Rifles in the real world are more accurate than they are made to be in the games. For instance, IRL it's possible to hit a person-sized target at 300 meters with a simple M-16, while in a game, you'd be happy to do that at 100m, and might even need some optics to pull that off. So yeah, it's already hard to hit a moving target a at a long distance, there's no need to also have to fight an inferior input device while doing this.
Also, in any "realistic" game like Rainbow Six or SWAT two people bumping into each other at close range will almost instantly result in at least one corpse, not a prolonged gunfight. I'm sorry if that's not something your console allows you to experience, it's great fun and leads to very tense and exciting matches:D
In other words, some advertisers have not yet realized that they can pay per click instead of per view? Shouldn't we be encouraging them to get with the times, instead of changing our behavior to suit their inefficient advertising model?
Or maybe they discovered that there is value in having your product/brand visible to people, and understand that almost no one would instantly rush out to buy their stuff. Instead, once people know their offering, once they need something in that category, they would be more likely to pay attention to the product that they saw on a banner a month ago.
>For instance, we happen to know that doing activities like boxing relieves stress and results in a calmer state. [Citation needed]
Seriously dude, you ask for a source of the other poster's claim, and then in the very next sentence make a completely unsupported statement. Lets see those papers!
Hong Kong. Taiwan. Most of what we now consider to be the first world.
It sucks that children have to work, but that's not the worst option in underdeveloped countries. My grandfather had to start working at around 13, and that was in the worker's paradise that was the Soviet Union.
You present this as a positive thing rather than just a fact of life in these places, so disregard this if this wasn't your intention.
Some recycling isn't bad of course, but all those people do this mainly because they're really fucking poor, not because they share Al Gore's concerns. There aren't many homeless or very poor people in American suburbs, therefore nobody wants to waste their time picking up bottles and cans off the streets. I don't think young children being forced to do this is a good sign, either.
Then I guess you'd really like this masterpiece, made by a poster on somethingawful. Yeah, it's exactly what you think it is based on the domain, but it's also completely hilarious. I linked to the SFW version so it should be safe to view.
It's dynamically generated, so it's always up to date and works for all past strips. Even for somebody who occasionally enjoys reading xkcd, I'd say some of the strips are actually improved by this treatment.
While I'm not a spouse to anyone in a F-500 company, I myself work at one which would definitely be on the list if it were US-based. Vista has been rolled out partially, but there are still quite a few XP PCs left. And while the XP image comes with IE6 by default, users are able, and encouraged, to upgrade to IE7. As I said, Vista isn't everywhere yet, and from what I understand (I'm not in IT), further upgrades have been halted in favor of upgrading to Win7 directly.
I think this is a reasonable approach to take, especially when we started taking cost savings more seriously in light of the overall economic situation.
Most new devices with capacitative screens also support multitouch. Interpret touches with two fingers as mouse hover, and one finger as a click/click & hold, or vice versa, depending on what's more intuitive and better for accuracy. There, issue solved, no new hardware required.
Or switch to digitizing technology for the displays which support better resolution for pressure. Interpret light touches as mouse hover.
Not to mention that proximity detecting screens that Apple, of all companies, patented a while ago. Interpret fingers hovering close to display as mouse hover. Ta-da!
How so? The technology just wasn't there for a mass-marked product when this TV was being designed. It's had its run, and not it's time for it to retire. The only difference from the regular product lifecycle is that they don't have a follow up yet, but as far as I know Sony isn't abandoning OLED.
Damn, somehow I never thought about this. I'm well aware of the fact that different colors get dimmer at different rates, but of course this is also relevant for the more traditional burn-in problems. If most of the screen is taken up by a dark wallpaper and a bunch of terminal windows, the bright taskbar and other windows will burn out their pixes much faster. Maybe there has been some advance on this though, Samsung apparently plans to release and OLED-equipped laptop by the end of the year, so I guess we'll see how this works out.
