I see your point, but if people don't build craptacular prototypes then we'll never get anything good. I'm sure the people that walked along with the flags in front of the first normal cars didn't think they would ever be able to do 250 MPH, or even a steady 60 for a few hours.
I don't know how it works in the US, but over here in the UK we have to pay a £100 per year TV lisence, which covers the so called "free" channels. You still have to pay this and the fees from the channel providers if you want more channels via cable/sattelite/carrier pidgeon.
if( SchroedingersCat == Dead ){ echo "Naughty physicist, you must have looked"; } else { echo "Well what's the point of the experiment if you don't see what happens?"; }
>This to me says you think it IS LOCATION NOT STUPIDITY, which you then claim the opposite in the next sentence.
No, I was saying that people in the UK (England, if you prefer;-) ) play violent games, and have the potential to be influenced just like people in the US but there are less shootings here because of gun laws. That's saying that both locations have people with the same mentality, therefore games from either place will be similar and Europe isn't some haven of peace, it's just harder to shoot people here.
This is all overgeneralising, us Europeans (i'm in the UK btw) play FPS games as well as the US, but the reason there are no high school shootings here is because you can't get guns.
I am 15, and play voilent and nonviolent games, yet I do not end up fighting with people. To be influenced by a game you have to be stupid (or at least highly impressionable), and if you can't distinguish real life from a virtual creation then you need help rather than censorship for all people under 18.
Hmm, most of you people seem to be thinking they're building some 15 metre behemoth that could acidentally take space mountain offline by stepping on it (well maybe not that big, but a T-Rex type thing)
I'm assuming it will be based on a small raptor, just a bit shorter than your average adult (human). It's big enough to give kids a shock, but small enough that the parents will realise it can't do any harm to them. It's more appealing, because it is made to entertain and it's got far less potential for causing damage. It's also alot easier to build something on that kind of scale.
If it was properly implemented on all OSs then (idealistically) all software could be developed to work on all platforms. If all software worked on whatever OS you liked then it wouldn't matter that only 3 other people on the planet used your OS of choice because it would still have the same range of software as windows.
I'm not entirely up on complex math, but they want to know if it has a reccurring pattern.
Just like 1/3 makes 0.3333etc. which reccurs after 1 digit, 1/7 makes 0.142857142857 which reccurs after 6 digits. Pi could reccur after, say, 1.5 trillion digits. I don't know why that would mean anything, but I'm sure it would be a big discovery;-)
This is easily the best demonstration i've ever seen. Fill a big glass measuring cylinder or beaker with water and enough indicator to make it noticably green, then drop some cubes of solid carbon dioxide in. It will bubble up through the green water, making it acidic as it goes, so the whole tube turns from green to yellow to red, and then when the bubbles hit the surfae you get streams of thick white gas streaming down the sides.
It looks like the "mad scientist" bit from any old monster movie.
I'm assuming it's full DVD quality if that's what it was recorded off. Even though the inbuilt screen may not be great, the data is still there ready to send to a better screen, provided that the data was taken off the original media at whatever quality you are looking for.
It's a full 4 light years to the next nearest star (proxima centuari IIRC) whereas 8 light minutes from the sun to earth. Although it's a fair distance past pluto, I'm guessing it's no more that a light hour, compared to 4 light years.
As far as text editors go, jEdit is by far the best IMO.
And as for browsers, although it's only 0.1, Phoenix is the best I've ever used, I only got it yesterday, after having mozilla and never quite feeling right, always using IE except for testing. However, I'm an instant convert, I'm in Phoenix as we speak, it hasn't had any noticible bugs and the tabs were the main reason I even considered Moz, so now I have 12 sites in 1 window, it's just mozilla with any annoyances taken out, i love it.
hmm, admittedly I did give up with SuSE after several non working installs that messed with my HD (and I'm a pretty experienced computer user) and returned to XP, but this will not be the case forever.
Firstly with the input of all the people all over the world working on it linux will get easier to use to the point of at least equalling windows in a year or maybe two at the most. As for stability, yes XP is stable, but we all know it's not as secure as linux, and with Wi-fi and always on broadband that's more important than ever.
Secondly price does make a difference, at least to me. I have XP because it came with the computer, but when I build my new system piece by piece (with an opteron processor) I do not intend to shell out £150+ for a 64bit recompile of an OS I already have. It'll cost me £20 at the most for a decent "beginning linux" book, and anything after basic groundwork I'm sure I can work out/ask one of the many linux communities.
And as for IE/Mozilla, the only thing I miss from IE is the middle click scrolling. Honestly, that's all, and tabbed browsing more than makes up for that loss.
Finally, yes office is good, but again its expensive, and again the new opensource products will be good, or at least adequate. If you really want to use office then there's Lindows too, which would also let you use progs such as photoshop.
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I see your point, but if people don't build craptacular prototypes then we'll never get anything good. I'm sure the people that walked along with the flags in front of the first normal cars didn't think they would ever be able to do 250 MPH, or even a steady 60 for a few hours.
Yes, this is why you tell them it was a routine upgrade, and you don't know what happened ;)
Coolermaster do them, there are plenty of coolermaster suppliers throughout the US and UK.
Look for the ACT-610 series.
