Hmm, but I can think of at least one good use for voice recognition...
"Daddy, how do you spell..."
It was cute the first 1,000,000 words, but now I'm getting hoarse. When my daughter is writing a letter or story or song - I've often wished for some decent voice recognition software that could assist her.
My bro and I both work in the software industry in similar positions. My student loans will be paid in full with the next check. His student loans will take 30 years to pay off (he borrowed all that "free" money, and I worked my arse off as a lab technician).
My house is very nice. His house is not as nice.
Pay back your loans as soon as possible. Debt can be crippling, especially when it comes time to devote your time and money into the needs of a growing family.
Always pay your debts first.
If and only if you had your own money to invest (not on loan from the gov't, which is not legal, BTW), through gifts of bonds, inheritence, hard work, lottery winnings, or something, I'd consider buying a property in which to live while you finish school and improve it as a dwelling. Property prices are quite high right now, but perhaps you could still find a fixer-upper opportunity and "fix her upper", taking the appropriate cautions. If done right, this could benefit your day-to-day quality of living, and when you move on, you could sell or rent this property. It would solidify your credit, and could give you tax advantages (which wouldn't help much until you've got a real job). Partnering with a parent or relative (with clear contractual terms) could allow them a tax advantage, and you and them both a practical investment in something you'd get actual use out of.
Or you could just enjoy college and stop worrying about money, because it comes and goes my friend.
Also, merchants will often have a nice green item for sale for a high price. That's when gold is handy.
3. "No chest"
TQ has bags that provide more space than the chest and are always with your character. The difference is psychological.
4. Rampant hacking
Read slashdot. Hacking cannot be stopped. D2 held up admirably, but there are plenty of duped items 4 sale. Farmers and bots gotta' eat too, I suppose - wait, bots don't eat, sleep, or poop - but they can harvest some 31337 l00t. In the end, whether or not a player indulges in hacked/farmed goods is a choice of the player. TQ is a co-op game, so don't co-op with obvious cheaters and the gameplay won't be affected.
TQ is a fun hack-n-slash. It doesn't break much ground, but for click-fu, it's a worthy diversion, IMO.
The converse of this paradox is also one. Accumulating as much of a product as possible to maximize the value of the monetary expense, even if doing so adversely affects your enjoyment of that product, illustrates a strange consequence of consumerism.
The obvious example is that of the person who consumes far beyond a comfortable and enjoyable amount of food at an all-you-can-eat buffet. The value for the price is determined to be "volume of food" rather than enjoyment of the meal. Would someone consciously pay for a sick stomach?
For some, Netflix is approaching this valuation on "volume of movies" rather than convenience or even personal enjoyment/satisfaction of the service.
Some of Mark's blog entries in the past have cited shortcomings and oversights in Windows systems and he has often provided utilities to get around/address them. Now that Mark is a Microsoft employee, will such criticism be forthcoming, or silenced?
Mark's investigations into Windows workings have been very informational and useful over the years. Now that he'll be under NDA and non-compete...
TFA makes a dad like me think that HotWheels is surely doomed...
If you want realistic toy cars that are inexpensive, modelled and scaled after actual vehicles, and sized appropriately for small boys, go to Wal-mart. There is a manufacturer out of China (surprise, its Wal-mart), that builds 1:40 scale toy cars for about $1 per vehicle (a bit larger than your standard HotWheels car, a good fit for small hands). My son (almost 3) has a dozen of them and plays with them frequently.
Many of them have rubber tires, opening doors, and some have a simple low-tech rubberband mechanism where he can pull it back and it "drives" forward. I think the brand is something like "Kid Connection". They're in a light blue box - a bit generic looking. I couldn't find them on the Wal-Mart website, but they're in store.
Or does this look exactly like COD2? WTF? Console kids are gonna' shell out another $50 for the same damned game they already have? Since when did IW become EA?
and no PC!? Are they nuts!? What self-respecting gamer plays FPS on console?
This model won't work for all products and/or markets. Glad you pointed that out. We code medical devices that cannot fail. Sending alpha or beta code to customers without a written agreement wouldn't be such a good idea.
This is one reason why software is NEVER completed before the estimated date. If you're doubling the estimates, you'd best not let the engineers know that you've done so.
We use a similar setup for portable EEG systems with video. We've found Firewire to be superior to USB so far, but DV is acceptable quality for a laptop. It isn't as good as the Osprey though, we use an Osprey on the desktop, and the quality is superior.
What is the latency like for the USB ATI TV-Wonder? I haven't tried it.
Hey, this is a great flamewar. My language RULES! Yours SUCKS!
Anyway, there is another way to lessen the impact of crappy drivers...
Get drivers out of the kernel! Yes, folks. Microkernel OS! Treat every process as a principle and grant only the required privileges for operation of the device/application.
I'll wait while you folks code one up for me in your elite programming language. Done yet? C'mon, I don't have all day to wait!
Is video game prowess different than marksmanship or archery? Not all that much, but that makes no difference. The last thing the IOC wants to be known for is keeping the world's kids in dark rooms (see Miyamoto) playing video games for a chance at gold.
