No scientist has ever partaken in the way that Ozzy did.
A scientist would take a little of one drug. They then might take a little more trying to find the "right dose." (like my 3 drink limit)
A Rockstar takes a little of everything, then takes a lot of everything, then screws your girlfriend a month before proclaiming "bro's before Ho's"... I'm not bitter.:)
Seriously though, no scientist would still be productive had they put their body through the Abuse that Ozzy did. They should also look into decoding the Genome of Peter Steel.
Unreal Development Kit (UDK) While the Unreal Engine 3 has been quite open for modders to tinker around with, the ability to publish and sell games made using UE3 was restricted to licensees of the engine. However, on November 2009, Epic released a free version of their engine, called the Unreal Developer Kit(UDK) that is available to the general public. According to the current EULA, game makers can sell their games by paying Epic a lump-sum of $99 at the outset, and 25% of all revenue above $5000.[11]
It comes w/ the full modeling, map making, and event system. It's easy to jump into, Lots of resources, and you can build a lot w/ it's scripting engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnrealEd but it, like many dev platforms are mostly map editors.
I agree w/ your post. I just said WoW was about 1/3 the way there. 2/3rds is a long way to go.
There is a huge gap though. Look at the time frame of the movies your talking about, they are vastly different by generation. If you were to ask the same SW crowd Who their favorite bands were it'd be Led Zepplin & Black Sabbath or Van Halen (David Lee Roth)
My generation might say Metallica and R.E.M. or Van Hagar
The current 15-25 yo population might say blink 182 or Lady GaGa or Cold Play
The comparison between mediums isn't the apples to apples either though, because, while I can show you an old movie like star wars, or Real Genius in a few hours, you'd look at it and go OMG that looks so cheezy & fake...
Imagine trying to show someone accustomed to the X-box 360 and make them sit through 15 hrs of Wolfenstein. I loved the game, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone...Today.
The comparison just isn't there, two totally different mediums.
When we talk about influence though, SW had a huge influence & it spanned multiple generations w/ a HUGE distance between releases of the 456 and 123!
WoW just started, and in the newest generations everyone knows what WoW is. Video games 10 years ago were where silent film was 100 years ago. The best videogames right now are at the level star wars was when it first came out. In the next 10 years, a convergence will happen, and video games will suck like star wars 1,2,& 3, but after that should grow into epic tales like LOTR, Harry Potter, IronMan (I), Avatar, etc..
I work in health care too. I do use a vpn from time to time from my home machine to do menial work, it's rare though. However, I also have a laptop from work to do every thing with. The only reason I'd use my machine is if for instance I have it booted, and my laptop is cold, and have to put a ticket in progress, or to quickly check mail inbetween frags / maps in TF2 & L4D2.
This is the the part that confused me too.
Howvever, the OP mentions that he is bringing his laptop into work, not working from home. That situation sounds even crazier, unless he is carrying the laptop from a private medical office into the hospital, and the computer is the property of the medical office
Definately crazy! In my opinion, I just don't trust my coworkers habits. Our network guys do a decent job, but we are also one of those large Co still on IE6. I don't want their packets to touch my gear w/ a 10 NAT pole! (I practice safe computer sex, but you never know.. you could break a firewall mid intercourse)
Seriously though... Physicians try and do this all the time... This kind of sounds like the ring of a doctor's rant. Your personal laptop has no need to be on their network. For business purposes, use their guest network and VPN. I can't imagine they'd really require encryption on the other side of a VPN, that isn't conducive to getting work done, and just pisses people off.
If you were "trying to help out" then stop. NOW. You're helping no one, using your own resources for testing? I do that as I manage a VPN client that has specific.... issues. So I use my home software to verify connectivity from other networks... But when they want info on other OS's etc, I now say Show me the H/W.
I can't test w/ hardware that I don't have, and I'm no longer going to use my hardware to do their work.
