It's no surprize to me at all that they don't take off!
Every ad that I've seen shows something like a guy drawing on his hand or somesuch to take an important note, and comparing it with him taking the same note on a tablet PC.
If you're going to lug a tablet PC around with you, I don't think it's unreasonable to figure that you could probably remember to carry a good old fashioned notepad. You know. The kind with paper and a pen.
Since the only way they market themselves is basically a $2000 pad of paper, I think it's pretty obvious that nobody's biting..
Heh, sorry. The line between -1 Troll and +1 Funny grows thinner and thinner by the day, I'm afraid. Especially at 2 am or whenever the hell I was reading last night;)
Completely untrue. You've either never played DDR, or never played Simon.
In Simon, a series of tones/lights/buttons is played out.
Then you play the same series back to it. Simon is wholly a memorization game. You don't even need to do it at the same speed as the machine played its series to you.
DDR, on the other hand, is completely real-time. As the arrows are moving up the screen, you've got to hit them in time to the beats. It's not about memorization, it's about reacting quickly. (Arguably, one could say that you've got to memorize certain tricky parts of some songs, but that goes for any game, really.)
Do they both involve hitting buttons? Sure. But frankly, I think that's about where the similarities between the two end.
Not to mention that Simon has all of four notes, whereas DDR is a full cd-quality audio system...
In the early days of the Internet, commercial sites wanted to get funding. Sooo, some bright light thought to put a little banner at the top of each page. Then people started ignoring them.
Funny how capitalism works, they just found another way to get funding.
Little ads that flash brightly.
Little ads that play music.
Pop up ads.
Ads that fly over your screen like an annoying bug.
Ads that you have to wait for the whole giant thing to load before you can click through to an article or other page you want.
Yes, if enough folks skipped ads, they'd just find another way to get funding. But frankly, the response always seems to be "make the ads *more* invasive," not "more creative."
As time goes on, nothing *better* will come, just more annoying.
Oh, and the alternative, the networks dying, isn't exactly "just fine" either, because then that TiVo you bought doesn't do you much good, if nothing's on TV to watch, is it?:)
I'm curious.... if you have Read access on a file, and somewhere else on the drive you've got Write access to a directory, how couldn't you copy the file?
Why have Copy be a separate right?
(What good would it be for you to be able to duplicate a file you couldn't read? Seems to me that you'd implicitly have Copy if you have Read, and vice versa...)
In Java this is solved brillantly exactly throught this way. The same is ==, and alike is equals().
Frankly, I fail to see the brilliance of it. Native types still use == for alike...
So if I have code like:
int x = 13; int y = 12;
return x == y;
It works as I expect it should.
However, if I suddenly have to change those x and y to Integer objects (I don't know, maybe I need to store them in a vector), now I have to change that last line so it all reads:
Integer x = new Integer(13); Integer y = new Integer(12);
return x.equals(y);
Now that I've changed the types for x and y, I suddenly have to change how I use them, which shouldn't be the case in a consistent model.
The SDI is a Bush initiative. Before that, it was the initiative of the other republican presidents. The project was not given a cent under Clinton (a democrat).
So, yes, it was anti-Bush propaganda, because Bush wants the SDI.
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I'd have to disagree with you. I've seen the videos from past RoboCup tournaments, and frankly, they're fascinating to me.
I think that watching the robots play is at least as entertaining as watching real soccer (of course, if you don't like watching any sports, well, can't blame you for not enjoying the roboversion..). I think it's simply amazing to watch a group of robots work as a team and form plays, some of which are very inventive.
Then some dumbass decided to combine the two, and it became Pinky, Elmira, and the Brain. So now instead of Brain trying to take over the world and Pinky bumbling along with him, it's the same thing... but with them having to deal with an annoying as sh*t character who wants to hug them every five seconds. Added nothing to the plot, and took a great deal away from the focus. That was when I stopped watching.:(
P.S. -- Those three cartoon episodes you mentioned were hillarious. I can recall each one:)
A friend and I were both in the same CS class last semester. With the exception of a couple variable names, we turned in practically line-for-line copies of one another; and neither of us were cheating. We each started totally from scratch.
(I know his code was similar because he asked me to help him trace an exception at some point after I was already done.)
As for the idea that open source software should be exempt - I doubt that you'd accept the idea that cars should be exempt from safety standard if they provided you with the blueprints:-)
But if a friend of mine built me a car and gave it to me for free, I'm certainly not going to hold it to the same standards as a car made by GM or Ford.
If it blows up, well, a friend made it. T.S.
The liability of the software company should be some function of A) how much they paid for the software, and B) how expensive the system is that it's running.
So, if you pay $5000 for a software package, they're more liable for damages than if you only paid them $50.
And... if you didn't pay anything cuz you just downloaded slackware, wel, $0 X anything is still $0.
(This would, however, put an onus on Redhat et al who do charge for boxed copies to make sure it's reliable. But, that's their whole game -- creating a support infrastructure for Linux.)
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
Visually speaking? Perhaps.
