In Tokyo there is an RFID based card called "SUICA" (Super Urban Intelligent Card) that can be used for JR trains, several vending machines and some convenience stores. It is possible to get Suica functionality in your phone. Suica is not a "trial" as it replaced the JR designated value cards.
Also, SUICA penguin mascot ads are plastered everywhere.
Tokyo has a slightly different designation than most prefectures (ken) as it is known as Tokyo-to. Additionally there is a Tokyo-shi which is a city on its own that contains various wards. There are a few other shi within Tokyo to, and then there are machi (towns) and, elsewhere, mura (villages) One ward in Tokyo-to is Chuo-ku. Ginza is a district contained within Chuo-ku.
So maybe next time you're so smug and insulting you can make sure you're not talking out of your ass.
1. It's not bankrupt at all. Overlapping windows are very useful in filtering out which data you're currently paying attention to. I'm not the only one who is more productive without the distraction of superfluous information. On my Mac I run Backdrop, which is simply a solid black window which I bring to the front to cover windows I'm not working with. Additionally, I run SpiritedAway which hides windows that are idle. I can quickly add windows to an exception list to prevent this from happening when it's undesirable. In truth, I wish more applications had a fullscreen mode, without extraneous window boundaries and menu bars.
2. Obviously this is largely related to mnemonics over position. How do you determine what keyboard layout gets the most symbolic shortcut layout while the rest are merely positional? That said, shortcut keys are there to provide quick access to common actions, not inductive/intuitive paths.
4. Plenty of GUIs have smooth scrolling or transitional animations. Some are intrusive, some are appealing, but in general, once people are doing a task repetitively they are impatient and want it to happen quickly and crisply. With the exception of tracking moving objects, our eyes jump around and jerk quickly, so we're completely suited to it. Plenty of people feel very comfortable with the speed of a jerky page up/page down and find scrollbars tedious.
You're a cracked out nutjob! Riding on bicycles is 'entertainment' for some, not for others, running around in circles is 'entertainment' for some and again, not for others. If some people enjoy playing a game that involves them stepping on squares and it makes them active then it's good! Some people like tennis, some people like cycling, some people like gardening. This just adds another possibility, and it's no worse than any other. I know plenty of people who were active in high school, who did competitive sports like swimming or track & field, who stopped once they got out of high school. Our careers at this point are largely sedentary, and gyms are definitely not my idea of an enjoyable place to visit. I'd much rather jump around in front of some flashy lights than sit on a stationary bicycle.
Are you generally against PE in schools or do you really think that teaching kids to play dodgeball and kickball is markedly superior than letting them play DDR? If DDR motivates kids to be active while they play it and playing softball doesn't, why is it inferior? Seriously, what is your problem other than being smug and shouting out crap from an ivory tower?
Too bad for you that there isn't a game to make crochety malcontents reasonable and produce something other than idiotic dismissive grunts from their flatulent armchairs. DDR has been around for almost a decade at this point, and has retained interest among many for the duration. Maybe that's not long enough to prevent classification as a fad, but it's far more effective than your frothy and ill-conceived spew.
Sorry, Fuddruckers did not TAKE bandwidth at all. They simply indicated the location of a flash file and suggested a browser load it. This means that the individiual browsers that went to the Fuddruckers page are actually taking the bandwidth. Hotlinking is a kind of hyperlinking, whining about the difference is idiotic. It's rude to divert high volumes of requests to 'deep' links but it's certainly not theft. The HTTP server at the burgertime game site happily accepted requests from end user browsers. That's how it works. I say "can I have this file" from a web server, and the web server sends it or says something like "You are not authorized." That's the model we use. If greater permission is needed than asking the webserver for a document, then the entirety of the web falls flat on its face.
Whoa, you're not getting it, rewt66. It sounds like you think what's going on is simply sampling of higher resolution data down to a lower resolution and claiming it's as good. (i.e. if a white pixel and a black pixel were next to each other, they would be replaced with a single 50% grey pixel.)
