"For institutional customers, special shower rooms fixtures are available that attach directly to a fitting on the Viriguard. These fixtures allow your athletes to wash themselves in the groin area without touching themselves."
wow that is a really fucked up device. what is it with people and control these days? Didn't they remember that they were hormonal teenagers at one point too?
1) warm moist air warms the suit 2) wind blows on outside of the suit 3) thermodynamics
4) and now we have warm (dry) air coming off of the suit! it's like the world was designed this way.... there it's proof. FSM exists
I totally understand your situation and how hard it must have been for you*...
...but the FAR more common problem is that some parents now ASSUME that when their kid is slow or has low grades, they are actually just geniuses "not being challenged" and that it's not their fault. I have an uncle who is completely convinced that his kid is doing poorly in school because he is too smart for it. When he scores low on the exams to get into private school, my uncle assumes that the test was administered wrong. When he does poorly at every level they step him up to, they step him up another assuming he's not challenged.
It will turn out to be a real disappointment for both the parent and the child when they realize the actual situation. On the other hand, if one assumes the kid is retarded, the kid can only impress/improve.
I see your point, but if I was personally a government agent, I would like to set the kid up for achievement, not disappointment
*I understand because I had developmental apraxia of speech (where you basically can't talk) as a child. People thought I was retarded until I impressed them without words (or with sign language). Then the situation was made clear and I ended up just fine http://www.tayloredmktg.com/dyspraxia/das.shtml#wh at
I've heard this argument thousands of times (especially during arguments about Wii vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3)
What people have to realize is that graphics and sound are PART OF THE GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE. Imagine playing Halo without the soundtrack playing in the background, or riding across the field in Zelda:OoT without the theme music playing. Imagine playing Warcraft III with crappy 2D 600x400 graphics or playing Banjo Kazooie for the N64 in black and white and 3 polygons per model.
These things would ruin these games. It destroys the experience; you can't only rely on gameplay and you can't only rely on graphics. It's a mixture...
besides listen to the market. It's obvious that eye candy sells consistently
WOW! How do you go from people taking time off of work to do something the enjoy to the utter economic, political, and moral downfall of America? Look plenty of other countries (France, the UK, etc) are doing MUCH better than Americans are and they work LESS.
Enjoying something that you do should not be basis for criticism.
However it should be dismissed since it can't be proven that the hacker didn't tamper with the evidence.
Who's to say that a government agent wouldn't tamper with evidence? I'd prefer a white-hat hacker looking over me than a corrupt G-man looking for a scapegoat....
I think that one of the most impressive thigns a girl can do when joining a group of (immature) guys is to INITIATE the sexual jokes. There is nothing more manly than saying "that's what she said!" at the perfect time. That's the quickest way to bond with guys... unfortunately. If you're not comfortable with making those kind of comments, you're probably not going to get most of the guy humor (if the guys are immature; if not, you can just be yourself).
This seems a little drastic, and the problem is that the old man will know its broken.
Since this old guy can't hear the device, how does he know it is working at all? I would just go up to it while he's out for a bit, snip enough of the power cord at the end so it shorts out, and leave promptly. The old man thinks that it still works, and everyone gets peace and quiet.
Wow, someone finally realizes that "the good old days" weren't so good after all. There are classic games for modern consoles and old consoles alike; everyone knows that. The thing that most people forget is that there were some really crappy games back then as well. Unfortunately most people forget that
One of the main problems the team had on the Boston Dig project was that some genius decided to hire the same contractors for both the construction and the inspection of the tunnel. Consequently, the inspector gets put in an awkward position, for if he finds anything wrong, he can either...
A) blow the whistle, cost the company extra money, and then get fired for "undisclosed reasons"
B) look the other way like a good little puppet of the company, get paid, and never have to really deal with the consequences face to face
Seriously, whoever thought that it was a good idea to hire the same company for both construction and inspection is a little naive. Would you let McDonald's do the FDA testing on their own food?
I know these marketing execs seem stupid, but think about it. They wanted people to install their adware, and the ideal audience is one who is:
-a frequent web user
-not exactly computer savy
-able to live with pop-up ads and flashing colors 24/7
-unaware of the consequences of clicking yes to a dialog
sounds a lot like the typical myspace user doesn't it?
