I envisioned this as having a screen in front of you, and a touch screen at your finger tips. Both displaying everything. I don't think it would take much effort at all before you'd rarely have to actually look down and see what you were doing.
I also think that we'd have to keep an interface, but it could be more like OS X's menu (Or like how he changed things in world wind). You would still need to have menus for some things, but for the most part you could remove a lot of the menus.
I also liked the idea of having a virtual keyboard. You could program up different varieties of keyboards (No more QWERTY vs Dvorak). You could have one for programming C/Python/Whatever where you could have common features inserted just like you were typing. (Yes you can do this with programmable keys, but not per application with visuals).
I think, depending on what it's like to tap on a screen all day. His would be great. And I can't wait to see it evolve and go into production.
For 95% of what I do this is just as good or better. And I am sure for another 4.8% of that you could think of ways to make it work. And the rest of the time, you can always have a bluetooth wireless mouse and keyboard at the ready hidden away.
Just to add to what others have said about that claim.
The human body is no where near 98% water.
"In adult men, about 60% of their bodies
are water." - Jeffrey Utz, M.D., Neuroscience, pediatrics, Allegheny University (link)
I goto LAN's bi-monthly, have a Xbox, PS2, DC, MythTV all hooked up. I also have my instructors in Rockclimbing, Caving, Snowboarding and White Water Rafting.
When the girls hear about my 'extreme' sports, they get interested. When they find out that on weekends I hit the snow, or go climbing, but on weekdays I come home from work and play video games. They for the most part get turned off, and we end up breaking up.
My latest girlfriend (6months in 3 days), is fine we games. She ain't a gamer herself, sometimes she'll watch me play, sometimes she'll do something elsewhere, sometimes she'll do somethign next to me, sometimes she'll play aswell (she loved Fable). And things are a hell of a lot better than with a lot of my past girl friends. She ain't as 'hot' as some of the other girl's I've been with (Although she still looks damn good:) but things are a hell of a lot better with her.
She also gives me time to work on my pet projects (thanks hackaday).
Find a girl who likes you for you. It's a lot better, for the both of you.
They've been around for years. We have on in our small town, where you sit at the computer playing games. And at the press of a button you can bring up a menu, order food, it's auto added to your bill, and the food is brung out to you.
Your agurment though isn't cute. Its just plain stupid. Its the same as saying as a defence "I just put the files on the internet. Told everyone where to get them. And allowed them to download from my server. I never actually gave them permission to download the files. So I didn't do anything wrong"
So your agurement is "Because someone else does it, it's ok for me to do it" ?
Bullshit, the internet is a chance we have to make things different. Look at maddox he nevers put ads up, and he gets tens of thousands of hits, or what about Wikipedia. They are doing what everyone should be doing, I provide you this content for free, in return you provide your content for free.
When adbanners first came out, people were fine with them. Then more and more came out, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware, everything. Had it just stayed at adbanners everything would have been fine. Now we are left with no choice but to block them. Most people don't block text ads. So use them if you must. But first think about what you are providing, is it a "I want money" or a for the public good website?
The internet is one medimum that corp's haven't yet taken control of. Do you want them to?
Or would you prefer the people to remain in control, and live by our rules, not the rule of the almighty dollar?
Lets do a little be of actual (rough) math. 64kbps = 6.4kps Your avg ADSL connection is 1.5mbit or 164kps. So that means you can fit 25 streams per connection. So to cover 500,000 people watching you'd need 20,000 1.5mbit ADSL connections. Yeah I'm sure the total bandwidth of the world amounts to 20,000 home ADSL Connections.
Oh, and by the way according to the graph you linked to the total bandwidth is around 1Pbps or 1,000,000GBps. But don't worry, you were close.
You'd think someone on the tech savvy Slashdot could read a graph.
My father is a professor at the Australian National University (Physics Dept). He gets paid US$60k a year, works 8 hours a day at work. Then comes home and spends his evenings on his laptop working for another 1 to 3 hours. And then on weekends spends another 3+ hours a day working. None of which he gets paid extra for, as he is on a fixed salary.
