5: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and IRC, all in one nice little skinnable package. Just about the most used program on my computer (except maybe for games). Trillian is great!
JK Rocks. I've been working my way through the game for about the 500th time this week:)
You're right about force powers, though. It adds an aspect to the game that most people cant take advantage of. This sort of creative apllication in FPS games might make them a bit more acceptable to parents, depending on what they are.
Good idea, team building is important. I know it sounds like a buzzword, but leadership skills are necessary. I'd suggest BattleZone II: run a team strategy game! This way the kids get some competition, but teamwork as well. Each team has a commander, and the commander can delegate command of AI vehicles to other players. Definitely a good structure.
For those of you who dont know, BZII is a combo of RTS and Vehicle FPS, and a great combo at that. Pretty recent, so good quality, but should be affordable, too.
Current LED's will glow dimmer if less voltage is applied. A 5V LED will glow dimly when 2V is applied, etc. A variable resistor is all you'd need to make a dimmer switch.
As for your multiple LED's idea, you'd need a voltage trigger in addition to a variable resistor so that when the voltage reaches a certain level, it turns on another LED.
Speaking of M&M's, anyone else ever wonder how those mini M&M's fly around like that? They're small, yes, but their arms are smaller, and there's no way they could flap them enough to stay up. I'd appreciate a response from a physics person out there.
All you'd need to do is compare with a saved sound sample. You could record each number and set up a loop to continue while there are still messages. The structure of VM systems is relatively simple, so a few if statements should cover most possibilities, and have it alert the user if an exception occurs.
She may have been concerned about revealing discussions of past rapes, but those discussions shouldn't have been on a university computer or via email. She showed concerned but also poor judgement.
She was a womens studies professor. Discussions of past rapes may have some relevance to her research, so their presence is justified. However, they should still be confidential. What if hospital security wanted your medical records to help them track someone (unlikely, but still...), and they read through every medical condition you've had. These records are supposedly confidential, but since your doctor stored them on a machine that belonged to the hospital, they would be accessible.
I have a feeling you'd feel differently about that situation.
No, energy lost by collision of atoms (AKA frictional force in most contexts) is not lost, but changed to thermal energy. Sound waves lose some energy as they move due to this 'friction', between atoms, which infinitesimally heats up the surrounding air. Twice the sound output would be twice the energy, and twice the neglible amout of thermal energy. Sound waves have a relatively small amount of energy (each atom moves very little before transfering the energy), so the effect is not noticable.
In short, the kinetic energy of the waves changes into thermal energy, so the total energy is conserved.
[/physics_rant]:)
P.S.: I probably fell for a troll, but it was fun anyway:)
Yes, but if we get a few years down the road and dont have the processors fast enough to handle our software, hardware developers will be in a crunch. Really not much harm done by letting the hardware get ahead so we have the technology when we need it, not to mention getting it to work well, instead of having a quickly developed high-tech piece of crap when we suddenly need some extra speed.
I think that having green and blue lasers would raise the chance of damage to your eye. The reason astronomers use red light to read star charts etc. is because red light does not strain your eyes as much as other wavelengths, so you retain your night vision. Also, for a white spot, you'd have 3 separate lasers hitting a single spot on your retina. That makes it 3 times as intense. I'm skeptical about shining one laser into my eye, but three? No way.
The point is, RGB will come after they've made the monochrome safe because of the additional risks from having more lasers.
Since most of my friends can't seem to work up the courage to ask anything from a girl in the first place, we are all still happily intelligent.:)
That is, if you believe this tripe to begin with.
Seriously, tell them they suck, then tell them to take a test. I dunno about you, but I'm distracted by rejection. I can't pay attention. I'm too busy thinking about it to pay any attention whatsoever.
First things first: the new wolf rocks. Now to get back on topic...
I've had no problems with RTCW after mozilla, during a few instances of mozilla or otherwise. Looks like its fixed! Or at least reduced to where my P933 w/ 128MB RAM can handle it with no noticable strain on anything.
