"All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?"
"Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter--"
"Wait, wait... just say slavery."
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Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel? Come on, It's clearly like T1000 technology out of Terminator 2!
12 paragraphs practically explaining this guy's life story and nowhere does it say WHY it's "impossible" for left handed people to play, and of course it's not impossible. This taken from another article that actually has a shred of detail on the problem -
That’s right, unlike many other popular games for the Nintendo DS that involve holding the DS in a book-like style, Art Style: BASE 10 does not feature an option to switch screens. The feature, which allows left-handed players to use the touchscreen with ease, has been left out of the game in a ridiculous oversight that may result in many a cramped wrist.
Mina Harris, of Nintendo America has defended this oversight saying things such as "it is unlikely that this will cause any issues." and "this game was tested extensively by left-handed testers before its release, and there were no issues reported."
The above mentioned wrist cramps would be a result of her undoubtedly well thought-out solution to the problem, which is recommending that left-handed players "hold the Nintendo DSi with their right hand, while controlling the stylus with their left hand. Keeping their left wrist towards the bottom of the system will ensure that the touch screen isn’t blocked during gameplay."
So the problem is that you need to use the right hand screen, which will require a left handed user to hold their hand in a slightly more uncomfortable position to avoid blocking the left hand screen. Nintendo should fix it, but to say that it's impossible to play just isn't true. How did this dumbed down clap-trap get posted to slashdot anyway?
Yes you're absolutely right, obviously age restrictions are pointless so we should do away with all of them, no minimum age for drinking, smoking, gambling, buying porn, buying guns etc. after all parents should have to watch their children 24/7 and be responsible for 100% of their children's actions.
So the question now is, does this mean if Adobe tries to release it's tools again that Apple is going to let it
Apple can't prevent Adobe releasing the tools, it can only prevent iPhone apps that were written in the tools from being approved (if they can fingerprint the apps well enough to tell)
ISO doesn't work like that, the sensors are celebrated so that the ISO values are roughly the same across all sensors (and the same as film too), so a compact camera set to ISO 100, f4 will require the same shutter speed as a full frame DSLR at ISO 100, f4
ISO 25 in broad daylight with a lens set to f60 would require (quick back of a fag packet calculation) 1/6 sec exposure no matter what the camera.
What I think you mean is that the sensor's high iso (say iso 12800) is the equivalent quality of what iso 25 would be on a standard DSLR
Sure you can get an adapter, but a 1/2.5" sensor has a crop factor of 6, so a 28mm lense becomes a (probably quite soft) 168mm lens and a 50mm lens because 300mm.
That's the same kind of sensor you get in a small compact camera like an IXUS, you'll never get anywhere near cinematic quality with that because of noise, lack of dynamic range and most of all the small sensor gives a large depth of field, so no fancy depth of field effects. For comparison a 1/2.5" sensor is about the same size as Super8 film.
For cinematic image quality (at least in terms of shallow depth of field) you need at least a 4/3rds size sensor (which is a bit larger than 16mm film), even better would be an APS or full frame sensor.
Watch his thumb, the end of his nail goes white which means he's applying pressure, and his thumb is right over the home button...
These guys are amateurs, if they're going to fake it they should have used thinner paper so their finger press would register through it (I've tried it on my htc hero and the touch screen does work through a sheet of paper)
Those cards are definitely fake, if you watch his thumb he's obviously putting pressure down on the home button.
The figure recognition could be based on size, but then I didn't see anything on the bottom that would allow it to sense which direction it was pointing. If there was 2 pads on the bottom arranged like oO then it would have at least been vaguely believable.
USB 2.0 was such a bottleneck that a stopgap was introduced called eSATA, which allowed for external drives that used a SATA hard drive interface. Well, USB 3.0 pretty much that out to pasture
Sure USB 3 might be rated up to 5Gbits/sec, but in a real world test will it actually be faster than SATA? In file copy tets Firewire at 400mbits/sec is 15-50% faster than USB2 at 480mbits/sec
Perhaps if you had filtered SATA data AND power cables it might prevent some RF noise from interfering with the audio out (my PC has a slight hiss when the volume is turned up) but this could be completely eliminated by using the digital optical out instead of analogue outs (thus removing all electronic interference)
Just be sure to use monster optical cables tho, they use 1" thick lead cladding to make sure no gamma ray photons or cosmic ray particles can interfere with the laser light:)
The human brain could be simulated with a million lines of code, however it would need to be run inside an emulator that simulates physics perfectly and has enough RAM to store the quantum state of the aprox 1.5*10^26 atoms that make up a human brain.
Looking at one of these apps ("Dark World Wallpapers") the app asks for the following permissions:
- Storage - modify/delete SD card contents - Your location - coarse (network-based) location - Network Communication - full Internet access - Phone calls - read phone state and identity
It's nice android warns what permissions an app needs, but some of them (especially the "Phone calls" section) could be worded better to make it clearer what an app can potentially do.
Kepler needs 3 transits to confirm a planet, so given that it's only been up there since March 7, 2009 any planet around the same distance as earth will only have had 2 transits max.
It's exciting that there are so many candidates but I guess NASA doesn't want the embarrassment of getting everyone all excited then having to hugely backtrack on the number if some turn out to be something else.
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Finally we'll be able to run bogosort efficiently
"All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?"
"Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter--"
"Wait, wait... just say slavery."
Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel? Come on, It's clearly like T1000 technology out of Terminator 2!
