If I am sitting away from my computer I can't see my interface as well and that matters a lot in most games.
If I had a high def TV that had DVI inputs then I could see this being used in a living room situation.
Actually, I have a second computer which I play from the floor near my stereo (lack of room in my apartment) and tend to put the keyboard on my lap and use the mouse on a book. This could come in handy, but seeing who is making it... I'm not going to pre-order it.
I'd only buy one if I saw a physical version of it on a shelf in a store.
"or 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a lifetime." Since when did the human brain retain 125GB of data? Anyone know where this comes from or did they just pull it out of their ass?
Step 1: Go to Library Of Congress Step 2: Start reading... Step 3: Tell us when you are done.
The new "Golden Age" of gaming is when the detail is so high we can't tell the difference between live video and the graphics (generated in real time) we see on the screen.
I've give it two more generations before we see this... (PS5 and XBOX4)
Of course this might entail that we've reach the computational power of the singularity. Actually, I think when a games physics engine includes the Heisenberg uncertainty principal then we can say we've reach the golden age of gaming.
I can't decide if it is more or less exciting than watching golf...
Anymore than watching sweaty men put a leather ball through a hole. Seriously, I can't see what is exciting about that either. If they did what the Aztecs did and kill the looser and use his head for the next match than maybe it would be a bit more interesting.
So when Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life" and told us to rid ourselves of our worldly possessions, he just wanted control???
Did Jesus write the bible? Or did someone do so 100-200 years after the fact.
I tend to view Christianity like the Cathars (the people the pope declared as heretics in the middle aages and exterminated), "Jesus is cool and all but the bible and the church is fallable because it has been touched by the hand of man."
It is just as easy for a man to twist the bible and the name Jesus in order to do bad things as it is for one to create good. For your example, I could see a type of leadership using this quote in order to strip the food and land of peasants in order for the greater good of the state leaving them to starve. One must be ever aware of this fact and be able to search for the truth by other means than litteral interpetation.
Otherwise one fails in what Jesus was really trying to teach.
That's utter drivel. My cat knows the difference between being cold and wet and miserable and scared and being cuddled up before the fire in a pair of loving arms. My cat will signal her appreciation in a completely unequivocal manner by purring and loving up. Her level of appreciation is different, but it is not lacking.
No matter how conciouss or enlightened your cat is, I doubt he/she has the ability to save all forms of sentient life.
Of course by some change of fate, your cat lives to see the singularity and its brain is fused with a super computer as an experient and he becomes sentient and figures out how to reverse the 2nd law of thermodynamics brining all forms of life in the universe peace and eternal life, but I'm getting side trakced.
Your cat nor any aninal (including man) without technology can prevent the sun from dying... Or a meteror from hitting nor maybe the second ice age from happening.
Your cat is simply ignorant of this fact and even if he is aware about the possiblity of Heat Death of the Universe, it isn't making strides to overcome this issue.
Then again... Neither is man at the present moment except save a handful of enlightened psysicists and a few ramblers on slashdot.
but "gut feeling" is a very, very poor way to select hardware...
Back in 1999 when I worked in a computer shop and anyone brought in a packard bell, I had a "gut feeling" they made a poor choice of hardware.
When someone brought in a computer with a hard drive giving a loud grinding sound I had a gut feeling that it would be a Western Digital (the ones they make these days are not so bad).
And I had a "gut feeling" that purchasing a computer with a Cyrix processor was just a bad idea.
Look... You can knock zen, instincts, and gut feelings all you want, but the truth of the matter is those things are your subconcious telling you things you already know but won't admit or not really concious of.
Well... Then again most of those things that you have gut feelings about is because of real world experiences. You can research specs and prices all you want with a PHD efficiency, but without proper knowledge that fantastic server on paper may die in a puff of smoke as soon as you turn it on because it was a peice of crap in reality.
