When I see my neon blue biochemical Lava Lamp storage device with with oodles of storage capacity , pretty blue glow with floaty things inside, and the ability to transfer my self inside once my body is no longer useable I'll be happy. Till then it's the old fasioned tried and true method of storage, stone tablets.
Hey, it work for joe-six-stick Cave Man back in the day.:) Just have to leave some kind of key or index for translation so a future scientist won't mistake my laundry list for some weird ceremonial religeous ritual.
Here's a link to my old colleges CS department. They have surgical simulators with force feedback in the works when I was graduating. I did some minor work on the lumbar puncture simulator for a final semester project. Was really fun stuff.
In the old cartoon I remember the webbing wasn't a part of the mutation. He actually had web shooting devices. I know in an episode or two he actually ran out. Didn't see the movies yet though, one of the few doing that whole not supporting the MPAA thing.
From Parent:...how many of you would really you use the new ability to copy music/movies/games just for backups?
Me, concidering how much I spent on copyrighted and copy protected materials only to have the disk go bad from excessive use. Plus with all the purchases I've done over the years for copyrighted works, I never saw a clear notice that said, "Good for X number of uses."
A good example is cd protections that prevent backup copies of software. It's a real pain to put a CD in for a game even after you do a complete install. That isn't lazyness, thats me not wanting to use the only copy of the install I have to run the game when it should work perfectly fine on it's own w/out the CD for the install I did.
I think that when I pay for something it's mine to do with as I see fit for my personal use. If the copyright owner limits my use of their product unacceptably, I just don't purchase it. My CD and movie collection has been stagnet for a few years now. I havn't even seen Lord of the Rings or the Star Wars movies because I refuse to give money to people who put crazy things like the DMCA in to existance. In all honesty I never had a problem till they started limiting what I could do and now I just don't buy their product anymore.
Geek 1: EMACS! Geek 2: VI! Geek 1: EMACS! Geek 2: VI! Geek 3: Oohh Word 5.1! *Geek 1 and Geek 2 give the look of death to Geek 3. Large heavy objects suddenly get propelled at Geek 3.* Geek 1: EMACS! Geek 2: VI! Geek 3: Vi'macs.... *WHUMP as he passes out from a concusion*
Biggest plus about installing Mozilla under linux is how easy it is. Untar as root, run the installer, boom done.. One more step to making it single click like windows and they'll have software installation down as easy as it is in windows.
Just have to eliminate that untar thing. Although I do love tar'n things. Makes life easier for archiving. Maybe they could make it like the java shell script install, have it unarchive and then automaticlly run the installer.
Have to say the 1.7 release is firing up faster then the 1.6 did on my RH 9 box. Nice job, I'll be ordering a T-shirt later on. Can't wait to put it on my Mandrake machines.
When I last heard, there will be a Doom 3 for Linux and not just Windows. Wither or not thats changed recently, I don't know. I would seriously be disappointed if there wasn't especially after how well the boxed edition of Quake 3 runs for linux.
Yeah it's pretty upsetting really. I'm quite jelous at all the people in the future who will take space travel for granted rather then appreciate it or look at it with awe as we do now.
It's kinda like driving a car, everyone is so used to it that it's ho-hum. Sad to say I can see that happening with space travel, boring nothing ho-hum till some alien species decides were food, cheap labor, and/or whatever.
If I could get on a ship and travel the galaxy and see everything I would. Unfortunatly I can't and probebly never will. Course there's a lot to see on our own planet as well. Though it's mostly a "been there, done that" deal, except for maybe the ocean floor. Mmmm crushing pressure.:)
Those are hexidecimal numbers not binary. If it was binary it'd be a much longer set of 0's and 1's to enter and nothing else like the 3's, D's, A's, etc here.
I have this weird belief that cell phones should just be for emergency use or for when you don't have a phone at home. Amazingly enough I think there should only be one ring tone to lessen the confusion, cost, and increase the useability of the thing. The only feature I see of any use is the built in phone book.
I honestly can't see the cellphone with a net connection. I can't see it with email cause typing is a pain w/out a regular keyboard. I can't see it as an IM cause last thing I want is constant messages beaming in. I could turn it off, but also why bother having more that can go wrong when I don't need it or get confused by it?
