A squishy material just softens the impact by slowing the deceleration of your momentum. The problem is if the impact force is high you need a lot of padding to soften the blow. By turning solid on impact you material instantly distributes all this force over a large area i.e. all the force isn't released on e.g. the corner of your laptop causing it to shatter. This is similar to putting a hard cover around your object (like a motorcycle helmet). The advantage of this material is that is is flexible in it's normal state so it can met integrated in clothing etc without limiting movement.
This video has a great example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JceDaEMIHKE&feature=related They use a cap with the material to protect a watermelon from impact with a hammer. With a normal squishy material you'd need a really thick layer to soften a blow like that and a hard material would restrict movement.
the real question is why anyone would prosecute over something that's driving hits to their page and generating ad revenue?
Most likely because some newspapers (I know a few in Belgium) only allow access to older articles to paying customers, like subscribers to the physical paper.
That being said I think suing google and by doing so losing X hundreds/thousands of free visitors a day is probably the most retarded idea ever.
Microsoft could also use their online updating powers to make windows secure, thus reducing the power consumption caused by viruses, spyware, virus scanners etc.that use 90% the resources on the average windows box.
Based on your 'side of the road' remark I am assuming you are most likely british (or living in a Commonwealth country).
FYI the left side is not the right side (no pun intended). The British were very late in adopting the metric system and were the one's that came up with the imperial system in the first place.
The reason the US refuses to use the metric system is probably because it's originally French. They refused to use a few great invetions, such as scart, which is why they were stuck with analog crap for years.
Techies on the other hand, if you need a control panel to manage the server, probably shouldn't be managing it anyways, should really get somebody that knows how to run the machine for you.
Uhu and real admins don't have a collection of shell scripts to perform redundant tasks over and over again. In fact I've heard that real geeks no longer use keyboards, they send the electrical pulses to the PS/2 port directly using a battery and some wires.
A lot of people are complaining about his lately and unfortunately it will probably never go away again (or maybe if they find something even more obnoxious). But really 17 pages with screenshots of the fucking info balloon popping up from your tray 'click here to install updates', 'your updates are installing'. Really is this stuff that belong on slashdot? Is anyone actually surprised that MS would try to push their anti-piracy tool on people's computers every way they can? And they don't disclose what information about your system they are actually sending to their server, now there's a shock.
hmm after rereading my post I'm feeling a 'you must be new here' reply comming up.
Its just clear that they have to take a hit this generation and shift their strategy towards new ideas, rather than best technology.
Maybe they could stop competing with Sony and MS on high end hardware and just make a cheap, small, decent console and revolutionize the way people play games by inventing a new type of controller.
...
oh wait
PS: although I liked consoles since I first played double dragon on the NES I never owned a console myself. The Wii will be the first one I'll own so maybe there is a bright future for nintendo after all.
If OSdir hosted all those screenshots just so we could all take a quick tour of some OS, yes that would be the way to go.
If however you want to do the above and , while doing so, make some money from advertising, you would make damn sure every view of a screenshot generates $blah banner views.
A. Revolution was not the best name because it is a difficult word for the Japanese to pronounce. Besides, they would have a hell of a time battling the French and American revolution (and all others) in search engine ranks. I really believe that this day and age this is a very important factor. the proof: Revolution vs. wii
B. Personally I don't think wii is a bad name (but that is not the point) if people are going to mock the fact that it sounds like "wee" why not mock every sentence containing the word "we" as well.
I finally understand how Nintendo is gonna make killer profits with the Revolution:
Image a football game with their motion detacting controller.
Now imagine how many controllers they are going to sell when people accidentally "spike the ball" for real.
Of course it will be free, just like MS offers a free alternative to GMail:
The free version will probably allow you to store up to 15 Megabyte and limit the individual file size to 200K but on the bright side the web interface will be slow, filled with colorful adds and a navigation that changes every time you have found all the buttons you need.
For some reason (most likely my profound hatred for advertising in any form) I've been paying a lot of attention on product placement in movies and tv shows. I noticed that apple indeed has a great deal om laptops and pc's planted on sets. The percentage of people in movies using mac isn't remotely equal to the real life percentage of mac owners.
The problem is that lately movies in general seem to be exploiting this technique to a point where I'm asking myself if I'm watching a really long commercial or an actual movie.
I first started noticing these thing in the matrix with the nokia phones. more recently there were movies like 'Cellular' and I saw final destination 3 some time ago (which had lots of mac close ups) but also seemed to casually mention brand names a lot:
"Funerals are so boring is I die bring me a PSP"
"I like totally forgot my IPOD"..
