I work at a research university that wins tons of awards, the University of Washington, and in practice our meetings are filled with people with M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., or at the least B.Sc. and in a post-grad program.
Our meetings are pretty much tech-free. Noone surfs on crackberries, or if they do, it's silent. If they get an urgent message, they leave the room. Always. Phones are silent (flash/vibrate).
And since we get tons of Gates and other money, I don't think we're doing it wrong.
Actually, I'm the UW ADRC Data Manager now (Alzheimers, PD, many others), was doing Bioinformatics work for Malaria structures before.
All of our meetings, except video conferences, journal meetings (present papers from medical/research journals and study in depth), and presentations - all of the rest - are tech free.
It's because you get distracted from honing in on the subject at hand.
Sure, we bring nice glossy charts of the gene structure layout, where the SNPs are, various printed research papers that are relevent, but we go offline during the meetings.
If you have to do something online, you do it after the meeting, with those involved, but otherwise it just distracts.
David Jaffe is introduced. The PS2 is nice, but it's 'Incapable of rendering 3-way sex scenes in realtime.' They're going to be doing AAA games on the PS2 for some time to come.
Um.
Ah.
So that's why they built it.
At least they're admitting it.
Any truth to the rumor that MSFT Vista is being held back so that it can support Blu-Ray too? Or is it just the DRM?
For those of us that use alternative browsers (because IE don't run natively on Linux, of course), can we sue companies whose sites dont show properly or are unusable in them?
Why, yes. Yes, you can. Because if it were ADA-compliant, it would have text in place of images, and that's the law.
Just as when you get a grant from the NIH or NIA, you have to make sure it's accessible, if you want to do work, and sell commercial products over the Internets, especially Wood, you need to make sure it's ADA-compliant.
Heck, that's why the Library four blocks from my house built a twisty ramp in the single lot Park next door that occupied half the space - so people in wheelchairs could use the park.
Which means they had to get rid of all the grass on the hill.
If you don't like it, move to... um, sorry, don't know many places that don't have similar rules in the First World.
Error replications, and other fun things involving misfolds and fun usage of siRNAs and all, are just what aging is.
Radiation is just a way to do that faster. Most of aging's effects, other than the degredation/oblation/shortening of the telomeres, work out to the same thing.
I used to collect books, with some kind of unconscious desire to have more books than used to exist in the library of Kaslo, BC (pop 1000). After I acheived that aim, I started to realize all the books were doing was filling up space and making my moves more difficult, so I started to:
1. use the library more; 2. only buy books I really want to read over and over; 3. give away a lot of my SF and Fantasy books that I wasn't seriously collecting to friends who would appreciate them; 4. profit - ok, started selling at Half-Price Books in Seattle and now my girlfriend has me using Amazon.com to sell some too.
I still keep some WWII Edgar Rice Burroughs books, encyclopedias, kids books, computer books, and pr0n (literary, no pics), but I have to say it's slowly making my life more manageable.
1. people spending time on slashdot and blogs instead of paying attention. 2. people spending time on email and IM instead of paying attention. 3.... 4. profit!
Seriously, though, since most courses are podcast nowadays and have the slides presentation on the web, students having to not use their laptops is not a serious problem, especially since many classrooms at university/college are wired.
Well, at least they are here. We even use these clicker things where you answer multiple choice so the prof can see if the students grok what's being taught, or should spend more time on an area. Much more fun than a pop quiz.
Hmmm. I'm very glad your brother gets 40 pence of the 79 pence cost in the UK. However, having lived in Canada myself, where British music is popular, I believe I may be correct in stating that the renumeration rate for music is likely higher in the UK for artists than it is in the USA, where it typically is less than 10 cents for a 99 cent song.
Very popular artists demand higher cuts here, while unknown and starting artists get a lot less.
So, all six of you have iPods? If only 2 have iPods and those 2 use Apple for songs, then they have 100 percent penetration in your group.
Thus, it's possible that your group has more xBoxLive - but couldn't this be an observation altered by the very simple fact that it's your friends, and they all want to play games together?
Sometimes, my son and I play online with our neighbors, joining games, but we do that with our Mac and PC logins.
