This reminds me of this one Bloom County comic: Opus the penguin was listening to headphones and playing air guitar. There he was twirling and spinning and sut in general jamming. Then he turns around and ALL the other charachters are watching him and the rabbit has a lighter lit up in mock praise of the performance.
This is a bit more than his friends seeing it, but still, being morbidly embarrassed is nothing to sue over.
You know what? For the first time I didn't imagine a Beowulf cluster of anything. I was imagining how those old military computers looked really cool and how I'd like to build a case that looks like that...complete with ashtray:P
I think we blew the tubes out of the ENIAC that was hosting thier site... *ahem*
A couple of years ago there was a university project somewhere that implimented an ENIAC on a modern chip. I wonder if the museum has that. Maybe sitting besides the original to demonstrate the rapid pace of development or something.
Hmmm...this post needs something...how about we go around and start photoshopping pictures with one of the lines from this game, say..."All your base are belong to us" or something. then string all the photo's together into a flahs animation with a groovy little techno beat....
naw... that would be a silly waste of time, nobody would ever do that.
Every time someone mentions Fabio, I remember this episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, where in the invention excange segment, there was a Fabio kit.
Went kinda like:
Fabio...Fabio...Fabio...Yes we're all Fabio, and you can be Fabio too, with our excluse Fabio kit. Comes with blah blah blah...
Crow and Tom Servo in horrid blonde wigs with carboard pecs taped to thier bodies...
Ok SVG is trying to be like Flash in scope, but i don't see anything besides animation. I see nothing about syncing with audio or adding interactive elements.
Are these possible and am i missing something from the svg documents? Or is it not there and there going to be a another super set of standards that uses SVG for the graphics and links with audio and has some scripting functions for interactivty?
I think you're forgetting that the Xbox can run in High-Def.
Nope I didn't forget, I just thought it was irrelevant. Not many games support it and not many people have hi-def TV's. Until hi-def tv's come down to a reasonable price, not many people will buy them. I mean sure they're cool and all, but for $2500 I might as well just buy a spiffy keen new computer with a new 21 inch monitor and play the PC version of Doom III.
You don't have to do any anti-alaising due to how tv's work.
You only have to run at around 640x480 (actually less than that, but it's a good rough estimate)
only have to run at 30 fps, cause that's all a TV can handle
It's a set hardware standard. Carmack said if he has a set HW standard, he can sqeeze 50% more performance out of his engines by hard coding to that set HW spec.
I might as well speculate on what it's gonna look like until someone posts a link to the google cache...
I figure it'll look like a fat keyboard. There will be 2 usb ports on right side. on the back there will be a couple more usb ports, a few firewire ports. Also on the back will be VGA out, TV out and the sound outputs. maybe there might be a 10/100/1000 ethernet port on the back too.
There will be no internal HD, CD/DVD/Writer or floppy drive. Everything will hook up through usb and firewire.
I'm thinking the cpu will be underclocked until they don't need a fan in there
now, someone please post a copy of the article or a link to a cached copy before I think of any more insanity.
I actually don't mind the remake of Transformers. It's ok. The H-Man remake is god-awful. I also noticed a remake of Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles on Fox the other weekend. Didn't see enough to form an opinion either way. But it appears to be darker than the original cartoon series.
Do a google search for "ionocraft". These things are way old. Anyway, ionocraft are exactly what these lifter things are, and one article I ran across said these things compare favorably to helicopters, but not to regular aircraft. But i think that was before they took into account the powersupply. These things suck power and their supplies are large and bulky, and there really isn't any wa around that. Well, I think that NASA guy has a good idea. You could just beam the power to it. If you know the op0erating parameters antennas can be very efficient, you could keep all the bulky power generation on the ground and use a microwave beam to power the craft. How cool would THAT be?
They didn't mention quantum teleportation...been done on large groups of photons. (Star Trek, And Larry Niven, possibly others)
didn't mention Moller and his flying car thingie...been test flown. (Heinlien, and others)
didn't mention those needleless injection thingies...sold by a variety of companies (Star Trek)
didn't mention clones...rumors of human tests (a running gag in sci-fi)
didn't mention PDA's...sold by retailers all over (Mentioned as pocket computers...Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle 'The Mote in God's Eye' first published in 1974) Mote also made a couple of other subtle predictions besides everybody walking around with pocket computers, they also predicted that they would be wirelessly connected to nearby large databases...see wi-fi and a primitive internet/web-services kinda thing.
Ok Mr Marx, I was with you right up until the distribution of wealth bit. You hint that these 'poor' countries are under harsh dictitorial rule then blame the rich instead of the corrupt (not necasarily the same thing)
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That poor star wars kid...
This reminds me of this one Bloom County comic:
Opus the penguin was listening to headphones and playing air guitar. There he was twirling and spinning and sut in general jamming. Then he turns around and ALL the other charachters are watching him and the rabbit has a lighter lit up in mock praise of the performance.
This is a bit more than his friends seeing it, but still, being morbidly embarrassed is nothing to sue over.
You know what? For the first time I didn't imagine a Beowulf cluster of anything. I was imagining how those old military computers looked really cool and how I'd like to build a case that looks like that...complete with ashtray :P
I think we blew the tubes out of the ENIAC that was hosting thier site...
*ahem*
A couple of years ago there was a university project somewhere that implimented an ENIAC on a modern chip. I wonder if the museum has that. Maybe sitting besides the original to demonstrate the rapid pace of development or something.