That's not quite the technology here. You see, a normal LCD has 'subpixels' which are really just pixels that can display one of the three additive primary colors (red, green and blue.) These pixels are necessarily not in the same exact space, and are usually arranged into rows This means that you can increase pixel resolution at the cost of color accuracy.
Today this technology is utilized by software to provide sharper text display, although if you squint you can sometimes see strange blue and red artifacts around the edge of fonts. Here's an example: close-up of black text on white background
As far as I can tell, the technology here differs in the arrangement of subpixels and the addition of a white/brightness subpixel.
Sorry, but storeowners can't not let in blind people with seeing-eye dogs because they just don't like dogs. Similarly, a landlord is explicitly forbidden from preventing one of their tenants from having a non-destructively installed directv dish. They are not forbidden from requiring you to have purple curtains, that is enforcable.
I suppose you could install a dish inside of your apartment, regardless of what the landlord said, but the owner of the building should have the final say in regards to attaching the dish to the outside of the building. It is, after all, his/her property, and renting an apartment in the building does not give you the right to modify the outside of the building in any way. Nor does it give you the right modify or alter the interior of the apartment.
I'm not saying that it's a generic right that you can have a dish, I'm saying there's specific legislation pertaining to your right to install a dish in an apartment building. The landlord has NO right to prevent you from installing a dish just because he doesn't like the way it looks. There are provisions allowed as the previous poster mentioned for restrictions against some methods of installation. The following is from an apartment association informing its landlord members their rights:
"The NAA has advised our members they can require a tenant who wishes to install a satellite dish to sign a liability agreement and keep proper liability insurance. Secondly, the tenant can be prohibited from drilling holes in the roof or walls to hook up inside the apartment. Thirdly, the tenant cannot place the dish where it will cause more than ordinary wear and tear to the premises."
This means that, if your apartment has its own well-built balcony and you install a directv dish with c-clamps and run the wire through your window or screen door, the landlord has no ability to say that you cannot use it or continue to have it installed. Even if in the contract you signed it said "no satellite dishes allowed!" It is not an implied right but one that is specifically legislated by the FCC.
If your contract said "no palm trees on the balcony" that would be enforcable. See the difference?
Just because something is in a contract does not mean it is enforcable. If you sign a lease contract for an apartment that states you are not allowed to install a DirectTV dish, it is unenforcable. It is not possible for a landlord to prevent you from installing a DirectTV dish via a rental contract.
The question here is whether the FCC 'exclusive enforcability' that trumped the airports ability to restrict airline tenants' usage of wireless networks applies to the particular situation of students and dorms.
Most states have some kind of text saying that drivers should drive at a speed safe for the conditions. Here in Oregon we have a "Basic Rule" instead of a speed limit, which means that the speed limit varies according to condition. A few people tried to prove that having no speed limit meant you could go whatever speed you deemed safe but they didn't get very far with that. Still, to this day, if you speed in Oregon it's written as a violation of the Basic Rule and our speed limit signs say "Speed nn" instead of "Speed Limit nn"
In my college courses, which are by no means accelerated, we started on stroke order from our first kanji on. The explanation as to why kakijun was hammered into us was because of its benefit in using dictionaries. I've not yet completed my second year and we've learned a decent number ofkanji with 12 strokes or more and most high stroke kanji are comprised of smaller kanji/radicals that you learn early on.
Furthermore, every kanji writing recognition system I've used has been somewhat forgiving about common stroke order errors (vertical line or horizontal line in/through the box first? depends!) and mistakes regarding stroke count. Therefore a user is not required to hone their kakijun skill for 4-5 years to be able to gain use from kanji writing recognition.
