Yeah but then there is that gross layer of skin stuck to the pole and your tongue is sore for days.... I would not know this from personal experience er ummm I was kid leave me alone!!! lol
You know way more about this stuff then I do (I hit my upper limits when it came to math dealing with the Carnot cycle when I was working on something I was attempting to get a patent on)
But your post will give me days worth of study just to understand it LOL I thank you for leading to me to new interesting things:)
I missed out in life I should have went with more math in school (its not that I am bad at I almost never make a mistake I just have trouble remembering formula's but then again I guess thats average)
Oh I didn't mean for them to use more computing for trajectories (If they can land a man on the moon with a pocket calculator I am sure they can do just fine with any old Dell these days lol)
I just was thinking for general things like modeling a new shuttle replacement or stress analysis of parts so they do not have any more O ring type failures. Sort of a free super computer for NASA. Something computationally intensive hmm but I am not sure something that important should be run in some sort of distributed network. I have no experience in what kind of errors could be introduced. (no experience at all to tell the truth beyond setting up a mail server or a file server, things like that)
Sort of a Sim Space or Sim Asteroids hmmm mail it to EA I am sure they can screw it up some how lol
I do like the idea of making it a game maybe NASA could work with some third party and design something like that, another thing they could do is use the game to take some of the extra computing power and have a distributed network like Folding@home only more fun:)
I agree and Windows should support some sort of DirectX standard for accelerating the OS on graphics cards (and I mean more then the GUI in Vista/7 lol)
Would be nice to put that power to use for things like video conversion (I know you already can do this in a limited fashion but if it was coded into some sort of framework things would go better)
I know Flash just got some beta support for hardware acceleration so thats at least some improvement.
By the way awesome article, I am more of an ATI man myself but I give Nvidia the the nod for being way ahead in the "Do more then just games" department. I have faith ATI will get on the bandwagon in all this too.
Just too much of a selling point for your high end cards and some value add for your high end stuff, also it has to hurt the high end sales when even your low end cards can play almost any game (sacrifice some settings)
I hope my post was not too rambling its late and I is tired lol
Maybe he was thinking about how the V1 engines worked or if you believe it exists project Aurora. (assuming it also uses an advanced type of pulse jet engine)
The article linked in the summery already had some interesting bits in it about just that.
"Currently, 144 new geothermal plants are under development in the United States. The accelerating growth of geothermal projects could bring the nation 7,000 MW of new baseload geothermal power in the next few years, raising the prospects of 10 GW of geothermal power in coming years. At that level, geothermal power will satisfy the needs of over 10 million people and still have tremendous growth potential in the United States."
"Once the ash falls there will be record agricultural output for years without need of fertilizer,"
The bad part is that for a few years before that happens there will also be record agricultural output... almost non existent.
The sun being kinda important for crops to grow.
Might be some problems with cattle too. I hear they like things like grain or corn or grass to eat.... could be a problem for a couple of years.
The fish might recover after a while, the oceans having there alkalinity levels changed massively after having a billion tons of ash washed into them by the storms... They too would experience very hard times. The sun being blocked for even 1 year would result in massive die offs of fish. I guess algae works off of sunlight too, the smaller fish eat the algae the bigger fish them so the cycle gets broken for a bit.
No pressure released but the heat would be harvested and thus releasing pressure in that way,
No even if you built 100 power plants on the thing it would not drain it dry (there is a massive amount of energy there) but I think it might delay it a bit.
Just saying that a delay would be best until we can get off this rock and up our chances a bit lol
wouldn't the volcano blowing kinda ruin the park as well? im just sayin..
Yeah I agree with that totally lol
Personally I think it would be great to stick as many huge geothermal power plants as would fit on the thing and suck as much juice from it as possible.
"I like Far Cry 2 but having to go right across that map and deal with five/ten checkpoints for every mission, then battling through the same checkpoints to get back is starting to get on my nerves. I don't mind the traveling its just the checkpoints are an annoying grind."
