If you had a faster than light transport, you could navigate to the appropriate place in the expanding shell of radio and tv signals around the planet until you found the original transmission (roughly 21,000,000,000,000 miles away and counting).
I don't think anything can give you back brain function lost through dementia. The aim of anti-Alzheimer's treatment so far has been to slow down (or ideally stop) the decline. That means the trick is to spot it early enough, and there are quite a few projects developing tests for this. But reversing the damage is another matter; initially what is lost tends to be memory, and it may be that once the affected brain regions have been damaged, the memories are lost for good.
This doesn't stop anyone upgrading their hard drives, or adding ethernet to older models, or anything else really. The first thing anyone needs to do if they're going to tinker is back up their disk to an image. If they don't do that, and they then find they need an image from somewhere cos they hosed their Tivo, who's fault is that?
Practically speaking, it's not as bad as folk are making out; sure, it means we'll still get too much crap, but these days the only spam that gets through my filters is thatwhich deliberately includes big sections of low medium frequency non-spam words to try and pollute my bayesian corpus. None of the spam that complies with this law will fit that bill, so I won't see it.
And don't forget, spam is like a little ping to tell you your mail server's OK - if you don't get any for a while you know something's up. These guys are doing us a service!
These days I get about 50 spams a day, and about half that many normal mails. I use Outlook (YYW) with the Outclass bayesian plugin from vargonsoft. It works so well I rarely see any of the spam, but what I've found now is that spam has started serving a useful purpose: it tells me all's well with the server. If I fire up Outlook in the morning and I don't have any mail, I know something's wrong, because I *always* have some spam. If I go for half an hour with no spam, the server's probably down.
It's sort of a dialtone for email.
Of course, I still hate the useless pathetic shitfucks and hope their entire pointless lives are so painwracked and miserable that they only become retrospectively briefly content when they die and find to everyone's surprise that hell does exist, but only for them and Gary Glitter.
God what a load of moaning minnies. Some people are only able to interpret anything in terms of how it relates to Open source. Ever heard of orthogonality?
Many people use the Unreal engine for non-gaming purposes - the scripting language that comes with it is about the best around and having a version without the game-specific content will be really useful.
The "get the gamers onside" model has been around for years, now Epic are doing the same with the architects, scientists, designers and so on. Good on em, I hope the miserable competition get off their butts and make something a bit better than feggin' Superscape. And maybe a few projects will save a bit of money they might have unwittingly blown on SGI.
For a lot of applications headsets are probably better. When I tried the CAVE here I was blown away by the immersion, to the extent that I bashed into the wall. And that's the connundrum at the heart of the thing - if you have something so immersive, that allows you to turn around and look at the virtual environment, many uses you might have for it would involve walking. Effectively you have something halfway between 3 (rotations) and 6 (rotations + translations) degrees of freedom - you *can* translate but not far enough to do much with. A headset with a long wire gives you much more range and you can do walk-around stuff.
Google hasn't worked well for over 6 months now. Too many commercial operations have figured out how to get good rankings. Previously the top ten were generally what you were looking for, these days it's all orice comparisons and consumer product reviews.
I once went to Turkey. I was enjoying the hot springs of somewhere-or-other, when suddenly a hundred tour buses of lardy morons showed up, bussled around rudely, farted a lot and then got back in their coaches and left. The place felt a lot better once they'd all fucked off and the bad smell had faded.
P2P piracy depends heavily on users who share a lot of stuff. They get a lot of cachet from doing so. Being identified with a huge collection of 0day material is a large part of their raison d'etre, and status in the scene comes and goes very easily, relationships are often shallow. As I understand it, Freenet means making part of your disk available, but never knowing what's on it. So what would be the motivation for the leet crew? They would have nothing to brag about, and no way to exert power by restricting access to their horde.
In case anyone here uses Outlook (yeah, I know), I find Outclass now eliminates almost all my spam. I trained it on about 15000 messages that I'd been saving. Also, with Office XP SP1 you have the option finally of telling Outlook not to display html, so the rare ones that might slip through don't show any images anyway.
I wonder if a Bayesian classifier could sort out banner ads? I currently use Guidescope to block them, but it would be far better not to rely on a third party to decide what's an ad URL. It think it would work, but training it might be hard.
(And before anyone says "Don't do that, websites will die" my response would be "Good, let most of them die." I hate ads.)
What is this, dumb hippocampus experiment week? First the guys with their "hippocampus on a chip," and now this. It's not a network unless the cells are connected together. This is a suspension of cells that have settled onto an array of electrodes. Unless there's more to it that I can see, the cells are not synapsing with each other, they certainly don't have any of the structure or learning they have in vivo, and I can't see how he got this funded by NIH.
