I'll have to search the constitution for "robot overlord".
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Does natural mean biological too? The age of 35 cpu-years (that 80 core intel could do that pretty quickly)? 14 years memory-resident?
Please explain how you got burned because I'm considering an AM2 based mini-server for home. Burned as in going from 939->AM2 chipset isn't compatible? Price?
I see your point of "ads everywhere", however I'm going to stay optimistic here. So let's say they ship a utility that lets you manage this spiffy new keyboard. It might look like a 3rd party mouse control panel, N52 gamepad, Palm Sync app. I doubt very much that it would allow automatic flash.swf syncing, not to mention a flash player engine on the keyboard itself.
Allow if it did, someone would write adblock to block the ads or TiVo for keyboards to skip the ads using magical time-shifting techniques.
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" Fry: "Not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And t-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!"
That will be next. An OLED dreamcatcher from Optimus that you hang on your bed, bluetooth enabled for maximum R.E.M. product placement bandwidth to the OBEY chip in your skull.
Thanks, I learned something today: [wikipedia] In AT&T syntax:
lock cmpxchg8b %eax
"The cmpxchg8b instruction is used to compare the value in the edx and eax registers with an 8-byte value at some memory location. In this example a 4-byte register is used as the destination operand, which is not big enough to store the 8-byte result. Under normal circumstances, this instruction would simply result in an exception; however, when used with the lock prefix (normally used to prevent two processors from interfering with the same memory location), the exception handler is never called, the processor stops servicing interrupts and the system must be rebooted to recover."
Perhaps it's going both ways. The author could play a casual cell phone game (which is becoming popular) but he doesn't want to. He aches to do the marathon gaming of yore. Pong didn't make Bradley Games any money.
If you play WoW, you definitely understand the casual vs hardcore holy war. I'll leave that subject alone.
"Most games feel like interactive movies". Yeah, good point. The term photo-realistic hints at photography, which maybe it shouldn't do to begin with. However there are many, many exceptions. Sandbox games don't play like movies (gta, dead rising, tony hawk) but I think that's because they put less emphasis on the cut-scene. Hardware is finally allowing the intro to be real-time rendered and look like something you'd believe in a movie seat. We're trained for the movie look because we've been raised that way and we like it (I'll guess function of lens vs human eye, emotion through compositing, close ties with the classical soundtrack). I'm out of my league in film.
But I see your point in "press a and watch the scene, press b and watch the scene". But online, sandbox and casual games aren't like that.
RTFA. The very least thing he complains about is length. So some cliffnotes are in order.
His points (as a person with a job, life, kids) are: - puzzles many times take him much longer than kids in the 6-17 range he compares himself to. - he compares in-depth games to his job, dumping information in and out of his mental RAM doesn't get him very far. See: late-night or off-shift coders who work to avoid users/meetings/interruptions. - he understands the hardcore vs casual design problem.
TFA isn't even that long but his really good point (imho) aren't in the title (which is Gamer not Game). But if you just read the title, then you miss the point. Great read, critical hit close to home.
The language is a symptom of the tension. The tension is from the colonial past. The colonial past is a result of picking the nearest geographically, strongest physically, easiest to exploit people. The skin color is completely arbitrary. If Africans were purple and strong, Europeans would have still done horrible crimes against them and cause present racial tension. However, color is still arbitrary and that helps racism so much to realize the dumb luck of it all and that other places have their own colonial tension too.
Eventually, we'll all be tanish eskimo-like people with the strength of all races from the strongest genes. And then we'll be sexist exclusively, able to focus all of our hate on one difference instead of many.:P
Try reformatting, how true. Windows XP,2000,98, (and lesser extent 95) all seem to die slowly after 6 months of installing, uninstalling, playing with, tweaking. Performance stinks, weird bugs pop up. I see none of this elsewhere. Linux (source based distros and binary) have a 'clean' feature that kills InstallShield or uninstall. Remove Oracle on Windows, it's a 12 step unofficial process, on Solaris it's much less and you know it's gone. Windows even has that "this file might not be used anymore, want to remove it?" which isn't standardized on uninstallers. It's a huge freaking mess and it just slows to a halt in what I would consider normal usage.
