Just look for the guy with the goatee. Guys with goatees are always the evil ones. That or the guys with shaved heads....or guys with shaved heads WITH goatees make Hitler look like Mother Teresa.
But isn't the point of middle age to replace things such as video games with more adult activities. Hell, you got a job now, hopefully it's well paying. Your time should be occupied with things like your kids. You want fun, go buy a motorcycle or a boat. Go play golf or something.
Sure you *could* develop games geared more towards middle-aged adults, I don't think it will be very lucrative though. When you start hitting that middle-age lifestyle especially that mid-life crisis you don't want to spend all your time inside on a computer after spending 40+ hours inside an office cubicle. Leave the video games for your kids and enjoy the stuff that you can do now that you're older and hopefully a little richer.
You can copy over a persons memories, heck their whole lives. The problem I forsee is you can't transfer their essence. What makes you..well you! Think of it like a play, take Hamlet for instance. Go see it acted out. Watch the pure essence of the story, the emotion of the actors, the grandness of the sets, etc. Now read the story in a book. Sure it's the exact words of the actors, it tells you what they're supposed to be saying, doing, feeling, but it's never quite the same. Sure it's the same information but it's not what made Hamlet...Hamlet. So yes technically you would be immortal in what you experienced, but you would still be dead because everything that made you wasn't transferred over, just the video to your life.
I don't think anything like that would be adopted by society. First off unless you are dealing with eye to brain stimulus it'll be hard to interact with the brain through bone, flesh and hair. Unless people start plugging nueral connections into their body. Eventually it may be as normal as getting a piercing at the mall, but for the time being it's near impossible to merge organic with inorganic parts without heavy risks.
Another issue would be the following. Do we really want something to interact directly with our brain? Imagine if you will the world of tomorrow, where we do have direct nueral nets. Now imagine the equivalant of a computer virus but going through said nueral net. Instead of formatting a C:\, we have something that erases short term memory, or long term memory, or induces schizophrenia. I remember an old outer limits episode where society was connected to a nueral net. Any data you requested was instantly put into your mind, such as a book like Moby Dick. Eventually the computer that ran the system had a bug that started demanding more information input from the people. Stupid things like the number of grains of sand on the beach, etc. This eventually drove the population insane, even with the failsafes they built into the unit. The moral of the story is don't hook anything up direectly to the brain!!
According to the article "Malicious hackers could launch programs associated with specific extensions using links embedded in Word documents or instant messages sent using MSN. However, the vulnerability does not allow attackers to pass instructions to the programs..." Now call me crazy, and I know i'll probably piss off the microsoft hating people here, but what harm is there really? What's some "hacker" gonna do, open up Acdsee and show my porn collection to well...me? Maybe pop open a few dozen IE windows or programs to force me to reboot? If there's nothing else being transferred it's really just more of a nuisance than something major. Or am I just reading this wrong?
Why must people equate reading and literature to paper books. I spend a good amount of time on the internet for both work and pleasure. I would estimate the amount I must read on my computer would be a novel a week worth of words. Yes I would agree that "IM Speak" and such SMS shorthand may hinder the vocabulary of future employees but my hope is that is just a phase. I just hate being regarded as less intellectual or less well read because I choose not to read a novel on the way home. I read enough on the screen to equal 10 novels.
In the end, doesn't it do the same thing? Instead of reading sonnets by Shakespeare, people read some girls poems on her webpage, and instead of reading the editiorials from The Times, you read some guys opinions on his blog. If it intrests you and is valid for you, go with it.
Have you looked into Alchohol 120%? http://www.alcohol-soft.com/ are the makers of this fine software. I use it all the time, and the game copy protection companies change the software once in a blue moon. Atleast with Alchohol I can burn 1:1 copies with the protection right on it. It's completly legit.
P.S. I am in no way owner, involved, employed with alcoholsoft. I just use their software and am happy with it.
It's an air hockey table! It's not exactly frictionless, as there is air resistence and other factors. Maybe these scientists know more than I do, but I can't really imagine an air hockey table can even remotely simulate space; where you bump into something and when you bounce back you'll keep going forever, etc. Other than that, it looks intresting of them all working together, a beowulf cluster of space robots, heh.
of screwing over companies. Personally I don't trust the company at all. http://consumeraffairs.com/online/paypal_02.html is the consumer reports complaints page on the many problems paypal has given "customers". Caveat Paypal!
Drop the PhD study where right now he would probably be teaching at a college to kids who really couldn't care...knocking back 40k/yr. Or now be worth a few hundred million dollars. *Sigh* Reminds me of the day some hippy asked me if I wanted to join his computer company, darn thing was in a garage somewhere. I wonder whatever happened to him. Well I turned him down and now i'm a Walmart manager! Watch out for falling prices!!!!!!!
Random unknown pieces have to start flying away from the model. Then my replica astronauts can attempt a spacewalk until the duct tape holding the suit closed breaks down.