I know exactly what you mean lol at least on the PC version you can download a trainer and just use the RPG with unlimited rockets and rapid reload to nuke the check points with out having to deal with them.... Its also not like you can just drive threw real fast:( they just hope in trucks and chase you lol Might have to pick up Mirrors Edge for my PS3 if I can get it out of the discount bin lol I tend to take more chances on something I may not like if its cheap the days of spending $50 on some pile of crap are over for me lol
Slightly less mean... lol Your favorite MMO or online game convince some one to press Alt F4... Oh the fun that used to cause lol
At least there was no permanent damage.
Convincing people to type in something is the same as convincing some one to install a screen saver or that purple gorilla thing (can't remember the name of it for the life of me... *checks google*)
Bonzi Buddy!!! lol not sure if it counts as malware though. I would for sure but I guess some people actually liked it.
Getting a user to do something on the system that will compromise it is the first step to ownage.
Getting some one to type in a root password is trivial... Just ask the thousands of people who type in bank passwords from phishing emails every year. "omg my bank has to confirm my information.... well at least all I have to do is type in my account number and password here to fix it!!!" Tap tap tap... 24 hours later "Omg where is all my monies ???"
Security does not come pre installed on any OS... you have to install it on your users.
I check my Comodo firewall logs all the time for this information, although I am 100% sure that if some one wrote some good malware it could hide itself from my firewall... I just hope that my antivirus or antimalware is good enough to catch it if it does.
This is one area I see windows ahead of Linux, it sounds backwards since Linux at its base is more secure... but that just makes it easier to get caught with your pants down. If you think your safe thats the first step in getting owned. Be paranoid.
If you think Windows is secure then your gonna get a rude awakening one day. (any OS is only as secure as its user)
Running a newer version of Windows helps in the security department, ASLR on 7 is pretty solid and makes writing malware that much harder and in theory should make buffer over flow exploits a thing of the past.
Windows reminds me of that movie "War of the Worlds" "From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
Honestly one of the first games I ever pirated....
It's a minor miracle that I ever bought another piece of software after that. lol
Thank god I downloaded it instead of buying it...
But it was so bad it was almost funny lol
Reminds me of that game Shadow Warrior... now that was a great game.
At least I buy my software these days but I have to say its getting easier to avoid the POS's like that one.
Favorite tool these days for reviews Youtube. The audio sucks and sometimes people film like they have the shakes from withdrawal symptoms but at least the review is honest...
On the main topic, this game did not look any good to me anyway so not a huge loss.
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Ohh come on my +2 E-Meter of Holy Righteousness would rock on a Scientology video game lol
I just worry that those thetans may be over my level, Lord Xenu you bastard!!!!
Ohhh this game has possibilities lol
Yeah its worse.... lol
I have 2 video's that may be informative on the matter Muhahahaha!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiZpOPRzFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fj37OTTmm4
Yeah but then there is that gross layer of skin stuck to the pole and your tongue is sore for days.... I would not know this from personal experience er ummm I was kid leave me alone!!! lol
You know way more about this stuff then I do (I hit my upper limits when it came to math dealing with the Carnot cycle when I was working on something I was attempting to get a patent on)
But your post will give me days worth of study just to understand it LOL I thank you for leading to me to new interesting things :)
I missed out in life I should have went with more math in school (its not that I am bad at I almost never make a mistake I just have trouble remembering formula's but then again I guess thats average)
*See this is what I am talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_equations
Omg.... my brain is melting just looking at it... I can do it but Jesus, I hope a teacher would be patient waiting for the answer lol
Oh I didn't mean for them to use more computing for trajectories (If they can land a man on the moon with a pocket calculator I am sure they can do just fine with any old Dell these days lol)
I just was thinking for general things like modeling a new shuttle replacement or stress analysis of parts so they do not have any more O ring type failures. Sort of a free super computer for NASA. Something computationally intensive hmm but I am not sure something that important should be run in some sort of distributed network. I have no experience in what kind of errors could be introduced. (no experience at all to tell the truth beyond setting up a mail server or a file server, things like that)
Sort of a Sim Space or Sim Asteroids hmmm mail it to EA I am sure they can screw it up some how lol
I do like the idea of making it a game maybe NASA could work with some third party and design something like that, another thing they could do is use the game to take some of the extra computing power and have a distributed network like Folding@home only more fun :)
I agree and Windows should support some sort of DirectX standard for accelerating the OS on graphics cards (and I mean more then the GUI in Vista/7 lol)
Would be nice to put that power to use for things like video conversion (I know you already can do this in a limited fashion but if it was coded into some sort of framework things would go better)
I know Flash just got some beta support for hardware acceleration so thats at least some improvement.