So I reinstall XP 2x a year. Gentoo takes a couple of days to compile everything but I can rip the OS back down to useless cleanly. Mac is just putting along on my old hardware, with only.plist preference files hanging around, a filling HDD and too much running at once (my own faults), but no reinstall even after a 10.3 to 10.4 upgrade.
Drive-by rootkits are so much easier when the browser is in bed with the OS and you don't have a sudo-like model. Besides, the concept of "worms" is mostly outside of user error/training. A worm that installs on default configurations of an OS would propogate much faster than one that required "some package" or "some app". Or maybe the Mötley Crüe speaks for itself: Melissa $80M, Nimba$590M, Slammer $750M, Code Red $2.5B, I loveYou $2.6B to $10B. The meaning of these worms might differ on personal experience, nimba was supremely annoying at an old shop, complicated by old and mysterious boxes and "day admins" who are just there to collect a check, not caring about the idealism of switching off of c:\dos (which is hard). Getting OT.
Despite the obvious sarcasm, the first thing I thought was ".mobi is evidence DNS is broken". No one's.com blog is commercial, the xxx stuff won't work for the common good and.mobi is 4/6th of mobile. s/sux/broken/ although it's a "broken" system that's working.
Yeah, I thought exactly the same thing when I was reading the guide. I paused, used sample sentences (as you did) and concluded that the style guide would be universally ignored (as they did).
Working form at 14cm by 14cm? To quote: roughly the size of a Palm Pilot? Also I don't see any details except an allusion to "the way silicon chips are made". Do you have more on this Wired article?
Many of the laser technologies in other areas are safe (don't go testing), in Fiber switches in SANs, telecom switches, cards are usually 'safe'. But who knows what amplification is in the line? You could easy amplify (I suppose) an unsafe laser so it burns a nice gray spot forever. Good question although I don't know if anyone is concerned about the current state of affairs; getting electrocuted by your FSB / PCI-whatever bus?
"I am of course talking about the Wii (pronounced as we), which while perhaps being the strangest name... [snip]"
Alert, alert! They call it "THE Wii" when the Nintendo Wii style guide explicitly says to call it just plain "Wii". Deploy the style sentinel drones of doom!
But then the 80s car smells like hell. Modern oxidation catalysts have solved (I don't know when?) the "oil smell" that everyone thinks of. Of course, it still sounds like a truck. 80s era smells (oil), sounds (putta putta) and looks (smoke) non-accessible imho.
Hrm. A lot of these things on this list are manufacturing. USA's bread and butter export is services, the last time I checked (which was a while ago). I'm not a USA flag waver but I don't even see the soft-service type stuff on here. Certainly, the "only in America" stuff is just something Americans say to other Americans. You can't blame us, we're in a cultural feedback loop (cept some good BBC content).
"I have heard rumour that US would not be able to produce a microchip if the foreign companies involved pulled out." Maybe not cheaply. Intel could probably crank out any chip they wanted to but a $100 motherboard would cost $500 or something because we'd have to pay for American labor.
With Intel, AMD, IBM, Crucial (Micron USA chips), Cisco. We almost have all the major components to build a computer, display, network and keep the net up. Arguably, many of these companies are probably using foreign chips. But foreign designed chips or foreign manufactured chips?
LG is south korean, Philips is Netherlands we'd lose some display tech there. VIA is taiwan, I think Intel/AMD could compete on some level. This is all speculation. I mean, a lot of these companies are probably integrators and they ship off the manufacturing somewhere else. I have no clue as to what the impact would be if we just closed our borders. I'd imagine that all the tech companies "could" do the work, just the prices would sky-rocket.
But come on, you think the US Military uses foreign chips? At the critical level, no. And they make it work (expensively).
