At my former job I used to create softwar for Polhemus sensors, which apparently use the same principle. Let me tell you that the wiimote is nothing close to these devices. The Wiimote really looked underwhelming : orientation is approximative, aiming is impossible, lag is big. Here is something using such sensors. The games are not on par top what Nintendo can produce, but try to accurately position a lightsaber in the hands of someone with the wiimote (everything is realtime in the video)
My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo... The things published in maintream newspapers about these subjects are not the kind of thing the government would like to hear. Sure, when the govt says something, newspaper publish it. But the information is not "the truth is X" but "the government said X"
Censorship is a subject of interest of Slashdot. It interests many people here, including myself. When Australia, US, France, Russia blocks a website of importance (or even a small website) for whatever reason, it is reported. What is gained by publicizing them is information. We know that if we go to China, Google won't yield trustworthy results about recent events concerning China. We know that Wikipedia, Wikinews or even Slashdot may be blocked. We know that Tor works to circumvent this. We know that the Chinese people is informed by biased media.
Why do you think that the whole security council of UN except USA wants Israel to stop its current attack ?
Palestinians used to have Yasser Arafat as a leader, a Peace Nobel Prize. Israel didn't want to negociate with him and played a big role in his death. There are a lot of things that are very hard to justify for Israel, which is a nation that is considered democratic, developed and that plays a role on the international scene. This is why many people try to pressure it. Saying that Israel does things that are incredibly wrong does not in any case says that the Hamas is right. But the Hamas is already considered as a terrorist organization, and condemned by almost every country in the world (including Arab countries).
NASA conducts an extremely detailed study into literally hundreds of architecture design alternatives known as the Exploration Systems Architecture Study. It is a fantastic report - read it here.
And for people who don't have time to read this 24MB pdf, here is the list of the members who redacted it. Feel free to find conflicting interests about these people. I used to think that Constellation was Griffin's little pet and that little people really had a say about the decision. I am now quite unsure. I think that getting a definite answer requires diving into both reports and checking their facts cautiously. It can easily take several weeks.
Google is one of the most frightening potential offender. Its strong reputation stems (partially) from the fact that it didn't abuse its position. Not saying it is sane or anything (don't use gmail!), but it is a fact.
Capacity is not the only characteristic that a manufacturer tries to maximize. If you have a 99.990% success rate at reading previously erased data, that is still one error every 10 kilobytes. Acceptable for recovery, not so much for everyday use.
I also suspect that such a mode is slower than regular reading.
Yes, I don't feel particularly old but I remember seeing these shutter glasses on GeForce 2. The contrast ratio was not awesome but it worked okay and was provided for free with the card. I wonder why it didn't succeed then. Maybe the lack of support in games. Here the novelty would come from the automatic mode that the driver provides, not from the old tech shutter glasses.
Yeah. Probably...
The scary scenario is just one breach of trust from your scenario. Apparently Best Buy then maes a database of consumer addresses which tracks their buys. Is that such a stretch to imagine that they have commercial deals to share this database ? What is to prevent them selling it ? Such a consumer database is worth gold.
Actually, I think that an unmodified hardware with a modified hardrive driver is able to retrieve data that was zeroed once with a good accuracy. The trick is to get the analogic value measured by the magnetic head instead of just 1 or 0. If you measure all zeroes as 0.001 and 0.100 values and ones as 0.9 and 0.999 values, it is not hard to guess what the previous value of each bit was.
I'm not a native English speaker so I can't be 100% sure but :
States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination
Is there an ambiguity about the fact that the bold parts refer all to the same things ?
Ah... I like the non-sensical questions but I prefer the semi-sensical ones ! Let me answer semi-sensically as well : According to simple mathematics, it will result in 3% of the jobs loss caused by Iraq war.
In the exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, States Parties to the Treaty shall be guided by the principle of co-operation and mutual assistance and shall conduct all their activities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, with due regard to the corresponding interests of all other States Parties to the Treaty. States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose.
The debate is already in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" novel : should we protect other planets from earth's lifeforms ? While it would be nice to find definite proofs in favor or against panspermia, I would tend to be in favor of as much contamination as possible, as early as possible. Terraformation will eventually be scheduled. The sooner we start, the better.
The article is its own proof : Because of its linux port, it got an article on Slashdot frontpage for a game that would otherwise go totally unnoticed !
This is a general long term goal. It serves as a compass to validate innovation put in Volvo cars. I, for one, salute this effort. The radar and auto-braker is just one small step toward this. In the future expect things like the car moving as to avoid incoming trucks, cars refusing to drive out of the road and down the cliff. Safe driving does not need to violate laws of physics. Accidents that would be completely unavoidable even with adequate technology are rare enough, even worldwide, so that Volvo's 2020 objective seems ambitious but plausible to me.
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At my former job I used to create softwar for Polhemus sensors, which apparently use the same principle. Let me tell you that the wiimote is nothing close to these devices. The Wiimote really looked underwhelming : orientation is approximative, aiming is impossible, lag is big. Here is something using such sensors. The games are not on par top what Nintendo can produce, but try to accurately position a lightsaber in the hands of someone with the wiimote (everything is realtime in the video)
My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo... The things published in maintream newspapers about these subjects are not the kind of thing the government would like to hear. Sure, when the govt says something, newspaper publish it. But the information is not "the truth is X" but "the government said X"
Time for the rest of the world to impose a solution of its own.
