Never mind the price, can we actually see it project something?
I've been waiting for laser projectors arrive for a good while now; it's sort of obvious that it's got to be the solution at some point, and this heading made me jump in my seat. But as long as they can't even show a picture of it working, I'm still not holding my breath.
For something as obviously a far from ready for commercialisation as this, noone could know the price of a consumer-ready unit yet.
That said, using holography to direct the beam without conventional optics and moving parts does seem like an interesting step forward. Hope they work it all out soon.
Very important. It's not about being alone or not, it's about what you're exposed to. A room with a few people working on the same project as you can be a fantastic working environment. Sitting wth lots of others who are doing totally dfferent things can be hell. A lone offie is usually in-between: you have a guarantee against the really gross stuff, which is always nice, but it's not ideal since you also miss out on the good sides of close collaboation.
Has the Big Bang been established as scientific fact?
The point isn't that it's wrong to call it a theory, but that it is wrong to require the word "theory" to be included with every use of the term. Especially when the religious motivation for that requirement is so totaly transparent.
Go to London or Madrid or Paris with a swastika patch on your arm and see how well you are received by not only the locals but the government as well.
That is banned as an expression of support for nazi movement, not in an effort to "forget" about the nazis. One may well oppose that sort of limitation on speech, and argue that it does not work as intended (to curb nazi movements), but an effort to forget or deny the past it is not.
every day they have to deal with the consequences
Oh, I'm not saying the Us isn't open about certain wrings that ahve been done in its past. I meant the that the sweeping comment about openness in the US was unwarranted: there are a lot of things done by the US, especially abroad, in the more recent past that are not commonly admitted, known, or polite to talk about.
a lot of european governments have a habit of being in denial about things
I'll grant you that. But they're not exactly alone in taht. The US might be preoccupied with denying different things, though.
Delivery by missile might be interesting to someone in an established state of global war, where it could actually be pretty difficult to deliver a nuke via an unassuming cargo ship or recreational vessel. But in such a situation, that country would also be very aware of its certain and sudden destruction if it launched a nuke.
For all other cases, 9/11 proved very effectively that as long as other delivery mechanisms are both easier and cheaper, missile shields aren't worth a damn, and the way that event is used to argue for a shield is just mind-boggling.
You talk as though Activision is the only one at fault here. Game publishers don't just make random ass games, they do market research with gamers just like the ones on slashdot
If people are willing pay for it, it's OK? Think through the reamifications a couple of times. I have no idea f the game contains stuff I consider properly offensive, but if it did, the existence of a market is hardly any kind of defense.
apparently it is historically accurate so you can't be that mad at Activision
Huh? The historically correct thing is precisely the problem: This (sort of) shit really happened, and some feel playing out the role of the perpetrator for pure entertainment is in poor taste. It's not like there are no other ways of letting people know what happened.
Unlike many European countries who try to forget about the Nazis
What countries are you talking about? My history lessons (in Scandianavia) were so packed with persecution and death camps we hardly learned anything else about the rest of the war or modern european history. Of course in Germany the national shame is not a poular topic in polite dinner conversation, but they sure do learn about it in school. East germany was sort of a special case; noone thinks of them as an ideal either.
Americans typically openly discuss their history regardless of how nice it is.
AAAAAAaaahahahahhahahahha. Nice one. Almost fell for it.
Allen's comparison of it to an external disease-causing agent is a very odd statement.
No it isn't. Jeezus, even in the little snippet you quoted he explicitly specifies what aspect of it he is comparing: not the external deisease-causing stuff, but the fact that the dangers must handled as a case of risk management, not as clean cut, provable "will definitely kill me"/"will definitely not kill me", beacuse proof in cases like this can never be available until it's too late. In that respect, the comparison is quite apt.
that the planet (and our species) has survived far more drastic climate change in the past;
Well, some of us like to aim a little higher than the survival of the species. If you are not one of those, you are basically saying "who cares if billions suffer and die as long as humanity doesn't go extinct?". I'm sure you will forgive me if I don't harbour much respect for that attitude.
The case for taking action against climate change is not based on the spectre of extinction, and pretending so is a straw man. The point is the incomprehensibly massive human and economic cost that large scale climate changes will cause. And yes, even though such changes can and do occur naturally, that does not mean it is impossible to provoke them, or add to them, and the best models available indicate that we are in fact contributing in a serious way.
Conversely, with the right software you can use your webserver to make phone calls. If you really really want to it is also possible to beat screws into wood with a hammer, or alternatively with a banana frozen in liquid nitrogen.
I don't get it. What on earth could they be doing that needs to draw that much power?
It doesn't need it at al, but Doing It Right costs extra money in design, parts, and production lines, so it is mostly just skipped since noone is willing to pay for that anyway.
The soultion is probably to regulate standy power consumtion to something small (like 1W), or maybe better, impose sliding levy on consumption rates, so that any reduction in standby consumption improves your profit margin. It will cost the industry a little more at the very sart, but within a year the sheer volume will have made the necessary circuitry standardised and dirt cheap, usualy intergated into existing components at no extra cost.
