I have seen a campus network (10 mbit) brought to its knees by a local, on campus only filesharing network.
True, the university wasn't paying for the bandwidth, but it was getting to the point where even websurfing didn't work.
if you remove the game coin from the player economy, something else will become the coin for the players. Just look at Diablo 2, where the coin is pretty much worthless, people (used to) use Stones of Jordan (a ring) as currency.
I don't see how anything like this could be used for search and rescue. If there was any wind at all, we couldn't go outside to fly it, or else it would uncontrollable, and would be blown away. Also the battery lasted only a short time, and the plane in the article includes more electronics than this one.
It is a cool idea, but I think its going to be a long time before these flyers are anything more than hobbies or science projects.
On my campus, every major lecture hall has free wireless internet. As a result of this, many of my friends take their laptops to class -just- so they can surf the web, or talk on msn during class. A couple people even play WoW during their lectures!
Technology in the classroom is great....but only if its implimented properly, or else students will just abuse it, and use it as an excuse not to pay attention.
personally, if I'm not going to pay attention in a lecture, there are ways of doing it that are less blatantly disrespectfull to the proff.
haha, I miss read the post the first time and thought they were talking about a computer virus infecting microsoft headquarters....
but then I realized that if it was a computer virus hitting microsoft, it really would not be news...
time after time I have to clean all the spyware/addware/viruses off my friends computers, becuase they do things like instal random activex controls.
the easy thing is cleaning the computer, it usually takes me 10 mins.
the hard thing is convincing these people to change their computer use habits and getting them to remember not to do things such as click random popups on the web. Invariably I get called back to clean the computer again because they did not take my advice.
as a gamer, I spent $100 on hardware and another $100 on games this summer. Oh and also I paid $30 a month for highspeed internet so I could play said games online.
do I have cash to go see movies? not really
but, I do go see a good movie when it comes out regardless, and keep the ticket stub. Looking at my pile of stubs from this year, only 2 of them are from this summer and 8 are from the previous 4 months. I think that says something about the quality of movies that have been coming out lately.
also, paying $15 to go see a movie (total cost) works out to about 5-7 dollars an hour depending on the length of the movie...where as looking at my xfire stats the amount of time I spent on video games and the cost of them works out to less than a dollar an hour. so, regardless of the quality of the movies coming out, my dollars are better spent on video games just for the entertainment/dollar factor.
Last time I installed Linux (Mandrake 10) the hardest thing I had to do was choose a root password.....
Well, to be honest my Wireless card doesn't work, but then again it is more of a "highly exotic" card than a linksys one, as it is not a prism based chipset.
for Solaris to be anything near the "linux killer" that its hyped up to be, it needs to have better driver support.
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Don't forget DC++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus/ My campus has a student run hub - 1 meg/s access to about 10 TiB of files.
I have seen a campus network (10 mbit) brought to its knees by a local, on campus only filesharing network.
True, the university wasn't paying for the bandwidth, but it was getting to the point where even websurfing didn't work.
if you remove the game coin from the player economy, something else will become the coin for the players.
Just look at Diablo 2, where the coin is pretty much worthless, people (used to) use Stones of Jordan (a ring) as currency.
A couple of students I know made a 21g plane similar to this a few years ago. http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~waltham/air/21g_index.h tml
I don't see how anything like this could be used for search and rescue. If there was any wind at all, we couldn't go outside to fly it, or else it would uncontrollable, and would be blown away. Also the battery lasted only a short time, and the plane in the article includes more electronics than this one.
It is a cool idea, but I think its going to be a long time before these flyers are anything more than hobbies or science projects.Needs the warning sign on it from one of the Engineering labs at my University
"Big Scary Laser! Do not look into with remaining eye"....and greatly increased the amount of spam in my inbox
On my campus, every major lecture hall has free wireless internet. As a result of this, many of my friends take their laptops to class -just- so they can surf the web, or talk on msn during class. A couple people even play WoW during their lectures!
Technology in the classroom is great....but only if its implimented properly, or else students will just abuse it, and use it as an excuse not to pay attention.
personally, if I'm not going to pay attention in a lecture, there are ways of doing it that are less blatantly disrespectfull to the proff..rar files work fine as well, which I use more often than .zip anyways.
haha, I miss read the post the first time and thought they were talking about a computer virus infecting microsoft headquarters.... but then I realized that if it was a computer virus hitting microsoft, it really would not be news...
time after time I have to clean all the spyware/addware/viruses off my friends computers, becuase they do things like instal random activex controls.
the easy thing is cleaning the computer, it usually takes me 10 mins.
the hard thing is convincing these people to change their computer use habits and getting them to remember not to do things such as click random popups on the web.
Invariably I get called back to clean the computer again because they did not take my advice.
as a gamer, I spent $100 on hardware and another $100 on games this summer. Oh and also I paid $30 a month for highspeed internet so I could play said games online.
do I have cash to go see movies? not really
but, I do go see a good movie when it comes out regardless, and keep the ticket stub. Looking at my pile of stubs from this year, only 2 of them are from this summer and 8 are from the previous 4 months. I think that says something about the quality of movies that have been coming out lately.
also, paying $15 to go see a movie (total cost) works out to about 5-7 dollars an hour depending on the length of the movie...where as looking at my xfire stats the amount of time I spent on video games and the cost of them works out to less than a dollar an hour. so, regardless of the quality of the movies coming out, my dollars are better spent on video games just for the entertainment/dollar factor.
Last time I installed Linux (Mandrake 10) the hardest thing I had to do was choose a root password..... Well, to be honest my Wireless card doesn't work, but then again it is more of a "highly exotic" card than a linksys one, as it is not a prism based chipset. for Solaris to be anything near the "linux killer" that its hyped up to be, it needs to have better driver support.
for me it meant that my ram was toast.... other than that I dunno.
Lesson learned from playing to many video games AP mines = guarenteed TK. Problem is in real life there is no respawning...