Wikipedia is routinely considered to be an excellent aggregator of references in fields where references mean something. (You know, down at the bottom in the "references" and "external links" areas?)
The long and short of it turns out to be: Using Wikipedia as a reference in a hard discipline: bad. Using it as a jumping off point: Good.
Btw, A+ biology students in high school are just regurgitating facts (perhaps gained by carefully structured "experiments"), so they're probably only "on par" with "wikipedia whores".
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Kids, take note. This is what happens to your typing, grammar, and spelling when you sniff too much glue.
Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi are back in C&C, discussing the Babylon Curse, when Thomas' ship leaves the station. It enters the jumpgate. "No boom?" asks Sinclair. "No boom," answers Garibaldi.
"No boom today," Ivanova corrects them. "Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." Sinclair and Garibaldi shake their heads and leave.
"What?" Ivanova asks. "Look, someone's got to keep some damned perspective around here. One of these days... boom!"
According to the comments, the video showed "flight assist mode" (essentially, flight for newbies).
You can actually see the enemy fighters do axis rotations while being carried along by inertia. It seems likely (given the comments above) that the PCs will also be able to do such when switching off the assist mode.
Aside from the largely similar genome, lab mice are preferable because they serve as a form of control. They are bred to be (as much as is possible) more or less a homogeneous population, so that variations can be more easily ruled out in experiments.
This would likely be more difficult to do with humans, though probably not impossible. When combined with various ethical considerations present in our current society, they do the job well.
A reasonably smart person with an easily obtainable magnifying tool and access to the internet probably already knows the trajectory of those satellites and when to hide "stuff"
You can't hide a whole camp, though. The whole idea is another example of hiding stuff / limiting stuff by using the rationally weak excuse of "terrorism".
The Universal HD (which is essentially NBC AFAIK) coverage of the Olympics was actually pretty good at being country non-specific. I mean, sure it scheduled stuff that had slightly more US contestants than everyone else, but I actually enjoyed watching a good number of events where USians weren't involved or not really in contention.
But, of course, the network TV and basic cable stations had basically all the "standard", LCD American interest events, which tend to be boring (to me at least). I really enjoyed watching the boxing events, even though the US team sucked this year and many of the bouts were clearly biased in favor of the home team (but I liked it anyway... go fig...). Also, the softball competition was interesting to watch.
Oh, I should have added that I agree about the RSI bit. I learned (on my own) how to hold and draw with a pen so that I didn't get tired (after much trial and error) and still be somewhat useful with the tools.
I really think that what we need is some sort of smudge-resistant touch surface keyboard along with the monitor (a separate unit, but not with the traditional keyboard, rather some sort of reconfigurable control layout in an LCD package). There's a lot of applications where the full keyboard isn't necessary, but touching the screen itself isn't the best idea.
I have used most of the Wacom interfaces that have been out over the last 10 years (just got a Cintiq not too long ago, but the small one -- those things are just too freakin' expensive).
Anyway, I've never had a problem using them for a drawing interface. My main problem, though, is that switching between the typing and pointing interfaces when using a pen is not very efficient. The ergonomics are all wrong (at least to me). Using a finger seems to be a better choice.
Honestly, Dell has had QA problems for years now no matter what vendor they use (and I say this being a Dell tech myself). On the Optiplex side, their GX260 line had a recall on harddrives, their GX270 line was plagued with leaky capacitors (no recall but also no-questions-asked replacement of mainboards), the GX280 pizzabox systems had some mystery defect combined with really poor air cooling design (the case design hadn't changed since the GX110 days and clearly wasn't sufficient for the CPUs used in the GX280s) that caused them to be very loud and play poorly with some software(??? - don't ask me, but i saw it for months). The 745/755 lines are finally decent machines again.
I think its more a matter of Dell's margins being so slim that they contract with their vendors for specialized-yet-cheap components, and QA is the thing that gets short shrift (keep in mind that in a lot of Dell machines, the videocards are not necessarily standard PCI-E formfactor parts).
Yes you say "other than in a number of exceptional situations", but still - shutting people out from buying a house just because they won't buy into the whole "charge it" culture (including buying a stick of gum with a fucking credit card - George Carlin was right, those people should be stabbed in the eye) is rather extreme. Besides, before the advent of credit cards people could still loan money to buy a house, right? Probably because the banks did a proper piece of work evaluating their clients on a personal level
You do realize that by charging everything and then paying it off each month, you're essentially getting "free stuff" while simplifying your finances by paying at the end of the month instead of in many smaller transactions, right? And that you don't get charged interest if you pay it all off at the end of the statement period? How is it any different to pay with paper money in many transactions, instead of via EFT in one?
Allegories are more effective if they are equivalent. "Rewarding" entire groups of people at the expense of other groups isn't really the same thing as participating in an occasional recreational competition that's been inflated to a commercially profitable event.
I think the point isn't that children aren't biologically/sociologically necessary to society, but rather that if we're gonna try to promote a society of equals, individuals without children shouldn't be penalized (in the form of financially supporting other peoples' choices to have children, at their own expense) for not having them.
Just to pick a nit, but Cyrix was a major, viable alternative to Intel and AMD in the early-mid 90's (though they never managed to make any real "performance" CPUs that I recall). Not as big as NVidia is today, but they weren't small, either.
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Wikipedia is routinely considered to be an excellent aggregator of references in fields where references mean something. (You know, down at the bottom in the "references" and "external links" areas?)
The long and short of it turns out to be: Using Wikipedia as a reference in a hard discipline: bad. Using it as a jumping off point: Good.
Btw, A+ biology students in high school are just regurgitating facts (perhaps gained by carefully structured "experiments"), so they're probably only "on par" with "wikipedia whores".