In the meantime, it should be possible to just connect one of the TVs through HDMI or whatever digital input they support and see how that works. Anybody has an extra twenty benjamins to try this and report the experience?
Don't forget the main problem, that the 11" TV cost like $2000. It was the first commercially available OLED TV, a limited production tech demo basically. As you say, 11" is really small, that's about the size of my laptops's screen and I can't imagine many scenarios where watching it from further than say a meter away is a good idea.
OLED seems to be making good progress for in smaller devices, it was only recently that only a few Kodak cameras and and tiny MP3 players had OLED screens, but now they're many of the new phones as well. It seems that we're moving up in size, so hopefully we'll see further increases in screen dimensions. The article even mentions the upcoming 15" LG TV, and although at around two grand it's still too expensive, at least we're getting there size wise. In any case, screw TVs - I want OLED computer monitors, which are luckily very usable even once you get to around 20".
Yeah, that's not very impressive at all. Especially since I've used Pocket Artist on my WM PDA years ago, which is probably on the level of Photoshop 4 in terms of features, and actually supports PSD files. Here's video demo. The 3-day thing doesn't help either, the same could be certainly done in Visual Studio in the same time frame, if not faster.
The tritium keyrings look pretty cool! I'd love to order some, but does anyone have any experience with shipping these things internationally (into other EU countries, not necessarily to the US)? I'd imagine the "nucular" aspect makes it a pain in the ass to ship (or smuggle), but maybe I'm overestimating the paranoia.
Im sorry?? Amazons work in selling these e-books is next to nothing. I can have a online e-book shop set-up by tomorrow. And a author upload service on the next day. Then all thats left, is moving money back and forth! You must be kidding!
Why don't use then? You'd make a killing and save the poor Author's guild at the same time!
Definitely, I just don't see them letting the car drive up there without a map. It's difficult enough for human drivers to turn in competitive times without pace notes, but it's going to be even more difficult for a computer to deal with.
The most interesting part here, IMO, is seeing how the car deals with driving at racing speed vs the more leisurely pace of the previous AI challenge race, where, IIRC, the cars averaged below 30km/h. At those sorts of speeds the car just goes where the wheels are pointing (unless there's a huge rock in the way or something). This, as you say though, requires much more "feel" for the road conditions and understanding of the physics active at every moment.
Still, it's quite possible that the stock Audi electronics will take care of this, at the expense of not being very fast. Check out Tiff floor the accelerator in a Lambo on snow/ice surface with TC/ESP on and later without. He slides all over the place with the nannies off obviously, but that method is still much faster than with TC on.
Also, is this the corner you were talking about? It's not clear if it's a hairpin or whether the surface even changes, but the lack of pace notes or advance knowledge of the track results it many cars just flying off the road and into the bushes.
That's not too different from when the humans are driving, then. Lots of people of course still stand in the most retarded places possible, and occasionally pay for that dearly when somebody misses the braking point by a fraction of a second.
Yeah, the e/parking brake doesn't have nearly enough stopping power, my mom even managed to drive out on the highway with it engaged once. Not to mention that much hilarity will ensure if it does manage to lock up the rear wheels while on the road.
There was a problem between the steering wheel and the pedals. This is the NHTSA's official conclusion, and it's further confirmed by Canadian and Japanese agencies. One Swedish report stated that faulty cruise control could possibly lead to this condition, but there's no evidence that that was the case. Of course Audi had to install some bullshit measures, simply blaming the customers is hardly a good idea when they were getting hammered by hysterics similar to your post.
Recently, Porsche made most of its profits from various investment and other financial operations, if I remember the situation correctly. Also, I think their stake in VW was over 50% one point, but in the end it was VW that took over Porsche by getting them to sell some of their shares to Quatar. In any case, I don't see how this is relevant - obviously it's very possible to make profits selling luxury cars, did anyone actually question this?
