OK, but look at this as a starting point. If the volunteers can withstand this, try a more hardcore, dangerous experiment with no help to sweep in and save the day. But if we find people crack under this pressure, we know that the tougher one is right out.
You don't have to start at the hardest, most-likely-to-kill-each-other level. Work up to that.
There are no mistakes and no changes to history. We are at war with Eurasia and we have always been at war with Eurasia. Any thought to the contrary will result in re-education.
I realise that the summary also mentioned non-fod items such as cotton and trees, but it still seems odd to talk about non-food and use potatoes as an example.
I realise that you can also fire them from potato cannons, but I'm fairly certain they still count (overall) as food.
If this CherryOS isn't a complete Vapourware/fraud POS, then I wonder what the hardware support will be like. Especially for devices with no Mac driver support, or even no hardware compatibility on standard Apple hardware (ie: will PS2 ports etc be supported? What about the non-Mac-supporting Radeon X800?)
Re:Not much confidence, but still a good player.
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Sure, it's unsettling and even embarassing if you have to sit there in a rush-hour subway train spanking a lump of plastic for ten minutes... each time you spank it into submission, it will be a significantly longer period of time before it crashes again. After the fourth and last spanking session, it hasn't locked up once in the past five months.
OK, hypothetical question: let's say that there was a way to make an RFID unreable by random passers-by (ie: you actually had to hand someone your card). One possible way I'm thinking of would be to have a reader that is a slot into which you insert your card. This would prevent some random dude from reading your card using a portable reader in the subway.
Let's also say that all the card stores is an ID number (ie: not your address, birthday etc; all that would have to be securely queried from the Dept of Transportation).
If both of these hypotheticals were in place, would you feel that this was still unreasonable? I'm neither trolling nor starting a flame war, I'm just curious if people object more to the perceived lack of security or the potential abuse of power from "the man".
If you are worried about "the man", please explain why this is worse that a barcode or magnetic stripe (again, assuming the security measures mentioned above).
iRiver quotes roughly 1/2 the battery life for video compared to audio playback. I would assume that most anything else produced in the near future would be similar.
Well, assuming that the iPod does emerge as discussed by ThinkSecret, it shouldn't be as bad as 1/2 the battery life. They discuss displaying pictures, but not video. It seems logical that calculating an ever-changing image at 30fps (or so) would drain more juice than simply displaying a static pic.
Should this come to pass, I hope they do something about the battery life. While the battery life on my iPod is fine for me (makes it through the workday), it seems to be the biggest complaint people have (other than price) when comparing the iPod to the Dell, Archos etc MP3 players. I'm worried that adding a colour screen (including the requisite, brighter, always-on backlight), as well as the TV display will sap too much power.
This process sounds a lot like the BMW 750hL, which does basically the same thing: uses solar panels on the roof to suck in water vapour, split it into hydrogen and oxygen, supercool the hydrogen and store that to power the engine.
The BMW, however, also has a gas engine, making it a Hydrogen-gas hybrid.
This does make me wonder if the Mac port will be out soon. Presumably, much of the difficulty in the Linux port was translating DirectX to OpenGL, and possibly a fwe other *Nix issues. Now that they've been solved, maybe the Mac port's coming soon./me knocks on wood, rubs rabbit's foot and horseshoe, crosses fingers etc
Enough whining about dupes! Oh, heaven forbid! A story gets on here twice!
If it's a dupe, just don't read the second one! It's not hurting you, and nobody's forcing you to read it. I know a "DUPE!" post equals an instant +5 for some unfathomable reason, but please resist the urge!
Slashdot is free for many of us, and cheap for the rest, so really, the fiscal loss, and the emotional pain and agony should be minimum. If you see something is a dupe, save your (and our) time, and just ignore the second posting.
Looking at the bill's picture, something occurred to me:
You know what we haven't had for awhile? A President/Prime Minister with a beard? Maybe that's what's wrong with government these days! Everyone knows you can trust people with beards!
