Capsaicin doesn't do a thing to tissues that don't have neurons to which the molecules can bind. I keep telling this to people that insist that eating peppers all the time will destroy your stomach... But some people just don't listen to reason, but instead to old wives tales. It seems that many membranes have the neurons that capsaicin triggers, and they're mostly on the face, and in and around the anus, of all places. If you managed to swallow a habanero whole, it shouldn't cause a problem unless some of that capsaicin survives the digestion process, and then you'll be singing a Johnny Cash song.
Most birds, incidentally, don't have receptors that capsaicin works with, so they can eat peppers all day long and not have a problem.
Look at how much our economy has inflated during the last 5 years... The economy always inflates when a republican is in office. Never fails. You'd need almost 1200 dollars today to buy what 1000 dollars would have bought in the year 2000. When Clinton was in office, our inflation rate decreased, and it was starting to head in the other direction. People want to know why everything is so expensive, and why they haven't got raises in 5 years. How can it be a suprise to them?!
When the price of a dollar decreases, it's supposed to make it more attractive to buy from the US.... But what the fuck do we make anymore? Cars? Hell, all the auto manufactures are in trouble. Our economy is in transition from being dependant on manufacturing, to being driven by services. It dosen't make econimical sense to build things here, when you can build them in Taiwan and then import it and make profit like crazy. Many of the cars our country exports aren't truely built here, Ford and GM have plants in Europe, because it makes more sense to build some cars there. Lowering the value of the dollar makes it more expensive to buy things from everywhere else. Our fuel prices haven't gone up because demand has increased or supply has decreased substantially, it's largely because the buying power of our currency has dropped. Is it a suprise? NO.
When you've got a stupid, pointless war racking up bills, and congress making tanker loads of more fake money, it shouldn't be a suprise that it's going to be more expensive to live. Combined with greedy profiteers, it's hell!
Sun Tzu had it down how long ago? 2500 years? "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare... In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. " We're not so special that we can make it happen any better than the Chinese could. I also like this one: "Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
Had he be living today he would have said: "GG GWB".
That's the thing though, the Meteor, while sounding very cool, is basically at a glance a ram-jet powered, improved version of the age old AIM-54 Phoenix, with more advanced sensors and avionics. I mean, that thing was making 100km+ kills almost 30 years ago, and its max speed was mach 4, just like the Meteor! Obviously the Meteor is intended to stay at max speed for a bit longer, but really, it's still a capable missile, and it might have been very easy to simply put more advanced AMRAAM style avionics and remote radar guidance in it. That would go a long way in making a long range fire and forget missile that could be flown on pretty much anything... Anyway, with a stealthy craft like the F-35 it should be possible to safely close within AMRAAM firing range when using a third party ground or AWACS radar to direct the two. Meteor only makes sense to use on less stealthy stand-off craft...
The Phoenix was retired from service 2 years ago, and not only because they are planning to retire the F-14--the only vehicle capable of firing it--it just wasn't needed that much! Iran made more use if it than we ever did, and look at how many wars we've been in since then! As far as I know, there are no plans to replace it... The AMRAAM is intended to fill most of that void the retirement of the Phoenix left, and maybe an AMRAAM with a longer range will supercede it in the future, but, the Phoenix went twice as fast... It seems like any ambitious long-range ramjet or conventional rocket propelled air to air missile project at this time is mostly a boondoggle. I mean, unless we expect China to pose a threat in the future, or North Korea to obtain advanced fighter technology, it's pretty much useless!
Anyway, I understand that the ASRAAM and the AIM-9X share the same seeker, and because of that they're pretty much equivalent, excepting the outside. The 9X also inherited the ETOS optical tracker of the 9M, and because of that it makes a much better match for the F-35, which has ETOS support built in, not to mention the Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System... I believe the 9X would have better anti countermeasure support and better kill stats because of it, too. You're right that they need to be able to support new arms when they come out, but there's almost 40 years between the deployments of the 9B and 9X, I would expect a radical difference! A more apt comparison would be between the 9B and the Sidearm, basically an early passive radar version of the Sidewinder, which could be carried on a Cobra helix.
