What's worse, can you imagine the utter chaos if everyone went out and bought one at the same time?
All those people... "out on the town" (as you hip people who go outside call it)... and the collective simultanious "ca-ching" of cash-registers everywhere.. wouldn't that be enough to shatter my windows and glasses?
Did the submitter of this article even consider: are there even enough of these lightbulbs for us all to get one? Aha! All well, at the very least it sounds like my parent has bought more than his share of lightbulbs. Consider mine bought, thank you sir! I will however petition a GM to replace all the torches in Ironforge with these CFLs; it sounds perfect for the upcoming expansion which slashdot just seems to love covering.
The very premise of the grandparent is ridiculous. Now if it were one-point-twenty-one-jigga-watts, I'd be worried, but 80 watts? I've got more on in light bulbs right now!
AI research will always be a viable field when the goal is Singularity. Whether that is possible or not in our universe...
I've mathematically analyzed Sudoku, and it would be trivial to construct an AI that could solve any (winnable) puzzle. There are only so many rules for electing where pieces can and cannot go. Just because it's a trivial game doesn't make it any less fun - unless you're playing connect4 against the computer:(
Now, finding a board with the fewest number of initially defined positions that results in a unique solution was an interesting question for my friends. Maybe somebody else out there thought that was trivial as well?
When I first found out about Columbine.. my first thought was: I wonder how those poor kids were treated to drive them to such ends.
Sure, with all the recent media releases with how darkly into hatred the Columbine kids were, perhaps there should be no sympathy for them. But I've always wondered... did they choose their victims, or was it really just random shooting with all that planning behind it? If the victims were chosen, for what reasons... how were they treated?
I remember very clearly in seventh grade, many years ago, a fellow student was picked on mercilessly everyday until he would cry and have a total fit. Every single day. The bullies were very, very good at doing it covertly. The victims fits were off course a total fight/flight reaction, and I'm sure it could have even been seen as comical-hence why they did it. This kid was usually the one who got in trouble too, as teachers would ignore the smalltalk from the bullies and would only notice when he would burst into tears or slap/punch somebody. He was an incredibly nice kid and of course smart.
What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.
It makes me want to do something about it now. Seventh graders suck at communicating their feelings. It really would have been nice if they gave us surveys so we could express in a directed manner how we and our peers were being treated. Of course there would be jokesters, but I'm sure it is possible to build control mechanisms within surveys?
I know this is impractical but... there has to be something.
I'm not so sure. Can you actually imagine hours and hours of popping little food bubbles? I think the game will pretty much be over with once you get into space. Every 4X I've ever played gets boring once you've gotten all the tech.
Also, I'm not sure if that Carebear demo was a joke or not (ie, possible within the game engine..) if it is, I'm sure I can make some pretty dirty-looking creations. Big breasted penises, anyone?
So what happens when I fart? I personally have significantly less mess, but there's also significantly more mass around me (think of the change in size of a blowfish).
I've stood on a bathroom scale trying to measure this but my instruments are either too insensitive or are too greatly affected by the tremendous resultant atmospheric change. Any ideas?
Will athletes gain a boost there by training in a higher gravity environment?
I've just done extensive research over whether Superman is more powerful than Goku, and I must say very well respected researchers in both fields are at a stalemate. Since a lot of Goku's adult training was in higher gravity levels, I can answer your question emphatically yes.
Well if leopards are anything like lions (they're both big cats, one just seems to have put more points into strength over agility than the other), I'd rather not bother with them. I know one famous lion researcher personally: his first name is Token (but he has been called multiple last names), and he said that "lions are totally gay."
But now with this research, we can perhaps someday take a baby human child and determine if they will grow up to be the Messiah or Antichrist. We map all their freckles and exactly calculate their resultant pattern. If the final morphology is some sort of hyper-religious symbol (a cross drawn over a Superman symbol with a star and sparklies all over it, a skull-and-cross-bones with burning flames and a dirty joke sealing it, the symbol for the Republic party, etc.).
The problem with this idea is if we have to skin every human baby, we will have another Moses-mom on our hands that would rather float her baby down the Nile river in a basket than give 'em over to the professionals. There's also the problem of celebrities running off to Africa to have their babies.
So our two biggest threats to this new classification system working are both with Africa. If giant dinosaurs and monsters like Kong still inhabit those lands, no wonder the people there are still primal. You never hear anybody saying "Peace in the African Congo!" as I'm sure that is even more impossible than would be for the middle-east... I'm sure Africa isn't THAT big of a country, maybe we could get Bush or some other world leader like Kim Yong Wong something, that funny Chinese man on the Team America F-Yeah show, to send in a bunch of troops. Russia is another good choice for sending in a lot of troops. India is another good choice, population-wise, but I can't imagine their people doing much more than teaching Physics 101 or doing my colonoscopies.
