The games look good. Really good... But... To me it feels like the original Xbox all over again. Not to say the original Xbox was fun, but I didn't run out to buy it til it was $149. I feel the same about the new Xbox360 because even though I really want to play the "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" (it just look so damn awesome visually) I don't think it's currently worth the money to be the first to buy it before the holiday.
Maybe quarter2 will be good time to buy and I think many people feel the same way with the wait and see attitude. I don't think this means failure of the xbox, but i think many people are either waiting for a price drop in the console or what Sondy and Nintendo show us first and then make a decision on which console to get.
I have a hunch that while gravity can never be faster than the speed of light, it can affect how fast the speed of light is depending on where you are in the universe and what and where you are observing.
If light cannot escape a black hole after it passes event horizon, then obviously light is affected by gravity somehow. Perhaps, the more gravity the less the speed of light and the more gravity the slower the speed of light is. This also depends on which direction the gravity is coming from too... But I am not a physicist nor am I an expert on the subject, but just a layman's hunch on what could cause this.
The car is powered by 7 Pentium M laptops [newscientist.com]. No drivers? Are the laptops running in Safe Mode? Ah, that explains why its average speed is 19.1mph.
The cars powered with AMD chips averaged about 80mph... til they overheated in the desert sun in 5 minutes after starting. The Mac G5's drained all the power cars batteries before they left the starting point. The team that used Sun Sparcs couldn't afford gas for the entire trip. The secretley re-released new Cyrix (remember them) powered cars ran comparably to the Intel but would crash into rocks and drive off the sides of cliffs for no good reason (it is a desert you know).
Last year they had NO vehicles even make it out of the obstacle course.. and this year they had several vehicles actually complete the desert course?? What gives?
Who says development has to stop... You just have to be less public about it and give up your name as the author. Distributing all your works source (with or without a GPL/BSD type license since legally its a moot point) wouldn't hurt either. Although, I do suspect that when most groups get a cease and desist letter they publicly announce they have to cease and desist just to get the sender off their backs.
Realizing that the truth of reality might be different from your beliefs, and pursuing the truth anyway, is part of what it means to be a scientist.
I think we just agreed on beliefs and facts, but the definition of truth is the gray area. You define "truth" as the actual facts. I was defining "truth" as defined as what you believe in based off observation of the facts at a given time. Moreover, I believe truth is a measurement of facts. We have to round the decimal place somewhere and we can never have a truly excact measurement of anything in the universe no matter how precise our instruments are (see Heisenberg).
I hope I am not going too off topic with a philosophy post, but let me give an example.
I could say "The sky is blue? True or false?"
Most people would say "True." because normally when they look outside during the day they see the sky blue.
But if I look outside right now, it is rather damp and grayish out so it is not true at this moment in time.
If I say "at currently 5:10pm EST 10/7/2005 the sky outside is overcast, gray, and rainy at the location of Philadelphia, PA USA" then that is a fact whether you believe it to be true or not.
When someone says to me "This is true!", they are really saying "I believe this to be true to the best of my knowledge."
Truth is assumption that facts hold steady to a given state of being. A way to predict the future or a state of an object without observing and getting the facts each time. However this makes "truth" malleable... One really needs to look at truth as something that is dynamic because when you assume something to be "true" you are making a big assumption that the state will remain the same under given conditions. As science has shown, most "truth" works well under a given set of rules, but occasionally even those break down under extraordinary circumstances. Like Newton's laws breaking down when they get to the speed of light...
Although, a great deal of wikipedia isn't even measured with facts, but with opinions on immeasurable ideas. Not to say this is a bad thing, but mostly we have to assume these things are true but with knowledge there is a possibility the could be very well false.
nice speech, but the truth is not democratically accountable.
Something is true or false only if we believe it to be so.
The universe doesn't deam things in the way that humans try to comprehend, but rather "it exists or it doesn't". By existing I mean presence of matter and energy moving or not moving through the universe at a certain rate. True and false is rather a predictive methology to determine what will happen if you do "X action" in the universe. People believe in the truths that have no basis in physical reality and sometimes people don't believe in things that are actually there. Therefore truth is a matter of opinion, however it doesn't matter to the universe wheather you believe in it or not... Unless you want to talk Copenhagen Interpetation in where things don't exist unless you believe in them.