The thought of Windows 95 running on a missile, though, that's a goodie!:)
I've also seen a video like that, but it was the external tank of an F/A-18 that the pilot dropped (routine thing to do before landing on a carrier) that crashed into the wing of his wingmans' A-7 Corsair, not a bomb. Needless to say, it was a big fireball, but I think the A-7 pilot survived after ejecting... But that certianly didn't happen at supersonic speed, either.
Anyway, the guy you responded to clearly dosen't understand the implications of supersonic aerodynamics and the detachment of bombs. It's a dangerous thing!
If that's the deal, this ordeal has got to be mostly bullshit. All US/Europe/Japan fighters use NATO armaments, and it's my understanding that most every US armament that's designed to be carried by a fighter should also be compatible with any NATO fighter that has the avionics to support it, be they Gripens, Rafales, Eurofighters, Mirages, whatever. JDAMs, AMRAAMs, and AIM-9 missiles were all developed with NATO cooperation, it would be surprising to me if each weapon was built to support only one aircraft. And then in another way it wouldn't be very surprising to me, what with all the polotics.
The UK is an ally--since they're bringing so much money to our (remarkably depressive) economy, we should give them the code for any auditing or modifications they wish to undertake, AND we should help them solve any problems they perceive with the deployment of these aircraft, and just be done with it.
Oh, you'll be very excited to learn that the scientists have fount that this rocky planet is home to a mineral that exists nowhere else in the galaxy, and it's said that it is a cure for the common stupidity! How exciting is that?! So, what's your excuse now?!
I have a USB2 enclosure that I got ages ago that I put 20GB drive in, and it runs fine off of any Mac laptop I've hooked it to, with either USBv1 or 2, and that's directly to the computer, no hubs or anything inbetween. The enclosure itself also came with a wall wart, but I've never, ever used it. It's only there if you plan to use it with an unpowered port, of if it dosen't work with a port that will not supply enough power, like keyboards or monitor hubs sometimes do.
I don't remember what make it is, but it looks like a little alminum book. Yeah, it looks just like a hardback book--not the best styling decision I've ever ran across, but hey, it works, and well.
Any potential merit you had as a car guy went right out the window when you suggested that the viper's handling as a track car is any better than mediocre... And that's despite your ludicrous claims on the Fierro *cough*bullshit*cough*... Every race prepared Fiero I've ever seen weighed in right at 2000lbs, and that was with the aluminum V6, and an 8 point roll cage! Furthermore, NASCAR circuit tracks are boring as hell unless they've got a road course in the middle, and not all of them do, and most are just average as road tracks go anyway. Yay for left hand turns? NO, damnit!
My advice to the GP: look up some tracks in your area. In the US, there are places with lots of tracks, and places devoid of them (mostly in the middle), and some have open track days. Most will rent out a day, so if you can get enough people together to make it worthwhile that's an option... Maybe there's a Subaru club that rents a day at the track, which can cost upwards of $8000 depending on the track. So, the more people you've got, the cheaper it will be. Open track days can cost anywhere from $100 to $300 to attend, but it's worth it... But unless you've got an STI, I wouldn't push your car too hard, the plain WRX transmissions are pretty weak as far as sports car transmissions, they shafts and case can flex tear up a bunch of gears if you're not careful, or worse yet, you could break the case. Ouch. I've seen it happen!
Other than that, I think the best investment you can make as far as going fast and enjoying it is in performance driving school. There's lots of schools around the country and tracks can often get you headed in the right direction. If you've got money to blow, and some space to work on and store your cars, you could get a wrecked WRX, and turn that into a semi-dedicated, but still road legal car.
Red Hat is a reference to Carmen SanDiego's hot red outfit, and if anyone so much as says otherwise, I'll turn them into mutton! I swear, I've done it before, I'll do it again! *scowls*
I mean, isn't that how it works with gadgets? Try to cram too many features into a device with a restricted max price tag, and you just get a device that can't perform any of its many functions very well.
Well, I dunno, Swiss Army type knives have been very popular throughout the years.