Luckily movie makers are sometimes a bit more subtle I remember a scene in underworld Evolution (I think it was when Selene and Michael where in the safehouse) where the camera is zoomed in on the Sony logo on the back of a TFT and then slowly zooms out.
Personally I'm getting a bit fed up with this attitude of the movie industry I have to pay 7,5 euro to see a movie at a theatre or 20 to purchase it on DVD (which is way to much) and I end up paying to get flooded by product placement. Some of these movies are almost paid for in advertising stop overcharging us please.
Even though you work for an ISP, you should realize it's a game not real life, get over it. Working for an ISP I'm sure you have more important thing to do beside playing games.
P.S. did I mention you played games and work for an ISP.
As usual most people will complain about the heat and battery time of this thing. The point is it's a game laptop, it's not intended to work on battery mode, placed on your lap while sitting in a couch or go war driving. It mainly is an easy to move game pc which comes in handy when you go to lan party's or want to play head-to-head at a friends house.
Besides in my experience all laptop's get fairly hot and don't last long on battery mode when playing games.
this being said, I would never buy a widow pc for the same reason I never buy a high-end desktop: It's not worth the ridiculous amount of money because gaming is by far not the main use of my computer.
Being somewhat involved in the VoIP(/telecom) world I think Software Isolated Processes is a poor name for their new technology. SIP as in Session Initiation Protocol is the de facto standard for VoIP communication, hell even Microsoft has adopted it
1. The Xorg server seemed to have permantly disabled the Alt-F1-F6 keys to prevent you from switching from X to a console. It could not be overriden in Xorg.conf.
So you think it's wrong to remove brain tissue of mice but you have no problem what so ever whith scientists cutting off or damaging their limbs and vital organs...
I don't mind animal testing at all, as long as it's for medical purposes.
Besides removal of brain tissue is so bad, ask Jack Nicholson
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A squishy material just softens the impact by slowing the deceleration of your momentum. The problem is if the impact force is high you need a lot of padding to soften the blow. By turning solid on impact you material instantly distributes all this force over a large area i.e. all the force isn't released on e.g. the corner of your laptop causing it to shatter. This is similar to putting a hard cover around your object (like a motorcycle helmet). The advantage of this material is that is is flexible in it's normal state so it can met integrated in clothing etc without limiting movement.
This video has a great example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JceDaEMIHKE&feature=related
They use a cap with the material to protect a watermelon from impact with a hammer. With a normal squishy material you'd need a really thick layer to soften a blow like that and a hard material would restrict movement.
It's a kind of best of both worlds solution.
that's what google paper is for
the real question is why anyone would prosecute over something that's driving hits to their page and generating ad revenue?
Most likely because some newspapers (I know a few in Belgium) only allow access to older articles to paying customers, like subscribers to the physical paper.
That being said I think suing google and by doing so losing X hundreds/thousands of free visitors a day is probably the most retarded idea ever.
Microsoft could also use their online updating powers to make windows secure, thus reducing the power consumption caused by viruses, spyware, virus scanners etc.that use 90% the resources on the average windows box.
I doubt that you could irrigate biofuel crops with desalinated water, use the biofuel to power desalination, and wind up with an excess of energy.
you statement makes no sense.It's like saying you can't create an excess of energy with oil because all your oil would be used to fuel the oil pumps.
Based on your 'side of the road' remark I am assuming you are most likely british (or living in a Commonwealth country). FYI the left side is not the right side (no pun intended). The British were very late in adopting the metric system and were the one's that came up with the imperial system in the first place.
The reason the US refuses to use the metric system is probably because it's originally French. They refused to use a few great invetions, such as scart, which is why they were stuck with analog crap for years.
The really sad part is that judgements like this are the reason windows sells for $300-400 instead of 50-100
I thought they did that because the need to pay 5 billion developers for 10 years every to make a new version of windows
Techies on the other hand, if you need a control panel to manage the server, probably shouldn't be managing it anyways, should really get somebody that knows how to run the machine for you.
Uhu and real admins don't have a collection of shell scripts to perform redundant tasks over and over again. In fact I've heard that real geeks no longer use keyboards, they send the electrical pulses to the PS/2 port directly using a battery and some wires.
I think you didn't read the article very well, it's a water cooled xbox 360, not a water cooler xbox 360 power brick
A lot of people are complaining about his lately and unfortunately it will probably never go away again (or maybe if they find something even more obnoxious). But really 17 pages with screenshots of the fucking info balloon popping up from your tray 'click here to install updates', 'your updates are installing'.
Really is this stuff that belong on slashdot? Is anyone actually surprised that MS would try to push their anti-piracy tool on people's computers every way they can? And they don't disclose what information about your system they are actually sending to their server, now there's a shock.
hmm after rereading my post I'm feeling a 'you must be new here' reply comming up.
