Ah yes, that photocopy will certainly come in handy when...
...Actually when did you plan on using the photocopy? If the election results get called into question there will be little to no way for you to know how your vote was counted, or even if it was counted at all. I appreciate your desire for hyper-vigilance...but pragmatism takes precedence. In fact, I would be willing to wager that your mail in ballot receives no more than a passing glance, barring another Miami/Dade fiasco.
Feudal Realms. Unfortunately it died for reasons common to most MUDs. How many of you were the ubergeeks of the MUD world? Cry out ye coders and world builders and imms/imps on high!
Okay just kidding...kind of. Every other glowing clear-sided tower I've ever repaired I have been repulsed by. They always remind me too much of those arse-ugly Honda street tuners. This styling is to a traditional 'custom' rig what a Lotus Elise is to those Hondas.
But...on the subject of repairing them...the propietary cards worry me. Of course at $4k-$11k I'd expect a little more than Dell's horrible warranty service.
P.S. If you play Crysis on it at max settings, can you make french fries?!?!?!?!?!
Why not have the lessons dictated and available for download? Or a brief synopsis available in text format. Heck, do a quick roll call and only allow those students that attended to get this lesson content. Doesn't make cutting class impossible (not by a long shot actually), but it makes it inconvenient. Frankly I love the idea of a mobile web based lesson plan, but I think they went with apple for the same reason the students do...Who can say no to a shiny apple in the fall?
I've solved this problem by removing my mouse from the computer. Now I never click anything malicious! Or anything at all... Its all wonderfully frustrating.
Great idea. We'll make evaporator farms. We can also use these remote places to allow young people the time to safely grow up into universe changing Jedi. Step 2) Womp Rats.
...someone turns on another light source overpowering the LEDs ...something flies over the sensor (or worse yet lands on it) blocking reception of the data ...multple 'databulbs' in one room get out of sync, causing confusion in the device
They also brought un security in TFA
Since this white light does not penetrate opaque surfaces such as walls, there is a higher level of security, as eavesdropping is not possible.
I guess eavesdropping is technically not possible since you can't normally listen to light. But someone recording the ultra-fast flickering at a window certainly isn't. So either these systems meant to replace the existing lights in your home operate as top down spotlights (completely horrible lighting solution throughout a home), or you tinfoil all your windows (take THAT big brother). Certainly reliable. Certainly secure.
Because he was refering to Cat Stevens' Moonshadow and wanted to reflect that in the subject line, as "I'm being followed by an moonshadow" would have set off even more grammatical Godwin products. Now as to why the post was not elaborated on, I'd venture it was laziness masquerading as subtlety.
Anyone that can recite that title from memory would have mine. Clearly another case of me understanding many of those words individually, and then 15 minutes or combining them into a coherent mental image.
Finally something in my arena! I am a designer for a company that uses 3d CAD software for designing our homes. And having worked with very complex 3d wireframes I think a system like this would have little use beyond being a showcase for our already created 3d models. Even if the display were capable of 3d it would add another layer of calculations to a process which already strains our hardware. In short, I'll check back in 15 years to see if its done yet. Bah, its been too long since lunch, my blood sugar is running low and I'm rambling incoherently.
How do you keep the Cheetos paste off the lens? I kid, I've rolled a d20 many times myself. And a large scale implementation like this could spur tabletop gaming from a backroom pastime in comics/hobby shops to something more on par with laser tag. Or both if its Shadowrun.
Porn is usually the deciding factor between two competing technologies, rather than the initial implementation of a technology. It could certainly be argued that porn would be one of the first supporters of the installed base. But remember, it wasn't the internet begat porn but personal computers begat the internet begat internet porn begat the PC explosion. And then came goatse.
Perhaps instead of allowing everyone to bot, the 'need' to bot should be considered more. Botting generally serves two purposes: 1.) To automate the 'grind' and 2.) to acquire resources to the players advanatge.
1.) Many of these botters see the grind as an impediment to the endgame, this relies on the player thinking that they're winning the game (a seperate argument for persistant world based games). Traditionally this has been confronted by adding more interesting content to these level ranges, risking alienating older players/characters leveled too high to make use of the content, or forcing the game to institute a system where the player may go back and experience the content from these earlier levels (ostensibly negating the leveling progression as obsolete) 2.) Those that bot to acquire in game resources do negatively impact the game world by artificially inflating the in game economy and progressively widening the gap between haves and have-nots.