Are for the time being usually kids just looking for a little attention. They're the computer geek version of the guys who soup up cars, or join the varsity team. They believe that is the way for them to make their mark. The real worry is when you start having government funded virus writers. When someone from china or russia or the middle east are writing virus to shut down systems or create havok for the intent to kill, or bring down defenses for an invasion or terrorist act. Think about what could happen if there's a standoff in taiwan or such and the chinese figure out a way to infect the navy systems with a virus, leaving our fleet defenseless off chinese shores, etc.
When will these companies learn that people don't want ads shoved in their faces. It was one thing when they were little banner ads on top of the page. But now they're popups, pupunders, flash ads, those annoying flash over ads intergrated in the page (weather.com) comes to mind. Now if that wasn't bad enough now we got video and audio popups. I really don't eed to hear about New Line Cinemas latest craporama blasting through my speakers scaring the crap out of me. Then they do whatever they can to keep you from closing the window. These companies are basically internet versions of mafia goons who would punch you in the stomach on the street then tell you do shop at ABC store.
Yet these companies feel the need to try and block the software, these numbers show, the people are fed up. They think the 5% of morons who buy stuff via popups justify pissing off the majority of people out there. Honestly it's getting to the point that I don't even want to use the WWW anymore. Whatever good there was left in it has been just killed by any attempt possible to make a buck. Start e-mailing web pages telling them you will no longer frequent them because of obtrousive advertising, and don't just idly e-mail them, actually do it! Stop using web sites with popups, no matter how much you may like the content. A little civil disobiedence never hurt anyone. The power is in your hands people.
Glad to see someone attempting to liven up the usual dull conformo look of the "cube". I assume since you're in a cubicle yourself you're not a manager or such, so my question is, how did you get your bosses to allow that? And what will be your next project, perhaps a little cubicle bunker where you can rain weapons of nerf destruction down on your fellow co-workers?
I have to agree. Have a pc devoted to just the open source section. Have a bunch of ISO's on it for appropiate software package, user merely inserts a blank cd-r and burns a copy. A few bucks can even be thrown to the library by selling cd-r's at the counter. The hardware needed wouldn't even have to cost that much. Also give some help to the companies by having donate now buttons next to the package selection etc.
I see a little slot in some of the pictures. I know it's much too small for an average floppy or CD. I figure it must be for mini-disc as that's popular in Japan. My question is in America, could those mini-dvd discs; such as those used in the Gamecube be used?
I can't help but feel the paranoid thought that the GPS data will be used to hurt more than help. I would think it's more possible to start ticketing speeders and such this way. The distraction factor mentioned by other readers can't be ignored as well, UNLESS they could pipe in some rear camera data or such. The cops already harass motorcycle riders more than cagers. I would like to see a market of mapping software and such on dashbased LCD's. The large tourer bikes have them, but I would like to have something on my smaller bike.
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Project Lord of the Rings (2012, Probe to check out the rings of Saturn)
Project Pluto Nash (2009, A giant probe/bomb to send to the planetoid Pluto in hopes of melting the ice)
Project Mercury Rising (2015, Mission to send an autistic austronaut to Mercury to see if it really is as hot as they think)
Come on people, what other movie names can fit in well with future NASA missions?
Just look for the guy with the goatee. Guys with goatees are always the evil ones. That or the guys with shaved heads....or guys with shaved heads WITH goatees make Hitler look like Mother Teresa.
Sure you *could* develop games geared more towards middle-aged adults, I don't think it will be very lucrative though. When you start hitting that middle-age lifestyle especially that mid-life crisis you don't want to spend all your time inside on a computer after spending 40+ hours inside an office cubicle. Leave the video games for your kids and enjoy the stuff that you can do now that you're older and hopefully a little richer.
You can copy over a persons memories, heck their whole lives. The problem I forsee is you can't transfer their essence. What makes you..well you! Think of it like a play, take Hamlet for instance. Go see it acted out. Watch the pure essence of the story, the emotion of the actors, the grandness of the sets, etc. Now read the story in a book. Sure it's the exact words of the actors, it tells you what they're supposed to be saying, doing, feeling, but it's never quite the same. Sure it's the same information but it's not what made Hamlet...Hamlet. So yes technically you would be immortal in what you experienced, but you would still be dead because everything that made you wasn't transferred over, just the video to your life.
Another issue would be the following. Do we really want something to interact directly with our brain? Imagine if you will the world of tomorrow, where we do have direct nueral nets. Now imagine the equivalant of a computer virus but going through said nueral net. Instead of formatting a C:\, we have something that erases short term memory, or long term memory, or induces schizophrenia. I remember an old outer limits episode where society was connected to a nueral net. Any data you requested was instantly put into your mind, such as a book like Moby Dick. Eventually the computer that ran the system had a bug that started demanding more information input from the people. Stupid things like the number of grains of sand on the beach, etc. This eventually drove the population insane, even with the failsafes they built into the unit. The moral of the story is don't hook anything up direectly to the brain!!
