I have no desire to "claw my way" into a job that will make my life miserable.
They seem to think it's hardly miserable. In the article they say that the people involved are only there because they want to be developing games, not because of the pay or some other perk. If you really want to design and develop games, then you won't mind the crazy hours that come in the days before a deadline. And, as CliffyB says, it's no longer a field only for the "classic nerd" who is socially inept/removed from pop culture. The designers have to be in touch with the culture so that they know what people want to play. Yes, EA probably isn't the place to work, but it seems to be in the minority with respect to its environment. Smaller studios that involve everyone in the design process seem more appealing personally.
How about as a supplement to the mouse/keyboard interface? You use the mouse and keyboard for most stuff like now but can wave your arms around to manipulate the window positions, or whatever else can be manipulated. And, with practice and repetition, you'll get used to the motions and they won't be as tiring.
Combine this with some kind of hand gesture sensors (yes a mouse is one but I mean more complex) a la Minority Report and you would have a very intuitive "virtual paper" interface. This looks like it will be very handy (no pun intended) for use with a mouse but I think using more complicated hand gestures (in the future, when possible) will really make this paper-like manipulation of windows even more intuitive and useful. Funny how the further we move away from paperwork, the closer we get to being just like it.
There isn't any evidence refuting Intelligent Design, but that is the biggest problem with it. It is not a theory, no matter how much they claim it is, because it is untestable. A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested and not (yet) disproven. Since there is no way Intelligent Design can be tested, it is not a theory. That is why it does not belong in the science classroom (especially since it has religious origins).
As a side note, while my buddies and I were waiting in line, we saw a sign to the effect "This ride doesn't always make it over the hill the first time.". If it hadn't, I'm not sure I could have gotten on it again LOL.
What was even funnier was the part that said "it will return slowly to the station." Well, it does do that, AFTER coming back down as fast as it was launched. Now that's kind of scary to see even if you know it's not a real problem.
Once we saw a launch (with riders) that didn't put the magnetic brakes down. They were shot off and immediately slammed to a halt after reaching probably 30 or so. That must've been really rough. 30-0 in less than a second. Ouch.
Actually, there were several times when I was at Cedar Point where it did not clear the hill and (though they claim in such an event it will return slowly to the station) it rocketed back down the hill as fast as it went up, not slowing until it reached the magnetic brakes along the acceleration section. Those were only test launches though, it was temporarily closed.
We were lucky and managed to get at the queue entrance right as it opened again so the line was fairly short, most people having left the line. It closed again, even more people leaving, but only for 10 minutes. Total waiting time, 45 min. In the back of my mind I knew it was perfectly safe (if only to protect from lawsuits) but the wait in line (which goes right under the acceleration section) is very nervewracking. I'm not usually a nervous person when it comes to rides but I was really starting to get freaked out. The ride was incredible and not at all scary-it was all the suspense in line that was. 0-127 mph in 4 seconds, pause just long enough at the top to enjoy the view then zip back down to earth.
I look like a retard on the pictures.
The Jack Rabbit at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh is quite rickety itself, jumping off the track and slamming back down, shaking all the supports very visibly. Now that gets your adrenaline running.
This was posted to another article a while back. Personally I find it hilarious, even though some seem to disagree (or just don't realize it's a joke).
I would love to have access to Wikipedia especially, let alone all that the net has, in class. Digital textbooks would save lots and lots of money, the textbook being one of if not the most expensive item us students have. The move to PDF textbooks would be great not only because we could easily search them, integrate links, include multimedia, take notes and link them to pages in the textbook, and have many many books on just one device, we would save the students (or rather, the parents) a good bit of money in the long run since, being a private school, students must purchase the books themselves. What's even worse is that the classes often change to a new version of the textbook which isn't incredibly different but different enough to make the older version borderline obsolete, meaning students are unable to sell that book back to the school for a "used book" price so that it can be purchased by the next students at a lower price to them. Total waste that digital books could easily solve.
Granted, I (like most people I think) prefer the feel of an actual book to reading on a tablet/computer, but the tablet is very well suited for a textbook. Highlighting/annotating would be a sinch-no more post-its for making a note since you can't mark up the book if you're lucky enough to be able to sell it back.
Of course, we'd have to be careful to prevent people from diverting their attention from the teacher but if the teacher is good and keeps the students interested, that wouldn't be much of a worry. Can also throw a pop-quiz on them.
Actually, if you read the FAQ from the Internet2 website, you'll see that the Internet2 is not intended to replace the Internet. Like you said, it's about testing the technologies that will be used later down the road in the regular Internet to enable new applications. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a subversion (they are after all "testing bandwidth") but, their choice of testing material is definitely questionable.
This is where the "douche bag" or even simple "moron" mod selection would come into play nicely (for the parent of your post, not yours). Oh well, just have to pretend mod it +1 douche bag, + so everyone can gaze in awe at the stupidity.
First Arnold ends up with a possibility for being president (not likely I hope) and now this. Does Hollywood have a real-live psychic helping with storylines or is it the other way around and this culture is that influenced by movies? (note: terrible attempt at sarcasm)
Posters: using correct spelling and punctuation greatly increases your odds of being modded up.
