Would it be possible to use optics to reduce the apparant size of a larger printout? Some sort of fixed lens device to project the image of the card onto the reader. Without seeing the actual specs of course, I have no idea if this could be done, the cardreader may have to reflect its own light, or the enlarged card could need a track or conveyor to make its image appear as a regular card.
There was a gameboy printer out at some point. I'll be REALLY impressed when somebody figures out how to get the GBA to print its own cards for itself...
You ever play FPS's? Picture the lag from the FPS while you're doing an intensive procedure like car repair or surgery, and imagine 300-400ms lag on the operation. Not a very cleanly done procedure. So no outsourcing yet, it has to be on roughly the same continent. Plus the robotics won't respond perfectly as a human hand does, the human operating the machine doesn't get tactile feedback, etc.
I had a Lv. 60 or so char. with around 500HP, 100 Str, and 100 acrobatics. This character could just take the landing. Took away 3/4 of his health, but oh well. If you cast a second scroll before hitting the ground, you can survive too, you'll have 1100 or so acrobatics, so you take no damage.
$20 a month per world for 1500 worlds is $30K per month. I don't think the market is there for the well of souls, there's only 10 or 20 people who can pay the monthly fee!
Yeah, eps0 is that factor of 10^-12. This is part of a calculation to find laser gain, but I didn't remember it exactly, and I think I still forgot a lambda squared term in there, and g(nu). This isn't arbitrarily chosen stuff, I've used this at least once before. You can also change a number from units set to units set if you keep in mind what the units are, multiplying a number by 1/6.25*10^18, for instance, turns eV into joules just as effectively as keeping everything in terms of variables and constants and multiplying by that factor.
As for keeping everything as integir multiples of some fundamental units, aren't there enough ****ing units out there already? How many mars probes crashing due to a conversion error do you need to have happen? Sure, I could define all the constants as just 1 'foo' unit, but keeping track of that unit would be a nightmare for actually using this formula.
Sure, I'll just leave behind 8*pi*e^(jpi/6) * (3*10^8)^3/(1.602*10^-19 * (1.5)^.5 *2^.5*(4pi*10^-12^2)) as my answer. Or I could just give you a number. It's all constants and variables, just a boatload of them together.
The plural of anecdote IS data. The plural must be of a significant enough size, e.g. 10k+. That's the definition of data, a set of measurements. One measurement is not the set, but the approximation becomes better as a larger subset of the set is used.
The solution to pollution is not dilution, eventually (if you continue polluting) you'll have lethal levels everywhere. The solution is reduction, reprocessing, and dilution. But you make a decent point for this 1-shot radioactive waste disposal. Now, I'd complain if we sent atomic batteries back throught the atmosphere every week, though.
Well, what are the current big sellers? Games where you're an expert marksman taking out aliens? A large scale military commander? A fireball flinging mage? I kind of fail those parallels in real life too, you know.
Your P4 uses what, >300W? This cluster has a peak load of 200W. Plus you can do more varieties of hardware interfacing at once. That's a reason to build this cluster, if you don't find that clustering things because you can to be a good enough reason.
Would be for the Gov't to be more aggressive with Sherman Antitrust. Have ICANN say 'Ok, we quit, you can have a monopoly on the internet. But since you're a monopoly now, you're 5 companies.' Have your stockholders put that in their pipe and smoke it. Then a valid way to take out your competition would be to give up. Think of how odd the economy would be.
For starters, don't send people. Send bots. And you can further refine things by making the bots out of a solid material. One solid block. Pressure can't compress what's already compressed. Finally, you just have to design the entire thing out of refractory materials. You can get (low performance, but acceptable) electronics, etc. that function in the 400-500 degree range.
You CAN fix the focus on an out of focus picture. You convert it into sinc functions, and re-interpret it mathematically to a properly focused image. The misplaced lens only acts as an analog spatial function, knowing the function, you can work backwards to the input light field.
