The folks at Connectix figured out how to emulate a PSX. I don't know how long it took, but Connectix Virtual Game station was really slick, before they got sued.
A lot of people are asking why or pointing out that the power supply is what really needs cooling. I feel I should point something out.
The whole point of consoles is that you shouldn't need to do bullshit like this. Clearly someone at Microsoft severely fucked up if people are finding it necessary to modify their XBox 360's just so they don't overheat. Once you start having to do all of that all you have is a cheap computer (not ever that cheap) that can't do all the other computer type things.
Failures to understand things like this will ensure that Microsoft never turns a profit in their gaming hardware division and why Nintendo will keep going. Nintendo provides me with an appliance that just works for what it was designed for.
This is of course not to say that doing stuff to consoles isn't fun or worthwhile. I thought the XBox to PC mods were a real hoot, but before this generation, no one has felt the need to mod just to make their hardware work properly (ancient consoles excluded).
So what happens when a couple doesn't pass? What happens for unexpected pregnancies? Forced abortion?
How about racists on the board that decides if a person is competent and failing all the black people? Then we get into a eugenics situation. No matter how you slice it, the restriction of reproduction is a minefield of potential abuse and disaster.
What we really need is to change society's perception. We are extremely overpopulated, and large families are doing more long-term damage to our planet than you suspect. However, some people still feel obligated to have children.
If you have thousands of dollars of disposable income and you need your penis enlarged, this is much safer than surgery.
In somewhat more seriousness, what happens is that people assume that a better camera will let them take better pictures. THey don't realize that the bottleneck is not the technology, but their creative power. They think that spending all that money will make them take better pictures.
Are there any license requirement for the transmit or transecive daughterboards?
The USRP is sold as test equipment, which has no licensing requirements. If you choose to use your USRP and daughterboards to transmit using an antenna, it is your responsibility to make sure that you are in compliance with all laws for the country, frequency, and power levels in which the device is used.
Well, to be fair, that's one of the things I hate most about MS Office, too.
OOo needs to stop trying to copy microsoft. It's a losing game, because only microsoft can be like microsoft. They need to be better than microsoft, and they can. Word is a horribly bloated kludge-fest. I see this same thing with a lot of open source projects, always trying to live up to windows, which isn't something a sane person would want to live up to. If you're going to copy the look, feel, and functionality of a piece of software, make it a good piece of software.
"Pornography is only art if you consider a picture of the virgin Mary painted in elephant dung to be art."
In Africa, there are many tribes whose livelihood depended on elephant dung. They would build their houses with it, and it moved into the realm of a holy substance. The concept behind the virgin Mary painted in elephant dung is the merging of two religious icons that clash horribly. It could be a commentary on missionary work. It's conceptual art, so the idea behind it is a very large part of the experience. Don't be so quick to judge.
The problem with a "proper source" is that scientific journals are not available online and cost a shitload to subscribe to. Also, I don't want to wade through a scientific article; I want the meat of it. Like many people, I can recognize the sensationalism.
You need to learn from your own statements. In the same paragraph you say that Half-Life was good for its time, but would receive low marks now; AND you say that you can't imagine anything being better than Half-Life 2, that it is the pinnacle of its genre.
Perhaps Half-Life 2 is really only good for its time? Maybe? This reminds me of the statement that everything has already been invented.
Your imagination has been stunted. Go outside; it's springtime and it's beautiful. There's is always more that you can do; there is always a way you can improve.
I'll admit, the genre is fairly stagnant right now and has been for quite a while; most of the improvements seem to be in the form of shinier water, more breakable objects, and sometimes even floating those objects in the water. However, this doesn't mean innovation won't come.
Innovation will come in the form of new ways to control the games and new ways to experience them. There will probably be a reaction against realism that will employ the massive graphics capabilities to fantastic ends. Eventually, computers will become powerful enough to more realistically respond to long-term choices that a player makes. Genres will converge.
Basically, if all goes well, you should be spitting on Half-Life 2 in a few years.
First of all, believe it or not, you really do have time to press the three extra buttons it requires to write out 'grenades'.
Now that we have that settled, you need to realize that counterstrike was never intended to be realistic. Anyone with half a brain who measures it against realism will be extremely disappointed. Of course, it doesn't have fantastic and absurd weaponry of most of the unrealistic first person shooter genre (Doom, Unreal, Quake), so people expect some semblance of realism out of it. It just just not there. The only first person shooter I can think of that I would call realistic is Ghost Recon, and the market rejected it for the most part.
