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Anybody know where I can find a copy of that? This guy says he won't distribute it online, only in person. That would be an extremely cool piece of software to have, given that the N64 has some sweet-ass games (Kart64 and Smashbros come to mind). Dang, he makes it all sound so easy.
Unfortunately, like everything else, they suffer from Sturgeons Law (states that 90% of everything is crap) just like everything else. And, with the prices they go at these days, its not worth keeping up with a series that looks like it has potential, and its a pain to play catch-up with a series that just got good but you don't have the first 9 issues. After realizing how much better I could spend $4 Canadian, I got out of that.
Also, anyone else notice that the quality of a comic is inversely proportional to the length of its run?
Mad max and its sequel, Mad Max: The Road Warrior. The first was a little low-budget rinky-dink effort. The second is the one everybody knows as wicked-cool.
Well, Jedi was originally "Revenge of the Jedi"... movie posters with that name are now quite valuable. Then somebody realized how retarded that sounded and they changed the name before the big promos began.
Read the article. They said that the problem is the OEM company doesn't want to support the Linux version - their trying to get the Linux version included in the boxed set, or even on the same CD. So, not only will there be a Linux version, but nearly everyone who buys the game will have it.
I am entitled to a 1 hour lunchbreak and two 15 minute paid breaks (usually termed smoking breaks, but I don't). I often surf on these breaks. My business has bandwidth out the yinyang, and the computer I use will just be sitting there if noone's on it. Therefore, I am not wasting company rescources. That time is my time. So, why should they care that I'm reading erotic stories?
No, that wasn't a troll, but perhaps I misspoke myself.
Okay - after reading the replies I got I guess I should clarify - what I was referring to is the fact that there are few to no human rights laws in African nations - and what is happening with manufacturing industries in Mexico and Indonesia could happen in Africa with code - people turn from being impoverished to being slaves.
Yes, something must be done - buts first things first these people need governments that wont sell the populace out to the highest bidder for slave labour, or proclaim holy war against their neighbors. Otherwise, poverty gives way to slavery - the people have something useful to do, but they still live in sht.
Because we all know what would happen with Internet Voting - as outlined by a classic comedy central book called "Byte Me" - "Voter turnout will approach 90%, and Alicia Silverstone will be elected President".
I know these countries deserve a break, and need records. However, with the records of human rights and oppressive governments there, wiring Africa could be dooming ourselves. Can you compete with the cost undercutting of an african code sweatshop? We always toot that information is free, and once you get online, even with an old discarded 486 running Arachne, you've got access. This means that, theoretically, anyone with access can become a coder. Even little African kids who'll work for a bowl of rice.
Will you work for a bowl of rice? Then why hire you? There's no shipment cost for software, the primary weakness of exporting work to abusive sweatshop countries like indonesia.
On the other hand, do we have the right to deny them this tech? To keep them out of this economy? They do deserve their chance to level the playing field.... And its not like they don't deserve a break.
Tough call.
Well, the point is that this is for sims and stuff, where its less that you can't hit the key fast enough more that you can't remember wtf its bound to. Like tilde for reverse gear, y for select next target, that sort of thing. b for shutdown. Stuff that some designer idiot though you really need to memorize, and they have that one stupid card control list that everyone loses.
Footfall had too much copied for Independance Day. Viewers would think it a rip-off of that movie. The whole "big mothership deploys smaller but still giant ships around world" thing, and the asteroid hitting the earth would also bring back just a few too many memories of recent shtty movies.
Wel, they've got reason to be scared, after the past the nuclear weapons industry had. While the power industry had waste being stored hundreds of feet underground where one barrel-size shielding system contained a bucketfull of waste, the weapons industry was a little more relaxed. The American Nuclear weapons industry had lower standards for storing radioactive waste then the average gas station had for the gas tank.
The army did a lot of bad, bad things to a lot of people to make those bombs. It won't be forgotten quickly. Unfortunately, it gave the whole world a mad fear of nuclear waste, which the power industry handles amicably in my opinion.
THis is different from the Footfall thruster though. Footfall was just nukes going off under the ship's ass. This rocket is just using a reactor to superheat gas and release use the superhot gas for thrust - no radioactive material is released. I think.
Read the article - its not actually nuclear propulsion - its not spraying radioactive material into space, its just using a reactor to superheat normal gasses and use the pressure for thrust.
While I agree with you on nuclear power (here in Ontario they closed down the fission plants and switched back to fossil fuels, the psycho bastards) I have to point out that this is a different issue. The risk with nuclear power is the radioactive waste, the high cost of running a plant, and the risk of accident. Here, the issues are different. Here, the only issue is safety, as this promises to be cheaper, and waste can be jettisoned on an outward decaying orbit.
The risk with Cassini is that an accident on the launch could result in widespread nuclear fallout - the technology their talking about here has the same risk, plus that its less tested and therefore people don't trust its ability not to blow up. And call me paranoid eco-psycho, but widespread fallout sucks bigtime.
Of course, then there were those complete morons who were worried that Cassini would crash land on its Earth slingshot flyby that it makes later on. Umm, earth is a goddamn small target, and its not coming within a million miles of the surface.