By the way awesome article, I am more of an ATI man myself but I give Nvidia the the nod for being way ahead in the "Do more then just games" department. I have faith ATI will get on the bandwagon in all this too.
Just too much of a selling point for your high end cards and some value add for your high end stuff, also it has to hurt the high end sales when even your low end cards can play almost any game (sacrifice some settings)
I hope my post was not too rambling its late and I is tired lol
I would fully recommend at least going with 104 inch's as one can never have a TV too big...
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/19/panasonics-103-incher-gets-model-price/
So cheap too.... I can only imagine what the 3D version would cost lol
This one might but I imagine it would be slow as molasses lol
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11504534&whse=BC&Ne=5000000+4000000&eCat=BC|84&N=4017755%205000108&Mo=4&No=3&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&topnav=
Maybe he was thinking about how the V1 engines worked or if you believe it exists project Aurora. (assuming it also uses an advanced type of pulse jet engine)
I heard the same thing lol
The article linked in the summery already had some interesting bits in it about just that.
"Currently, 144 new geothermal plants are under development in the United States. The accelerating growth of geothermal projects could bring the nation 7,000 MW of new baseload geothermal power in the next few years, raising the prospects of 10 GW of geothermal power in coming years. At that level, geothermal power will satisfy the needs of over 10 million people and still have tremendous growth potential in the United States."
Looks like they want to ramp things up a bit.
The area may be a bit larger then you are thinking.
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/technology_and_impacts/energy_technologies/how-geothermal-energy-works.html
Geysers are great but they do not pull the same amount of energy out of the system as something like a geothermal power plant powering 150,000+ homes.
I would think for quite some time actually if it was aggressively pursued.
The area covered is quite massive and you could pull a lot of power from it.
No not all at once, but over time it adds up.
Like that last snow flake that causes the avalanche.
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/technology_and_impacts/energy_technologies/how-geothermal-energy-works.html
Interesting the map they have there, yellow stone is smack dab in the middle of huge red area marked for possible development.
And besides if you pulled out X Megawatts a day over a 100 year period thats got to be a little bit off the destruction :) at least you could hope lol
"Once the ash falls there will be record agricultural output for years without need of fertilizer,"
The bad part is that for a few years before that happens there will also be record agricultural output... almost non existent.
The sun being kinda important for crops to grow.
Might be some problems with cattle too. I hear they like things like grain or corn or grass to eat.... could be a problem for a couple of years.
The fish might recover after a while, the oceans having there alkalinity levels changed massively after having a billion tons of ash washed into them by the storms... They too would experience very hard times. The sun being blocked for even 1 year would result in massive die offs of fish. I guess algae works off of sunlight too, the smaller fish eat the algae the bigger fish them so the cycle gets broken for a bit.
So very very true, its always a shame that sometimes we hurt the things we are trying to protect.
No pressure released but the heat would be harvested and thus releasing pressure in that way,
No even if you built 100 power plants on the thing it would not drain it dry (there is a massive amount of energy there) but I think it might delay it a bit.