Not because I don't want too, but if I come into a problem (like a drive I had passed on it's bit's to the next world) I have to FURTHER use my resources to try and get back to a working state asap. This is difficult for some people to do.
However my boss totally got it, understood what I needed and is prepping me w/ the supplies as we speak.
Just let them know what you need. If you're expected to do any work at home, you should expect them to hand you a laptop. It's so common, it's not even worth mentioning really.
I have to disagree. If they send me the whole session, I can look at the URL, the status bar, the taskbar, and the context of the error. It is quite helpful sometimes.
Trust me on this. They are really frustrating to deal with. When everything works, the worst part is that they sell XMb down/1mb up at $50/mo, cxld usenet, etc..
When it doesn't work, it takes them months to get a problem fixed. They don't listen, and make you follow scripts, even if it's the 10th time you've done it.
I'm all for scripts btw, but at least listen to what I have to say!
My biggest problem is that they don't have a lower tiered broadband package, which effectively eliminates the option for decent web browsing by "lower paid" citizens. Seriously, 10Mb down for $45/mo and no 5Mb or hell, 2.5 Mb option for $30?
Dsl doesn't count... btw. $20 / month is $240 a year, and that is a signifigant amount of $ for some folks.
This has never happened to me before (for a machine ore piece of hardware). That helmet is beautiful, but the machine that made it is sexy. I want two. NOW! one on each side of me.
The first time I tried it I was like, no $%^4 it works!
The next time I tried it, I was like wow, I can change tracks on my phone from my steering wheel!
The next time I tried it, I turned it up to a decent enough level and was utterly disapointed.
Now I use bluetooth for making calls, usb for "my music" aux in for my wife's zuneHD.
I have a soney MEX-BT5700. Maybe it's just sony, but I'm not a huge fan of bluetooth for anything but recieving calls in the car. That and to get the music fxs to work correctly, I have to disconnect and reconnect it every time I get in the car.
There really is only DirectX and OpenGl for API's. I thought that the API's are supposed to handle everything below them, and let the game devs build on top of them.
though. Many people have made the same comment here on/. before him. Myself included. Also, not everyone can afford the $12/mo commitment, then go and spend 40-60 bucks on another game.
Ultimately, playing other games was a big reason that I quit WoW. The others were guild breakups, and lack of solo content. There were so many games I never got to play, and I wanted to get back into the FPS genre to play TF2, L4D(2), crysis (which I loved), try out borderlands, as well as play some non FPS/MMORPG genres too.
It wasn't until I was at Infernalan a few whiles ago after I devoured the northrend content when it clicked though... Wow, look at that game, & wow, look at that game too! Wow looks so dated now, I just can't imagine sticking my mug in there again. (granted so does TF2, but that's a whole 'nother addiction) It was most exciting to see all these games I've never imagined before. Now I force myself to try something new once per quarter.
I was AC in a similar post and subsequently got modded down similarly.
This particular organization had a huge number of IT "management" staff, but most of them were converted from finance and had weak IT skills. Their emphasis on compliance came at the expense of operational competence. E-mail, database, or file servers might take a day off every now and then for the crisis du jour, but by golly they had corporate governance!
The key part for me is your first sentance here. Where I work, we have the same issue. IT people who don't "Love" computers, who are more process & workflow people than true tech geeks. Process and workflow is important, VERY important, and I'm not saying those people shouldn't be where they are, but you need to have a mix of skills. Those tech people can do MORE than just comply w/ the law, but help a corp. exceed the standards set by organizations and laws such as HIPPA.
Low coast, loanable, disposable, large data sets. Think more of like medical imaging archives, and regular FULL backups. The need for this is great in the corporate world. Spinning disk is nice, but it's also hard to loan out, and expensive. Networking a 1.5G study is rough, requires a lot of upload bandwidth, and if you look over some patients histories they may have >20 studies that a doctor wants to see YESTERDAY! Burning a patient's whole history to 1 usable disk would be great!
