Perhaps I undervalue my security and privacy, but I keep hoping for an increase in the targeted advertising I experience.
I don't want to refinance my house. I don't want to find relationships online. I don't want to find old classmates. I don't want to earn money by signing up for free trials. Even though I don't want these things, I see these ads a lot.
I like videogames and boardgames. I like anime. I like paintball. I like cooking. I already go out of my way to learn about new products and discounts in these areas.
I would love to surrender information about my interests in order to replace the ads I don't care about with ads that I do care about. I'm fine with the idea that they need to make money somehow, and I'm willing to sell them my attention if they talk to me about products that I agree to myself, 'Yeah, I might have wanted that'. Give me an internet radio style thumbs-up / thumbs-down button for the ads, including a 'Never show me an ad for this product again'.
I keep telling my wife that I want to be cremated, then have the remains pressed into an artificial diamond, then make the diamond into a piece of jewelry or furniture.
My understanding is that there's a delay of about 200ms between your brain saying 'click the mouse' and your hand doing so. So there's our baseline.
The brain-scanner has about a 1-second delay before it can 'settle' on a pattern. Useless for people who still have their hands, IMO, though their website claims it's good for tertiary commands like 'show the minimap'.
The facial recognition is supposed to be very fast, and the delay between your brain saying 'twitch your eyebrow' and your face doing so is ~40ms. Good for competitive players, I guess, but I don't think it's worth $300.
I do software development for a living, and in my idle quest to avoid RSI I sometimes wonder about replacing my mouse with something else so that I don't have to move a hand between the keyboard and mouse all the time. I'm curious to know if the gyroscopic sensors on the headset can be rigged into a functional mouse replacement (either for gaming or for dev work), but I've never seen any articles exploring it. I'd value any insight anyone else can give on this topic.
I thought that the half life engine (and presumably it's decendants) did something like this. About 10 years ago they updated the engine, and a bunch of people playing counter strike started complaining that they were being shot based on a laggy opponent's client's view of where they were, not where they actually were.
Someone posted a humor article describing how JFK was actually around a corner at the moment his assassin fired, but I couldn't find the link.
I'm 5'11", and I would fly folded into a 4'x4'x4' box if it would save me $50.
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I had an idea for WiiWare that I was interested in putting together, but was turned off by Nintendo's policy which specifically calls for a 'secured office environment capable of protecting our intellectual property', and additionally says that home offices are unacceptable.
So I noted with great interest an interview with 2DBoy when they related that they floated from coffee shop to coffee shop during the development of World of Goo:
Are you guys officially the entirety of 2D Boy?
KG: Yeah, we're just two people for the bulk of this project. We don't have an office, but we're not allowed to say that, so we just work out of coffee shops and stuff.
I'd be interested to know how wide (and how common) the gap is between Nintendo's stated devkit policy and reality, because there's plenty of WiiWare titles that I can't see how they ever came out of a professional studio.
Next time you reformat, make a ~20gb scratch partition in a non-windows-type.
Then use CloneZilla to make an image of the working system and store the archive on the scratch partition.
I did this to my parent's computer and left them with a CloneZilla bootable CD. They haven't actually USED it yet, but I anticipate that the restoration process will go much faster next time, and can probably be directed over the phone instead of them waiting for me to be next to the PC.
I've been looking all over for a way to turn my Wii into a media center extender, but everything I've found is woefully incomplete. Can you ask him what he was using?
I've seen reproducible studies that show the same product from the same supplier, if priced significantly lower, can be less popular.
I worked at a small-time web hosting company for a while, and we ended up learning that exact lesson. We provided a lot of custom tools to help small business owners set up an online storefront, and found that more people wanted our services at $79/month than $19, $29, $39, etc.
Its the same thing you probably do when shopping for anything you don't have particular expertise on, say, carpet shampoo: sort by price, assume the bottom third doesn't work well, assume the upper third is overpriced, and pick something from the middle third that has an attractive label.
Can they control or limit the camera spin? It makes sense they can't right after the balloon bursts, but I would think there might be some kind of tricks they could do in the atmosphere on ascent and descent.
Seems to me it would be better to digitally scrub the video, and keep your hardware cheap.
If you sign up for a free gametap account, they usually have Thief 3 cycling through the reduced set of games allowed to be played by the free account tier.
According to stopthecap.com's review of Time Warner Cable's recent earnings call, they do not currently have, nor have they ever had, immediate plans to implement DOCSIS 3 anywhere outside of New York, NY.
Time Warner's only firm plans for DOCSIS 3 upgrades were for New York, NY (a city that was never on the "experiment" list we note).
Despite assurances that test cities would be getting upgrades as a result of the tiered pricing system, the company disclosed today there were no plans to immediately implement DOCSIS 3 in any other city.
Company officials downplayed the need for performing the upgrade in the first place, claiming there has not been much clamor for speed (so much for the crisis nearly upon us!)
The Lite plans for lighter users impact on the company's returns for broadband, but are compensated for by heavier users who may actually be carrying that financial load with Turbo subscriptions.
The company again plans to reduce spending overall in the coming year, not increase it.
Most of the infrastructure enhancements in their fiber network aren't for broadband, they're for "switched digital video" which is helpful for cable systems trying to deliver additional HD channels.
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Kudos to you for the Invader Zim reference.
