i think natural selection ( a hl1 mod) was ahead of its time when i played it 5 years ago. it an FPS with RTS and RPG thrown in, unfortunatly there were problems when it came down to players but the game itself was pretty good.
whats the state of the game now? are there any similar games ( actual games not just mods)? is looking at the games a bit late? doesn't real innovation come from mods?
Im thinking this might be reverse phycology, we pretend to be worried about second life/ video games, they realise this and start communicating via them. Imaging what a safer place the world would be if the servers had been down on 9/10?*
*I OFC mean safer because the US woudnt of done anything stupid like Guantanamo "lets piss off everybody, and give them an excuse to attack us" bay. ( I recently watched a comedy sketch were two german officers realised they were the bad guys because of the skulls on the uniform. If the "good guys" have Guantanamo bay and the "bad guys" help support local farmers it gets quite hard to tell)
From what ive read windows 7 will be more modular and do less by default. the problem you face with an OS is marketing, its either all you do and you have to cram all the bells and whistles in and end up with a horrible product" or you do no marketing end up with a product that is perfect but nobody knows about because you were too busy making it. I think mac have hit a happy middle by getting a dictator to run the company so its always his bells and whistles. to give vista some credit it didnt have any zero day exploits like xp did. Thats because they beta tested like any good product ( or previously any good OSS product), next windows 7 will be more modular and offer more choice in setting it up ( e.g with my 256 @ 1.2 GHZ laptop, i can run it for speed (fluxbox + gtk apps) or i can run it for eyecandy ( compiz and all the shizzle) ).
I think the main problem for vista which will probably be worse for windows 7 is that weve finnaly hit the '640k' limit, the only people who NEED more than about 2ghz & 1GB are geeks, the only people who will even notice an improvement over 4GHZ & 2GB are geeks and theres only so long consumerism can keep you buying stuff you dont need (especially as computers are !cool)*. So the best way an OS can improve is to work better on existing hardware (but that doesnt work for MS as 90% of theyre sales are through OEM ). The other kick in the balls for microsoft is the swing back to client-server computing meaning 1) clients can run anything with a web browser 2) as running the servers is non-trivial most will run on BSD/Linux 3) in 10 years time google will be stupidly rich ( lets just hope theyre not evil** )
p.s shouldnt the borg be balmer now
*if it wasn't for high tech appliance getting everywhere id say we were about 5 years away from a recession, **I dont think they are evil, theyre the cool kid whod still talk to the geeks. By playing nice with geeks they can easily hold microsoft sized monopolies without people complaining too much. also the internet is a much more open place there are no OEM, the closest they can get to vendor lockin is a changable preference in a browser.
Drive lock is completely unsuited to your needs. The performance hit is trivial with most encryption methods, i recently unencrypted my / and there is no speedup (apart from lack of password) same can be said for swap and temp. I only had problems in 1 area, i was using an ntfs, truecrypt, ext2 partition, for my home, the culmination of the ntfs & truecrypt was noticeable, however that was with the old truecrypt its a shame this news is a day too late for me:(
There are very few times you want data to get of a system without going through the CPU, straight from disk to ram smacks of rootkits and the sort.
Workstation cards are primarily high polygon crunchers. Games are rendered entirely in Triangles, whereas rendering programs use Triangles, Quadrangles and honest to goodness polygons (5+ sides). but a quadrangle is just 2 triangles, and a polygon is always going to be a collection of triangles
Actually i played games from about 2002-2006/7 but there are very few news ideas its just a constant progression, i mean HL2 was just like HL1 but with modern graphics and physics. The only place ive seen innovation has been in 3rd oarty mods but they never get much attention anyway
Im not sure its still being developed, the cycle rate would be as fast as the transistor can turn on/off so 100hz is possible. The materials would be cheap but the manufacturing process would be quite expensive. Visible light can pass through the substance, although with the liquid they were testing it would be lenses a bit, however if the resolution was high enough or a liquid with a different density was found it wouldn't be noticeable. Not sure about the touchscreen im not sure how they work tbh. sounds possible shame they probably patented it all so even if somebody tried it they'd get sued to hellAs the liquid pockets could be sealed the pressure would be transferred through, so as long as touchscreen resolution was matched by the pocket resolution it would matter.
