not if the physical gesture is changing the amount of visible light that is behind the page by changing the distance between the page and the rest of the book.
The patent is clearly trying to mimic turning a real page.
It's a shame that MS and Sony seem to be investing all their efforts into jumping on a motion controller fad that's already fading fast (seriously, how many gamers have Wii's gathering dust in their closets already?).
You are funny. You don't seem to understand what corporations want, which is profit - aka sales
You do realize that game sales for the Wii make the PS3 and 360 look like a joke right?
Best selling game for PS3: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - 4.75m
360 - Halo3 - 8.1m
Wii - Wii Sports - 63.46m but ok that is *cheating* with a bundle, so how about Wii play - 27.38m but again bundled with a new controller... so Wii Fit - 22.61m but to be fair it came with hardware making the game cost about 2x as much as other games... ok so lets go to Mario Kart wii - 22.55m
Wiki citation, but yeah still even if the numbers are a bit different from the article, the point still stands.
This *fad* sure has generated a fuckload of sales, especially when compared to the "competition"
1 single McDonalds franchise throws away more food calories each day than many towns need. And that is not counting the food they serve, much of which gets thrown away.
Calories are calories, but not all of them are consumed
2 seconds out of one day to block all idle for the rest of eternity.
Click the "edit" icon on the "Idle" section of your sidebar, then click the "hide" button.
and capitalization is hardly one of them. Grammar trolling is the last bastion of the inept debater. I am sorry if I was the first one to tell you that.
Also of all the bad spelling and awkward sentences I write, this is the first time I have seen anyone "capitalization troll" ever. Bravo.
I really tend to agree with you about Sprawl vs Snowcrash on the literary side, however the same things that make Gibson's books better, make Snowcrash more suited for a popcorn blockbuster.
Welcome to Usenet! This is a mostly casual environment where the rules of grammar are often ignored. There is no need to format your posts as proper memos or formal letters, this is an open and informal discussion similar to speaking aloud.
The problem with Neuromancer is that a lot of the scenery and the backdrop itself is based on a pre-Tokyo exchange crash economy, in which everyone just assumed Japan would rule the world soon(ish). The whole feel of the story would be lost, I think now that the parts that could, have already come true, and the parts that haven't come true never will.
Snowcrash has a much better shot, since it pretty much assumed corporations (masquerading around as governments, churches, and media companies) will eventually take over everything. The backdrop still works.
Stephenson's Metaverse is a candied playground populated by everyone, ruled by the technological elite and the corporations who hire them, a safe place to which we see the very first danger unleashed. Gibson's cyberspace is a wild frontier rife with danger, populated exclusively by the technological elite cowboys, who risk life and sanity every day. In the modern real life, Internet access is pervasive and a wide audience will accept "OMG this thing we all do IS dangerous, people could get a computer virus!!!" but you will find a hard sell on "you know that cool web-surfing thing, well these guys nearly die doing it, and that is why they are badass, and Case, well, he almost dies a lot." huh???
even with a shitty cooling system 110 degrees and 5% humidity is nothing. When it is humid in tx/la/the swamp south, it never gets below 90, not even at 3am, that is real heat... It takes a real A/C system to remove it and maintain it when the water keeps conducting it back.
Even without climate control, in 110 degrees and low humidity, your sweat acts like a cooling mechanism, as in you sweat a little, it evaporates cooling you off. This evolutionary advantage is completely fucked by humidity. Sweat does not cool you off, in fact there is no natural way to cool off, even as I mentioned, waiting until dark barely nets any benefit.
I stand by my original statement that most people don't even know what hot is. So hot sweat stops working. Thankfully most people will not have to experience that.
Just let that be a lesson to you, when your corporate HQ moves to Dallas and you see that home prices are unbelievable, tell them to fuck off.
Obviously you have never been to Dallas in August.
