That's one I could give a pass to. It's like MacGyver, something has to be left out or changed to prevent people from building home-made x-ray machines. Sure, it would have been more realistic to use a different tube that was still under a vacuum. But most of the technology is there
I can't wait for the war on fast food and even higher taxes on tobacco and alcohol. You may not see a problem with any of this but personally I'm growing weary of the nanny state and the war on vice. It's not the job of Washington or Albany to tell me what's bad for me.
Funny, while you do not think that is the job of Washington, other people do. While at the core I agree with the libertarian ideal that the government should butt out of private lives, what makes your view on this any more correct than anyone else's?
Here's a hint about UHC, you are paying for it already. Every time someone visits the hospital and can not pay, the hospital has planned to compensate with higher prices for other patients. These are commercial entities, they want to make a profit. Your taxes taken out for Medicare/Medicaid do the same thing.
Yes, the taxes on 'vice' are absurd, but you don't get to just demand the right to opt-out because you don't plan on getting sick or obese. Any more than I get to opt out because I don't use the highways.
And that's exactly how you chose what your taxes pay for. Not by opting out of the parts you don't like, but by electing the people who push for the things you do want. That is how democracy works.
Democracy does not work when people say "I don't like how this vote turned out, so I won't play along for the next few years."
The UHC crowd seems to overlook (or just doesn't care) about the fact that UHC will take yet one more decision out of the hands of the population. What if I don't want to take part in it? I'm a fairly healthy guy -- odds are that if I get sick it's going to be via a traumatic injury (car accident?) where there's other insurance that will cover my damages. I made the choice at work to opt out of our group health insurance because odds are that I'm not going to incur >$4,500 of medical bills in a calender year. I can use that money for more productive pursuits or save it somewhere to cover my medical expenses if anything bad does happen to me.
Mind you, I'll lose that "bet" if I get cancer or what not but is it not my choice to make informed decisions regarding my own life without the interference of some Government bureaucrat?
No, you don't get to opt out. You also don't get to opt out of paying taxes because you don't own a car and use the public roads. Or because you have never had a house fire and don't want to pay for the fire department. You don't get a choice in what your taxes are going to pay for. Suck it up and deal with it.
Email is free, email on your phone isn't. With Verizon, I think they charge something near 15$ a month for unlimited free texts, but 20 or more for 'internet' service to check email with. And, with free texts, my phone can be texted from an email address, so people can email me and I can text back to their email.
To top it off, free texts comes with free IMs. Which, when you think about it, is closer to what text messages are than email.
First off, does this kind of approach work against any rationally designed secure software? All that would seem to be needed to defeat this is for the the login procedure to have a few seconds of delay before it responds yes or no, and no speedup in the guessing will help. This is why we have shadow password files, right? Or have I just been using *nix too long?
Yes, it would work. Someone logs some wireless packets over night, goes home and cracks the password, comes back later and logs in to the network. They only make one or two failed attempts, the rest is passive.
Also, I've seen people using GPUs in all sorts of non-graphics computation environments for some time now. When push comes to shove, is this just about money, and that CPUs have extra features that makes it easier to run an operating system, but aren't needed for pure computation? I'm not a hardware guy, so this is probably a stupid question, but I just don't get it.
That's pretty much the whole of it, yes. GPUs are co-processors, what they do they do very fast, but what they don't do takes a lot more work. And, most cards now days are actually many many processing units running in parallel with the same data and just slightly different steps.
For stuff like cracking passwords, having lots of processors, each checking a different password, and avoiding some of the OS overhead of switching to keep the desktop updated and dealing with all the various interrupts, and you can get a substantial speed increase. A linear increase of speed, I don't think anyone has reduced the complexity of the password cracking problem, but still a speed increase.
Go to a store, pick one up and hold it. Find where the buttons are, how the weight is distributed, and how the menu is laid out. You can base your choice on features that you don't know the difference between, yet, or you can pick the camera that you are going to be comfortable using.
The difference between the Nikon D80, a Canon Rebel XS, a Pentax K200D, and a Sony Alpha 300 are mostly what lenses you can get from third parties. Sigma and Tamron make a lot of lenses to mount on Canon and Nikon bodies, and are starting to stock more Sony and Pentax ones.
