I think the Wiimote will be able to explode and keep working as it reconstitutes itself. You know. . . like the Terminator.
It wouldn't surprise me. Going by the level of excitement surrounding the thing I wouldn't be surprised if the wiimote will cure cancer, locate weapons of mass destruction and make the tea. I suspect the technology's so inhumanly cool that the moment I get hold of it the Welshmen In Black will turn up and confiscate it...
If it were just me, I could live in a cave, catching fish and growing turnips, as long as the cave had power and broadband.
Not a cave. It would have to be a house. And I'd spend a lot of time furnishing and decorating it, and occasionally taking out generous loans from the tanuki running the store down the road, in order to have it extended.
if they could make it so that on the outside you couldn't tell the diffrence.. and the weight of the ball was exactly the same as a regulation ball.. it would be good to track.. use it for a practice and dowload the data.. maybe be able to put timed markers to what play was when and then monitor the balls movement accross the feild.. do see mabey the avg speed of the runnrs or the normal play time for a play..
I don't know about putting it in the ball - it would mess up the weight and balance, even if you could build it tough enough to survive a match - but certainly such statistics are very useful. The top clubs in the English Premiership employ a system called ProZone, which tracks the motion of players on the pitch - and, presumably, the ball - for later analysis. For instance, the areas a player has covered, the mileage he's done, his position in relation to others, and so forth. Useful for spotting tactical flaws in your side, gaps in defence and so on, and also for training - say, for speed, or for endurance?
Apparently, the system's made an appearance in the latest Championship Manager game. Those guys are really, really obsessive:-)
I thought this was going to be a controller to survive gamer rage, which would be far more marketable.
This is going to be quite an issue for me in the near future. Hitherto all my controllers have been tethered to the console or computer, and have been held quite firmly in both hands, while making very small, fine finger movements. To throw such a controller requires a substantial state of rage. Now, however, I face the prospect of a controller held in one hand, untethered to any substantial solid object, while making comparatively large arm movements. It won't take anywhere near as much. Someone comes in through the door and distracts me at the crucial moment and some bastard Moblin skewers me? They're getting a wiimote right between the eyes, I tell you, and bloody hard too. And the wiimote had better be able to withstand high-velocity impact with an average human skull.
The sega genesis should have had this patent that 3 button controller is the most sturdy ever i gave my lil brother 3 concussions as a youth
Nah. The definitive badass controller is the NES Advantage. Huge. Heavy. Arcade-style tabletop joystick with a massive solid base, immense buttons and a proper old-skool stick. A glorious device in every way, certainly the only choice for the paranormal professional in the market for piloting major pieces of urban statuary around the place.
Liked how thin the Razr was? Well, seems this thing's EVEN THINNER.
I'm quite tempted, actually. If nothing else then by the battery life. I like my fancy 2-megapixel-camera, bluetooth, mp3-ringtone, video-messaging, Captain-Kirk-eat-your-heart-out ultraphone, but the battery doesn't last at all. If these are seriously inexpensive, it might be worth my buying one just in order to have something that I can take to a festival and not have to worry about the charge on.
Long before KOTOR, remember Fallout 2? Not only are there gay sexual encounters, there's actually the possibility of a gay wedding. In fact, a gay shotgun wedding. And, later on, a gay divorce.
Very few people want homosexual content in their games.
I point you in the direction of the multitude of patches for Baldur's Gate 2 that remove the gender restrictions on the romance subplots, and laugh in your face. Then I point you in the direction of Fallout 2, in which absolutely everybody in the game seems to be bi (at least for my 17-year-old female with high charisma and the Sex Appeal perk, anyway). And laugh in your face again. And I, for one, am always game for more of that sort of thing.
Perhaps your problem is that this is boy-on-boy? Well, I don't think you have to go around kissing the boys at school if you don't want to. You know how open-ended these games usually are. Just stick to the girls if you're feeling insecure.