I actually go to a public highschool with a library loaded with internet-accessible dells. You have to give your photo ID to the librarian to use them, but it's not like they check the history of hundreds of computer sessions a day (no real big-brother action). Anyways, our library choses which sites to block as the usage of certain sites goes up.
For the first couple of months the library was absolutely filled with kids going on myspace. Kids were looking at drinking pictures, talking really loudly about whatever parties happened, and generally ruining the library. The librarians got the swing of things and installed a filter that redirected myspace.com to google.com. Bam, all of the sudden the library is deserted and kids can study again.
So yes, it is up to the organization/parents to make rules on their computer use, not the government. And they are capable of doing a much better job than the government at that
It is true that games are more graphics-centered today, and there is a gameplay-for-graphics tradeoff, and that games are no longer indie-developments but rather multi-million dollar investments, but you are forgetting a very important point:
You are playing the classics from that era. When you think back, do you remember how many bad games came out of that time period? ET anyone? There were lots of bad games back then, just like there are today, but the human mind tends to remember positive experiences over negative ones. Just compare Lewis and Clark's memoirs to their journals... years after their experience they seemed to have "forgotten" all the bad things that happen on their journey. This is probably why you think only excellent games came out of that era (in other words, it's not because developers did not focus on graphics)
I think that this type of nostalgic and sentimental feeling is experienced by every generation of gamer. I can see myself in 20 years, saying "remember games were like Half Life 1 or Halo 1? Pure gameplay and no graphics! Now we have these virtual reality kits... developers focus on them too much. I just want gameplay!"
The truth is that it is much harder for a huge team of developers to create excellent gameplay than to create excellent graphics.;-D
You didn't even need to RTFA! The summary says the write process needs the super-heating that evaporates the lube, not the read process. I'm sure that Seagate will include some kind of sensor in the reservoir, so when all the lube is gone, the hard drive stops writing and only reads. That way you won't lose 1.5TB of data... which would suck
Thanks for clearing up the issue of the above/below/in geosynchronous orbit. You said it should be above geosynchronous, so indeed the tether is supplying a tension force downwards. This force is added to gravity and makes up the centripetal force.
1. the artificial gravity would be very little unless you put the station WAY out there (take the radius for geosynchronous orbit, then multiply by the square root of two, and that altitude is the one you need for half of gravity, meaning the other half is supplied by the "centrifugal" force and gives the feeling of half of earth's gravity). Keep in mind, if the occupants are feeling an artificial gravity, that force is coming from the tether on the ground. So not only do we have the tremendous weight of the tether, but we ALSO have another force to supply that artificial gravity. Why would we want even more tension on the tether at the ground?
2. If the space station is put above GEO where gravity for the occupants is half that on Earth, the tether is supplying that force. So if the tether breaks right at the space station, the space station now has to exert a huge 4.9m/s^2 on the whole space station JUST to stay at equilibrium!!!! They have to exert far more than that to return to geosynchronous, so this is a really dangerous situation. etc etc
I think the ideal situation would be that the centripetal acceleration almost cancels out the weight of the tether. The tether would weigh 10 Newtons or something, because all of its weight is put into pulling the satellite back down towards Earth. That way, we won't need ultra strong fibers, but the trip is even longer.
I don't know when the last time you took physics was, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong. First, its centripetal force, not centrifugal. You need the centripetal force to keep the space station in orbit (more on this later), so when that force goes away, the space station will be flung out. Centrifugal force is only an illusion - its the normal force of the actual body that's accelerating towards the center that inflicts on its occupants. e.g., if you're driving a car turning right towards the center, the car turns its wheels and makes a centripetal force to move in. You don't receive that force from the wheels, but you feel the normal force from your head smacking against the window, so it feels like there is a force pushing you out, but it's really only because there is no other force pushing you in.
Back to the main point though. The cable is going to stay in the same place on the ground the whole time. This means that the space station must be directly above the same spot on the ground, aka geosynchronous orbit. Geosynchronous orbit means that all the gravity exerted on the space station goes to centripetal acceleration (v^2/r or w^2R), so if the ribbon would break, it would NOT fly up, and the space station would not fly away from the Earth. The exact opposite would happen. If the ribbon broke right at the space station, the whole ribbon would accelerate down (proportional to its gravitational acceleration, or GM/r2, where M is the mass of the Earth). If the ribbon broke lower, the upper parts of the ribbon would drag the space station with it, and they would both slowly start to sink into the Earth.
