Obviously you can't make a career out of that. ($0.50 an hour) but on the other hand, most don't get paid for their game playing at all.:)
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back in the 50's people thought we'd have flying cars by now!
That sure does come up a lot. The fact is there is one. It's pointed out here all the time, that Moller skycar. The barrier for everyone having a flying car is not the technology, it's the practicality. Air traffic control is already a difficult thing to keep in check. That's with proffesional pilots and proffesional upkeep on the vehicles. The public just isn't clamouring for flying cars. Medicine is a whole other animal. People are dying to get their hands on life lengthening medicine. (Bad pun, sorry.:) )
Oh, also, Isn't retro-reflective redundant? Doesn't reflection pretty much imply sending light back in the direction it came?
(Sorry for responding to my own post.:) )
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The raincoat-like cloak is made out of "retro-reflective'' material covered with tiny beads that reflect light back in the same direction it came.
The cloak is designed to make whatever it is covering, a body or object, appear transparent by projecting video shot with a camera from behind the cloak onto the front of the cloak.
Hold on a sec, these are two very different things. Are they talking about two different cloaks? If so, it's not very obvious from the article. Also, wouldn't the first cloak be a mirror, as opposed to transparent?
I basically avoided bringing that movie up. I did see it, and yes, I did like it. I'm heavily biased, though because I'm a huge fan of the console games. And even though I did enjoy it, there were serious flaws in the movie.
Uh huh, but as evidenced by my subject line, I was refering to films.
Sorry to be off-topic here, but is the [sic] really necesary? Are you really that worried that someone will mistake my simple capitilization error for yours? You've already got it in quotes!
Also, those are definitely some of my favorite shows.
Admittedly, I haven't seen Finding Nemo. I understand what you're saying, as I said in my previous post, I recognize that they've got some really talented writers working for them. Clearly we're getting into a subjective debate here, but I'd really like to see a completely CG movie geared towards adults. For instance, a whole lot of sci-fi storys could be done extremely well in this medium. A lot people complain about the special effects in movies because they're not real enough. Nobody has ever complained about the special effects in a pixar movie not being real enough. There'd be much more freedom to have big environments that fit the atmosphere of the movie well. Suspended disbelief works so much better in a cartoon. At that would really help a sci-fi flick.
Tell that to the Pharaohs of Egypt. Tell that to Nero and the Roman Empire. Tell that to Gorby and the Soviet Empire. Tell that to the country of Yugoslavia after you read about how they lived before the horrific economic policies of the early 1990s.
I certainly wouldn't disagree with the point your making. Empires have fallen, that fact alone logically means the same can happen to us. I wasn't trying predict the future of America in my comment. But I still think my statement holds true. Out-sourcing could possibly be the beginning of a long slippery-slope that crashes our economy irreparilby, but I think its a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to think that in itself will bring the American economy to it's knee's. (Nope, not America, just a lot of us/.'ers:) )
This really isn't meant as flamebait. Pixar's movies are extremely cool looking but I really wish they'd make some movies that weren't oriented towards children. I recognize that there's a lot of content in them that is geared towards adults. Besides keeping the parents mildly entertained while their kids enjoy the movie I'm it also has to do with the reason pixar's movies do so well. But even so, why no adult content? THere's definitely this pervasive attitude that animation is the domain of children only in America. (I'm probably pegging myself as an anime nerd here.:) )
And btw, by 'geared towards adults' I certainly don't mean sex and explosions, that doesn't hurt though if the plot is interesting and supports it.
The articles author makes decent points, but what it all boils down to is that, usually, change doesn't lead to disaster. Which is essentially true. I'm sure that whatever the econimic trends, some sort of equilibrium will be found. But as someone getting ready to leave a university with a CS degree in a year or so, I'm pretty worried about the interim. Although I suppose I'm in a far greater position than someone whose got a family to support. I'm sure many/.'ers would agree that money is a distant second to having enjoyable, challenging work.
