having read the article, and looked at the included picture at length, i can honestly say, i've not seen anything exactly like this before, and it seems like a smart idea.
For those of you who do not care to read the article, the way this particular unit works is this:
The normal round thumb stick tops have been replaced with a formed sort of depression that the thumb tip fits into, (think, conformed grip)
in the middle of this space is a hole, with a nub that would only *just* come in contact with the surface of the thumb. This nub moves independent of the gross motion of the control stick, allowing the feedback to not interfere with the fine movement of the control.
It appears that the movement it makes is sub-dermal. That is to say, it does not slide across the skin, but rather gently pulls at it (press your finger on your arm and wiggle, the skin of your arm moves a little, but your finger does not slide. Like that).
Sure, it is not a haptic vest, but in terms of ease of use (you just pick it up, you don't have to wear it) i suspect that this is something we will see in the next gen console controllers.
Except this is for arthritis in finger joints, which the body does not tend to repair on its own. I suppose eventually, if it works in fingers, they will find a way to do knee joints with it as well. (i suspect that would involve months of low/no impact rehab/physical training to allow the joint to re-develop.)
that, and seeing as estonia has an area of around 45,226 square kilometers, vs the US with 9,629,091 square kilometers, that means(despite the huge difference in GDP, (5k per person in estonia, 35k per person in the US) the actual amount of work and cost involved in bringing fast internet to the entire country is fractions of what it is in the US. we can thank http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/ for this information.
This reminds me of a few years back, when they managed to grow a date palm from seeds found in some ancient egyptian tomb. at the time of the article, the tree was 3 feet tall and doing well.
i'd be more worried about the pharmacological contaminants from people on a thousand medications pissing them into the sewage system. Bacteria i can deal with pretty easily, getting a mixed dose of 15 different anti depressants, a couple heart medications, viagra, 5 pain killers, and 18 cholesterol drugs is far more worrisome.
Absolutely Not, and here is why:
With non upgradable consoles, you never go to buy a new game, and wonder 'wait, will this run on my machine?' That is the appeal of consoles over PC gaming, for the most part, 'it just works' you put the disc in, and play the game, and it is the same for everyone. No wondering if your graphics card will be able to make it look like the videos you saw online, no wondering if it will lag during action sequences, no wondering if you're going to need to drop another 50$ on more ram to play.
i know you're trollin' but i gotta answer. the Kessel run is not a timed event. its a route through a miserable black hole filled patch of space. if you navigate right, the distance is shorter, due to space being warped by the black holes./starwars nerd.
you should read a book called Roacheworld. they use a blueshifted laser to push a solar sail to another planet (and then the ship reconfigures, and uses the same laser to slow down, by reflecting the beam back onto the sail from the other side). it all sounds good, but the radiation issues people have talked about still persist.
did you know they storyboarded the hobbit in 3D? saw a bit about it, they had two storyboard artists, sitting side by side, one drew in cyan, the other in red, and they both had glasses available, so the resulting storyboards where in 3D. really kind of an amazing co-op effort on the artists part. (saw a thing about it on the production vlogs, had to break out my cyan/red sunglasses for that episode)
(without googleing it) microwaves use non ionizing radiation to excite water molecules, which in turn creates heat, which cooks food. But i suppose you know that. However, your saying that 'Non ionizing radiation cooks food' is a bit disingenuous, as it implies a direct interaction which does not exist. My apologies for my previous condescending tone.
Now, I'm not even going to pretend to understand the math that you linked to, but i will make this comment:
seeing as DNA seems to survive pretty well at 37.5 C, the 'high temperatures' referred to therein must be above that by some fair amount. It has been my experience that, when exposed to temperatures much above say, 50 C, i tend to seek means by which to no longer expose myself to such temperatures, as it is wildly uncomfortable. If Terahertz radiation created this, or a even higher temperatures within living flesh when exposed to it, i suspect their usage time would be measurable only in the seconds before the target attempted to kill the operator.
