Meanwhile over here in Sweden higher education is still free and you get some money to get by with + loan opportunities.
Loans or not are up to you, it may be stupid to take the courses if you 1) won't make any money while taking them, 2) have to loan a bunch of money and 3) don't think the advantage of having taken them will render the former two non-issues.
We do not seem to have any vision when it comes to things like alternative energy
I assume China sees a bigger gain from it since their consumption and basic resources may go up in price when people get richer.
But anyway, are you really sure you want to compare $ vs € as far as trying to adapt to new knowledge in the energy and environment department goes?
Also isn't there already goals for like 20% (and regardless of production output) in whatever time period over here? And wasn't China and USA the countries who didn't wanted to? It's easier to do a bigger cut over in China if their factories already are vastly inefficient as far as energy consumption and environmental impact goes.
The US is behind in that area, probably because you value freedom high and don't want the government to interfere. Take yesterdays/.-article about hybrids and whatever you saved money with them or not. Here in Sweden the gasoline price is 6.5 $ / liter due to the high taxation which most likely make it more worth it to save some. On the other hand it's only that due to taxation so if everyone switched to hybrids the government would get less money but would still need to get them so by then I assume the cars would be taxed some other way. So still more expensive. And they are now to just that people don't notice it personally.
Almost all our energy comes from water or nuclear power. There was a vote to stop all reactors 30 years later or something such earlier but that has been undone and they has opened for building new ones as long as the number of reactors stays the same. And a couple of days ago it was suggested that the government owned Vattenfall would sell it's coal and nuclear plants in Germany and Poland and invest the money gained in renewable energy projects instead. The opposition saw it as a sell out to finance paying back loans and thought it was a bad idea since Vattenfall make a bigger profit than the loan rates are anyway.
Guild Wars has always been focused on 'casual' playing, preventing any 'hardcore' from gaining too much of an advantage over a casual player, while EVE goes pretty much the other way, pampering its hardcore playerbase and encouraging its casual players to become part of it
Obsessed.
A word used by the lazy to describe the dedicated.
Where they paid for with real money? And in that case why? And why not just added time to his account already (instead of being items in the game, or are they always?)
I would rather had assumed he had did missions/traded items/gained experience/... which had resulted in him having them. And that in that case he most likely know how to get more ones, even if it may take time and lots of work.
Maybe others had paid for them and he had traded items for them. What do I know, I don't play Eve online.
Yeah! Of course! Why didn't he backup the game servers and then called in to CCP informing them how a game incident had made him lose his ship cargo and demand that they brought the game environment back to how it was before he got his ship blown into pieces?
Google gmail steals tab focus and afaik there's nothing I can do about it.
Sucks arse, especially since it takes so long to load that you've most likely started doing something more interesting while waiting for your mails to come up.
But Amiga is a dead end as far as generating profit goes.
Closest we where was bplan Pegasos with MorphOS.
But creating AmigaOS 4.0 and release the AmigaOne from Eyetech with one OS for each separate platform was just yet another failure of the failed management of Amiga.
I think you can run the same OSes on both machines now, eventually, don't know for sure if all AmigaOnes run MorphOS, but it's too late.
And I think bplan has focused their Efika outside the Amiga market now and the Pegasos is gone.
Only chance of making profit seemed to be legal disputes, but now Hyperion got the right to the OS (the new versions atleast) so good luck with that.
Atleast Hyperion doesn't suck (and neither does bplan or the MorphOS team. Though for a while the later people had disputes with eachothers to because bplan hadn't paid some salaries.)
Sound) I know there was a Slashdot article about a year ago about how sound quality (mostly MIDI?) had changed over the years on PC. I do wonder if it had to go so far as existing 100 MHz 486. Maybe, doubt you needed one to use it. Heck, I think 66 MHz 486 could play MP3s, My 68030@50MHz 1200 could not without going mono and 22 kHz.
Palette) HAM is a special scenario: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify It's more or less a hack which let you either pick a color from the palette at hand or modify ONE of the RGB-parts of the last pixel. The normal palette was 32 colors or 64 colors where half where shades and the other half brights of the same colors.
Multitasking) More of an OS issue than a hardware issue. Linux (Minix?) and OS/2 and such could probably do it earlier.. Still a valid claim, sorta.
While I was a huge fan and enjoyed my Amiga usage I have never read the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual or know much at all about the internals of the OS. Though of course I know about datatypes and how you loaded different filesystem-, monitor- or printer drivers on the spot (or at start-up) very intuitively and such things.
