Firstly, in such a situation you shouldn't even try to grab that twinkie if there is a possibility of needing to brake soon, and especially not at high enough speed to cause your head to bleed due to braking smacking it into the steering wheel.
Secondly, read up on how these systems actually work. It seems they only truly apply automatic breaking when cruise control is on, otherwise they just flash a warning indicating that you may need to break, and even with cruise control on, it seems that the cars have a limit as to how sharply they are allowed to break, so in extreme situations the user would be required to intervene to apply the sharper breaking needed.
It seems the people designing these systems aren't as stupid as a lot of slashdotters seem to think. Funny that:)
1. It's expensive and time consuming. Not only do they need the materials, they need to obtain permission from city officials to put the wires in place, which if they're being put underground as would be quite likely, they have to take special care to avoid all sorts of pipes that run under the city, so it's not exactly easy to do.
2. There's no real incentive. There are already various architechtures in place that can be used for internet access. Sure though, they could put in all these lovely fibre-optic lines... and then what? The average user won't pay high prices for far faster internet. Chances are it would be some time before they could recoup their costs.
Indeed, because the wmv file formant is just soooo popular for piracy isn't it?
Nevermind that someone could for instance try to gain access to a legitimate site serving wmv files and add in their little spyware addition to the otherwise legitimate wmv files. Imagine if this was done on a site hosting a trailer for a popular movie. The numerous vectors for attacks utlising this are quite vast, and you're rather naive to believe that those pirating media are the only ones whom this affects.
The present issue I would think is battery power. Certainly there's still a way to go to get a prosthetic limb that perfectly replicates the old one (even in appearance). But a big issue is really just the battery technologies. It's no good if you've got an arm that has the strength of ten men if it goes limp after one go (insert humerous joke here about sex and follow up with joke about slashdotters not having girlfriends and therefore not having sex and therefore not knowing about the truth of afformentioned joke:P).
There are a few battery technologies that provide some promise over old battery technologies, such as batteries using radioactive materials that can last for very long times, the only issue is they don't create a vast amount of power. Additionally there is research underway of generating electricity using heat generated by the human body via implants. However, just like the battery noted above they produce very little power. Perhaps future prosthetics may use a combination of these technologies?
Whatever the case, batteries still have a long way to go when it comes to these applications.
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Again, that's a very shortsighted view to take, a very naive view.
Believing that it would be better for google not to comply with the governments wishes and censor some content, when the alternative is to be blocked entierly is rather foolish. That would mean that a very useful resource, which many many people use on a daily basis would be taken away. So tell me, which is the greater evil; allowing people to access a tool which gives them access to a great deal of information with censorship (which with the state of the internet means that its highly likely that a number of things are still available that the governement would desire censored), or not complying, and depriving them from the use of a tool which could facilitate the finding of that information?
One can easily view google's association with a governement that is often percieved as evil as google being evil as well. But are they not infact offering a service to the people of the area? Your suggestion that they should not censor and be blocked makes it seem like you believe google should be fighting the battles of the chinese citizens. Tell me, what have you done to aid people living in china with regards to their government? I expect google has done much much more for them than you have.
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That's a pretty shortsighted view.
Sure, they assisted in censorship of information. However, you should also realise that had they not then google would likely have been blocked from access by the chinese government. In that case, the Chinese citizens would have lost a very valuable resource for finding information. And despite their efforts, it's highly likely that there is still a great deal of information to be found on google that the Chinese governement doesn't want its citizens to see.
I'd have to wonder if they might have verification measure's put in place to prevent such action from working?
For instance, lets say we have three cars side by side, named A, B and C respectively.
Now A and B would both be saying, there's three cars here, if you can find a route with fewer than three cars, take it.
Then we have car C, which someone has hacked to send false data. It is saying, I'm the only car here, come this way!
Now due to the conflict between the reports, one of them would have to be wrong, so they'd likely reject the false data given by car C, and trust A & B.
Of course this may not be the case at all, but it would seem a simple method for it to function securely.
Agreed, this lovely spiel right here seems rather wishful thinking
Just look at how the PS2 games have evolved since its launch. If handheld games are looking this good at launch, imagine what a couple years of development time will do. You can expect the same leaps, similar to those found with home based consoles, as developers become more familiar with it.
This isn't an apples to apples comparison at all. The PS2 is a notoriously hard to exploit platform, and I'm sure many have heard of the wails of developers regarding its nature early in its life. By comparison, the PSP isn't vastly complex. It's powerful yes, but the presposition that we'll see vastly better looking titles is grossly misleading.
Not to mention that the comment regarding the brightness of the screen being superiour to the DS is also tied directly to battery life. You can have your screen nice and bright, but the DS will be running for at least twice as long as your PSP will be.
