I don't think it's that no one CAN... I think it's that no one cares enough to even bother.
Considering the fact that high-quality, free music can be obtained without any sort of DRM cracking, there's really no incentive to crack the iTunes DRM system.
"The added realism and immersion of playing Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with hardware physics is a huge success in this gamer's opinion. Granted, the improved visuals aren't the holy grail of game physics, but this is an excellent first step. In a fast fire fight with bullets streaming by, helicopters raining destruction from the heavens, and grenades tearing up the streets, the experience is just that much more hair raising with a PPU plugged in."
I hate to play this card, but by the end of 2006, we will have spent a (conservative) estimate of $315 billion in Iraq.
Heck, compare this to non-government entities. If ol' Bill could get college students to write him a completely new OS for 2.5M, he'd probably jump at the chance.
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On the contrary, I believe that the digitial medium of video games allows for MORE creativity. I don't know a single child who plays the sims/TS2 by the rules - they're always building creative mansions with indoor graveyards or giant party rooms, and giving their sims crazy tasks to do or missions to complete.
These realizations of creativity and imagination are simply impossible in real life. You might be able to build a house out of legos or blocks, but can you paint it? Wallpaper it? Chose Carpet/tile designs or build pools? Not at all. Similarly, dolls can't be programed or ordered to complete tasks like sims can.
Simply put, the limits placed upon the gamer by the game are much less restrictive than the inherent limits of reality.
I'm not saying actually making punches in paper for it to read - I'm thinking DOTS. Crazy, I know... but a computer should have a lot easier time reading dots than trying to read letters, or complex series of symbols differing in some cases only by concavity. Making dots would also force people to be more uniform, and thus easier to read for the computer.
My guess would be something a little similar to braille. In theory, the computer would have an excellent time reading this, and a few simplifications might make it easier to write.
"Each complete kit includes pre-fitted, pressure tested tubing that can easily be adjusted to shorter lengths without the fear of accidental leakage. For mobility-minded users and LAN party gamers, the kit also include quick connect self-sealing connectors to avoid having to drain the liquid during transport. (This also helps during initial installation)."
If you look at the instruction manual, or the review posted in TFA, you can see the quick disconnects.
With water cooling, leakage is always a concern - but these things are so well made that I've never even heard of someone's water cooling unit crapping out on them and frying their system. I *HAVE* heard of failure of fans in air cooling systems that destroy the processors - and while a good deal of that might be simply because so many more people USE air cooling, I think it would be unfair to say that the risk of leakage is so iminent that these units aren't worth installing.
Remember, the people who buy these units are the people with very, very nice computers, and as such, they take great care to make sure they don't get ruined. With a little care, it's easy to ensure that the risk of leakage is negligible.
Sure, you wouldn't want the soldier to be looking all over, but this could be used to KEEP the soldier's eye on the target; if the soldier no longer has to actually look down at a map or GPS when navigating, or look down/radio to check the status of a squad/ammount of ammo/even something as simple as the time, then that could always help keep the soldier's eye on the target. And if something's flying in the soldier's eye that would break the glasses... well, the soldier probably has bigger problems then.
And of course, simple military interest doesn't have to be only in terms of ground troops. This might be a huge boon for small command posts - now these areas can have a large display without the prohibitive space or energy requirements of an actual high quality screen.
Potentially this technology could be adapted to the helmets of fighter jet pilots as well; I know the Air Force is always working on HUD's for them.
If this really were JUST like a simple pair of glasses, you could potentially do all sorts of things; coupled with a video scanning device, you could flip through a book, much faster than you could read it, and then google it from your glasses. Heck, you could get a HUD for real life, or zoom in on a far away object... especially with the shrinking size of high-resolution cameras, the possibilities seem almost endless.
I'm sure the military would be interested in some applications too.
Not necessarily; if the copies you have are broken apart and split up, that doesn't mean you have a security breach.
For example, if I tell you my 8 character password has a "q" in it, you've only lowered the number of possible passwords from 2821109907456 to 78364164096. Not exactly useful, either way.
And of course, what good is keeping the data out of the wrong hands if the RIGHT HANDS can never get to it?
They did; the board that accepted the MIT paper, not consisting of specialists in the field, was likely confused by the pseudo-scientific gibberish they encountered. By mastering the methodology for the typical unification of access points and redundancy, the MIT students were able to effectively enter the scientific conference.
I believe a more apt analogy would be taking a pill for your cold and getting chemo in addition. And then you have to take another pill to fix that problem, but it gives you syphillis. Then you take another pill and it cures your syphillis and gives you the cold - so you're back where you started, just with a lot less time.
G is actually the gravatational constant - 6.67x10^-11, IIRC.
g is accel. due to gravity at the Earth's surface: 9.8 m/s^2
What you say IS true, but a more specific equation is F = (G*M1*m2)/r^2
So gravity is directly proportional to the mass of the first object, the mass of the second object, and inversely proportional to the radius squared.