Of course this would entail you have had experience with the company and its products before hand and that "gut feeling" hopefully isn't because you had a good experience with your iPod.
Really? They have plenty of other links to information in that article but nothing about this particular tidbit. I did a quick search and found nothing in the first 100 results.
Well considering that you've probaly tagged yourself by the NSA by doing so... Not finding the information now is the least of your worries.
Sans patent, there's really nothing presenting the company from saying, "Hey, great idea. Think I'll take it." Then, since they have the resources that you lack, they're free to go ahead and build your idea, without having paid you a dime.
If it is that complicated, then they'll have to hire you on. You can't just steal plans for a particle accelerator that generates fusion power by what you scribled down on a coffee napkin.
Seriously, people if you can't replicate a prototype then you need to make yourself required for the deal. If you can't do that then your idea was probaly not going to work with feasible means.
The issue here is that information and ideas are not important, these things are going to be $0 dollar value commodity. The fact you can process and generate information in a certain fashion should be of value and this is why the companies pay you the money.
Otherwise your just an infinite monkey sitting on a toliet thinking up infinite ideas which may or may not have pratical value in the real world.
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This will take a sea change in Congress, and will be fought tooth and nail by the large corporations with large patent portfolios.
The only way to fix that is to get rid of the house of Represtatives and replace it with something else. (Well keep the Senate because we need to keep states rights and all that) A parliment based on total number of votes from the American populace... If you win 1,000,000 votes you get a seat in congress regardless of weather those votes were from California or Texas. This will get rid of pork spending and remove the congressmen from their constituates which are mostly the businesses in their local areas.
For years I was beaten down for my odd views, but now it seems like I'm just one amongst many, even in the mass media. What the hell is going on here?
The downside of all this patent litigation is that every possible form of idea will be patented by 2010.
On the brightside, by 2027 all of those patents will have expired... Of course we might be speaking Mandarin by then due to the failure of the US economy due to the patents.
Everyone goes about complaining that "Farmers are bad", "Farmers make baby jesus cry" and "farmers ate my first born", but the truth of the matter is that the game is broke and farmers take advantage of a system that needs to be fixed.
No matter how many farmers you ban or how much your game company threatens ebay to pull all game sales, you aren't going to solve the problem that your game is more tedious than real life work.
Make the game fun to play grinding from level 1 to level 60 without a single moment of the playing saying "Damn... I'm just so sick of killing 'x beast' to get 'x loot'".
The moment the players feels like this game is work is the moment a farmer can step in and play for them for a price.
Also, the second someone buys their $199 Wal*Mart, 'Google PC' and it does not run their 4-year-old daughter's "Blue's Clues" and "Dora" CD-ROMs, it goes back - just like the LinSpire boxes did.
I think you think too highly of CD-Rom software. This isn't 1996 anymore. Chances are if they can't get flash working on this systems then its more cost effective to have kids go to Nickkids.com or wherever you can play Blues clues for free.
Also, if parents already have the software, it means they have a computer that the software already runs on which makes it a moot point if the new computer runs it. The second scenario in which the parents buy the software at the store at the time the computer is bought, which is less likley because chances are they already bundled stuff and after $200 in the wallet punch a $50 software title isn't that pretty.
If of course google markets it as a "no-software" required type of deal in which everything you could really need could be provided by google by asking it "Play Dora game" in the search engine and you are prompted by whatever flash game instantly. Hell... Parents won't have to go to the store anymore to buy old cd roms.
Well... Depends on when he formally communicated it. From the almighty wiki
He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "miracle year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics."
After his general theory of relativity, which he communicated in its final form to the Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin on November 25, 1915, was verified by observing the predicted bending of light by the Sun during a solar eclipse in May 1919 by a British research team led by Sir Arthur S. Eddington, Einstein became world-famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist.
So he came up with it in 1905, gave the formal final version of his theory in 1915, and was proven by observation in May 1919.
Well you could call the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 a mini-world war.