I believe in an earlier slashdot story, there was a technology talked about that could well be seen in use for blu-ray. This technology was a protective layer over the disk that was resistant enough to scratching to allow for someone to go nuts with steel wool on the surface without making a scratch. If it turns out to be as effective as claimed, then such concerns may prove without merit.
...but I sort of hope it is found to have a much, much higher likelyhood of hitting earth, so much so that's it's almost certain to occur.
Why? Simply because it would post such a great challenge for humankind. It could well bring much greater cooperation between countries, cooperation of a level presently unheard of.
Certainly, I'm not hoping it actually strikes earth, merely that people work together in order to stop it.
Just be glad that Bush won't be the president at the time. If it did hit, in US soil no less, then he'd start pouring billions per month into NASA for the development of spacecraft to fight the alien 'terrorists' who threw that asteroid at America.
I'm not so sure about that. I think many many developers may be quite taken in by the potential of being able to distribute their games in such a fashion without need of a publisher. Of course there is the cost of doing this via valve's offered method, but it is still an attractive method I'd imagine.
Also, whatever the case, it is inevitable really that distribution of games moves towards an entierly online based system, such that, developers not distributing their games online will be seen as unusual. In my view, I think more developers are merely waiting for the outcome of the court case valve faces regarding steam and other matters. If valve gets in the clear after that, then you may well see many developers flock to steams banner.
Err... couldn't you just put your passports in whatever bag you carry on the plane? That way when you go through the metal detectors, you just take your bag off, and you don't have to worry about passports showing up via metal detection. Keep them close together in the bag and when x-rayed they may not even be able to tell there's two in there. Though I could be very wrong about this, so take it with a grain of salt;)
Perhaps they're more concerned about information that could be deduced from such a conversation? Information that could possibly be used against them if it fell into the wrong hands.
Even in a normal conversation it's quite likely that a great deal of information could be inferred from it, unless of course people were very very careful. However I doubt caution would be on the utmost of people's minds in this instance, rather it'd more likely be communicating with their loved one whom they miss.
I thought the sun steadily cooled over time, but produced more light? I could be wrong though, this is just what I'm remembering from science classes five years ago.
Actually they're more looking out for their asses by stating that the items and such do not belong to the players. The reason for that is that if say a server was significantly damaged somehow, such that player data was lost, then Blizzard would then be liable for that lost data, including items. So if those things are allowed to have real world value for people, then Blizzard could potentially be required to compensate players for their losses or face a lawsuit.
Actually I think it's quite likely for 2K to be that much more stable than XP. I run Win2k myself and never suffer crashes at all. I did try WinXP for a time, but sometimes I'd see crashes more than twice a day. This is more because Win2k is a more mature OS, as it has had a great deal more time to have various bugs fixed. Given Win2k when it was first released and WinXP when it was first released and you'd likely not see any significant difference between the in stability.
Which would be the better alternative, Google censoring some content and being available and accessible to people in China, or not censoring some of the content and getting blocked completely, preventing it from being used by people in China? At least in the former situation it is possible that google could be used to facilitate searches that could lead to websites containing information that has slipped through censoring, making it possible for some people in China to obtain information that they previously couldn't.
I'd be interested to see the results for various situations for lying. For instance, in this situation it was only done with a very specific type of lying where there was no doubt in the subjects mind that they were indeed lying. I'd be interested to see the results for instance however if the subject were given time to manufacture in their own mind a belief or memory almost, so that when asked a question to which they lie, the lie isn't manufactured on the spot, but rather is already in existance in the persons mind, somewhat like a memory. So would that cause the results to be similiar to telling the truth when lying in such a situation, or would they still show the signs that the MRI picked up, indicating that they were lying.
It could be quite pertinent to find out if this were ever to be used seriously as a truth detection mechanism, as it could trip up in some situations, such as for instance a man who's just killed his wife, sitting in his car thinking to himself all the things he did today not killing his wife, essentially fabricating a story or lying to himself. When brought in for a lie detector test you really wouldn't want it showing that a murderer could indeed lie about comitting such an act without any sign showing that he was indeed lying. Of course, this method would be quite useless for questions which the subject hasn't had ample time to manufacture the truth for.
Actually, having reading other information regarding EA's practice, it's not that they're forced to work hard at crunch time that's the problem. The problem is that EA seems to see all the time as crunch time.
From what I've read of the various articles on EA's practices, a lot of programmers have no problem with crunchtime, but when they're expected to work extreme hours, even when their is currently nothing to do, taking time away from them which could be better spent with their families... well they have a problem, and rightly so.
Actually I recally PA being rather favourable towards the DS after getting some time with it. Their only truly negative comment towards it was the current lack of a 'killer app' for the DS, but that they expected those would turn up next year in the forms of pokemon games and rpg's etc.
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Firstly, in such a situation you shouldn't even try to grab that twinkie if there is a possibility of needing to brake soon, and especially not at high enough speed to cause your head to bleed due to braking smacking it into the steering wheel.
