Wireless access points typically keeps a list of MAC addresses to use with DHCP, to give each machine a consistent IP address. This might also include a 'last seen' time field. I'm pretty sure MAC addresses aren't legal evidence, though.
Do you think that the design of CSS must take some of the blame for the slow adaption of first CSS and since CSS2? Imperical evidence seem to show that CSS is simply hard to get right. Was too much ease of implementation sacrificed to make it easy to design and read CSS files, thus prompting the lack of support that complicates the use of CSS today?
Well, at the consumer end we have gotten dry mops from microfibers. The technology actually gets through pretty quickly when we get the technology to mass produce it, especially when it's as obviously useful as this. The researches can spend lots of money on a little material to build just a few tests, but that won't scale up to freshwater for entire cities. Making custom nanostructures today basically means producing them at near random and filtering out the ones you want, even for straight carbon tubes. There'll have to be some breakthroughs on that front before all the nice things you read about can reach end users. I think the low quality nanotubes we get currently get from mass production are mainly used in composite materials for things like airplanes.
In other news, I'm starting to severely dislike Vista. Seems they can't fix anything from XP without breaking anything else, like an exchange. Those user interfaces... Clean up the old start menu, good idea. Remove the entire hierarchy from the menu, not so good. Also note the rather cluttered IE UI. And in Media Player, see the intuitive way clicking "Windows Media Player" in the topbar made the button change itself into "URGE", which the user could click to choose between "URGE->URGE" and "URGE->URGE->URGE". And I'm sure Microsoft Hearts just *blazes* along now that it supports *Direct3D hardware acceleration*. Seriously, they did *extra work* to change that plain old 2d card game into... that plain old 2d card game with a reliance on Direct3D. The giant ESRB rating was also a nice touch. I sure wouldn't want my kids mind to get perverted by playing that obscene spider solitaire.
I'm thinking that's why Microsoft has started pushing the.NET thing (horrible name), the move to 64 bits made them realize the need for cross platform compability, as in 'Windows on another architecture'. I can't for the life of me imagine why open source projects like Beagle are using.NET, though. You have the source, if it's any good you can just compile it on any system that has the right libraries. Even Microsoft isn't moving their own projects to it in a hurry.
Frankly, I wish they'd just leave clothes design to engineers. Yes, all clothes design. I want durable, comfortable, functional and light garments in a simple, neutral design, whether or not I'm in orbit.
He probably meant something closer to "not disruptive". Making computing feel "smoother" is actually a big win, though obviously it shouldn't impede actual function. Furthermore, yes, studies show that people can be more satisfied merely by "making things look like they are being done in a better way." Classic example: waiting times. People get less annoyed if they get visual feedback in the form of a little progress bar, or resident evil-style transitions. Studies have shown that having clocks by bus stops makes the waiting time feel shorter, even if the service remains the same.
Now, those web-browser thingies in TFA, those were flashy *and* disruptive. If you separated out the useful bits, I guess you'd have a primitive version of Exposé.
Well, Apple have some 3d displays of various products at their website in QTVR format. (Like this Mac mini.) 3d is a good way to present information about what a real-world item/location looks like. Google Earth is also about that, I suppose. But that "walking around on the web" thing, most commonly found in grand dreams before the dot-com crash and in various bad hacker movies, doesn't work at all.
I am totally waiting for 'open porn'. Why does this great gap in modern society remain unfilled? Is it like we've always suspected, that you simply can't combine open source and sex?
Meh. Spore doesn't look like it will push game physics any further than present-day games. What is new on that front is the autogenerated animation, and that will not done in realtime. The technological challenges in Spore is the scale, and probably the AI.
But I don't get how adding an extra super powerfull graphics card to your PC is supposed to increase physics performance more than the CPU(s) you could get for the same price?
I expect we'll see an increase in searches for b/w porn if this catches on, too. Haha, I just had a thought: The filter obviously analyzes the images based on skin color. (No b/w blocking, not working with off colors.) I wonder if they thought of searching for ebony porn? A sufficiently dark hottie might slip right through. And of course, there's always hentai. And mpeg/avi. And file-sharing. And secretly installing some obscure unsupported browser... I'm thinking persistent kids will learn the mysteries of life, one way or another.
Hah! I always backup or NoCD my games, ever since a Kingdom Under Fire CD went *crack-boom* in my CD drive during play. I had to take out the drive and shake pixie dust out of it.:( And you bet your ass I got a replacement 'backup' from a friend.
Hm... I think there was something similar in Tachyon: The Fringe. I only played the demo, but I vaguely remember your employers set you up, resulting in you getting banished to outer space somewhere. Betrayal is always a nice plot point, especially when it comes unexpectedly, rapidly shifting you through the phases of 'Huh, that's strange.', 'I have a bad feeling about this...' and 'Holy goddamnfuck, what complete and utter bastards!'
