yeah, and what about the 88-key hammer-weighted option? Korg makes some fine products, but this had better include all of the features including the Triton arpeggiator and the KARMA technology before I spend the money on a 'proprietary' system. Read between the lines folks, It is likely to be a Korg front end running on a linux shell, nothing more. Also check out the OpenLabs Neko64, for similar interest.
The American Trial-Lawyers Association, foreseeing windfall profits off this technology pre-ordered 50,000 units for distribution to their members. Now the trial-lawyers have a tool to make it to the scene of an accident before the ambulances or Kerry/Edwards' lawfirm does.
So if you can't call them "ambulance chasers" anymore, what would you call them?
go even further, interactive games that happen simultaneous in real life and virtually. I believe that a previous story talked about how DoCoMo or such had location based games.
Also just think that in 10 years 1080i cameras will probably be as dirt cheap as most DV cameras today. Wireless HD video would bring out new meaning to Live reporting. no need for the camera truck and crew, just 2 people. I can predict vigilante reporting to be on the rise as well.
Inverse Impulse Response? Forget about triangulation, you could easily place a DSP in a camera to figure out where the sound came from and and track it's source.
Innovative, yes. Practical, I doubt it. Personally I would love to see a Commodore 64 hooked up through MIDI to control the SID chip from your host program like FL Studio, Cakewalk, Pro Tools, etc.. Some of the best synths I have heard came from that one chip.
...only under the right conditions, say with pure water and a super-clean glass. try throwing a sugar cube into it at temperature (from a distance of course!)
Been there done that. Caused more problems than it created. Not that my parents aren't able to do everything they need to do currently, they are quite proficient. But there are other common programs that are still IE dependent. For example, Turbo Lister.
I installed Firefox on my Mom's machine after Homeland Security's announcement recommending switching to alternative browsers from IE. She had major problems getting Turbo Lister to run correctly and apparently it was a known incompatibility. So I uninstalled Firefox and then Turbo Lister has worked fine since.
Ok, I deserved that mod. Turbines wouldn't need to be on a terribly large scale, I am thinking locally, say for example the Puget Sound. Only two points of marine entry, the 325 yard Deception Pass or the 7.5 mile wide Admiralty Inlet. Once the logistics of balancing the economy and ecology are worked out, it could produce a substantial amount of power.
I can see the risk of probing your brain, trading one for another. I would rather just have an immersive environment. If you have a computer display that covered 180 degrees of vision and had enough 3D FOV potential to cause focus cues, your head will move around a lot more than just staring at 20 of flat image in a box straight in front of you. I am not a doctor, but if you keep the intraocular fluids in great motion, like away from the computer, the risk of glaucoma could be reduced significantly. Virtual Reality, here we come!
Progress is progress, I agree. My concern, however offtopic, is the following question: What kind of conductivity is a 60,000mi carbon nanotube antenna going to have? No one seems to know for certain what kind of geomagnetic effect such a large antenna would have during solar storms. Worst case, catastrophic climate change...Best case, dazzling aurora.
Wouldn't doppler shifts due to the scale of interplanetary motion cause the wavelength of a laser beam to change its color? If so, you will need more than a telescope with just a simple receiver of, like say 650nm, to be able to pick up communications accurately. You would need a broadband receiver.
I would sure hate to see another failed mars mission due to a missed conversion between nanometers and angstroms.
Since you find this so difficult to grasp I will spell it out for you:
Unlike the very small segment of the population that will read this comment, most people are disgusted by the haranguing heard by the/. and other communities as to 'why we are so stupid for using Windows'. People don't like to be disrespected by someone who thinks they are a 'know-it-all'. Face it, that's life, that's how it's always been. People use Windows because it is extremely common, useable, and we already know how to use it. Most people don't want to know what is inside the Black Box, they just want it to work like a Black Box should and want the company making the Black Box to fix it when the Black Box breaks or is flawed.
If you really want to make a change, you might want to re-evaluate your attitude as to what the rest of the populace wants (convenience), versus what you want (fuck corporate america!) and stop thinking in an Us vs. Them mindset. Be nicer to Windows users, we are not the problem here.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It would take something this large of a scale to add enough drag to the airflow to affect climate. I still feel that there are better options to natural power, like tidal flow. The Moon still contains much more potential energy in it's motion to satisfy demands than atmospheric flow.
I think there is a simple solution to this. If you are fishing for phisherman and as soon as you find one, fire off a script that will insert bogus (but legit looking) information. Say they had a DB with 90% of the entries were valid info from their victims, you could poison their database down to 20% correct quite easily, and they will either have to scrap the whole thing or risk getting nailed by International authorities for fraud when they try to use the false info, repeatedly (which they will of course, criminals are hardly the smartest people out there).
A lowly consumer may not have much clout in getting this scum off the bottom of their shoe, but the banking industry itself has a helluva lot more leverage.
I would love to see another game from that era and the 80's is Sid Meier's Pirates!, in full 3D glory, with the same kind of gameplay. I have been able to get System Shock and Pirates Gold! to run with moderate success, assuming you save often, in DOSBox.
There is one thing that must stay consistent. Terry Brosius' phenomenal charactarization of SHODAN. To this day, that granulized, broken and haunted voice still gives me chills and makes HAL 9000 look like a Teddy Ruxpin.
