That journalist probably forget to remove the commission he received from apple to write this article. Maybe with that amount in balance he can pay the same amount for mac than for pc... I can't.
I couldn't agree more with you. That article had some credibility until I read the last reason to buy a DSLR : price. I felt like I was reading a marketing report from an industry comglomerate seller.
That guy actually said that the basic price is around 500-600$ for a low end model. But what he didn't mention is that it comes with a crappy lens. To get the real quality from a DSLR you need to invest at least 500$ in a decent zoom lens. Point and shoot model at 500$ come with incredible lens quality for the price. The reason is simple : manufacturing a high quality small lens for a highly cropped sensor on a P&S camera is way more easy and cheaper than for a 1.6X cropped sensor or full frame sensor.
I am almost sure that a 500$ P&S (example Powershot G7) compared with a 500-700$ DSLR with crappy lens (i.e XT, D50) will produce overall better pictures in experienced photographer's hands. The only narrow advantage would be in low to moderate light scene with a slowly moving scene. But even that is hypothetic because many P&S has f2.8 aperture and the crappy DSLR lens kits has like f4 or more aperture.
So if someone has 500-600$ to invest in a camera, I would really recommend him to buy a high end P&S. If he has more like 1500$, then go jump for DSLR with a decent lens.
I agree with you that a definition instead of an enumeration is a big leap forward. But the objective of a definition is that everyone is understanding a concept the same way. In science for new and complex concepts, this is usually used to make consensus in order to advance the research in the same direction.
But here the dilemna is between the common sense meaning used by about 6 milliard humans against a more complex definition proposed by a bunch of scientifics.
To help balance the weight on the bunch of scientifics, they should actually convince the other 6 milliards humans how this new definition could actually improve the research and the progress in this area; before writing a new edition of 100 millions of primary school books.
You guys are so lucky ! I remember the days, when I was an unicellular with a little flagella. My only goal was to move to the next glucose molecule after a long trip of 0,2 mm.
I was so happy when I received my first sun photon passing through my phospholipid membrane. That photon excited me so much that for the first time in my life, I broke into two parts and... I had a new brother.
Thank god and the sun that I learned english after a couple years to share these old days with you.
I think they forgot to mention in the article a critical milestone in their history.
When they first released Warcraft II (in the pre battle.net era), the only multiplayer support was for IPX network and of course for direct connection by modem. The true meaning and popularity of warcraft II came with the multiplayer part.
By chance, Internet was growing very fast in 1995-1997. But, they had no Internet or IP support in the game.
One succesful young developper named Jay Cotton wrote Kali in 1995. Kali was an emulation of an IPX network on the Internet. It was working pretty well with nice chat/user interface. Instantly, you could play against thousand of different players around the world with decent lag even with a modem. That was the real discovery of the RTS multiplayer genre. It created a strong competitive gaming community around Warcraft II. Many of these Old School Kali players became employees at Blizzard to help develop Starcraft and Diablo. So in my humble opinion, that part was critical in the growth of Blizzard. I can't even imagine what Warcraft II would be if it couldn't be played from 1995-1999 on the Internet.
For the ancient Greeks a planet was any object that appeared to wander against the field of fixed stars that made up the night sky (asteres planetai "wandering stars") (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_planet )
The problem with that definition is that the sun was initially included as a planet because it looked like moving around the stars.
So when the initial definition of a word is based on false assumptions, it is probably hard to save the ass of that word with further discoveries 3000 years later. I vote to create another word and put the word planet to the the recycle bin. It should be more elegant to put the planet to the recycle bin than to the dump.
we are not supposed to live longer than 40 years !
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eWEEK picked the brains of a slew of ergonomics and other posture professionals, who all voiced the sobering truth that human beings were not designed to fold themselves into computer workstations each day.
The actual truth is human being isn't designed to live more than 40 years old. So consequently, no matter the working position, there is potential for degenerative problems. It is only in the past 3000 years that people are living more than 40 years.