Orbital positions belong to countries, and conceivably the owning country could apply its law to the infringing satellite.
Who allocates these, and on what grounds? I'd guess the only reasonable territorial claim would be by equatorial nations directly below the geostationary orbit. So, hang a geostationary server over the middle of the Atlantic, within sight of the eastern US and western Europe, but located above international waters. Who exactly owns that space?
... since upgrading by much the same means as you describe, Firefox won't play Flash content anymore. Works fine in Konqueror. Something to do with going to FF 2.0, I suppose. I'll puzzle it out soon enough, but it's hardly a show-stopper.
... right, so after Steam get Railroad, then Industrialization. Then build factories, factories, factories, and start churning out the cavalry and artillery units 50% faster than your neighbours. The rest writes itself...
Oh dear, citing the Daily Mail, are we? That's the right-wing equivalent of the Morning Star.
The Daily Mail, with their 'leaked account' of a 'secret meeting' - so secret it had been publicly streamed over the internet. Read about what actually went on if you like.
1) al-Jazeera shows news articles portraying the US and its allies negatively, e.g. by showing photos and video footage of American soldiers killing or torturing civilians.
2) This increases support for terrorism among their audience.
3) Therefore al-Jazeera is providing material support to terrorists.
4) Therefore al-Jazeera are all terrorists.
5) Therefore al-Jazeera are all unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield while fighting against American soldiers.
6) Therefore it's OK to ship 'em all to Guantanamo.
"the US.... is the only country to have used nuclear weapons and poison gases to kill thousands of people."
One correction here: several countries have used poison gas in warfare.
Now, come on. We're all geeks here, we know our Boolean logic. The statement was quite correct, although misleading. The US is indeed the only country to have used nuclear weapons AND poison gas. Many countries have used nuclear weapons OR poison gas, but that's a very different statement.
Did anything in it advocate the common ownership of the means of production? Or a centrally planned economy? Or high taxation of the rich to fund a comprehensive welfare state and public services?
Since Slashdot is a web-based news site and forum, and not a newsgroup, I have to ask: which newsgroup did you copy this post from, and who was the original author?
Easily dealt with, though. We've got a bunch of incompetents in a bunker in Cardiff, who keep gas-based aliens in cells with holes in the door, casually throw sharp tools at each other, misuse alien artefacts for seductive purposes, and order pizza from a local store in the name of their ultra-secret organisation. THEY'LL sort out those nasty Sycorax!
a video camera built into your glasses, with a wire that goes down into your pocket to the battery and 30GB hard drive. Hey presto, inside information that can be reviewed at a later date.
That, and a bowel disruptor, several drug habits, and two filthy assistants.
Darwin's problem: he needed millions/billions of years to account for speciation. During his lifetime, all evidence from other physical sciences indicated that the Sun could not have existed more than a few thousand years (this fit quite well with Biblical theology, btw).
Lord Kelvin's estimate was a few thousand years by chemical burning - which certainly fit with the traditional 4004 BC model - but it was already clear from geology that the Earth is far older than that. Kelvin was able to derive a solar lifetime in the millions of years, supplied by gravitational collapse. But it takes nuclear fusion to sustain a star into the billions of years, and as you say, nobody knew about nuclear physics at the time.
Contrariwise: Darwin's theory made no mention whatever of God, as he felt it unnecessary to postulate the involvement of such an entity. What more do you ask of atheistic evolution?
Absolute proof that the base laws of the universe are random rather than intelligently ordered, of course.
But that would be atheistic cosmology. Evolution says nothing about the laws of the universe; that's physics, not biology, and Darwin wasn't involved in that end of things at all.
It's evolution happening without the involvement of a god. That's the whole point. If you're going to allow for evolution 'helped over the jumps', in Dawkins' phrase, by some magician, then why bother at all?
Because it's a damned interesting engineering method; one that could prove highly useful in the sciences of Artificial Intelligence, biology, robotics, and maybe best of all, environmental cleanups.