Unfortunately, it will never be because it's not standard in common PC builds yet. It's just a pipe dream that is perpetually > 10 yrs away. The reason for this is as computers get faster, we take more and more data, higher resolution studies, 3D reconstructions, etc.. That outstrip our abillity to keep up on the portable storage front.
What's the physical size of a reaper? oh yeah, here's a picture of that...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MQ-9_Afghanistan_takeoff_1_Oct_07.JPG
That's the point of my comment. The MQ-9 is larger than many small airplanes. It's freakin' HUGE.
Judging by history, if we make a high tech version of something, the terrorists will make a low tech version that performs well enough.
But really what you've just told me is that:
The scale is interestingly small in a few respects
1/15 to 1/30 on flight time
1/3 in top speed, and 1/4 ish in cruise.
1/42 in wingspan
about 1/700 in weight & about 1/700 in HP this is really just a 1:1 p/w ratio scaling flat from what I fly now!
Someone could make many smaller scale planes that do many of these functions on a smaller scale for a minor fraction of the price.
Btw: Electrics have no formal ceiling, until the air becomes thin enough that the prop is ineffective at the KV rating of the motor.
The payload part, that's where the scale looks like it falls off, however, what's the weight of that MQ9? I can make a 5lb plane lift 8lbs (it plus 3lb of payload, or in pig mode maybe 10 lbs, but w/ a long runway, and dumping fuel) That's almost double it's weight! I'm just interjecting personal experience here, I know I couldn't seriously scale that ratio up to far with any meaningful flight time.
The takeoff weight being 7000 lbs is 700x more than the planes I'm running. With almost as much change in Horsepower. That brings the scale much more inline with a WT/HP ratio that I am achieving now. Meaning that it theoretically would scale up... FLAT.
All I'm trying to say is that if someone "wanted to" we could build a version of that plane that maybe isn't as fast, or can cary as much, but would be "good enough" for a lot less $, using mostly off the shelf parts. Making them damn near disposable. Hopefully no one does, but the realm of possibilities is a whole lot larger now than just a few years ago.
It's easy, you fire the lazers at a ground based "difuser". NO I'm Serious.... but not in that literal translation. You know how you shine a green lazer on a plane and you go to jail right? You can't start infilltrating the earth with light that, to be visible in daylight would have to overcome the power than the sun. You would have an illuminated beacon, similar to a traffic light, that could get it's data via sattelite. It'd basically be a "recieving tower" on the ground which can then illuminate to whatever color you want. It's not a good idea to try and light up the sand. That won't work.
The drones are way over engineered. There are several DIY drones out there now, that "could" theoretically perform similar functions: 1. Extend flight times to two hrs. Li-Po & Li-Fe batteries are AMAZING. 2. Camera / HUD. --- been going on for a while. You can buy a kit for $500 and strap it to whatever you want. many include head tracking. 3. Drop a payload, or fire a dumb rocket. --- been done longer than anything else on this list. 4. Have a sensor array capable of thermal imaging, video, speed, altitude, attitude, & position. 5. Fly at 100 mph or more to "bug out" 6. Maintain stealthiness by flying 40 mph and quiet. 7. Enable a pilot to only control the plane on take off and landing, using GPS waypointing (yes, there's an app for that)
The hard & expensive part is the laser guided rocket payload. Those are heavy, explosive, and harder to assemble than the rest.
New materials like firber glassed foam construction, carbon fiber, brushless motors, Li-Po batteries, and the evershrinking computer chip make most of this possible today for ~1500 and a local hobby shop near by.
Seriously, you could do most of it really cheap by using a supercub and taping an Iphone to it. That's like $400 (plus two year contract).
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No scientist has ever partaken in the way that Ozzy did.
A scientist would take a little of one drug. They then might take a little more trying to find the "right dose."
