Funny as your comment is, I think from a marketing standpoint, if a product can be brought to the consumer with, albiet subjectively, superior quality at a lower cost, its like a gold mine to manufacturers.
If artificial texture makes a consumer believe it has better resolution, and makes for a sale, I would wager that all middle to lower end HDTV products pick up on that fact.
Indeed, jumpman was my first game. Owned it on a copied 1541 SS-DD floopy with a 1/2 hole punch on the side;)
What that lead to, however, was like 7 years of Bards Tale addiction. I bought BT-III and played it until all 4 copies went bad (a very sad day). Then later at the university I found frodo, the c64 emulator. Then I went back and played BT-I, and copied my chars over to BT-III and pwn3d!
Now I'm a unix nerd still waiting for BT-IV. Although I hear there is a comedy version out for the PS2, I'm sure its not the same.
Then of course you have what is called a Technical Service Bulliten (TSB), which says: Hey, we found a problem with your vehicle, and we know how to fix it, but you are responsible for the repairs yourself.
And you have to pay for it even under warranty.
It seems that this type of extortion is common in all businesses.
I dont think these glasses actively adapt to your eye's focusing. They work like traditional lenses, they adjust incoming light to address improper vision. Only they do it on a much finer scale than normal lenses, and adjust to minute problems your retina might have.
from TFA:
Technicians scan the eyeball with an aberrometer -- a device that measures aberrations that can impede vision -- and then the pixels are programmed to correct the irregularities.
After they are programed, it seems the lenses are set and will not change until the next time you go in to have your vision checked.
New Scientist is not doing anyone a service by jumping on the latest unpublished preprint of the month and hyping it as the revolution of the century, as they tend to do.
Correction, they are doing themselves a service in marketing returns by landing on slashdot every week.
Except, Google is not loosing any battle. They are the preferred search engine, and by caving they stay the preferred engine in China. So one might argue that by being a little evil, they won the battle but are now loosing the war.
Like users of washing machines, they don't need to know how the machine spins, or how many gallon of hot water to mix with cold one when how why
If the personal computer had 10 buttons, 4 options, and three generations of people who knew how to use them, then I would say this analogy was accurate.
except, super volcanos have been documented.
A moon size object moving at a velocity of several hundred miles per second pretty much makes the earth go away (or totally rearanges the planet into one or more other objects).
As the oceans expand and the sea level rises, people will simply move further up the shore. When islands disappear, people will be unhappy but they quickly build new lives in new countries. When crops fail to grow in some countries they will replace the crops with others that grow in those climates. If they've really got money to burn they'll genetically engineer plants that are resistant to the heat. When oil prices start their long climb to unaffordability other technologies will take up the batton. Suddenly the economy will start to allocate resources to bypass the damage that the price-hike induces. Life will go on as normal.
You forgot to mention the eruption of a super volcano that will globally block the sun for 5 or more years. What will your genetically engineered plants do then?
And how about all the livestock you use as food? How will you preserve them when there is no vegetation?
Come on, i'm tired of hearing the same old misconceptions about slackware here on/. (wait, i think thats why i stick around)
MISCONCEPTIONS
1: Slackware doesnt have a package management system
FALSE: Slackware uses a very simple package management system that accomplishes two things. 1. it allows you to track files installed. 2. allows you to upgrade to newer versions (yes there is versioning). And as a bonus, your not bogged down with dependancies.... oh wait you want cyclical dependancies???
2: Slackware is outdated/behind the times.
FALSE: Why? because it still uses 2.4 kernel? Please! stability is the issue here. Purchase a RedHat Advanced server and you'll find it STILL uses 2.4. You cant please everyone all the time, but you can still produce a quality product with proven technology.
3: Slackware is too hard to use for newbies and/or my grandparents
AD-HOMINIM: This argument is too often used against Slackware in general. For what it is, an "everything is a file" operating system, you must expect to have to get to the command line eventually. If your using it as a server in place of another Unix OS, its not any harder to manage. If your using it to replace RedHat or SuSe, still, its not any harder, and with the added bonus that you dont have as much bloat (did i mention cyclical dependancies?).
4: Pat is a selfish dictator and I dont like his direction
TRUE: So is Linus Torvolds, and as far as direction, every company, ceo, lead developer must make thier own decisions and you just cant please everyone all the time.
Before the mods make me -1 troll, let me just say Slackware is not perfect, but nothing is. I dont like the fact that PAM will probably never be added:(
I use it as a desktop and a server. My servers are usually stripped down and single serve boxes, and slackware is a perfect fit. By trade, I work with Solaris, AIX, and RedHat. The only reason I dont push Slack at work is that my company wants to spend the money to have a finger to point at (specifically a large company to point at) when a problem arises.
But in the 5 years i've been using slackware, I've never encountered a show stopper.