This will mean that banks will be forced to put their customers through more and more identification hoops than they already do. We will be inconvenienced even more and all because of the phishers. They are criminals like any other, and it's the governments responsibility to deal with them.
Wha? All you need to get is your date of birth, social security, and mother's maiden name (maybe zip code of residence) and you can take out a home loan in someone elses name.
The problem isn't the banks are asking enough information, but rather information that is easily accessible if you look a a persons life, mailbox, and trash. Banks treat social security numbers as passwords when in reality social security numbers need to be identifiers and something else that you can change and don't need to put on every job, insurance, loan, website application.
Many shooter games have traditionally calculated world collision and bullet impacts by modeling bullets as instantaneous line traces and characters as moving collision cylinders.
That always irked me in FPS games. In the real world, bullets aren't instantaneous and travel in an arc. Red Orchestra (a UT2k4 mod) does a pretty good job of simulating bullet drop and real life physics.
I'm assuming that the older games don't have the correct TCP/IP stack in order to play with people online since Mario Kart DS appears to be the first game that supports it. Advance Wars or (don't laugh please) Yu-gi-oh since those games really are fun but the AI can be beaten fairly easy once you've created a bluffing or illogical sacrifice strategy and a human opponent would be greatly welcome.
Still, there will be dozens of games by Q2 of next year that will support it and hopefully should be kick butt to have internet play from home.
assuming (like in your scenario) someone is standing over you with a gun you can proceed with the payment (or whatever) as usual (aka, you don't get shot), and the athorities can be alerted that you're in a 'situation'.
Or it spits out a $5 bill and a receipt that states you have overdrawn your account. Of course I already use that security measure.
You basically use your airport wireless system as the base and then hook one of the airportexpress devices to your stereo system. It transmit audio from your computer/ipod to the stereo. It would pretty awesome if they did the same for Home Theater systems.
What if it can hook up to your TV and act like a DVD player?
What would be cooler if it used Airport wireless. Then you wouldn't even have to plug it up to the TV and transmit directly from the dock on your computer.
What "those people" are you referring to? The artists? A&R, producers, singers, sound engineers, your girlfriend? This makes no point. How is this +5 interesting?
He means everyone. Even the high school kid who sets up the mike in the studio or the tour bus driver's mother.... Evil bitch!
No but seriously, the majority of people in the music industry are out to fuck you over when the situation involves money. I've been to a few venues where they skipped out on paying the band I was touring with (no I wasn't in the band, but I sure liked to use their drink tickets).
do you need more than a browser platform for average computing tasks?
Does WoW or EQ count for Average computing tasks?
For the Office the answer should be no. (and I use the word "should" very loosely *coughs*)
But for people at home that drive the fastest video card, fastest processor, and massive hard drives the answer is yes. Although, I remember reading somewhere (it may have been John Carmack or some other 3d graphics guru) that they predict eventually after bandwidth and processing power becomes a moot issue (a world where everyone has fiber to the curb of their home and processing power is unimaginable) is that all calculations of physics, raytracing, network code, and all things that your desktop does now will be done on a server and then transmit the video feed directly to your screen and all the information you send to the server would be keyboard and mouse.
This might take 10-20 years depending on how fast technlogy will improve and decrease in price for both bandwidth and hardware itself, but it seems to most logical route rather than what we are doing now for the home end user... But still... I personally perfer something locally and more physical tangible although I may have to get used to it not being that way in 20 years.
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The games look good. Really good... But... To me it feels like the original Xbox all over again. Not to say the original Xbox was fun, but I didn't run out to buy it til it was $149. I feel the same about the new Xbox360 because even though I really want to play the "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" (it just look so damn awesome visually) I don't think it's currently worth the money to be the first to buy it before the holiday.
Maybe quarter2 will be good time to buy and I think many people feel the same way with the wait and see attitude. I don't think this means failure of the xbox, but i think many people are either waiting for a price drop in the console or what Sondy and Nintendo show us first and then make a decision on which console to get.
Nature's way.
You mean the same Nature that came up with Bubonic Plague, old age, cancer, natural blindness, and survival of the fittest?