Just saying that a delay would be best until we can get off this rock and up our chances a bit lol
wouldn't the volcano blowing kinda ruin the park as well? im just sayin..
Yeah I agree with that totally lol
Personally I think it would be great to stick as many huge geothermal power plants as would fit on the thing and suck as much juice from it as possible.
Its not just our country that would be in ruins. There would be world wide famine and health issues to deal with, possibly plague and a small ice age.
I think the time line lines up with this thing blowing and the ice ages... (it has blown up several times in the past)
Very scary no matter where you are living.
A better solution would be to install several large geothermal power generation plants...
But this would "ruin" the park.
Ahh well who wants to save the world and get nearly free electricity out of the deal.
I watched the same one, it kind of begs the question...
Why did she go from suck to blow ?
"I like Far Cry 2 but having to go right across that map and deal with five/ten checkpoints for every mission, then battling through the same checkpoints to get back is starting to get on my nerves. I don't mind the traveling its just the checkpoints are an annoying grind."
I know exactly what you mean lol at least on the PC version you can download a trainer and just use the RPG with unlimited rockets and rapid reload to nuke the check points with out having to deal with them.... Its also not like you can just drive threw real fast :( they just hope in trucks and chase you lol Might have to pick up Mirrors Edge for my PS3 if I can get it out of the discount bin lol I tend to take more chances on something I may not like if its cheap the days of spending $50 on some pile of crap are over for me lol
Slightly less mean... lol Your favorite MMO or online game convince some one to press Alt F4... Oh the fun that used to cause lol
At least there was no permanent damage.
Convincing people to type in something is the same as convincing some one to install a screen saver or that purple gorilla thing (can't remember the name of it for the life of me... *checks google*)
Bonzi Buddy!!! lol not sure if it counts as malware though. I would for sure but I guess some people actually liked it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBUDDY
Getting a user to do something on the system that will compromise it is the first step to ownage.
Getting some one to type in a root password is trivial... Just ask the thousands of people who type in bank passwords from phishing emails every year. "omg my bank has to confirm my information.... well at least all I have to do is type in my account number and password here to fix it!!!" Tap tap tap... 24 hours later "Omg where is all my monies ???"
Security does not come pre installed on any OS... you have to install it on your users.
I check my Comodo firewall logs all the time for this information, although I am 100% sure that if some one wrote some good malware it could hide itself from my firewall... I just hope that my antivirus or antimalware is good enough to catch it if it does.
This is one area I see windows ahead of Linux, it sounds backwards since Linux at its base is more secure... but that just makes it easier to get caught with your pants down. If you think your safe thats the first step in getting owned. Be paranoid.
If you think Windows is secure then your gonna get a rude awakening one day. (any OS is only as secure as its user)
Running a newer version of Windows helps in the security department, ASLR on 7 is pretty solid and makes writing malware that much harder and in theory should make buffer over flow exploits a thing of the past.
Windows reminds me of that movie "War of the Worlds" "From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
I got FarCry2 for the PC its not too bad to be honest, not really a heavy action game (it can get intense at times but mostly its strategy)
I liked it but if some one was looking for a frantic FPS action game I would steer them away.
How was Mirrors Edge ? I seem to recall it looking pretty good to me but just haven't had the time to dig into reviews.
P.S. I would almost call FarCry2 a FPS role playing game.
Honestly one of the first games I ever pirated....
It's a minor miracle that I ever bought another piece of software after that. lol
Thank god I downloaded it instead of buying it...
But it was so bad it was almost funny lol
Reminds me of that game Shadow Warrior... now that was a great game.
At least I buy my software these days but I have to say its getting easier to avoid the POS's like that one.
Favorite tool these days for reviews Youtube. The audio sucks and sometimes people film like they have the shakes from withdrawal symptoms but at least the review is honest...
On the main topic, this game did not look any good to me anyway so not a huge loss.