Don't taint all professors with one what professor did.
"Looks there have been cracks before and last time the space shuttle didn't blow up. We're not sure why it didn't, what caused the crack, what effects it has, or infact anything. But we are certin that because nothing happend the last time, it won't happen this time"
The point of the internet is anyone can place material on it. Simply because someone pays for hosting and domain doesn't suddenly making the source more trust worthy than someone using a free service.
Your argument has nothing to do with how authentic the document is. Or in fact anything at all.
It's good they didn't pick up on it and go overboard as they have done before. As of today the risk factor of the TORINO IMPACT HAZARD has dropped to 0. And on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale scale is now a -2.23.
"(since software companies tell retailers not to take returns on opened merchandise)."
I call bullshit. EB in Australia will except returns for any game for any reason within 7 days. If you buy a came, complete it in 5 days, then return it to them and even tell them you completed it and thats why you are returning it and they'll take it.
So if I tell you when I hire you that you'll work 8 hours days 5 days a week for 60k a year. Then turn around once you have been working for a month and make you work longer hours without pay that is ok? There is nothing wrong with that?
The problem isn't so much that people are working 90-hours a week so much as it is they are LIED to when they are first employed and from the sounds of it continued to be lied to through out their employment.
They are also breaking the law by not paying overtime, or giving comp time. They are laws put in place for a reason, and you can't just break them and say if you don't like it don't work here.
It is almost the company equivalent of a cult. Suck you in, take your money, house and possessions, and then when you realise that a fool you have been you are fucked because you can't leave or you'll be homeless, jobless, possessionless & broke. This isn't as bad ofcourse, but it uses the same tactic. In an increasingly hard industry they are taking advantage of people's fears that they won't be able to find another job. It doesn't sound too good if you tell your new employer you left your last job because they wanted you to work too much.
Organizing sounds like the right thing to do, but unfortunately game designers are one of those fantasy jobs where naive people will always join without realising what they are getting themselves into, and will gladly cross the 'pick lines'. Something needs to be done about these practices, and unfortunately lawsuits seem to be the only real option in this situation.
I say we just shoot the waste into space. What are the chances anyone is going to know where it comes from? Plus we might annoy some aliens they come here and either A)Tell us to stop, we do, we become friends B)We die, the enviroment is saved!
Well thats because these people who don't want smart guns aren't very bright.
Electronics are just as reliable as mechanics. The gun not working because you hadn't cleaned it would be MORE likely than the smart part of the gun failing. Which doesn't have to be too smart if you allow chip implants. The implant sends a code, then gun picks up codes and checks it. If you are scared of that not working, I suggest you don't drive a car since A)The cars electics could fail or B) Traffic lights could fail.
As to EMP, if you a worried about them obtaining a small EMP grenade and throwing at you so you can't fire. I'd be a lot more scared that they'd throw a fucking grenade at you.
Oh and btw no batteries, the people who are making this weapons aren't stupid.
The parents is making a joke, that is the actual reason toast lands buttered side up.
The buttered side is heavier, so it starts to flip. But due to the height of the avg table, it doesn't have time to complete a full rotation, so it lands on the buttered side.
If you were to drop it from say the top a fridge, it would most likely land buttered side up.
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I envisioned this as having a screen in front of you, and a touch screen at your finger tips. Both displaying everything.
I don't think it would take much effort at all before you'd rarely have to actually look down and see what you were doing.
I also think that we'd have to keep an interface, but it could be more like OS X's menu (Or like how he changed things in world wind).
You would still need to have menus for some things, but for the most part you could remove a lot of the menus.
I also liked the idea of having a virtual keyboard. You could program up different varieties of keyboards (No more QWERTY vs Dvorak). You could have one for programming C/Python/Whatever where you could have common features inserted just like you were typing. (Yes you can do this with programmable keys, but not per application with visuals).