If you had just checked wikipedia or something, it would have been very clear. There is centripetal acceleration and all that, but relative to gravity, it can be thrown out it is so small
Let's think about the worst case scenario here: if search engines are required by law to give up their search history on a particular person, sure it's scary but it doesn't mean much. If you're in court for murder and the evidence is circumstantial at best, will the fact that you googled for "hot sex" and "people dieing" really get you that life sentence?
Obviously this applies at a lot more to child pornography and copyright cases, but for some reason I don't think it would sway the majority of criminal cases.
Even if google made some kind of GoogleSearchLookUp application right next to Earth and gmail, curiosty != guilty. If a lawyer brought this up, the judge would probably get all sorts of relevance objections from the opposing side, but I can imagine the jury being swayed by such evidence.
Still, I think this is just another one of our privacies that we are throwing away today. If kids are getting arrested for requesting copies of the Little Red Book (discussed previously on slashdot) in libraries, I just wonder what you would get for googling "how to kill the president". In TFA, they quote one Harvard law professor calling the subpeona power "a blank check." I think in the future, Google will be forced to hand over their huge search histories on a daily basis for the federal government, and it would just be another big brother thing. Having this information is very useful to Google (study demographics of particular topics), so deleting it is a huge blow to their power
Personally, I am infuriated that the government can just request this information at will. And we ALL know that this information won't be used JUST pursue terrorists...
to quote the article: The first imported Africans were brought as indentured servants, not slaves. They were required, as white indentured servants were, to serve seven years.
It is possible/relatively likely that these skeletons they examined were not slaves, but skip ahead 100 years, and that percentage shrinks to (almost) zero.
I think the words of George Costanza sum up how to fool the fMRI...
George and Jerry talking about how to fool the polygraph test (to prove that Jerry doesn't watch Melroe's place)
George (to Jerry): "You if believe it, it's not a lie."
I too wonder about the cost and practicality of this. Most of the examples they provided can simply be solved with a regular (cheap) polygraph test - only one who is REALLY good at lying can fool this. I imagine it would be hard to get a warrant for $*00,000 to get some guy tested on the fMRI.
however, the very concept of the 100% accurate lie detector is scary. It would have a huge impact on politics, crime, and even personal issues. "Did you cheat on me? Do you look at porn a lot? Do you think I'm fat?"
I'd rather live in the current world, where at least we have some small amounts of privacy left.
I can't imagine the countless hours photographing people into the database and asking Mrs. Robinson to remove her sunglasses would actually stop a child abductor. Besides, he could just drive another mile to any other grade school and commit his felonies there.
But in the State-Congress after someone said exactly what I said, someone else yelled "won't anyone think of the children?" and the bill was signed. Seems that phrase overrides any kind of common sense.
Things like this just add to the cost of being a hardcore gamer. Lets say you get:
(all prices from amazon)
Zboard: 40.84
COD2 keyset: 18.99
BF2 keyset: (unavailable price but probably around 18.99)
COD2 directors edition: 59.99
BF2: 44.99
Fatal1ty mouse: 49.99
total price:
$233.79. And that's JUST for mouse + keyboard and games, not to mention new graphics card etc etc.
This is why I think more hardcore gamers will go over to systems like the xbox 360. Get the system, xbox live, and a microphone and you're set - everything else is skill. Back in the days where you could program your own buyscripts for counter-strike, advantages were at no addition cost. Now it's getting expensive... hard to imagine a teen blowing all that money just to play at the top level.
The keyboard itself would be very usefull for games like Warcraft 3 or Battlefield 2 (playing as the commander) where you have many different key combinations. I imagine it would be hard to switch from typing to gaming on the fly though. For games like COD2 though, I can't see how this keyboard would offer an advantage. Nice to show off at LANS, but unless you a big wallet, I'd stick with your 10 year old IBM keyboard.
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"For institutional customers, special shower rooms fixtures are available that attach directly to a fitting on the Viriguard. These fixtures allow your athletes to wash themselves in the groin area without touching themselves."
wow that is a really fucked up device. what is it with people and control these days? Didn't they remember that they were hormonal teenagers at one point too?
