I see a ton of people mentioning SF writers. I also noticed that the question was "any genre". It's astonishing that nobody has mentioned SHAKESPEARE he's only been around for, oh... 400 years? My guess is he lasts the next 50. He's only the most obvious example. Feel free to name more.
Will this version of the GC be available when the regular one is? If it IS available it would probably cause me to buy the GC instead of the XBox (depending on how the consumer version turns out) or PS2. I initially wanted the GC (Nintendo makes quality systems, not to mention quality GAMES) but the lack of a DVD player threw me a little. With the DVD on...
Just an idea, but a game with TACTICS involved, not strategy would be my favorite.. something ala Ender's Game Battle Room, where you have the same troops and resources but it's who uses troops the best.
Since the vehicle can have a moving start, just give it a good kick. This will easily move it 20 meters. (Well, maybe not easily, so get a little propulsion from the bottle too).
This is a good argument, however, it's circular reasoning:
1) People use Windows.
2) College students use Windows b/c it's what they use.
3) Colleges use Windows b/c it's what the students use.
4) People with jobs [replacing the word secretary] use Windows b/c they used it in college, and they don't want to change.
5) They teach their children to use Windows b/c that's what they use at the office and don't want a seperate OS at home.
The conclusion? Somewhere along the line a *nix system needs to be used to break the cycle. It's partially happening now, but not enough people use *nix to make a real impact on Windows use. (These few people probably also are forced to use Windows some of the time anyway). So unless a clean break can be made by a large number of people I see Windows staying the OS of choice for the near future.
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Sometimes it's necessary to turn it off. When it's on, it's good. Most ads are blocked, and pop-ups are usually replaced by $-Save Now! in the header (Blue part at top w/ info about site). Norton deserves praise for what is, IMO, a good product.
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Every time I click on the X I get logged out... I think they're saying it's the bar or no Slashdot for me. I can take a hint, I'll leave the bar : )
This looks like a good argument, and in theory I agree, but if you take the time to look at every AC comment, I'd guess 90% are crap/ flames/ pointless. I realize there are some legitimate posts, but they are vastly outweighed by the static. Anyway, if you're privacy is such a concern that you'll post as AC, why not create an account just for this purpose? I don't remeber the exact procedure, but becoming a member here only took a couple of minutes max. Not to big a time investment.
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Get an ad-blocking program. I have one that came included with my firewall (Norton Internet Security, think that's the name) and usually it blocks the all the ads. Sometimes it blocks legitimate pictures, but they're easy to call up. Instead of annoying ads I get nice white-space (BTW, ad designers, I'm more likely to glance at an ad if it's not overly cluttered, take a hint).
Also, some specifics about the pay feature would be nice, especially cost...
Music doesn't only consist of tones. It also consists of durations of notes. Mozart wouldn't be mozart if you changed whole notes to eigth notes, quarters to halves, and so on. So, unless they've also patented every single note duration/ pitch variation possibility (not likely) there are at LEAST 100,000,000,000 ^ 7 melodies. Not including dotted notes, that's ^ 14. I think.
If a million monkeys type out the source code to MS Office, Microsoft can't sue. Likewise, if you happen to create a series of dual-tone meta frequency notes using a touch-tone phone using non-copyrighted material (a phone book, your memory, etc), then that's an independant creation. Now if a telemarketer overheard you dialing, and recorded it (made a copy), then you might have something.
According to this, I think, if I check to see if my number or somebody I know's number is in there, and it is, and then I use it I'll have gotten help from copyrighted material to dial that number. I'm infringing their copyright every time I dial a number after I see it there. Q.E.D that website is a trap to make you infringe their copyright! Don't be fooled!
He probably wouldn't have been as affective on the web. From what I understand (I wasn't alive back then) the Senate hearings took place on national television, and everyone tuned in to watch. If your name was mentioned you were immediately thought a hard-core, selling the US out, Communist.
IMO, over the internet, and now with network TV, he wouldn't have such a forum to work in. He wouldn't be the ONLY news story, and networks wouldn't be able to talk for to long about him. (The Florida election thing only lasted for a few weeks/ months, and that was to elect the President.) He'd probably start big and soon be relegated to a background role, eventually falling out of the public's eye.
(Assumed all our tech was just transposed to his era. Just guess work.)
Yeah. And it's not pretty. I like having my spam condensed (mostly) into nice, easily deletable, chunks in my inbox. Telemarketers and junk mail are much harder to get rid of. Junk mail must be thrown away, and I'm a busy guy, ya know? Telemarketers have a knack for calling JUST in the middle of dinner. Email is perfect for consolidating the load. Thanks!
Please note that was a (bad?) attempt at a joke. I don't need to modded down as troll.