And what games? What machines? The Global Gaming League is simply looking to grab headlines to promote its coming TV deals, hoping that youth will start following Fata1ity (or whatever her handle is) like she's the next Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm.
The problem is excellence in gaming doesn't bear the sex appeal excellence in athletics does. Sure, stand-out ability and an ability to earn large sums of cash can do wonders for anybody's sex-appeal (see Trump), but a great body sells a lot more perfume and sponsor apparel, and usually helps a person's television presense (to the point where they can smile, thank Jesus, and everyone says, "what a great role model for the kids").
Gamers as role models? In your dreams, kid.
In case you haven't heard, games are evil corruptors of the young that show boobies and turn you into a horde of terrists that refuse to fall into line.
The number of bugs is only one side of the issue. The severity of the bugs is just as, if not more, important.
The most serious bugs I've seen almost always relate in some way to crappy state management because some fresh-out-of-college-n00b distributes state to every "object" they've constructed in their over-engineered seven-levels-deep nightmare design.
In a well designed system, bug severity is limited to an interruption of service, and loss or confusion of data is very rare and carefully mitigated by the design.
If state is preserved and transacted correctly, then some hoser who codes in divide-by-zeros will find it hard to violate the data integrity. The very best systems will reset, load the last good state, and continue merrily as if nothing happened.
You could think of Hydrogen as a "battery" if the Nuclear plant power is used to crack water. There is still energy loss though. You'll spend energy cracking water, transporting (ship, vehicle, or pipeline), and during combustion. Crude oil experiences similar losses from source to destination.
Anyway, the safety of Nuclear reactors are only one problem with the technology. The waste they produce is the more difficult to address. There aren't too many wastelands open to accepting radioactive waste - and even fusion (to my reading, though I am no expert) produces these waste products.
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Hmm, but I can think of at least one good use for voice recognition...
"Daddy, how do you spell..."
It was cute the first 1,000,000 words, but now I'm getting hoarse. When my daughter is writing a letter or story or song - I've often wished for some decent voice recognition software that could assist her.
Thank God, Brother, you're the first sane person in this forum. I think people do not understand what "workstation" means. Kids. heh.
My bro and I both work in the software industry in similar positions. My student loans will be paid in full with the next check. His student loans will take 30 years to pay off (he borrowed all that "free" money, and I worked my arse off as a lab technician).
My house is very nice. His house is not as nice.
Pay back your loans as soon as possible. Debt can be crippling, especially when it comes time to devote your time and money into the needs of a growing family.
Always pay your debts first.
If and only if you had your own money to invest (not on loan from the gov't, which is not legal, BTW), through gifts of bonds, inheritence, hard work, lottery winnings, or something, I'd consider buying a property in which to live while you finish school and improve it as a dwelling. Property prices are quite high right now, but perhaps you could still find a fixer-upper opportunity and "fix her upper", taking the appropriate cautions. If done right, this could benefit your day-to-day quality of living, and when you move on, you could sell or rent this property. It would solidify your credit, and could give you tax advantages (which wouldn't help much until you've got a real job). Partnering with a parent or relative (with clear contractual terms) could allow them a tax advantage, and you and them both a practical investment in something you'd get actual use out of.
Or you could just enjoy college and stop worrying about money, because it comes and goes my friend.
What you say is true, but to quote Hollywood's "The Right Stuff"...
"No bucks, no Buck Rogers"
1. Areas of D2 that were "replayed" the most...
:@
Tristam
Bloody Foothills
Secret Cow Level
Mephisto/Diablo/Baal
None were randomized.
2. "Too much loot"
Say what!?
Also, merchants will often have a nice green item for sale for a high price. That's when gold is handy.
3. "No chest"
TQ has bags that provide more space than the chest and are always with your character. The difference is psychological.
4. Rampant hacking
Read slashdot. Hacking cannot be stopped. D2 held up admirably, but there are plenty of duped items 4 sale. Farmers and bots gotta' eat too, I suppose - wait, bots don't eat, sleep, or poop - but they can harvest some 31337 l00t. In the end, whether or not a player indulges in hacked/farmed goods is a choice of the player. TQ is a co-op game, so don't co-op with obvious cheaters and the gameplay won't be affected.
TQ is a fun hack-n-slash. It doesn't break much ground, but for click-fu, it's a worthy diversion, IMO.
The converse of this paradox is also one. Accumulating as much of a product as possible to maximize the value of the monetary expense, even if doing so adversely affects your enjoyment of that product, illustrates a strange consequence of consumerism.
The obvious example is that of the person who consumes far beyond a comfortable and enjoyable amount of food at an all-you-can-eat buffet. The value for the price is determined to be "volume of food" rather than enjoyment of the meal. Would someone consciously pay for a sick stomach?
For some, Netflix is approaching this valuation on "volume of movies" rather than convenience or even personal enjoyment/satisfaction of the service.
Oh man! I can't even begin to think of a joke worthy of that setup...