These are not new issues, they go back to the original deployments of telnet based MUDs. Perhaps it can be argued that the current model of prohibition has failed since these problems are still around. And as such it should be asked if any concepts have been considered for addressing the cause rather than the symptoms. Have any alternatives to the repetitive gameply formula currently in place been evaluated and show potential for any actual implementation?
So I take it you see more commercial applications for technology like this. If you would, please elaborate. I see surprisingly few outside of summer blockbusters based of James Rollins novels about rogue world hardened researchers with an insane amount of funding using technology like this for no other reason than it sounds 'cool'. In all seriousness, I see little commercial application besides a tenuous connection to a water based 'tourist industry'.
Think of it as an Osprey with a splash of water to release hidden flavors. I'd think the project looks a lot more feasible after a few fingers (or fifths) of whiskey.
On the optimistic side, maybe this will lead to an innovative take on either submersibles or aircraft that may find applications elsewhere.
My guess is they want to carry a crew of at least 8 with a 2000 pound payload at least 1000 nm in 8 hrs. Of course that is only a hashed together summary of the specifications from TFA.
How about this, a rear propulsion planwhich the pilot operates in a counterbalanced globe at the nose. The airplane slows down to a minimum airspeed and inserts the nose and flips over, the pilot's globe rights itself and the planes control surfaces are inverted. The fusalage takes on water to neutral bouyancy and the plan controls as if it were upside down. I'm sure this is completely unfeasible and I hope someone will explain why. The main problems I see are 1.) Slowing the plane enough that 'insertion' doesn't rip it apart. 2.) The pilot seizing up during this maneuver which would go against all of their piloting instincts. 3.) Control systems designed for air travel would be completely inefficient/infeasable in an aquatic environment. Did I forget anything else?
CLAY?! You mean to tell me you had access to fire?! Fire was still in beta for us, except that beta hadn't been invented so we called it the other Alpha! I was so happy the day grass was invented because I could finally yell...
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Ah yes, that photocopy will certainly come in handy when...
...Actually when did you plan on using the photocopy? If the election results get called into question there will be little to no way for you to know how your vote was counted, or even if it was counted at all. I appreciate your desire for hyper-vigilance...but pragmatism takes precedence. In fact, I would be willing to wager that your mail in ballot receives no more than a passing glance, barring another Miami/Dade fiasco.
Roland, Legion, Dwenn, Chapman...
Bah, lost my http...
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Feudal Realms. Unfortunately it died for reasons common to most MUDs. How many of you were the ubergeeks of the MUD world? Cry out ye coders and world builders and imms/imps on high!
All I want to know is can I mate with it.
Okay just kidding...kind of. Every other glowing clear-sided tower I've ever repaired I have been repulsed by. They always remind me too much of those arse-ugly Honda street tuners. This styling is to a traditional 'custom' rig what a Lotus Elise is to those Hondas.
But...on the subject of repairing them...the propietary cards worry me. Of course at $4k-$11k I'd expect a little more than Dell's horrible warranty service.
P.S. If you play Crysis on it at max settings, can you make french fries?!?!?!?!?!
And four or more rights just make me dizzy!
Why not have the lessons dictated and available for download? Or a brief synopsis available in text format. Heck, do a quick roll call and only allow those students that attended to get this lesson content. Doesn't make cutting class impossible (not by a long shot actually), but it makes it inconvenient. Frankly I love the idea of a mobile web based lesson plan, but I think they went with apple for the same reason the students do...Who can say no to a shiny apple in the fall?
Should have just told him its Mojave.
I've solved this problem by removing my mouse from the computer. Now I never click anything malicious! Or anything at all... Its all wonderfully frustrating.
Great idea. We'll make evaporator farms. We can also use these remote places to allow young people the time to safely grow up into universe changing Jedi. Step 2) Womp Rats.
There is so little in TFA that has to do with cars. I don't understand why this was chosen as a focus of the summary.
...something flies over the sensor (or worse yet lands on it) blocking reception of the data
...multple 'databulbs' in one room get out of sync, causing confusion in the device
They also brought un security in TFA
Since this white light does not penetrate opaque surfaces such as walls, there is a higher level of security, as eavesdropping is not possible.
I guess eavesdropping is technically not possible since you can't normally listen to light. But someone recording the ultra-fast flickering at a window certainly isn't. So either these systems meant to replace the existing lights in your home operate as top down spotlights (completely horrible lighting solution throughout a home), or you tinfoil all your windows (take THAT big brother). Certainly reliable. Certainly secure.