Well, we are striving for reality, right? So, the game needs to know if you expect to be treated as dominate right eye and hand, or left eye and hand. If you are right handed, aim the left crosshair set and pull the trigger. This can work just like using a real weapon, where you might see the second set of crosshairs off to the side when you are focusing on the target. In the real world, you just have to look around the extra image. In a game, the game can either anticipate which hand you use, or it could move the cross hairs out to the targets plane. For a futuristic flight sim, that might work as well.
Or, if you don't want to work that hard, just close one eye when you really have to aim.
That's why I think she is more heavily invested in IP law then anyone else is giving her credit for. I'm not going to confuse patent and copyright, but running her own company I'm certain she can find out which patented technologies they use. But just because she is the one syndicating her show does not mean she isn't beholden to the networks. If she pisses them off, where does her show go? Who gets to watch her if no one will broadcast her? I doubt she's the kind of person to take this kind of crap lawsuit, but what if the major networks want it to be settled and never mentioned again?
Sure, it's a baseless lawsuit. I hope she does fight it, because if she does then it will become as big as the beef thing and people might start paying attention. I just don't think she will.
I had a nice long reply, but/. won't let me post it and won't tell me what's wrong with the formating. So, point by point without quotes:
No, I didn't ask what she charged for the day or by the print. Wasn't my wedding, wasn't my business, and I probably won't be back in that part of the country should I need to hire a professional. I didn't even think to ask if the 8000 was over just that day, from the time the bride showed up to get made up till the end of the reception, or if it included the portraits done at the rehearsal and other gatherings. I'm guessing it was a mix of both.
As for fish in a barrel, sometimes that's what you have to shoot. No one planned for all the under 35 'kids' to jump in and start boogieing to "We Are Family" halfway through the song, so there isn't time to think out 'where could I go for a better shot?' So, I suspect the bulk of those 8000 pictures were just that, shooting on rapid fire and hoping to get a good shot. But I also saw the candid shots, of the bride getting her hair done, and sneaking around the church to see everyone gathering, and the photographer sneaking past the roped off areas to get to the slightly unsafe balcony. It wasn't just a day of 'snap everything and hope'.
Myself, I like someone shooting both. Sometimes you can plan and plan a shot, and just never get the people to cooperate. Sometimes you can just set the camera and let it fire by it self, and get a great candid shot of the guests acting like fools. Other times, those pictures of the guests never turn out because they wore a dayglo leisure suit, and the crafty shots of the bride and maids of honor turn out great.
I've already posted, so I can't mod you up. But this is exactly right.
Just like there was in film days, the gap between pro photographers and moms who want a snapshot of their kid at the football game is still there. Now, instead of being film speed and "I don't care, the 3200 film makes a nice 3x5 picture", it's about memory cards. Some people do not comprehend filling a 1 gig card in under 100 shots, or needing to shoot more then 1 picture a every 5 seconds, or even dream that by shooting in RAW the picture itself is 15MB and takes a noticeable time to store on the card. They shoot the same point and click cameras that are now digital instead of film, and think that a 10 megapixel image takes up about 1MB. That's because, for them, that's true.
What the amateur and pro photographers need to learn is that the snapshot people aren't going to learn better, because for them those thoughts are true. What the snapshot photographers need to learn is that what works for them will not work for a pro getting paid to shoot for a living. In the same way that you won't win NASCAR with an actual stock car off the showroom floor, you won't get paid much to take pictures with cheap off-the-shelf parts.
There, obligatory car analogy made. I hope that helps someone.
Prior to my cousin's wedding last year, my sister and I were talking cameras. She had brought her new digital, I had my old film one, and we were picking which camera and lens combo to sneak into the wedding, just to add some less scripted shots than the pro would get, and to get pics of people walking in while they were shooting elsewhere. It worked out well, and we got to talking with the pro afterwards.
She shot, with her assistant, over 8000 digitals in RAW and, I believe, she said 20 rolls of film. It was a long ceremony, and she shot all day before and then took pictures through dinner afterward. But 2000 shots and that few cards still sounds low to me.