I have a hunch that while gravity can never be faster than the speed of light, it can affect how fast the speed of light is depending on where you are in the universe and what and where you are observing.
If light cannot escape a black hole after it passes event horizon, then obviously light is affected by gravity somehow. Perhaps, the more gravity the less the speed of light and the more gravity the slower the speed of light is. This also depends on which direction the gravity is coming from too... But I am not a physicist nor am I an expert on the subject, but just a layman's hunch on what could cause this.
The car is powered by 7 Pentium M laptops [newscientist.com]. No drivers? Are the laptops running in Safe Mode? Ah, that explains why its average speed is 19.1mph.
The cars powered with AMD chips averaged about 80mph... til they overheated in the desert sun in 5 minutes after starting. The Mac G5's drained all the power cars batteries before they left the starting point. The team that used Sun Sparcs couldn't afford gas for the entire trip. The secretley re-released new Cyrix (remember them) powered cars ran comparably to the Intel but would crash into rocks and drive off the sides of cliffs for no good reason (it is a desert you know).
Last year they had NO vehicles even make it out of the obstacle course.. and this year they had several vehicles actually complete the desert course?? What gives?
Corporate Sponsorship and Moore's Law
Who says development has to stop... You just have to be less public about it and give up your name as the author. Distributing all your works source (with or without a GPL/BSD type license since legally its a moot point) wouldn't hurt either. Although, I do suspect that when most groups get a cease and desist letter they publicly announce they have to cease and desist just to get the sender off their backs.
Realizing that the truth of reality might be different from your beliefs, and pursuing the truth anyway, is part of what it means to be a scientist.
I think we just agreed on beliefs and facts, but the definition of truth is the gray area. You define "truth" as the actual facts. I was defining "truth" as defined as what you believe in based off observation of the facts at a given time. Moreover, I believe truth is a measurement of facts. We have to round the decimal place somewhere and we can never have a truly excact measurement of anything in the universe no matter how precise our instruments are (see Heisenberg).
I hope I am not going too off topic with a philosophy post, but let me give an example.
I could say "The sky is blue? True or false?"
Most people would say "True." because normally when they look outside during the day they see the sky blue.
But if I look outside right now, it is rather damp and grayish out so it is not true at this moment in time.
If I say "at currently 5:10pm EST 10/7/2005 the sky outside is overcast, gray, and rainy at the location of Philadelphia, PA USA" then that is a fact whether you believe it to be true or not.
When someone says to me "This is true!", they are really saying "I believe this to be true to the best of my knowledge."
Truth is assumption that facts hold steady to a given state of being. A way to predict the future or a state of an object without observing and getting the facts each time. However this makes "truth" malleable... One really needs to look at truth as something that is dynamic because when you assume something to be "true" you are making a big assumption that the state will remain the same under given conditions. As science has shown, most "truth" works well under a given set of rules, but occasionally even those break down under extraordinary circumstances. Like Newton's laws breaking down when they get to the speed of light...
Although, a great deal of wikipedia isn't even measured with facts, but with opinions on immeasurable ideas. Not to say this is a bad thing, but mostly we have to assume these things are true but with knowledge there is a possibility the could be very well false.
This action, though not very nice, is a direct result of people trying to jack them of their creativity.
;)
I hope you are using the term "creativity" lightly. But as you confess, you didn't have suffer through the shows
But still... I'd rather have a company using tactics like these than legal battles any day of the week.
nice speech, but the truth is not democratically accountable.
Something is true or false only if we believe it to be so.
The universe doesn't deam things in the way that humans try to comprehend, but rather "it exists or it doesn't". By existing I mean presence of matter and energy moving or not moving through the universe at a certain rate. True and false is rather a predictive methology to determine what will happen if you do "X action" in the universe. People believe in the truths that have no basis in physical reality and sometimes people don't believe in things that are actually there. Therefore truth is a matter of opinion, however it doesn't matter to the universe wheather you believe in it or not... Unless you want to talk Copenhagen Interpetation in where things don't exist unless you believe in them.
This will mean that banks will be forced to put their customers through more and more identification hoops than they already do. We will be inconvenienced even more and all because of the phishers. They are criminals like any other, and it's the governments responsibility to deal with them.
Wha? All you need to get is your date of birth, social security, and mother's maiden name (maybe zip code of residence) and you can take out a home loan in someone elses name.
