Spore looks great in screenshots and theory and all, but I'm a bit disillusioned by all the games that promised depth. The most recent one being Fable, I thought I was going to be able to do anything I wanted, and it turns out the things they presented as only a few options were ALL you could do.
So, I'm waiting to see if Spore is the Holy Grail or just a Pacman/Simwhatever/Warcraft/Starcraft clone:/
Hmm, I would imagine that the friction of the particles is the reason why they *should* work. Thanks for the insight though, I guess the laymen part is true:P
Some 6 years ago I read this theory (in a game, I think) which said that gravity is caused by neutrinos. As neutrinos fly through matter they interact with it (and lose a tiny bit of speed) and exert a force on it. The distribution of neutrinos is homogenous (is that the term? I'm Greek), therefore when you're getting them from all sides, the force is canceled out.
Now, when you're on a planet, it's so huge that it slows down neutrinos more, so it creates a negative force and the neutrinos coming from the other side push you towards the planet, so it's really the absence of neutrinos that is gravity. I think experiments have proven that neutrinos do interact with matter, and this theory would explain why the gravitational force is instant, but I don't know what the flaw is here. I can't see any, but I'm not a physicist.
Not only do laptops underclock automatically, but they report the wrong processor speeds too. My 2800 XP reported some 700 MHz and I had great trouble running programs that checked to see if the processor was fast enough (I couldn't get it to speed up to full no matter what I did).
I don't think many people have a use for this. The processors shut down when they're not doing intensive work, and when they are (playing games, encoding) you more than likely have them plugged in an outlet. I don't know about heat, as I've never had a problem (I have an Athlon XP mobile).
I have been playing in a MUD for 6 years now (Played: 5834 hours says the "score" command, you do the math), but (except for the first few months or so) it is idle time. What I *love* about the MUD is that you can have it in the background while doing other stuff and never miss anything. I have a trigger to beep whenever anyone sends me a privmsg and I get back there and talk to them for a bit (no different than an IM client, really). I don't go to quests and stuff if I don't have loads of time (honestly, that's almost never, since I prefer to spend my time elsewhere).
Most importantly though, the MUD is lower in my priority list, below going out, reading wikipedia/slashdot/digg/the back of a juice box and studying (in that order, unfortunately). This way I almost never get bored (almost, MUDs are dying these days) and I don't miss out on my other activities to MUD.
My cousin plays WoW, and he is totally addicted to it. I can understand how he spends all day on a MMORPG since I've done that at some point, but I wouldn't play WoW even if it was free. Besides, you can write bots for the MUD to do anything you want, and as a programmer that's a huge advantage of MUDs.
I hate it when I walk by banks and see the screens turned on. Jesus, it's only a setting and the screen will turn itself on if you move the mouse. How hard is it to set to standby after 20 minutes of inactivity?
There would just be people that sold you one candy bar/computer/car along with enough material to make new ones, for a profit. I haven't thought of this extensively, but I think the world would be better (you could have anything you want, cheaply).
Why should you have skills you don't need? Skills evolve too, you know. If you sit around in an office all day you'll gain some extra pounds and lose muscle volume, if you work in the fields all day you'll get thinner and more muscular. Same with math, why have skills you don't need just because someone says they're "useful"? Useful where? If they were useful, you wouldn't have forgotten them. Hell, I'm having trouble writing, since I only do it twice a year, in the finals (typing is much faster, by the way).
Not that it should matter, but I happen to like math (which helps, being a university student). I just don't know why some people just HAVE to know stuff they have forgotten because they never use.
What happens if you accidentally delete the message (some phones delete messages if you remove the battery or whatever)? Can they resend it to you, or are you SOL?
P.S. You can order seats here in Greece too, in large multiplexes.
I recently downloaded and tried out MediaPortal (open source) and I have to say, it's the best I've seen. It scans your collection and downloads plots, actors, box pictures etc from IMDB so you can see everything about a movie. It plays TV/radio with a TV tuner card, has plugins, looks great and is overall fantastic.
I had a bit of a problem controlling it because my remote was sluggish, but I found Bluetooth Remote Control (trial version) on a website yesterday and now I control it from my Bluetooth mobile and it's as if I'm using a keyboard. Even just for the "wow" factor, it's great.
As TFA says, these vulnerabilities just cause things to crash. The other holes in microsoft products are what they used to patch regularly so far, this is no reason to think they're all as secure as a sieve.
It might fail sometimes (although I've seen that twice in the last 4 years), or it might be that the process is taking up all the cpu time, in which case you will have much better luck to first change its priority to idle and then try to kill it (from the processes tab, not the applications tab).
First of all, it can't reliably recognize if a process has failed to respond or just being busy, since there's no way to do that but wait. It can't indicate when a process apart from the current window is not responding for the same reason (mostly because processes that don't have windows can't stop responding to window events, and hence the OS can't tell whether they have frozen), and you can still "reliably" (loss of data etc still occurs) close any app you want from the task manager.
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Spore looks great in screenshots and theory and all, but I'm a bit disillusioned by all the games that promised depth. The most recent one being Fable, I thought I was going to be able to do anything I wanted, and it turns out the things they presented as only a few options were ALL you could do.
:/
So, I'm waiting to see if Spore is the Holy Grail or just a Pacman/Simwhatever/Warcraft/Starcraft clone
Well, if I buy the DVD of the series I will be paying $2 per episode...
