It really is a great way to kill lots of time and spend very little money doing it. You may be as productive as a bump on a log, but your still saving money by not going out much.
Because if they do jack around with the thing and cause it to malfunction some how they could end up causing the very thing they try to stop. Ah well, that would suck for them and us.
Released 8.04.1 over the weekend. It's got Netbook Remix and great support for the EEE. I'm running it on a 1000 40G right now and there are still some minor tweeks but for the most part it works way better then the current vanilla Ubuntu. That said, I'm going to try the 8.10 release when they send it out the doors.
What if a government decides to sink the ships or take them over?
What if rogue groups decide to take over the ships or sink them?
What if we run in to a situation where one country gets pissed off at another and both have major stakes in the project? (IE: Russia and USA with the International Space Station.)
This thing will end up in 2000 years on someones altar as they make sacrifices to some weird god thinking it's a source of untold power. Then some nut with a hat and whip will come along and steal it for a museum only to have it end up on a coffee table somewhere.
Or...
2000 years from now some primitive creature will be trying to crack some kind of nut for food and end up using this as a fancy nut cracker.
Getting updates for my 1000 40G EEE PC from Asus has been a royal pain since day 1 of my purchase. It's a beautiful machine and runs great with Linux, but not Xandros since Asus's update servers have not played nice to even let me get the necessary packages to go to full desktop mode. I honestly doubt I can get a full update to the latest FF3 either so I'm stuck at FF2.:(
I still don't want to switch to Windows though. Vista is a hog and XP on the EEE's causes a lot of disk IO compared to Linux. At least XP chewed away at the disk when I put it on for a short period of time on my 701 EEE.
playing Hellgate as a single player. I picked up a sniper and went to town with that guy. It was like a cross between Doom and Diablo for me and I really enjoyed that.
Would be interesting to document from because while there is a lot of garbage in the old AW world, there is also a lot of history of the users that did things in that world.
Users were allowed to build virtual areas where they could hang pictures, sounds, and text. Pretty much a gussied up 3D web site of sorts in a world. There were various levels of creativity in designed plots of land.
The URLs to the sounds and pictures most likely don't function much more, but all the signs with text people left could be interesting to document along with the URL histories.
I'm not sure Pic's would be good proof with things like Photoshop and Gimp these days.
Still I kind of agree with him that if Aliens did visit us already they are most likely way ahead of us and if they were really hostile we would have been dead long ago or noticed a large number of our population disappearing as "food". Although there is no "Here's Joe Alien from Bleenar."
You can't say he's totally wrong with proof either. For all we know they could be here and just watching pretending to be one of us till we come to our senses and progress as a society or just letting us ripen and fatten up enough.
I do the same thing. I find it's 10xs easier for me to read and process code looking like that then when things are bunched up or without braces. It defines the local block for me when a condition is met. Like a visual cue and it's easier on my eyes.
Guy in an orange hazard suit with a crowbar. Or you could advertise that the release code for Duke Nuke'm Forever is down there. Nobody would believe that and just leave the place be.
Quite, boots fast with Linux on there. I love it and part of me does wish I had one on my desktop. It just seems to work so much nicer then a regular hard drive from the use I got out of it.
I did that with Active Worlds back in the day. That was fun to do but the thing I noticed over time is a lot of junk gets put out there.
Once in a while I take the free AW client and go visit my old constructions. It's very odd to see the ghost town they've become. But kind of exciting in a strange way.
For me that "Building Bug" came to fruition when I got a hold of Neverwinter Nights 1. I loved building modules in there and working with the scripting language. It wasn't perfect, but I had total control over my worlds and I loved that. It was also easy to give stuff to other people too.
I had a nice following for my old open vault character scanner. Moo Filter was fun to make and spring on the less savory players of NWN.
NWN's story sucked but some of the mutliplayer was great; it's a shame NWN2 didn't follow through.
I miss developing online stuff with the NWN1 toolset. It crashes constantly under Vista and the NWN2 toolset has graphical errors that render it's controls unusable on my system.
NWN1 was fun, I created an open vault hacked character detector that I setup like a virus scanner. It used a signature based method for detecting item properties once they allowed people to work with them.
The other big thing I did in that at the very end was suggested to me by someone I met early on. I created a module that had a stage and pre-programmed plays. You could cue up Three Blind Mice, Little Ms. Muffet, etc.
I would have loved to spend more time working on those two projects.
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It really is a great way to kill lots of time and spend very little money doing it. You may be as productive as a bump on a log, but your still saving money by not going out much.
Come on, you know they could possibly build one.
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Because if they do jack around with the thing and cause it to malfunction some how they could end up causing the very thing they try to stop. Ah well, that would suck for them and us.
Released 8.04.1 over the weekend. It's got Netbook Remix and great support for the EEE. I'm running it on a 1000 40G right now and there are still some minor tweeks but for the most part it works way better then the current vanilla Ubuntu. That said, I'm going to try the 8.10 release when they send it out the doors.
Will the ships be manned or unmanned?
What if a government decides to sink the ships or take them over?
What if rogue groups decide to take over the ships or sink them?