Its just clear that they have to take a hit this generation and shift their strategy towards new ideas, rather than best technology.
Maybe they could stop competing with Sony and MS on high end hardware and just make a cheap, small, decent console and revolutionize the way people play games by inventing a new type of controller.
...
oh wait
PS: although I liked consoles since I first played double dragon on the NES I never owned a console myself. The Wii will be the first one I'll own so maybe there is a bright future for nintendo after all.
"Hitting someone with a frying pan? What fool would take that?
Someone who just drank a bottle of frying pan antidote
If OSdir hosted all those screenshots just so we could all take a quick tour of some OS, yes that would be the way to go.
If however you want to do the above and , while doing so, make some money from advertising, you would make damn sure every view of a screenshot generates $blah banner views.
A. Revolution was not the best name because it is a difficult word for the Japanese to pronounce. Besides, they would have a hell of a time battling the French and American revolution (and all others) in search engine ranks. I really believe that this day and age this is a very important factor.
the proof:
Revolution
vs.
wii
B. Personally I don't think wii is a bad name (but that is not the point) if people are going to mock the fact that it sounds like "wee" why not mock every sentence containing the word "we" as well.
I finally understand how Nintendo is gonna make killer profits with the Revolution:
Image a football game with their motion detacting controller.
Now imagine how many controllers they are going to sell when people accidentally "spike the ball" for real.
Of course it will be free, just like MS offers a free alternative to GMail:
The free version will probably allow you to store up to 15 Megabyte and limit the individual file size to 200K but on the bright side the web interface will be slow, filled with colorful adds and a navigation that changes every time you have found all the buttons you need.
For some reason (most likely my profound hatred for advertising in any form) I've been paying a lot of attention on product placement in movies and tv shows. I noticed that apple indeed has a great deal om laptops and pc's planted on sets. The percentage of people in movies using mac isn't remotely equal to the real life percentage of mac owners. The problem is that lately movies in general seem to be exploiting this technique to a point where I'm asking myself if I'm watching a really long commercial or an actual movie. I first started noticing these thing in the matrix with the nokia phones. more recently there were movies like 'Cellular' and I saw final destination 3 some time ago (which had lots of mac close ups) but also seemed to casually mention brand names a lot: "Funerals are so boring is I die bring me a PSP" "I like totally forgot my IPOD" ..
Luckily movie makers are sometimes a bit more subtle I remember a scene in underworld Evolution (I think it was when Selene and Michael where in the safehouse) where the camera is zoomed in on the Sony logo on the back of a TFT and then slowly zooms out.
Personally I'm getting a bit fed up with this attitude of the movie industry I have to pay 7,5 euro to see a movie at a theatre or 20 to purchase it on DVD (which is way to much) and I end up paying to get flooded by product placement. Some of these movies are almost paid for in advertising stop overcharging us please.
This is the second time this happens in a few weeks time, the US military should really start to take better care for it's secrets.
Also,
DUPE!
Even though you work for an ISP, you should realize it's a game not real life, get over it. Working for an ISP I'm sure you have more important thing to do beside playing games.
P.S. did I mention you played games and work for an ISP.
Ridiculous indeed, imagine a Swedish car manufacturer making a car that doesn't use fossil fuel.
That could never happen !
As usual most people will complain about the heat and battery time of this thing. The point is it's a game laptop, it's not intended to work on battery mode, placed on your lap while sitting in a couch or go war driving. It mainly is an easy to move game pc which comes in handy when you go to lan party's or want to play head-to-head at a friends house.
Besides in my experience all laptop's get fairly hot and don't last long on battery mode when playing games.
this being said, I would never buy a widow pc for the same reason I never buy a high-end desktop:
It's not worth the ridiculous amount of money because gaming is by far not the main use of my computer.
I remember constantly wondering where the fuck dengo was and what was so special about the place anyway while reading that book.
Being somewhat involved in the VoIP(/telecom) world I think Software Isolated Processes is a poor name for their new technology. SIP as in Session Initiation Protocol is the de facto standard for VoIP communication, hell even Microsoft has adopted it
1. The Xorg server seemed to have permantly disabled the Alt-F1-F6 keys to prevent you from switching from X to a console. It could not be overriden in Xorg.conf.
try Ctrl + Alt +F...
So you think it's wrong to remove brain tissue of mice but you have no problem what so ever whith scientists cutting off or damaging their limbs and vital organs...
I don't mind animal testing at all, as long as it's for medical purposes.
Besides removal of brain tissue is so bad, ask Jack Nicholson