Continental US, where it's easy to build gigantic things like rockets, and have the goods and materials shipped to you via train. Hawaii is only marginally more southern, only gives a couple extra MPH on an eastern launch, and is much more isolated.
It's the closest to the equator in the US, and thus gets a "bonus" from the rotational speed of the earth to get to orbit. From cape canaveral, you get something like a 1,000 MPH bonus when launching to the east.
If you're going to go through all that expense, why not use something that's designed for data in the first place, like fiber. You can cram a lot more bandwidth down a fiber connection than you can a copper one.
Or you can just ignore them. They don't inherently do anything to your computer, they're just used for tracking purposes, which a lot of people probably don't like, but are generally not used for nefarious purposes (but are used by bastard marketers, to pick which kind of adds they want to display to you, by what your interests are).
Ultima V, for the C-64, in 1988 had an "AI" with free-flowing conversation that went slightly better than this even:) You could actually talk with random NPCs fairly naturally. Though you could get away with stuff like "food?" or "inn?" if you really wanted to.
Not that low. Not all gamers are voracious. Some people are happy to buy only 4-5 games total. I suppose I may be thinking back to the SNES days, when games didn't take only 5 hours to beat though.
Well it's obviously Google's fault then. That you are probably the only person with a CRC error just means that they've singled you out specifically so you can harp on the "beta" thing that Google assigns to products that *gasp* happen to be in beta.
Seriously though, even a center channel makes a good difference, though I can't imagine that anything much over 5.1 really sounds drastically better. CDs are still just stereo anyway.
I use IE to do all my piracy, now they can finally have a legal leg to stand on to make MS get rid of the damn thing. After all, what other intent than downloading of (pirated) data could a browser have? Same goes with any P2P app, what other intent could it have, I ask?
Uh, no... I was describing a peltier junction, as in one single solitary junction. A peltier junction is a chunk of metal (I simplified, hence my use of the word "basically", it's actually a chunk of _two_ metals, excuse me) that pushes heat to one side or another depending on which way you shove current through them... Which is also exactly the way you described them, and exactly what I described... I'm missing the part where I was wrong.
That's essentially what they're doing here. They're using temperature-sensors in the fingers of the robotic hand, and then using peltier junctions directly connected to the nerve endings from the old hand that relay that temperature to the brain.
It'd be nice if we had direct interfaces into the brain, but we don't yet.
Well, in this article, it says that the nerves from the guy's hand were reattached into his chest, attached to a pneumatic plunger that would push on the nerves when his replacement hand was pushed on; that would give him the sense of touch/pressure, though I doubt it has the resolution for something like surface texture. I'm assuming in this case (it's how it's done elsewhere in prosthetics) that there are also peltier junctions touching the nerves to provide the hot/cold sensation. In the past, the peltier junction was connected to the stump of the arm, so that you would be able to feel hot or cold, but it wouldn't actually feel like it was on your previous hand, it'd still feel like it was on the stump.
Peltier junctions are most often used for CPU cooling, I suppose is what I meant to say, though that was just a guess. I've also seen them in those port-o-coolers too... Anybody know of anything else these are used for?
These work using a peltier junction. For those not "in-the-know", peltier junctions are basically chunks of metal that push heat to one side when you run current through them one way, and the other side when you run current through them the other way. This provides a cold, and a hot side that can be varied very quickly from cold to hot, by changing the amount and direction of the current. They are very inefficient though, requiring a lot of current that is generated as excess heat overall. These are commonly used to cool processor cores down, pushing more heat into the heatsink, but keeping the core cooler than it would be with just a heatsink.
Exactly! I love doing that, clicking on craptastic advertiser's adds, just knowing that I just cost them a nickel. If they would keep the advertisements reasonable, not flash, no animated GIFs or blink tags, then I wouldn't mind at all.
Good point. But reality sucks, and not all of us can live in nice neighborhoods (and if you left your door open 100% of the time, you'd eventually be broken into). People are going to be crappy to eachother for a long time, so home builders, and software programmers alike have at least a little bit of responsibility for looking after their stuff.
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Continental US, where it's easy to build gigantic things like rockets, and have the goods and materials shipped to you via train. Hawaii is only marginally more southern, only gives a couple extra MPH on an eastern launch, and is much more isolated.
-Jesse
It's the closest to the equator in the US, and thus gets a "bonus" from the rotational speed of the earth to get to orbit. From cape canaveral, you get something like a 1,000 MPH bonus when launching to the east.
-Jesse
taking screen captures every 5 seconds on any employee computer under surveilance.
-Jesse
If you're going to go through all that expense, why not use something that's designed for data in the first place, like fiber. You can cram a lot more bandwidth down a fiber connection than you can a copper one.
