But when the students heard "candle" and were presented with two pictures with similarly sounding names, such as candle and candy, they were slower to click on the correct object, and their mouse trajectories were much more curved. Spivey said that the listeners started processing what they heard even before the entire word was spoken..."When there was ambiguity, the participants briefly didn't know which picture was correct and so for several dozen milliseconds, they were in multiple states at once. They didn't move all the way to one picture and then correct their movement if they realized they were wrong, but instead they traveled through an intermediate gray area," explained Spivey.
Or maybe piquepaille needs to realize a word is made up of discrete units called 'letters'. Let's imagine I build a robot that had a set of pictures in front of it and is fed one letter of a word at a time. the goal is to point to the correct picture as fast as possible. now i a 'c' and already it knows it should point to either carion, carmen electra, carcasonne, or the carton of budweiser. an efficient robot would start to move already at this point. the human in the example could have been told "wait until you have heard and found the word before you begin moving" and you'd have a straight line every time. the only difference between the robot i describe and the human is that the human dosen't have the speed or precision.
Also, what game were the refs watching?! 42 samples in the set barely proves water is wet.
I am a game developer, so here's my take on it:
1. If a PC can emulate almost any console and the software is *written* on a PC then why chain yourself to a console and all it's failings? imho the best thing about consoles are the controllers and with an adapter you can use them on PC.
2. Nothing at all, thanks for calling. As the graphics ability goes up the expectations to meet those abilities rise as well. This requires more and more resources to meet, draining energy away from story telling and game mechanics. That is also why there were so many fun games on older systems - almost all the energy went into making it as fun as possible. To say any more on this subject would be purely speculative. As for gaming goodness, they're the independent titles. check out Game Tunnel or do a google search.
As for children and video games, I find myself puzzling about this "controversy".
Imho saying children can't handle adult situations is bull. The ones who can't have been raised in an environment where they have never been exposed to adult situations. Look at all the 20 somethings who are just starting out in the world and are totally lost. That's what you get: the most sheltered, soft bellied, yellow tailed children. Ever. The problem with games is that they give kids adult situations and adult power to deal with those situations but none of the accountability or responsability. I hear a lot of talk along the lines of "kids can't handle big burderns". What they should be saying is "kids can't handle big burdens unless they can do something about it." Is it any suprise, then, that kids will flee their school work and problematic home life to spend all day as leaders of powerful clans in continent-wide battles? I think my point about morality has been made. As for the horror or gross factor.. well, it's almost the same thing - if a kid doesn't like it, the kid won't play it. Oh, I'm sorry, did you little one get spooked playing doom?...so what? Do you seriously think it's going to scar the child for life? When I was a kid I remember Michael Jackson's Thriller scared the crap out of me. Now I love nothing more than a good horror film. But maybe it's just me, maybe I still remember what being a kid was like.
so.... are they exercise tapes that have been around for a while, or are they exercise tapes featuring an old jane fonda? I don't like either choice, I was just curious.
Obvious solution: get more friends, be more friendly? If anyone complains you are too eager that mean they're either boring or cowardly so there's little chance they will improve your social network, anyways.
What you've said here is exactly what i suspect they believe. Sure they make gobs of money....but they might make more if they stopped policing titles. If anyone could show that there was more money to be made that way they'd all do it in a heartbeat. But many are guilty of this behaviour - doing something the way we first learned it because it's familiar, not because it's the best or the easiest or the most profitable.
Also, I think the word you're looking for is lynchpin.
I'm sick of hearing everybody say that innovation is dead and nobody is trying to innovate, for two reasons:
1. Inventing is hard. Admitedly I can only speak from personal experience based on a budget of pocket lint, hardware rivaled by 2600s, and a social life outdone by hermits.
2. There's a lot of innovation happening out there if you stop reading glossies at the 7-11 and playing multinational-controlled consoles. This is the same reason I'm tired of hearing "pc gaming is dead" FUD. Plenty of independent shareware developers are quietly pushing the boundaries and pcs are one of the only places they're allowed free reign.
Multinationals have been keeping a stranglehold on the tech specs and apis for their hardware since day one and I've been struggling to figure out why. My best guess so far is because they don't believe they would benefit if they gave up a little control. There is no evidence to prove this belief but, imho, when you're a mega corporation the mere shadow of risk is enough to send you screaming in the other direction.
If you want to see a lot of innovation check out a 48 hour game making contest, or find an indie developer's website and start hunting through the affiliates. Tucked away in those dark, mossy corners of the web are some really cool things with no eyes that wriggle and glisten.