With electrons (im not sure how small the groups of atoms that can hold the electrons in a circuit can be but theoretically they could get down to 10s of atoms ( hell they could get down to storing it in 2 atoms (not 1 due to quantum effects)). But when you store the data in the arrangement of atoms you instantly loose the edges because they go crazy, then you need enough to store the pattern which i suppose wont be that many as its the just the energy levels of the electron see changing, but for it to be an electron see not just a multi-atom bond you'll need atleast 4 (probably 10s).
but thinking about it these limits are unlikely these limits can be reached for any sort of production.
the more I think of chemistry i wonder if anybody has tried spectroscopic storage, it would at low resolution it would give about 5/6 states for an electron to be stored in, at higher resolution people can reliable detect about 30 states. i suppose the problem is that its too hot at room temperature to keep the data stored for long ( although it is possible )
Inovation died:( theres no real inovation in games, they all trundel along in the same direction. better graphics, better physics, better AI. Never anything more than better tho. It would be nice if a they put some effort into new areas, and saw what happened. AS a result they're no point in selling a game to everybody just trundle it out to the masses.
Its a real shame that game development doesnt lend itself to OSS, there are so many areas where abit of Cross genre thinking would produce groundbreaking games (like the multiplayer game where you manipulate the levels (it was around before Garys-mod and allows alot more). I really think AI is the way games need to go, as neural nets mature ( say 3-5 years ) the AI could generate content and try to make every play different, for a standerd game developer this would be alot of work, but for OSS it would be half done already.
Its a shame about openGL, i think the standards -> code/hardware way of working is inherently flawed, it would be much better if it was code(a) -> standards -> hardware -> code(f). where the code(a) would be developed with new features and code(f) would be have whatever the standards endorse. The development model would be quite nice too as code(a) would include people working on a whole host of different functions ( designer stuff, game stuff, embedded stuff, etc) which even if rejected by the standards body could be implemented in specific hardware.
I have great respect for Nvidia, they really seam to know what theyre doing when it comes to drivers so i can see them getting far if theres a market. Although he same can be said for intel.
AIs in games are rule based AI, so not much specialization can be done, all you could do was produce a simple logic bassed CPU with a high clock, but as AI progressed the AIPU would eventually turn into a slightly simpler CPU (it probably wouldn't need to do floating point calculations but otherwise would be pretty similar). The time place where i can see an AIPU being useful is game developers got to the point they wanted to introduce sub-symbolic AI (neural net based AI) but there are enough problems with this idea anyway and for the most useful useages of sub-symbolic AI (designing maps*, strategies* or learning** to beat you), a CPU implementation would be fine aslong as it was done between rounds
* they probably wouldnt want to do this as this would mean that game devs could be got rid off and the game AI can make the levels & enemy stratagies and youd get alot more gameplay from a single game as the game would keep making levels ** this is very distant future as even in the lab teaching an AI is very hard and normally hit and miss.
Im trying to think of other game parts that could use a *PU but i other than AI, looks and physics there isnt much to a game.
maybe an anticheat PU that keeps tabs on you without interfering with gameplay, but it does sound abit extreme!
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Sure for a 1st build $100-$200 may seam like a waste but for my 5 year old computer a phyics card is going to save me buying a whole new proccessor + mobo + gfx card , and then when i do upgrade i can keep the advantage of the physics card. It would also make integrating physics into everyday computing alot nicer, compiz isnt so nice on a buzy integrated chip as it steals so much CPU, but with a GPU it barely affects what your doing.
I completly disagree, so nvidia dont open source theyre driver, but at the end of the day they release good binaries, I see no advantage to open source drivers for videocards: *a community isn't going to develop video card drivers as well as the people who make the cards *a community is much more likely to stall and slow down *in most cases the fact software is open source doesn't mean much as one company or another has complete control over the product (look at OO) the only arguments for it are that *more people will find the bugs (this is a mu point, look at FF, plenty of eyes on code but still plenty of bugs) *some genius could improve it (look at OO it needs serious work in some areas but nobody bothers) *there could be spyware in a binary ( stop being paranoid)
the end effect of open sourcing the drivers will be similar to open sourcing secondlife, it just means that its easier to cheat with, no major work has been done on second life but a few people have figured out how to gain unfair advantages ( in the end it will either have to be closed (impossible) or they will waste CPU making sure your not cheating (a real pain) ).
