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The rest of the gaming industry has gotten awfully jealous of all the money Nintendo is making with their Wii and all its unconventional controllers. Now everybody wants on board the Wiimote/Balance Board gravy train, and sure enough Sony and Microsoft have their own motion controls on the way.
But thanks to some lesser known, state-of-the-art gaming peripherals, other companies are way ahead on game controller innovation. Way, way ahead, into a land where only the crazy people dwell.
#8. Virtusphere
Virtual reality has long been the Holy Grail of the video gaming world, because for some reason nothing less than total digital immersion is acceptable in a future where we haven't even figured out how to clone dinosaurs or get our cars to fly.
While most engineers are content with perfecting futuristic headsets and handheld devices to approximate virtual reality, the inventors of the Virtusphere seek to take the notion one step further, a phrase which here means "locking players inside a giant hamster ball."
The Virtusphere is a 10-foot hollow sphere housed on a special platform that is covered in wheels, allowing encased players to walk, run and roll around in a virtual environment viewed entirely through a wireless headset, sort of like that time you taped a Scooby Doo viewmaster to your face when you were nine and ran around in your backyard pretending you were in the Mystery Machine.
This is what fun used to look like.
While we fully support massive unwieldy devices constructed purely for entertainment, a gigantic metal ball noisily grinding around on castor wheels isn't going to fit inside most people's living rooms (you'd have trouble fitting the damn thing in a high school gymnasium).
Even if your house had a big enough room to fit this expensive monstrosity in it, if just one wheel slips you're going to go crashing through the wall trapped inside a hollow boulder like the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Or like a pitcher full of sugar water.
And honestly, we'd pay a lot more for that experience.
#7. OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator
OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator is a headband that looks like something the space hippies from that old Star Trek episode would wear. According to the company, it "translates the electrical biosignals of your body directly into computer commands."
So that means it can totally read your mind and help you rule Modern Warfare 2 with an iron mental fist, right?
Well, not exactly. The NIA can't translate direct thoughts, so screaming, "SHOOT THE DAMN NAZI!" in your head over and over isn't going to do anything.
"WIN, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" also will not work.
The device doesn't even read brain waves like other emerging technologies claim to. No, all the NIA does is monitor muscle twitches in your face and translates them into on-screen actions. Sometimes.
The idea is that our bodies subconsciously twitch in response to certain stimulus (such as seeing a zombie come into view) and the NIA can translate those spasms into activating the fire button before your brain can tell your finger to move, thus reducing reaction times.
This wink translates to "Kill hooker with a baseball bat."
However, you'd still need a mouse and keyboard to play the game, leading us to wonder what the fucking point of the peripheral is at all, especially when you consider the device has to be calibrated every single time you want to play, which can take up to an hour or more. At least it makes for a pretty boss headband.
#6. 3rd Space FPS Gaming Vest
Another emerging advancement on the forefront of video gaming is haptic technology, also known as force feedback, which appeals to the player's sense of touch using various techniques such as controller vibrations and joystick resistance. Makes sense. But surely there must be a way to make it ridiculous and painful, right? Get our best men on it!
Ah, here we go. The 3rd Space FPS Gaming Vest attempts to take force feedback one step further by emulating what it feels like to get hit by a bullet, a sensation which many of you may recognize as one of the primary things you're trying to avoid by playing Call of Duty instead of joining the actual military.
The vest is comprised of eight strategically placed air pockets that are connected to a small air compressor, and when the player gets shot in the game, the compressor fires a burst of air into the corresponding area that delivers a startling kick into the gamer's midsection.
Aside from the obvious fact that a little puff of air hardly simulates what it would feel like to be lacerated by a red hot piece of metal traveling at the speed of sound, the vest has a number of other drawbacks, not least of which is the fact that while the air compressor is small and relatively lightweight, the entire device is still quite noisy, which ironically ruins the immersion that the device is trying to create in the first place by making it sound like you've hauled a lawnmower into battle.
Also, the vest is really only designed for first person shooters on the PC, a fact that is disappointing to anyone who has ever wondered what it'd feel like to get punched in the stomach by Zangief.
When will we finally feel the hairy-shinned sting of the Russian Bear?
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Over the years since video games were invented, many attempts have been made to pair them with sex. The results have always been disappointing at best because at the end of the day, it's just porn that you watch while your hands are busy with a control pad. If only there were some device that could translate the suggestive motions of a hot virtual goddess into actual, real life groin molestation.
You thought that was a Photoshopped pic up there, didn't you?
Enter The SOM. No really, enter it, softly, with your dong. Because that's how it works. Bundled with a Japanese Hentai game called Cross Days, the SOM is the video game peripheral serial killers have always wished for.
Until ultimately deciding that having sex with murdered corpses is much less weird.
The manufacturer promises full, real-time interactivity with the erotic game during sexual scenes by way of the device's vertically oscillating head and special medical lube, so that you too can find out what it's like to get blown by a robot while watching a cartoon.
If a hands-free, plastic sex simulator is too hi-tech for you or too difficult to hide from the FBI, rest assured there is another route to achieving interactive orgasms. The aptly named Joydick literally turns an erect penis into an old school joystick for use with Atari games.
More like Dick-fall.
