But the University of Southampton team has designed a prototype that uses six sets of motors and gears so each of the five fingers can move independently.
So you've got a prosthetic hand with fully functioning fingers... How does the user of the hand control six, separate motors?
A true gamer will enjoy a good game no matter what it looks like. I mean, why do some of us go back to visit the games of yesteryear time and again? Their graphics are certainly nothing like it is today, yet we still play them. They're good games. Nobody busts out their copy of E.T. for NES because it sucked, so it can't all be nostalgia.
Anyway, in the case of Wind Waker, I found myself having fun playing it (and isn't that what games are all about?). Honestly, I thought the cartoon look would kill it for me, but after about 15 or 20 minutes, I didn't care what it looked like, because I was enjoying the game so much.
I have to say, this man's logic is undeniable. He develops several concise, poignant ideas that are
far from just being his own opinion and very much apply to all of us! I just can't wait to see the masterful GUI this fine man is developing!
Right, but it's about etiquette. The dinner table is for eating, right? But you don't eat off of the guy across the table's plate, do you? You're right, the Internet is all about linking, but in this case, Fuddruckers linked to someone elses content, and to the average user, it looked like something that belonged to Fuddruckers. Now, if the site said, "hey, check out this cool game," and placed a link to an html page authored by the guy that made the game, that'd be okay.
Nah, The Onion doesn't matter, the fact that someone uttered the word "Google" matters.
I really think this is getting out of hand. I mean, sure -- I'd like to know what's going on over in the Googleplex, but lately it seems everytime a Google employee blinks too hard, there's a/. story.
I'm sure the people on the ground in New Orleans appreciate your politicization of the situation.
Everybody wants the response to this to be quick, efficient, and painless.
A Category 5 hurricane just swapped a swash of the gulf coast: there is nothing, repeat, nothing that can make this better. People will suffer -- people will die. It pains me that reporters relentlessly beat-up FEMA and other government personnel on-air (while people wait to be shuttled out of a disaster zone, no less) because they don't think their response is good enough.
It doesn't help. Unless you've got something productive to say or do, let Joe Allbaugh do his damn job and please, please shut the fuck up.
</flame>
I'm with ya. I'm told the Netherlands produce some of the brightest high school graduates in the world, so they must be doing something right. Here in the United States, we tend to be very reactionary. For instance, things like lackluster airport security didn't get fixed until people actually died. It's unfortunate, I know. However, I just don't know what it's going to take to force our school systems to shape up and start producing graduates that can compete in a job market that's out-growing national borders.
I really fail to see why everybody complains about the OOo load time. On my ~3GHz P4, 51MB RAM system it's up in around 5 or 6 seconds and that's with other things going on (Winamp, FF, Gaim, etc') and not using the quick-loader thing. Is that so bad? I certainly don't mind. On the same box, that's only about a second longer than MS Word 2003's load. Either everybody is ridiculously impatient, or using crappy hardware.
I have to say, it's far beyond me when a person seeking "first post" posts as a reply to someone else's attempt at a first post. The inordinate lack of logic here is striking.
This proves that first-posters are certifiably insane.
Yes, because being driven to school on the 'Yellow Dog' or the 'Edu-Express' better known as a school bus...
When I was in grade school, we called 'em "Cheese Wagons," but whatever.
Don't get me wrong, PSoIP ("Public School over IP (TM)," yep, you heard it hear first. ^_~ ) is a cool idea, but unless the school systems foot the bill for Internet access, that sort of thing won't take hold. (The question is, do they spend that much for each child on transportation?) I'm sure low-income families go to the same schools that kids from neighborhoods with the fiber hookups do. Some of them just can't handle the $30-50/month for high-speed Internet.
