Not to start a Wii controller vs. Natal debate or anything
Yeah, but in a street fight, the Wii owners at least have weapons (they don't call it a nunchuck for nothing). The Natal gang will have to rely on their fists.
but the future is cheap 'netbook' tablets like in Star Trek TNG.
They only seemed cheap because TNG had one of those fantasy moneyless economies. Somewhere offscreen were legions of young, green slave girls working in the tablet sweatshops on Memory Alpha before they are "promoted" to being sexual escorts for the Starfleet brass and Federation bigwigs.
You probably already know that life is not fair and some people seem to get all the breaks. Life is not fair. Take it on the chin. Play the cards you have in your hand.
But if the opportunity to ascend to supervillany appears, strike!
Strike, young man, be heard, and have the masses cower before you!
Oh, yeah, I know. I've read three books on it now, and the main support seems to be "but the maths work so well!":)
Then they get to the part about needing a particle accelerator with a diameter that could contain the Oort Cloud just to do basic tests. After that is the chapter on holographic theory, and I realize the theoretical physics world has basically gone completely wrong in the head.
But, hey, the maths work out! All those nasty zeros in infinities go away.
Or those magnetic wires and wax cylinders. Yeah, baby, steampunk territory!:-) They could have used radio links to the DRM servers suspended in the stratosphere by dirigibles. Every so often a worker has to shimmy up the cable to replace burned out tubes.
The concept of encryption dates back to BC times, so it was available.
I just want a disc that *NEVER* tells me "that operation is not allowed here." It's why I rent only. I rented one just recently, a new release, where you could *not* skip the ads up front. You could FF but not go to the next chapter mark. Pure teh evil!
As an EE, I have nothing but priase for the Web's ability to put billions of data sheets and application notes at my fingertips. I simply learn more and more as I get older, and being an over 40 engineer is no longer a treacherous thing. There's free and constant education out there.
Some companies still don't get it, though. There's always one a month I run across that requires you to fill in six pages of information about yourself before they'll even let you look at a list of data sheet PDFs. Oddly, those companies seem to disappear. What's funny is that quite often I can go to DigiKey or Newark and get the PDF there. Der.
But was Cliffy Stoll totally wrong? IMHO, the internet has made us more ideologically divided as a nation because the faithful can just go to their poison web sites and have their insanity reaffirmed on a daily basis.
He does make a small point about stuff just being copied. Too often these days when I search for information I get 1000 hits containing the exact same text, or 1000 sites that all link to the same original article. Hyperlinks are a great concept until you wind up with nothing but a digital mobius strip of links. I find this a lot when chasing down ideological talking points. It usually just leads to a rat's nest of articles with "they said" or "experts say" all pointing at one another, but any actual data by "they" or the "experts" supporting the original claim is nowhere to be found.
Has there ever been a backlash from users or management for doing so?
The head of our former IT manager is still on a pike outside the front door as a warning to others.
When you work for our company, and have everyone use Exceed On Demand with a fixed IP address, and then change the IP address over the holiday shutdown without informing anyone, it *will* be noticed, and steps *will* be taken.
Hmm. I would suggest that gerrymandering does institutionalize things quite a bit, but a lot of it is social conditioning. People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative of libertarian, and I don't have an answer. I tell them all I care about is what works, even if you do wind up doing 100 radically different things in 100 different locations. They just stare at me like I'm an alien.;-)
Shifting to some sort of approval (or disapproval) voting system might help, too. I'd *love* for one brave state or country or city give that a whirl.
Slashdot Mirror
The article says that 31 limbs are tracked
So even many-limbed deities like Vishnu and various spider gods can play? That's so thoughtful of Microsoft to include the divine.
Gee, I thought everyone here knew the accuracy specs of the unfinished and unreleased Natal. You mean *you* don't? [Nelson voice] HA HA!
Not to start a Wii controller vs. Natal debate or anything
Yeah, but in a street fight, the Wii owners at least have weapons (they don't call it a nunchuck for nothing). The Natal gang will have to rely on their fists.
If you do a monkey dance or throw a chair, Natal will hork up a video of Steve "Sweaty" Ballmer saying that Microsoft loves you.
It does, but as a side effect you are unresponsive 80% of your time.
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I'm sorry, what?
"Imaging" I get. How does he hear transparency?! Must be synesthetic.
but the future is cheap 'netbook' tablets like in Star Trek TNG.
