At first glance I read, "Time for this to be ruled by the scouts," and thought to myself, "Well, I suppose that would be taking this to its logical extreme. I mean, the boy scouts ARE paraded as some sort of pinnacle of conservative morality. Although, I have always wanted to earn a lolcats badge..."
Contrary to a widely held scientific theory that the mammalian Y chromosome is slowly decaying or stagnating, new evidence suggests that in fact the Y is actually evolving quite rapidly through continuous, wholesale renovation.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I realized I was retarded and pasted the wrong link (and yet didn't realize that when I said it wasn't consumer reports' website... right... it's Friday, and I've checked out.). Here is the link I meant to post... right.
Consumer reports said no such thing. In fact, they gave it a reasonably positive review (and yes, I realize that this is not consumer reports' website, but I read the print article when it arrived in my mailbox a week ago, and to my memory it is close if not a direct reprint). I am not endorsing the product, and I know little about it, to say that Consumer Reports said it is a scam is disingenuous.
Thousands of experts would have assured you that pholgiston and the ether existed. The consensus view in medicine has been wrong lots of times: routine tonsilectomy, eggs and other foods as contributing to high cholesterol, the effects of tobacco and alcohol - the last is particularly good because you can very easily see that many individual doctors use their medical knowledge to bolster their own prejudices and choices.
I think the key difference here is that the human body is a complex, hard to diagnose system. Its functions were not deterministically designed, but instead arose in a complicated, interdependent fashion.
The climate of the Earth on the other hand, well all you have to do is lick your thumb and hold it to the wind to figure out what's going on!
It's a funny proposition, because I would think this would be just awful for gaming. Don't misunderstand - I'm sure they've put a great deal of work into refining the product. Sadly, something like this sits in a strange spot - the applications where it would be best suited aren't really huge growth or profit sectors, so even a successful technology would languish in those sectors, and take decades to develop. On the other hand, by gambling with the gaming market, especially during a period where console manufacturers are emphasizing alternate control schemes, you have the potential for large growth and profit. Unless, that is, it crashes and burns before taking off, which is sadly the fate of many great technologies with a lot of potential.
I don't profess to be an expert in their product or their target market, but given the history with similarly disruptive products, the immediate future looks troubled to me. Sadly, this may be a product before its time, only to be resurrected in a decade while everyone says, "Oh, that's so brilliant, I can't believe no one had invented that one before!"
PC Authority: Many people must talk to you about making apps for people disabilities, particularly those lacking mobility. How do you see your company working in those areas?
Nam Do: We're already working with a lot of people, to make applications for disabled people. There are quite a few applications we're [already] seeing from independent developers just trying to create these things.
For example, some of these people can't even move. So things like the keyboard are very important. Just by thinking about it, they can put words together and start to communicate.
PC Authority: I think that's amazing. It's great to have the gaming part, but that could really transform people's lives.
Nam Do: Absolutely. Even though gaming has a lot of following, you don't realise that when you're talking about the community at large - a lot of the applications are non-gaming. Like medical or healthcare applications.
For example, university researchers and doctors are currently working on applications to treat depression and addiction - without drugs. It's a state of brain. You fall into it and stay in it. So now if you could predict that, you could have different brain exercises to keep you out of that mindset.
I feel like there is some sort of pertinent pizza-based analogy here... something about how when the crust has larger bubbles, it's a more rich and textural experience... I'm not sure though, as pizza-based analogies aren't really my expertise...
I did this for my younger sister a few days ago, after about 1.5 hrs of trying to diagnose why her laptop's mic wouldn't work with Skype (doing this remotely with someone uncooperative, when you've never used Vista before, is a pain). After I gave up I sent that to her, and explained that it was nearly literally the process I was following (and that I wasn't actually omniscient about computers), she just brushed me off, and told me that it couldn't be true! How are you supposed to get something across to people who not only don't care, but think you're lying??
Parent makes a good point - you DO have control. Have you considered making their system into a VM host? It doesn't matter what you put underneath it - Linux, Windows, whatever - just make sure that it's completely tightened down. Then, when they screw up their computer *AGAIN*, all it takes is for you to stop by for a visit, back up any critical files, replace their current VM with a clean backup that you made months ago after installing some of the software they use, and letting them have at it? They don't want to learn, so why not make it easy for yourself?
