Corporations are not monolithic. There is no hive mind that can one day change every opinion towards some sort of 'rightthink'. Microsoft has said the right things about security for years.
I would imagine they have the stylus make a loop inside the letter's hex to draw a repeat character.
The same situation would come up in the case of a word like "can" where all three letters are in a line. How would it know to pick up the letter "a" in the middle? Perhaps it runs the letters selected vs a word database, translating "cn" into "can".
Holy case of RTFA batman.
The reveiwer is compaining about some japanese game that he had never played. This is a case of over-hype, not nostalgia. For Nostalgia distortion to take place, you must have had at least played the damn game once.
And for the record a game that was made for the the playstation cannot inspire nostalgia yet.
Now Contra, there was a game, they just dont make em like they used to.
This is Slashdot, if we can't find a way to turn something into a bewolf cluster/web server or show how linux is better than microsoft, then we have to find a way to use it to help overclock a processor.
NO MATTER WHAT!
What the crap!?
I was contemplating how cool it would be to make a game to enter into this and maybe win some money... but there is no money.
The first place "Prize" is as follows:
Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize winner will receive
a full GameSpy SDK license for one title and one (1)
ABS Computer System and a copy of the Java
Desktop System. Approximate Retail Value: $45,000.
The only cool prize here is the glory of winning the their damned contest. It reminds me of the joke:
Q: What is better than winning the special olympics?
A: Not being retarded!
Do people who write for the register live even remotely near the real world?
This acticle seems to have been written by a 12 year-old, it reminds me of the mario levels I used to draw on paper back when I was a kid. I would say, "Look how easy it is to design games!"
Its FREE MONEY, don't question it, he's beyond everything.
If you don't understand, he'll just spit on you until you do.
Now wrap yourself around that rack of DVDs.
Sure, you can say "make a game about dating and finding the right guy". But, well, how? Where is the game? What exactly do you control? How should the AI engine work? Et cetera, et cetera. (And yes, I know dating games are big in Japan, but they're largely unrealistic and are mostly composed of multiple-choice quizzes.)
A large portion of american women have expectations about "dating and finding the right guy" that are "largely unrealistic and are mostly composed of multiple-choice quizzes." Read a Redbook or cosmo sometime, It'll scare you.
Think about how many women are absolutly obsessed with soap-operas, these japanese dating sims would have similiar appeal.
Jeez, it seems about once a month there is a post dealing with "Next-Generation" or "New and Improved" keyboards.
My ass is a better input device then most of these devices.
The particualar device you've posted looks to be the biggest loser of them all. Its not gesture recognition like in minority report, it looks a bit more like the "keys" have light sensors under their surface or that they work like micowave buttons.
Because of this and the fact that the buttons are so close together, the chances of hitting unintended keys most be 1 in 2, you'd be better off trying to type with your hands on a on-screen keyboard on a palm pilot. Most of the instructions for this device seem to be warnings on how not to set off the keys.
Invert the color sceme that you use when coding. I use white text on black background, it takes a bit of getting used to, but the difference is well worth it.
My eyes used to spasm and all sorts of nasty crap before I did this. A monitor is basiclly a large lightbulb, when the screen is mostly white, they will light the whole room.
The only problem is that many sites use white as a background and look ugly if you force your own colors on them.
Back in the day I modded my Furby so It would power on when my comp started up. It was annoying as hell, but it was kinda fun at LAN parties.
However, one of my buddies tried to copy me. Unfortunatly he didnt consult me first and ended up killing his new hard drive cause he had hooked up leads the wrong way.
I was in a similar situation, I really wanted to program java apps on my cellphone (Dont ask me Y, im just a geek). Nextel was the only company in my area offering java-enabled phones, so I picked up one of their i85s models. Its a really nice phone, and the Java stuff works sweet on it.
The only problem is getting the apps onto the phone. Motorola is being a nazi about controling the ability to distribute apps, if you arent in their developers program you can only download offical apps through their propritary download program. As far as getting into the development program, I have no idea, Ive applied for it through my work and as a student to no avial. Im even one of the few people running some J2ME projects on sourceforge.
Im told other phones have the ability to simply point themselves at a.jad file on the web and download the app, not Motorola.
So when all these kids grow up to have velcro fetishes, who are we going to blame?
Hmm on the other hand, maybe its not to early to register StickyVelcroXXX.com and make some money off this.
I would imagine this is the same kind of reasoning that put china behind a firewall, to prevent unwanted ideas from entering into their citizens heads (although I think his reasoning behind this is a bit more superficial).
