I would assume it would turn out like what the Halo movie was supposed to be. The movie focuses on other characters, leaving the main character from the games (MC, or Freeman) as a cameo role.
I think it would end up like a couple of the Half-life expansion packs, where you play an ancillary character, catching brief glimpses of Gordon during the game.
It's a lot of fun to play with friends/coworkers in a game map based off of a real place you are familiar with. I regularly play on a couple maps I've made of my old high school and house in Counter-strike:source.
There is a lot to configure in the browser. In IE you can enforce privacy settings, connection settings, sound and video settings, security settings, etc with group policy. I know where I work they use GP to prevent people from setting up proxies in the browser and to keep scripts from running on websites as well as making sure the browser plays no sounds. Installing Firefox allows me to circumvent all this, so I could see it being an issue.
I did the same thing. It gets me around the storage space issue, since my Acer only has an 8Gb ssd, and I can use any Windows Apps off the server without sacrificing the performance of the light linux distro. The only thing more I could ask for is 3g so I could literally use my computer on the move.
Microsoft Clippy is the ONLY reason I still keep an XP partition on one of my computers.
If I really need to run Microsoft Office, I do that using CodeWeaver's Crossover Office under Linux.
Microsoft's decision to drop Clippy means that I won't have to even consider Windows 7. I'll just disconnect from my network whenever I want to clip so there is no risk to an abandoned XP partition.
I'm one of those that has bought every copy of Clippy even before Microsoft bought it from Bruce Artwick and SubLogic. I flew it when it was a wire frame grid (that's basically a paperclip, right?) with the profile mountain range to the north. I even wrote a shareware application for it that still can be found in various software repositories on the web. It has evolved into an amazing platform and some enthusiasts have built amazing motion clippypits and even full simulations of jet airliner clippypits.
I also thought every release of Clippy was profitable. For all of Microsoft's other ills, Clippy has been one of the more popular offerings that people preordered, snapped up on release day, etc. there were flawed releases, but Microsoft would release updates that fixed them.
Microsoft Clippy was really a flagship product for them. I don't know what they are thinking. If any of the team read this, I really appreciate all of your fantastic work over the years. You people made stuff.
It really has been an amazing product and extremely useful. I know lots of real clippy enthusiasts that use it to stay sharp and/or used it to make their training more effective. I can count myself among the ones who had a clippy instructor get frustrated that I was clipping more by instruments and less by seat of the pants, doing coordinated procedure turns, holding heading and altitude first time out.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux clippy simulators (X-Clippy and ClippyGear) pick up all the slack. The hard core people will go nuts putting in the hooks for realistic clippypits, added inputs, etc.
It's an end of an era. For me it totally cuts the cord to Redmond, Gates, and Allen.
I'll sure miss updates to Clippy but in a way am kind of relieved that I will never buy another copy of Windows again.
I'd say Counter-Strike is fun, but having to sit out a round which can last up to five minutes while two idiots try to out-camp each other is the perfect situation to use this in game browser.
This is a lot more interesting than most of the stuff that gets posted to Idle.
Anyways, from TFA:
"The ambulance without the Howler sounded its siren and produced its familiar wail. Then, the Howler, which produced booms that sounded like a 1980s video game played at an earsplitting level. The liquids in the three glasses rippled."
I really hope that the howler is used sparingly, especially since I live right off a busy street and get some type of emergency vehicle coming by with sirens and lights at least once a day. I especially hope that the howler siren doesn't need to be played at an "earsplitting" level in order to be effective.
They had to park two ambulances next to each other with the glasses of water in between, and turning on the howler's to the loud-as-fuck volume just made the water ripple? Why don't they just have the T-rex from Jurassic Park follow the ambulance around? Dumbasses...
Seconded, that's probably still my favorite mod ever. That was the first mod I really enjoyed and what got me into map making. I remember building my first bunch of maps for AQ2 in Qoole, and the tons of other cool maps you could download from their homepage.