I think, depending on what it's like to tap on a screen all day. His would be great. And I can't wait to see it evolve and go into production.
For 95% of what I do this is just as good or better. And I am sure for another 4.8% of that you could think of ways to make it work. And the rest of the time, you can always have a bluetooth wireless mouse and keyboard at the ready hidden away.
Bring on the screens!
Just to add to what others have said about that claim.
The human body is no where near 98% water.
"In adult men, about 60% of their bodies are water." - Jeffrey Utz, M.D., Neuroscience, pediatrics, Allegheny University (link)
Other sources: Boston Globe & Encarta
"Most zombies... have very basic brain functions.These are "Must feed" and "Must survive"."
But there are things out there that don't have brains and yet have the same functions, jelly fish for example.
There is no reason that something that only walks, grabs and eats needs a brain. Doubly so in a fantasy world.
And I wouldn't say "Continue walking at the guy shooting me very slowly so I can bite him" goes with a "Must survive" brain function.
100% on the money.
:) but things are a hell of a lot better with her.
I'm a nerd/geek, and outdoor recreationist.
I goto LAN's bi-monthly, have a Xbox, PS2, DC, MythTV all hooked up. I also have my instructors in Rockclimbing, Caving, Snowboarding and White Water Rafting.
When the girls hear about my 'extreme' sports, they get interested.
When they find out that on weekends I hit the snow, or go climbing, but on weekdays I come home from work and play video games.
They for the most part get turned off, and we end up breaking up.
My latest girlfriend (6months in 3 days), is fine we games. She ain't a gamer herself, sometimes she'll watch me play, sometimes she'll do something elsewhere, sometimes she'll do somethign next to me, sometimes she'll play aswell (she loved Fable). And things are a hell of a lot better than with a lot of my past girl friends.
She ain't as 'hot' as some of the other girl's I've been with (Although she still looks damn good
She also gives me time to work on my pet projects (thanks hackaday).
Find a girl who likes you for you. It's a lot better, for the both of you.
How about netcafe's?
They've been around for years.
We have on in our small town, where you sit at the computer playing games. And at the press of a button you can bring up a menu, order food, it's auto added to your bill, and the food is brung out to you.
Or imagine sticking a miniaturised camera under a door or through a window and then getting a clear viewpoint of the room!
Actually. Evil triumph's because Good plays by the rules. While evil cheats.
It's hard to win a game of basketball when the other team is playing likes it's football.
Your agurment though isn't cute. Its just plain stupid. Its the same as saying as a defence "I just put the files on the internet. Told everyone where to get them. And allowed them to download from my server. I never actually gave them permission to download the files. So I didn't do anything wrong"
So your agurement is "Because someone else does it, it's ok for me to do it" ?
/rant
Bullshit, the internet is a chance we have to make things different. Look at maddox he nevers put ads up, and he gets tens of thousands of hits, or what about Wikipedia. They are doing what everyone should be doing, I provide you this content for free, in return you provide your content for free.
When adbanners first came out, people were fine with them. Then more and more came out, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware, everything. Had it just stayed at adbanners everything would have been fine. Now we are left with no choice but to block them. Most people don't block text ads. So use them if you must. But first think about what you are providing, is it a "I want money" or a for the public good website?
The internet is one medimum that corp's haven't yet taken control of. Do you want them to?
Or would you prefer the people to remain in control, and live by our rules, not the rule of the almighty dollar?
Now "The Other" university of technology is on there.
But where is Cal-Tech?
neXtBox?
Errr. bullshit.
Lets do a little be of actual (rough) math.
64kbps = 6.4kps
Your avg ADSL connection is 1.5mbit or 164kps.
So that means you can fit 25 streams per connection.
So to cover 500,000 people watching you'd need 20,000 1.5mbit ADSL connections.
Yeah I'm sure the total bandwidth of the world amounts to 20,000 home ADSL Connections.
Oh, and by the way according to the graph you linked to the total bandwidth is around 1Pbps or 1,000,000GBps. But don't worry, you were close.