I watched the shorter length google movie, and that was addressed towards the end. He says that when your civilization(s) advance enough, that manipulation of creatures is possible, and that when you get to that stage of the game most of the editors are freely available (i.e. that you don't have to follow the usual rules that drive evolution in the game, feeding, reproduction)
It certainly looks and sounds as if you can micromanage to your heart's content once you get to that point, including growing new colonies, managing old ones, creating new ecologies, etc.
Maybe it's not open ended, if you take the definition of "open ended" to not include growing, and becoming better... Who knows where evolution is supposed to take us, maybe we're supposed to transcend our existence beyond what we can imagine, maybe we're meant to roam the stars, and maybe we're supposed to stay. It looks open ended from our view, but if you had the perspective of some enlightened, omniscient being, our existence might not look open ended. It might look like a continuation of many, many stages. I'd say that this game appears to be as open ended as the player wants to make it.
I'd be concerned with the scope of their project being so large also, but from the video it really seems that it's all pretty well buttoned up.
When the little guys were running around, and he was going on about the additions you can make to your creatures, I thought that looked like great fun, and that it was pretty amazing. When they got the spears, drums, etc. that was yet again amazing, and to me the laughter of the audience echoed "You've fucking got to be kidding, nobody can do that, nobody's even thought something like that was possible!", and yet again he zooms out on that universe, and everyone is awestruck all over again... But there it stands.
Color me impressed, I would have never imagined a game so open ended, and so vast. I'm awestruck, and I want it yesterday!
That's all definitely true about the forces on the body, but I think having a wider FOV accounts for at least as much of the experience. In a car or a plane you can look around and see what's going on. In a car you can look into the curve, look at the apex of the curve, and follow through with your head motion.
Trying to fly formation while looking through a little window the computer provides is next to impossible, for example; but while not being a pilot, I think I could probably do it passably if someone were to just hand over the controls in a real plane, and I think I could be competant with a little bit of a learning curve.
The only racing/flying sim where I really got the feeling I was there was a NASCAR sim, and it provided a fairly wide FOV. At least you could see cars sneaking up on either side of your car, about like like it happens on the highway when you're looking straight ahead. Most games, though are like trying to drive or fly while looking through binoculars. It just dosen't work.
Shit, that's nothing. Go drive a quick car around a track on track day. Even after a few laps it's very frustrating when you have to drive a slower car on the street. After even 30 minutes of track time I still get the sensation for at least the rest of the day, and sometimes the next day too...
I've never had the video game racing thing happen, I think because no matter how real the game, it's nothing close to reality. I suppose if the game were to take place in a surround video system, where the field of view was much larger, it might be a bit better. Anyway, every game I've played will let you get away with much more than real life will, so I can see how it could happen.
Now, going sailing for couple weeks, that's no problem, I don't get sea sick, but when I get back on land... Wow. It's okay for the first couple days, but I notice that I still walk like I were on the boat! Like, I aim for a doorway or something, and I know that's where I want to go, but my body dosen't, so I'm always bumping into stuff where I normally wouldn't. Very wierd.
Hey now, some people like to know with a reasonable certianty that their cocaine hasn't been riding around in the ass area of some fat, sweaty fast food resturant patrons. It's just not classy to snort up stray fecal matter and/or dead hepatitis particles.
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Huh, never heard the cocaine one before, but you may be right.
I always thought they used a dilute solution of atropine, or maybe some artificial equivalent... I'm pretty sure that atropine has been used almost exclusively in the past, but maybe they've come up with something better.
In the olden days, ladies would use a drop of solution prepared from the Belladonna bush (which incidentally means "beautiful lady" in Italian), so called because this would dilate the pupils, and larger pupils were supposed to make the eyes deeper and more beautiful. Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade, as it's also known, produces a bunch of different alkalis, one of them being atropine. Forgive me; I'm a bit of a botany geek.