I know that my sister and I topped out the one memory card we had and were deleting pictures as we went. Probably even switched to JPEG just to get through the day. Pity her camera didn't take the cards I had for MP3s and such.
Now, I manage to get by with just 2 4gig cards. I have filled an older 2gig card in less than an hour, while out hiking. It's easy to just sit with the bracket exposure setting on, rapid firing the shutter while you wait for the deer/turkey/bluebird to poke it's head up and pose. And it helps for those moments when I still find my self muttering "That looked in focus, why didn't they put a split prism in this view finder?"
If you are shooting with a card that only gets 3.5MB/s write speed, you are still going to hit the end of that buffer and be waiting. And before you go into how 'only a crazy person would use a card that slow,' might I suggest that you check out some place like this and see that at least one 133x speed SD card did rate that slow in the nice new D3.
While she may be a media icon and corporate power in her own right, do you think her handlers are silly enough to let her counter attack this guy?
She makes money from the media, and the media companies like the current patent and copyright laws. No one in that business is going to step forward and say 'the system is broken.' I hope she does, but I don't consider it very likely.
Abrash is mostly right. Most of those 'great ideas' are either horribly broken or already exist in other forms. Broken because the person has this great idea that doesn't account for how things actually work. And other times the freshman think they have made this great leap, which they have for freshmen, but just reimplemented a K-D tree or something else. One or two out of those thousands of ideas might be worth investigating, but not under an NDA. Someone has an idea that they can't implement them self and they want my help, then I'm the one who gets them to sign the NDA. If I'm going to fine tune it and make it real, then they are not going to turn and sell it to someone else.
See, when it comes to these great ideas, there are two kinds of people. Those who really are smart enough to come up with earth shattering ideas as new CS students, and those who aren't. Most people think they are in the first group, but if they were, they would know how to protect the idea. Think you have come up with a new way to improve a B tree? Great, don't turn it in with your homework. I'm sure you can think of other places that professors might steal great ideas, so don't do those either.
For disclosure, I work for a university, and have my name on some published code. I know I don't own it, but I don't care. There was nothing revolutionary about it, just some neat little hacks that I gladly share. I got paid to code it, and the publicity of it was enough to cover the supposed loss of code. But I still know the tricks I used, and can re-implement them with out copying code. Since it's not patentable code, what did I loss again?
You are right. Just because it doesn't look like what we thought it would look like ten years ago, doesn't mean it isn't happening. To the GP, that unbreakable encryption is available if you want it. Since the government does have access without a warrant, or have you ignored the past few years discussion of warrantless wiretaps, it's been quite common. And, you might use it without knowing it, like SSL for banking? Devices are all capable of talking to each other, via bluetooth or other means. Contactless smart cards fit as the ID protection on a chip, so do RFID passports, even if they aren't as secure as he had hoped. Memory on portable devices has moved away from the rotating platters. Kindle and other e-books are out there, and while I still prefer the contrast of paper and the lack of DRM, they are popular. Telephones do send high res pictures and video, my 'new' cellphone is capable of both. It's only new to me, the model has been out for some time. And his prediction of dating online/ virtual sex, I think it nicely sums up all the problems of Second Life. As for people preferring to interact with female AI, he's right. Wasn't there an article here about more people choosing the female workout instructor in Wii Fit? For his predictions of art, I've seen a lot of the things he dreamed up. People are making music with Guitar Hero 'toys', and cooking up strange new instruments with accelerometers. He didn't get it all right, but he was close.
This is exactly the model we should be using for large city apartment buildings, at least in terms of power generation. Everything should be self sustaining for electricity. What we'll find, I'm certain, is that the independent libertarians are going to jump up and down ranting about "gov'ment burying nukes in their yards." These are the people who should be cheering for this technology. No more government mandated power grid, your power is under your house. The fed wants to raid your house, they'll have to be a bit more creative than 'cut the power and kick the door in'. This can start in the either the low population density areas where running power lines is more expensive than the reactors, or in the dense population centers where some back-up power would be useful. Either way, I want this tech needs to be in my reach in ten years.
