I suspect there's going to be some amount of redundancy to it, to keep people from just "unplugging" it when they're done playing. Sony might be so inclined as to encourage users to leave their Playstation on and hooked up all day (for those of us with unlimited monthly transfers on our bandwidth). Or if someone enters a level, this level is propagated to various other machines, and the communication is to keep all copies of that particular "piece" in sync. So if someone is knocked out, you can still rely on some data from other people who have been there (a little bit like multiple file sources on a P2P network).
I'm just taking a guess here. They brought the world EverCra^H^H^HQuest. It's hugely popular. Then they brought it to the Playstation 2. Sort of a proof of concept. Can we get regular home consumers to play EverQuest in their living room?. Now we have the head of the Playstation projects complaining that they're not going to have the technology to do what they want to do in the next generation of Playstation.
So they have to resort to grid computing. I'm not talking about parallel computing, where all these computers work together to accomplish tasks in a linear fashion cut up over different computers.
They've proved that online works with consoles (as have others, but anyways...). More and more people are getting broadband. Hard drives are a must to hold data, as a memory card is for game saves, not for world contents.
This leads me to my next idea. Everybody gets a PS3, and it supports grid computing. You put the game in, and you plug YOUR WORLD into the online grid. People can visit your world. Take a game like The Sims (god forbid -- I haven't played EverQuest so I'll use The Sims). Everyone has a different house, and the connections are transparent. There is no central repository where everybody meets. Instead of people meeting at one place, they all go their separate ways and meet up with disparate lands housed mostly on a single person's PS2. You plug into the grid, your world, your contributions, your skills, your "power" (as in electricity, as an analogy) is fed to the entire grid, and everyone can benefit from it.
No more arranging rendezvous points. You want to play with a friend, you go to his console online. Strangers walk by, and they aren't fed data from the server -- they're fed data from you. The server manages the protocols and game updates, but everyone who has the game contributes a piece of the puzzle. If one of your friends unplugs his machine from the grid, you lose a core piece of your game. No more lands stored on disc. They're all on the hard drive, and are created and grown by you to give to other people in an online experience.
Or I could be full of shit. I know I'm going to regret not posting AC...
I think the real story was that he was in a hospital or some kind of medical research place for a visit, to promote medical research or whatnot. He looks over and sees the hyperbaric chamber, and thinks "Hey, that's pretty cool." So he climbs inside to see what it was like, and somebody snapped a picture and concocted a story purely through speculation.
So instead of actually seeking treatment, he climbed inside because he thought it would be cool (regardless whether or not he'd received treatment for burns in the past)...
What is bearing the load against the earth's gravity?
Rotational velocity. The rotation of the earth imposes an outward force on the elevator, keeping it in place. The elevator would be anchored to the earth, not anchored to the sky.
Seriously, no, I won't. After all the immense headache they caused me, I'm not going to leave them alone. "Ohh look, we released Windows XP, based on NT, our sole stable operating system, and migrated it to the normal user base!" Nope, sorry, that doesn't make up for it either.
MS is intentionally sending a crippled page to Opera. It's not a typo. When they changed the user string to "Oprah", the correct page was sent (the IE one) and rendered fine. The server is scanning the user agent string for "Opera" and sending it a crippled page purposely.
StarTropics ROCKED!... man, I couldn't get enough of that game. The music was pretty neat for the time, too. There was just something so amazing about it... adventure, puzzles, action, etc.
However, when a patented or copyrighted product is so successful that it evolves into its own economic market, succeeds in garnering a large market share, or is essential to compete in a market, the antitrust laws and the intellectual property laws collide.
So let's assume that Windows has evolved into its own economic market. The desktop user software market. Where does.NET fit in? It's targeted for a (arguably) separate market -- web service provisions (well that and a few other things).
So if they're in separate markets (they might not be, I'm not a market analyst), does the company itself, being a monopolist, justify denying them a patent upon a market they don't have a monopoly?
There is no national canadian health care system (contrary to popular belief) - just a federal law that says each province has to have one.
I'm glad you pointed it out, because it's very true. Some people I've talked to in Canada say, "I'd hate to live in the U.S... no health care!" Well, yeah, they don't have the same system as we do, but a lot of people have medical insurance. Though if you don't, my understanding is that a multimillionaire can go broke pretty quick treating a major disease.