It's also supposed to make quite the hallucinogen when made into an ointment that's applied to the skin. I've never had the privilege, but it might be entertaining to use on someone you hate.
he's driving the speed limit, but he was probably speeding before he slowed down to it, let's write him a ticket
Fuck yeah, if they can perpetuate this upon this guy, it's not going to be long until we have a "He's using encryption, he must be a terrorist plotting to nuke the White House... Why would anyone use encryption unless they were a terrorist?!", when in fact, the accused was doing something utterly innocuous like modifying his credit card account over an SSL connection. Of course, we probably won't hear about it for five years, since he'll be locked away at Gitmo without a trial.
If this goes on, they've effectively taken amendments four five and six out to the hangin' tree and that's the last we'll see of them, and the other seven of amendments of the Bill of Rights will be found in some dank hole shitting themselves.
If the video card is good enough, I'd expect that it'll be fine. I wouldn't expect to run tons of programs or play multiple DVDs like they do in the video (and do it smothly) but then again, I wouldn't expect to do that on a computer without enough guts anyway. Since XGL seems to do most of it's work in the video adapter, it shouldn't be very CPU limited... As always, having gobs of RAM is a good thing.
Do you have any idea how many people would cream their pants at this idea? Hell, even the soccer coach could have a calendar that all of the soccer moms could subscribe to. I would have killed for this during college. My god, if Google's baby is anything like this, it will blow everything good that Google has done up until this point clear out of the water. Everything.
Yeah, of course that's true--you raise a good point, and I have had the same thought. I'm sure a larger amount of people than normal would vote uninformed, just to get whatever benefit was offered... However, I think that most people who would be lured in by this benefit (but wouldn't have voted otherwise) would probably vote the way they truely felt, just because they're already there, and the "why not" factor. So, even if there was an increased level of noise, I think the net effect in the end would be a better signal to noise ratio than we have now.
It's a disgusting thing to me, that something like 70+% of Iraqi citizens can show up to the polls despite a good chance that some bomber could explode a large crowd, and even though they're relatively sure of the outcome (Shiite v. Suni populations), but the best we can do is around 30%. People taking freedom for granted is a terrible thing with so much freedom at stake.
Yeah, and with this system, it's quite possible to get results from the entire east side of the country just at the polls are closing on the west side! If wanted faster results, you'd have to bring back Johnny Carson so he could do the Carnac the Magnificent bit.
Personally, I think election coverage by the polls should be regulated such that news stations can only carry information about local elections at least until every polling place has closed--and everyone can spaz out... If we can't get a beer from a bar that's too close to a polling station (so it wouldn't be possible to buy a vote from a drunk), then the shitheads on TV shouldn't get the chance to buy votes from the morons out there, either. It's come to the point where people are influenced to vote depending on how the person they want to win/lose is projected to do, at any given instant during election day.
I'd also be happy if people who voted would somehow be eligable for a reasonable tax break. That would bring in tons of people alone... But it wouldn't ever happen... A tax break that actually stood a chance of helping the poor and middle class? Not a chance.
Maybe you would have preferred it if they said "The robot can climb hills with a slope of approximately Pi/5!", so everyone who didn't take trig (and some who did) can stare blankly and say "wtf?"
Did I hear a "yay" for dimensionless units? Oh, yes, I think I did.
See, now we're just arguing over semantics. I agree, India's AIDS per capita rate is low for a country so big. I also expect that their numbers would be very large. I don't think India is a bad place, with deprived values or anything like that. I've never disagreed with these things. I was simply using HIV, and that bit of information that the % growth of HIV in India was increasing substantially in the last few year as a tool to illustrate to the GGGGP that just maybe their average social values aren't what they appear to be on the surface (because of social taboos, or whatever), and that India isn't a some kind of panacea. Nothing more. He/she was cocking about with the whole westerners are rich white devil monkeys, and our values are clearly better than theirs because we know who our parents are, because we don't fuck around routine...
Anyway, it sucks that whatever country you're in (South Africa, I'm guessing?) has been hit so hard by this stupid virus. It's a travesty wherever it hits, there can be no doubt. I guess I'll go stfu now.
