Yes I did, but I believe that a thicker cortex does not strictly relate to a higher intelligence, not does the thinning indicate a stagnation of growth. The thinning is just a sign that ineffective cells are being removed.
Are you implying that you were dumber than your school bully? Since the article states that people with a higher IQ score, have slower development of their cortex.
Apparently, spell checkers, word counts, arbitrary font sizes, find (there's a menu item, but it's disabled), and hyperlinks are all "obscure advanced features". Here, let me fix that for you, Mike:
ajaxWrite is a streamlined word processor, comparable to Microsoft Wordpad.
Even WordPad has options for arbitrary font sizes and a find option. Heck, even Notepad has a find option...
Kubuntu (and i am pretty sure Ubuntu too) will have a graphical installer for the live cd; Espresso
It will even include a GUI tool to resize and edit partitions and the default option is no longer to format the entire harddisc.
And when Automatix is concerned, EasyUbuntu has the advantage of being able to install ATI drivers (or at least they claim so) and it works for Edubuntu and Kubuntu too (though unsupported).
But you to get it to work on Kubuntu, you need some Gnome packages, so you might want to take a look at Easy Kubuntu:) .
And lastly, some explanation about all these install-apps by (one of) the maker(s) of Easy Ubuntu:
keyes
11-15-2005, 04:10 PM
If you use Kubuntu please use Easy Kubuntu (created by Olwin and Anbreizh from Ubuntu-fr in collaboration with me, they help me creating Easy Ubuntu and I help them to create Easy Kubuntu, source code is very similar).
Automatix is a fork of Easy Ubuntu written by arnieboy (from ubuntuforums). Automatix is more complicated but have more features than Easy Ubuntu, it's the good choice for advanced users.
Begginers must use Easy Ubuntu, it's a very easy way to set up correctly Multimedia, web and other needed things. Easy Ubuntu is very safe and don't change the default applications and behaviors of Ubuntu.
This has been an issue for years. There are always upcoming games that seem too require insane systems (the "recommended 1GHz CPU for Max Payne when the rest of the world though 500 MHz was decent"-era comes to mind), but it's just a matter of time before those systems are the new norm.
And you fear that within a few years there will be games that require 2 or 4 $300 dollar GPU's just to get the game running. How many game developers would make games that only run on a small fraction of PCs? They want to get a decent audience, and to realise such an audience, the technology has to be avaiable at reasonable prices.
The whole hardware software market is both self-regulating (releasing games with insane requirements does not work) as well as self-stimulating (higher software requirements boost hardware technology and sales and better hardware results in software with better graphics).
That Apple II+ programming you described looks exactly what I fiddled around with on a Ti-83 (calculator) when I was about 14. It was so easy that you could quickly teach yourself the basics and build more complicated programs with loops etc. It was quite interesting to try to combine all sorts of stuff to get the result you wanted. And because of the limitations, it was often needed to use some creative programming.
I still miss "goto" in more complex languages:( .
It seems that Wikipedia too is involved in an assassination attempt:
On November 29, 2005, Seigenthaler wrote an op-ed in USA Today discussing his biography on Wikipedia. Between May and September of that year, the article contained incorrect statements, including allegations that he considered to be "character assassination."'
"lining the exits of the spawn with mines in enemy territory - no way around that but wait for a team player to step on them and get killed." Engineers can defuse mines.
"Hiding in places where the player has to walk past but turn around to see you with a rocket launcher" Either turn around quickly and frag him first or shoot at the ground near the enemy with a splash-damage weapon.
"Being shot with the missile launcher as you spawn in doom3 (no delay before you can be damaged)" Being spawnkilled is not a skill, but spawnkilling can be, in 1on1 games in Quake or Unreal Tournament. It requires knowledge of spawn areas and fast movement and reflexes to cover as many possible spawnplaces as possible.
"Camping in a single convenient location to frag" If you are being fragged from the same location over and over again, you are doing something really wrong. Just try to approach the enemy form another angle.
"Throwing non stop granades while re-supplying yourself with more (being a field ops)" You cannot do both at the same time. You have to stop at a certain point, skilled players will wait for that and frag you. That, or the attackee will just take another route.
"Using anti tank weapons while hiding in a different place each time to blow up an enemy engineer from the back" What is wrong with that?
"haha, and lets not forget superweapons and suicides." Superweapons are often disabled, and in good maps (maps suitable for competitive play), are situated in risky locations. That way, people have fair chances against superweapons. And suicides are (almost?) always punished in game scoring systems.
"oh and during temporary invincibility and super damage like the berserk mode, etc.. There are so many!" Same as "superweapons": often disabled, and in good maps (maps suitable for competitive play), are situated in risky locations. Further more; good players will run around maps picking up these special items as soon as they spawn, which requires timing and great skill, especially when your opponent tries to do the same. And of course one can defend himself from players with invincibility by running away.
Further more, you seem only to have based your opinions around Tribes and Enemy Territory, games which are played as mayor competitive games for a reason. Take a look at some skilled 1on1 matches of Painkiller, Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2004, and you will come to different conclusions.
P.S. Vo0 is DUTCH (Sander Kaasjager), his last name translated to english means Cheese Hunter for crying out loud.
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But doesn't that only work when the visually orientated part of the brain is damaged but the eyes are still functional?
Yes I did, but I believe that a thicker cortex does not strictly relate to a higher intelligence, not does the thinning indicate a stagnation of growth. The thinning is just a sign that ineffective cells are being removed.
