Did you ever bet your friend 12 floppy disks you could get some sophomore chick's underpants? (Don't worry, you'll end up with the prom queen by the end of the night)
"You just have to send packes x units of time earlier than they need to arrive where x is the known constant delay"
Wouldn't that require you to have to predict when exactly I was going to request the packet? We could arrange that ahead of time, but in that case why don't you just give me the information then.
Actually, you can't teleport anything faster than light. The guy wouldn't know he was shot until you told him through conventional methods of communication.
People here have already speculated about the possibilites of an ebay sniping, Doom playing machine. Think about the Man vs AI possibilities. Imagine playing your favorite FPS (Quake, Unreal, Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942) and being hunted by a squad of these machines. Unlike in game bots, they're subject to the same limitations you are (lag, poor visibility on screen, the strength of their hardware). If you have to ditch them, run into a cave or turn out the lights. Given an equal interface the struggle between a thinking man and a thinking machine would be a lot more interesting.
Technical measures such as DRM and P2P spoofing by the record labels are ok in my opinion as long as they don't cross the following lines:
1. They are only allowed to try and protect their own works. Any harms to the distribution of other works should not be tolerated. 2. The copy protections aren't legally mandated, allowing people to support whichever format they choose. 3. Bypassing the copy protection to do legal things with it (listen in another format, use a sample for journalistic purposes) should be allowed. (This is already illegal, due to the DMCA).
Yeah, that's not a bad idea though. Any website with a lot of links would use up a lot of memory. When he says "it crashes when I make it seven times faster" I wonder if he's actually caching 6 levels of links.
I don't think its possible that he is rendering HTML 4 times faster and if he's using standard protocols (TCP), then he can't be getting the data any faster. If this story has any truth to it at all, I'd imagine this kid wrote a very memory intensive browser that kept open most media players. If you are browsing various media types (PDF, MP3, DOC, AVI, etc.) then keeping viewers/players for each of these types in memory would make browsing faster. Most people don't leave this stuff open, because it degrades overall performance when you aren't perusing multimedia.
I use Shutterfly.com to print and share my digital photos. 4x6 prints are less than $0.50 each. Here's a link to some crummy photos I've taken with my new Canon Power Shot S200.
This paper gives a good case for gravity traveling faster than light and I'm pretty sure all the working Newtonian gravity calculations assume instantaneous gravity:
"Standard experimental techniques exist to determine the propagation speed of forces. When we apply these techniques to gravity, they all yield propagation speeds too great to measure, substantially faster than lightspeed. This is because gravity, in contrast to light, has no detectable aberration or propagation delay for its action, even for cases (such as binary pulsars) where sources of gravity accelerate significantly during the light time from source to target"
When I hear the Oscar nominees I typically try to see the movies I haven't heard much about. If I have heard of it already, chances are I've already made my mind up about it by seeing it or watching the trailers. Unlike a book, you can usually judge a movie by it's trailer.
Many times the Best Picture nominees are a lot better than the winner. Just look at 1997's group that lost to Titanic:
As Good As It Gets The Full Monty Good Will Hunting L.A. Confidential
Personally I don't think video games need an award show. There is so much gaming press on the Internet that good games rarely fall through the cracks.
He claims his son was worse off because of playing Everquest, but I couldn't find a single statement saying he thought online games should be illegal. Does anyone know if he really said this?
I hope the link you saw was to my files on MP3.com and not to their index page.
Don't like MP3.com? I don't either, but not from a listener stand point. I haven't been using close to my website's bandwidth allocation each month so maybe I will put the files right on my server and provide a link to MP3.com so visitors can use their features in addition to my locally hosted files.
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Did you ever bet your friend 12 floppy disks you could get some sophomore chick's underpants? (Don't worry, you'll end up with the prom queen by the end of the night)
"You just have to send packes x units of time earlier than they need to arrive where x is the known constant delay"
Wouldn't that require you to have to predict when exactly I was going to request the packet? We could arrange that ahead of time, but in that case why don't you just give me the information then.
"0.0 latency gaming anyone"
You can't escape latency with entanglement, but you could at least be sure no one messed with your "packets" in transit.
Actually, you can't teleport anything faster than light. The guy wouldn't know he was shot until you told him through conventional methods of communication.