With the simple application of a wired plastic ring, the Joydick allows for "controlling video gameplay based on realtime male masturbation." Because we all know that's been the key to big sales all along.


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I want to create a lognormal distribution of future stock prices. Using a monte carlo simulation I came up with the standard deviation as being $\sqrt{(days/252)}$ $*volatility*mean*$ $\log(mean)$. Is this correct?
I'm not sure I understand, but if you want to compute the variance of $exp(X)$, where $X$ is normally distributed with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$, that variance is (from Wikipedia): $$\left(\exp{(\sigma^2)} - 1\right) \exp{(2\mu + \sigma^2)}$$
The distribution of the log of a stock price in n days is a normal distribution with mean of $\log(current_price)$ and standard deviation of $volatility*\sqrt(n/365.2425)$ if you're using calendar days, and assuming no dividends and 0% risk-free interest rate.
Note that the standard deviation is independent of the current_price: if $\log(current_price)$ increases by 0.3 (for example), the stock has increased by 35%, regardless of its current_price.
To include dividends and the risk-free interest rate, see:
which models future stock prices w/ an eye towards pricing options.
To create a lognormal distribution (that is, to generate values from it), you need to start with normally distributed numbers and then exponentiate them.
That is to say, take a sample $z$ from the standard normal distribution, and form the lognormally distributed underlying value
$$ U_T = U_0 \exp\left( (r-q-\sigma^2/2)T + \sigma \sqrt{T} z \right) $$
The probability density function of $U_T$ is formed from solving this for $z$ and then applying the normal PDF.

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I cook hard boiled eggs with shells in meat cholent and was wondering if I could eat them during the nine days. If cooked before Rosh Chodesh Av or after - would that make a difference?
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Sefer HaToda'ah, authored by R' Eliyahu Ki Tov says in (part 2, page 374):
The Mishna Berura (551:63) brings this as well.
Since the issue is eating meat during the nine days, I don't think it makes a difference when the meat was prepared.
this egg - a tavshil shel bassar (although excluded by the Shulchan aruch) is included in the 9 days prohibition by the vast majority of Ashkenazic poskim as well as several contemporary sefardic ones as well - similar to laws of meat and milk.
see this excellent comprehensive article by rabbi Y. spitz addressing this exact issue (in the postscript):


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The subspace in question: $V=\{ \vec{u} \in \Bbb{R}^n : \vec{n}^T\vec{u}=\vec{0} \}$
I am assuming that $\vec{u} = \begin{bmatrix}x_0 \\ x_1 \\ \vdots \\ x_2\end{bmatrix}$.
The dimension of a vector space/subspace is equal to the number of linearly independent vectors in its basis. So it's either 1 or n. Does $\vec{u}$ count as 1 or as n?


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Could anyone point to good readable references for learning about syntomic cohomology?
I like the notes here, though I must confess I haven't read them completely. It has a nice introduction and explains the context.
I collected my very superficial knowledge only from browsing some articles, so that I can't give good bibl. hints. Perhaps some Besser's new construction of syntomic cohomology for smooth schemes or this article by Kato and Messing could be usefull.
Today new in the arxiv: "Cohomologie syntomique: liens avec les cohomologies étale et rigide".
Edit: Jan Nekovar announces an appendix to this article on "foundational aspects of syntomic topology and cohomology" (perhaps obtainable on request?) and mentions descriptions here and here.
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While looking through the guide, MTV now has rerun movies, reruns episodes of South Park and the Chappelle Show (I am not complaining, but WGN is doing the same thing), and reruns of other stuff. What gives? Has MTY run out of gas and becoming just another cable channel?


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I hear often in anime and is translated as "but". And normally, it's at the beginning of the sentence. But I wonder if it used outside of the TV/movie world. For instance, きみ, I hear very often in anime, but I've been told it's not used in everyday speaking.
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Ah, I just noticed we don't use だが very often in daily conversation. I think we often use だが in these three patterns (normally in written style):
I personally don't use it when I talk, maybe because it sounds rather masculine I guess. I think older, say middle-aged men (like my dad, my uncle, and my boss) say that sometimes. I think I've heard my dad say "だがしかし、あれだな~..." while watching TV or reading a newspaper and my boss say to my colleagues "だがねえ、きみ..."
As for きみ, I don't use that either, but I think my boss sometimes calls my colleagues きみ, and I've heard many of my teachers/professors call their students きみ at school/college.
が is common at the end of a sentence or to connect two sentences into one, and it may mean something like "but" or "although". It's difficult to say without more context, but I'm guessing the だ you speak of is the short form です, in which case I see no problem. (although I more often hear だけど (and ですが) than だが)
Lot of people have a different opinion on Japanese language. Like I personally think that きみ is used in everyday conversation, you just need the right environment.
だが is not used much but it is still used and it is not weird to use it if it matches the way you speak. It depends on the person's speaking level/style a lot.
ref: http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/thsrs/2220/m0u/
It is written that だが is literary language and then, not really used by woman.


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when I browse to League of Legends forums I see a lot of guys playing with "Smartcast". What is this? Can someone explain me this and how can I use it?
when I browse to League of Legends forums I see a lot of guys playing with "Smartcast". What is this? Can someone explain me this and how can I use it?