It's cool to see this finally released. Sadly, they upped the price. Originally it was supposed to be $50US, but Griffin's site now lists it as $70. Does inflation apply to products before they actually exist?
There is very little radiation emitted by these devices, because the radiation IS the power! Letting it escape would be poor economy.
I've often wondered about this in regards to nuclear fission plants. It always seemed to me that using fission simply to heat water into steam, and use that steam to turn turbines seemed like a big waste (geek analogy: it would be like having a DVI port on your computer, then attaching a DVI-to-VGA converter, a VGA cord and a VGA-to-DVI converter into an LCD).
It always seemd to me that if we could figure out some way to just directly capture the energy released by the fission process, we'd be much better off.
And you thought your cell phone gave you brain cancer before!
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My major pet peeve about trailers, though, is when they show the entire movie plot in the trailer. It completely removes any element of surprise, and makes it almost pointless to go see the movie. For example, the new trailer for Flight of the Phoenix does just that - the entire story is compressed down into a two minute version, sort of like a Readers Digest condensed book. It's sort of how trailers for comedy flicks show you the funniest parts of the movie in the hopes that you'll shell out $9 to see it, but then have nothing additional to offer.
In general, I agree this is true. I think a far worse case is when comedies have every funny bit in the trailer
However, sometimes, the movie itself is worth watching; especially if the spectacle outweighs the story. Remember, for example, that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gave a summary of the entire plot in the opening sonnet. You knew what happend, you knew how it ended. It was watching the characters get there that was worth seeing
I love my Mac and wouldn't trade it for a PC, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to be annoyed at some of the (admittedly understandable) business decisions that negatively affect my platform of choice.
I really hope we see these sooner than usual on the Mac. I'm getting exasperated with ATI et al delaying the Mac version of their card by so long (ie: There is still no 9800XT for Mac, much less an X800). Plus, when they do come out, there's usually a $50 premium, and half the RAM. Sigh.
In addition, does anyone know if the nVidia 6600 will be DDL, thus letting people use the 30" Cinema Display? Of course, if you can afford the display, you can probably also afford the card (I can't on either count).
What's the advantage of having an entire distro built around this game, rather than just having an application for the game and all its training stuff built into the app?
It depends what you're doing for that fortnight. If I'm sitting around in my house with nothing to do (and my friends are out-of-town), 14 internet-less days might seem like an eternity.
If, on the other hand, I'm paddling through Algonquin Park, sitting at a cottage or touring the south of France, no problem.
It all depends on whether you're doing something cool enough to justify the lack of internet.
You mean, it looks like the American people (and the rest of the world) have more to worry about. Diebold has been incredibly resistant to being damaged, no matter how many problems arise with their software.
According to the CNET review it get's 16 hours of playback. Which is over twice that of the iPod. That's twice as long with a color screen then the iPod with your 'monocrome' screen.
That's not the point. The point is that if you took the same device, and used a monochrome screen, you might get 24 hours or more of music.
Though an iRiver-to-Ipod comparison is valid overall, it isn't in this case. This is a question of mono-vs-colour for the same device. Colour screens need more transistors and a brighter backlight (thus they use much more power).
Only if that is what you have run level 6 configured to do.
All the init 6 command does is initialize run level 6. You can have run level 6 configured any way you want.
It isn't hard wired to shut down. (On debian run level 6 does a reboot... run level 0 halts the system.)
A few days ago there was yet another article lamenting how Linux wasn't ready for the mass market yet, and of course, dozens of Slashdotters came out of the wordwork saying how easy everything was.
Well, it seems to me that it's stuff like this that makes it hard for a new user. "Initiate run level 6" isn't intuitive, "configure run level six to whatever you want" equally obscure. Bash the naming of the start menu all you want, but it's understood. You don't have to configure it to shut down, and there's no run levels or anything like that.
It is my personal opinion that Linux's mass-market adoption problems stem partly from too many options for the average computer user, and from too-obscure terminology/command names.
