NASA needs to come up with a method to deal with losing craft. My idea is this system:
Spaceship
Homing and
Interplanetary
Tracking
Homing
Apparatus for
Provided
Planetary
Exploration /
Negligence
System
SHIT HAPPENS realizes that probes sometimes fail, and therefore they launch two probes concurrently. If both probes make it there, they can gather more information, and if only one of them makes it there, that's better than nothing.
After all, without SHIT HAPPENS, shit apparently does happen to NASA.
I have a bunch of female friends that forward letters endlessly to the point that they're no longer my friends. I'd love to put one of their heads on a stick and turn them in for 10k. Do they count?:)
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The next time I plan to commit a robbery, I'll remember to have my army of zombie bots packet flood all the internet cameras on location.
Then I'll get into my button-down shirt, put on my clunky glasses taped together, pull my pants waaaay up high, put a pocket protector on. I'll use a fake beard to hide my face.
I'll get into my car with the bumper sticker LISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSP that stretches all the way across it. I'll then go to wherever I rob, demand all their money .
On my way out, I'll have my sidekick "Script-Kiddie" tag "w3 0wn j0000" along the door of the institution.
We'll spend the money on machine and bandwidth. We're ultimately saving enough money to afford a rig that can proverbally "Slashdot" the site Slashdot.
Maybe I'll impress Malda. Maybe he'll make me the official "Filterer of stories already submitted." Maybe not. F*sk that. My site will have geek news... and porn! Enough porn to destr--- err, take over a website.
And on the other side of the switch, there's Wil Wheaton does Mandrake.
Stuff like this makes me wonder what some of the names of 24th century operating systems.
Microsoft apparently gets more powerful over the years, and decides to name it and all the companies it acquires "The Federation." Galaxy Class Starships run Windows 2.35k Service Pack 4.
(FYI: Klingons run Linux 3.5.7 kernel. Not much work has been done on it since the 22nd century, where the kernel dev team finally went bonkers and decided to started growing ridges on their heads. The penguin has been replaced by a Targ, and every year there is a festival which commemorates the burning of plush penguins).
This is the true reason Wesley left. He got tired of all the Computer Lockouts and Copyright protection. So he travels back in time to try and push Mandrake, changing the course of history into something that looks more like Firefly.
Oh God, all this acid is making my head hurt. I'll stop now.
Problem 1: Load Quake3. Examine some of the textures along the walls. Point out whether or not maps in dm1 use:
Texture Maps
Detail Maps
Bump Maps
Specular Lighting.
In the case of all four present, determine the formula for determining a pixel color with light magnitude.5 at angle 60 degrees to its normal, and 0 degrees along its x axis.
Problem 2 Load Warcraft 3. Notice the design of some of the landscape. What would be the most effective use of storage for generating map material (e.g the landscape). Exclude objects such as trees since they are objects within the level. Explain why in your reasoning.
BSP
Height map.
Triangluar Mesh.
Quad Mesh
Some of the high hills in War3 look "boxy", meaning that there aren't enough polygons within the hill. We wish to implement a grid system that also stores a third point between grid points. This point in space will be the basis for creating Bezier curves.
Write a program that takes a 100x100 array of height points, and a 100x100 grid of bezier height points, and write a program that creates a 200x200 array of height points. Remember to generate ALL height values.
Part 2: Try tesselating further into a 400x400 array.
Part 3: Render this into the API of your choice (OpenGL, Direct3d). Create a program that tesselates the grid runtime based on the distance to each key point on the grid. Derive your own reasonable equations to determine this.
Extra Credit: You'll notice some "popping" as new vertices are generated. This is because as new vertices are created between height points, the old ones are shifted over. Write a routine based on the previous problem that forms new vertices along the old position, and then morphs to the new position.
What I wouldn't pay to see the Military take up on this idea and drop explosive rigged schoolbuses or greyhound busses and drop them over Baghdad like this.
"One of the 200 or so ways that you can make a difference"
Damn, I miss Interstate 76. The only game I've ever played where you can rig a schoolbus with guns.
For those of you too lazy to build up your RPG characters yourselves, why not instead play an RPG that does not require you to do lots of work to level up.
Progress Quest follows reverently in the footsteps of recent smash hit online worlds, but is careful to streamline the more tedious aspects of those offerings. Players will still have the satisfaction of building their character from a ninety-pound level 1 teenager, to an incredibly puissant, magically imbued warrior, well able to snuff out the lives of a barnload of bugbears without need of so much as a lunch break. Yet, gone are the tedious micromanagement and other frustrations common to that older generation of RPG's.
Clearly you don't have to pay to get a leveled character here. All you do is wait, while dedicated 1% of your CPU resources to the PQ Daemon.
