Are you talking about the 6-button (well 8 if you count the shoulders) black model? I love that model. I've been using mine for 5 years now and works like a dream. I have to say it's probably the most comfortable controller I have ever held (even better than Sony's Dual Shock). The D-pad leaves a bit to be desired (I have to switch to the mouse when I use the sniper rifle in GTA3), but it's definitely better than those new silver models they started releasing a couple years ago (when they switched to USB, I believe).
And I think most true old school gamers would much rather pay $5 to the small time video game shop for a cart than play an emulator any day.
But is there really much of a difference between buying a used cart than just downloading the ROM? (Honestly, I have no idea...does the publisher ever see any money from used game sales?)
And irrelevent to what you posted (because I agree with most of what you said), I consider myself a "true old school gamer" and would much rather play Atari and NES games on an emulator hooked up to my TV. The Atari stick and tiny NES pad may have a deep sentimental value, but my sexy Sidewinder never cramps up my fingers.
Plus, I never have to blow on a ROM to get it to work.
Businessweek has an interesting article on a new TiVo technology which allows ad executives to see which ads are skipped on the DVRs.
Maybe this just means we won't have to sit through crappy commericials anymore because the companies can now figure out what the public (dis)likes. It's not like they're stealing your credit card numbers or anything...
I was thinking the same thing, actually. While I don't think it looks like crap, I was taken by how freakin huge it is. The guy obviously didn't try to "cram" anything in the case, he just built the case around the parts. He actually succeeded in getting the biggest footprint possible out of such a small assortment of parts.
From what I understand, if you use PTT you won't have to drive your daughter's shitty VW to a meeting.
Plus everyone gets the benefit of hearing both sides of your inane conversations because you're too stupid to realize you can use the PTT feature without treating your cellphone like an actual walkie-talkie.
Like I said, I've tried out a bunch of windows manangers. It's not that they're slow or anything...they just don't seem intuitive to me.
Windows seems to be able to get me around with fewer keystrokes/mouse clicks (and I don't like to use shortcut keys). I like the ability to tweak things but I shouldn't have to to be productive. And it's not like I prefer Windows simply because I've been using it longer...I was a Mac user until college (simply because that's what I learned to use first).
And god forbid you ever give her a digital camera. Prepare yourself for a barrage of emails with 10 meg bitmap attachments. I tried to teach my grandma how to at least save as jpeg (not even approaching the "resize" road), but we ended up with a zip compromise.
Oh god...and the recycled flash greetings...I've never seen so many "FW:"s in front of a subject.
No...what you need is an innovative desktop environment. You can put all the ads you want on TV, but it's not going to make a damn difference. Mom is never going to care about Linux. Mom has absolutely no reason (and never will have a reason) to switch over. Mom wants to read email and write documents, and she doesn't care how much it costs. The people you need to win over are people like me (and trust me, there are a lot like me). Advanced computer users who rely on their machines to get them through the day. I don't care about fighting over what suX0rz and what kicks ass...I do not choose my OS to conform to some image. I'm perfectly content with Windows...it does everything I need without hassle and I could care less what anyone thinks about that. I've tried loads of desktop flavors for Linux...nothing caught my attention or made my daily routine any easier. BUT Apple almost had me with OSX, because of their desktop enivironment. (Unfortunately after using OSX for a month straight I realized it was still too tedious for my tastes)
A computer is a tool. It helps me get things done. I'm naturally going to use the most efficient tool I can find. If you can find a way to increase my efficiency instead of just emulating the Windows environment and adding some fancy right-click menu, then you've got yourself a convert.
I agree. With a good enough setup there is a noticable difference between compressed music and and a CD. Although, if it's a live recording you're listening to, I doubt the difference would be as noticable.
But do you really think Phish fans are going to have a $2200 rig? With all that pot smoking and slacking off, they have neither the time nor the money for such endeavors. Heck you could probably give them a 90 minute tape of whales humping and tell them it's Phish and they wouldn't know the difference.
In attempting to point out that the original poster didn't get it, the replies have proven that they don't.
No, I believe the replies have proven that the original poster was nit-picking just for the sake of nit-picking.
