Since it starts with 1990 games and only PC games at that, it misses out
on some very early games, and its entirely 1st person centered, not a must
read, but covers a lot of nostalgia for me. Plenty of games I never played. Just
have to list my fav games. Unreal was just so amazingly beutiful compared
with any i'd played before. Return to Castle Wolfstein wasn't even listed but
was a great game. Then Half Life of course.
Its the best color for taking someones eye out. Adsorbed very well
by your poor red retina. Rembember not to look into Laser beam
with you remaining good eye.
It teenagers wanting to look more cool than there friends. Hack the gamescore, they
can look like there brilliant games, without bothering to play. Of course once there
challenged to a game, and have there arse whipped, they'll look even less cool.
Absolutely music has been a hideous corporate game with big publisher, deciding the
style and message of music, and marketing to the young, for far to long. Any step
away from that has to be a good thing.
Yes, Immune Therapy has been tried for years, but that doesn't mean it will never amount to anything. It only
means that its hard to get right. The first batch of Cancer, Immune Therapies are only now coming to market.
One example is Provenge, for otherwise untreatable Prostate Cancer, by the Dendreon Corporation, its still awaiting FDA approval, in the first of its
phase III trials, turned a 3 year survivial rate from around %20 to around %40, and added a mean 3 months
of life. Thats hardly a cure all, but it is significant. If approved Provenge will probably be the first Cancer Immune
Therapy on the market, likely leading to many of Vaccines for many other Tumors over the next ten or so years. (Drugs take
that long or longer to market unfortunately).
In the future a major proportion of the world economy will be lived in MMO
style worlds. People with spend much of there time there, because in
a polluted, expensive, miserable rule world, just doesn't have anything for
them. Some people, like chinese gold farmers now, will slave in artificial
game jobs, finding magic swords and a like for the spoiled teenagers of
the richer classes. Gambling on gameplay might all spring up as a mini
industry for the denizens of the MMO environments. It will be so much
fun, that many people will neglect there real lives, usually spent alone in
VR environment in dirty bed sits and ever smaller flats.
it Dies on common names and website, seems to find the
wrong names most of the time. Its main info source is
dbpedia, which is a ad hoc, system for turning wikipedia
entries in database items, (since wikipedia isn't very semantic
the dbpedia has to do some guessing). Maybe Sig.ma will
get usable someday, it isn't now.
AI seems in the news again. Forbes recently
ran a AI report special. Personnel despite the internet, i'm not seeing that much development of AI, I scan the ArXiv computer pre-print fairly regularly, and with current funding, most
AI research is what can be done by a graduate student in his 3 years to get a thesis. Thats leads to a lot of small projects, done just well enough and very little reuse. Until researchers
and programmers start working in mass to construct AI machines, Artificial Intelligence is going progress very slowly.
Could be carbon dust, if the impactor was a carbonaceous asteroid.
Might also be sulphur compounds blown up from the lower
reaches of Jupiters atmosphere.
Yes, start adding the latesh fastest and most expensive
components add you've easierly over $1000, probably
nearer $2000. A core 2 extreme qx9775 starts at $1175,
before you've added anything else. A geforce qtx295 is
another $500. There are also workstation premium graphics
cards like the quadro fx, that run as expensive as $2500.
No you don't need that sort of power for most things, but
it easierly spent if you've got it.
I've often wanted to build one of these. I got as far as a working 10,000
Marx generator (20*450 capacitors charge in parallel and discharge
in series. Made a nice spark but that all.
I gave up before I got a output transformer and a aiming antenna built.
I don't think it was anyway near a practicle EMP, but it was fun to
play the high voltage stuff.
Does it matter, its all DirectX
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Don't Windows games almost entirely run upon the DirectX layer, so
it doesn't much matter what the window version is under that. Just as long as it stable and Windows 7 promises to be much stabler, at least thats what microsoft say. Knowing microsoft it would probably take until the service release before it actually stable.
If the wind companies are to need special transportion vehicles in order to transport the
pieces of the wind towers and turbines. I wonder if it would be worth redesigning the machines to
be transportable on more standard vehicles. On second thoughts perphaps not, the average wind turbine has a twenty five year design life, and payback time. So it is based to maximize the power output to price ratio, in the design. But perphaps they should give some thought to transportion on the drawing board.
