Damn, that's an ugly GUI. Is it so hard to hire a goddamn graphic designer to whip up something snappy? Windows, MacOS... they look great. Be looks pretty good. But there are like three themes for KDE (that aren't clones) that don't look like amateur photoshop hacks. And that Amiga amp-whatever skin looks like someone took the original winamp skin and ran a couple "noise" filters on it. How tacky can you get?
There don't seem to be any color photographs of the destroyed core. I think the pictures were taken shortly after the accident, during the "cleanup". There are a lot more pictures at http://www.chernobyl.com.ua/photo_gallery.htm.
This enormous cluster of radiation mass observed by the photographer is called "The Elephant Leg." This amount of radioactive particles will be enough to kill millions of people.
Here, under a minor layer of soil, lies a radioactive mass, which was removed from the destroyed 4th reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. There have been numerous cases of leakage of radioactive substances from this unreliable cover.
One of the largest sites of concentration of radioactive waste is located next to Chernobyl River Port. On the photo: these abandoned barges are full of radioactive waste, which have never been removed and buried.
The cleanup operation after the accident assumed huge proportions. Up to 600,000 workers and military personnel were involved. (photo)
Between 17 and 45 percent of Chernobyl liquidators received doses between 10 and 25 centigrays (10 to 25 rads). (For comparison, in the United States the annual dose permitted general public is 0.1 rads; nuclear workers are permitted 5 rads.) (photo)
I don't know, but Quake III certainly isn't one of them. John Cash has been programming for id for years, but he left. Brian Hook was doing programming for id during Q3 development, but he quit. I don't remember if he's officially on the credits, but I'm pretty sure Cash was. Zoid has been doing contract for them for a while too.
The Doom 3 FAQ on doomworld.com lists the following programmers working at id right now:
John Carmack
Jim Dose
Jan Paul van Waveren
Robert Duffy
Graeme Devine
And IMHO, id hasn't made a game as fun overall as MGS since Doom 2. (though quake and quake III had thier moments.)
Dumb question, but couldn't a really, really, really fast monkey with a calculator theoretically take a 1000 bit number and start at 1 and work his way up, checking if each is a factor? If he was fast enough, he could do it in a second.
Yes, your PC + Geforce2 Ultra rocks the socks off the dreamcast from the performance standpoint. But there just don't seem to be games like this coming out for the PC. They're all prettier than Quake III, which seems to be one of the prettiest games on PC. And they have interesting play dynamics.... I haven't played any of them, but they seem fresh and fun. What do we have on PC?
I just ordered the port of Metal Gear Solid... I downloaded the demo a few weeks ago and realized that this was ten times more fun and just better designed than everything I've seen on the PC.
But the PC has a lock on certain genre's... FPC's belong on the PC. The control system and the resolution just make a difference there. Strategy games too seem to require a mouse. But if you just want to sit down and play a sports game, a fighting game, an adventure game... there are simply much better solutions on the console side of things.
Actually, I would like to be able to do a few things any time I feel like it, wherever I am:
listen to music
Take pictures
record movies
record sound (a couple hours worth)
type/check email/browse the web
standard PDA stuff
So I need a PDA that can play MP3s and record. I also need a small laptop that can take pictures and video. The picturebook is big enough for casual stuff yet nice and compact to fit in a bag.
Seems like a great thing to have around to me. Does the job of three devices elegantly without taking up much space.
This is a great question for all the candidates. Very revealing in terms of overall political values, you need cajones to answer it, and there doesn't seem to be any way to pussyfoot around it.
-Erik
Joe, did you discover that paradigm I asked for?
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"There are backup plans in place to discover new paradigms"
Oh yeah... it's on right on the plans...
Week 28, invite people to test scheme
Week 33, analyze results of hacks
Week 34, discover new audio watermarking paridigm.
I was contending the argument that students had a right to the information, not the argument that these note-publishing places have the right to spread it.
Get ordinary people's attention focused on why this abuse of the limited copyright monopoly harms them
Well, how is that? I'm an 'ordinary person' and I'm not sure how DMCA is going to hurt me. I don't use/need DeCSS. While I like napster but I do use it to do illegal things, even if those illegal things cause me to buy more CDs. What exactly is wrong with the DMCA besides the fact that in a geek's eyes, it's The Wrong Thing?
Animal behavior changes all the time. The deer around weren't forced to eat spruce trees (yeah, I know) a hundred years ago. Pigeons weren't always beggars. They were scavengers once.
Are they still deer? are they still pigeons? Is my dog still a dog, emotional problems and all? Is the guar still a guar?
And when you pass out, are you the same person after as you were before? Your consciousness certainly didn't have any continuity.