I read "unevenly distributed among three sections" to mean there's probably not an equal amount of coverage for each section. The statement was not necessarily redundant...it depends on how you read it.
I mean, I appreciate a clever jackass comment as much as the next geek...but you can't be throwing them out with reckless abandon.
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Unfortunately there are too many programmers out there who feel the same way you do. You have to realize that good code/content is only one half of what makes an application/webpage good. The other half is presentation.
If you ask me, there are way too many coders out there who seriously underestimate UI. We need more designers in our field and a lot less l337 h4x0rz. You can see it in most of the websites out there. Either some liberal arts joker creates an uber-fancy Flash site that's impossible to navigate, or an engineer throws together a disgusting, utterly boring white-text-on-black-background POS.
Every once in a while, though, someone surprises me and gives me hope for the future of IT.
God forbid people do marketing research on your info! Oh no! Whatever will we do?!
If this shit goes into a database it just becomes another dot on a graph. There isn't some guy sitting at the MSN office saying "Hey look! pmz is looking at deep anal porn at 3 AM again! Let's go to his house and rape his mom!"
I've said it before and I have a feeling I'll be saying it until I'm lying in my grave...Nobody cares about you! They're not sitting in your closet watching you surf the internet in your spiderman underoos. You still have your precious privacy!!
Now what? You don't want to be a target of some ad campaign?? I only wish I was targeted more instead of being bombarded with those fucking X10 camera ads everytime I go to a webpage or tampon commercials everytime I turn on the TV.
From what I've seen...
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A lot of employers understand the benefits of hiring a both young-ens and middle-aged coding vets. While you get experience and quality from the older crowd, they often fall into their own narrow-minded framework. The benefits to hiring fresh-outs is the great wealth of enthusiasm and open-mindedness they offer. The two age groups can work together to produce some very impressive results.
Stay faaaaaar away from anything with the word 'BASIC' in it.
I wouldn't say anything, because I learned how to program using TrueBASIC on a PowerPC at my high school. It's kind of like a psuedo-OO BASIC...if I remember correctly (it's been a long while). The transition to C++ was a piece of cake and Java confuses me too, but at least I understand it conceptually.
If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a GameBoy out of your pocket on a Friday night in a public place.
They obviously haven't hung out with anyone at Slashdot on a Friday night.
And if their target market is 20-25, I doubt their ad-campaign is going to be very productive.
"Dude! I need to get an NGage so I can be bitchin!!"
One can estimate theoretically the ultimate strength of a nanotube be examining the microscopic failure modes, i.e. the ways in which atoms rearrange in response to an external stress (i.e. stretching).
In the case of perfect, defect-free nanotubes, there are two modes that seem to be important. First, the rotation of a single carbon-carbon bond by 90 degrees, which converts a patch of 4 hexagons (remember that carbon atoms are arranged in a chicken-wire or honeycomb pattern on the tube wall) into two pentagons and two heptagons (relevant references are Zhang & Crespi from Penn State in Physical Review Letters and work by Bernholc at NC State and Yacobson at Rice I think, but the exact journal escapes me at the moment). This mode is a plastic distortion of the tube; the tube with the bonds rearranged is a bit longer than it was before.
The second failure mode is for one of the hexagonal rings of carbon atoms to break open, i.e. for a carbon-carbon bond to break. This is a more catastrophic event, in that the tube then quickly breaks near the point of failure. Which way a tube fails may actually depend on how the honeycomb pattern is rolled into a tube shape.
Now that's just the microscopic theory on the ideal, defect-free system. In a real tube, one expects there to be pre-existing defects in the structure. The failure under tension will then be at the defective points
But, since nanotubes are so small, it's plausible that a single tube or bunch of tubes might grow entirely defect-free, in which case one can access the ultimate theoretical failure strength. Experiments on trying to stretch and break single bundles of nanotubes (Lieber's group at Harvard) show that one can extend a nanotube by about 6% of it's length before it breaks. This is in good agreement with the theoretical predictions mentioned above (and it's a legit prediction- the theory came first!). So it appears that in small enough systems, one can attain the theoretical mechanical strength.
