Yeah that's what I'm thinking - if they have already got authority to overwrite your System Management RAM and reprogram your CPU interrupts... one of two things have occurred:
1. They don't NEED to do any of it because they already own your box
2. The system designers really fucked the pooch good on the security design of these components
Come on even Windows knows that not just any Joe User should be able to reprogam the CPU interrupts...
There's definitely a point at which it costs more to run a computer than you can get out of it -- where does that line fall?
I would guess just barely this side of solar-powered calculators...
energy is cheap. computation is not. It's that simple - look at the laws of thermodynamics... the universe hates free energy, that much is clear, but even more than free energy it hates organization, information, computation.
Making computation a much scarcer resource than free energy...
I mean come on everyone knows - if you don't excercise then you don't have strength and endurance.
And the computer geek lifestyle leaves little time for excercising.
Same thing with a professional basketball athlete - he does muscle and coordination training for hours daily. He does not practice abstract semantic concepts in his head while making those baskets, either.
Just because the particles don't experience time doesn't mean that the pattern is similarily deprived. Remember mind is form and function, not matter - as long as the pattern evolves and interacts with itself, mind can exist.
Of course there *is* Ober's paradox and its relatives... which all state that basically empty sky doesn't necessarily exist.
Ober's paradox is that he proved in an infinite universe with a statistically even distribution of stars, the night sky should be blazing white.
Then there's Maxwell's conjecture - that stars are not distributed evenly, the universe is unbound but finite, and the missing mass happens to push the universe's mass above 1. In this case, he said, the sky could be dark.
Unless every Big Crunch is followed by another Big Bang, and in an unbound universe at least some amount of matter or energy is left out of the crunch, in which case you get the white sky phenomenon again.
ok I'm basically rambling now lol
If you're going to transform your consciousness into particles why not use Tachyons? They're faster than light, have negative mass making time travel wormhole experiments possible, and gain energy from speeding up and/or doubling - giving you plenty of surplus to try to learn telekinesis on normal matter... and no worries of getting absorbed in some tenuous intergalactic dust cloud!
It's because of light's speed that it behaves in such a wavelike manner too...
Imagine spreading waves of electromagnetic force, frozen in step, rippling along the lattice of spacetime - superimposing, reinforcing, cancelling, moving on, all without experience a single instance of time.
Try doing that with particles Mother Nature and Father Time!
lol all right except the time dilation: the formula is (c - v) ^ 2 / c
so if v==c you get 0
And yes, photons do not experience the passage of time. It's one of the reasons (the others being prevalance and interactivity) for our mastery over the electromagnetic force; particles that carry the EM force don't degrade or change while moving from point a to point b... imagine trying to build a working radio out of neutron technology! Your batteries would be 1/3 drained by the time you put them in!!!
lol j/k with that last analogy. I know some slashdot troll is going to respond and tell me how silly the idea of a neutron battery is.
You won't be laughing when I welcome our new neutron battery overlords!
I have no disagreements with anything you say - in fact it is what you say that leads me to believe that Game Informer does misleading reviews.
The cover is obviously for sale; no problems there, you've got to make your money somewhere right? However the cover is apparently a two-for-one package deal with a glowing review included. I, like you, have come to the conclusion that any game I see on the cover of Game Informer is definitely one I want to stay away from hahaha
Ditto on the previews; such obvious advertising drivel.
The thing to keep in mind about Game Informer is that it's a magazine that is not published to be an accurate and informative source of information. It's published to sell games. Now it helps to sell games if you actually get some credibility - and most of their reviews are honest well thought out pieces (I particularly appreciate the second opinions and the editorial game genre preferences published) - but if a "review" is being paid for by the manufacturer, then the editor has a responsiblity to the readers to make that clear in the body of the review.
There are good sites out there - all I'm saying is that it's a big problem in the industry right now, one that a few editors have recognized and chosen to speak up about.
I've seen horrible games reviewed glowingly on site after site, in magazine after magazine. I get XBOX mag - ok I expected that to be an advertising rag. I get Game Informer - which if I actually sit down and read it and compare reviews for some games to the actual gameplay experience, I sometimes wonder if I got the right game.