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Long story short, abilities that normally would require to press the shortcut button (Q,W,E,R) is launched immediatly, without the display of targeting graphics (skillshot arrows or range indicators).
You can easily set all abilities to smartcast by going to the keybindings menu and looking up options such as "Smartcast ability 1, ability 2 etc." and switching them to your normal ability keys - Q,W,E,R.
Some examples are:
*Note: After some not-too-old patch, you can see the aim-helpers on (manually set) smartcast abilities while you are holding down the ability key.
smartcasted skills are used right away the moment you press the skill key without the need to click the mouse additionally
you can use it either with shift+skillkey or change the key in the key bindings
Smart cast allows your champion to use a spell just by clicking on the skill button.
Whomever your mouse is highlighting the spell will be cast on.
Where ever your mouse is pointing your skill will be cast on that spot.
Skill shots will go in the direction of your mouse.
Note* If you want self heal spells to cast on yourself with smart casting, you need to bind your keys to Smart Cast + Self Cast


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Proof that $\binom{n}{\smash{0}}^2+\binom{n}{1}^2+\cdots+\binom{n}{n}^2=\binom{\smash{2}n}{n}$ using a counting argument
It is an exercise in a book on discrete mathematics.It is like this.
Give a combinatorial argument to prove that $\sum_{k=0}^{n}C\left ( n,k \right)^{2}=C\left ( 2n,n \right )$.
I don't know how to begin with it.It's hard for me to construct such a set,or the context.I learned it by myself and no one around can help me whit my answer. Thanks for your help.


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I program simple tasks everyday, but I have a hard time finding the scripts, and code snippets I write. Is there an manageable way to keep track of this sort of thing?
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I use Mercurial for this. My work is on both Linux and Windows, so I have such small code snippets for both the system. I have created a repository on windows, on which I save all this scripts and then the clone of this on linux. I keep both in sync.
Try bookmarking your code with reminder comments. That will help you a lot. Also there are a variety of great source control management systems available in the market.
As others have already said, a VCS alone is not enough for this. What your really need is a "database" of (possibly versioned) snippets or, even better, a "knowledge base" or a "wiki" of snippets like github's gist.
If you are in my same position, most likely you are not allowed to publish your code. In this case, you have to setup your own gist, either on your PC or on a server on your LAN.
Have a look at gitpaste for this:
There are other gist clones that can be used for this task, out there. You can also use one of those "desktop wiki" (or "mind mapping") programs that were so fashionable some years ago.
Everything that can help you to create a small, managed (and possibly versioned) "snippet base" will work fine.
Of course, if you are allowed to publish your snippets, you can just use gist.


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I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. After booting, system recommended me some drivers for my graphic card (nVidia GT 325M). After installation and reboot all I see is black screen. Recovery mode gives the same effect. I have Windows 7 on the same machine. How can I repair (delete drivers?)? I'm Linux newbie so please, be simple. I also would like to ask is there some working solution for hybrid graphic on Ubuntu? I've read some info on the internet but haven't found any solution and nVidia says they will not provide support for Linux with their hybrid graphics technology.
Hybrid graphics is a bad thing under Linux. Unfortunately there's not a good and easy solution to get 3D acceleration, but I can guide you to remove the Nvidia driver.
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COSTA CONCORDIA: A CRISIS WAITING TO HAPPENPosted in cruise industry, sinking ship on January 18th, 2012 by mnayor
"The public has a short memory. We might have some concerns for a few weeks. But so far, we have had no fallout." So says Neil Gorfain CEO of the Cruise Outlet a booking agent, commenting to the New York Times about the reaction to the partial sinking of the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, off the coast ofItalylast week.
How is the world ever going to become a better place, how are companies going to become more responsible, how are the lives of individuals going to improve if this observation is true? Have we become so immune to tragedy that, after the initial shock waves, we all just go back to our normal routines and in time we forget? The short answer is yes, we do forget. The BP explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the tsunami inJapanare already only vague recollections. Are there people now diligently working on better drilling safety? On better nuclear plant safety? Let's hope so. After all, people died.
Carnival Lines, parent of the Costa Lines, has felt the backlash. Its shares dropped significantly in theU.S.on the first day of trading after the partial sinking. Crisis management on the part of Costa Lines has been weak, amounting basically to shrill accusations of negligence against the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, in guiding the ship too close to shore. While the blame game does take some of the heat off of the company, it underscores the weakness of management control and loose cruise industry regulations. A more intelligent and responsible reaction would have been for Carnival and Costa to both hammer home the need to thoroughly investigate every aspect of the tragic accident, including human error, in order to identify every possible cause; and to pledge to take whatever steps necessary to ensure that nothing like this is ever repeated. Expressions of deep regret, which are not automatically interpreted as admissions of guilt, are in order as well.
As an immediate step, the public needs to know that a company recognizes itself as the major player, willing to undertake that role for the public good. Expensive? Perhaps. Worth it? Most often a resounding yes, in terms of public perception and goodwill. As a responsible corporate citizen, act sensitively, investigate and devote whatever resources available to help fix the problem and keep the public informed regularly along the way.