Counterstrike is floating between the fantasy of Unreal Tournament 2k-whatever and a lot of people not being able to have fun if they can't play fast and loose, running around spraying bullets. I find that playing Ghost Recon involves sitting around and waiting a lot. Running around just gets you killed. I find it fun about twice in a year. (To be absolutely fair, I never find counterstrike fun; I prefer total unrealism to satisfy my ever-decreasing need for a first person shooter fix.)
Counterstrike is not a realistic game. Medal of Honor is not a realistic game. Call of Duty is not a realistic game.
Well, for me, I don't have a router than can do that. I don't think I should have to have a router that can do that. I shouldn't have to fight with my computer.
Everyday I get happier and happier than I don't have Windows.
Mathematics is (historically) the ultimate liberal art.
(taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts) In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprised two groups of studies: the trivium and the quadrivium. Studies in the trivium involved grammar, dialectic (logic), and rhetoric; and studies in the quadrivium involved arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. These liberal arts made up the core curriculum of the medieval universities. The term liberal in liberal arts is from the Latin word liberalis, meaning "appropriate for free men" (social and political elites), and they were contrasted with the servile arts. The liberal arts thus initially represented the kinds of skills and general knowledge needed by the elite echelon of society, whereas the servile arts represented specialized tradesman skills and knowledge needed by persons who were employed by the elite.
A liberal arts education basically the opposite of a vocational education. Computer science is much more of a vocational education than math. Likewise, engineering is much more of a vocational education than physics.
Your post seems to imply that the 'liberal arts' are just easy. This is simply not true. Today's liberal arts are considered to be History, Music, Philosophy, and some others. I sincerely doubt that you would find any of them as easy as you find whatever field you happen to be in. Your perception probably comes from your dealings with liberal artists, specifically with how many behave around technology. Just as you probably don't like thinking about how society affects music or (judging from your post) taking time to write beautifully, some people don't like taking time to learn about high level math, quantum physics, or computer programming. It has nothing to do with intelligence; it has to do with interest.
I suppose this post has wandered away from me, but it needs to be said. The liberal arts are not the pursuit of stupid people. There are some of course; but there are also many stupid people out there who go into information technology, get lots of service certifications, but fail to understand any underlying principles. The liberal arts and the vocational arts are just different kinds of fields.
Of course, your oldest computer probably consumes a lot of power for the meager computing power or storage space it provides. This hurts the planet in an entirely different way.
If he had so much "geek cred" why is the geekiest site on the internet ripping him apart?
I've read a stack of the comments (3 threshold) and so far most of them are things like 'the kid needs to learn to take a joke'. He clearly did not earn much geek cred or much sympathy. I bet most of the 'geeks' at his school went along with the ridicule, just glad it wasn't them. Highschoolers can be a really nasty subset of society, especially if their own status is threatened (assuming people felt they would be mocked for not mocking this kid).
Because they won't be able to advertise it working on a mac. Most people won't have Windows or know how to install it and will flood their tech support with questions and be furious when told they have to buy a new operating system and possibly reformat their hard drive. The only thing that would cause that would be for apple to include a VM solution so that windows apps could run inside OS X on a clean install. That's not gong to happen.
Here in Madison, WI the student movie theatre serves beer (by the pitcher if you want). They also have pizza, and the seats closer to the front have tables.
Tickets are also $5 for students.
The screen isn't as big, but a fun time can certainly be had.
(oop.ismad.com) If relativism were true, then truth would be relative so relativism's truth would be relative...
Just because some things are absolute doesn't mean everything is absolute. Just because some things are relative doesn't mean everything is relative.
For example, it is an absolute truth that the desk in front of me exists. This is universally verifiable by anyone who wants to make the trek to my residence. It is a relative truth that Coca-Cola tastes good. Some people like it; some people don't.
Your sig implies that these are mutually exclusive and is not even very clever about it.
My point is that this music isn't necessarily totally random. Even if their algorithm gave them all of their pitches in order, they still need to choose things like rhythm, register, dynamics, orchestration, and even if they want to use pitches in a melody or a sonority. Or perhaps they could do something interesting like cut it into segments and use them contrapuntally.
Perhaps the real lesson here is: listen before you judge.
Come to think of it, reality television isn't random either. The editors choose what footage to send out and things like that. I don't like reality television either. However, it's because it's mostly based on the enjoyment of the suffering of others. I tend not to get off on that.
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They made a movie from that, but it didn't stay true to its source material and had to cut a lot out.
The folks at Connectix figured out how to emulate a PSX. I don't know how long it took, but Connectix Virtual Game station was really slick, before they got sued.
A lot of people are asking why or pointing out that the power supply is what really needs cooling. I feel I should point something out.
