Bit of a random aside, but I used to make bots for Counter-Strike (as in AI opponents, rather than hacks!), and it was funny to see people attribute behaviour to teh bots that I hadn't actually coded in there... of course it was called 'TEAMbot', and the intention was to get the bots to act as a team, but I remember at an early stage some people thought the bots were backing each other up even when I hadn't coded in any 'teamwork' stuff yet! People will anthropomorphicise anything!
With regards to what you're saying above, I totally agree. I suppose you're being rhetorical, but I think we can quite clearly see 'fear' and 'anger' in other species, and even things like 'love'. I also have wondered about whether we see the same colours as other humans do, though I'm pretty sure that we would because of the way the spectrum mixes together smoothly, and we all have the same rod and cone arrangement in our eyes, as well as viewing the same spectrum (maybe some have slightly different weightings of RGB of course, and colourblind people have one of the colours missing, can't remember which). It is still feasible that we all see a different set of colours entirely though, it's just very difficult to imagine without being able to experience.. in the same way that our brain doesn't have the equipment to navigate using ultrasonic sensors (now that would be an interesting biology experiment!;))
Err.. by definition, anthropomorphicising something is making it 'human'. So you don't need to anthropomorphicise humans since they are human. Just because you consider us to be animals doesn't make any difference.. it's like saying "should we felinicise [just made that word up, obviously] cats?".
"Anthropomorphic: Having human form or attributes" (one of the definitions when I entered define:anthropomorphic into google)
Laughable speed is the speed limit on UK motorways - 70mph.
Please do not try to enforce all humour to follow a strict set of rules. While it may seem that rules help to control the fun at first, in the end they only stifle your donut making skills.
UK car tax for most people is probably only going to be about £300/$600 at most.. I'm not sure of the current state of normal car tax because I've got a company car. You're right about the values when it comes to company car tax though! Probably would be more than that for a Hummer actually! My car is about £2500 a year in company car tax, and it's only a 1.9 litre turbo diesel (only 130HP, though has a fair bit of torque;) ). I think my tax was about £130 a year for a 1.6 litre petrol, that was about 5 years ago though.
Seems to me like the point in having a nice simple, stable, 2D only driver would be for use in servers? Our HP servers have 2 Geforce 4 MXs in them. They don't need any spectacular graphics performance, just enough to render some windows competently.
Err.. I have a lot more 'disposable cash' now that I have a job.. when I was in high school I hardly had any money at all.. bought an album maybe once every few months. Now I buy a few at a time on amazon each month. Depends on how much allowance you get really, but it's ludicrous to suggest that teenagers get more purchasing power than their parents, because it is *all* their parents purchasing power unless the teenager has a job?
The problem then is finding out what makes up those little Jesus dolls.. perhaps billions of really tiny universes? D'oh! We're gonna need a bigger microscope!
Strangely, nobody seems to have commented on the possibility of this being used to control an exoskeleton or 30 storey robotic armour.. that seems like one of the primary applications to me?;)
And hopefully this will stay as an input device only, I don't want google ads invading my thoughts too:(
I think you mean word processors, as I doubt the first computers had qwerty keyboards.. but your general premise is correct... not really fair to compare the cost of a brand new technology with well established ones..
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that does sound like it has 'elements of truth' as you say. I still think that choosing not to buy donuts with my lunch has helped me lose weight;)
I think I had to change the default cuz it was trying to load an app that wasn't working in Kubuntu.. something like that.. can't even remember the name of the app that I was using for DVDs now either:p It maybe had an autoplay function built into the app itself..
"Asking users to browse the file system and know to run programs is a little too much"
It is if you treat them like morons. I know the extent of user stupidity, I've experienced it from many people at my company, but even the most clueless can open 'My Computer' and double click on the CD icon (or open it and go to setup).
Autorun worked fine for me in Ubuntu to play DVDs (though I think I may have set it up myself in a config file:P )
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You are joking, right? Obesity is not a biological advantage, it is pretty much guaranteed to give you diabetes, and the only way to actually become obese, even if you have a disease, would be to take in more energy than you use. There maybe are some diseases that cause people to store energy even when it should be being used to power them, but for 99.99999% of cases, it will just be because people aren't exercising self control (I myself am realising that I should stop buying food just because I can:P I'm by no means fat, I'm 6'2" and 13 stone (82.5kg..182 pounds etc), but I know that it's possible for me to become obese if I just let myself eat. My dad used to be in great shape until he left the police and did a degree in Computer Science lol.. at one point he was 19 stone (266 pounds..).. he also died early and the doctors weren't even sure why, but I don't think the weight helped in the slightest.
Excellent argument there.. that's like saying if you gave Microsoft enough million years they could make Windows secure.. possible, but not very likely:P
What moron forced you to use IE? Ouch.. I'm glad I'm the IT admin here:D I recommend to most users to use Firefox, though I don't force it upon them because some sites aren't fully standards compliant.
