The website says other hardware used 'bad' ways to retrieve inside-building location information, but they give no clue on how they do it themselves!
There is another alternative to RoboGeo that can be used to retrieve longitudinal data reliably inside buildings... assuming there's some windows... and a clear sky.
Or just do traditional, analog prints in a darkroom and get higher resolution than any digital photographer's or printer's wet dream (or dry dreams, noting the lack of wet-work).
The console companies don't hate you; they don't care about you at all. The people they care about spend much more money on games than you do, or so this Google answer would suggest and link.
Heavy players reported owning more games (23 on average) and spending more on them ($500) than light players (17 games on average; $410). Extensive collections of +50 games were owned by a large number of heavy players (17 per cent) and a small proportion of light players (9 per cent).
23 on average?! holy fuck! The last system I owned that many games for was my NES, but it was my only game box for like 12 years! I only bought 3 games for my Xbox before modding it and putting all those same NES games on my hdd with an emulator, but we are most definately not the gamer majorty, nor the consumers Sony has it's greedy eye on.
This is no joke. I installed Vista beta 2 on my primary drive, without changing the format of my secondary drive, and then I reformatted the primary drive again while reinstaling XP Pro SP2 (because I couldn't stand Vista).
Now my secondary drive, which I didn't give any instruction to change, is completely unreadable. I've tried using Partition Magic, Partition Table Doctor, and GParted (from Linux on tertiary drive), and none of them can even identify the file system - which should just be NTFS - let alone read the data. It just shows up as 60GB of unformatted space.
I'm sure the data is still there; it was readable in Vista and I've installed XP enough times not to fuck up there. Vista never told me it was making any changes to that drive at all, and I think I would have noticed since it would have popped up at least 3 security confirmations.
p.s. I know I shouldn't use my primary machine as a sandbox... shutup:P it still shouldn't have happened.
Gran Toursimo HD... the only game out there that could possibly make be buy a PS/3.
I was one of the otaku at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday and I wasted an hour of my life waiting in line to play GTHD.
It was a cool experience. They had arcade style cars you could sit in, with pedals and a steering wheel, but the game itself didn't play much better than GT4 (which IMHO didn't play much better than GT3), it just had higher definition graphics.
According to the TGS2006 Official Guide Book magazine thing, development on GTHD is only 50% completed, so there is still a lot of time to add features - which would explain why the graphics seemed like the only improvement, but shit, it's the TGS! pull out the big guns!
Personally, I'm not for the Xbox 360 over the PS3, nor the other way 'round (I'm waiting for the Wii, of which there were none at the show T_T ), but I also played Forza Motorsport 2 for the 360. Now, FM2 is only at ?% of development completed (truly an M$ product), which may or may not be more than 50%, but (other than the experience of the pedal and wheel) it blew GTHD away.
But nothing is more effective than the Norton registry cleaner in System Works. Once you use it, it garbles your registry so baddly you have to reinstall Windows, thus giving you a registry that's oh so fresh and so clean.
"How many people do you know that would cheat in an online game but would not cheat on an exam?"
Most of them. Programs like Steam/Vale-Anti-Cheat and Warden for World of Warcraft are making cheating much more technical than, say, editing your locally stored Ultima Online info. Cheating on an exam, however, continues to be as easy or as hard as it ever was, all based on your professor's level of absent mindedness.
Cripple Windows APIs and run bots via remote code using cryptic keyboard commands to control an invisible application..... or writing some cryptic mnemonics on my hand right before a test. Both are cheating, but I think for most people one is significantly easier.
This is the #1 deterrent for me (other than, say, supporting News Corp). I vehemently dislike the difficulty posed in getting away from some people who think that "friends list" means "personal validation".
I have been trashed talked/commented by acquaintances in my friends blogs when I've blocked said acquaintances from reading or posting comments in mine. Sometimes I have information I want to share with a select few, but too many people take it to heart when they aren't in the group selected.
This is an old gripe though, as I too have found social networking sites old hat for a couple years now. Now I actually consider having never signed up for MySpace as one of the greatest achievements of my life (my complaints stem from LiveJournal).
Personally, I'm not buying to the Slashdot hype for either; both sides of the coin sound equally fanatical at this point. I think only time will tell which corporate god will take the throne.