A stellar high school transcript from a poor school with a poor reputation doesn't count for nearly as much as a mediocre high school transcript from a prestigious school (public or private).
Not if you apply to right schools. Not every university is as pompous as Harvard, and not every employer thinks Ivy League = better. In my area there are two big engineering schools...one is private and runs on (at least) four times the bankroll as the other one, but every employer worth his spit knows the public university puts out the more talented workers.
And it seems to me you haven't been out much. Take a walk down any street of NYC or visit one of the soup kitchens and you'll see the obscene laziness and worthlessness of the homeless.
OFDM is more resistant to multipath effects. In conventional spread spectrum, data is pumped rapidly through a single carrier, modulated by a spreading code. With OFDM, the data is modulated and sent across a large number of closely spaced RF carriers at the same time. Sort of like parallel, as opposed to serial transmission. Because the bits are sent in parallel, they can individually be sent at a much slower rate, while still yielding the same overall transmission throughput. Because each bit is "on the air" for a longer period of time, there are less problems with multipath effects.
That said, your statement about Vietnam vets was not just ignorant, but quite frankly disgraceful
Riiight...and I'm sure you have soo much more knowledge on the subject. Do you even know where Vietnam is? Look, I know plenty of vets who have gone on to live productive lives despite what they've experienced. I'm not flushing my hard-earned salary down the toilet just because some light-weights can't take the heat.
If you support the homeless, you're only making the problem worse. Do I feel sorry for these people? Yes. Do I believe changes need to be made in the way the government treats it vets? Of course. But I'm not going to blindly shell out money to every derelict on the street.
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Are you talking about the 6-button (well 8 if you count the shoulders) black model? I love that model. I've been using mine for 5 years now and works like a dream. I have to say it's probably the most comfortable controller I have ever held (even better than Sony's Dual Shock). The D-pad leaves a bit to be desired (I have to switch to the mouse when I use the sniper rifle in GTA3), but it's definitely better than those new silver models they started releasing a couple years ago (when they switched to USB, I believe).
That's my point.
And I think most true old school gamers would much rather pay $5 to the small time video game shop for a cart than play an emulator any day.
But is there really much of a difference between buying a used cart than just downloading the ROM? (Honestly, I have no idea...does the publisher ever see any money from used game sales?)
And irrelevent to what you posted (because I agree with most of what you said), I consider myself a "true old school gamer" and would much rather play Atari and NES games on an emulator hooked up to my TV. The Atari stick and tiny NES pad may have a deep sentimental value, but my sexy Sidewinder never cramps up my fingers.
Plus, I never have to blow on a ROM to get it to work.
Businessweek has an interesting article on a new TiVo technology which allows ad executives to see which ads are skipped on the DVRs.
Maybe this just means we won't have to sit through crappy commericials anymore because the companies can now figure out what the public (dis)likes. It's not like they're stealing your credit card numbers or anything...
I was thinking the same thing, actually. While I don't think it looks like crap, I was taken by how freakin huge it is. The guy obviously didn't try to "cram" anything in the case, he just built the case around the parts. He actually succeeded in getting the biggest footprint possible out of such a small assortment of parts.
From what I understand, if you use PTT you won't have to drive your daughter's shitty VW to a meeting.
Plus everyone gets the benefit of hearing both sides of your inane conversations because you're too stupid to realize you can use the PTT feature without treating your cellphone like an actual walkie-talkie.
And that's bad...how?
I'd prefer being informed of sales for items I'd be interested in over having to put up with ads for products I care nothing about.
Heck, this would cut down on my shopping time significantly...and I so very much hate the mall.
Like I said, I've tried out a bunch of windows manangers. It's not that they're slow or anything...they just don't seem intuitive to me.
Windows seems to be able to get me around with fewer keystrokes/mouse clicks (and I don't like to use shortcut keys). I like the ability to tweak things but I shouldn't have to to be productive. And it's not like I prefer Windows simply because I've been using it longer...I was a Mac user until college (simply because that's what I learned to use first).