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OK, but look at this as a starting point. If the volunteers can withstand this, try a more hardcore, dangerous experiment with no help to sweep in and save the day. But if we find people crack under this pressure, we know that the tougher one is right out.
You don't have to start at the hardest, most-likely-to-kill-each-other level. Work up to that.
There are no mistakes and no changes to history. We are at war with Eurasia and we have always been at war with Eurasia. Any thought to the contrary will result in re-education.
I realise that the summary also mentioned non-fod items such as cotton and trees, but it still seems odd to talk about non-food and use potatoes as an example.
I realise that you can also fire them from potato cannons, but I'm fairly certain they still count (overall) as food.
If this CherryOS isn't a complete Vapourware/fraud POS, then I wonder what the hardware support will be like. Especially for devices with no Mac driver support, or even no hardware compatibility on standard Apple hardware (ie: will PS2 ports etc be supported? What about the non-Mac-supporting Radeon X800?)
Sure, it's unsettling and even embarassing if you have to sit there in a rush-hour subway train spanking a lump of plastic for ten minutes... each time you spank it into submission, it will be a significantly longer period of time before it crashes again. After the fourth and last spanking session, it hasn't locked up once in the past five months.
So many jokes, so little time
OK, hypothetical question: let's say that there was a way to make an RFID unreable by random passers-by (ie: you actually had to hand someone your card). One possible way I'm thinking of would be to have a reader that is a slot into which you insert your card. This would prevent some random dude from reading your card using a portable reader in the subway.
Let's also say that all the card stores is an ID number (ie: not your address, birthday etc; all that would have to be securely queried from the Dept of Transportation).
If both of these hypotheticals were in place, would you feel that this was still unreasonable? I'm neither trolling nor starting a flame war, I'm just curious if people object more to the perceived lack of security or the potential abuse of power from "the man".
If you are worried about "the man", please explain why this is worse that a barcode or magnetic stripe (again, assuming the security measures mentioned above).
iRiver quotes roughly 1/2 the battery life for video compared to audio playback. I would assume that most anything else produced in the near future would be similar.
Well, assuming that the iPod does emerge as discussed by ThinkSecret, it shouldn't be as bad as 1/2 the battery life. They discuss displaying pictures, but not video. It seems logical that calculating an ever-changing image at 30fps (or so) would drain more juice than simply displaying a static pic.
Should this come to pass, I hope they do something about the battery life. While the battery life on my iPod is fine for me (makes it through the workday), it seems to be the biggest complaint people have (other than price) when comparing the iPod to the Dell, Archos etc MP3 players. I'm worried that adding a colour screen (including the requisite, brighter, always-on backlight), as well as the TV display will sap too much power.
This process sounds a lot like the BMW 750hL, which does basically the same thing: uses solar panels on the roof to suck in water vapour, split it into hydrogen and oxygen, supercool the hydrogen and store that to power the engine.
The BMW, however, also has a gas engine, making it a Hydrogen-gas hybrid.
This does make me wonder if the Mac port will be out soon. Presumably, much of the difficulty in the Linux port was translating DirectX to OpenGL, and possibly a fwe other *Nix issues. Now that they've been solved, maybe the Mac port's coming soon. /me knocks on wood, rubs rabbit's foot and horseshoe, crosses fingers etc
Enough whining about dupes! Oh, heaven forbid! A story gets on here twice!
If it's a dupe, just don't read the second one! It's not hurting you, and nobody's forcing you to read it. I know a "DUPE!" post equals an instant +5 for some unfathomable reason, but please resist the urge!
Slashdot is free for many of us, and cheap for the rest, so really, the fiscal loss, and the emotional pain and agony should be minimum. If you see something is a dupe, save your (and our) time, and just ignore the second posting.
Looking at the bill's picture, something occurred to me:
You know what we haven't had for awhile? A President/Prime Minister with a beard? Maybe that's what's wrong with government these days! Everyone knows you can trust people with beards!