Anyway, my first thought is propane or natural gas, but I don't know how suitble a fuel that is for larger, high-weight capacity vehicles. I realize that many government and businesses use propane or natural gas powered fleet-cars as a way to save money/be 'green,' but those are usually just small sedans. The buses tend to be refueled at a diesel pump in the district garage anyway, so it doesn't make much difference that you can't get it elsewhere. Besides, they can always keep a handful of diesel buses to use for long-haul (field trips, etc') trips.
It looks like it'll be combining CPU, Intel hardware (TV tuner, remote, and easy setup wireless home networking, etc.) and Windows Media Center Edition."
I'm sure you're intelligent enough to notice that I posted before talk went live. Like I said, until this morning, it was all rumors, but as it turns out, they were right.
Okay, bad wording. I've got nothing against gaim's Jabber prpl. The original poster mentioned the abundance of SoC projects for gaim and surmised that Google's IM client (if there is going to be one) would be based on gaim -- particularly Jabber. I just figure if this was Google's intent, they would be developing the Jabber prpl. Sure, Jabber is fully implemented in gaim, but AFAIK, only part of the XMPP standard is implemented in Jabber so it's not like it there's no room for improvement. It's certainly plausible that Google would develop a Jabber server that implements more of XMPP (Jabber++? ^_~).
Then again, all this is based on the rumor that Google is jumping into the IM business. We may confirm this as early as tomorrow, or find out down the road it's all been a load of crap.
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Pfft. Since when did we have to start reading the articles around here!
^_~
My bad, I missed it.
Yeah, but that isn't holding a can of "Healthy Beans."
But the University of Southampton team has designed a prototype that uses six sets of motors and gears so each of the five fingers can move independently.
So you've got a prosthetic hand with fully functioning fingers... How does the user of the hand control six, separate motors?
I am an obnoxious, arrogant, know-it-all Cisco field person, you insensitive clod!
from the i-want-a-hyphen-in-my-name-too dept.
Sorry Taco, you had your chance.
Rob Malda-Fent kinda has a ring to it.^_~
I agree.
A true gamer will enjoy a good game no matter what it looks like. I mean, why do some of us go back to visit the games of yesteryear time and again? Their graphics are certainly nothing like it is today, yet we still play them. They're good games. Nobody busts out their copy of E.T. for NES because it sucked, so it can't all be nostalgia.
Anyway, in the case of Wind Waker, I found myself having fun playing it (and isn't that what games are all about?). Honestly, I thought the cartoon look would kill it for me, but after about 15 or 20 minutes, I didn't care what it looked like, because I was enjoying the game so much.
What's that?
He's just ignorantly bitching?
Oh...
Right, but it's about etiquette. The dinner table is for eating, right? But you don't eat off of the guy across the table's plate, do you? You're right, the Internet is all about linking, but in this case, Fuddruckers linked to someone elses content, and to the average user, it looked like something that belonged to Fuddruckers. Now, if the site said, "hey, check out this cool game," and placed a link to an html page authored by the guy that made the game, that'd be okay.
If the governor of California can be recalled, we can sure as hell recall a /. ed! Hey, maybe we can even get Arnold over here to post stories for us!
Nah, The Onion doesn't matter, the fact that someone uttered the word "Google" matters.
/. story.
I really think this is getting out of hand. I mean, sure -- I'd like to know what's going on over in the Googleplex, but lately it seems everytime a Google employee blinks too hard, there's a
I'm sure the people on the ground in New Orleans appreciate your politicization of the situation.
Everybody wants the response to this to be quick, efficient, and painless.
A Category 5 hurricane just swapped a swash of the gulf coast: there is nothing, repeat, nothing that can make this better. People will suffer -- people will die. It pains me that reporters relentlessly beat-up FEMA and other government personnel on-air (while people wait to be shuttled out of a disaster zone, no less) because they don't think their response is good enough.
It doesn't help. Unless you've got something productive to say or do, let Joe Allbaugh do his damn job and please, please shut the fuck up.