Preserving reputation and directing efforts to problem-solving are the first order of business. Assessing blame comes later and is best left to third parties. No one ever looks good saying it is someone else's fault. An insurance investigation, a public hearing, a regulatory investigation, a private investigation that is made public are just some of the opportunities you have to provide input to show the root causes of a crisis. Let a neutral source absolve you of blame. In the end it carries far more weight, and is more persuasive and acceptable.
Could Carnival and Costa avoid tragedies like this? Could the industry do something about it? Yes, on both counts. With sophisticated GPS navigational systems available, every cruise line can and should monitor its ships on the water as closely as planes are monitored in the sky.
The cruise industry has over 12 million passengers a year and deals with many issues such as health and environment matters, safety, security, and employee conduct. The industry has far to go to achieve a high level of public acceptance and respect.
Recent public concerns reached a point that The Cruise Vessel Security & Safety Act of 2010 (sponsored by Representative Doris Matsui D-CA and Senator John Kerry D-MA) was passed and signed into law by president Obama. The legislation primarily covered passenger safety from assaults. Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) the industry's trade association, devoted significant resources to unsuccessfully counter the legislation, and believes the industry can better handle matters by voluntary compliance. Yet the public has seen only attempts to stone-wall needed improvements. Because of Costa Concordia there is renewed call for stricter regulation. CLIA, dedicated to promoting and growing the cruise industry, will certainly be very active in countering future regulatory and policy developments.
As responsible corporate citizens companies themselves need to do more to enhance their own reputations. They must become more proactive to sustain and augment their "brands" and corporate reputations. The public perception is that cruise lines are not transparent. Even after a crisis event has passed, a company is more apt to stay mum than to discuss its actions, thereby fomenting the idea that secrecy is the order of the day.
Major efforts by the industry and individual companies to ensure all aspects of passenger safety, are vital to instill public confidence and customer loyalty, and to grow. Unquestionably, proactive management needs to implement continual training, accountability and monitoring. Otherwise the call for renewed government regulation will rightly escalate.


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How to Use the Oil Cleanse Method for Clearer Skin
About two years ago I started the process of cleaning up what I was putting on my body, not just in it. Your skin is your largest organ; everything that goes on it ends up in you; so anything that was going on my skin was subjected to intense scrutiny. Sixteen months ago I finally ditched my face wash, and started using the Oil Cleanse Method.


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I'm using ubuntu 10.10 and today during surfing suddenly the screen turned black with this error message
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What can be the reason?
I'm using ubuntu 10.10 and today during surfing suddenly the screen turned black with this error message
What can be the reason?
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The error messages is specifically coming from plymouth; there's a fix being tested as described at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649917 . I'm assuming what's happened is that X has crashed and the message was displayed earlier in the boot process and was left on the display when X crashed.
This warning message is related to a warning during booting, and happens for everyone from time to time. It, in itself, has nothing to do with the problem with your Desktop session disappearing. As mentioned in the other answers, try using Alt-F7 or Alt-F8 to see if the console switched accidentally. (Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 are text consoles, and Alt-F7 and above are the consoles traditionally used for your Desktop sessions.)
You may press accidentally Ctrl-Alt-F8..F12 key while surfing? If yes, you switch to debug console. Message itself is harmless, I see it on my notebook every startup. Next time it appears, try Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to your X session.
As others have said, the message you quote is probably irrelevant to the real problem, which is that your X server disappeared.
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I've been asked for a reference for the following construction and since I didn't know one, I thought I'd ask here if anyone did.
Consider two smooth manifolds with boundary of the same dimension, $M$ and $N$. Suppose that we have a submanifold $S$ of the boundaries $\partial M$ and $\partial N$ of codimension $0$ ($S$ may have boundary as well). Then glue $M$ and $N$ together along $S$, smoothing out the corners (corresponding to the boundary of $S$) if necessary. To do this properly, one would have to add a collar to each of $M$ and $N$ which is "broken" at the boundary of $S$ (thus making manifolds-with-corners) and glue those.
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Bengals Fans: No More Katy Perry
After enraging their fans with a misguided musical choice, the Cincinnati Bengals are calling an audible.
The Bengals—who on Monday unveiled Katy Perry's megahit "Roar" as a pregame, in-game and postgame song at Paul Brown Stadium—said on Friday that the song will no longer be featured as prominently.
The decision comes after a social-media backlash over the team's usage of the song—which, as bubblegum pop fare, was an affront to typical football tastes. Fans took to Twitter to complain before the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers was even over.
"I think some fans proved that there's an expectation that when the team takes the field, there should be more of a hard-rock, classic-rock song and I know that's what we're going to do this game," said Jeff Berding, the Bengals' director of sales and public affairs. "Katy Perry is not going to be the last song you hear before the team takes the field."
The Bengals host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. A representative for Perry didn't return a message seeking comment.
The move is a win for tradition, but it also is proof of a national problem. Stadium music nationwide is calcified. Most arenas and stadiums play the same songs they have been playing for years, since testosterone-fueled rock is what people expect.
When Mitchell Morgan, a 23-year-old business student in Cincinnati, tried to get pumped up in the stadium's upper bowl before the game Monday, he braced to bang his head to classic stadium rock fare—Guns N' Roses, maybe AC/DC. Instead, he heard "Roar," which—while having some Bengals-oriented lyrics ("I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar")—is far softer than what he expected.
