For the last few years, Oberstar has worked to secure millions of dollars for the college's simulator, which involves a computer-connected gun similar to those of video games. The gun can be used to "spray" paint on a screen in a manner akin to Adobe Photoshop's airbrush tool. The college's Web site says some local businesses want to use the simulator for training painters, but it does not identify any possible military applications for the project.
Based on my days in the arcade industry, I truly believe this could be designed, programmed, and built for ten opr twenty grand at most. Someone, somewhere, just got majorly paid for cross-breeding "Duck Hunt" with Photoshop.
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ILM is responsible for making movies like The Mask [imdb.com] (of which there are seven films)
There were only two "The Mask" films. And only the first one counts if you don't like stuff that sucks.
Laugh me off if you want, but I am willing to bet that billions - that's BILLIONS - of human beings wouldn't be around today had not other human beings wantonly and freely copied and spread their genetic codes.
Have to disagree with you there. Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and similar aren't a multitude of options, they're all collectively one option out of four.
As things are today, if you want an email address, you can:
Go with a web-based provider like Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo. This gets you an address for free, but peppers you with ads and things, and throws the confidentiality of your email into dispute.
Use the address that came with your Internet service, and be yourusername@yourisp.com. Chances are, your ISP also has a webmail access capability as well as standard POP, letting you use a number of free clients to access and organize it.
Buy a domain hosting package with POP service, and use that to be whateveryoulike@whateveryourdomain.com. Most if not all of these have webmail as well as standard POP access capability.
Run your own mail server (relatively advanced users only,) letting you basically do everything exactly how you want.
Out of all those, only the first is sure to limit your access in any way, add advertisements and spam to your inbox and each individual message, and collect demographic information on you to sell to interested parties. All this to get something for free that is available dirt-cheap in its untainted form elsewhere.
A note tough, an Xbox 360 still costs around 50CAN$ more than it should, once you apply the tax exchange rate. Microsoft is losing less money here than in the states.
Interesting.. could you clarify this a bit? Is it a tax issue as in the government collecting more and MS not seeing any of that extra money, or less taxes leaving more for MS, or something else?
Reminds me of the instruction manual to one or another of Pac-Man's original Atari console incarnations.. even my mom reacted with an "oh, come on" when reading that touching a ghost makes Pac Man tired and ends the round.
This is terribly useful and well done, which is just going to bug the sheer hell out of me when I kill time at work reading/. and not having Firefox or the plugin to play with. Thanks, author, for making my workday just that much more of a relative grind!
It's always nice to see a growing technology such as the much-hyped "virtual reality" used to do good beyond it's years as a fantastically annoying, overused buzzword.
Given the timeframe, I guess it'll be ten years or so before a "blog" or a "podcast" is used to cure something.
I remember back when it was FREE and I didn't have any ads plastered on anything, thanks to the multiple easy hacks available. Considering how much better adblocking gadgetry is nowadays, I doubt it'll be long until someone hacks out a way past these ads.
Is it just me, or has pretty much every FF game changed something major that pissed off the fanbase to no end until they played it and possibly found it groovy? People bitched and moaned about FFX's sphere grid and Blitzball, FFX2's lack of blitzball, FF7's steampunk-over-standard fantasty, FF9's standard-fantasy-over-steampunk, the dress-up, the card games, the battle systems, etc, etc, etc...
I'm an RPG fan in general, and a Final Fantasy fan in particular. I like some of them more than others. The one's I'm not much of a fan of - wait for it, this is the good bit, the bit with "+1 insightful" written all over it - I don't play with anymore.
That may turn out to be true should you ever find yourself with a supercomputer, but without an Xbox. It's like how most people still use the Windows Calculator regularly despite the fact that you can get an actual calculator for a dollar.
Peter Jackson had to cut huge chunks out of the trilogy to fit it into 10 hours or so of film. How much of the content could possibly be retained in a stage show that runs about a quarter as long, and made interesting and comprehensible to a general audience?
FRODO: Hi there, I'm Frodo. GANDALF: Here, take this ring and chuck it. FRODO: Okay! BLACK RIDERS: Grrrr! FRODO: *chuck* CAST: Yay!
My podcast isn't ready yet, so I've missed a perfectly good opportunity to hype it up on Slashdot.
Could someone be a pal and dupe this question in another week or so?
