Keep in mind, this is the first ion engine in use. I'm sure that in time we can refine the technology, possibly combine it with rockets even, and you could have yourself a nice, efficient yet effective engine.
I know next to nothing about this technology, but perhaps ion engines make more sense as maneuvering thrusters or some sort of back up system in case the main engines have a failure. Perhaps deep space probes will carry a secondary ion engine with their rockets incase something goes wrong...
I'm sure this is a first step. I'm planing on waiting for a TIE Interceptor before I make a purchase, though.
Why is it that I have have to pay for for a video card alone that I have to pay for an entire gaming console?
I know PC gamers are very die-hard (I'm a little more casual than most), but do you ever stop and look at the damn COST of the hobby? It's ridiculously expensive.
I can understand why people want to have the best boxes out there to play UT2003, but do you ever question how much you are spending? You've got to stop and think about it sometimes.
I'm just figuring off the top of my head, but I'd bet you'd have to spend an average of $250 a month on hardware alone to keep from being obsolete.
Any hardcore gamers like to give their opinions? I'm very curious why people would drop SO MUCH money for cards like this...
I didn't know it was so hated as well, but then when I started to think about it, I could see why. The jumping is one of the most annoying parts of the game, and there was a bog loss in the cool factor when you get the Xen. However, I think Xen was a really, really great idea, and I think a lot of the problems with it stem from the engine limitations... the Quake 2 engine cold make industrial shit look semi-realistic, but trying to make organic rooms and whatnot was kind of near-sighted on the designers part.
and Organic world is definitely exotic and cool, but damn, the engine could not bring across what it needed to, and I think that detracted a lot.
Also, I think the designers tried going for exotic too hard and lost some of what made the parts before it great, and wound up with something abstract that didn't make a lot of sense. Sure, you don't know the details of this world and how it works, but they should be a little more apparent than just teleporters to random weird ass places.
Still, HL is one of my favorite games (right next to Riven, and the little Uru that I've played) and I can't wait for HL2. Guess I'm going to have to sink some money into a new video card now, too...
I've been amazed at how much information we have learned to take in at once thanks to TV and computers. Commercials have become very good at hitting us with images that please us and make us identify with a product in a million ways in 30 seconds. Look at the coors light commercials from the "twins" campaign seen so much during football games last year. Amazing.
This technique takes it to a whole new level by throwing so many points of view at us at once. At the moment, we pretty much get information (and an emotional response) on one person or or thing at a time. This is going to let us take multiple people into account all at once. At first, we (as a movie watching culture) will be slightly confused by the images, and the cuts could not be as rapid as in the matrix. But, once we get used to it, we can combine quick moving images with distorted perspective to make people get LOTS of information at once.
Personally, I think it's going to drive us nuts, literally. It would take a lot of work on your brains part to take in all of this information at once. Trying to reconcile what two people are feeling at the same time (imagine the two people's emotions are at odds!) and come up with an appropriate emotional response. I think after a few years of this, a new disorder will pop up that will make ADD look like normal in comparison.
Just to throw in my two cents, I really enjoy using my Clie to read books.
I'm also a huge fan of AvantGo- i get my news every morning on the subway, all with a 2 minute sync. I can't believe this has not caught on more with people. It's rare that I see someone else on the train that's doing the same thing. Then again, I'm normally staring at my Palm Pilot on the train....
I can't imagine spending 6 months in something as small as the apollo craft, get the mars, and then come back in the same soup-can-size thing. Anything we send to mars as to be a little bigger, for the crews sake.
Hear hear, my good man! I'd say that Bloom County influenced my political thinking almost as much as anything when I was younger. I loved the way he could comment on politics and nail the whole thing in an incredibly playful way...