"I mean, I know what they are going for but it's not going to work. How can you think you can do something like that without any backlash?" Morgan said. "There were Steelers fans next to me laughing."
Andrew Watson, a 31-year-old insurance broker who was in section 102 on Monday, looked at his cousin when the song began. "We both kind of looked at each other like, 'Is that the song they are really playing?' " he said. "I would hope they aren't trying to make it an anthem."
Jason Patrick, a 34-year-old in sales in section 312, said it was "the running joke of the night."
"You expect to hear certain things at a football game: 'Crazy Train' and basically 'Jock Jams volume one,' " he said, referring to the compilation of stadium staples released in the 1990s. "So we hear this and we're saying, 'Uh, is this our new theme song?' "
Berding, the Bengals employee, said the song was embraced by the game-day entertainment staff, since "the lyrics are sort of on the mark and we thought it was a good song," he said. "The social media was obviously very negative."
Berding said three years ago the team decided to diversify its songs and was met with a similar but much-less-visible reaction when they started to play more country music. He said that walking around the stadium on Monday, he didn't notice any particular disdain for the song—until he checked the Internet.
The song may still be played while fans are filing into the stadium, Berding said. No decision has been made on if it will continue to be a post-victory song.
The song is also featured in the stadium mixes for other tiger-named teams, with little to no fallout. A Detroit Tigers spokesman said the team "will continue to play it at most if not all Tigers home games this season."
"The good news is…we beat the Steelers, it was a great night," Watson said. "Other than the song."
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:31 pm
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I can see it now, some unfortunate student is going to get screwed on an open-book test because he bought his book on his iPad and no electronic devices are allowed. I can see universities/teachers letting up on eReaders, but not any Apple products.
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I'm already sick of the iPad jokes. Good lord. It was funny for like five minutes.
PS: Don't call amazon to see if they have them/will carry them. They will probably just tell you to buy a Kindle anyway.
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I'm still giggling about the name and I'm not too proud to admit it.
It's the first thing a person thinks of upon hearing it, what were they thinking? I mean, at least the Wii had the excuse of "Oh, they're Japanese. They don't know any better."
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:40 am
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Mizike wrote:
at least the Wii had the excuse of "Oh, they're Japanese. They don't know any better."
the Wii is also a social device, therefore being appropriate (I don't know if that was intentional or not), and I don't think the homophone has the same connotation the world over, either.
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They totally made the Wii name work though. Took some effort but it worked. I don't think IPad will be quite so catchy.
I have a laptop and a Kindle. If I actually wanted a smart phone, I would get one (I would never talk to anyone, ever). So, would I ever need an IPad? Not really.
Now, is this where textbooks are going? I really believe yes though I am actually more of a paper fan as I tend to really spread out when I do homework and notes. So I won't be happy until I have a way to project all of that on a floor with me being able to shuffle things around would be great. But I do expect that students of the near future can easily get used to a more screen approach.
BUT I have a Kindle and it is REALLY easy to read. It performs so well as a book. IF Amazon can continue to get that message out, they can do very well (and if they change their damn book organization). I am actually thrilled that my book can check wiki and do the basic web searches that I like to do to clarify or expand on whatever I am reading. Then I go back to reading. If I want to play, I'll pull out my phone or laptop.
But maybe book reading is dead and the Kindle is toast.
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On the market side of things, it does seem expensive for a book with games and interviews on it. How many book readers will want all that? And how many people want to shell out for a large IPhone?
Of course, give Apple a few iterations and it will be really cool but it better be able to almost replace my laptop. Wait, didn't they already do that with the MacBook Air?
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IPad? Thats So 2002, Fujitsu Says
By HIROKO TABUCHI
Published: January 28, 2010
TOKYO Its sleek. Its mobile. It has a touchscreen.
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The Fujitsu iPAD.
Its Fujitsus iPad from 2002.
Sold mainly in the United States, the multifunctional device from the Tokyo technology company helps shop clerks verify prices, check real-time inventory data and close sales on the go.
Fujitsu, which applied for an iPad trademark in 2003, is claiming first dibs, setting up a fight with Apple over the name of the new tablet device that Apple plans to sell starting in March.
Its our understanding that the name is ours, Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsus public relations division, said Thursday. He said Fujitsu was aware of Apples plans to sell the iPad tablet and that the company was consulting lawyers over next steps.
Fujitsus iPad, which runs on Microsofts CE.NET operating system, has a 3.5-inch color touchscreen, an Intel processor and Wi-fi and Bluetooth connections; it also supports VoIP telephone calls over the Internet, a technology also used by Skype.
Mobile is a keyword for Fujitsus iPad, too, Mr. Yamane said. With the iPad, workers dont have to keep running back to a computer. They have everything right at their fingertips.
Apple may have an edge on pricing, however: the iPads from Fujitsu can sell for more than $2,000, compared with $499 for an entry-model iPad from Apple.
Fujitsu's application to trademark the iPad name stalled because of an earlier filing by Magtek, an information technology security company based in Seal Beach, California, for a handheld number-encrypting device.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office listed Fujitsus application as abandoned in early 2009, but the company revived its application in June.
