I thought folks already used Passport... sorta.
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Not that I think this is a good idea but I've come to realize that many people use the SAME userid and password for different sites. That's how they remember how to get in.... I have come to this conclusion after observing the user habits of some of my clients.
So bottom line: MS Passport is redundent in terms of making it easier for the user. As for security... that's just a whole different ball game.
Casshan (sp?) Robot Fighter perhaps? My Japanese is hideously inadequete. Perhaps someone fluent in the language can tell me if this is based on that groovy anime series?
Well, I believe it can be done. But you got to work your booty off coming up with flexible algorithms(sp?) to work with each of your examples. It would be hard work but I believe it can be done.
A GURPS computer games was in the works once upon a time. The deal fell through during developement. But the result was a little know game called Fallout.;) That game borrowed a few concepts from GURPS... OK alot of concepts from GURPS.
This sounds like an indescribably horrible idea! I really can't wrap my mortal mind around this craze, gibbering, primodial concept. Racing and the Old Ones. Balderdash!
Now if you'd excuse me I have a cauldron of oddly, viscous fluid to stir.
Well a horrid waste such as the Commanche isn't the first time the Army ditched a commitee designed monstrosity. Another instance was the MBT-70 disaster. A Main Battle Tank design that had every bells and whistle crammed into it. The problem, none of the bells and whistle worked with each other very well.
Result: a ton of cash and years of "developement" in the crapper. In step the US Congress annoyed at this farce. They mandated the Army to come up with a replacement program. That gave birth to the M1 Abrams.
With a little luck this will happen again with this project. Hopefully the US will get a practical but deady new LAH series of helos as a result. An Abrams of the sky!
Seeing how Transmeta just won't go away. How about sticking them in something else that is just as persistant?
AMIGAS!
Great googly moogly that'll make you wake up at mights in a cold sweat!
I'm a big Mac fan. But I have to say that this kind of project, whether it involves Macs or Intel machines, is just too cool.
This is what it's all about for me. Seeing what you can do to push the envelope AND in the mean time getting something useful out of the whole endevour. Cost efficient super-computers is a worthy goal. Earth quake prediction, simulated stress on a skyscaper, launch/re-entry calculations for spacecraft, etc. There is no end to all the good that can come from this sort of pioneering spirit.
Sorry! I get kind of goofy when I see cool stories like this.:)
I admit to being a cynic... but this stituation strikes me as being too much of a coincidence.
1. Valve is not in a very profitable place. 2. They promised the world with HL2. 3. Theft of code...
My conspiracy riddled mind tells me that they painted themselves into a corner with a brand of paint called Daikatana... and they need money. So they arrange the "theft" of their source code. This gives them an excuse to delay release and avoid bad press. Perhaps they can claim insurance for the theft? This way they kill two birds with one stone.
Of course this is just baseless speculation on my part! Cheers!
Are they going to have the main Guy have tenticles? For that occasional full body cavity search. Include a cute but obnoxious side-kick? Perhaps they are going to change the Guy to a Gal! Nothing better then a gun-packing honey!
Well I actually hope so. The more platforms the better! I miss the old days when you picked up a game off the shelf and could see the screenshots of the game on various platforms.
I know! AmigaOS! That OS is the poster-child for zombie OS'es! And now BeOS will join it. A few people will attempt to drag it's lifeless corpse around in hopes of reviving it but not have the drive, skill or money to make it happen. It'll keep going on and on in limbo.
For the longest time that was the only choices we had! We couldn't get even crappy mainstream games. In an odd way I think of it as a blessing. We were exposed to great little garage design houses like Ambrosia, the maker of the Escape Velocity, Aperion and Pop-pop! They sell only through the web. They can't afford shelf space. But that hasn't caused them any big problems.
I believe that Linux folks know all about garage crews as well so that part is covered. Now you just have to teach them to pay for their games.;p
You Windows users. Look around and explore! There are tresures out there waiting to be found. Package glitz isn't everything! For every game (good ones) that you buy creativity survives for that much longer!
I have a 15" LCD Apple monitor. I play Diablo II on it. DII displays in 640x480 only (until LOD expansion comes along). It looks great! But it might have something to do with the fact that it straight digital. There is no analog signal any where between the graphics card in my Mac G4 and the monitor. No color banding, no sloppy refreash. But for me, I don't see a problem here.
But what is the long term effects of adding mitochondria? After all in humans having too many or too little chromosomes can lead to Down Syndrome.
It was stated in the article that the children were tested to see if the additions were noticible. What would have happend if a genetic malady of some sort was discovered? Would the researchers just say "Oops! Let's try again."?
I am seeing a very ugly kind of elitism here on Slashdot. For a while I've been seeing a cadre of Linux crusaders screaming that Linux will take over the world as the OS for the masses as soon as it's made to be more accessable. Fastforward to now. Linux is indeed alot more easier then even just a year ago. But it's easier for a tech geek or CompSci major. It is still cryptic for your average Joe and Sally.
