It also apparently fails at certain math.
For example, asking it what 3^2 got it horny for me to enter more numbers, but it couldn't answer, and said exponentials scared it.
Also, asking "what is twelve and one" results in 14.
"twelve and two" results in 15. "twelve and 0" is 13.
It also wouldn't answer any square root questions, instead asking me about squares, or roots as objects.
Me:What is your favourite colour?
Elbot:My favorite color is metallic infrared.
Me:That is outside the visible spectrum of light.
Elbot:Try Candie Hank. He is pretty cool on the electronic scene.
A friend of mine who I also work with had an incident like this a few years ago during his senior year in high school. He was at a friends house with some people and one of them was playing with a semi-auto glock and put a round into his stomach.
If his friend hadn't been able to floor the pedal in his car, he would not have gotten to the hospital in time and would not have survived.
Incidentally, his friend was on learning permit and they were chased by police for about 6 miles through town. They gave him a warning that if they ever caught him doing anything wrong while driving after this they'd not be lenient.
Anyway, I think this, while perhaps noble, is a misguided idea. The ability to fully control speed, traction control, and other features can be critical in extreme cases, such as emergencies. It would suck if your kid got stuck on a train track, traction control making them unable to move, and they got hit by a train. Extreme, but possible.
I'd rather let the kid have free reign over the speedometer than knowingly limit the vehicle.
Now all this is sort of extreme cases, perhaps extreme enough to be bad examples. 80mph should be fast enough for most situations, and even in emergencies, its unlikely to be controllable at 80mph in a city in a hospital rush scenario. If the limit is that high, it should face few issues. Traction control is stupid though. Limiting the speed to 80mph should be enough to deter any kind of street racing behavior.
Pretty pathetic arguments there. Though if he does think we should grow corn specifically for ethanol he should do some research into switchgrass which is so much more efficient.
As I understand it, corn is only worthwhile for ethanol because there is such a large surplus of it. Growing it for ethanol's sake is a waste, but its a worse waste to just throw it away.
Spot on about the bitrate disparity between BD rips on the net and a full lossless rip. I'm sure any software decoding solution in linux would die a horrible death trying to decode it watchably.
I went without a video card at all just to avoid the noise issue, knowing I'm unlikely to get any full bitrate or blu-ray rips or even close.
Now if this thing could decode full bd rips real-time, and was cheaper than a video card, it would be intriguing. Though again, linux drivers would be neccessary. FTA though, it has a 1 slot cooler on it, so it might be equally loud as a dedicated PCI-Expressx16 slot video card.
As op, it would have to be cheaper than the parts in your computer it negates for it to be worthwhile, and even then, linux support is unlikely.
If it was cheap enough to make 1080p x264 decoding not require an ati or nvidia graphics card and a modern processor, it would be good. But my quadcore and onboard nForce video is able to do it, so unless this card + like a celeron could do it, it isn't worthwhile
Perhaps connected to some sort of ultra capacitive charge storage solution that charges during the peak sunlight hours, then discharges when you connect your vehicle as a load?
Not sure how efficient that could be, but it's unlikely that the op completely overlooked the fact that there isn't much sun at night.
The way you describe the getting stuck in worlds and having to change worlds reminds me of that movie with John Ritter where he buys Cable from the devil. He gets sucked in and tries to survive all the different channels going after the remote to escape.
My first gen PSX reads discs fine. The disc hub is missing one of the steel balls that hold discs onto it though, if it loses another one I'll have to replace it.
Even stranger, is that GH I, II, Rt80s come out. Then Harmonix & RedOctane split up. Gibson licenses the likeness of the Les Paul to Activision for GH III, Fender the strat for RB. So Activision and Gibson are already sort of partners in fall 2007.
Gibson waits until spring 2008 to try to get Activision to license their performance simulation patent or stop selling Guitar Hero. I doubt that they stop accepting Les Paul royalties while the courts decide though.
Ironically, using the R4ds, or DS-Extreme, or almost any of the other slot 1 and slot 2 homebrew solutions, are capable of playing back mp3s and movies via moonshell.
Just have to convert the movies like for iPod but a different codec and container. DPG I believe.