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Capsaicin doesn't do a thing to tissues that don't have neurons to which the molecules can bind. I keep telling this to people that insist that eating peppers all the time will destroy your stomach... But some people just don't listen to reason, but instead to old wives tales. It seems that many membranes have the neurons that capsaicin triggers, and they're mostly on the face, and in and around the anus, of all places. If you managed to swallow a habanero whole, it shouldn't cause a problem unless some of that capsaicin survives the digestion process, and then you'll be singing a Johnny Cash song.
Most birds, incidentally, don't have receptors that capsaicin works with, so they can eat peppers all day long and not have a problem.
Look at how much our economy has inflated during the last 5 years... The economy always inflates when a republican is in office. Never fails. You'd need almost 1200 dollars today to buy what 1000 dollars would have bought in the year 2000. When Clinton was in office, our inflation rate decreased, and it was starting to head in the other direction. People want to know why everything is so expensive, and why they haven't got raises in 5 years. How can it be a suprise to them?!
... In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. "
When the price of a dollar decreases, it's supposed to make it more attractive to buy from the US.... But what the fuck do we make anymore? Cars? Hell, all the auto manufactures are in trouble. Our economy is in transition from being dependant on manufacturing, to being driven by services. It dosen't make econimical sense to build things here, when you can build them in Taiwan and then import it and make profit like crazy. Many of the cars our country exports aren't truely built here, Ford and GM have plants in Europe, because it makes more sense to build some cars there. Lowering the value of the dollar makes it more expensive to buy things from everywhere else. Our fuel prices haven't gone up because demand has increased or supply has decreased substantially, it's largely because the buying power of our currency has dropped. Is it a suprise? NO.
When you've got a stupid, pointless war racking up bills, and congress making tanker loads of more fake money, it shouldn't be a suprise that it's going to be more expensive to live. Combined with greedy profiteers, it's hell!
Sun Tzu had it down how long ago? 2500 years? "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare
We're not so special that we can make it happen any better than the Chinese could. I also like this one: "Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
Had he be living today he would have said: "GG GWB".
That's the thing though, the Meteor, while sounding very cool, is basically at a glance a ram-jet powered, improved version of the age old AIM-54 Phoenix, with more advanced sensors and avionics. I mean, that thing was making 100km+ kills almost 30 years ago, and its max speed was mach 4, just like the Meteor! Obviously the Meteor is intended to stay at max speed for a bit longer, but really, it's still a capable missile, and it might have been very easy to simply put more advanced AMRAAM style avionics and remote radar guidance in it. That would go a long way in making a long range fire and forget missile that could be flown on pretty much anything... Anyway, with a stealthy craft like the F-35 it should be possible to safely close within AMRAAM firing range when using a third party ground or AWACS radar to direct the two. Meteor only makes sense to use on less stealthy stand-off craft...
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The Phoenix was retired from service 2 years ago, and not only because they are planning to retire the F-14--the only vehicle capable of firing it--it just wasn't needed that much! Iran made more use if it than we ever did, and look at how many wars we've been in since then! As far as I know, there are no plans to replace it... The AMRAAM is intended to fill most of that void the retirement of the Phoenix left, and maybe an AMRAAM with a longer range will supercede it in the future, but, the Phoenix went twice as fast... It seems like any ambitious long-range ramjet or conventional rocket propelled air to air missile project at this time is mostly a boondoggle. I mean, unless we expect China to pose a threat in the future, or North Korea to obtain advanced fighter technology, it's pretty much useless!
Anyway, I understand that the ASRAAM and the AIM-9X share the same seeker, and because of that they're pretty much equivalent, excepting the outside. The 9X also inherited the ETOS optical tracker of the 9M, and because of that it makes a much better match for the F-35, which has ETOS support built in, not to mention the Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System... I believe the 9X would have better anti countermeasure support and better kill stats because of it, too. You're right that they need to be able to support new arms when they come out, but there's almost 40 years between the deployments of the 9B and 9X, I would expect a radical difference! A more apt comparison would be between the 9B and the Sidearm, basically an early passive radar version of the Sidewinder, which could be carried on a Cobra helix.
The thought of Windows 95 running on a missile, though, that's a goodie!
