Is the picture going to be on the screen of my television, ie, am I going to be able to recieve a picture with my own two eyes?
Then fuck 'em, I'll set up a goddam CAMCORDER in front of my television, record it in real-time, encode it, and distribute it on the internet, just to stick my finger in their eye, so to speak.
People do not seem to understand that at some point, somewhere along the line, it HAS to be in a format that your body can process. Until they create encrypted jacks in our HEADS, we will be able to copy their content. PERIOD!!!
Welp, I read slashdot every once in a long while, but this is enough. I read it for the laughs, but this is kind of sad. Anyway, its time for everyone to remember, even though no one will ever read this post:
actually, I can say to whomever I want "You can't come in because you're black (or hispanic, or greek, or christian, or ugly, or purple, or whatever). The government has no say on who i do and who i do not allow on my private property.
The only thing I CANNOT do is say "No, I won't hire you because you're black. (or whatever)"
So...its no problem unless I have something you want. For example, say I wanted to walk into Border's Bookstore. They won't let me in without swiping my ID card. But, I've stolen books before. (it was a long time ago, boo hoo) Now because they'll find out and not let me in ANYWAY, I don't go in period. Don't bother telling me there is always another store, or "i don't need the book that badly" or any of that. It's crap and you know it. Border's COULD do this. So could any privately owned/operated company or individual in the country.
Quiver.
The problem is, whether they legally can ask for it or not, on private property, they can refuse entry to anyone for any reason, trivial or not. I don't want you walking on my lawn without scanning your card in that there reader. Bing, I have all the information about you I could ever want. And I can do it, because the government cannot tell me I'm not allowed. It's my property, after all. Keep off!
How, after reading the majority of the comments posted here, (admittedly biased) I can't find a SINGLE person who actually likes this idea.
What happened? Proactive stop working? How the hell does something like this happen in the first place??? I sure didn't vote for it!
i also learned absolutely nothing about sound from and electronic marketing brochure.
tell me something. who gives a shit about whether i can draw an 80kHz sine wave when the human ear is only sensitive to 20kHz? i don't even have to get a pen and paper to see what you are saying, but it is irrelevant.
i was simply using SACD as a convenient source, because Sony happens to have way, way more money than i do to spend on pretty graphs and propaganda. i would assume the average/. reader to have his bullshit detectors on full alert anytime he enters a site like that.
dummy. my 900 mhz cordless phone will sure as hell go through 7 walls of my house. he's right.
now, for a little imagining. a higher frequency signal has more power. thus, it will penetrate materials better (gamma rays blow through anything, infrared doesn't), however, doesn't low frequency "scatter" much more easily? like, I could punch a very high powered very low frequency signal through the damn ocean, but a high powered, high frequency signal would get scattered into noise by the salt in the ocean, wouldn't it?
no silly. 44.1 kHz is a sampling rate. it is a measure of how many "dots" make up the curve of the music. in essence, the sampling rate will tell you how rough the apporixmation of a true waveform the audio will be. take a look at sony's SACD and you will learn much. it uses a sampling rate that is so ridiculously high you can barely see a difference between it and a true analog source.
Close your eyes. Now, reach out and hold your hand in the air. How long can you hold it there? Face it. Human senses were developed and honed over thousands of years to touch. We can't find the difference in position to within inches, but the human skin can detect pressure changes to less than a ounce. I have heard tell of some "thought" controls, but lets face it, those won't work too well either. Can you imagine the degree of self-control those would take? You sort of enter that semi-daze you hit at about 3am at your next lan. Oh shit, I just shot myself in the foot, and I seem to be shooting things completely at random...
No, until we develop a system that completely takes over your brain I/O, we will be stuck with increasingly efficient Mice and Keyboards. Unless of course you feel that a specialized control for every game you play is a necessity...
Personally, I feel that the single player market is almost dead. The future truly lies in MMO games. I remember when I first got cable. I thought "Well, that's cool, I can like, play real people and stuff..." Now, when my service dies for two whole days, I'm like, what the hell am I gonna do with myself??? If someone could make an MMORPG taking place in a huge kingdom with thousands of people in it, with real, meaningful, permanent changes in that world that happened as a direct result of player actions that had graphics on par with Q3...whew...