</flame>
I'm with ya. I'm told the Netherlands produce some of the brightest high school graduates in the world, so they must be doing something right. Here in the United States, we tend to be very reactionary. For instance, things like lackluster airport security didn't get fixed until people actually died. It's unfortunate, I know. However, I just don't know what it's going to take to force our school systems to shape up and start producing graduates that can compete in a job market that's out-growing national borders.
Will every desktop have a 64-bit chip in it?
There's your answer.
Why don't consumers buying/wearing fake branded products get arrested?
Simple, Nike hasn't pushed for it, but the recording/movie industry has. However, I'd be nice if they did.
I, for one, would like to see law enforcement officers ripping counterfeited t-shirts off of materialistic girls.
I really fail to see why everybody complains about the OOo load time. On my ~3GHz P4, 51MB RAM system it's up in around 5 or 6 seconds and that's with other things going on (Winamp, FF, Gaim, etc') and not using the quick-loader thing. Is that so bad? I certainly don't mind. On the same box, that's only about a second longer than MS Word 2003's load. Either everybody is ridiculously impatient, or using crappy hardware.
Pfft, nobody'll get hammered that way. Now if we started taking a shot for every dupe...
I have to say, it's far beyond me when a person seeking "first post" posts as a reply to someone else's attempt at a first post. The inordinate lack of logic here is striking.
This proves that first-posters are certifiably insane.
Wphew... I was getting worried I was the only one who thought of Star Trek when I read the story. Heh, what was I thinking -- this is /.
I agree. To take from Jurassic Park:
"The Market will find a way!"
Yes, because being driven to school on the 'Yellow Dog' or the 'Edu-Express' better known as a school bus...
When I was in grade school, we called 'em "Cheese Wagons," but whatever.
Don't get me wrong, PSoIP ("Public School over IP (TM)," yep, you heard it hear first. ^_~ ) is a cool idea, but unless the school systems foot the bill for Internet access, that sort of thing won't take hold. (The question is, do they spend that much for each child on transportation?) I'm sure low-income families go to the same schools that kids from neighborhoods with the fiber hookups do. Some of them just can't handle the $30-50/month for high-speed Internet.
Anyway, my first thought is propane or natural gas, but I don't know how suitble a fuel that is for larger, high-weight capacity vehicles. I realize that many government and businesses use propane or natural gas powered fleet-cars as a way to save money/be 'green,' but those are usually just small sedans. The buses tend to be refueled at a diesel pump in the district garage anyway, so it doesn't make much difference that you can't get it elsewhere. Besides, they can always keep a handful of diesel buses to use for long-haul (field trips, etc') trips.
Anyway, that's my take on it.
It looks like it'll be combining CPU, Intel hardware (TV tuner, remote, and easy setup wireless home networking, etc.) and Windows Media Center Edition."
Not to mention DRM'd to hell?
...the OS sucks-rules-o-meter. There's also an editor sucks-rules-o-meter (vi vs. emacs) among others.
Like you said, meaningless but fun.
Linky here.
I'm sure you're intelligent enough to notice that I posted before talk went live. Like I said, until this morning, it was all rumors, but as it turns out, they were right.
Okay, bad wording. I've got nothing against gaim's Jabber prpl. The original poster mentioned the abundance of SoC projects for gaim and surmised that Google's IM client (if there is going to be one) would be based on gaim -- particularly Jabber. I just figure if this was Google's intent, they would be developing the Jabber prpl. Sure, Jabber is fully implemented in gaim, but AFAIK, only part of the XMPP standard is implemented in Jabber so it's not like it there's no room for improvement. It's certainly plausible that Google would develop a Jabber server that implements more of XMPP (Jabber++? ^_~).
Then again, all this is based on the rumor that Google is jumping into the IM business. We may confirm this as early as tomorrow, or find out down the road it's all been a load of crap.
We'll see.
Chances are the parent poster did, in fact, pass "3rd fucking grade grammar"...
...in a different language.
Insensitive clod...