i'm merely responding to the allegation that DropBox (and other services like it, that do not purposefully traffic in infringing material) are at risk due to the precedent set by MegaUploads demise. The article alleges this, and I was merely pointing out how retarded that would be. *just as you described* 'thank you for your reading comprehension'
The trouble is, thats like saying Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Western Digital are profiting from Pirating because people store illegally acquired content on their hard drives. Going after these services is treating a symptom, not the root cause. Companies like dropbox are not deliberately making money from 'pirated' content. They make money because people pay them to host files. Now, those files could be pictures of cats, nuclear secrets, or a stolen copy of 'ghostbusters' without deeply invading the privacy of their users, there is no practical means by which they could ensure that every file they host is legal. It is not their place, nor should they be expected to, Police the content their users upload.
i think the point is, With so many divergent claims, no one really knows. Which can either lend peace of mind, or the reverse, depending how you look at it.
well, you know, as far as anyone knows the 'Dead Hand' system in moscow is still operational. If you've forgotten, Dead Hand is the hardened computer system designed to detect any nuclear attack, and return fire, *unless* human intervention tells it not to launch. You get that? if everyone is dead, it fires whatever is left of Russia's nuclear arsenal. sleep well.
On the other hand, i was in a bran-new walmart the other day ( i know, i know) and the main portion of the store was lit entirely by tinted skylights. only the grocery section had artificial lights on during the day. (dunno why.)
i'm not saying power it exclusively that way. I'm saying trickle charge a battery that way. Yes its inefficient, but it makes a phone capable of recharging *anywhere* given enough time.
the same way self winding watches work. Your arm is not a windmill either. In this case, a small magnet, in a tube, wrapped in a coil, such that when the user walks, the magnet slides from one end of the tube to the other, and back again. The real trick is to figure out how to arrange this little setup to maximize the number of times the process occurs, with minimal movement.
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having read the article, and looked at the included picture at length, i can honestly say, i've not seen anything exactly like this before, and it seems like a smart idea.
For those of you who do not care to read the article, the way this particular unit works is this:
The normal round thumb stick tops have been replaced with a formed sort of depression that the thumb tip fits into, (think, conformed grip)
in the middle of this space is a hole, with a nub that would only *just* come in contact with the surface of the thumb. This nub moves independent of the gross motion of the control stick, allowing the feedback to not interfere with the fine movement of the control.
It appears that the movement it makes is sub-dermal. That is to say, it does not slide across the skin, but rather gently pulls at it (press your finger on your arm and wiggle, the skin of your arm moves a little, but your finger does not slide. Like that).
Sure, it is not a haptic vest, but in terms of ease of use (you just pick it up, you don't have to wear it) i suspect that this is something we will see in the next gen console controllers.
Except this is for arthritis in finger joints, which the body does not tend to repair on its own. I suppose eventually, if it works in fingers, they will find a way to do knee joints with it as well. (i suspect that would involve months of low/no impact rehab/physical training to allow the joint to re-develop.)
that, and seeing as estonia has an area of around 45,226 square kilometers, vs the US with 9,629,091 square kilometers, that means(despite the huge difference in GDP, (5k per person in estonia, 35k per person in the US) the actual amount of work and cost involved in bringing fast internet to the entire country is fractions of what it is in the US. we can thank http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/ for this information.
I was thinking of this one: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1122_051122_old_seed.html
This reminds me of a few years back, when they managed to grow a date palm from seeds found in some ancient egyptian tomb. at the time of the article, the tree was 3 feet tall and doing well.
i'd be more worried about the pharmacological contaminants from people on a thousand medications pissing them into the sewage system. Bacteria i can deal with pretty easily, getting a mixed dose of 15 different anti depressants, a couple heart medications, viagra, 5 pain killers, and 18 cholesterol drugs is far more worrisome.
Absolutely Not, and here is why:
With non upgradable consoles, you never go to buy a new game, and wonder 'wait, will this run on my machine?' That is the appeal of consoles over PC gaming, for the most part, 'it just works' you put the disc in, and play the game, and it is the same for everyone. No wondering if your graphics card will be able to make it look like the videos you saw online, no wondering if it will lag during action sequences, no wondering if you're going to need to drop another 50$ on more ram to play.
