Man, all of this stuff in Secondlife is really cool, but I wish they'd improve their technology before we start seeing a lot more of this stuff. SL runs like a dog even on high end computers with fat broadband connections, and Lindon Labs has not shown any particular drive towards optimizing it in the year or so I've been toying with it.
Where I live now it's not viable because the town picks up the recycling with the garbage. Plus, I don't live in a state with a deposit so it's basically impossible to make money off of recycling.
Up in Calgary when I lived there the Boy Scouts would get their yearly operating funds by collecting everyones cans and bringing them to the recycling center for the deposit. People really liked it because the city didn't have regular recycling pickup and most people don't like making the special trip out to the recycling center. They just had to leave their cans out on the front stoop in a bag on a particular Saturday and the scouts would drive around and pick them up. I thought it was a fantastic fundraiser becaues everybody won. The people got a service, the scouts got some funds, and the environment was saved just a bit more.
I really don't understand why game stores want people to pre-order these consoles. For regular games it makes a lot of sense because it prevents them from buying too many copies of a promising game that turns out to be a dud at launch, or not having enough copies of a surprise smash hit. Many game stores (especially in mall locations) basically buy N+1 copies of a game when it comes out, where N is the number of preorders they have for it. If you want something, they come right out and tell you to preorder it.
With these consoles it doesn't make sense. The number they are going to sell is obviously going to be the number they have in stock on release day. You're not even saving your customers from standing in line, you're just pushing back the day when they stand in line by a few weeks. It just adds hassle to the whole process for both the customers and the game store employees for virtually no gain. The only monetary advantage (the interest on the pre-order downpayment) is easily wiped out by the extra time the employees have to work (not to mention phone calls) to deal with the pre-order paperwork. I find it unlikely that there are many people who stand in line at 7AM to pre-order a console and then back out of the deal later (losing their downpayment).
I can't imagine too many people showed up for the conference. Secondlife gets dog slow once you start crowding an area with Avatars, and the servers will give up long before you get more than a hundred or so people in there. Even if you try to minimize the avatar complexity (ask everyone to come with as basic of an avatar as possible) the game bogs down like crazy once you exceed 20-30 people or so in an area.
Correlation is not causation. Just because a child has those symptoms doesn't mean the parents were neglectful, but if the parents were neglectful then it's far more likely that the child will have those symptoms. Don't take my first post so personally, I was just pointing out the irony of the situation.
As for medical papers, there is a lot of work being done with Eastern European orphans in this field.
Obviously I can't make any real medical advice since I don't know you beyond what you posted, but it has been shown several times over that human to human contact as a child is essental in the proper formation of brain structures. Children that are denied human contact are much more likely to develop problems like sociopathy, OCD, autism, retarded development and the like. Infants that are denied contact show developmental delays as early as 6 months and irreversable damage at 2 to 3 years.
Verizon FiOS cable comes with Firewire AND USB (and serial, but I doubt you could get video over that). Of course they're all disabled. I've never heard of any cable company ever leaving the firewire port enabled. You can call and ask to have it enabled, but the first level techs will just tell you to reboot your box and mess with your TV settings, the second level techs will sound confused and not find it in their manual, and the third level tech will finally tell you "we don't do that, what were you thinking?!?".
Seriously, cable companies fear those features, and beyond a few geeks here and there nobody will notice if they disable them anyway. Thus nobody ever turns it on. I'm not sure why they even put them on the box in the first place.
It looks like you might be able to get 100Mbps out of your DSL line so long as the CO is in your back yard. If you're like most people and live further away, then your speed will drop off sharply. While I'm sure most people will see an improvement from this technology, I doubt it will get many people up to 100Mbps. It's more likely you'll be able to go from 3 to 10-20 Mbps so long as you're within 1500 feet or so of the CO.
I have bad news for you, that player was just toying with you. Building that many SCVs and then transporting them by shuttle right into someone's base would have been suicide if the other player was modestly competent and had resources left. It's a fun strategy, but it was only viable because the other guy was really playing badly.
The first wasn't too bad until you got about halfway through Dr. Wiley's castle. In particular I always had trouble with falling off of those stupid platforms when fighting the dragon. Fortunatly the dragon goes down quick to the boomerangs.
That many places of pi will probably never be useful. It doesn't take that many until you're hitting the "less than one electron width of error in a circle that goes around our entire galaxy" territory.
One can argue that it's easier for a human to remember a numbers that have a pattern to them. If you write out the division like you did in grade school the pattern is extremely easy to remember:
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113)355
Humans are much better at remembering patterns than they are sequences of random numbers.
You must have had later generation PS2s. The original ones (v.1 and v.2) were notorious for overheating. For that matter, the first generation PSx consoles tended to overheat too. This is hardly something new. By the time they get to the second or third revision on the console, they should have the overheating problem well in hand.
As far as I know, almost every state tries to tax you on internet purchases. You'll see a line on your state taxes that says something like: Consumer Use Tax, and they ask you to report the value of everything you bought and didn't pay sales tax for during the year, including Internet and Catalog purchases.