Okay, lets assume you didn't say Africa and actually picked a place with low (or zero) population, rather then people you just didn't care about - its still risky. First, if it explodes on take off, we're probably not too bad off, but its no fun - remember that volcano a bit back, that resulted in a cold summer? That spread ash over the sky world wide. This explosion wouldn't even be close, but it could still spread the nuclear fuel over a fairly wide area, and some of it could reach the first world (especially if we made our launch site the middle of the Nevada desert or something).
Second is the nastier possibility - high atmosphere fuck-up. These are more rare, like the Ariane 5 prototype and, to a lesser extent, the Challenger (the challenger didn't get that high). There, the ship has made it a long distance and is no longer near the launch site, and could be over civilization. Also, the high atmosphere explosion means that it will take much longer to land, giving the fallout time to spread worldwide. In that case, it doesn't matter where on earth you are, you're still gene-fucked.
Of course, I don't know how much they're using, how risky it is, how bad things could be if it went up exactly. This is simply explaining people's fears. Personally, I'm all for this tech, I think its important to the future of humanity, and could finally get us into orbit. Still, the enviro's are right, this is risky as hell, and even the best rockets have been known to blow up, so I'm not sure if I want this going on.
Personally, I'm pro nuclear power... despite some opinions, its safe and clean. The only real concern I have is disposal of nuclear waste, but most modern reactors have been taking good approaches to that (burying miles deep in tectonically stable areas where a bucketful of waste is in a barrelfull of shielding)... all the nuclear waste messes came from the defense industry, who decided that money wasted on cleanup should be better spent on more nukes.
The real concern is a legitamite one - its naive to assume that rockets will be successful, especially since this design does include a chemical base which could explode. Such a system would launch radioactive fuel over a very wide area if it exploded.
Still, this research is important and quite viable - they need to do some serious engineering - only a small amount of radioactive matter is needed for this thruster, so it could be possible to protect it enough that - if an accident occured, a protective casing could keep the fuels from spraying into the air as an aerosol. Still, rocket explosions and crashes are a powerful kind of nasty, so this would be a tough system to design.
Um, yes, they use chemical rockets up to 30 000 feet. And besides, the nuclear rocket is still blasting several tons of hot air out its ass, so the effect on the animals will be the same.
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Anybody know where I can find a copy of that? This guy says he won't distribute it online, only in person. That would be an extremely cool piece of software to have, given that the N64 has some sweet-ass games (Kart64 and Smashbros come to mind). Dang, he makes it all sound so easy.
I'm not sure, but I think Lazy Matrix UT did it first.
Not to mention that a lot of joe sixpack runs on dial-up. Color comix are a biatch in 56k.
Unfortunately, like everything else, they suffer from Sturgeons Law (states that 90% of everything is crap) just like everything else. And, with the prices they go at these days, its not worth keeping up with a series that looks like it has potential, and its a pain to play catch-up with a series that just got good but you don't have the first 9 issues. After realizing how much better I could spend $4 Canadian, I got out of that. Also, anyone else notice that the quality of a comic is inversely proportional to the length of its run?
Mad max and its sequel, Mad Max: The Road Warrior. The first was a little low-budget rinky-dink effort. The second is the one everybody knows as wicked-cool.
Well, Jedi was originally "Revenge of the Jedi"... movie posters with that name are now quite valuable. Then somebody realized how retarded that sounded and they changed the name before the big promos began.
Read the article. They said that the problem is the OEM company doesn't want to support the Linux version - their trying to get the Linux version included in the boxed set, or even on the same CD. So, not only will there be a Linux version, but nearly everyone who buys the game will have it.
I am entitled to a 1 hour lunchbreak and two 15 minute paid breaks (usually termed smoking breaks, but I don't). I often surf on these breaks. My business has bandwidth out the yinyang, and the computer I use will just be sitting there if noone's on it. Therefore, I am not wasting company rescources. That time is my time. So, why should they care that I'm reading erotic stories?
no no no - it went through the ground into an underground cave, and now there is strange fungus and flatworms living around it.
Why do you assume I'm from the USA?
No, that wasn't a troll, but perhaps I misspoke myself. Okay - after reading the replies I got I guess I should clarify - what I was referring to is the fact that there are few to no human rights laws in African nations - and what is happening with manufacturing industries in Mexico and Indonesia could happen in Africa with code - people turn from being impoverished to being slaves. Yes, something must be done - buts first things first these people need governments that wont sell the populace out to the highest bidder for slave labour, or proclaim holy war against their neighbors. Otherwise, poverty gives way to slavery - the people have something useful to do, but they still live in sht.
$15 for my 14" colour. Beat that.
Because we all know what would happen with Internet Voting - as outlined by a classic comedy central book called "Byte Me" - "Voter turnout will approach 90%, and Alicia Silverstone will be elected President".