The only problem is that there is just so much muscle activity that you can get from an excercise program. This pales in comparison to the CONSTANT
Ok, so here's a dumber follow-up, how about some type of suite that constantly contorts the joints. Say for instance, pants that try to keep your legs bent, meaning you constantly are pushing them straight (much like standing for a long time).
Couple with that parts of the suite that work the anke, hips, shoulders, elbows, and wrists, i'd say there are your major components. I suppose the spine poses the biggest problem, but why cant this suite pull down on the stomache, and force you to straighten your back by arching it.
What am I missing here? Sounds like a problem brain pools would have been working on since the early days of space travel, has this one been trumped already?
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Are they... EVIL Monkeys?
Gee, I havnt hear that one before:
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bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon.... ITS BACON!!!!
Funny thing is, I dont believe sleep was even introduced into the study. They had people work on puzzles while mulling over a decision.
So, while your point may be valid, sleeping would actually introduce more variables into the study then did the actuall method used in the study.
Funny as your comment is, I think from a marketing standpoint, if a product can be brought to the consumer with, albiet subjectively, superior quality at a lower cost, its like a gold mine to manufacturers.
If artificial texture makes a consumer believe it has better resolution, and makes for a sale, I would wager that all middle to lower end HDTV products pick up on that fact.
Indeed, jumpman was my first game. Owned it on a copied 1541 SS-DD floopy with a 1/2 hole punch on the side ;)
What that lead to, however, was like 7 years of Bards Tale addiction. I bought BT-III and played it until all 4 copies went bad (a very sad day). Then later at the university I found frodo, the c64 emulator. Then I went back and played BT-I, and copied my chars over to BT-III and pwn3d!
Now I'm a unix nerd still waiting for BT-IV. Although I hear there is a comedy version out for the PS2, I'm sure its not the same.
Then of course you have what is called a Technical Service Bulliten (TSB), which says: Hey, we found a problem with your vehicle, and we know how to fix it, but you are responsible for the repairs yourself.
And you have to pay for it even under warranty.
It seems that this type of extortion is common in all businesses.
from TFA: After they are programed, it seems the lenses are set and will not change until the next time you go in to have your vision checked.
Yeah, I dont buy it, I only know one word for snow, but my reaction time is lightning fast when recognizing the yellow kind.
Except, Google is not loosing any battle. They are the preferred search engine, and by caving they stay the preferred engine in China. So one might argue that by being a little evil, they won the battle but are now loosing the war.
UGH!!! My salad taste like shredded paper!
You did mean the SPAM that I get via e-mail right?
except, super volcanos have been documented. A moon size object moving at a velocity of several hundred miles per second pretty much makes the earth go away (or totally rearanges the planet into one or more other objects).
And how about all the livestock you use as food? How will you preserve them when there is no vegetation?
I wouldnt do that if I were you Dave.
Even with all this software, nerds still cant figure women out.
MISCONCEPTIONS FALSE: Slackware uses a very simple package management system that accomplishes two things. 1. it allows you to track files installed. 2. allows you to upgrade to newer versions (yes there is versioning). And as a bonus, your not bogged down with dependancies.... oh wait you want cyclical dependancies??? FALSE: Why? because it still uses 2.4 kernel? Please! stability is the issue here. Purchase a RedHat Advanced server and you'll find it STILL uses 2.4. You cant please everyone all the time, but you can still produce a quality product with proven technology. AD-HOMINIM: This argument is too often used against Slackware in general. For what it is, an "everything is a file" operating system, you must expect to have to get to the command line eventually. If your using it as a server in place of another Unix OS, its not any harder to manage. If your using it to replace RedHat or SuSe, still, its not any harder, and with the added bonus that you dont have as much bloat (did i mention cyclical dependancies?). TRUE: So is Linus Torvolds, and as far as direction, every company, ceo, lead developer must make thier own decisions and you just cant please everyone all the time.
Before the mods make me -1 troll, let me just say Slackware is not perfect, but nothing is. I dont like the fact that PAM will probably never be added
I use it as a desktop and a server. My servers are usually stripped down and single serve boxes, and slackware is a perfect fit. By trade, I work with Solaris, AIX, and RedHat. The only reason I dont push Slack at work is that my company wants to spend the money to have a finger to point at (specifically a large company to point at) when a problem arises.
But in the 5 years i've been using slackware, I've never encountered a show stopper.
Couple with that parts of the suite that work the anke, hips, shoulders, elbows, and wrists, i'd say there are your major components. I suppose the spine poses the biggest problem, but why cant this suite pull down on the stomache, and force you to straighten your back by arching it.
What am I missing here? Sounds like a problem brain pools would have been working on since the early days of space travel, has this one been trumped already?
46 Nerds across the world set a new world record for longest individual combined finger nails at 1200 centimeters (or 32G).
Just a warning to all, at least one of those catalogs has a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe (auction 22 catalog pages 1-50).
;) !!!
Its a good think i was scrolling fast (and have a keen eye for nudes