I checked for that some year ago. None (!) had a webcam mode. Best they could do was to play the DV tape over USB. Maybe the market is different here...:(
...is how long they are. Some games might have a beautiful engine, but the contents and scripts run out quick. Once you figure out how the scripts work and the content work you get bored, and stop playing, unless you get fed new and exciting content.
MMOs, Facebook et al solve the last part by letting it be social.
Games like Fallout III and Oblivion didn't. It's a huge world, but it still feels limited because after a while you've seen all the possibilities, and everything you get is new variants of the old stuff.
Why not just have a GSM/3g/4g signal that can be transmitted from the base stations? Either SMS or make all cell phones in the cell wake up and loudly tell the message.
Since 99.8% of the "programmers" out there seems to get code monkey jobs where they have to translate an algorithm from one language (or diagram) to another, those don't need many skills at all. Especially not when protected by schemes like MISRA, code reviews and QA.
The other 0.2% wouldn't get the job unless they had skills. I hope. And math is probably included there somewhere.
The problem seems to be the boxes that you click away. Everyone gets a million of those boxes every day, noone reads them and they are clicked away as fast as possible because you're busy and don't have time to read silly things.
So, maybe:
1) there should only be boxes that are important
or
2) the actually important messages should appear elsewhere, for instance on a part of the screen that stays there and doesn't have to be clicked away
The second solution would actually solve the tech support problem. "Read to me the red text in the bottom right of the screen", would be much easier to answer than "what was in one of the million boxes you clicked away earlier today that was actually important".
It's interesting that most people think of "difficulty" here. There might even be more importantly to cater to playstyle - reckless berserk, careful sniper, silent, never seen and non-killing thief, explorer... socializer.
Altogether way too few games today you can play without killing anything.
"Marketing company devoted to selling/marketing products produced by other companies in return for a share of their profits" sounds like what record companies have been doing for almost a century?
My 100Mbps (in reality 60Mbps down/20Mbps up) is baked into the rent whether I'd use it or not, so it's "free".
A quick google reveals that several housings in Brandbergen (Haninge, Stockholm) - where the hit was made - have a similar deal. It's fairly common here. So it might not even cost anything to have bandwidth enough to fileshare on a large scale.
Not that I know if "Scene" people actually fileshare on a large scale.
If the problem is that we should go up earlier in summer, go up earlier?
If people can't go up earlier on their own, change work and school hours to match the sunlight. It can't be that hard.
And leave the poor time alone!
DST doesn't solve the problem we're after. It solves the problem that workplaces don't want to change the time people start work. Which solves the problem that people don't want to wake up earlier. (Which, as far as I've seen, solves the problem that people are in traffic earlier, so less traffic accidents due to... wait? less sunlight? I'm confused here.)
(And I agree with UTC. There isn't any real need for local timezones; but that step might be too early for now. China has one beautiful single six hours wide timezone, iirc, but they can do what they want without anyone protesting.)
Wouldn't a 95 year copyright be significantly shorter than todays copyright of the life of the writer/artist + 70 years (in some cases +50 and +80)?
Or does he propose 95 years post death of the writer/artist? Not many people live for 95 years after their death, so I don't see why they need the income.
But anyway, I'd say that around maybe 1% of the passengers could be arrested on a variety of charges, so it's no better than a random pick. (If there's 2% that could be arrested on a variety of charges, it's *worse* than a random pick. I wouldn't be surprised if it were.)
Laptops? You need to think about cars... The liquid energy powered car is last century. It's time for battery powered cars, and this could change the premises for that!
...they totally seem to have misplaced "role playing". So have other game companies as well. To them, RPG just means that you will have stats and skills and sometimes get better stats and skills. It has nothing to do with playing a role.
A good example is Turbine that refused to create an RPG server for LoTRO, even though it was a much sought feature in the forums. "All servers are RPG servers? What are you talking about?"
Funny thing since most cellphones seem to level the sound, and play the received sound a little too silent, thus inforcing the raise of the talker's voice... Maybe they should start to react and raise the level of sound a lot if the speaker is too loud.
...so you can store 600MB on an audio tape now?...can you recover a backup tape that can store any significant amount of data using the same methods? If not, what's the point of comparison?
But in fairness, how does the write-once flash memory that Sandisk announced stand in comparison to the audio tape? Or a normal HDD?
Sometime soon, people will start to notice that the old laws controlling flow of information no longer works. Not only are the laws useless, but they can't even be followed. And if they are followed, the end result is worse for everyone.
I don't think the reaction time is important, but to keep it under temperatures where you actually melt the semiconductors (or make them unstable in other mysterious ways). Faster means much more heat long before you actually hit reaction time limits...
(Besides, I use water cooling to make my computer silent, not faster.)
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I'm pretty sure you can make kids with 6 people or less, at least given the right people. Many seem to use only 2 for that kind of project.
I checked for that some year ago. None (!) had a webcam mode. Best they could do was to play the DV tape over USB. Maybe the market is different here... :(
...is how long they are. Some games might have a beautiful engine, but the contents and scripts run out quick. Once you figure out how the scripts work and the content work you get bored, and stop playing, unless you get fed new and exciting content.