An intellgently guided environment for mutations to live or die in is a highly powerful idea.
True, we could learn to apply the theory. Let us say, we create by genetic engineering some species or strain and set it to work, and use our understanding of evolution to predict its effect on the ecology. But that doesn't make much difference to evolution as an explanation of our origins. If we're reduced to postulating miraculous interventions, we're not doing science.
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The descent for a theistic evolutionist comes *after* the miraculous additions. Without the miraculous addition, there'd be no life because the Big Bang itself would have collapsed back in under it's own gravity and chaos. The descent Darwin wrote about happened at least 15 billion years later by what we now know- the physical laws that govern it were already in place by then, having been decided during that strange injection of information and energy during the Big Bang. When we figure that out (if we ever can) we will know the face of God that was the original reason for scientific research to begin with.
Ah, we've been at cross-purposes. What I understand by 'theistic evolution' is that evolution proceeds naturally, but that God intervenes from time to time to adjust its direction, like an alien with a Monolith, with some ultimate aim in mind. What you have there is something different, which I'd call 'deism': God rigs the universe at the outset, presses the detonator switch for the Big Bang, and then walks away. That's another issue entirely, all about the fine-tuning of universal constants and so forth, and I'd class it as part of cosmology, not evolution. It's something to take up with Einstein, not Darwin.
I've read parts of it and while microevolution has been proved, macro-evolution hasn't and that's where my problem comes in. Darwin said that eventually fossils would be found to back him up. It's been over 150 years and still no fossils showing a 'transitional' animal.
What do you mean by 'transitional'? If you mean, say, transitional between H. sapiens and H. habilis, I present to you H. erectus. Or on a larger scale, how about between dinosaurs and birds? I gather there's quite a lot been discovered in that lineage lately...
Or do you expect there to be somewhere a fossil that's half elephant and half jellyfish? If that's what you're after, I'd suggest you go back to the book and read all of it, because the theory of evolution predicts nothing of the sort.
(now if we could only get some theories of theistic evolution and atheistic evolution published online for comparison, since Darwin's version wasn't partial either way)
Contrariwise: Darwin's theory made no mention whatever of God, as he felt it unnecessary to postulate the involvement of such an entity. What more do you ask of atheistic evolution? It's evolution happening without the involvement of a god. That's the whole point. If you're going to allow for evolution 'helped over the jumps', in Dawkins' phrase, by some magician, then why bother at all? Why not have the magician create the universe last Thursday? It's just as scientific.
As Darwin wrote in a letter to Sir Charles Lyell,
"If I were convinced that I needed such additions to the theory of natural selection, I would reject it as rubbish... I would give nothing for the theory of natural selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent."
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It wouldn't surprise me. Going by the level of excitement surrounding the thing I wouldn't be surprised if the wiimote will cure cancer, locate weapons of mass destruction and make the tea. I suspect the technology's so inhumanly cool that the moment I get hold of it the Welshmen In Black will turn up and confiscate it...
Not a cave. It would have to be a house. And I'd spend a lot of time furnishing and decorating it, and occasionally taking out generous loans from the tanuki running the store down the road, in order to have it extended.
Then I'd go and hunt for fossils.
I don't know about putting it in the ball - it would mess up the weight and balance, even if you could build it tough enough to survive a match - but certainly such statistics are very useful. The top clubs in the English Premiership employ a system called ProZone, which tracks the motion of players on the pitch - and, presumably, the ball - for later analysis. For instance, the areas a player has covered, the mileage he's done, his position in relation to others, and so forth. Useful for spotting tactical flaws in your side, gaps in defence and so on, and also for training - say, for speed, or for endurance?