1) Bloom County was WILDLY popular, and I'm sure that a lot of people will pick it up again, unthinking
2) Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) pulled it off quite well, and he didn't loose too many papers when he went to half-page
3) Brethead says in the article that he missed having a public voice. He's not a quiet kind of guy, and I'm sure that he will get himself in a winder distribution than just a few papers
4) He's got a Bloom County website, and since he IS trying to reach a larger audience, I'll bet the strip will be online as well. I don't think he's doing this for money. He MUST have cleaned up in the eighties.
SHOOT THE #$^#@ LAWYERS! MORE SKIN ON HBO! L.H. PUTGRASS SIGNING OFF AND HEADING FOR THE TUB!
This is Slashdot after all. If you look at the statistics and logs after a Slashdotting, (I've had two such instances on my servers) the vast majority of people only look at the most superficial information and rarely take time (interpreted from logs) to actually read the content. Furthermore, if there is linked material, almost nobody ever goes any deeper than the initial layer. It's very sad.
I can see your point, but keep in mind, if one were to take an in-depth look at everything that gets posted to/., how would they have time for anything else?
IMHO, slashdotters know how to infer a lot from a small amount of information, mostly because they have a million things to do at once, but still want to get their hourly (or half-hourly) nerd fix.
Of COURSE no one digs deep into articles, unless it's something that intrests them greatly. There's not enough time.
The other day, the moron walked up to my desk, looked at me for a moment, and then said "uh...". He kept looking at me for a second, and then he walked into the bathroom.
Is it me, or was Kirby originally white in his first game on the Game Boy- obviously, the game was in black and white, but I thought he was white on the box as well.
"Gordan Freeman in the flesh. Or rather in the Hazard Suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property! As for the Hazard Suit, I think you've earned it."
I agree with you on the idea that too much education can hinder you; I know a lot of people that decided to go to grad school right out of undergrad (I've been out for a year now) and are avoiding the "real" world.
Now, in two years when they graduate (mind you, I'm talking about liberal arts here... nothing tangible) I'm willing to bet I'll have an easier time getting hired at a new company than they would, seeing as I will have two years experience over them.
I can't see getting a PH.D in IT as being worth it in the long run. That education might teach you some things you would not learn in a job environment, but I'm willing to bet that 4 years working would give you the equivalent education that you would get in two years in school. And you are making money in those 4 years, not spending it.
I work on 11th and University, and there is nothing down here that I can connect to from my office.
I don't think larger companies have a need for 802.11 yet. Not until Wi-Fi PDAs get popular. It's still a better technology for commercial/residential use.
I do some home and small business tech support in New York, and I've seen some interesting things happen with Wi-Fi.
The most interesting being the fact that I found 20 open and join-able networks on the corner of 20th and Broadway last week. I'd say some people need a lesson in security...
Also, I've seen people name their network things like "get the fuck off my shit" when neighbors try to join their network.
I'll also be interested to see if Wi-Fi networks effect piracy at all- what if the RIAA manages to crack down on piracy to a point that it cripples internet file trading (it wont happen, but come with me on this for a sec) and the only safe way to trade files is by sharing them on a local AirPort network. Then people can run around with their Wi-Fi PDAs with 1GB or greater flash cards, and download stuff from open networks they find on the street.
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Just like quantum computing will make the 9 GHz processor irrelevant.
It's going to take longer to do the elevator than it will be to design a new shuttle, at least with the way NASA works.
Keep in mind, this is the first ion engine in use. I'm sure that in time we can refine the technology, possibly combine it with rockets even, and you could have yourself a nice, efficient yet effective engine.
I know next to nothing about this technology, but perhaps ion engines make more sense as maneuvering thrusters or some sort of back up system in case the main engines have a failure. Perhaps deep space probes will carry a secondary ion engine with their rockets incase something goes wrong...
I'm sure this is a first step. I'm planing on waiting for a TIE Interceptor before I make a purchase, though.
What could be worse than a method which increases the returns on spam?
The return of Yoko Ono?
I was going to say a bear holding a shark.
Actually, I work for SCO, and we hold the IP to the number "3". It looks like all your pet peeves are belong to me.
