too me at least it seems obvious that the device can be calibrated as the user likes. Remember, this is not a thought reading machine. Picture this like a joystick calibration: you have to tell the software that the joystick now occupies a position that you refer to as left. However, you can also set the 'normal' right as software left and have it inverted like that. There is no interpretation going on, the joystick just sends some values (like 100,0) and the software maps this, on your command, to 100% left. Calibrating the braincap thing probably works like this: "Choose a thought that will map to 'left'... ready... 3 2 1 go'". Then the ensuing brainwave pattern is recorded and the software just sends whatever input interupt signals 'left' to games or the windows UI or whatever.
yes, but mars is pretty sterile. In fact, so steril that it took a long time to find a confirmable fossilized bacteria. So, obviously, there is not much to compete with, or compete for, I guess. My prediction is that the 'life' on mars (if any) occupies tiny tiny niches that depend heavily on the given environment and evolve at the same rate this changes, planetary timespans so to say. We are badasses, martians are whimps.
I don't like people that impose their view on society as much as the next man. I'm still not convinced that the reg. right would oppose a movie that was about battling hell. I mean, their understanding of the universe hinges on the struggle good/evil, heaven/hell and god/satan. This is the base for many of their teachings as well('don't give into temptations' etc). Also, please recall that dogma was produced in the USA and somehow I don't believe the number of intolerant rel. right wingers dramatically increased in the meantime.
I don't think its political at all. I think its just a cheap production. Look, now they say: well, they are not from hell but mutated by a virus. Before release it'll be: 'look, did we say monsters? We meant zombies that look like normal people with an attitute'. The Inq has an article about it, they say the movie isn't gonna take place on mars and the space marines will be swat guys. So, essentially it's going to be 'Resident evil vs. SWAT' - the Movie and cost 5 bucks for the 8mm film because the props are all donated.
wow... actually some insight instead of mindeless coperation/CEO/USA bashing. I'll add my two cents as well: Libertarians have long said that accidents like this one do not occure because property rights are a certainty (read: capitalism) but because of ongoing erosion of property rights in combination with government regulation and an inept court system. Look, the indian government surely has regulations on factory safety and such. These regulations, eventhough they are well-meant and slavshly hailed on liberal slashdot, actually relieve a company of responsibility. If the law says you must do 'x' naturally the government must enforce you doing 'x' as well. This clearly didn't happen in india. Now lets see if those regulations are really needed. Lets say we have actual law that says 'Property rights are an absolute and protected by the state' it would imply that damage to the physical integrity of property must be recompensated or repaired. Again, this is not happening in india. Property also includes your body and health. Again, huge compensations would be due for the slaughter. If the above points where a certainty, every company would take meassures to decrease the risk of an accident like this. Actually, with property rights intact it wouldn't much matter if this were an accident or intentional. The compesation due in any case would be so high that any owner of the company in question wouldn't have more than a few spare dollars over the bare minimum needed for survival for the rest of his life.
i tried artl and then mediamarkt... they are the only places around here selling that kinda stuff (apart from saturn maybe). I live near reutlingen, which seems to be the most backward region of germany.
Well, I'm not so sure about the DDR3 memory anymore as well. I thought I found one by pixelview but their site is confusing as hell. They actually got two different pages for the 6800 vanilla model, one stating it has DDR3 and the other not mentioning it. The online retailer arlt.com also says the pixelview card comes equiped with DDR3 and lists the price at 300 (128 MB vid-ram) vs the 6600 GT from Leadtek at 250. So when this card becomes available in stores I'll just check out the package and see if the DDR3 stuff is true.
My 'tits' are exactly 0 cms big. I thought the masculin pronoun in my name gave that away:) (just think about 'Der Führer' - He, the Leader).
Yeah, well, I'm not looking for a great solution. Just any would do really. And I sure don't want that emulated crap that sony sells for a gazillion dollars.
it's a real problem. Yesterday I went out to drop 300 on a GF 6800 (in my opinion, the 50 difference to the 6600 GT really gets you something) and an additional 50 on a 5.1 headset. No luck though. It's like talking to caveman at electronics retailers over here (germany). It went like this:
Me: Hi, I'd like to buy a Geforce 6800, don't care much for the manufacturer, but it should have DDR3 memory.