However, some games sample the user input in between drawing frames. More frames means less time between input sampling, so you have better responsiveness to user input (Which can be critical).
Hard drives are not the fastest or most reliable piece in you computers, but they are definately not the worst or slowest
You so sure about that? There are several dozen computers on my floor of my dorm. I've seen several hard-drive exchanges over the course of this year. Other components repaired/exchanged/etc? Maybe one or two. And those obvious signs of impending failure you talk about? I and many others have had times where the drive works one day, and the next day on boot you just get the old-fashioned "Could not read drive 0." error, and suddenly you're S.O.L.
Hard drives used to be practically indestructable. However, they've now nearly obsoleted themselves by being so unreliable. Sure, they're cheaper than ever, but I'd pay 3x as much for the same drive if it gave me the peace of mind of *not failing*. Instead, I have to remember to keep backup copies of all my important data sync'd all over the place.
The founding fathers were very cautious to specifically mention individual rights, and to limit power. The early governments of the United States were equally cautious.
To be granted a patent (a monopoly on production of an item) required the approval of the Secretary of State, among others.
A corporation was only created for a very important matter. I mean, before the United States was its own country, the entire damn colony of Virginia was a corporation. After the founding of the United States, corporations were created to do something such as build a public work: the first one was created by the US Government on contract to build a bridge. It wasn't until practically the end of the 19th century that it became commonplace to create corporations for personal profit.
The founding fathers simply never assumed that corporations would be mutated into what they are today. A corporation in their time was a charter from a King to do a given job. Now it's given to anyone who wants to sell something.
have been the Firebirds since I think the 1960s. Therefore, we're going to have to ask IBPhoenix to change their product's name too. Damned confusing, an SQL engine and a basketball team you know.
Seriously. Who's going to accidentally end up downloading or think they're discussing a web browser when they're talking about SQL? And vice versa? Lighten the hell up already, IBPhoenix.
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It's no surprize to me at all that they don't take off!
Every ad that I've seen shows something like a guy drawing on his hand or somesuch to take an important note, and comparing it with him taking the same note on a tablet PC.
If you're going to lug a tablet PC around with you, I don't think it's unreasonable to figure that you could probably remember to carry a good old fashioned notepad. You know. The kind with paper and a pen.
Since the only way they market themselves is basically a $2000 pad of paper, I think it's pretty obvious that nobody's biting..
Congrats, you failed the section in 11th grade english when you learned about "sarcasm" :)
> don't you think the so called Department of "Defense" should consider a name change?
I nominate the "Ministry of Love."
Is my all-time favorite sci-fi writer.
Specifically, Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers.
Asimov and the Foundation series is another timeless classic...
Heh, sorry. The line between -1 Troll and +1 Funny grows thinner and thinner by the day, I'm afraid. Especially at 2 am or whenever the hell I was reading last night ;)
Completely untrue. You've either never played DDR, or never played Simon.
In Simon, a series of tones/lights/buttons is played out.
Then you play the same series back to it. Simon is wholly a memorization game. You don't even need to do it at the same speed as the machine played its series to you.
DDR, on the other hand, is completely real-time. As the arrows are moving up the screen, you've got to hit them in time to the beats. It's not about memorization, it's about reacting quickly. (Arguably, one could say that you've got to memorize certain tricky parts of some songs, but that goes for any game, really.)
Do they both involve hitting buttons? Sure. But frankly, I think that's about where the similarities between the two end.
Not to mention that Simon has all of four notes, whereas DDR is a full cd-quality audio system...
Just fine? Bullsh*t!
:)
In the early days of the Internet, commercial sites wanted to get funding. Sooo, some bright light thought to put a little banner at the top of each page. Then people started ignoring them.
Funny how capitalism works, they just found another way to get funding.
Little ads that flash brightly.
Little ads that play music.
Pop up ads.
Ads that fly over your screen like an annoying bug.
Ads that you have to wait for the whole giant thing to load before you can click through to an article or other page you want.
Yes, if enough folks skipped ads, they'd just find another way to get funding. But frankly, the response always seems to be "make the ads *more* invasive," not "more creative."
As time goes on, nothing *better* will come, just more annoying.
Oh, and the alternative, the networks dying, isn't exactly "just fine" either, because then that TiVo you bought doesn't do you much good, if nothing's on TV to watch, is it?
I'm curious.... if you have Read access on a file, and somewhere else on the drive you've got Write access to a directory, how couldn't you copy the file?
Why have Copy be a separate right?
(What good would it be for you to be able to duplicate a file you couldn't read? Seems to me that you'd implicitly have Copy if you have Read, and vice versa...)
In Java this is solved brillantly exactly throught this way. The same is ==, and alike is equals().
Frankly, I fail to see the brilliance of it. Native types still use == for alike...
So if I have code like:
int x = 13;
int y = 12;
return x == y;
It works as I expect it should.