Apparently, the system's made an appearance in the latest Championship Manager game. Those guys are really, really obsessive :-)
This is going to be quite an issue for me in the near future. Hitherto all my controllers have been tethered to the console or computer, and have been held quite firmly in both hands, while making very small, fine finger movements. To throw such a controller requires a substantial state of rage. Now, however, I face the prospect of a controller held in one hand, untethered to any substantial solid object, while making comparatively large arm movements. It won't take anywhere near as much. Someone comes in through the door and distracts me at the crucial moment and some bastard Moblin skewers me? They're getting a wiimote right between the eyes, I tell you, and bloody hard too. And the wiimote had better be able to withstand high-velocity impact with an average human skull.
Nah. The definitive badass controller is the NES Advantage. Huge. Heavy. Arcade-style tabletop joystick with a massive solid base, immense buttons and a proper old-skool stick. A glorious device in every way, certainly the only choice for the paranormal professional in the market for piloting major pieces of urban statuary around the place.
Throwable? Sure, if you've a strong arm...
I'm quite tempted, actually. If nothing else then by the battery life. I like my fancy 2-megapixel-camera, bluetooth, mp3-ringtone, video-messaging, Captain-Kirk-eat-your-heart-out ultraphone, but the battery doesn't last at all. If these are seriously inexpensive, it might be worth my buying one just in order to have something that I can take to a festival and not have to worry about the charge on.
Long before KOTOR, remember Fallout 2? Not only are there gay sexual encounters, there's actually the possibility of a gay wedding. In fact, a gay shotgun wedding. And, later on, a gay divorce.
I point you in the direction of the multitude of patches for Baldur's Gate 2 that remove the gender restrictions on the romance subplots, and laugh in your face. Then I point you in the direction of Fallout 2, in which absolutely everybody in the game seems to be bi (at least for my 17-year-old female with high charisma and the Sex Appeal perk, anyway). And laugh in your face again. And I, for one, am always game for more of that sort of thing.
Perhaps your problem is that this is boy-on-boy? Well, I don't think you have to go around kissing the boys at school if you don't want to. You know how open-ended these games usually are. Just stick to the girls if you're feeling insecure.
Who allocates these, and on what grounds? I'd guess the only reasonable territorial claim would be by equatorial nations directly below the geostationary orbit. So, hang a geostationary server over the middle of the Atlantic, within sight of the eastern US and western Europe, but located above international waters. Who exactly owns that space?
... since upgrading by much the same means as you describe, Firefox won't play Flash content anymore. Works fine in Konqueror. Something to do with going to FF 2.0, I suppose. I'll puzzle it out soon enough, but it's hardly a show-stopper.
... right, so after Steam get Railroad, then Industrialization. Then build factories, factories, factories, and start churning out the cavalry and artillery units 50% faster than your neighbours. The rest writes itself...
"Peter Mandelson is certainly gay."
The Daily Mail, with their 'leaked account' of a 'secret meeting' - so secret it had been publicly streamed over the internet. Read about what actually went on if you like.
1) al-Jazeera shows news articles portraying the US and its allies negatively, e.g. by showing photos and video footage of American soldiers killing or torturing civilians.
2) This increases support for terrorism among their audience.
3) Therefore al-Jazeera is providing material support to terrorists.
4) Therefore al-Jazeera are all terrorists.
5) Therefore al-Jazeera are all unlawful combatants captured on the battlefield while fighting against American soldiers.
6) Therefore it's OK to ship 'em all to Guantanamo.
One correction here: several countries have used poison gas in warfare.
Now, come on. We're all geeks here, we know our Boolean logic. The statement was quite correct, although misleading. The US is indeed the only country to have used nuclear weapons AND poison gas. Many countries have used nuclear weapons OR poison gas, but that's a very different statement.
Did anything in it advocate the common ownership of the means of production? Or a centrally planned economy? Or high taxation of the rich to fund a comprehensive welfare state and public services?
Since Slashdot is a web-based news site and forum, and not a newsgroup, I have to ask: which newsgroup did you copy this post from, and who was the original author?