I often ask myself how we will communicate with our technology in the future. People usually assume that it will be voice, however this is inappropriate in many circumstances, English has so much fluff that is unnescessary when communicating with a machine - "Hello Computer, please open my email client and show me new emails for today" might be fun the first time, but doing it every day would rapidly grow tiresome.
I agree completely. However, saying, "Open E-Mail. New. Open 4. Reply. Blah Blah Blah. Send. Close E-Mail. Open Browser. www.slashdot.org" is really easy. (Except for Slashdot... maybe consider a name change soon?)
For me, this interface would be much better then mouse/ keyboard, because it's so fast. That's faster then now (I think) and it's no more, or even less, boring stuff. (Saying Open E-Mail is equivalent to clicking an icon).
That's going to be the future interface, for most basic programs, in a few years... Heck, we already have voice recognition typing software! How hard can it be to step it up a notch?
Oh, I'm also envisioning personalized commands, ie: "1" is analagous to "Open E-Mail" or something.
Let's say I'm playing CS. Not only would this help me position keys anywhere I wanted but instead of a mouse just point at the guy you want to shoot.
I've seen, somewhere, a keyboard made for gaming (central arrowkeys with conveniently placed programmable buttons around it) but this would be that all hollow. Just think about it for a second... any key, any where you wanted it! Programmable, personalized, keyboards!
(Damn, now I want one of these things sometime tomorrow).
My mom lived in England for a while (went to school there) and according to her, Universities only teach you what you need to know. Let's take, for example, becoming a doctor. In the US you'd have to do 4 years of HS, 4 of college, and at lest 4 of grad school. Over in England they do 5 years of HS and then 3 years of grad school (med school). They've cut out 4 years useless information, figuring what's the point of 4 years of English (in college) when you don't really need all those classes? I'm considering going to an English university to cut out those 4 years of college... I could be a doctor, lawyer, whatever when I'm in my early twenties.
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I've heard the police get 911 calls about this a lot.
I see a ton of people mentioning SF writers. I also noticed that the question was "any genre". It's astonishing that nobody has mentioned SHAKESPEARE he's only been around for, oh... 400 years? My guess is he lasts the next 50. He's only the most obvious example. Feel free to name more.
if it's street legal. THAT could be fun. I'm sure you'd have no problem with traffic sporting what looks like a practice tank for the army.
Will this version of the GC be available when the regular one is? If it IS available it would probably cause me to buy the GC instead of the XBox (depending on how the consumer version turns out) or PS2. I initially wanted the GC (Nintendo makes quality systems, not to mention quality GAMES) but the lack of a DVD player threw me a little. With the DVD on...
"What do droids worry about?"
Seems to me that line's almost a direct rip off of "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"
Just an idea, but a game with TACTICS involved, not strategy would be my favorite.. something ala Ender's Game Battle Room, where you have the same troops and resources but it's who uses troops the best.
Since the vehicle can have a moving start, just give it a good kick. This will easily move it 20 meters. (Well, maybe not easily, so get a little propulsion from the bottle too).
I mispell "idiat"? How am I suposed to corect meself?
This is a good argument, however, it's circular reasoning:
1) People use Windows.
2) College students use Windows b/c it's what they use.
3) Colleges use Windows b/c it's what the students use.
4) People with jobs [replacing the word secretary] use Windows b/c they used it in college, and they don't want to change.
5) They teach their children to use Windows b/c that's what they use at the office and don't want a seperate OS at home.
The conclusion? Somewhere along the line a *nix system needs to be used to break the cycle. It's partially happening now, but not enough people use *nix to make a real impact on Windows use. (These few people probably also are forced to use Windows some of the time anyway). So unless a clean break can be made by a large number of people I see Windows staying the OS of choice for the near future.
Sometimes it's necessary to turn it off. When it's on, it's good. Most ads are blocked, and pop-ups are usually replaced by $-Save Now! in the header (Blue part at top w/ info about site). Norton deserves praise for what is, IMO, a good product.
Every time I click on the X I get logged out... I think they're saying it's the bar or no Slashdot for me. I can take a hint, I'll leave the bar : )
This looks like a good argument, and in theory I agree, but if you take the time to look at every AC comment, I'd guess 90% are crap/ flames/ pointless. I realize there are some legitimate posts, but they are vastly outweighed by the static. Anyway, if you're privacy is such a concern that you'll post as AC, why not create an account just for this purpose? I don't remeber the exact procedure, but becoming a member here only took a couple of minutes max. Not to big a time investment.