I'm not saying every article is a shill. I'm not saying any articles are shills. What I am saying is that, for the bigger named titles, the experience they report seldom matches what I personally experience from the titles - it could simply be that their editor's play styles differ vastly than my own (a theory I wouldn't debunk outright)
I'm not trying to single out any particular magazine either - all I'm trying to say, really, is if you find a game reviewer who obviously doesn't mind telling you things the manufacturer probably doesn't want you to know about before buying the game, that this is a rare and precious thing and should be treasured.
Yes, smart chicks do rule. But lame, script-kiddie, self-consciously "alternative" women don't. I've long considered her the worst part of Hackers... which is quite a feat.
Getting hollywood to accurately portray a single piece of modern technology is a frickin miracle - even The Matrix fell short in spots when it came to technobabble - and you expect them to accurately portray a smart modern female technophile? I was willing to settle for their best effort - best being used extremely loosely here hahaha
Then again, I personally find her very, very unattractive. Something about her giant mouth and how she has this weird face that makes her look like an alien.
The giant mouth and exotic features are what attracted me to her in the first place hahaha I think I just crave differences....
There are game sites that don't give a game a good review just because - but they are few and far between.
I generally read penny arcade - and while not a traditional review site, I've found their insights keen. They recently did a strip about a reviewer (maybe an editor?) at a big mag that actually wrote what he thought about a game - I would suggest trolling the archives to find his name and paying attention to his mag in the future.
He (and you) doesn't even have the power to modify his own.profile,.bashrc and other environment files? If he's logging in as a "generic" userid, that should be addressed as a significant security hole first.
Not sure about the original poster, but we're doing (voluntary) Sorbanes-Oaxley compliance. I'm not even allowed to LOGIN to the production environment unless I submit a plan of work I intend to do, including risk, ways to avoid them, backup plan, concurring business stakeholders, etc etc. There is an emergency approval procedure, but in reality there are very few emergencies of that scale...
During a time when consoles and games are both rushed out the door before they're ready, Nintendo is taking its time with their products. Sure it may aggravate some people, but only the hardcorest of the hardcore gamers.
I think you've got it backwards. The hardcore gamers understand the market and have been very disappointed with the dearth of quality release titles and are willing to wait. It's the pussies that don't have the balls to wait for a good game that bitch about it.
I was going to post pretty much the same thing - managed code approaches C++ efficiency close enough that it shouldn't matter (I've seen figures of 80-95%)
And, in visual studio.net 2005 there are built in high performance computing primitives - all the management of internode communication and logical data semaphore locking are handled by the runtime - presumably debugged and stable code...
So if I duct-taped a PDA to the cover of my laptop, you'd be impressed?
No... I'd be impressed if you cut open your case, managed to fit the PDA there in the half a millimeter or so of empty space there, wired it up internally to the battery and USB ports, then wrote a software API that would let you create GUI applications on it in any.NET language, and then rewrote the operating system to sync automatically with it when new information was available. Then I would be impressed.
Without that you're just an idiot with a PDA duct-taped to your laptop...
Well the demo I saw last year, the guy went and booked a flight on expedia, then turned off his laptop and right there on the cover flipped through a handful of applications into an expedia sidebar app... showed flight date/time, airline, gate, and seat assignment... without having to power on the laptop.
I saw a prototype of this at PDC 2005 last year - it's a screen on the laptop cover and a software API to load it up with data.
Programmers design their own UI and program against it with.NET... The idea is to provide access to information that the user may want quick access to. The demo showed a weather application, an email application (seemed to be notification based as in "you have 56 unread messages", not an email client) and an expedia client that showed travel details - something potentially very nice IMO.
Will there be an API for Linux? I highly doubt it - this is a product that Microsoft has obviously championed for a while - they showed it during the PDC keynote last year...
I don't know about Chinese but Japanese is very similar - meaning is conveyed by pitch changes that most occidental speakers are unfamiliar with - many Japanese people say that American's trying to speak Japanese generally sound like they're singing - I'm guess because our pitch follows rhythmic patterns as opposed to semantic patterns, which of course singing in any language would have to do...
You might want to email the maintainer and let him know... it's not uncommon for FAQs on erowid and other similar sites (like the third plateau) to be incorrect in some details... especially details of the DEA-is-the-big-bad-meanie-curtailing-our-freedoms- and-ruining-consumer-products variety.