You're right, apart from the DivX. Vcdhelp.com lists 4 players that can handle DivX and they are not cheap. This is important - I can download a whole movie in MPEG4 in a single CD-sized chunk. Equivalent quality for SVCD would require twice or three times that. On a 512kbps cable that matters. I currently have a Tivo, a DVD player, a PC and a VCR, all for watching video. If they could all be squished into one box, I'd buy it. They could, but they aren't yet, so I can't buy one. If I can knock it together myself for the cost of one of the above units, I'll do it.
While you might like to wait for industry to sell you what you want, many people prefer to get there a year or two sooner under their own steam.
72hr rental on a 14th century scottish castle 24 crates beer 3 day's worth of pizza and junk food 7 guys who should know better no mobiles plenty coffee
(oh, and some dice, books, figures, mats and shit).
My point being, it's all about the people, the social dynamics,the fact that you're out-of-time. The system, and the way it's played are secondary, and arguing about that is part of the fun.
Peripheral vision is more sensitive to movement, and therefore flicker. Ecologically this is to do with detecting change in the part of the scene you're not attending - eg an approaching predator. There is a very old system that reorients your vision to peripheral targets, birds and lizards have it too. The human flicker threshold is generally more than 60Hz but less than 100Hz. In a game though, the frame rate is not purely a visual concern - it *may* reflect the temporal resolution of the simulation (in some engines), ie the time between consecutive calculations of the position of a projectile. This can have "physical effects" which is why hardcore gamers like to go for high framerates. But noone should care if their monitor can go much higher than 100Hz or so. You simply can't tell.
That's exactly what they have done. "Backup" games to large disks, play DivX movies, run emulators, those are all much better 'value' than just being able to play games.
According to Anti-adblocker guy, more and more people are using blocking software, because they don't want to see ads. Are those people suddenly going to go "Uh-oh, I better put in my whitelist," or are they just going to go to a different site that doesn't annoy them?
Clearly people don't want ads, but there's a whole industry of admen who didn't do something useful at college out there hard at work selling their very business. I don't care if they wither away and have to retrain, and I don't care if heavily commercial websites go under. Hardly anyone does.
Flawed net business number 582093092! If I choose to block ads and a site doesn't work because of that, I just won't bother going there. No site is so valuable that I want to watch ads, and if the net gets thinned out because ad-heavy crap goes out of business, good! I too remember when the net was a lot less full of bloat and nothing would make me happier than a de-commercialisation.
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He survived; in this case natural selection has failed to remove some dodgy genes from the pool.
If you had a faster than light transport, you could navigate to the appropriate place in the expanding shell of radio and tv signals around the planet until you found the original transmission (roughly 21,000,000,000,000 miles away and counting).
I don't think anything can give you back brain function lost through dementia. The aim of anti-Alzheimer's treatment so far has been to slow down (or ideally stop) the decline. That means the trick is to spot it early enough, and there are quite a few projects developing tests for this. But reversing the damage is another matter; initially what is lost tends to be memory, and it may be that once the affected brain regions have been damaged, the memories are lost for good.
This doesn't stop anyone upgrading their hard drives, or adding ethernet to older models, or anything else really. The first thing anyone needs to do if they're going to tinker is back up their disk to an image. If they don't do that, and they then find they need an image from somewhere cos they hosed their Tivo, who's fault is that?
Practically speaking, it's not as bad as folk are making out; sure, it means we'll still get too much crap, but these days the only spam that gets through my filters is thatwhich deliberately includes big sections of low medium frequency non-spam words to try and pollute my bayesian corpus. None of the spam that complies with this law will fit that bill, so I won't see it.
And don't forget, spam is like a little ping to tell you your mail server's OK - if you don't get any for a while you know something's up. These guys are doing us a service!
These days I get about 50 spams a day, and about half that many normal mails. I use Outlook (YYW) with the Outclass bayesian plugin from vargonsoft. It works so well I rarely see any of the spam, but what I've found now is that spam has started serving a useful purpose: it tells me all's well with the server. If I fire up Outlook in the morning and I don't have any mail, I know something's wrong, because I *always* have some spam. If I go for half an hour with no spam, the server's probably down.
It's sort of a dialtone for email.
Of course, I still hate the useless pathetic shitfucks and hope their entire pointless lives are so painwracked and miserable that they only become retrospectively briefly content when they die and find to everyone's surprise that hell does exist, but only for them and Gary Glitter.
God what a load of moaning minnies. Some people are only able to interpret anything in terms of how it relates to Open source. Ever heard of orthogonality?
Many people use the Unreal engine for non-gaming purposes - the scripting language that comes with it is about the best around and having a version without the game-specific content will be really useful.
The "get the gamers onside" model has been around for years, now Epic are doing the same with the architects, scientists, designers and so on. Good on em, I hope the miserable competition get off their butts and make something a bit better than feggin' Superscape. And maybe a few projects will save a bit of money they might have unwittingly blown on SGI.