The medicare system is, as you mentioned, province-wide. It's funded by the province, and each province has their own different system. There are complications involved in this. Let's say you live in one province and go to school (for a few years) in another province. The province you live in (permanently) will fund your medicare, and the province you go to school in (live in temporarily) will reject your application for medicare. Kind of like, "well you're going to school here, but we don't want you to use our resources when you can get your coverage in another province."
My roommate is kind of stuck in utero at the moment, because she's facing that problem. She lives in New Brunswick now, and moved from Ontario 3 years ago. When her health care expired, NB rejected her application claiming that since she was in school, she must be intending to move back to Ontario, so she'll have to apply for renewal in ON. So we had to send the NB medicare department a letter (sent three weeks ago) to prove that she's going to be living in NB permanently. We're still waiting for a reply...
My parents were in Florida, and my father became very sick while they were down there. Thankfully, they have traveller's insurance (medical), so they were able to fly home early. But before they came back to Canada, he had to see a doctor to get a certificate to prove he had a valid reason to fly back early (and thus moderately inconvenience the airline). The cost to see the doctor was $150US for one person. Kind of makes me bite my tongue the next time someone says, "Canada sucks... it's so hard to find a doctor!" when we all pretty much have free healthcare (free as in free now, not free as in we don't pay taxes for it;).
It never fades. Sunlight's ultraviolet rays trigger a chemical reaction in the Sollx film, forming a protective outer coating that won't decay.
So sunlight actually causes a reaction in the paint itself? They claim it won't decay, but still... I'd be a little uneasy about anything that actually reacts chemically to sunlight (including the paint on most cars). I'd prefer something that's inherently resistant, without the need for a chemical reaction. So does this reaction break down after awhile, only to be reactivated again the next time it's exposed to sunlight?
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Where would you like to go today? A: Fill a prescription B: Test your blood C: The morgue
I'm just taking a shot in the dark here, but I heard awhile back that some ski resorts were using bacteria to create snow. Essentially you mix near-freezing water with bacteria particles and fire it out. When the water freezes, it clings to the bacteria and forms snowflakes. These snowflakes are more natural than those created using other man-made methods, so the end result is more natural snow to ski/snowboard on. I'd be willing to bet that the method in the article is similar, though they don't really go into the specifics of flake formation.
Not sure if this helps, but I've seen several specials on TV about micro expressions (or something like that). Apparently you can't really replicate micro expressions purposely, and they don't look anything like nervousness to the trained eye. They are difficult to spot (though not so difficult with a camera that's able to slow down the action).
There's a theory that the knowledge that you're lying evokes some cognitive thoughts that sort of "leak out" into your facial expression. You can be nervous on the one hand, but still show micro expressions when you lie. Maybe a very fast curl of the muscles between your eyes, or the flip of an eyebrow, or a slight quivering of your lower lip. They're much, much faster than signs of nervousness...
NT4 will still be supported for another year... that's about as long as Red Hat's supporting 8.0 (give or take a few months).... Windows 95 has been out for... what.... 7-8 years? As another poster pointed out, if this is Microsoftish than Red Hat is moreso than Microsoft itself.
I've never bought support from Red Hat... I just d/l the discs off a mirror and go (and am building my own system in my spare time, though I need a working system in the meantime). Anything Red Hat releases you can get for free and, after all, Linux is still a vastly growing community. For RH to EOL their products in such a (comparatively) short time-frame is expected, given the rapid growth of the core Linux software.
If the distributions were dramatically different between versions on the inside, I could see why someone would be worried about a short RH EOL. But they're at the mercy of the defacto standard version (if you could call it that) of the thousands of core packages that make up the entire distribution. Everyone's trying to jump on the prelinking bandwagon offered with glibc 2.3.1 (which is a killer for a graceful upgrade), but the prelinking feature is about as far from backwards compatible as you can get.
It's a step in the right direction... who's to say the next-generation computer will be able to write its own software? Or the generation after that can design new chips that are even better than its own? Then these new generation computers will certainly give the human race a run for its money. It's going to happen... likely not by 2020, or even 2100 for that matter, but eventually...
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I suspect there's going to be some amount of redundancy to it, to keep people from just "unplugging" it when they're done playing. Sony might be so inclined as to encourage users to leave their Playstation on and hooked up all day (for those of us with unlimited monthly transfers on our bandwidth). Or if someone enters a level, this level is propagated to various other machines, and the communication is to keep all copies of that particular "piece" in sync. So if someone is knocked out, you can still rely on some data from other people who have been there (a little bit like multiple file sources on a P2P network).