:)
Secondly, read up on how these systems actually work. It seems they only truly apply automatic breaking when cruise control is on, otherwise they just flash a warning indicating that you may need to break, and even with cruise control on, it seems that the cars have a limit as to how sharply they are allowed to break, so in extreme situations the user would be required to intervene to apply the sharper breaking needed.
It seems the people designing these systems aren't as stupid as a lot of slashdotters seem to think. Funny that
...and here I was thinking those nerds at NASA just watched a lot of porn.
Two reasons.
1. It's expensive and time consuming. Not only do they need the materials, they need to obtain permission from city officials to put the wires in place, which if they're being put underground as would be quite likely, they have to take special care to avoid all sorts of pipes that run under the city, so it's not exactly easy to do.
2. There's no real incentive. There are already various architechtures in place that can be used for internet access. Sure though, they could put in all these lovely fibre-optic lines... and then what? The average user won't pay high prices for far faster internet. Chances are it would be some time before they could recoup their costs.
Indeed, because the wmv file formant is just soooo popular for piracy isn't it? Nevermind that someone could for instance try to gain access to a legitimate site serving wmv files and add in their little spyware addition to the otherwise legitimate wmv files. Imagine if this was done on a site hosting a trailer for a popular movie. The numerous vectors for attacks utlising this are quite vast, and you're rather naive to believe that those pirating media are the only ones whom this affects.
The present issue I would think is battery power. Certainly there's still a way to go to get a prosthetic limb that perfectly replicates the old one (even in appearance). But a big issue is really just the battery technologies. It's no good if you've got an arm that has the strength of ten men if it goes limp after one go (insert humerous joke here about sex and follow up with joke about slashdotters not having girlfriends and therefore not having sex and therefore not knowing about the truth of afformentioned joke :P).
There are a few battery technologies that provide some promise over old battery technologies, such as batteries using radioactive materials that can last for very long times, the only issue is they don't create a vast amount of power. Additionally there is research underway of generating electricity using heat generated by the human body via implants. However, just like the battery noted above they produce very little power. Perhaps future prosthetics may use a combination of these technologies?
Whatever the case, batteries still have a long way to go when it comes to these applications.
Again, that's a very shortsighted view to take, a very naive view.
Believing that it would be better for google not to comply with the governments wishes and censor some content, when the alternative is to be blocked entierly is rather foolish. That would mean that a very useful resource, which many many people use on a daily basis would be taken away. So tell me, which is the greater evil; allowing people to access a tool which gives them access to a great deal of information with censorship (which with the state of the internet means that its highly likely that a number of things are still available that the governement would desire censored), or not complying, and depriving them from the use of a tool which could facilitate the finding of that information?
One can easily view google's association with a governement that is often percieved as evil as google being evil as well. But are they not infact offering a service to the people of the area? Your suggestion that they should not censor and be blocked makes it seem like you believe google should be fighting the battles of the chinese citizens. Tell me, what have you done to aid people living in china with regards to their government? I expect google has done much much more for them than you have.
That's a pretty shortsighted view.
Sure, they assisted in censorship of information. However, you should also realise that had they not then google would likely have been blocked from access by the chinese government. In that case, the Chinese citizens would have lost a very valuable resource for finding information. And despite their efforts, it's highly likely that there is still a great deal of information to be found on google that the Chinese governement doesn't want its citizens to see.
I'd have to wonder if they might have verification measure's put in place to prevent such action from working?
For instance, lets say we have three cars side by side, named A, B and C respectively.
Now A and B would both be saying, there's three cars here, if you can find a route with fewer than three cars, take it.
Then we have car C, which someone has hacked to send false data. It is saying, I'm the only car here, come this way!
Now due to the conflict between the reports, one of them would have to be wrong, so they'd likely reject the false data given by car C, and trust A & B.
Of course this may not be the case at all, but it would seem a simple method for it to function securely.
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
:P
Sorry, couldn't resist
Ambulance Officer: "Ok, so after I've made the incision, what do I do?"
Virtual Doctor: "After that, quickly check for signs of internal bleeding, but whatever you don't-"
Monitor: "You have experienced a fatal error, please restart your Virtual Doctor, if this problem persists please contact your administrator"
(long beep heard in the background)
Ambulance Officer: "Oh crap, not again!"
Agreed, this lovely spiel right here seems rather wishful thinking
Just look at how the PS2 games have evolved since its launch. If handheld games are looking this good at launch, imagine what a couple years of development time will do. You can expect the same leaps, similar to those found with home based consoles, as developers become more familiar with it.
This isn't an apples to apples comparison at all. The PS2 is a notoriously hard to exploit platform, and I'm sure many have heard of the wails of developers regarding its nature early in its life. By comparison, the PSP isn't vastly complex. It's powerful yes, but the presposition that we'll see vastly better looking titles is grossly misleading.