Notice that if you solve for acceleration of the 2nd mass: if F = m*a then m*a = (G*M1*m2)/r^2 so a = (G*M1)/r^2 This is why mass doesn't matter to accel.
In fact, I recommend forgoing the desk entirely in favor of a bed with a projector on the cieling.
Hey, if you can run that by your superiors, I'm sure you can get away with just napping and claiming that you're "Meditating on a solution to the problem" or "Harnessing cosmic energy to leap great hurdles"
The chair. Seriously. If you're going to be sitting in a chair for hours on end, it's worth it to buy a good one, or at least put some padding down on the one you already have. The other great thing about this is that, unlike a new keyboard, mouse, mousepad, or other ergonomic upgrade, a well-made chair won't wear out, break down, or become obsolete with the next version of windows (I'm using an immensely comfortable office chair from the 1920's).
I would definitely consider looking at upgrading your chair before you worry about the actual desk itself.
iPods are definitely a hot theft item. I've seen multitudes of iPods stolen around campus, and have heard horror stories around the local high school. I've even met members of gangs that dealt strictly in stolen iPods.
I would worry more about these than laptops, tbh. You can't exactly hide a laptop in a pocket, and many more people own iPods, I'd theorize.
I used to work a simple job where I did database work for a company doing medical studies. It wasn't a lab, but it wasn't your typical cubicled office either. Although I had very little knowledge on the actual medical component of the studies I was doing, certianly not enough to design the stuff I needed to do, the management was superb - I wasn't REQUIRED to know anything about the medical component, and they trusted me to do the programming. What I didn't know they were happy to fill me in on - I knew enough about medicine for what they were saying to make sense, and they knew enough about programming to give me some idea where to start. If the management can effectively coordinate biologists and pgrogrammers, you don't need to have dbas with deep biology backgrounds.
As far as I am aware, we know a lot less about the surface of Venus than we do about the surface of Mars or say, Mercury, or even Pluto. Given that Venus is relatively close to us, it seems to make sense to go about exploring it - especially since our satellites can't peer through the thick atmosphere.
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I don't think it's that no one CAN... I think it's that no one cares enough to even bother.
Considering the fact that high-quality, free music can be obtained without any sort of DRM cracking, there's really no incentive to crack the iTunes DRM system.
In other news...
Hell freezes over.
Microsoft Open-sources all their software.
Adobe gives photoshop away for free.
Etc.
Lets just create the Department of Nanotechnology.
Problem solved!
Hate to break it to you buddy, but it seems as if you've been watching all the old stuff.
Guess who's sleeping on the sofa tonight? ...
Bastard.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2751
"The added realism and immersion of playing Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with hardware physics is a huge success in this gamer's opinion. Granted, the improved visuals aren't the holy grail of game physics, but this is an excellent first step. In a fast fire fight with bullets streaming by, helicopters raining destruction from the heavens, and grenades tearing up the streets, the experience is just that much more hair raising with a PPU plugged in."
$2.5M is NOTHING to them. Nothing.
I hate to play this card, but by the end of 2006, we will have spent a (conservative) estimate of $315 billion in Iraq.
Heck, compare this to non-government entities. If ol' Bill could get college students to write him a completely new OS for 2.5M, he'd probably jump at the chance.
On the contrary, I believe that the digitial medium of video games allows for MORE creativity. I don't know a single child who plays the sims/TS2 by the rules - they're always building creative mansions with indoor graveyards or giant party rooms, and giving their sims crazy tasks to do or missions to complete.
These realizations of creativity and imagination are simply impossible in real life. You might be able to build a house out of legos or blocks, but can you paint it? Wallpaper it? Chose Carpet/tile designs or build pools? Not at all. Similarly, dolls can't be programed or ordered to complete tasks like sims can.
Simply put, the limits placed upon the gamer by the game are much less restrictive than the inherent limits of reality.
I'm not saying actually making punches in paper for it to read - I'm thinking DOTS. Crazy, I know... but a computer should have a lot easier time reading dots than trying to read letters, or complex series of symbols differing in some cases only by concavity. Making dots would also force people to be more uniform, and thus easier to read for the computer.
I hate to be cliché, but RTFA. Obviously, this sytem is just as effective as other units that take longer to install.
That's sort of the point.
My guess would be something a little similar to braille. In theory, the computer would have an excellent time reading this, and a few simplifications might make it easier to write.
From the Corsair website:
"Each complete kit includes pre-fitted, pressure tested tubing that can easily be adjusted to shorter lengths without the fear of accidental leakage. For mobility-minded users and LAN party gamers, the kit also include quick connect self-sealing connectors to avoid having to drain the liquid during transport. (This also helps during initial installation)."
If you look at the instruction manual, or the review posted in TFA, you can see the quick disconnects.