Well, just by reading comments here, it seems that before you begin you're going to need KY Jelly.
To actually start, you have a big O. After that I usually fall asleep.
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Really? Thanks for the stock tip. AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and ATI are four companies I don't expect to be going anywhere bad anytime soon.
This similar plummeting of ATI stock happened back in 2002, and I bought a whole bunch. It fell even more, so guess what? I bought even more. Six months later I sold and made 40% on my investment. Optimally I could have made over 100% in under 6 months.
I'll definately go check out AMD's stock.
As for the secondary market stock price reflecting the actual quality of the product - let's just say I don't think it's a good indicator. "What is right is not always popular. What is popular is not always right."
I thought this is what powered THE AQUABATS!! http://www.theaquabats.com/ ?
They go into great detail in their dissertations on Radiation Man, actually.
Product Announcement! New, glistening panty-hose. Shimmering as if they're wet. Catches eyes. Attracts only the daring. Promotes celibacy and abstinence!
In the heat of the moment, you push her against the wall and kiss. Heat. Fire. Desire. You reach down below her skirt, and trying to be spontanious, rip at her pantyhose... but wait! No satisfying tear or gasp escape from her lips...... humiliation as you try again and again, unable to even stretch the panty-chasty-hose. The situation goes... limp.
"Liqui-hose, helping you dodge a bullet every night."
My snobby boss loves to swim in his private pool. Oh, what fun it would be to coat the surface of it with this stuff so when he dives in head first he gives himself a nose bleed. Of course the stuff will instantly reliquify, letting him slide into the water like he just got the worst belly-flop ever.
Actually... I think I've already encountered that level of vibration. My ass was really sore and it bled for weeks afterwards, I don't think this could be used to benefit people... medically.
My brother recently had some surgery go.. let's say.. "not so good" - anyway he threw two clots into his lung. The docs say he'll be on anticoagulants for at least six months.
Now unless there's something especially temporary about the clotting action this fancy ribbon thingy performs, I don't think easy declotting is likely:-(
Not to hijack your thread, but can I get some help from the/. community with getting ATI actually working?
I've tried two different distributions, and I'm still not getting even basic hardware acceleration (I think... in fact, I don't even know how to check!)
Debian was way too over-my-head, despite getting the kernel source I was still getting compile errors. I followed nearly all the instructions on and ultimately got a bunch of compile errors.
So I tried Fedora (very easy to install and configure in comparison with Debian) and I typed the/" yum install kmod-fglrx "/command and it said everything went ok, but I'm still getting fractional FPS when I try to wine games like WoW -opengl.
1) How do I even tell if I have hardware acceleration?
2) Why is resizing my resolution such a pain in the:-(
3) Are there any books or magazines I should be getting to stay current with this stuff?
I've been pretending to be an amateur programmer for Windows+Linux platform for a few years now. I can say that making games OS-irrelevant is fairly easy using open-APIs. There is little real effort involved throwing in some compiler directives so you can literally use the same code across entirely different platforms. Maybe my eyes aren't as sharp as the guys that can determine the difference between a 70Hz monitor and a 75Hz monitor, but I've never looked at a game and said "oh that must be DirectX because those pixel shaders are just amazing!" And once I'm lost in the immersion of the game, I don't care what APIs it was programmed in anyways.
So I don't really see your point, are you talking about customer support? Flat out don't offer any Linux technical customer support - the userbase may very well know more than the teleprompter people. Sure we'll have whiners that Linux users are second class citizens, but if you want to play games on an operating system that is as _____ as Linux, get used to it.
*_______ = what exactly is the problem in supporting Linux? It's amorphous? It lacks a unified standard? Are all the kernels even the same/work similarly? I just know there are lots of different distributions, and I'm not smart enough for some of them ^^
Can someone explain how this violates the intentions of the BSD license that WINE originally used? Please tell me they didn't pick the wrong license on accident or something, then maybe I'd hate those Codega guys a little more. Sorta like a mini Microsoft story, stealing all the good ideas and then screaming COPYRIGHT! ("I get the front seat because I _called_ it!")
And at the very least... two different companies now working from two different angles can only be a good thing for us gamers?
I thought MS largely dealt in defensive patents? If I were a small company I would try to patent the hell out of whatever Microsoft went after in hopes of getting at least one good score.
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What's worse, can you imagine the utter chaos if everyone went out and bought one at the same time?
All those people... "out on the town" (as you hip people who go outside call it)... and the collective simultanious "ca-ching" of cash-registers everywhere.. wouldn't that be enough to shatter my windows and glasses?