If we are always standing up, we'll have hip and knee problems; if we are always sitting down, we'll have vertebral column problems; if we are moving from one position to the other or always moving, we'll have tendinitis and bursitis problems.
So honestly, my conclusion is our musculoskeletal system isn't designed at all to work as long as our 2006 life expectancy.
In 1999, I heard of a biomedical engineering group in École Polytechnique de Montréal searching to use implantable chip devices in the visual occipital cortex. The chip is connected wirelessly to a camera system that is transmitting a vision input. That way the blind person can potentially see what is going on.
That was the most incredible project I heard from about neurotechnology in the past years. Here is the link in french and english to that lab :
Actually they probably died of massive pulmonary embolism secondary to a deep vein thrombosis in the legs that traveled into the right chambers of the heart and then to the lungs.
Reopro is not a prophylactic (prevention) agent. Heparin or low molecular weight heparin is usually used in hospitals to prevent this to happen in the patients who stays in bed for many days or weeks. A filter in the lower vein cave to prevent the migration of the clots are something used. But honestly we can't seriously suggest all these options for these guys. These drugs all have potential secondary effects of bleeding anywhere (skin, GI tube, or even worse in the brain).
Usually as some of you said, the best advice is to walk like 2-5 min every hour. This is even more true for the women, taking birth control pill, pregnancy, smoking, or obese.
Deep vein thrombosis is a medical emergency. The symptoms are pain in the calf or leg, asymetric swollen leg, skin color change.
I did a computer engineering degree from 1995-1999 playing about 40 hours a week Warcraft II online. I then did my M.D. from 1999-2004, playing probably 20 hours a week Warcraft III online. I am now a resident 2 in diagnostic radiology. I was for sure addicted (or at least at risk) to these highly competitive games. I am a competitive person. Japan, Korea and US are all very competitive countries where competition is inherent to the culture. Probably inconsciently, for me these games were a way to show to someone else I was better than him. Any competitive human being gets satisfaction from this. Evolution forced this to be in our genes.
I disagree a little bit about the opinion saying it is a complete waste of time. Hand-eye coordination and speed is very useful in many works; complex decision about a multi-parameters real-time situation can also be useful in the life. If I had a software company or if I would be on the admission commitee of a medical school, I would hire any top 10 world players of a RTS game. At least if they can show they can be functionnal in the life.
The only thing I was honestly surprised to see about that article was the main cause of death. Before reading it, I was almost sure the main cause would be suicide like in many others addictions. They didn't even talk about it. Maybe this is only a underreporting bias where the relation of suicides aren't that clear with the hardcore gaming like in the case of the deep vein thrombosis relation.
As we see, all the developping countries are having high % of pirated software in comparison to developped countries.
These countries generally speaking can't pay for software at the same price we are paying it. As being a development tool, pirated software should help to develop their own economy and industry. Consequently, some of these countries will eventually develop a strong economy. They will then be able to buy the software. If you don't let them get the software initially, then many of these countries would not be able to create a real economy. In long term view, this is an investment for the world market.
The last time I was so excited about technology was when I got my first Palm in 2000 ! So I need to share my hype with you.
10) Citizen's Memory LCD
"that retains the image even when turned off." and "Practical applications would include watches" That would be very useful for watches. It would always be 5 oclock PM friday as long as it is turned off. Practical.
9) EyeMove PC
Wow they found something even more annoying than cell phone in public transport.
8) Scarpar - The All-Terrain Motorized Board
Thank god the guy in the video didn't fall. Falling from this in rocks with your feets fixed to the board is a bit dangerous no ?
7) 3D Video Game
Professionnal gaming league is not for tomorrow. If they showed their best player for the video demo, I guess that type of game is pretty hard to master.
6) Transparent Toaster
The only thing I have to say about this is : TT
5) Origami DVD Player
For me origami is more a way to create rabbits and birds with paper. I dream since I am 5 years old of listening to a DVD on a rabbit.
4) Self Cooling Beer Can
One question : what is the price of a 24 beer pack ?
3) VirtuSphere
Honestly, that is awesome! I really need this in 10 (or 40?) years in my basement!
