It is for exactly that reason that I would be really careful about buying the first star wars game to come out. There is a good change the first one will be that gimmick and nothing else. I don't want to play a game that is entirely swinging a lightsaber and nothing else. The idea certainly holds great potential for a part of a well thought out and interesting game, but there could be enough profit in just the gimmick to not be a motivation for a real game the first time.
I'll hold out for a few weeks after the first wii star wars game comes out before I spend my money.
gyrations of the vortex structure can be reversed by applying short bursts of the sinusoidal excitation field with amplitude of about 1.5 mT
We can turn the really small cones upside down by shooting it with 1.5 mili Tesla magnetic fields. Before we needed 500 times as much energy. I think that covers it.
I'm not sure how close together they can have these vortex and keep them stable, but each individual one was something like 80 atoms across. So yea, I'd guess that the goal would be much greater storage density.
As for getting it to a usable read-write speed and maintaining reliability over a few hundred gigs... well I guess that remains to be seen.
Agreed. When I started reading this, I was leaning back in my chair, probably at about a 135 degree angle. As soon as I was interested, I leaned forward past 90 degrees. If I'm playing a game, I find that if it's boring or easy I lean back, but for a more challenging fight or race or whatever I'll lean forward, perhaps even lifting the back legs of my chair off the ground. It could be that assuming a more relaxed position is... relaxing. And of course, while relaxing is good for your health it is rarely good for productivity.
Then again I might just need a bigger monitor.
Disclaimer: this comment was posted at a 135 degree reclined position.
Considering its use in fusion devices as a source of neutrons... I'd hope he didn't buy it somehow.
Meh, deuterium isn't actually that complex. One Proton and one Neutron. I'm sure there are ways to reliably make it. If such a way can't easily be found on the internet, create a conspiracy theory.
I'd hope this would be used as much to rule out suspects as to convict a specific one.
And even if it were a not un-realistic.1%... I don't think facial recognition alone would do someone in. But this could certainly help, even if alone it wouldn't convict.
On the same note, the 360 and PS3 are both pretty much a graphics upgrade. Which means two things, first that (if you have a HDTV, which I don't) it'll look prettier. Second, there is allot more effort, and time, and money, going into making a game for them. If people thought there was too much of a problem with sequels instead of innovation last generation, it'll be worse today: for the 360 and PS3.
With the Wii, though, Nintendo is pretty much forcing developers to innovate at least a little, in order to properly use the controller. If I want a graphics update, I'll get a new card for my PC. I go to a council for a distinctly different experience then a PC, usually based on the controller, since that is the real difference. And now, the Wii makes the controller even *more* different then the PC, which to me is an even greater reason to play. That and it doesn't cost *that* much money.
Not that I don't like WoW or anything, but I haven't seen anything in it worth paying every month for, in addition to the game itself. Until there *are* such dynamic events, I'll stick with games that are free once I buy them the first time...
If ideas like this were implemented, though, there's a good chance I'd be willing to shell out.
I believe that slashdot has a system for doing this. You the option to hide your email, display it, or display a spam-resistant version of it. It seems to change all the time, currently mine is missing a chunk, replaced by [], and after the end it says ['ade' in gap]. I haven't gotten any extra spam in that account so it seems to work fine.
That was my first thought on reading this. If you're concentrating the light to a point anyway, why not just shine it on a tube of water and make power with the steam? I haven't looked into which would be more efficient, but I know that solar at this point wastes most of the possible output. If properly done could this not only remove silicon from the equation all together but also improve output?
I can't vote until next year, but I pretty much agree. In most cases, what the candidate says is totally irrelevant to what they will do. Nearly everyone toes the party line, when it comes to important issues.
At this point the choice isn't even Democrat or Republican, it's NeoCon or Moderate. I'd like to see a balanced budget, and as an engineer I'm not going to be in the bottom tax bracket... but I wouldn't even consider voting Republican: I'd like to keep a few rights.