Good point. I'm not good with grammatical definitions, though I did think that smote was correct on that occasion... I guess I'm as bad as the original poster.. doh! XD
"some people will play it for reasons that are perfectly acceptable (i.e. 'How Could Someone Do Something Like This?')"
That makes no sense.. if they are thinking that then they're not going to go and watch a simulation of it. I would possibly play it to see if it's a good game, which I doubt (flash games are usually a heap of sh!t, though not always). I just think it's in very bad taste though, so I'm probably not even going to look it up..
I really hope everyone on/. knows how a pixel works..
I think the point of this case is that the displays aren't using a full 24 bits for each colour (8 each for R, G and B.. haven't RTFA but I'd guess the displays only use 6 bits for each individual colour), so the displays have to approximate/dither colours like some crappy jpeg or gif (as opposed to a bitmap).. I haven't done much graphics work on my Pro yet, and at work I have an external monitor anyway, but it would be interesting to see if anything comes of this. I doubt anything useful will of course..
It's an amature artestec term... but anyway I'd tend to give lower SIDs the benefit of the doubt and assume that they have dyslexia rather than that they're dumb:P
Good point - if I buy a head unit (not too tempted at the moment since it's a company car..) then a 3.5mm or optical input would be a perfect addition. I'd forgotten about that solution completely, probably because car stereos I've seen don't have them:/
I haven't heard much of his stuff, but the stuff I have heard was pretty good. I didn't even know about the tricks until my bro-in-law told me about him playing with his teeth and showed me on YouTube, I agree that's pretty easy to do. The cool thing about Hendrix was that he was self taught, and I loved songs like 'Little Wing' before I even knew they were Hendrix songs (I heard the Corrs version lol). Of course there are good guitar players these days, some probably a lot better technically than Hendrix, but it's not all about technical skill either. Guitar players like Joe Satriani that play a zillion notes a second don't do much for me. Sure it's impressive, but it doesn't sound that amazing compared to something more composed with for example good use of silence as well as actual notes.
Likewise I haven't heard a lot of Dylan's stuff, though sometimes I've been surprised to learn that a song I like is actually a cover of one of his songs etc. Enjoyment of musicians just comes down to preference in the end. Hendrix did have some very cool songs, and the right attitude, even if he wasn't a great singer or anything it still fits in with the music:P
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Bit of a random aside, but I used to make bots for Counter-Strike (as in AI opponents, rather than hacks!), and it was funny to see people attribute behaviour to teh bots that I hadn't actually coded in there... of course it was called 'TEAMbot', and the intention was to get the bots to act as a team, but I remember at an early stage some people thought the bots were backing each other up even when I hadn't coded in any 'teamwork' stuff yet! People will anthropomorphicise anything! With regards to what you're saying above, I totally agree. I suppose you're being rhetorical, but I think we can quite clearly see 'fear' and 'anger' in other species, and even things like 'love'. I also have wondered about whether we see the same colours as other humans do, though I'm pretty sure that we would because of the way the spectrum mixes together smoothly, and we all have the same rod and cone arrangement in our eyes, as well as viewing the same spectrum (maybe some have slightly different weightings of RGB of course, and colourblind people have one of the colours missing, can't remember which). It is still feasible that we all see a different set of colours entirely though, it's just very difficult to imagine without being able to experience.. in the same way that our brain doesn't have the equipment to navigate using ultrasonic sensors (now that would be an interesting biology experiment! ;))
Err.. by definition, anthropomorphicising something is making it 'human'. So you don't need to anthropomorphicise humans since they are human. Just because you consider us to be animals doesn't make any difference.. it's like saying "should we felinicise [just made that word up, obviously] cats?". "Anthropomorphic: Having human form or attributes" (one of the definitions when I entered define:anthropomorphic into google)
Laughable speed is the speed limit on UK motorways - 70mph.
Please do not try to enforce all humour to follow a strict set of rules. While it may seem that rules help to control the fun at first, in the end they only stifle your donut making skills.
UK car tax for most people is probably only going to be about £300/$600 at most.. I'm not sure of the current state of normal car tax because I've got a company car. You're right about the values when it comes to company car tax though! Probably would be more than that for a Hummer actually! My car is about £2500 a year in company car tax, and it's only a 1.9 litre turbo diesel (only 130HP, though has a fair bit of torque ;) ). I think my tax was about £130 a year for a 1.6 litre petrol, that was about 5 years ago though.
I must point out that there are not 2 GPUs in each server, was kind of pointless of me to say 2 (2 HP servers).
Seems to me like the point in having a nice simple, stable, 2D only driver would be for use in servers? Our HP servers have 2 Geforce 4 MXs in them. They don't need any spectacular graphics performance, just enough to render some windows competently.