Kids, take note. This is what happens to your typing, grammar, and spelling when you sniff too much glue.
Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi are back in C&C, discussing the Babylon Curse, when Thomas' ship leaves the station. It enters the jumpgate. "No boom?" asks Sinclair. "No boom," answers Garibaldi.
"No boom today," Ivanova corrects them. "Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." Sinclair and Garibaldi shake their heads and leave.
"What?" Ivanova asks. "Look, someone's got to keep some damned perspective around here. One of these days... boom!"
Good Babylon 5 reference there.
That series was really quotable. Dunno why I don't see more of it.
You fail at buzzword bingo, apparently.
Seriously, though. It's not like SLA or 5-nines are archaic tech terms. It *is* Slashdot, after all.
I'm assuming you mean "a game like Freespace 2" not actually Freespace 2, since the latter actually exists?
Pretty much. I've yet to play a space combat game I liked as much as FS1 and FS2.
According to the comments, the video showed "flight assist mode" (essentially, flight for newbies).
You can actually see the enemy fighters do axis rotations while being carried along by inertia. It seems likely (given the comments above) that the PCs will also be able to do such when switching off the assist mode.
Aside from the largely similar genome, lab mice are preferable because they serve as a form of control. They are bred to be (as much as is possible) more or less a homogeneous population, so that variations can be more easily ruled out in experiments.
This would likely be more difficult to do with humans, though probably not impossible. When combined with various ethical considerations present in our current society, they do the job well.
A reasonably smart person with an easily obtainable magnifying tool and access to the internet probably already knows the trajectory of those satellites and when to hide "stuff"
You can't hide a whole camp, though. The whole idea is another example of hiding stuff / limiting stuff by using the rationally weak excuse of "terrorism".
Ahh, there's the giggle I needed this morning.
If I didn't recently learn that I have bandwidth caps. Thanks Comcast!
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Still no VR total immersion interfaces =(
Also no sex droids =(((
Depends on your card agreement, but generally no, you don't.
The Universal HD (which is essentially NBC AFAIK) coverage of the Olympics was actually pretty good at being country non-specific. I mean, sure it scheduled stuff that had slightly more US contestants than everyone else, but I actually enjoyed watching a good number of events where USians weren't involved or not really in contention.
But, of course, the network TV and basic cable stations had basically all the "standard", LCD American interest events, which tend to be boring (to me at least). I really enjoyed watching the boxing events, even though the US team sucked this year and many of the bouts were clearly biased in favor of the home team (but I liked it anyway... go fig...). Also, the softball competition was interesting to watch.
Oh, I should have added that I agree about the RSI bit. I learned (on my own) how to hold and draw with a pen so that I didn't get tired (after much trial and error) and still be somewhat useful with the tools.
I really think that what we need is some sort of smudge-resistant touch surface keyboard along with the monitor (a separate unit, but not with the traditional keyboard, rather some sort of reconfigurable control layout in an LCD package). There's a lot of applications where the full keyboard isn't necessary, but touching the screen itself isn't the best idea.
I have used most of the Wacom interfaces that have been out over the last 10 years (just got a Cintiq not too long ago, but the small one -- those things are just too freakin' expensive).
Anyway, I've never had a problem using them for a drawing interface. My main problem, though, is that switching between the typing and pointing interfaces when using a pen is not very efficient. The ergonomics are all wrong (at least to me). Using a finger seems to be a better choice.
Slick. Thanks.
Honestly, Dell has had QA problems for years now no matter what vendor they use (and I say this being a Dell tech myself). On the Optiplex side, their GX260 line had a recall on harddrives, their GX270 line was plagued with leaky capacitors (no recall but also no-questions-asked replacement of mainboards), the GX280 pizzabox systems had some mystery defect combined with really poor air cooling design (the case design hadn't changed since the GX110 days and clearly wasn't sufficient for the CPUs used in the GX280s) that caused them to be very loud and play poorly with some software(??? - don't ask me, but i saw it for months). The 745/755 lines are finally decent machines again.
I think its more a matter of Dell's margins being so slim that they contract with their vendors for specialized-yet-cheap components, and QA is the thing that gets short shrift (keep in mind that in a lot of Dell machines, the videocards are not necessarily standard PCI-E formfactor parts).
The cards do run nasty hot, at least until you set the fan to turn on at something under 180F.... who the hell came up with that turn-on temp?
Where can you set that particular variable?
Yes you say "other than in a number of exceptional situations", but still - shutting people out from buying a house just because they won't buy into the whole "charge it" culture (including buying a stick of gum with a fucking credit card - George Carlin was right, those people should be stabbed in the eye) is rather extreme. Besides, before the advent of credit cards people could still loan money to buy a house, right? Probably because the banks did a proper piece of work evaluating their clients on a personal level
You do realize that by charging everything and then paying it off each month, you're essentially getting "free stuff" while simplifying your finances by paying at the end of the month instead of in many smaller transactions, right? And that you don't get charged interest if you pay it all off at the end of the statement period? How is it any different to pay with paper money in many transactions, instead of via EFT in one?
Allegories are more effective if they are equivalent. "Rewarding" entire groups of people at the expense of other groups isn't really the same thing as participating in an occasional recreational competition that's been inflated to a commercially profitable event.
I think the point isn't that children aren't biologically/sociologically necessary to society, but rather that if we're gonna try to promote a society of equals, individuals without children shouldn't be penalized (in the form of financially supporting other peoples' choices to have children, at their own expense) for not having them.
Just to pick a nit, but Cyrix was a major, viable alternative to Intel and AMD in the early-mid 90's (though they never managed to make any real "performance" CPUs that I recall). Not as big as NVidia is today, but they weren't small, either.