Nvidia are fully committed to linux, they release public betas that are usable for linux, sure they might come a bit later than windows but they do come. Why are ATI open sourcing thier drivers, im guessing because linux users were switching to nvidia as thier drivers worked, either that or they cant be arsed to support linux anymore.
p.s titanic special effects were done on linux-nvidia clusters.
ANYWAY...my point was that this is great news because it means that linux will get fully supported physics cards, meaning some graphics effects can become physical or we can do some 3d physics on the desktop (not sure what we could do maybe throw windows inside the cube? meh i dont even have compiz:'( ) All we need after that are a few opensource to take full advantage, of it.
*Hell even for non linux users this is good news, if nvidia release seperate cards then, linux servers can start taking advantage of server side physics, and allow even physics card less users to benifit!
Storing the information in physical states of atoms, while it may lead to a practice increase in storage, means the theoretical limit of storage/volume is alot smaller. So unless we want to go one step forward and two steps backwards this looks like a major mistake as an area to do research in!
They usually aren't either, but in the ideal they are better informed than I am This only works for some issues, how can somebody be better informed about ethical issues, ethics are always subjective, the best possible way to deal with ethical issues is to represent exactly what the people want! For Science, Education & health cares, although they might know more there is still alot of ground for puplic opinion, e.g there's no point in continuing with the space project unless public opinion is behind it (after all the space project is more about inspiring than anything else). On some subjects Economics, National Defense, etc , only a facts come into play so there it is up to a leader, but even then a good leader will take advice not just from his cronies but also from leading academics and opponents AND if a leader makes a wrong decision they have to be man enough to accept it. Its better to have a leader that U turns when needed than one that "believes the same thing on Wednesday as he did on Monday, no matter what happens on Tuesday"
Im not American but recently my government planned to introduces a house evaluation scheme, but it was criticized so much by experts that the r turned and didn't roll it out as much as they planned (ideally they would have just dropped it, but they've got so much stick for changing their mind i can only imaging what would have happened if they had)
Ive not followed much of the US race since iowa but the imprecision Ive always got about Obama is that he is willing to say "well have to look at that" and go figure out the best course of action, if this is right then PLEASE O DEAR GOD PLEASE vote for him.*
p.s I'm not keen on Hillary because of her anti-gamingness, im not a gamer anymore but there is no point in protecting kids from violent video games, if they're parents arnt!
He is also very weak on Iraq and national defense, ffs stop linking the two Iraq != national defense, its gone from a 'rouge' state that had NO Al-Qaeda, to a state where Al-Qaeda are 'on the run'. Even if you belive bush surely hes admitting, yeah before iraq posed no threat to national defense, now it does. So Dont confuse Iraq with National defense.
The biggest threat to national defense is either: Guantanamo bay: I hear stories about how you abuse kids in there, and keep child soldiers prisoner, and dont obey the Geneva convention, and I want to blow you guys up Or giving more weapons to middle eastern countries, If giving Israel weapons ( after giving osama weapons OFC) got you into this mess then why not just stop giving Israel weapons and stop pissing of Muslims.
So in short Ron Pauls plan of getting the fuck out of iraq, and the middle east in general, is the best thing thing you could do! *A white middle class Englishman (in case any airport staff are looking to profile me)
I think Faymen often points out that there's no reason the universe should be represented by real numbers, so there's no reason it shouldn't be represented by imaginary numbers.
About the article, well i was sure i knew not the 1st person to think that if a worm-hole existed it would have the gravity of a whole galaxy pulling in both direction, just a shame i couldn't do the maths to prove it!
yeah its sad that we take so much crap from you: fast food, crappy clothes (nike), stupid cars (hummers), leadership (we should have voted Blair out a long time ago), economic crises (northen rock), software (m$), music (why o why would we by 50c records), movies (indie movies like pans labyrinth are much better), etc The only thing we dont really care for tbh is the trivial stuff like your sports, we play 'soccer'( not just England but pretty much every country calls it football), you suck at it we play rugby, you play 'football' we play cricket, you play baseball we do Forumla1, you do nascar you play ice hockey, but the canadians beat you anyway:P Ill give you basketball tho, that seams to be popular.
but a nice way to make sure everybody knows what you mean is to use American football and soccer.