No really - what does the man on the street need a cellphone for? It just encourages poor organisation ;)
Err.. I have a lot more 'disposable cash' now that I have a job.. when I was in high school I hardly had any money at all.. bought an album maybe once every few months. Now I buy a few at a time on amazon each month. Depends on how much allowance you get really, but it's ludicrous to suggest that teenagers get more purchasing power than their parents, because it is *all* their parents purchasing power unless the teenager has a job?
The problem then is finding out what makes up those little Jesus dolls.. perhaps billions of really tiny universes? D'oh! We're gonna need a bigger microscope!
Strangely, nobody seems to have commented on the possibility of this being used to control an exoskeleton or 30 storey robotic armour.. that seems like one of the primary applications to me? ;)
And hopefully this will stay as an input device only, I don't want google ads invading my thoughts too :(
I think you mean word processors, as I doubt the first computers had qwerty keyboards.. but your general premise is correct... not really fair to compare the cost of a brand new technology with well established ones..
that does sound like it has 'elements of truth' as you say. I still think that choosing not to buy donuts with my lunch has helped me lose weight ;)
I think I had to change the default cuz it was trying to load an app that wasn't working in Kubuntu.. something like that.. can't even remember the name of the app that I was using for DVDs now either :p It maybe had an autoplay function built into the app itself..
"Asking users to browse the file system and know to run programs is a little too much"
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It is if you treat them like morons. I know the extent of user stupidity, I've experienced it from many people at my company, but even the most clueless can open 'My Computer' and double click on the CD icon (or open it and go to setup).
Autorun worked fine for me in Ubuntu to play DVDs (though I think I may have set it up myself in a config file
You are joking, right? Obesity is not a biological advantage, it is pretty much guaranteed to give you diabetes, and the only way to actually become obese, even if you have a disease, would be to take in more energy than you use. There maybe are some diseases that cause people to store energy even when it should be being used to power them, but for 99.99999% of cases, it will just be because people aren't exercising self control (I myself am realising that I should stop buying food just because I can :P I'm by no means fat, I'm 6'2" and 13 stone (82.5kg..182 pounds etc), but I know that it's possible for me to become obese if I just let myself eat. My dad used to be in great shape until he left the police and did a degree in Computer Science lol.. at one point he was 19 stone (266 pounds..).. he also died early and the doctors weren't even sure why, but I don't think the weight helped in the slightest.
Excellent argument there.. that's like saying if you gave Microsoft enough million years they could make Windows secure.. possible, but not very likely :P
What moron forced you to use IE? Ouch.. I'm glad I'm the IT admin here :D I recommend to most users to use Firefox, though I don't force it upon them because some sites aren't fully standards compliant.
My ID is pretty high though, surely I'm just dumb? ;) I was in fact just trying to be funny, it doesn't always work.
Good point. I'm not good with grammatical definitions, though I did think that smote was correct on that occasion... I guess I'm as bad as the original poster.. doh! XD
"some people will play it for reasons that are perfectly acceptable (i.e. 'How Could Someone Do Something Like This?')"
That makes no sense.. if they are thinking that then they're not going to go and watch a simulation of it. I would possibly play it to see if it's a good game, which I doubt (flash games are usually a heap of sh!t, though not always). I just think it's in very bad taste though, so I'm probably not even going to look it up..
I really hope everyone on /. knows how a pixel works..
I think the point of this case is that the displays aren't using a full 24 bits for each colour (8 each for R, G and B.. haven't RTFA but I'd guess the displays only use 6 bits for each individual colour), so the displays have to approximate/dither colours like some crappy jpeg or gif (as opposed to a bitmap).. I haven't done much graphics work on my Pro yet, and at work I have an external monitor anyway, but it would be interesting to see if anything comes of this. I doubt anything useful will of course..
It's an amature artestec term... but anyway I'd tend to give lower SIDs the benefit of the doubt and assume that they have dyslexia rather than that they're dumb :P
I think you'll find the past tense is 'smote'
Good point - if I buy a head unit (not too tempted at the moment since it's a company car..) then a 3.5mm or optical input would be a perfect addition. I'd forgotten about that solution completely, probably because car stereos I've seen don't have them :/
I haven't heard much of his stuff, but the stuff I have heard was pretty good. I didn't even know about the tricks until my bro-in-law told me about him playing with his teeth and showed me on YouTube, I agree that's pretty easy to do. The cool thing about Hendrix was that he was self taught, and I loved songs like 'Little Wing' before I even knew they were Hendrix songs (I heard the Corrs version lol). Of course there are good guitar players these days, some probably a lot better technically than Hendrix, but it's not all about technical skill either. Guitar players like Joe Satriani that play a zillion notes a second don't do much for me. Sure it's impressive, but it doesn't sound that amazing compared to something more composed with for example good use of silence as well as actual notes.
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Likewise I haven't heard a lot of Dylan's stuff, though sometimes I've been surprised to learn that a song I like is actually a cover of one of his songs etc. Enjoyment of musicians just comes down to preference in the end. Hendrix did have some very cool songs, and the right attitude, even if he wasn't a great singer or anything it still fits in with the music