I have one of those old websites, I cancelled my ISP account years ago, but the website is still there. I don't care enough about it to get it erased, but if I did, I'm not even sure they would let me.
Most of us probably don't care about this, only some of us do. I, for one, am fine with letting Yahoo, AOL, etc. cancel my inactive accounts. I also don't need anyone that isn't family or real life friends to know that I kicked the bucket. I don't have any l33t login names or a low ID number to pass on and even if I did, no one would want them. I don't have any secret files that can only be read after I'm dead.
If you're the same as me (and you likely are), then don't be concerned.
I can certainly argue a bit with your point. If a show that you don't like gets cancelled, there's a change that something better will take its time slot. It's similar for the actors, cameramen, janitors, etc. If they're contributing to a show that people don't like, that's not exactly fulfilling. They want to entertain people. If their show gets cancelled, they could go on to work for a show they like better.
I'm assuming they mean they are scared that the heavyweights couldn't do it with hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet a couple grad students do it with $200k. Ugh. To put profits so far above people's health truly is sad.
No, what's scary is that a couple grad students with $200,000 manufactured a virus that did exactly what they wanted it to. The assumption is that any evil grad students with $200,000 could create some terrible virus and let it loose. Whether that assumption is true or not I don't know.
Another benefit other than speed was supposed to be that the electronic voting machines would make counting votes MORE reliable, not less. A lot of this push towards electronic voting came from the Florida fiasco, where chads were used of course.
Of course, in reality, we're seeing that e-voting makes voting even less reliable! What's up with that? I blame Diebold, not the whole idea of e-voting.
RIAA: File sharing hurts our beloved industry.
Student A: Have you heard that new song from ? It's awesome!!!!
Student B: No.
Student A: You should download it, they don't play it much on the radio, it was largely underrated.
Student C: *Gasp* File sharing is illegal!
Student B: Yeah the RIAA would sue me! The band's name sounds dumb anyway.
RIAA: That's right kids. Sharing is evil.
As residential connections get faster, and protocols are improved to cope with lag better, it might be possible to design games where hundreds of thousands of players compete in real time in one virtual environment.
Yeah well, I'm still on dial-up and so are a lot of other people. So don't hold your breath. Granted, any innovations (hardware or software) are going to make video games more popular. And this article is trying to say that "Everything in video games has already been invented" and that's obviously wrong.
I know this is wrong (in more ways than one), but the first thing I thought of when I read the article headline was "Serious Sam and Max Payne?"
Props to anyone who can think of some good dialogue between the two.
Artistically, an accompanying scent would serve the same purpose as a soundtrack: to set a mood. The smell of smoke and ozone would be a cool accompaniment to an FPS. Or putting a bit of perfume on a love letter: a distinctive aroma can be highly evocative.
Congratulations on coming up with probably the only good use of that technology. It would definitely have a "Wow" factor in games. $300 is too much but I can see it selling for less if some good, popular games supported it. However, that's unfortunately unlikely.
Yeah but neither eBay nor Pepsi would probably enforce that clause very well. McDonald's monopoly pieces were being sold like crazy on eBay just a few months ago (yes that is sad).
K.S.R's timekeeping would especially be good for those on Mars who needed to schedule meetings with people on Earth, as long as it wasn't at midnight (and no one meets at midnight anyway).
horrible mathematical disaster of having the "seconds" unit change
That would be horrible. But what happens to the time system when people start living on more and more planets? Seems we'd have to abandon KSR's system and have that horrible mathematical disaster at some point (ugh!).
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Will these ppl have played D3 deathmatch before then, or will it be sprung upon them there?
It will be sprung upon them... haven't you seen The Wizard?
I have one of those old websites, I cancelled my ISP account years ago, but the website is still there. I don't care enough about it to get it erased, but if I did, I'm not even sure they would let me.
Most of us probably don't care about this, only some of us do. I, for one, am fine with letting Yahoo, AOL, etc. cancel my inactive accounts. I also don't need anyone that isn't family or real life friends to know that I kicked the bucket. I don't have any l33t login names or a low ID number to pass on and even if I did, no one would want them. I don't have any secret files that can only be read after I'm dead.