Counter-Strike is a case in point; a mod that turned the alien infested Half-Life into a detailed tactical shooter. It became so damned popular it overshadowed the original game engine it was built on, like the student outshining the teacher. Counter-Strike - like other big names in the modding world - only served to fan the flames.
I'd say that's the point of the ultrasound. Otherwise, if the robot simply attempted to predict the position of the heart by it's rhythm alone there would be serious issues.
Using the ultrasound, which updates the position to a computer (probably updating around 4-5 MHz), means that the robot can compensate for the position close enough to real time that it can avoid mistakes (there is still the tiny delay).
Any irregularities due to Arrhythmia should not be an issue, the heart will probably not change beating faster than the computer and robot can compensate.
I'll have to check to make sure, but all of the Aspire One's I've found online are spec'd at 1024x600, it seems to be standard for the 8.9" screens (and a lot of the 10" ones, too). On Newegg I found one (an HP) that displays 1024x800.
I agree it's pretty cramped, though as long as I run programs in full screen and keep firefox stripped down to the bone I can get by.
The resolution was one of the deciding factors when I was shopping for a netbook, I ended up getting the Acer Aspire One. The original EEEpc's sucked to view web pages with, the newer ones have a resolution of 1024x600, so it's wide enough to view pages without any side scrolling (most of the time).
I guess in a WWII we weren't exactly losing all of the material goods we were producing. We traded them with Nazis and, in exchange, were returned the favor in addition to giving our military personnel fun and interesting experiences~
But seriously, you mentioned that getting everybody in motion to rectify things can begin to resemble Keynasianism, which I agree with. Regardless, the government wouldn't be able to pull it off without something fairly dramatic, like a war, to motivate people, and I'm definitely not talking about the Iraq war.
Since we don't have any massively wealthy people who are willing to step in and take the risk of pushing industry forward, the government is really the only entity I can think of that can. They can ease this recession, at least shortening it if somehow people can be bothered to sacrifice voluntarily. Right now, people are sacrificing involuntarily and it's pissing them off. They are losing their possessions, lifestyle, etc.
I can't imagine what posters expounding this concept would look like. They definitely wouldn't be as easy to make as anti-Nazi propaganda.
I've had a hard time understanding this as well. On the other hand, it takes people to create all of that stuff (ships, ammo, machines, etc.), so suddenly that quarter of the population that was unemployed is now earning a wage which they will then circulate back into the economy.
Sure, a ton of material goods are being exported in exchange for virtually no material gain, but the people in the country are now earning a living. Where did the money come from the pay their wages? I don't know, my guess is that due to government intervention, people were forced to harvest resources and push forward industry for nothing until things got back on their feet.
It almost sounds like telling your employees to work a couple of months for free until things get going, with the promise that after the business is on its feet everyone will get their money.
Agreed, I remember when one of the Hannibal Lecter movies which spurred some discussion on this. It was the movie that featured the scene of a man with the top of his head removed, fully conscious, and having his brain sliced up by the cannibal, who cooked it and subsequently fed it back to the (lobotomized?) man.
It seems like most people balked at the idea of this being possible, but it seems it definitely is (or at least more plausible than some would think). I watched a couple videos of brain surgery out of morbid curiosity; the patients actions and behaviors can get really strange at times.
Hehe, I always wondered if people around here buy Chevy Impalas for that reason. It seems like the actual unmarked police cars still have all the antennae sticking out, plus an extra mirror on the door.
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Now that I think about it, I've never died either. I wonder if I can use that to get a discount on my health insurance.
Yo dawg I herd u liek monitors so i put a monitor in yo monitor so you can display while you display!
I would assume it would turn out like what the Halo movie was supposed to be. The movie focuses on other characters, leaving the main character from the games (MC, or Freeman) as a cameo role.
I think it would end up like a couple of the Half-life expansion packs, where you play an ancillary character, catching brief glimpses of Gordon during the game.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/images/rage_first_screenshot.jpg
It's a lot of fun to play with friends/coworkers in a game map based off of a real place you are familiar with. I regularly play on a couple maps I've made of my old high school and house in Counter-strike:source.