the process is called electro wetting, i did a short report on it a year ago so dont have much detailed information. ATM the main area of research is in producing liquid lenses. apparently the molecules used are alkane-thiol molecules that have been eletroatcively terminated, but as a i dont do organic chemistry anymore that does mean much to me. unfortunately all my work was limited to applications as a moving partless lense, but i see no reason it can be used witha siutably thin plastic coating to produce a textured effect.
thx, you saved me a whole load of stumbling about my system aimlessly. And proved my point that what i aimed to do wasnt that hard. Its a real shame back when i started using ubuntu i think it was 6.04, almost all my problems got fixed almost instantly, and the irc was a bit more libral than its current incarnation too!
While i agree with what your saying theres a big difference between, canonical, who have done as close to zero as possible, yet slag off novell and RedHat who have been behind alot of core software.
As far as i can tell all canonical have done is throw some money at KDE and make some pretty meaninless software (stuff like envy and a few gui tools that they dont even bother giving to 1/2 the supported 'distros').
Im a ubuntu user, but i completely agree! its shocking how much support a bunch of freeloaders can get, I get the impression that they get their fixes into Debian but that's about it. I get particularly pissed off when Shuttleworth slags off other distros like novell ( which gave him compiz, which was probably the biggest peak in Ununtu adoption ).
There community was thier strongest asset, but unfortunately either ive reach expert level in about 2 years or more likely the influx of new users has really reduced the effectiveness of the community to the point your more likely to get bad help than good help ( and that's if you even get bad help instead of being told to do something else )*.
The only good thing is thier marketing and ease of use, they do contribute users back to linux, i just hope that these user go on to more productive distros ( i intend to switch to gentoo (not a productive distro i know but im sure they contribute more than canonical) & maybe a RedHat/Novell distro, when i have the time )!
*here is a thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=684739, where i asked for something i know is possible i just need to get it right 1st time ( im more a 3rd/4th time guy when i try stuff ), i got told 1) it was imposible 2) to buy a piece of hardware!
Well there go my millions, but you can use particular liquids, that can bump out according to a voltage applied to them. it would be fairly easy to build a mat that confined the liquid into blobs so thin you couldn't see them when off, but big enough to touch when on. OFC the surface would be soft but aslong as suitable graphical effects were used users would assume it was by design not by limitation
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i think natural selection ( a hl1 mod) was ahead of its time when i played it 5 years ago.
it an FPS with RTS and RPG thrown in, unfortunatly there were problems when it came down to players but the game itself was pretty good.
whats the state of the game now?
are there any similar games ( actual games not just mods)?
is looking at the games a bit late? doesn't real innovation come from mods?
Im thinking this might be reverse phycology, we pretend to be worried about second life/ video games, they realise this and start communicating via them. Imaging what a safer place the world would be if the servers had been down on 9/10?*
*I OFC mean safer because the US woudnt of done anything stupid like Guantanamo "lets piss off everybody, and give them an excuse to attack us" bay. ( I recently watched a comedy sketch were two german officers realised they were the bad guys because of the skulls on the uniform. If the "good guys" have Guantanamo bay and the "bad guys" help support local farmers it gets quite hard to tell)
From what ive read windows 7 will be more modular and do less by default.
the problem you face with an OS is marketing, its either all you do and you have to cram all the bells and whistles in and end up with a horrible product" or you do no marketing end up with a product that is perfect but nobody knows about because you were too busy making it. I think mac have hit a happy middle by getting a dictator to run the company so its always his bells and whistles.
to give vista some credit it didnt have any zero day exploits like xp did. Thats because they beta tested like any good product ( or previously any good OSS product), next windows 7 will be more modular and offer more choice in setting it up ( e.g with my 256 @ 1.2 GHZ laptop, i can run it for speed (fluxbox + gtk apps) or i can run it for eyecandy ( compiz and all the shizzle) ).