(like my 3 drink limit)
A Rockstar takes a little of everything, then takes a lot of everything, then screws your girlfriend a month before proclaiming "bro's before Ho's"... I'm not bitter. :)
Seriously though, no scientist would still be productive had they put their body through the Abuse that Ozzy did. They should also look into decoding the Genome of Peter Steel.
on premium unleaded is AMAZING. I can't wait to see how fast one is with space technology for an engine!
Plagarised from Wiki:
Unreal Development Kit (UDK)
While the Unreal Engine 3 has been quite open for modders to tinker around with, the ability to publish and sell games made using UE3 was restricted to licensees of the engine. However, on November 2009, Epic released a free version of their engine, called the Unreal Developer Kit(UDK) that is available to the general public. According to the current EULA, game makers can sell their games by paying Epic a lump-sum of $99 at the outset, and 25% of all revenue above $5000.[11]
It comes w/ the full modeling, map making, and event system. It's easy to jump into, Lots of resources, and you can build a lot w/ it's scripting engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnrealEd but it, like many dev platforms are mostly map editors.
My gear to work w/o wrapping...
If you're not going to wrap it,
Stay home and whack it...
Old saying still true.
I hope you got reread all of that.
I agree w/ your post. I just said WoW was about 1/3 the way there. 2/3rds is a long way to go.
There is a huge gap though. Look at the time frame of the movies your talking about, they are vastly different by generation. If you were to ask the same SW crowd Who their favorite bands were it'd be Led Zepplin & Black Sabbath or Van Halen (David Lee Roth)
My generation might say Metallica and R.E.M. or Van Hagar
The current 15-25 yo population might say blink 182 or Lady GaGa or Cold Play
The comparison between mediums isn't the apples to apples either though, because, while I can show you an old movie like star wars, or Real Genius in a few hours, you'd look at it and go OMG that looks so cheezy & fake...
Imagine trying to show someone accustomed to the X-box 360 and make them sit through 15 hrs of Wolfenstein. I loved the game, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone...Today.
The comparison just isn't there, two totally different mediums.
When we talk about influence though, SW had a huge influence & it spanned multiple generations w/ a HUGE distance between releases of the 456 and 123!
WoW just started, and in the newest generations everyone knows what WoW is. Video games 10 years ago were where silent film was 100 years ago. The best videogames right now are at the level star wars was when it first came out. In the next 10 years, a convergence will happen, and video games will suck like star wars 1,2,& 3, but after that should grow into epic tales like LOTR, Harry Potter, IronMan (I), Avatar, etc..
I work in health care too. I do use a vpn from time to time from my home machine to do menial work, it's rare though. However, I also have a laptop from work to do every thing with. The only reason I'd use my machine is if for instance I have it booted, and my laptop is cold, and have to put a ticket in progress, or to quickly check mail inbetween frags / maps in TF2 & L4D2.
This is the the part that confused me too.
Definately crazy! In my opinion, I just don't trust my coworkers habits. Our network guys do a decent job, but we are also one of those large Co still on IE6. I don't want their packets to touch my gear w/ a 10 NAT pole! (I practice safe computer sex, but you never know.. you could break a firewall mid intercourse)
Seriously though... Physicians try and do this all the time... This kind of sounds like the ring of a doctor's rant. Your personal laptop has no need to be on their network. For business purposes, use their guest network and VPN. I can't imagine they'd really require encryption on the other side of a VPN, that isn't conducive to getting work done, and just pisses people off.
If you were "trying to help out" then stop. NOW. You're helping no one, using your own resources for testing? I do that as I manage a VPN client that has specific.... issues. So I use my home software to verify connectivity from other networks... But when they want info on other OS's etc, I now say Show me the H/W.
I can't test w/ hardware that I don't have, and I'm no longer going to use my hardware to do their work.
Not because I don't want too, but if I come into a problem (like a drive I had passed on it's bit's to the next world) I have to FURTHER use my resources to try and get back to a working state asap. This is difficult for some people to do.
However my boss totally got it, understood what I needed and is prepping me w/ the supplies as we speak.