The problem isn't the banks are asking enough information, but rather information that is easily accessible if you look a a persons life, mailbox, and trash. Banks treat social security numbers as passwords when in reality social security numbers need to be identifiers and something else that you can change and don't need to put on every job, insurance, loan, website application.
Radical nutjobs will use them to deliver deadly payloads instead of using human beings.
So they question is, do jihadi robots get 99 virgin nerds to repair them in heaven?
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes... ...or should I?
How does this help me when I have no network connectivity?
Because you can blame your ISP when you goofed off over the weekend and didn't write that English 101 essay like you should have two weeks ago.
Many shooter games have traditionally calculated world collision and bullet impacts by modeling bullets as instantaneous line traces and characters as moving collision cylinders.
That always irked me in FPS games. In the real world, bullets aren't instantaneous and travel in an arc. Red Orchestra (a UT2k4 mod) does a pretty good job of simulating bullet drop and real life physics.
Erotic MMO Targets Female Audience
Don't you mean "Disturbing MMO Targets Males pretending to Female Audience"
Then again... I've known a girl tell other people they were guys while online just to get them to stop bothering her.
I'm assuming that the older games don't have the correct TCP/IP stack in order to play with people online since Mario Kart DS appears to be the first game that supports it. Advance Wars or (don't laugh please) Yu-gi-oh since those games really are fun but the AI can be beaten fairly easy once you've created a bluffing or illogical sacrifice strategy and a human opponent would be greatly welcome.
Still, there will be dozens of games by Q2 of next year that will support it and hopefully should be kick butt to have internet play from home.
assuming (like in your scenario) someone is standing over you with a gun you can proceed with the payment (or whatever) as usual (aka, you don't get shot), and the athorities can be alerted that you're in a 'situation'.
Or it spits out a $5 bill and a receipt that states you have overdrawn your account. Of course I already use that security measure.
Sorry didn't clarify. It almost sounds like I was saying transmit the signal directly to the TV anntennae.
Check this out:
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
But it's only for audio as of now.
You basically use your airport wireless system as the base and then hook one of the airportexpress devices to your stereo system. It transmit audio from your computer/ipod to the stereo. It would pretty awesome if they did the same for Home Theater systems.
What if it can hook up to your TV and act like a DVD player?
What would be cooler if it used Airport wireless. Then you wouldn't even have to plug it up to the TV and transmit directly from the dock on your computer.
I can see it now: "Is that porn in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Indefinitely?
Thate or that everyone that didn't grow up with online music downloads dies of old age.
What "those people" are you referring to? The artists? A&R, producers, singers, sound engineers, your girlfriend? This makes no point. How is this +5 interesting?
He means everyone. Even the high school kid who sets up the mike in the studio or the tour bus driver's mother.... Evil bitch!
No but seriously, the majority of people in the music industry are out to fuck you over when the situation involves money. I've been to a few venues where they skipped out on paying the band I was touring with (no I wasn't in the band, but I sure liked to use their drink tickets).
Crap. This can only mean one thing! I'd better stock up on Shotguns, Bottle Water, Canned foods, electric generators, and Bibles before December...
do you need more than a browser platform for average computing tasks?
Does WoW or EQ count for Average computing tasks?
For the Office the answer should be no. (and I use the word "should" very loosely *coughs*)
But for people at home that drive the fastest video card, fastest processor, and massive hard drives the answer is yes. Although, I remember reading somewhere (it may have been John Carmack or some other 3d graphics guru) that they predict eventually after bandwidth and processing power becomes a moot issue (a world where everyone has fiber to the curb of their home and processing power is unimaginable) is that all calculations of physics, raytracing, network code, and all things that your desktop does now will be done on a server and then transmit the video feed directly to your screen and all the information you send to the server would be keyboard and mouse.
This might take 10-20 years depending on how fast technlogy will improve and decrease in price for both bandwidth and hardware itself, but it seems to most logical route rather than what we are doing now for the home end user... But still... I personally perfer something locally and more physical tangible although I may have to get used to it not being that way in 20 years.
Ironically, their efforts are hampered by not having a Google search engine to help in thier research.
Well, living in a Universe where Hotbot won the search engine war will do that...