I wonder if online retailers would change their tune if there was a major crackdown on people evading paying their use taxes.
Most people I know don't file state income taxes much less keep track of people failing to pay sales taxes.
Secondly, you have to remember that many states don't have sales tax. The federal government is only responsible to interstate trade which by constitution can't be taxed (there is no federal sales tax you know) and the states are responsible for sales taxes if they want them. The federal government is not obligated to enforce anything that differs from state to state (at least that is how it is supposed to work).
This exoskeleton sucks for defending and going after people in cities, close alleys.
It would be good if they figured out how to enclose a soldier in plated armor strong enough to withstand a IED (although that maight be a lot of armor).
The main benefits of that would be that even though you are slow you can take a punishment and still be able to get into alleys, buildings, and other places a M1Abrahms can't get into.
Then again... It would be more logical to send in a remote controlled robot with a machine gun on it.
He said the Sony campaign hit his SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan a few weeks ago with not only 'dozens' of spray-painted murals but 'hundreds' of posters of the same cutesy youths.
Oh... Myabe because graffiti in NYC is classified as... You know... A felony.
With a entire office of police devoted to graffiti crime.
So because you believe life begins when a baby leaves the mother's womb, and others believe it begins at conception,
From my personal experience with life and concioussness, I can only prove to myself that conciousness begins around age 5 when I first had awareness and memories (and very vague memories at that). If I died before then I would not have the sentience to care one way or the other.
I'm not saying it is ok to kill anyone below the age of 5 (in fact I would highly be against such behavior), but it isn't a simple as a matter of opinion yours or his opinion.
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If I am sitting away from my computer I can't see my interface as well and that matters a lot in most games.
If I had a high def TV that had DVI inputs then I could see this being used in a living room situation.
Actually, I have a second computer which I play from the floor near my stereo (lack of room in my apartment) and tend to put the keyboard on my lap and use the mouse on a book. This could come in handy, but seeing who is making it... I'm not going to pre-order it.
I'd only buy one if I saw a physical version of it on a shelf in a store.
No one is going to write a complicateed piece of software and not have bugs in it,
First define complicated.
Second... Define bugs.
And lastly have your marketing department replace the word complicated with "user friendly" adn replace bugs with "intended features".
"or 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a lifetime." Since when did the human brain retain 125GB of data? Anyone know where this comes from or did they just pull it out of their ass?
Step 1: Go to Library Of Congress
Step 2: Start reading...
Step 3: Tell us when you are done.
The new "Golden Age" of gaming is when the detail is so high we can't tell the difference between live video and the graphics (generated in real time) we see on the screen.
I've give it two more generations before we see this... (PS5 and XBOX4)
Of course this might entail that we've reach the computational power of the singularity. Actually, I think when a games physics engine includes the Heisenberg uncertainty principal then we can say we've reach the golden age of gaming.
I can't decide if it is more or less exciting than watching golf...
Anymore than watching sweaty men put a leather ball through a hole. Seriously, I can't see what is exciting about that either. If they did what the Aztecs did and kill the looser and use his head for the next match than maybe it would be a bit more interesting.
Mu.
So when Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life" and told us to rid ourselves of our worldly possessions, he just wanted control???
Did Jesus write the bible? Or did someone do so 100-200 years after the fact.
I tend to view Christianity like the Cathars (the people the pope declared as heretics in the middle aages and exterminated), "Jesus is cool and all but the bible and the church is fallable because it has been touched by the hand of man."
It is just as easy for a man to twist the bible and the name Jesus in order to do bad things as it is for one to create good. For your example, I could see a type of leadership using this quote in order to strip the food and land of peasants in order for the greater good of the state leaving them to starve. One must be ever aware of this fact and be able to search for the truth by other means than litteral interpetation.
Otherwise one fails in what Jesus was really trying to teach.
