So let's say I was driving and your kids were in the street playing hopscotch... would you rather I had the ability to swerve and hit your house, or plow through your kids screaming obsenities?
If you make a emergency button, to override this software, then what's the point of installing it in the first place? It's a valid point that myself and others are bringing up.
"Turn 50 degrees east-north-east... you're about to hit another plane!" "...I can't" "Sure you can, just turn!" "NO... I physically CAN'T, the plane won't let me."
BAM.
Taking the control out of the pilots hands is a bad thing.
What he just admitted is that HALF of ALL crashes are Microsoft OS related. Every application that runs on a account for more than let's say 5% or 6% of total crashes, but Microsoft still has their full 50% share. That's STUPID-speak on his part. Way to instill company pride by shooting yourself in the foot, and then putting it in your mouth.
Instead of remembering the letters S-C-I-E-N-C-E, I can now take come creatine and remember the letters B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. I'd like to see some of their numbers first before jump to a conclusion that creatine makes you smarter... Even if it were true, remember 1.5 items more than the next guy isn't going to change your life. I wonder if all meat eaters are smarter than their vegetarian counterparts? I should stock up on McD's $1 Double Cheeseburgers and say it's so I can become smarter.
So now the way to get around exclusivity agreements (not saying that's what Microsoft and Rare have) is to sell licenses to other production companies to release? Nice. I just hope that Bungie ports Halo to GC now.
Isn't he violating the TOS of UO (never played, so didn't read). I'm sure he's on the blacklist of any new MMORPG he tries to play much like the casinos do when players make money off the casino in ways they didn't intend or agree with.
(This comment isn't intended as a flame, or troll, but a suggestive criticism question aimed at editors)
Why is this news now, when the game came out 13 years ago, and the wired article came out 11 years ago? Is there nothing else in the queue worth publishing? (I'm not a./ subscriber)
Albeit interesting, it's not "news" but if this is what's getting posted, maybe I should start submitting more articles to generate traffic. The./ games section receives about 30 comments an article (roughly 1/5th to 1/20th of normal articles) so if nobody responds, I understand, but I'd like some feedback from the editors please.
Thanks, good thing some other knowledgeable./'er modded me back up. I'm really curious why someone would find that they need the attention badly enough to propogate a sham 9 years in the making now...
If you really work at Nintendo, post up a picture of your business card, along with a phone number we'd be able to call and get an operator to referr us to you. If not, go away.
The MIT Logrhythms (insanely great college a capella group, which honestly my brother is a part of) just spent an odd number of tens of thousands of dollars to BUILD their OWN recording studio in a part of one of their student buildings. They've got almost everything a professional studio has including soundproof recording room, mixer table, and editing computer. Now instead of spending tens of thousands on studio time, they can just hire a sound engineer for a fraction of that cost on their own system, while they learn it themselves. It's amazing what professional software can do for small organizations.
I've read a couple articles on patents and where they're going in the past two weeks. One takes a look at all the patents given in the US that don't and can NEVER be produced because they are physically impossible. The second article dealt with how the US government is INCREASING costs for patent filings because there's too much of a backlog as is, and they need more of an incentive to process current patents and to, wait for it..., DISCOURAGE new patents. *sigh*
So computers can now talk to themselves (Re /.)
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A couple months ago, a very fine article was posted to/. about work at MIT regarding speech-->video synthesis using pre-recorded syllables. This means in the near future we'll be able to have avatars which an communicate to other people by videophone and/or other computers should we wish to do so. I'm reposting the old link because it got/.'ed for about 2 months (the professor took down the link) before putting the vids back up. So check out the amazing work that's on the flip-side of this article.
Who in their right mind (much less college students) would jeopardize a multi-tens-of-thousand dollar education for what amounts to less than $250 a year? Not to mention violating most university TOS'es, this goes against the scruples and general netiquette. *sigh* Try to imagine what it would be like if college students pulled this crap outside a mall dropping little gifts on everybody's windshield. I think these fools should have their digital lingam neutered.
I hope this book is better than Idoru which sucked total balls. Anybody who's read this book knows the book was a couple hundred pages of anticlimatic boredom. Nothing like Neuromancer (which I just read again to reaffirm my like in Gibson), or my favorite cyberpunk book, Snow Crash. I personally think Neal Stephenson has Gibson beat, with Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and of course the behemoth of a book, Cryptonomicron.
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So let's say I was driving and your kids were in the street playing hopscotch... would you rather I had the ability to swerve and hit your house, or plow through your kids screaming obsenities?
Thanks.
If you make a emergency button, to override this software, then what's the point of installing it in the first place? It's a valid point that myself and others are bringing up.
Interesting, I never thought about altitude restrictions, do you have a link? I hadn't heard about this.