I've also seen a video like that, but it was the external tank of an F/A-18 that the pilot dropped (routine thing to do before landing on a carrier) that crashed into the wing of his wingmans' A-7 Corsair, not a bomb. Needless to say, it was a big fireball, but I think the A-7 pilot survived after ejecting... But that certianly didn't happen at supersonic speed, either.
Anyway, the guy you responded to clearly dosen't understand the implications of supersonic aerodynamics and the detachment of bombs. It's a dangerous thing!
If that's the deal, this ordeal has got to be mostly bullshit. All US/Europe/Japan fighters use NATO armaments, and it's my understanding that most every US armament that's designed to be carried by a fighter should also be compatible with any NATO fighter that has the avionics to support it, be they Gripens, Rafales, Eurofighters, Mirages, whatever. JDAMs, AMRAAMs, and AIM-9 missiles were all developed with NATO cooperation, it would be surprising to me if each weapon was built to support only one aircraft. And then in another way it wouldn't be very surprising to me, what with all the polotics.
The UK is an ally--since they're bringing so much money to our (remarkably depressive) economy, we should give them the code for any auditing or modifications they wish to undertake, AND we should help them solve any problems they perceive with the deployment of these aircraft, and just be done with it.
Oh, you'll be very excited to learn that the scientists have fount that this rocky planet is home to a mineral that exists nowhere else in the galaxy, and it's said that it is a cure for the common stupidity! How exciting is that?! So, what's your excuse now?!
I have a USB2 enclosure that I got ages ago that I put 20GB drive in, and it runs fine off of any Mac laptop I've hooked it to, with either USBv1 or 2, and that's directly to the computer, no hubs or anything inbetween. The enclosure itself also came with a wall wart, but I've never, ever used it. It's only there if you plan to use it with an unpowered port, of if it dosen't work with a port that will not supply enough power, like keyboards or monitor hubs sometimes do.
I don't remember what make it is, but it looks like a little alminum book. Yeah, it looks just like a hardback book--not the best styling decision I've ever ran across, but hey, it works, and well.
Any potential merit you had as a car guy went right out the window when you suggested that the viper's handling as a track car is any better than mediocre... And that's despite your ludicrous claims on the Fierro *cough*bullshit*cough*... Every race prepared Fiero I've ever seen weighed in right at 2000lbs, and that was with the aluminum V6, and an 8 point roll cage! Furthermore, NASCAR circuit tracks are boring as hell unless they've got a road course in the middle, and not all of them do, and most are just average as road tracks go anyway. Yay for left hand turns? NO, damnit!
My advice to the GP: look up some tracks in your area. In the US, there are places with lots of tracks, and places devoid of them (mostly in the middle), and some have open track days. Most will rent out a day, so if you can get enough people together to make it worthwhile that's an option... Maybe there's a Subaru club that rents a day at the track, which can cost upwards of $8000 depending on the track. So, the more people you've got, the cheaper it will be. Open track days can cost anywhere from $100 to $300 to attend, but it's worth it... But unless you've got an STI, I wouldn't push your car too hard, the plain WRX transmissions are pretty weak as far as sports car transmissions, they shafts and case can flex tear up a bunch of gears if you're not careful, or worse yet, you could break the case. Ouch. I've seen it happen!
Other than that, I think the best investment you can make as far as going fast and enjoying it is in performance driving school. There's lots of schools around the country and tracks can often get you headed in the right direction. If you've got money to blow, and some space to work on and store your cars, you could get a wrecked WRX, and turn that into a semi-dedicated, but still road legal car.
ltimately, intelligence will beat microbes, in the sense that we will use them and they won't be able to harm us.
I'm glad to say that day has come and gone, and now we have fun things like beer, nachos and frozen yogurt as a byproduct! Yay beer!
Red Hat is a reference to Carmen SanDiego's hot red outfit, and if anyone so much as says otherwise, I'll turn them into mutton! I swear, I've done it before, I'll do it again! *scowls*
I mean, isn't that how it works with gadgets? Try to cram too many features into a device with a restricted max price tag, and you just get a device that can't perform any of its many functions very well.