I know these countries deserve a break, and need records. However, with the records of human rights and oppressive governments there, wiring Africa could be dooming ourselves. Can you compete with the cost undercutting of an african code sweatshop? We always toot that information is free, and once you get online, even with an old discarded 486 running Arachne, you've got access. This means that, theoretically, anyone with access can become a coder. Even little African kids who'll work for a bowl of rice. Will you work for a bowl of rice? Then why hire you? There's no shipment cost for software, the primary weakness of exporting work to abusive sweatshop countries like indonesia. On the other hand, do we have the right to deny them this tech? To keep them out of this economy? They do deserve their chance to level the playing field.... And its not like they don't deserve a break. Tough call.
Um, Warcraft's honor should go to Dune II. Significantly different, yes, but didn't start the genre.
Well, the point is that this is for sims and stuff, where its less that you can't hit the key fast enough more that you can't remember wtf its bound to. Like tilde for reverse gear, y for select next target, that sort of thing. b for shutdown. Stuff that some designer idiot though you really need to memorize, and they have that one stupid card control list that everyone loses.
Uhm, I got it too... I didn't go to private school. If wittyness is all you got out of there, I suggest a refund is in order.
Footfall had too much copied for Independance Day. Viewers would think it a rip-off of that movie. The whole "big mothership deploys smaller but still giant ships around world" thing, and the asteroid hitting the earth would also bring back just a few too many memories of recent shtty movies.
Wel, they've got reason to be scared, after the past the nuclear weapons industry had. While the power industry had waste being stored hundreds of feet underground where one barrel-size shielding system contained a bucketfull of waste, the weapons industry was a little more relaxed. The American Nuclear weapons industry had lower standards for storing radioactive waste then the average gas station had for the gas tank.
The army did a lot of bad, bad things to a lot of people to make those bombs. It won't be forgotten quickly. Unfortunately, it gave the whole world a mad fear of nuclear waste, which the power industry handles amicably in my opinion.
THis is different from the Footfall thruster though. Footfall was just nukes going off under the ship's ass. This rocket is just using a reactor to superheat gas and release use the superhot gas for thrust - no radioactive material is released. I think.
Read the article - its not actually nuclear propulsion - its not spraying radioactive material into space, its just using a reactor to superheat normal gasses and use the pressure for thrust.
While I agree with you on nuclear power (here in Ontario they closed down the fission plants and switched back to fossil fuels, the psycho bastards) I have to point out that this is a different issue. The risk with nuclear power is the radioactive waste, the high cost of running a plant, and the risk of accident. Here, the issues are different. Here, the only issue is safety, as this promises to be cheaper, and waste can be jettisoned on an outward decaying orbit.
The risk with Cassini is that an accident on the launch could result in widespread nuclear fallout - the technology their talking about here has the same risk, plus that its less tested and therefore people don't trust its ability not to blow up. And call me paranoid eco-psycho, but widespread fallout sucks bigtime.
Of course, then there were those complete morons who were worried that Cassini would crash land on its Earth slingshot flyby that it makes later on. Umm, earth is a goddamn small target, and its not coming within a million miles of the surface.
Okay, lets assume you didn't say Africa and actually picked a place with low (or zero) population, rather then people you just didn't care about - its still risky. First, if it explodes on take off, we're probably not too bad off, but its no fun - remember that volcano a bit back, that resulted in a cold summer? That spread ash over the sky world wide. This explosion wouldn't even be close, but it could still spread the nuclear fuel over a fairly wide area, and some of it could reach the first world (especially if we made our launch site the middle of the Nevada desert or something).
Second is the nastier possibility - high atmosphere fuck-up. These are more rare, like the Ariane 5 prototype and, to a lesser extent, the Challenger (the challenger didn't get that high). There, the ship has made it a long distance and is no longer near the launch site, and could be over civilization. Also, the high atmosphere explosion means that it will take much longer to land, giving the fallout time to spread worldwide. In that case, it doesn't matter where on earth you are, you're still gene-fucked.
Of course, I don't know how much they're using, how risky it is, how bad things could be if it went up exactly. This is simply explaining people's fears. Personally, I'm all for this tech, I think its important to the future of humanity, and could finally get us into orbit. Still, the enviro's are right, this is risky as hell, and even the best rockets have been known to blow up, so I'm not sure if I want this going on.
Personally, I'm pro nuclear power... despite some opinions, its safe and clean. The only real concern I have is disposal of nuclear waste, but most modern reactors have been taking good approaches to that (burying miles deep in tectonically stable areas where a bucketful of waste is in a barrelfull of shielding)... all the nuclear waste messes came from the defense industry, who decided that money wasted on cleanup should be better spent on more nukes.
The real concern is a legitamite one - its naive to assume that rockets will be successful, especially since this design does include a chemical base which could explode. Such a system would launch radioactive fuel over a very wide area if it exploded.
Still, this research is important and quite viable - they need to do some serious engineering - only a small amount of radioactive matter is needed for this thruster, so it could be possible to protect it enough that - if an accident occured, a protective casing could keep the fuels from spraying into the air as an aerosol. Still, rocket explosions and crashes are a powerful kind of nasty, so this would be a tough system to design.
Um, yes, they use chemical rockets up to 30 000 feet. And besides, the nuclear rocket is still blasting several tons of hot air out its ass, so the effect on the animals will be the same.