Yeah FFX-2 was pretty bad imo. Dresspheres, your character's (all girls) abilities depend on what outfit you wear. I got through it, didn't do any side quests. FFXI was a horrible exercise in grinding, my first exposure to an MMO, and I quit for the more life-wife-friendly game of WoW. Crystal Cronicles(GC) was horrific. So you're right so far.
However, I can't comment on FFXII. I played the demo, was impressed in a great way, but I've avoided any more contact, previews for spoiling reasons. My hope is that they pull a PS3: release great product in a time of criticism and quiet the crowd.
Comment struck me as aligned with my own thinking. FastCar, great point. NES, another good point. Sucker buy a ps3, yep that's me. RPG, yep. Wrong in thinking it will sell out, yeah, I'm hoping too so I don't have to wait until 2007 (see: consumerism).
At the risk of sounding lame, adding you as a friend.
I could see mouse gestures with the wiimote, but only as an aux device. Maybe turn the wiimote like a double-saber for a defense stance (warrior), or whatever keybindings. I'd have to give this some more thought, but both hands are on the keyboard and mouse. Having a third device would be like having a glass of water, you kinda interact with it but then put it down quickly when action heats up: "oh crap! [put glass of water down] here comes a boss! [both hands on keyboard]"
I think the release of the Wii into the Wiild wiill inspire some innovation in human interface devices.
I agree. I felt the same way during the net neutrality debate (maybe it's not over). Take this article. He says fast lanes exist (referring to the issue of preferential protocols etc)
Case in point: Akamai. If you are a big Web content provider such as Google, Yahoo or CNN, you can afford to use Akamai's services, which house content in places near the end users. If you are a startup, you may not be able to use Akamai. Take it one step further: If Congress says there's no fast lane, does that mean Akamai can't exist? Hmmm.
This is a gross error in understanding the low-level issue. Slowing down bittorrent because of media giant lobbying and other political based censorship (essentially) is so much different than Akamai which is nothing more than content hosting. The telecoms could give a fast-lane by slowing down "unimportant" content, where Akamai gives a fast-lane by hosting big filetypes (like images, movies).
I know they are two totally seperate issues but once you start getting into sound-bites and politics the technical truths get boiled off to fiction. It's exactly the same as your comment, half-truths in popular issues.
Slashdot Mirror
You can only check for the existence of /dev/jesus through /dev/faith.
Does natural mean biological too? The age of 35 cpu-years (that 80 core intel could do that pretty quickly)? 14 years memory-resident?
Good point on the audio book but I see the audio book's main strength in the car. Does anyone else use it differently?
Please explain how you got burned because I'm considering an AM2 based mini-server for home. Burned as in going from 939->AM2 chipset isn't compatible? Price?
I see your point of "ads everywhere", however I'm going to stay optimistic here. So let's say they ship a utility that lets you manage this spiffy new keyboard. It might look like a 3rd party mouse control panel, N52 gamepad, Palm Sync app. I doubt very much that it would allow automatic flash .swf syncing, not to mention a flash player engine on the keyboard itself.
Allow if it did, someone would write adblock to block the ads or TiVo for keyboards to skip the ads using magical time-shifting techniques.
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
Fry: "Not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And t-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!"
That will be next. An OLED dreamcatcher from Optimus that you hang on your bed, bluetooth enabled for maximum R.E.M. product placement bandwidth to the OBEY chip in your skull.
[wikipedia] In AT&T syntax: "The cmpxchg8b instruction is used to compare the value in the edx and eax registers with an 8-byte value at some memory location. In this example a 4-byte register is used as the destination operand, which is not big enough to store the 8-byte result. Under normal circumstances, this instruction would simply result in an exception; however, when used with the lock prefix (normally used to prevent two processors from interfering with the same memory location), the exception handler is never called, the processor stops servicing interrupts and the system must be rebooted to recover."
Perhaps it's going both ways. The author could play a casual cell phone game (which is becoming popular) but he doesn't want to. He aches to do the marathon gaming of yore. Pong didn't make Bradley Games any money.
If you play WoW, you definitely understand the casual vs hardcore holy war. I'll leave that subject alone.
