This sounds like it's the future of what our soldiers will be wearing. This combined with the movement enhancement devices could create soldiers who could run as fast as animals and be effectively invisible. No longer is this technology limited to sci-fi movies like "Preditor".
Now if only there was a way to get around the infrared as well.
The economy is still slow without a doubt. It's hard to find constant work even for those who are skilled and experienced. I was fortunate enough to make connections near the end of the dot com boom, and recently those connections have begun to pay off. My income has more than doubled in the last 6 months, although work is still inconsistant. If I didn't have the experience beforehand, or I didn't make those connections, I'd probably be flipping burgers right now.
I doubt many employers want a mediocre jack-of-all-trades kind of guy. You're better off selecting one or two specific areas and focusing on getting experience within it. Most of the technicly adept and smart employers know that tech certifications are pretty much a bunch of BS, but some still require it if you want to get your foot in the door. The same goes for degrees. Either way, couldn't hurt to have it.
Couldn't agree with you more. I've run into a slew of software bugs in linux and while they usually get fixed, it may take months if ever. This is free software, so they're not getting paid, so they take their time about. I don't blame them. If it was my software I'd do the same. (In the mean time I reinstalled windows so I could get some work done, but that's not the real point of this.)
A while back some tried to charge for support, but there is a big problem with that. Who wants to pay for support on a buggy app with half the features of it's windows counterpart? I'd rather just buy the windows version and not have to worry about it. Of course there are exceptions to this, both pro/anti windows/linux.
There is a reason that windows has the market share it does. There is a reason that many linux users are moving to OSX. There is a reason Redhat, the #1 linux desktop developer, dropped out of the market.
"Choline is a naturally occurring nutrient found in egg yolks, milk, nuts, fish, liver and other meats as well as in human breast milk."
I remember a study a long time ago that suggestest that children who were fed breast milk as a child, were on average, slightly smarter than those who were fed other substitutes. With so many things, what is natural seems to be beneficial to the body, possibly because we evolved to benefit from our natural surroundings.
Perhaps the time where natural is best is coming to an end. I for one, support this even though it may mean that my natural mind and body may become obsolete. The thought is scary that some day I may find myself left in the dust by a choline fed, geneticly altered, super human. If this is what must be done to better all of humanity; push mother nature aside; finish what God started; then I can only say one thing. May the best man win.
"Fine, then you should quit defending Nintendo's attack on emulators. Instead you should be asking for download sales of the cartidge rips. That would be a lot easier and more attractive to emulator owners than buying a cartrige and attempting to rip it themselves."
Attempting to collect fees for downloading ROMs is as futile as the battle against MP3s. Going after the emulators seems like a much more feasible way to stop the problem. There are far fewer emulator developers than there are pirating ROMs. With no emulators, the demand for pirate ROMs is reduced significantly.
"Nintendo would lose out on some console sales (so what?), but those sales would go to game authors."
How can you say "so what?"? Do you believe it is ok to reduce sales of their console with infringement? Without the console, lots of those games wouldn't have been made. The hardware and the game developers are not completely separate. They are dependant on one another. When you hurt one, the other gets hurt as well.
I agree Sega is better, but Nintendo does not suck. They have created great titles just like Sega does. Sega and Nintendo are kind of teamed up. Sega now releases exclusive titles for the Nintendo GameCube AND Gameboy Advance.
Everyone complaining about fair use and backup copies, but lets be realistic. Very few of you out there have ever ripped a cartridge just to have a backup copy. If people were just making backup copies, Nintendo wouldn't be taking the actions they are taking. When you download a ROM and play it without buying the game, that is stealing. Don't lie to yourself, it's stealing, just like if you walked out of the store with the cartridge under your coat. If you actually like the games you play, you need to buy them or they will stop being made. This is basic economics; supply and demand. You cut off the demand, and they stop supplying. If you must pirate something, pirate an old NES ROM, or something outdated that no longer matters.
If there was a hidden partition, wouldn't linux fdisk be able to see it? Wouldn't using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" to wipe the drive completely, erase this hidden partition and free up that space?
In this day and age, where computers are so widely used, and our data integrity is vital, we still rely on data storage methods that use moving parts. Nothing lasts forever, but magnetic media always has a nasty habit of failing much sooner, mainly because it still relies on a system vulnerable to friction. Now microdrive technology is rebounding? When is this dinosaur going to die!? Then again, maybe that's the reason it's still around. If it didn't fail, we wouldn't have to buy a new one.
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Public accessible wifi becoming popular? Just try and track me now RIAA!
I don't know if I'd feel safe staying in a bubble knowing that's there is all kinds of pointy pieces of space junk floating around in orbit.
I should have read closer... that's not really cool at all. I can't sneak into the women's locker room with that thing.
Finally I'll be able to get into the women's locker room undetected!
This sounds like it's the future of what our soldiers will be wearing. This combined with the movement enhancement devices could create soldiers who could run as fast as animals and be effectively invisible. No longer is this technology limited to sci-fi movies like "Preditor".
Now if only there was a way to get around the infrared as well.
Only $19,999 for a limited time only! Get out your credit cards!
