Sure, most of the image onscreen remains unchanged for business-class users, but the entire screen changes on a very rapid basis with any of today's 3D games. I would really like to see how this technology stacks up against LCDs and CRTs when it comes to image clarity in a game.
LCDs are currently unsuitable for high-speed 3D gaming because of the delays in lighting and un-lighting a pixel, and CRTs are the best because turning a pixel on and off involves literally no delay. Where does this new tech lie when compared to LCDs and CRTs, I wonder? Between the two, or more to one side? I long for the day when a laptop is all I need to take to a LANparty.
Transistors involve movement but they're able to move billions of times--per second--for 24 hour days, 365 days a year, with no problems. I don't necessarily understand how this new screen technology works exactly, but tiny movement over a very small scale seems to be a prevalent concept when it comes to computing.
Just about every supermarket I've ever been to uses dry ice. Generally in the seafood section; they use it to pack seafood for shipment. Once the seafood arrives however, the store has great big freezers to put it in, so they don't need the ice anymore. In my area (Seattle, Washington) it's 98 cents/pound at the average QFC or Albertsons.
The only difficulty in getting the dry ice is that you need to be 18. They check IDs, generally speaking.
See, dry ice can also be used to make very very loud explosive devices. Take your average two-liter bottle, fill it about 20% of the way with warm water, add a few chunks of dry ice, screw the cap on. When the dry ice hits the warm water, it begins to turn into a gas. Eventually this gas buildup will cause the bottle to explode.
I wonder if dry ice is ever mentioned in the patriot act...
Doctors have neat little arthoscopic cameras that would work much better in a situation like this. They use cameras that are _designed_ to squeeze into small places and go around corners and whatnot. It's high-tech. I didn't see that here. I saw, effectively, a stick with an immobile eye on it. My reception may have been a little off, so can somebody tell me if there was any looking around to be done?
also, the hole required for an arthoscopic camera is something like 2mm, not 3/4 of an inch like the hole I believe was drilled.
And wtf didn't they drill the second door for? You're telling me they can build a robot but they can't go to home depot for the long bits before hand?;)
I personally like the online store provided by Dragonfly Records. Dragonfly has a lot of REALLY good material in their store.
Also good is PsyShop.com, an online store where you can buy all sorts of stuff associated with Psychadelic types of electronic music. CDs, Shirts, 12-inchers, you name it.
I personally recommend to everybody that they check out the artists Prana, Shakta, and Transwave, but that's just because of my natural leanings towards psy and goa trance. Also worthwhile is DJ Tiesto, who was once regarded as the greatest Trance DJ of the year; although I forget which year that was.;)
And, as somebody has suggested, DigitallyImported is one of the best Electronic Music streams available. They actually broadcast a variety of streams, including Trance (128k, 56k, 40k, 24k), Hard Trance (128k, 56k, 40k, 24k), Hard House (128k, 56k, 24k), and Eurodance (128k, 56k, 40k, 24k); they even stream classical music--which bothers me for some reason.
Video Games may very well be decreasing our mental activity by (as somebody stated earlier) making our brains more efficient. After all, if our bodies are becoming more efficient as a result of playing video games, why not our brains as well?
I had the most utterly difficult time entering 'hey there'... I'd get 'hey the' and then it'd start throwing letters that weren't R at me, and while trying to surf around for that R, it just threw a bunch of garbage into my sentence. it's a neat idea, but it needs better 'prediction' skills.
realistically speaking though, wouldn't it be easier to just use a keyboard? When my pda doesn't recognize what I'm inputting, it pops up a keyboard for me to use. The advantage of a keyboard is that I always know where the letters are. There isn't any fast-paced zooming or predictive AI; it's just me knowing which keys I want to press, and where those keys are located.
I think it's faster, even if I can only 'type' one letter at a time.
Sometimes it's best to just stick with what works, in my opinion.
What constitutes an email being read? When it's downloaded from the server? When it's opened in your mail reader? If I telnet to my pop3 server and read my email there, but it never gets onto my computer, would the summons still be considered 'served' ?