Oh really...
There was a Q&A in the LastWord section of New Scientist magazine about this a few months ago. The gist of the answer was that, for each tall building me construct, we also remove just as much matter from beneath the surface (mining activities, etc)... so the net result is zero, or close enough to zero that it's discountable.
EVE Online has a NPC force such as this and marks each zone of space with a numerical security rating. 1.0 is essentially perfectly safe (anyone who breaks the rules gets vaporized almost instantly). 0.0 has no security at all.
Maybe RFID could solve this. It does offer the possibility of vehicle tracking like crazy but it would allow all vehicles regardless of the design to be detected (metal detectors might have a hard time with future cars that are mostly carbon/ceramic and the pressure sensors obviously have trouble with motorcyles). Could just make it an anonymous chip that doesn't have any info beyond "I'm a vehicle" but people will still be wary I'm sure.
The article mentioned each junction being independent from each other, with no centralization. This strike anyone else as a possible emergent system? It doesn't appear to have the local communication that emergent systems do but it seems to me that you could get some interesting behavior out of this. Nothing terribly complex or anything but not necessarily predicted. The traffic flow could end up absolutly perfect for the situations, adapting to rush hours and eliminating traffic jams. Or, you could just get some directions having essentially no lights and others being always red. This would be no uber intelligent neural net of course but I would like to see the simulations and real-life trials.
It would be really cool if each junction could remember traffic patterns (don't know exactly why but I'm sure there is a reason) as well as warn nodes around it about the situation. Maybe if it there is a lot of traffic and all the cars have to slow it could tell the node next to it to stop letting cars through for a little bit until the traffic at that junction cleared up. Or in the case of an accident, have other junctions not allow any traffic to pass to the scene. This would require some kind of communication system but it wouldn't have to be long range. You could even have a system of reporting patterns for statistics and research that jumps across the junction nodes until it reaches a collection point.
The whole system seems better than that automated traffic control mentioned on/. a while back that had no lights and all the cars reserved a time to go through.
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I have no desire to "claw my way" into a job that will make my life miserable.
They seem to think it's hardly miserable. In the article they say that the people involved are only there because they want to be developing games, not because of the pay or some other perk. If you really want to design and develop games, then you won't mind the crazy hours that come in the days before a deadline. And, as CliffyB says, it's no longer a field only for the "classic nerd" who is socially inept/removed from pop culture. The designers have to be in touch with the culture so that they know what people want to play. Yes, EA probably isn't the place to work, but it seems to be in the minority with respect to its environment. Smaller studios that involve everyone in the design process seem more appealing personally.
How about as a supplement to the mouse/keyboard interface? You use the mouse and keyboard for most stuff like now but can wave your arms around to manipulate the window positions, or whatever else can be manipulated. And, with practice and repetition, you'll get used to the motions and they won't be as tiring.
Combine this with some kind of hand gesture sensors (yes a mouse is one but I mean more complex) a la Minority Report and you would have a very intuitive "virtual paper" interface. This looks like it will be very handy (no pun intended) for use with a mouse but I think using more complicated hand gestures (in the future, when possible) will really make this paper-like manipulation of windows even more intuitive and useful. Funny how the further we move away from paperwork, the closer we get to being just like it.
There isn't any evidence refuting Intelligent Design, but that is the biggest problem with it. It is not a theory, no matter how much they claim it is, because it is untestable. A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested and not (yet) disproven. Since there is no way Intelligent Design can be tested, it is not a theory. That is why it does not belong in the science classroom (especially since it has religious origins).
As a side note, while my buddies and I were waiting in line, we saw a sign to the effect "This ride doesn't always make it over the hill the first time.". If it hadn't, I'm not sure I could have gotten on it again LOL. What was even funnier was the part that said "it will return slowly to the station." Well, it does do that, AFTER coming back down as fast as it was launched. Now that's kind of scary to see even if you know it's not a real problem. Once we saw a launch (with riders) that didn't put the magnetic brakes down. They were shot off and immediately slammed to a halt after reaching probably 30 or so. That must've been really rough. 30-0 in less than a second. Ouch.
Actually, there were several times when I was at Cedar Point where it did not clear the hill and (though they claim in such an event it will return slowly to the station) it rocketed back down the hill as fast as it went up, not slowing until it reached the magnetic brakes along the acceleration section. Those were only test launches though, it was temporarily closed.
We were lucky and managed to get at the queue entrance right as it opened again so the line was fairly short, most people having left the line. It closed again, even more people leaving, but only for 10 minutes. Total waiting time, 45 min. In the back of my mind I knew it was perfectly safe (if only to protect from lawsuits) but the wait in line (which goes right under the acceleration section) is very nervewracking. I'm not usually a nervous person when it comes to rides but I was really starting to get freaked out. The ride was incredible and not at all scary-it was all the suspense in line that was. 0-127 mph in 4 seconds, pause just long enough at the top to enjoy the view then zip back down to earth.