Just a quick note: Robitussin DM contains guaifenesin, which can cause nausea and vomitting. It's there so you can't guzzle it - the DXM is a strong dissociative / hallucinatory taken in doses larger than.5 mg / kg... and becomes lethal around 25 mg / kg - the idea is to make anyone who tries to get high off cough syrup just vomit it all back up. [Disclaimer: There's no good LD50 information about DXM. Apparently one girl took a dose of about 3 g and died. Apparently an equivalent (per weight) dose used to be given to sick children (with respiratory support) with bronchitis or other chest problems. If I were a user I'd keep myself under 5 mg / kg and then only to infrequent use]
So unless your goal is to have a psychedlic experience, probably best to stay away from guzzling cough syrup to stay awake.
For those that care, there is a pretty easy extraction involving Robitussin DM, ammonia, citric acid, and one other ingredient (I forget what it is - but remember that it could certainly be purchased at any corner pharmacy) Or just get the robitussin gelcaps that have nothing but DXM in them...
Back on topic... robitussin in large enough doses would be a great way to stay awake - it acts as a mild stimulant - but I doubt you'd get any coding done hahaha
Their idea isn't quite the same in detail as mine... but it is roughly similar. But then again so would any MMO-Stargate. Honestly I think it would take longer than 8 days to bake this idea enough to be able to make an announcement...
On the other hand I've heard that the gaming industry is a cutthroat high speed race environment when it comes to new product development, so anything is possible...
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How do you even get it to overheat to begin with?
Well I generally like to compliment it on how pretty it's power on indicator is.
Then I might buy it something small, superfluous and pretty like a tennis bracelet or an X800 Radeon.
After that I start gently caressing it's biometric module.
That generally gets it pretty hot...
Yeah that's what I'm thinking - if they have already got authority to overwrite your System Management RAM and reprogram your CPU interrupts... one of two things have occurred:
1. They don't NEED to do any of it because they already own your box
2. The system designers really fucked the pooch good on the security design of these components
Come on even Windows knows that not just any Joe User should be able to reprogam the CPU interrupts...
There's definitely a point at which it costs more to run a computer than you can get out of it -- where does that line fall?
I would guess just barely this side of solar-powered calculators...
energy is cheap. computation is not. It's that simple - look at the laws of thermodynamics... the universe hates free energy, that much is clear, but even more than free energy it hates organization, information, computation.
Making computation a much scarcer resource than free energy...
You make an excellent point. I know many geeks that have physically demanding hobbies - cycling is very popular, for instance.
I was an olympic hopeful for fencing - I hope one day to pick it up again but being confined to a wheelchair kind of prevents that lol
And I, like you, used to put my physical training time to good use mentally as well.
Are there geeks out there that don't get enough excercise? Oh yeah. Is it everyone? no. Is it a majority?
Ummm... probably?
Is it surprising?
No.
I mean come on everyone knows - if you don't excercise then you don't have strength and endurance.
And the computer geek lifestyle leaves little time for excercising.
Same thing with a professional basketball athlete - he does muscle and coordination training for hours daily. He does not practice abstract semantic concepts in his head while making those baskets, either.
I'm really not seeing where the story is here.
Just because the particles don't experience time doesn't mean that the pattern is similarily deprived. Remember mind is form and function, not matter - as long as the pattern evolves and interacts with itself, mind can exist.
Of course there *is* Ober's paradox and its relatives... which all state that basically empty sky doesn't necessarily exist.
Ober's paradox is that he proved in an infinite universe with a statistically even distribution of stars, the night sky should be blazing white.
Then there's Maxwell's conjecture - that stars are not distributed evenly, the universe is unbound but finite, and the missing mass happens to push the universe's mass above 1. In this case, he said, the sky could be dark.
Unless every Big Crunch is followed by another Big Bang, and in an unbound universe at least some amount of matter or energy is left out of the crunch, in which case you get the white sky phenomenon again.
ok I'm basically rambling now lol
If you're going to transform your consciousness into particles why not use Tachyons? They're faster than light, have negative mass making time travel wormhole experiments possible, and gain energy from speeding up and/or doubling - giving you plenty of surplus to try to learn telekinesis on normal matter... and no worries of getting absorbed in some tenuous intergalactic dust cloud!