What if we run in to a situation where one country gets pissed off at another and both have major stakes in the project? (IE: Russia and USA with the International Space Station.)
*Buys a box of Cake-dows Vista*
*Bakes in the oven*
*Pfffffffpppppppptttt!* Damn crashes...
*Serves Vista Pancakes*
I used their book back in the day in my CS courses. Good reading for a starter book.
http://www.deitel.com/Books/Java/JavaHowtoProgram7e/tabid/1191/Default.aspx
This thing will end up in 2000 years on someones altar as they make sacrifices to some weird god thinking it's a source of untold power. Then some nut with a hat and whip will come along and steal it for a museum only to have it end up on a coffee table somewhere.
Or...
2000 years from now some primitive creature will be trying to crack some kind of nut for food and end up using this as a fancy nut cracker.
Getting updates for my 1000 40G EEE PC from Asus has been a royal pain since day 1 of my purchase. It's a beautiful machine and runs great with Linux, but not Xandros since Asus's update servers have not played nice to even let me get the necessary packages to go to full desktop mode. I honestly doubt I can get a full update to the latest FF3 either so I'm stuck at FF2. :(
I still don't want to switch to Windows though. Vista is a hog and XP on the EEE's causes a lot of disk IO compared to Linux. At least XP chewed away at the disk when I put it on for a short period of time on my 701 EEE.
playing Hellgate as a single player. I picked up a sniper and went to town with that guy. It was like a cross between Doom and Diablo for me and I really enjoyed that.
Would be interesting to document from because while there is a lot of garbage in the old AW world, there is also a lot of history of the users that did things in that world.
Users were allowed to build virtual areas where they could hang pictures, sounds, and text. Pretty much a gussied up 3D web site of sorts in a world. There were various levels of creativity in designed plots of land.
The URLs to the sounds and pictures most likely don't function much more, but all the signs with text people left could be interesting to document along with the URL histories.
What is your name?
Joe Q. Scientist.
What is your mission?
To capture an asteroid.
What units of measure were used in the mission?
English... no metric!
*KABOOM!*
Make ready my ship, soon the world will witness the power of a fully functional battle station!
*Looks through a microscope*
Hey guys, there's this little green thing waving back at me from here. Ahhh! It's got me! It's got me.... ugle gurgle... ack!
*WHUMP!*
But it means that if you are planning a manned spaceflight, you only need to carry enough water to get there.
I just hope there isn't some sort of killer bug dormant in the frozen water that we miss with our initial lander explorations.
I'm not sure Pic's would be good proof with things like Photoshop and Gimp these days.
Still I kind of agree with him that if Aliens did visit us already they are most likely way ahead of us and if they were really hostile we would have been dead long ago or noticed a large number of our population disappearing as "food". Although there is no "Here's Joe Alien from Bleenar."
You can't say he's totally wrong with proof either. For all we know they could be here and just watching pretending to be one of us till we come to our senses and progress as a society or just letting us ripen and fatten up enough.
I really would love to try Netbook Remix on my EEE. That has me more interested then I ever was in an OS since the old DOS days.
Pfff.. please.. I prefer cross platform kitten killing.
http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html
I do the same thing. I find it's 10xs easier for me to read and process code looking like that then when things are bunched up or without braces. It defines the local block for me when a condition is met. Like a visual cue and it's easier on my eyes.
Guy in an orange hazard suit with a crowbar. Or you could advertise that the release code for Duke Nuke'm Forever is down there. Nobody would believe that and just leave the place be.
Quite, boots fast with Linux on there. I love it and part of me does wish I had one on my desktop. It just seems to work so much nicer then a regular hard drive from the use I got out of it.
I did that with Active Worlds back in the day. That was fun to do but the thing I noticed over time is a lot of junk gets put out there.
Once in a while I take the free AW client and go visit my old constructions. It's very odd to see the ghost town they've become. But kind of exciting in a strange way.
For me that "Building Bug" came to fruition when I got a hold of Neverwinter Nights 1. I loved building modules in there and working with the scripting language. It wasn't perfect, but I had total control over my worlds and I loved that. It was also easy to give stuff to other people too.
I had a nice following for my old open vault character scanner. Moo Filter was fun to make and spring on the less savory players of NWN.
People were voting for the lesser evil with Bush and look what happened. I know family members that thought he (Bush) was the lesser evil.
I don't trust my own government and I can't vote to make any difference because all I have to hope for is the lesser of two evils.
I wish I could vote "None of the above." in elections. Today is really one of them, which sadly seems more like every day.
NWN's story sucked but some of the mutliplayer was great; it's a shame NWN2 didn't follow through.
I miss developing online stuff with the NWN1 toolset. It crashes constantly under Vista and the NWN2 toolset has graphical errors that render it's controls unusable on my system.
NWN1 was fun, I created an open vault hacked character detector that I setup like a virus scanner. It used a signature based method for detecting item properties once they allowed people to work with them.
The other big thing I did in that at the very end was suggested to me by someone I met early on. I created a module that had a stage and pre-programmed plays. You could cue up Three Blind Mice, Little Ms. Muffet, etc.
I would have loved to spend more time working on those two projects.