1) warm moist air warms the suit
2) wind blows on outside of the suit
3) thermodynamics
4) and now we have warm (dry) air coming off of the suit! it's like the world was designed this way.... there it's proof. FSM exists
hahahhahhahahhaaha yes you are buddy (don't mod me down, I am just rewarding humor)
I believe so. One of the guys built the actual structure, but just didn't know it would be used in this way
Amen! Actions have consequences... Just because you're seeing the consequences doesn't mean they deserve pity
I'm pretty sure i've heard more religious teachings praising faith than praising skepticism of god ;-D
I totally understand your situation and how hard it must have been for you*...
...but the FAR more common problem is that some parents now ASSUME that when their kid is slow or has low grades, they are actually just geniuses "not being challenged" and that it's not their fault. I have an uncle who is completely convinced that his kid is doing poorly in school because he is too smart for it. When he scores low on the exams to get into private school, my uncle assumes that the test was administered wrong. When he does poorly at every level they step him up to, they step him up another assuming he's not challenged.
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It will turn out to be a real disappointment for both the parent and the child when they realize the actual situation. On the other hand, if one assumes the kid is retarded, the kid can only impress/improve.
I see your point, but if I was personally a government agent, I would like to set the kid up for achievement, not disappointment
*I understand because I had developmental apraxia of speech (where you basically can't talk) as a child. People thought I was retarded until I impressed them without words (or with sign language). Then the situation was made clear and I ended up just fine
http://www.tayloredmktg.com/dyspraxia/das.shtml#w
I've heard this argument thousands of times (especially during arguments about Wii vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3)
What people have to realize is that graphics and sound are PART OF THE GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE. Imagine playing Halo without the soundtrack playing in the background, or riding across the field in Zelda:OoT without the theme music playing. Imagine playing Warcraft III with crappy 2D 600x400 graphics or playing Banjo Kazooie for the N64 in black and white and 3 polygons per model.
These things would ruin these games. It destroys the experience; you can't only rely on gameplay and you can't only rely on graphics. It's a mixture...
besides listen to the market. It's obvious that eye candy sells consistently
WOW! How do you go from people taking time off of work to do something the enjoy to the utter economic, political, and moral downfall of America? Look plenty of other countries (France, the UK, etc) are doing MUCH better than Americans are and they work LESS. Enjoying something that you do should not be basis for criticism.
However it should be dismissed since it can't be proven that the hacker didn't tamper with the evidence.
Who's to say that a government agent wouldn't tamper with evidence? I'd prefer a white-hat hacker looking over me than a corrupt G-man looking for a scapegoat....
I think that one of the most impressive thigns a girl can do when joining a group of (immature) guys is to INITIATE the sexual jokes. There is nothing more manly than saying "that's what she said!" at the perfect time. That's the quickest way to bond with guys... unfortunately. If you're not comfortable with making those kind of comments, you're probably not going to get most of the guy humor (if the guys are immature; if not, you can just be yourself).
This seems a little drastic, and the problem is that the old man will know its broken. Since this old guy can't hear the device, how does he know it is working at all? I would just go up to it while he's out for a bit, snip enough of the power cord at the end so it shorts out, and leave promptly. The old man thinks that it still works, and everyone gets peace and quiet.
Wow, someone finally realizes that "the good old days" weren't so good after all. There are classic games for modern consoles and old consoles alike; everyone knows that. The thing that most people forget is that there were some really crappy games back then as well. Unfortunately most people forget that
One of the main problems the team had on the Boston Dig project was that some genius decided to hire the same contractors for both the construction and the inspection of the tunnel. Consequently, the inspector gets put in an awkward position, for if he finds anything wrong, he can either...
A) blow the whistle, cost the company extra money, and then get fired for "undisclosed reasons"
B) look the other way like a good little puppet of the company, get paid, and never have to really deal with the consequences face to face
Seriously, whoever thought that it was a good idea to hire the same company for both construction and inspection is a little naive. Would you let McDonald's do the FDA testing on their own food?
I know these marketing execs seem stupid, but think about it. They wanted people to install their adware, and the ideal audience is one who is:
-a frequent web user
-not exactly computer savy
-able to live with pop-up ads and flashing colors 24/7
-unaware of the consequences of clicking yes to a dialog
sounds a lot like the typical myspace user doesn't it?