I'm just taking a guess here. They brought the world EverCra^H^H^HQuest. It's hugely popular. Then they brought it to the Playstation 2. Sort of a proof of concept. Can we get regular home consumers to play EverQuest in their living room?. Now we have the head of the Playstation projects complaining that they're not going to have the technology to do what they want to do in the next generation of Playstation.
So they have to resort to grid computing. I'm not talking about parallel computing, where all these computers work together to accomplish tasks in a linear fashion cut up over different computers.
They've proved that online works with consoles (as have others, but anyways...). More and more people are getting broadband. Hard drives are a must to hold data, as a memory card is for game saves, not for world contents.
This leads me to my next idea. Everybody gets a PS3, and it supports grid computing. You put the game in, and you plug YOUR WORLD into the online grid. People can visit your world. Take a game like The Sims (god forbid -- I haven't played EverQuest so I'll use The Sims). Everyone has a different house, and the connections are transparent. There is no central repository where everybody meets. Instead of people meeting at one place, they all go their separate ways and meet up with disparate lands housed mostly on a single person's PS2. You plug into the grid, your world, your contributions, your skills, your "power" (as in electricity, as an analogy) is fed to the entire grid, and everyone can benefit from it.
No more arranging rendezvous points. You want to play with a friend, you go to his console online. Strangers walk by, and they aren't fed data from the server -- they're fed data from you. The server manages the protocols and game updates, but everyone who has the game contributes a piece of the puzzle. If one of your friends unplugs his machine from the grid, you lose a core piece of your game. No more lands stored on disc. They're all on the hard drive, and are created and grown by you to give to other people in an online experience.
Or I could be full of shit. I know I'm going to regret not posting AC...
Damn... I was going to patent it, but there's prior art!
Doesn't VMS have built-in support in its filesystem for this sort of thing?
An arbitrary experiment in contentless websites has revealed how people's emotions are unaffected by websites they cannot see...
Wait for it.... ah... slashdotted.
I think the real story was that he was in a hospital or some kind of medical research place for a visit, to promote medical research or whatnot. He looks over and sees the hyperbaric chamber, and thinks "Hey, that's pretty cool." So he climbs inside to see what it was like, and somebody snapped a picture and concocted a story purely through speculation.
So instead of actually seeking treatment, he climbed inside because he thought it would be cool (regardless whether or not he'd received treatment for burns in the past)...
What is bearing the load against the earth's gravity?
Rotational velocity. The rotation of the earth imposes an outward force on the elevator, keeping it in place. The elevator would be anchored to the earth, not anchored to the sky.
Now we'll have some goof push all the buttons on the elevator and ruin it for the rest of us...
Will you leave MS alone for a while!
Go to Oprah! Go to Oprah! Go to Oprah!
Seriously, no, I won't. After all the immense headache they caused me, I'm not going to leave them alone. "Ohh look, we released Windows XP, based on NT, our sole stable operating system, and migrated it to the normal user base!" Nope, sorry, that doesn't make up for it either.
A Tale in the Desert, formerly known as Sovereign.
MS is intentionally sending a crippled page to Opera. It's not a typo. When they changed the user string to "Oprah", the correct page was sent (the IE one) and rendered fine. The server is scanning the user agent string for "Opera" and sending it a crippled page purposely.
I am sure it will still be usefull when DukeNuken is released.
;).
Yeah, as a paperweight.
Thanks, you really set me up for that one
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;)... leave it to the non-technical writers to write a technical report.
But yeah, I know what you mean
StarTropics ROCKED!... man, I couldn't get enough of that game. The music was pretty neat for the time, too. There was just something so amazing about it... adventure, puzzles, action, etc.
However, when a patented or copyrighted product is so successful that it evolves into its own economic market, succeeds in garnering a large market share, or is essential to compete in a market, the antitrust laws and the intellectual property laws collide.
.NET fit in? It's targeted for a (arguably) separate market -- web service provisions (well that and a few other things).
So let's assume that Windows has evolved into its own economic market. The desktop user software market. Where does
So if they're in separate markets (they might not be, I'm not a market analyst), does the company itself, being a monopolist, justify denying them a patent upon a market they don't have a monopoly?
You start by claiming the sun, moon and stars
You're absolutely right. They're going to work on the stars next year.
There is no national canadian health care system (contrary to popular belief) - just a federal law that says each province has to have one.
;).
I'm glad you pointed it out, because it's very true. Some people I've talked to in Canada say, "I'd hate to live in the U.S... no health care!" Well, yeah, they don't have the same system as we do, but a lot of people have medical insurance. Though if you don't, my understanding is that a multimillionaire can go broke pretty quick treating a major disease.