(for the record, I have sunken to the lowest lows of nerdhood that I have ever reached with this comment.)
Pet Peeve #843291: I wanted to be Pet Peeve #843290!
Why is it that I have have to pay for for a video card alone that I have to pay for an entire gaming console?
I know PC gamers are very die-hard (I'm a little more casual than most), but do you ever stop and look at the damn COST of the hobby? It's ridiculously expensive.
I can understand why people want to have the best boxes out there to play UT2003, but do you ever question how much you are spending? You've got to stop and think about it sometimes.
I'm just figuring off the top of my head, but I'd bet you'd have to spend an average of $250 a month on hardware alone to keep from being obsolete.
Any hardcore gamers like to give their opinions? I'm very curious why people would drop SO MUCH money for cards like this...
I didn't know it was so hated as well, but then when I started to think about it, I could see why. The jumping is one of the most annoying parts of the game, and there was a bog loss in the cool factor when you get the Xen. However, I think Xen was a really, really great idea, and I think a lot of the problems with it stem from the engine limitations... the Quake 2 engine cold make industrial shit look semi-realistic, but trying to make organic rooms and whatnot was kind of near-sighted on the designers part.
and Organic world is definitely exotic and cool, but damn, the engine could not bring across what it needed to, and I think that detracted a lot.
Also, I think the designers tried going for exotic too hard and lost some of what made the parts before it great, and wound up with something abstract that didn't make a lot of sense. Sure, you don't know the details of this world and how it works, but they should be a little more apparent than just teleporters to random weird ass places.
Still, HL is one of my favorite games (right next to Riven, and the little Uru that I've played) and I can't wait for HL2. Guess I'm going to have to sink some money into a new video card now, too...
I've been amazed at how much information we have learned to take in at once thanks to TV and computers. Commercials have become very good at hitting us with images that please us and make us identify with a product in a million ways in 30 seconds. Look at the coors light commercials from the "twins" campaign seen so much during football games last year. Amazing.
This technique takes it to a whole new level by throwing so many points of view at us at once. At the moment, we pretty much get information (and an emotional response) on one person or or thing at a time. This is going to let us take multiple people into account all at once. At first, we (as a movie watching culture) will be slightly confused by the images, and the cuts could not be as rapid as in the matrix. But, once we get used to it, we can combine quick moving images with distorted perspective to make people get LOTS of information at once.
Personally, I think it's going to drive us nuts, literally. It would take a lot of work on your brains part to take in all of this information at once. Trying to reconcile what two people are feeling at the same time (imagine the two people's emotions are at odds!) and come up with an appropriate emotional response. I think after a few years of this, a new disorder will pop up that will make ADD look like normal in comparison.
Just to throw in my two cents, I really enjoy using my Clie to read books.
I'm also a huge fan of AvantGo- i get my news every morning on the subway, all with a 2 minute sync. I can't believe this has not caught on more with people. It's rare that I see someone else on the train that's doing the same thing. Then again, I'm normally staring at my Palm Pilot on the train....
I can't imagine spending 6 months in something as small as the apollo craft, get the mars, and then come back in the same soup-can-size thing. Anything we send to mars as to be a little bigger, for the crews sake.
Hear hear, my good man! I'd say that Bloom County influenced my political thinking almost as much as anything when I was younger. I loved the way he could comment on politics and nail the whole thing in an incredibly playful way...
Keep in mind-
1) Bloom County was WILDLY popular, and I'm sure that a lot of people will pick it up again, unthinking
2) Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) pulled it off quite well, and he didn't loose too many papers when he went to half-page
3) Brethead says in the article that he missed having a public voice. He's not a quiet kind of guy, and I'm sure that he will get himself in a winder distribution than just a few papers
4) He's got a Bloom County website, and since he IS trying to reach a larger audience, I'll bet the strip will be online as well. I don't think he's doing this for money. He MUST have cleaned up in the eighties.