15 minute stop light marathons coupled with 90 percent humidity and at least 50 days a year of 100+ degree weather... With my A/C on full blast in my 2004 Subaru, the interior of the car does not get below 80 degrees for the duration of my 45 mile commute during peak summer. The A/C is not defective, the climate is.
I have lived in California, and even on a 110 degree day, it is cool in the shade, and you can do ok just by rolling your window down.
Planning for this seems foolish, when STOPPING is the real problem, and turning off the motor is just a band-aid. Engineer the city in such a way that stopping at anywhere other than your destination is not necessary, or is extremely brief. How is that for an unrealistic solution, which would work for my region but not the rest of the country (since Texas is mostly flat, empty space, taking the space to design the cities for non-stop is realistic for TX but not CA)
My real point is that if the interval in which the car is stopped is so short that it doesn't matter if there is climate control, then it is short enough that it will not save any fuel anyway.
Since the U.S. does not have even close to homogeneous travel conditions or travel needs, a homogeneous "solution" to traffic wasting fuel is not even worth pursuing as anything along these lines with real value cannot be adopted nationally, and anything that is not adopted nationally will fail.
Stopping cars at the light isn't all that hard, but making it a good idea to stop them at the light is pretty far away.
The trivial problem of pre-loading the oil pump so that it does not do serious life limiting of your engine is a small detail that nobody seems to care about (because they don't know that starting and stopping conventional vehicles at every intersection is murder to the lubrication system, and therefore the entire engine.) Some cars do this (prius, some police cruisers) but most do not.
Much more, you have to re-engineer cars so that A/C is not dependent on the motor running.
Many people who live in places without shit weather have no idea about this (particularly California where "green" ideas that are wildly impractical seem to come from).
Are there places in the country where you can freeze to death if your car stops? yes. Are there places in the country where infants can die of heat stroke if your car stops? Yes. those places just don't happen to be in California/NY.
Heat and A/C are not about comfort, they are about survival, at least in many places in the country.
gotcha, the difference between me and I guess "target" audience is "special features" are a hindrance to my experience rather than the point of it. The only buttons I need 90% of the time are "Stop, Stop, Play" (common dvd player shortcut to start the effing movie). I buy movies, not shitty flash-ish remote control games, or actor/director fap-fests talking over my movie.
To me a DVD interface is just a stumbling block in front of watching my movie... Running a computer is one more step, load app, tell app I want to start movie, argue with menu to tell it I want to start the movie VS power on device and argue with it to start the movie.
your TV doesn't have VGA or component but it has HDMI?
I have been running a set top box for like 10 years, my most recent was $150 corporate reject machine off of overstock. I don't have cable or over the air, only really watch hulu, netflix instant, and whatever else I can stream or torrent. The cost of entry is really really low, much lower than $700. Although I still don't see the point of Blu-ray, I suppose the "convergence" of having the laptop play blu-ray disks probably seems nice, but I have never had a computer play DVDs in a way that was anything but more annoying than a cheap purpose built player, and you would have to work to get me to believe the same isn't true for blu-ray.
My business users did not think to ask IT when they selected a model of fax/scan/copier
It had really cool features like the ability to scan tons of documents all at once, then you go back to your computer and download them from a network share!! such a productivity booster!
So this nice $250k device, which they bought, with no security... which of course did not pass standard security audit...
Scanning confidential documents happens every day... and at the bank for which I work, we take it pretty seriously.
Even disabling the network interface wasn't enough, because users could *accidentally* scan/copy a document and set it to store, which could be accessed by non-permitted individuals. In the end they ended up taking a bath on the whole device.
yeah something combining android's manifest and blackberry's application permissions screen would be really nice... They each have half of the puzzle. BB lets you block permissions by application to certain functions (like gps, phone, etc) but it is not smart enough to know which of those things the app might try to do.
placebo has well documented effects. Homeopathic is just a more expensive placebo. For this reason, there will always be people "treating" serious problems alongside imaginary ones with placebo water.
also, the time has come for you to join The Samba The forums still move at a pretty good clip, and if there is something worth knowing, there are 10 people who know it.