Here's one I made earlier ;-)
I don't know how it works in the US, but over here in the UK we have to pay a £100 per year TV lisence, which covers the so called "free" channels. You still have to pay this and the fees from the channel providers if you want more channels via cable/sattelite/carrier pidgeon.
if( SchroedingersCat == Dead ){
echo "Naughty physicist, you must have looked";
} else {
echo "Well what's the point of the experiment if you don't see what happens?";
}
>This to me says you think it IS LOCATION NOT STUPIDITY, which you then claim the opposite in the next sentence.
;-) ) play violent games, and have the potential to be influenced just like people in the US but there are less shootings here because of gun laws. That's saying that both locations have people with the same mentality, therefore games from either place will be similar and Europe isn't some haven of peace, it's just harder to shoot people here.
No, I was saying that people in the UK (England, if you prefer
This is all overgeneralising, us Europeans (i'm in the UK btw) play FPS games as well as the US, but the reason there are no high school shootings here is because you can't get guns.
I am 15, and play voilent and nonviolent games, yet I do not end up fighting with people. To be influenced by a game you have to be stupid (or at least highly impressionable), and if you can't distinguish real life from a virtual creation then you need help rather than censorship for all people under 18.
Hmm, most of you people seem to be thinking they're building some 15 metre behemoth that could acidentally take space mountain offline by stepping on it (well maybe not that big, but a T-Rex type thing)
I'm assuming it will be based on a small raptor, just a bit shorter than your average adult (human). It's big enough to give kids a shock, but small enough that the parents will realise it can't do any harm to them. It's more appealing, because it is made to entertain and it's got far less potential for causing damage. It's also alot easier to build something on that kind of scale.
But the point of Java is to be cross platform.
If it was properly implemented on all OSs then (idealistically) all software could be developed to work on all platforms. If all software worked on whatever OS you liked then it wouldn't matter that only 3 other people on the planet used your OS of choice because it would still have the same range of software as windows.
Look over in the box. I wouldn't have considered bionic eyes as "consumer electronics" ;-)
Doesn't the turing test test for intelligence, not whether something is alive or not?
I'm not entirely up on complex math, but they want to know if it has a reccurring pattern.
;-)
Just like 1/3 makes 0.3333etc. which reccurs after 1 digit, 1/7 makes 0.142857142857 which reccurs after 6 digits. Pi could reccur after, say, 1.5 trillion digits. I don't know why that would mean anything, but I'm sure it would be a big discovery
It's a big MMORPG. IIRC someone killed themselves a while ago because of losing something on it, so I'm guessing it's pretty addictive.
Driving while browsing = Bad idea
Driving while listening to MP3s = Good idea
And you can always check your email when you get stuck in traffic.
I'm guessing they thought of that before pumping $x million into it.
There is bacteria in many things, yoghurt for example, but we don't worry about them escaping and making us ill.
This is easily the best demonstration i've ever seen. Fill a big glass measuring cylinder or beaker with water and enough indicator to make it noticably green, then drop some cubes of solid carbon dioxide in. It will bubble up through the green water, making it acidic as it goes, so the whole tube turns from green to yellow to red, and then when the bubbles hit the surfae you get streams of thick white gas streaming down the sides.
It looks like the "mad scientist" bit from any old monster movie.
Have you never heard of fair use? For all you know it could be a legally taken archive copy of a legally purchased DVD.
I'm assuming it's full DVD quality if that's what it was recorded off. Even though the inbuilt screen may not be great, the data is still there ready to send to a better screen, provided that the data was taken off the original media at whatever quality you are looking for.
But it renders pages the same as mozilla, so it's not creating more compatibility problems, it's giving the user choice.
What happened to sticking with The Guide and naming it Rupert :-)
It's a full 4 light years to the next nearest star (proxima centuari IIRC) whereas 8 light minutes from the sun to earth. Although it's a fair distance past pluto, I'm guessing it's no more that a light hour, compared to 4 light years.
As far as text editors go, jEdit is by far the best IMO.
And as for browsers, although it's only 0.1, Phoenix is the best I've ever used, I only got it yesterday, after having mozilla and never quite feeling right, always using IE except for testing. However, I'm an instant convert, I'm in Phoenix as we speak, it hasn't had any noticible bugs and the tabs were the main reason I even considered Moz, so now I have 12 sites in 1 window, it's just mozilla with any annoyances taken out, i love it.
hmm, admittedly I did give up with SuSE after several non working installs that messed with my HD (and I'm a pretty experienced computer user) and returned to XP, but this will not be the case forever.
Firstly with the input of all the people all over the world working on it linux will get easier to use to the point of at least equalling windows in a year or maybe two at the most. As for stability, yes XP is stable, but we all know it's not as secure as linux, and with Wi-fi and always on broadband that's more important than ever.
Secondly price does make a difference, at least to me. I have XP because it came with the computer, but when I build my new system piece by piece (with an opteron processor) I do not intend to shell out £150+ for a 64bit recompile of an OS I already have. It'll cost me £20 at the most for a decent "beginning linux" book, and anything after basic groundwork I'm sure I can work out/ask one of the many linux communities.
And as for IE/Mozilla, the only thing I miss from IE is the middle click scrolling. Honestly, that's all, and tabbed browsing more than makes up for that loss.
Finally, yes office is good, but again its expensive, and again the new opensource products will be good, or at least adequate. If you really want to use office then there's Lindows too, which would also let you use progs such as photoshop.