Thus, just as my circle of friends has noone who has xBoxLive, but have xBox, it is equally possible for you and your circle of friends to all have both. And yet my premise that 10 percent of xBox owners have xBoxLive could still be true, as would my premise that 90 percent or more of iPod owners buy songs from Apple, with a lower cost per subscriber for Apple.
1. Make xBoxLive Popular 2. Invest in MSFT stock . 4. Profit!
Unfortunately, each song downloaded for the iPod is 99 cents, of which only 5 cents goes elsewhere, so it's way more likely that Apple will make a lot more money from iPod music usage than Microsoft will make money from the higher-cost, lower-revenue xBoxLive service.
Ask yourself - how many people with iPods use Apple's music service?
Hey, if it works for the console debate between xBox360, PS3, and NR, then it jolly well can work for deciding which OS to use for PCs...
Besides, they have the Intel-based Macs out at the UW Bookstore this week... irony, thy name is slipped ship dates.
A New Kind of Game - Sims 2 and GTA
on
GDC 06 So Far
·
· Score: 1
so, based on this article, can we expect a new version of GTA: Sims 2 to come out, in which we can roar down the streets of our Sims 2 Nightlife neighborhoods in our hot cars, and cap the capo who lives on the block?
Or is it just that people worldwide find FPS really boring (except Black, that really rox my sox).
Slashdot Mirror
Man, since I only use IE to download MSFT WinXP patches for my laptop, I never even noticed there's a new version out.
I'm shopping, not a captive audience!
Wonder if permanent marker will work well on the screens?
I work at a research university that wins tons of awards, the University of Washington, and in practice our meetings are filled with people with M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., or at the least B.Sc. and in a post-grad program.
Our meetings are pretty much tech-free. Noone surfs on crackberries, or if they do, it's silent. If they get an urgent message, they leave the room. Always. Phones are silent (flash/vibrate).
And since we get tons of Gates and other money, I don't think we're doing it wrong.
Actually, I'm the UW ADRC Data Manager now (Alzheimers, PD, many others), was doing Bioinformatics work for Malaria structures before.
All of our meetings, except video conferences, journal meetings (present papers from medical/research journals and study in depth), and presentations - all of the rest - are tech free.
It's because you get distracted from honing in on the subject at hand.
Sure, we bring nice glossy charts of the gene structure layout, where the SNPs are, various printed research papers that are relevent, but we go offline during the meetings.
If you have to do something online, you do it after the meeting, with those involved, but otherwise it just distracts.
And deservedly so, since it represents the wave of the future of gaming.
well, it's a requirement for federal contracts for data presented on websites, so if your business has even one federal contract ...
Hmm, is there any hack to use region-free coding for them? I like singing along to the Japanese versions myself ... although German is a hoot.
Or do we have to wait until PS3 ships for us to hack it?
wouldn't this be better addressed to Konami, who do the DDR titles?
David Jaffe is introduced. The PS2 is nice, but it's 'Incapable of rendering 3-way sex scenes in realtime.' They're going to be doing AAA games on the PS2 for some time to come.
Um.
Ah.
So that's why they built it.
At least they're admitting it.
Any truth to the rumor that MSFT Vista is being held back so that it can support Blu-Ray too? Or is it just the DRM?
Well, it was going to be CCCP, Content Communication Community and Portals, but ...
And I prefer DM12 to C4 myself.
is figuring out where they filmed the outdoor scenes.
Some I recognize from my ex-Army days (Canadian), and living in and around Vancouver in the 80s.
Oh, ok, and Boomer and the other Cylons.
For those of us that use alternative browsers (because IE don't run natively on Linux, of course), can we sue companies whose sites dont show properly or are unusable in them?
Why, yes. Yes, you can. Because if it were ADA-compliant, it would have text in place of images, and that's the law.
Just as when you get a grant from the NIH or NIA, you have to make sure it's accessible, if you want to do work, and sell commercial products over the Internets, especially Wood, you need to make sure it's ADA-compliant.
... um, sorry, don't know many places that don't have similar rules in the First World.
Heck, that's why the Library four blocks from my house built a twisty ramp in the single lot Park next door that occupied half the space - so people in wheelchairs could use the park.