I find this quite entertaining, and disturbing at the same time. Does this mean if I find a mistake in someones name chosen for a creature, I can rename some dinosaur yourmamasaur?:)
Honestly, I think the best, most scientifically reliable and polit thing to do would be to just add a suffix. Call it syntarsaur or syntarsusaurus, something along those lines. This probably does not follow any sort of species naming convention, but I'm sure a reasonable substitute could be found by adding something to the end (in latin, of course:). This would avoid a lot of inter-field animosity. Instead they chose to set a precedent of mocking other fields of science. This does not bode well for the effort to catalog all species. We could end up with some very odd names indeed.
Privacy concerns aside, if the google technique was applied to emails in the same manner, spam and pornography would be more prominent than any relevant info on many search pages. The sheer volume of this would tip google-style search results. I'm sure the spammers would love this, sending extra, no cost(to them) copies of spam to everyone at the NSA:)
In addition, what about all these/. links to google searches? Does google have a check in its programming to find links to itself? If not, as more and more people link to google searches, google could convince itself that it is the most authoritative site for any and every subject. I dunno about you, but I would find this very entertaining...
The problem with this analogy is he's not doing the shitting. To continue your analogy, if I tell some random person that they can shit in your garden, I am not necessarily responsible for you walking outside one morning and finding it. Just because I informed them of the opportunity does not mean I am responsible, after all I personally did not place warm fecal matter upon your beloved plants.
However, my (adapted) analogy is also flawed. He is not only providing the opportunity, he is providing the means. If I give someone a slingshot and tell them that they are free to shoot shit into your garden, am I responsible because I provided the delivery means? It is somewhat like the debate over whether guns kill people or people kill people. Guns prvide the delivery system, but can the maker of the gun be held responsible for homicide?
Exact waveforms yes, but when was the last time you heard two identical bird calls, even by the same species, or the same bird? An exact waveform match just will not be flexible enough for this application, thus the general match and a human reviewer.
I'm really not surprised at this, although I do think its a cool 'feature' of the brain. Back in high school, I took 3 years of French. Sometimes it got to the point that I would think of and say a response in French before having translated it into English. It is actually a surprising and odd feeling at first, to find yourself thinking in another language. It does, however, make it easier to process speech if you dont have to translate twice before responding. I am really not very fluent in French, so I'm sure the effect is amplified for those who are truly bilingual. The fact that they've found a physical explanation for this is very interesting.
Intel's Itanium processors handle 64-bit chips, but the Pentium family handles 32-bit applications. Sources have said that the company has a hybrid version, code-named Yamhill, in its labs.
I realize that 64 bit computing is the rage now, but why not start with the hybrid? At least it would be compatible with today's progs.
I do like the fact that AMD is planning on using "a smooth migration path to the 64-bit software of tomorrow", so we wont have to rewrite much of anything. Besides, I still like my old DOS games:)
A new international treaty aiming to protect musicians and the recording industry from Internet and digital piracy is set to go into effect in May, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced Thursday.
The treaty, dubbed the WIPO Phonograms and Performances Treaty (WTTP), finally attained its needed number of ratifications with the addition of Honduras on Wednesday, and is now ready to go into full force on May 20.
According to the group, the WTTP provides a legal basis to prevent unauthorized use of musical works on digital networks. It is meant to work in conjunction with its sister treaty, the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WTO), which provides the same sort of protection for companies in the culture and information industries. The WTO is set to take effect on March 6.
Both treaties were adopted in 1996, WIPO said, but have just received the required number of signatories.
"Entry into force of these two key treaties represent a landmark in the history of international law of copyright and neighboring rights," WIPO Director General Kamil Idris said in a statement. "The stage is now set to offer more comprehensive protection for creators and creative enterprises in the digital environment."
Although the treaties provide a legal framework of rights, they do not overrule national laws. It remains to be seen how civil rights groups respond to the adoption of the treaties, however, given widespread grumbling in the U.S. over similar national legislation.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998, has come under fire, particularly for its anticircumvention provisions which prohibit the disabling of copyright protection measures. The WTTP also contains anticircumvention provisions.