Not 30 yet, and have lots of fond memories of the Apple II systems. Got to play with them in school around 4th grade, some IIe boxes. We had Oregon Trail, and a few educational games. Wrote my first code on those machines, someone got smart and taught us 4th and 5th graders how to write BASIC. Switching from Apple DOS to ProDOS was a good trainer for later, learning how all the layers separate and which layer does what.
Later, parents bought a Laser 128 from someone else. It came with some many games, but most of them copy protected and the guy had lost the books. Luckily I already knew how to program, and working backwards was half the fun of getting the games to run.
My parents have an NG furnace at their house. When the power goes out, and it used to do so every other week during summer thunderstorms, the furnace would still work. But the fans and pumps to move that heat from the furnace up through the house would not, those were electric.
They got gas as a utility, so I would guess that if the power outages were widespread enough then the distribution center would not be able to pump gas to them. Power outages here tend to be at the edges of the towns, and last a while since finding the break takes longer then repairing it.
Okay, so it's not that serious. Every bulb has it's color temperature, and none of them are 'white'. When I can light a room with photography grade Xenon bulbs for the price of incandescent, then we can nit pick over which is better.
I still have tungsten bulbs. I haven't found an LED drop in replacement that doesn't flicker, or doesn't have color fringes, or just ones that come in the color temps I like.
I liked T9, until I moved to a phone with a keyboard. How this will compare, I'll find out after a few days.
Programing the T9 system to make is learn the words I use was half the fun. It was like training a spam filter to accept purposefully misspelled words, only without the end result being that only spam got through and all the valid email was filtered.
When I saw Lunar for the DS, I went and purchased it without even looking at reviews. Same idea, different outcome. Lunar:DS felt nothing like the original.
Thankfully I found the GBA version at the same time. Now, that is what a re-release should be like.
Final Fantasy: Tactics Advanced, Chrono Trigger, lots of old Final Fantasy games. MegaMan, Mario Kart. Nintendo and Square have got this market pinned.
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That's one I could give a pass to. It's like MacGyver, something has to be left out or changed to prevent people from building home-made x-ray machines. Sure, it would have been more realistic to use a different tube that was still under a vacuum. But most of the technology is there
I can't wait for the war on fast food and even higher taxes on tobacco and alcohol. You may not see a problem with any of this but personally I'm growing weary of the nanny state and the war on vice. It's not the job of Washington or Albany to tell me what's bad for me.
Funny, while you do not think that is the job of Washington, other people do. While at the core I agree with the libertarian ideal that the government should butt out of private lives, what makes your view on this any more correct than anyone else's?
Here's a hint about UHC, you are paying for it already. Every time someone visits the hospital and can not pay, the hospital has planned to compensate with higher prices for other patients. These are commercial entities, they want to make a profit. Your taxes taken out for Medicare/Medicaid do the same thing.
Yes, the taxes on 'vice' are absurd, but you don't get to just demand the right to opt-out because you don't plan on getting sick or obese. Any more than I get to opt out because I don't use the highways.
And that's exactly how you chose what your taxes pay for. Not by opting out of the parts you don't like, but by electing the people who push for the things you do want. That is how democracy works.
Democracy does not work when people say "I don't like how this vote turned out, so I won't play along for the next few years."
The UHC crowd seems to overlook (or just doesn't care) about the fact that UHC will take yet one more decision out of the hands of the population. What if I don't want to take part in it? I'm a fairly healthy guy -- odds are that if I get sick it's going to be via a traumatic injury (car accident?) where there's other insurance that will cover my damages. I made the choice at work to opt out of our group health insurance because odds are that I'm not going to incur >$4,500 of medical bills in a calender year. I can use that money for more productive pursuits or save it somewhere to cover my medical expenses if anything bad does happen to me.
Mind you, I'll lose that "bet" if I get cancer or what not but is it not my choice to make informed decisions regarding my own life without the interference of some Government bureaucrat?
No, you don't get to opt out. You also don't get to opt out of paying taxes because you don't own a car and use the public roads. Or because you have never had a house fire and don't want to pay for the fire department. You don't get a choice in what your taxes are going to pay for. Suck it up and deal with it.