Then we have those tech snobs look down on the collective masses for not knowing which daemons to run or which services to configure yourself. After all only a loser would run something straight out of a box as is. Hey snob, 90% of the users out there run their OS's like this. So OS X comes along. "Bloody hearesy!" cries some of those Linux Inquisitors. Don't use OS X then if you have a problem with it. There are almost 20 other flavors of Linux or FreeBSD to choose from.
The true geek/hacker will reserve judgement until they see OS X first hand. I for one am looking forward to it. I have LinuxPPC at home running along side Mac OS 9. I think anything that staves off the M$ evil from my home is worth lookin into.
Is this the same Rura Penthe from Utterer.com?
You're right of course. I can't imagine a field worker in rural South America, Africa or Asia being able to afford a computer when they can barely afford food to feed their family.
Re:...but will it keep up with the upgrades?
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You are not going to get that kind of info from the people designing the system. A fire control system of that complexity is the focal point for the whole weapons system. If you tell everyone how it's done it makes it easier to make a countermeasure for it.
Now for determining whether a target is a bird, a missle or a B-2 bomber is fairly easy to answer with common sense deductions. They will probably be using a combination of radar, ladar and FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed) type system and have a database of know characteristics of many different threats. After all that's what the US Navy does to determine Naval threats. But assuming you're only using radar. Radar can tell you, roughly, the size of the approaching target. A bird will not be flying at more that 100 mph. And generally birds will not be flying above 15,000 ft. Air to air missiles and tactical/stratigic ballistic missiles are supersonic. That makes it fairly easy to determine what the target is. All in all this is a good idea. Costs are finally managable to the point where systems like this will be deployable in numbers.
Here, here! I agree, in general with your review. I found myself liking the first installment of the mini-series. But not as much as I had hoped. I found myself liking the Lynch movie's Harkonnen's better. They appeared more maniacal and vicious. The mini-series Harkonnen's were quiet evil but not enough. Plus some of the actors from the movie would have been excellent in the mini-series. Prochnaw(sp?) who played Duke Leto Atreides in the movie was very convincing. As was Max von Sydow as Liet. Very nice.
I will watch tonight. Perhaps my judgement will improve (or not).
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Not that I think this is a good idea but I've come to realize that many people use the SAME userid and password for different sites. That's how they remember how to get in.... I have come to this conclusion after observing the user habits of some of my clients.
So bottom line: MS Passport is redundent in terms of making it easier for the user. As for security... that's just a whole different ball game.
Casshan (sp?) Robot Fighter perhaps?
My Japanese is hideously inadequete. Perhaps someone fluent in the language can tell me if this is based on that groovy anime series?
Well, I believe it can be done. But you got to work your booty off coming up with flexible algorithms(sp?) to work with each of your examples. It would be hard work but I believe it can be done.
;)
A GURPS computer games was in the works once upon a time. The deal fell through during developement. But the result was a little know game called Fallout.
That game borrowed a few concepts from GURPS... OK alot of concepts from GURPS.
This sounds like an indescribably horrible idea!
I really can't wrap my mortal mind around this craze, gibbering, primodial concept. Racing and the Old Ones. Balderdash!
Now if you'd excuse me I have a cauldron of oddly, viscous fluid to stir.
Well a horrid waste such as the Commanche isn't the first time the Army ditched a commitee designed monstrosity. Another instance was the MBT-70 disaster. A Main Battle Tank design that had every bells and whistle crammed into it. The problem, none of the bells and whistle worked with each other very well.
Result: a ton of cash and years of "developement" in the crapper.
In step the US Congress annoyed at this farce. They mandated the Army to come up with a replacement program. That gave birth to the M1 Abrams.
With a little luck this will happen again with this project. Hopefully the US will get a practical but deady new LAH series of helos as a result. An Abrams of the sky!
I nominate the name Cherokee! Woot!
Seeing how Transmeta just won't go away. How about sticking them in something else that is just as persistant?
AMIGAS!
Great googly moogly that'll make you wake up at mights in a cold sweat!
I'm a big Mac fan. But I have to say that this kind of project, whether it involves Macs or Intel machines, is just too cool.
:)
This is what it's all about for me. Seeing what you can do to push the envelope AND in the mean time getting something useful out of the whole endevour.
Cost efficient super-computers is a worthy goal. Earth quake prediction, simulated stress on a skyscaper, launch/re-entry calculations for spacecraft, etc. There is no end to all the good that can come from this sort of pioneering spirit.
Sorry! I get kind of goofy when I see cool stories like this.
Whatchu talkin' about?!?
It's obvious!
HalfDaikatanaLife!
Lol! :)
Thanks for the heads-up, FroMan!
I admit to being a cynic... but this stituation strikes me as being too much of a coincidence.
1. Valve is not in a very profitable place.
2. They promised the world with HL2.
3. Theft of code...
My conspiracy riddled mind tells me that they painted themselves into a corner with a brand of paint called Daikatana... and they need money.