The following month, Apple used a proxy to apply for an international trademark for the iPad. It has since filed a string of requests with the U.S. Patent Office for more time to oppose Fujitsus application. Apple has until Feb. 28 to say whether it will oppose Fujitsus claims to the iPad name.
While the dispute between Fujitsu and Apple centers on the United States, there are other iPads around the world. The German conglomerate Siemens uses the name for engines and motors, while a Canadian lingerie company, Coconut Grove Pads, has the right to market iPad padded bras.
Apple faced a similar spat three years ago with Cisco Systems over the iPhone name. The two companies eventually negotiated a settlement.
Soo an IPad is a wireless inventory control device, an industrial motor, a padded brassiere OR now the latest toy from apple?
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went into a bit more detail.
But the folks at Fujitsu, the Japanese technology firm, may not be quite so eager to forgive and forget. The company has applied for the iPad trademark in the United States and already sells an iPad a $2,000 hand-held device that shop clerks use to check inventory.
STMicroelectronics, the Swiss semiconductor company, owns the iPad trademark in Europe and uses it as an acronym for integrated passive and active devices which sounds less fun than playing games on a tablet. (A third company, MagTek of Seal Beach, Calif., makes a portable magnetic card reader of the same name.)
These kinds of naming conflicts have not stopped Apple before. In 2007, on the eve of the introduction of the iPhone, the technology giant Cisco Systems pointed out that it already sold an Internet handset called the iPhone. Steven P. Jobs, Apples chief executive, led the negotiation for the name, peppering Cisco executives with calls at all hours, and telling them he was prepared to claim that Cisco was underutilizing the trademark.
Mr. Jobs finally persuaded Cisco to surrender the trademark with a vague promise to market their products jointly a partnership that never materialized.
Hes a very tough businessman and tough negotiator, said Charles Giancarlo, a former Cisco executive who dealt directly with Mr. Jobs on the issue. I feel sorry for the poor guy at Fujitsu who is going to be negotiating with Steve directly.
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Even just give me a full version of Safari, but multi-touch enabled, and I might be prepared to ignore the iPad's other shortcomings. Meanwhile I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I basically want the Asus T91 hardware, running the iPhone OS but with the full version of Safari and access to an online book store. It doesn't seem like we'll see this device anytime soon, although Android is obviously one to watch. The iPad is going to trigger a wave of competitors, most of which will suck, but I think it's worth waiting to see what comes along. If the iPad was AU$299 I'd happily buy one to tide me over while I wait for that dream device. Yet considering I already own an iPhone, at this stage I don't see why I should shell out the price of a netbook for a device Jobs claims is better than a netbook but is no better than my iPhone, just bigger.
Oh, and
CNET's headline
The Apple iPad: It's just ahead of its time
But I think there will be a market for a touch-screen, all-in-one device that's more than a Kindle and less than a laptop, and it's easy to imagine getting all my media on one slick Internet-connected device that also works as one heck of a pretty digital picture frame.
See you in three to five years!
... Okay so I am a huge Kindle fan but I am really not sure how much the market for an IPad and the Kindle are actually going to overlap.
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Thing is, Apple is only the first out of the gate with a keyboardless tablet thingy, but there are plenty of projects from other companies already in development that weren't waiting to see what Apple did. There are Nvidia Tegra2-powered tablets floating around in development and waiting to reach the market as we speak. Anything that comes later, though, will be seen as following Apple's lead.
I also don't get the constant comparisons between the iPad and the Kindle, or the hype of it being a "Kindle Killer." Just because they're both capable of reading e-books and have one big display? Why are people assuming they're even in direct competition?
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Perhaps because of this?
Amazons done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle, CEO Steve Jobs said during the launch of the iPad. Were going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.
I am not sure how the keyboard thing on a tablet is going to play out. One finger typing or two thumb typing has been working but getting to two hands is going to be difficult. I know so many people who dislike laptop keyboards because they are too small. Netbook keyboards are totally out. So on a carry me around because I'm smaller than the laptop and really shiny? I worry about space issues.
Or just teach everyone single handed typing and then the problem is solved!
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They really should have given it more functionality. instead it's a glorified larger iPod touch (no camera, no phone -- does it even have a mic?)
WHy couldn't it be the next-gen of the Mac Mini? instead of the computer with no screen, the screen with no comput waitasecond
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First, I had nothing to do with this:
Second, Apple was not the first to release a tablet of this nature. The
(I kid you not), was announced a few months ago and has about equal footing with the iPad specs-wise. Some things are better, some are worse, both are $500.
EDIT: Gizmodo.com just posted this convenient chart.
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All of those had been announced more or less officially before Apple announced the iPad. The Adam was at CES.
I'm vaguely interested in the Dell Mini 5 (it looks nice), the Adam, and the Archos 7. The lack of Flash would be a killer for me - if I can't watch hulu between classes at school or on a break at work I'm not interested - but supposedly HTML5 will include a streaming standard that may make Flash superfluous... so as long as these devices get firmware updates to make them HTML5 compliant they'll be able to play video over the internet without paying royalties to Adobe. I like, in theory, that the Adam allows you to switch the LCD display between backlit and transflective modes, which is comparable to e-ink in its readability and shows "muted" colors. The transflective layer
right now
reduces viewing angle, but they've got some time to figure it out. I also like that the Adam is using the Tegra 2 chip, which is pretty tight. I'm also pretty pleased with the Dell's use of the Snapdragon processor, though I'm wary of Dell handheld devices generally.