Email is free, email on your phone isn't. With Verizon, I think they charge something near 15$ a month for unlimited free texts, but 20 or more for 'internet' service to check email with. And, with free texts, my phone can be texted from an email address, so people can email me and I can text back to their email.
To top it off, free texts comes with free IMs. Which, when you think about it, is closer to what text messages are than email.
First off, does this kind of approach work against any rationally designed secure software? All that would seem to be needed to defeat this is for the the login procedure to have a few seconds of delay before it responds yes or no, and no speedup in the guessing will help. This is why we have shadow password files, right? Or have I just been using *nix too long?
Yes, it would work. Someone logs some wireless packets over night, goes home and cracks the password, comes back later and logs in to the network. They only make one or two failed attempts, the rest is passive.
Also, I've seen people using GPUs in all sorts of non-graphics computation environments for some time now. When push comes to shove, is this just about money, and that CPUs have extra features that makes it easier to run an operating system, but aren't needed for pure computation? I'm not a hardware guy, so this is probably a stupid question, but I just don't get it.
That's pretty much the whole of it, yes. GPUs are co-processors, what they do they do very fast, but what they don't do takes a lot more work. And, most cards now days are actually many many processing units running in parallel with the same data and just slightly different steps.
For stuff like cracking passwords, having lots of processors, each checking a different password, and avoiding some of the OS overhead of switching to keep the desktop updated and dealing with all the various interrupts, and you can get a substantial speed increase. A linear increase of speed, I don't think anyone has reduced the complexity of the password cracking problem, but still a speed increase.
Go to a store, pick one up and hold it. Find where the buttons are, how the weight is distributed, and how the menu is laid out. You can base your choice on features that you don't know the difference between, yet, or you can pick the camera that you are going to be comfortable using.
The difference between the Nikon D80, a Canon Rebel XS, a Pentax K200D, and a Sony Alpha 300 are mostly what lenses you can get from third parties. Sigma and Tamron make a lot of lenses to mount on Canon and Nikon bodies, and are starting to stock more Sony and Pentax ones.
Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
On Fark, Digg, and many other sites.
Well, we are striving for reality, right? So, the game needs to know if you expect to be treated as dominate right eye and hand, or left eye and hand. If you are right handed, aim the left crosshair set and pull the trigger. This can work just like using a real weapon, where you might see the second set of crosshairs off to the side when you are focusing on the target. In the real world, you just have to look around the extra image. In a game, the game can either anticipate which hand you use, or it could move the cross hairs out to the targets plane. For a futuristic flight sim, that might work as well.
Or, if you don't want to work that hard, just close one eye when you really have to aim.
That's why I think she is more heavily invested in IP law then anyone else is giving her credit for. I'm not going to confuse patent and copyright, but running her own company I'm certain she can find out which patented technologies they use. But just because she is the one syndicating her show does not mean she isn't beholden to the networks. If she pisses them off, where does her show go? Who gets to watch her if no one will broadcast her? I doubt she's the kind of person to take this kind of crap lawsuit, but what if the major networks want it to be settled and never mentioned again?
Sure, it's a baseless lawsuit. I hope she does fight it, because if she does then it will become as big as the beef thing and people might start paying attention. I just don't think she will.
I had a nice long reply, but /. won't let me post it and won't tell me what's wrong with the formating. So, point by point without quotes:
No, I didn't ask what she charged for the day or by the print. Wasn't my wedding, wasn't my business, and I probably won't be back in that part of the country should I need to hire a professional. I didn't even think to ask if the 8000 was over just that day, from the time the bride showed up to get made up till the end of the reception, or if it included the portraits done at the rehearsal and other gatherings. I'm guessing it was a mix of both.
As for fish in a barrel, sometimes that's what you have to shoot. No one planned for all the under 35 'kids' to jump in and start boogieing to "We Are Family" halfway through the song, so there isn't time to think out 'where could I go for a better shot?' So, I suspect the bulk of those 8000 pictures were just that, shooting on rapid fire and hoping to get a good shot. But I also saw the candid shots, of the bride getting her hair done, and sneaking around the church to see everyone gathering, and the photographer sneaking past the roped off areas to get to the slightly unsafe balcony. It wasn't just a day of 'snap everything and hope'.