According to the article "Malicious hackers could launch programs associated with specific extensions using links embedded in Word documents or instant messages sent using MSN. However, the vulnerability does not allow attackers to pass instructions to the programs..." Now call me crazy, and I know i'll probably piss off the microsoft hating people here, but what harm is there really? What's some "hacker" gonna do, open up Acdsee and show my porn collection to well...me? Maybe pop open a few dozen IE windows or programs to force me to reboot? If there's nothing else being transferred it's really just more of a nuisance than something major. Or am I just reading this wrong?
In the end, doesn't it do the same thing? Instead of reading sonnets by Shakespeare, people read some girls poems on her webpage, and instead of reading the editiorials from The Times, you read some guys opinions on his blog. If it intrests you and is valid for you, go with it.
P.S. I am in no way owner, involved, employed with alcoholsoft. I just use their software and am happy with it.
321 Studios should have listed 123 Fake St. as their address. Then the subpeona wouldn't have reached them.
It's an air hockey table! It's not exactly frictionless, as there is air resistence and other factors. Maybe these scientists know more than I do, but I can't really imagine an air hockey table can even remotely simulate space; where you bump into something and when you bounce back you'll keep going forever, etc. Other than that, it looks intresting of them all working together, a beowulf cluster of space robots, heh.
will be 12345. Same as the one on Bill Gates' luggage.
How long before someone creates the first amateur ICBM. Then moves on to become the world's first amateur nuclear power?
Thanks for the correction. Now...how do you say it in sandskrit? :)
of screwing over companies. Personally I don't trust the company at all. http://consumeraffairs.com/online/paypal_02.html is the consumer reports complaints page on the many problems paypal has given "customers". Caveat Paypal!
Drop the PhD study where right now he would probably be teaching at a college to kids who really couldn't care...knocking back 40k/yr. Or now be worth a few hundred million dollars. *Sigh* Reminds me of the day some hippy asked me if I wanted to join his computer company, darn thing was in a garage somewhere. I wonder whatever happened to him. Well I turned him down and now i'm a Walmart manager! Watch out for falling prices!!!!!!!
Random unknown pieces have to start flying away from the model. Then my replica astronauts can attempt a spacewalk until the duct tape holding the suit closed breaks down.
http://eat.epicurious.com/ They have a great selection of recipes. They break it down to ingrediants, prperation time and even breakfast/lunch/dinner.
Incase you decide to lookup his screename on Google or such. His page attempts to install a trojan on your machine using javascript. Just a heads up.
Are for the time being usually kids just looking for a little attention. They're the computer geek version of the guys who soup up cars, or join the varsity team. They believe that is the way for them to make their mark. The real worry is when you start having government funded virus writers. When someone from china or russia or the middle east are writing virus to shut down systems or create havok for the intent to kill, or bring down defenses for an invasion or terrorist act. Think about what could happen if there's a standoff in taiwan or such and the chinese figure out a way to infect the navy systems with a virus, leaving our fleet defenseless off chinese shores, etc.
It's about...buffering.......time someone....buffering..buffering...realized realmedia sucks...buffering...for everything.
Yet these companies feel the need to try and block the software, these numbers show, the people are fed up. They think the 5% of morons who buy stuff via popups justify pissing off the majority of people out there. Honestly it's getting to the point that I don't even want to use the WWW anymore. Whatever good there was left in it has been just killed by any attempt possible to make a buck. Start e-mailing web pages telling them you will no longer frequent them because of obtrousive advertising, and don't just idly e-mail them, actually do it! Stop using web sites with popups, no matter how much you may like the content. A little civil disobiedence never hurt anyone. The power is in your hands people.
Glad to see someone attempting to liven up the usual dull conformo look of the "cube". I assume since you're in a cubicle yourself you're not a manager or such, so my question is, how did you get your bosses to allow that? And what will be your next project, perhaps a little cubicle bunker where you can rain weapons of nerf destruction down on your fellow co-workers?
I have to agree. Have a pc devoted to just the open source section. Have a bunch of ISO's on it for appropiate software package, user merely inserts a blank cd-r and burns a copy. A few bucks can even be thrown to the library by selling cd-r's at the counter. The hardware needed wouldn't even have to cost that much. Also give some help to the companies by having donate now buttons next to the package selection etc.
I see a little slot in some of the pictures. I know it's much too small for an average floppy or CD. I figure it must be for mini-disc as that's popular in Japan. My question is in America, could those mini-dvd discs; such as those used in the Gamecube be used?
I can't help but feel the paranoid thought that the GPS data will be used to hurt more than help. I would think it's more possible to start ticketing speeders and such this way. The distraction factor mentioned by other readers can't be ignored as well, UNLESS they could pipe in some rear camera data or such. The cops already harass motorcycle riders more than cagers. I would like to see a market of mapping software and such on dashbased LCD's. The large tourer bikes have them, but I would like to have something on my smaller bike.