Actually, each of those (high density energy storage, cheap clean energy, new form of matter transportation) on their own could suffice, as far as prompting a change in technology, and from there, lifestyle. More possible catalysators: * Safe cryogenic human hibernation. * Extend human lifespan, e.g. by retarding the aging process, or curing a common age-related disease. * Cheap and oil-free plastic-like material. * A new revolution in food production? (As I hear, we really are producing enough food already, but there certainly are people starving...) * Break any of the laws of thermodynamics (Yes, yes... A man can dream.) * Cybernetic brain implants.
I'm holding out for the brain cybernetics, myself. I will not be satisfied with less than VGA resolution true color, with 9 bit synchronous input and output, analog x/y coordinates, and a sound input... I just wish they'd hurry up already. Those puny 9x9 monochrome visions they've got so far won't be much good for net surfing.
What other breakthroughs are y'all looking forward to?
Any reason you can't just find/create custom drivers for a keyboard or similar input device? Especially if it is just for a proof of concept, or out of curiosity, there's no point doing in hardware what can be done in software.
It does, doesn't it? Looks can be deceiving, though. TFA claims 45 wpm after a week, with a month as a more typical learning period. It looks fine for simple text input, actually, and maybe gaming, but I have my reservations against using this thing for Vi... I hate remapping the keys for anything more complex than a FPS, so configuring each application to avoid keys that are hard to press simultaneously sounds less than tempting. (Does anybody else here use default vim mappings with the dvorak layout, or am I just crazy?) If all I were doing with my computer was hanging around on Slashdot all day, I'd go for it.
Whatever perspective trick they used when zooming into Bart's classroom impressed me, though. Very cartoonish. The blackboard looked a little strange, but I guess that's part CG for changing the writing.
Well, for the army they each have their pros and cons. There is however slim chance of ever seeing a live remote-controlled mule on Mars, or in a radioactive accident site. I guess the military angle is a way to get funding.
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Wireless access points typically keeps a list of MAC addresses to use with DHCP, to give each machine a consistent IP address. This might also include a 'last seen' time field. I'm pretty sure MAC addresses aren't legal evidence, though.
Do you think that the design of CSS must take some of the blame for the slow adaption of first CSS and since CSS2? Imperical evidence seem to show that CSS is simply hard to get right. Was too much ease of implementation sacrificed to make it easy to design and read CSS files, thus prompting the lack of support that complicates the use of CSS today?
Well, at the consumer end we have gotten dry mops from microfibers. The technology actually gets through pretty quickly when we get the technology to mass produce it, especially when it's as obviously useful as this. The researches can spend lots of money on a little material to build just a few tests, but that won't scale up to freshwater for entire cities.
Making custom nanostructures today basically means producing them at near random and filtering out the ones you want, even for straight carbon tubes. There'll have to be some breakthroughs on that front before all the nice things you read about can reach end users.
I think the low quality nanotubes we get currently get from mass production are mainly used in composite materials for things like airplanes.
This was all "Vista Intro 1", by the way.
In other news, I'm starting to severely dislike Vista. Seems they can't fix anything from XP without breaking anything else, like an exchange.
Those user interfaces... Clean up the old start menu, good idea. Remove the entire hierarchy from the menu, not so good.
Also note the rather cluttered IE UI. And in Media Player, see the intuitive way clicking "Windows Media Player" in the topbar made the button change itself into "URGE", which the user could click to choose between "URGE->URGE" and "URGE->URGE->URGE".
And I'm sure Microsoft Hearts just *blazes* along now that it supports *Direct3D hardware acceleration*. Seriously, they did *extra work* to change that plain old 2d card game into... that plain old 2d card game with a reliance on Direct3D. The giant ESRB rating was also a nice touch. I sure wouldn't want my kids mind to get perverted by playing that obscene spider solitaire.
I'm thinking that's why Microsoft has started pushing the .NET thing (horrible name), the move to 64 bits made them realize the need for cross platform compability, as in 'Windows on another architecture'. .NET, though. You have the source, if it's any good you can just compile it on any system that has the right libraries. Even Microsoft isn't moving their own projects to it in a hurry.
I can't for the life of me imagine why open source projects like Beagle are using
Frankly, I wish they'd just leave clothes design to engineers. Yes, all clothes design. I want durable, comfortable, functional and light garments in a simple, neutral design, whether or not I'm in orbit.
He probably meant something closer to "not disruptive".
Making computing feel "smoother" is actually a big win, though obviously it shouldn't impede actual function.
Furthermore, yes, studies show that people can be more satisfied merely by "making things look like they are being done in a better way."