So they arrange the "theft" of their source code. This gives them an excuse to delay release and avoid bad press. Perhaps they can claim insurance for the theft? This way they kill two birds with one stone.
Of course this is just baseless speculation on my part! Cheers!
So...
You're mom won't increase your allowance?
Are they going to have the main Guy have tenticles? For that occasional full body cavity search. Include a cute but obnoxious side-kick? Perhaps they are going to change the Guy to a Gal! Nothing better then a gun-packing honey!
Well I actually hope so. The more platforms the better!
I miss the old days when you picked up a game off the shelf and could see the screenshots of the game on various platforms.
Why thank you! ;)
I know!
AmigaOS! That OS is the poster-child for zombie OS'es! And now BeOS will join it. A few people will attempt to drag it's lifeless corpse around in hopes of reviving it but not have the drive, skill or money to make it happen. It'll keep going on and on in limbo.
Too bad. This was a clever OS (Amiga and Be).
I doubt it. The linux version is compiled for x86 type architecture. So it won't work on a Yellowdog/Mac system.
You know they are not going to provide the source for you to attempt a re-compile either.
Bummer...
For the longest time that was the only choices we had! We couldn't get even crappy mainstream games. In an odd way I think of it as a blessing. We were exposed to great little garage design houses like Ambrosia, the maker of the Escape Velocity, Aperion and Pop-pop! They sell only through the web. They can't afford shelf space. But that hasn't caused them any big problems.
;p
I believe that Linux folks know all about garage crews as well so that part is covered. Now you just have to teach them to pay for their games.
You Windows users. Look around and explore! There are tresures out there waiting to be found. Package glitz isn't everything! For every game (good ones) that you buy creativity survives for that much longer!
Did you just make an Escape Velocity reference?
Hehe! Ilove that game.
I have a 15" LCD Apple monitor. I play Diablo II on it. DII displays in 640x480 only (until LOD expansion comes along). It looks great! But it might have something to do with the fact that it straight digital. There is no analog signal any where between the graphics card in my Mac G4 and the monitor. No color banding, no sloppy refreash. But for me, I don't see a problem here.
But what is the long term effects of adding mitochondria? After all in humans having too many or too little chromosomes can lead to Down Syndrome.
It was stated in the article that the children were tested to see if the additions were noticible. What would have happend if a genetic malady of some sort was discovered? Would the researchers just say "Oops! Let's try again."?
Holy Shoot! There's three of us!
I don't feel so alone anymore! 8^)
I am seeing a very ugly kind of elitism here on Slashdot. For a while I've been seeing a cadre of Linux crusaders screaming that Linux will take over the world as the OS for the masses as soon as it's made to be more accessable. Fastforward to now. Linux is indeed alot more easier then even just a year ago. But it's easier for a tech geek or CompSci major. It is still cryptic for your average Joe and Sally.
Then we have those tech snobs look down on the collective masses for not knowing which daemons to run or which services to configure yourself. After all only a loser would run something straight out of a box as is. Hey snob, 90% of the users out there run their OS's like this. So OS X comes along. "Bloody hearesy!" cries some of those Linux Inquisitors. Don't use OS X then if you have a problem with it. There are almost 20 other flavors of Linux or FreeBSD to choose from.
The true geek/hacker will reserve judgement until they see OS X first hand. I for one am looking forward to it. I have LinuxPPC at home running along side Mac OS 9. I think anything that staves off the M$ evil from my home is worth lookin into.
Is this the same Rura Penthe from Utterer.com?
You're right of course. I can't imagine a field worker in rural South America, Africa or Asia being able to afford a computer when they can barely afford food to feed their family.
You are not going to get that kind of info from the people designing the system. A fire control system of that complexity is the focal point for the whole weapons system. If you tell everyone how it's done it makes it easier to make a countermeasure for it.
Now for determining whether a target is a bird, a missle or a B-2 bomber is fairly easy to answer with common sense deductions. They will probably be using a combination of radar, ladar and FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed) type system and have a database of know characteristics of many different threats. After all that's what the US Navy does to determine Naval threats. But assuming you're only using radar. Radar can tell you, roughly, the size of the approaching target. A bird will not be flying at more that 100 mph. And generally birds will not be flying above 15,000 ft. Air to air missiles and tactical/stratigic ballistic missiles are supersonic. That makes it fairly easy to determine what the target is. All in all this is a good idea. Costs are finally managable to the point where systems like this will be deployable in numbers.
Here, here! I agree, in general with your review. I found myself liking the first installment of the mini-series. But not as much as I had hoped. I found myself liking the Lynch movie's Harkonnen's better. They appeared more maniacal and vicious. The mini-series Harkonnen's were quiet evil but not enough. Plus some of the actors from the movie would have been excellent in the mini-series. Prochnaw(sp?) who played Duke Leto Atreides in the movie was very convincing. As was Max von Sydow as Liet. Very nice.
I will watch tonight. Perhaps my judgement will improve (or not).