Anyway, yes, much was great. OSes like Syllable probably borrows some, Matt Dillon may have done for his DragonFlyBSD and so on to.
But nothing says and it most likely wasn't the best OS one could ever produce.
Today there isn't much need to be backwards compatible except for old coders to feel at home. Everything old could run well and faster than on a real Amiga through UAE on any OS. And of course you could bring something even better to market picking up the very best ideas from that time, including actual AmigaOS, but also the last 25 years of OS concepts, new ideas and existing products.
"Let's make it like it was back then!" doesn't do it for me. Whatever it's AmigaOS4, AROS or Haiku.
Good that they use the gas for transportation though. All solid, fluid and gas energy resources should be spent on transportation imho since they is so very convenient there and it requires more energy to convert an electricity source into a chemical energy source for such devices.
Better save them for transportation and pull electricity from things which are not convenient for transportation, such as solar panels, wind power, water power, nuclear (may be ok for transportation to...),..
Creating chemical energy from electricity Creating electricity from chemical energy is stupid.
All our buses in town, and some vehicles over at Stockholm because we've got more gas than we need, already run on locally produced biogas: http://www.swedishbiogas.eu/1/1.0.1.0/62/2/
It has had quite a few of updates. And I guess many parts of AmigaOS 4 was actually improvements.
However I find it hard to consider anything beyond 3.1 worth much care from my side. Sadly.
Ignoring the A\Box stuff best chance it had of a resurrection was probably around the 1999 days when Gateway-Amiga wanted to build a fresh OS upon QNX Neutrino and Photon.
The Linux-switch and much more the virtual machine Tao-Group Elate stuff for Linux and WinCE was major failures and idiocy.
To try to upgrade and modernize a 20+ year old OS which have seen little reason to improve since the mid-80s and try to keep backwards compatibly at the same time instead of a complete rewrite starting of from scratch with the best OS ideas around is almost as stupid since it won't work. But atleast it gives the latest Amiga-stuff for the people still around.
I assume looking right for them to move right didn't worked well, because then they wouldn't see the screen.
So instead they let you "look left" to move right. Which doesn't work well either as long as your head is stationary but if you move your head to the right for the same amount atleast you will still be able to see the screen.
Not very impressive stuff though, reading off small electrical signals from the muscles around the eyes (I haven't watched more than a few seconds of the video and with no sound)? Interesting method / "proof of concept" but yeah. Then what? Over-worked example to hook it up to the NES. Maybe they hope someone will see it and pick up on the idea / find a useful purpose for it. Or just want more money from more publicity.
I doubt we are seeing anything new here. I assume they just use the accelerometers to determine how much they should crop away from the current sample, and then in the end stitch everything together.
iMovie do software image stabilization that way (by cropping enough to keep the image steady) and a lot of cameras notice motion and move the sensor.
The question is whatever people would call cheat on such a method or whine about lost pixels. I for sure would rather lose pictures for a sharper image vs getting a full res blurry one...
One obvious advantage would be that it's not mechanical.
If this is somewhat like the things they do then I hate that people most likely get things like this patented, even though it's based upon ideas which is most likely patented they to. Just think about how fucking stupid math, music, art and such would had been if the same approached was used there. "No you can't use my idea in your solution!"
As is the other data, so who cares? Nothing has been leaked, the data was already out in the open. If you don't want to don't spread it in the first place.
... you're allowed to take photos of for instance the Swedish security service and their cars, that hot chick across the street, children, your nude neighbor, corporate buildings,..
And imho you should be, because you can see them anyway.
Don't know how the law look upon video and storage of video. I think you may need to have permission to for instance use surveillance equipment in your store, which I find quite weird, I could eventually understand how you would have to inform the people going in about it (though you most likely rather want to do that to scare them off from doing anything stupid in the first place), but I can't see how you would have to as a private person so I don't understand why a store owner would have to.
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Meanwhile over here in Sweden higher education is still free and you get some money to get by with + loan opportunities.
Loans or not are up to you, it may be stupid to take the courses if you 1) won't make any money while taking them, 2) have to loan a bunch of money and 3) don't think the advantage of having taken them will render the former two non-issues.
Yeah, because the UN got soo much power over China (or USA) anyway?
More than in Europe or more than now? More than now is no problem.
We do not seem to have any vision when it comes to things like alternative energy
I assume China sees a bigger gain from it since their consumption and basic resources may go up in price when people get richer.
But anyway, are you really sure you want to compare $ vs € as far as trying to adapt to new knowledge in the energy and environment department goes?