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Rifles in the real world are more accurate than they are made to be in the games. For instance, IRL it's possible to hit a person-sized target at 300 meters with a simple M-16, while in a game, you'd be happy to do that at 100m, and might even need some optics to pull that off. So yeah, it's already hard to hit a moving target a at a long distance, there's no need to also have to fight an inferior input device while doing this.
Also, in any "realistic" game like Rainbow Six or SWAT two people bumping into each other at close range will almost instantly result in at least one corpse, not a prolonged gunfight. I'm sorry if that's not something your console allows you to experience, it's great fun and leads to very tense and exciting matches :D
Or maybe they discovered that there is value in having your product/brand visible to people, and understand that almost no one would instantly rush out to buy their stuff. Instead, once people know their offering, once they need something in that category, they would be more likely to pay attention to the product that they saw on a banner a month ago.
Well maybe not to you, Mr Stallman...
> Ya, executions do tend to keep the prisoner count low...
Are you talking about the US or the DPRNK?
They need to save the electricity to power the Dear Leader's mandatory unmutable radio broadcasts during the day.
>For instance, we happen to know that doing activities like boxing relieves stress and results in a calmer state.
[Citation needed]
Seriously dude, you ask for a source of the other poster's claim, and then in the very next sentence make a completely unsupported statement. Lets see those papers!
Hong Kong. Taiwan. Most of what we now consider to be the first world.
It sucks that children have to work, but that's not the worst option in underdeveloped countries. My grandfather had to start working at around 13, and that was in the worker's paradise that was the Soviet Union.
You present this as a positive thing rather than just a fact of life in these places, so disregard this if this wasn't your intention.
Some recycling isn't bad of course, but all those people do this mainly because they're really fucking poor, not because they share Al Gore's concerns. There aren't many homeless or very poor people in American suburbs, therefore nobody wants to waste their time picking up bottles and cans off the streets. I don't think young children being forced to do this is a good sign, either.
Then I guess you'd really like this masterpiece, made by a poster on somethingawful. Yeah, it's exactly what you think it is based on the domain, but it's also completely hilarious. I linked to the SFW version so it should be safe to view.
It's dynamically generated, so it's always up to date and works for all past strips. Even for somebody who occasionally enjoys reading xkcd, I'd say some of the strips are actually improved by this treatment.
If Microsoft decided to sue people for spreading false information about their products, slashdot would be really in trouble!
While I'm not a spouse to anyone in a F-500 company, I myself work at one which would definitely be on the list if it were US-based. Vista has been rolled out partially, but there are still quite a few XP PCs left. And while the XP image comes with IE6 by default, users are able, and encouraged, to upgrade to IE7. As I said, Vista isn't everywhere yet, and from what I understand (I'm not in IT), further upgrades have been halted in favor of upgrading to Win7 directly.
I think this is a reasonable approach to take, especially when we started taking cost savings more seriously in light of the overall economic situation.
Most new devices with capacitative screens also support multitouch. Interpret touches with two fingers as mouse hover, and one finger as a click/click & hold, or vice versa, depending on what's more intuitive and better for accuracy. There, issue solved, no new hardware required.
Or switch to digitizing technology for the displays which support better resolution for pressure. Interpret light touches as mouse hover.
Not to mention that proximity detecting screens that Apple, of all companies, patented a while ago. Interpret fingers hovering close to display as mouse hover. Ta-da!
How so? The technology just wasn't there for a mass-marked product when this TV was being designed. It's had its run, and not it's time for it to retire. The only difference from the regular product lifecycle is that they don't have a follow up yet, but as far as I know Sony isn't abandoning OLED.
Damn, somehow I never thought about this. I'm well aware of the fact that different colors get dimmer at different rates, but of course this is also relevant for the more traditional burn-in problems. If most of the screen is taken up by a dark wallpaper and a bunch of terminal windows, the bright taskbar and other windows will burn out their pixes much faster. Maybe there has been some advance on this though, Samsung apparently plans to release and OLED-equipped laptop by the end of the year, so I guess we'll see how this works out.