I think the main problem for vista which will probably be worse for windows 7 is that weve finnaly hit the '640k' limit, the only people who NEED more than about 2ghz & 1GB are geeks, the only people who will even notice an improvement over 4GHZ & 2GB are geeks and theres only so long consumerism can keep you buying stuff you dont need (especially as computers are !cool)*. So the best way an OS can improve is to work better on existing hardware (but that doesnt work for MS as 90% of theyre sales are through OEM ). The other kick in the balls for microsoft is the swing back to client-server computing meaning
1) clients can run anything with a web browser
2) as running the servers is non-trivial most will run on BSD/Linux
3) in 10 years time google will be stupidly rich ( lets just hope theyre not evil** )
p.s shouldnt the borg be balmer now
*if it wasn't for high tech appliance getting everywhere id say we were about 5 years away from a recession,
**I dont think they are evil, theyre the cool kid whod still talk to the geeks. By playing nice with geeks they can easily hold microsoft sized monopolies without people complaining too much. also the internet is a much more open place there are no OEM, the closest they can get to vendor lockin is a changable preference in a browser.
Drive lock is completely unsuited to your needs. :(
The performance hit is trivial with most encryption methods, i recently unencrypted my / and there is no speedup (apart from lack of password) same can be said for swap and temp.
I only had problems in 1 area, i was using an ntfs, truecrypt, ext2 partition, for my home, the culmination of the ntfs & truecrypt was noticeable, however that was with the old truecrypt its a shame this news is a day too late for me
There are very few times you want data to get of a system without going through the CPU, straight from disk to ram smacks of rootkits and the sort.
yeah i think so, so they couldnt be used together without, a significant CPU hit to compensate (shame it seamed like a cool idea))
Actually i played games from about 2002-2006/7 but there are very few news ideas its just a constant progression, i mean HL2 was just like HL1 but with modern graphics and physics. The only place ive seen innovation has been in 3rd oarty mods but they never get much attention anyway
Im not sure its still being developed, the cycle rate would be as fast as the transistor can turn on/off so 100hz is possible.
The materials would be cheap but the manufacturing process would be quite expensive.
Visible light can pass through the substance, although with the liquid they were testing it would be lenses a bit, however if the resolution was high enough or a liquid with a different density was found it wouldn't be noticeable.
Not sure about the touchscreen im not sure how they work tbh.
sounds possible shame they probably patented it all so even if somebody tried it they'd get sued to hellAs the liquid pockets could be sealed the pressure would be transferred through, so as long as touchscreen resolution was matched by the pocket resolution it would matter.
With electrons (im not sure how small the groups of atoms that can hold the electrons in a circuit can be but theoretically they could get down to 10s of atoms ( hell they could get down to storing it in 2 atoms (not 1 due to quantum effects)). But when you store the data in the arrangement of atoms you instantly loose the edges because they go crazy, then you need enough to store the pattern which i suppose wont be that many as its the just the energy levels of the electron see changing, but for it to be an electron see not just a multi-atom bond you'll need atleast 4 (probably 10s).
but thinking about it these limits are unlikely these limits can be reached for any sort of production.
the more I think of chemistry i wonder if anybody has tried spectroscopic storage, it would at low resolution it would give about 5/6 states for an electron to be stored in, at higher resolution people can reliable detect about 30 states. i suppose the problem is that its too hot at room temperature to keep the data stored for long ( although it is possible )
Inovation died :( theres no real inovation in games, they all trundel along in the same direction. better graphics, better physics, better AI. Never anything more than better tho. It would be nice if a they put some effort into new areas, and saw what happened. AS a result they're no point in selling a game to everybody just trundle it out to the masses.
Its a real shame that game development doesnt lend itself to OSS, there are so many areas where abit of Cross genre thinking would produce groundbreaking games (like the multiplayer game where you manipulate the levels (it was around before Garys-mod and allows alot more). I really think AI is the way games need to go, as neural nets mature ( say 3-5 years ) the AI could generate content and try to make every play different, for a standerd game developer this would be alot of work, but for OSS it would be half done already.
Its a shame about openGL, i think the standards -> code/hardware way of working is inherently flawed, it would be much better if it was code(a) -> standards -> hardware -> code(f). where the code(a) would be developed with new features and code(f) would be have whatever the standards endorse. The development model would be quite nice too as code(a) would include people working on a whole host of different functions ( designer stuff, game stuff, embedded stuff, etc) which even if rejected by the standards body could be implemented in specific hardware.
I have great respect for Nvidia, they really seam to know what theyre doing when it comes to drivers so i can see them getting far if theres a market. Although he same can be said for intel.
