This idea would certainly add some depth to the tiring FPS games. Imagine pulling out Castle Wolfenstein (the first one) and feeling the pelting of lead from the Gatling guns...now that could revive some of your old dead games.
More importantly than getting this to work over the Internet, is getting it to work at home first so you can put on a vest that plugs into the back of your computer and delivers blow-by-blow of arcade action (run MAME and kick some ass with Double Dragon or Virtua Fighter). The bandwidth necessary for a low enough latency to feel real should be more easily accomplished when connected locally.
Also, perhaps certain actions could be coded into a library of motions so instead of having the transmitter of the action over the Internet send the actual data for each sensor, they only send a command to execute the sense of being hit by a fist in location x,y(,z?). This may help reduce the necessary bandwidth for transmitting an action.
It's also possible that people may want to run XMAME and other such emulators on a monitor which has been rotated and placed inside a cabinet (or other display mount). While XMAME and other emulators may allow games to be rotated during emulation (usually one of the game's options), by allowing X to rotate the screen, it wouldn't depend on the emulated game to provide the rotation and it would provide consistancy among game orientations.
Main Entry: maser
Pronunciation: 'mA-z&r
Function: noun
Etymology: microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Date: 1955
: a device or object that emits coherent microwave radiation produced by the natural oscillations of atoms or molecules between energy levels
Won't work. Bruce Campbell is great, don't get me wrong. But if you've ever heard the radio show, books on tape, or watched the BBC miniseries made of the first two books, you'd realize that Bruce can't play the part because you really REALLY need to have someone with a British accent in the role(s). American actors just won't cut it for most of the roles in this film - much in the same manner that Harry Potter was filmed with an all-European cast.
I'm not sure OVM ("o-vuhm") would fly any better than OGG (which I happen to like simply because I enjoy trek).
If you wanted to change the name to something that's less gutteral, perhaps just calling it 'Vorbis' or "O.Vorbis" would be sufficiently velvety to virgin ears.
I find both the online organization and mourning for this individual as well as the outrageous insensitivity for our fellow human beings that some of the Score: 0 posters have quite amazing.
Understandably some of those posts are intended to be trolls and flamebait, but even those intentions in this topic are incredibly thoughtless and a sad indicator of the mentality of too many people in my generation.
This person's death was mourned in a fairly uncommon way and seems worthy of some attention and respect. At the same time, I'm not suggesting that death has to be completely serious and solemn -- I hope when I die my friends and family will hold a party in my honor with laughter and lots of food. But even in a light-hearted situation as that may be, thoughtless comments still do not have any place.
I feel sorry for those that feel this person has wasted his life simply because he found it easier to make friends online than in real life. Having had many online friendships, some still exist today, I can say from experience that I have not forgotten these individuals in as much as they revealed to me.
Certainly knowing someone in real life is more conducive to creating much stronger bonds among people, but it did say his sister and girlfriend were online in the middle of the heart, so that suggests he did indeed have some sort of life beyond the game.
When I built my system three years ago I bought the motherboard, cpu (AMD Athlon K7 - brand new at the time), memory, and case all from the same vendor (some place in Illinois that I can't remember). They were kind enough to assemble the CPU, motherboard, heatsink, fan, and memory for me before they sent it. Some places will preassemble the more difficult parts for you if you buy it all together.
The change occurred when San Jose bit the dust
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· Score: 2, Informative
Apparently IBM San Jose was told time and again to reduce their costs but never did, so they lost the HD bid to IBM Japan. Japan developed the Deskstar series "cheaper and faster". And down comes IBM's HD division.
oops...sorry about that
Sold like Slaves
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IBM Spins Down
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· Score: 1, Interesting
My father worked in the hard drive division of IBM and is one of the thousands of faithful employees (nearly 25 years) who will be sold like slaves to the new subsidiary company. According to him, IBM has told its hard drive employees they will not be allowed to move out of that division into anywhere else within IBM until at least one year after the completed sale. Their only way out is to quit (hence no benefits).