I actually go to a public highschool with a library loaded with internet-accessible dells. You have to give your photo ID to the librarian to use them, but it's not like they check the history of hundreds of computer sessions a day (no real big-brother action). Anyways, our library choses which sites to block as the usage of certain sites goes up.
For the first couple of months the library was absolutely filled with kids going on myspace. Kids were looking at drinking pictures, talking really loudly about whatever parties happened, and generally ruining the library. The librarians got the swing of things and installed a filter that redirected myspace.com to google.com. Bam, all of the sudden the library is deserted and kids can study again.
So yes, it is up to the organization/parents to make rules on their computer use, not the government. And they are capable of doing a much better job than the government at that
It is true that games are more graphics-centered today, and there is a gameplay-for-graphics tradeoff, and that games are no longer indie-developments but rather multi-million dollar investments, but you are forgetting a very important point:
;-D
You are playing the classics from that era. When you think back, do you remember how many bad games came out of that time period? ET anyone? There were lots of bad games back then, just like there are today, but the human mind tends to remember positive experiences over negative ones. Just compare Lewis and Clark's memoirs to their journals... years after their experience they seemed to have "forgotten" all the bad things that happen on their journey. This is probably why you think only excellent games came out of that era (in other words, it's not because developers did not focus on graphics)
I think that this type of nostalgic and sentimental feeling is experienced by every generation of gamer. I can see myself in 20 years, saying "remember games were like Half Life 1 or Halo 1? Pure gameplay and no graphics! Now we have these virtual reality kits... developers focus on them too much. I just want gameplay!"
The truth is that it is much harder for a huge team of developers to create excellent gameplay than to create excellent graphics.
You didn't even need to RTFA!
The summary says the write process needs the super-heating that evaporates the lube, not the read process. I'm sure that Seagate will include some kind of sensor in the reservoir, so when all the lube is gone, the hard drive stops writing and only reads. That way you won't lose 1.5TB of data... which would suck
Thanks for clearing up the issue of the above/below/in geosynchronous orbit. You said it should be above geosynchronous, so indeed the tether is supplying a tension force downwards. This force is added to gravity and makes up the centripetal force.
1. the artificial gravity would be very little unless you put the station WAY out there (take the radius for geosynchronous orbit, then multiply by the square root of two, and that altitude is the one you need for half of gravity, meaning the other half is supplied by the "centrifugal" force and gives the feeling of half of earth's gravity). Keep in mind, if the occupants are feeling an artificial gravity, that force is coming from the tether on the ground. So not only do we have the tremendous weight of the tether, but we ALSO have another force to supply that artificial gravity. Why would we want even more tension on the tether at the ground?
2. If the space station is put above GEO where gravity for the occupants is half that on Earth, the tether is supplying that force. So if the tether breaks right at the space station, the space station now has to exert a huge 4.9m/s^2 on the whole space station JUST to stay at equilibrium!!!! They have to exert far more than that to return to geosynchronous, so this is a really dangerous situation. etc etc
I think the ideal situation would be that the centripetal acceleration almost cancels out the weight of the tether. The tether would weigh 10 Newtons or something, because all of its weight is put into pulling the satellite back down towards Earth. That way, we won't need ultra strong fibers, but the trip is even longer.
I don't know when the last time you took physics was, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong. First, its centripetal force, not centrifugal. You need the centripetal force to keep the space station in orbit (more on this later), so when that force goes away, the space station will be flung out. Centrifugal force is only an illusion - its the normal force of the actual body that's accelerating towards the center that inflicts on its occupants. e.g., if you're driving a car turning right towards the center, the car turns its wheels and makes a centripetal force to move in. You don't receive that force from the wheels, but you feel the normal force from your head smacking against the window, so it feels like there is a force pushing you out, but it's really only because there is no other force pushing you in.
Back to the main point though. The cable is going to stay in the same place on the ground the whole time. This means that the space station must be directly above the same spot on the ground, aka geosynchronous orbit. Geosynchronous orbit means that all the gravity exerted on the space station goes to centripetal acceleration (v^2/r or w^2R), so if the ribbon would break, it would NOT fly up, and the space station would not fly away from the Earth. The exact opposite would happen. If the ribbon broke right at the space station, the whole ribbon would accelerate down (proportional to its gravitational acceleration, or GM/r2, where M is the mass of the Earth). If the ribbon broke lower, the upper parts of the ribbon would drag the space station with it, and they would both slowly start to sink into the Earth.