With water cooling, leakage is always a concern - but these things are so well made that I've never even heard of someone's water cooling unit crapping out on them and frying their system. I *HAVE* heard of failure of fans in air cooling systems that destroy the processors - and while a good deal of that might be simply because so many more people USE air cooling, I think it would be unfair to say that the risk of leakage is so iminent that these units aren't worth installing.
Remember, the people who buy these units are the people with very, very nice computers, and as such, they take great care to make sure they don't get ruined. With a little care, it's easy to ensure that the risk of leakage is negligible.
Sure, you wouldn't want the soldier to be looking all over, but this could be used to KEEP the soldier's eye on the target; if the soldier no longer has to actually look down at a map or GPS when navigating, or look down/radio to check the status of a squad/ammount of ammo/even something as simple as the time, then that could always help keep the soldier's eye on the target. And if something's flying in the soldier's eye that would break the glasses... well, the soldier probably has bigger problems then.
And of course, simple military interest doesn't have to be only in terms of ground troops. This might be a huge boon for small command posts - now these areas can have a large display without the prohibitive space or energy requirements of an actual high quality screen.
Potentially this technology could be adapted to the helmets of fighter jet pilots as well; I know the Air Force is always working on HUD's for them.
If this really were JUST like a simple pair of glasses, you could potentially do all sorts of things; coupled with a video scanning device, you could flip through a book, much faster than you could read it, and then google it from your glasses. Heck, you could get a HUD for real life, or zoom in on a far away object... especially with the shrinking size of high-resolution cameras, the possibilities seem almost endless.
I'm sure the military would be interested in some applications too.
Not necessarily; if the copies you have are broken apart and split up, that doesn't mean you have a security breach.
For example, if I tell you my 8 character password has a "q" in it, you've only lowered the number of possible passwords from 2821109907456 to 78364164096. Not exactly useful, either way.
And of course, what good is keeping the data out of the wrong hands if the RIGHT HANDS can never get to it?
Actually, on slashdot we have an even BETTER pick-up line:
I'll be like cos^2, and you be like sin^2... and together, we'll be 1.
Or casts his Level 8 -
Never mind.
They did; the board that accepted the MIT paper, not consisting of specialists in the field, was likely confused by the pseudo-scientific gibberish they encountered. By mastering the methodology for the typical unification of access points and redundancy, the MIT students were able to effectively enter the scientific conference.
I believe a more apt analogy would be taking a pill for your cold and getting chemo in addition. And then you have to take another pill to fix that problem, but it gives you syphillis. Then you take another pill and it cures your syphillis and gives you the cold - so you're back where you started, just with a lot less time.
G is actually the gravatational constant - 6.67x10^-11, IIRC.
g is accel. due to gravity at the Earth's surface: 9.8 m/s^2
What you say IS true, but a more specific equation is F = (G*M1*m2)/r^2
So gravity is directly proportional to the mass of the first object, the mass of the second object, and inversely proportional to the radius squared.
Notice that if you solve for acceleration of the 2nd mass:
if
F = m*a
then
m*a = (G*M1*m2)/r^2
so
a = (G*M1)/r^2
This is why mass doesn't matter to accel.
In fact, I recommend forgoing the desk entirely in favor of a bed with a projector on the cieling.
Hey, if you can run that by your superiors, I'm sure you can get away with just napping and claiming that you're "Meditating on a solution to the problem" or "Harnessing cosmic energy to leap great hurdles"
The chair. Seriously. If you're going to be sitting in a chair for hours on end, it's worth it to buy a good one, or at least put some padding down on the one you already have. The other great thing about this is that, unlike a new keyboard, mouse, mousepad, or other ergonomic upgrade, a well-made chair won't wear out, break down, or become obsolete with the next version of windows (I'm using an immensely comfortable office chair from the 1920's).
I would definitely consider looking at upgrading your chair before you worry about the actual desk itself.
iPods are definitely a hot theft item. I've seen multitudes of iPods stolen around campus, and have heard horror stories around the local high school. I've even met members of gangs that dealt strictly in stolen iPods.
I would worry more about these than laptops, tbh. You can't exactly hide a laptop in a pocket, and many more people own iPods, I'd theorize.
I used to work a simple job where I did database work for a company doing medical studies. It wasn't a lab, but it wasn't your typical cubicled office either. Although I had very little knowledge on the actual medical component of the studies I was doing, certianly not enough to design the stuff I needed to do, the management was superb - I wasn't REQUIRED to know anything about the medical component, and they trusted me to do the programming. What I didn't know they were happy to fill me in on - I knew enough about medicine for what they were saying to make sense, and they knew enough about programming to give me some idea where to start. If the management can effectively coordinate biologists and pgrogrammers, you don't need to have dbas with deep biology backgrounds.
As far as I am aware, we know a lot less about the surface of Venus than we do about the surface of Mars or say, Mercury, or even Pluto. Given that Venus is relatively close to us, it seems to make sense to go about exploring it - especially since our satellites can't peer through the thick atmosphere.