12 paragraphs practically explaining this guy's life story and nowhere does it say WHY it's "impossible" for left handed people to play, and of course it's not impossible. This taken from another article that actually has a shred of detail on the problem -
That’s right, unlike many other popular games for the Nintendo DS that involve holding the DS in a book-like style, Art Style: BASE 10 does not feature an option to switch screens. The feature, which allows left-handed players to use the touchscreen with ease, has been left out of the game in a ridiculous oversight that may result in many a cramped wrist.
Mina Harris, of Nintendo America has defended this oversight saying things such as "it is unlikely that this will cause any issues." and "this game was tested extensively by left-handed testers before its release, and there were no issues reported."
The above mentioned wrist cramps would be a result of her undoubtedly well thought-out solution to the problem, which is recommending that left-handed players "hold the Nintendo DSi with their right hand, while controlling the stylus with their left hand. Keeping their left wrist towards the bottom of the system will ensure that the touch screen isn’t blocked during gameplay."
So the problem is that you need to use the right hand screen, which will require a left handed user to hold their hand in a slightly more uncomfortable position to avoid blocking the left hand screen. Nintendo should fix it, but to say that it's impossible to play just isn't true. How did this dumbed down clap-trap get posted to slashdot anyway?
Yes you're absolutely right, obviously age restrictions are pointless so we should do away with all of them, no minimum age for drinking, smoking, gambling, buying porn, buying guns etc. after all parents should have to watch their children 24/7 and be responsible for 100% of their children's actions.
Games in the UK are given BBFC ratings (U, PG,12,15,18) like films and just like films you can only purchase them if you are over that age.
Seems pretty fucking simple, what's the big deal? I'd much rather a game was restricted to 18+s only than banned outright.
So the question now is, does this mean if Adobe tries to release it's tools again that Apple is going to let it
Apple can't prevent Adobe releasing the tools, it can only prevent iPhone apps that were written in the tools from being approved (if they can fingerprint the apps well enough to tell)
Large format cameras don't use focal plane shutters, they use leaf or diaphragm shutters
ISO doesn't work like that, the sensors are celebrated so that the ISO values are roughly the same across all sensors (and the same as film too), so a compact camera set to ISO 100, f4 will require the same shutter speed as a full frame DSLR at ISO 100, f4
ISO 25 in broad daylight with a lens set to f60 would require (quick back of a fag packet calculation) 1/6 sec exposure no matter what the camera.
What I think you mean is that the sensor's high iso (say iso 12800) is the equivalent quality of what iso 25 would be on a standard DSLR
Sure you can get an adapter, but a 1/2.5" sensor has a crop factor of 6, so a 28mm lense becomes a (probably quite soft) 168mm lens and a 50mm lens because 300mm.
That's the same kind of sensor you get in a small compact camera like an IXUS, you'll never get anywhere near cinematic quality with that because of noise, lack of dynamic range and most of all the small sensor gives a large depth of field, so no fancy depth of field effects. For comparison a 1/2.5" sensor is about the same size as Super8 film.
For cinematic image quality (at least in terms of shallow depth of field) you need at least a 4/3rds size sensor (which is a bit larger than 16mm film), even better would be an APS or full frame sensor.
Watch his thumb, the end of his nail goes white which means he's applying pressure, and his thumb is right over the home button...
These guys are amateurs, if they're going to fake it they should have used thinner paper so their finger press would register through it (I've tried it on my htc hero and the touch screen does work through a sheet of paper)
Those cards are definitely fake, if you watch his thumb he's obviously putting pressure down on the home button.
The figure recognition could be based on size, but then I didn't see anything on the bottom that would allow it to sense which direction it was pointing. If there was 2 pads on the bottom arranged like oO then it would have at least been vaguely believable.
USB 2.0 was such a bottleneck that a stopgap was introduced called eSATA, which allowed for external drives that used a SATA hard drive interface. Well, USB 3.0 pretty much that out to pasture
Sure USB 3 might be rated up to 5Gbits/sec, but in a real world test will it actually be faster than SATA? In file copy tets Firewire at 400mbits/sec is 15-50% faster than USB2 at 480mbits/sec
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Make a huge solar concentrator / death ray with it
Perhaps if you had filtered SATA data AND power cables it might prevent some RF noise from interfering with the audio out (my PC has a slight hiss when the volume is turned up) but this could be completely eliminated by using the digital optical out instead of analogue outs (thus removing all electronic interference)
Just be sure to use monster optical cables tho, they use 1" thick lead cladding to make sure no gamma ray photons or cosmic ray particles can interfere with the laser light :)
Check out the FMV from the new photo-realistic 3D version of Minesweeper
The human brain could be simulated with a million lines of code, however it would need to be run inside an emulator that simulates physics perfectly and has enough RAM to store the quantum state of the aprox 1.5*10^26 atoms that make up a human brain.
I can't help but think they only got this just so they would have a cool toy to play with at their Mountain View campus
Looking at one of these apps ("Dark World Wallpapers") the app asks for the following permissions:
- Storage - modify/delete SD card contents
- Your location - coarse (network-based) location
- Network Communication - full Internet access
- Phone calls - read phone state and identity
It's nice android warns what permissions an app needs, but some of them (especially the "Phone calls" section) could be worded better to make it clearer what an app can potentially do.
What, you never used an Automated Teller Machine Machine before? Where do you think banks get their ATMs from? Queue up in the store? I think not!
Kepler needs 3 transits to confirm a planet, so given that it's only been up there since March 7, 2009 any planet around the same distance as earth will only have had 2 transits max.
It's exciting that there are so many candidates but I guess NASA doesn't want the embarrassment of getting everyone all excited then having to hugely backtrack on the number if some turn out to be something else.
FRACTALS, are your children being exposed to visual ACID?
Evidently not otherwise the laptop wouldn't be checking his email.