If ever you are in Santa Fe, NM (my hometown), be sure to stop in at the Chuck Jones Gallery downtown. It's full of great stuff. I remember many cartoons, but seeing the pictures in the gallery always jogged my memory. Especially now, they will have a changing special display. I strongly suggest you check it out.
BTW: If you come from the west coast, you should take a left at Albuquerque:)
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5: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and IRC, all in one nice little skinnable package. Just about the most used program on my computer (except maybe for games). Trillian is great!
JK Rocks. I've been working my way through the game for about the 500th time this week :)
You're right about force powers, though. It adds an aspect to the game that most people cant take advantage of. This sort of creative apllication in FPS games might make them a bit more acceptable to parents, depending on what they are.
Good idea, team building is important. I know it sounds like a buzzword, but leadership skills are necessary. I'd suggest BattleZone II: run a team strategy game! This way the kids get some competition, but teamwork as well. Each team has a commander, and the commander can delegate command of AI vehicles to other players. Definitely a good structure.
For those of you who dont know, BZII is a combo of RTS and Vehicle FPS, and a great combo at that. Pretty recent, so good quality, but should be affordable, too.
Current LED's will glow dimmer if less voltage is applied. A 5V LED will glow dimly when 2V is applied, etc. A variable resistor is all you'd need to make a dimmer switch.
As for your multiple LED's idea, you'd need a voltage trigger in addition to a variable resistor so that when the voltage reaches a certain level, it turns on another LED.
Speaking of M&M's, anyone else ever wonder how those mini M&M's fly around like that? They're small, yes, but their arms are smaller, and there's no way they could flap them enough to stay up. I'd appreciate a response from a physics person out there.
:)
Hey, what do you mean they're animated?
All you'd need to do is compare with a saved sound sample. You could record each number and set up a loop to continue while there are still messages. The structure of VM systems is relatively simple, so a few if statements should cover most possibilities, and have it alert the user if an exception occurs.
She may have been concerned about revealing discussions of past rapes, but those discussions shouldn't have been on a university computer or via email. She showed concerned but also poor judgement.
She was a womens studies professor. Discussions of past rapes may have some relevance to her research, so their presence is justified. However, they should still be confidential. What if hospital security wanted your medical records to help them track someone (unlikely, but still...), and they read through every medical condition you've had. These records are supposedly confidential, but since your doctor stored them on a machine that belonged to the hospital, they would be accessible.
I have a feeling you'd feel differently about that situation.
I'd say imagine a beowulf cluster of those, but...
a) I dont want to get smacked by someone
b) That thing puts the capacity of a beowulf cluster to shame...
Anyway, awesome piece of technology. Any drawbacks, anyone?
No, energy lost by collision of atoms (AKA frictional force in most contexts) is not lost, but changed to thermal energy. Sound waves lose some energy as they move due to this 'friction', between atoms, which infinitesimally heats up the surrounding air. Twice the sound output would be twice the energy, and twice the neglible amout of thermal energy. Sound waves have a relatively small amount of energy (each atom moves very little before transfering the energy), so the effect is not noticable.
:)
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In short, the kinetic energy of the waves changes into thermal energy, so the total energy is conserved.
[/physics_rant]
P.S.: I probably fell for a troll, but it was fun anyway
No, no no. That'll just create more noise, that of gunfire. We musn't add to the problem.
:)
That said, used a silenced gun. No worries!
no, the computer can handle the raw data... its the users heads that will be dong the crashing. Into their desk. Over. And. Over.
Yes, but if we get a few years down the road and dont have the processors fast enough to handle our software, hardware developers will be in a crunch. Really not much harm done by letting the hardware get ahead so we have the technology when we need it, not to mention getting it to work well, instead of having a quickly developed high-tech piece of crap when we suddenly need some extra speed.