"Most games feel like interactive movies". Yeah, good point. The term photo-realistic hints at photography, which maybe it shouldn't do to begin with. However there are many, many exceptions. Sandbox games don't play like movies (gta, dead rising, tony hawk) but I think that's because they put less emphasis on the cut-scene. Hardware is finally allowing the intro to be real-time rendered and look like something you'd believe in a movie seat. We're trained for the movie look because we've been raised that way and we like it (I'll guess function of lens vs human eye, emotion through compositing, close ties with the classical soundtrack). I'm out of my league in film.
But I see your point in "press a and watch the scene, press b and watch the scene". But online, sandbox and casual games aren't like that.
RTFA. The very least thing he complains about is length. So some cliffnotes are in order.
His points (as a person with a job, life, kids) are:
- puzzles many times take him much longer than kids in the 6-17 range he compares himself to.
- he compares in-depth games to his job, dumping information in and out of his mental RAM doesn't get him very far. See: late-night or off-shift coders who work to avoid users/meetings/interruptions.
- he understands the hardcore vs casual design problem.
TFA isn't even that long but his really good point (imho) aren't in the title (which is Gamer not Game). But if you just read the title, then you miss the point. Great read, critical hit close to home.
The language is a symptom of the tension. The tension is from the colonial past. The colonial past is a result of picking the nearest geographically, strongest physically, easiest to exploit people. The skin color is completely arbitrary. If Africans were purple and strong, Europeans would have still done horrible crimes against them and cause present racial tension. However, color is still arbitrary and that helps racism so much to realize the dumb luck of it all and that other places have their own colonial tension too.
:P
Eventually, we'll all be tanish eskimo-like people with the strength of all races from the strongest genes. And then we'll be sexist exclusively, able to focus all of our hate on one difference instead of many.
Excellent commentary.
Try reformatting, how true. Windows XP,2000,98, (and lesser extent 95) all seem to die slowly after 6 months of installing, uninstalling, playing with, tweaking. Performance stinks, weird bugs pop up. I see none of this elsewhere. Linux (source based distros and binary) have a 'clean' feature that kills InstallShield or uninstall. Remove Oracle on Windows, it's a 12 step unofficial process, on Solaris it's much less and you know it's gone. Windows even has that "this file might not be used anymore, want to remove it?" which isn't standardized on uninstallers. It's a huge freaking mess and it just slows to a halt in what I would consider normal usage.
.plist preference files hanging around, a filling HDD and too much running at once (my own faults), but no reinstall even after a 10.3 to 10.4 upgrade.
So I reinstall XP 2x a year. Gentoo takes a couple of days to compile everything but I can rip the OS back down to useless cleanly. Mac is just putting along on my old hardware, with only
But my experience isn't truth.
Drive-by rootkits are so much easier when the browser is in bed with the OS and you don't have a sudo-like model. Besides, the concept of "worms" is mostly outside of user error/training. A worm that installs on default configurations of an OS would propogate much faster than one that required "some package" or "some app". Or maybe the Mötley Crüe speaks for itself: Melissa $80M, Nimba$590M, Slammer $750M, Code Red $2.5B, I loveYou $2.6B to $10B. The meaning of these worms might differ on personal experience, nimba was supremely annoying at an old shop, complicated by old and mysterious boxes and "day admins" who are just there to collect a check, not caring about the idealism of switching off of c:\dos (which is hard). Getting OT.
Despite the obvious sarcasm, the first thing I thought was ".mobi is evidence DNS is broken". No one's .com blog is commercial, the xxx stuff won't work for the common good and .mobi is 4/6th of mobile. s/sux/broken/ although it's a "broken" system that's working.
Yeah, I thought exactly the same thing when I was reading the guide. I paused, used sample sentences (as you did) and concluded that the style guide would be universally ignored (as they did).
Has a laser diode ever been on a Silicon (only) substrate?
Working form at 14cm by 14cm? To quote: roughly the size of a Palm Pilot? Also I don't see any details except an allusion to "the way silicon chips are made". Do you have more on this Wired article?
