One thing that I've found is that the camera field of view makes a huge difference in whether I get motion sickness or not. A game programmer can set the "camera" to have a wide or narrow field of view, just like changing an actual camera lens. If the field of view approximates what you're used to, it removes one contributing factor to motion sickness. However, some programmers like to give their cameras a wider field of view, which increases your peripheral vision (Thief I and II and System Shock 2 both had a touch of this going, which is why I can only play them in limited doses). This is particularly apparent when turning, since objects on the periphery appear to move toward the center much faster than objects that are near the center move across the center (uneven optic flow).
Another factor is the closeness of the camera to walls, floors, and ceilings. If you're moving along really close to the ground, for example, the optic flow (the apparent motion of objects or patterns in your field of view) is increased, and that can contribute to motion sickness if the effect is not what you're used to in real life.
Also, any sort of gratuitous bobbing motion is a great way to induce motion sickness. Descent was a chief perpetrator of this back in the day.
If you want a good example of all of this stuff combined, try EverQuest. Get a levitate for your gnome character (low to the ground, while levitate induces a bobbing motion), get your character drunk (induces a weaving motion when going forward and greatly increases your camera's view angle), and move forward while turning. About ten seconds of that is enough to send me to the couch for a long rest.
As for trying to reduce motion sickness, here are some suggestions: Play in a well-lit room, and don't sit right up at the screen. This provides a stationary background to match your stationary inner ear. Turn off any sort of camera bob options, if possible. Don't watch other people play - their unexpected motions can have a detrimental effect. And finally, you might have luck playing in shorter doses.
Personally, I've found that a really high frame rate makes my motion sickness worse, but that may be because I'm used to playing games with a slower frame rate (15-20 fps).
A few years ago, I wanted to switch my service from Cingular to AT&T (this was about a year before the merger). It was just after LNP had arrived, and AT&T's online system was a bit screwy, so when they sent me my phone, it didn't work right. After a brief period of trying to sort things out with AT&T, I ended up deciding to cancel within the one-month grace period. As it turns out, due to their efforts to "fix" things, they created an extra account for me with an additional phone number, but didn't put any service plans on it.
For about a year afterwards, I received a bill every month, with no service plans listed, for $0.00. It also indicated that my payment was due immediately.
It permits separating the address space for running code from the address space for data, so you couldn't get it to run code in the RFID address space. It also makes it more difficult to overwrite the running code (since it's firmware and not software), even if the address spaces weren't kept separate, which would mean that after you crash the device and reboot it, the original software is running again.
It throws fits with shows like X-Files where half the show is in the dark. Mulder and Scully go into a dark room, and boom, it flags it as a commercial.
I've turned off the auto-skip, but I still let it flag the commercials. It's pretty easy to reach over and mash the Z key whenever a commercial starts.
Tribune Media Services, the folks who are providing the data to Schedules Direct, don't just provide TV listings. They also write show descriptions, which we've had access to so far through Zap2It, and which we'll continue to have access to under the new system.
In Las Vegas one time, just off the strip, I was standing at a corner waiting to cross the street. About half a minute had gone by since the light for cross traffic had turned red (I couldn't go yet because of the green turn arrow), when I hear BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP as this low-rider hoopty just blows through their red light. Wasn't even a little bit orange, and I'm pretty sure they didn't bother slowing down.
The company's president has been filling both the Wikipedia article on the company, and the article about himself, with adcruft for months now. Forgive me if I sound suspicious of the parent post.
The problem is, ask anybody on the street what symbol they associate with Johnson and Johnson, and 95% will say, "Beats the hell outta me." Ask some more people what they associate with {and show them the red cross symbol}, and probably over half will say the Red Cross, while almost none will say Johnson and Johnson (the outliers being employees in their legal department). Ask people what the symbol means, and most will give any of a variety of answers in the category of medicine, while almost none (those J&J lawyers again) will say Johnson and Johnson products.
The ARC could easily argue that J&J's trademark has become genericized, and if J&J continues to pursue the case, the ARC may be forced to do that. I don't think the ARC wants to have to do that, though, because the ICRC has at times been involved in trying to protect its own reserved use of the red cross symbol. I really don't see this case going to trial, because both sides have something to lose no matter what the outcome is.
I don't know how much they'll go along with the DRM-less part, but the music industry has been asking Steve Jobs for tiered pricing for a long time now.
Of course, the Apophis-level event is nothing to worry about. If we're faced with the Anubis-level event, however, our attempts to use a nuclear blast to destroy the asteroid will result in a cataclysmic solar-system-destroying detonation due to the large amount of naquadah in the asteroid's core.
That's not *entirely* true, though. The bill requires that the AG submit to the FISA court a set of procedures for determining whether a wiretap concerns people located outside the US, and those procedures have to be "in place" when the AG orders surveillance. In addition, if you happen to receive a directive from the AG ordering you to perform some action that fulfills such a surveillance order, you can file a petition with the FISA court to challenge the legality of the directive.
The opportunity for judicial review is minimal, but Lofgren overstates the matter by saying that there are no checks and balances at all.
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Ronald Reagan didn't understand why ballistic missiles couldn't return to base.
Well, they can, if you launch them just right.
You dug up an edit from 2004? Sounds like somebody needs more homework.
I have to admit, "Case West" is a new one on me, and I thought I'd heard every wrong name for the school ever used.
Ten percent of five minutes is thirty seconds, and most full songs are shorter than five minutes. I call fair use on that!