Being the child involved can also be a crime, as in the case of a teenage couple who were prosecuted for having some photos of themselves. http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/2100-1030_3-6157857.html
I apologize in advance for feeding the troll, but you can't forget Lisa Nowak. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=36260&in_page_id=34
Doh. I put down $5 on Brutal Legend at Gamestop the same time I reserved my Rock Band bundle last year. They better give me a refund if development ceases because of this.
I was really looking forward to that game, not so much for quality, but just for a bit of fun in a ridiculous mashup of heavy metal and fighting.
A long time ago I worked in a Sam's Club, and I remember on more than one occasion the front end manager accepting returns for store credit on items we didn't sell.
I remember one old lady threw a fit when he wouldn't take back a pair of pants she said she bought there, when the tag on it had a Target sticker. He did eventually take it back.
I agree with one of the GP posts that it depends where the store is and how much they value their sanity vs. shrink.
The only time I liked ? : was in school. It made my source look elite.
Of course, it didn't matter very much since half of the class didn't turn in working source code anyway, and couldn't figure out how to use scp or ssh, and coded their homework on windows before compiling in the lab with g++.
I consider it the school's fault that no one knew how to use even basic linux/unix commands, since for the first undergrad C++ class they used textpad + MiniGW port of g++ to code and compile.
The matrix trilogy in high def does highlight problems with their CGI. One thing that stands out is the use of all black clothes for the CGI fights, which they took advantage of by not rendering textures on Neo's clothing during most of the crazy fights.
Another one that I never noticed until I saw the high def Matrix, is in the jump scene of the first Matrix, you can see the outline around Neo where they spliced him into the scene as he runs toward the building edge.
It is one example where fakeness of CGI stood out (at least to me) in a movie.
I'm sure any company that he gets to manufacture the prototype and then market the device will be fronting him some cash to supplement the scholarship. That'll be the real pay off.
Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) rated Ninja Gaiden and Black, on their release, as 18+ games.[59] At the time, CERO ratings acted as guidelines for consumers. However, on March 1, 2006, the Japanese rating system changed. A scale from A to D was introduced, with an additional Z rating for games with large amounts of gore and sexual content. The Z rating is legally enforced, it being illegal to sell such games to anyone under the age of 18.[60] As a result, Tecmo removed the human beheadings in Sigma to obtain a D rating for the East Asian market. However, CERO reclassified the two previous games as D, despite them also depicting human beheadings.[59]
From the wiki page. Japan had introduced a new ratings scheme for video games.
Is there human decapitation in the game anywhere? As I recall, in the case of Ninja Gaiden (not the original trilogy) the game was censored for Japan and uncensored for the US, in that human decaps were not included in the Japanese version based on some law.
Perhaps that is the cause, or some similar issue.
Like article says, they ensure that the infringer is in the US before bothering to send a notice, but I'd be willing to bet there are some US schools too that they try to avoid spamming with notices.
Not so much selective targeting, but selective non-targeting.
They just cut me off 2 weeks ago without notice for bandwidth 'abuse.' It was pretty stupid. Somehow I had roughly 120GB used in the month, on a 3Mbps plan. I didn't even care that there's no way even with PSN stuff going on that I could have used that much, just the fact my unlimited always on internet is not unlimited, and that I don't deserve notice of disconnection even by phone bothers me.
I'm no mathematician, but my math says:
3Mbps / 8 = 375KBps
60s * 60min * 24h * 28d = 2419200s/month
375KBps * 2419200s = 907200000KB/month
Which is roughly 865GB.
At their advertised speed, if one were to actually be able to saturate it for their billing period, would be able to transfer 865GB of data. But they cut people for using 1/8th to 1/4th of that. And they don't just cut you off, but you get a nifty 12 month ban from their internet service. The least they could have done is call me and tell me something, rather than me having to go into their office 2 days later and be told that they can't tell me anything and that I have to call their corporate office.
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It also apparently fails at certain math.
For example, asking it what 3^2 got it horny for me to enter more numbers, but it couldn't answer, and said exponentials scared it.
Also, asking "what is twelve and one" results in 14. "twelve and two" results in 15. "twelve and 0" is 13.
It also wouldn't answer any square root questions, instead asking me about squares, or roots as objects.