Anyway, I stopped being an early adopter a while ago. I learned from LaserDisc (fuck tapes), OS/2, MiniDisc, Dreamcast, etc., that whatever I think is cool when it's new won't be sold in the mall after about 6 months.
Basically, I've already seen the end of this movie so I'll wait till it comes out on [insert preferred media format].
"On the other hand, I'm suprised social conservative types haven't pulled more of this kind of crap before. Outing a few dozen gay men would make them hesitant to associate..."
What? This experiment addressed heterosexual dom/sub fans. And why would something like this stop gay men from associating? Last I checked homosexuals meet and date in the same manner as heterosexuals: by chance meeting or in the slimy singles social scene.
I think the only people it would quell are those who are too forward with their personal and sexual information on public internet forums. That's some spilled milk I won't cry over.
I think people should be free to have whatever sexual interests they want, I have my own deviations from the "norm", but for pete's sake don't send a naked photo to an anonymous post you silly naked pervo idiots!
"Yes it creates community, but are they real friendships? Do they share anything in common other than WoW?"
Are friends in WoW real friends? Do they have anything else in common? No more or less than a soccer team, or a poker club, or my dad's Lionel train club. A lot of people in my guild live in the same metropolitan area and we meet up and go out for drinks. Some of (with more money than me) are going to Vegas together to party.
"It's unspeakably annoying to be at a party with a critical mass of these people, because all they talk about is WoW."
Do you hate being in a room full of Linux proponents or Apple missionaries? Or djs, or hip-hop heads, or anime otakus, or Monty Python fans? Guess so... or, then again, maybe those are things you're interested in too.
"...try talking to your WoW friends about something other than WoW and see if you would still be their friend without it."
Try not talking to your friends about what you have in common and see if you're still friends with them! Seriously, a "no-WoW rule"? How about YOU spend time with people that share YOUR interests as oppose to forcing your "friends" not to talk about what interests them.
I don't see what's so insightful about someone who thinks everyone should think and act the way they want them to. Personally, I don't spend my time with people that tell me what I can and can't talk about. I can't consider someone my friend if they forbid me to share my interests. Call it my "no-dick-face-friends rule".
But what is it...good for? Like a lot of people here (I imagine), I have a PC that outputs to a TV...
MythTV is good for people that have their cable input to their PC and their PC output to a TV. Just being able to play movies is, duh, not a big achievement; the PVR features are what it's good for.
"Robocabs, if they are fuel efficient and small and sized for the job are an obvious answer."
Yeah, robot driven future cars are waaaaaaaaaay more obvious than just improving and encouraging use of current public transportation systems.
The general consensus in America (esp. for those SUV folks you were talking about) is that public transportation is a slow, dirty way for disgusting old and/or poor people to get aproximately where they're going.
I think robot taxis are cool and all, but I think we need to put some effort in to improving public transit and its image (in the states, at least) or people are just going to want personal SUV robochauffeurs.
As long as it works better than the sensors I had to strap to the television for the Power Glove. I bought it new, I still have it, it still works, and I still don't know how to use it. Worst use of allowance ever.
"What I would pay for are for movies currently playing in the theater. Heck, you could even make them limited to only play for a week/day after you downloaded them if needed."
Pay for one ticket and watch it many times? YES! The industry loves theater hopping!
"I would spend $15 to be able to watch whatever is new in the comfort of my home theater with family or friends than rather wait in line and deal with other theater inconveniences."
So you're willing to pay about the price of a non-matinee theater ticket to be able to watch current/new teather movies in your home while not giving them a chance to gouge you on food prices? Last of the big time spenders!
"Depending on the movie I would even spend more (split the cost with my friends of course)."
Letting your friends in the backdoor of the theater? Brilliant! What a persuasive argument for financially stability!
"...I do think it would be interesting to see how well it could do."
Yeah, I can't believe the industry hasn't jumped on this vast untapped market!
"the Wii offers nothing to the majority of gamers which make up PS2/Xbox users"
That's why the Wii isn't marketed to "PS2/Xbox users"; it's marketed to a much broader audience.
Have you ever watched a n00b ply Halo with an XBOX controller? They suck at it, right?
Have you ever watched a n00b play the original Duck Hunt with the NES light gun? They aren't bad are they?
Not everyone can understand thumbsticks and complex button mashing. I own a PSP and a DS Lite and, while I can't get my parents, sister, or girlfriend to even look at the PSP, I have to rip the DS Lite out of their hands. Why? Because it has an intuitive interface that doesn't take years of dedicated gamer-training to become proficient with.