One thing that I've found is that the camera field of view makes a huge difference in whether I get motion sickness or not. A game programmer can set the "camera" to have a wide or narrow field of view, just like changing an actual camera lens. If the field of view approximates what you're used to, it removes one contributing factor to motion sickness. However, some programmers like to give their cameras a wider field of view, which increases your peripheral vision (Thief I and II and System Shock 2 both had a touch of this going, which is why I can only play them in limited doses). This is particularly apparent when turning, since objects on the periphery appear to move toward the center much faster than objects that are near the center move across the center (uneven optic flow).
Another factor is the closeness of the camera to walls, floors, and ceilings. If you're moving along really close to the ground, for example, the optic flow (the apparent motion of objects or patterns in your field of view) is increased, and that can contribute to motion sickness if the effect is not what you're used to in real life.
Also, any sort of gratuitous bobbing motion is a great way to induce motion sickness. Descent was a chief perpetrator of this back in the day.
If you want a good example of all of this stuff combined, try EverQuest. Get a levitate for your gnome character (low to the ground, while levitate induces a bobbing motion), get your character drunk (induces a weaving motion when going forward and greatly increases your camera's view angle), and move forward while turning. About ten seconds of that is enough to send me to the couch for a long rest.
As for trying to reduce motion sickness, here are some suggestions: Play in a well-lit room, and don't sit right up at the screen. This provides a stationary background to match your stationary inner ear. Turn off any sort of camera bob options, if possible. Don't watch other people play - their unexpected motions can have a detrimental effect. And finally, you might have luck playing in shorter doses.
Personally, I've found that a really high frame rate makes my motion sickness worse, but that may be because I'm used to playing games with a slower frame rate (15-20 fps).
A few years ago, I wanted to switch my service from Cingular to AT&T (this was about a year before the merger). It was just after LNP had arrived, and AT&T's online system was a bit screwy, so when they sent me my phone, it didn't work right. After a brief period of trying to sort things out with AT&T, I ended up deciding to cancel within the one-month grace period. As it turns out, due to their efforts to "fix" things, they created an extra account for me with an additional phone number, but didn't put any service plans on it.
For about a year afterwards, I received a bill every month, with no service plans listed, for $0.00. It also indicated that my payment was due immediately.
It permits separating the address space for running code from the address space for data, so you couldn't get it to run code in the RFID address space. It also makes it more difficult to overwrite the running code (since it's firmware and not software), even if the address spaces weren't kept separate, which would mean that after you crash the device and reboot it, the original software is running again.
One would hope that a reader would run from firmware, but you never know.
If they used Axel symmetry, it would fight crime, too.
I didn't RTFA but didn't they do the same thing on "The District"?
Indeed they did.
Rest in peace, Lynne Thigpen.
It throws fits with shows like X-Files where half the show is in the dark. Mulder and Scully go into a dark room, and boom, it flags it as a commercial.
I've turned off the auto-skip, but I still let it flag the commercials. It's pretty easy to reach over and mash the Z key whenever a commercial starts.
Tribune Media Services, the folks who are providing the data to Schedules Direct, don't just provide TV listings. They also write show descriptions, which we've had access to so far through Zap2It, and which we'll continue to have access to under the new system.
Passive laser restraint system?
In Las Vegas one time, just off the strip, I was standing at a corner waiting to cross the street. About half a minute had gone by since the light for cross traffic had turned red (I couldn't go yet because of the green turn arrow), when I hear BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP as this low-rider hoopty just blows through their red light. Wasn't even a little bit orange, and I'm pretty sure they didn't bother slowing down.
The company's president has been filling both the Wikipedia article on the company, and the article about himself, with adcruft for months now. Forgive me if I sound suspicious of the parent post.
Further a low blood sugar reaction may produce impairment results outwardly similar to driving drunk.
If you're impaired in such a way, you shouldn't be driving at all, whether it was caused by low blood sugar or high blood alcohol.
The problem is, ask anybody on the street what symbol they associate with Johnson and Johnson, and 95% will say, "Beats the hell outta me." Ask some more people what they associate with {and show them the red cross symbol}, and probably over half will say the Red Cross, while almost none will say Johnson and Johnson (the outliers being employees in their legal department). Ask people what the symbol means, and most will give any of a variety of answers in the category of medicine, while almost none (those J&J lawyers again) will say Johnson and Johnson products.
The ARC could easily argue that J&J's trademark has become genericized, and if J&J continues to pursue the case, the ARC may be forced to do that. I don't think the ARC wants to have to do that, though, because the ICRC has at times been involved in trying to protect its own reserved use of the red cross symbol. I really don't see this case going to trial, because both sides have something to lose no matter what the outcome is.
I don't know how much they'll go along with the DRM-less part, but the music industry has been asking Steve Jobs for tiered pricing for a long time now.
As they say, "Fast, cheap, and good. Pick any two."
Clicking the OpenSPARC.net link returned the message: "This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota"
America should be like an all-you-can-eat buffet
And I thought that was the problem here.
Of course, the Apophis-level event is nothing to worry about. If we're faced with the Anubis-level event, however, our attempts to use a nuclear blast to destroy the asteroid will result in a cataclysmic solar-system-destroying detonation due to the large amount of naquadah in the asteroid's core.
We'd better get to work on those hyperdrives!
Currently President SFB is threatening to veto the act in any case because it does not meet his crietria for lack of accountability.
Either "SFB" refers to someone other than the actual President of the United States, or you didn't bother reading TFA.
Nobody here's dumb enough to fall on your sword.
That's not *entirely* true, though. The bill requires that the AG submit to the FISA court a set of procedures for determining whether a wiretap concerns people located outside the US, and those procedures have to be "in place" when the AG orders surveillance. In addition, if you happen to receive a directive from the AG ordering you to perform some action that fulfills such a surveillance order, you can file a petition with the FISA court to challenge the legality of the directive.
The opportunity for judicial review is minimal, but Lofgren overstates the matter by saying that there are no checks and balances at all.