Classic example: waiting times. People get less annoyed if they get visual feedback in the form of a little progress bar, or resident evil-style transitions. Studies have shown that having clocks by bus stops makes the waiting time feel shorter, even if the service remains the same.
Now, those web-browser thingies in TFA, those were flashy *and* disruptive. If you separated out the useful bits, I guess you'd have a primitive version of Exposé.
Well, Apple have some 3d displays of various products at their website in QTVR format. (Like this Mac mini.) 3d is a good way to present information about what a real-world item/location looks like. Google Earth is also about that, I suppose. But that "walking around on the web" thing, most commonly found in grand dreams before the dot-com crash and in various bad hacker movies, doesn't work at all.
I am totally waiting for 'open porn'. Why does this great gap in modern society remain unfilled? Is it like we've always suspected, that you simply can't combine open source and sex?
Huh. Any reason OGL performance is half of DX?
Meh. Spore doesn't look like it will push game physics any further than present-day games. What is new on that front is the autogenerated animation, and that will not done in realtime. The technological challenges in Spore is the scale, and probably the AI.
But I don't get how adding an extra super powerfull graphics card to your PC is supposed to increase physics performance more than the CPU(s) you could get for the same price?
It is when compared to the US, though. But then, what isn't? Even the political left in the USA could easily mistake C.I.Hagen for a communist.
I expect we'll see an increase in searches for b/w porn if this catches on, too.
Haha, I just had a thought: The filter obviously analyzes the images based on skin color. (No b/w blocking, not working with off colors.) I wonder if they thought of searching for ebony porn? A sufficiently dark hottie might slip right through. And of course, there's always hentai. And mpeg/avi. And file-sharing. And secretly installing some obscure unsupported browser... I'm thinking persistent kids will learn the mysteries of life, one way or another.
Also; one boob, many boobies.
Oh, yes! A nation full of old people riding giant robots of mass destruction. SUVs, take a hike!
I've lied to get jobs
<suspicious>How do we know you're not lying now, too? You could be making all of this up just get hired!</suspicious>
Hah! I always backup or NoCD my games, ever since a Kingdom Under Fire CD went *crack-boom* in my CD drive during play. I had to take out the drive and shake pixie dust out of it. :(
And you bet your ass I got a replacement 'backup' from a friend.
Hm... I think there was something similar in Tachyon: The Fringe. I only played the demo, but I vaguely remember your employers set you up, resulting in you getting banished to outer space somewhere. Betrayal is always a nice plot point, especially when it comes unexpectedly, rapidly shifting you through the phases of 'Huh, that's strange.', 'I have a bad feeling about this...' and 'Holy goddamnfuck, what complete and utter bastards!'
I kind of want google.xxx... I wonder if google will be buying it? And how they would customize it? 'I'm feeling horny'?
Actually, each of those (high density energy storage, cheap clean energy, new form of matter transportation) on their own could suffice, as far as prompting a change in technology, and from there, lifestyle. More possible catalysators:
* Safe cryogenic human hibernation.
* Extend human lifespan, e.g. by retarding the aging process, or curing a common age-related disease.
* Cheap and oil-free plastic-like material.
* A new revolution in food production? (As I hear, we really are producing enough food already, but there certainly are people starving...)
* Break any of the laws of thermodynamics (Yes, yes... A man can dream.)
* Cybernetic brain implants.
I'm holding out for the brain cybernetics, myself. I will not be satisfied with less than VGA resolution true color, with 9 bit synchronous input and output, analog x/y coordinates, and a sound input... I just wish they'd hurry up already. Those puny 9x9 monochrome visions they've got so far won't be much good for net surfing.
What other breakthroughs are y'all looking forward to?
Then again, the UN might allow stuff they ban in the U.S., like porn.
Any reason you can't just find/create custom drivers for a keyboard or similar input device? Especially if it is just for a proof of concept, or out of curiosity, there's no point doing in hardware what can be done in software.
It does, doesn't it? Looks can be deceiving, though. TFA claims 45 wpm after a week, with a month as a more typical learning period.
It looks fine for simple text input, actually, and maybe gaming, but I have my reservations against using this thing for Vi... I hate remapping the keys for anything more complex than a FPS, so configuring each application to avoid keys that are hard to press simultaneously sounds less than tempting. (Does anybody else here use default vim mappings with the dvorak layout, or am I just crazy?)
If all I were doing with my computer was hanging around on Slashdot all day, I'd go for it.
Whatever perspective trick they used when zooming into Bart's classroom impressed me, though. Very cartoonish. The blackboard looked a little strange, but I guess that's part CG for changing the writing.
Well, for the army they each have their pros and cons. There is however slim chance of ever seeing a live remote-controlled mule on Mars, or in a radioactive accident site. I guess the military angle is a way to get funding.