What I think is (kinda) interesting is that everyone I've met who uses "Inverted Mouse" in first person shooters started out by playing some kind of flight sim with a joystick. I played a lot of X-wing (I still have my original 3.5" floppies!) way before I started playing FPSes. (Quake II is when I started to get into FPSes)
By contrast, most everyone else started had never played a flight sim, or at least started playing FPSes on their computer or console first. Many of these people are baffled when they sit at my computer to play TF2 or WoW and don't understand why anyone would use inverted mouse.
For anyone who don't understand, to point the nose of a airplane down, you push the joystick forward (the joystick becomes angled downward as well). To pull the nose of a plane up, you pull on the joystick. (Pull up! Pull up!) This leads to wierdness in FPSes of pushing your mouse up to look down, and pulling the mouse down to look up.
This device theoretically can make walking easier! It works by helping slow down your legs during each step. But the key point is that it only turns on during the part of your step where your muscles would be trying to slow down your leg anyway! (Similar to regenerative braking in electric cars.) So technically, this will make walking take less effort, not more!
Actually, there is concern that this device may cause muscles to atrophy. It works by helping slow down your leg during the part of each step where your quadriceps "slow down" your leg. Similar to how electric cars use "regenerative breaking" to slow the car down and gain back energy.
In fact, theoretically when this device gets light and exact enough, walking can take less effort than without the device!
There was an attempt to outlaw i and it's use in mathematical equations. Lawmakers who objected to its use complained that it wasn't real and their constituents required too much imagination to accept it.
What's really sad is I don't know if that's a joke or if it's informative.
I mean, and I'm 100% serious here... It could go either way. I have no clue!
These aren't for IT employees. (Good IT employees know that if IT is putting out fires, IT isn't doing its job.)
This is targeted towards IT managers and other management, up to the CTO. (The guys who are always asking IT to put out fires because they decided the company is going to run on Microsoft.)
The Earth has an estimated 61 years of copper reserves remaining. Environmental analyst, Lester Brown, however, has suggested copper might run out within 25 years based on a reasonable extrapolation of 2% growth per year.
Okay, this is just wrong from an economic viewpoint. Anyone who makes a statement like this has an agenda to push (not a problem) and is pushing it in a manipulative way (this is a problem).
As copper reserves drop over time, it gets more and more expensive to supply more, because we already mined the easy-to-reach copper. At the same time, due to economies of scale, the price of fiber will drop. There will be a time where the overall costs to the company for both copper and fiber will be equal, and companies will start to transition. In fact, I would say this is already starting to happen considering how much fiber exists already.
The world supply of copper (or oil for that matter) will not just disappear suddenly in a few decades. Suggesting so is fear-mongering. These products will still be available. All that will happen is that the cost of copper (and oil) will raise until they are priced more than some substitute product, at which point everyone starts switching.
I don't think this is a case of trying to stop stupid people from being stupid, but more for educating the general public.
When new-fangled technology comes out, most the population doesn't know anything about it. Electricity is a perfect example of this. The only reason why we all grew up knowing the dangers of electricity is because there has been an effort in educating the general population about it. People used to die much more often from electrocution, not because they were stupid, but because they didn't know a wet toaster or a wet hair dryer could be a problem. At one point in time, MOST people didn't know that!
This is in fact one of the reasons why it can seem so hard to get third-world country's standard of living up. How can you train an entire country something we consider basic, like the dangers of electricity, without warning labels? (Heaven forbid if most of the population isn't literate)
RockBand and Guitar Hero 3 allow you to buy tracks online. RockBand is releasing Metallica One and one of Nirvana's CD, along with the many Police, Radiohead, Weezer, and other singles already available for purchase.
I do not buy CDs, but I have definitely bought my share of songs online. (Also interesting, the record labels have gotten a good chunk of change from these sales, and almost every song featured in Guitar Hero and RockBand have seen their radio play and sales go up.)
If some old GPL'ed code falls into the public domain, is that really that bad? It won't affect code that is still currently GPL'ed, and why not let anyone (even "greedy" corporations) use the old code?
If someone wrote something a decade ago, and then dies tomorrow, is there any harm in releasing that old code to the entire population?
Isn't that the point of copyright? That the entire population gets to benefit after a while?
A lot of people here seem mad that the government is controlling people's thermostats. THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!!
I suspect this is similar to a program Southern California Edison already has in place. If you are a homeowner, you can have Edison install a remote kill switch to your A/C unit. Then, during the summer, Edison can cut your A/C for 30 minutes to 4 hours.
Note:
This program is completely VOLUNTARY
The homeowner chooses the maximum time they want their A/C to be cut. You can tell Edison to cut your A/C only an hour at a time.
YOU GET PAID FOR IT. It's not very much, but I figure that it's cheaper than it would cost to build new power generating plants, and it's *more environmentally friendly* too!
Compared to this program already in place, raising the thermostat a few degrees is less invasive then getting your A/C shut off for a couple hours.
