If you want to appeal to the masses, I suspect that the NESs and Dreamcasts aren't going to go very far. I'm not sure the teens will appreciate your love of classic gaming...
And one other cautionary note to add to the above and indeed the rest of this thread. Just because a comment is rated +3 or +4 or +5 doesn't mean the author has the faintest notion of business sense. Just because we are gamers doesn't mean we have any idea how to run a gaming centre. All we know is how to use one. Talk to somebody who really knows about financial matters and stuff. It would be madness of the highest order to trust your new business to the denizens of Slashdot.
5.3 teslas apparently. (A tesla is a relatively large unit of magnetic flux density.) By comparison the Earth's natural magnetic field, the one that makes your compass turn, is ~0.00005 teslas.
What I really don't want to see in this movie is an identical re-hash, opening in exactly the same way as the book, the TV series and the radio series, with exactly the same dialogue and jokes. There'd just be no point. The film should open on Ford Prefect waking up in the middle of the night and decoding the signal from the incoming Vogons, or Zaphod speeding across the oceans of Damogran towards Easter Island.
The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; figuratively, the potential or animating principle; the period of duration of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; collectively, that which is alive; animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy
In other news, IPv8, coming into use in 2013, will combine with nanotech computing advances to enable a user to have an individual IP address for every cell in his body. Human teleportation will then be reduced to the simple matter of pinging them all.
I've always wanted to make a pelican crossing where if you press the button repeatedly, the lights change more quickly. I wouldn't tell anybody, just come back in a few months' time and see how many people figured it out.
I was going to suggest that games designers simply place a genuine curse on the game, or allow the ghost of their dead cleaning lady to haunt all the cartridges they ship, or something.
What you're describing sounds very similar to this, which I agree is a great example of a game with LITERALLY only one button (not even a d-pad!) providing a great deal of entertainment. (Beat 1629.)
"WinTel Servers 10 times less expensive to operate than Linux Mainframe!"
Let's suppose a Linux Mainframe costs $x to operate. Then a WinTel Server costs ten times less than that to operate: in other words $10x less than a Linux Mainframe: in other words, -$9x...?
Out of interest, has anyone tried not directly coding Go AI but breeding genetic algorithms instead? Given the current shortfalls of Go AI it seems an attractive alternative to me.
I don't look on this as an American success or a NASA success, or, indeed, a European failure. This is a success for human space exploration, and hella cool at that. It's all just baby steps into outer space, but we're getting there, we're getting there.
...when is someone going to come up with a tidier solution around behind the console stack? What I want is a kind of wireless solution - you get a matched pair of modules, each at most one inch cubed; one plugs into the back of your console, the other into the back of your televison/switchbox/whatever. You get a set of these instead of a cable with every new console you buy, and can choose whatever of the many styles of output connector you want... and maybe you'd be able to tune them using a set of tiny digital switches (not an analogue dial of course)... and that way, there are NO WIRES AT ALL (except for power). Would it be so hard? You could even bring out the equivalent of ordinary SCART cables (or whatever) along those lines, and use them for your bog-standard television signal, or TV-to-VCR connections. It'd be amazing!
...in theory, yes, if we could travel faster than light then we could catch up with light emitted from Earth decades ago and see events which occurred at that time. This was a concept I first saw demonstrated in Patrick Moore's 1983 book Travellers In Space And Time, which I read cover to cover as a kid and taught me everything I knew about astronomy. But when you're getting closer and closer to finding the origins of Totality itself, who cares about the ruler of a country on an insignificant blue-green planet orbiting an unremarkable yellow star?
I use the Logitech MX700 cordless optical as well and I have to say it is a quality mouse for generally working on the computer.
However I'm not a gamer. I was of the impression that cordless mice, though immensely practical, were generally a bad idea in the gaming arena, because of the lower refresh rate - you'll get ~80Hz with a cordless mouse compared with ~200Hz for a corded one. Also, I've found that you can't really get pixel-perfect precision using the MX700 - this is evident just on the desktop.
Super Monkey Ball 1&2 on the GameCube both only require the use of the grey analogue pad. You may need something to brace the pad against, though - I tried playing one-handed once and having the pad flailing about makes detailed movements trickier. Some of the minigames work one-handed too... although you might have to headbutt the A button now and then. Did I also mention that they are fantastically good games?
On the PC, real-time strategy games like Age Of Empires should work using only the mouse IIRC. (If they don't, then they SHOULD.) Then there's Minesweeper, of course, but I'm sure the man in question won't be too impressed to hear that...
I don't know about the mechanics of an atomic clock but I do know that the length of a second is defined on the period of vibration of a caesium atom and so on. So if you're counting those vibrations accurately, then it doesn't matter how fast those vibrations are relative to the Earth's orbital velocity... you've got the correct time, by definition. (You mean.)
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If you want to appeal to the masses, I suspect that the NESs and Dreamcasts aren't going to go very far. I'm not sure the teens will appreciate your love of classic gaming...