Then why can I navigate by car around the town I grew up in without a problem in the world, but I don't know a single road name? Not a SINGLE ONE? I know a couple major routes, but exactly zero side streets. In fact, if you were to drop me back there right now, I could find my way anywhere I used to know where it was, provided the landmarks haven't changed. I didn't bother learning street names until I moved away for college.
I don't know how to convince you otherwise - when I'm driving somewhere I know, I pay little attention to where I'm going, and almost total attention to the cars around me. I only get "pulled back" to finding my way when I recognize a landmark.
I think the prime example is this: I moved recently, and after driving past my exit for the first three days, I had to force myself for the next week to find landmarks so I wouldn't miss it again. This is on a road covered in signs for my exit, in an area where I have an impeccable mental map.
Men, on the other hand, rarely use anything but a map. If I changed a street sign outside my apartment, my male friends probably wouldn't be able to find the place anymore.
Balderdash.
I navigate using a combination of landmark and maps. Like most people, in an unfamiliar area I will use maps exclusively. In an area I am acquainted with though, I pick freeway exits/turns at intersections from a map of the area in my head, but landmarks to guide me to the exact destination. I had to think for a second to come up with the road the supermarket is off of, but could tell you instantly that it is in the shopping center across from the Home Depot. I most certainly don't use any mental map to commute, that would be absurd. That's 100% landmark.
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Oh! Please don't tell me you read "US" as "us" (as in "us and them") and not "U.S." (as in "United States")
Grammar nazi + dumbass = Epic fail!
Yeah, jeez, what a moran! He didn't even notice that "We to build nuclear power plants" isn't even grammatically correct!
I know the rules of grammar have gone by the wayside lately, but come ON!
The word "US" is an object, and everybody knows you can't begin a sentence with an object!
The headline should read: "WE To Build Nuclear Power Plants"
Is it that hard, people?
At first glance I read, "Time for this to be ruled by the scouts," and thought to myself, "Well, I suppose that would be taking this to its logical extreme. I mean, the boy scouts ARE paraded as some sort of pinnacle of conservative morality. Although, I have always wanted to earn a lolcats badge..."
Do it yourself biology??
I prefer "do it with someone else" biology...
Contrary to a widely held scientific theory that the mammalian Y chromosome is slowly decaying or stagnating, new evidence suggests that in fact the Y is actually evolving quite rapidly through continuous, wholesale renovation.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I realized I was retarded and pasted the wrong link (and yet didn't realize that when I said it wasn't consumer reports' website... right... it's Friday, and I've checked out.). Here is the link I meant to post... right.
Consumer reports said no such thing. In fact, they gave it a reasonably positive review (and yes, I realize that this is not consumer reports' website, but I read the print article when it arrived in my mailbox a week ago, and to my memory it is close if not a direct reprint). I am not endorsing the product, and I know little about it, to say that Consumer Reports said it is a scam is disingenuous.
I just look forward to the day that the autonomous software agents become intelligent enough that they begin fighting each other.
Or even better, advertising to each other!
Thousands of experts would have assured you that pholgiston and the ether existed. The consensus view in medicine has been wrong lots of times: routine tonsilectomy, eggs and other foods as contributing to high cholesterol, the effects of tobacco and alcohol - the last is particularly good because you can very easily see that many individual doctors use their medical knowledge to bolster their own prejudices and choices.
I think the key difference here is that the human body is a complex, hard to diagnose system. Its functions were not deterministically designed, but instead arose in a complicated, interdependent fashion.
The climate of the Earth on the other hand, well all you have to do is lick your thumb and hold it to the wind to figure out what's going on!
fEEL FREE TO OPT OUT AT ANY TIME.
They have a great program for that!
It's a funny proposition, because I would think this would be just awful for gaming. Don't misunderstand - I'm sure they've put a great deal of work into refining the product. Sadly, something like this sits in a strange spot - the applications where it would be best suited aren't really huge growth or profit sectors, so even a successful technology would languish in those sectors, and take decades to develop. On the other hand, by gambling with the gaming market, especially during a period where console manufacturers are emphasizing alternate control schemes, you have the potential for large growth and profit. Unless, that is, it crashes and burns before taking off, which is sadly the fate of many great technologies with a lot of potential.