Some people believe that efforts are already being made to block the sun by releasing chemical particulates from jets, causing their con trails to abnormally spread out in to sun blocking clouds.
Slashdot Mirror
There is another alternative to RoboGeo that can be used to retrieve longitudinal data reliably inside buildings... assuming there's some windows... and a clear sky.
Or just do traditional, analog prints in a darkroom and get higher resolution than any digital photographer's or printer's wet dream (or dry dreams, noting the lack of wet-work).
The console companies don't hate you; they don't care about you at all. The people they care about spend much more money on games than you do, or so this Google answer would suggest and link.
From one of the articles linked:
23 on average?! holy fuck! The last system I owned that many games for was my NES, but it was my only game box for like 12 years! I only bought 3 games for my Xbox before modding it and putting all those same NES games on my hdd with an emulator, but we are most definately not the gamer majorty, nor the consumers Sony has it's greedy eye on.
This is no joke. I installed Vista beta 2 on my primary drive, without changing the format of my secondary drive, and then I reformatted the primary drive again while reinstaling XP Pro SP2 (because I couldn't stand Vista).
Now my secondary drive, which I didn't give any instruction to change, is completely unreadable. I've tried using Partition Magic, Partition Table Doctor, and GParted (from Linux on tertiary drive), and none of them can even identify the file system - which should just be NTFS - let alone read the data. It just shows up as 60GB of unformatted space.
I'm sure the data is still there; it was readable in Vista and I've installed XP enough times not to fuck up there. Vista never told me it was making any changes to that drive at all, and I think I would have noticed since it would have popped up at least 3 security confirmations.
p.s. I know I shouldn't use my primary machine as a sandbox... shutup :P it still shouldn't have happened.
From what I saw at the game show it looked like Sony was on Zoloft and Ritalin - boring rehashed ideas will little effort or inginuity.
The good acid is going in to all the whacky DS games.
I was one of the otaku at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday and I wasted an hour of my life waiting in line to play GTHD.
It was a cool experience. They had arcade style cars you could sit in, with pedals and a steering wheel, but the game itself didn't play much better than GT4 (which IMHO didn't play much better than GT3), it just had higher definition graphics.
According to the TGS2006 Official Guide Book magazine thing, development on GTHD is only 50% completed, so there is still a lot of time to add features - which would explain why the graphics seemed like the only improvement, but shit, it's the TGS! pull out the big guns!
Personally, I'm not for the Xbox 360 over the PS3, nor the other way 'round (I'm waiting for the Wii, of which there were none at the show T_T ), but I also played Forza Motorsport 2 for the 360. Now, FM2 is only at ?% of development completed (truly an M$ product), which may or may not be more than 50%, but (other than the experience of the pedal and wheel) it blew GTHD away.
But nothing is more effective than the Norton registry cleaner in System Works. Once you use it, it garbles your registry so baddly you have to reinstall Windows, thus giving you a registry that's oh so fresh and so clean.
Most of them. Programs like Steam/Vale-Anti-Cheat and Warden for World of Warcraft are making cheating much more technical than, say, editing your locally stored Ultima Online info. Cheating on an exam, however, continues to be as easy or as hard as it ever was, all based on your professor's level of absent mindedness.
Cripple Windows APIs and run bots via remote code using cryptic keyboard commands to control an invisible application..... or writing some cryptic mnemonics on my hand right before a test. Both are cheating, but I think for most people one is significantly easier.
This is the #1 deterrent for me (other than, say, supporting News Corp). I vehemently dislike the difficulty posed in getting away from some people who think that "friends list" means "personal validation".
I have been trashed talked/commented by acquaintances in my friends blogs when I've blocked said acquaintances from reading or posting comments in mine. Sometimes I have information I want to share with a select few, but too many people take it to heart when they aren't in the group selected.
This is an old gripe though, as I too have found social networking sites old hat for a couple years now. Now I actually consider having never signed up for MySpace as one of the greatest achievements of my life (my complaints stem from LiveJournal).
Personally, I'm not buying to the Slashdot hype for either; both sides of the coin sound equally fanatical at this point. I think only time will tell which corporate god will take the throne.