That's the main problem with games today. Nothing you do is permanent. I couldn't give less of a shit the clan such-and-such beat clan them-and-they. Who cares? What changed? That's what was cool about diablo 2. Despite its shit graphic, shit control, shit netcode (actually shit code period) it was fun because: a. it had a "carrot" and b. what you earned, you kept, and what you lost, stayed lost. Period. The single player was boring. Online play was great. Spending hours doing things that actually stayed done. I played Anarchy Onine for a month (no, I never have and never will touch EQ) but the fact that they released a beta to the general public sort of ruined that game for me.
BTW, I loved Dues Ex. Can you imagine if that world had been populated by real people? If you literally couldn't complete some tasks without making friends that would help you? If you actually had to interact with real people on both sides of the conflict? That would have been, not just great, but great. It seems to me that everything a good single player game does could be done better if it was populated with real people. Granted, we aren't quite there yet, but hopefully by the time I am 25, we will be.
Server split is just when one server loses connectivity with another. On IRC you would see it as a long string of instant "XXX has Quit IRC (some server here)". They are dangerous, because when the two servers come back in contact, they are out of sync for a little while, which means malicious users can do bad things, like pose as admins and take over channels and stuff. They aren't a really frequent occurence, but they would be a big issue in games (what happens to the players that "disappeared" when then servers split?).
My question has always been: Why can't you prevent these splits by having multiple redundant routes from server to server? As yet no one has answered this one...so feel free.
you see in 3d. simple as that. binocular vision. 3 dimensions simply means height, width, depth. if you saw in 2d you would be unable to see ANYTHING. a plane doesn't exist, f00.
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Yeah I remember that one too. Does anyone actually watch the superbowl itself? I mean, you can always get the scores online the next day :)
What are you TALKING about???
Is the picture going to be on the screen of my television, ie, am I going to be able to recieve a picture with my own two eyes?
Then fuck 'em, I'll set up a goddam CAMCORDER in front of my television, record it in real-time, encode it, and distribute it on the internet, just to stick my finger in their eye, so to speak.
People do not seem to understand that at some point, somewhere along the line, it HAS to be in a format that your body can process. Until they create encrypted jacks in our HEADS, we will be able to copy their content. PERIOD!!!
Of all the Superbowl commercials you've ever seen, which do you think is the best?
Definitely the Tabasco Sauce commercial from Super Bowl XXX for me. That was the funniest thing I ever saw on television.
WOOOOOOOO!!!
I read every damn comment, and couldn't find a single one rated above 0!!!
As far as the parent goes....hehe
Offtopic=75, Flamebait=1, Troll=3, Redundant=2, Insightful=15, Interesting=50, Informative=12, Funny=2, Overrated=2, Underrated=5, Total=167.
Welp, I read slashdot every once in a long while, but this is enough. I read it for the laughs, but this is kind of sad. Anyway, its time for everyone to remember, even though no one will ever read this post:
This little tidbit about the internet.
actually, I can say to whomever I want "You can't come in because you're black (or hispanic, or greek, or christian, or ugly, or purple, or whatever). The government has no say on who i do and who i do not allow on my private property. The only thing I CANNOT do is say "No, I won't hire you because you're black. (or whatever)" So...its no problem unless I have something you want. For example, say I wanted to walk into Border's Bookstore. They won't let me in without swiping my ID card. But, I've stolen books before. (it was a long time ago, boo hoo) Now because they'll find out and not let me in ANYWAY, I don't go in period. Don't bother telling me there is always another store, or "i don't need the book that badly" or any of that. It's crap and you know it. Border's COULD do this. So could any privately owned/operated company or individual in the country. Quiver.
The problem is, whether they legally can ask for it or not, on private property, they can refuse entry to anyone for any reason, trivial or not. I don't want you walking on my lawn without scanning your card in that there reader. Bing, I have all the information about you I could ever want. And I can do it, because the government cannot tell me I'm not allowed. It's my property, after all. Keep off!
How, after reading the majority of the comments posted here, (admittedly biased) I can't find a SINGLE person who actually likes this idea. What happened? Proactive stop working? How the hell does something like this happen in the first place??? I sure didn't vote for it!
Right in front of me, signed by one "AnonymousCoward". Idiot
...I should stop staying up so damnably late (early?)! I want to see this, but the site is still blasted to hell. At two in the morning, too...
take it in the spirit with which it was said.