Sales Guy: Well, we don't have them as they are not out yet. If you're looking for a high end card, we just got this FX 5950U in.
Me: *sigh* no thanks. Uhm, do you carry 5.1 surround headphones.
Sales Guy: What do you mean? We got some with 'decoders' on them that get fed stereo input.
Me: Well, thats not surround then.
Sales Guy: Naaa. We don't have what you are looking for and we can't get it for you either. You might just wanna order over the internet.
...
I mean, clearly they don't WANT much business. I hate my country. This is the kind of shit I always have to put up with. If someone with US citizenship could just marry me...
because we all know how often the temperature on earth gets just right to freeze salt water. Especially the pacific is hard hit, barely a winter where that damn ocean doesn't freeze over.
Does it? Because thats news to me. I would take his name to mean that his water is somewhat louder than the usual.:)
Well, 'clear' makes a lot of sense too 'Lauterbach' is also a well known german surname.
maybe you don't recall the part where microsoft was being sued for bundeling their media-player with their operating system. I don't know, in a world that allows this, indeed, cheers against me, I'd not feel the obligation to actually play nice. Libertarians would tell novell, sun, opera to fucking get their act together and compete in the marketplace instead of in the courts. But I guess they are just to 'weeny' for that.
the discussion was about a future majority vote on all thing considered security though. Which is not the case today.
As far as kyoty goes, don't even get me started on this. It shows of the inherent problems with the UN. Kyoto is basically a global welfare scheme, and yes, the majority in the counsel helped make it so. As far as the climate is concerend, the ozon from printers and copy machines needed to print all necessary kyoto documents probably has a larger impact than the realization of the protocol itself will have.
a majority vote in the UN? Are you out of your mind? The 'free' countries are actually the minority in the world which is full of authoritarians from all creeds. I'm sorry, but I'm not ready for seeing blue helments that want to prevent the elections in my country because democracy just went out of style in the general assembly.
you realize that not all posters on slashdot are native english speakers? Considering the proficiency that is mostly displayed this is quite a miracle. I guess you couldn't even order breakfast in any other language...
you should read the posts that you reply too sometimes, you know. Also, it sometimes doesn't hurt too much reading the whole thread. I went through great lengths at explaining how I'm exactly not rich. In the interesst of full disclosoure, I'll also tell you that I make little less than 30000 a year. That is far from affording me a gated community or an extravagant life style. I share a house with my brother, drive to work 30 minutes a day and work between 40 and 60 hours depending on whats necessary to get the job done. I'm not rich. I'm not the elite. I haven't even gone to university. So there you have it, I'm a 'worker' (white-colour, I'd say) jsut like the people you claim to love so much. Well, in your mind you will just chalk this up as me being corrupted by the capitalist class suppressing me. How do I know? Because I read marx, who among other things calls for violence against 'workers' like me that would defend the 'bourgoise'.
The difference between me an you is that I realize that wealth has increased across the spectrum in capitalist countries while in societies that employ a different system always the same conditions reign: 99% of the people live in abject poverty while the ruling thugs bath in luxuries. I do agree with you on one point though, especially in democratic countries it happens that rich people (which I don't regard to be bad, btw) essentially buy influence in the democratic process, often to cement their positions or to futher their goal by ie. having regulations imposed on competitors. The key to this problem is not to abolish the rich, but to abolish that part of politics that can be perverted to those ends.