Well, I dunno, Swiss Army type knives have been very popular throughout the years.
I watched the shorter length google movie, and that was addressed towards the end. He says that when your civilization(s) advance enough, that manipulation of creatures is possible, and that when you get to that stage of the game most of the editors are freely available (i.e. that you don't have to follow the usual rules that drive evolution in the game, feeding, reproduction)
It certainly looks and sounds as if you can micromanage to your heart's content once you get to that point, including growing new colonies, managing old ones, creating new ecologies, etc.
Maybe it's not open ended, if you take the definition of "open ended" to not include growing, and becoming better... Who knows where evolution is supposed to take us, maybe we're supposed to transcend our existence beyond what we can imagine, maybe we're meant to roam the stars, and maybe we're supposed to stay. It looks open ended from our view, but if you had the perspective of some enlightened, omniscient being, our existence might not look open ended. It might look like a continuation of many, many stages. I'd say that this game appears to be as open ended as the player wants to make it.
I'd be concerned with the scope of their project being so large also, but from the video it really seems that it's all pretty well buttoned up.
When the little guys were running around, and he was going on about the additions you can make to your creatures, I thought that looked like great fun, and that it was pretty amazing. When they got the spears, drums, etc. that was yet again amazing, and to me the laughter of the audience echoed "You've fucking got to be kidding, nobody can do that, nobody's even thought something like that was possible!", and yet again he zooms out on that universe, and everyone is awestruck all over again... But there it stands.
Color me impressed, I would have never imagined a game so open ended, and so vast. I'm awestruck, and I want it yesterday!
That's all definitely true about the forces on the body, but I think having a wider FOV accounts for at least as much of the experience. In a car or a plane you can look around and see what's going on. In a car you can look into the curve, look at the apex of the curve, and follow through with your head motion.
Trying to fly formation while looking through a little window the computer provides is next to impossible, for example; but while not being a pilot, I think I could probably do it passably if someone were to just hand over the controls in a real plane, and I think I could be competant with a little bit of a learning curve.
The only racing/flying sim where I really got the feeling I was there was a NASCAR sim, and it provided a fairly wide FOV. At least you could see cars sneaking up on either side of your car, about like like it happens on the highway when you're looking straight ahead. Most games, though are like trying to drive or fly while looking through binoculars. It just dosen't work.
Shit, that's nothing. Go drive a quick car around a track on track day. Even after a few laps it's very frustrating when you have to drive a slower car on the street. After even 30 minutes of track time I still get the sensation for at least the rest of the day, and sometimes the next day too...
I've never had the video game racing thing happen, I think because no matter how real the game, it's nothing close to reality. I suppose if the game were to take place in a surround video system, where the field of view was much larger, it might be a bit better. Anyway, every game I've played will let you get away with much more than real life will, so I can see how it could happen.
Now, going sailing for couple weeks, that's no problem, I don't get sea sick, but when I get back on land... Wow. It's okay for the first couple days, but I notice that I still walk like I were on the boat! Like, I aim for a doorway or something, and I know that's where I want to go, but my body dosen't, so I'm always bumping into stuff where I normally wouldn't. Very wierd.
Hey now, some people like to know with a reasonable certianty that their cocaine hasn't been riding around in the ass area of some fat, sweaty fast food resturant patrons. It's just not classy to snort up stray fecal matter and/or dead hepatitis particles.
Huh, never heard the cocaine one before, but you may be right.
I always thought they used a dilute solution of atropine, or maybe some artificial equivalent... I'm pretty sure that atropine has been used almost exclusively in the past, but maybe they've come up with something better.
In the olden days, ladies would use a drop of solution prepared from the Belladonna bush (which incidentally means "beautiful lady" in Italian), so called because this would dilate the pupils, and larger pupils were supposed to make the eyes deeper and more beautiful. Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade, as it's also known, produces a bunch of different alkalis, one of them being atropine. Forgive me; I'm a bit of a botany geek.
It's also supposed to make quite the hallucinogen when made into an ointment that's applied to the skin. I've never had the privilege, but it might be entertaining to use on someone you hate.
