Information is best conveyed by text, in most cases.
A picture is worth a thousand words. And a picture next to a textual description is even more useful. Or so says I. There's a happy middle ground between fluff and befuddlement.
they have to filter the incoming data in realtime, keeping only the most interesting 1/millionth of it - and that data alone is a couple CDs/second worth of data. Lots o' bandwidth there...
Engineers at TRIUMF, Canada's national particle research facility, have been using in-house data acquisition cards to do the job. Their FastBus cards are an interesting experiment in home electronics, and they hope to put them into production for any use where large amounts of data need to be processed quickly.
In other news today, Wal-Mart just introduced its own in-house brand of wine. Customers, however, were confused; they didn't know whether to serve the red or the white with Kraft Dinner.
My friend once had to convert an entire telephone-billing application to run on Windows Terminal Server... because it only supports 256 colors. What a piece of crap.
Robots DO NOT take jobs from people in factories, they are there to free up the intelligent people from
the tedious and repetitive tasks normally done by labor
Well, in a capitalist society such as ours, that's not quite the case. If a new robot is introduced that can let one man do the work of 10, it would be great if the other nine could just kick back, take a break, tinker with some electronics (if that's their thing), and 'enhance their mentality'. But instead, they're going to be fired.
Robots may be able to replace the factory worker in performing repetitious labor, but the only people they "free" are the factory owners who don't have to pay human labor anymore.
its tech will be extremely dated. As PC Games go, it'll be left in the dust if MS doesn't release by April
Right, and that would be why Half-Life, which was released in the fall of 1998, is still the most popular online FPS game, beating out Quake III 22,000 to 4000.
It's not all about tech. Gameplay is important. And that's why Counter-Strike is the best FPS game ever made, and why Halo can still succeed *shudder* if MS decides to maximize their profit by hoarding it on the X-Box for a few months.
My first response was "Great, another way for those greedy bastards to make more money"... and that's my second response too. After I started reading about the lengths to which the IOC has gone to make sure that they get revenue for *anything* connected remotely with their games, I got a little cynical. They forced a 25-year old pizza parlor in Atlanta to change its name from "Olympic Pizza".... Grrr.
new sales are quickly tapering off. How they will entice people to buy new phones is becoming a big question."
How about realizing that since there are a finite amount of people, there is a finite amount of cell phones that can be sold? Or for that matter, that since we live on an isolated planet with finite resources, that our economy cannot keep growing forever?
Well, you could go into the Ideas Stock Market and check out Foresight Exchange, where you can put your money where your mouth is and invest in the possibility of life being found on Europa.
Dude, the first three (with the possible exception of The Empire Strikes Back) were awful films, hardly 'epics'. The reason I love them is because a) they were the first of their kind, and b) I grew up watching them. There's no way Lucas can lever those two merits this time around. His lukewarm directing, greedy marketing, and lousy scriptwriting is showing through in style.
It's a question of doing the job they signed up for - responsbily raising their children.... If they can't, then there is due process of law to intervene and possibly even take the kids away
When you were a teenager, did you tell your parents everything you did? Did you tell them about how you and your friends spraypainted someone's garage / blew up a firecracker in Mrs. Johnson's compost heap / almost broke into a car / smoked a joint at lunch hour? NO! Fuck no! And if your parents got inquisitive about what you were doing, you would have gotten very defensive and probably lied your way out. When I was a kid, my friends and I did lots of stuff, such as blowing up a 3" diameter pipe bomb at the local water reservoir, and I sure as hell didn't tell them at the time.
I guess my (not very well made) point is that I'm happier with parents not having to pry into every detail of their kids' lives. If the kids want to rent the games, they can ask their mom or dad to give the video store guy the A-OK. If it's no problem, then it's no problem. But it's one less thing your parents will be looking over your shoulder for.
Slashdot Mirror
Hear hear.
A very well-written paper on the touted benefits of GE.
A picture is worth a thousand words. And a picture next to a textual description is even more useful. Or so says I. There's a happy middle ground between fluff and befuddlement.
Cool, you mean I've been using NASA jargon all this time?
Engineers at TRIUMF, Canada's national particle research facility, have been using in-house data acquisition cards to do the job. Their FastBus cards are an interesting experiment in home electronics, and they hope to put them into production for any use where large amounts of data need to be processed quickly.
Should've voted Nader.
In other news today, Wal-Mart just introduced its own in-house brand of wine. Customers, however, were confused; they didn't know whether to serve the red or the white with Kraft Dinner.
... Film at 11.
(Sorry, I had to do it)
There's a game that comes with one of the earlier distributions of Slackware called "Wargames". When you go to run it, you get something like this:
>wargames
Wargames, by I.P. Freely
"Sometimes the only way to win is not to play at all."
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Just my two cents.
Fair enough, but a guy can hope, right?
Howza! Like it's been said before, Metamoderating's going to get some abuse later on today...
Well, in a capitalist society such as ours, that's not quite the case. If a new robot is introduced that can let one man do the work of 10, it would be great if the other nine could just kick back, take a break, tinker with some electronics (if that's their thing), and 'enhance their mentality'. But instead, they're going to be fired.
Robots may be able to replace the factory worker in performing repetitious labor, but the only people they "free" are the factory owners who don't have to pay human labor anymore.
Right, and that would be why Half-Life, which was released in the fall of 1998, is still the most popular online FPS game, beating out Quake III 22,000 to 4000.
It's not all about tech. Gameplay is important. And that's why Counter-Strike is the best FPS game ever made, and why Halo can still succeed *shudder* if MS decides to maximize their profit by hoarding it on the X-Box for a few months.
'Cause they're not.
My first response was "Great, another way for those greedy bastards to make more money"... and that's my second response too. After I started reading about the lengths to which the IOC has gone to make sure that they get revenue for *anything* connected remotely with their games, I got a little cynical. They forced a 25-year old pizza parlor in Atlanta to change its name from "Olympic Pizza".... Grrr.
How about realizing that since there are a finite amount of people, there is a finite amount of cell phones that can be sold? Or for that matter, that since we live on an isolated planet with finite resources, that our economy cannot keep growing forever?
Bloody economists.
Check out the claim here.
Though you've got a good point, my initial reaction is "Sure, so I can hate the government and not my parents!"
Give me links!
Just live in your happy world and watch football.
You should use BeOS if you want low audio latency.
Dude, the first three (with the possible exception of The Empire Strikes Back) were awful films, hardly 'epics'. The reason I love them is because a) they were the first of their kind, and b) I grew up watching them. There's no way Lucas can lever those two merits this time around. His lukewarm directing, greedy marketing, and lousy scriptwriting is showing through in style.
When you were a teenager, did you tell your parents everything you did? Did you tell them about how you and your friends spraypainted someone's garage / blew up a firecracker in Mrs. Johnson's compost heap / almost broke into a car / smoked a joint at lunch hour? NO! Fuck no! And if your parents got inquisitive about what you were doing, you would have gotten very defensive and probably lied your way out. When I was a kid, my friends and I did lots of stuff, such as blowing up a 3" diameter pipe bomb at the local water reservoir, and I sure as hell didn't tell them at the time.
I guess my (not very well made) point is that I'm happier with parents not having to pry into every detail of their kids' lives. If the kids want to rent the games, they can ask their mom or dad to give the video store guy the A-OK. If it's no problem, then it's no problem. But it's one less thing your parents will be looking over your shoulder for.
Both of which could be applied to Linux. Good point.