"It would be a real shame if he personally were to receive indications of the world's negative feelings about him..."
What, you mean like/. users working together to get him signed up to every spam source on the planet while setting up a fund to dump 100 tonnes of unprocessed bovine excrement on his doorstep just to make sure he gets as much bullshit as he gives out? That sort of thing?
" 1) the quoted article said 20% of students in physics were having trouble entering the US--that is a long ways from saying they didn't enter all all."
Do you have any idea how much hassle foreign students in science subjects are for a University? In the UK universities have to run background checks and all sorts of stuff just before they can even offer a place to students from some countries (middle east in particular) and it'll be a lot worse in the US. If the university turns up even the possibility that the student may use the knowledge they learn while ona course then the university is supposed to refuse the application and it can cause a lot of trouble if they don't - and without the application acceptance the student won't get a visa. And without that acceptance there is no reason for them to try and get into the university.
"2) Present your results to the memebers of a classified US military project that helps us to fight the terrorists. "
Or, more likely
2) Present your results to the members of a classified Us military project that helps us think up new weapons to drop on other countries^W^W^W^W enhance our defense and contingencies readiness aresenal"
"I do not think that a merchant would want to alienate their shoppers that much - which would happen if RFID were implemented in the way you describe."
Now it may. But how long before they start arguing that placing it inside the item rather than on tags or packaging ensures it can't be damaged, that it is cheaper and more reliable and so on?
"but if you are really worried about that, I hope you use cash and money order only"
For mos things I use cash, but I also play the game my way: I buy things online, but I make sure that it is not just for me - I order things for friends and family too. Any information anyone tries to get on me through my debit (not credit BTW) card way will be utterly, hilariously wrong.
"RFID tags are planted in the packaging, not in the product."
Not necessarily - there is nothing stopping manufacturers implating them in, for example, the hems on clothing, inside the soles of shoes and so on. The minute someone realises that doing so makes it harder to rip off the tag and just walk out of the shop carrying your now de-tagged and invisible to the security system loot, someone will do it. And once one does it, the rest will follow.
60Hz is fairly low, most studies I've seen say that visible flicker only really starts to go at around 75Hz - although the average user can only see flicker above 70Hz when the contents of the scrren has areas of high contrast, the background lighting is low and they are looking at the screen in their peripheral vision. However, I have known regular players of high-framerate FPS that can detect flicker at higher frequencies when they are concentrating.
"The game developer obviously wants it to be as broad an event as possible, selling to every possible environment."
Ever heard the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none"? Well, it's the same with games - if you make them multi-platform, you have to make them for the lowest common denominator. This will inevitably result in the experience on more powerful machines being significantly worse that it could be had the game been written for it specifically.
Every single time a game has been designed to work on a console as well as a PC, the resulting game has been less than optimal for both. If anyone can be the first to get it right, WS can. But if he doesn't he better pray to the Builder that Thief 3 isn't similarly hobbled, or he's going to have to deal with a lot of very angry taffers.
Well what can Californian's do? Clamp the UFO and threaten to impound it until the little green pilot manages to get a visa? Do you know how hard it is to get the paperwork through in time when you live 20 lightyears away?
More than the number of cases where they win I guess. And yes, people do win cases like this.
If the law had anything remotely approaching sense in it, the parents would be charged with contempt of court, supplying their child with a product they were too young to use and for being too stupid by half and the lawyers would be disbarred, dismembered and dissolved. But it doesn't, so they wont.
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True, but until authors can include instructions like "To experience the LSD trip described here first-hand, take the pill attached to this page before continuing" I doubt you'll get really accurate descritions in books.;)
Ignoring HW for a second, there's no reason why you couldn't do it - just set up your ship on the same velocity vector as the rock but a safe distance away and you can do what you like. As long as you don't hit anything and nothign hits the rock, you'll both carry on at the same velocity side by side.
Of course, this only works when you're using anything remotely like newtonian physics, which HW doesn't...
Nah, what you really need to do is cook up some kind of bioweapon - preferably something that fires flesh-eating worms and highly corrosive acid. Much more lingering and painful death that way.
planethalflife think it's fake as well, and there isn't the firestorm I'd expect there to be if this was for real over at futuremark. Basically I think someone is playing silly buggers.
On the other hand, Steam will have the ability to read and write to your half-life 2 directory - it'll be able to upgrade your game or install mods, cf interview here. Which is nearly as potentially troublesome..
