Ahh - but you have to be careful with that - eventually your groups just go ahead and send things on your behalf, and that's a whole different story. I can't find the link, but I'm sure we all remember the time an elderly dead fellow was sending pro-Microsoft letters.
Yep, I know who power pack is. I still think Silver Surfer would be a good movie. Or Adam Warlock. Something really big and epic and spacey. Marvel is getting away from its roots with these movies: overdone oversized universe-crushing clash of the titans style space gods plotlines.
Exactly. In addition to giving actual cash money to rebuild Europe, world war II marks the last time the US actually made a concerted effort to fix things after a war is over. Since then they've spent they're time killing popular communist leaders and replacing them with military dictators.
Maybe they should revise their foreign policy back by about half a century?
Except that every reputable environmentalist (read: not PETA) has already said that "global warming is not a good name - the word is climactic shift".
The actual level of warming is insignificant - we're talking an average 1.5 degrees C or something. Nobody cares about that little bit of warming. Only the blowhards (yes, leftists have our embarrassing equilvalents to Rush Limbaugh too) think that. The real concern is how this change is effecting the weather. Anyone who's studied the thermodynamics realizes how much a tiny temperature change can do to weather patterns worldwide - so the problem is we get hurricanes in deserts, droughts in rainforests, blizzards in california, and generally worldwide crop failure. Pardon me, but I like to eat.
Weather is a very fractal thing - push it slightly one way and it will change completely across the board. Both the natural and artificial world rely on expecting certain weather - our crops, our forests, and our cities expect certain things. Only certain cities are prepared for hurricanes (and I'm sure you've noticed the increase in major hurricanes in recent years).
Global warming is not a problem. Talk to real experts and not loony treehuggers, and you'll hear about the climactic shift that is closely related to global warming. That is a threat to humanity and the planet's ecosystems.
The other legitamate environmental concern is local pollution. You think that the Ganges is the only polluted body of water? Here's a hint - your local factories also pollute the water. They just pollute it in less obvious ways - not nasty agricultural runoff that covers the lake in icky slimy algae, but more sinister things. In my town, the bay water looks fine. You can get bad swimmers itch at the beaches, so you can only swim from a boat - but still that's just regular chemical imbalances producing unnatural ecosystems. The real concern is the water is carcinogenic. There's a coking mill on the edge of the water, and the runnoff from that means that anyone who swims a lot or drinks a lot of that water will probably end up a hospital a few years down the road. This is not a third world country - this is part of the great lakes.
The third concern is concentration of toxins - sure, they're only generating a couple of gallons - but when one part per million can kill you down the road, and the stuff takes decades to break down (many nasty aromatic hydrocarbons are that persistant), you probably don't want that stuff being vented anywhere near people. But they do anyways. The world is big, but benzene is still benzene.
Environmental concerns are legitamate - the problem is that a large number of environmentalists are extremist lunatics. But really, its no different then if we had people like RMS and JonKatz speaking up for us computer people. Just because the people you hear about in a movement are idiots doesn't mean the movement is wrong.
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I'd be more interested in the other way around - systems to compiled Java code into X86 bytecode. I like Java as a language, but I hate the sluggish speed and never use non-X86 chipsets anyways.
No, but you can on their server. I found this message hilarious when I clicked the link.../* We are being badly slashdotted so here is a low bandwidth version of the site
Click here for the full version */
Cute, in a pathetic sort of way. Sounds like they're trying to revive sega's various attempts at downloading and playing games online. They mention "adult" and "casino" games, further suggesting simple card and slot machine games. I'll bet they're just planning on having a bazillion Java games... hell, it might even be a java machine. If so, theres the whole hairy issue of whose runtime they based it on.
By "hardcore gamers" they must mean the losers who play hexxagon on the touchscreen at the bar.
I drive an automatic (albeit an older one - a Nissan) and I've impatiently shifted from reverse to forward while hurriedly doing a 3-point turn. It does not refuse - it grinds the gears.
As a Windows XP home user, I can attest that windows XP is, in fact, totally unstable. Beyond totally unstable. We're talking drunken cross-eyed elephant with a concussion on a skateboard going 90mph. That kind of stable.
No, but you can interface speech synthesis software with the nethack text. Actually, I first was introduced to Nethack by my older brother, who was introduced to it by a blind man who played it with a speech synthesiser and minimal (something like 20%) vision. He could handle SpaceWar because of the high contrast and using the lasers and missiles for figureing facing - but would often get confused about which object on the screen he was - the ships and missiles all looked the same to him.