Also isn't there already goals for like 20% (and regardless of production output) in whatever time period over here? And wasn't China and USA the countries who didn't wanted to? It's easier to do a bigger cut over in China if their factories already are vastly inefficient as far as energy consumption and environmental impact goes.
The US is behind in that area, probably because you value freedom high and don't want the government to interfere. Take yesterdays /.-article about hybrids and whatever you saved money with them or not. Here in Sweden the gasoline price is 6.5 $ / liter due to the high taxation which most likely make it more worth it to save some. On the other hand it's only that due to taxation so if everyone switched to hybrids the government would get less money but would still need to get them so by then I assume the cars would be taxed some other way. So still more expensive. And they are now to just that people don't notice it personally.
Almost all our energy comes from water or nuclear power. There was a vote to stop all reactors 30 years later or something such earlier but that has been undone and they has opened for building new ones as long as the number of reactors stays the same. And a couple of days ago it was suggested that the government owned Vattenfall would sell it's coal and nuclear plants in Germany and Poland and invest the money gained in renewable energy projects instead. The opposition saw it as a sell out to finance paying back loans and thought it was a bad idea since Vattenfall make a bigger profit than the loan rates are anyway.
Or something such.
But if that's his point, what is he doing posting in a thread about Eve on Slashdot?
Money for nothing, and the chicks are free.
In Guam that's almost the truth. You get paid to have sex with the virgins!
Going into marriage as a virgin is considered giving bad luck.
Guild Wars has always been focused on 'casual' playing, preventing any 'hardcore' from gaining too much of an advantage over a casual player, while EVE goes pretty much the other way, pampering its hardcore playerbase and encouraging its casual players to become part of it
Obsessed.
A word used by the lazy to describe the dedicated.
Where they paid for with real money? And in that case why? And why not just added time to his account already (instead of being items in the game, or are they always?)
I would rather had assumed he had did missions/traded items/gained experience/... which had resulted in him having them. And that in that case he most likely know how to get more ones, even if it may take time and lots of work.
Maybe others had paid for them and he had traded items for them. What do I know, I don't play Eve online.
Yeah! Of course! Why didn't he backup the game servers and then called in to CCP informing them how a game incident had made him lose his ship cargo and demand that they brought the game environment back to how it was before he got his ship blown into pieces?
They sure would honor and fix that?
Google gmail steals tab focus and afaik there's nothing I can do about it.
Sucks arse, especially since it takes so long to load that you've most likely started doing something more interesting while waiting for your mails to come up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6MKcmETWE
Proof! ;D
But Amiga is a dead end as far as generating profit goes.
Closest we where was bplan Pegasos with MorphOS.
But creating AmigaOS 4.0 and release the AmigaOne from Eyetech with one OS for each separate platform was just yet another failure of the failed management of Amiga.
I think you can run the same OSes on both machines now, eventually, don't know for sure if all AmigaOnes run MorphOS, but it's too late.
And I think bplan has focused their Efika outside the Amiga market now and the Pegasos is gone.
Only chance of making profit seemed to be legal disputes, but now Hyperion got the right to the OS (the new versions atleast) so good luck with that.
Atleast Hyperion doesn't suck (and neither does bplan or the MorphOS team. Though for a while the later people had disputes with eachothers to because bplan hadn't paid some salaries.)
Sound) I know there was a Slashdot article about a year ago about how sound quality (mostly MIDI?) had changed over the years on PC. I do wonder if it had to go so far as existing 100 MHz 486. Maybe, doubt you needed one to use it. Heck, I think 66 MHz 486 could play MP3s, My 68030@50MHz 1200 could not without going mono and 22 kHz.
Palette) HAM is a special scenario:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify
It's more or less a hack which let you either pick a color from the palette at hand or modify ONE of the RGB-parts of the last pixel. The normal palette was 32 colors or 64 colors where half where shades and the other half brights of the same colors.
Multitasking) More of an OS issue than a hardware issue. Linux (Minix?) and OS/2 and such could probably do it earlier.. Still a valid claim, sorta.
While I was a huge fan and enjoyed my Amiga usage I have never read the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual or know much at all about the internals of the OS. Though of course I know about datatypes and how you loaded different filesystem-, monitor- or printer drivers on the spot (or at start-up) very intuitively and such things.
Anyway, yes, much was great. OSes like Syllable probably borrows some, Matt Dillon may have done for his DragonFlyBSD and so on to.
But nothing says and it most likely wasn't the best OS one could ever produce.