Look at it this way - you're part of the (very small) worldwide team of scientists who scan the big black looking for dark rocks moving against the even darker stuff of space. Your funding is tenuous, you're as likely to have a job in a few years as the Earth has of being hit by one of these rock floaters. Then you find yourself a nice rock with just under a million to once chance of turning a hemisphere into a perfect example of Flaming Death with New And Improved Mantle Ejecta, Boiled Ocean and other examples of planet splatter. Now you can show those pesky penpushers that your job is worth something. Phone up the newspapers and give them the story - everyone knows that newspapers in general and the public in particular have a blind spot for probabilities, and before you can say "funding for five years" people are demanding what our government is doing about the sudden influx of illegal rock-type orbitals. Money in the bank, you can sit down for another couple of years of sticking A1 sized prints of porn to the observatory roof and pointing the telescope in the wrong direction....
That's based on the (IMO incorrect, and I'm British not American BTW) that you ever had a democracy and that democracies work at all.
You, like those of us in the UK, are living in an oligopoly with a carefully engineered public front which gives the illusion of democracy. You can choose between a number of representatives or parties, but the representatives you can pick from are chosen for you (or the bar to entry to real independants is so high that it is virtually impossible ot be elected). Even when you do get the candidate you want, they are almost always subject to the party rules first with what you want some way down the list. And you can be certain that your voice is nowhere near as important as, say, the voice of the CEO of the local multinational who happens to have a nice brown envelope full of green objects to hand.
No, if you really want to get rid of your boss, there are much better ways. Especially if you're a sysadmin. Ever heard of the BOFH? Read and learn, read and learn;)
That wasn't pessimism, that was realism. If you want the pessimism - even if, by some monumentally slim chance, they do actually win, the RIAA will just shove a few well-stuffed brown envelopes into their bought congrescritter's pockets and buy themselves a new way to squish the webcasters.
And that's only mild pessimism. You aren't ready for the real stuff.
" why cant you just support them by buying a Linux kit instead of trying to rip them off just for the fun of it?"
Possibly because the Linux PS2 is sandboxed and prevents you getting at the majority of the PS2's features?
If Sony made a Linux PS2 that gave you complete and total unfettered access to every system in the box, complete with drivers, THEN I'd be on your side. But they don't, so I'm not.
Well I don't know about anyone else, but the line on the `after` picture running from Detroit over Toronto to Montreal looks pretty suspicious from a flying saucer-ish point of view;)
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"It would be a real shame if he personally were to receive indications of the world's negative feelings about him..."
/. users working together to get him signed up to every spam source on the planet while setting up a fund to dump 100 tonnes of unprocessed bovine excrement on his doorstep just to make sure he gets as much bullshit as he gives out? That sort of thing?
What, you mean like
" 1) the quoted article said 20% of students in physics were having trouble entering the US--that is a long ways from saying they didn't enter all all."
Do you have any idea how much hassle foreign students in science subjects are for a University? In the UK universities have to run background checks and all sorts of stuff just before they can even offer a place to students from some countries (middle east in particular) and it'll be a lot worse in the US. If the university turns up even the possibility that the student may use the knowledge they learn while ona course then the university is supposed to refuse the application and it can cause a lot of trouble if they don't - and without the application acceptance the student won't get a visa. And without that acceptance there is no reason for them to try and get into the university.
"2) Present your results to the memebers of a classified US military project that helps us to fight the terrorists. "
Or, more likely
2) Present your results to the members of a classified Us military project that helps us think up new weapons to drop on other countries^W^W^W^W enhance our defense and contingencies readiness aresenal"
"I do not think that a merchant would want to alienate their shoppers that much - which would happen if RFID were implemented in the way you describe."
Now it may. But how long before they start arguing that placing it inside the item rather than on tags or packaging ensures it can't be damaged, that it is cheaper and more reliable and so on?
"but if you are really worried about that, I hope you use cash and money order only"
For mos things I use cash, but I also play the game my way: I buy things online, but I make sure that it is not just for me - I order things for friends and family too. Any information anyone tries to get on me through my debit (not credit BTW) card way will be utterly, hilariously wrong.
"RFID tags are planted in the packaging, not in the product."
Not necessarily - there is nothing stopping manufacturers implating them in, for example, the hems on clothing, inside the soles of shoes and so on. The minute someone realises that doing so makes it harder to rip off the tag and just walk out of the shop carrying your now de-tagged and invisible to the security system loot, someone will do it. And once one does it, the rest will follow.
60Hz is fairly low, most studies I've seen say that visible flicker only really starts to go at around 75Hz - although the average user can only see flicker above 70Hz when the contents of the scrren has areas of high contrast, the background lighting is low and they are looking at the screen in their peripheral vision. However, I have known regular players of high-framerate FPS that can detect flicker at higher frequencies when they are concentrating.
"The game developer obviously wants it to be as broad an event as possible, selling to every possible environment."
Ever heard the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none"? Well, it's the same with games - if you make them multi-platform, you have to make them for the lowest common denominator. This will inevitably result in the experience on more powerful machines being significantly worse that it could be had the game been written for it specifically.