And god forbid you ever give her a digital camera. Prepare yourself for a barrage of emails with 10 meg bitmap attachments. I tried to teach my grandma how to at least save as jpeg (not even approaching the "resize" road), but we ended up with a zip compromise.
Oh god...and the recycled flash greetings...I've never seen so many "FW:"s in front of a subject.
No...what you need is an innovative desktop environment. You can put all the ads you want on TV, but it's not going to make a damn difference. Mom is never going to care about Linux. Mom has absolutely no reason (and never will have a reason) to switch over. Mom wants to read email and write documents, and she doesn't care how much it costs. The people you need to win over are people like me (and trust me, there are a lot like me). Advanced computer users who rely on their machines to get them through the day. I don't care about fighting over what suX0rz and what kicks ass...I do not choose my OS to conform to some image. I'm perfectly content with Windows...it does everything I need without hassle and I could care less what anyone thinks about that. I've tried loads of desktop flavors for Linux...nothing caught my attention or made my daily routine any easier. BUT Apple almost had me with OSX, because of their desktop enivironment. (Unfortunately after using OSX for a month straight I realized it was still too tedious for my tastes)
A computer is a tool. It helps me get things done. I'm naturally going to use the most efficient tool I can find. If you can find a way to increase my efficiency instead of just emulating the Windows environment and adding some fancy right-click menu, then you've got yourself a convert.
That was quite possibly the funniest thing I've read all day. I don't care if I'm modded down, I just have to give props to the parent.
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
I agree. With a good enough setup there is a noticable difference between compressed music and and a CD. Although, if it's a live recording you're listening to, I doubt the difference would be as noticable.
But do you really think Phish fans are going to have a $2200 rig? With all that pot smoking and slacking off, they have neither the time nor the money for such endeavors. Heck you could probably give them a 90 minute tape of whales humping and tell them it's Phish and they wouldn't know the difference.
Come to think of it, neither would I...
In attempting to point out that the original poster didn't get it, the replies have proven that they don't.
No, I believe the replies have proven that the original poster was nit-picking just for the sake of nit-picking.
I read "unevenly distributed among three sections" to mean there's probably not an equal amount of coverage for each section. The statement was not necessarily redundant...it depends on how you read it.
I mean, I appreciate a clever jackass comment as much as the next geek...but you can't be throwing them out with reckless abandon.
...the book is divided into eleven chapters, unevenly distributed among three sections...
Unfortunately there are too many programmers out there who feel the same way you do. You have to realize that good code/content is only one half of what makes an application/webpage good. The other half is presentation.
If you ask me, there are way too many coders out there who seriously underestimate UI. We need more designers in our field and a lot less l337 h4x0rz. You can see it in most of the websites out there. Either some liberal arts joker creates an uber-fancy Flash site that's impossible to navigate, or an engineer throws together a disgusting, utterly boring white-text-on-black-background POS.
Every once in a while, though, someone surprises me and gives me hope for the future of IT.
Do they make a computer chair and/or couch potatoe model?
Your couch isn't already sculpted to your ass?
Hah! And you call yourself a couch potatoe...
I've been reading, and rereading JRR for the last 20+ years
..or are you a masochist? ;)
As a punishment?
And I think their father is Denethor, not Arathorn...but I've only seen the movie as well.
God forbid people do marketing research on your info! Oh no! Whatever will we do?!
If this shit goes into a database it just becomes another dot on a graph. There isn't some guy sitting at the MSN office saying "Hey look! pmz is looking at deep anal porn at 3 AM again! Let's go to his house and rape his mom!"
I've said it before and I have a feeling I'll be saying it until I'm lying in my grave...Nobody cares about you! They're not sitting in your closet watching you surf the internet in your spiderman underoos. You still have your precious privacy!!
Now what? You don't want to be a target of some ad campaign?? I only wish I was targeted more instead of being bombarded with those fucking X10 camera ads everytime I go to a webpage or tampon commercials everytime I turn on the TV.
A lot of employers understand the benefits of hiring a both young-ens and middle-aged coding vets. While you get experience and quality from the older crowd, they often fall into their own narrow-minded framework. The benefits to hiring fresh-outs is the great wealth of enthusiasm and open-mindedness they offer. The two age groups can work together to produce some very impressive results.