Your honor, members of the jury. My client intends to prove that shortly after being conceived his father, client senior, willfully and and with maliciously intent applied the "smudge" and "fade" tools to various parts of my client's defenseless DNA. Client senior's lawyers will try to dazzle you with science and tell you that client senior used the "clone" tool to remove unsightly blemishes. It's a nice story, but there's no proof. In fact the only concrete evidence is the telltale watermarks left by the Genoshop software. Members of the jury, once you have reviewed the evidence I am certain you will find client senior guilty on all counts of first degree geomanipulation, unlicensed use of a Sony Mark III resequencer, and theft of two copies of Genoshop 4.1. Thank you."
...It's funny but I hope it gets modded insightful.
I guess nobody watches the history channel. The first hilts were NOT designed to stop an enemy's blade from hitting your hand, they were designed to prevent you from cutting yourself on your own blade. iirc one of the first guys to put a hilt on his knife lost a couple of fingers because of that exact same problem. Just imagine stabbing into something with the expectation of a smooth entry, only to find that you hit something hard. The blade stops moving but your momentum causes your arm to keep going and your reaction time is a little too slow so you end up sliding your closed fist down the length of the blade. Ow!
Maybe you don't get the concept of a hilt: built into the end of the handle it would prevent a user from slipping and accidentally grabbing the blade. The properties of a lightsaber's cutting power are irrelevant because the hilt doesn't get cut, it prevents accidents.
The issue of bad acting and bad dialog has been covered....but what about those plot holes? Holey moley! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!:P
Anakin isn't in tune enough with the force to tell Padme is pregnant but Obi-wan is, even though Darth Sidious is in tune enough to tell Anakin is in trouble from half way across the galaxy. If Mace Windu can feel a plot to destroy the Jedi, why can't the jedi sense that order 66 has been given (by sensing they are about to be betrayed and slaughtered)? Or tell that the message at the Jedi temple is a fake (by forseeing the trap awaiting them)? Since when is the force there except when it's needed?
If the Jedi had a camera in Palpatine's office then why the hell would they need a spy? Maybe the republic has some kind of privacy law that says you can tape anyone you like but you can't watch the tape without a court order.
I remember the original films has having more depth: Unexpected dangers (garbage crusher), trickery and stealth (han shot first!), and things going from bad to worse (hiding in a giant worm). For me eps 1-3 are lousy - not because everything is predestined but because the path the cookie-cutter characters follow to reach their predestined goals is so much simpler and less interesting than eps 4-6.
Ever notice that the star wars universe hasn't evolved the sophisticated, space-age technology of the hand or balcony rail? While we're on the subject, they build the most deadly blade-like weapons imaginable and then forget to include little details like hilts. Then again in a universe populated by so many individual life forms I guess it makes sense to let safety take a back seat so that nature can cull the herd of the exceptionally stupid.
$10 UK to access the channels.
$0.5 UK/minute to watch the show.
If they didn't do it then it would be tantamount to saying that a full month of constant connection to someone else costs them *at most* $10 UK which would make the rest of their pricing policies seem all the more outrageous in comparison. You can't be to obvious about how you grift people - if you want to squeeze blood from a stone you gotta squeeze *slowly*.
I can't imagine why anyone would sit around with an XBox. The small selection of quality games makes the system an ideal free weight - once you drill a hole through the center for a bar.
On second thought, maybe you could trade it for a small set of free weights... or toss it back and forth like a fragile medicine ball.
DODONNA: The Star Wars Money Machine is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the Hollywood fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault on consumers everywhere. A small indie film should be able to penetrate the outer defense.
GOLD LEADER: Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are indie films going to be against that?
DODONNA: Well, Hollywood doesn't consider a small indie film to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the machine....The approach will not be easy. You are required to write better film and skim by on a budget of almost nothing. The target audience is a small group of people who, if enticed, will being a word of mouth campaign that will snowball until eclipses the Star Wars Money Machine and causes it to implode on itself.
As I understand it MOG published the addresses of PJ and PJ's family in what is generally interpreted as a hostile attack.
I suggest we turn the tables by sending PJ and PJ's relatives candies, flowers, thank you cards, and plush toys. The ones they don't want they can give to good will.
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But when the students heard "candle" and were presented with two pictures with similarly sounding names, such as candle and candy, they were slower to click on the correct object, and their mouse trajectories were much more curved. Spivey said that the listeners started processing what they heard even before the entire word was spoken..."When there was ambiguity, the participants briefly didn't know which picture was correct and so for several dozen milliseconds, they were in multiple states at once. They didn't move all the way to one picture and then correct their movement if they realized they were wrong, but instead they traveled through an intermediate gray area," explained Spivey.