Many of the laser technologies in other areas are safe (don't go testing), in Fiber switches in SANs, telecom switches, cards are usually 'safe'. But who knows what amplification is in the line? You could easy amplify (I suppose) an unsafe laser so it burns a nice gray spot forever. Good question although I don't know if anyone is concerned about the current state of affairs; getting electrocuted by your FSB / PCI-whatever bus?
"I am of course talking about the Wii (pronounced as we), which while perhaps being the strangest name ... [snip]"
Alert, alert! They call it "THE Wii" when the Nintendo Wii style guide explicitly says to call it just plain "Wii". Deploy the style sentinel drones of doom!
inaccessible is a better word... >_<
But then the 80s car smells like hell. Modern oxidation catalysts have solved (I don't know when?) the "oil smell" that everyone thinks of. Of course, it still sounds like a truck. 80s era smells (oil), sounds (putta putta) and looks (smoke) non-accessible imho.
Hrm. A lot of these things on this list are manufacturing. USA's bread and butter export is services, the last time I checked (which was a while ago). I'm not a USA flag waver but I don't even see the soft-service type stuff on here. Certainly, the "only in America" stuff is just something Americans say to other Americans. You can't blame us, we're in a cultural feedback loop (cept some good BBC content).
"I have heard rumour that US would not be able to produce a microchip if the foreign companies involved pulled out." Maybe not cheaply. Intel could probably crank out any chip they wanted to but a $100 motherboard would cost $500 or something because we'd have to pay for American labor.
With Intel, AMD, IBM, Crucial (Micron USA chips), Cisco. We almost have all the major components to build a computer, display, network and keep the net up. Arguably, many of these companies are probably using foreign chips. But foreign designed chips or foreign manufactured chips?
LG is south korean, Philips is Netherlands we'd lose some display tech there. VIA is taiwan, I think Intel/AMD could compete on some level. This is all speculation. I mean, a lot of these companies are probably integrators and they ship off the manufacturing somewhere else. I have no clue as to what the impact would be if we just closed our borders. I'd imagine that all the tech companies "could" do the work, just the prices would sky-rocket.
But come on, you think the US Military uses foreign chips? At the critical level, no. And they make it work (expensively).
Yeah FFX-2 was pretty bad imo. Dresspheres, your character's (all girls) abilities depend on what outfit you wear. I got through it, didn't do any side quests. FFXI was a horrible exercise in grinding, my first exposure to an MMO, and I quit for the more life-wife-friendly game of WoW. Crystal Cronicles(GC) was horrific. So you're right so far.
However, I can't comment on FFXII. I played the demo, was impressed in a great way, but I've avoided any more contact, previews for spoiling reasons. My hope is that they pull a PS3: release great product in a time of criticism and quiet the crowd.
Comment struck me as aligned with my own thinking. FastCar, great point. NES, another good point. Sucker buy a ps3, yep that's me. RPG, yep. Wrong in thinking it will sell out, yeah, I'm hoping too so I don't have to wait until 2007 (see: consumerism).
At the risk of sounding lame, adding you as a friend.
I could see mouse gestures with the wiimote, but only as an aux device. Maybe turn the wiimote like a double-saber for a defense stance (warrior), or whatever keybindings. I'd have to give this some more thought, but both hands are on the keyboard and mouse. Having a third device would be like having a glass of water, you kinda interact with it but then put it down quickly when action heats up: "oh crap! [put glass of water down] here comes a boss! [both hands on keyboard]"
I think the release of the Wii into the Wiild wiill inspire some innovation in human interface devices.
This is a gross error in understanding the low-level issue. Slowing down bittorrent because of media giant lobbying and other political based censorship (essentially) is so much different than Akamai which is nothing more than content hosting. The telecoms could give a fast-lane by slowing down "unimportant" content, where Akamai gives a fast-lane by hosting big filetypes (like images, movies).
I know they are two totally seperate issues but once you start getting into sound-bites and politics the technical truths get boiled off to fiction. It's exactly the same as your comment, half-truths in popular issues.