The one piece of tech that really makes touch possible is flatscreen LCD technology with scratch-proof surfaces and rapid response. That's important. But what's even more important is designing products for touch, not just slapping it on.
Take the iPhone. When you use it, you're not just using your fingers - you're also using the hand holding the item, keeping it in place and even moving it a little to assist in accuracy. Physically it is better suited to touch than a laptop, which up until recently were thick and heavy. Also, laptops generally have a mandatory keyboard getting in the way. Worse, the keyboard/mouse combo is more convenient for the GUI OS in place. The iPhone on the other hand completely reinvented the GUI to support touch. Other new technologies like the touch table are doing much the same thing, albeit in different ways.
and then there's carbon-copying. Which this is. It doesn't just resemble the iPhone or steal ideas from it - everything I saw in the technology demo was EXACTLY the same.
He's been on Futurama two and a half times: in a segment with Uhura, Hawking, Deep Blue, and the guy that invented Dungeons and Dragons; as the Emperor of the Moon, having "ridden the mighty moon worm"; and an animated promotion for his own movie with bender; and he'll be in the new episodes as well. A Dune reference for cryin' out loud! He's got more nerd cred then every other candidate combined!
The most visible change would be all the road signs, which would cost a bundle just on their own and cause quite a bit of confusion in the meantime. But do you have any idea how my machinery and infrastructure is built around the imperial system? Even if you could convert (at great cost) everything, you still need it to maintain products like cars or houses, and if you thought the Y2K thing was a hassle, how about adjusting those unlabeled numbers in your databases from one system of measurement to the next?
After WWII it probably wasn't too hard to convert to metric, since there wasn't much infrastructure left. The US on the other hand was going full blast. Even the UK had a lot of intact industry by war's end.
And for the record, imperial units (feet, miles, gallons, fahrenheit) are standard in aviation worldwide.
If you really want to convert to metric, take it slow. Force one major industry at a time to adapt their infrastructure, and let the smaller industries adapt themselves around them. E.g. food distribution and labeling, then aerospace, then automotive, etc. Hell, you should probably only force new companies to do so, and you'll need to offer incentives to the older companies to change. Or demand that any industry reports to government and stockholders be given in metric, and let the pain of audit keep them in line.
Well part of the appeal of Starcraft was that it balanced three distinctly different factions with completely different tech trees, unit abilities, and characteristics. Dropping the zerg would be just plain wrong, as would making an individual human and an individual protoss comparable in power.
Warcraft II, in comparison, had factions that were far more similar in ability. WoW is of course individual characters which parallel each other in upgrade speed and ultimate power.
You know I saw that too - and I pretty much only see that ad on right-wing stuff. I didn't want to get into the logical contradiction of the leatherman vibe in right-wing literature.
This article was pulled straight from the headlines of the Drudge Report, which should have tipped you off. He's notorious for linking to only right-wing-skewed news services, and here he's tapping an obscure Canadian newspaper. Gee, I wonder which way its politics lean? You should have done your homework...
There is only one other article by Tom Harris at CFP, but I found another at National Post, both attacking climate change. Canada Free Press and National Post are both conservative newspapers, particularly the latter. According to the byline, Tom Harris is mechanical engineer and Ottawa Director of High Park Group. And what is the High Park Group, seeing as how their web page say absolutely nothing of substance? Why it's an industry shill.
Mr. Egan is president of the High Park Group, a public policy consulting firm that focuses largely on energy issues out of its offices in Toronto and Ottawa. He is retained by the Canadian Electricity Association on a range of issues, including U.S. advocacy (monitoring the U.S. Congress and Administration on issues of interest to the Canadian electricity industry).
Dig a little deeper and you'll find this from way back in 2002. It has quite a bit more to say.
If you know more say so.
Of course, articles about "scientists" refuting global warming are a dime a dozen, and go against the plain fact that the vast majority of climate scientists are firmly convinced of its existence.
And for the record when I looked at the article before it was running an ad pushing Condaleeza Rice for president... in a Canadian newspaper no less.