RTFA. To me, it sounds like most of TCPA is allowing hardware-speed hashing which can be applied to your software to insure that they (or your data streams) aren't modified undesirably. Yes, that could be used for nasty DRM. But Microsoft would like that. So they will. Its just up to us independants to make sure there are ways to work with this to ensure that you have the power to control your PC (while leaving enough of the TCPA structure in place to allow its security features to still be useful).
This is the best idea I've heard yet actually. Vibrate and voicemail are on any phone that's worth its salt (if you're that important, you can afford it), and a patron can check voicemail without disturbing his neighbors. If it really is urgent, he can go somewhere else and place a call. If he's a doctor or possibly some other sort of emergency response personnel who's on call at all times, give him a special phone - I'll admit doctors (not parents) need to be reached at an instants notice.
If someone's kids are in that much trouble, its the hospital or the police who must be reached urgently. The parents are being informed for their sake, not the child's. If little jimmy fell and broke his leg, then its important that his parents come - but not as important as him reaching the hospital - his parents aren't doctors, they can't fix his leg, the only reason they're being told is so they can come to the hospital to comfort him (which is not quite so urgent and a minute to walk down to the lobby to return the call will not make a difference between life and death).
Unfortunately the nature of the beast is that it is dark in the theatre. You can't see the guy who's talking on the phone - and may have trouble picking him out with the usher. Especially if he's a couple of rows away from you. Unfortunately it should be the people sitting closer to him that are getting the usher, but that's unlikely.
And what if they don't? I mean, it only takes one asshole to ruin the movie for 200 others. Do you really think we can make sure that its possible to get the asshole quotient of humans below 0.5% (given that right now I have it pegged around 35% overall - 60% for highschoolers).
You'd think that'd work wouldn't it? I distintly remember, at towards the end of the two towers, one schmuck who no only didn't turn off his ringer on his cell phone, but actually had a conversation on his phone in the theatre. When I was paying $14 to see the movie. People shushed him, people even shouted at him, but he kept on talking on his phone.
I'm sorry - if you're a doctor or something and have business that important, just get a beeper or use text messages or something.
This isn't offtopic. Flame bait maybe (I actually agree with the post) but certainly not offtopic. He's discussing how Real would probably be no better even if it were GPL. That's on topic.
Its times like this that its good to know about that one obscure clause in the American constituion: Revolution is legal. It has to be - the nation's founders had to consider there own government to be legal, and not a treasonous userpment of power.
Basically, if you fail, its treason and its illegal and you die. If you succeed in overthrowing the American government, it is legal - after all, the people need a last resort.
Actually, that's the exact same reason I like Quake 3 - it loads quickly, connects quickly, and I can hop on a server and get into the game fast, and leave just as fast. Same thing with CounterStrike. There is no lengthy time commitment.
WarCraft and EverCrack I agree on. Those games take a large time commitment to get any fun out of them. That is why my favourite RTS game is still Z - its the only one that mastered the 15-minute game. IMHO, the worst are console games with long-spaced save points (like many RPGs).
A photon delivers an impulse when it is fired or when it is destroyed on impact with matter - but when it is in transit in space it has no mass.
Imagine a giant cluster of light, like fired by a superlarge pulse laser. It will transfer momentum to whatever it hits, but it does not actually have mass, so when its in transit this massive ball of light will not suck in anything with its gravity.
Hmm - I'm a little dissappointed in that Modding community article. For example, they discussed modding in RTS games as if it had never been done before - when Total Annihilation had several total conversions for it, and was designed for such things (where the TC's for the Blizzard games were hack jobs). TA had a huge modding community - the devs demonstrated the power of the modding system by publishing a new unit every month.
A good example of a new engine that people are going nuts to mod is UT2003. The game included a fully functional vehicle that is never used in the game just for modders to play with. DeathBall, one of the prominent mods, even got Epic to produce new announcer sounds just for their mod. For the UT gold edition, they included a handful of user-made mods on a second disk. As a UT player I've always been a bit bewildered at all the Half-Life die-hards when there are newer, more powerful and versitile engines to work with. For example, UT and Q3 mods are expected to include bot support in the mod. Imagine that. That being said, HL-Turbo is good fun.
UT is also unique as it has a new paradigm for gameplay mods - UT's "mutators" aren't mutually exclusive. You can run multiple mutators on one server, mixing and matching several weapon sets, player class mods, gameplay mods, and server control mods. All those are kept separate from the gametype (CTF/DM/BombRun) so that mods don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to include something done in someone elses mod.
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Ahh - but you have to be careful with that - eventually your groups just go ahead and send things on your behalf, and that's a whole different story. I can't find the link, but I'm sure we all remember the time an elderly dead fellow was sending pro-Microsoft letters.