Okay, this is wonderful, this is great. There are planets with water out there. What are we trying to achieve here?
We're trying to find out if there's life outside of the planet Earth. How do we plan on doing that?
Yes, we look for the telltale signs of a planet similar to our own. What if a planet has an oxygen atmosphere? What if it has water? What if the temperature was suitable for people like us?
But then what? I suppose we'll send radio waves there, hoping that there's someone developed enough that will hear us out, and send something back. Fantastic.
But what if there isn't life like that there? What if there's mass levels of forests, or oceans filled with derivatives of fish? What if there's only single celled life there, or creatures that wrap around the celebral cortex like in Star Trek 2?
How do we plan to prove that there's life there? I've heard that one looks for signs of methane (I don't exactly know why), or something else along that manner. But would anything like that be conclusive? Doubtful.
I seriously doubt we'd find anything using these methods, especially considering that we're limiting ourselves to planets like our own. Life, on the smallest scales, can exist anywhere. I presume the question here is, can it be made anywhere?
The only way to find out is to go there. Too bad that by doing so we'd be contaminating the atmosphere with bacteria of our own. Oh well. The mystery lives on.
My thoughts, as posted on AnandTech's bullitin board. No one has responded since there, maybe I can get more feedback here:
Isn't this a technology that could be combined with dual bank motherboards? This would then provide 4x the bandwidth of standard single channel DDR.
I'm not thinking so much for main memory, but for graphics. Dual Channel DDR2 + QBM would be a very very good thing. Especially on something like Nv30.
Anyone know if it'd be possible to combine the technologies?
Even if Intel doesn't embrace it, AMD should. Fast memory is irrelevant for Athlon, but Opterons (especially multi-processor Opterons) could seriously take advantage of this.
Make a reference board, and others will follow suit.
When it comes to being a nerd, most of you leave your nerdiness at the door when it comes to large amounts of money.
I would get a fab. I would use 1 billion as existing capital, and look for investors to supply the rest of the finances. I would then find clientelle.
Fabs pay for themselves within a few years. I'd say it's a hell of an investment.
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The obvious question is if they can get an Windows XBox Emulator working within Windows2000 on the Xbox.
You ignorant slut! Those are Phase Cannons, which use an entirely different technology than a laser.
Enterprise is NOT Austin Powers. They do not use "LASERs"
That's it! No Xbill for a week, Michael! You must suffer for your non-geekish ways, and suffer you shall!
Spaceship
Homing and
Interplanetary
Tracking
Homing
Apparatus for
Provided
Planetary
Exploration /
Negligence
System
SHIT HAPPENS realizes that probes sometimes fail, and therefore they launch two probes concurrently. If both probes make it there, they can gather more information, and if only one of them makes it there, that's better than nothing.
After all, without SHIT HAPPENS, shit apparently does happen to NASA.
I won't put linux on my machine! Pinky Swear!
Note: I'll just put FreeBSD on instead.
If they don't make it by thanksgiving, don't worry! Just use your Athlon.
So when CowBoyNeal becomes CowManNeal, will he have the power to make ALL the poll options have something to do with him?
Just a thought...
I have a bunch of female friends that forward letters endlessly to the point that they're no longer my friends. I'd love to put one of their heads on a stick and turn them in for 10k. Do they count? :)
Then I'll get into my button-down shirt, put on my clunky glasses taped together, pull my pants waaaay up high, put a pocket protector on. I'll use a fake beard to hide my face.
I'll get into my car with the bumper sticker LISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSP that stretches all the way across it. I'll then go to wherever I rob, demand all their money . On my way out, I'll have my sidekick "Script-Kiddie" tag "w3 0wn j0000" along the door of the institution.
We'll spend the money on machine and bandwidth. We're ultimately saving enough money to afford a rig that can proverbally "Slashdot" the site Slashdot.
Maybe I'll impress Malda. Maybe he'll make me the official "Filterer of stories already submitted." Maybe not. F*sk that. My site will have geek news... and porn! Enough porn to destr--- err, take over a website.
I tried getting an English tutor for "Script Kiddie", but he's already started working his way into the system.
Shit.
Brings new meaning to "Go Away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"
I realize that you're not being serious, but just for the record: The unabomber bombings and the Oklahoma City bombing was done by white people.
Damn, doesn't this country forget that most of the crime done in this country are actually done BY AMERICANS?
Even if you could stop all acts of terror here, are you going to stop all crime?
Oh, oops. I keep forgetting that terrorism isn't the real reason for these devices. Carry on.
Stuff like this makes me wonder what some of the names of 24th century operating systems.
Microsoft apparently gets more powerful over the years, and decides to name it and all the companies it acquires "The Federation." Galaxy Class Starships run Windows 2.35k Service Pack 4.