On behalf of who ? People at the both side of the battlefield elected their war-mongering leaders.
Censorship is a subject of interest of Slashdot. It interests many people here, including myself. When Australia, US, France, Russia blocks a website of importance (or even a small website) for whatever reason, it is reported. What is gained by publicizing them is information. We know that if we go to China, Google won't yield trustworthy results about recent events concerning China. We know that Wikipedia, Wikinews or even Slashdot may be blocked. We know that Tor works to circumvent this. We know that the Chinese people is informed by biased media.
Fortunately, the worse that can happen on Second Life is an attack of flying penises... The Second Life is far more forgiving than the first one.
Why do you think that the whole security council of UN except USA wants Israel to stop its current attack ?
Palestinians used to have Yasser Arafat as a leader, a Peace Nobel Prize. Israel didn't want to negociate with him and played a big role in his death. There are a lot of things that are very hard to justify for Israel, which is a nation that is considered democratic, developed and that plays a role on the international scene. This is why many people try to pressure it. Saying that Israel does things that are incredibly wrong does not in any case says that the Hamas is right. But the Hamas is already considered as a terrorist organization, and condemned by almost every country in the world (including Arab countries).
NASA conducts an extremely detailed study into literally hundreds of architecture design alternatives known as the Exploration Systems Architecture Study. It is a fantastic report - read it here.
And for people who don't have time to read this 24MB pdf, here is the list of the members who redacted it. Feel free to find conflicting interests about these people. I used to think that Constellation was Griffin's little pet and that little people really had a say about the decision. I am now quite unsure. I think that getting a definite answer requires diving into both reports and checking their facts cautiously. It can easily take several weeks.
Google is one of the most frightening potential offender. Its strong reputation stems (partially) from the fact that it didn't abuse its position. Not saying it is sane or anything (don't use gmail!), but it is a fact.
Ok, after research, I saw that this post of mine is complete bullshit. Mod it down to hell.
Can't we just call it genuine curiosity ?
Capacity is not the only characteristic that a manufacturer tries to maximize. If you have a 99.990% success rate at reading previously erased data, that is still one error every 10 kilobytes. Acceptable for recovery, not so much for everyday use.
I also suspect that such a mode is slower than regular reading.
Yes, I don't feel particularly old but I remember seeing these shutter glasses on GeForce 2. The contrast ratio was not awesome but it worked okay and was provided for free with the card. I wonder why it didn't succeed then. Maybe the lack of support in games. Here the novelty would come from the automatic mode that the driver provides, not from the old tech shutter glasses.
Yeah. Probably...
The scary scenario is just one breach of trust from your scenario. Apparently Best Buy then maes a database of consumer addresses which tracks their buys. Is that such a stretch to imagine that they have commercial deals to share this database ? What is to prevent them selling it ? Such a consumer database is worth gold.
Actually, I think that an unmodified hardware with a modified hardrive driver is able to retrieve data that was zeroed once with a good accuracy. The trick is to get the analogic value measured by the magnetic head instead of just 1 or 0. If you measure all zeroes as 0.001 and 0.100 values and ones as 0.9 and 0.999 values, it is not hard to guess what the previous value of each bit was.
States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination
Is there an ambiguity about the fact that the bold parts refer all to the same things ?
Amish people have a patent for that anyway
Ah... I like the non-sensical questions but I prefer the semi-sensical ones ! Let me answer semi-sensically as well : According to simple mathematics, it will result in 3% of the jobs loss caused by Iraq war.
Article IX
In the exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, States Parties to the Treaty shall be guided by the principle of co-operation and mutual assistance and shall conduct all their activities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, with due regard to the corresponding interests of all other States Parties to the Treaty. States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose.
The debate is already in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" novel : should we protect other planets from earth's lifeforms ? While it would be nice to find definite proofs in favor or against panspermia, I would tend to be in favor of as much contamination as possible, as early as possible. Terraformation will eventually be scheduled. The sooner we start, the better.
big industry players are reaching out to the indie scene to source talent.
Like it ever did. This is just a sign of the video game industry maturing.
Well, if DRMs are out, I see no good reasons to keep tis thing proprietary. The value is in the server, not the client...
The article is its own proof : Because of its linux port, it got an article on Slashdot frontpage for a game that would otherwise go totally unnoticed !
That makes one wonder how long it will remain legal to run a hard-to-hack PC or to install a clean OS once every OEM will be forced to put a backdoor.
"leave it the fuck alone and die in silence. This is nature's wisdom after all"
Sorry to feed the troll, but trolls are a part of nature, too...
This is a general long term goal. It serves as a compass to validate innovation put in Volvo cars. I, for one, salute this effort. The radar and auto-braker is just one small step toward this. In the future expect things like the car moving as to avoid incoming trucks, cars refusing to drive out of the road and down the cliff. Safe driving does not need to violate laws of physics. Accidents that would be completely unavoidable even with adequate technology are rare enough, even worldwide, so that Volvo's 2020 objective seems ambitious but plausible to me.
Because KDE on Windows is still not user-ready. Expect some interesting time after its completion.