Which means they had to get rid of all the grass on the hill.
If you don't like it, move to
Error replications, and other fun things involving misfolds and fun usage of siRNAs and all, are just what aging is.
Radiation is just a way to do that faster. Most of aging's effects, other than the degredation/oblation/shortening of the telomeres, work out to the same thing.
I used to collect books, with some kind of unconscious desire to have more books than used to exist in the library of Kaslo, BC (pop 1000). After I acheived that aim, I started to realize all the books were doing was filling up space and making my moves more difficult, so I started to:
1. use the library more;
2. only buy books I really want to read over and over;
3. give away a lot of my SF and Fantasy books that I wasn't seriously collecting to friends who would appreciate them;
4. profit - ok, started selling at Half-Price Books in Seattle and now my girlfriend has me using Amazon.com to sell some too.
I still keep some WWII Edgar Rice Burroughs books, encyclopedias, kids books, computer books, and pr0n (literary, no pics), but I have to say it's slowly making my life more manageable.
But I do buy books, just don't keep them as much.
1. people spending time on slashdot and blogs instead of paying attention. ...
2. people spending time on email and IM instead of paying attention.
3.
4. profit!
Seriously, though, since most courses are podcast nowadays and have the slides presentation on the web, students having to not use their laptops is not a serious problem, especially since many classrooms at university/college are wired.
Well, at least they are here. We even use these clicker things where you answer multiple choice so the prof can see if the students grok what's being taught, or should spend more time on an area. Much more fun than a pop quiz.
Hmmm. I'm very glad your brother gets 40 pence of the 79 pence cost in the UK. However, having lived in Canada myself, where British music is popular, I believe I may be correct in stating that the renumeration rate for music is likely higher in the UK for artists than it is in the USA, where it typically is less than 10 cents for a 99 cent song.
Very popular artists demand higher cuts here, while unknown and starting artists get a lot less.
So, all six of you have iPods? If only 2 have iPods and those 2 use Apple for songs, then they have 100 percent penetration in your group.
Thus, it's possible that your group has more xBoxLive - but couldn't this be an observation altered by the very simple fact that it's your friends, and they all want to play games together?
Sometimes, my son and I play online with our neighbors, joining games, but we do that with our Mac and PC logins.
Thus, just as my circle of friends has noone who has xBoxLive, but have xBox, it is equally possible for you and your circle of friends to all have both. And yet my premise that 10 percent of xBox owners have xBoxLive could still be true, as would my premise that 90 percent or more of iPod owners buy songs from Apple, with a lower cost per subscriber for Apple.
I didn't say noone with an xBox uses xBoxLive, I said it's more on the order of 10 percent.
However, I also didn't claim my t size was that big, nor that it had statistical significance.
Probably a lot less than the effect on Apple shareholders of iPod music downloads and the net drag on MSFT for the higher-cost xBoxLive usage.
A new OS sales don't show up that quick, it's the Office suites that rake in the cash, not the OEM initial launches.
1. Make xBoxLive Popular
2. Invest in MSFT stock
.
4. Profit!
Unfortunately, each song downloaded for the iPod is 99 cents, of which only 5 cents goes elsewhere, so it's way more likely that Apple will make a lot more money from iPod music usage than Microsoft will make money from the higher-cost, lower-revenue xBoxLive service.
Ask yourself - how many people with iPods use Apple's music service?
And how many people with xBox's use xBoxLive?
I have an xBox and I don't use it.
Hey, if it works for the console debate between xBox360, PS3, and NR, then it jolly well can work for deciding which OS to use for PCs ...
... irony, thy name is slipped ship dates.
Besides, they have the Intel-based Macs out at the UW Bookstore this week
so, based on this article, can we expect a new version of GTA: Sims 2 to come out, in which we can roar down the streets of our Sims 2 Nightlife neighborhoods in our hot cars, and cap the capo who lives on the block?
Or is it just that people worldwide find FPS really boring (except Black, that really rox my sox).
It's all the buzz in my neighborhood in Seattle, and I notice Will Wright is doing the talk on Thursday.
Failing that, are there any rumors about it at GDC?
I hear Ewoks have some mighty nice pelts.