Other random things: yeah, the iPad costs $130 more for 3G... but there's also a monthly fee ($15, or $30 for unlimited), but it's pay as you go, so you can turn it on and off as you need it... I guess it was too much to ask that it have the 3G included, like the Kindle, considering it includes a web browser, but it's still unfortunate.
It was expected that the iPad would fall between smartphones and laptops - at least, from my understanding of the chatter - but I was disappointed. I had high hopes for this being more similar to the CrunchPad-turned-JooJoo. This isn't really "between" a smartphone and a laptop, because it really only has two features the iPhone lacks - iBooks and the larger screen - but lacks the phone.
I could
get used to using a tablet for textbook reading, which would make them infinitely easier to justify buying, but it would have to have a hell of an interface. I tend to flip around and flipping through physical pages is much faster than on a computer, not to mention that I like to write notes as I read, which would either eat up screen real estate or require a second device.
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The Dell model will reportedly be twice the price of the base iPad, without a carrier subsidy
. And remember, it's a 5-inch tablet. Way to drop the ball Dell, if I may say so.
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For me, all I really want out of a tablet is to be able to view content that's stored somewhere else. Storage space doesn't mean that much to me, but a speedy connection does. If I can watch videos, view google docs, read email and maybe even type in a short reply, that's ideal for me.
To be more specific, I have a file server with videos in DivX format that I would like to be able to pull the videos from. I'd also like to be able to view flash(though in the next year or two, HTML 5 may be sufficient). I also wouldn't be at all shocked if Google announced ebook support in google docs in the near future. I don't need an image editor, camera, phone, or even 3G as this would probably basically live at my house and never leave except maybe the occasional road trip. Multitasking might be nice, but to be honest, it's not a dealbreaker for me. A big sell for me would be able to run an app like Team Viewer or a VNC client, as that would make for the ultimate remote for my HTPC.
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I plan to boil a fresh lobster.
Serving it only with melted butter and lemon seems like not enough.
What would be a good side dish for it?
I plan to boil a fresh lobster.
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You will want side dishes that will not overcome the taste of the lobster. Steamed or grilled asparagus with just the barest drizzle of olive oil and coarse salt immediately come to my mind. Add a nice risotto (mushroom?) then send me an invitation.
I'm sure someone should suggest a lightly dressed salad.
I think it might go with mashed sweet potato with lots of pepper!
I would suggest anything that you can grab easily and is not difficult to eat. You are going to have to get dirty cracking the lobster, so why not get some corn kernels on your face? Growing up in New England our lobster dinner included sweet corn on the cob and cornbread. (The butter can be used on all of it!)
Also, if you want some greens, maybe some steamed broccoli?
In terms of flavors, are you going to just do a salted water boil or maybe add some old bay? you can even add bay leaves to the water. If you are adding flavors to the lobster while boiling, think of how those would go with the sides.
I always like it when breads are served with lobster!
Bread, garlic butter, salad, maybe grilled potatoes and asparagus (not my favourite food, but the neutral taste and texture would go with the subtlety of lobster).
Bread's probably essential to neutralise the fat in the butter.
Lobster is really popular in North Western France. I've seen it served there with crawfish cocktails and oysters; something like this.
You can also just keep it down to earth and simple. In New England I used to eat lobster with french fries. Not quite worthy of Brittany, but yummy all the same.


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By Margaret Hamburger-Oracle on Apr 09, 2013
Delighted to see Oracle's Jenny Gelhausen receive the IOUG's 2013 Ken Jacobs Award at Collaborate 13 in Denver. Every year, the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recognize an Oracle employee who has positively affected the success of the IOUG through their support of the organization. Jenny works tirelessly behind the scenes helping the IOUG network, educate and share best practices throughout Oracle's technology and database community.
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A professor of history at the University of Michigan, Thornton received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1974 under Dr. C. Van Woodward, an expert on the South during the second half of the 20th century. Thornton's first book wasPolitics and Power in a Slave Society, 1800-1860, published in 1978. He also wrote a groundbreaking essay on the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the Alabama Review. It was the first treatise on the struggle's origin in the 1920s and its significance to local politics.
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Actually I got stuck while searching a materialized view approach in SQL Server. My problem was that I have two databases and I have created some views whose functionality is to read data from one DB to another.
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What is the difference between CPU and Microprocessor?
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A microprocessor is essentially a processor that happens to be on a chip (or a small number of chips), as opposed to one made from a large number of individual components.
As foo says, properly CPU refers to the main processor(s) of a system, though most of the time we call any processor that is typically used in this way a CPU. For example, we might refer to the Z80 processor in a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis as a CPU even though it actually serves as an auxiliary to the main processor, which is a more powerful Motorola 68k. (I believe the Z80 is often used to control the music and sound effects, though there is no reason why it would have to be used at all in a particular game.)