After all the doom and gloom about the tech industry I'm happy to hear a positive viewpoint, true or not.:)
Rob: What's your personal e-mail? Scott: It's Scottrichter422@yahoo.com Rob: Do you mind if we put that on the screen? Scott: I'd rather you didn't Rob: Ok, we won't (As it's blinking on the screen.)
SpamCop can't make the complainers' information anonymous.
Why would that matter? Who could the complainer recieve backlash from that would matter? Could they maybe get a frivilous lawsuit from that slime Scott Richter?
The governor estimates a business tax increase of $64 million by eliminating the distinction between canned software sold at retail (subject to sales tax), custom software (subject to service occupation tax on the value of tangible personal property transferred with the software) and software licensed or leased by the developer (currently not taxed).
Could anyone more knowledgeable about law explain the implications of this?
he died suddenly, almost certainly by suicide from eating a cyanide-laced apple.
Has anyone else heard the rumur that apple computers logo is a tribute to Turing? Rainbow colored apple with a bite taken out of it and all? I wish I could remember where I heard that.
I guess you were probably just trolling, but don't you think that's a little bit ridiculous? Assuming that this guy is getting paid for this, which he could certainly not be (i.e. volunteering for some non-profit organization) regardless, he obviously followed the guidelines for asking a public, technical forum a question. Polite, showed that he'd done the required google research.
As an aside, why do people so often get pissed about the ask slashdot sections? Google does an excellent job for most things, but if you're considering building some project or doing something technically interesting google doesn't always have links to all the pitfalls or the interesting storys that go along with a project from someone with experience in that area. These often end up being the most interesting threads, IMHO.
This seems like a pretty cool idea. I thought about something like this a while back. I'm not to familiar with windows any more. Would it be possible to have these programs execute straight from the cd instead of installing? That would defninitely come in handy at say, the school labs where you can't install programs and they don't have your favorite OS program installed.
Seems like a good list of programs, firefox may be a nice addition, though.
My understanding was that this article was about the specific crater, Endurance. From the line you pointed out to me, "Opportunity revealed the Eagle crater outcrop formed in water; they now want to know if that was the case for the deeper - and thus older - rocks in Endurance." it's seems as though knowing whether other rocks, such as the ones in the endurance crater were formed similarly. So, my question was, do they not know yet? They've got images, are they only preliminary images? Do they take time to analyze?
NASA sent the twin rovers to Mars to prospect for geologic evidence of past water on the now dry and dusty planet. Sooo... Did they find any?! Did the article writer not know, or was it not considered interesting enough to print.:)
On a side note, I don't understand the design of these rovers. Seems like they're dangerously flippable. If that happens, they're pretty much junk, right? Do they have any way of correcting themselves if one tread climbs up onto a rock and it tips over? Why not have 5 or 6 treads around the center and have the middle gyroscopiclly right itself?
Hmm.. I'm not so sure. The rules said that the pac man's general knows everyones position. Does each player (pac man and all ghosts) all have to report to the pac man's general. i.e. Each ghost is making 5 calls on each corner? The rule's page wasn't clear about what seems like the most interesting part of the game.
This seems like a fun idea, But I wasn't to clear about how the 'generals' keep track of everyones position. Their's a.dir file linked to in the rules page. Any windows users with director wanna tell us what that is? (It's a binary file but says director in there. I think that's Macromedia's shockwave, right?)
Seems like gps, wifi and pda's could make this more plausible.
I thought the same thing. But what about someone who's building/creating something new, especially someone without knowledge of lots of existings part types in database x, each time they do drawing for each little part in their design, run it through the search engine to see if it's something that's already been fabricated. Probably not the intended use though.
I certainly don't believe the 90% accuracy figure either, but if it were true, it would mean 10% of the questions asked gave incorrect responses. So theoretically, a skillful someone could ask multiple questions to better ascertain who is a terrorist or not. Moot point anyway, if you ask me.
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Is each of those buildings on the map really in some episode? Crystal Cathedral is one I can't remember.