Did the submitter of this article even consider: are there even enough of these lightbulbs for us all to get one? Aha! All well, at the very least it sounds like my parent has bought more than his share of lightbulbs. Consider mine bought, thank you sir! I will however petition a GM to replace all the torches in Ironforge with these CFLs; it sounds perfect for the upcoming expansion which slashdot just seems to love covering.
So... how about snakes on a hyperplane http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hyperplane.html?
You think that's bad? My CPU fan consumes 70+ watts.
c t in series!
What's worse the rig I built to cool my harddrives is essentially a system of Peltier devices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltier-Seebeck_effe
The very premise of the grandparent is ridiculous. Now if it were one-point-twenty-one-jigga-watts, I'd be worried, but 80 watts? I've got more on in light bulbs right now!
AI research will always be a viable field when the goal is Singularity. Whether that is possible or not in our universe...
:(
I've mathematically analyzed Sudoku, and it would be trivial to construct an AI that could solve any (winnable) puzzle. There are only so many rules for electing where pieces can and cannot go. Just because it's a trivial game doesn't make it any less fun - unless you're playing connect4 against the computer
Now, finding a board with the fewest number of initially defined positions that results in a unique solution was an interesting question for my friends. Maybe somebody else out there thought that was trivial as well?
When I first found out about Columbine.. my first thought was: I wonder how those poor kids were treated to drive them to such ends.
... how were they treated?
Sure, with all the recent media releases with how darkly into hatred the Columbine kids were, perhaps there should be no sympathy for them. But I've always wondered... did they choose their victims, or was it really just random shooting with all that planning behind it? If the victims were chosen, for what reasons
I remember very clearly in seventh grade, many years ago, a fellow student was picked on mercilessly everyday until he would cry and have a total fit. Every single day. The bullies were very, very good at doing it covertly. The victims fits were off course a total fight/flight reaction, and I'm sure it could have even been seen as comical-hence why they did it. This kid was usually the one who got in trouble too, as teachers would ignore the smalltalk from the bullies and would only notice when he would burst into tears or slap/punch somebody. He was an incredibly nice kid and of course smart.
What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.
It makes me want to do something about it now. Seventh graders suck at communicating their feelings. It really would have been nice if they gave us surveys so we could express in a directed manner how we and our peers were being treated. Of course there would be jokesters, but I'm sure it is possible to build control mechanisms within surveys?
I know this is impractical but... there has to be something.
I'm not so sure. Can you actually imagine hours and hours of popping little food bubbles? I think the game will pretty much be over with once you get into space. Every 4X I've ever played gets boring once you've gotten all the tech.
Also, I'm not sure if that Carebear demo was a joke or not (ie, possible within the game engine..) if it is, I'm sure I can make some pretty dirty-looking creations. Big breasted penises, anyone?
Wii will change everything.
Chant it with us.
Now if I could just get one of those attached to my penis, sex games could be a lot more fun!
So what happens when I fart? I personally have significantly less mess, but there's also significantly more mass around me (think of the change in size of a blowfish).
I've stood on a bathroom scale trying to measure this but my instruments are either too insensitive or are too greatly affected by the tremendous resultant atmospheric change. Any ideas?
I've noticed my left testicle has been hanging a little lower than normal lately.
Well if leopards are anything like lions (they're both big cats, one just seems to have put more points into strength over agility than the other), I'd rather not bother with them. I know one famous lion researcher personally: his first name is Token (but he has been called multiple last names), and he said that "lions are totally gay."
But now with this research, we can perhaps someday take a baby human child and determine if they will grow up to be the Messiah or Antichrist. We map all their freckles and exactly calculate their resultant pattern. If the final morphology is some sort of hyper-religious symbol (a cross drawn over a Superman symbol with a star and sparklies all over it, a skull-and-cross-bones with burning flames and a dirty joke sealing it, the symbol for the Republic party, etc.).
The problem with this idea is if we have to skin every human baby, we will have another Moses-mom on our hands that would rather float her baby down the Nile river in a basket than give 'em over to the professionals. There's also the problem of celebrities running off to Africa to have their babies.
So our two biggest threats to this new classification system working are both with Africa. If giant dinosaurs and monsters like Kong still inhabit those lands, no wonder the people there are still primal. You never hear anybody saying "Peace in the African Congo!" as I'm sure that is even more impossible than would be for the middle-east... I'm sure Africa isn't THAT big of a country, maybe we could get Bush or some other world leader like Kim Yong Wong something, that funny Chinese man on the Team America F-Yeah show, to send in a bunch of troops. Russia is another good choice for sending in a lot of troops. India is another good choice, population-wise, but I can't imagine their people doing much more than teaching Physics 101 or doing my colonoscopies.
Wait, what were we talking about?
I hope I never get to the point where my first thought is:
Sticky clumpy tissues everywhere? He must have a really bad cold.