For a lot of applications headsets are probably better. When I tried the CAVE here I was blown away by the immersion, to the extent that I bashed into the wall. And that's the connundrum at the heart of the thing - if you have something so immersive, that allows you to turn around and look at the virtual environment, many uses you might have for it would involve walking. Effectively you have something halfway between 3 (rotations) and 6 (rotations + translations) degrees of freedom - you *can* translate but not far enough to do much with. A headset with a long wire gives you much more range and you can do walk-around stuff.
At this rate it'll take years before we make a warp drive.
Google hasn't worked well for over 6 months now. Too many commercial operations have figured out how to get good rankings. Previously the top ten were generally what you were looking for, these days it's all orice comparisons and consumer product reviews.
Are they suing her (and the others) for downloading? I thought it was only sharing that they could see, Or are they getting ISP logs?
I once went to Turkey. I was enjoying the hot springs of somewhere-or-other, when suddenly a hundred tour buses of lardy morons showed up, bussled around rudely, farted a lot and then got back in their coaches and left. The place felt a lot better once they'd all fucked off and the bad smell had faded.
P2P piracy depends heavily on users who share a lot of stuff. They get a lot of cachet from doing so. Being identified with a huge collection of 0day material is a large part of their raison d'etre, and status in the scene comes and goes very easily, relationships are often shallow. As I understand it, Freenet means making part of your disk available, but never knowing what's on it. So what would be the motivation for the leet crew? They would have nothing to brag about, and no way to exert power by restricting access to their horde.
In case anyone here uses Outlook (yeah, I know), I find Outclass now eliminates almost all my spam. I trained it on about 15000 messages that I'd been saving. Also, with Office XP SP1 you have the option finally of telling Outlook not to display html, so the rare ones that might slip through don't show any images anyway.
I wonder if a Bayesian classifier could sort out banner ads? I currently use Guidescope to block them, but it would be far better not to rely on a third party to decide what's an ad URL. It think it would work, but training it might be hard.
(And before anyone says "Don't do that, websites will die" my response would be "Good, let most of them die." I hate ads.)
What is this, dumb hippocampus experiment week? First the guys with their "hippocampus on a chip," and now this. It's not a network unless the cells are connected together. This is a suspension of cells that have settled onto an array of electrodes. Unless there's more to it that I can see, the cells are not synapsing with each other, they certainly don't have any of the structure or learning they have in vivo, and I can't see how he got this funded by NIH.
Is it true that Google plan a tab for searching through Google tabs?
You're right, apart from the DivX. Vcdhelp.com lists 4 players that can handle DivX and they are not cheap. This is important - I can download a whole movie in MPEG4 in a single CD-sized chunk. Equivalent quality for SVCD would require twice or three times that. On a 512kbps cable that matters. I currently have a Tivo, a DVD player, a PC and a VCR, all for watching video. If they could all be squished into one box, I'd buy it. They could, but they aren't yet, so I can't buy one. If I can knock it together myself for the cost of one of the above units, I'll do it.
While you might like to wait for industry to sell you what you want, many people prefer to get there a year or two sooner under their own steam.
Have you looked at the tivocanada yahoo group?
72hr rental on a 14th century scottish castle
24 crates beer
3 day's worth of pizza and junk food
7 guys who should know better
no mobiles
plenty coffee
(oh, and some dice, books, figures, mats and shit).
My point being, it's all about the people, the social dynamics,the fact that you're out-of-time. The system, and the way it's played are secondary, and arguing about that is part of the fun.
That's a lot of Alias. But wouldn't a hard-disk be easier to fit in the living room?
Peripheral vision is more sensitive to movement, and therefore flicker. Ecologically this is to do with detecting change in the part of the scene you're not attending - eg an approaching predator. There is a very old system that reorients your vision to peripheral targets, birds and lizards have it too. The human flicker threshold is generally more than 60Hz but less than 100Hz. In a game though, the frame rate is not purely a visual concern - it *may* reflect the temporal resolution of the simulation (in some engines), ie the time between consecutive calculations of the position of a projectile. This can have "physical effects" which is why hardcore gamers like to go for high framerates. But noone should care if their monitor can go much higher than 100Hz or so. You simply can't tell.
That's exactly what they have done. "Backup" games to large disks, play DivX movies, run emulators, those are all much better 'value' than just being able to play games.
According to Anti-adblocker guy, more and more people are using blocking software, because they don't want to see ads. Are those people suddenly going to go "Uh-oh, I better put in my whitelist," or are they just going to go to a different site that doesn't annoy them?
Clearly people don't want ads, but there's a whole industry of admen who didn't do something useful at college out there hard at work selling their very business. I don't care if they wither away and have to retrain, and I don't care if heavily commercial websites go under. Hardly anyone does.
I refer you to @Man's taunt
Flawed net business number 582093092! If I choose to block ads and a site doesn't work because of that, I just won't bother going there. No site is so valuable that I want to watch ads, and if the net gets thinned out because ad-heavy crap goes out of business, good! I too remember when the net was a lot less full of bloat and nothing would make me happier than a de-commercialisation.