In the meantime, it should be possible to just connect one of the TVs through HDMI or whatever digital input they support and see how that works. Anybody has an extra twenty benjamins to try this and report the experience?
Don't forget the main problem, that the 11" TV cost like $2000. It was the first commercially available OLED TV, a limited production tech demo basically. As you say, 11" is really small, that's about the size of my laptops's screen and I can't imagine many scenarios where watching it from further than say a meter away is a good idea.
OLED seems to be making good progress for in smaller devices, it was only recently that only a few Kodak cameras and and tiny MP3 players had OLED screens, but now they're many of the new phones as well. It seems that we're moving up in size, so hopefully we'll see further increases in screen dimensions. The article even mentions the upcoming 15" LG TV, and although at around two grand it's still too expensive, at least we're getting there size wise. In any case, screw TVs - I want OLED computer monitors, which are luckily very usable even once you get to around 20".
Yeah, that's not very impressive at all. Especially since I've used Pocket Artist on my WM PDA years ago, which is probably on the level of Photoshop 4 in terms of features, and actually supports PSD files. Here's video demo. The 3-day thing doesn't help either, the same could be certainly done in Visual Studio in the same time frame, if not faster.
*fetches a flamesuit*
well, at least that's not as ridiculous as when Obama got the prize!
The tritium keyrings look pretty cool! I'd love to order some, but does anyone have any experience with shipping these things internationally (into other EU countries, not necessarily to the US)? I'd imagine the "nucular" aspect makes it a pain in the ass to ship (or smuggle), but maybe I'm overestimating the paranoia.
Im sorry?? Amazons work in selling these e-books is next to nothing.
I can have a online e-book shop set-up by tomorrow. And a author upload service on the next day. Then all thats left, is moving money back and forth! You must be kidding!
Why don't use then? You'd make a killing and save the poor Author's guild at the same time!
Definitely, I just don't see them letting the car drive up there without a map. It's difficult enough for human drivers to turn in competitive times without pace notes, but it's going to be even more difficult for a computer to deal with.
The most interesting part here, IMO, is seeing how the car deals with driving at racing speed vs the more leisurely pace of the previous AI challenge race, where, IIRC, the cars averaged below 30km/h. At those sorts of speeds the car just goes where the wheels are pointing (unless there's a huge rock in the way or something). This, as you say though, requires much more "feel" for the road conditions and understanding of the physics active at every moment.
Still, it's quite possible that the stock Audi electronics will take care of this, at the expense of not being very fast. Check out Tiff floor the accelerator in a Lambo on snow/ice surface with TC/ESP on and later without. He slides all over the place with the nannies off obviously, but that method is still much faster than with TC on.
Also, is this the corner you were talking about? It's not clear if it's a hairpin or whether the surface even changes, but the lack of pace notes or advance knowledge of the track results it many cars just flying off the road and into the bushes.
That's not too different from when the humans are driving, then. Lots of people of course still stand in the most retarded places possible, and occasionally pay for that dearly when somebody misses the braking point by a fraction of a second.
shutdown -a aborts any current shutdown porcess, so it's almost as good. You just need to be quick.
Yeah, the e/parking brake doesn't have nearly enough stopping power, my mom even managed to drive out on the highway with it engaged once. Not to mention that much hilarity will ensure if it does manage to lock up the rear wheels while on the road.
There was a problem between the steering wheel and the pedals. This is the NHTSA's official conclusion, and it's further confirmed by Canadian and Japanese agencies. One Swedish report stated that faulty cruise control could possibly lead to this condition, but there's no evidence that that was the case. Of course Audi had to install some bullshit measures, simply blaming the customers is hardly a good idea when they were getting hammered by hysterics similar to your post.
Recently, Porsche made most of its profits from various investment and other financial operations, if I remember the situation correctly. Also, I think their stake in VW was over 50% one point, but in the end it was VW that took over Porsche by getting them to sell some of their shares to Quatar. In any case, I don't see how this is relevant - obviously it's very possible to make profits selling luxury cars, did anyone actually question this?