We are welcoming to newcomers, and the (free)classifieds are decent if a bit less populated than they used to be.
please please don't buy anything but vanity items at JCWhitney. They don't know shit, and their "sizing" is wrong, and their parts often look the same but vastly jump around in quality from year to year. California Import Parts is much better Even Mid America is much better
it would be nice if I could just hook up a PC and configure the factory ECU.
Man, subarus have been so unbelievably hacked it is awesome.
Cobb Tuning has a product that lets you flash your factory ECU with whatever you want. I use their (possibly) defunct product "StreetTuner" which is basically the same thing except in real-time... All through the ODBII port
sure, I mean someone who is going to properly balance the suspension, keep stock weight and properly selected shocks on the back, etc etc isn't going to have wheel tuck... but someone who is used to driving a modern car or a first time hobbyist isn't going to fare well in a swing axle, unless they drive it with white gloves.
I always recommend IRS because it is easier to make/keep it safe.
In any modern VW shop, the weakest motor you can buy for cheap will probably have 30-40% more hores-power than was stock in a swing beetle, because rebuilding a dualport 1600 is cheaper than finding a case from the 3 year run of 1500s and building up an engine nobody wants.
The weakness of the swing is, in my opinion more significant in modern times than it was when they were new because 1)Drivers are different 2)Traffic is different 3)The engines are different ("better" than stock is default for a daily driver VW)
Anyone who knew what they were talking about (like you) would sneer and get a swing anyway (if that is what you wanted) but a newcomer would heed my advice and it would be good advice for him.
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not if the physical gesture is changing the amount of visible light that is behind the page by changing the distance between the page and the rest of the book.
The patent is clearly trying to mimic turning a real page.
It's a shame that MS and Sony seem to be investing all their efforts into jumping on a motion controller fad that's already fading fast (seriously, how many gamers have Wii's gathering dust in their closets already?).
You are funny. You don't seem to understand what corporations want, which is profit - aka sales
You do realize that game sales for the Wii make the PS3 and 360 look like a joke right?
Best selling game for PS3: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - 4.75m
360 - Halo3 - 8.1m
Wii - Wii Sports - 63.46m but ok that is *cheating* with a bundle, so how about Wii play - 27.38m but again bundled with a new controller... so Wii Fit - 22.61m but to be fair it came with hardware making the game cost about 2x as much as other games... ok so lets go to Mario Kart wii - 22.55m
Wiki citation, but yeah still even if the numbers are a bit different from the article, the point still stands.
This *fad* sure has generated a fuckload of sales, especially when compared to the "competition"
1 single McDonalds franchise throws away more food calories each day than many towns need. And that is not counting the food they serve, much of which gets thrown away.
Calories are calories, but not all of them are consumed
2 seconds out of one day to block all idle for the rest of eternity.
Click the "edit" icon on the "Idle" section of your sidebar, then click the "hide" button.
and capitalization is hardly one of them. Grammar trolling is the last bastion of the inept debater. I am sorry if I was the first one to tell you that.
Also of all the bad spelling and awkward sentences I write, this is the first time I have seen anyone "capitalization troll" ever. Bravo.
I really tend to agree with you about Sprawl vs Snowcrash on the literary side, however the same things that make Gibson's books better, make Snowcrash more suited for a popcorn blockbuster.
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It's a decent book, but only you realize it's a satirical parody of reality and the world is shaped by the two main characters viewpoints.
hi, my name is speculative fiction, have we met?
you have just described the goal of speculative fiction, and indeed most fiction in general.
The problem with Neuromancer is that a lot of the scenery and the backdrop itself is based on a pre-Tokyo exchange crash economy, in which everyone just assumed Japan would rule the world soon(ish). The whole feel of the story would be lost, I think now that the parts that could, have already come true, and the parts that haven't come true never will.