hmm... hab im Media Makt gekauft, deswegen war ich ja erstaunt das dort eines der billigsten aktuellen spiele gleichzeitig auch das neuste und beste ist;)
the betterment of humanity is not served by hurling insulting slurs (as an AC I might add) at differing opinions. I didn't call you out as the communist/fashist constuctionist piece of shit I recognized you as, preciesly because this is no way to argue. Now you nailed it quite nicely: You and your pals are such good-doers that you could somehow 'save the world' if it wasn't for people like me who refuse to recognize your wisdom. How do we get around this while staying civil? Well easy, just take away my status as 'human' and you are good too go. Now you can rationalize throwing me in labour camps or plainly executing me. Your type of rethoric has been used exclusivly by authoritarian tyrants. The butchers of history. The ones starting genocides, world wars or let their people simply starve to death. Better tomorrow? Well, come see for yourself, we have plenty of ex-concentration camps where the nazis tried to make sure that capitalistic thinking really was a dead line. And btw if your call my ideal of liberty, of people striving for their own betterment, working for their own benefit 'law of the jungle', what term does the alternative deserve? The opposite of self-determination is slavery, the opposite of liberty is confinment, the opposite of 'I' is mindlessnes. You stand for those opposites so I suggest you come up with a catchy term, oh wait 'socialism' - yeah, sounds about right. Guess what, your convictions are not so new after all. Death toll so far: 100 million people, you just keep going, you hear.
where does that obligation come from? The man has no obligation to correct the errors of his fiercest competitor. Also, this 'obligation' would make wikipedia by definition faultless because every fault once found is immediatly corrected. This obviously ignores the time dimension: the article might well have been correct after his visit, but what of the naive reader that visited before?
we can go round and round on this. It does not accumulate accuracy necessarily. Because every moron can go edit this. And doesn't Sokrates tell us himself that the begining of wisdom is to acknowledge not knowing anything? Now, if a truly wise man and the dumbest moron come along who is more likely to 'correct' an article? It doesn't help that most people are ignorant on most but the narrowest topics.
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too me at least it seems obvious that the device can be calibrated as the user likes. Remember, this is not a thought reading machine. Picture this like a joystick calibration: you have to tell the software that the joystick now occupies a position that you refer to as left. However, you can also set the 'normal' right as software left and have it inverted like that. There is no interpretation going on, the joystick just sends some values (like 100,0) and the software maps this, on your command, to 100% left. Calibrating the braincap thing probably works like this: "Choose a thought that will map to 'left' ... ready ... 3 2 1 go'". Then the ensuing brainwave pattern is recorded and the software just sends whatever input interupt signals 'left' to games or the windows UI or whatever.
You pick up a rock on earth, not only will you find millions of fossilized bacteria, you'll find plenty live ones too.
is that why the shuttle requires this expensive ceramic plating? Oh I get it, they just put that on there so it looks mighty cool.
yes, but mars is pretty sterile. In fact, so steril that it took a long time to find a confirmable fossilized bacteria. So, obviously, there is not much to compete with, or compete for, I guess. My prediction is that the 'life' on mars (if any) occupies tiny tiny niches that depend heavily on the given environment and evolve at the same rate this changes, planetary timespans so to say. We are badasses, martians are whimps.
and they weren't sterlized.
Unless the heating upon entry to a gazillion degree counts.
I don't like people that impose their view on society as much as the next man. I'm still not convinced that the reg. right would oppose a movie that was about battling hell. I mean, their understanding of the universe hinges on the struggle good/evil, heaven/hell and god/satan. This is the base for many of their teachings as well('don't give into temptations' etc). Also, please recall that dogma was produced in the USA and somehow I don't believe the number of intolerant rel. right wingers dramatically increased in the meantime.
I don't think its political at all. I think its just a cheap production. Look, now they say: well, they are not from hell but mutated by a virus. Before release it'll be: 'look, did we say monsters? We meant zombies that look like normal people with an attitute'. The Inq has an article about it, they say the movie isn't gonna take place on mars and the space marines will be swat guys. So, essentially it's going to be 'Resident evil vs. SWAT' - the Movie and cost 5 bucks for the 8mm film because the props are all donated.