Yep, I know who power pack is. I still think Silver Surfer would be a good movie. Or Adam Warlock. Something really big and epic and spacey. Marvel is getting away from its roots with these movies: overdone oversized universe-crushing clash of the titans style space gods plotlines.
As long as they don't do fantastic 4 I'm happy.
Exactly. In addition to giving actual cash money to rebuild Europe, world war II marks the last time the US actually made a concerted effort to fix things after a war is over. Since then they've spent they're time killing popular communist leaders and replacing them with military dictators.
Maybe they should revise their foreign policy back by about half a century?
I bet the US is pretty mad that Iridium died now. Probably they would've got intermittent connection to that network with a big transmitter.
Except that every reputable environmentalist (read: not PETA) has already said that "global warming is not a good name - the word is climactic shift".
The actual level of warming is insignificant - we're talking an average 1.5 degrees C or something. Nobody cares about that little bit of warming. Only the blowhards (yes, leftists have our embarrassing equilvalents to Rush Limbaugh too) think that. The real concern is how this change is effecting the weather. Anyone who's studied the thermodynamics realizes how much a tiny temperature change can do to weather patterns worldwide - so the problem is we get hurricanes in deserts, droughts in rainforests, blizzards in california, and generally worldwide crop failure. Pardon me, but I like to eat.
Weather is a very fractal thing - push it slightly one way and it will change completely across the board. Both the natural and artificial world rely on expecting certain weather - our crops, our forests, and our cities expect certain things. Only certain cities are prepared for hurricanes (and I'm sure you've noticed the increase in major hurricanes in recent years).
Global warming is not a problem. Talk to real experts and not loony treehuggers, and you'll hear about the climactic shift that is closely related to global warming. That is a threat to humanity and the planet's ecosystems.
The other legitamate environmental concern is local pollution. You think that the Ganges is the only polluted body of water? Here's a hint - your local factories also pollute the water. They just pollute it in less obvious ways - not nasty agricultural runoff that covers the lake in icky slimy algae, but more sinister things. In my town, the bay water looks fine. You can get bad swimmers itch at the beaches, so you can only swim from a boat - but still that's just regular chemical imbalances producing unnatural ecosystems. The real concern is the water is carcinogenic. There's a coking mill on the edge of the water, and the runnoff from that means that anyone who swims a lot or drinks a lot of that water will probably end up a hospital a few years down the road. This is not a third world country - this is part of the great lakes.
The third concern is concentration of toxins - sure, they're only generating a couple of gallons - but when one part per million can kill you down the road, and the stuff takes decades to break down (many nasty aromatic hydrocarbons are that persistant), you probably don't want that stuff being vented anywhere near people. But they do anyways. The world is big, but benzene is still benzene.
Environmental concerns are legitamate - the problem is that a large number of environmentalists are extremist lunatics. But really, its no different then if we had people like RMS and JonKatz speaking up for us computer people. Just because the people you hear about in a movement are idiots doesn't mean the movement is wrong.
I'd be more interested in the other way around - systems to compiled Java code into X86 bytecode. I like Java as a language, but I hate the sluggish speed and never use non-X86 chipsets anyways.
No, but you can on their server. I found this message hilarious when I clicked the link... /*
We are being badly slashdotted so here is a low bandwidth version of the site
Click here for the full version
*/
Cute, in a pathetic sort of way. Sounds like they're trying to revive sega's various attempts at downloading and playing games online. They mention "adult" and "casino" games, further suggesting simple card and slot machine games. I'll bet they're just planning on having a bazillion Java games... hell, it might even be a java machine. If so, theres the whole hairy issue of whose runtime they based it on.
By "hardcore gamers" they must mean the losers who play hexxagon on the touchscreen at the bar.
I drive an automatic (albeit an older one - a Nissan) and I've impatiently shifted from reverse to forward while hurriedly doing a 3-point turn. It does not refuse - it grinds the gears.
As a Windows XP home user, I can attest that windows XP is, in fact, totally unstable. Beyond totally unstable. We're talking drunken cross-eyed elephant with a concussion on a skateboard going 90mph. That kind of stable.
Boy I wish my hardware had 98 support.
No, but you can interface speech synthesis software with the nethack text. Actually, I first was introduced to Nethack by my older brother, who was introduced to it by a blind man who played it with a speech synthesiser and minimal (something like 20%) vision. He could handle SpaceWar because of the high contrast and using the lasers and missiles for figureing facing - but would often get confused about which object on the screen he was - the ships and missiles all looked the same to him.
Wow, that sucks. God I'm happy to be in Canada right now.