AIs in games are rule based AI, so not much specialization can be done, all you could do was produce a simple logic bassed CPU with a high clock, but as AI progressed the AIPU would eventually turn into a slightly simpler CPU (it probably wouldn't need to do floating point calculations but otherwise would be pretty similar).
The time place where i can see an AIPU being useful is game developers got to the point they wanted to introduce sub-symbolic AI (neural net based AI) but there are enough problems with this idea anyway and for the most useful useages of sub-symbolic AI (designing maps*, strategies* or learning** to beat you), a CPU implementation would be fine aslong as it was done between rounds
* they probably wouldnt want to do this as this would mean that game devs could be got rid off and the game AI can make the levels & enemy stratagies and youd get alot more gameplay from a single game as the game would keep making levels
** this is very distant future as even in the lab teaching an AI is very hard and normally hit and miss.
Im trying to think of other game parts that could use a *PU but i other than AI, looks and physics there isnt much to a game.
maybe an anticheat PU that keeps tabs on you without interfering with gameplay, but it does sound abit extreme!
Sure for a 1st build $100-$200 may seam like a waste but for my 5 year old computer a phyics card is going to save me buying a whole new proccessor + mobo + gfx card , and then when i do upgrade i can keep the advantage of the physics card. It would also make integrating physics into everyday computing alot nicer, compiz isnt so nice on a buzy integrated chip as it steals so much CPU, but with a GPU it barely affects what your doing.
I completly disagree, so nvidia dont open source theyre driver, but at the end of the day they release good binaries, I see no advantage to open source drivers for videocards:
:'( )
*a community isn't going to develop video card drivers as well as the people who make the cards
*a community is much more likely to stall and slow down
*in most cases the fact software is open source doesn't mean much as one company or another has complete control over the product (look at OO)
the only arguments for it are that
*more people will find the bugs (this is a mu point, look at FF, plenty of eyes on code but still plenty of bugs)
*some genius could improve it (look at OO it needs serious work in some areas but nobody bothers)
*there could be spyware in a binary ( stop being paranoid)
the end effect of open sourcing the drivers will be similar to open sourcing secondlife, it just means that its easier to cheat with, no major work has been done on second life but a few people have figured out how to gain unfair advantages ( in the end it will either have to be closed (impossible) or they will waste CPU making sure your not cheating (a real pain) ).
Nvidia are fully committed to linux, they release public betas that are usable for linux, sure they might come a bit later than windows but they do come. Why are ATI open sourcing thier drivers, im guessing because linux users were switching to nvidia as thier drivers worked, either that or they cant be arsed to support linux anymore.
p.s titanic special effects were done on linux-nvidia clusters.
ANYWAY...my point was that this is great news because it means that linux will get fully supported physics cards, meaning some graphics effects can become physical or we can do some 3d physics on the desktop (not sure what we could do maybe throw windows inside the cube? meh i dont even have compiz
All we need after that are a few opensource to take full advantage, of it.
*Hell even for non linux users this is good news, if nvidia release seperate cards then, linux servers can start taking advantage of server side physics, and allow even physics card less users to benifit!
Storing the information in physical states of atoms, while it may lead to a practice increase in storage, means the theoretical limit of storage/volume is alot smaller. So unless we want to go one step forward and two steps backwards this looks like a major mistake as an area to do research in!
For Science, Education & health cares, although they might know more there is still alot of ground for puplic opinion, e.g there's no point in continuing with the space project unless public opinion is behind it (after all the space project is more about inspiring than anything else).
On some subjects Economics, National Defense, etc , only a facts come into play so there it is up to a leader, but even then a good leader will take advice not just from his cronies but also from leading academics and opponents AND if a leader makes a wrong decision they have to be man enough to accept it.
Its better to have a leader that U turns when needed than one that "believes the same thing on Wednesday as he did on Monday, no matter what happens on Tuesday"
Im not American but recently my government planned to introduces a house evaluation scheme, but it was criticized so much by experts that the r turned and didn't roll it out as much as they planned (ideally they would have just dropped it, but they've got so much stick for changing their mind i can only imaging what would have happened if they had)
Ive not followed much of the US race since iowa but the imprecision Ive always got about Obama is that he is willing to say "well have to look at that" and go figure out the best course of action, if this is right then PLEASE O DEAR GOD PLEASE vote for him.*
p.s I'm not keen on Hillary because of her anti-gamingness, im not a gamer anymore but there is no point in protecting kids from violent video games, if they're parents arnt!