Hmm, I would imagine that the friction of the particles is the reason why they *should* work. Thanks for the insight though, I guess the laymen part is true :P
Some 6 years ago I read this theory (in a game, I think) which said that gravity is caused by neutrinos. As neutrinos fly through matter they interact with it (and lose a tiny bit of speed) and exert a force on it. The distribution of neutrinos is homogenous (is that the term? I'm Greek), therefore when you're getting them from all sides, the force is canceled out.
Now, when you're on a planet, it's so huge that it slows down neutrinos more, so it creates a negative force and the neutrinos coming from the other side push you towards the planet, so it's really the absence of neutrinos that is gravity. I think experiments have proven that neutrinos do interact with matter, and this theory would explain why the gravitational force is instant, but I don't know what the flaw is here. I can't see any, but I'm not a physicist.
Not only do laptops underclock automatically, but they report the wrong processor speeds too. My 2800 XP reported some 700 MHz and I had great trouble running programs that checked to see if the processor was fast enough (I couldn't get it to speed up to full no matter what I did).
I don't think many people have a use for this. The processors shut down when they're not doing intensive work, and when they are (playing games, encoding) you more than likely have them plugged in an outlet. I don't know about heat, as I've never had a problem (I have an Athlon XP mobile).
I have been playing in a MUD for 6 years now (Played: 5834 hours says the "score" command, you do the math), but (except for the first few months or so) it is idle time. What I *love* about the MUD is that you can have it in the background while doing other stuff and never miss anything. I have a trigger to beep whenever anyone sends me a privmsg and I get back there and talk to them for a bit (no different than an IM client, really). I don't go to quests and stuff if I don't have loads of time (honestly, that's almost never, since I prefer to spend my time elsewhere).
Most importantly though, the MUD is lower in my priority list, below going out, reading wikipedia/slashdot/digg/the back of a juice box and studying (in that order, unfortunately). This way I almost never get bored (almost, MUDs are dying these days) and I don't miss out on my other activities to MUD.
My cousin plays WoW, and he is totally addicted to it. I can understand how he spends all day on a MMORPG since I've done that at some point, but I wouldn't play WoW even if it was free. Besides, you can write bots for the MUD to do anything you want, and as a programmer that's a huge advantage of MUDs.
You're counting on people who operate cash registers to make decisions about our future? P.S. Yes, I speak 4 languages as well.
I hate it when I walk by banks and see the screens turned on. Jesus, it's only a setting and the screen will turn itself on if you move the mouse. How hard is it to set to standby after 20 minutes of inactivity?
There would just be people that sold you one candy bar/computer/car along with enough material to make new ones, for a profit. I haven't thought of this extensively, but I think the world would be better (you could have anything you want, cheaply).
Why should you have skills you don't need? Skills evolve too, you know. If you sit around in an office all day you'll gain some extra pounds and lose muscle volume, if you work in the fields all day you'll get thinner and more muscular. Same with math, why have skills you don't need just because someone says they're "useful"? Useful where? If they were useful, you wouldn't have forgotten them. Hell, I'm having trouble writing, since I only do it twice a year, in the finals (typing is much faster, by the way).
Not that it should matter, but I happen to like math (which helps, being a university student). I just don't know why some people just HAVE to know stuff they have forgotten because they never use.
We should all go up there and see who can make the biggest Katamari!
What happens if you accidentally delete the message (some phones delete messages if you remove the battery or whatever)? Can they resend it to you, or are you SOL?
P.S. You can order seats here in Greece too, in large multiplexes.
Exactly.
You don't move much, do you?
So, the steps are these: Recognize language, use translator (of the babelfish kind) to translate to sign language, render signing hand.
:(
Why not just type it out to the screen?
...as the summary states.
I recently downloaded and tried out MediaPortal (open source) and I have to say, it's the best I've seen. It scans your collection and downloads plots, actors, box pictures etc from IMDB so you can see everything about a movie. It plays TV/radio with a TV tuner card, has plugins, looks great and is overall fantastic.
I had a bit of a problem controlling it because my remote was sluggish, but I found Bluetooth Remote Control (trial version) on a website yesterday and now I control it from my Bluetooth mobile and it's as if I'm using a keyboard. Even just for the "wow" factor, it's great.
As TFA says, these vulnerabilities just cause things to crash. The other holes in microsoft products are what they used to patch regularly so far, this is no reason to think they're all as secure as a sieve.
non-DRM e-books do exist
"There are 17,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog." - Project Gutenberg
You mean like, "In America, you watch television. In Russia, television watches you!!!!!!1111eleven"?
It might fail sometimes (although I've seen that twice in the last 4 years), or it might be that the process is taking up all the cpu time, in which case you will have much better luck to first change its priority to idle and then try to kill it (from the processes tab, not the applications tab).
First of all, it can't reliably recognize if a process has failed to respond or just being busy, since there's no way to do that but wait. It can't indicate when a process apart from the current window is not responding for the same reason (mostly because processes that don't have windows can't stop responding to window events, and hence the OS can't tell whether they have frozen), and you can still "reliably" (loss of data etc still occurs) close any app you want from the task manager.
...the "(Not Responding)" text Windows (for example) adds to the titlebar?
What, you were right :P