When I was a child, I once visited a Hutterite colony in Manitoba. It was quite interesting to see how they live. I went with my father who is a religion professor and they basically gave us a tour of the colony. From the simple homes to the farms and domesticated animals it was quite fun. I played and ate with the Hutterite children in their mess hall (chicken and potatos). The kids were pleased when I produced some bubble gum that I had in my pocket. I'm sure Hutterite colonies are just as isolated as the Amish or Mennonites and would be good candidates for this type of research. Not exactly sure of how things have changed, or whether their view of technology differs much from the Amish or Mennonites, but they were clearly entirely self-sufficient.
You only had to read the headline to figure out that yahoo is NOT shutting down all the channels. This is not an assault on peoples rights, or an attempt to censor the internet. They're just not allowing users to create their own chat rooms anymore. Do you think the ops of any respected irc network would allow channels named #young_girls_for_older_guys?
You need to go online once for a couple of minutes to activate the game. Once you've done that you can play in offline mode for as long as you like, no internet required. There are advantages and disadvantages to Steam, I'm not going to get into them all now, but at least know the facts before making a rash decision.
Probably just the author's inexperience showing there. Cyan is a mix of green and blue, and to one who is not familiar with design or color theory it could be easily construed as just being blue.
You CAN play anywhere, with anyone. But how are you going to run a bot to play at the local casino, or with your friends? All online poker sites will take a percentage of the pot when you play for real money, that's standard.
Wouldn't an advanced civilization have developed a means of communication that can penetrate whatever disturbance would come from members of their civilization communicating while on aircraft?
I'm sure they would, if they were meaning to contact us. The mission behind SETI is, among other things, to search for radio waves that will be transmitted from any sufficiently advanced civilization as we know it. Just like on earth these radio waves will be broadcast from the planet whether the people on the planet like it or not. In the same vein our civilization could be detected by others thanks to the radio waves that we've been transmitting into space over the years. Yes your favorite 80's song from your college radio station is flying through space right now at the speed of light, perhaps it will be detected one day. So it's not a question of alien civilizations having an advanced means of communication, it's a question of being able to listen for radio waves that are quite likely being broadcast by alien planets.
The point is radio astronomy is an important part of astronomy and science and it would be very shortsighted to implement cell phones on planes with no regard to the effects it will have on astronomers.
There are also good reasons why cell phones should NOT be used on planes, namely the annoyance factor. Imagine a 14 hour flight next to a pre-teen talking to her friends about britney's latest outfit non stop.
Don't be sympathetic to Microsoft, they are just losing one round in their own game. To them it is just the cost of business. Be sympathetic when they take a stance against software patents and then this happens to them.
The reason it's 'a good thing' is because the more small companies, in some cases companies who are little more then patent whores, can successfully sue the big companies who actually have a say in government policy the better chance we have of reforming the patent system. If this ruling leads to more and more ridiculous rulings costing MS and other big companies millions upon millions of companies, hopefully it will get to the point where the people in power will be hit hard enough in the pocket book to finally have the motivation to change software patents.
I think the fact that you played UO, with terrible graphics by today's standards, has skewed your view on what is considered amazing graphics. WOW has a nice graphical style, but is hardly considered the cream of the crop for graphics. The fact that you consider WOW's graphics good enough exactly proves the author's point; these days most games have graphics that are good enough, the gameplay is what matters most.
GSO is a lot farther than LEO. The means to build such a billboard for GSO is not cost effective. Making one for LEO on the other hand is probably possible today.
You're completely missing the point. I don't care who it's submitted by, as long as what is submitted is interesting and provides the links to the original material in question. Despite what you might think, some online news sites do in fact write compelling, original articles that people enjoy reading. A Slashdot submission linking to news sites that give crappy summaries with links to the full meal deal, is just as distasteful as linking to a blog site that does the same. It doesn't matter who's doing the submitting, or what the site is.
I imagine the fact that you compared Wired to Roland's blog would be pretty insulting to the professionals who work at Wired and have put out some very interesting and original work throughout the years.
Yes but the point is, why link from a description to another description, to another description and on and on... If the guy just gave us the links to the news articles without his blog bullshit then he'd be a great poster. I don't need more crappy summaries thanks.
Seems like bullshit but perhaps if they incorporated this 3d display technology (as reported here) or at least have those screens on the market in a bundle with the console at launch there could be an outside chance Nintendo is this crazy. If those screens work well it could be an amazing experience, but many forces would be working against Nintendo even if they did adopt this 3D display technology. The commercialization of virtual interaction and 3d display? It certainly would fit the name of Revolution.
You know, life without telephones, roads, electricity is also completely feasible. That doesn't mean the government shouldn't fund these utilities for the good of the people.
I think it's a toss up between Mega Man 1 (Rock Man) or Mega Man 2. If memory serves me correctly, Mega Man 2 was released stateside before Rock Man. Otherwise I would say Rock Man deserves the 'genre defining' title. Both games are amazing though.
If you were to create a new category of 3D platform, then I think without question Mario64 would be the game that defined that genre.
We are against software patents. The reason this is a good thing is simple. Big companies have a lot of lobbying power with the government. The more big companies, like Microsoft, are getting screwed over by bullshit software patents (instead of just using them to screw others over) the more likely they will push for patent reform. If big companies, not just some open source junkies, are using their lobbying power to change software patents then it will be a lot easier to get the system changed.