Uneven platter surfaces on hard disks running at faster speeds with heads closer to the surface are more apt to lead to head crashes. For this reason many drive makers began several years ago to look at alternatives to aluminum, such as glass, glass composites, and magnesium alloys . . . One obvious disadvantage of glass compared to aluminum is fragility, particularly when made very thin. For this reason some companies are experimenting with glass/ceramic composites. One of these is a Dow Corning product called MemCor, which is a glass made with ceramic inserts to reduce the likelihood of cracking.
First, I must congratulate Trixter, Phoenix, Pallbearer and all the Hornet/Fusemind crew on their creation. After receiving the DVD I first noticed the extremely professional packaging which was free cheese in every way. However, watching the "Old School" demos really was quite painful. The VGA to NTSC translation causes anything that scrolls full screen to jerk around, and, while I'm sure that the Hornet/Fusemind folks did the best they could with the conversion it was extremely distracting and detrimental to the whole thing. As I understand it, the framerate conversion or other limitations caused the audio to have to be recomposited and it stutters or runs strangely slow in certain places on the old demos.
The new school side more elegantly survives the move to DVD. Most shakiness is gone because a lot of these demos could be forced to (almost) happily run in 60hz and also because they focused far more on a 'graphic design' style that involved less full screen pans/zooms/rotations.
Overall the DVD serves its purpose as an archive that I can pull out and nostalgically remember the demos as they were. Just as photographs don't perfectly capture a vacation, this DVD doesn't perfectly capture the old school demo experience.
The demoscene is still alive, as made evident by the massive discussions that take place as to whether it was still alive or isn't. Sure, it's changed, but there's still something to be said for being part of a community that values creativity and ingenuity.
It looks like attbi has been changing their naming scheme around a bit and it takes a while for reverse DNS to propogate worldwide. At some point you should get a dns name along the lines of "10-0-0-1.client.attbi.com" from your attbi ip address. To further complicate matters, some servers like to cache reverse lookups, and I wouldn't put it past them to cache failed reverse lookups.
All in all, I'm impressed with AT&T's speed of transition, ten days of downtime isn't bad at all. I lived without power for nearly that long after a hurricane.:)
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They're just using the age old method of 'oil painting.' Renaissance masters have had this for ages, and George Rodrigue already did a painting (Blue Dog) last year.
In fact, there's a good chance that oil painting is less intensive than watercolor. You don't have to worry about colors flowing in and out of each other, and your color palette is solid and made of wood.
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Oh wait, a painting is about more than the materials and technique used to create it? Say it isn't so!
Seems people are having a problem understanding that the description of the patent merely describes what the patent is for, and does not define the patent itself. If I invent a new transportation system using pop tarts and maglev, I could call it "Method and apparatus for human transportation," but that wouldn't necessarily mean my patent conflicted with travel by bus, air, or light rail.
So when you see "Method and apparatus for accelerating the transfer of graphical images," it's not a patent for all graphic acceleration, just a (somewhat) specific method and apparatus that happens to do so.
This is not to defend the patents or nVidia's action, but just to clarify an often missed point.
I believe that server cheats present only a very small problem. In the Quake community, people know the server operators, and server operators spend a large amount of resources to keep their servers running and are generally of good will. A clan who hosted a server for clan matches would have a hard time running a 'cheat' server without getting caught. Most clans, in fact, are not interested in cheating, but playing the game and competing. The majority of cheaters are those who join public servers for pickup or deathmatch games and just wanna see their name at the top of the scorelist. There's no way to stop cheating, the same problem exists with chess by mail or email. I can't make any illegal moves, but I most certainly can have a computer make my move for me and that might give me an unfair advantage. Qizmo is great, but it's certainly not foolproof.
I'll try my best not to be inflammatory, but I must ask if this article is even a review. Does Mr. Katz make any mention of the author's writing style? Does he comment on the scope of the book, the order of presentation, the availability of supporting documentation in a well organized bibliography? From my best assesment, this is more of a book summary than a review, and it goes so far as to cloud the line as to whether the writing is the books perspective or Mr. Katz's comments and opinions. If he had at least made a critical comment about the cover art, the typeface or the quality of the paper, then perhaps you could make an argument that it's a review. So, in a final attempt to be constructive, I will say that I do hope that if Mr Katz attempts a review again in the future, he will actually comment on the object in question.