(FYI: Klingons run Linux 3.5.7 kernel. Not much work has been done on it since the 22nd century, where the kernel dev team finally went bonkers and decided to started growing ridges on their heads. The penguin has been replaced by a Targ, and every year there is a festival which commemorates the burning of plush penguins).
This is the true reason Wesley left. He got tired of all the Computer Lockouts and Copyright protection. So he travels back in time to try and push Mandrake, changing the course of history into something that looks more like Firefly.
Oh God, all this acid is making my head hurt. I'll stop now.
Problem 1:
Load Quake3. Examine some of the textures along the walls. Point out whether or not maps in dm1 use:
- Texture Maps
- Detail Maps
- Bump Maps
- Specular Lighting.
In the case of all four present, determine the formula for determining a pixel color with light magnitudeProblem 2
Load Warcraft 3. Notice the design of some of the landscape. What would be the most effective use of storage for generating map material (e.g the landscape). Exclude objects such as trees since they are objects within the level. Explain why in your reasoning.
- BSP
- Height map.
- Triangluar Mesh.
- Quad Mesh
Some of the high hills in War3 look "boxy", meaning that there aren't enough polygons within the hill. We wish to implement a grid system that also stores a third point between grid points. This point in space will be the basis for creating Bezier curves.Write a program that takes a 100x100 array of height points, and a 100x100 grid of bezier height points, and write a program that creates a 200x200 array of height points. Remember to generate ALL height values.
Part 2: Try tesselating further into a 400x400 array.
Part 3: Render this into the API of your choice (OpenGL, Direct3d). Create a program that tesselates the grid runtime based on the distance to each key point on the grid. Derive your own reasonable equations to determine this.
Extra Credit: You'll notice some "popping" as new vertices are generated. This is because as new vertices are created between height points, the old ones are shifted over. Write a routine based on the previous problem that forms new vertices along the old position, and then morphs to the new position.
I would have loved to see him try to build one out of parts of a microwave, stove, dishwasher, and drying machine while using a fridge to house it.
See what happens when you have old episodes of MacGyver on tape?
C/O George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC.
Yup, wouldn't want anyone to know where HE lives, do we?
Ever see Revenge of the Nerds? Ever *wonder* why the car's cruise control is set at 35? THIS is why.
And you are a nerd.
It's all good, I prefer getting my online drugs from Captain Picard in a Wheelchair (TM) than some silly EQ dwarf.
Star Trek, Farscape, South Park in the day...
Hot Les Porn at night.
$1 / month service charge, no commercials, anyone interested? Heh.
"That'll show you how it's done!"
"One of the 200 or so ways that you can make a difference"
Damn, I miss Interstate 76. The only game I've ever played where you can rig a schoolbus with guns.
ProgressQuest
Quoth the Info page:
Clearly you don't have to pay to get a leveled character here. All you do is wait, while dedicated 1% of your CPU resources to the PQ Daemon.
We're trying to find out if there's life outside of the planet Earth. How do we plan on doing that?
Yes, we look for the telltale signs of a planet similar to our own. What if a planet has an oxygen atmosphere? What if it has water? What if the temperature was suitable for people like us?
But then what? I suppose we'll send radio waves there, hoping that there's someone developed enough that will hear us out, and send something back. Fantastic.
But what if there isn't life like that there? What if there's mass levels of forests, or oceans filled with derivatives of fish? What if there's only single celled life there, or creatures that wrap around the celebral cortex like in Star Trek 2?
How do we plan to prove that there's life there? I've heard that one looks for signs of methane (I don't exactly know why), or something else along that manner. But would anything like that be conclusive? Doubtful.
I seriously doubt we'd find anything using these methods, especially considering that we're limiting ourselves to planets like our own. Life, on the smallest scales, can exist anywhere. I presume the question here is, can it be made anywhere?
The only way to find out is to go there. Too bad that by doing so we'd be contaminating the atmosphere with bacteria of our own. Oh well. The mystery lives on.
Isn't this a technology that could be combined with dual bank motherboards? This would then provide 4x the bandwidth of standard single channel DDR.
I'm not thinking so much for main memory, but for graphics. Dual Channel DDR2 + QBM would be a very very good thing. Especially on something like Nv30.
Anyone know if it'd be possible to combine the technologies?
Even if Intel doesn't embrace it, AMD should. Fast memory is irrelevant for Athlon, but Opterons (especially multi-processor Opterons) could seriously take advantage of this.
Make a reference board, and others will follow suit.
I click yes. It's okay, really.
I'll just tell them when they come to my door that hardly anyone considers what I like to be music.
Fabs pay for themselves within a few years. I'd say it's a hell of an investment.
<slashdot>: So, are you doing any kind of warez again now?
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