Every single time a game has been designed to work on a console as well as a PC, the resulting game has been less than optimal for both. If anyone can be the first to get it right, WS can. But if he doesn't he better pray to the Builder that Thief 3 isn't similarly hobbled, or he's going to have to deal with a lot of very angry taffers.
"that give driver's licenses to ILLEGAL ALIENS"
Well what can Californian's do? Clamp the UFO and threaten to impound it until the little green pilot manages to get a visa? Do you know how hard it is to get the paperwork through in time when you live 20 lightyears away?
More than the number of cases where they win I guess. And yes, people do win cases like this.
If the law had anything remotely approaching sense in it, the parents would be charged with contempt of court, supplying their child with a product they were too young to use and for being too stupid by half and the lawyers would be disbarred, dismembered and dissolved. But it doesn't, so they wont.
True, but until authors can include instructions like "To experience the LSD trip described here first-hand, take the pill attached to this page before continuing" I doubt you'll get really accurate descritions in books. ;)
Ignoring HW for a second, there's no reason why you couldn't do it - just set up your ship on the same velocity vector as the rock but a safe distance away and you can do what you like. As long as you don't hit anything and nothign hits the rock, you'll both carry on at the same velocity side by side.
Of course, this only works when you're using anything remotely like newtonian physics, which HW doesn't...
And there are some not too far off. Just a shame all the red tape and massive expense will mean that only a handful of peole will ever see one.
Nah, what you really need to do is cook up some kind of bioweapon - preferably something that fires flesh-eating worms and highly corrosive acid. Much more lingering and painful death that way.
Yes, I have. And I came to the simple conclusion that the majority of people wouldn't know democracy if it hit them on the head with a big stick.
planethalflife think it's fake as well, and there isn't the firestorm I'd expect there to be if this was for real over at futuremark. Basically I think someone is playing silly buggers.
On the other hand, Steam will have the ability to read and write to your half-life 2 directory - it'll be able to upgrade your game or install mods, cf interview here. Which is nearly as potentially troublesome..
Nah, leave the problem for them to deal with. If civilisation lasts that long, they'll have much better technology to deal with it anyway.
Because it sells newspapers.
Look at it this way - you're part of the (very small) worldwide team of scientists who scan the big black looking for dark rocks moving against the even darker stuff of space. Your funding is tenuous, you're as likely to have a job in a few years as the Earth has of being hit by one of these rock floaters. Then you find yourself a nice rock with just under a million to once chance of turning a hemisphere into a perfect example of Flaming Death with New And Improved Mantle Ejecta, Boiled Ocean and other examples of planet splatter. Now you can show those pesky penpushers that your job is worth something. Phone up the newspapers and give them the story - everyone knows that newspapers in general and the public in particular have a blind spot for probabilities, and before you can say "funding for five years" people are demanding what our government is doing about the sudden influx of illegal rock-type orbitals. Money in the bank, you can sit down for another couple of years of sticking A1 sized prints of porn to the observatory roof and pointing the telescope in the wrong direction....
Yeah, but reporting it early give them lots of time for duplicates!
That's based on the (IMO incorrect, and I'm British not American BTW) that you ever had a democracy and that democracies work at all.
You, like those of us in the UK, are living in an oligopoly with a carefully engineered public front which gives the illusion of democracy. You can choose between a number of representatives or parties, but the representatives you can pick from are chosen for you (or the bar to entry to real independants is so high that it is virtually impossible ot be elected). Even when you do get the candidate you want, they are almost always subject to the party rules first with what you want some way down the list. And you can be certain that your voice is nowhere near as important as, say, the voice of the CEO of the local multinational who happens to have a nice brown envelope full of green objects to hand.
This is not democracy.
No, if you really want to get rid of your boss, there are much better ways. Especially if you're a sysadmin. Ever heard of the BOFH? Read and learn, read and learn ;)
That wasn't pessimism, that was realism. If you want the pessimism - even if, by some monumentally slim chance, they do actually win, the RIAA will just shove a few well-stuffed brown envelopes into their bought congrescritter's pockets and buy themselves a new way to squish the webcasters.
And that's only mild pessimism. You aren't ready for the real stuff.
" why cant you just support them by buying a Linux kit instead of trying to rip them off just for the fun of it?"
Possibly because the Linux PS2 is sandboxed and prevents you getting at the majority of the PS2's features?
If Sony made a Linux PS2 that gave you complete and total unfettered access to every system in the box, complete with drivers, THEN I'd be on your side. But they don't, so I'm not.
That's why Raven are doing the single player for Quake 4.
Well I don't know about anyone else, but the line on the `after` picture running from Detroit over Toronto to Montreal looks pretty suspicious from a flying saucer-ish point of view ;)
I vote we find a nuke to make that actually happen, it's pretty hard to be annoying when you have been vaporised...