People here have already speculated about the possibilites of an ebay sniping, Doom playing machine. Think about the Man vs AI possibilities. Imagine playing your favorite FPS (Quake, Unreal, Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942) and being hunted by a squad of these machines. Unlike in game bots, they're subject to the same limitations you are (lag, poor visibility on screen, the strength of their hardware). If you have to ditch them, run into a cave or turn out the lights. Given an equal interface the struggle between a thinking man and a thinking machine would be a lot more interesting.
"Karma: Bitchin' (mostly affected by your Camaro)"
best. sig. ever.
Technical measures such as DRM and P2P spoofing by the record labels are ok in my opinion as long as they don't cross the following lines:
1. They are only allowed to try and protect their own works. Any harms to the distribution of other works should not be tolerated.
2. The copy protections aren't legally mandated, allowing people to support whichever format they choose.
3. Bypassing the copy protection to do legal things with it (listen in another format, use a sample for journalistic purposes) should be allowed. (This is already illegal, due to the DMCA).
I agree completely. Beavis and Butthead should definitely be in syndication.
If you want to participate in government instead of bitching about how corporations run everything, contact your Congressman or your Senator.
Yeah, that's not a bad idea though. Any website with a lot of links would use up a lot of memory. When he says "it crashes when I make it seven times faster" I wonder if he's actually caching 6 levels of links.
I don't think its possible that he is rendering HTML 4 times faster and if he's using standard protocols (TCP), then he can't be getting the data any faster. If this story has any truth to it at all, I'd imagine this kid wrote a very memory intensive browser that kept open most media players. If you are browsing various media types (PDF, MP3, DOC, AVI, etc.) then keeping viewers/players for each of these types in memory would make browsing faster. Most people don't leave this stuff open, because it degrades overall performance when you aren't perusing multimedia.
I use Shutterfly.com to print and share my digital photos. 4x6 prints are less than $0.50 each. Here's a link to some crummy photos I've taken with my new Canon Power Shot S200.
I wouldn't take their word for it.
This paper gives a good case for gravity traveling faster than light and I'm pretty sure all the working Newtonian gravity calculations assume instantaneous gravity:
"Standard experimental techniques exist to determine the propagation speed of forces. When we apply these techniques to gravity, they all yield propagation speeds too great to measure, substantially faster than lightspeed. This is because gravity, in contrast to light, has no detectable aberration or propagation delay for its action, even for cases (such as binary pulsars) where sources of gravity accelerate significantly during the light time from source to target"
When I hear the Oscar nominees I typically try to see the movies I haven't heard much about. If I have heard of it already, chances are I've already made my mind up about it by seeing it or watching the trailers. Unlike a book, you can usually judge a movie by it's trailer.
Many times the Best Picture nominees are a lot better than the winner. Just look at 1997's group that lost to Titanic:
As Good As It Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
Personally I don't think video games need an award show. There is so much gaming press on the Internet that good games rarely fall through the cracks.
"He'd know, he's the kid's father."
I agree. I wanted to know if he wanted EQ banned from the land or just his house.
"the man who said mmorpg's should be illegal because his son was 'addicted' to them"
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I never heard about this so I looked up some info on it:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/news/sdetail115
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/sto
http://www.etonline.com/television/a12770.htm
He claims his son was worse off because of playing Everquest, but I couldn't find a single statement saying he thought online games should be illegal. Does anyone know if he really said this?
"computers... are no smarter than the instructions given to them"
Neither are you or anyone else.
Well I had sex with your wife!
Someone I know said to me about Forest Gump, "Like that could ever happen."
I hope the link you saw was to my files on MP3.com and not to their index page.
Don't like MP3.com? I don't either, but not from a listener stand point. I haven't been using close to my website's bandwidth allocation each month so maybe I will put the files right on my server and provide a link to MP3.com so visitors can use their features in addition to my locally hosted files.
The Jerk store just called and they're all out of you!
Sign me up to be a "local band from all over the US (and the world)."
I've heard of C and I've heard of C++, but what is C/C++?
In the same vein I've heard of crack and I've heard of cocaine, but what is crack/cocaine?
Just a thought.
I'm pretty sure the guy is quoting Deepok Chopra when he talks about his atoms (not cells) constantly changing:
Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year. - Deepok Chopra
I thought that was a crackpot statement when I heard my Dad playing Chopra's tapes 8 years ago and I still do. Thanks for giving some good examples.
None of the atoms present in our bodies right now, were there 10 years ago.
Please explain how tattoos last longer than 10 years.