Are you implying that you were dumber than your school bully? Since the article states that people with a higher IQ score, have slower development of their cortex.
yes, but will they have pink penises on their foreheads?
Kitten + Rails + Power => \o/
Duke Nukem Forever is so Web 3.0, that IT can run linux!
Perhaps so, but you probably can't send 60 DVDs worth of data per second with a light bulb, can you?
Any chance they are just doing this to please shareholders?
Even WordPad has options for arbitrary font sizes and a find option. Heck, even Notepad has a find option...
And when Automatix is concerned, EasyUbuntu has the advantage of being able to install ATI drivers (or at least they claim so) and it works for Edubuntu and Kubuntu too (though unsupported).
But you to get it to work on Kubuntu, you need some Gnome packages, so you might want to take a look at Easy Kubuntu
And lastly, some explanation about all these install-apps by (one of) the maker(s) of Easy Ubuntu:
This has been an issue for years. There are always upcoming games that seem too require insane systems (the "recommended 1GHz CPU for Max Payne when the rest of the world though 500 MHz was decent"-era comes to mind), but it's just a matter of time before those systems are the new norm.
And you fear that within a few years there will be games that require 2 or 4 $300 dollar GPU's just to get the game running. How many game developers would make games that only run on a small fraction of PCs? They want to get a decent audience, and to realise such an audience, the technology has to be avaiable at reasonable prices.
The whole hardware software market is both self-regulating (releasing games with insane requirements does not work) as well as self-stimulating (higher software requirements boost hardware technology and sales and better hardware results in software with better graphics).
BTW; Happy Pi Day!
I see
The great thing about this new network from Sony, is that it can install rootkits for you. And not even on-demand, but non-demand! Isn't that great?
Except in Soviet Russia of course, there the rootkits install Sony's new network...
You must be new here, he is referring to a so-called Operating System besides Windows and MacOS. That OS is known as Linux.
:P )
And if it was possible to post on Slashdot using only the power of ones mind; Linux would be the first OS to support it!
(Though the drivers for the mind-computer interface probably would be a bit iffy
More up to date browsers?
It is not so much that lynx is not up to date, but just that it does not have a fancy GUI.
Than i fucking retard what? Try to complete a sentence for once.
I am sorry i made a common spelling error, but English isn't my first language and I'd like to see you write fluent Dutch.
Lame Anonymous Coward.
Better sooner then later, we don't want the server to crash as well as the UFOs, do we? http://www.thespacereview.com.nyud.net:8090/articl e/531/1/
It seems to be down already... http://www.thetechzone.com.nyud.net:8090/?m=show&i d=479/
That Apple II+ programming you described looks exactly what I fiddled around with on a Ti-83 (calculator) when I was about 14. It was so easy that you could quickly teach yourself the basics and build more complicated programs with loops etc. It was quite interesting to try to combine all sorts of stuff to get the result you wanted. And because of the limitations, it was often needed to use some creative programming. I still miss "goto" in more complex languages :( .
It seems that Wikipedia too is involved in an assassination attempt:
On November 29, 2005, Seigenthaler wrote an op-ed in USA Today discussing his biography on Wikipedia. Between May and September of that year, the article contained incorrect statements, including allegations that he considered to be "character assassination."'
Oh the irony...
Nah. Nowadays, all Athlons are remarked Celerons.
"All I'm saying is there are always various unavoidable tricks how you can get a high frag rate without any skill."
:) ?
If it is so easy, why don't you compete in a pro tournament and win loads of cash
It's easy; All you have to do is try to die and fail.
"lining the exits of the spawn with mines in enemy territory - no way around that but wait for a team player to step on them and get killed."
Engineers can defuse mines.
"Hiding in places where the player has to walk past but turn around to see you with a rocket launcher"
Either turn around quickly and frag him first or shoot at the ground near the enemy with a splash-damage weapon.
"Being shot with the missile launcher as you spawn in doom3 (no delay before you can be damaged)"
Being spawnkilled is not a skill, but spawnkilling can be, in 1on1 games in Quake or Unreal Tournament. It requires knowledge of spawn areas and fast movement and reflexes to cover as many possible spawnplaces as possible.
"Camping in a single convenient location to frag"
If you are being fragged from the same location over and over again, you are doing something really wrong. Just try to approach the enemy form another angle.
"Throwing non stop granades while re-supplying yourself with more (being a field ops)"
You cannot do both at the same time. You have to stop at a certain point, skilled players will wait for that and frag you. That, or the attackee will just take another route.
"Using anti tank weapons while hiding in a different place each time to blow up an enemy engineer from the back"
What is wrong with that?
"haha, and lets not forget superweapons and suicides."
Superweapons are often disabled, and in good maps (maps suitable for competitive play), are situated in risky locations. That way, people have fair chances against superweapons.
And suicides are (almost?) always punished in game scoring systems.
"oh and during temporary invincibility and super damage like the berserk mode, etc.. There are so many!"
Same as "superweapons": often disabled, and in good maps (maps suitable for competitive play), are situated in risky locations.
Further more; good players will run around maps picking up these special items as soon as they spawn, which requires timing and great skill, especially when your opponent tries to do the same.
And of course one can defend himself from players with invincibility by running away.
Further more, you seem only to have based your opinions around Tribes and Enemy Territory, games which are played as mayor competitive games for a reason. Take a look at some skilled 1on1 matches of Painkiller, Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2004, and you will come to different conclusions.
P.S. Vo0 is DUTCH (Sander Kaasjager), his last name translated to english means Cheese Hunter for crying out loud.