I don't profess to be an expert in their product or their target market, but given the history with similarly disruptive products, the immediate future looks troubled to me. Sadly, this may be a product before its time, only to be resurrected in a decade while everyone says, "Oh, that's so brilliant, I can't believe no one had invented that one before!"
But I'm also a cynic, so take it as you will
PC Authority: Many people must talk to you about making apps for people disabilities, particularly those lacking mobility. How do you see your company working in those areas?
Nam Do: We're already working with a lot of people, to make applications for disabled people. There are quite a few applications we're [already] seeing from independent developers just trying to create these things.
For example, some of these people can't even move. So things like the keyboard are very important. Just by thinking about it, they can put words together and start to communicate.
PC Authority: I think that's amazing. It's great to have the gaming part, but that could really transform people's lives.
Nam Do: Absolutely. Even though gaming has a lot of following, you don't realise that when you're talking about the community at large - a lot of the applications are non-gaming. Like medical or healthcare applications.
For example, university researchers and doctors are currently working on applications to treat depression and addiction - without drugs. It's a state of brain. You fall into it and stay in it. So now if you could predict that, you could have different brain exercises to keep you out of that mindset.
I feel like there is some sort of pertinent pizza-based analogy here... something about how when the crust has larger bubbles, it's a more rich and textural experience... I'm not sure though, as pizza-based analogies aren't really my expertise...
That's rich. Actually, you make a good point. That will quickly teach someone to be less cavalier.
Or, if they are cavalier, to at least cover their behind.
I did this for my younger sister a few days ago, after about 1.5 hrs of trying to diagnose why her laptop's mic wouldn't work with Skype (doing this remotely with someone uncooperative, when you've never used Vista before, is a pain). After I gave up I sent that to her, and explained that it was nearly literally the process I was following (and that I wasn't actually omniscient about computers), she just brushed me off, and told me that it couldn't be true! How are you supposed to get something across to people who not only don't care, but think you're lying??
Parent makes a good point - you DO have control. Have you considered making their system into a VM host? It doesn't matter what you put underneath it - Linux, Windows, whatever - just make sure that it's completely tightened down. Then, when they screw up their computer *AGAIN*, all it takes is for you to stop by for a visit, back up any critical files, replace their current VM with a clean backup that you made months ago after installing some of the software they use, and letting them have at it? They don't want to learn, so why not make it easy for yourself?
I am watching CNN because I expect them to gather the news [...]
Yeah, that's definitely where you went wrong.
Well, after thoroughly reviewing the contents, it's clear that this treaty was actually intended to throw open the flood gates for child pornography.
Quit introducing accuracy into this discussion!
Then why can I navigate by car around the town I grew up in without a problem in the world, but I don't know a single road name? Not a SINGLE ONE? I know a couple major routes, but exactly zero side streets. In fact, if you were to drop me back there right now, I could find my way anywhere I used to know where it was, provided the landmarks haven't changed. I didn't bother learning street names until I moved away for college.
I don't know how to convince you otherwise - when I'm driving somewhere I know, I pay little attention to where I'm going, and almost total attention to the cars around me. I only get "pulled back" to finding my way when I recognize a landmark.
I think the prime example is this: I moved recently, and after driving past my exit for the first three days, I had to force myself for the next week to find landmarks so I wouldn't miss it again. This is on a road covered in signs for my exit, in an area where I have an impeccable mental map.
Men, on the other hand, rarely use anything but a map. If I changed a street sign outside my apartment, my male friends probably wouldn't be able to find the place anymore.
Balderdash.
I navigate using a combination of landmark and maps. Like most people, in an unfamiliar area I will use maps exclusively. In an area I am acquainted with though, I pick freeway exits/turns at intersections from a map of the area in my head, but landmarks to guide me to the exact destination. I had to think for a second to come up with the road the supermarket is off of, but could tell you instantly that it is in the shopping center across from the Home Depot. I most certainly don't use any mental map to commute, that would be absurd. That's 100% landmark.
Paneer
It's a bicycle, but not as we have come to know it
Better put as:
It's bike, Jim, but not as we know it.
Granted, it's a resistor with a low value, but a resistor none the less.
And to be fair, concrete acts much more like a capacitor than a resistor. Or maybe a resistor and capacitor in parallel, but you get the idea.
Has anybody else noticed that of all the websites visited, some of the SLOWEST make heavy use of AJAX? Or is that just me?