RTFA. To me, it sounds like most of TCPA is allowing hardware-speed hashing which can be applied to your software to insure that they (or your data streams) aren't modified undesirably. Yes, that could be used for nasty DRM. But Microsoft would like that. So they will. Its just up to us independants to make sure there are ways to work with this to ensure that you have the power to control your PC (while leaving enough of the TCPA structure in place to allow its security features to still be useful).
This is the best idea I've heard yet actually. Vibrate and voicemail are on any phone that's worth its salt (if you're that important, you can afford it), and a patron can check voicemail without disturbing his neighbors. If it really is urgent, he can go somewhere else and place a call. If he's a doctor or possibly some other sort of emergency response personnel who's on call at all times, give him a special phone - I'll admit doctors (not parents) need to be reached at an instants notice.
If someone's kids are in that much trouble, its the hospital or the police who must be reached urgently. The parents are being informed for their sake, not the child's. If little jimmy fell and broke his leg, then its important that his parents come - but not as important as him reaching the hospital - his parents aren't doctors, they can't fix his leg, the only reason they're being told is so they can come to the hospital to comfort him (which is not quite so urgent and a minute to walk down to the lobby to return the call will not make a difference between life and death).
Unfortunately the nature of the beast is that it is dark in the theatre. You can't see the guy who's talking on the phone - and may have trouble picking him out with the usher. Especially if he's a couple of rows away from you. Unfortunately it should be the people sitting closer to him that are getting the usher, but that's unlikely.
And what if they don't? I mean, it only takes one asshole to ruin the movie for 200 others. Do you really think we can make sure that its possible to get the asshole quotient of humans below 0.5% (given that right now I have it pegged around 35% overall - 60% for highschoolers).
You'd think that'd work wouldn't it? I distintly remember, at towards the end of the two towers, one schmuck who no only didn't turn off his ringer on his cell phone, but actually had a conversation on his phone in the theatre. When I was paying $14 to see the movie. People shushed him, people even shouted at him, but he kept on talking on his phone.
I'm sorry - if you're a doctor or something and have business that important, just get a beeper or use text messages or something.
This isn't offtopic. Flame bait maybe (I actually agree with the post) but certainly not offtopic. He's discussing how Real would probably be no better even if it were GPL. That's on topic.
Silly mods, offtopics are for goatse.cx trolls.
iCarramba!
Its times like this that its good to know about that one obscure clause in the American constituion: Revolution is legal. It has to be - the nation's founders had to consider there own government to be legal, and not a treasonous userpment of power.
Basically, if you fail, its treason and its illegal and you die. If you succeed in overthrowing the American government, it is legal - after all, the people need a last resort.
Actually, that's the exact same reason I like Quake 3 - it loads quickly, connects quickly, and I can hop on a server and get into the game fast, and leave just as fast. Same thing with CounterStrike. There is no lengthy time commitment.
WarCraft and EverCrack I agree on. Those games take a large time commitment to get any fun out of them. That is why my favourite RTS game is still Z - its the only one that mastered the 15-minute game. IMHO, the worst are console games with long-spaced save points (like many RPGs).
How does one go about extracting power from an SPS? You can't exactly run an extension cord up there.
Okay, I'll bite.
A photon delivers an impulse when it is fired or when it is destroyed on impact with matter - but when it is in transit in space it has no mass.
Imagine a giant cluster of light, like fired by a superlarge pulse laser. It will transfer momentum to whatever it hits, but it does not actually have mass, so when its in transit this massive ball of light will not suck in anything with its gravity.
You took that gag from Byte Me. They want it back.
So I'm not the only one who thought of Megatokyo when I read that headline? A Largo - we miss you.
Hmm - I'm a little dissappointed in that Modding community article. For example, they discussed modding in RTS games as if it had never been done before - when Total Annihilation had several total conversions for it, and was designed for such things (where the TC's for the Blizzard games were hack jobs). TA had a huge modding community - the devs demonstrated the power of the modding system by publishing a new unit every month.
A good example of a new engine that people are going nuts to mod is UT2003. The game included a fully functional vehicle that is never used in the game just for modders to play with. DeathBall, one of the prominent mods, even got Epic to produce new announcer sounds just for their mod. For the UT gold edition, they included a handful of user-made mods on a second disk. As a UT player I've always been a bit bewildered at all the Half-Life die-hards when there are newer, more powerful and versitile engines to work with. For example, UT and Q3 mods are expected to include bot support in the mod. Imagine that. That being said, HL-Turbo is good fun.
UT is also unique as it has a new paradigm for gameplay mods - UT's "mutators" aren't mutually exclusive. You can run multiple mutators on one server, mixing and matching several weapon sets, player class mods, gameplay mods, and server control mods. All those are kept separate from the gametype (CTF/DM/BombRun) so that mods don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to include something done in someone elses mod.