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Clearly I missed the different authors and that the second one here was apparently being sarcastic.
In Tokyo there is an RFID based card called "SUICA" (Super Urban Intelligent Card) that can be used for JR trains, several vending machines and some convenience stores. It is possible to get Suica functionality in your phone. Suica is not a "trial" as it replaced the JR designated value cards.
Also, SUICA penguin mascot ads are plastered everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica
Tokyo has a slightly different designation than most prefectures (ken) as it is known as Tokyo-to. Additionally there is a Tokyo-shi which is a city on its own that contains various wards. There are a few other shi within Tokyo to, and then there are machi (towns) and, elsewhere, mura (villages) One ward in Tokyo-to is Chuo-ku. Ginza is a district contained within Chuo-ku.
So maybe next time you're so smug and insulting you can make sure you're not talking out of your ass.
1. It's not bankrupt at all. Overlapping windows are very useful in filtering out which data you're currently paying attention to. I'm not the only one who is more productive without the distraction of superfluous information. On my Mac I run Backdrop, which is simply a solid black window which I bring to the front to cover windows I'm not working with. Additionally, I run SpiritedAway which hides windows that are idle. I can quickly add windows to an exception list to prevent this from happening when it's undesirable. In truth, I wish more applications had a fullscreen mode, without extraneous window boundaries and menu bars.
2. Obviously this is largely related to mnemonics over position. How do you determine what keyboard layout gets the most symbolic shortcut layout while the rest are merely positional? That said, shortcut keys are there to provide quick access to common actions, not inductive/intuitive paths.
4. Plenty of GUIs have smooth scrolling or transitional animations. Some are intrusive, some are appealing, but in general, once people are doing a task repetitively they are impatient and want it to happen quickly and crisply. With the exception of tracking moving objects, our eyes jump around and jerk quickly, so we're completely suited to it. Plenty of people feel very comfortable with the speed of a jerky page up/page down and find scrollbars tedious.
You're a cracked out nutjob! Riding on bicycles is 'entertainment' for some, not for others, running around in circles is 'entertainment' for some and again, not for others. If some people enjoy playing a game that involves them stepping on squares and it makes them active then it's good! Some people like tennis, some people like cycling, some people like gardening. This just adds another possibility, and it's no worse than any other. I know plenty of people who were active in high school, who did competitive sports like swimming or track & field, who stopped once they got out of high school. Our careers at this point are largely sedentary, and gyms are definitely not my idea of an enjoyable place to visit. I'd much rather jump around in front of some flashy lights than sit on a stationary bicycle.
Are you generally against PE in schools or do you really think that teaching kids to play dodgeball and kickball is markedly superior than letting them play DDR? If DDR motivates kids to be active while they play it and playing softball doesn't, why is it inferior? Seriously, what is your problem other than being smug and shouting out crap from an ivory tower?
Too bad for you that there isn't a game to make crochety malcontents reasonable and produce something other than idiotic dismissive grunts from their flatulent armchairs. DDR has been around for almost a decade at this point, and has retained interest among many for the duration. Maybe that's not long enough to prevent classification as a fad, but it's far more effective than your frothy and ill-conceived spew.
Sorry, Fuddruckers did not TAKE bandwidth at all. They simply indicated the location of a flash file and suggested a browser load it. This means that the individiual browsers that went to the Fuddruckers page are actually taking the bandwidth. Hotlinking is a kind of hyperlinking, whining about the difference is idiotic. It's rude to divert high volumes of requests to 'deep' links but it's certainly not theft. The HTTP server at the burgertime game site happily accepted requests from end user browsers. That's how it works. I say "can I have this file" from a web server, and the web server sends it or says something like "You are not authorized."