Somehow I doubt they are going to build a new internet just to satisfy some elitest european troll.
lots of people create lots of wonderful things, to say that most people don't use their consciousness simply ignores all the massive achievements of the last 100 years.
Its not that they dont USE it, its that they dont HAVE it in the first place. The human brain is a big hunk of matter that exists inside the physical universe, therefore the neurons that give us our "processing power" are bound to behave according the laws of this universe. Therefore if we can perfectly comprehend those laws we should be able to perfectly predict the behavior of all humans.
Now heres where the kicker comes in, some philosophers claim that part of our being exists outside of the physical reality and therefore isnt subject to its laws, this part is our conscious Will otherwise know as our freedom of choise.
The only thing he is claiming is that it seems a vast portion of our population merely reacts to their environment with this physical brain (and thus they react very predictably) and dont react consciously. For the most part of our day this is a very good feature to have, I wouldnt want the tedious and nessary task of manualy beating my heart and breathing, I like being able to walk, talk and chew bubblegum at the same time.
Why is it important to react consciously? Who cares.
If you've read the otherworld series (Tad Williams) you'd see the mass apeal for this outside of just RPGing.
This is one of the first toolsets (that I can think of anyways) that allows you to create a 3D persistant world hosted on your own computer.
So, use it like a chatroom, you can design a huge area just for people to get together and hang out in. If you really want to be ecentric, force anybody who wants to come chat with you online to log onto your world server. Force them to enter a huge castle with lots o guards and neato stuff, just for the effect.
Even link these worlds together so that maybe your server is linked to a great lobby of doors that people can wander through.
Slashdot Mirror
Players of the game of Go have a proverb "Lose your first fifty games as quickly as possible".
Maybe it's the reverse?
Without coffee I'm grumpy in the morning and more likely to be a no-man. Coffee just turns me normal.
The actual console is a far cry from the large, black and American design of the original Xbox
What? This is simply untrue, the person who posted this obviously hasn't seen the new xbox side by side with the old one.
Check these out if you dont believe me:
Gizmodo Comparison Pictures
Not if its called an iRam.
RamDrive, FlashDrive, etc. are all appropriate names, but iRam? Could the product name be any less descriptive?
Corporations are not monolithic.
There is no hive mind that can one day change every opinion towards some sort of 'rightthink'.
Microsoft has said the right things about security for years.
Obviously it is because of linux!
Finally the giant is beginning to fall!!!
hmmm, only 9.6 billion left to go.
I would imagine they have the stylus make a loop inside the letter's hex to draw a repeat character.
The same situation would come up in the case of a word like "can" where all three letters are in a line. How would it know to pick up the letter "a" in the middle? Perhaps it runs the letters selected vs a word database, translating "cn" into "can".
Holy case of RTFA batman. The reveiwer is compaining about some japanese game that he had never played. This is a case of over-hype, not nostalgia. For Nostalgia distortion to take place, you must have had at least played the damn game once. And for the record a game that was made for the the playstation cannot inspire nostalgia yet. Now Contra, there was a game, they just dont make em like they used to.
CF = Compact Flash
You can create swap partitions on CFs.
These devices have CF reader -> IDE converters built in.
This is Slashdot, if we can't find a way to turn something into a bewolf cluster/web server or show how linux is better than microsoft, then we have to find a way to use it to help overclock a processor. NO MATTER WHAT!
God damned HTML formatting for taking out my precious line breaks!!!
What the crap!? I was contemplating how cool it would be to make a game to enter into this and maybe win some money... but there is no money. The first place "Prize" is as follows: Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize winner will receive a full GameSpy SDK license for one title and one (1) ABS Computer System and a copy of the Java Desktop System. Approximate Retail Value: $45,000. The only cool prize here is the glory of winning the their damned contest. It reminds me of the joke: Q: What is better than winning the special olympics? A: Not being retarded!
Do people who write for the register live even remotely near the real world?
This acticle seems to have been written by a 12 year-old, it reminds me of the mario levels I used to draw on paper back when I was a kid. I would say, "Look how easy it is to design games!"
Its FREE MONEY, don't question it, he's beyond everything. If you don't understand, he'll just spit on you until you do. Now wrap yourself around that rack of DVDs.
Sure, you can say "make a game about dating and finding the right guy". But, well, how? Where is the game? What exactly do you control? How should the AI engine work? Et cetera, et cetera. (And yes, I know dating games are big in Japan, but they're largely unrealistic and are mostly composed of multiple-choice quizzes.)