2) Heliodisplay M2i
That looks even better than Princess Leia holographic transmission in Star Wars episode IV. I agree it was only in 1977. That is what we call evolution.
1) "On Target" Video Game Urinal
My religion forces me not to comment on this.
Honorable mention Solar Powered LED
I hope they'll find their way to La Paz to buy some batteries in case next day is rainy.
Honorable mention Intelligent Spoon and Bright Walk
Hey do I look like the guy who is having a stupid comment to say about everything ? I am too tired to comment about these.
The training cost for the next generation of dogs should be higher. They'll need to train them both for the HD-DVD and the Blu-Ray disc if they want to be effective until we get a new standard.
But as a reference to a recent subject, maybe these dogs will promote the new standard instead of the game consoles. The one standard who smells the worst should win the battle because it will limit optimally the piracy. Then I now understand why HD-DVD should win.
If it costs about 200 000$ in 15 years, I'll get one for my basement. It should insert between the bowling alley and the inside pool. That way I am sure my future kids have lot of friends...
Console games initially used cartridges then moved to CD then to DVD. They always had to adapt to the market directed by the music and the video industry. Actually the music industry is pretty much overwhelmed by the MP3/Internet "media". So I really think the video industry (and of course the consumers of that industry) will decide the new standard. The video game industry should adapt to that standard. Also the industry that is using a media optimally (meaning almost 100% of its capacity) will effectively promote that standard. I don't think video games will need to use 25 GB or 50 GB of data until at least 2-3 years. The video industry *actually* need that capacity.
Will there be some hype for the first eclipse between the ISS, the soccer-ball-sized satellite and the earth ? I think I won't go to work that day. I could not handle the fact that I missed that kind of eclipse with my pinhole blackbox.
Any further project for peanut-sized satellite around the soccer-ball-sized satellite ?
IBM developped the microdrive used for CF type II cards in 1999. The technology was sold to Hitachi later.
Toshiba then developped a 1.8" 20 gig low power consumption hard drive. It was designed initially for the laptop market. By chance, Apple got into that and used that new 20 gig hard drive in their first Ipod model. At that time Hitachi was building 4 and 6 gig version of their microdrive used later in the Ipod mini.
So unless you think that Ipod mini (discontinued!) was more popular than the classic Ipod 20 gig, then the key innovation for the Ipod is actually from Tokyo.
Slashdot Mirror
Macbook pro 1999$
Dell equivalent 1449$
Here is the link to the image from both web site that I pasted:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=536493127& size=o
That journalist probably forget to remove the commission he received from apple to write this article. Maybe with that amount in balance he can pay the same amount for mac than for pc ... I can't.
I couldn't agree more with you. That article had some credibility until I read the last reason to buy a DSLR : price. I felt like I was reading a marketing report from an industry comglomerate seller. That guy actually said that the basic price is around 500-600$ for a low end model. But what he didn't mention is that it comes with a crappy lens. To get the real quality from a DSLR you need to invest at least 500$ in a decent zoom lens. Point and shoot model at 500$ come with incredible lens quality for the price. The reason is simple : manufacturing a high quality small lens for a highly cropped sensor on a P&S camera is way more easy and cheaper than for a 1.6X cropped sensor or full frame sensor. I am almost sure that a 500$ P&S (example Powershot G7) compared with a 500-700$ DSLR with crappy lens (i.e XT, D50) will produce overall better pictures in experienced photographer's hands. The only narrow advantage would be in low to moderate light scene with a slowly moving scene. But even that is hypothetic because many P&S has f2.8 aperture and the crappy DSLR lens kits has like f4 or more aperture. So if someone has 500-600$ to invest in a camera, I would really recommend him to buy a high end P&S. If he has more like 1500$, then go jump for DSLR with a decent lens.
My girlfriend is a colorectal surgeon. Hi honey ! What are you cooking us for dinner tonight ?!
But here the dilemna is between the common sense meaning used by about 6 milliard humans against a more complex definition proposed by a bunch of scientifics.