That's the model we use. If greater permission is needed than asking the webserver for a document, then the entirety of the web falls flat on its face.
Whoa, you're not getting it, rewt66. It sounds like you think what's going on is simply sampling of higher resolution data down to a lower resolution and claiming it's as good. (i.e. if a white pixel and a black pixel were next to each other, they would be replaced with a single 50% grey pixel.)
That's not quite the technology here. You see, a normal LCD has 'subpixels' which are really just pixels that can display one of the three additive primary colors (red, green and blue.) These pixels are necessarily not in the same exact space, and are usually arranged into rows This means that you can increase pixel resolution at the cost of color accuracy.
Today this technology is utilized by software to provide sharper text display, although if you squint you can sometimes see strange blue and red artifacts around the edge of fonts. Here's an example: close-up of black text on white background
As far as I can tell, the technology here differs in the arrangement of subpixels and the addition of a white/brightness subpixel.
Sorry, but storeowners can't not let in blind people with seeing-eye dogs because they just don't like dogs. Similarly, a landlord is explicitly forbidden from preventing one of their tenants from having a non-destructively installed directv dish. They are not forbidden from requiring you to have purple curtains, that is enforcable.
I'm not saying that it's a generic right that you can have a dish, I'm saying there's specific legislation pertaining to your right to install a dish in an apartment building. The landlord has NO right to prevent you from installing a dish just because he doesn't like the way it looks. There are provisions allowed as the previous poster mentioned for restrictions against some methods of installation. The following is from an apartment association informing its landlord members their rights:
"The NAA has advised our members they can require a tenant who wishes to install a satellite dish to sign a liability agreement and keep proper liability insurance. Secondly, the tenant can be prohibited from drilling holes in the roof or walls to hook up inside the apartment. Thirdly, the tenant cannot place the dish where it will cause more than ordinary wear and tear to the premises."
This means that, if your apartment has its own well-built balcony and you install a directv dish with c-clamps and run the wire through your window or screen door, the landlord has no ability to say that you cannot use it or continue to have it installed. Even if in the contract you signed it said "no satellite dishes allowed!" It is not an implied right but one that is specifically legislated by the FCC.
If your contract said "no palm trees on the balcony" that would be enforcable. See the difference?
Just because something is in a contract does not mean it is enforcable. If you sign a lease contract for an apartment that states you are not allowed to install a DirectTV dish, it is unenforcable. It is not possible for a landlord to prevent you from installing a DirectTV dish via a rental contract.
The question here is whether the FCC 'exclusive enforcability' that trumped the airports ability to restrict airline tenants' usage of wireless networks applies to the particular situation of students and dorms.
Most states have some kind of text saying that drivers should drive at a speed safe for the conditions. Here in Oregon we have a "Basic Rule" instead of a speed limit, which means that the speed limit varies according to condition. A few people tried to prove that having no speed limit meant you could go whatever speed you deemed safe but they didn't get very far with that. Still, to this day, if you speed in Oregon it's written as a violation of the Basic Rule and our speed limit signs say "Speed nn" instead of "Speed Limit nn"
http://www.odot.state.or.us/traffic/speed.htm
In my college courses, which are by no means accelerated, we started on stroke order from our first kanji on. The explanation as to why kakijun was hammered into us was because of its benefit in using dictionaries. I've not yet completed my second year and we've learned a decent number ofkanji with 12 strokes or more and most high stroke kanji are comprised of smaller kanji/radicals that you learn early on.
Furthermore, every kanji writing recognition system I've used has been somewhat forgiving about common stroke order errors (vertical line or horizontal line in/through the box first? depends!) and mistakes regarding stroke count. Therefore a user is not required to hone their kakijun skill for 4-5 years to be able to gain use from kanji writing recognition.