If you had just checked wikipedia or something, it would have been very clear. There is centripetal acceleration and all that, but relative to gravity, it can be thrown out it is so small
Let's think about the worst case scenario here: if search engines are required by law to give up their search history on a particular person, sure it's scary but it doesn't mean much. If you're in court for murder and the evidence is circumstantial at best, will the fact that you googled for "hot sex" and "people dieing" really get you that life sentence? Obviously this applies at a lot more to child pornography and copyright cases, but for some reason I don't think it would sway the majority of criminal cases. Even if google made some kind of GoogleSearchLookUp application right next to Earth and gmail, curiosty != guilty. If a lawyer brought this up, the judge would probably get all sorts of relevance objections from the opposing side, but I can imagine the jury being swayed by such evidence. Still, I think this is just another one of our privacies that we are throwing away today. If kids are getting arrested for requesting copies of the Little Red Book (discussed previously on slashdot) in libraries, I just wonder what you would get for googling "how to kill the president". In TFA, they quote one Harvard law professor calling the subpeona power "a blank check." I think in the future, Google will be forced to hand over their huge search histories on a daily basis for the federal government, and it would just be another big brother thing. Having this information is very useful to Google (study demographics of particular topics), so deleting it is a huge blow to their power Personally, I am infuriated that the government can just request this information at will. And we ALL know that this information won't be used JUST pursue terrorists...
Because 99% (at least) of immigration from Africa to the New World at the time was slavery. It is possibly they weren't slaves, but not very likely.
o rth_America
Almost. That figure might be true once the slave trade boomed, but at first most Africans imported to the Americas were indentured servants.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Slavery_in_N
to quote the article: The first imported Africans were brought as indentured servants, not slaves. They were required, as white indentured servants were, to serve seven years.
It is possible/relatively likely that these skeletons they examined were not slaves, but skip ahead 100 years, and that percentage shrinks to (almost) zero.
I think the words of George Costanza sum up how to fool the fMRI...
George and Jerry talking about how to fool the polygraph test (to prove that Jerry doesn't watch Melroe's place)
George (to Jerry): "You if believe it, it's not a lie."
I too wonder about the cost and practicality of this. Most of the examples they provided can simply be solved with a regular (cheap) polygraph test - only one who is REALLY good at lying can fool this. I imagine it would be hard to get a warrant for $*00,000 to get some guy tested on the fMRI.
however, the very concept of the 100% accurate lie detector is scary. It would have a huge impact on politics, crime, and even personal issues. "Did you cheat on me? Do you look at porn a lot? Do you think I'm fat?"
I'd rather live in the current world, where at least we have some small amounts of privacy left.
I can't imagine the countless hours photographing people into the database and asking Mrs. Robinson to remove her sunglasses would actually stop a child abductor. Besides, he could just drive another mile to any other grade school and commit his felonies there.
But in the State-Congress after someone said exactly what I said, someone else yelled "won't anyone think of the children?" and the bill was signed. Seems that phrase overrides any kind of common sense.
Things like this just add to the cost of being a hardcore gamer. Lets say you get:
1 /qid=1137519621/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5603418-8999209?_ encoding=UTF8/
(all prices from amazon)
Zboard: 40.84
COD2 keyset: 18.99
BF2 keyset: (unavailable price but probably around 18.99)
COD2 directors edition: 59.99
BF2: 44.99
Fatal1ty mouse: 49.99
total price: $233.79. And that's JUST for mouse + keyboard and games, not to mention new graphics card etc etc.
This is why I think more hardcore gamers will go over to systems like the xbox 360. Get the system, xbox live, and a microphone and you're set - everything else is skill. Back in the days where you could program your own buyscripts for counter-strike, advantages were at no addition cost. Now it's getting expensive... hard to imagine a teen blowing all that money just to play at the top level.
The keyboard itself would be very usefull for games like Warcraft 3 or Battlefield 2 (playing as the commander) where you have many different key combinations. I imagine it would be hard to switch from typing to gaming on the fly though. For games like COD2 though, I can't see how this keyboard would offer an advantage.
Nice to show off at LANS, but unless you a big wallet, I'd stick with your 10 year old IBM keyboard.
Zboard at amazon.com... link appears to be broken
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002H7F3G/sr=1-