Because he was refering to Cat Stevens' Moonshadow and wanted to reflect that in the subject line, as "I'm being followed by an moonshadow" would have set off even more grammatical Godwin products. Now as to why the post was not elaborated on, I'd venture it was laziness masquerading as subtlety.
Anyone that can recite that title from memory would have mine. Clearly another case of me understanding many of those words individually, and then 15 minutes or combining them into a coherent mental image.
Okay, maybe 15 more minutes...
Sure, so long as we change the definition to 'Laser Assisted' RPers.
Finally something in my arena! I am a designer for a company that uses 3d CAD software for designing our homes. And having worked with very complex 3d wireframes I think a system like this would have little use beyond being a showcase for our already created 3d models. Even if the display were capable of 3d it would add another layer of calculations to a process which already strains our hardware. In short, I'll check back in 15 years to see if its done yet. Bah, its been too long since lunch, my blood sugar is running low and I'm rambling incoherently.
How do you keep the Cheetos paste off the lens? I kid, I've rolled a d20 many times myself. And a large scale implementation like this could spur tabletop gaming from a backroom pastime in comics/hobby shops to something more on par with laser tag. Or both if its Shadowrun.
Porn is usually the deciding factor between two competing technologies, rather than the initial implementation of a technology. It could certainly be argued that porn would be one of the first supporters of the installed base. But remember, it wasn't the internet begat porn but personal computers begat the internet begat internet porn begat the PC explosion. And then came goatse.
Perhaps instead of allowing everyone to bot, the 'need' to bot should be considered more. Botting generally serves two purposes: 1.) To automate the 'grind' and 2.) to acquire resources to the players advanatge.
1.) Many of these botters see the grind as an impediment to the endgame, this relies on the player thinking that they're winning the game (a seperate argument for persistant world based games). Traditionally this has been confronted by adding more interesting content to these level ranges, risking alienating older players/characters leveled too high to make use of the content, or forcing the game to institute a system where the player may go back and experience the content from these earlier levels (ostensibly negating the leveling progression as obsolete)
2.) Those that bot to acquire in game resources do negatively impact the game world by artificially inflating the in game economy and progressively widening the gap between haves and have-nots.
These are not new issues, they go back to the original deployments of telnet based MUDs. Perhaps it can be argued that the current model of prohibition has failed since these problems are still around. And as such it should be asked if any concepts have been considered for addressing the cause rather than the symptoms. Have any alternatives to the repetitive gameply formula currently in place been evaluated and show potential for any actual implementation?
So I take it you see more commercial applications for technology like this. If you would, please elaborate. I see surprisingly few outside of summer blockbusters based of James Rollins novels about rogue world hardened researchers with an insane amount of funding using technology like this for no other reason than it sounds 'cool'. In all seriousness, I see little commercial application besides a tenuous connection to a water based 'tourist industry'.
Think of it as an Osprey with a splash of water to release hidden flavors. I'd think the project looks a lot more feasible after a few fingers (or fifths) of whiskey.
On the optimistic side, maybe this will lead to an innovative take on either submersibles or aircraft that may find applications elsewhere.
My guess is they want to carry a crew of at least 8 with a 2000 pound payload at least 1000 nm in 8 hrs. Of course that is only a hashed together summary of the specifications from TFA.
How about this, a rear propulsion planwhich the pilot operates in a counterbalanced globe at the nose. The airplane slows down to a minimum airspeed and inserts the nose and flips over, the pilot's globe rights itself and the planes control surfaces are inverted. The fusalage takes on water to neutral bouyancy and the plan controls as if it were upside down. I'm sure this is completely unfeasible and I hope someone will explain why. The main problems I see are 1.) Slowing the plane enough that 'insertion' doesn't rip it apart. 2.) The pilot seizing up during this maneuver which would go against all of their piloting instincts. 3.) Control systems designed for air travel would be completely inefficient/infeasable in an aquatic environment. Did I forget anything else?
CLAY?! You mean to tell me you had access to fire?! Fire was still in beta for us, except that beta hadn't been invented so we called it the other Alpha! I was so happy the day grass was invented because I could finally yell...
GET THE HELL OFFA MY LAWN!
Kids with your fancy optical media and lasers and whatnot. I'll stick with my betamax thanks.