The designers should have known, and any RFID system, can
be read without the owner knowing it, making it a security risk.
Bad choice of technology from the outset.
Nasa can't afford to many delays in there program, if there are to get the ISS finished before
the Shuttle program shutdowns down in september next year. The launch is now rescheduled
to Sunday.
First we'd have to go back to the drawing board with Silicon Chips, to create
titanium oxide memristor chips of a similar density to current chips. Then we
could start designing these memristor AI circuit. Why are these like the brain?
A Memristor decreases its resistance as more current flows through it, like
a synpases in the brain strengthen as the stimulated more often. But memristor
aren't enough, we still need something to act like a neuron to sum over the inhibitory and stimulatory
input synapses and to then fire when a great enough signal is achieved (is this a real neuron?, its the
Neuron scientist simulate in Neural Networks, the actual brain could be much cleverer).
This still hasn't made something like a brain though. Brain cells grow new synapses attaching to others
in its learning process, a chip acting like a brain, would need to do this to, and it isn't at all obvious how
to do it. So all in all, where a long way from brain like chips, even if memristor might help.
If its going to be in the Air all the time, and just circle. Why don't the
replace it with a few balloons or Zeppelins as fixed air platform. Surely
that would be a lot cheaper in maintenance, pilot time, and not burn any petrol.
That said I'm not in favour of mass surveillance, i believe the crime reduction
isn't worth the loss of civil privacy and increased taxes.
Since we've been dreaming of medical Nanorobots since Rachel Welsh got my (grand)dad hot in
Fantastic Voyage. The above robot is hardly the first, nor likely the robot to get into common use.
This a by now a small industry on Medical Nanorobots and on how to control or use them, for instance
this this paper on Medical Nano Robot Control
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I don't believe the ten years away figure. Fuel Cell
cars and hydrogen running Internal Combustion engines
are available now. We could start building such cars now,
for example, this Honda Demo Vehicle
the main infrastructure problem, is having hydrogen gas stations.
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The idea those sound funny, and i've been laughing at a lot of
the comments here, but chicken feathers are just waste and
nearly free, so what could be cheaper to use for a hydrogen
tank?
Actually I haven't found i had to reboot ubuntu many times from
updates, maybe 4 times a year, after a heavy patch of the
Hal or the video drivers. Haven't said that i still haven't upgraded
to jaunty. I waited when It was fresh upgrade, then didn't fine the
time. Guess i've no excuse now, should be quick, but you have
to leave the time, just in case it buggers up your live services.
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manually upgrade and be there to fix the systems, than risk
a shoody automatic system going down randomly.
Exposed to air, and protected by a thin membrane, I should think these would be a little
on the explosive side, if the membrane gets damaged and water gets to the lithium, a
vigorous reaction, as the chemists says. Still you should see the caesium air battery
I built, heavy as a brick and explodes first hint of damp weather.
Sci-fi has been having human "jacking in" to computer systems, via
direct connection to the brain for a while. This technology ought to
make that possible, Just how to make the brain cells actually
connect themselves in some useful way to the rest of the brain,
seems tricky though, and i hope these gene splice brain cells
are safe against cancer etc.
If the not catching fire and burning user crotches (SONY), there leaking
and destroying equipment (any zinc carbide+other), poisoning the
environment (Nickel Cadmium). Compared to all that, lies about
battery life, seem lucky. Hope the get batteries that work as specified,
sometime. If the battery problem was easily solved, we would have all been
driving electric cars, some ten years ago.
Probably the easiest and first, and maybe even the most useful
DIY biologist in the yeasts. Creating the best yeast capable of
breaking down as must plant matter into alcohol, for biofuels, is
a problem which if solved would lead to a multimillion dollar,
eco-friendly power source. It not an easy problem, one microbiologist
spent 15 years, just adding a gene for breaking down a single wood
sugar, xylose. Hopefully it will be easier with modern equipment and
genetic knowledge, building a microbe which can digest all the varied
sugars in plant pulp would be a big win.
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