Doom V: To hell with this.
Get in shape? WFT are you talking about...round is a shape you dumbass.
Hmmm...this post needs something...how about we go around and start photoshopping pictures with one of the lines from this game, say..."All your base are belong to us" or something. then string all the photo's together into a flahs animation with a groovy little techno beat....
naw... that would be a silly waste of time, nobody would ever do that.
Every time someone mentions Fabio, I remember this episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, where in the invention excange segment, there was a Fabio kit.
Went kinda like:
Fabio...Fabio...Fabio...Yes we're all Fabio, and you can be Fabio too, with our excluse Fabio kit. Comes with blah blah blah...
Crow and Tom Servo in horrid blonde wigs with carboard pecs taped to thier bodies...
oh god...I can't stop laughing...
Ok SVG is trying to be like Flash in scope, but i don't see anything besides animation. I see nothing about syncing with audio or adding interactive elements.
Are these possible and am i missing something from the svg documents? Or is it not there and there going to be a another super set of standards that uses SVG for the graphics and links with audio and has some scripting functions for interactivty?
I knew the telecom industry was sleazy what with practices like slamming and whatnot, but now it seems to have gotten downright criminal.
It looks like Verizon just ignored it's contract with the state of PA.
In my own state Qwest (we put the 'w' in qwality) has been under investigation for shady financials.
Anybody else been noticing a general contempt for the general population from the telecoms?
I think you're forgetting that the Xbox can run in High-Def.
Nope I didn't forget, I just thought it was irrelevant. Not many games support it and not many people have hi-def TV's. Until hi-def tv's come down to a reasonable price, not many people will buy them. I mean sure they're cool and all, but for $2500 I might as well just buy a spiffy keen new computer with a new 21 inch monitor and play the PC version of Doom III.
Oh yeah, it'll look fine on the Xbox.
You don't have to do any anti-alaising due to how tv's work.
You only have to run at around 640x480 (actually less than that, but it's a good rough estimate)
only have to run at 30 fps, cause that's all a TV can handle
It's a set hardware standard. Carmack said if he has a set HW standard, he can sqeeze 50% more performance out of his engines by hard coding to that set HW spec.
I think the Kwing looks like a Star Fury from Babylon 5.
Don't believe me compare and cantrast:
His K wing.
A picture of a Star Fury I found on the interweb.
I'm sure someone will manage to get it running some flavour of Linux
It's not Linux, but it is LUNIX, the little unix for the C64
http://hld.c64.org/poldi/lunix/lunix.html
I might as well speculate on what it's gonna look like until someone posts a link to the google cache...
I figure it'll look like a fat keyboard.
There will be 2 usb ports on right side.
on the back there will be a couple more usb ports, a few firewire ports.
Also on the back will be VGA out, TV out and the sound outputs.
maybe there might be a 10/100/1000 ethernet port on the back too.
There will be no internal HD, CD/DVD/Writer or floppy drive. Everything will hook up through usb and firewire.
I'm thinking the cpu will be underclocked until they don't need a fan in there
now, someone please post a copy of the article or a link to a cached copy before I think of any more insanity.
Don't look at me... I voted for Kodoss.
obligatory simpsons quote
to offset shrinkage in its dial-up Internet service
Must be cold in the modem pool...
I actually don't mind the remake of Transformers. It's ok. The H-Man remake is god-awful. I also noticed a remake of Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles on Fox the other weekend. Didn't see enough to form an opinion either way. But it appears to be darker than the original cartoon series.
If only it would be released in a theater, then I could demand my money back..and sue for pain suffering...
We haven't blown up Korea since the 50's. Focus numb nuts, we've blown up Afganistan and Iraq, we're still in both.
Do a google search for "ionocraft". These things are way old. Anyway, ionocraft are exactly what these lifter things are, and one article I ran across said these things compare favorably to helicopters, but not to regular aircraft. But i think that was before they took into account the powersupply. These things suck power and their supplies are large and bulky, and there really isn't any wa around that. Well, I think that NASA guy has a good idea. You could just beam the power to it. If you know the op0erating parameters antennas can be very efficient, you could keep all the bulky power generation on the ground and use a microwave beam to power the craft. How cool would THAT be?
What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?
You haven't heard the soundtrack yet, are you ABSOLUTELY sure you want it in a more lasting form?
They didn't mention quantum teleportation...been done on large groups of photons. (Star Trek, And Larry Niven, possibly others)
didn't mention Moller and his flying car thingie...been test flown. (Heinlien, and others)
didn't mention those needleless injection thingies...sold by a variety of companies (Star Trek)
didn't mention clones...rumors of human tests (a running gag in sci-fi)
didn't mention PDA's...sold by retailers all over (Mentioned as pocket computers...Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle 'The Mote in God's Eye' first published in 1974) Mote also made a couple of other subtle predictions besides everybody walking around with pocket computers, they also predicted that they would be wirelessly connected to nearby large databases...see wi-fi and a primitive internet/web-services kinda thing.
I can't think of anymore, I'm sure someone will
Ok Mr Marx, I was with you right up until the distribution of wealth bit. You hint that these 'poor' countries are under harsh dictitorial rule then blame the rich instead of the corrupt (not necasarily the same thing)
No crap...More like the NY-Times just needed some filler this morning or something.
it's full of SEX, too. All kinds of weird sex, too. You got yer incest, yer whoring, yer homosexual orgies.