From what I understand, the states have no means of tracking that information so compliance is very low.
Well, the good news is that the mass of the turbine will be tiny, so it will hold only very little latent heat when spun down. Depending on what kind of berings they use (I wouldn't be surprised if they use magnetic berings in here) that may not be an issue at all.
As other Slashdotters have mentioned however, this turbine appears to greatly exceed the theoretical max efficency for a heat engine unless they run it at insane temperatures. This fact tends to set off the BS alarm in my head.
More to the point, AFAIK it is not possible to buy Lottery tickets online. Granted, I've bought a grand total of 3 lottery tickets in my entire life[1], so I'm not the formost authority on this, but from what I can tell they all require you to go down to your local 7/11, Bar, Grocery Store, or whatever.
[1] Although come to think of it, I don't think I've ever spent my own money on one...
I believe the saying is: Show me a LISP advocate and I'll show you someone who doesn't have to work in the real world. Most tellingly, you'll see people who expouse how wonderful LISP is all day long, but you'd be hard pressed to name even one major project that uses it in a non-trivial way. What is a great language for small academic programs where you can get the whole thing in your head at once and don't have to worry too much about "stupid users" and things like that turns out to be difficult for regular programmers to work with when having to do mundane stuff like GUIs and the tedious 80% of the codebase that doesn't do the "actual work" in a real program. LISP affectionados love to tell you how the language will let you solve the core problem in half of the time, but tend to handwave everything else, and the core ends up being a relatively small part of your problem.
Um, about 5 watts? That's pretty low heat dissipation all told. Exaust and mechanical stress are definatly a concern though, although with components that small at least the masses will be tiny, even if the RPM is exceedingly high. I wonder about the sound though, is it going to drive dogs insane everytime you turn on your Laptop?
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So we have a PhD who still thinks LISP is the best thing since sliced bread and has experiance building networking hardware that was fast, but not compatable with Ethernet. Sounds like a real academic to me. He does have a good point in "make sure customers for your product exist before you start your company", but overall the article reads like a bit of venting steam from an academic that tried to make a go of it in the "real world" and discovered just how different life is on the outside.
I think the Java guy is just jealous that Ajax pages don't freeze his browser up for 10 seconds while the JRE loads, well that and the fact that they integrate with the rest of the page instead of just taking over a part of it.
Yeah, inadequate cooling is just death to hard drives. It doesn't help that most cases have absolutely terrible cooling for the drives. I really think it's the biggest problem with cases today.
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Man, all of this stuff in Secondlife is really cool, but I wish they'd improve their technology before we start seeing a lot more of this stuff. SL runs like a dog even on high end computers with fat broadband connections, and Lindon Labs has not shown any particular drive towards optimizing it in the year or so I've been toying with it.
Where I live now it's not viable because the town picks up the recycling with the garbage. Plus, I don't live in a state with a deposit so it's basically impossible to make money off of recycling.
Up in Calgary when I lived there the Boy Scouts would get their yearly operating funds by collecting everyones cans and bringing them to the recycling center for the deposit. People really liked it because the city didn't have regular recycling pickup and most people don't like making the special trip out to the recycling center. They just had to leave their cans out on the front stoop in a bag on a particular Saturday and the scouts would drive around and pick them up. I thought it was a fantastic fundraiser becaues everybody won. The people got a service, the scouts got some funds, and the environment was saved just a bit more.
I really don't understand why game stores want people to pre-order these consoles. For regular games it makes a lot of sense because it prevents them from buying too many copies of a promising game that turns out to be a dud at launch, or not having enough copies of a surprise smash hit. Many game stores (especially in mall locations) basically buy N+1 copies of a game when it comes out, where N is the number of preorders they have for it. If you want something, they come right out and tell you to preorder it.
With these consoles it doesn't make sense. The number they are going to sell is obviously going to be the number they have in stock on release day. You're not even saving your customers from standing in line, you're just pushing back the day when they stand in line by a few weeks. It just adds hassle to the whole process for both the customers and the game store employees for virtually no gain. The only monetary advantage (the interest on the pre-order downpayment) is easily wiped out by the extra time the employees have to work (not to mention phone calls) to deal with the pre-order paperwork. I find it unlikely that there are many people who stand in line at 7AM to pre-order a console and then back out of the deal later (losing their downpayment).
I can't imagine too many people showed up for the conference. Secondlife gets dog slow once you start crowding an area with Avatars, and the servers will give up long before you get more than a hundred or so people in there. Even if you try to minimize the avatar complexity (ask everyone to come with as basic of an avatar as possible) the game bogs down like crazy once you exceed 20-30 people or so in an area.
Correlation is not causation. Just because a child has those symptoms doesn't mean the parents were neglectful, but if the parents were neglectful then it's far more likely that the child will have those symptoms. Don't take my first post so personally, I was just pointing out the irony of the situation.
As for medical papers, there is a lot of work being done with Eastern European orphans in this field.