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ILM is responsible for making movies like The Mask [imdb.com] (of which there are seven films)
There were only two "The Mask" films. And only the first one counts if you don't like stuff that sucks.
Laugh me off if you want, but I am willing to bet that billions - that's BILLIONS - of human beings wouldn't be around today had not other human beings wantonly and freely copied and spread their genetic codes.
As things are today, if you want an email address, you can:
Out of all those, only the first is sure to limit your access in any way, add advertisements and spam to your inbox and each individual message, and collect demographic information on you to sell to interested parties. All this to get something for free that is available dirt-cheap in its untainted form elsewhere.
A note tough, an Xbox 360 still costs around 50CAN$ more than it should, once you apply the tax exchange rate. Microsoft is losing less money here than in the states.
Interesting.. could you clarify this a bit? Is it a tax issue as in the government collecting more and MS not seeing any of that extra money, or less taxes leaving more for MS, or something else?
Snapper is the sort of high-quality nameplate, like Levi Strauss, that Wal-Mart hopes can ultimately make it more Target-like.
Wait, wait, wait.. there's supposed to be a difference between Target and Walmart??
Want to Experience Zero G? Stay in Bed
I just want to stay in bed, isn't that enough? Keep your science out of my laziness.
My mom is still trying to figure out why they plugged a typewriter and a rolling soapdish into the tv.
Has anyone started up an adopt-an-Iranian-blog project, like the one that was done for the Chinese?
Reminds me of the instruction manual to one or another of Pac-Man's original Atari console incarnations.. even my mom reacted with an "oh, come on" when reading that touching a ghost makes Pac Man tired and ends the round.
This is terribly useful and well done, which is just going to bug the sheer hell out of me when I kill time at work reading /. and not having Firefox or the plugin to play with. Thanks, author, for making my workday just that much more of a relative grind!
It's always nice to see a growing technology such as the much-hyped "virtual reality" used to do good beyond it's years as a fantastically annoying, overused buzzword.
Given the timeframe, I guess it'll be ten years or so before a "blog" or a "podcast" is used to cure something.
I remember back when it was FREE and I didn't have any ads plastered on anything, thanks to the multiple easy hacks available. Considering how much better adblocking gadgetry is nowadays, I doubt it'll be long until someone hacks out a way past these ads.
Maybe I'll patent the wearing of logos on my clothing to offset the operating expenses of life...
Funny, most people with those logos on paid a hefty premium on their clothing to be able to wear them.
Now I can get spam offering bootleg copies of yet another drug from "teh ultmate online pahrm hacy"
Is it just me, or has pretty much every FF game changed something major that pissed off the fanbase to no end until they played it and possibly found it groovy? People bitched and moaned about FFX's sphere grid and Blitzball, FFX2's lack of blitzball, FF7's steampunk-over-standard fantasty, FF9's standard-fantasy-over-steampunk, the dress-up, the card games, the battle systems, etc, etc, etc...
I'm an RPG fan in general, and a Final Fantasy fan in particular. I like some of them more than others. The one's I'm not much of a fan of - wait for it, this is the good bit, the bit with "+1 insightful" written all over it - I don't play with anymore.
That may turn out to be true should you ever find yourself with a supercomputer, but without an Xbox. It's like how most people still use the Windows Calculator regularly despite the fact that you can get an actual calculator for a dollar.
That explains why the "I'm feeling lucky!" button now reads "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Peter Jackson had to cut huge chunks out of the trilogy to fit it into 10 hours or so of film. How much of the content could possibly be retained in a stage show that runs about a quarter as long, and made interesting and comprehensible to a general audience?
FRODO: Hi there, I'm Frodo.
GANDALF: Here, take this ring and chuck it.
FRODO: Okay!
BLACK RIDERS: Grrrr!
FRODO: *chuck*
CAST: Yay!
I must have mistranslated your post, I thought it said "go stick your head in a pig."
Why would the holiday season be a factor for Vista? I don't think I hate anyone enough to give them a first-gen OS - any first-gen OS - as a gift.
Never thought I'd find an article that would make me appreciate light pens.
volunteered to lead the team for personal reasons.
My podcast isn't ready yet, so I've missed a perfectly good opportunity to hype it up on Slashdot. Could someone be a pal and dupe this question in another week or so?