With the right input function (which would require laser collimated light sent through a SLM such as an LCD screen to be a proper function) you can get a clear image out of a blurry eye. After determining the transfer function of the eye, it is then possible to make a very complicated lens that performs the analog inverse function of the blurry eye, and restore normal vision.
Good characterization (making those shades of grey) takes time. The player's time. So it becomes a tradeoff. To make a good story, you have to usually cut into the time you're actually playing the game (cut scenes, etc). At its forefront, the game is still the most important part. Otherwise you're just watching a movie. The key to all of this is finding some way to integrate the character development/story development into the game action itself.
Heat will probably be a problem. Since you're dealing with photonic crystals, a small change (a few angstroms) in size (heat related) will change the optical properties of the device dramatically. But light doesn't heat up materials quite as dramatically as rapidly switching MOSFETS. And you don't get waste tunneling currents at small sizes either. So you can make better device. However, you CAN'T actually overclock, you'll mess up the optical properties of the device severely if you switch to different frequencies (turning a diffraction pattern that indicates an OR into an AND, for instance).
Technology's main goal has always been to eliminate jobs. This is why 99% of us aren't toiling in fields at the moment. Sure, it puts a lot of people out of work, and we need free bread and circuses to keep 'em out of trouble, but do you really want a job doing what is in essence pointless busywork? Eventually a new problem will spring up that needs a lot of work thrown at it. At the very least, a morass of paperwork has started to mount, and there is never any end to red tape. Ever. So look for a job processing stupid bureaucratic garbage, no machine can ever figure out how to process it!
Some kind of specialized OS. If you can put an OS that minimizes or eliminates the swapfile, you can avoid burning out the card. Ram is becoming cheaper and bigger, after all. Or you could just use the thing like a slightly more reliable floppy disk drive.
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What of game function keys: Savestates, time control, menu, etc?
Would it be possible to use optics to reduce the apparant size of a larger printout? Some sort of fixed lens device to project the image of the card onto the reader. Without seeing the actual specs of course, I have no idea if this could be done, the cardreader may have to reflect its own light, or the enlarged card could need a track or conveyor to make its image appear as a regular card.
There was a gameboy printer out at some point. I'll be REALLY impressed when somebody figures out how to get the GBA to print its own cards for itself...
You ever play FPS's? Picture the lag from the FPS while you're doing an intensive procedure like car repair or surgery, and imagine 300-400ms lag on the operation. Not a very cleanly done procedure. So no outsourcing yet, it has to be on roughly the same continent. Plus the robotics won't respond perfectly as a human hand does, the human operating the machine doesn't get tactile feedback, etc.
I had a Lv. 60 or so char. with around 500HP, 100 Str, and 100 acrobatics. This character could just take the landing. Took away 3/4 of his health, but oh well. If you cast a second scroll before hitting the ground, you can survive too, you'll have 1100 or so acrobatics, so you take no damage.
$20 a month per world for 1500 worlds is $30K per month. I don't think the market is there for the well of souls, there's only 10 or 20 people who can pay the monthly fee!
(I of course know what you actually meant)
Yeah, eps0 is that factor of 10^-12. This is part of a calculation to find laser gain, but I didn't remember it exactly, and I think I still forgot a lambda squared term in there, and g(nu). This isn't arbitrarily chosen stuff, I've used this at least once before. You can also change a number from units set to units set if you keep in mind what the units are, multiplying a number by 1/6.25*10^18, for instance, turns eV into joules just as effectively as keeping everything in terms of variables and constants and multiplying by that factor.
As for keeping everything as integir multiples of some fundamental units, aren't there enough ****ing units out there already? How many mars probes crashing due to a conversion error do you need to have happen? Sure, I could define all the constants as just 1 'foo' unit, but keeping track of that unit would be a nightmare for actually using this formula.
Sure, I'll just leave behind 8*pi*e^(jpi/6) * (3*10^8)^3 /(1.602*10^-19 * (1.5)^.5 *2^.5*(4pi*10^-12^2)) as my answer. Or I could just give you a number. It's all constants and variables, just a boatload of them together.