What happens when we add energy to the speed of a particle? When the speed gets closer and closer to the speed of light, the mass starts increasing.
Here's the important part that you probably already know. When an object nears the speed of light, the mass starts increasing. We can't cross the speed of light because more and more energy is required to accelerate the object.
Note that we can keep putting (unlimited amounts of) energy into the object and it will never go faster than light.
My theory? When so much energy is put into such a small space, it hits a form where the energy resonates and becomes primarily matter without any energy left over for movement. (Sound familiar? Absolute Hot and Absolute Cold are the same thing?) Matter, acceleration, velocity, temperature, energy... it's all the same thing just in different forms. =)
Wait, are you telling me I need to get a Windows computer just so I can install a Microsoft product to help me work around another Microsoft's products bugs?!?!?
They hope to have a couple packets of seeds of at least 100,000 plant species. It's supposed to survive most anything, being underground and out of the way. The place is fully automated with live video feeds being able to be viewed off-site.
This thing is quite literally a refrigerated gigantic roboticfiling cabinet with heavy-duty security!
I can read ten documents written by people almost as smart as you are in the time it takes your stupid "veeblog" to buffer, play its stupid intro, and replay the series of meat noises you've encoded the information into.
Jeez! How long does it take for you to buffer an online vid, Mr. Slashdot-Elitist-with-a-14.4k-POTS-Internet-Connection???
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Probably the best show on the Food Network. Alton Brown's show gives me the impression that Alton's a physics major that happened to get into cooking.
Awesome! I just see this image of Carmack sitting out in the middle of the desert, steering tons real life explosives costing who-know-show-much money, using a first person view GUI... which happens to be a Quake 3 Mod.
My calculus-based physics teacher was a great example of how to teach a great interactive class by standing in front of a blackboard (or whiteboard in this case) and addressing the students orally. He probably did more to make me interested in Math, Science, and Engineering than anyone else other than my own father (who had a Ph.D. in Mathematics).
7 years later, after dropping out, working (for Microsoft!?!) for a few years, and re-starting college, I am currently taking calculus-based physics with a teacher who is a great example of how much standing in front of a blackboard and addressing the students orally can suck.
My only job is a school tutor and my study habits have much improved since 7 years ago, so I'm doing well in school. But I look around and I see many students who struggle because most of teachers are more like the latter example, rather than the former.
Who tagged this article "Math"?!?? Give me your damn geek card RIGHT NOW because this article has nothing to do with math. I'm not fucking majoring in fucking mathematics to figure out what fucking percentage of a fucking computer's price goes to fucking Microsoft.
Arithmetic, sure. But MATH? Of all the places I'd think would appreciate mathematics... Slashdot! You have forsaken me!
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What I think is (kinda) interesting is that everyone I've met who uses "Inverted Mouse" in first person shooters started out by playing some kind of flight sim with a joystick. I played a lot of X-wing (I still have my original 3.5" floppies!) way before I started playing FPSes. (Quake II is when I started to get into FPSes)
By contrast, most everyone else started had never played a flight sim, or at least started playing FPSes on their computer or console first. Many of these people are baffled when they sit at my computer to play TF2 or WoW and don't understand why anyone would use inverted mouse.
For anyone who don't understand, to point the nose of a airplane down, you push the joystick forward (the joystick becomes angled downward as well). To pull the nose of a plane up, you pull on the joystick. (Pull up! Pull up!) This leads to wierdness in FPSes of pushing your mouse up to look down, and pulling the mouse down to look up.
This device theoretically can make walking easier! It works by helping slow down your legs during each step. But the key point is that it only turns on during the part of your step where your muscles would be trying to slow down your leg anyway! (Similar to regenerative braking in electric cars.) So technically, this will make walking take less effort, not more!
Actually, there is concern that this device may cause muscles to atrophy. It works by helping slow down your leg during the part of each step where your quadriceps "slow down" your leg. Similar to how electric cars use "regenerative breaking" to slow the car down and gain back energy.
In fact, theoretically when this device gets light and exact enough, walking can take less effort than without the device!
What's really sad is I don't know if that's a joke or if it's informative.
I mean, and I'm 100% serious here... It could go either way. I have no clue!
Which explains why Bob and Bob insist on Microsoft...
These aren't for IT employees. (Good IT employees know that if IT is putting out fires, IT isn't doing its job.)
This is targeted towards IT managers and other management, up to the CTO. (The guys who are always asking IT to put out fires because they decided the company is going to run on Microsoft.)
Okay, this is just wrong from an economic viewpoint. Anyone who makes a statement like this has an agenda to push (not a problem) and is pushing it in a manipulative way (this is a problem).
As copper reserves drop over time, it gets more and more expensive to supply more, because we already mined the easy-to-reach copper. At the same time, due to economies of scale, the price of fiber will drop. There will be a time where the overall costs to the company for both copper and fiber will be equal, and companies will start to transition. In fact, I would say this is already starting to happen considering how much fiber exists already.