wow ... actually some insight instead of mindeless coperation/CEO/USA bashing. I'll add my two cents as well: Libertarians have long said that accidents like this one do not occure because property rights are a certainty (read: capitalism) but because of ongoing erosion of property rights in combination with government regulation and an inept court system. Look, the indian government surely has regulations on factory safety and such. These regulations, eventhough they are well-meant and slavshly hailed on liberal slashdot, actually relieve a company of responsibility. If the law says you must do 'x' naturally the government must enforce you doing 'x' as well. This clearly didn't happen in india. Now lets see if those regulations are really needed. Lets say we have actual law that says 'Property rights are an absolute and protected by the state' it would imply that damage to the physical integrity of property must be recompensated or repaired. Again, this is not happening in india. Property also includes your body and health. Again, huge compensations would be due for the slaughter. If the above points where a certainty, every company would take meassures to decrease the risk of an accident like this. Actually, with property rights intact it wouldn't much matter if this were an accident or intentional. The compesation due in any case would be so high that any owner of the company in question wouldn't have more than a few spare dollars over the bare minimum needed for survival for the rest of his life.
i tried artl and then mediamarkt ... they are the only places around here selling that kinda stuff (apart from saturn maybe). I live near reutlingen, which seems to be the most backward region of germany.
Well, I'm not so sure about the DDR3 memory anymore as well. I thought I found one by pixelview but their site is confusing as hell. They actually got two different pages for the 6800 vanilla model, one stating it has DDR3 and the other not mentioning it. The online retailer arlt.com also says the pixelview card comes equiped with DDR3 and lists the price at 300 (128 MB vid-ram) vs the 6600 GT from Leadtek at 250. So when this card becomes available in stores I'll just check out the package and see if the DDR3 stuff is true.
:) (just think about 'Der Führer' - He, the Leader).
My 'tits' are exactly 0 cms big. I thought the masculin pronoun in my name gave that away
Yeah, well, I'm not looking for a great solution. Just any would do really. And I sure don't want that emulated crap that sony sells for a gazillion dollars.
it's a real problem. Yesterday I went out to drop 300 on a GF 6800 (in my opinion, the 50 difference to the 6600 GT really gets you something) and an additional 50 on a 5.1 headset. No luck though. It's like talking to caveman at electronics retailers over here (germany). It went like this:
...
Me: Hi, I'd like to buy a Geforce 6800, don't care much for the manufacturer, but it should have DDR3 memory.
Sales Guy: Well, we don't have them as they are not out yet. If you're looking for a high end card, we just got this FX 5950U in.
Me: *sigh* no thanks. Uhm, do you carry 5.1 surround headphones.
Sales Guy: What do you mean? We got some with 'decoders' on them that get fed stereo input.
Me: Well, thats not surround then.
Sales Guy: Naaa. We don't have what you are looking for and we can't get it for you either. You might just wanna order over the internet.
...
I mean, clearly they don't WANT much business. I hate my country. This is the kind of shit I always have to put up with. If someone with US citizenship could just marry me
because we all know how often the temperature on earth gets just right to freeze salt water. Especially the pacific is hard hit, barely a winter where that damn ocean doesn't freeze over.
Alexander Lauterwasser ("clear water" in German).
:)
Does it? Because thats news to me. I would take his name to mean that his water is somewhat louder than the usual.
Well, 'clear' makes a lot of sense too 'Lauterbach' is also a well known german surname.
maybe you don't recall the part where microsoft was being sued for bundeling their media-player with their operating system. I don't know, in a world that allows this, indeed, cheers against me, I'd not feel the obligation to actually play nice. Libertarians would tell novell, sun, opera to fucking get their act together and compete in the marketplace instead of in the courts. But I guess they are just to 'weeny' for that.
the discussion was about a future majority vote on all thing considered security though. Which is not the case today.
As far as kyoty goes, don't even get me started on this. It shows of the inherent problems with the UN. Kyoto is basically a global welfare scheme, and yes, the majority in the counsel helped make it so. As far as the climate is concerend, the ozon from printers and copy machines needed to print all necessary kyoto documents probably has a larger impact than the realization of the protocol itself will have.
yes, south vietnam and south korea among the more prominent ones :) ... in earnest, the US DID pick the lesser evil if they had too.