Some of Mark's blog entries in the past have cited shortcomings and oversights in Windows systems and he has often provided utilities to get around/address them. Now that Mark is a Microsoft employee, will such criticism be forthcoming, or silenced?
Mark's investigations into Windows workings have been very informational and useful over the years. Now that he'll be under NDA and non-compete...
Correction: "Maisto", not "Kid Connection" - saw another poster called these out.
TFA makes a dad like me think that HotWheels is surely doomed...
If you want realistic toy cars that are inexpensive, modelled and scaled after actual vehicles, and sized appropriately for small boys, go to Wal-mart. There is a manufacturer out of China (surprise, its Wal-mart), that builds 1:40 scale toy cars for about $1 per vehicle (a bit larger than your standard HotWheels car, a good fit for small hands). My son (almost 3) has a dozen of them and plays with them frequently.
Many of them have rubber tires, opening doors, and some have a simple low-tech rubberband mechanism where he can pull it back and it "drives" forward. I think the brand is something like "Kid Connection". They're in a light blue box - a bit generic looking. I couldn't find them on the Wal-Mart website, but they're in store.
Or does this look exactly like COD2? WTF? Console kids are gonna' shell out another $50 for the same damned game they already have? Since when did IW become EA?
and no PC!? Are they nuts!? What self-respecting gamer plays FPS on console?
???
*sigh*
This model won't work for all products and/or markets.
Glad you pointed that out. We code medical devices that cannot fail. Sending alpha or beta code to customers without a written agreement wouldn't be such a good idea.
"Work expands to fill the time alotted for it."
This is one reason why software is NEVER completed before the estimated date. If you're doubling the estimates, you'd best not let the engineers know that you've done so.
We use a similar setup for portable EEG systems with video. We've found Firewire to be superior to USB so far, but DV is acceptable quality for a laptop. It isn't as good as the Osprey though, we use an Osprey on the desktop, and the quality is superior.
What is the latency like for the USB ATI TV-Wonder? I haven't tried it.
Impressive.
1. Obtain a Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo! email account.
2. Code PHP to send emails through it to your Hotmail customers.
Hey, this is a great flamewar. My language RULES! Yours SUCKS!
Anyway, there is another way to lessen the impact of crappy drivers...
Get drivers out of the kernel! Yes, folks. Microkernel OS! Treat every process as a principle and grant only the required privileges for operation of the device/application.
I'll wait while you folks code one up for me in your elite programming language. Done yet? C'mon, I don't have all day to wait!
There was a console Diablo as well.
Terrible idea to implant people with very hackable chips...
RFID vulnerable to virus infection
RFID Real Hacking Scenarios
Cellphone Could Crack RFID
My faith in Slashdotters restored.
Hmm, I see your point. What is needed is the social equivalent of Captcha...
[Website] In order to access this site, you need to send an essay describing the importance of "Business Ethics" (see: Billy Madison).
[Corporate Lawyers] Ugh! Argh! I can't do it!
That'd trip 'em up for sure.
I sure could've used that comment 5 years ago. It would've easily been the most useful information I've ever seen on Slashdot.
This is nothing more than a gimmick.
Is video game prowess different than marksmanship or archery? Not all that much, but that makes no difference. The last thing the IOC wants to be known for is keeping the world's kids in dark rooms (see Miyamoto) playing video games for a chance at gold.
And what games? What machines? The Global Gaming League is simply looking to grab headlines to promote its coming TV deals, hoping that youth will start following Fata1ity (or whatever her handle is) like she's the next Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm.
The problem is excellence in gaming doesn't bear the sex appeal excellence in athletics does. Sure, stand-out ability and an ability to earn large sums of cash can do wonders for anybody's sex-appeal (see Trump), but a great body sells a lot more perfume and sponsor apparel, and usually helps a person's television presense (to the point where they can smile, thank Jesus, and everyone says, "what a great role model for the kids").
Gamers as role models? In your dreams, kid.
In case you haven't heard, games are evil corruptors of the young that show boobies and turn you into a horde of terrists that refuse to fall into line.
The number of bugs is only one side of the issue. The severity of the bugs is just as, if not more, important.
The most serious bugs I've seen almost always relate in some way to crappy state management because some fresh-out-of-college-n00b distributes state to every "object" they've constructed in their over-engineered seven-levels-deep nightmare design.
In a well designed system, bug severity is limited to an interruption of service, and loss or confusion of data is very rare and carefully mitigated by the design.
If state is preserved and transacted correctly, then some hoser who codes in divide-by-zeros will find it hard to violate the data integrity. The very best systems will reset, load the last good state, and continue merrily as if nothing happened.
You could think of Hydrogen as a "battery" if the Nuclear plant power is used to crack water. There is still energy loss though. You'll spend energy cracking water, transporting (ship, vehicle, or pipeline), and during combustion. Crude oil experiences similar losses from source to destination.
Anyway, the safety of Nuclear reactors are only one problem with the technology. The waste they produce is the more difficult to address. There aren't too many wastelands open to accepting radioactive waste - and even fusion (to my reading, though I am no expert) produces these waste products.