seen absolutely no cases of nerdrage(/nerdlust/nerdmysogyny/nerdetc...) .
This is clearly a flawed method of evaluation....the US robots of leveled all building tall enough to need an elevator...thereby artificially skewing the metric in their favor.
I'm thinking of RPGs where violence is common but often you are fighting "for good" or saving someone or something. Is that still the same? Is it just the violence or the type of violence? Does an adventure game like King's quest teach people "good morals"?
Hear that everyone there's going to be silver for the taking in the basements of those reactors in a few hours/days. Get your pans and get in there poor uneducated people and get rich! Feel free to clean up the place while you're down there.
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Recently I looked on my phone trying to get it to connect to my Wifi and noticed that of all the signals it was picking up (about 9) mine was the only one NOT using WEP. Its surprising that people are so incredibly clueless about the technology they use. It's not like it would take that much effort to learn a little about your router before you plug it in.
They're lucky that the real culprit wasn't watching the raid and laughing at they packed their bags and moved.
I think these days stealing candy from walmart warrants a full police raid.
I am sure in this crowd I'll get booed...but what would I use this for? I can already stream HD video. I suppose it might be good if I was downloading HD videos for viewing later, I guess amazon is letting you do that now. But my bandwidth I get on basic FIOs is more than enough about 99% of the time. I find more often that the source is the bottleneck not my pipe. I'd rather see them focusing on widening their pipes so they can't whine and complain (or charge you to hell) when people actually use the bandwidth they're given.
Carbon fiber bikes already cost quite a bit...I have the feeling Graphene bikes might cost closer to a car than a bike.
If this thing could do anything other than throw a ball...like say write with a pencil or type on a keyboard then I would say this thing has a point.
So traditional pitching machines that have thrown balls just fine and are more efficient at doing so don't count? The funny thing is this is still just a purpose built arm that throws a ball sort of like a human, it can't do anything useful or anything else at all for that matter. Call me when a robot can walk out on the field and throw a ball after it finished driving itself to the ball park.
Seems interesting when you consider this along with the police story. They could yank this file and start tracing your every move.
I think that is not the speed they are talking about. They are talking about the upper limits of human travel. Not how annoying is the airport line.
Well I think the article authors would argue that a high speed railway is not exactly speedy versus the space shuttle or concorde.
Exactly! It's not like games have been costing more lately. I remember 20 years ago buying a computer game at or around release cost....$50-60 bucks. Now? Same price. So games haven't gone up with inflation at all so if anything they cost less now than they did back then. People who sit around and complain that games cost too much are selfish morons who don't want to pay for something that costs a lot of money to make.
I constantly see comments on here about how phones and tablets are crippled devices that could never be real tools because you can't do things like programming on them. Then MS (the great and scary evil thing) makes something you can program on and now it's "lame, late, not good enough". Just come to grips with your biases please.
But think of all the security that this would bring to the world. They could just bounce the amount of money you make versus what you are spending it on and find out if there are any discrepancies. If there are discrepancies then you must be doing something bad with your money like buy drugs...or girl scout cookies. If you're doing this then you're a druggy/pedo/fatty and therefore must be jailed. If you're saving it under your mattress then you must have no faith in the system and therefore must be jailed.
Slashdot has just opened up to a new demographic I think.
Any PC with with HDMI out and a TV to attach it to is poof a HTPC. You can work your way up from there, want TV signal? Get a USB TV tuner and plug it in (Win 7 comes with media center, if you refuse to use windows there's LinuxMCE but that breaks from your easy for anybody criteria). Not sure what else you really need to make this work, that's all I did. If you don't want to build one and want something other than a desktop get a Dell Zino or Asus EEE Pc or any number of other cheap options out there. Ok you got me on the ESPN3.com thing, I didn't think about how there was some sort of ISP interaction there...I don't give two $h!ts about sports so don't really use it much except for family members.
The Wii gives a rather limited view of the internet's content. Another walled garden. Try a media center pc and then see if you can sell it. With an HTPC you can watch ESPN3.com and get a large amount of sports, and watch msnbc shows on their site along with Netflix. It seems like everyone is over looking the obvious choice trying to use the latest wizbang (apple tv, google tv, etc etc).
Look at the terms this article uses "content hungry", "addicted", "crazed", etc. It's still portrayed as though people doing this are the super video hungry watching five screens at once out of control people. It's the exact opposite though! I made this switch and haven't looked back because I don't watch a ton of TV and when I do I want to just watch what I want to watch not whatever is on right now. When they envision people watching video over the net they get this vision of some cyber geek in the basement with neon lights all over and 20 TVs when they should be thinking about their bread and butter audience of moms, dads and kids.
It's still portrayed as though people doing this are the super video hungry watching five screens at once "crazy" people. It's the exact opposite though! I made this switch and haven't looked back because I don't watch a ton of TV and when I do I want to just watch what I want to watch not whatever is on right now. When they envision people watching video over the net they get this vision of some cyber geek in the basement with neon lights all over and 20 TVs when they should be thinking about their bread and butter audience of moms, dads and kids.
where do you work??? I work with several women (coders) and they are just like everyone else and I have seen absolutely no cases of nerdrage(/nerdlust/nerdmysogyny/nerdetc...) .
Ohhhh good point, hadn't noticed that, thanks for the clarification.
2011 Kia? How much of an improvement is that really over the Model T?
This is clearly a flawed method of evaluation....the US robots of leveled all building tall enough to need an elevator...thereby artificially skewing the metric in their favor.
I'm thinking of RPGs where violence is common but often you are fighting "for good" or saving someone or something. Is that still the same? Is it just the violence or the type of violence? Does an adventure game like King's quest teach people "good morals"?
Yeah my twitter respect is up too....I guess that brings it up now to the level of car dealers up from sweatshop managers.
Hear that everyone there's going to be silver for the taking in the basements of those reactors in a few hours/days. Get your pans and get in there poor uneducated people and get rich! Feel free to clean up the place while you're down there.