A bottle of KY on some guy's computer desk? He must take really good care of his CDs.
My wife is actually smiling around me. Those late night privary therapy sessions with Yoga Master Tod must be working wonders for her stress levels.
Well, just by reading comments here, it seems that before you begin you're going to need KY Jelly.
To actually start, you have a big O. After that I usually fall asleep.
Really? Thanks for the stock tip. AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and ATI are four companies I don't expect to be going anywhere bad anytime soon. This similar plummeting of ATI stock happened back in 2002, and I bought a whole bunch. It fell even more, so guess what? I bought even more. Six months later I sold and made 40% on my investment. Optimally I could have made over 100% in under 6 months. I'll definately go check out AMD's stock. As for the secondary market stock price reflecting the actual quality of the product - let's just say I don't think it's a good indicator. "What is right is not always popular. What is popular is not always right."
I thought this is what powered THE AQUABATS!! http://www.theaquabats.com/ ? They go into great detail in their dissertations on Radiation Man, actually.
Product Announcement! New, glistening panty-hose. Shimmering as if they're wet. Catches eyes. Attracts only the daring. Promotes celibacy and abstinence!
... humiliation as you try again and again, unable to even stretch the panty-chasty-hose. The situation goes... limp.
In the heat of the moment, you push her against the wall and kiss. Heat. Fire. Desire. You reach down below her skirt, and trying to be spontanious, rip at her pantyhose... but wait! No satisfying tear or gasp escape from her lips...
"Liqui-hose, helping you dodge a bullet every night."
My snobby boss loves to swim in his private pool. Oh, what fun it would be to coat the surface of it with this stuff so when he dives in head first he gives himself a nose bleed. Of course the stuff will instantly reliquify, letting him slide into the water like he just got the worst belly-flop ever.
Actually... I think I've already encountered that level of vibration. My ass was really sore and it bled for weeks afterwards, I don't think this could be used to benefit people... medically.
My brother recently had some surgery go.. let's say.. "not so good" - anyway he threw two clots into his lung. The docs say he'll be on anticoagulants for at least six months. Now unless there's something especially temporary about the clotting action this fancy ribbon thingy performs, I don't think easy declotting is likely :-(
*lightbulb*
Patent! I call patent! This public domain idea is now mine! Mwahahahahaha!
Not to hijack your thread, but can I get some help from the /. community with getting ATI actually working?
I've tried two different distributions, and I'm still not getting even basic hardware acceleration (I think... in fact, I don't even know how to check!)
Debian was way too over-my-head, despite getting the kernel source I was still getting compile errors. I followed nearly all the instructions on and ultimately got a bunch of compile errors.
So I tried Fedora (very easy to install and configure in comparison with Debian) and I typed the/" yum install kmod-fglrx "/command and it said everything went ok, but I'm still getting fractional FPS when I try to wine games like WoW -opengl.
1) How do I even tell if I have hardware acceleration?
2) Why is resizing my resolution such a pain in the :-(
3) Are there any books or magazines I should be getting to stay current with this stuff?
I've been pretending to be an amateur programmer for Windows+Linux platform for a few years now. I can say that making games OS-irrelevant is fairly easy using open-APIs. There is little real effort involved throwing in some compiler directives so you can literally use the same code across entirely different platforms. Maybe my eyes aren't as sharp as the guys that can determine the difference between a 70Hz monitor and a 75Hz monitor, but I've never looked at a game and said "oh that must be DirectX because those pixel shaders are just amazing!" And once I'm lost in the immersion of the game, I don't care what APIs it was programmed in anyways.
So I don't really see your point, are you talking about customer support? Flat out don't offer any Linux technical customer support - the userbase may very well know more than the teleprompter people. Sure we'll have whiners that Linux users are second class citizens, but if you want to play games on an operating system that is as _____ as Linux, get used to it.
*_______ = what exactly is the problem in supporting Linux? It's amorphous? It lacks a unified standard? Are all the kernels even the same/work similarly? I just know there are lots of different distributions, and I'm not smart enough for some of them ^^
Can someone explain how this violates the intentions of the BSD license that WINE originally used? Please tell me they didn't pick the wrong license on accident or something, then maybe I'd hate those Codega guys a little more. Sorta like a mini Microsoft story, stealing all the good ideas and then screaming COPYRIGHT! ("I get the front seat because I _called_ it!") And at the very least... two different companies now working from two different angles can only be a good thing for us gamers?
You just haven't gotten a head shot yet. When you do, the fun never stops. Can you say it with me now? Boom! Head shot!
I thought MS largely dealt in defensive patents? If I were a small company I would try to patent the hell out of whatever Microsoft went after in hopes of getting at least one good score. ---- Chewbacca's on a scooter man, holy crap!