I think that having green and blue lasers would raise the chance of damage to your eye. The reason astronomers use red light to read star charts etc. is because red light does not strain your eyes as much as other wavelengths, so you retain your night vision. Also, for a white spot, you'd have 3 separate lasers hitting a single spot on your retina. That makes it 3 times as intense. I'm skeptical about shining one laser into my eye, but three? No way.
The point is, RGB will come after they've made the monochrome safe because of the additional risks from having more lasers.
Since most of my friends can't seem to work up the courage to ask anything from a girl in the first place, we are all still happily intelligent. :)
That is, if you believe this tripe to begin with.
Seriously, tell them they suck, then tell them to take a test. I dunno about you, but I'm distracted by rejection. I can't pay attention. I'm too busy thinking about it to pay any attention whatsoever.
First things first: the new wolf rocks. Now to get back on topic...
I've had no problems with RTCW after mozilla, during a few instances of mozilla or otherwise. Looks like its fixed! Or at least reduced to where my P933 w/ 128MB RAM can handle it with no noticable strain on anything.
Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced>>Mou se wheel should have everything you need, you can manually set your #of lines per wheel turn.
I find this quite entertaining, and disturbing at the same time. Does this mean if I find a mistake in someones name chosen for a creature, I can rename some dinosaur yourmamasaur? :)
Honestly, I think the best, most scientifically reliable and polit thing to do would be to just add a suffix. Call it syntarsaur or syntarsusaurus, something along those lines. This probably does not follow any sort of species naming convention, but I'm sure a reasonable substitute could be found by adding something to the end (in latin, of course:). This would avoid a lot of inter-field animosity. Instead they chose to set a precedent of mocking other fields of science. This does not bode well for the effort to catalog all species. We could end up with some very odd names indeed.
Privacy concerns aside, if the google technique was applied to emails in the same manner, spam and pornography would be more prominent than any relevant info on many search pages. The sheer volume of this would tip google-style search results. I'm sure the spammers would love this, sending extra, no cost(to them) copies of spam to everyone at the NSA :)
In addition, what about all these /. links to google searches? Does google have a check in its programming to find links to itself? If not, as more and more people link to google searches, google could convince itself that it is the most authoritative site for any and every subject. I dunno about you, but I would find this very entertaining...
The problem with this analogy is he's not doing the shitting. To continue your analogy, if I tell some random person that they can shit in your garden, I am not necessarily responsible for you walking outside one morning and finding it. Just because I informed them of the opportunity does not mean I am responsible, after all I personally did not place warm fecal matter upon your beloved plants.
However, my (adapted) analogy is also flawed. He is not only providing the opportunity, he is providing the means. If I give someone a slingshot and tell them that they are free to shoot shit into your garden, am I responsible because I provided the delivery means? It is somewhat like the debate over whether guns kill people or people kill people. Guns prvide the delivery system, but can the maker of the gun be held responsible for homicide?
Exact waveforms yes, but when was the last time you heard two identical bird calls, even by the same species, or the same bird? An exact waveform match just will not be flexible enough for this application, thus the general match and a human reviewer.
I'm really not surprised at this, although I do think its a cool 'feature' of the brain. Back in high school, I took 3 years of French. Sometimes it got to the point that I would think of and say a response in French before having translated it into English. It is actually a surprising and odd feeling at first, to find yourself thinking in another language. It does, however, make it easier to process speech if you dont have to translate twice before responding. I am really not very fluent in French, so I'm sure the effect is amplified for those who are truly bilingual. The fact that they've found a physical explanation for this is very interesting.
I do like the fact that AMD is planning on using "a smooth migration path to the 64-bit software of tomorrow", so we wont have to rewrite much of anything. Besides, I still like my old DOS games
(/karmawhore)
If ever you are in Santa Fe, NM (my hometown), be sure to stop in at the Chuck Jones Gallery downtown. It's full of great stuff. I remember many cartoons, but seeing the pictures in the gallery always jogged my memory. Especially now, they will have a changing special display. I strongly suggest you check it out.
:)
BTW: If you come from the west coast, you should take a left at Albuquerque