I, like evryone else, thinks this is absolutly sweet but I have a few suggestions how to make it even better.
1: Open source the program, that way we can make all sorts of neat interactive games and improve on them.
2: Force feedback. I'd love swinging around a lightsabre at my oponent, but I would like to feel the force of his blade pushing against mine. This would add to the realsism concidering the blade would have actual wieght and resistance...right now you could overswing and miss because you can't physicly feel the lightsabres.
Does anyone else have any additions?
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"No government has jurisdiction over the truth." - Fox Mulder
If you get selected, you get a secret accsess code to DOWNLOAD the 100meg file.
Oh, I'm screwed.
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I don't think we're [here] for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch. -- Dr. James Watson, Nobel laureate Biophysicist, co-discoverer of DNA
Ok, so how is Dr. Dre going to do this? After lighting up a "phat chronic blunt", is he going to go on napster, type in the name of each of his songs, write down all of the users, and then do extensive reserch to track down all of the nicks to real people?
Sounds like a lot of work for a little gain to me.
And if he does succed, can this eventualy lead to game companies searching peoples homes for CD-Rs of thier product? Now while I can't stand software piracy, invasion of privacy dosen't sound good for those people that have a few copies of their buds games. (you know who you are, you pirating bastards...just making games more expensive for the rest of us)
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
You know, everybody has been bitching latley about NASA's screw ups and lack of funding, but this is one thing that everyone can be proud of. Hubble has given us beautiful pictures and given us a greater look at our universe in action for a decade now.
Thank you NASA, for giving the human race such a wonderful tool to explore the galaxy.
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
This topic [energy] recently came up in my Economics class.
My teacher brought forth the point that there is already super-efficent, super cheap, solar panels out there...the only problem is that Pacific Gas & Electric bought the patent to them and rufuses to release the technology to the public.
Hmm...another example of patents gone bad.
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
Hey, this is great that they've finnaly decided to release it.
But what I would like to ask is why computer games are advertized months, sometimes years, before they are released? In the console market this dosen't really happen at all.
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If god dropped acid, would he see people? -- George Carlin
What if I bent backwards and stuck my head up my ass, would I be sued by Hasbro? Evidently, thats what they've been doing for years...although I don't think anyone has a patent on that...yet. =)
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If god dropped acid, would he see people? -- George Carlin
Notice in the text of the report it keeps saying "might". It "might" be a star. The only explanation given is that it is to hot to be a planet. What the heck, they don't even give us any readings, just a bunch of dumbed-down bull.
Whats the real deal NASA?
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
I'm sorry, but whenever I see an article like this, I want to cry. I get such raw emotional feelings that are unexplainable when I think of how screwed up our society has been. It saddens me greatly that people like me [an extremly avid gamer, Black Sabbath afficionado, and a not-so-happy-person-most-of-the-time] will be persecuted for no reason whatsoever.
In fact, I cannot due this posting justice, because it is just to hard to put these feelings into words, but I think a lot of you know what I mean.
Not to be a conspiracy theorist or anything, but could NASA have purposly "sabataged" the mars stuff to justify a bigger budget?
If they did, hey, more power to 'em. I've always wanted to see NASA with a bigger budget and a lot more leway. NASA has done some awsome things with a limited budget, just imagine if they had a bigger one...
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Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more evade my wrath than you could your own shadow.
...that the whole lawsuit would only gain Sun 5 - 15 million dollars?
But then, a concern was that if Sun was victorious, they would go after ever other manufacturor. Pretty soon that 5-15 millon add up to big bucks for Sun.
And even then, evidently Sun is willing to settle it over a golf game...
Who ever heard of coorporate espionage on a golf course?:)
Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more escape my wrath than you could your own shadow.
A while ago there was a slashdot article about how IBM now has the ability to put "tens of billions" of transistors on a single chip, while intel only sports 27 million.
What I want to know is when IBM will make some chips with this technology, seing as how chips will probably push well past 2Ghz?
Overclock that bud...
Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more evade my wrath than you could your own shadow.
"Mistakingly Discarded"?? I'm sorry, but $750,000 in space station parts just don't wander off into a landfill by themselfs.
And if they can't find them, who did? I think it's pretty funny that there might be someone out there playing with a peice of the international spacestation.
Of course this all might be an exuse to buy more time for the station project to begin with...
"Out of all the things I lost in life, I miss my mind the most." --Ozzy Osborne
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1: Open source the program, that way we can make all sorts of neat interactive games and improve on them.
2: Force feedback. I'd love swinging around a lightsabre at my oponent, but I would like to feel the force of his blade pushing against mine. This would add to the realsism concidering the blade would have actual wieght and resistance...right now you could overswing and miss because you can't physicly feel the lightsabres.
Does anyone else have any additions?
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"No government has jurisdiction over the truth." - Fox Mulder
Oh, I'm screwed.
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I don't think we're [here] for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch. -- Dr. James Watson, Nobel laureate Biophysicist, co-discoverer of DNA
Sounds like a lot of work for a little gain to me.
And if he does succed, can this eventualy lead to game companies searching peoples homes for CD-Rs of thier product? Now while I can't stand software piracy, invasion of privacy dosen't sound good for those people that have a few copies of their buds games. (you know who you are, you pirating bastards...just making games more expensive for the rest of us)
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
Thank you NASA, for giving the human race such a wonderful tool to explore the galaxy.
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
My teacher brought forth the point that there is already super-efficent, super cheap, solar panels out there...the only problem is that Pacific Gas & Electric bought the patent to them and rufuses to release the technology to the public.
Hmm...another example of patents gone bad.
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
But what I would like to ask is why computer games are advertized months, sometimes years, before they are released? In the console market this dosen't really happen at all.
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If god dropped acid, would he see people? -- George Carlin
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If god dropped acid, would he see people? -- George Carlin
Whats the real deal NASA?
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
In fact, I cannot due this posting justice, because it is just to hard to put these feelings into words, but I think a lot of you know what I mean.
If they did, hey, more power to 'em. I've always wanted to see NASA with a bigger budget and a lot more leway. NASA has done some awsome things with a limited budget, just imagine if they had a bigger one...
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Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more evade my wrath than you could your own shadow.
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Do not provoke me to violence for you could no more evade my wrath than you could your own shadow.
Goldfinger: No Mr. Bond, I expect to break the encryption on this laptop one of your fellow agents left lying around.
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Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more evade my wrath than you could your own shadow.
But then, a concern was that if Sun was victorious, they would go after ever other manufacturor. Pretty soon that 5-15 millon add up to big bucks for Sun.
And even then, evidently Sun is willing to settle it over a golf game...
Who ever heard of coorporate espionage on a golf course? :)
Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more escape my wrath than you could your own shadow.
What I want to know is when IBM will make some chips with this technology, seing as how chips will probably push well past 2Ghz?
Overclock that bud...
Do not provoke me to violence, for you could no more evade my wrath than you could your own shadow.
And if they can't find them, who did? I think it's pretty funny that there might be someone out there playing with a peice of the international spacestation.
Of course this all might be an exuse to buy more time for the station project to begin with...
"Out of all the things I lost in life, I miss my mind the most." --Ozzy Osborne
Raimi and Bruce Campbell work well together (ie the Evil Dead triology) and they could really make this work.
BTW: Bruce Campbell does look like Peter Parker, pre-clone wars crap.
Who ever does this movie, lets just hope it doesn't turn into another "Captain America" fiasco.
Fellow Slashdot-ers...Quit with the AoD quotes!! They're cool, but save em for your ICQ info or something, not taking up Slashdots precious webspace)