Thanks Big Blue!
Brought to you by the we-didn't-like-benefits-anyway-department
...and then you might get states like Wisconsin, New York, and Florida (all democratic if I remember correctly) to pass similar bills. The states you're going to have a tough time getting this legislation through include California, Texas, Washington, and other conservative states (I don't think California's conservative, but they are an exception because of Hollywood, the RIAA, and other such Internet/Media conglomerates based there).
First they voted a wrestler for governer, now they're passing an anti-spam bill - God Bless Minnesota!
In New York State, they've implemented a No-Call list for anyone who doesn't want to receive phone calls from telemarketers. It's free to the consumer and any telemarketing company that calls you once you're on the list can be fined in the thousands of dollars per call - all you need to record is the caller's name, their company, and the time of the call.
It's worked out great too! I signed up for it at the end of last year (December 2001) and they told me it takes up to two months to publish the list after which time I should receive no calls whatsoever (with a few specialized exceptions). Since about mid-January I haven't received any telemarketer calls at all and it's a relief. Now if the phone rings it's more likely than not someone I want to talk to or has actual business with me.
A list like this for Internet marketing would be wonderful! Just register all the email addresses you don't want spam to come to and if it does arrive, simply forward a copy to the enforcement agency to get on the spammer's case.
I'm orginally for Minnesota (first 18 years of my life) and lived in a small town of 2000 about 13 miles north of Rochester. Rochester is not a big city either (approx. 75,000) but it is quite hi-tech in its public library and Mayo Clinic.
In my hometown my parents have a DSL Internet connection offered by our local Phone and Cable Co. (one building off of Main St.) They also have digital cable (the only type of cable offered now after a switch last year). My father is employed by IBM as are many people in the Rochester, MN area.
The Mayo Clinic is also a very hi-tech organization that is constantly developing new medical technologies and software which helps them remain the world's best medical facility. (Why do you think Rochester, MN was voted the best place to live in America four times? Simple - more doctors per capida than anywhere else....plus fairly low crime and pollution.)
BonusMail(c) / MyPoints(c) is a service I signed up for a long time ago and is exactly what it sounds like you're describing. As a member, I fill out a survey of my interests and hobbies and they send me email advertisements that are targeted to me.
For simply reading each piece of email I get gives me 5 points of credit. Credits can be exchanged (after 1000) for goods and services such as gift certificates to resturants or discounts on airline tickets to name a couple.
There have been several other services like this in the past as well, but the major problem with these services is it only gets to those people willing to opt-in. Spam, on the other hand, gets to everyone regardless and that many more people are exposed to whatever the product is.
Do I agree with spam? Of course not, but I simply don't see companies voluntarily giving up their all-encompassing audience to a much smaller audience of opt-in members.
In accordance with federal law, normal posters must relieve the weary trolls of their duties for a single day (April 1st) while they regain their strength from a year's worth of tiresome trolling.
Some may wonder how trolls can be revitalized in a mere day. Unlike normal human beings, trolls - once motivated - stick to their objectives of being loathsome firestarters. What better way to motivate them than to bore them out of their wits with no troll-worthy posts!
if this is the type of behaviour that exists in a typical IT geek gathering, no wonder no girls want to go to them
What impresses me so much about you is the fact that you're complaining about the supposed sexism of the editors while making broad (no pun intended) statements about what all other women think and like. I highly doubt you are their elected representitive, and if you are, you may consider hiring some PR people through which to do your male/CS geek relations.
I've got at least five female CS geek friends who play Netrek every Friday night on campus with a group of guys that range in size from 10 to 20 on a week-by-week basis.
The conversations carried on there are no better or worse than the postings on this board and believe me...the women in our group sometimes come up with the raunchiest comments/jokes of them all!
Moe: Call this an unfair generalization if you want, but old people are no good at everything.