Finally if my kids should ever want a phone, it'll not be mine to co-own. For they shall pay for their time in full I must say and not see a dime from me to pay.
So here I sit with a poor rhyme for you, as a minority wanting a phone thats useable by me and not useable by everyone else to bother me.:)
It's amazing what you can do with a hammer and chissle. I just hope my drive can handle this 100lb stone tablet when I go to play my copy. Although for some reason I'm only able to get one song on there and thats taking forever to burn since I have to use a smaller chissle to get more data compression.
Certainly, our personal computer will remember anything we've ever seen or done online. A complete HDTV record of every waking hour of your life will consume 2 percent of your hard disk.
This gets me to think that if my entire life is on 2 percent of my hard drive, think of the sitcom potential. Also if for whatever reason say the media giants of 30 years from now decide that they have the rights to use that two percent of your life for whatever services you get for this super computer. I wonder what protections would be in place for the little guy? If this were to happen, your life could be the next late night sitcom.
Another thing that has me wondering is the prediction about whole worlds for video games. I'm guessing online worlds like There, Activeworlds, Lineage 2? Or will these be "Worlds In a Box" type worlds that you install on your own PC or both? I hope they come up with good AI's cause it'd be a pain to come up with a dialog for an entire world population. I won't even begin to guess the cost of buying one of those games.
It's not scarey that he's saying or doing that stuff. He works for Microsoft not Redhat now. Redhat isn't paying his bills or putting food on the table for him anymore.
Also as evil as MS is villified to be and I tend to think they are myself. It's probebly a very interesting and exciting place to work. Also if your working for a place like Microsoft and not McDonalds, what would you do?
Still, I just hope people in the government nod and smile as they pop a Linux CD in the drive if it suits their needs better then Windows products.
To use fusion reactions as an energy source, it is necessary to heat a gas to temperatures exceeding 100 million Celsius - many times hotter than the centre of the Sun. - Article
I remember in the 80's people were afraid too many nuclear warheads going off would burn off the atmosphere. What if some accident happened where the plasma did get in contact with the atmosphere? Granted it's suposedly going to degrade rappidly because your doing all you can to keep it going, but what about the time in between? Would it be enough to cause the atmosphere to go poof like the trick paper used by magicians to make a flame appear out of nowhere?
My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Coco 2 you insensitive clod! COCO 2! Oh the indignity, I won't even go in to how I used to print out book reports on thermal paper back in elementry. Nor will I explain the look on my Professors face after I printed a 30 page summary report.
I won't even go in to how I balance my checkbook with it. Sufice to say it's a multimedia dream come true. Not only can I play my cassette tapes, but rip a whole song in several days on to a stack of 5.25" floppies with my toaster sized 360K floppy drive!
The whole idea seems somewhat childish in a twisted sense. Yet if it keeps people from tripping over the mines then I'm all for it. Not like there will ever be a rat shortage or love of rats.
This appears to be the same person (or group) who left very similar comments on the Corel Word perfect story earlier on the articles site.
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As someone who built several modules and roleplays a cow on NWN I can officially state my opion as Moo.. errr no. It's not the same.
Especially since my first D&D adventure was pen and paper and my entire party got devistated by a group of drow and a twisted DM who liked to have the spell casters in the party get their tongues welded to the floors of their mouths and spikes placed in their arms. Definatly nothing like NWN.
One thing that seperates NWN from pen and paper D&D is you can not get Array out of Bounds errors on pen and paper D&D when creating an adventure like you can in the Aurora toolset when adding your own content or manipulating it.
Also you have the ability to use your imagination more and drink beer and hang out with cool friends unlike NWN unless your doing a LAN fest of it. Still it's not the same in any way, shape or form.
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When I see my neon blue biochemical Lava Lamp storage device with with oodles of storage capacity , pretty blue glow with floaty things inside, and the ability to transfer my self inside once my body is no longer useable I'll be happy. Till then it's the old fasioned tried and true method of storage, stone tablets.
:) Just have to leave some kind of key or index for translation so a future scientist won't mistake my laundry list for some weird ceremonial religeous ritual.