I've never understood the huge stress people put on the bird flu. Maybe it is 10 times as likely to mutate to kill millions as any other virus... but there are millions of different viruses. The billions we spend on defending against what might someday become a threat of unknown proportion... would be far better spent on general virus research. Otherwise chances are another virus will mutate and kill us all while we wait for the bird flu to do the same.
It's just another excuse to waste all our money.
I think the real problem is what it looks at. The shape of your face is what it looks at. What if you put a little clay or really thick makeup around your jaw and cheek bones to change your visible facial structure... and of course facial hair can be shaped to look like pretty much anything is under it without even adding anything artificial to your face.
And of course, you'll need multiple frames of reference with a wide angle between them to get any useful information anyway... you can't really judge depth from a single frame and if you try a little eyeshadow will throw it off.
I can only see facial recognition as proving that you aren't someone smaller then you are, not that you are a specific person.
And of course you could always get one of those masks from mission impossible! Yea, that's what I thought!
I get the feeling it will end up that Symantec and McAfee products will be able to replace the default windows security, but since the windows version is free and just as good there will be no reason to pay and security vendors will fade into obscurity. About two years later, after the old security vendors are all dead, the windows security will stop getting major updates and ten years later (shortly before they release the next version of windows) free, open source replacements that are disadvantaged from the start due to not being worked into the OS will begin being used because the old windows version does pretty much nothing at this point! Suddenly one of these will break out from the others with massive marketing and slowly people will begin to switch, eventually forcing windows to finally update again.
Because the *full* term is "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." The judge is giving him a chance to defend himself. If he fails to the judge can find him guilty, as contempt is pretty much offending the judge.
From what I've heard his response comes down to "if you put me in jail you'll pay" which is pretty much more contempt of court. I get the feeling he's going to jail.
The structure of the elevator isn't the only technology that has to be developed. We also have to make a climber that can go up a thin strand of material and hold wait, as well as a way to power it. Not all of these require carbon nanotube robes to build.
While I could see a genetic split between the upper and lower income classes occurring over that timeframe, and the "upper" class species would obviously follow about those genetic specifications... I don't see the lower class changing as described. What genetic advantage is their in being small, dim-witted, and ugly? How would ugly or stupid make you more likely to have kids? I'd assume that the "lower" class would "choose" the same traits as the upper class, and while the really smart or beautiful ones might get "pulled" into the upper class before the split happened (and even shortly after) once there was a genetic basis for split species, the "lower" class would start evolving to match the upper class. Or so it seems to me.
You made me think of something (don't you hate that?).
GTA isn't original. They didn't come up with the concept of shooting a hooker or stealing a car. They copied these things from the real world (where, believe it or not these things have at some point happened). I've seen these things on the news, so I know they happen. Moreover, I could get the idea that I should do such things in the real world by watching the news! Did anyone check if the various shooters blamed on GTA watched the news before they did what they did?
The News should clearly be against the law, as it promotes violence and even teaches people how to kill (I've seen people use a gun on the news!). Too bad that wouldn't get any publicity if Jack tried to sue them (or at least it would be very different publicity, probably starting with "crackpot theory").
Yes, that's right, a huge victory for Jack. He finally got his hands on a copy of a video game before release!
Obviously since nobody else has played this game yet, it will be a major loss to the gaming industry. Certainly there aren't already copies in the hands of video game reviewers, or any store or... wait? There are? *How* many people have played it?
I'm not quite sure how this is a major victory, other then that he found a(another?) judge to play ball with him.
Hrm.. reading the summary I got the impression that first they got him to control a mouse in 2 dimensions, then got him to control the video game. But then again in the actual article they do call the game 2D... but they don't say you *move* in 2D. They just say that the game itself is 2D. The game is 2D, but the player can only move in one. Sure, he *could* move in 2D, but in this case it seems he isn't (unless you count shooting as the second). Also... does he even have control over shooting? He has unlimited ammo so they could have just set it to always shoot.