Just let them know what you need. If you're expected to do any work at home, you should expect them to hand you a laptop. It's so common, it's not even worth mentioning really.
World of Warcraft...
it's about 1/3 the way there. Pretty effing amazing for a game.
When they commented that they have a bigger voice than Roger because the last time they checked they where above Oprah on the Time top 100 list.
I was like "NO WAY!" so I went, did some fact checking, and then voted to put them up to #1!!
Click the link here http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1972075_1976159,00.html
To vote for them!
It's free, fully free until you go over 5 lic.
I tried to pay them, and they wouldn't take my $. Great for Friends / family support, and lic costs are pretty reasonable.
I have to disagree. If they send me the whole session, I can look at the URL, the status bar, the taskbar, and the context of the error. It is quite helpful sometimes.
Trust me on this. They are really frustrating to deal with. When everything works, the worst part is that they sell XMb down/1mb up at $50/mo, cxld usenet, etc..
When it doesn't work, it takes them months to get a problem fixed. They don't listen, and make you follow scripts, even if it's the 10th time you've done it.
I'm all for scripts btw, but at least listen to what I have to say!
My biggest problem is that they don't have a lower tiered broadband package, which effectively eliminates the option for decent web browsing by "lower paid" citizens. Seriously, 10Mb down for $45/mo and no 5Mb or hell, 2.5 Mb option for $30?
Dsl doesn't count... btw.
$20 / month is $240 a year, and that is a signifigant amount of $ for some folks.
He's the coolest brown dwarf I know of too, but how did he get out there?
This has never happened to me before (for a machine ore piece of hardware).
That helmet is beautiful, but the machine that made it is sexy. I want two. NOW! one on each side of me.
I only use it for podcasts.
The first time I tried it I was like, no $%^4 it works!
The next time I tried it, I was like wow, I can change tracks on my phone from my steering wheel!
The next time I tried it, I turned it up to a decent enough level and was utterly disapointed.
Now I use bluetooth for making calls, usb for "my music" aux in for my wife's zuneHD.
I have a soney MEX-BT5700. Maybe it's just sony, but I'm not a huge fan of bluetooth for anything but recieving calls in the car. That and to get the music fxs to work correctly, I have to disconnect and reconnect it every time I get in the car.
There really is only DirectX and OpenGl for API's. I thought that the API's are supposed to handle everything below them, and let the game devs build on top of them.
though. Many people have made the same comment here on /. before him. Myself included.
Also, not everyone can afford the $12/mo commitment, then go and spend 40-60 bucks on another game.
Ultimately, playing other games was a big reason that I quit WoW. The others were guild breakups, and lack of solo content. There were so many games I never got to play, and I wanted to get back into the FPS genre to play TF2, L4D(2), crysis (which I loved), try out borderlands, as well as play some non FPS /MMORPG genres too.
It wasn't until I was at Infernalan a few whiles ago after I devoured the northrend content when it clicked though...
Wow, look at that game, & wow, look at that game too! Wow looks so dated now, I just can't imagine sticking my mug in there again. (granted so does TF2, but that's a whole 'nother addiction) It was most exciting to see all these games I've never imagined before. Now I force myself to try something new once per quarter.
Thanks for pointing that to me, now I can quote it for projects in the future! I've not seen that before.
I was AC in a similar post and subsequently got modded down similarly.
The key part for me is your first sentance here. Where I work, we have the same issue. IT people who don't "Love" computers, who are more process & workflow people than true tech geeks. Process and workflow is important, VERY important, and I'm not saying those people shouldn't be where they are, but you need to have a mix of skills. Those tech people can do MORE than just comply w/ the law, but help a corp. exceed the standards set by organizations and laws such as HIPPA.
Low coast, loanable, disposable, large data sets. Think more of like medical imaging archives, and regular FULL backups. The need for this is great in the corporate world. Spinning disk is nice, but it's also hard to loan out, and expensive. Networking a 1.5G study is rough, requires a lot of upload bandwidth, and if you look over some patients histories they may have >20 studies that a doctor wants to see YESTERDAY! Burning a patient's whole history to 1 usable disk would be great!