You'd think someone on the tech savvy Slashdot could read a graph.
My father is a professor at the Australian National University (Physics Dept).
He gets paid US$60k a year, works 8 hours a day at work.
Then comes home and spends his evenings on his laptop working for another 1 to 3 hours. And then on weekends spends another 3+ hours a day working.
None of which he gets paid extra for, as he is on a fixed salary.
Don't taint all professors with one what professor did.
"Looks there have been cracks before and last time the space shuttle didn't blow up. We're not sure why it didn't, what caused the crack, what effects it has, or infact anything. But we are certin that because nothing happend the last time, it won't happen this time"
The fact that we actually need to worry about it?
This shouldn't even need to be attempted.
They already do.
Warning: They suck according to engadget .
The point of the internet is anyone can place material on it. Simply because someone pays for hosting and domain doesn't suddenly making the source more trust worthy than someone using a free service.
Your argument has nothing to do with how authentic the document is. Or in fact anything at all.
It's been updated to a 0 on the Torino Scale and according to the 2004 NM risk stats it has a 0.001800000% of hitting earth.
It's good they didn't pick up on it and go overboard as they have done before.
As of today the risk factor of the TORINO IMPACT HAZARD has dropped to 0. And on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale scale is now a -2.23.
The chance of impact is now 0.001800000%
I'd say Back to the Future is about as reliable as the Christian Science Monitor for finding science facts.
"(since software companies tell retailers not to take returns on opened merchandise)."
I call bullshit. EB in Australia will except returns for any game for any reason within 7 days.
If you buy a came, complete it in 5 days, then return it to them and even tell them you completed it and thats why you are returning it and they'll take it.
So if I tell you when I hire you that you'll work 8 hours days 5 days a week for 60k a year.
Then turn around once you have been working for a month and make you work longer hours without pay that is ok? There is nothing wrong with that?
The problem isn't so much that people are working 90-hours a week so much as it is they are LIED to when they are first employed and from the sounds of it continued to be lied to through out their employment.
They are also breaking the law by not paying overtime, or giving comp time. They are laws put in place for a reason, and you can't just break them and say if you don't like it don't work here.
It is almost the company equivalent of a cult. Suck you in, take your money, house and possessions, and then when you realise that a fool you have been you are fucked because you can't leave or you'll be homeless, jobless, possessionless & broke. This isn't as bad ofcourse, but it uses the same tactic. In an increasingly hard industry they are taking advantage of people's fears that they won't be able to find another job. It doesn't sound too good if you tell your new employer you left your last job because they wanted you to work too much.
Organizing sounds like the right thing to do, but unfortunately game designers are one of those fantasy jobs where naive people will always join without realising what they are getting themselves into, and will gladly cross the 'pick lines'. Something needs to be done about these practices, and unfortunately lawsuits seem to be the only real option in this situation.
I say we just shoot the waste into space. What are the chances anyone is going to know where it comes from?
Plus we might annoy some aliens they come here and either A)Tell us to stop, we do, we become friends B)We die, the enviroment is saved!
Well thats because these people who don't want smart guns aren't very bright.
Electronics are just as reliable as mechanics. The gun not working because you hadn't cleaned it would be MORE likely than the smart part of the gun failing. Which doesn't have to be too smart if you allow chip implants. The implant sends a code, then gun picks up codes and checks it.
If you are scared of that not working, I suggest you don't drive a car since A)The cars electics could fail or B) Traffic lights could fail.
As to EMP, if you a worried about them obtaining a small EMP grenade and throwing at you so you can't fire. I'd be a lot more scared that they'd throw a fucking grenade at you.
Oh and btw no batteries, the people who are making this weapons aren't stupid.
The parents is making a joke, that is the actual reason toast lands buttered side up.
The buttered side is heavier, so it starts to flip. But due to the height of the avg table, it doesn't have time to complete a full rotation, so it lands on the buttered side.
If you were to drop it from say the top a fridge, it would most likely land buttered side up.