That's utter drivel. My cat knows the difference between being cold and wet and miserable and scared and being cuddled up before the fire in a pair of loving arms. My cat will signal her appreciation in a completely unequivocal manner by purring and loving up. Her level of appreciation is different, but it is not lacking.
No matter how conciouss or enlightened your cat is, I doubt he/she has the ability to save all forms of sentient life.
Of course by some change of fate, your cat lives to see the singularity and its brain is fused with a super computer as an experient and he becomes sentient and figures out how to reverse the 2nd law of thermodynamics brining all forms of life in the universe peace and eternal life, but I'm getting side trakced.
Your cat nor any aninal (including man) without technology can prevent the sun from dying... Or a meteror from hitting nor maybe the second ice age from happening.
Your cat is simply ignorant of this fact and even if he is aware about the possiblity of Heat Death of the Universe, it isn't making strides to overcome this issue.
Then again... Neither is man at the present moment except save a handful of enlightened psysicists and a few ramblers on slashdot.
maybe an iPod portable DVD player?
You mean like the iPod video?
but "gut feeling" is a very, very poor way to select hardware...
Back in 1999 when I worked in a computer shop and anyone brought in a packard bell, I had a "gut feeling" they made a poor choice of hardware.
When someone brought in a computer with a hard drive giving a loud grinding sound I had a gut feeling that it would be a Western Digital (the ones they make these days are not so bad).
And I had a "gut feeling" that purchasing a computer with a Cyrix processor was just a bad idea.
Look... You can knock zen, instincts, and gut feelings all you want, but the truth of the matter is those things are your subconcious telling you things you already know but won't admit or not really concious of.
Well... Then again most of those things that you have gut feelings about is because of real world experiences. You can research specs and prices all you want with a PHD efficiency, but without proper knowledge that fantastic server on paper may die in a puff of smoke as soon as you turn it on because it was a peice of crap in reality.
Of course this would entail you have had experience with the company and its products before hand and that "gut feeling" hopefully isn't because you had a good experience with your iPod.
I just hit up his wiki at:
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http://vote.peteashdown.org/wiki/index.php/Main_P
And under the main article it clearly states:
"I AM PETER OF GAYTORIA HEAR MY ROAR"
So I think partisan politics is the least of his worries with an open wiki. Heck... Even encyclopediadramatica isn't an open wiki.
Really? They have plenty of other links to information in that article but nothing about this particular tidbit. I did a quick search and found nothing in the first 100 results.
Well considering that you've probaly tagged yourself by the NSA by doing so... Not finding the information now is the least of your worries.
I like my games cheat-free. You will not be missed.
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I like my real life lawsuit free. Innovation and free trade will be missed
Sans patent, there's really nothing presenting the company from saying, "Hey, great idea. Think I'll take it." Then, since they have the resources that you lack, they're free to go ahead and build your idea, without having paid you a dime.
If it is that complicated, then they'll have to hire you on. You can't just steal plans for a particle accelerator that generates fusion power by what you scribled down on a coffee napkin.
Seriously, people if you can't replicate a prototype then you need to make yourself required for the deal. If you can't do that then your idea was probaly not going to work with feasible means.
The issue here is that information and ideas are not important, these things are going to be $0 dollar value commodity. The fact you can process and generate information in a certain fashion should be of value and this is why the companies pay you the money.
Otherwise your just an infinite monkey sitting on a toliet thinking up infinite ideas which may or may not have pratical value in the real world.
This will take a sea change in Congress, and will be fought tooth and nail by the large corporations with large patent portfolios.
The only way to fix that is to get rid of the house of Represtatives and replace it with something else. (Well keep the Senate because we need to keep states rights and all that) A parliment based on total number of votes from the American populace... If you win 1,000,000 votes you get a seat in congress regardless of weather those votes were from California or Texas. This will get rid of pork spending and remove the congressmen from their constituates which are mostly the businesses in their local areas.
We'll keep the senate on for that purpose...