It's because of light's speed that it behaves in such a wavelike manner too...
Imagine spreading waves of electromagnetic force, frozen in step, rippling along the lattice of spacetime - superimposing, reinforcing, cancelling, moving on, all without experience a single instance of time.
Try doing that with particles Mother Nature and Father Time!
Oh? You already did?
nevermind then
lol all right except the time dilation: the formula is (c - v) ^ 2 / c
so if v==c you get 0
And yes, photons do not experience the passage of time. It's one of the reasons (the others being prevalance and interactivity) for our mastery over the electromagnetic force; particles that carry the EM force don't degrade or change while moving from point a to point b... imagine trying to build a working radio out of neutron technology! Your batteries would be 1/3 drained by the time you put them in!!!
lol j/k with that last analogy. I know some slashdot troll is going to respond and tell me how silly the idea of a neutron battery is.
You won't be laughing when I welcome our new neutron battery overlords!
Since when was a salad plate a unit of measure?
They adopted it at the same time that Libraries of Congress became the standard UOM for data files...
I have no disagreements with anything you say - in fact it is what you say that leads me to believe that Game Informer does misleading reviews.
The cover is obviously for sale; no problems there, you've got to make your money somewhere right? However the cover is apparently a two-for-one package deal with a glowing review included. I, like you, have come to the conclusion that any game I see on the cover of Game Informer is definitely one I want to stay away from hahaha
Ditto on the previews; such obvious advertising drivel.
The thing to keep in mind about Game Informer is that it's a magazine that is not published to be an accurate and informative source of information. It's published to sell games. Now it helps to sell games if you actually get some credibility - and most of their reviews are honest well thought out pieces (I particularly appreciate the second opinions and the editorial game genre preferences published) - but if a "review" is being paid for by the manufacturer, then the editor has a responsiblity to the readers to make that clear in the body of the review.
This is not the case today.
There are good sites out there - all I'm saying is that it's a big problem in the industry right now, one that a few editors have recognized and chosen to speak up about.
I've seen horrible games reviewed glowingly on site after site, in magazine after magazine. I get XBOX mag - ok I expected that to be an advertising rag. I get Game Informer - which if I actually sit down and read it and compare reviews for some games to the actual gameplay experience, I sometimes wonder if I got the right game.
I'm not saying every article is a shill. I'm not saying any articles are shills. What I am saying is that, for the bigger named titles, the experience they report seldom matches what I personally experience from the titles - it could simply be that their editor's play styles differ vastly than my own (a theory I wouldn't debunk outright)
I'm not trying to single out any particular magazine either - all I'm trying to say, really, is if you find a game reviewer who obviously doesn't mind telling you things the manufacturer probably doesn't want you to know about before buying the game, that this is a rare and precious thing and should be treasured.
Yes, smart chicks do rule. But lame, script-kiddie, self-consciously "alternative" women don't. I've long considered her the worst part of Hackers... which is quite a feat.
Getting hollywood to accurately portray a single piece of modern technology is a frickin miracle - even The Matrix fell short in spots when it came to technobabble - and you expect them to accurately portray a smart modern female technophile? I was willing to settle for their best effort - best being used extremely loosely here hahaha
Then again, I personally find her very, very unattractive. Something about her giant mouth and how she has this weird face that makes her look like an alien.
The giant mouth and exotic features are what attracted me to her in the first place hahaha I think I just crave differences....
There are game sites that don't give a game a good review just because - but they are few and far between.
I generally read penny arcade - and while not a traditional review site, I've found their insights keen. They recently did a strip about a reviewer (maybe an editor?) at a big mag that actually wrote what he thought about a game - I would suggest trolling the archives to find his name and paying attention to his mag in the future.
Let's just hope that there is another naked patch for this game. What? I know I'm not the only one thinking that...
What I've been wondering is where are the nude patches for the movies?
Angelina Jolie... *drool*
Did anyone else get a stiffy watching her in Hackers? Smart chicks rule.
He (and you) doesn't even have the power to modify his own .profile, .bashrc and other environment files? If he's logging in as a "generic" userid, that should be addressed as a significant security hole first.