SHOOT THE #$^#@ LAWYERS! MORE SKIN ON HBO! L.H. PUTGRASS SIGNING OFF AND HEADING FOR THE TUB!
iGrenade (shaped like everyone's favorite logo, in one of five fruity colors)
iMine (out of the box and into the ground in 10 minutes)
iTank (now with 40 GB hard drive to store 10,000 of your favorite songs while you drive around the desert and kill people)
This is Slashdot after all. If you look at the statistics and logs after a Slashdotting, (I've had two such instances on my servers) the vast majority of people only look at the most superficial information and rarely take time (interpreted from logs) to actually read the content. Furthermore, if there is linked material, almost nobody ever goes any deeper than the initial layer. It's very sad.
/., how would they have time for anything else?
I can see your point, but keep in mind, if one were to take an in-depth look at everything that gets posted to
IMHO, slashdotters know how to infer a lot from a small amount of information, mostly because they have a million things to do at once, but still want to get their hourly (or half-hourly) nerd fix.
Of COURSE no one digs deep into articles, unless it's something that intrests them greatly. There's not enough time.
Maybe its world-wide ADD.
The other day, the moron walked up to my desk, looked at me for a moment, and then said "uh...". He kept looking at me for a second, and then he walked into the bathroom.
Amazing.
A few months back I saw a picture of Ron Jeremy dressed up as Mario... he fit the part, which is really, really disturbing. Amazingly so, actually.
To defend myself, I'm a Mac tech. I'm writing this on an iMac.
The reference was to the guys who do the blood gulch chronicles. They did a mac parody ad.
www.redvsblue.com
"the results augur well for Apple G5 performance in technical and scientific computing environments and for playing games.'"
Playing games? Like Breakout, Super Breakout... or... Photoshop?
Is it me, or was Kirby originally white in his first game on the Game Boy- obviously, the game was in black and white, but I thought he was white on the box as well.
Why the switch to PINK??? I liked him white.
Apple's latest device:
The iGranny.
Robotic movement for your grandmother, plus a 100 GB hard drive for all your mp3s so you don't have to listen to her.
"Gordan Freeman in the flesh. Or rather in the Hazard Suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property! As for the Hazard Suit, I think you've earned it."
I agree with you on the idea that too much education can hinder you; I know a lot of people that decided to go to grad school right out of undergrad (I've been out for a year now) and are avoiding the "real" world.
Now, in two years when they graduate (mind you, I'm talking about liberal arts here... nothing tangible) I'm willing to bet I'll have an easier time getting hired at a new company than they would, seeing as I will have two years experience over them.
I can't see getting a PH.D in IT as being worth it in the long run. That education might teach you some things you would not learn in a job environment, but I'm willing to bet that 4 years working would give you the equivalent education that you would get in two years in school. And you are making money in those 4 years, not spending it.
This question is less about piracy/DRM:
There are so many audio compressors out there now- mp3, Ogg, AAC, WMA and a ton of others I've seen here and there.
Do you know of any steps in the works to finally pick a format that can be picked up by the industry?
I work on 11th and University, and there is nothing down here that I can connect to from my office.
I don't think larger companies have a need for 802.11 yet. Not until Wi-Fi PDAs get popular. It's still a better technology for commercial/residential use.
I do some home and small business tech support in New York, and I've seen some interesting things happen with Wi-Fi.
The most interesting being the fact that I found 20 open and join-able networks on the corner of 20th and Broadway last week. I'd say some people need a lesson in security...
Also, I've seen people name their network things like "get the fuck off my shit" when neighbors try to join their network.
I'll also be interested to see if Wi-Fi networks effect piracy at all- what if the RIAA manages to crack down on piracy to a point that it cripples internet file trading (it wont happen, but come with me on this for a sec) and the only safe way to trade files is by sharing them on a local AirPort network. Then people can run around with their Wi-Fi PDAs with 1GB or greater flash cards, and download stuff from open networks they find on the street.