Myself, I like someone shooting both. Sometimes you can plan and plan a shot, and just never get the people to cooperate. Sometimes you can just set the camera and let it fire by it self, and get a great candid shot of the guests acting like fools. Other times, those pictures of the guests never turn out because they wore a dayglo leisure suit, and the crafty shots of the bride and maids of honor turn out great.
I've already posted, so I can't mod you up. But this is exactly right.
Just like there was in film days, the gap between pro photographers and moms who want a snapshot of their kid at the football game is still there. Now, instead of being film speed and "I don't care, the 3200 film makes a nice 3x5 picture", it's about memory cards. Some people do not comprehend filling a 1 gig card in under 100 shots, or needing to shoot more then 1 picture a every 5 seconds, or even dream that by shooting in RAW the picture itself is 15MB and takes a noticeable time to store on the card. They shoot the same point and click cameras that are now digital instead of film, and think that a 10 megapixel image takes up about 1MB. That's because, for them, that's true.
What the amateur and pro photographers need to learn is that the snapshot people aren't going to learn better, because for them those thoughts are true. What the snapshot photographers need to learn is that what works for them will not work for a pro getting paid to shoot for a living. In the same way that you won't win NASCAR with an actual stock car off the showroom floor, you won't get paid much to take pictures with cheap off-the-shelf parts.
There, obligatory car analogy made. I hope that helps someone.
Prior to my cousin's wedding last year, my sister and I were talking cameras. She had brought her new digital, I had my old film one, and we were picking which camera and lens combo to sneak into the wedding, just to add some less scripted shots than the pro would get, and to get pics of people walking in while they were shooting elsewhere. It worked out well, and we got to talking with the pro afterwards.
She shot, with her assistant, over 8000 digitals in RAW and, I believe, she said 20 rolls of film. It was a long ceremony, and she shot all day before and then took pictures through dinner afterward. But 2000 shots and that few cards still sounds low to me.
I know that my sister and I topped out the one memory card we had and were deleting pictures as we went. Probably even switched to JPEG just to get through the day. Pity her camera didn't take the cards I had for MP3s and such.
Now, I manage to get by with just 2 4gig cards. I have filled an older 2gig card in less than an hour, while out hiking. It's easy to just sit with the bracket exposure setting on, rapid firing the shutter while you wait for the deer/turkey/bluebird to poke it's head up and pose. And it helps for those moments when I still find my self muttering "That looked in focus, why didn't they put a split prism in this view finder?"
If you are shooting with a card that only gets 3.5MB/s write speed, you are still going to hit the end of that buffer and be waiting. And before you go into how 'only a crazy person would use a card that slow,' might I suggest that you check out some place like this and see that at least one 133x speed SD card did rate that slow in the nice new D3.
While she may be a media icon and corporate power in her own right, do you think her handlers are silly enough to let her counter attack this guy?
She makes money from the media, and the media companies like the current patent and copyright laws. No one in that business is going to step forward and say 'the system is broken.' I hope she does, but I don't consider it very likely.
Abrash is mostly right. Most of those 'great ideas' are either horribly broken or already exist in other forms. Broken because the person has this great idea that doesn't account for how things actually work. And other times the freshman think they have made this great leap, which they have for freshmen, but just reimplemented a K-D tree or something else. One or two out of those thousands of ideas might be worth investigating, but not under an NDA. Someone has an idea that they can't implement them self and they want my help, then I'm the one who gets them to sign the NDA. If I'm going to fine tune it and make it real, then they are not going to turn and sell it to someone else.
See, when it comes to these great ideas, there are two kinds of people. Those who really are smart enough to come up with earth shattering ideas as new CS students, and those who aren't. Most people think they are in the first group, but if they were, they would know how to protect the idea. Think you have come up with a new way to improve a B tree? Great, don't turn it in with your homework. I'm sure you can think of other places that professors might steal great ideas, so don't do those either.