Or maybe piquepaille needs to realize a word is made up of discrete units called 'letters'. Let's imagine I build a robot that had a set of pictures in front of it and is fed one letter of a word at a time. the goal is to point to the correct picture as fast as possible. now i a 'c' and already it knows it should point to either carion, carmen electra, carcasonne, or the carton of budweiser. an efficient robot would start to move already at this point. the human in the example could have been told "wait until you have heard and found the word before you begin moving" and you'd have a straight line every time. the only difference between the robot i describe and the human is that the human dosen't have the speed or precision.
Also, what game were the refs watching?! 42 samples in the set barely proves water is wet.
I am a game developer, so here's my take on it: 1. If a PC can emulate almost any console and the software is *written* on a PC then why chain yourself to a console and all it's failings? imho the best thing about consoles are the controllers and with an adapter you can use them on PC. 2. Nothing at all, thanks for calling. As the graphics ability goes up the expectations to meet those abilities rise as well. This requires more and more resources to meet, draining energy away from story telling and game mechanics. That is also why there were so many fun games on older systems - almost all the energy went into making it as fun as possible. To say any more on this subject would be purely speculative.
...so what? Do you seriously think it's going to scar the child for life? When I was a kid I remember Michael Jackson's Thriller scared the crap out of me. Now I love nothing more than a good horror film. But maybe it's just me, maybe I still remember what being a kid was like.
As for gaming goodness, they're the independent titles. check out Game Tunnel or do a google search.
As for children and video games, I find myself puzzling about this "controversy". Imho saying children can't handle adult situations is bull. The ones who can't have been raised in an environment where they have never been exposed to adult situations. Look at all the 20 somethings who are just starting out in the world and are totally lost. That's what you get: the most sheltered, soft bellied, yellow tailed children. Ever. The problem with games is that they give kids adult situations and adult power to deal with those situations but none of the accountability or responsability. I hear a lot of talk along the lines of "kids can't handle big burderns". What they should be saying is "kids can't handle big burdens unless they can do something about it." Is it any suprise, then, that kids will flee their school work and problematic home life to spend all day as leaders of powerful clans in continent-wide battles? I think my point about morality has been made. As for the horror or gross factor.. well, it's almost the same thing - if a kid doesn't like it, the kid won't play it. Oh, I'm sorry, did you little one get spooked playing doom?
so.... are they exercise tapes that have been around for a while, or are they exercise tapes featuring an old jane fonda? I don't like either choice, I was just curious.
Obvious solution: get more friends, be more friendly? If anyone complains you are too eager that mean they're either boring or cowardly so there's little chance they will improve your social network, anyways.
Now all I need is Google GATC - when you need to find someone and all you have is a DNA sample.
what's behind the announcement is so baffling and staggering that it isn't surprising that nobody has yet figured it out until now.
...baffling to you, not me. I'm not baffled. I'm the smurt one."
aka
"what's so baffling is that i am so much more cleverer than the rest of you. combined.
Remind me not to work someplace where they promote "Social lubrication".
But they get such a great bulk discount!
What you've said here is exactly what i suspect they believe. Sure they make gobs of money....but they might make more if they stopped policing titles. If anyone could show that there was more money to be made that way they'd all do it in a heartbeat. But many are guilty of this behaviour - doing something the way we first learned it because it's familiar, not because it's the best or the easiest or the most profitable.
Also, I think the word you're looking for is lynchpin.
I'm sick of hearing everybody say that innovation is dead and nobody is trying to innovate, for two reasons:
1. Inventing is hard. Admitedly I can only speak from personal experience based on a budget of pocket lint, hardware rivaled by 2600s, and a social life outdone by hermits.
2. There's a lot of innovation happening out there if you stop reading glossies at the 7-11 and playing multinational-controlled consoles. This is the same reason I'm tired of hearing "pc gaming is dead" FUD. Plenty of independent shareware developers are quietly pushing the boundaries and pcs are one of the only places they're allowed free reign.
Multinationals have been keeping a stranglehold on the tech specs and apis for their hardware since day one and I've been struggling to figure out why. My best guess so far is because they don't believe they would benefit if they gave up a little control. There is no evidence to prove this belief but, imho, when you're a mega corporation the mere shadow of risk is enough to send you screaming in the other direction.
If you want to see a lot of innovation check out a 48 hour game making contest, or find an indie developer's website and start hunting through the affiliates. Tucked away in those dark, mossy corners of the web are some really cool things with no eyes that wriggle and glisten.