Anyway, I stopped being an early adopter a while ago. I learned from LaserDisc (fuck tapes), OS/2, MiniDisc, Dreamcast, etc., that whatever I think is cool when it's new won't be sold in the mall after about 6 months.
Basically, I've already seen the end of this movie so I'll wait till it comes out on [insert preferred media format].
What? This experiment addressed heterosexual dom/sub fans. And why would something like this stop gay men from associating? Last I checked homosexuals meet and date in the same manner as heterosexuals: by chance meeting or in the slimy singles social scene.
I think the only people it would quell are those who are too forward with their personal and sexual information on public internet forums. That's some spilled milk I won't cry over.
I think people should be free to have whatever sexual interests they want, I have my own deviations from the "norm", but for pete's sake don't send a naked photo to an anonymous post you silly naked pervo idiots!
Are friends in WoW real friends? Do they have anything else in common? No more or less than a soccer team, or a poker club, or my dad's Lionel train club. A lot of people in my guild live in the same metropolitan area and we meet up and go out for drinks. Some of (with more money than me) are going to Vegas together to party.
Do you hate being in a room full of Linux proponents or Apple missionaries? Or djs, or hip-hop heads, or anime otakus, or Monty Python fans? Guess so... or, then again, maybe those are things you're interested in too.
Try not talking to your friends about what you have in common and see if you're still friends with them! Seriously, a "no-WoW rule"? How about YOU spend time with people that share YOUR interests as oppose to forcing your "friends" not to talk about what interests them.
I don't see what's so insightful about someone who thinks everyone should think and act the way they want them to. Personally, I don't spend my time with people that tell me what I can and can't talk about. I can't consider someone my friend if they forbid me to share my interests. Call it my "no-dick-face-friends rule".
Or, to maintain a consistency of grammars, Jef Raskin, O.G. designer of the interface in question, says it supplies affordances.
MythTV is good for people that have their cable input to their PC and their PC output to a TV. Just being able to play movies is, duh, not a big achievement; the PVR features are what it's good for.
Yeah, robot driven future cars are waaaaaaaaaay more obvious than just improving and encouraging use of current public transportation systems.
The general consensus in America (esp. for those SUV folks you were talking about) is that public transportation is a slow, dirty way for disgusting old and/or poor people to get aproximately where they're going.
I think robot taxis are cool and all, but I think we need to put some effort in to improving public transit and its image (in the states, at least) or people are just going to want personal SUV robochauffeurs.
As long as it works better than the sensors I had to strap to the television for the Power Glove. I bought it new, I still have it, it still works, and I still don't know how to use it. Worst use of allowance ever.
Pay for one ticket and watch it many times? YES! The industry loves theater hopping!
So you're willing to pay about the price of a non-matinee theater ticket to be able to watch current/new teather movies in your home while not giving them a chance to gouge you on food prices? Last of the big time spenders!
Letting your friends in the backdoor of the theater? Brilliant! What a persuasive argument for financially stability!
Yeah, I can't believe the industry hasn't jumped on this vast untapped market!
So will script kiddies be able to take advantage of this for cheat bots?
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I thought on the internet anything between paragraph tags was assumed to be sarcastic...?
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"Hell, some of them repeatedly run ventures into bankruptcy and are still able to secure financing for their next abomination."
Yeah, I hear that practice can even lead to a presidency.
Xgl and compiz are running just fine for me in Ubuntu with the newest ATI drivers on a Radeon 9800XT.
"the Wii offers nothing to the majority of gamers which make up PS2/Xbox users"
That's why the Wii isn't marketed to "PS2/Xbox users"; it's marketed to a much broader audience.
Have you ever watched a n00b ply Halo with an XBOX controller? They suck at it, right?
Have you ever watched a n00b play the original Duck Hunt with the NES light gun? They aren't bad are they?
Not everyone can understand thumbsticks and complex button mashing. I own a PSP and a DS Lite and, while I can't get my parents, sister, or girlfriend to even look at the PSP, I have to rip the DS Lite out of their hands. Why? Because it has an intuitive interface that doesn't take years of dedicated gamer-training to become proficient with.
Some people believe that efforts are already being made to block the sun by releasing chemical particulates from jets, causing their con trails to abnormally spread out in to sun blocking clouds.
see chemtrail "theory"
Well, the DS Lite does come with the same "Fuck, I just bought (the old) one!" feeling that you get about a week after buying an Apple product.
NARC!!!!