"Turn 50 degrees east-north-east... you're about to hit another plane!"
"...I can't"
"Sure you can, just turn!"
"NO... I physically CAN'T, the plane won't let me."
BAM.
Taking the control out of the pilots hands is a bad thing.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-09 -10&res=l
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What he just admitted is that HALF of ALL crashes are Microsoft OS related. Every application that runs on a account for more than let's say 5% or 6% of total crashes, but Microsoft still has their full 50% share. That's STUPID-speak on his part. Way to instill company pride by shooting yourself in the foot, and then putting it in your mouth.
Instead of remembering the letters S-C-I-E-N-C-E, I can now take come creatine and remember the letters B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. I'd like to see some of their numbers first before jump to a conclusion that creatine makes you smarter... Even if it were true, remember 1.5 items more than the next guy isn't going to change your life. I wonder if all meat eaters are smarter than their vegetarian counterparts? I should stock up on McD's $1 Double Cheeseburgers and say it's so I can become smarter.
Sony doesn't OWN Square though. It seems like a conflict of interests.
So now the way to get around exclusivity agreements (not saying that's what Microsoft and Rare have) is to sell licenses to other production companies to release? Nice. I just hope that Bungie ports Halo to GC now.
Isn't he violating the TOS of UO (never played, so didn't read). I'm sure he's on the blacklist of any new MMORPG he tries to play much like the casinos do when players make money off the casino in ways they didn't intend or agree with.
(This comment isn't intended as a flame, or troll, but a suggestive criticism question aimed at editors)
./ subscriber)
./ games section receives about 30 comments an article (roughly 1/5th to 1/20th of normal articles) so if nobody responds, I understand, but I'd like some feedback from the editors please.
Why is this news now, when the game came out 13 years ago, and the wired article came out 11 years ago? Is there nothing else in the queue worth publishing? (I'm not a
Albeit interesting, it's not "news" but if this is what's getting posted, maybe I should start submitting more articles to generate traffic. The
Thanks, good thing some other knowledgeable ./'er modded me back up. I'm really curious why someone would find that they need the attention badly enough to propogate a sham 9 years in the making now...
If you really work at Nintendo, post up a picture of your business card, along with a phone number we'd be able to call and get an operator to referr us to you. If not, go away.
I can see a WHOLE set of problems... http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0105/31_kidgun-p ar.html
The MIT Logrhythms (insanely great college a capella group, which honestly my brother is a part of) just spent an odd number of tens of thousands of dollars to BUILD their OWN recording studio in a part of one of their student buildings. They've got almost everything a professional studio has including soundproof recording room, mixer table, and editing computer. Now instead of spending tens of thousands on studio time, they can just hire a sound engineer for a fraction of that cost on their own system, while they learn it themselves. It's amazing what professional software can do for small organizations.
My Nostromo mouse n30 has rumble IN IT. JOY!
Three letters...
S-N-K.
Each game cost half the console, and when the system died out, the games that were still coming out were MORE EXPENSIVE than the console itself. JOY!
I've read a couple articles on patents and where they're going in the past two weeks. One takes a look at all the patents given in the US that don't and can NEVER be produced because they are physically impossible. The second article dealt with how the US government is INCREASING costs for patent filings because there's too much of a backlog as is, and they need more of an incentive to process current patents and to, wait for it..., DISCOURAGE new patents. *sigh*
A couple months ago, a very fine article was posted to /. about work at MIT regarding speech-->video synthesis using pre-recorded syllables. This means in the near future we'll be able to have avatars which an communicate to other people by videophone and/or other computers should we wish to do so. I'm reposting the old link because it got /.'ed for about 2 months (the professor took down the link) before putting the vids back up. So check out the amazing work that's on the flip-side of this article.
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http://cerboli.mit.edu:8000/research/mary101/resu
Who in their right mind (much less college students) would jeopardize a multi-tens-of-thousand dollar education for what amounts to less than $250 a year? Not to mention violating most university TOS'es, this goes against the scruples and general netiquette. *sigh* Try to imagine what it would be like if college students pulled this crap outside a mall dropping little gifts on everybody's windshield. I think these fools should have their digital lingam neutered.
I'm just waiting for the terahertz filter for Sony digicams that'll let you see nekkid women under their clothes THROUGH walls. *snicker*
http://www.spy.th.com/through.html
I hope this book is better than Idoru which sucked total balls. Anybody who's read this book knows the book was a couple hundred pages of anticlimatic boredom. Nothing like Neuromancer (which I just read again to reaffirm my like in Gibson), or my favorite cyberpunk book, Snow Crash. I personally think Neal Stephenson has Gibson beat, with Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and of course the behemoth of a book, Cryptonomicron.