Stay faaaaaar away from anything with the word 'BASIC' in it.
I wouldn't say anything, because I learned how to program using TrueBASIC on a PowerPC at my high school. It's kind of like a psuedo-OO BASIC...if I remember correctly (it's been a long while). The transition to C++ was a piece of cake and Java confuses me too, but at least I understand it conceptually.
If you're 20 or 25 years old, it's probably not a good idea to draw a GameBoy out of your pocket on a Friday night in a public place.
They obviously haven't hung out with anyone at Slashdot on a Friday night.
And if their target market is 20-25, I doubt their ad-campaign is going to be very productive.
"Dude! I need to get an NGage so I can be bitchin!!"
One can estimate theoretically the ultimate strength of a nanotube be examining the microscopic failure modes, i.e. the ways in which atoms rearrange in response to an external stress (i.e. stretching). In the case of perfect, defect-free nanotubes, there are two modes that seem to be important. First, the rotation of a single carbon-carbon bond by 90 degrees, which converts a patch of 4 hexagons (remember that carbon atoms are arranged in a chicken-wire or honeycomb pattern on the tube wall) into two pentagons and two heptagons (relevant references are Zhang & Crespi from Penn State in Physical Review Letters and work by Bernholc at NC State and Yacobson at Rice I think, but the exact journal escapes me at the moment). This mode is a plastic distortion of the tube; the tube with the bonds rearranged is a bit longer than it was before. The second failure mode is for one of the hexagonal rings of carbon atoms to break open, i.e. for a carbon-carbon bond to break. This is a more catastrophic event, in that the tube then quickly breaks near the point of failure. Which way a tube fails may actually depend on how the honeycomb pattern is rolled into a tube shape. Now that's just the microscopic theory on the ideal, defect-free system. In a real tube, one expects there to be pre-existing defects in the structure. The failure under tension will then be at the defective points But, since nanotubes are so small, it's plausible that a single tube or bunch of tubes might grow entirely defect-free, in which case one can access the ultimate theoretical failure strength. Experiments on trying to stretch and break single bundles of nanotubes (Lieber's group at Harvard) show that one can extend a nanotube by about 6% of it's length before it breaks. This is in good agreement with the theoretical predictions mentioned above (and it's a legit prediction- the theory came first!). So it appears that in small enough systems, one can attain the theoretical mechanical strength.
A stellar high school transcript from a poor school with a poor reputation doesn't count for nearly as much as a mediocre high school transcript from a prestigious school (public or private).
Not if you apply to right schools. Not every university is as pompous as Harvard, and not every employer thinks Ivy League = better. In my area there are two big engineering schools...one is private and runs on (at least) four times the bankroll as the other one, but every employer worth his spit knows the public university puts out the more talented workers.
And it seems to me you haven't been out much. Take a walk down any street of NYC or visit one of the soup kitchens and you'll see the obscene laziness and worthlessness of the homeless.
But thanks for playing.
OFDM is more resistant to multipath effects. In conventional spread spectrum, data is pumped rapidly through a single carrier, modulated by a spreading code. With OFDM, the data is modulated and sent across a large number of closely spaced RF carriers at the same time. Sort of like parallel, as opposed to serial transmission. Because the bits are sent in parallel, they can individually be sent at a much slower rate, while still yielding the same overall transmission throughput. Because each bit is "on the air" for a longer period of time, there are less problems with multipath effects.
That said, your statement about Vietnam vets was not just ignorant, but quite frankly disgraceful
Riiight...and I'm sure you have soo much more knowledge on the subject. Do you even know where Vietnam is? Look, I know plenty of vets who have gone on to live productive lives despite what they've experienced. I'm not flushing my hard-earned salary down the toilet just because some light-weights can't take the heat.
If you support the homeless, you're only making the problem worse. Do I feel sorry for these people? Yes. Do I believe changes need to be made in the way the government treats it vets? Of course. But I'm not going to blindly shell out money to every derelict on the street.