Two questions to a non-sequitur.
Me:What is your favourite colour?
Elbot:My favorite color is metallic infrared.
Me:That is outside the visible spectrum of light.
Elbot:Try Candie Hank. He is pretty cool on the electronic scene.
A friend of mine who I also work with had an incident like this a few years ago during his senior year in high school. He was at a friends house with some people and one of them was playing with a semi-auto glock and put a round into his stomach.
If his friend hadn't been able to floor the pedal in his car, he would not have gotten to the hospital in time and would not have survived.
Incidentally, his friend was on learning permit and they were chased by police for about 6 miles through town. They gave him a warning that if they ever caught him doing anything wrong while driving after this they'd not be lenient.
Anyway, I think this, while perhaps noble, is a misguided idea. The ability to fully control speed, traction control, and other features can be critical in extreme cases, such as emergencies. It would suck if your kid got stuck on a train track, traction control making them unable to move, and they got hit by a train. Extreme, but possible.
I'd rather let the kid have free reign over the speedometer than knowingly limit the vehicle.
Now all this is sort of extreme cases, perhaps extreme enough to be bad examples. 80mph should be fast enough for most situations, and even in emergencies, its unlikely to be controllable at 80mph in a city in a hospital rush scenario. If the limit is that high, it should face few issues. Traction control is stupid though. Limiting the speed to 80mph should be enough to deter any kind of street racing behavior.
Pretty pathetic arguments there. Though if he does think we should grow corn specifically for ethanol he should do some research into switchgrass which is so much more efficient.
As I understand it, corn is only worthwhile for ethanol because there is such a large surplus of it. Growing it for ethanol's sake is a waste, but its a worse waste to just throw it away.
Spot on about the bitrate disparity between BD rips on the net and a full lossless rip. I'm sure any software decoding solution in linux would die a horrible death trying to decode it watchably.
I went without a video card at all just to avoid the noise issue, knowing I'm unlikely to get any full bitrate or blu-ray rips or even close.
Now if this thing could decode full bd rips real-time, and was cheaper than a video card, it would be intriguing. Though again, linux drivers would be neccessary. FTA though, it has a 1 slot cooler on it, so it might be equally loud as a dedicated PCI-Expressx16 slot video card.
As op, it would have to be cheaper than the parts in your computer it negates for it to be worthwhile, and even then, linux support is unlikely. If it was cheap enough to make 1080p x264 decoding not require an ati or nvidia graphics card and a modern processor, it would be good. But my quadcore and onboard nForce video is able to do it, so unless this card + like a celeron could do it, it isn't worthwhile
Perhaps connected to some sort of ultra capacitive charge storage solution that charges during the peak sunlight hours, then discharges when you connect your vehicle as a load?
Not sure how efficient that could be, but it's unlikely that the op completely overlooked the fact that there isn't much sun at night.
The way you describe the getting stuck in worlds and having to change worlds reminds me of that movie with John Ritter where he buys Cable from the devil. He gets sucked in and tries to survive all the different channels going after the remote to escape.
Stay Tuned is the name of it.
My first gen PSX reads discs fine. The disc hub is missing one of the steel balls that hold discs onto it though, if it loses another one I'll have to replace it.
As above reply points out, you playing the track would be a performance, uploading the track to Activision for other players would be distribution.
You can't distribute it, due to copyright. You also can't perform it, at least according to Gibson.
Gibson owns a patent on technology that simulates a musical performance, and Activision and Gibson are semi-battling over it and how it applies to Guitar Hero et. al. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17844
Even stranger, is that GH I, II, Rt80s come out. Then Harmonix & RedOctane split up. Gibson licenses the likeness of the Les Paul to Activision for GH III, Fender the strat for RB. So Activision and Gibson are already sort of partners in fall 2007.
Gibson waits until spring 2008 to try to get Activision to license their performance simulation patent or stop selling Guitar Hero. I doubt that they stop accepting Les Paul royalties while the courts decide though.
Ironically, using the R4ds, or DS-Extreme, or almost any of the other slot 1 and slot 2 homebrew solutions, are capable of playing back mp3s and movies via moonshell.
Just have to convert the movies like for iPod but a different codec and container. DPG I believe.