Unfortunately, it will never be because it's not standard in common PC builds yet. It's just a pipe dream that is perpetually > 10 yrs away. The reason for this is as computers get faster, we take more and more data, higher resolution studies, 3D reconstructions, etc.. That outstrip our abillity to keep up on the portable storage front.
Sorry taken so long to respond.
What's the physical size of a reaper? oh yeah, here's a picture of that...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MQ-9_Afghanistan_takeoff_1_Oct_07.JPG
That's the point of my comment. The MQ-9 is larger than many small airplanes. It's freakin' HUGE.
Judging by history, if we make a high tech version of something, the terrorists will make a low tech version that performs well enough.
But really what you've just told me is that:
The scale is interestingly small in a few respects
1/15 to 1/30 on flight time
1/3 in top speed, and 1/4 ish in cruise.
1/42 in wingspan
about 1/700 in weight & about 1/700 in HP this is really just a 1:1 p/w ratio scaling flat from what I fly now!
Someone could make many smaller scale planes that do many of these functions on a smaller scale for a minor fraction of the price.
Btw:
Electrics have no formal ceiling, until the air becomes thin enough that the prop is ineffective at the KV rating of the motor.
The payload part, that's where the scale looks like it falls off, however, what's the weight of that MQ9? I can make a 5lb plane lift 8lbs (it plus 3lb of payload, or in pig mode maybe 10 lbs, but w/ a long runway, and dumping fuel) That's almost double it's weight! I'm just interjecting personal experience here, I know I couldn't seriously scale that ratio up to far with any meaningful flight time.
The takeoff weight being 7000 lbs is 700x more than the planes I'm running. With almost as much change in Horsepower. That brings the scale much more inline with a WT/HP ratio that I am achieving now. Meaning that it theoretically would scale up... FLAT.
All I'm trying to say is that if someone "wanted to" we could build a version of that plane that maybe isn't as fast, or can cary as much, but would be "good enough" for a lot less $, using mostly off the shelf parts. Making them damn near disposable. Hopefully no one does, but the realm of possibilities is a whole lot larger now than just a few years ago.
It's easy, you fire the lazers at a ground based "difuser". NO I'm Serious.... but not in that literal translation. You know how you shine a green lazer on a plane and you go to jail right? You can't start infilltrating the earth with light that, to be visible in daylight would have to overcome the power than the sun. You would have an illuminated beacon, similar to a traffic light, that could get it's data via sattelite. It'd basically be a "recieving tower" on the ground which can then illuminate to whatever color you want. It's not a good idea to try and light up the sand. That won't work.
The drones are way over engineered. There are several DIY drones out there now, that "could" theoretically perform similar functions:
1. Extend flight times to two hrs. Li-Po & Li-Fe batteries are AMAZING.
2. Camera / HUD. --- been going on for a while. You can buy a kit for $500 and strap it to whatever you want. many include head tracking.
3. Drop a payload, or fire a dumb rocket. --- been done longer than anything else on this list.
4. Have a sensor array capable of thermal imaging, video, speed, altitude, attitude, & position.
5. Fly at 100 mph or more to "bug out"
6. Maintain stealthiness by flying 40 mph and quiet.
7. Enable a pilot to only control the plane on take off and landing, using GPS waypointing (yes, there's an app for that)
The hard & expensive part is the laser guided rocket payload. Those are heavy, explosive, and harder to assemble than the rest.
New materials like firber glassed foam construction, carbon fiber, brushless motors, Li-Po batteries, and the evershrinking computer chip make most of this possible today for ~1500 and a local hobby shop near by.
Seriously, you could do most of it really cheap by using a supercub and taping an Iphone to it. That's like $400 (plus two year contract).
Haven't read too many coments that made me laugh like that...