I mean a zergling is weaker than an ultralisk no matter how you slice it, and does essentially the same thing. And while Terrans and maybe Protoss would make sense for choosing their specialization, it doesn't work for Zerg either. And you aren't going to dump one of the alignments.
Instead I think it would make sense to be a commander/cerebrate/executor in command of a squad/platoon/group. Improvement is by upgrading and extending your band of troops, gaining abilities, training, experience, promotion in rank, mining resources, getting paid for missions and so forth. If you did it right you might even be able to accomodate a large range of command levels amongst the players, ranging from individual unit all the way up to general or fleet admiral. Mercenary bands, Heroes, Civilians, Khalai, and Creep could play much larger roles than in regular starcraft.
Of course while you're at it you would want to of course allow preprogramming of troop formation and behavior to be a lot smarter then before (as in Myth), and have unit action and interaction be more sophisticated and terrain sensitive (taking cover should be automatic). And when a unit dies, it's dead (although Zerg cerebrates/torrasques don't stay dead unless dark templar kill them, and protoss can return once as Dragoons). Unit size, cost and power should be more representative (i.e. a Battle Cruiser ought to be way bigger and way more expensive and need way more people).
So if you're human you can start out as a marine for hire and work your way up through the ranks to a Dominion Fleet Admiral commanding others (assuming you aren't backstabbed), or a Protoss Khalai robotics specialist who breaks off and becomes a leader among the Dark Templar, or an sub-conscience of the Overmind that starts in command of a drone and gradually works up to commanding an entire brood, or a Xel-naga gaining power from the shadows.
I think anyone that has ever submitted a perfectly good verifiable story here only to see it rejected within minutes must be pulling their hair out when they see incredibly idle speculative obvious bullshit like this on the front page.
I can think of no better way to make the point that the cell is a different sort of processor. Push it's strengths to the limits in ways other consoles can't touch.
I've substitute taught, and I'm in favor of this legislation just to keep kids from wasting their computer time at school on networking sites and trying to one-up each other. They should ban yahoo mail while they're at it.
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The one piece of tech that really makes touch possible is flatscreen LCD technology with scratch-proof surfaces and rapid response. That's important. But what's even more important is designing products for touch, not just slapping it on.
Take the iPhone. When you use it, you're not just using your fingers - you're also using the hand holding the item, keeping it in place and even moving it a little to assist in accuracy. Physically it is better suited to touch than a laptop, which up until recently were thick and heavy. Also, laptops generally have a mandatory keyboard getting in the way. Worse, the keyboard/mouse combo is more convenient for the GUI OS in place. The iPhone on the other hand completely reinvented the GUI to support touch. Other new technologies like the touch table are doing much the same thing, albeit in different ways.
and then there's carbon-copying. Which this is. It doesn't just resemble the iPhone or steal ideas from it - everything I saw in the technology demo was EXACTLY the same.
So not dubious - shameless. Yeesh.
Peppers are easy to grow too, they could make their own. Show 'em who's at the top of the food chain.
I'm a nerd first.
He's been on Futurama two and a half times: in a segment with Uhura, Hawking, Deep Blue, and the guy that invented Dungeons and Dragons; as the Emperor of the Moon, having "ridden the mighty moon worm"; and an animated promotion for his own movie with bender; and he'll be in the new episodes as well. A Dune reference for cryin' out loud! He's got more nerd cred then every other candidate combined!
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The most visible change would be all the road signs, which would cost a bundle just on their own and cause quite a bit of confusion in the meantime. But do you have any idea how my machinery and infrastructure is built around the imperial system? Even if you could convert (at great cost) everything, you still need it to maintain products like cars or houses, and if you thought the Y2K thing was a hassle, how about adjusting those unlabeled numbers in your databases from one system of measurement to the next?
After WWII it probably wasn't too hard to convert to metric, since there wasn't much infrastructure left. The US on the other hand was going full blast. Even the UK had a lot of intact industry by war's end.
And for the record, imperial units (feet, miles, gallons, fahrenheit) are standard in aviation worldwide.
If you really want to convert to metric, take it slow. Force one major industry at a time to adapt their infrastructure, and let the smaller industries adapt themselves around them. E.g. food distribution and labeling, then aerospace, then automotive, etc. Hell, you should probably only force new companies to do so, and you'll need to offer incentives to the older companies to change. Or demand that any industry reports to government and stockholders be given in metric, and let the pain of audit keep them in line.