Try right clicking on the "tab" bar. Now click "undo close tab." While I obviously don't like anything that makes me close a tab by accident, and it isn't an excuse for making it too easy to close a tab, it's a really useful feature. All in all while I (personally) don't think this was worth a 2.0 I *do* think it is a big step in the right direction and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't upgrade.
It *would* be nice to be able to choose to have a "close" button on the side like it was before instead of the button on every tab. I'm sure there will be an extension to fix it (but it should be built in!). The spell checker is nice as well (extension doesn't end in "tion" as it turns out...). One thing I *don't* like about the spell checker is that it is tending to be a bit... jumpy. It'll tell me I'm spelling a word wrong when in fact I just haven't finished typing it yet (and this while typing at a pretty reasonable speed, I didn't stop or anything. Oddly, I haven't seen this as much when I type slower).
The only other real issue I have (so far... 15 minutes) is that there is no defined separation between the page and the tabs. On a page with the same background as the "out of focus" tabs, it's kinda hard to tell where the page ends and the tab begins! Shouldn't there be a slightly different colored border or something?
It says blue light, not "A" blue light. I don't see birds carrying around a light... but they do have the light of the sun, even reflected off clouds. White light is made up of all colors... yellow, red, green, purple, orange... some you can't see... and blue. You can see this the way neuton discovered it, by placing a crystal in sunlight.
(oh, and the shadow... place a stick in the sun such that there is no shadow, and wait... as the sun moves west a shadow appears about to the east. Just for anyone who didn't allready know that.)
Where do I sign up to get these powers enabled? I totally would go for it, even if it is a really lame 6th or 7th sense. Like, if I was lost in the woods with no cell phone and nothing to make a shadow with, and no running water... it could be mildly useful!
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It is for exactly that reason that I would be really careful about buying the first star wars game to come out. There is a good change the first one will be that gimmick and nothing else. I don't want to play a game that is entirely swinging a lightsaber and nothing else. The idea certainly holds great potential for a part of a well thought out and interesting game, but there could be enough profit in just the gimmick to not be a motivation for a real game the first time.
I'll hold out for a few weeks after the first wii star wars game comes out before I spend my money.
gyrations of the vortex structure can be reversed by applying short bursts of the sinusoidal excitation field with amplitude of about 1.5 mT
We can turn the really small cones upside down by shooting it with 1.5 mili Tesla magnetic fields. Before we needed 500 times as much energy. I think that covers it.
I'm not sure how close together they can have these vortex and keep them stable, but each individual one was something like 80 atoms across. So yea, I'd guess that the goal would be much greater storage density. As for getting it to a usable read-write speed and maintaining reliability over a few hundred gigs... well I guess that remains to be seen.
Agreed. When I started reading this, I was leaning back in my chair, probably at about a 135 degree angle. As soon as I was interested, I leaned forward past 90 degrees. If I'm playing a game, I find that if it's boring or easy I lean back, but for a more challenging fight or race or whatever I'll lean forward, perhaps even lifting the back legs of my chair off the ground. It could be that assuming a more relaxed position is... relaxing. And of course, while relaxing is good for your health it is rarely good for productivity.
Then again I might just need a bigger monitor.
Disclaimer: this comment was posted at a 135 degree reclined position.
While that may be the case, it could also be a matter of sample size, as the researcher himself said. 55 just isn't that big.
Considering its use in fusion devices as a source of neutrons... I'd hope he didn't buy it somehow. Meh, deuterium isn't actually that complex. One Proton and one Neutron. I'm sure there are ways to reliably make it. If such a way can't easily be found on the internet, create a conspiracy theory.
I'd hope this would be used as much to rule out suspects as to convict a specific one. And even if it were a not un-realistic .1%... I don't think facial recognition alone would do someone in. But this could certainly help, even if alone it wouldn't convict.