I look like a retard on the pictures.
The Jack Rabbit at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh is quite rickety itself, jumping off the track and slamming back down, shaking all the supports very visibly. Now that gets your adrenaline running.
Actually it's the even more disturbing pump.jpg-97235 times worse than hello.jpg!
This was posted to another article a while back. Personally I find it hilarious, even though some seem to disagree (or just don't realize it's a joke).
Lucas should be honored to have an actor of such renown and what I guess you could call skill.
isn't hard at all. In fact right now I can see one. It's big, bright, and has a man in it.
Oh, you mean artificial satellites?
*squints harder*
I would love to have access to Wikipedia especially, let alone all that the net has, in class. Digital textbooks would save lots and lots of money, the textbook being one of if not the most expensive item us students have. The move to PDF textbooks would be great not only because we could easily search them, integrate links, include multimedia, take notes and link them to pages in the textbook, and have many many books on just one device, we would save the students (or rather, the parents) a good bit of money in the long run since, being a private school, students must purchase the books themselves. What's even worse is that the classes often change to a new version of the textbook which isn't incredibly different but different enough to make the older version borderline obsolete, meaning students are unable to sell that book back to the school for a "used book" price so that it can be purchased by the next students at a lower price to them. Total waste that digital books could easily solve.
Granted, I (like most people I think) prefer the feel of an actual book to reading on a tablet/computer, but the tablet is very well suited for a textbook. Highlighting/annotating would be a sinch-no more post-its for making a note since you can't mark up the book if you're lucky enough to be able to sell it back. Of course, we'd have to be careful to prevent people from diverting their attention from the teacher but if the teacher is good and keeps the students interested, that wouldn't be much of a worry. Can also throw a pop-quiz on them.
Actually, if you read the FAQ from the Internet2 website, you'll see that the Internet2 is not intended to replace the Internet. Like you said, it's about testing the technologies that will be used later down the road in the regular Internet to enable new applications. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a subversion (they are after all "testing bandwidth") but, their choice of testing material is definitely questionable.
Looks like the site really was illegal, and not just in the *AA way either.
The design better be intelligent. Don't want a suit designed by a dummy.
So the satellites are hunting each other now? Guess it had to happen sometime or another, satellite cannibalism.
more like you learn dance to preserve robot culture
This is where the "douche bag" or even simple "moron" mod selection would come into play nicely (for the parent of your post, not yours). Oh well, just have to pretend mod it +1 douche bag, + so everyone can gaze in awe at the stupidity.
First Arnold ends up with a possibility for being president (not likely I hope) and now this. Does Hollywood have a real-live psychic helping with storylines or is it the other way around and this culture is that influenced by movies? (note: terrible attempt at sarcasm)
Posters: using correct spelling and punctuation greatly increases your odds of being modded up.
Oh really...
There was a Q&A in the LastWord section of New Scientist magazine about this a few months ago. The gist of the answer was that, for each tall building me construct, we also remove just as much matter from beneath the surface (mining activities, etc)... so the net result is zero, or close enough to zero that it's discountable.
Guess there'll be no modding up of you today.
Or, you can be uber geek and have this along with you. Probably too hot and bulky for a safari though and quite over-the-top expensive.
If everyone from /. chips in he'll be on his way in no time!
EVE Online has a NPC force such as this and marks each zone of space with a numerical security rating. 1.0 is essentially perfectly safe (anyone who breaks the rules gets vaporized almost instantly). 0.0 has no security at all.
check out the zen micro. 5GB, FM Tuner, better looking, cheaper.
Maybe RFID could solve this. It does offer the possibility of vehicle tracking like crazy but it would allow all vehicles regardless of the design to be detected (metal detectors might have a hard time with future cars that are mostly carbon/ceramic and the pressure sensors obviously have trouble with motorcyles). Could just make it an anonymous chip that doesn't have any info beyond "I'm a vehicle" but people will still be wary I'm sure.
The article mentioned each junction being independent from each other, with no centralization. This strike anyone else as a possible emergent system? It doesn't appear to have the local communication that emergent systems do but it seems to me that you could get some interesting behavior out of this. Nothing terribly complex or anything but not necessarily predicted. The traffic flow could end up absolutly perfect for the situations, adapting to rush hours and eliminating traffic jams. Or, you could just get some directions having essentially no lights and others being always red. This would be no uber intelligent neural net of course but I would like to see the simulations and real-life trials.
/. a while back that had no lights and all the cars reserved a time to go through.
It would be really cool if each junction could remember traffic patterns (don't know exactly why but I'm sure there is a reason) as well as warn nodes around it about the situation. Maybe if it there is a lot of traffic and all the cars have to slow it could tell the node next to it to stop letting cars through for a little bit until the traffic at that junction cleared up. Or in the case of an accident, have other junctions not allow any traffic to pass to the scene. This would require some kind of communication system but it wouldn't have to be long range. You could even have a system of reporting patterns for statistics and research that jumps across the junction nodes until it reaches a collection point.
The whole system seems better than that automated traffic control mentioned on