To help balance the weight on the bunch of scientifics, they should actually convince the other 6 milliards humans how this new definition could actually improve the research and the progress in this area; before writing a new edition of 100 millions of primary school books.
I was so happy when I received my first sun photon passing through my phospholipid membrane. That photon excited me so much that for the first time in my life, I broke into two parts and ... I had a new brother.
Thank god and the sun that I learned english after a couple years to share these old days with you.
Do you get a powerful orgasm from your fingertips if you stay near a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance machine ?
When they first released Warcraft II (in the pre battle.net era), the only multiplayer support was for IPX network and of course for direct connection by modem. The true meaning and popularity of warcraft II came with the multiplayer part.
By chance, Internet was growing very fast in 1995-1997. But, they had no Internet or IP support in the game.
One succesful young developper named Jay Cotton wrote Kali in 1995. Kali was an emulation of an IPX network on the Internet. It was working pretty well with nice chat/user interface. Instantly, you could play against thousand of different players around the world with decent lag even with a modem. That was the real discovery of the RTS multiplayer genre. It created a strong competitive gaming community around Warcraft II. Many of these Old School Kali players became employees at Blizzard to help develop Starcraft and Diablo. So in my humble opinion, that part was critical in the growth of Blizzard. I can't even imagine what Warcraft II would be if it couldn't be played from 1995-1999 on the Internet.
The problem with that definition is that the sun was initially included as a planet because it looked like moving around the stars.
So when the initial definition of a word is based on false assumptions, it is probably hard to save the ass of that word with further discoveries 3000 years later. I vote to create another word and put the word planet to the the recycle bin. It should be more elegant to put the planet to the recycle bin than to the dump.
The actual truth is human being isn't designed to live more than 40 years old. So consequently, no matter the working position, there is potential for degenerative problems. It is only in the past 3000 years that people are living more than 40 years.
If we are always standing up, we'll have hip and knee problems; if we are always sitting down, we'll have vertebral column problems; if we are moving from one position to the other or always moving, we'll have tendinitis and bursitis problems.
So honestly, my conclusion is our musculoskeletal system isn't designed at all to work as long as our 2006 life expectancy.
That was the most incredible project I heard from about neurotechnology in the past years. Here is the link in french and english to that lab :
http://www.polystim.ca/
I'll let you know when I finish in 3 years. :)
And you're my IDOL. I guess that was sufficient satire that I can't know if it was reality ...
Reopro is not a prophylactic (prevention) agent. Heparin or low molecular weight heparin is usually used in hospitals to prevent this to happen in the patients who stays in bed for many days or weeks. A filter in the lower vein cave to prevent the migration of the clots are something used. But honestly we can't seriously suggest all these options for these guys. These drugs all have potential secondary effects of bleeding anywhere (skin, GI tube, or even worse in the brain).
Usually as some of you said, the best advice is to walk like 2-5 min every hour. This is even more true for the women, taking birth control pill, pregnancy, smoking, or obese.
Deep vein thrombosis is a medical emergency. The symptoms are pain in the calf or leg, asymetric swollen leg, skin color change.
I did a computer engineering degree from 1995-1999 playing about 40 hours a week Warcraft II online. I then did my M.D. from 1999-2004, playing probably 20 hours a week Warcraft III online. I am now a resident 2 in diagnostic radiology. I was for sure addicted (or at least at risk) to these highly competitive games. I am a competitive person. Japan, Korea and US are all very competitive countries where competition is inherent to the culture. Probably inconsciently, for me these games were a way to show to someone else I was better than him. Any competitive human being gets satisfaction from this. Evolution forced this to be in our genes.
I disagree a little bit about the opinion saying it is a complete waste of time. Hand-eye coordination and speed is very useful in many works; complex decision about a multi-parameters real-time situation can also be useful in the life. If I had a software company or if I would be on the admission commitee of a medical school, I would hire any top 10 world players of a RTS game. At least if they can show they can be functionnal in the life.