Get an ad-blocking program. I have one that came included with my firewall (Norton Internet Security, think that's the name) and usually it blocks the all the ads. Sometimes it blocks legitimate pictures, but they're easy to call up. Instead of annoying ads I get nice white-space (BTW, ad designers, I'm more likely to glance at an ad if it's not overly cluttered, take a hint).
Also, some specifics about the pay feature would be nice, especially cost...
Or something like the Palm keyboard? Just plug it into the bottom, or use the Palm style (folding) which is also relatively lightweight.
The name has to be changed to Linamp.
How would a plane equipped suchly ever land?
Sooner or later you run out of gas.
Forgot to say how to get around this. Simply vary the length of the tones when you dial. Easy.
Music doesn't only consist of tones. It also consists of durations of notes. Mozart wouldn't be mozart if you changed whole notes to eigth notes, quarters to halves, and so on. So, unless they've also patented every single note duration/ pitch variation possibility (not likely) there are at LEAST 100,000,000,000 ^ 7 melodies. Not including dotted notes, that's ^ 14. I think.
If a million monkeys type out the source code to MS Office, Microsoft can't sue. Likewise, if you happen to create a series of dual-tone meta frequency notes using a touch-tone phone using non-copyrighted material (a phone book, your memory, etc), then that's an independant creation. Now if a telemarketer overheard you dialing, and recorded it (made a copy), then you might have something.
According to this, I think, if I check to see if my number or somebody I know's number is in there, and it is, and then I use it I'll have gotten help from copyrighted material to dial that number. I'm infringing their copyright every time I dial a number after I see it there. Q.E.D that website is a trap to make you infringe their copyright! Don't be fooled!
if only Mcarthy had the web
He probably wouldn't have been as affective on the web. From what I understand (I wasn't alive back then) the Senate hearings took place on national television, and everyone tuned in to watch. If your name was mentioned you were immediately thought a hard-core, selling the US out, Communist.
IMO, over the internet, and now with network TV, he wouldn't have such a forum to work in. He wouldn't be the ONLY news story, and networks wouldn't be able to talk for to long about him. (The Florida election thing only lasted for a few weeks/ months, and that was to elect the President.) He'd probably start big and soon be relegated to a background role, eventually falling out of the public's eye.
(Assumed all our tech was just transposed to his era. Just guess work.)
Was it intended to be named:
a)Email
b)E Mail
c)e-mail
d)email
I'd honestly like to know what the original intent was... and no, electronic mail doesn't count. (why? my post, my rules)
Yeah. And it's not pretty. I like having my spam condensed (mostly) into nice, easily deletable, chunks in my inbox. Telemarketers and junk mail are much harder to get rid of. Junk mail must be thrown away, and I'm a busy guy, ya know? Telemarketers have a knack for calling JUST in the middle of dinner. Email is perfect for consolidating the load. Thanks!
Please note that was a (bad?) attempt at a joke. I don't need to modded down as troll.
I often ask myself how we will communicate with our technology in the future. People usually assume that it will be voice, however this is inappropriate in many circumstances, English has so much fluff that is unnescessary when communicating with a machine - "Hello Computer, please open my email client and show me new emails for today" might be fun the first time, but doing it every day would rapidly grow tiresome.
I agree completely. However, saying, "Open E-Mail. New. Open 4. Reply. Blah Blah Blah. Send. Close E-Mail. Open Browser. www.slashdot.org" is really easy. (Except for Slashdot... maybe consider a name change soon?)
For me, this interface would be much better then mouse/ keyboard, because it's so fast. That's faster then now (I think) and it's no more, or even less, boring stuff. (Saying Open E-Mail is equivalent to clicking an icon).
That's going to be the future interface, for most basic programs, in a few years... Heck, we already have voice recognition typing software! How hard can it be to step it up a notch?
Oh, I'm also envisioning personalized commands, ie: "1" is analagous to "Open E-Mail" or something.
Let's say I'm playing CS. Not only would this help me position keys anywhere I wanted but instead of a mouse just point at the guy you want to shoot.
I've seen, somewhere, a keyboard made for gaming (central arrowkeys with conveniently placed programmable buttons around it) but this would be that all hollow. Just think about it for a second... any key, any where you wanted it! Programmable, personalized, keyboards!
(Damn, now I want one of these things sometime tomorrow).
My mom lived in England for a while (went to school there) and according to her, Universities only teach you what you need to know. Let's take, for example, becoming a doctor. In the US you'd have to do 4 years of HS, 4 of college, and at lest 4 of grad school. Over in England they do 5 years of HS and then 3 years of grad school (med school). They've cut out 4 years useless information, figuring what's the point of 4 years of English (in college) when you don't really need all those classes? I'm considering going to an English university to cut out those 4 years of college... I could be a doctor, lawyer, whatever when I'm in my early twenties.