Over the last 10 years they've retrofitting the building several times to add air conditioning because it gets so hot, humid, sweaty and smelly when you fill the computer labs with CS students. Still haven't fixed the problem yet either.
Well, half of those won't be fixed until you teach the CS students to wash. Which brings us right on to another gripe about the UK...
The problem is that even up in Scotland they build to standards as if they were in southern England.
I think the whole if the UK is just in complete denial about their climate. It's not just houses, it's clothing too. Take a look at the nightlife in any northern town on a freezing winter night and look how otherwise perfectly normal girls are dressed, even while standing around outside with bare legs for substantal periods in zero-centigrade, high-wind, high-humidity conditions. I guess it's the fact that it never gets so cold that you actually die from that sort of behaviour, like you would in Scandinavia. But the suffering they're willing to put up with to look good is baffling.
This is only true if it is a season and a time of day when you would normally have the heating on, and you normally heat your house with electricity only.
Heating with electricity generated from fossil fuels is ridiculously wasteful in any case. Burning them locally with a modern heating system is radically more efficient.
What is the use of "some sort of loft insulation" and double glazing when window frames are of aluminium (an excellent thermal conductor). Radiator pipes run uninuslated through the drafty cellar. Which, by the way, is separated from the living space by a single layer of wooden planks with gaps so big that the carpet literally lifts when there is any serious wind outside. This in a country where heating really does cost you.
I'm sure there are more expensive, well built houses about, but the average standard that most people endure is just downright tragic.
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Considering the quantity of empty calories and assorted forms of alcohol consumed during normal SuperBowl viewing,
not to mention the fact that the viewers are watching sports...
Never mind the price, can we actually see it project something?
I've been waiting for laser projectors arrive for a good while now; it's sort of obvious that it's got to be the solution at some point, and this heading made me jump in my seat. But as long as they can't even show a picture of it working, I'm still not holding my breath.
For something as obviously a far from ready for commercialisation as this, noone could know the price of a consumer-ready unit yet.
That said, using holography to direct the beam without conventional optics and moving parts does seem like an interesting step forward. Hope they work it all out soon.
You misread the sentence. The point here is that 360 tries to get rid of its surplus of lead by bundling it with housecleaning from Best Buy.
Watch this space for the exciting followups "what is your favourite movie?" and "what did you have for dinner last night?"
OK, so it was a BBC model B.
We'll be staging a group sucide
Surely you mean "a beowulf cluster of those things"?
Very important. It's not about being alone or not, it's about what you're exposed to. A room with a few people working on the same project as you can be a fantastic working environment. Sitting wth lots of others who are doing totally dfferent things can be hell. A lone offie is usually in-between: you have a guarantee against the really gross stuff, which is always nice, but it's not ideal since you also miss out on the good sides of close collaboation.
Just stop screwing around and sharing drug needles.
Wow, thanks for stopping AIDS dead in its tracks for us!
That's a pretty nifty trick. Let me try:
World leaders should just make up, hold hands and be friends.
Whoah, doo0d, I just like totally wiped out war! This totally rocks! Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Has the Big Bang been established as scientific fact?
The point isn't that it's wrong to call it a theory, but that it is wrong to require the word "theory" to be included with every use of the term. Especially when the religious motivation for that requirement is so totaly transparent.
the large-handed will suffer as the edge of their hands develop friction burns
Nah, you'll just develop corns, which are ideal for attaching mouse skatez to, for that extra super-smooth feel and serious hardcore chic.
I, for one, welcome our happy, upbeat, responsibility-denying overlords!
You're a bit late. They already rule the world.
Yeah, but the customer might still prefer to use the firm that publicly seems to believe in its case.
Go to London or Madrid or Paris with a swastika patch on your arm and see how well you are received by not only the locals but the government as well.
That is banned as an expression of support for nazi movement, not in an effort to "forget" about the nazis. One may well oppose that sort of limitation on speech, and argue that it does not work as intended (to curb nazi movements), but an effort to forget or deny the past it is not.
every day they have to deal with the consequences
Oh, I'm not saying the Us isn't open about certain wrings that ahve been done in its past. I meant the that the sweeping comment about openness in the US was unwarranted: there are a lot of things done by the US, especially abroad, in the more recent past that are not commonly admitted, known, or polite to talk about.
a lot of european governments have a habit of being in denial about things
I'll grant you that. But they're not exactly alone in taht. The US might be preoccupied with denying different things, though.
So - it is mostly against the "rogue" state.
Delivery by missile might be interesting to someone in an established state of global war, where it could actually be pretty difficult to deliver a nuke via an unassuming cargo ship or recreational vessel. But in such a situation, that country would also be very aware of its certain and sudden destruction if it launched a nuke.