Answer yes to any of these, and it seems you have to answer yes to all of them.
Pretend you decided there is someone in your community whose opinions, needs, or desires you don't give a shit about. There are two options:
1) Act like you have no reguard. Flame, be an asshole, or get in their way.
2) Get on with your own life, fight the battles that are important to you and respect your opponents.
Choosing #1 just weakens a community. But we're lucky. The fact is, any social structure relies on the fact that most people have better things to do than choose option #1. Most choose option #2 by default.
You seem to be implying that once enrolled into a class, students have a right to any and all "information" given in any lecture at any time for the duration of the semester, if not longer.
Where is this coming from? It doens't say that in anything I signed when I paid my tuition. The University is providing a service, and dispensing information. It can do that on whatever terms it wants. If they sign something that says 'Erik has purchased rights to all the information given in courses he enrolls in for the duration of the semester he takes them in' then maybe they owe me that.
This was my thought too... Napster is banned where I am, so I use Napigator and various OpenNap/MyNapster servers. If Napster dies, I can keep on just as I have been for the last year.
The thing is, there are like 50 servers listed in Napigator. Shutting down 50 servers wouldn't be much of a chore. If it becomes illegal to run an OpenNap server, we're in trouble again.
1) Why would MS/Apps port Office to Linux? Office is a desktop suite, Linux is a server/enthusiast OS.
2) Why would MS's upper management be distracted? In a well managed company (and you don't get where MS is without being well managed) the only people being "distracted" by the case should be MS's legal system and emplyees who have to testify.
3) (IANAL) If the case is thrown out, the government can't appeal. Throwing out the case is the same as saying "not guilty."
And dumbed down AOL? The internet will become an easier to use AOL that does more. This is what the desktop consumers want. Microsoft may be breaking the law, but they're still making products that people want.
This post should be moderated down to a trolling, but I thought I'd reply rather than use a moderator point.
The Universities are selling us connections to their network. They can restrict us in any way they want, just like your ISP can choose to provide shell accounts or not. If we don't like it, we can take our business elsewhere, but universities have every right to say what we can and cannot do on their networks.
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Damn, that's an ugly GUI. Is it so hard to hire a goddamn graphic designer to whip up something snappy? Windows, MacOS... they look great. Be looks pretty good. But there are like three themes for KDE (that aren't clones) that don't look like amateur photoshop hacks. And that Amiga amp-whatever skin looks like someone took the original winamp skin and ran a couple "noise" filters on it. How tacky can you get?
Sorry, I had to vent that.
-Erik
From the page: (credit, copyrights go to Chernobyl Charity Online, please visit their site)
-Erik
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-Erik
How many other games have one programmer credits?
I don't know, but Quake III certainly isn't one of them. John Cash has been programming for id for years, but he left. Brian Hook was doing programming for id during Q3 development, but he quit. I don't remember if he's officially on the credits, but I'm pretty sure Cash was. Zoid has been doing contract for them for a while too.
The Doom 3 FAQ on doomworld.com lists the following programmers working at id right now:
John Carmack
Jim Dose
Jan Paul van Waveren
Robert Duffy
Graeme Devine
And IMHO, id hasn't made a game as fun overall as MGS since Doom 2. (though quake and quake III had thier moments.)
-Erik
They're both going to have trouble with re-election.
God. Let's hope it doesn't come down to re-election. Please let candidates this uninspiring be a fluke!
-Erik
Does Win2K really have alpha-blended icons? I'm staring at my desktop and they look kind of jaggy.
-Erik
we're talking about $150million/year
I don't keep up with Microsoft's revenues, but this sounds like peanuts... Doesn't MS pull in hundreds of billions?
-Erik
what $1000 compiler? I got VC++ for $99.
-Erik
Dumb question, but couldn't a really, really, really fast monkey with a calculator theoretically take a 1000 bit number and start at 1 and work his way up, checking if each is a factor? If he was fast enough, he could do it in a second.
-Erik
Check out some of the dreamcast titles like Shenmue, Yokasuka, Soul Caliber, and Ecco the Dolphin. Download some movies of the gameplay.
Yes, your PC + Geforce2 Ultra rocks the socks off the dreamcast from the performance standpoint. But there just don't seem to be games like this coming out for the PC. They're all prettier than Quake III, which seems to be one of the prettiest games on PC. And they have interesting play dynamics.... I haven't played any of them, but they seem fresh and fun. What do we have on PC?
I just ordered the port of Metal Gear Solid... I downloaded the demo a few weeks ago and realized that this was ten times more fun and just better designed than everything I've seen on the PC.