Not sure about the original poster, but we're doing (voluntary) Sorbanes-Oaxley compliance. I'm not even allowed to LOGIN to the production environment unless I submit a plan of work I intend to do, including risk, ways to avoid them, backup plan, concurring business stakeholders, etc etc. There is an emergency approval procedure, but in reality there are very few emergencies of that scale...
During a time when consoles and games are both rushed out the door before they're ready, Nintendo is taking its time with their products. Sure it may aggravate some people, but only the hardcorest of the hardcore gamers.
I think you've got it backwards. The hardcore gamers understand the market and have been very disappointed with the dearth of quality release titles and are willing to wait. It's the pussies that don't have the balls to wait for a good game that bitch about it.
I was going to post pretty much the same thing - managed code approaches C++ efficiency close enough that it shouldn't matter (I've seen figures of 80-95%)
.net 2005 there are built in high performance computing primitives - all the management of internode communication and logical data semaphore locking are handled by the runtime - presumably debugged and stable code...
And, in visual studio
So if I duct-taped a PDA to the cover of my laptop, you'd be impressed?
.NET language, and then rewrote the operating system to sync automatically with it when new information was available. Then I would be impressed.
No... I'd be impressed if you cut open your case, managed to fit the PDA there in the half a millimeter or so of empty space there, wired it up internally to the battery and USB ports, then wrote a software API that would let you create GUI applications on it in any
Without that you're just an idiot with a PDA duct-taped to your laptop...
Well the demo I saw last year, the guy went and booked a flight on expedia, then turned off his laptop and right there on the cover flipped through a handful of applications into an expedia sidebar app... showed flight date/time, airline, gate, and seat assignment... without having to power on the laptop.
I was impressed.
I saw a prototype of this at PDC 2005 last year - it's a screen on the laptop cover and a software API to load it up with data.
.NET... The idea is to provide access to information that the user may want quick access to. The demo showed a weather application, an email application (seemed to be notification based as in "you have 56 unread messages", not an email client) and an expedia client that showed travel details - something potentially very nice IMO.
Programmers design their own UI and program against it with
Will there be an API for Linux? I highly doubt it - this is a product that Microsoft has obviously championed for a while - they showed it during the PDC keynote last year...
I don't know about Chinese but Japanese is very similar - meaning is conveyed by pitch changes that most occidental speakers are unfamiliar with - many Japanese people say that American's trying to speak Japanese generally sound like they're singing - I'm guess because our pitch follows rhythmic patterns as opposed to semantic patterns, which of course singing in any language would have to do...
Where did you find this (very wrong) information?
- and-ruining-consumer-products variety.
Erowid's DXM FAQ (sorry no direct link)
You might want to email the maintainer and let him know... it's not uncommon for FAQs on erowid and other similar sites (like the third plateau) to be incorrect in some details... especially details of the DEA-is-the-big-bad-meanie-curtailing-our-freedoms
Just a quick note: Robitussin DM contains guaifenesin, which can cause nausea and vomitting. It's there so you can't guzzle it - the DXM is a strong dissociative / hallucinatory taken in doses larger than .5 mg / kg... and becomes lethal around 25 mg / kg - the idea is to make anyone who tries to get high off cough syrup just vomit it all back up. [Disclaimer: There's no good LD50 information about DXM. Apparently one girl took a dose of about 3 g and died. Apparently an equivalent (per weight) dose used to be given to sick children (with respiratory support) with bronchitis or other chest problems. If I were a user I'd keep myself under 5 mg / kg and then only to infrequent use]
So unless your goal is to have a psychedlic experience, probably best to stay away from guzzling cough syrup to stay awake.
For those that care, there is a pretty easy extraction involving Robitussin DM, ammonia, citric acid, and one other ingredient (I forget what it is - but remember that it could certainly be purchased at any corner pharmacy) Or just get the robitussin gelcaps that have nothing but DXM in them...
Back on topic... robitussin in large enough doses would be a great way to stay awake - it acts as a mild stimulant - but I doubt you'd get any coding done hahaha
You be the judge...
Their idea isn't quite the same in detail as mine... but it is roughly similar. But then again so would any MMO-Stargate. Honestly I think it would take longer than 8 days to bake this idea enough to be able to make an announcement...
On the other hand I've heard that the gaming industry is a cutthroat high speed race environment when it comes to new product development, so anything is possible...
More likely $1999 - Monster cables have about a 1000% markup IMO