Still, I don't understand how your comment relates to mine. No matter what the US does, no one would want a UN that is run by henchmen.
a majority vote in the UN? Are you out of your mind? The 'free' countries are actually the minority in the world which is full of authoritarians from all creeds. I'm sorry, but I'm not ready for seeing blue helments that want to prevent the elections in my country because democracy just went out of style in the general assembly.
you realize that not all posters on slashdot are native english speakers? Considering the proficiency that is mostly displayed this is quite a miracle. I guess you couldn't even order breakfast in any other language ...
alp glaciers have been growing the last years. http://www.niwa.co.nz/pubs/mr/archive/2003-05-26-1
you should read the posts that you reply too sometimes, you know. Also, it sometimes doesn't hurt too much reading the whole thread. I went through great lengths at explaining how I'm exactly not rich. In the interesst of full disclosoure, I'll also tell you that I make little less than 30000 a year. That is far from affording me a gated community or an extravagant life style. I share a house with my brother, drive to work 30 minutes a day and work between 40 and 60 hours depending on whats necessary to get the job done. I'm not rich. I'm not the elite. I haven't even gone to university. So there you have it, I'm a 'worker' (white-colour, I'd say) jsut like the people you claim to love so much. Well, in your mind you will just chalk this up as me being corrupted by the capitalist class suppressing me. How do I know? Because I read marx, who among other things calls for violence against 'workers' like me that would defend the 'bourgoise'.
The difference between me an you is that I realize that wealth has increased across the spectrum in capitalist countries while in societies that employ a different system always the same conditions reign: 99% of the people live in abject poverty while the ruling thugs bath in luxuries. I do agree with you on one point though, especially in democratic countries it happens that rich people (which I don't regard to be bad, btw) essentially buy influence in the democratic process, often to cement their positions or to futher their goal by ie. having regulations imposed on competitors. The key to this problem is not to abolish the rich, but to abolish that part of politics that can be perverted to those ends.
hmm ... hab im Media Makt gekauft, deswegen war ich ja erstaunt das dort eines der billigsten aktuellen spiele gleichzeitig auch das neuste und beste ist ;)
the betterment of humanity is not served by hurling insulting slurs (as an AC I might add) at differing opinions. I didn't call you out as the communist/fashist constuctionist piece of shit I recognized you as, preciesly because this is no way to argue. Now you nailed it quite nicely: You and your pals are such good-doers that you could somehow 'save the world' if it wasn't for people like me who refuse to recognize your wisdom. How do we get around this while staying civil? Well easy, just take away my status as 'human' and you are good too go. Now you can rationalize throwing me in labour camps or plainly executing me. Your type of rethoric has been used exclusivly by authoritarian tyrants. The butchers of history. The ones starting genocides, world wars or let their people simply starve to death.
Better tomorrow? Well, come see for yourself, we have plenty of ex-concentration camps where the nazis tried to make sure that capitalistic thinking really was a dead line. And btw if your call my ideal of liberty, of people striving for their own betterment, working for their own benefit 'law of the jungle', what term does the alternative deserve? The opposite of self-determination is slavery, the opposite of liberty is confinment, the opposite of 'I' is mindlessnes. You stand for those opposites so I suggest you come up with a catchy term, oh wait 'socialism' - yeah, sounds about right. Guess what, your convictions are not so new after all. Death toll so far: 100 million people, you just keep going, you hear.
where does that obligation come from? The man has no obligation to correct the errors of his fiercest competitor. Also, this 'obligation' would make wikipedia by definition faultless because every fault once found is immediatly corrected. This obviously ignores the time dimension: the article might well have been correct after his visit, but what of the naive reader that visited before?
we can go round and round on this. It does not accumulate accuracy necessarily. Because every moron can go edit this. And doesn't Sokrates tell us himself that the begining of wisdom is to acknowledge not knowing anything? Now, if a truly wise man and the dumbest moron come along who is more likely to 'correct' an article? It doesn't help that most people are ignorant on most but the narrowest topics.
sorry, I meant 'encrypted' not 'decrypted'. I'm just sooo excited, forgive me.