The plural of anecdote IS data. The plural must be of a significant enough size, e.g. 10k+. That's the definition of data, a set of measurements. One measurement is not the set, but the approximation becomes better as a larger subset of the set is used.
The solution to pollution is not dilution, eventually (if you continue polluting) you'll have lethal levels everywhere. The solution is reduction, reprocessing, and dilution. But you make a decent point for this 1-shot radioactive waste disposal. Now, I'd complain if we sent atomic batteries back throught the atmosphere every week, though.
Well, what are the current big sellers? Games where you're an expert marksman taking out aliens? A large scale military commander? A fireball flinging mage? I kind of fail those parallels in real life too, you know.
Your P4 uses what, >300W? This cluster has a peak load of 200W. Plus you can do more varieties of hardware interfacing at once. That's a reason to build this cluster, if you don't find that clustering things because you can to be a good enough reason.
Would be for the Gov't to be more aggressive with Sherman Antitrust. Have ICANN say 'Ok, we quit, you can have a monopoly on the internet. But since you're a monopoly now, you're 5 companies.' Have your stockholders put that in their pipe and smoke it. Then a valid way to take out your competition would be to give up. Think of how odd the economy would be.
For starters, don't send people. Send bots. And you can further refine things by making the bots out of a solid material. One solid block. Pressure can't compress what's already compressed. Finally, you just have to design the entire thing out of refractory materials. You can get (low performance, but acceptable) electronics, etc. that function in the 400-500 degree range.
You CAN fix the focus on an out of focus picture. You convert it into sinc functions, and re-interpret it mathematically to a properly focused image. The misplaced lens only acts as an analog spatial function, knowing the function, you can work backwards to the input light field.
With the right input function (which would require laser collimated light sent through a SLM such as an LCD screen to be a proper function) you can get a clear image out of a blurry eye. After determining the transfer function of the eye, it is then possible to make a very complicated lens that performs the analog inverse function of the blurry eye, and restore normal vision.
Do human beings count as water filled objects? Keep them from cheaply tracking US, if we can distort the waves with our bodies.
Good characterization (making those shades of grey) takes time. The player's time. So it becomes a tradeoff. To make a good story, you have to usually cut into the time you're actually playing the game (cut scenes, etc). At its forefront, the game is still the most important part. Otherwise you're just watching a movie. The key to all of this is finding some way to integrate the character development/story development into the game action itself.
Heat will probably be a problem. Since you're dealing with photonic crystals, a small change (a few angstroms) in size (heat related) will change the optical properties of the device dramatically. But light doesn't heat up materials quite as dramatically as rapidly switching MOSFETS. And you don't get waste tunneling currents at small sizes either. So you can make better device. However, you CAN'T actually overclock, you'll mess up the optical properties of the device severely if you switch to different frequencies (turning a diffraction pattern that indicates an OR into an AND, for instance).
Technology's main goal has always been to eliminate jobs. This is why 99% of us aren't toiling in fields at the moment. Sure, it puts a lot of people out of work, and we need free bread and circuses to keep 'em out of trouble, but do you really want a job doing what is in essence pointless busywork? Eventually a new problem will spring up that needs a lot of work thrown at it. At the very least, a morass of paperwork has started to mount, and there is never any end to red tape. Ever. So look for a job processing stupid bureaucratic garbage, no machine can ever figure out how to process it!
Just the Nimbus 2000. Wait a minute...
"Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Yes, and don't forget to wipe your own memory clean when you're done."
Some kind of specialized OS. If you can put an OS that minimizes or eliminates the swapfile, you can avoid burning out the card. Ram is becoming cheaper and bigger, after all. Or you could just use the thing like a slightly more reliable floppy disk drive.
MMPVoting? I'd call it Vote-Vote Revolution. Keep practicing voting, and vote, and you can overthrow the government!
I really want to mod you as +1, Flamebait, but there's no option.
If you're willing to ignore the HF components of everything, then it is a digital world, or at least can be equivalently converted into one.