Hey, it work for joe-six-stick Cave Man back in the day.
The east coast and west coast rappers will be all messed up once the flip occures and north is south. What does happen to east and west, seriously?
Here's a link to my old colleges CS department. They have surgical simulators with force feedback in the works when I was graduating. I did some minor work on the lumbar puncture simulator for a final semester project. Was really fun stuff.
Millersville University's Research in Haptics and Surgical Simulation
In the old cartoon I remember the webbing wasn't a part of the mutation. He actually had web shooting devices. I know in an episode or two he actually ran out. Didn't see the movies yet though, one of the few doing that whole not supporting the MPAA thing.
I use the following java based apps at work constantly on my linux box:
* jEdit
* Squirrel
* Eclipse
At home I make good use of jEdit as people use notepad in the GUI. Commandline though I use vim/vi.
I just got Wheat 2.0. Not only can I make toast for breakfast, but keep myself occupied till it's ready.
*Shuffles a stack of bread slices*
Anyone for solitare?
Me, concidering how much I spent on copyrighted and copy protected materials only to have the disk go bad from excessive use. Plus with all the purchases I've done over the years for copyrighted works, I never saw a clear notice that said, "Good for X number of uses."
A good example is cd protections that prevent backup copies of software. It's a real pain to put a CD in for a game even after you do a complete install. That isn't lazyness, thats me not wanting to use the only copy of the install I have to run the game when it should work perfectly fine on it's own w/out the CD for the install I did.
I think that when I pay for something it's mine to do with as I see fit for my personal use. If the copyright owner limits my use of their product unacceptably, I just don't purchase it. My CD and movie collection has been stagnet for a few years now. I havn't even seen Lord of the Rings or the Star Wars movies because I refuse to give money to people who put crazy things like the DMCA in to existance. In all honesty I never had a problem till they started limiting what I could do and now I just don't buy their product anymore.
Geek 1: EMACS!
Geek 2: VI!
Geek 1: EMACS!
Geek 2: VI!
Geek 3: Oohh Word 5.1!
*Geek 1 and Geek 2 give the look of death to Geek 3. Large heavy objects suddenly get propelled at Geek 3.*
Geek 1: EMACS!
Geek 2: VI!
Geek 3: Vi'macs.... *WHUMP as he passes out from a concusion*
Biggest plus about installing Mozilla under linux is how easy it is. Untar as root, run the installer, boom done.. One more step to making it single click like windows and they'll have software installation down as easy as it is in windows.
Just have to eliminate that untar thing. Although I do love tar'n things. Makes life easier for archiving. Maybe they could make it like the java shell script install, have it unarchive and then automaticlly run the installer.
Have to say the 1.7 release is firing up faster then the 1.6 did on my RH 9 box. Nice job, I'll be ordering a T-shirt later on. Can't wait to put it on my Mandrake machines.
If the phone had an autodoc like the one Predators use in AvP2, I'd be sold. Till then it's emergency use only for me.
When I last heard, there will be a Doom 3 for Linux and not just Windows. Wither or not thats changed recently, I don't know. I would seriously be disappointed if there wasn't especially after how well the boxed edition of Quake 3 runs for linux.
Yeah it's pretty upsetting really. I'm quite jelous at all the people in the future who will take space travel for granted rather then appreciate it or look at it with awe as we do now.
:)
It's kinda like driving a car, everyone is so used to it that it's ho-hum. Sad to say I can see that happening with space travel, boring nothing ho-hum till some alien species decides were food, cheap labor, and/or whatever.
If I could get on a ship and travel the galaxy and see everything I would. Unfortunatly I can't and probebly never will. Course there's a lot to see on our own planet as well. Though it's mostly a "been there, done that" deal, except for maybe the ocean floor. Mmmm crushing pressure.
Those are hexidecimal numbers not binary. If it was binary it'd be a much longer set of 0's and 1's to enter and nothing else like the 3's, D's, A's, etc here.
I have this weird belief that cell phones should just be for emergency use or for when you don't have a phone at home. Amazingly enough I think there should only be one ring tone to lessen the confusion, cost, and increase the useability of the thing. The only feature I see of any use is the built in phone book.