And one other cautionary note to add to the above and indeed the rest of this thread. Just because a comment is rated +3 or +4 or +5 doesn't mean the author has the faintest notion of business sense. Just because we are gamers doesn't mean we have any idea how to run a gaming centre. All we know is how to use one. Talk to somebody who really knows about financial matters and stuff. It would be madness of the highest order to trust your new business to the denizens of Slashdot.
...just like most scientists' parents, in fact. *rimshot*
5.3 teslas apparently. (A tesla is a relatively large unit of magnetic flux density.) By comparison the Earth's natural magnetic field, the one that makes your compass turn, is ~0.00005 teslas.
I want Star Trek to happen, in its aspect of "everybody on Earth is really happy". I'm more interested in that than space and its wars.
More worrying to me is the notion that we will be exploring the "Cosmoose".
The dinosaurs didn't have hands!
It's a prison.
Wait, am I thinking of a State Pen.?
What I really don't want to see in this movie is an identical re-hash, opening in exactly the same way as the book, the TV series and the radio series, with exactly the same dialogue and jokes. There'd just be no point. The film should open on Ford Prefect waking up in the middle of the night and decoding the signal from the incoming Vogons, or Zaphod speeding across the oceans of Damogran towards Easter Island.
Was there anything else?
...or whether there will be whores.
4096 bits. Bring it on
In other news, IPv8, coming into use in 2013, will combine with nanotech computing advances to enable a user to have an individual IP address for every cell in his body. Human teleportation will then be reduced to the simple matter of pinging them all.
I've always wanted to make a pelican crossing where if you press the button repeatedly, the lights change more quickly. I wouldn't tell anybody, just come back in a few months' time and see how many people figured it out.
I was going to suggest that games designers simply place a genuine curse on the game, or allow the ghost of their dead cleaning lady to haunt all the cartridges they ship, or something.
What you're describing sounds very similar to this, which I agree is a great example of a game with LITERALLY only one button (not even a d-pad!) providing a great deal of entertainment. (Beat 1629.)
Let's suppose a Linux Mainframe costs $x to operate. Then a WinTel Server costs ten times less than that to operate: in other words $10x less than a Linux Mainframe: in other words, -$9x...?
Out of interest, has anyone tried not directly coding Go AI but breeding genetic algorithms instead? Given the current shortfalls of Go AI it seems an attractive alternative to me.
You can hum music. You can't hum graphics or gameplay.
I don't look on this as an American success or a NASA success, or, indeed, a European failure. This is a success for human space exploration, and hella cool at that. It's all just baby steps into outer space, but we're getting there, we're getting there.
So, where next? Europa?
We did get one message back from Beagle. "Probe yum yum... tastes like chicken. Send more probe"
...when is someone going to come up with a tidier solution around behind the console stack? What I want is a kind of wireless solution - you get a matched pair of modules, each at most one inch cubed; one plugs into the back of your console, the other into the back of your televison/switchbox/whatever. You get a set of these instead of a cable with every new console you buy, and can choose whatever of the many styles of output connector you want... and maybe you'd be able to tune them using a set of tiny digital switches (not an analogue dial of course)... and that way, there are NO WIRES AT ALL (except for power). Would it be so hard? You could even bring out the equivalent of ordinary SCART cables (or whatever) along those lines, and use them for your bog-standard television signal, or TV-to-VCR connections. It'd be amazing!
...in theory, yes, if we could travel faster than light then we could catch up with light emitted from Earth decades ago and see events which occurred at that time. This was a concept I first saw demonstrated in Patrick Moore's 1983 book Travellers In Space And Time, which I read cover to cover as a kid and taught me everything I knew about astronomy. But when you're getting closer and closer to finding the origins of Totality itself, who cares about the ruler of a country on an insignificant blue-green planet orbiting an unremarkable yellow star?
I use the Logitech MX700 cordless optical as well and I have to say it is a quality mouse for generally working on the computer.
However I'm not a gamer. I was of the impression that cordless mice, though immensely practical, were generally a bad idea in the gaming arena, because of the lower refresh rate - you'll get ~80Hz with a cordless mouse compared with ~200Hz for a corded one. Also, I've found that you can't really get pixel-perfect precision using the MX700 - this is evident just on the desktop.
Super Monkey Ball 1&2 on the GameCube both only require the use of the grey analogue pad. You may need something to brace the pad against, though - I tried playing one-handed once and having the pad flailing about makes detailed movements trickier. Some of the minigames work one-handed too... although you might have to headbutt the A button now and then. Did I also mention that they are fantastically good games?
On the PC, real-time strategy games like Age Of Empires should work using only the mouse IIRC. (If they don't, then they SHOULD.) Then there's Minesweeper, of course, but I'm sure the man in question won't be too impressed to hear that...
I don't know about the mechanics of an atomic clock but I do know that the length of a second is defined on the period of vibration of a caesium atom and so on. So if you're counting those vibrations accurately, then it doesn't matter how fast those vibrations are relative to the Earth's orbital velocity... you've got the correct time, by definition. (You mean .)