Being the child involved can also be a crime, as in the case of a teenage couple who were prosecuted for having some photos of themselves.
http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/2100-1030_3-6157857.html
I apologize in advance for feeding the troll, but you can't forget Lisa Nowak.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=36260&in_page_id=34
Doh. I put down $5 on Brutal Legend at Gamestop the same time I reserved my Rock Band bundle last year. They better give me a refund if development ceases because of this.
I was really looking forward to that game, not so much for quality, but just for a bit of fun in a ridiculous mashup of heavy metal and fighting.
A long time ago I worked in a Sam's Club, and I remember on more than one occasion the front end manager accepting returns for store credit on items we didn't sell.
I remember one old lady threw a fit when he wouldn't take back a pair of pants she said she bought there, when the tag on it had a Target sticker. He did eventually take it back.
I agree with one of the GP posts that it depends where the store is and how much they value their sanity vs. shrink.
The only time I liked ? : was in school. It made my source look elite.
Of course, it didn't matter very much since half of the class didn't turn in working source code anyway, and couldn't figure out how to use scp or ssh, and coded their homework on windows before compiling in the lab with g++.
I consider it the school's fault that no one knew how to use even basic linux/unix commands, since for the first undergrad C++ class they used textpad + MiniGW port of g++ to code and compile.
The matrix trilogy in high def does highlight problems with their CGI. One thing that stands out is the use of all black clothes for the CGI fights, which they took advantage of by not rendering textures on Neo's clothing during most of the crazy fights.
Another one that I never noticed until I saw the high def Matrix, is in the jump scene of the first Matrix, you can see the outline around Neo where they spliced him into the scene as he runs toward the building edge.
It is one example where fakeness of CGI stood out (at least to me) in a movie.
I'm sure any company that he gets to manufacture the prototype and then market the device will be fronting him some cash to supplement the scholarship. That'll be the real pay off.
Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) rated Ninja Gaiden and Black, on their release, as 18+ games.[59] At the time, CERO ratings acted as guidelines for consumers. However, on March 1, 2006, the Japanese rating system changed. A scale from A to D was introduced, with an additional Z rating for games with large amounts of gore and sexual content. The Z rating is legally enforced, it being illegal to sell such games to anyone under the age of 18.[60] As a result, Tecmo removed the human beheadings in Sigma to obtain a D rating for the East Asian market. However, CERO reclassified the two previous games as D, despite them also depicting human beheadings.[59] From the wiki page. Japan had introduced a new ratings scheme for video games.
Is there human decapitation in the game anywhere? As I recall, in the case of Ninja Gaiden (not the original trilogy) the game was censored for Japan and uncensored for the US, in that human decaps were not included in the Japanese version based on some law. Perhaps that is the cause, or some similar issue.
Something that broad will never pass through the US legislature. Too many corporate interests would tank.
I must have screwed up the conversion to USD$ when I submitted the story. Whoops.
It was also one of the first PSN classic PSX releases for PS3's store. And you can copy your PSX saves from memory cards and load the with it :)
Like article says, they ensure that the infringer is in the US before bothering to send a notice, but I'd be willing to bet there are some US schools too that they try to avoid spamming with notices. Not so much selective targeting, but selective non-targeting.
They just cut me off 2 weeks ago without notice for bandwidth 'abuse.' It was pretty stupid. Somehow I had roughly 120GB used in the month, on a 3Mbps plan. I didn't even care that there's no way even with PSN stuff going on that I could have used that much, just the fact my unlimited always on internet is not unlimited, and that I don't deserve notice of disconnection even by phone bothers me.
I'm no mathematician, but my math says:
3Mbps / 8 = 375KBps
60s * 60min * 24h * 28d = 2419200s/month
375KBps * 2419200s = 907200000KB/month
Which is roughly 865GB.
At their advertised speed, if one were to actually be able to saturate it for their billing period, would be able to transfer 865GB of data. But they cut people for using 1/8th to 1/4th of that.
And they don't just cut you off, but you get a nifty 12 month ban from their internet service. The least they could have done is call me and tell me something, rather than me having to go into their office 2 days later and be told that they can't tell me anything and that I have to call their corporate office.