They only seemed cheap because TNG had one of those fantasy moneyless economies. Somewhere offscreen were legions of young, green slave girls working in the tablet sweatshops on Memory Alpha before they are "promoted" to being sexual escorts for the Starfleet brass and Federation bigwigs.
Chapter 1:
- Hire someone who knows what the hell they are doing, and let them do it.
Chapter 2:
- Let's work on that golf swing!
[and so on]
Yeah, a good user experience and plenty of useful applications that just work. What sort of damned fool would ever want that?
-1 Troll in 5...4...3...
Yes, but only because there's no "-1 Eeeewww!" mod.
Didn't /. once promise a whole array of new mod selections one time long ago?
You probably already know that life is not fair and some people seem to get all the breaks. Life is not fair. Take it on the chin. Play the cards you have in your hand.
But if the opportunity to ascend to supervillany appears, strike!
Strike, young man, be heard, and have the masses cower before you!
Oh, yeah, I know. I've read three books on it now, and the main support seems to be "but the maths work so well!" :)
Then they get to the part about needing a particle accelerator with a diameter that could contain the Oort Cloud just to do basic tests. After that is the chapter on holographic theory, and I realize the theoretical physics world has basically gone completely wrong in the head.
But, hey, the maths work out! All those nasty zeros in infinities go away.
Hey that reminds me, electrons and quarks don't have a size, they're singularities.
I thought strings have replaced the point singularities. Granted were talking the Planck distance here, but still not a dimensionless point.
Just imagine old LP Albums having DRM.
Or those magnetic wires and wax cylinders. Yeah, baby, steampunk territory! :-) They could have used radio links to the DRM servers suspended in the stratosphere by dirigibles. Every so often a worker has to shimmy up the cable to replace burned out tubes.
The concept of encryption dates back to BC times, so it was available.
I just want a disc that *NEVER* tells me "that operation is not allowed here." It's why I rent only. I rented one just recently, a new release, where you could *not* skip the ads up front. You could FF but not go to the next chapter mark. Pure teh evil!
Fine, I'll take a once-an-hour smoke break.
And the plan here is to... get lung cancer and cost the medical plan a lot of money?
Oh, you forgot "Soviet Russia" jokes
In Soviet Russia, G spots you!
There. We are mathematically complete.
As an EE, I have nothing but priase for the Web's ability to put billions of data sheets and application notes at my fingertips. I simply learn more and more as I get older, and being an over 40 engineer is no longer a treacherous thing. There's free and constant education out there.
Some companies still don't get it, though. There's always one a month I run across that requires you to fill in six pages of information about yourself before they'll even let you look at a list of data sheet PDFs. Oddly, those companies seem to disappear. What's funny is that quite often I can go to DigiKey or Newark and get the PDF there. Der.
But was Cliffy Stoll totally wrong? IMHO, the internet has made us more ideologically divided as a nation because the faithful can just go to their poison web sites and have their insanity reaffirmed on a daily basis.
He does make a small point about stuff just being copied. Too often these days when I search for information I get 1000 hits containing the exact same text, or 1000 sites that all link to the same original article. Hyperlinks are a great concept until you wind up with nothing but a digital mobius strip of links. I find this a lot when chasing down ideological talking points. It usually just leads to a rat's nest of articles with "they said" or "experts say" all pointing at one another, but any actual data by "they" or the "experts" supporting the original claim is nowhere to be found.
scheduled to open to the public on Monday.
And scheduled to enter receivership on Tuesday.
Has there ever been a backlash from users or management for doing so?
The head of our former IT manager is still on a pike outside the front door as a warning to others.
When you work for our company, and have everyone use Exceed On Demand with a fixed IP address, and then change the IP address over the holiday shutdown without informing anyone, it *will* be noticed, and steps *will* be taken.
Hmm. I would suggest that gerrymandering does institutionalize things quite a bit, but a lot of it is social conditioning. People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative of libertarian, and I don't have an answer. I tell them all I care about is what works, even if you do wind up doing 100 radically different things in 100 different locations. They just stare at me like I'm an alien. ;-)
Shifting to some sort of approval (or disapproval) voting system might help, too. I'd *love* for one brave state or country or city give that a whirl.
You can teach how the Black Plague affected Europe without catching it. :-)
Oh, dear, I just compared religion to the Plague. Oh well.
How about no Parties at all? Let's *really* think outside the box.
Well, 2010 is 15 hours old where I am. I am so far disappointed. OK, so what have we here. Government official abusing power. Huh. Who woulda thunk.