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When I was a child, I once visited a Hutterite colony in Manitoba. It was quite interesting to see how they live. I went with my father who is a religion professor and they basically gave us a tour of the colony. From the simple homes to the farms and domesticated animals it was quite fun. I played and ate with the Hutterite children in their mess hall (chicken and potatos). The kids were pleased when I produced some bubble gum that I had in my pocket. I'm sure Hutterite colonies are just as isolated as the Amish or Mennonites and would be good candidates for this type of research. Not exactly sure of how things have changed, or whether their view of technology differs much from the Amish or Mennonites, but they were clearly entirely self-sufficient.
You only had to read the headline to figure out that yahoo is NOT shutting down all the channels. This is not an assault on peoples rights, or an attempt to censor the internet. They're just not allowing users to create their own chat rooms anymore. Do you think the ops of any respected irc network would allow channels named #young_girls_for_older_guys?
No, I think they were referring to Ebay's auction service, not paypal.
You need to go online once for a couple of minutes to activate the game. Once you've done that you can play in offline mode for as long as you like, no internet required. There are advantages and disadvantages to Steam, I'm not going to get into them all now, but at least know the facts before making a rash decision.
Probably just the author's inexperience showing there. Cyan is a mix of green and blue, and to one who is not familiar with design or color theory it could be easily construed as just being blue.
Here's what cyan looks like.
You CAN play anywhere, with anyone. But how are you going to run a bot to play at the local casino, or with your friends? All online poker sites will take a percentage of the pot when you play for real money, that's standard.
Because paying 50k for all their pirated copies of Windows is peanuts and it will likely allow them to get full support in the process.
I'm sure they would, if they were meaning to contact us. The mission behind SETI is, among other things, to search for radio waves that will be transmitted from any sufficiently advanced civilization as we know it. Just like on earth these radio waves will be broadcast from the planet whether the people on the planet like it or not. In the same vein our civilization could be detected by others thanks to the radio waves that we've been transmitting into space over the years. Yes your favorite 80's song from your college radio station is flying through space right now at the speed of light, perhaps it will be detected one day. So it's not a question of alien civilizations having an advanced means of communication, it's a question of being able to listen for radio waves that are quite likely being broadcast by alien planets.
The point is radio astronomy is an important part of astronomy and science and it would be very shortsighted to implement cell phones on planes with no regard to the effects it will have on astronomers.
There are also good reasons why cell phones should NOT be used on planes, namely the annoyance factor. Imagine a 14 hour flight next to a pre-teen talking to her friends about britney's latest outfit non stop.
Don't be sympathetic to Microsoft, they are just losing one round in their own game. To them it is just the cost of business. Be sympathetic when they take a stance against software patents and then this happens to them.
Wrong.
The reason it's 'a good thing' is because the more small companies, in some cases companies who are little more then patent whores, can successfully sue the big companies who actually have a say in government policy the better chance we have of reforming the patent system. If this ruling leads to more and more ridiculous rulings costing MS and other big companies millions upon millions of companies, hopefully it will get to the point where the people in power will be hit hard enough in the pocket book to finally have the motivation to change software patents.
I think the fact that you played UO, with terrible graphics by today's standards, has skewed your view on what is considered amazing graphics. WOW has a nice graphical style, but is hardly considered the cream of the crop for graphics. The fact that you consider WOW's graphics good enough exactly proves the author's point; these days most games have graphics that are good enough, the gameplay is what matters most.
I wonder how much he gets payed by Slashdot?
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GSO is a lot farther than LEO. The means to build such a billboard for GSO is not cost effective. Making one for LEO on the other hand is probably possible today.
Because they want to sell you that episode on DVD later.
Probably not much lower. But I'm sure MS would give it away for free if it meant keeping people locked in.
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You're completely missing the point. I don't care who it's submitted by, as long as what is submitted is interesting and provides the links to the original material in question. Despite what you might think, some online news sites do in fact write compelling, original articles that people enjoy reading. A Slashdot submission linking to news sites that give crappy summaries with links to the full meal deal, is just as distasteful as linking to a blog site that does the same. It doesn't matter who's doing the submitting, or what the site is. I imagine the fact that you compared Wired to Roland's blog would be pretty insulting to the professionals who work at Wired and have put out some very interesting and original work throughout the years.
If you had bothered to read the whole comment you would realize that the parent was making the same argument as you.
Yes but the point is, why link from a description to another description, to another description and on and on... If the guy just gave us the links to the news articles without his blog bullshit then he'd be a great poster. I don't need more crappy summaries thanks.
Seems like bullshit but perhaps if they incorporated this 3d display technology (as reported here) or at least have those screens on the market in a bundle with the console at launch there could be an outside chance Nintendo is this crazy. If those screens work well it could be an amazing experience, but many forces would be working against Nintendo even if they did adopt this 3D display technology. The commercialization of virtual interaction and 3d display? It certainly would fit the name of Revolution.
You know, life without telephones, roads, electricity is also completely feasible. That doesn't mean the government shouldn't fund these utilities for the good of the people.
I think it's a toss up between Mega Man 1 (Rock Man) or Mega Man 2. If memory serves me correctly, Mega Man 2 was released stateside before Rock Man. Otherwise I would say Rock Man deserves the 'genre defining' title. Both games are amazing though. If you were to create a new category of 3D platform, then I think without question Mario64 would be the game that defined that genre.
We are against software patents. The reason this is a good thing is simple. Big companies have a lot of lobbying power with the government. The more big companies, like Microsoft, are getting screwed over by bullshit software patents (instead of just using them to screw others over) the more likely they will push for patent reform. If big companies, not just some open source junkies, are using their lobbying power to change software patents then it will be a lot easier to get the system changed.