I'm way ahead of you.
I reckon after the first wave of indignation they did.
"How ya like them apples, Apple?"
You should update the wikipedia entry with those references.
I didn't realize they had a science page. Puts it all in perspective, don't it?
Well part of the appeal of Starcraft was that it balanced three distinctly different factions with completely different tech trees, unit abilities, and characteristics. Dropping the zerg would be just plain wrong, as would making an individual human and an individual protoss comparable in power.
Warcraft II, in comparison, had factions that were far more similar in ability. WoW is of course individual characters which parallel each other in upgrade speed and ultimate power.
You know I saw that too - and I pretty much only see that ad on right-wing stuff. I didn't want to get into the logical contradiction of the leatherman vibe in right-wing literature.
There is only one other article by Tom Harris at CFP, but I found another at National Post, both attacking climate change. Canada Free Press and National Post are both conservative newspapers, particularly the latter. According to the byline, Tom Harris is mechanical engineer and Ottawa Director of High Park Group. And what is the High Park Group, seeing as how their web page say absolutely nothing of substance? Why it's an industry shill.
Dig a little deeper and you'll find this from way back in 2002. It has quite a bit more to say.
If you know more say so.
Of course, articles about "scientists" refuting global warming are a dime a dozen, and go against the plain fact that the vast majority of climate scientists are firmly convinced of its existence.
And for the record when I looked at the article before it was running an ad pushing Condaleeza Rice for president... in a Canadian newspaper no less.
I mean a zergling is weaker than an ultralisk no matter how you slice it, and does essentially the same thing. And while Terrans and maybe Protoss would make sense for choosing their specialization, it doesn't work for Zerg either. And you aren't going to dump one of the alignments.
Instead I think it would make sense to be a commander/cerebrate/executor in command of a squad/platoon/group. Improvement is by upgrading and extending your band of troops, gaining abilities, training, experience, promotion in rank, mining resources, getting paid for missions and so forth. If you did it right you might even be able to accomodate a large range of command levels amongst the players, ranging from individual unit all the way up to general or fleet admiral. Mercenary bands, Heroes, Civilians, Khalai, and Creep could play much larger roles than in regular starcraft.
Of course while you're at it you would want to of course allow preprogramming of troop formation and behavior to be a lot smarter then before (as in Myth), and have unit action and interaction be more sophisticated and terrain sensitive (taking cover should be automatic). And when a unit dies, it's dead (although Zerg cerebrates/torrasques don't stay dead unless dark templar kill them, and protoss can return once as Dragoons). Unit size, cost and power should be more representative (i.e. a Battle Cruiser ought to be way bigger and way more expensive and need way more people).
So if you're human you can start out as a marine for hire and work your way up through the ranks to a Dominion Fleet Admiral commanding others (assuming you aren't backstabbed), or a Protoss Khalai robotics specialist who breaks off and becomes a leader among the Dark Templar, or an sub-conscience of the Overmind that starts in command of a drone and gradually works up to commanding an entire brood, or a Xel-naga gaining power from the shadows.
I think anyone that has ever submitted a perfectly good verifiable story here only to see it rejected within minutes must be pulling their hair out when they see incredibly idle speculative obvious bullshit like this on the front page.
And they wonder how digg grew so fast...
I can think of no better way to make the point that the cell is a different sort of processor. Push it's strengths to the limits in ways other consoles can't touch.
I've substitute taught, and I'm in favor of this legislation just to keep kids from wasting their computer time at school on networking sites and trying to one-up each other. They should ban yahoo mail while they're at it.
The Sexy Data Tango?
n/t
that website is totally unreliable.
That was extremely sweet. Of course the program seemed a little chatty...
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Why the hell do I keep seeing these Dvorak-predicting-Apples-death articles? Has he EVER been right re: Apple? You'd think the moderators would learn.
Gee, you don't suppose the Wall Street Journal is pro-industry and anti-regulation do you? No conflict of interest there. [/sarcasm]
Par for the course.