If this BeOS GUI on the Linux kernel turns out to be all it's cracked up to be (at the least a better-looking, easier-to-code-for windowing system) then perhaps it may become more attractive to both GUI app developers and "mainstream" users alike.
I know from talking to friends and family who've tried Linux, part of their reluctance to change is due to the way X behaves and how it works (or doesn't work) with video and applications such as Netscape or RealPlayer.
Another advantage is the ability to port many of the nice-looking/functioning BeOS programs to run in Linux.
Someone mentioned it before, but take MacOSX as an example - they did it right: Use a powerful backend (BSD) and slap a much prettier interface on top. Joe Sixpack doesn't care or need to know what OS is actually running in the background as long as the interface is easy-to-use and clean (enough). As a developer new in the world of OS programming, it seems like Linux is a good choice for open source driver support and overall popularity of the operating system among open source developers.
Give me a good OS or give me WindowsXP! (read: death)
I didn't mean humans inherently choose random numbers, I simply meant they are capably of making random choices that do not follow a calculatable progression. Also, without thinking, a person is highly unlikly to choose the same sequence of 100 random numbers given the "same" test conditions of environment or whatever you might consider a 'seed'.
With computers, you can insert a 'seed value' and every time the computer generates 'random' numbers with the same seed value you can predict with 100% accuracy what the next number will be - it's not random. Some algorithms use external factors that are highly unlikely to be the same from one moment to the next (such as the number of milliseconds (or nanoseconds depending on your required granularity) that have passed since 1970. However, it's more likely to be able to re-create the precise conditions that a computer used to generated it's seed value than it is a human due to our much more complex brains. Think about the amount of different factors that can affect why we choose one number over another: something we just saw on TV, levels of chemicals in our brain, amount of oxygen we are receiving, seeming random neuron impluses triggering chain reactions leading to memories associated with one particular number, audio signals from sounds we hear that distract our thoughts temporarily, and so on.
I'm not saying humans don't do predicable things - that would be silly. Humans are VERY predicable. However, we have the capacity for unpredicability (what some people call insanity or irrational behavior or creative insight) and that is so complex that we cannot hope to accurately imitate it in computer A.I.
"More Human Than Human, that's our motto." - Eldon Tyrell
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More importantly than getting this to work over the Internet, is getting it to work at home first so you can put on a vest that plugs into the back of your computer and delivers blow-by-blow of arcade action (run MAME and kick some ass with Double Dragon or Virtua Fighter). The bandwidth necessary for a low enough latency to feel real should be more easily accomplished when connected locally.
Also, perhaps certain actions could be coded into a library of motions so instead of having the transmitter of the action over the Internet send the actual data for each sensor, they only send a command to execute the sense of being hit by a fist in location x,y(,z?). This may help reduce the necessary bandwidth for transmitting an action.
It's also possible that people may want to run XMAME and other such emulators on a monitor which has been rotated and placed inside a cabinet (or other display mount). While XMAME and other emulators may allow games to be rotated during emulation (usually one of the game's options), by allowing X to rotate the screen, it wouldn't depend on the emulated game to provide the rotation and it would provide consistancy among game orientations.
Oh, I forgot to put in the smileys :-D :-) ;-) :-P
I forgot some people are humor-impared...usually the ones who moderate.
Score: -1 billion Troll, Offtopic, Flamebait
I'm quite successful ever since I created Simone. She's the perfect date for geeks:
Main Entry: maser
Pronunciation: 'mA-z&r
Function: noun
Etymology: microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Date: 1955
: a device or object that emits coherent microwave radiation produced by the natural oscillations of atoms or molecules between energy levels
Won't work. Bruce Campbell is great, don't get me wrong. But if you've ever heard the radio show, books on tape, or watched the BBC miniseries made of the first two books, you'd realize that Bruce can't play the part because you really REALLY need to have someone with a British accent in the role(s). American actors just won't cut it for most of the roles in this film - much in the same manner that Harry Potter was filmed with an all-European cast.