From PC Guide "Platter Substrate Materials":
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First, I must congratulate Trixter, Phoenix, Pallbearer and all the Hornet/Fusemind crew on their creation. After receiving the DVD I first noticed the extremely professional packaging which was free cheese in every way. However, watching the "Old School" demos really was quite painful. The VGA to NTSC translation causes anything that scrolls full screen to jerk around, and, while I'm sure that the Hornet/Fusemind folks did the best they could with the conversion it was extremely distracting and detrimental to the whole thing. As I understand it, the framerate conversion or other limitations caused the audio to have to be recomposited and it stutters or runs strangely slow in certain places on the old demos.
The new school side more elegantly survives the move to DVD. Most shakiness is gone because a lot of these demos could be forced to (almost) happily run in 60hz and also because they focused far more on a 'graphic design' style that involved less full screen pans/zooms/rotations.
Overall the DVD serves its purpose as an archive that I can pull out and nostalgically remember the demos as they were. Just as photographs don't perfectly capture a vacation, this DVD doesn't perfectly capture the old school demo experience.
The demoscene is still alive, as made evident by the massive discussions that take place as to whether it was still alive or isn't. Sure, it's changed, but there's still something to be said for being part of a community that values creativity and ingenuity.
It looks like attbi has been changing their naming scheme around a bit and it takes a while for reverse DNS to propogate worldwide. At some point you should get a dns name along the lines of "10-0-0-1.client.attbi.com" from your attbi ip address. To further complicate matters, some servers like to cache reverse lookups, and I wouldn't put it past them to cache failed reverse lookups.
:)
All in all, I'm impressed with AT&T's speed of transition, ten days of downtime isn't bad at all. I lived without power for nearly that long after a hurricane.
They're just using the age old method of 'oil painting.' Renaissance masters have had this for ages, and George Rodrigue already did a painting (Blue Dog) last year.
In fact, there's a good chance that oil painting is less intensive than watercolor. You don't have to worry about colors flowing in and out of each other, and your color palette is solid and made of wood.
-
Oh wait, a painting is about more than the materials and technique used to create it? Say it isn't so!
Seems people are having a problem understanding that the description of the patent merely describes what the patent is for, and does not define the patent itself. If I invent a new transportation system using pop tarts and maglev, I could call it "Method and apparatus for human transportation," but that wouldn't necessarily mean my patent conflicted with travel by bus, air, or light rail.
So when you see "Method and apparatus for accelerating the transfer of graphical images," it's not a patent for all graphic acceleration, just a (somewhat) specific method and apparatus that happens to do so.
This is not to defend the patents or nVidia's action, but just to clarify an often missed point.
I believe that server cheats present only a very small problem. In the Quake community, people know the server operators, and server operators spend a large amount of resources to keep their servers running and are generally of good will. A clan who hosted a server for clan matches would have a hard time running a 'cheat' server without getting caught. Most clans, in fact, are not interested in cheating, but playing the game and competing.
The majority of cheaters are those who join public servers for pickup or deathmatch games and just wanna see their name at the top of the scorelist. There's no way to stop cheating, the same problem exists with chess by mail or email. I can't make any illegal moves, but I most certainly can have a computer make my move for me and that might give me an unfair advantage. Qizmo is great, but it's certainly not foolproof.
I'll try my best not to be inflammatory, but I must ask if this article is even a review. Does Mr. Katz make any mention of the author's writing style? Does he comment on the scope of the book, the order of presentation, the availability of supporting documentation in a well organized bibliography?
From my best assesment, this is more of a book summary than a review, and it goes so far as to cloud the line as to whether the writing is the books perspective or Mr. Katz's comments and opinions. If he had at least made a critical comment about the cover art, the typeface or the quality of the paper, then perhaps you could make an argument that it's a review.
So, in a final attempt to be constructive, I will say that I do hope that if Mr Katz attempts a review again in the future, he will actually comment on the object in question.