A large portion of american women have expectations about "dating and finding the right guy" that are "largely unrealistic and are mostly composed of multiple-choice quizzes." Read a Redbook or cosmo sometime, It'll scare you.
Think about how many women are absolutly obsessed with soap-operas, these japanese dating sims would have similiar appeal.
Jeez, it seems about once a month there is a post dealing with "Next-Generation" or "New and Improved" keyboards.
My ass is a better input device then most of these devices.
The particualar device you've posted looks to be the biggest loser of them all. Its not gesture recognition like in minority report, it looks a bit more like the "keys" have light sensors under their surface or that they work like micowave buttons.
Because of this and the fact that the buttons are so close together, the chances of hitting unintended keys most be 1 in 2, you'd be better off trying to type with your hands on a on-screen keyboard on a palm pilot. Most of the instructions for this device seem to be warnings on how not to set off the keys.
Invert the color sceme that you use when coding. I use white text on black background, it takes a bit of getting used to, but the difference is well worth it.
My eyes used to spasm and all sorts of nasty crap before I did this. A monitor is basiclly a large lightbulb, when the screen is mostly white, they will light the whole room.
The only problem is that many sites use white as a background and look ugly if you force your own colors on them.
Back in the day I modded my Furby so It would power on when my comp started up. It was annoying as hell, but it was kinda fun at LAN parties.
However, one of my buddies tried to copy me. Unfortunatly he didnt consult me first and ended up killing his new hard drive cause he had hooked up leads the wrong way.
The moral of the story is dont mess with furbies.
I was in a similar situation, I really wanted to program java apps on my cellphone (Dont ask me Y, im just a geek). Nextel was the only company in my area offering java-enabled phones, so I picked up one of their i85s models. Its a really nice phone, and the Java stuff works sweet on it.
.jad file on the web and download the app, not Motorola.
The only problem is getting the apps onto the phone. Motorola is being a nazi about controling the ability to distribute apps, if you arent in their developers program you can only download offical apps through their propritary download program. As far as getting into the development program, I have no idea, Ive applied for it through my work and as a student to no avial. Im even one of the few people running some J2ME projects on sourceforge.
Im told other phones have the ability to simply point themselves at a
So when all these kids grow up to have velcro fetishes, who are we going to blame? Hmm on the other hand, maybe its not to early to register StickyVelcroXXX.com and make some money off this.
I would imagine this is the same kind of reasoning that put china behind a firewall, to prevent unwanted ideas from entering into their citizens heads (although I think his reasoning behind this is a bit more superficial).
Somehow I doubt they are going to build a new internet just to satisfy some elitest european troll.
lots of people create lots of wonderful things, to say that most people don't use their consciousness simply ignores all the massive achievements of the last 100 years.
Its not that they dont USE it, its that they dont HAVE it in the first place. The human brain is a big hunk of matter that exists inside the physical universe, therefore the neurons that give us our "processing power" are bound to behave according the laws of this universe. Therefore if we can perfectly comprehend those laws we should be able to perfectly predict the behavior of all humans.
Now heres where the kicker comes in, some philosophers claim that part of our being exists outside of the physical reality and therefore isnt subject to its laws, this part is our conscious Will otherwise know as our freedom of choise.
The only thing he is claiming is that it seems a vast portion of our population merely reacts to their environment with this physical brain (and thus they react very predictably) and dont react consciously. For the most part of our day this is a very good feature to have, I wouldnt want the tedious and nessary task of manualy beating my heart and breathing, I like being able to walk, talk and chew bubblegum at the same time.
Why is it important to react consciously? Who cares.
I pretty sure he meant Microsoft Windows, not video games.
Just make your fonts bigger. Works like a charm, you can read it from normal couch to tv distances.
There is nothing like being able to bring up more than a hundred gigs of anime without having to get up to change a disk.
If you've read the otherworld series (Tad Williams) you'd see the mass apeal for this outside of just RPGing.
This is one of the first toolsets (that I can think of anyways) that allows you to create a 3D persistant world hosted on your own computer.
So, use it like a chatroom, you can design a huge area just for people to get together and hang out in. If you really want to be ecentric, force anybody who wants to come chat with you online to log onto your world server. Force them to enter a huge castle with lots o guards and neato stuff, just for the effect.
Even link these worlds together so that maybe your server is linked to a great lobby of doors that people can wander through.