Some pics too in case anyone's interested.
High school:
http://www.putfile.com/album/122640
House:
http://www.putfile.com/album/78469
Zombie mod in high school ftw.
Wtf are you doing here? I thought your ass was banned http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?ContentID=4407
There is a lot to configure in the browser. In IE you can enforce privacy settings, connection settings, sound and video settings, security settings, etc with group policy. I know where I work they use GP to prevent people from setting up proxies in the browser and to keep scripts from running on websites as well as making sure the browser plays no sounds. Installing Firefox allows me to circumvent all this, so I could see it being an issue.
I did the same thing. It gets me around the storage space issue, since my Acer only has an 8Gb ssd, and I can use any Windows Apps off the server without sacrificing the performance of the light linux distro.
The only thing more I could ask for is 3g so I could literally use my computer on the move.
Microsoft Clippy is the ONLY reason I still keep an XP partition on one of my computers.
If I really need to run Microsoft Office, I do that using CodeWeaver's Crossover Office under Linux.
Microsoft's decision to drop Clippy means that I won't have to even consider Windows 7. I'll just disconnect from my network whenever I want to clip so there is no risk to an abandoned XP partition.
I'm one of those that has bought every copy of Clippy even before Microsoft bought it from Bruce Artwick and SubLogic. I flew it when it was a wire frame grid (that's basically a paperclip, right?) with the profile mountain range to the north. I even wrote a shareware application for it that still can be found in various software repositories on the web. It has evolved into an amazing platform and some enthusiasts have built amazing motion clippypits and even full simulations of jet airliner clippypits.
I also thought every release of Clippy was profitable. For all of Microsoft's other ills, Clippy has been one of the more popular offerings that people preordered, snapped up on release day, etc. there were flawed releases, but Microsoft would release updates that fixed them.
Microsoft Clippy was really a flagship product for them. I don't know what they are thinking. If any of the team read this, I really appreciate all of your fantastic work over the years. You people made stuff.
It really has been an amazing product and extremely useful. I know lots of real clippy enthusiasts that use it to stay sharp and/or used it to make their training more effective. I can count myself among the ones who had a clippy instructor get frustrated that I was clipping more by instruments and less by seat of the pants, doing coordinated procedure turns, holding heading and altitude first time out.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux clippy simulators (X-Clippy and ClippyGear) pick up all the slack. The hard core people will go nuts putting in the hooks for realistic clippypits, added inputs, etc.
It's an end of an era. For me it totally cuts the cord to Redmond, Gates, and Allen.
I'll sure miss updates to Clippy but in a way am kind of relieved that I will never buy another copy of Windows again.
I'm sorry about this.
You must be new here, Slashdot is full of people that don't understand sarcasm~
I'd say Counter-Strike is fun, but having to sit out a round which can last up to five minutes while two idiots try to out-camp each other is the perfect situation to use this in game browser.
Literally.
He just has tons of energy stored up for later use.
This is a lot more interesting than most of the stuff that gets posted to Idle.
Anyways, from TFA:
"The ambulance without the Howler sounded its siren and produced its familiar wail. Then, the Howler, which produced booms that sounded like a 1980s video game played at an earsplitting level. The liquids in the three glasses rippled."
I really hope that the howler is used sparingly, especially since I live right off a busy street and get some type of emergency vehicle coming by with sirens and lights at least once a day. I especially hope that the howler siren doesn't need to be played at an "earsplitting" level in order to be effective.
They had to park two ambulances next to each other with the glasses of water in between, and turning on the howler's to the loud-as-fuck volume just made the water ripple? Why don't they just have the T-rex from Jurassic Park follow the ambulance around? Dumbasses...
Not to mention the multitude of people it would take to do all the dirty work that comes along with maintaining a city.
No reason to go after the guy who makes whiskey. Go after the guy who used it to beat someone with.
What? Beat him with the whiskey?
I just accidentally my friend with the whiskey.
Who are you replying to?
Action Quake 2! The best multiplayer mod ever.