:)
I honestly can't see the cellphone with a net connection. I can't see it with email cause typing is a pain w/out a regular keyboard. I can't see it as an IM cause last thing I want is constant messages beaming in. I could turn it off, but also why bother having more that can go wrong when I don't need it or get confused by it?
Finally if my kids should ever want a phone, it'll not be mine to co-own. For they shall pay for their time in full I must say and not see a dime from me to pay.
So here I sit with a poor rhyme for you, as a minority wanting a phone thats useable by me and not useable by everyone else to bother me.
It's amazing what you can do with a hammer and chissle. I just hope my drive can handle this 100lb stone tablet when I go to play my copy. Although for some reason I'm only able to get one song on there and thats taking forever to burn since I have to use a smaller chissle to get more data compression.
I like this from the article..
Certainly, our personal computer will remember anything we've ever seen or done online. A complete HDTV record of every waking hour of your life will consume 2 percent of your hard disk.
This gets me to think that if my entire life is on 2 percent of my hard drive, think of the sitcom potential. Also if for whatever reason say the media giants of 30 years from now decide that they have the rights to use that two percent of your life for whatever services you get for this super computer. I wonder what protections would be in place for the little guy? If this were to happen, your life could be the next late night sitcom.
Another thing that has me wondering is the prediction about whole worlds for video games. I'm guessing online worlds like There, Activeworlds, Lineage 2? Or will these be "Worlds In a Box" type worlds that you install on your own PC or both? I hope they come up with good AI's cause it'd be a pain to come up with a dialog for an entire world population. I won't even begin to guess the cost of buying one of those games.
It's not scarey that he's saying or doing that stuff. He works for Microsoft not Redhat now. Redhat isn't paying his bills or putting food on the table for him anymore.
Also as evil as MS is villified to be and I tend to think they are myself. It's probebly a very interesting and exciting place to work. Also if your working for a place like Microsoft and not McDonalds, what would you do?
Still, I just hope people in the government nod and smile as they pop a Linux CD in the drive if it suits their needs better then Windows products.
I remember in the 80's people were afraid too many nuclear warheads going off would burn off the atmosphere. What if some accident happened where the plasma did get in contact with the atmosphere? Granted it's suposedly going to degrade rappidly because your doing all you can to keep it going, but what about the time in between? Would it be enough to cause the atmosphere to go poof like the trick paper used by magicians to make a flame appear out of nowhere?
I overclocked it once, but the hamster ran off the treadwheel.
My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Coco 2 you insensitive clod! COCO 2! Oh the indignity, I won't even go in to how I used to print out book reports on thermal paper back in elementry. Nor will I explain the look on my Professors face after I printed a 30 page summary report.
I won't even go in to how I balance my checkbook with it. Sufice to say it's a multimedia dream come true. Not only can I play my cassette tapes, but rip a whole song in several days on to a stack of 5.25" floppies with my toaster sized 360K floppy drive!
Atleast I upgraded to a 21 inch color TV.
The whole idea seems somewhat childish in a twisted sense. Yet if it keeps people from tripping over the mines then I'm all for it. Not like there will ever be a rat shortage or love of rats.
Hope they keep printed copies though incase something ever happens to computers.
This appears to be the same person (or group) who left very similar comments on the Corel Word perfect story earlier on the articles site.
Catch the exception, log it, notify the user with a friendly message, and then recover to a usable state for the user.
As someone who built several modules and roleplays a cow on NWN I can officially state my opion as Moo.. errr no. It's not the same.
Especially since my first D&D adventure was pen and paper and my entire party got devistated by a group of drow and a twisted DM who liked to have the spell casters in the party get their tongues welded to the floors of their mouths and spikes placed in their arms. Definatly nothing like NWN.
One thing that seperates NWN from pen and paper D&D is you can not get Array out of Bounds errors on pen and paper D&D when creating an adventure like you can in the Aurora toolset when adding your own content or manipulating it.
Also you have the ability to use your imagination more and drink beer and hang out with cool friends unlike NWN unless your doing a LAN fest of it. Still it's not the same in any way, shape or form.