If you wanted to change the name to something that's less gutteral, perhaps just calling it 'Vorbis' or "O.Vorbis" would be sufficiently velvety to virgin ears.
Understandably some of those posts are intended to be trolls and flamebait, but even those intentions in this topic are incredibly thoughtless and a sad indicator of the mentality of too many people in my generation.
This person's death was mourned in a fairly uncommon way and seems worthy of some attention and respect. At the same time, I'm not suggesting that death has to be completely serious and solemn -- I hope when I die my friends and family will hold a party in my honor with laughter and lots of food. But even in a light-hearted situation as that may be, thoughtless comments still do not have any place.
I feel sorry for those that feel this person has wasted his life simply because he found it easier to make friends online than in real life. Having had many online friendships, some still exist today, I can say from experience that I have not forgotten these individuals in as much as they revealed to me.
Certainly knowing someone in real life is more conducive to creating much stronger bonds among people, but it did say his sister and girlfriend were online in the middle of the heart, so that suggests he did indeed have some sort of life beyond the game.
And what about the (real) books:
A Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet
Internet for Dummies
When I built my system three years ago I bought the motherboard, cpu (AMD Athlon K7 - brand new at the time), memory, and case all from the same vendor (some place in Illinois that I can't remember). They were kind enough to assemble the CPU, motherboard, heatsink, fan, and memory for me before they sent it. Some places will preassemble the more difficult parts for you if you buy it all together.
oops...sorry about that
Thanks Big Blue!
Brought to you by the we-didn't-like-benefits-anyway-department
...and then you might get states like Wisconsin, New York, and Florida (all democratic if I remember correctly) to pass similar bills. The states you're going to have a tough time getting this legislation through include California, Texas, Washington, and other conservative states (I don't think California's conservative, but they are an exception because of Hollywood, the RIAA, and other such Internet/Media conglomerates based there).
First they voted a wrestler for governer, now they're passing an anti-spam bill - God Bless Minnesota!
In New York State, they've implemented a No-Call list for anyone who doesn't want to receive phone calls from telemarketers. It's free to the consumer and any telemarketing company that calls you once you're on the list can be fined in the thousands of dollars per call - all you need to record is the caller's name, their company, and the time of the call.
It's worked out great too! I signed up for it at the end of last year (December 2001) and they told me it takes up to two months to publish the list after which time I should receive no calls whatsoever (with a few specialized exceptions). Since about mid-January I haven't received any telemarketer calls at all and it's a relief. Now if the phone rings it's more likely than not someone I want to talk to or has actual business with me.
A list like this for Internet marketing would be wonderful! Just register all the email addresses you don't want spam to come to and if it does arrive, simply forward a copy to the enforcement agency to get on the spammer's case.
doesn't it feel good to pay less?
I'm orginally for Minnesota (first 18 years of my life) and lived in a small town of 2000 about 13 miles north of Rochester. Rochester is not a big city either (approx. 75,000) but it is quite hi-tech in its public library and Mayo Clinic.
In my hometown my parents have a DSL Internet connection offered by our local Phone and Cable Co. (one building off of Main St.) They also have digital cable (the only type of cable offered now after a switch last year). My father is employed by IBM as are many people in the Rochester, MN area.
The Mayo Clinic is also a very hi-tech organization that is constantly developing new medical technologies and software which helps them remain the world's best medical facility. (Why do you think Rochester, MN was voted the best place to live in America four times? Simple - more doctors per capida than anywhere else....plus fairly low crime and pollution.)
In the winter, I live in Minne-snow-ta
BonusMail(c) / MyPoints(c) is a service I signed up for a long time ago and is exactly what it sounds like you're describing. As a member, I fill out a survey of my interests and hobbies and they send me email advertisements that are targeted to me.
For simply reading each piece of email I get gives me 5 points of credit. Credits can be exchanged (after 1000) for goods and services such as gift certificates to resturants or discounts on airline tickets to name a couple.