But the PC has a lock on certain genre's... FPC's belong on the PC. The control system and the resolution just make a difference there. Strategy games too seem to require a mouse. But if you just want to sit down and play a sports game, a fighting game, an adventure game... there are simply much better solutions on the console side of things.
-Erik
humans are hardware. I tore up a tissue the other day and thought it was a lovely end for it. It looked very happy sitting in the trash can.
-Erik
Actually, I would like to be able to do a few things any time I feel like it, wherever I am:
listen to music
Take pictures
record movies
record sound (a couple hours worth)
type/check email/browse the web
standard PDA stuff
So I need a PDA that can play MP3s and record. I also need a small laptop that can take pictures and video. The picturebook is big enough for casual stuff yet nice and compact to fit in a bag.
Seems like a great thing to have around to me. Does the job of three devices elegantly without taking up much space.
-Erik
This is a great question for all the candidates. Very revealing in terms of overall political values, you need cajones to answer it, and there doesn't seem to be any way to pussyfoot around it.
-Erik
"There are backup plans in place to discover new paradigms"
Oh yeah... it's on right on the plans...
Week 28, invite people to test scheme
Week 33, analyze results of hacks
Week 34, discover new audio watermarking paridigm.
-Erik
This is offtopic, but I don't know where to ask:
Should I moderate trolls that are at 0 down to -1 or just leave them?
-Erik
I was contending the argument that students had a right to the information, not the argument that these note-publishing places have the right to spread it.
-Erik
I'm certainly not trying to say "oh, those GEEKS are being oppressed, but that's not me, so I don't care."
:)
There's geek in me, it wasn't meant to be a derogatory term.
-Erik
Get ordinary people's attention focused on why this abuse of the limited copyright monopoly harms them
Well, how is that? I'm an 'ordinary person' and I'm not sure how DMCA is going to hurt me. I don't use/need DeCSS. While I like napster but I do use it to do illegal things, even if those illegal things cause me to buy more CDs. What exactly is wrong with the DMCA besides the fact that in a geek's eyes, it's The Wrong Thing?
-Erik
Animal behavior changes all the time. The deer around weren't forced to eat spruce trees (yeah, I know) a hundred years ago. Pigeons weren't always beggars. They were scavengers once.
Are they still deer? are they still pigeons? Is my dog still a dog, emotional problems and all? Is the guar still a guar?
And when you pass out, are you the same person after as you were before? Your consciousness certainly didn't have any continuity.
Answer yes to any of these, and it seems you have to answer yes to all of them.
-Erik
Pretend you decided there is someone in your community whose opinions, needs, or desires you don't give a shit about. There are two options:
1) Act like you have no reguard. Flame, be an asshole, or get in their way.
2) Get on with your own life, fight the battles that are important to you and respect your opponents.
Choosing #1 just weakens a community. But we're lucky. The fact is, any social structure relies on the fact that most people have better things to do than choose option #1. Most choose option #2 by default.
-Erik
You seem to be implying that once enrolled into a class, students have a right to any and all "information" given in any lecture at any time for the duration of the semester, if not longer.
Where is this coming from? It doens't say that in anything I signed when I paid my tuition. The University is providing a service, and dispensing information. It can do that on whatever terms it wants. If they sign something that says 'Erik has purchased rights to all the information given in courses he enrolls in for the duration of the semester he takes them in' then maybe they owe me that.
But they didn't and they don't.
-Erik
This was my thought too... Napster is banned where I am, so I use Napigator and various OpenNap/MyNapster servers. If Napster dies, I can keep on just as I have been for the last year.
The thing is, there are like 50 servers listed in Napigator. Shutting down 50 servers wouldn't be much of a chore. If it becomes illegal to run an OpenNap server, we're in trouble again.
-Erik
Wouldn't it require a lot of wireless bandwidth to send 800x600x24bits 70 times a second?
-Erik
1) Why would MS/Apps port Office to Linux? Office is a desktop suite, Linux is a server/enthusiast OS.
2) Why would MS's upper management be distracted? In a well managed company (and you don't get where MS is without being well managed) the only people being "distracted" by the case should be MS's legal system and emplyees who have to testify.
3) (IANAL) If the case is thrown out, the government can't appeal. Throwing out the case is the same as saying "not guilty."
And dumbed down AOL? The internet will become an easier to use AOL that does more. This is what the desktop consumers want. Microsoft may be breaking the law, but they're still making products that people want.
This post should be moderated down to a trolling, but I thought I'd reply rather than use a moderator point.
-Erik
The Universities are selling us connections to their network. They can restrict us in any way they want, just like your ISP can choose to provide shell accounts or not. If we don't like it, we can take our business elsewhere, but universities have every right to say what we can and cannot do on their networks.
-Erik