Easily dealt with, though. We've got a bunch of incompetents in a bunker in Cardiff, who keep gas-based aliens in cells with holes in the door, casually throw sharp tools at each other, misuse alien artefacts for seductive purposes, and order pizza from a local store in the name of their ultra-secret organisation. THEY'LL sort out those nasty Sycorax!
That, and a bowel disruptor, several drug habits, and two filthy assistants.
On which note, perhaps one should make a power battery to go with the ring, and make it into a bong...
Lord Kelvin's estimate was a few thousand years by chemical burning - which certainly fit with the traditional 4004 BC model - but it was already clear from geology that the Earth is far older than that. Kelvin was able to derive a solar lifetime in the millions of years, supplied by gravitational collapse. But it takes nuclear fusion to sustain a star into the billions of years, and as you say, nobody knew about nuclear physics at the time.
Kelvin's estimates
Absolute proof that the base laws of the universe are random rather than intelligently ordered, of course.
But that would be atheistic cosmology. Evolution says nothing about the laws of the universe; that's physics, not biology, and Darwin wasn't involved in that end of things at all.
It's evolution happening without the involvement of a god. That's the whole point. If you're going to allow for evolution 'helped over the jumps', in Dawkins' phrase, by some magician, then why bother at all?
Because it's a damned interesting engineering method; one that could prove highly useful in the sciences of Artificial Intelligence, biology, robotics, and maybe best of all, environmental cleanups.
An intellgently guided environment for mutations to live or die in is a highly powerful idea.
True, we could learn to apply the theory. Let us say, we create by genetic engineering some species or strain and set it to work, and use our understanding of evolution to predict its effect on the ecology. But that doesn't make much difference to evolution as an explanation of our origins. If we're reduced to postulating miraculous interventions, we're not doing science.
...
The descent for a theistic evolutionist comes *after* the miraculous additions. Without the miraculous addition, there'd be no life because the Big Bang itself would have collapsed back in under it's own gravity and chaos. The descent Darwin wrote about happened at least 15 billion years later by what we now know- the physical laws that govern it were already in place by then, having been decided during that strange injection of information and energy during the Big Bang. When we figure that out (if we ever can) we will know the face of God that was the original reason for scientific research to begin with.
Ah, we've been at cross-purposes. What I understand by 'theistic evolution' is that evolution proceeds naturally, but that God intervenes from time to time to adjust its direction, like an alien with a Monolith, with some ultimate aim in mind. What you have there is something different, which I'd call 'deism': God rigs the universe at the outset, presses the detonator switch for the Big Bang, and then walks away. That's another issue entirely, all about the fine-tuning of universal constants and so forth, and I'd class it as part of cosmology, not evolution. It's something to take up with Einstein, not Darwin.
What do you mean by 'transitional'? If you mean, say, transitional between H. sapiens and H. habilis, I present to you H. erectus. Or on a larger scale, how about between dinosaurs and birds? I gather there's quite a lot been discovered in that lineage lately...
Or do you expect there to be somewhere a fossil that's half elephant and half jellyfish? If that's what you're after, I'd suggest you go back to the book and read all of it, because the theory of evolution predicts nothing of the sort.
Contrariwise: Darwin's theory made no mention whatever of God, as he felt it unnecessary to postulate the involvement of such an entity. What more do you ask of atheistic evolution? It's evolution happening without the involvement of a god. That's the whole point. If you're going to allow for evolution 'helped over the jumps', in Dawkins' phrase, by some magician, then why bother at all? Why not have the magician create the universe last Thursday? It's just as scientific.
As Darwin wrote in a letter to Sir Charles Lyell,
"If I were convinced that I needed such additions to the theory of natural selection, I would reject it as rubbish ... I would give nothing for the theory of natural selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent."
(see Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p.249)
Please respond with generic evolution flame.
Blah blah blah, talkorigins.org.
Wow. Glad we've got that out of the way. We've spared this thread a good thousand posts now :-)