Seconded, that's probably still my favorite mod ever. That was the first mod I really enjoyed and what got me into map making. I remember building my first bunch of maps for AQ2 in Qoole, and the tons of other cool maps you could download from their homepage.
Counter-Strike was definitely in there.
From TFA:
Counter-Strike is a case in point; a mod that turned the alien infested Half-Life into a detailed tactical shooter. It became so damned popular it overshadowed the original game engine it was built on, like the student outshining the teacher. Counter-Strike - like other big names in the modding world - only served to fan the flames.
I'd say that's the point of the ultrasound. Otherwise, if the robot simply attempted to predict the position of the heart by it's rhythm alone there would be serious issues.
Using the ultrasound, which updates the position to a computer (probably updating around 4-5 MHz), means that the robot can compensate for the position close enough to real time that it can avoid mistakes (there is still the tiny delay).
Any irregularities due to Arrhythmia should not be an issue, the heart will probably not change beating faster than the computer and robot can compensate.
I'll have to check to make sure, but all of the Aspire One's I've found online are spec'd at 1024x600, it seems to be standard for the 8.9" screens (and a lot of the 10" ones, too). On Newegg I found one (an HP) that displays 1024x800.
I agree it's pretty cramped, though as long as I run programs in full screen and keep firefox stripped down to the bone I can get by.
The resolution was one of the deciding factors when I was shopping for a netbook, I ended up getting the Acer Aspire One. The original EEEpc's sucked to view web pages with, the newer ones have a resolution of 1024x600, so it's wide enough to view pages without any side scrolling (most of the time).
The nice thing about war is that it gives something for people to rally behind. It's easier for the government to get people to sacrifice, even for a short time, when there is an easily marketable enemy to collectively hate.
http://www.postmodernclog.com/archives/poster-war-bonds.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/DES/D614~War-Bonds-Iwo-Jima-Posters.jpg
I guess in a WWII we weren't exactly losing all of the material goods we were producing. We traded them with Nazis and, in exchange, were returned the favor in addition to giving our military personnel fun and interesting experiences~
But seriously, you mentioned that getting everybody in motion to rectify things can begin to resemble Keynasianism, which I agree with. Regardless, the government wouldn't be able to pull it off without something fairly dramatic, like a war, to motivate people, and I'm definitely not talking about the Iraq war.
Since we don't have any massively wealthy people who are willing to step in and take the risk of pushing industry forward, the government is really the only entity I can think of that can. They can ease this recession, at least shortening it if somehow people can be bothered to sacrifice voluntarily. Right now, people are sacrificing involuntarily and it's pissing them off. They are losing their possessions, lifestyle, etc.
I can't imagine what posters expounding this concept would look like. They definitely wouldn't be as easy to make as anti-Nazi propaganda.
I've had a hard time understanding this as well. On the other hand, it takes people to create all of that stuff (ships, ammo, machines, etc.), so suddenly that quarter of the population that was unemployed is now earning a wage which they will then circulate back into the economy.
Sure, a ton of material goods are being exported in exchange for virtually no material gain, but the people in the country are now earning a living. Where did the money come from the pay their wages? I don't know, my guess is that due to government intervention, people were forced to harvest resources and push forward industry for nothing until things got back on their feet.
It almost sounds like telling your employees to work a couple of months for free until things get going, with the promise that after the business is on its feet everyone will get their money.
Agreed, I remember when one of the Hannibal Lecter movies which spurred some discussion on this. It was the movie that featured the scene of a man with the top of his head removed, fully conscious, and having his brain sliced up by the cannibal, who cooked it and subsequently fed it back to the (lobotomized?) man.
It seems like most people balked at the idea of this being possible, but it seems it definitely is (or at least more plausible than some would think).
I watched a couple videos of brain surgery out of morbid curiosity; the patients actions and behaviors can get really strange at times.
Hehe, I always wondered if people around here buy Chevy Impalas for that reason. It seems like the actual unmarked police cars still have all the antennae sticking out, plus an extra mirror on the door.