There have been several other services like this in the past as well, but the major problem with these services is it only gets to those people willing to opt-in. Spam, on the other hand, gets to everyone regardless and that many more people are exposed to whatever the product is.
Do I agree with spam? Of course not, but I simply don't see companies voluntarily giving up their all-encompassing audience to a much smaller audience of opt-in members.
Click here to receive 5 points
I am some sort of god. Not THE God, but some sort of god.
Some may wonder how trolls can be revitalized in a mere day. Unlike normal human beings, trolls - once motivated - stick to their objectives of being loathsome firestarters. What better way to motivate them than to bore them out of their wits with no troll-worthy posts!
Ofodie, fun forever!
if this is the type of behaviour that exists in a typical IT geek gathering, no wonder no girls want to go to them
What impresses me so much about you is the fact that you're complaining about the supposed sexism of the editors while making broad (no pun intended) statements about what all other women think and like. I highly doubt you are their elected representitive, and if you are, you may consider hiring some PR people through which to do your male/CS geek relations.
I've got at least five female CS geek friends who play Netrek every Friday night on campus with a group of guys that range in size from 10 to 20 on a week-by-week basis.
The conversations carried on there are no better or worse than the postings on this board and believe me...the women in our group sometimes come up with the raunchiest comments/jokes of them all!
Moe: Call this an unfair generalization if you want, but old people are no good at everything.
Thank you sire (or should I say, Your Majesty). Proper grammer eludes me on occasion. :-)
It's been real, and it's been fun, but it hasn't all been really fun
If this BeOS GUI on the Linux kernel turns out to be all it's cracked up to be (at the least a better-looking, easier-to-code-for windowing system) then perhaps it may become more attractive to both GUI app developers and "mainstream" users alike.
I know from talking to friends and family who've tried Linux, part of their reluctance to change is due to the way X behaves and how it works (or doesn't work) with video and applications such as Netscape or RealPlayer.
Another advantage is the ability to port many of the nice-looking/functioning BeOS programs to run in Linux.
Someone mentioned it before, but take MacOSX as an example - they did it right: Use a powerful backend (BSD) and slap a much prettier interface on top. Joe Sixpack doesn't care or need to know what OS is actually running in the background as long as the interface is easy-to-use and clean (enough). As a developer new in the world of OS programming, it seems like Linux is a good choice for open source driver support and overall popularity of the operating system among open source developers.
Give me a good OS or give me WindowsXP! (read: death)
I didn't mean humans inherently choose random numbers, I simply meant they are capably of making random choices that do not follow a calculatable progression. Also, without thinking, a person is highly unlikly to choose the same sequence of 100 random numbers given the "same" test conditions of environment or whatever you might consider a 'seed'.
With computers, you can insert a 'seed value' and every time the computer generates 'random' numbers with the same seed value you can predict with 100% accuracy what the next number will be - it's not random. Some algorithms use external factors that are highly unlikely to be the same from one moment to the next (such as the number of milliseconds (or nanoseconds depending on your required granularity) that have passed since 1970. However, it's more likely to be able to re-create the precise conditions that a computer used to generated it's seed value than it is a human due to our much more complex brains. Think about the amount of different factors that can affect why we choose one number over another: something we just saw on TV, levels of chemicals in our brain, amount of oxygen we are receiving, seeming random neuron impluses triggering chain reactions leading to memories associated with one particular number, audio signals from sounds we hear that distract our thoughts temporarily, and so on.
I'm not saying humans don't do predicable things - that would be silly. Humans are VERY predicable. However, we have the capacity for unpredicability (what some people call insanity or irrational behavior or creative insight) and that is so complex that we cannot hope to accurately imitate it in computer A.I.
"More Human Than Human, that's our motto." - Eldon Tyrell
...with a manically depressed robot?
What are you supposed to do if you ARE a manically depressed robot?