Your honor, members of the jury. My client intends to prove that shortly after being conceived his father, client senior, willfully and and with maliciously intent applied the "smudge" and "fade" tools to various parts of my client's defenseless DNA. Client senior's lawyers will try to dazzle you with science and tell you that client senior used the "clone" tool to remove unsightly blemishes. It's a nice story, but there's no proof. In fact the only concrete evidence is the telltale watermarks left by the Genoshop software. Members of the jury, once you have reviewed the evidence I am certain you will find client senior guilty on all counts of first degree geomanipulation, unlicensed use of a Sony Mark III resequencer, and theft of two copies of Genoshop 4.1. Thank you."
...It's funny but I hope it gets modded insightful.
So they make it XML. Great. Now if only there were humans left who were allowed to parse the XML without explicit approval from MS.
Wow, all the benefits of a tablet without the intuitive pen like interface!
For an excellent sci fi book that really delves into the sociological implications of brain copying/storing then check out Altered Carbon
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I guess nobody watches the history channel. The first hilts were NOT designed to stop an enemy's blade from hitting your hand, they were designed to prevent you from cutting yourself on your own blade. iirc one of the first guys to put a hilt on his knife lost a couple of fingers because of that exact same problem. Just imagine stabbing into something with the expectation of a smooth entry, only to find that you hit something hard. The blade stops moving but your momentum causes your arm to keep going and your reaction time is a little too slow so you end up sliding your closed fist down the length of the blade. Ow!
Maybe you don't get the concept of a hilt: built into the end of the handle it would prevent a user from slipping and accidentally grabbing the blade. The properties of a lightsaber's cutting power are irrelevant because the hilt doesn't get cut, it prevents accidents.
**SPOILER WARNING**
...but what about those plot holes? Holey moley! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! :P
The issue of bad acting and bad dialog has been covered.
Anakin isn't in tune enough with the force to tell Padme is pregnant but Obi-wan is, even though Darth Sidious is in tune enough to tell Anakin is in trouble from half way across the galaxy. If Mace Windu can feel a plot to destroy the Jedi, why can't the jedi sense that order 66 has been given (by sensing they are about to be betrayed and slaughtered)? Or tell that the message at the Jedi temple is a fake (by forseeing the trap awaiting them)? Since when is the force there except when it's needed?
If the Jedi had a camera in Palpatine's office then why the hell would they need a spy? Maybe the republic has some kind of privacy law that says you can tape anyone you like but you can't watch the tape without a court order.
I remember the original films has having more depth: Unexpected dangers (garbage crusher), trickery and stealth (han shot first!), and things going from bad to worse (hiding in a giant worm). For me eps 1-3 are lousy - not because everything is predestined but because the path the cookie-cutter characters follow to reach their predestined goals is so much simpler and less interesting than eps 4-6.
Ever notice that the star wars universe hasn't evolved the sophisticated, space-age technology of the hand or balcony rail? While we're on the subject, they build the most deadly blade-like weapons imaginable and then forget to include little details like hilts. Then again in a universe populated by so many individual life forms I guess it makes sense to let safety take a back seat so that nature can cull the herd of the exceptionally stupid.
$10 UK to access the channels.
$0.5 UK/minute to watch the show.
If they didn't do it then it would be tantamount to saying that a full month of constant connection to someone else costs them *at most* $10 UK which would make the rest of their pricing policies seem all the more outrageous in comparison. You can't be to obvious about how you grift people - if you want to squeeze blood from a stone you gotta squeeze *slowly*.
Holy run on sentence, batman!
...don't spend it on the moon. There your prize is only worth about $41.6k dollars.
Is that the start of the line which should never be crossed?
I can't imagine why anyone would sit around with an XBox. The small selection of quality games makes the system an ideal free weight - once you drill a hole through the center for a bar.
On second thought, maybe you could trade it for a small set of free weights... or toss it back and forth like a fragile medicine ball.
...um, I assume he meant 175%? "Wow, check it out! I can spend money and make it go slower!"
DODONNA: The Star Wars Money Machine is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the Hollywood fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault on consumers everywhere. A small indie film should be able to penetrate the outer defense.
GOLD LEADER: Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are indie films going to be against that?
DODONNA: Well, Hollywood doesn't consider a small indie film to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the machine....The approach will not be easy. You are required to write better film and skim by on a budget of almost nothing. The target audience is a small group of people who, if enticed, will being a word of mouth campaign that will snowball until eclipses the Star Wars Money Machine and causes it to implode on itself.
A murmer of disbelief runs through the room.
As I understand it MOG published the addresses of PJ and PJ's family in what is generally interpreted as a hostile attack.
I suggest we turn the tables by sending PJ and PJ's relatives candies, flowers, thank you cards, and plush toys. The ones they don't want they can give to good will.