The whole point of consoles is that you shouldn't need to do bullshit like this. Clearly someone at Microsoft severely fucked up if people are finding it necessary to modify their XBox 360's just so they don't overheat. Once you start having to do all of that all you have is a cheap computer (not ever that cheap) that can't do all the other computer type things.
Failures to understand things like this will ensure that Microsoft never turns a profit in their gaming hardware division and why Nintendo will keep going. Nintendo provides me with an appliance that just works for what it was designed for.
This is of course not to say that doing stuff to consoles isn't fun or worthwhile. I thought the XBox to PC mods were a real hoot, but before this generation, no one has felt the need to mod just to make their hardware work properly (ancient consoles excluded).
So what happens when a couple doesn't pass? What happens for unexpected pregnancies? Forced abortion?
How about racists on the board that decides if a person is competent and failing all the black people? Then we get into a eugenics situation. No matter how you slice it, the restriction of reproduction is a minefield of potential abuse and disaster.
What we really need is to change society's perception. We are extremely overpopulated, and large families are doing more long-term damage to our planet than you suspect. However, some people still feel obligated to have children.
If you have thousands of dollars of disposable income and you need your penis enlarged, this is much safer than surgery.
In somewhat more seriousness, what happens is that people assume that a better camera will let them take better pictures. THey don't realize that the bottleneck is not the technology, but their creative power. They think that spending all that money will make them take better pictures.
From their FAQ... http://www.ettus.com/faq.html
Are there any license requirement for the transmit or transecive daughterboards?
The USRP is sold as test equipment, which has no licensing requirements. If you choose to use your USRP and daughterboards to transmit using an antenna, it is your responsibility to make sure that you are in compliance with all laws for the country, frequency, and power levels in which the device is used.
Apple tends to underclock the GPUs so that they produce less heat.
Well, to be fair, that's one of the things I hate most about MS Office, too.
OOo needs to stop trying to copy microsoft. It's a losing game, because only microsoft can be like microsoft. They need to be better than microsoft, and they can. Word is a horribly bloated kludge-fest. I see this same thing with a lot of open source projects, always trying to live up to windows, which isn't something a sane person would want to live up to. If you're going to copy the look, feel, and functionality of a piece of software, make it a good piece of software.
"Pornography is only art if you consider a picture of the virgin Mary painted in elephant dung to be art."
In Africa, there are many tribes whose livelihood depended on elephant dung. They would build their houses with it, and it moved into the realm of a holy substance. The concept behind the virgin Mary painted in elephant dung is the merging of two religious icons that clash horribly. It could be a commentary on missionary work. It's conceptual art, so the idea behind it is a very large part of the experience. Don't be so quick to judge.
Check the Related Stories tab underneath the summary.
"How about using a proper source for this study?"
The problem with a "proper source" is that scientific journals are not available online and cost a shitload to subscribe to. Also, I don't want to wade through a scientific article; I want the meat of it. Like many people, I can recognize the sensationalism.
Because sex outdoors is more uncomfortable than sexy.
Microsoft doesn't need to advertise for people to want to work there. They have people lining up at the door to work there.
You need to learn from your own statements. In the same paragraph you say that Half-Life was good for its time, but would receive low marks now; AND you say that you can't imagine anything being better than Half-Life 2, that it is the pinnacle of its genre.
Perhaps Half-Life 2 is really only good for its time? Maybe? This reminds me of the statement that everything has already been invented.
Your imagination has been stunted. Go outside; it's springtime and it's beautiful. There's is always more that you can do; there is always a way you can improve.
I'll admit, the genre is fairly stagnant right now and has been for quite a while; most of the improvements seem to be in the form of shinier water, more breakable objects, and sometimes even floating those objects in the water. However, this doesn't mean innovation won't come.
Innovation will come in the form of new ways to control the games and new ways to experience them. There will probably be a reaction against realism that will employ the massive graphics capabilities to fantastic ends. Eventually, computers will become powerful enough to more realistically respond to long-term choices that a player makes. Genres will converge.
Basically, if all goes well, you should be spitting on Half-Life 2 in a few years.
First of all, believe it or not, you really do have time to press the three extra buttons it requires to write out 'grenades'.
Now that we have that settled, you need to realize that counterstrike was never intended to be realistic. Anyone with half a brain who measures it against realism will be extremely disappointed. Of course, it doesn't have fantastic and absurd weaponry of most of the unrealistic first person shooter genre (Doom, Unreal, Quake), so people expect some semblance of realism out of it. It just just not there. The only first person shooter I can think of that I would call realistic is Ghost Recon, and the market rejected it for the most part.