Somebody has a sense of humor! ...Or an appliance rootkit and an extreme voyeurism fetish.
he's driving the speed limit, but he was probably speeding before he slowed down to it, let's write him a ticket
Fuck yeah, if they can perpetuate this upon this guy, it's not going to be long until we have a "He's using encryption, he must be a terrorist plotting to nuke the White House... Why would anyone use encryption unless they were a terrorist?!", when in fact, the accused was doing something utterly innocuous like modifying his credit card account over an SSL connection. Of course, we probably won't hear about it for five years, since he'll be locked away at Gitmo without a trial.
If this goes on, they've effectively taken amendments four five and six out to the hangin' tree and that's the last we'll see of them, and the other seven of amendments of the Bill of Rights will be found in some dank hole shitting themselves.
If the video card is good enough, I'd expect that it'll be fine. I wouldn't expect to run tons of programs or play multiple DVDs like they do in the video (and do it smothly) but then again, I wouldn't expect to do that on a computer without enough guts anyway. Since XGL seems to do most of it's work in the video adapter, it shouldn't be very CPU limited... As always, having gobs of RAM is a good thing.
Do you have any idea how many people would cream their pants at this idea? Hell, even the soccer coach could have a calendar that all of the soccer moms could subscribe to. I would have killed for this during college. My god, if Google's baby is anything like this, it will blow everything good that Google has done up until this point clear out of the water. Everything.
Yeah, of course that's true--you raise a good point, and I have had the same thought. I'm sure a larger amount of people than normal would vote uninformed, just to get whatever benefit was offered... However, I think that most people who would be lured in by this benefit (but wouldn't have voted otherwise) would probably vote the way they truely felt, just because they're already there, and the "why not" factor. So, even if there was an increased level of noise, I think the net effect in the end would be a better signal to noise ratio than we have now.
It's a disgusting thing to me, that something like 70+% of Iraqi citizens can show up to the polls despite a good chance that some bomber could explode a large crowd, and even though they're relatively sure of the outcome (Shiite v. Suni populations), but the best we can do is around 30%. People taking freedom for granted is a terrible thing with so much freedom at stake.
Yeah, and with this system, it's quite possible to get results from the entire east side of the country just at the polls are closing on the west side! If wanted faster results, you'd have to bring back Johnny Carson so he could do the Carnac the Magnificent bit.
Personally, I think election coverage by the polls should be regulated such that news stations can only carry information about local elections at least until every polling place has closed--and everyone can spaz out... If we can't get a beer from a bar that's too close to a polling station (so it wouldn't be possible to buy a vote from a drunk), then the shitheads on TV shouldn't get the chance to buy votes from the morons out there, either. It's come to the point where people are influenced to vote depending on how the person they want to win/lose is projected to do, at any given instant during election day.
I'd also be happy if people who voted would somehow be eligable for a reasonable tax break. That would bring in tons of people alone... But it wouldn't ever happen... A tax break that actually stood a chance of helping the poor and middle class? Not a chance.
Maybe you would have preferred it if they said "The robot can climb hills with a slope of approximately Pi/5!", so everyone who didn't take trig (and some who did) can stare blankly and say "wtf?"
Did I hear a "yay" for dimensionless units? Oh, yes, I think I did.
See, now we're just arguing over semantics. I agree, India's AIDS per capita rate is low for a country so big. I also expect that their numbers would be very large. I don't think India is a bad place, with deprived values or anything like that. I've never disagreed with these things. I was simply using HIV, and that bit of information that the % growth of HIV in India was increasing substantially in the last few year as a tool to illustrate to the GGGGP that just maybe their average social values aren't what they appear to be on the surface (because of social taboos, or whatever), and that India isn't a some kind of panacea. Nothing more. He/she was cocking about with the whole westerners are rich white devil monkeys, and our values are clearly better than theirs because we know who our parents are, because we don't fuck around routine...
Anyway, it sucks that whatever country you're in (South Africa, I'm guessing?) has been hit so hard by this stupid virus. It's a travesty wherever it hits, there can be no doubt. I guess I'll go stfu now.