The world supply of copper (or oil for that matter) will not just disappear suddenly in a few decades. Suggesting so is fear-mongering. These products will still be available. All that will happen is that the cost of copper (and oil) will raise until they are priced more than some substitute product, at which point everyone starts switching.
I agree. I'm pirating as fast as I can!
I don't think this is a case of trying to stop stupid people from being stupid, but more for educating the general public.
When new-fangled technology comes out, most the population doesn't know anything about it. Electricity is a perfect example of this. The only reason why we all grew up knowing the dangers of electricity is because there has been an effort in educating the general population about it. People used to die much more often from electrocution, not because they were stupid, but because they didn't know a wet toaster or a wet hair dryer could be a problem. At one point in time, MOST people didn't know that!
This is in fact one of the reasons why it can seem so hard to get third-world country's standard of living up. How can you train an entire country something we consider basic, like the dangers of electricity, without warning labels? (Heaven forbid if most of the population isn't literate)
RockBand and Guitar Hero 3 allow you to buy tracks online. RockBand is releasing Metallica One and one of Nirvana's CD, along with the many Police, Radiohead, Weezer, and other singles already available for purchase. I do not buy CDs, but I have definitely bought my share of songs online. (Also interesting, the record labels have gotten a good chunk of change from these sales, and almost every song featured in Guitar Hero and RockBand have seen their radio play and sales go up.)
If some old GPL'ed code falls into the public domain, is that really that bad? It won't affect code that is still currently GPL'ed, and why not let anyone (even "greedy" corporations) use the old code? If someone wrote something a decade ago, and then dies tomorrow, is there any harm in releasing that old code to the entire population? Isn't that the point of copyright? That the entire population gets to benefit after a while?
One of the people being discussed about was an avid LSD user.
A lot of people here seem mad that the government is controlling people's thermostats. THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!!
I suspect this is similar to a program Southern California Edison already has in place. If you are a homeowner, you can have Edison install a remote kill switch to your A/C unit. Then, during the summer, Edison can cut your A/C for 30 minutes to 4 hours.
Note:
Compared to this program already in place, raising the thermostat a few degrees is less invasive then getting your A/C shut off for a couple hours.
What happens when we add energy to the speed of a particle? When the speed gets closer and closer to the speed of light, the mass starts increasing.
Here's the important part that you probably already know. When an object nears the speed of light, the mass starts increasing. We can't cross the speed of light because more and more energy is required to accelerate the object.
Note that we can keep putting (unlimited amounts of) energy into the object and it will never go faster than light.
My theory? When so much energy is put into such a small space, it hits a form where the energy resonates and becomes primarily matter without any energy left over for movement. (Sound familiar? Absolute Hot and Absolute Cold are the same thing?) Matter, acceleration, velocity, temperature, energy... it's all the same thing just in different forms. =)
Wait, are you telling me I need to get a Windows computer just so I can install a Microsoft product to help me work around another Microsoft's products bugs?!?!?
They hope to have a couple packets of seeds of at least 100,000 plant species. It's supposed to survive most anything, being underground and out of the way. The place is fully automated with live video feeds being able to be viewed off-site. This thing is quite literally a refrigerated gigantic robotic filing cabinet with heavy-duty security!
Probably the best show on the Food Network. Alton Brown's show gives me the impression that Alton's a physics major that happened to get into cooking.
Awesome! I just see this image of Carmack sitting out in the middle of the desert, steering tons real life explosives costing who-know-show-much money, using a first person view GUI... which happens to be a Quake 3 Mod.
And the first thought my mind had was, "I wonder what their loot tables look like."
I both disagree and agree.
This depends completely on the teacher.
My calculus-based physics teacher was a great example of how to teach a great interactive class by standing in front of a blackboard (or whiteboard in this case) and addressing the students orally. He probably did more to make me interested in Math, Science, and Engineering than anyone else other than my own father (who had a Ph.D. in Mathematics).
7 years later, after dropping out, working (for Microsoft!?!) for a few years, and re-starting college, I am currently taking calculus-based physics with a teacher who is a great example of how much standing in front of a blackboard and addressing the students orally can suck.
My only job is a school tutor and my study habits have much improved since 7 years ago, so I'm doing well in school. But I look around and I see many students who struggle because most of teachers are more like the latter example, rather than the former .
I hate to reply to my own comment, but on second thought maybe that person works in Microsoft's Excel division...
Who tagged this article "Math"?!?? Give me your damn geek card RIGHT NOW because this article has nothing to do with math. I'm not fucking majoring in fucking mathematics to figure out what fucking percentage of a fucking computer's price goes to fucking Microsoft. Arithmetic, sure. But MATH? Of all the places I'd think would appreciate mathematics... Slashdot! You have forsaken me!
Ah... Another math major started school too, eh?
lol, it looks like they had enough mod points today!