This is a bad ruling made by stupid people who don't understand the technology or the implications thereof. I don't think anybody who isn't a geek should be making geek-rules.
and considering that virtually all internet traffic hits a switch or a chunk of cat5 cable, that reasoning there would nullify the entire case.
that is to say, modems connect to other modems, but nowhere on this modem-to-modem connection does the 'patent violation' (if I say that enough times, I'm going to pass out laughing) occur. The 'patent violation' would occur over some cat5 half the world away, though what happens over cat5 is beyond the scope of the patent.
This is an awfully vague patent if you ask me. Patenting blocks of information which refer to other blocks of information by way of keystrokes sounds an awful lot like they patented a menuing system of some kind or another. Weren't keystroke-driven menus around prior to '89? Oh, you bet they were.
Given something like-
1) Display Name
2) Display Address
3) Display Phone Number
Selection:
Wouldn't pressing '1' essentially violate this patent?
Menu systems like this have been around since just briefly after day one.
A better example would be some listed information shown in brevity... say, a filename called "end_of_year_profit_report.txt" and considering that the filename contains data, it could be considered a block of information. In order to get at the second block of information, you more/cat/grep through/etc the file, right? Wouldn't that (as well) technically be a violation of the patent?
Ye ask, and ye shall receive. A pair of guys are doing such work, and their pages can be found here and here. As far as I know, they work independantly of one another with no contact, but they're both making very nice progress and they link back to one-another's sites and work.
these guys are selling $179 Celeron 433 machines with 32 megs of ram, 10.0G hard drive, a 40x cd-rom, USB mouse, and USB keyboard. Ports are USB only and it isn't very upgradable... it has no built-in ethernet or the ability to install any internal cards of any type (no pci/isa/agp slots at ALL) but it's only $179. heh. Oh, and it's got a pink handle to boot.
here is a direct link to the product page.
See, the web server might just keep track of ip's and what document-objects have been transferred; If not all of the objects for a page (ie, an image) has been downloaded after a certain period of time, then further attempts to access the site would result in that ip address getting a "You're skipping our banners, so you aren't accessing our site!" message.
I've got an IBM Thinkpad 755CD (486 DX4-100, 16 MB RAM, etc..) and I was wondering where _exactly_ on IBM's site you found the technical information for the dip switch settings for your particular thinkpad. Any help in regard to what you searched for and/or where you found the information on the site would be _most_ appreciated. I've been under the impression that my laptop is un-upgradable... but even upgrading to a low-end pentium would make me a happier camper. =)
Puzzle games are by FAR the greatest mental stimulus I've ever been entertained by. the ENTIRE Tetris series of video games on the Nintendo platforms has always been entertaining. Stuff like the adventures of LoLo or Kickle Cubicle on the 8-bit Nintendo were just fantastic. Puzzle games with time limits teach problem solving in limited time, they quicken response and thought processes, and overall just make your brain function more quickly. It also teaches you to second-guess yourself, to plan things out in order to solve the puzzle. Really, I think puzzle games are essential to true mental development. Don't take my word for it though, TRY IT. (Pick up a super nintendo and the game 'tetris attack' and you'll see what I mean)
See, it's things like this that simply irritate me to hell and back. The French Government, in all of their divine elegant Frenchie wisdom have decided that something which is produced overseas and is of an incredible nusiance to them, should be not merely controlled or limited, but done so from the source.
Imagine the internet as a mish-mash of radio frequencies (websites, ftp sites, wais, archie, gopher, etc) and imagine your web browser as a radio. In this "radio station" model, two things are made painfully obvious: 1) you have to tune into the station in order to listen to (read) it. 2) It would be silly (and impossible) to go to a radio station somewhere on the planet and say "Please don't broadcast here."... you can't do that, sadly, as radio waves--and according to my analogy the data on the internet--is everywhere, though it simply needs to be tuned in.
I see it that the French Government should take some intiative and block Yahoo sites at the points where information enters the country. Or, simply make it illegal to buy Nazi War Memorabilia online. Then the French Government could monitor the people's web activity and give them fines for breaking the law--that's the better economic solution, anyhow.
I just think it's silly, unreasonable, and outright odd that someone an ocean and a continent away can dictate what Yahoo can and cannot broadcast to that country. There are broadcast countermeasures which the French can put in place, so why the hell don't they? I mean, it IS their problem...
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Sure, most of the image onscreen remains unchanged for business-class users, but the entire screen changes on a very rapid basis with any of today's 3D games. I would really like to see how this technology stacks up against LCDs and CRTs when it comes to image clarity in a game.