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6 Inspiring Ways Internet Mobs Have Come to the Rescue
#3. A Tourist Lost on Ice Is Saved by a Webcam
St. Peter-Ording is a little town in northern Germany with some apparently beautiful coastlines, so much so that they've set up a live webcam feed for anyone in the world who wants to see for themselves, but not badly enough that they're willing to get out of their chair to do it. Of course, northern Germany in the winter is a blasted arctic wasteland, so viewers at this time of year aren't treated to the most impressive spectacle.
Yet, for whatever reason, somebody on the opposite end of the country happened to be watching the live feed one winter evening, because when you get bored enough on the Internet you'll watch anything. The unnamed woman, who we're assuming had another browser window open to, we don't know, play Bejeweled or something, somehow noticed an odd flashing light in the webcam feed. And somehow, she figured out that it was a goddamn person trapped on the fucking ice.
"If you can see this please send help ... preferably Batman."
A tourist in St. Peter-Ording had decided to wander outside to take some photographs of the sunset. Being that the North Sea was entirely frozen at the time, the photographer just kept walking until he realized he was standing on the ocean and couldn't figure out which direction land was. With the sun going down, any attempt to start walking was destined to end in him falling through the ice or freezing to death, or some combination of the two.
So, he did the only thing he could think to do under the circumstances, which was to use the flash on his camera in the hope that someone would see it up on the shore. But no one was there to see it. His only audience were faceless Internet viewers who under normal circumstances would worry only about how to turn his frozen corpse into a humorous image macro.
Instead, this anonymous watcher hundreds of miles away called the police and somehow was able to explain why these weird flashes she saw on a webcam feed justified a rescue effort in the area. The police headed out and realized that this was not some arcane 4chan prank, but an actual stranded hiker out on the ice. They were able to lure him back on shore by flashing their own lights at him to show the way. Then he probably went home and made a rage comic about it.
#2. Crowdsourcers Improve Cancer Treatment
For all our modern 21st century medical accomplishments, cancer still pretty much has us beat. The treatments involve a whole menagerie of chemicals that may or may not be effective depending on what kind of cancer a patient has. These millions of variables are what have kept an effective "cure" for cancer so elusive. Puzzling through it is the kind of task that would require a whole bank of supercomputers ... or simply harnessing the power of the Internet's boredom.
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"Throw in some cat pics and I'm in."
Cancer Research UK created an online interactive database called Click to Cure that invites Internet users to aid in the fight against cancer, as long as they're willing to do a boring, repetitive task for free. Well, shit, that's what we were doing anyway!
The idea came from projects developed by astronomers to use crowdsourcing to document millions of galaxies. And even though slides of human tissue are, as a whole, a lot less enthralling to look at than the eternal mysteries of the deep cosmos, people seem to be taking up the cause. When users log in to Click to Cure, they are met with a quick tutorial that demonstrates how to racially profile the cancer cells by identifying their irregular shape and yellow color. After this, they're shown a series of slides and asked to identify what they see in each and note the proportion of irregular cells that exist. This information gives crucial insight to researchers in determining which treatments are effective for each different type of cancer cell.
"We were going to add a comment section, but figured it'd just be filled with bitching about it being a slideshow."
Remember, this is time that people could spend looking at free porn and YouTube videos of animals doing amusing things that they have instead been dedicating to trawling through boring images of cells and rating their yellowness. Hey, it's still better than working.
At the time this article went to print, the combined force of cancer hatred on the Internet has analyzed over 700,000 of these cancerous images, and Cancer Research UK is convinced that a major cancer breakthrough is buried somewhere within their data. They estimate that they can condense research that normally would have taken years into only a few months. Hell, if they could have found a way for us to masturbate while doing this, cancer would have been cured already.
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#1. A Website Buys a Dream Home for a Wounded Soldier
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On May 31, 2012, John Resig, co-owner of photo entertainment website TheCHIVE.com, took a break from posting his usual content of attractive women in skimpy bikinis to post the story of Taylor Morris. Morris had been in the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit, the team that disarms al-Qaida's improvised explosive devices so that the military don't get themselves blown up -- precisely the job that was popularized in The Hurt Locker.
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"I was really into Minesweeper as a kid."
In early 2012, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, Morris was leading a team of Army Special Forces when he stepped on a bomb and was put in the very unenviable position of having to watch all of his limbs fly off. After returning to the hospital to recover, Morris would have to adjust to living the remainder of his life a quadruple amputee, which is basically getting a full house in a game of Sucks To Be You Poker.
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Morris' expenses were fully covered by the Navy, but in a conversation with Resig, he mentioned that it had always been a dream for him and his girlfriend to own a log cabin in the woods on a lake. Resig could have nodded and replied that he'd like to own a houseboat made of cocaine, but instead he went to the CHIVE to describe his friend's plight.
The goal was to raise $30,000 for a down payment on Morris' dream home. The actual raised amount 12 hours after the Chivers started donating was $250,000, which was more than enough for Taylor to build his dream home, as well as meet the president and be fitted with prosthetic limbs. This Internet thing might work out after all.
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For more reasons the Internet isn't all that bad, check out 13 Awesome Photos That Will Make You Happy to Be Alive and The 12 Most Strangely Satisfying Videos on the Internet.
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tmux wants me to press Command+A (or Command+B by default, changed it by having
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