Snowcrash has a much better shot, since it pretty much assumed corporations (masquerading around as governments, churches, and media companies) will eventually take over everything. The backdrop still works.
Stephenson's Metaverse is a candied playground populated by everyone, ruled by the technological elite and the corporations who hire them, a safe place to which we see the very first danger unleashed. Gibson's cyberspace is a wild frontier rife with danger, populated exclusively by the technological elite cowboys, who risk life and sanity every day. In the modern real life, Internet access is pervasive and a wide audience will accept "OMG this thing we all do IS dangerous, people could get a computer virus!!!" but you will find a hard sell on "you know that cool web-surfing thing, well these guys nearly die doing it, and that is why they are badass, and Case, well, he almost dies a lot." huh???
Johnny was mentioned (by Molly). Placing the events of Neuromancer after the events of Johnny Mnemonic.
heat is ethereal without humidity.
even with a shitty cooling system 110 degrees and 5% humidity is nothing. When it is humid in tx/la/the swamp south, it never gets below 90, not even at 3am, that is real heat... It takes a real A/C system to remove it and maintain it when the water keeps conducting it back.
Even without climate control, in 110 degrees and low humidity, your sweat acts like a cooling mechanism, as in you sweat a little, it evaporates cooling you off. This evolutionary advantage is completely fucked by humidity. Sweat does not cool you off, in fact there is no natural way to cool off, even as I mentioned, waiting until dark barely nets any benefit.
I stand by my original statement that most people don't even know what hot is. So hot sweat stops working. Thankfully most people will not have to experience that.
Just let that be a lesson to you, when your corporate HQ moves to Dallas and you see that home prices are unbelievable, tell them to fuck off.
Obviously you have never been to Dallas in August.
15 minute stop light marathons coupled with 90 percent humidity and at least 50 days a year of 100+ degree weather... With my A/C on full blast in my 2004 Subaru, the interior of the car does not get below 80 degrees for the duration of my 45 mile commute during peak summer. The A/C is not defective, the climate is.
I have lived in California, and even on a 110 degree day, it is cool in the shade, and you can do ok just by rolling your window down.
Planning for this seems foolish, when STOPPING is the real problem, and turning off the motor is just a band-aid. Engineer the city in such a way that stopping at anywhere other than your destination is not necessary, or is extremely brief. How is that for an unrealistic solution, which would work for my region but not the rest of the country (since Texas is mostly flat, empty space, taking the space to design the cities for non-stop is realistic for TX but not CA)
My real point is that if the interval in which the car is stopped is so short that it doesn't matter if there is climate control, then it is short enough that it will not save any fuel anyway.
Since the U.S. does not have even close to homogeneous travel conditions or travel needs, a homogeneous "solution" to traffic wasting fuel is not even worth pursuing as anything along these lines with real value cannot be adopted nationally, and anything that is not adopted nationally will fail.
Stopping cars at the light isn't all that hard, but making it a good idea to stop them at the light is pretty far away. The trivial problem of pre-loading the oil pump so that it does not do serious life limiting of your engine is a small detail that nobody seems to care about (because they don't know that starting and stopping conventional vehicles at every intersection is murder to the lubrication system, and therefore the entire engine.) Some cars do this (prius, some police cruisers) but most do not.
Much more, you have to re-engineer cars so that A/C is not dependent on the motor running.
Many people who live in places without shit weather have no idea about this (particularly California where "green" ideas that are wildly impractical seem to come from).
Are there places in the country where you can freeze to death if your car stops? yes. Are there places in the country where infants can die of heat stroke if your car stops? Yes. those places just don't happen to be in California/NY.
Heat and A/C are not about comfort, they are about survival, at least in many places in the country.
gotcha, the difference between me and I guess "target" audience is "special features" are a hindrance to my experience rather than the point of it. The only buttons I need 90% of the time are "Stop, Stop, Play" (common dvd player shortcut to start the effing movie). I buy movies, not shitty flash-ish remote control games, or actor/director fap-fests talking over my movie.