On the same note, the 360 and PS3 are both pretty much a graphics upgrade. Which means two things, first that (if you have a HDTV, which I don't) it'll look prettier. Second, there is allot more effort, and time, and money, going into making a game for them. If people thought there was too much of a problem with sequels instead of innovation last generation, it'll be worse today: for the 360 and PS3.
With the Wii, though, Nintendo is pretty much forcing developers to innovate at least a little, in order to properly use the controller. If I want a graphics update, I'll get a new card for my PC. I go to a council for a distinctly different experience then a PC, usually based on the controller, since that is the real difference. And now, the Wii makes the controller even *more* different then the PC, which to me is an even greater reason to play. That and it doesn't cost *that* much money.
Well, I guess it's time to design my line of powerful electromagnetic door and window frames!
Lets see you film me when I flashfry your memory, stupid bug!
Oh, new tin-foil hat... randomly swipe a powerful magnet over any bug you see!
Not that I don't like WoW or anything, but I haven't seen anything in it worth paying every month for, in addition to the game itself. Until there *are* such dynamic events, I'll stick with games that are free once I buy them the first time... If ideas like this were implemented, though, there's a good chance I'd be willing to shell out.
I believe that slashdot has a system for doing this. You the option to hide your email, display it, or display a spam-resistant version of it. It seems to change all the time, currently mine is missing a chunk, replaced by [], and after the end it says ['ade' in gap]. I haven't gotten any extra spam in that account so it seems to work fine.
That was my first thought on reading this. If you're concentrating the light to a point anyway, why not just shine it on a tube of water and make power with the steam? I haven't looked into which would be more efficient, but I know that solar at this point wastes most of the possible output. If properly done could this not only remove silicon from the equation all together but also improve output?
I can't vote until next year, but I pretty much agree. In most cases, what the candidate says is totally irrelevant to what they will do. Nearly everyone toes the party line, when it comes to important issues.
At this point the choice isn't even Democrat or Republican, it's NeoCon or Moderate. I'd like to see a balanced budget, and as an engineer I'm not going to be in the bottom tax bracket... but I wouldn't even consider voting Republican: I'd like to keep a few rights.
I've never understood the huge stress people put on the bird flu. Maybe it is 10 times as likely to mutate to kill millions as any other virus... but there are millions of different viruses. The billions we spend on defending against what might someday become a threat of unknown proportion... would be far better spent on general virus research. Otherwise chances are another virus will mutate and kill us all while we wait for the bird flu to do the same. It's just another excuse to waste all our money.
I think the real problem is what it looks at. The shape of your face is what it looks at. What if you put a little clay or really thick makeup around your jaw and cheek bones to change your visible facial structure... and of course facial hair can be shaped to look like pretty much anything is under it without even adding anything artificial to your face. And of course, you'll need multiple frames of reference with a wide angle between them to get any useful information anyway... you can't really judge depth from a single frame and if you try a little eyeshadow will throw it off. I can only see facial recognition as proving that you aren't someone smaller then you are, not that you are a specific person. And of course you could always get one of those masks from mission impossible! Yea, that's what I thought!
I get the feeling it will end up that Symantec and McAfee products will be able to replace the default windows security, but since the windows version is free and just as good there will be no reason to pay and security vendors will fade into obscurity. About two years later, after the old security vendors are all dead, the windows security will stop getting major updates and ten years later (shortly before they release the next version of windows) free, open source replacements that are disadvantaged from the start due to not being worked into the OS will begin being used because the old windows version does pretty much nothing at this point! Suddenly one of these will break out from the others with massive marketing and slowly people will begin to switch, eventually forcing windows to finally update again.
Because the *full* term is "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." The judge is giving him a chance to defend himself. If he fails to the judge can find him guilty, as contempt is pretty much offending the judge.
From what I've heard his response comes down to "if you put me in jail you'll pay" which is pretty much more contempt of court. I get the feeling he's going to jail.