/. reader to have his bullshit detectors on full alert anytime he enters a site like that.
i also learned absolutely nothing about sound from and electronic marketing brochure.
tell me something. who gives a shit about whether i can draw an 80kHz sine wave when the human ear is only sensitive to 20kHz? i don't even have to get a pen and paper to see what you are saying, but it is irrelevant.
i was simply using SACD as a convenient source, because Sony happens to have way, way more money than i do to spend on pretty graphs and propaganda. i would assume the average
-kaxman
dummy. my 900 mhz cordless phone will sure as hell go through 7 walls of my house. he's right.
now, for a little imagining. a higher frequency signal has more power. thus, it will penetrate materials better (gamma rays blow through anything, infrared doesn't), however, doesn't low frequency "scatter" much more easily? like, I could punch a very high powered very low frequency signal through the damn ocean, but a high powered, high frequency signal would get scattered into noise by the salt in the ocean, wouldn't it?
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no silly. 44.1 kHz is a sampling rate. it is a measure of how many "dots" make up the curve of the music. in essence, the sampling rate will tell you how rough the apporixmation of a true waveform the audio will be. take a look at sony's SACD and you will learn much. it uses a sampling rate that is so ridiculously high you can barely see a difference between it and a true analog source.
happy trails.
-kaxman
Close your eyes. Now, reach out and hold your hand in the air. How long can you hold it there? Face it. Human senses were developed and honed over thousands of years to touch. We can't find the difference in position to within inches, but the human skin can detect pressure changes to less than a ounce. I have heard tell of some "thought" controls, but lets face it, those won't work too well either. Can you imagine the degree of self-control those would take? You sort of enter that semi-daze you hit at about 3am at your next lan. Oh shit, I just shot myself in the foot, and I seem to be shooting things completely at random...
No, until we develop a system that completely takes over your brain I/O, we will be stuck with increasingly efficient Mice and Keyboards. Unless of course you feel that a specialized control for every game you play is a necessity...
Personally, I feel that the single player market is almost dead. The future truly lies in MMO games. I remember when I first got cable. I thought "Well, that's cool, I can like, play real people and stuff..." Now, when my service dies for two whole days, I'm like, what the hell am I gonna do with myself??? If someone could make an MMORPG taking place in a huge kingdom with thousands of people in it, with real, meaningful, permanent changes in that world that happened as a direct result of player actions that had graphics on par with Q3...whew...
That's the main problem with games today. Nothing you do is permanent. I couldn't give less of a shit the clan such-and-such beat clan them-and-they. Who cares? What changed? That's what was cool about diablo 2. Despite its shit graphic, shit control, shit netcode (actually shit code period) it was fun because: a. it had a "carrot" and b. what you earned, you kept, and what you lost, stayed lost. Period. The single player was boring. Online play was great. Spending hours doing things that actually stayed done. I played Anarchy Onine for a month (no, I never have and never will touch EQ) but the fact that they released a beta to the general public sort of ruined that game for me.
BTW, I loved Dues Ex. Can you imagine if that world had been populated by real people? If you literally couldn't complete some tasks without making friends that would help you? If you actually had to interact with real people on both sides of the conflict? That would have been, not just great, but great. It seems to me that everything a good single player game does could be done better if it was populated with real people. Granted, we aren't quite there yet, but hopefully by the time I am 25, we will be.
-kaxman
Server split is just when one server loses connectivity with another. On IRC you would see it as a long string of instant "XXX has Quit IRC (some server here)". They are dangerous, because when the two servers come back in contact, they are out of sync for a little while, which means malicious users can do bad things, like pose as admins and take over channels and stuff. They aren't a really frequent occurence, but they would be a big issue in games (what happens to the players that "disappeared" when then servers split?).
My question has always been: Why can't you prevent these splits by having multiple redundant routes from server to server? As yet no one has answered this one...so feel free.
Verbage parser overload...bzzzt...piff
this is the funniest thing i have read in weeks. you got any more?
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that's a damn good idea. Wonder why they won't do it?
insightful? funny...that's not what i thought...
George Carlin:
"Americans are always willing to trade away a little more of their freedom for the feeling, the illusion, of security."
How true.
what are you, stupid?
two and a half?
you see in 3d. simple as that. binocular vision. 3 dimensions simply means height, width, depth. if you saw in 2d you would be unable to see ANYTHING. a plane doesn't exist, f00.
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we don't want the real world.
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Well. What the hell am I supposed to do now??? He didn't finish his goddam dark tower series. I'm sad, but dammit... grrrrrr...
I really enjoyed many of his books, but he should have focused on his, imho, best series of books.
kaxman
It has to be way more than that! It's everywhere, in every single part of the internet!
I feel the need to refer everyone to George Carlin's cd "You are all diseased", and listen to the track about the number one industry in America.
-kaxman