The biggest threat to national defense is either:
Guantanamo bay: I hear stories about how you abuse kids in there, and keep child soldiers prisoner, and dont obey the Geneva convention, and I want to blow you guys up
Or giving more weapons to middle eastern countries, If giving Israel weapons ( after giving osama weapons OFC) got you into this mess then why not just stop giving Israel weapons and stop pissing of Muslims.
So in short Ron Pauls plan of getting the fuck out of iraq, and the middle east in general, is the best thing thing you could do!
*A white middle class Englishman (in case any airport staff are looking to profile me)
I love the linux series from IBM not sure if these were real superbowl adds tho, as i don't care much for American rugby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWy7hsiQsNA
I think Faymen often points out that there's no reason the universe should be represented by real numbers, so there's no reason it shouldn't be represented by imaginary numbers.
About the article, well i was sure i knew not the 1st person to think that if a worm-hole existed it would have the gravity of a whole galaxy pulling in both direction, just a shame i couldn't do the maths to prove it!
yeah its sad that we take so much crap from you: fast food, crappy clothes (nike), stupid cars (hummers), leadership (we should have voted Blair out a long time ago), economic crises (northen rock), software (m$), music (why o why would we by 50c records), movies (indie movies like pans labyrinth are much better), etc :P
The only thing we dont really care for tbh is the trivial stuff like your sports,
we play 'soccer'( not just England but pretty much every country calls it football), you suck at it
we play rugby, you play 'football'
we play cricket, you play baseball
we do Forumla1, you do nascar
you play ice hockey, but the canadians beat you anyway
Ill give you basketball tho, that seams to be popular.
but a nice way to make sure everybody knows what you mean is to use American football and soccer.
the process is called electro wetting, i did a short report on it a year ago so dont have much detailed information. ATM the main area of research is in producing liquid lenses.
apparently the molecules used are alkane-thiol molecules that have been eletroatcively terminated, but as a i dont do organic chemistry anymore that does mean much to me.
unfortunately all my work was limited to applications as a moving partless lense, but i see no reason it can be used witha siutably thin plastic coating to produce a textured effect.
lock the keypad, to prevent dialing
a flip phone could close itself to prevent scratching the screen.
thx, you saved me a whole load of stumbling about my system aimlessly. And proved my point that what i aimed to do wasnt that hard.
Its a real shame back when i started using ubuntu i think it was 6.04, almost all my problems got fixed almost instantly, and the irc was a bit more libral than its current incarnation too!
While i agree with what your saying theres a big difference between, canonical, who have done as close to zero as possible, yet slag off novell and RedHat who have been behind alot of core software.
As far as i can tell all canonical have done is throw some money at KDE and make some pretty meaninless software (stuff like envy and a few gui tools that they dont even bother giving to 1/2 the supported 'distros').
Im a ubuntu user, but i completely agree! its shocking how much support a bunch of freeloaders can get, I get the impression that they get their fixes into Debian but that's about it. I get particularly pissed off when Shuttleworth slags off other distros like novell ( which gave him compiz, which was probably the biggest peak in Ununtu adoption ).
There community was thier strongest asset, but unfortunately either ive reach expert level in about 2 years or more likely the influx of new users has really reduced the effectiveness of the community to the point your more likely to get bad help than good help ( and that's if you even get bad help instead of being told to do something else )*.
The only good thing is thier marketing and ease of use, they do contribute users back to linux, i just hope that these user go on to more productive distros ( i intend to switch to gentoo (not a productive distro i know but im sure they contribute more than canonical) & maybe a RedHat/Novell distro, when i have the time )!
*here is a thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=684739, where i asked for something i know is possible i just need to get it right 1st time ( im more a 3rd/4th time guy when i try stuff ), i got told 1) it was imposible 2) to buy a piece of hardware!
Well there go my millions, but you can use particular liquids, that can bump out according to a voltage applied to them. it would be fairly easy to build a mat that confined the liquid into blobs so thin you couldn't see them when off, but big enough to touch when on. OFC the surface would be soft but aslong as suitable graphical effects were used users would assume it was by design not by limitation