For disclosure, I work for a university, and have my name on some published code. I know I don't own it, but I don't care. There was nothing revolutionary about it, just some neat little hacks that I gladly share. I got paid to code it, and the publicity of it was enough to cover the supposed loss of code. But I still know the tricks I used, and can re-implement them with out copying code. Since it's not patentable code, what did I loss again?
You are right. Just because it doesn't look like what we thought it would look like ten years ago, doesn't mean it isn't happening. To the GP, that unbreakable encryption is available if you want it. Since the government does have access without a warrant, or have you ignored the past few years discussion of warrantless wiretaps, it's been quite common. And, you might use it without knowing it, like SSL for banking?
Devices are all capable of talking to each other, via bluetooth or other means. Contactless smart cards fit as the ID protection on a chip, so do RFID passports, even if they aren't as secure as he had hoped. Memory on portable devices has moved away from the rotating platters. Kindle and other e-books are out there, and while I still prefer the contrast of paper and the lack of DRM, they are popular. Telephones do send high res pictures and video, my 'new' cellphone is capable of both. It's only new to me, the model has been out for some time. And his prediction of dating online/ virtual sex, I think it nicely sums up all the problems of Second Life. As for people preferring to interact with female AI, he's right. Wasn't there an article here about more people choosing the female workout instructor in Wii Fit?
For his predictions of art, I've seen a lot of the things he dreamed up. People are making music with Guitar Hero 'toys', and cooking up strange new instruments with accelerometers. He didn't get it all right, but he was close.
I wish I had some mod points this week.
This is exactly the model we should be using for large city apartment buildings, at least in terms of power generation. Everything should be self sustaining for electricity. What we'll find, I'm certain, is that the independent libertarians are going to jump up and down ranting about "gov'ment burying nukes in their yards."
These are the people who should be cheering for this technology. No more government mandated power grid, your power is under your house. The fed wants to raid your house, they'll have to be a bit more creative than 'cut the power and kick the door in'. This can start in the either the low population density areas where running power lines is more expensive than the reactors, or in the dense population centers where some back-up power would be useful. Either way, I want this tech needs to be in my reach in ten years.
Not 30 yet, and have lots of fond memories of the Apple II systems. Got to play with them in school around 4th grade, some IIe boxes. We had Oregon Trail, and a few educational games. Wrote my first code on those machines, someone got smart and taught us 4th and 5th graders how to write BASIC. Switching from Apple DOS to ProDOS was a good trainer for later, learning how all the layers separate and which layer does what.
Later, parents bought a Laser 128 from someone else. It came with some many games, but most of them copy protected and the guy had lost the books. Luckily I already knew how to program, and working backwards was half the fun of getting the games to run.
My parents have an NG furnace at their house. When the power goes out, and it used to do so every other week during summer thunderstorms, the furnace would still work. But the fans and pumps to move that heat from the furnace up through the house would not, those were electric.
They got gas as a utility, so I would guess that if the power outages were widespread enough then the distribution center would not be able to pump gas to them. Power outages here tend to be at the edges of the towns, and last a while since finding the break takes longer then repairing it.
Okay, so it's not that serious. Every bulb has it's color temperature, and none of them are 'white'. When I can light a room with photography grade Xenon bulbs for the price of incandescent, then we can nit pick over which is better.
I still have tungsten bulbs. I haven't found an LED drop in replacement that doesn't flicker, or doesn't have color fringes, or just ones that come in the color temps I like.
Programing the T9 system to make is learn the words I use was half the fun. It was like training a spam filter to accept purposefully misspelled words, only without the end result being that only spam got through and all the valid email was filtered.
Yes it does. Just edit the T9 dictionary to add the words you want.
When I saw Lunar for the DS, I went and purchased it without even looking at reviews. Same idea, different outcome. Lunar:DS felt nothing like the original.
Thankfully I found the GBA version at the same time. Now, that is what a re-release should be like.
Final Fantasy: Tactics Advanced, Chrono Trigger, lots of old Final Fantasy games. MegaMan, Mario Kart. Nintendo and Square have got this market pinned.
Don't assume. I would hide a partition in the empty sectors between files.