Obviously you can't make a career out of that. ($0.50 an hour) but on the other hand, most don't get paid for their game playing at all. :)
back in the 50's people thought we'd have flying cars by now!
:) )
That sure does come up a lot. The fact is there is one. It's pointed out here all the time, that Moller skycar. The barrier for everyone having a flying car is not the technology, it's the practicality. Air traffic control is already a difficult thing to keep in check. That's with proffesional pilots and proffesional upkeep on the vehicles. The public just isn't clamouring for flying cars. Medicine is a whole other animal. People are dying to get their hands on life lengthening medicine. (Bad pun, sorry.
Oh, also, Isn't retro-reflective redundant? Doesn't reflection pretty much imply sending light back in the direction it came?
:) )
(Sorry for responding to my own post.
The raincoat-like cloak is made out of "retro-reflective'' material covered with tiny beads that reflect light back in the same direction it came.
The cloak is designed to make whatever it is covering, a body or object, appear transparent by projecting video shot with a camera from behind the cloak onto the front of the cloak.
Hold on a sec, these are two very different things. Are they talking about two different cloaks? If so, it's not very obvious from the article. Also, wouldn't the first cloak be a mirror, as opposed to transparent?
I basically avoided bringing that movie up. I did see it, and yes, I did like it. I'm heavily biased, though because I'm a huge fan of the console games. And even though I did enjoy it, there were serious flaws in the movie.
Uh huh, but as evidenced by my subject line, I was refering to films.
Sorry to be off-topic here, but is the [sic] really necesary? Are you really that worried that someone will mistake my simple capitilization error for yours? You've already got it in quotes!
Also, those are definitely some of my favorite shows.
Admittedly, I haven't seen Finding Nemo. I understand what you're saying, as I said in my previous post, I recognize that they've got some really talented writers working for them. Clearly we're getting into a subjective debate here, but I'd really like to see a completely CG movie geared towards adults. For instance, a whole lot of sci-fi storys could be done extremely well in this medium. A lot people complain about the special effects in movies because they're not real enough. Nobody has ever complained about the special effects in a pixar movie not being real enough. There'd be much more freedom to have big environments that fit the atmosphere of the movie well. Suspended disbelief works so much better in a cartoon. At that would really help a sci-fi flick.
Tell that to the Pharaohs of Egypt.
/.'ers :) )
Tell that to Nero and the Roman Empire.
Tell that to Gorby and the Soviet Empire.
Tell that to the country of Yugoslavia after you read about how they lived before the horrific economic policies of the early 1990s.
I certainly wouldn't disagree with the point your making. Empires have fallen, that fact alone logically means the same can happen to us. I wasn't trying predict the future of America in my comment. But I still think my statement holds true. Out-sourcing could possibly be the beginning of a long slippery-slope that crashes our economy irreparilby, but I think its a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to think that in itself will bring the American economy to it's knee's. (Nope, not America, just a lot of us
They plan on not renewing the contract, but they didn't break it. More info here
This really isn't meant as flamebait. Pixar's movies are extremely cool looking but I really wish they'd make some movies that weren't oriented towards children. I recognize that there's a lot of content in them that is geared towards adults. Besides keeping the parents mildly entertained while their kids enjoy the movie I'm it also has to do with the reason pixar's movies do so well. But even so, why no adult content? THere's definitely this pervasive attitude that animation is the domain of children only in America. (I'm probably pegging myself as an anime nerd here. :) )
And btw, by 'geared towards adults' I certainly don't mean sex and explosions, that doesn't hurt though if the plot is interesting and supports it.
The articles author makes decent points, but what it all boils down to is that, usually, change doesn't lead to disaster. Which is essentially true. I'm sure that whatever the econimic trends, some sort of equilibrium will be found. But as someone getting ready to leave a university with a CS degree in a year or so, I'm pretty worried about the interim. Although I suppose I'm in a far greater position than someone whose got a family to support. I'm sure many /.'ers would agree that money is a distant second to having enjoyable, challenging work.
:)
After all the doom and gloom about the tech industry I'm happy to hear a positive viewpoint, true or not.
