In the United States, it is common for public education to be heavily supported by the state lottery. So the saying goes that people with bad math skills buy Lotto tickets and subsidize education.
It probably had more to do with which side of the brain was being used, rather than which eye. If your other eye had been bandaged you probably wouldn't have had a problem.
Would any psych experts please post which part of the brain would be used here?
I have one of their new 75gxp drives. The thing is great. Fast (ATA100, 7200rpm) and silent. I powered it up in my hand. It doesn't vibrate like my older drive, which is a year old Western Digital.
It's not as simple as blurring. Anti-Aliasing adds information (or rather it enhances it). Blurring removes it.
Think of what happens when you photocopy a photograph (in an old machine). You get black and white splotches. Anti-Aliasing is like a greyscale copier - It occurs at the same time the image is being sampled. Blurring occurs after the image is sampled and doesn't improve anything. If you took off your eye glasses to look at the photocopy of a photograph you just made, it won't look like greyscale.
As far as I know, it is not possible to use a conventional 3d accelerator to render to a file. The output goes straight to the monitor, the rest of the computer isn't aware of what the 3d card is doing.
Even if there was a hack to use a 3d accelerator for rendering, the quality is sacrificed for speed.
BTW, I'm talking about 3d cards for games. There are probably more expensive 3d accelerator cards targeted towards professionals.
He is so inarticulate that even a fourth grader would notice his poor usage of grammer and his complete butchering of the English language. I can't imagine myself carrying on a descent conversation with the man.
People with perfect grammar should know to capitalize Descent. Besides, why should the President of the United States care about an old computer game?
Most Spam is sent to multiple addresses at the same isp. Could ISPs detect when their mail servers are receiving several identical messages, then flag them for human inspection? Customers could 'opt in' to this as a spam filtering service, or they don't have to if they prefer higher privacy. Could this be a good use for Carnivore technology?
Or, instead of having a human inspect them, which would be time consuming, expensive and raise a whole bunch of other issues...Automatically attach a [ADV] prefix to the suffix, if many people at the same isp received the same message.
Of course, this would all require more significant mail server resources, and incoming email would have to be delayed, in order to prevent duplicates. But just because it's in your inbox doesn't mean you are immediately reading it. If a message is determined to be a duplicate, all copies of it would be flagged [ADV]. If you downloaded your mail before it got flagged, then some might slip through the cracks.
The extra resources would probably be too expensive in this day and age, but maybe in ten years this could be easily implemented, no?
>And there was the X-Terminal vendor who wanted to
>adapt the simulator in SimCity into a game
>called "Sim MIS", that they would distribute for
>free to Managers of Information Systems, whose
>job it is to decide what hardware to buy! The
>idea was that the poor overworked MIS would have
>fun playing this game in which they could build
>networks with PCs, X-Terminals, and servers
>instead of roads with residential, commercial,
>and industrial buildings), that had disasters
>like "viruses" infecting the network of PC's,
>and "upgrades" forcing you to reinstall Windows
>on every PC, and business charts that would
>graphically highlight the high maintanence cost
>of PCs versus X-Terminals. Their idea was to use
>a fun game to subtly influence people into buying
>their product, by making them lose if they
>didn't. Unlike the oil company, they certainly
>realized the potential to exploit the indirect
>ways in which a game like SimCity can influence
>the user's mind, but they had no grip on the
>concept of subtlety or game design.
Wow that sounds really cool. I bet I could I wrote a game that 'simulates' forcing you to reinstall windows. Give me your email address and I'll make a game that lets you control spam in your virtual inbox.
How about a game that teaches problem solving ability by deleting a random file on your hard drive, then YOU have to figure out which one it was and how to get it back.
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Who was the brilliant scientist who discovered the theory of patents?
Well shame on the hotel staff for working on a Sunday!
In the United States, it is common for public education to be heavily supported by the state lottery. So the saying goes that people with bad math skills buy Lotto tickets and subsidize education.
What about us schmucks who have to sit in front of the monitor? They can't put lead in front of the screen.
Why are these moles on my face getting bigger?
It probably had more to do with which side of the brain was being used, rather than which eye. If your other eye had been bandaged you probably wouldn't have had a problem.
Would any psych experts please post which part of the brain would be used here?
lighten up.
So, if you're not running Exchange and don't have two virtual NNTP servers, then the bug does not affect you.
You can understand kernel source code, but can't read English. Are you a bot?
Yeah, he said javascript DEBUGING.
Yeah, too bad they're too far apart to dock. I'd love to see two useless space stations crash into the ocean together.