The structure of the elevator isn't the only technology that has to be developed. We also have to make a climber that can go up a thin strand of material and hold wait, as well as a way to power it. Not all of these require carbon nanotube robes to build.
While I could see a genetic split between the upper and lower income classes occurring over that timeframe, and the "upper" class species would obviously follow about those genetic specifications... I don't see the lower class changing as described. What genetic advantage is their in being small, dim-witted, and ugly? How would ugly or stupid make you more likely to have kids? I'd assume that the "lower" class would "choose" the same traits as the upper class, and while the really smart or beautiful ones might get "pulled" into the upper class before the split happened (and even shortly after) once there was a genetic basis for split species, the "lower" class would start evolving to match the upper class. Or so it seems to me.
You made me think of something (don't you hate that?).
GTA isn't original. They didn't come up with the concept of shooting a hooker or stealing a car. They copied these things from the real world (where, believe it or not these things have at some point happened). I've seen these things on the news, so I know they happen. Moreover, I could get the idea that I should do such things in the real world by watching the news! Did anyone check if the various shooters blamed on GTA watched the news before they did what they did?
The News should clearly be against the law, as it promotes violence and even teaches people how to kill (I've seen people use a gun on the news!). Too bad that wouldn't get any publicity if Jack tried to sue them (or at least it would be very different publicity, probably starting with "crackpot theory").
Yes, that's right, a huge victory for Jack. He finally got his hands on a copy of a video game before release!
Obviously since nobody else has played this game yet, it will be a major loss to the gaming industry. Certainly there aren't already copies in the hands of video game reviewers, or any store or... wait? There are? *How* many people have played it?
I'm not quite sure how this is a major victory, other then that he found a(another?) judge to play ball with him.
Hrm.. reading the summary I got the impression that first they got him to control a mouse in 2 dimensions, then got him to control the video game. But then again in the actual article they do call the game 2D... but they don't say you *move* in 2D. They just say that the game itself is 2D. The game is 2D, but the player can only move in one. Sure, he *could* move in 2D, but in this case it seems he isn't (unless you count shooting as the second). Also... does he even have control over shooting? He has unlimited ammo so they could have just set it to always shoot.
Try right clicking on the "tab" bar. Now click "undo close tab." While I obviously don't like anything that makes me close a tab by accident, and it isn't an excuse for making it too easy to close a tab, it's a really useful feature. All in all while I (personally) don't think this was worth a 2.0 I *do* think it is a big step in the right direction and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't upgrade. It *would* be nice to be able to choose to have a "close" button on the side like it was before instead of the button on every tab. I'm sure there will be an extension to fix it (but it should be built in!). The spell checker is nice as well (extension doesn't end in "tion" as it turns out...). One thing I *don't* like about the spell checker is that it is tending to be a bit... jumpy. It'll tell me I'm spelling a word wrong when in fact I just haven't finished typing it yet (and this while typing at a pretty reasonable speed, I didn't stop or anything. Oddly, I haven't seen this as much when I type slower). The only other real issue I have (so far... 15 minutes) is that there is no defined separation between the page and the tabs. On a page with the same background as the "out of focus" tabs, it's kinda hard to tell where the page ends and the tab begins! Shouldn't there be a slightly different colored border or something?
It says blue light, not "A" blue light. I don't see birds carrying around a light... but they do have the light of the sun, even reflected off clouds. White light is made up of all colors... yellow, red, green, purple, orange... some you can't see... and blue. You can see this the way neuton discovered it, by placing a crystal in sunlight. (oh, and the shadow... place a stick in the sun such that there is no shadow, and wait... as the sun moves west a shadow appears about to the east. Just for anyone who didn't allready know that.)
Where do I sign up to get these powers enabled? I totally would go for it, even if it is a really lame 6th or 7th sense. Like, if I was lost in the woods with no cell phone and nothing to make a shadow with, and no running water... it could be mildly useful!