Today there isn't much need to be backwards compatible except for old coders to feel at home. Everything old could run well and faster than on a real Amiga through UAE on any OS. And of course you could bring something even better to market picking up the very best ideas from that time, including actual AmigaOS, but also the last 25 years of OS concepts, new ideas and existing products.
"Let's make it like it was back then!" doesn't do it for me. Whatever it's AmigaOS4, AROS or Haiku.
Just my thought. This proves nothing _NEW_.
Good that they use the gas for transportation though. All solid, fluid and gas energy resources should be spent on transportation imho since they is so very convenient there and it requires more energy to convert an electricity source into a chemical energy source for such devices.
Better save them for transportation and pull electricity from things which are not convenient for transportation, such as solar panels, wind power, water power, nuclear (may be ok for transportation to...), ..
Creating chemical energy from electricity Creating electricity from chemical energy is stupid.
All our buses in town, and some vehicles over at Stockholm because we've got more gas than we need, already run on locally produced biogas:
http://www.swedishbiogas.eu/1/1.0.1.0/62/2/
Are they hosting the website on an A500?
That I don't know.
But if they where (not on an A500 I suppose ...), what OS would they had used?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix
http://www.amigaunix.com/tiki-index.php
But of course it would had worked with more common stuff aswell:
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/
http://www.openbsd.org/amiga.html
Oh, and this Google hit reminds of the days of doom:
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/linuxchoice.html
It has had quite a few of updates. And I guess many parts of AmigaOS 4 was actually improvements.
However I find it hard to consider anything beyond 3.1 worth much care from my side. Sadly.
Ignoring the A\Box stuff best chance it had of a resurrection was probably around the 1999 days when Gateway-Amiga wanted to build a fresh OS upon QNX Neutrino and Photon.
The Linux-switch and much more the virtual machine Tao-Group Elate stuff for Linux and WinCE was major failures and idiocy.
To try to upgrade and modernize a 20+ year old OS which have seen little reason to improve since the mid-80s and try to keep backwards compatibly at the same time instead of a complete rewrite starting of from scratch with the best OS ideas around is almost as stupid since it won't work. But atleast it gives the latest Amiga-stuff for the people still around.
This is Starcraft-week
Eye-controlled zerg rush? Need more eyes!
I assume looking right for them to move right didn't worked well, because then they wouldn't see the screen.
So instead they let you "look left" to move right. Which doesn't work well either as long as your head is stationary but if you move your head to the right for the same amount atleast you will still be able to see the screen.
Not very impressive stuff though, reading off small electrical signals from the muscles around the eyes (I haven't watched more than a few seconds of the video and with no sound)? Interesting method / "proof of concept" but yeah. Then what? Over-worked example to hook it up to the NES. Maybe they hope someone will see it and pick up on the idea / find a useful purpose for it. Or just want more money from more publicity.
I doubt we are seeing anything new here. I assume they just use the accelerometers to determine how much they should crop away from the current sample, and then in the end stitch everything together.
iMovie do software image stabilization that way (by cropping enough to keep the image steady) and a lot of cameras notice motion and move the sensor.
The question is whatever people would call cheat on such a method or whine about lost pixels. I for sure would rather lose pictures for a sharper image vs getting a full res blurry one ...
One obvious advantage would be that it's not mechanical.
If this is somewhat like the things they do then I hate that people most likely get things like this patented, even though it's based upon ideas which is most likely patented they to. Just think about how fucking stupid math, music, art and such would had been if the same approached was used there. "No you can't use my idea in your solution!"
Guns for hunting/murder.
Hunting _IS_ murder ...
The meek will sit down, shut up, and not bother their betters, like they always have.
Yeah, because never ever has the opposite happened!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_(1917)
I assume the US signing off from the British empire wasn't as graphic but well, at least they left.
Yeah, I too could had fixed the leak with my allmighty spunk shot.
Wait what?!
And "human resources"
"I'll go build my own data center, with blackjack and hookers!"?
The pictures is available within Facebook.
As is the other data, so who cares? Nothing has been leaked, the data was already out in the open. If you don't want to don't spread it in the first place.
End of story.
... you're allowed to take photos of for instance the Swedish security service and their cars, that hot chick across the street, children, your nude neighbor, corporate buildings, ..
And imho you should be, because you can see them anyway.
Don't know how the law look upon video and storage of video. I think you may need to have permission to for instance use surveillance equipment in your store, which I find quite weird, I could eventually understand how you would have to inform the people going in about it (though you most likely rather want to do that to scare them off from doing anything stupid in the first place), but I can't see how you would have to as a private person so I don't understand why a store owner would have to.