I have chomping at the bit for a SS3 for many moons now.
to some degree, it is. This one they have running plots between characters, like a radio drama. Curious to know how this will tie into the game itself. But 'you' can get the archives on the main page. Week 7 starts tomorrow.
um, remember where you are. This is a board devoted to nerds and geeks who have studied all things regarding to science and just about every thing else. Atomic theory is still perhaps one of the biggest discoveries for both good and evil in the last century, and continues to be studied by many, many people.
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yeah, and what about the 88-key hammer-weighted option? Korg makes some fine products, but this had better include all of the features including the Triton arpeggiator and the KARMA technology before I spend the money on a 'proprietary' system. Read between the lines folks, It is likely to be a Korg front end running on a linux shell, nothing more. Also check out the OpenLabs Neko64, for similar interest.
...wait, do I smell popcorn?
The American Trial-Lawyers Association, foreseeing windfall profits off this technology pre-ordered 50,000 units for distribution to their members. Now the trial-lawyers have a tool to make it to the scene of an accident before the ambulances or Kerry/Edwards' lawfirm does.
So if you can't call them "ambulance chasers" anymore, what would you call them?
Also just think that in 10 years 1080i cameras will probably be as dirt cheap as most DV cameras today. Wireless HD video would bring out new meaning to Live reporting. no need for the camera truck and crew, just 2 people. I can predict vigilante reporting to be on the rise as well.
Inverse Impulse Response? Forget about triangulation, you could easily place a DSP in a camera to figure out where the sound came from and and track it's source.
Innovative, yes. Practical, I doubt it. Personally I would love to see a Commodore 64 hooked up through MIDI to control the SID chip from your host program like FL Studio, Cakewalk, Pro Tools, etc.. Some of the best synths I have heard came from that one chip.
...only under the right conditions, say with pure water and a super-clean glass. try throwing a sugar cube into it at temperature (from a distance of course!)
Been there done that. Caused more problems than it created. Not that my parents aren't able to do everything they need to do currently, they are quite proficient. But there are other common programs that are still IE dependent. For example, Turbo Lister.
I installed Firefox on my Mom's machine after Homeland Security's announcement recommending switching to alternative browsers from IE. She had major problems getting Turbo Lister to run correctly and apparently it was a known incompatibility. So I uninstalled Firefox and then Turbo Lister has worked fine since.
Does anybody else out there see the irony of Winamp.com featuring Fatboy Slim's Slash Dot Dash video on the day of getting slashdotted?
4) PROFIT!!
Progress is progress, I agree. My concern, however offtopic, is the following question: What kind of conductivity is a 60,000mi carbon nanotube antenna going to have? No one seems to know for certain what kind of geomagnetic effect such a large antenna would have during solar storms. Worst case, catastrophic climate change...Best case, dazzling aurora.
Wouldn't doppler shifts due to the scale of interplanetary motion cause the wavelength of a laser beam to change its color? If so, you will need more than a telescope with just a simple receiver of, like say 650nm, to be able to pick up communications accurately. You would need a broadband receiver.
I would sure hate to see another failed mars mission due to a missed conversion between nanometers and angstroms.
Unlike the very small segment of the population that will read this comment, most people are disgusted by the haranguing heard by the
If you really want to make a change, you might want to re-evaluate your attitude as to what the rest of the populace wants (convenience), versus what you want (fuck corporate america!) and stop thinking in an Us vs. Them mindset. Be nicer to Windows users, we are not the problem here.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It would take something this large of a scale to add enough drag to the airflow to affect climate. I still feel that there are better options to natural power, like tidal flow. The Moon still contains much more potential energy in it's motion to satisfy demands than atmospheric flow.
Besides, windmills are unsightly.
I think there is a simple solution to this. If you are fishing for phisherman and as soon as you find one, fire off a script that will insert bogus (but legit looking) information. Say they had a DB with 90% of the entries were valid info from their victims, you could poison their database down to 20% correct quite easily, and they will either have to scrap the whole thing or risk getting nailed by International authorities for fraud when they try to use the false info, repeatedly (which they will of course, criminals are hardly the smartest people out there).
A lowly consumer may not have much clout in getting this scum off the bottom of their shoe, but the banking industry itself has a helluva lot more leverage.
I think it was the fear that characters were going a little funny being in the game for 24/7, as beautifully illustrated by a recent MacHall strip.
Handhelds...they're not just for geeks anymore.
I would love to see another game from that era and the 80's is Sid Meier's Pirates!, in full 3D glory, with the same kind of gameplay. I have been able to get System Shock and Pirates Gold! to run with moderate success, assuming you save often, in DOSBox.
There is one thing that must stay consistent. Terry Brosius' phenomenal charactarization of SHODAN. To this day, that granulized, broken and haunted voice still gives me chills and makes HAL 9000 look like a Teddy Ruxpin.
I have chomping at the bit for a SS3 for many moons now.
to some degree, it is. This one they have running plots between characters, like a radio drama. Curious to know how this will tie into the game itself. But 'you' can get the archives on the main page. Week 7 starts tomorrow.
Yes, I remember that. It was later revealed that one of the Captains was actually an AI in a kangaroo suit.
You forgot one,
Imagine a beowulf cluster of yellow dogs?
Well, think about it....
could be an affordable version of a powerful audio DSP with some of the new AVEX (audio video exchange) technology coming out, like BionicFX
um, remember where you are. This is a board devoted to nerds and geeks who have studied all things regarding to science and just about every thing else. Atomic theory is still perhaps one of the biggest discoveries for both good and evil in the last century, and continues to be studied by many, many people.