The medicare system is, as you mentioned, province-wide. It's funded by the province, and each province has their own different system. There are complications involved in this. Let's say you live in one province and go to school (for a few years) in another province. The province you live in (permanently) will fund your medicare, and the province you go to school in (live in temporarily) will reject your application for medicare. Kind of like, "well you're going to school here, but we don't want you to use our resources when you can get your coverage in another province."
My roommate is kind of stuck in utero at the moment, because she's facing that problem. She lives in New Brunswick now, and moved from Ontario 3 years ago. When her health care expired, NB rejected her application claiming that since she was in school, she must be intending to move back to Ontario, so she'll have to apply for renewal in ON. So we had to send the NB medicare department a letter (sent three weeks ago) to prove that she's going to be living in NB permanently. We're still waiting for a reply...
My parents were in Florida, and my father became very sick while they were down there. Thankfully, they have traveller's insurance (medical), so they were able to fly home early. But before they came back to Canada, he had to see a doctor to get a certificate to prove he had a valid reason to fly back early (and thus moderately inconvenience the airline). The cost to see the doctor was $150US for one person. Kind of makes me bite my tongue the next time someone says, "Canada sucks... it's so hard to find a doctor!" when we all pretty much have free healthcare (free as in free now, not free as in we don't pay taxes for it
It never fades. Sunlight's ultraviolet rays trigger a chemical reaction in the Sollx film, forming a protective outer coating that won't decay.
So sunlight actually causes a reaction in the paint itself? They claim it won't decay, but still... I'd be a little uneasy about anything that actually reacts chemically to sunlight (including the paint on most cars). I'd prefer something that's inherently resistant, without the need for a chemical reaction. So does this reaction break down after awhile, only to be reactivated again the next time it's exposed to sunlight?
Where would you like to go today?
A: Fill a prescription
B: Test your blood
C: The morgue
I'm just taking a shot in the dark here, but I heard awhile back that some ski resorts were using bacteria to create snow. Essentially you mix near-freezing water with bacteria particles and fire it out. When the water freezes, it clings to the bacteria and forms snowflakes. These snowflakes are more natural than those created using other man-made methods, so the end result is more natural snow to ski/snowboard on. I'd be willing to bet that the method in the article is similar, though they don't really go into the specifics of flake formation.
Not sure if this helps, but I've seen several specials on TV about micro expressions (or something like that). Apparently you can't really replicate micro expressions purposely, and they don't look anything like nervousness to the trained eye. They are difficult to spot (though not so difficult with a camera that's able to slow down the action).
There's a theory that the knowledge that you're lying evokes some cognitive thoughts that sort of "leak out" into your facial expression. You can be nervous on the one hand, but still show micro expressions when you lie. Maybe a very fast curl of the muscles between your eyes, or the flip of an eyebrow, or a slight quivering of your lower lip. They're much, much faster than signs of nervousness...
NT4 will still be supported for another year... that's about as long as Red Hat's supporting 8.0 (give or take a few months).... Windows 95 has been out for... what.... 7-8 years? As another poster pointed out, if this is Microsoftish than Red Hat is moreso than Microsoft itself.
I've never bought support from Red Hat... I just d/l the discs off a mirror and go (and am building my own system in my spare time, though I need a working system in the meantime). Anything Red Hat releases you can get for free and, after all, Linux is still a vastly growing community. For RH to EOL their products in such a (comparatively) short time-frame is expected, given the rapid growth of the core Linux software.
If the distributions were dramatically different between versions on the inside, I could see why someone would be worried about a short RH EOL. But they're at the mercy of the defacto standard version (if you could call it that) of the thousands of core packages that make up the entire distribution. Everyone's trying to jump on the prelinking bandwagon offered with glibc 2.3.1 (which is a killer for a graceful upgrade), but the prelinking feature is about as far from backwards compatible as you can get.
largenay ouray enispay inay ivefay easy inutesmay!
Unfortunately, I was never very good at latin...
It's a step in the right direction... who's to say the next-generation computer will be able to write its own software? Or the generation after that can design new chips that are even better than its own? Then these new generation computers will certainly give the human race a run for its money. It's going to happen... likely not by 2020, or even 2100 for that matter, but eventually...
It wouldn't be fun... you'd have to break out of battle every five minutes to let your sims go to the bathroom and grab something to eat.