If you're the same as me (and you likely are), then don't be concerned.
An appropriate randomly generated Slashdot quote was a bit late today. (3:30EST)
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz
I can certainly argue a bit with your point. If a show that you don't like gets cancelled, there's a change that something better will take its time slot. It's similar for the actors, cameramen, janitors, etc. If they're contributing to a show that people don't like, that's not exactly fulfilling. They want to entertain people. If their show gets cancelled, they could go on to work for a show they like better.
Disclaimer: I have nothing against Enterprise.
I see we have learned nothing from Hollywood. Anybody remember The Matrix, Terminator, etc.? Robots should NOT have control of the water supply!
I'm assuming they mean they are scared that the heavyweights couldn't do it with hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet a couple grad students do it with $200k. Ugh. To put profits so far above people's health truly is sad.
No, what's scary is that a couple grad students with $200,000 manufactured a virus that did exactly what they wanted it to. The assumption is that any evil grad students with $200,000 could create some terrible virus and let it loose. Whether that assumption is true or not I don't know.
Another benefit other than speed was supposed to be that the electronic voting machines would make counting votes MORE reliable, not less. A lot of this push towards electronic voting came from the Florida fiasco, where chads were used of course.
Of course, in reality, we're seeing that e-voting makes voting even less reliable! What's up with that? I blame Diebold, not the whole idea of e-voting.
Alternate:
RIAA: File sharing hurts our beloved industry.
Student A: Have you heard that new song from ? It's awesome!!!!
Student B: No.
Student A: You should download it, they don't play it much on the radio, it was largely underrated.
Student C: *Gasp* File sharing is illegal!
Student B: Yeah the RIAA would sue me! The band's name sounds dumb anyway.
RIAA: That's right kids. Sharing is evil.
Some of us still do! (Harry Potter, Stephen King, etc.)
This is yet another example of why NASA should make more use of Ask Slashdot. We could have helped create a better rover AND saved Europa!
Sedna? What happened to the reserved name for the 10th planet, Rupert? We could even pass it off now as being named after America's favorite Survivor!
Do you really think that in 10 years there will be anyone on dial up
I hope not. I would definitely get broadband in a second if it were available in my area, but it's not.
Now we can all help get the lights back on during a blackout!
As residential connections get faster, and protocols are improved to cope with lag better, it might be possible to design games where hundreds of thousands of players compete in real time in one virtual environment.
Yeah well, I'm still on dial-up and so are a lot of other people. So don't hold your breath. Granted, any innovations (hardware or software) are going to make video games more popular. And this article is trying to say that "Everything in video games has already been invented" and that's obviously wrong.
I know this is wrong (in more ways than one), but the first thing I thought of when I read the article headline was "Serious Sam and Max Payne?" Props to anyone who can think of some good dialogue between the two.
What? I thought it was cigarettes!
mmmm... lazer toast...
Yes, but the purpose of Earth is to find out what the question is!
Artistically, an accompanying scent would serve the same purpose as a soundtrack: to set a mood. The smell of smoke and ozone would be a cool accompaniment to an FPS. Or putting a bit of perfume on a love letter: a distinctive aroma can be highly evocative.
Congratulations on coming up with probably the only good use of that technology. It would definitely have a "Wow" factor in games. $300 is too much but I can see it selling for less if some good, popular games supported it. However, that's unfortunately unlikely.
Yeah but neither eBay nor Pepsi would probably enforce that clause very well. McDonald's monopoly pieces were being sold like crazy on eBay just a few months ago (yes that is sad).
Sounds like that would be a lot of work to find the location of some broken equipment!
Of course, the bank would probably get suspicious if you did the franken-trick several times...
OK, should we really be considering vibrators as "Tech"?
K.S.R's timekeeping would especially be good for those on Mars who needed to schedule meetings with people on Earth, as long as it wasn't at midnight (and no one meets at midnight anyway).
horrible mathematical disaster of having the "seconds" unit change
That would be horrible. But what happens to the time system when people start living on more and more planets? Seems we'd have to abandon KSR's system and have that horrible mathematical disaster at some point (ugh!).