2001-03-16 13:12:02
Ha Ha sucker, I guess you'll lose.
I have one of their new 75gxp drives. The thing is great. Fast (ATA100, 7200rpm) and silent. I powered it up in my hand. It doesn't vibrate like my older drive, which is a year old Western Digital.
It's not as simple as blurring. Anti-Aliasing adds information (or rather it enhances it). Blurring removes it.
Think of what happens when you photocopy a photograph (in an old machine). You get black and white splotches. Anti-Aliasing is like a greyscale copier - It occurs at the same time the image is being sampled. Blurring occurs after the image is sampled and doesn't improve anything. If you took off your eye glasses to look at the photocopy of a photograph you just made, it won't look like greyscale.
As far as I know, it is not possible to use a conventional 3d accelerator to render to a file. The output goes straight to the monitor, the rest of the computer isn't aware of what the 3d card is doing.
Even if there was a hack to use a 3d accelerator for rendering, the quality is sacrificed for speed.
BTW, I'm talking about 3d cards for games. There are probably more expensive 3d accelerator cards targeted towards professionals.
He is so inarticulate that even a fourth grader would notice his poor usage of grammer and his complete butchering of the English language. I can't imagine myself carrying on a descent conversation with the man.
People with perfect grammar should know to capitalize Descent. Besides, why should the President of the United States care about an old computer game?
Who's going to want to buy new speakers and new players for this format? It's going to cost more too.
Why not usa a bank that refunds the ATM fee? My bank, (USAA) will refund up to $2.00 for up to ten transactions a month.
They recover the cost by not having any ATMs of their own out there.
I'm pretty sure there are other banks that do the same thing.
I don't think the US Army has any submarines.
Most Spam is sent to multiple addresses at the same isp. Could ISPs detect when their mail servers are receiving several identical messages, then flag them for human inspection? Customers could 'opt in' to this as a spam filtering service, or they don't have to if they prefer higher privacy. Could this be a good use for Carnivore technology?
Or, instead of having a human inspect them, which would be time consuming, expensive and raise a whole bunch of other issues...Automatically attach a [ADV] prefix to the suffix, if many people at the same isp received the same message.
Of course, this would all require more significant mail server resources, and incoming email would have to be delayed, in order to prevent duplicates. But just because it's in your inbox doesn't mean you are immediately reading it. If a message is determined to be a duplicate, all copies of it would be flagged [ADV]. If you downloaded your mail before it got flagged, then some might slip through the cracks.
The extra resources would probably be too expensive in this day and age, but maybe in ten years this could be easily implemented, no?
Case in point: Check out this spam I received the other day:
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http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jrross/email/spam.ht
I had to save it, I've never seen any spam so blatant in my entire life.
touche.
But 120 in London is only about 75 mph in the states, so you really aren't as bad ass as you think you are. ;)
I believe the S/A drift would alter speed by approximately 1-2kph, not 20.
>And there was the X-Terminal vendor who wanted to
>adapt the simulator in SimCity into a game
>called "Sim MIS", that they would distribute for
>free to Managers of Information Systems, whose
>job it is to decide what hardware to buy! The
>idea was that the poor overworked MIS would have
>fun playing this game in which they could build
>networks with PCs, X-Terminals, and servers
>instead of roads with residential, commercial,
>and industrial buildings), that had disasters
>like "viruses" infecting the network of PC's,
>and "upgrades" forcing you to reinstall Windows
>on every PC, and business charts that would
>graphically highlight the high maintanence cost
>of PCs versus X-Terminals. Their idea was to use
>a fun game to subtly influence people into buying
>their product, by making them lose if they
>didn't. Unlike the oil company, they certainly
>realized the potential to exploit the indirect
>ways in which a game like SimCity can influence
>the user's mind, but they had no grip on the
>concept of subtlety or game design.
Wow that sounds really cool. I bet I could I wrote a game that 'simulates' forcing you to reinstall windows. Give me your email address and I'll make a game that lets you control spam in your virtual inbox.
How about a game that teaches problem solving ability by deleting a random file on your hard drive, then YOU have to figure out which one it was and how to get it back.
I think everyone here is just arguing semantecs. We have plenty of non-zero sum games. - They're just not considered games.
Tennis is a zero sum game. There is a winner and a loser.
Going to the movies with your buddies is not a zero-sum game. You could all have fun, or all not have fun or something in between.
Find me a "game" without a winner and a loser.
Isaac Asimov also published 600+ books in his career - it's not as if he didn't get practice.
I think he also used a manual typewriter. So how did he not get carpal tunnel? I'd have been scared to shake hands with the guy.