bayleo

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by bayleo 14y ago
I'm assuming since it's Asus made they did not want to interrupt sales of transformer primes (essentially the same specs with a larger screen/keyboard-plugin). I would love to see a 10" transformer as the next Nexus tablet device.
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by bayleo 14y ago
I would at least like to see the data they already have from Goggles in a live overlay; that way it could at least identify and display information about notable landmarks/stores/etc, but I'm sure they're struggling enough with getting the
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by bayleo 14y ago
I'm just getting a static jpg; did they take it down? http://www.google.co.nz/logos/2012/turing-doodle-static.jpg
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by bayleo 14y ago
A well-developed AI is not without merit. Many players enjoy higher difficulty settings despite the added time/effort needed to complete a task due to a greater feeling of accomplishment. A good AI can offer the same inflated sense of rewar
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by bayleo 14y ago
This got me thinking about whether "fly-by-wire" vision will ever be viable (or preferable) to human vision and how various sight impairments would be dealt with using such a system. Certainly myopia would be a trivial fix since the image
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by bayleo 14y ago
Cultural bias always shifts abruptly and unapologetically with utility. It was once considered "dorky" to own a cellular phone. The question is not whether they can build/market it subtly enough to shirk societal ridicule, but whether they
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by bayleo 15y ago
I've tried this before while reconnoitering new cities. I have a far better setup for stealthy, comfortable car-camping than this poor chap and I typically end up breaking down and staying at a hostel or finding a furnished craigslist/couc
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by bayleo 15y ago
I'm more interested in what is going on w/ those Thinkgeek LED clocks lining his shelf.
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by bayleo 15y ago
It's a gedankenexperiment and he's invoking ceteris paribus. It's no different than isolating the velocity of two balls rolling down a slope by opting to ignore things like friction & drag in a physics problem.
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by bayleo 15y ago
"...attract[s] more venture capital dollars per person than any country — 2.5 times the U.S., 30 times Europe, 80 times India, and 300 times China." Guh, could we stop it already with the country-level statistics? Per capita or not, you can
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by bayleo 15y ago
While multiple terms definitely incentivize, it also presents the problem of forcing the politicians to begin campaigning for their next term while still in office (quite possibly hindering performance). Maybe the best solution from an eco
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by bayleo 15y ago
There's already a number of board games out there where you are essentially buying the rulebook and are asked to provide your own game pieces (pennies, figurines, whatever). Yes, they're very easy to pirate, but they usually have a low eno
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by bayleo 15y ago
Franken is one of the co-sponsors of PIPA.
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by bayleo 15y ago
There are no preferred inertial frames, etc etc. It is a cool idea though; something to keep in mind in case relativity is ever subverted.
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by bayleo 15y ago
I'm not sure that profit is relevant here; you would have to look at revenue or (even better) head-counts of moviegoers. My understanding is that domestic (US) ticket sales peaked in 2002 at 1.58B while revenue continued to rise until 2009
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by bayleo 15y ago
That said, there's only a certain amount of time each person can spend on escapism. If gaming is occupying more of that space it is intrinsically encroaching on other forms of entertainment. Ebert is notorious for writing off the gaming i
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by bayleo 15y ago
I voted for asteroids as the most statistically feared existential risk in one of the LW surveys and was shocked when the results came back: "Of possible existential risks, the most feared was a bioengineered pandemic, which got 194 votes (
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by bayleo 15y ago
The article mentioned tungsten, which has an absolutely preposterous melting point. I doubt it would melt moving at typical orbital velocities, but even if it were to be moving faster you could easily make the front of the projectile ablat
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by bayleo 15y ago
Check the bottom of the page for the list of "Things that happened since the List of Things That Have Happened Since Duke Nukem Forever Was Announced was written".
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by bayleo 15y ago
Maybe they got confused since most of the income/valuation figures for Sony are in Yen.
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by bayleo 15y ago
Yeah, he definitely optimized on his choice of sport by selecting one of the few where the advantages of age and genetics are minimized.
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Google and the Customer Service Myth
2 points by bayleo 15y ago|2 comments
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by bayleo 16y ago
I wonder if they altered that logic for the two-game tournament though, so that it would only play more conservatively on the second FJ.
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by bayleo 16y ago
Don't fret; you can still tune in after another decade or so for a machine to beat us at GO. Given IBM's trending business interest in corporate AI I would not be surprised if it were another IBM sponsored team that finally builds the succ
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by bayleo 16y ago
You're not the only one. I am stoked for some nice WP7 handsets. I'm currently an Android user but the new WP7 UI looks gorgeous and Microsoft's response to the Chevron exploit was admirable. It appears that they generally understand the
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by bayleo 16y ago
Georgia will forever be ensconced by the schoolchildren of the nineties as the best font to subtly enlarge Times New Roman, lengthening a school-paper, without actually changing the point size.
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by bayleo 16y ago
In the current weirdly democratic online business environment -- where, theoretically, anyone with enough money could clone your app -- engendering positive reactions from your userbase seems like a remarkably valid approach to long-term re
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by bayleo 16y ago
If you wanted to be even more heartless (rational) you could approximate a statistical value of life for those casualties. It wouldn't compare favorably to even the costs of installing seat-belts in one urban school district.
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by bayleo 16y ago
I was initially skeptical when Gearbox announced that they were releasing it (I figured they had just scrapped most of what was there and built their own game), but apparently 9 ex-3D realms employees formed their own micro-studio (Triptych
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by bayleo 16y ago
RIM wasn't the first one to be schooled by Apple in the "UI matters" lesson. Did anyone else own one of those Archos 20gig Jukebox players in 2000?

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