Counterstrike is floating between the fantasy of Unreal Tournament 2k-whatever and a lot of people not being able to have fun if they can't play fast and loose, running around spraying bullets. I find that playing Ghost Recon involves sitting around and waiting a lot. Running around just gets you killed. I find it fun about twice in a year. (To be absolutely fair, I never find counterstrike fun; I prefer total unrealism to satisfy my ever-decreasing need for a first person shooter fix.)
Counterstrike is not a realistic game. Medal of Honor is not a realistic game. Call of Duty is not a realistic game.
Well, for me, I don't have a router than can do that. I don't think I should have to have a router that can do that. I shouldn't have to fight with my computer.
Everyday I get happier and happier than I don't have Windows.
Mathematics is (historically) the ultimate liberal art.
(taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts)
In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprised two groups of studies: the trivium and the quadrivium. Studies in the trivium involved grammar, dialectic (logic), and rhetoric; and studies in the quadrivium involved arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. These liberal arts made up the core curriculum of the medieval universities. The term liberal in liberal arts is from the Latin word liberalis, meaning "appropriate for free men" (social and political elites), and they were contrasted with the servile arts. The liberal arts thus initially represented the kinds of skills and general knowledge needed by the elite echelon of society, whereas the servile arts represented specialized tradesman skills and knowledge needed by persons who were employed by the elite.
A liberal arts education basically the opposite of a vocational education. Computer science is much more of a vocational education than math. Likewise, engineering is much more of a vocational education than physics.
Your post seems to imply that the 'liberal arts' are just easy. This is simply not true. Today's liberal arts are considered to be History, Music, Philosophy, and some others. I sincerely doubt that you would find any of them as easy as you find whatever field you happen to be in. Your perception probably comes from your dealings with liberal artists, specifically with how many behave around technology. Just as you probably don't like thinking about how society affects music or (judging from your post) taking time to write beautifully, some people don't like taking time to learn about high level math, quantum physics, or computer programming. It has nothing to do with intelligence; it has to do with interest.
I suppose this post has wandered away from me, but it needs to be said. The liberal arts are not the pursuit of stupid people. There are some of course; but there are also many stupid people out there who go into information technology, get lots of service certifications, but fail to understand any underlying principles. The liberal arts and the vocational arts are just different kinds of fields.
You use 580W to light (and circulate air) one room!?
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
Try some compact florescent lightbulbs. And JUST USE ONE. You don't really need more to light a room well.
Of course, your oldest computer probably consumes a lot of power for the meager computing power or storage space it provides. This hurts the planet in an entirely different way.
Ok, tubby, think about it like this.
If he had so much "geek cred" why is the geekiest site on the internet ripping him apart?
I've read a stack of the comments (3 threshold) and so far most of them are things like 'the kid needs to learn to take a joke'. He clearly did not earn much geek cred or much sympathy. I bet most of the 'geeks' at his school went along with the ridicule, just glad it wasn't them. Highschoolers can be a really nasty subset of society, especially if their own status is threatened (assuming people felt they would be mocked for not mocking this kid).
Because they won't be able to advertise it working on a mac. Most people won't have Windows or know how to install it and will flood their tech support with questions and be furious when told they have to buy a new operating system and possibly reformat their hard drive. The only thing that would cause that would be for apple to include a VM solution so that windows apps could run inside OS X on a clean install. That's not gong to happen.
Here in Madison, WI the student movie theatre serves beer (by the pitcher if you want). They also have pizza, and the seats closer to the front have tables.
Tickets are also $5 for students.
The screen isn't as big, but a fun time can certainly be had.
(oop.ismad.com) If relativism were true, then truth would be relative so relativism's truth would be relative...
Just because some things are absolute doesn't mean everything is absolute. Just because some things are relative doesn't mean everything is relative.
For example, it is an absolute truth that the desk in front of me exists. This is universally verifiable by anyone who wants to make the trek to my residence. It is a relative truth that Coca-Cola tastes good. Some people like it; some people don't.
Your sig implies that these are mutually exclusive and is not even very clever about it.
Your signature is ironic.
I recommend you look at my other comment in this story here.
The continuation of a fine slashdot tradition...
My point is that this music isn't necessarily totally random. Even if their algorithm gave them all of their pitches in order, they still need to choose things like rhythm, register, dynamics, orchestration, and even if they want to use pitches in a melody or a sonority. Or perhaps they could do something interesting like cut it into segments and use them contrapuntally.
Perhaps the real lesson here is: listen before you judge.
Come to think of it, reality television isn't random either. The editors choose what footage to send out and things like that. I don't like reality television either. However, it's because it's mostly based on the enjoyment of the suffering of others. I tend not to get off on that.