MMOs, Facebook et al solve the last part by letting it be social.
Games like Fallout III and Oblivion didn't. It's a huge world, but it still feels limited because after a while you've seen all the possibilities, and everything you get is new variants of the old stuff.
Why not just have a GSM/3g/4g signal that can be transmitted from the base stations? Either SMS or make all cell phones in the cell wake up and loudly tell the message.
If only it was true.
Since 99.8% of the "programmers" out there seems to get code monkey jobs where they have to translate an algorithm from one language (or diagram) to another, those don't need many skills at all. Especially not when protected by schemes like MISRA, code reviews and QA.
The other 0.2% wouldn't get the job unless they had skills. I hope. And math is probably included there somewhere.
(Figures totally out of the air.)
The problem seems to be the boxes that you click away. Everyone gets a million of those boxes every day, noone reads them and they are clicked away as fast as possible because you're busy and don't have time to read silly things.
So, maybe:
1) there should only be boxes that are important
or
2) the actually important messages should appear elsewhere, for instance on a part of the screen that stays there and doesn't have to be clicked away
The second solution would actually solve the tech support problem. "Read to me the red text in the bottom right of the screen", would be much easier to answer than "what was in one of the million boxes you clicked away earlier today that was actually important".
Does that mean that those pesky windows keys will vanish?
It's interesting that most people think of "difficulty" here. There might even be more importantly to cater to playstyle - reckless berserk, careful sniper, silent, never seen and non-killing thief, explorer... socializer.
Altogether way too few games today you can play without killing anything.
Hair also repels one another when given a voltage:
http://images.google.com/images?q=hair%20static%20electricity
How is this different, and how will it make a muscle? It didn't seem to make anything shorter in the direction where it's actually strong.
"Marketing company devoted to selling/marketing products produced by other companies in return for a share of their profits" sounds like what record companies have been doing for almost a century?
My 100Mbps (in reality 60Mbps down/20Mbps up) is baked into the rent whether I'd use it or not, so it's "free".
A quick google reveals that several housings in Brandbergen (Haninge, Stockholm) - where the hit was made - have a similar deal. It's fairly common here. So it might not even cost anything to have bandwidth enough to fileshare on a large scale.
Not that I know if "Scene" people actually fileshare on a large scale.
So what did they reply?
Why not keep it simple?
If the problem is that we should go up earlier in summer, go up earlier?
If people can't go up earlier on their own, change work and school hours to match the sunlight. It can't be that hard.
And leave the poor time alone!
DST doesn't solve the problem we're after. It solves the problem that workplaces don't want to change the time people start work. Which solves the problem that people don't want to wake up earlier. (Which, as far as I've seen, solves the problem that people are in traffic earlier, so less traffic accidents due to ... wait? less sunlight? I'm confused here.)
(And I agree with UTC. There isn't any real need for local timezones; but that step might be too early for now. China has one beautiful single six hours wide timezone, iirc, but they can do what they want without anyone protesting.)
Wouldn't a 95 year copyright be significantly shorter than todays copyright of the life of the writer/artist + 70 years (in some cases +50 and +80)?
Or does he propose 95 years post death of the writer/artist? Not many people live for 95 years after their death, so I don't see why they need the income.
700 out of 70,000 is 1%?
But anyway, I'd say that around maybe 1% of the passengers could be arrested on a variety of charges, so it's no better than a random pick.
(If there's 2% that could be arrested on a variety of charges, it's *worse* than a random pick. I wouldn't be surprised if it were.)
Laptops? You need to think about cars... The liquid energy powered car is last century. It's time for battery powered cars, and this could change the premises for that!
...they totally seem to have misplaced "role playing". So have other game companies as well. To them, RPG just means that you will have stats and skills and sometimes get better stats and skills. It has nothing to do with playing a role.
A good example is Turbine that refused to create an RPG server for LoTRO, even though it was a much sought feature in the forums. "All servers are RPG servers? What are you talking about?"
Of course! They just want males that like looking at male butts to play the game. They don't care what the females like, obviously. :p
Funny thing since most cellphones seem to level the sound, and play the received sound a little too silent, thus inforcing the raise of the talker's voice...
Maybe they should start to react and raise the level of sound a lot if the speaker is too loud.
But it's digital! It's much safer to use Sinclair Spectrums connected to tape recorders!
...so you can store 600MB on an audio tape now? ...can you recover a backup tape that can store any significant amount of data using the same methods?
If not, what's the point of comparison?
But in fairness, how does the write-once flash memory that Sandisk announced stand in comparison to the audio tape? Or a normal HDD?
Sometime soon, people will start to notice that the old laws controlling flow of information no longer works. Not only are the laws useless, but they can't even be followed. And if they are followed, the end result is worse for everyone.
At least I hope people will start to notice.
I don't think the reaction time is important, but to keep it under temperatures where you actually melt the semiconductors (or make them unstable in other mysterious ways).
Faster means much more heat long before you actually hit reaction time limits...
(Besides, I use water cooling to make my computer silent, not faster.)
They don't look like they will fit my 1/2" inner diameter cooling system...