The only thing I was honestly surprised to see about that article was the main cause of death. Before reading it, I was almost sure the main cause would be suicide like in many others addictions. They didn't even talk about it. Maybe this is only a underreporting bias where the relation of suicides aren't that clear with the hardcore gaming like in the case of the deep vein thrombosis relation.
As we see, all the developping countries are having high % of pirated software in comparison to developped countries.
These countries generally speaking can't pay for software at the same price we are paying it. As being a development tool, pirated software should help to develop their own economy and industry. Consequently, some of these countries will eventually develop a strong economy. They will then be able to buy the software. If you don't let them get the software initially, then many of these countries would not be able to create a real economy. In long term view, this is an investment for the world market.
10) Citizen's Memory LCD
"that retains the image even when turned off." and "Practical applications would include watches" That would be very useful for watches. It would always be 5 oclock PM friday as long as it is turned off. Practical.
9) EyeMove PC
Wow they found something even more annoying than cell phone in public transport.
8) Scarpar - The All-Terrain Motorized Board
Thank god the guy in the video didn't fall. Falling from this in rocks with your feets fixed to the board is a bit dangerous no ?
7) 3D Video Game
Professionnal gaming league is not for tomorrow. If they showed their best player for the video demo, I guess that type of game is pretty hard to master.
6) Transparent Toaster
The only thing I have to say about this is : TT
5) Origami DVD Player
For me origami is more a way to create rabbits and birds with paper. I dream since I am 5 years old of listening to a DVD on a rabbit.
4) Self Cooling Beer Can
One question : what is the price of a 24 beer pack ?
3) VirtuSphere
Honestly, that is awesome! I really need this in 10 (or 40?) years in my basement!
2) Heliodisplay M2i
That looks even better than Princess Leia holographic transmission in Star Wars episode IV. I agree it was only in 1977. That is what we call evolution.
1) "On Target" Video Game Urinal
My religion forces me not to comment on this.
Honorable mention Solar Powered LED
I hope they'll find their way to La Paz to buy some batteries in case next day is rainy.
Honorable mention Intelligent Spoon and Bright Walk
Hey do I look like the guy who is having a stupid comment to say about everything ? I am too tired to comment about these.
The training cost for the next generation of dogs should be higher. They'll need to train them both for the HD-DVD and the Blu-Ray disc if they want to be effective until we get a new standard. But as a reference to a recent subject, maybe these dogs will promote the new standard instead of the game consoles. The one standard who smells the worst should win the battle because it will limit optimally the piracy. Then I now understand why HD-DVD should win.
Am I materialist ?
Music industry promoted the classic black disc
Music industry promoted the tape
Music industry promoted the CD
Video/Movie industry promoted VHS/Beta
Video/Movie industry promoted DVD
Console games initially used cartridges then moved to CD then to DVD. They always had to adapt to the market directed by the music and the video industry. Actually the music industry is pretty much overwhelmed by the MP3/Internet "media". So I really think the video industry (and of course the consumers of that industry) will decide the new standard. The video game industry should adapt to that standard. Also the industry that is using a media optimally (meaning almost 100% of its capacity) will effectively promote that standard. I don't think video games will need to use 25 GB or 50 GB of data until at least 2-3 years. The video industry *actually* need that capacity.
Will there be some hype for the first eclipse between the ISS, the soccer-ball-sized satellite and the earth ? I think I won't go to work that day. I could not handle the fact that I missed that kind of eclipse with my pinhole blackbox.
Any further project for peanut-sized satellite around the soccer-ball-sized satellite ?
IBM developped the microdrive used for CF type II cards in 1999. The technology was sold to Hitachi later. Toshiba then developped a 1.8" 20 gig low power consumption hard drive. It was designed initially for the laptop market. By chance, Apple got into that and used that new 20 gig hard drive in their first Ipod model. At that time Hitachi was building 4 and 6 gig version of their microdrive used later in the Ipod mini. So unless you think that Ipod mini (discontinued!) was more popular than the classic Ipod 20 gig, then the key innovation for the Ipod is actually from Tokyo.
No one thinks that the toshiba 1.8" hard drive is the only reason why Ipod is existing ?