They might and as far as bang for the buck AMD is still there. The main thing that burns me with AMD is the stunt they pulled with the short-lived 939 socket. AMD left those people out to hang, high and dry.
"Duke University in collaboration with Virtual Heroes (who created America's Army) has produced a game called Virtual Peace, the intention of which is to help the gamer develop disaster relief and conflict resolution skills."
"Likewise, when I find a scientist who promptly slits her throat because of the horror, I just check for an item drop. None of the survivors ever surprise you and go hostile (which I think would have been a brilliant scare), so you never have to worry."
Worry is when the characters break the fourth wall and come after you.
"If it is ready for the world, I'll release it as open source... something like a windowing and (g)ui toolkit with the power of the pipe operator in bash... hard to describe."
"I've often thought of writing a GUI totally based on proper hybrid of vector based shapes and typography, as well as the implementation of layers (ala photoshop) and nodes ala the brain for connecting data in different ways which would need to be prototyped and tested."
Flash with Action script can be used to do GUI prototyping.
"Why do film makers always do such a bad job with sci-fi classics? Is it just blatant commercialism? Is it that modernisation of a classic story is inappropriate? Or is it something more fundamental - do film makers simply not understand science fiction?"
It could also be economics. Just how much money do you think it would take to do Ringworld on the same scale as it exists in most peoples heads when they read science fiction? Grand usually takes a "grand".
"'I do think that the video game industry is going to do reasonably well in this time of recession because video games are a pretty damned efficient use of time,' said Bridges."
Now if we could only convince our parents of this.
"Essentially, Bridges explained, he thinks that the dominance of giant publishers like EA and their general reliance on physical, in-the-box, units, can't hold up. Instead, he said, new tools, ubiquitous broadband and hungry independent developers are going to all combine to eat away at the continued supremacy of the $60 big-name title. And that could spell big trouble for the industry.""
"But darn it; when will someone finally offer a reasonably-priced, open-platform STB that serves as an A/V gateway to multiple Internet-based services â" one consumer-friendly, environmentally-designed, low-power gadget 'to rule them all,' if you will."
Well if you all can get the media version of Torvalds to get the ball rolling. In ten years there should be plenty of content for your revolution. In the mean time content providers will try to make money and someone else will say "I will not let you".
"ADS-B is part of the FAA's wide-reaching plan known as NextGen to revamp every component of the flight control system to meet future demands and avoid gridlock in the sky.""
"Anyone can be sued for anything in this day and age."
I'm going to sue hellion0 for not translating his post into Chinese. Think it will get dismissed before we even hit the door? How about any lawyer laughing you out of his office?
Since Slashreaders have a YRO section (and hence hew to principles of "I'm in control"). I recommend we have a basic XML feed from the server and everyone running Greasemonkey on their end can pick the features and layout they can live with. Slashdot may even offer a few premades to get things started.
How timely. iPhone and apps. I'd like to have a cellular phone with Wi-Fi for the home. However for some reason Skype isn't available on the iPhone. Anyone know of a viable solution?
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They might and as far as bang for the buck AMD is still there. The main thing that burns me with AMD is the stunt they pulled with the short-lived 939 socket. AMD left those people out to hang, high and dry.
"Duke University in collaboration with Virtual Heroes (who created America's Army) has produced a game called Virtual Peace, the intention of which is to help the gamer develop disaster relief and conflict resolution skills."
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. - Isaiah 2:4
"Likewise, when I find a scientist who promptly slits her throat because of the horror, I just check for an item drop. None of the survivors ever surprise you and go hostile (which I think would have been a brilliant scare), so you never have to worry."
Worry is when the characters break the fourth wall and come after you.
"Unfortunately, my ISP, RoadRunner is stuck in dark ages."
It's a bummer when your toilet can't get it's own IP address.
"why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company?"
As opposed to the freedom I enjoy of everything coming down one or more pipes controlled by either a duopoly or a monopoly.
"If it is ready for the world, I'll release it as open source... something like a windowing and (g)ui toolkit with the power of the pipe operator in bash... hard to describe."
In other words a GUIfied power shell.
"I've often thought of writing a GUI totally based on proper hybrid of vector based shapes and typography, as well as the implementation of layers (ala photoshop) and nodes ala the brain for connecting data in different ways which would need to be prototyped and tested."
Flash with Action script can be used to do GUI prototyping.
"Scientists Identify a Potentially Universal Mechanism of Aging "
Yeah! Having kids.
"Why do film makers always do such a bad job with sci-fi classics? Is it just blatant commercialism? Is it that modernisation of a classic story is inappropriate? Or is it something more fundamental - do film makers simply not understand science fiction?"
It could also be economics. Just how much money do you think it would take to do Ringworld on the same scale as it exists in most peoples heads when they read science fiction? Grand usually takes a "grand".
"'I do think that the video game industry is going to do reasonably well in this time of recession because video games are a pretty damned efficient use of time,' said Bridges."
Now if we could only convince our parents of this.
"Essentially, Bridges explained, he thinks that the dominance of giant publishers like EA and their general reliance on physical, in-the-box, units, can't hold up. Instead, he said, new tools, ubiquitous broadband and hungry independent developers are going to all combine to eat away at the continued supremacy of the $60 big-name title. And that could spell big trouble for the industry.""
Does Valve count as a "big name"?
"But darn it; when will someone finally offer a reasonably-priced, open-platform STB that serves as an A/V gateway to multiple Internet-based services â" one consumer-friendly, environmentally-designed, low-power gadget 'to rule them all,' if you will."
Well if you all can get the media version of Torvalds to get the ball rolling. In ten years there should be plenty of content for your revolution. In the mean time content providers will try to make money and someone else will say "I will not let you".
"Better yet, can you think of any particularly interesting ways to display that sort of information? "
There's a word for what you're trying to do.
"DNA profiles will predict our personal health risks..."
You will suffer the risk of constant blows to the head from your annoying personality. Have a nice day.
"...and we'll get automatic reminders to perform daily tasks, generated by digital recording and analysis of our conversations."
We have that already. I call mine, Mom!
"ADS-B is part of the FAA's wide-reaching plan known as NextGen to revamp every component of the flight control system to meet future demands and avoid gridlock in the sky.""
Space invaders showed us how to avoid gridlock.
"Anyone can be sued for anything in this day and age."
I'm going to sue hellion0 for not translating his post into Chinese. Think it will get dismissed before we even hit the door? How about any lawyer laughing you out of his office?
Since Slashreaders have a YRO section (and hence hew to principles of "I'm in control"). I recommend we have a basic XML feed from the server and everyone running Greasemonkey on their end can pick the features and layout they can live with. Slashdot may even offer a few premades to get things started.
I don't plan on leaving any survivors. I plan on taking everyone out in one fell swoop.
[Insert joke here about tripping over one's shoelaces]
"Now, who wants to try their hand at coming up with a better name?"
Hysterical Electronics:They lose their cool before you do.
"Can't be helped if ISP's happen to intentionally cripple their networks for the protocols I care about."
What do carrier pigeons have to do with anything?
"2D gameplay is generally best when playing on a 2D surface."
Chess as a peel'em and stick game.
I'm going this way.
"Considering how much time we spend talking about the other kind, I think it's worth paying attention to the real problems out there."
You don't consider people who share content they're not suppose to a "real problem"? Why am I not surprised?
Far Cry 2 seems to have an excellent map editor. Shame the game has bugs too.
Without jailbreaking the phone?
How timely. iPhone and apps. I'd like to have a cellular phone with Wi-Fi for the home. However for some reason Skype isn't available on the iPhone. Anyone know of a viable solution?