However, if I suddenly have to change those x and y to Integer objects (I don't know, maybe I need to store them in a vector), now I have to change that last line so it all reads:
Integer x = new Integer(13);
Integer y = new Integer(12);
return x.equals(y);
Now that I've changed the types for x and y, I suddenly have to change how I use them, which shouldn't be the case in a consistent model.
My best time was 2:43.
:)
You forgot: "filling" meals, 2000 lbs of food, and 3 of each repair supply
Please explain this to me.
A CISC instruction is broken down in hardware into a series of RISC instructions.
Wouldn't it just be faster to do this at compile time? Then you wouldn't need the extra stage and could have faster chips with fewer transistors, no?
It's downmodded as a troll because likening a labor union to the mafia is considered a bit juvenile.
This page by Dan Bricklin, the creator of the famous VisiCalc program puts forth a very convincing argument against software patents in plain English.
Ooh, a troll. Well, I'll bite.
The SDI is a Bush initiative. Before that, it was the initiative of the other republican presidents. The project was not given a cent under Clinton (a democrat).
So, yes, it was anti-Bush propaganda, because Bush wants the SDI.
I'd have to disagree with you. I've seen the videos from past RoboCup tournaments, and frankly, they're fascinating to me.
I think that watching the robots play is at least as entertaining as watching real soccer (of course, if you don't like watching any sports, well, can't blame you for not enjoying the roboversion..). I think it's simply amazing to watch a group of robots work as a team and form plays, some of which are very inventive.
Pinky and the Brain used to be awesome.
:(
:)
It aired right after Tiny Toons.
Then some dumbass decided to combine the two, and it became Pinky, Elmira, and the Brain. So now instead of Brain trying to take over the world and Pinky bumbling along with him, it's the same thing... but with them having to deal with an annoying as sh*t character who wants to hug them every five seconds. Added nothing to the plot, and took a great deal away from the focus. That was when I stopped watching.
P.S. -- Those three cartoon episodes you mentioned were hillarious. I can recall each one
A friend and I were both in the same CS class last semester. With the exception of a couple variable names, we turned in practically line-for-line copies of one another; and neither of us were cheating. We each started totally from scratch.
(I know his code was similar because he asked me to help him trace an exception at some point after I was already done.)
A typo. He meant "AFAIK", or "As Far As I Know."
PEOPLE!
The Internet is PEOPLE!
As for the idea that open source software should be exempt - I doubt that you'd accept the idea that cars should be exempt from safety standard if they provided you with the blueprints :-)
But if a friend of mine built me a car and gave it to me for free, I'm certainly not going to hold it to the same standards as a car made by GM or Ford.
If it blows up, well, a friend made it. T.S.
The liability of the software company should be some function of A) how much they paid for the software, and B) how expensive the system is that it's running.
So, if you pay $5000 for a software package, they're more liable for damages than if you only paid them $50.
And... if you didn't pay anything cuz you just downloaded slackware, wel, $0 X anything is still $0.
(This would, however, put an onus on Redhat et al who do charge for boxed copies to make sure it's reliable. But, that's their whole game -- creating a support infrastructure for Linux.)
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
Visually speaking? Perhaps.
However, some games sample the user input in between drawing frames. More frames means less time between input sampling, so you have better responsiveness to user input (Which can be critical).
A possibility, but not particularly viable in my mini-tower. All the bays are full. And it's certainly not going to happen in my laptop.
Hard drives are not the fastest or most reliable piece in you computers, but they are definately not the worst or slowest
You so sure about that? There are several dozen computers on my floor of my dorm. I've seen several hard-drive exchanges over the course of this year. Other components repaired/exchanged/etc? Maybe one or two. And those obvious signs of impending failure you talk about? I and many others have had times where the drive works one day, and the next day on boot you just get the old-fashioned "Could not read drive 0." error, and suddenly you're S.O.L.
Hard drives used to be practically indestructable. However, they've now nearly obsoleted themselves by being so unreliable. Sure, they're cheaper than ever, but I'd pay 3x as much for the same drive if it gave me the peace of mind of *not failing*. Instead, I have to remember to keep backup copies of all my important data sync'd all over the place.
The founding fathers were very cautious to specifically mention individual rights, and to limit power. The early governments of the United States were equally cautious.
To be granted a patent (a monopoly on production of an item) required the approval of the Secretary of State, among others.
A corporation was only created for a very important matter. I mean, before the United States was its own country, the entire damn colony of Virginia was a corporation. After the founding of the United States, corporations were created to do something such as build a public work: the first one was created by the US Government on contract to build a bridge. It wasn't until practically the end of the 19th century that it became commonplace to create corporations for personal profit.
The founding fathers simply never assumed that corporations would be mutated into what they are today. A corporation in their time was a charter from a King to do a given job. Now it's given to anyone who wants to sell something.
have been the Firebirds since I think the 1960s. Therefore, we're going to have to ask IBPhoenix to change their product's name too. Damned confusing, an SQL engine and a basketball team you know.
Seriously. Who's going to accidentally end up downloading or think they're discussing a web browser when they're talking about SQL? And vice versa? Lighten the hell up already, IBPhoenix.