LCDs are currently unsuitable for high-speed 3D gaming because of the delays in lighting and un-lighting a pixel, and CRTs are the best because turning a pixel on and off involves literally no delay. Where does this new tech lie when compared to LCDs and CRTs, I wonder? Between the two, or more to one side? I long for the day when a laptop is all I need to take to a LANparty.
Transistors involve movement but they're able to move billions of times--per second--for 24 hour days, 365 days a year, with no problems. I don't necessarily understand how this new screen technology works exactly, but tiny movement over a very small scale seems to be a prevalent concept when it comes to computing.
When do I get my full-body suit of this stuff, so that I may run my Pentium (tm) class laptop without plugging it into a wall every hour?
Just about every supermarket I've ever been to uses dry ice. Generally in the seafood section; they use it to pack seafood for shipment. Once the seafood arrives however, the store has great big freezers to put it in, so they don't need the ice anymore. In my area (Seattle, Washington) it's 98 cents/pound at the average QFC or Albertsons.
The only difficulty in getting the dry ice is that you need to be 18. They check IDs, generally speaking.
See, dry ice can also be used to make very very loud explosive devices. Take your average two-liter bottle, fill it about 20% of the way with warm water, add a few chunks of dry ice, screw the cap on. When the dry ice hits the warm water, it begins to turn into a gas. Eventually this gas buildup will cause the bottle to explode.
I wonder if dry ice is ever mentioned in the patriot act...
I'm somewhat curious about the camera they used.
;)
Doctors have neat little arthoscopic cameras that would work much better in a situation like this. They use cameras that are _designed_ to squeeze into small places and go around corners and whatnot. It's high-tech. I didn't see that here. I saw, effectively, a stick with an immobile eye on it. My reception may have been a little off, so can somebody tell me if there was any looking around to be done?
also, the hole required for an arthoscopic camera is something like 2mm, not 3/4 of an inch like the hole I believe was drilled.
And wtf didn't they drill the second door for? You're telling me they can build a robot but they can't go to home depot for the long bits before hand?
::raises hand::
I personally like the online store provided by Dragonfly Records. Dragonfly has a lot of REALLY good material in their store.
;)
Also good is PsyShop.com, an online store where you can buy all sorts of stuff associated with Psychadelic types of electronic music. CDs, Shirts, 12-inchers, you name it.
I personally recommend to everybody that they check out the artists Prana, Shakta, and Transwave, but that's just because of my natural leanings towards psy and goa trance. Also worthwhile is DJ Tiesto, who was once regarded as the greatest Trance DJ of the year; although I forget which year that was.
And, as somebody has suggested, DigitallyImported is one of the best Electronic Music streams available. They actually broadcast a variety of streams, including Trance (128k, 56k, 40k, 24k), Hard Trance (128k, 56k, 40k, 24k), Hard House (128k, 56k, 24k), and Eurodance (128k, 56k, 40k, 24k); they even stream classical music--which bothers me for some reason.
Anyhow, hope you find that information useful.
Video Games may very well be decreasing our mental activity by (as somebody stated earlier) making our brains more efficient. After all, if our bodies are becoming more efficient as a result of playing video games, why not our brains as well?
I had the most utterly difficult time entering 'hey there' ... I'd get 'hey the' and then it'd start throwing letters that weren't R at me, and while trying to surf around for that R, it just threw a bunch of garbage into my sentence. it's a neat idea, but it needs better 'prediction' skills.
realistically speaking though, wouldn't it be easier to just use a keyboard? When my pda doesn't recognize what I'm inputting, it pops up a keyboard for me to use. The advantage of a keyboard is that I always know where the letters are. There isn't any fast-paced zooming or predictive AI; it's just me knowing which keys I want to press, and where those keys are located.
I think it's faster, even if I can only 'type' one letter at a time.
Sometimes it's best to just stick with what works, in my opinion.
This reminds me of the saying, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people."
This ruling brings to mind a somewhat similar idea of, "Software doesn't violate copyrights, people violate copyrights."
What constitutes an email being read? When it's downloaded from the server? When it's opened in your mail reader? If I telnet to my pop3 server and read my email there, but it never gets onto my computer, would the summons still be considered 'served' ?