Read a book called Roacheworld by Robert L. Forward. It'll be right up your ally.
i know you're trollin' but i gotta answer. the Kessel run is not a timed event. its a route through a miserable black hole filled patch of space. if you navigate right, the distance is shorter, due to space being warped by the black holes. /starwars nerd.
you should read a book called Roacheworld. they use a blueshifted laser to push a solar sail to another planet (and then the ship reconfigures, and uses the same laser to slow down, by reflecting the beam back onto the sail from the other side). it all sounds good, but the radiation issues people have talked about still persist.
wait really? i can't grow my own wheat?
Thanks. From now on I'm googling the full text of every post I reply to, just in case it happens to reference some obscure civil war quote.
seeing as the longest distance confirmed sniper kill (against a human) is 2,707 yards i'd say you're a moron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills
did you know they storyboarded the hobbit in 3D? saw a bit about it, they had two storyboard artists, sitting side by side, one drew in cyan, the other in red, and they both had glasses available, so the resulting storyboards where in 3D. really kind of an amazing co-op effort on the artists part. (saw a thing about it on the production vlogs, had to break out my cyan/red sunglasses for that episode)
(without googleing it) microwaves use non ionizing radiation to excite water molecules, which in turn creates heat, which cooks food. But i suppose you know that. However, your saying that 'Non ionizing radiation cooks food' is a bit disingenuous, as it implies a direct interaction which does not exist. My apologies for my previous condescending tone.
Now, I'm not even going to pretend to understand the math that you linked to, but i will make this comment:
seeing as DNA seems to survive pretty well at 37.5 C, the 'high temperatures' referred to therein must be above that by some fair amount. It has been my experience that, when exposed to temperatures much above say, 50 C, i tend to seek means by which to no longer expose myself to such temperatures, as it is wildly uncomfortable. If Terahertz radiation created this, or a even higher temperatures within living flesh when exposed to it, i suspect their usage time would be measurable only in the seconds before the target attempted to kill the operator.
you REALLY don't know how microwave ovens work, do you?
i'm merely responding to the allegation that DropBox (and other services like it, that do not purposefully traffic in infringing material) are at risk due to the precedent set by MegaUploads demise. The article alleges this, and I was merely pointing out how retarded that would be. *just as you described* 'thank you for your reading comprehension'
The trouble is, thats like saying Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Western Digital are profiting from Pirating because people store illegally acquired content on their hard drives. Going after these services is treating a symptom, not the root cause. Companies like dropbox are not deliberately making money from 'pirated' content. They make money because people pay them to host files. Now, those files could be pictures of cats, nuclear secrets, or a stolen copy of 'ghostbusters' without deeply invading the privacy of their users, there is no practical means by which they could ensure that every file they host is legal. It is not their place, nor should they be expected to, Police the content their users upload.
i think the point is, With so many divergent claims, no one really knows. Which can either lend peace of mind, or the reverse, depending how you look at it.
well, you know, as far as anyone knows the 'Dead Hand' system in moscow is still operational. If you've forgotten, Dead Hand is the hardened computer system designed to detect any nuclear attack, and return fire, *unless* human intervention tells it not to launch. You get that? if everyone is dead, it fires whatever is left of Russia's nuclear arsenal. sleep well.
I laughed. Thank you.
On the other hand, i was in a bran-new walmart the other day ( i know, i know) and the main portion of the store was lit entirely by tinted skylights. only the grocery section had artificial lights on during the day. (dunno why.)
like Kenneth Boulding once said:
' Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist'
i'm not saying power it exclusively that way. I'm saying trickle charge a battery that way. Yes its inefficient, but it makes a phone capable of recharging *anywhere* given enough time.
the same way self winding watches work. Your arm is not a windmill either. In this case, a small magnet, in a tube, wrapped in a coil, such that when the user walks, the magnet slides from one end of the tube to the other, and back again. The real trick is to figure out how to arrange this little setup to maximize the number of times the process occurs, with minimal movement.