Not to mention that the comment regarding the brightness of the screen being superiour to the DS is also tied directly to battery life. You can have your screen nice and bright, but the DS will be running for at least twice as long as your PSP will be.
I believe in an earlier slashdot story, there was a technology talked about that could well be seen in use for blu-ray. This technology was a protective layer over the disk that was resistant enough to scratching to allow for someone to go nuts with steel wool on the surface without making a scratch. If it turns out to be as effective as claimed, then such concerns may prove without merit.
...but I sort of hope it is found to have a much, much higher likelyhood of hitting earth, so much so that's it's almost certain to occur.
Why? Simply because it would post such a great challenge for humankind. It could well bring much greater cooperation between countries, cooperation of a level presently unheard of.
Certainly, I'm not hoping it actually strikes earth, merely that people work together in order to stop it.
Just be glad that Bush won't be the president at the time. If it did hit, in US soil no less, then he'd start pouring billions per month into NASA for the development of spacecraft to fight the alien 'terrorists' who threw that asteroid at America.
I'm not so sure about that. I think many many developers may be quite taken in by the potential of being able to distribute their games in such a fashion without need of a publisher. Of course there is the cost of doing this via valve's offered method, but it is still an attractive method I'd imagine.
Also, whatever the case, it is inevitable really that distribution of games moves towards an entierly online based system, such that, developers not distributing their games online will be seen as unusual. In my view, I think more developers are merely waiting for the outcome of the court case valve faces regarding steam and other matters. If valve gets in the clear after that, then you may well see many developers flock to steams banner.
Err... couldn't you just put your passports in whatever bag you carry on the plane? That way when you go through the metal detectors, you just take your bag off, and you don't have to worry about passports showing up via metal detection. Keep them close together in the bag and when x-rayed they may not even be able to tell there's two in there. Though I could be very wrong about this, so take it with a grain of salt ;)
Perhaps they're more concerned about information that could be deduced from such a conversation? Information that could possibly be used against them if it fell into the wrong hands.
Even in a normal conversation it's quite likely that a great deal of information could be inferred from it, unless of course people were very very careful. However I doubt caution would be on the utmost of people's minds in this instance, rather it'd more likely be communicating with their loved one whom they miss.
No... Just no...
And don't even thing about someone trying to eat such a horrid creation...
"...two high school students from Delhi Public School filmed themselves having oral sex..."
;)
"a college student from IIT Delhi, offered his VCD of the 157-second clip"
157 seconds... sheesh, they really need to learn to take their time and enjoy it
I thought the sun steadily cooled over time, but produced more light? I could be wrong though, this is just what I'm remembering from science classes five years ago.
Actually they're more looking out for their asses by stating that the items and such do not belong to the players. The reason for that is that if say a server was significantly damaged somehow, such that player data was lost, then Blizzard would then be liable for that lost data, including items. So if those things are allowed to have real world value for people, then Blizzard could potentially be required to compensate players for their losses or face a lawsuit.
Actually I think it's quite likely for 2K to be that much more stable than XP. I run Win2k myself and never suffer crashes at all. I did try WinXP for a time, but sometimes I'd see crashes more than twice a day. This is more because Win2k is a more mature OS, as it has had a great deal more time to have various bugs fixed. Given Win2k when it was first released and WinXP when it was first released and you'd likely not see any significant difference between the in stability.
Which would be the better alternative, Google censoring some content and being available and accessible to people in China, or not censoring some of the content and getting blocked completely, preventing it from being used by people in China? At least in the former situation it is possible that google could be used to facilitate searches that could lead to websites containing information that has slipped through censoring, making it possible for some people in China to obtain information that they previously couldn't.
It could be quite pertinent to find out if this were ever to be used seriously as a truth detection mechanism, as it could trip up in some situations, such as for instance a man who's just killed his wife, sitting in his car thinking to himself all the things he did today not killing his wife, essentially fabricating a story or lying to himself. When brought in for a lie detector test you really wouldn't want it showing that a murderer could indeed lie about comitting such an act without any sign showing that he was indeed lying. Of course, this method would be quite useless for questions which the subject hasn't had ample time to manufacture the truth for.
Actually, having reading other information regarding EA's practice, it's not that they're forced to work hard at crunch time that's the problem. The problem is that EA seems to see all the time as crunch time. From what I've read of the various articles on EA's practices, a lot of programmers have no problem with crunchtime, but when they're expected to work extreme hours, even when their is currently nothing to do, taking time away from them which could be better spent with their families... well they have a problem, and rightly so.
Actually I recally PA being rather favourable towards the DS after getting some time with it. Their only truly negative comment towards it was the current lack of a 'killer app' for the DS, but that they expected those would turn up next year in the forms of pokemon games and rpg's etc.