-Jesse
Or you can just ignore them. They don't inherently do anything to your computer, they're just used for tracking purposes, which a lot of people probably don't like, but are generally not used for nefarious purposes (but are used by bastard marketers, to pick which kind of adds they want to display to you, by what your interests are).
-Jesse
Ultima V, for the C-64, in 1988 had an "AI" with free-flowing conversation that went slightly better than this even :) You could actually talk with random NPCs fairly naturally. Though you could get away with stuff like "food?" or "inn?" if you really wanted to.
-Jesse
Really, finally, a transparent UI you can be bored with in 10 minutes and put back to being opaque. Such innovation!
-Jesse
That's some of the worst "English" I've ever seen. I can't even infer what you meant.
-Jesse
Not that low. Not all gamers are voracious. Some people are happy to buy only 4-5 games total. I suppose I may be thinking back to the SNES days, when games didn't take only 5 hours to beat though.
-Jesse
Well it's obviously Google's fault then. That you are probably the only person with a CRC error just means that they've singled you out specifically so you can harp on the "beta" thing that Google assigns to products that *gasp* happen to be in beta.
-Jesse
I think your downloader or connection is crap. Mine works fine.
-Jesse
Your living room only has two corners? :)
Seriously though, even a center channel makes a good difference, though I can't imagine that anything much over 5.1 really sounds drastically better. CDs are still just stereo anyway.
-Jesse
Then there's folks like me that switched to Linux recently, and have an ATI card that worked just fine in windows. Did I get what I deserve, jerk?
-Jesse
I use IE to do all my piracy, now they can finally have a legal leg to stand on to make MS get rid of the damn thing. After all, what other intent than downloading of (pirated) data could a browser have? Same goes with any P2P app, what other intent could it have, I ask?
-Jesse (please note the sarcasm, people)
Uh, no... I was describing a peltier junction, as in one single solitary junction. A peltier junction is a chunk of metal (I simplified, hence my use of the word "basically", it's actually a chunk of _two_ metals, excuse me) that pushes heat to one side or another depending on which way you shove current through them... Which is also exactly the way you described them, and exactly what I described... I'm missing the part where I was wrong.
-Jesse
That's essentially what they're doing here. They're using temperature-sensors in the fingers of the robotic hand, and then using peltier junctions directly connected to the nerve endings from the old hand that relay that temperature to the brain.
It'd be nice if we had direct interfaces into the brain, but we don't yet.
-Jesse
Well, in this article, it says that the nerves from the guy's hand were reattached into his chest, attached to a pneumatic plunger that would push on the nerves when his replacement hand was pushed on; that would give him the sense of touch/pressure, though I doubt it has the resolution for something like surface texture. I'm assuming in this case (it's how it's done elsewhere in prosthetics) that there are also peltier junctions touching the nerves to provide the hot/cold sensation. In the past, the peltier junction was connected to the stump of the arm, so that you would be able to feel hot or cold, but it wouldn't actually feel like it was on your previous hand, it'd still feel like it was on the stump.
-Jesse
Peltier junctions are most often used for CPU cooling, I suppose is what I meant to say, though that was just a guess. I've also seen them in those port-o-coolers too... Anybody know of anything else these are used for?
-Jesse
These work using a peltier junction. For those not "in-the-know", peltier junctions are basically chunks of metal that push heat to one side when you run current through them one way, and the other side when you run current through them the other way. This provides a cold, and a hot side that can be varied very quickly from cold to hot, by changing the amount and direction of the current. They are very inefficient though, requiring a lot of current that is generated as excess heat overall. These are commonly used to cool processor cores down, pushing more heat into the heatsink, but keeping the core cooler than it would be with just a heatsink.
-Jesse
Suppress them, obviously.
-Jesse
Exactly! I love doing that, clicking on craptastic advertiser's adds, just knowing that I just cost them a nickel. If they would keep the advertisements reasonable, not flash, no animated GIFs or blink tags, then I wouldn't mind at all.
and best of all, EVERY new browser will be able to render it, unless there is a bug in that browser.
:) Really though, CSS support in most browsers (even the open source ones) is lacking to say the least.
So basically, no new browsers will render it?
-Jesse
Who's paying for video over the internet? I didn't know that ever was conceived, fertilized, or left the womb.
-Jesse
Good point. But reality sucks, and not all of us can live in nice neighborhoods (and if you left your door open 100% of the time, you'd eventually be broken into). People are going to be crappy to eachother for a long time, so home builders, and software programmers alike have at least a little bit of responsibility for looking after their stuff.
-Jesse
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of hard disks speeding down the highway.
:)
The bandwidth may be great, but the latency is terrible
-Jesse