This is a bad ruling made by stupid people who don't understand the technology or the implications thereof. I don't think anybody who isn't a geek should be making geek-rules.
and considering that virtually all internet traffic hits a switch or a chunk of cat5 cable, that reasoning there would nullify the entire case.
that is to say, modems connect to other modems, but nowhere on this modem-to-modem connection does the 'patent violation' (if I say that enough times, I'm going to pass out laughing) occur. The 'patent violation' would occur over some cat5 half the world away, though what happens over cat5 is beyond the scope of the patent.
This is an awfully vague patent if you ask me. Patenting blocks of information which refer to other blocks of information by way of keystrokes sounds an awful lot like they patented a menuing system of some kind or another. Weren't keystroke-driven menus around prior to '89? Oh, you bet they were.
Given something like-
1) Display Name
2) Display Address
3) Display Phone Number
Selection:
Wouldn't pressing '1' essentially violate this patent?
Menu systems like this have been around since just briefly after day one.
A better example would be some listed information shown in brevity... say, a filename called "end_of_year_profit_report.txt" and considering that the filename contains data, it could be considered a block of information. In order to get at the second block of information, you more/cat/grep through/etc the file, right? Wouldn't that (as well) technically be a violation of the patent?
Ye ask, and ye shall receive. A pair of guys are doing such work, and their pages can be found here and here. As far as I know, they work independantly of one another with no contact, but they're both making very nice progress and they link back to one-another's sites and work.
these guys are selling $179 Celeron 433 machines with 32 megs of ram, 10.0G hard drive, a 40x cd-rom, USB mouse, and USB keyboard. Ports are USB only and it isn't very upgradable... it has no built-in ethernet or the ability to install any internal cards of any type (no pci/isa/agp slots at ALL) but it's only $179. heh. Oh, and it's got a pink handle to boot. here is a direct link to the product page.
See, the web server might just keep track of ip's and what document-objects have been transferred; If not all of the objects for a page (ie, an image) has been downloaded after a certain period of time, then further attempts to access the site would result in that ip address getting a "You're skipping our banners, so you aren't accessing our site!" message.
I've got an IBM Thinkpad 755CD (486 DX4-100, 16 MB RAM, etc..) and I was wondering where _exactly_ on IBM's site you found the technical information for the dip switch settings for your particular thinkpad. Any help in regard to what you searched for and/or where you found the information on the site would be _most_ appreciated. I've been under the impression that my laptop is un-upgradable... but even upgrading to a low-end pentium would make me a happier camper. =)
Puzzle games are by FAR the greatest mental stimulus I've ever been entertained by. the ENTIRE Tetris series of video games on the Nintendo platforms has always been entertaining. Stuff like the adventures of LoLo or Kickle Cubicle on the 8-bit Nintendo were just fantastic. Puzzle games with time limits teach problem solving in limited time, they quicken response and thought processes, and overall just make your brain function more quickly. It also teaches you to second-guess yourself, to plan things out in order to solve the puzzle. Really, I think puzzle games are essential to true mental development. Don't take my word for it though, TRY IT. (Pick up a super nintendo and the game 'tetris attack' and you'll see what I mean)
-Sy
See, it's things like this that simply irritate me to hell and back. The French Government, in all of their divine elegant Frenchie wisdom have decided that something which is produced overseas and is of an incredible nusiance to them, should be not merely controlled or limited, but done so from the source.
... you can't do that, sadly, as radio waves--and according to my analogy the data on the internet--is everywhere, though it simply needs to be tuned in.
Imagine the internet as a mish-mash of radio frequencies (websites, ftp sites, wais, archie, gopher, etc) and imagine your web browser as a radio. In this "radio station" model, two things are made painfully obvious: 1) you have to tune into the station in order to listen to (read) it. 2) It would be silly (and impossible) to go to a radio station somewhere on the planet and say "Please don't broadcast here."
I see it that the French Government should take some intiative and block Yahoo sites at the points where information enters the country. Or, simply make it illegal to buy Nazi War Memorabilia online. Then the French Government could monitor the people's web activity and give them fines for breaking the law--that's the better economic solution, anyhow.
I just think it's silly, unreasonable, and outright odd that someone an ocean and a continent away can dictate what Yahoo can and cannot broadcast to that country. There are broadcast countermeasures which the French can put in place, so why the hell don't they? I mean, it IS their problem...
-Sy
If at first you don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.