For years I was beaten down for my odd views, but now it seems like I'm just one amongst many, even in the mass media. What the hell is going on here?
The downside of all this patent litigation is that every possible form of idea will be patented by 2010.
On the brightside, by 2027 all of those patents will have expired... Of course we might be speaking Mandarin by then due to the failure of the US economy due to the patents.
Everyone goes about complaining that "Farmers are bad", "Farmers make baby jesus cry" and "farmers ate my first born", but the truth of the matter is that the game is broke and farmers take advantage of a system that needs to be fixed.
No matter how many farmers you ban or how much your game company threatens ebay to pull all game sales, you aren't going to solve the problem that your game is more tedious than real life work.
Make the game fun to play grinding from level 1 to level 60 without a single moment of the playing saying "Damn... I'm just so sick of killing 'x beast' to get 'x loot'".
The moment the players feels like this game is work is the moment a farmer can step in and play for them for a price.
Also, the second someone buys their $199 Wal*Mart, 'Google PC' and it does not run their 4-year-old daughter's "Blue's Clues" and "Dora" CD-ROMs, it goes back - just like the LinSpire boxes did.
I think you think too highly of CD-Rom software. This isn't 1996 anymore. Chances are if they can't get flash working on this systems then its more cost effective to have kids go to Nickkids.com or wherever you can play Blues clues for free.
Also, if parents already have the software, it means they have a computer that the software already runs on which makes it a moot point if the new computer runs it. The second scenario in which the parents buy the software at the store at the time the computer is bought, which is less likley because chances are they already bundled stuff and after $200 in the wallet punch a $50 software title isn't that pretty.
If of course google markets it as a "no-software" required type of deal in which everything you could really need could be provided by google by asking it "Play Dora game" in the search engine and you are prompted by whatever flash game instantly. Hell... Parents won't have to go to the store anymore to buy old cd roms.
So he came up with it in 1905, gave the formal final version of his theory in 1915, and was proven by observation in May 1919.
Well you could call the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 a mini-world war.
Every time I read that, the content changes into an unpredictiable state.
I wonder if online retailers would change their tune if there was a major crackdown on people evading paying their use taxes.
Most people I know don't file state income taxes much less keep track of people failing to pay sales taxes.
Secondly, you have to remember that many states don't have sales tax. The federal government is only responsible to interstate trade which by constitution can't be taxed (there is no federal sales tax you know) and the states are responsible for sales taxes if they want them. The federal government is not obligated to enforce anything that differs from state to state (at least that is how it is supposed to work).
It would really suck to be wearing one of these things when an EMP bomb goes off over the battlefield.
If an EMP goes off over a battle field, wearing one of these are the least of your worries.
You know... Like the helicopter you happen to be flying in at that moment in time.
This exoskeleton sucks for defending and going after people in cities, close alleys.
It would be good if they figured out how to enclose a soldier in plated armor strong enough to withstand a IED (although that maight be a lot of armor).
The main benefits of that would be that even though you are slow you can take a punishment and still be able to get into alleys, buildings, and other places a M1Abrahms can't get into.
Then again... It would be more logical to send in a remote controlled robot with a machine gun on it.
He said the Sony campaign hit his SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan a few weeks ago with not only 'dozens' of spray-painted murals but 'hundreds' of posters of the same cutesy youths.
Oh... Myabe because graffiti in NYC is classified as... You know... A felony.
With a entire office of police devoted to graffiti crime.
So because you believe life begins when a baby leaves the mother's womb, and others believe it begins at conception,
From my personal experience with life and concioussness, I can only prove to myself that conciousness begins around age 5 when I first had awareness and memories (and very vague memories at that). If I died before then I would not have the sentience to care one way or the other.
I'm not saying it is ok to kill anyone below the age of 5 (in fact I would highly be against such behavior), but it isn't a simple as a matter of opinion yours or his opinion.