Until it gets down to about $150, I can't see myself getting one.
Who cares about ogg vorbis? Can it run linux?
The economy is still slow without a doubt. It's hard to find constant work even for those who are skilled and experienced. I was fortunate enough to make connections near the end of the dot com boom, and recently those connections have begun to pay off. My income has more than doubled in the last 6 months, although work is still inconsistant. If I didn't have the experience beforehand, or I didn't make those connections, I'd probably be flipping burgers right now.
I doubt many employers want a mediocre jack-of-all-trades kind of guy. You're better off selecting one or two specific areas and focusing on getting experience within it. Most of the technicly adept and smart employers know that tech certifications are pretty much a bunch of BS, but some still require it if you want to get your foot in the door. The same goes for degrees. Either way, couldn't hurt to have it.
And btw, FP bitches!
It's just a graphic, so I doubt it will go down, but here is a mirror just in case.
http://www.antigamer.com/DRUN.GIF
Brand new article and it's already slashdotted to hell. He must be running the webserver on one of those old crappy sparc machines he talks about.
Couldn't agree with you more. I've run into a slew of software bugs in linux and while they usually get fixed, it may take months if ever. This is free software, so they're not getting paid, so they take their time about. I don't blame them. If it was my software I'd do the same. (In the mean time I reinstalled windows so I could get some work done, but that's not the real point of this.)
A while back some tried to charge for support, but there is a big problem with that. Who wants to pay for support on a buggy app with half the features of it's windows counterpart? I'd rather just buy the windows version and not have to worry about it. Of course there are exceptions to this, both pro/anti windows/linux.
There is a reason that windows has the market share it does. There is a reason that many linux users are moving to OSX. There is a reason Redhat, the #1 linux desktop developer, dropped out of the market.
Yeah, last years evil TCP/IP bit was much more believable.
Even when there is something much better, it will take decades to get rid of it.
I think the reality would be more like
Mugger: "Give me your--"
Mugee: *bzzt* *bzzt*
Mugger: "What the F*ck nigga? Yous about to lose a kneecap, son!"
Mugger: *KAPLOW!*
Mugee: AAAAAHHHHHHHHH! MY LEG!!!!!!!1
"Choline is a naturally occurring nutrient found in egg yolks, milk, nuts, fish, liver and other meats as well as in human breast milk."
I remember a study a long time ago that suggestest that children who were fed breast milk as a child, were on average, slightly smarter than those who were fed other substitutes. With so many things, what is natural seems to be beneficial to the body, possibly because we evolved to benefit from our natural surroundings.
Perhaps the time where natural is best is coming to an end. I for one, support this even though it may mean that my natural mind and body may become obsolete. The thought is scary that some day I may find myself left in the dust by a choline fed, geneticly altered, super human. If this is what must be done to better all of humanity; push mother nature aside; finish what God started; then I can only say one thing. May the best man win.
"Fine, then you should quit defending Nintendo's attack on emulators. Instead you should be asking for download sales of the cartidge rips. That would be a lot easier and more attractive to emulator owners than buying a cartrige and attempting to rip it themselves."
Attempting to collect fees for downloading ROMs is as futile as the battle against MP3s. Going after the emulators seems like a much more feasible way to stop the problem. There are far fewer emulator developers than there are pirating ROMs. With no emulators, the demand for pirate ROMs is reduced significantly.
"Nintendo would lose out on some console sales (so what?), but those sales would go to game authors."
How can you say "so what?"? Do you believe it is ok to reduce sales of their console with infringement? Without the console, lots of those games wouldn't have been made. The hardware and the game developers are not completely separate. They are dependant on one another. When you hurt one, the other gets hurt as well.
I agree Sega is better, but Nintendo does not suck. They have created great titles just like Sega does. Sega and Nintendo are kind of teamed up. Sega now releases exclusive titles for the Nintendo GameCube AND Gameboy Advance.
Everyone complaining about fair use and backup copies, but lets be realistic. Very few of you out there have ever ripped a cartridge just to have a backup copy. If people were just making backup copies, Nintendo wouldn't be taking the actions they are taking. When you download a ROM and play it without buying the game, that is stealing. Don't lie to yourself, it's stealing, just like if you walked out of the store with the cartridge under your coat. If you actually like the games you play, you need to buy them or they will stop being made. This is basic economics; supply and demand. You cut off the demand, and they stop supplying. If you must pirate something, pirate an old NES ROM, or something outdated that no longer matters.
If there was a hidden partition, wouldn't linux fdisk be able to see it? Wouldn't using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" to wipe the drive completely, erase this hidden partition and free up that space?
I remember once I formatted a 256MB compact flash card to something like 9999999GB. Unfortunately the card was going bad. =(
In this day and age, where computers are so widely used, and our data integrity is vital, we still rely on data storage methods that use moving parts. Nothing lasts forever, but magnetic media always has a nasty habit of failing much sooner, mainly because it still relies on a system vulnerable to friction. Now microdrive technology is rebounding? When is this dinosaur going to die!? Then again, maybe that's the reason it's still around. If it didn't fail, we wouldn't have to buy a new one.