Perhaps I undervalue my security and privacy, but I keep hoping for an increase in the targeted advertising I experience.
I don't want to refinance my house. I don't want to find relationships online. I don't want to find old classmates. I don't want to earn money by signing up for free trials. Even though I don't want these things, I see these ads a lot.
I like videogames and boardgames. I like anime. I like paintball. I like cooking. I already go out of my way to learn about new products and discounts in these areas.
I would love to surrender information about my interests in order to replace the ads I don't care about with ads that I do care about. I'm fine with the idea that they need to make money somehow, and I'm willing to sell them my attention if they talk to me about products that I agree to myself, 'Yeah, I might have wanted that'. Give me an internet radio style thumbs-up / thumbs-down button for the ads, including a 'Never show me an ad for this product again'.
Forgot to add: after a huge percentage of me is taken by people waiting for organ/tissue transplant.
I keep telling my wife that I want to be cremated, then have the remains pressed into an artificial diamond, then make the diamond into a piece of jewelry or furniture.
:)
She prefers traditional burial.
My understanding is that there's a delay of about 200ms between your brain saying 'click the mouse' and your hand doing so. So there's our baseline.
The brain-scanner has about a 1-second delay before it can 'settle' on a pattern. Useless for people who still have their hands, IMO, though their website claims it's good for tertiary commands like 'show the minimap'.
The facial recognition is supposed to be very fast, and the delay between your brain saying 'twitch your eyebrow' and your face doing so is ~40ms. Good for competitive players, I guess, but I don't think it's worth $300.
I do software development for a living, and in my idle quest to avoid RSI I sometimes wonder about replacing my mouse with something else so that I don't have to move a hand between the keyboard and mouse all the time. I'm curious to know if the gyroscopic sensors on the headset can be rigged into a functional mouse replacement (either for gaming or for dev work), but I've never seen any articles exploring it. I'd value any insight anyone else can give on this topic.
Google isn't fighting China because they love us.
They want to make lots of money.
But I'll be a happier little pawn in Google's world, so I hope they win.
I thought that the half life engine (and presumably it's decendants) did something like this. About 10 years ago they updated the engine, and a bunch of people playing counter strike started complaining that they were being shot based on a laggy opponent's client's view of where they were, not where they actually were.
Someone posted a humor article describing how JFK was actually around a corner at the moment his assassin fired, but I couldn't find the link.
How about a tattoo on the forehead reading "Poor Impulse Control".
I'm 5'11", and I would fly folded into a 4'x4'x4' box if it would save me $50.
Are you guys officially the entirety of 2D Boy?
KG: Yeah, we're just two people for the bulk of this project. We don't have an office, but we're not allowed to say that, so we just work out of coffee shops and stuff.
I'd be interested to know how wide (and how common) the gap is between Nintendo's stated devkit policy and reality, because there's plenty of WiiWare titles that I can't see how they ever came out of a professional studio.
Just so we're on the same page here, would you agree or disagree that Battlefield 2 was astoundingly good when it wasn't crashing?
(You linked the same post twice.)
Government?
Left 4 Dead 2 has a voluntary reduced gore setting. Not password protected or anything, like some games in the past.
Next time you reformat, make a ~20gb scratch partition in a non-windows-type.
Then use CloneZilla to make an image of the working system and store the archive on the scratch partition.
I did this to my parent's computer and left them with a CloneZilla bootable CD. They haven't actually USED it yet, but I anticipate that the restoration process will go much faster next time, and can probably be directed over the phone instead of them waiting for me to be next to the PC.
I've been looking all over for a way to turn my Wii into a media center extender, but everything I've found is woefully incomplete. Can you ask him what he was using?
I find that I feel bad if I kill someone on my own team by accident.
In counter-strike, I used to feel bad if someone killed me and used my old gun to kill my teammates.
I've seen reproducible studies that show the same product from the same supplier, if priced significantly lower, can be less popular.
I worked at a small-time web hosting company for a while, and we ended up learning that exact lesson. We provided a lot of custom tools to help small business owners set up an online storefront, and found that more people wanted our services at $79/month than $19, $29, $39, etc.
Its the same thing you probably do when shopping for anything you don't have particular expertise on, say, carpet shampoo: sort by price, assume the bottom third doesn't work well, assume the upper third is overpriced, and pick something from the middle third that has an attractive label.
Can they control or limit the camera spin? It makes sense they can't right after the balloon bursts, but I would think there might be some kind of tricks they could do in the atmosphere on ascent and descent.
Seems to me it would be better to digitally scrub the video, and keep your hardware cheap.
The kids will learn about pulses and heart rates and fitness...
...I hope you die.
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Must be my conservative brainwashing.
You can pick them up on ebay for ~$8.
If you sign up for a free gametap account, they usually have Thief 3 cycling through the reduced set of games allowed to be played by the free account tier.
Sir, we've traced the ip address, and its in your own house! The killer is in your house right now! Run! Run!
http://stopthecap.com/2009/04/29/take-away-message-of-the-week-a-tale-of-two-companies/
The local grocery store in my little college town provided delivery service for ~$2.
If mass transit was popular enough, local grocery stores would look for competitive advantages to attract people using mass transit.
I want to know about the future of Open Source game development, and where that'll go in the next decade.
I think that there is a lot of potential in an OSS game engine which runs proprietary content packs.