Obviously I can't make any real medical advice since I don't know you beyond what you posted, but it has been shown several times over that human to human contact as a child is essental in the proper formation of brain structures. Children that are denied human contact are much more likely to develop problems like sociopathy, OCD, autism, retarded development and the like. Infants that are denied contact show developmental delays as early as 6 months and irreversable damage at 2 to 3 years.
What makes you think the competitors are going to enable the Firewire port?
Verizon FiOS cable comes with Firewire AND USB (and serial, but I doubt you could get video over that). Of course they're all disabled. I've never heard of any cable company ever leaving the firewire port enabled. You can call and ask to have it enabled, but the first level techs will just tell you to reboot your box and mess with your TV settings, the second level techs will sound confused and not find it in their manual, and the third level tech will finally tell you "we don't do that, what were you thinking?!?".
Seriously, cable companies fear those features, and beyond a few geeks here and there nobody will notice if they disable them anyway. Thus nobody ever turns it on. I'm not sure why they even put them on the box in the first place.
It's ironic that you might not suffer from such a severe case of OCD if you had just been hugged more as a child.
It looks like you might be able to get 100Mbps out of your DSL line so long as the CO is in your back yard. If you're like most people and live further away, then your speed will drop off sharply. While I'm sure most people will see an improvement from this technology, I doubt it will get many people up to 100Mbps. It's more likely you'll be able to go from 3 to 10-20 Mbps so long as you're within 1500 feet or so of the CO.
I have bad news for you, that player was just toying with you. Building that many SCVs and then transporting them by shuttle right into someone's base would have been suicide if the other player was modestly competent and had resources left. It's a fun strategy, but it was only viable because the other guy was really playing badly.
The first wasn't too bad until you got about halfway through Dr. Wiley's castle. In particular I always had trouble with falling off of those stupid platforms when fighting the dragon. Fortunatly the dragon goes down quick to the boomerangs.
That many places of pi will probably never be useful. It doesn't take that many until you're hitting the "less than one electron width of error in a circle that goes around our entire galaxy" territory.
One can argue that it's easier for a human to remember a numbers that have a pattern to them. If you write out the division like you did in grade school the pattern is extremely easy to remember:
```____
113)355
Humans are much better at remembering patterns than they are sequences of random numbers.
You must have had later generation PS2s. The original ones (v.1 and v.2) were notorious for overheating. For that matter, the first generation PSx consoles tended to overheat too. This is hardly something new. By the time they get to the second or third revision on the console, they should have the overheating problem well in hand.
I just wish the Libertarin party stood for what they said they stood for instead of really just being a front for tax dodging corporate fatcats.
As far as I know, almost every state tries to tax you on internet purchases. You'll see a line on your state taxes that says something like: Consumer Use Tax, and they ask you to report the value of everything you bought and didn't pay sales tax for during the year, including Internet and Catalog purchases.
From what I understand, the states have no means of tracking that information so compliance is very low.
Well, the good news is that the mass of the turbine will be tiny, so it will hold only very little latent heat when spun down. Depending on what kind of berings they use (I wouldn't be surprised if they use magnetic berings in here) that may not be an issue at all.
As other Slashdotters have mentioned however, this turbine appears to greatly exceed the theoretical max efficency for a heat engine unless they run it at insane temperatures. This fact tends to set off the BS alarm in my head.
Well obviously the states don't want competition.
More to the point, AFAIK it is not possible to buy Lottery tickets online. Granted, I've bought a grand total of 3 lottery tickets in my entire life[1], so I'm not the formost authority on this, but from what I can tell they all require you to go down to your local 7/11, Bar, Grocery Store, or whatever.
[1] Although come to think of it, I don't think I've ever spent my own money on one...
I believe the saying is: Show me a LISP advocate and I'll show you someone who doesn't have to work in the real world. Most tellingly, you'll see people who expouse how wonderful LISP is all day long, but you'd be hard pressed to name even one major project that uses it in a non-trivial way. What is a great language for small academic programs where you can get the whole thing in your head at once and don't have to worry too much about "stupid users" and things like that turns out to be difficult for regular programmers to work with when having to do mundane stuff like GUIs and the tedious 80% of the codebase that doesn't do the "actual work" in a real program. LISP affectionados love to tell you how the language will let you solve the core problem in half of the time, but tend to handwave everything else, and the core ends up being a relatively small part of your problem.
So we have a PhD who still thinks LISP is the best thing since sliced bread and has experiance building networking hardware that was fast, but not compatable with Ethernet. Sounds like a real academic to me. He does have a good point in "make sure customers for your product exist before you start your company", but overall the article reads like a bit of venting steam from an academic that tried to make a go of it in the "real world" and discovered just how different life is on the outside.
I think the Java guy is just jealous that Ajax pages don't freeze his browser up for 10 seconds while the JRE loads, well that and the fact that they integrate with the rest of the page instead of just taking over a part of it.
Yeah, inadequate cooling is just death to hard drives. It doesn't help that most cases have absolutely terrible cooling for the drives. I really think it's the biggest problem with cases today.