For all other cases, 9/11 proved very effectively that as long as other delivery mechanisms are both easier and cheaper, missile shields aren't worth a damn, and the way that event is used to argue for a shield is just mind-boggling.
Where to begin.
You talk as though Activision is the only one at fault here. Game publishers don't just make random ass games, they do market research with gamers just like the ones on slashdot
If people are willing pay for it, it's OK? Think through the reamifications a couple of times. I have no idea f the game contains stuff I consider properly offensive, but if it did, the existence of a market is hardly any kind of defense.
apparently it is historically accurate so you can't be that mad at Activision
Huh? The historically correct thing is precisely the problem: This (sort of) shit really happened, and some feel playing out the role of the perpetrator for pure entertainment is in poor taste. It's not like there are no other ways of letting people know what happened.
Unlike many European countries who try to forget about the Nazis
What countries are you talking about? My history lessons (in Scandianavia) were so packed with persecution and death camps we hardly learned anything else about the rest of the war or modern european history. Of course in Germany the national shame is not a poular topic in polite dinner conversation, but they sure do learn about it in school. East germany was sort of a special case; noone thinks of them as an ideal either.
Americans typically openly discuss their history regardless of how nice it is.
AAAAAAaaahahahahhahahahha. Nice one. Almost fell for it.
Allen's comparison of it to an external disease-causing agent is a very odd statement.
No it isn't. Jeezus, even in the little snippet you quoted he explicitly specifies what aspect of it he is comparing: not the external deisease-causing stuff, but the fact that the dangers must handled as a case of risk management, not as clean cut, provable "will definitely kill me"/"will definitely not kill me", beacuse proof in cases like this can never be available until it's too late. In that respect, the comparison is quite apt.
that the planet (and our species) has survived far more drastic climate change in the past;
Well, some of us like to aim a little higher than the survival of the species. If you are not one of those, you are basically saying "who cares if billions suffer and die as long as humanity doesn't go extinct?". I'm sure you will forgive me if I don't harbour much respect for that attitude.
The case for taking action against climate change is not based on the spectre of extinction, and pretending so is a straw man. The point is the incomprehensibly massive human and economic cost that large scale climate changes will cause. And yes, even though such changes can and do occur naturally, that does not mean it is impossible to provoke them, or add to them, and the best models available indicate that we are in fact contributing in a serious way.
instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone.
Was this by any chance in Soviet Russia?
Conversely, with the right software you can use your webserver to make phone calls.
If you really really want to it is also possible to beat screws into wood with a hammer, or alternatively with a banana frozen in liquid nitrogen.
I don't get it. What on earth could they be doing that needs to draw that much power?
It doesn't need it at al, but Doing It Right costs extra money in design, parts, and production lines, so it is mostly just skipped since noone is willing to pay for that anyway.
The soultion is probably to regulate standy power consumtion to something small (like 1W), or maybe better, impose sliding levy on consumption rates, so that any reduction in standby consumption improves your profit margin. It will cost the industry a little more at the very sart, but within a year the sheer volume will have made the necessary circuitry standardised and dirt cheap, usualy intergated into existing components at no extra cost.
Over the last 10 years they've retrofitting the building several times to add air conditioning because it gets so hot, humid, sweaty and smelly when you fill the computer labs with CS students. Still haven't fixed the problem yet either.
Well, half of those won't be fixed until you teach the CS students to wash. Which brings us right on to another gripe about the UK...
It has entirely to do with the mild winters.
The problem is that even up in Scotland they build to standards as if they were in southern England.
I think the whole if the UK is just in complete denial about their climate. It's not just houses, it's clothing too. Take a look at the nightlife in any northern town on a freezing winter night and look how otherwise perfectly normal girls are dressed, even while standing around outside with bare legs for substantal periods in zero-centigrade, high-wind, high-humidity conditions. I guess it's the fact that it never gets so cold that you actually die from that sort of behaviour, like you would in Scandinavia. But the suffering they're willing to put up with to look good is baffling.
heat from PSUs is just as good as any other heat.
This is only true if it is a season and a time of day when you would normally have the heating on, and you normally heat your house with electricity only.
Heating with electricity generated from fossil fuels is ridiculously wasteful in any case. Burning them locally with a modern heating system
is radically more efficient.
What is the use of "some sort of loft insulation" and double glazing when window frames are of aluminium (an excellent thermal conductor). Radiator pipes run uninuslated through the drafty cellar. Which, by the way, is separated from the living space by a single layer of wooden planks with gaps so big that the carpet literally lifts when there is any serious wind outside. This in a country where heating really does cost you.
I'm sure there are more expensive, well built houses about, but the average standard that most people endure is just downright tragic.
I was wondering where all those headcrabs suddenly came from.
So how many points of damage does a mag-lev elevator do?
Who cares? Just think of the jumps you could do!
That's what, thirty years, and these guys are still using toilet plungers and paint rollers for their futuristic space robots?
Just wait till you see the flourescent green tawainese ones. Scary mothers.