It's cool to see this finally released. Sadly, they upped the price. Originally it was supposed to be $50US, but Griffin's site now lists it as $70. Does inflation apply to products before they actually exist?
There is very little radiation emitted by these devices, because the radiation IS the power! Letting it escape would be poor economy.
I've often wondered about this in regards to nuclear fission plants. It always seemed to me that using fission simply to heat water into steam, and use that steam to turn turbines seemed like a big waste (geek analogy: it would be like having a DVI port on your computer, then attaching a DVI-to-VGA converter, a VGA cord and a VGA-to-DVI converter into an LCD).
It always seemd to me that if we could figure out some way to just directly capture the energy released by the fission process, we'd be much better off.
And you thought your cell phone gave you brain cancer before!
My major pet peeve about trailers, though, is when they show the entire movie plot in the trailer. It completely removes any element of surprise, and makes it almost pointless to go see the movie. For example, the new trailer for Flight of the Phoenix does just that - the entire story is compressed down into a two minute version, sort of like a Readers Digest condensed book. It's sort of how trailers for comedy flicks show you the funniest parts of the movie in the hopes that you'll shell out $9 to see it, but then have nothing additional to offer.
In general, I agree this is true. I think a far worse case is when comedies have every funny bit in the trailer
However, sometimes, the movie itself is worth watching; especially if the spectacle outweighs the story. Remember, for example, that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gave a summary of the entire plot in the opening sonnet. You knew what happend, you knew how it ended. It was watching the characters get there that was worth seeing
Fair enough. I'm not a troll.
I love my Mac and wouldn't trade it for a PC, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to be annoyed at some of the (admittedly understandable) business decisions that negatively affect my platform of choice.
I really hope we see these sooner than usual on the Mac. I'm getting exasperated with ATI et al delaying the Mac version of their card by so long (ie: There is still no 9800XT for Mac, much less an X800). Plus, when they do come out, there's usually a $50 premium, and half the RAM. Sigh.
In addition, does anyone know if the nVidia 6600 will be DDL, thus letting people use the 30" Cinema Display? Of course, if you can afford the display, you can probably also afford the card (I can't on either count).
Excuse my non-Linux-user question, but:
What's the advantage of having an entire distro built around this game, rather than just having an application for the game and all its training stuff built into the app?
Well, it's a little (ie: a lot) more expensive, but drives do go bigger than 1GB:
BusLink 8GB drive
It depends what you're doing for that fortnight. If I'm sitting around in my house with nothing to do (and my friends are out-of-town), 14 internet-less days might seem like an eternity.
If, on the other hand, I'm paddling through Algonquin Park, sitting at a cottage or touring the south of France, no problem.
It all depends on whether you're doing something cool enough to justify the lack of internet.
But, will it see through clothes? That's really the key thing (subject mis-spelling intentional)
it looks like Diebold has more to worry about
You mean, it looks like the American people (and the rest of the world) have more to worry about. Diebold has been incredibly resistant to being damaged, no matter how many problems arise with their software.
According to the CNET review it get's 16 hours of playback. Which is over twice that of the iPod. That's twice as long with a color screen then the iPod with your 'monocrome' screen.
That's not the point. The point is that if you took the same device, and used a monochrome screen, you might get 24 hours or more of music.
Though an iRiver-to-Ipod comparison is valid overall, it isn't in this case. This is a question of mono-vs-colour for the same device. Colour screens need more transistors and a brighter backlight (thus they use much more power).
A few days ago there was yet another article lamenting how Linux wasn't ready for the mass market yet, and of course, dozens of Slashdotters came out of the wordwork saying how easy everything was.
Well, it seems to me that it's stuff like this that makes it hard for a new user. "Initiate run level 6" isn't intuitive, "configure run level six to whatever you want" equally obscure. Bash the naming of the start menu all you want, but it's understood. You don't have to configure it to shut down, and there's no run levels or anything like that.
It is my personal opinion that Linux's mass-market adoption problems stem partly from too many options for the average computer user, and from too-obscure terminology/command names.