To me a DVD interface is just a stumbling block in front of watching my movie... Running a computer is one more step, load app, tell app I want to start movie, argue with menu to tell it I want to start the movie VS power on device and argue with it to start the movie.
your TV doesn't have VGA or component but it has HDMI?
I have been running a set top box for like 10 years, my most recent was $150 corporate reject machine off of overstock. I don't have cable or over the air, only really watch hulu, netflix instant, and whatever else I can stream or torrent. The cost of entry is really really low, much lower than $700. Although I still don't see the point of Blu-ray, I suppose the "convergence" of having the laptop play blu-ray disks probably seems nice, but I have never had a computer play DVDs in a way that was anything but more annoying than a cheap purpose built player, and you would have to work to get me to believe the same isn't true for blu-ray.
My business users did not think to ask IT when they selected a model of fax/scan/copier
It had really cool features like the ability to scan tons of documents all at once, then you go back to your computer and download them from a network share!! such a productivity booster!
So this nice $250k device, which they bought, with no security... which of course did not pass standard security audit...
Scanning confidential documents happens every day... and at the bank for which I work, we take it pretty seriously.
Even disabling the network interface wasn't enough, because users could *accidentally* scan/copy a document and set it to store, which could be accessed by non-permitted individuals. In the end they ended up taking a bath on the whole device.
The point is, nobody can force an owner to crack open his vault and provide his original master of 1942's "The Movie Nobody Saw (c)"
even if copyright expired.
I thought they went out of business in the mid 1990s, haven't heard of them since.
yeah something combining android's manifest and blackberry's application permissions screen would be really nice... They each have half of the puzzle. BB lets you block permissions by application to certain functions (like gps, phone, etc) but it is not smart enough to know which of those things the app might try to do.
placebo has well documented effects. Homeopathic is just a more expensive placebo. For this reason, there will always be people "treating" serious problems alongside imaginary ones with placebo water.
If you are looking to read codes/reset codes then autozone will do it for free.. or sell you a scanner for 79.
but as has been said... if 99-199 is too much, then don't even think about trying to enter into this very expensive hobby.
even ultra low budget and open source solutions are more than $99, even if you build the ecu yourself like with older megasquirt systems
also, the time has come for you to join The Samba The forums still move at a pretty good clip, and if there is something worth knowing, there are 10 people who know it.
We are welcoming to newcomers, and the (free)classifieds are decent if a bit less populated than they used to be.
please please don't buy anything but vanity items at JCWhitney. They don't know shit, and their "sizing" is wrong, and their parts often look the same but vastly jump around in quality from year to year. California Import Parts is much better Even Mid America is much better
it would be nice if I could just hook up a PC and configure the factory ECU.
Man, subarus have been so unbelievably hacked it is awesome.
Cobb Tuning has a product that lets you flash your factory ECU with whatever you want. I use their (possibly) defunct product "StreetTuner" which is basically the same thing except in real-time... All through the ODBII port
sure, I mean someone who is going to properly balance the suspension, keep stock weight and properly selected shocks on the back, etc etc isn't going to have wheel tuck... but someone who is used to driving a modern car or a first time hobbyist isn't going to fare well in a swing axle, unless they drive it with white gloves.
I always recommend IRS because it is easier to make/keep it safe.
In any modern VW shop, the weakest motor you can buy for cheap will probably have 30-40% more hores-power than was stock in a swing beetle, because rebuilding a dualport 1600 is cheaper than finding a case from the 3 year run of 1500s and building up an engine nobody wants.
The weakness of the swing is, in my opinion more significant in modern times than it was when they were new because 1)Drivers are different
2)Traffic is different
3)The engines are different ("better" than stock is default for a daily driver VW)
Anyone who knew what they were talking about (like you) would sneer and get a swing anyway (if that is what you wanted) but a newcomer would heed my advice and it would be good advice for him.