Rob: What's your personal e-mail?
Scott: It's Scottrichter422@yahoo.com
Rob: Do you mind if we put that on the screen?
Scott: I'd rather you didn't
Rob: Ok, we won't (As it's blinking on the screen.)
Pretty funny stuff.
SpamCop can't make the complainers' information anonymous.
Why would that matter? Who could the complainer recieve backlash from that would matter? Could they maybe get a frivilous lawsuit from that slime Scott Richter?
The governor estimates a business tax increase of $64 million by eliminating the distinction between canned software sold at retail (subject to sales tax), custom software (subject to service occupation tax on the value of tangible personal property transferred with the software) and software licensed or leased by the developer (currently not taxed).
Could anyone more knowledgeable about law explain the implications of this?
he died suddenly, almost certainly by suicide from eating a cyanide-laced apple.
Has anyone else heard the rumur that apple computers logo is a tribute to Turing? Rainbow colored apple with a bite taken out of it and all? I wish I could remember where I heard that.
I guess you were probably just trolling, but don't you think that's a little bit ridiculous? Assuming that this guy is getting paid for this, which he could certainly not be (i.e. volunteering for some non-profit organization) regardless, he obviously followed the guidelines for asking a public, technical forum a question. Polite, showed that he'd done the required google research.
As an aside, why do people so often get pissed about the ask slashdot sections? Google does an excellent job for most things, but if you're considering building some project or doing something technically interesting google doesn't always have links to all the pitfalls or the interesting storys that go along with a project from someone with experience in that area. These often end up being the most interesting threads, IMHO.
This seems like a pretty cool idea. I thought about something like this a while back. I'm not to familiar with windows any more. Would it be possible to have these programs execute straight from the cd instead of installing? That would defninitely come in handy at say, the school labs where you can't install programs and they don't have your favorite OS program installed.
Seems like a good list of programs, firefox may be a nice addition, though.
I'm sorry to be off-topic, but that was a really interesting response. You need to get a login so I can befriend you and see your replys easier. :)
My understanding was that this article was about the specific crater, Endurance. From the line you pointed out to me, "Opportunity revealed the Eagle crater outcrop formed in water; they now want to know if that was the case for the deeper - and thus older - rocks in Endurance." it's seems as though knowing whether other rocks, such as the ones in the endurance crater were formed similarly. So, my question was, do they not know yet? They've got images, are they only preliminary images? Do they take time to analyze?
NASA sent the twin rovers to Mars to prospect for geologic evidence of past water on the now dry and dusty planet. Sooo... Did they find any?! Did the article writer not know, or was it not considered interesting enough to print. :)
On a side note, I don't understand the design of these rovers. Seems like they're dangerously flippable. If that happens, they're pretty much junk, right? Do they have any way of correcting themselves if one tread climbs up onto a rock and it tips over? Why not have 5 or 6 treads around the center and have the middle gyroscopiclly right itself?
Hmm.. I'm not so sure. The rules said that the pac man's general knows everyones position. Does each player (pac man and all ghosts) all have to report to the pac man's general. i.e. Each ghost is making 5 calls on each corner? The rule's page wasn't clear about what seems like the most interesting part of the game.
This seems like a fun idea, But I wasn't to clear about how the 'generals' keep track of everyones position. Their's a .dir file linked to in the rules page. Any windows users with director wanna tell us what that is? (It's a binary file but says director in there. I think that's Macromedia's shockwave, right?)
Seems like gps, wifi and pda's could make this more plausible.
I thought the same thing. But what about someone who's building/creating something new, especially someone without knowledge of lots of existings part types in database x, each time they do drawing for each little part in their design, run it through the search engine to see if it's something that's already been fabricated. Probably not the intended use though.
I certainly don't believe the 90% accuracy figure either, but if it were true, it would mean 10% of the questions asked gave incorrect responses. So theoretically, a skillful someone could ask multiple questions to better ascertain who is a terrorist or not. Moot point anyway, if you ask me.