Any changes Novell makes to the Linux kernel or supporting OS code (and apps), all distributed under GPL, will be available for any other developer to use under GPL, as per the GPL.
Novell's Linux products might eventually become traps for Microsoft lockin, but the code itself need not be if included in other distros. That would be up to the other distro.
I don't think kernel development consists of just copying/pasting code between OS'es. And the QNX license won't permit that, anyway.
But Linux kernel developers can now study the QNX code to see the techniques they use to solve realtime problems. And implementing new functions supporting the QNX API will now be more straightforward, in new code. That's what I want to see.
Now Linux kernel developers can use code from QNX to make a RTOS that runs Linux apps and the smaller (but still valuable) library of QNX apps. And maybe port Linux (or the new combo) to HW that now runs QNX but not Linux.
It comes too late to finally get Linux working on the Geode-based 3Com "Ergo Audrey" I had such hopes for. But the HW was already obsolete. Maybe now a QNX/Linux OS will get such a promising "home GUI" to work with all the apps that would make it such a neat terminal.
I like pig wrestling. Good exercise. And it wipes the other mud off me.
It's also true that the IRS is coercion. Like any other government order enforced with threat of violence (like arrest, or shooting fugitives). There is a degree of difference between coercion fear and terrorism: the difference between fear and hysteria. When the law is just, the fear of coercion when breaking it is not hysterical. The intimidation by wiretaps (and public threat of unlimited wiretaps) is beyond hysteria: it generates paranoia. The ultimate self-policing force. Brought to you by terrorists.
Terrorists like Bush. Who make terrorists like Binladen look like horror movie monsters, with global wars that make carbombings (or planebombings) look like door to door trick or treat.
And so Bush's zombie army is even more horrible than Binladen's suicide bombers. Individually they might not inspire so much fear. But Qaeda killers have boxcutters, bomb belts and very rarely a plane or four. Bush's zombie army has The Button and perpetual war, with zombies so cavalier they won't even pay higher taxes, far from taking themselves out in a suicide.
And all that is why both Binladen and Bush are winning. And the rest of us are losing everything. Except we get to keep the simple pleasure of wrestling a pig into sausage, unafraid of any mud in which they'd prefer to hide.
That's why I require the registered cost be auditable. The return must also be auditable. Remember, the return is revenue, not more easily gameable profit. The revenue must also agree with IRS reports. The extra auditing should make both reports a bigger trap for fraudsters. I hope that the audits make some registrants leave some content in public domain, rather than expose to audit the rest of their Hollywood accounting.
It's a statistical approach, like any such solution to a statistical problem should be.
Most people don't have people to feed the meter. Instead, most people find it at least more economical to pay for commercial parking rather than pay for the time for other people to feed the meter. And take the risk of missing the meter.
I don't know why the city doesn't bust people for feeding the meter. In NYC, all the meters are under signs that state the longest time allowed to park. I'm sure plenty of cops look the other way when, say, a merchant or resident they know personally is getting away with it, or they just have some kind of compromise worked out with the neighborhood. We have a double parking deal with the cops in my neighborhood to deal with the "alternate side" street cleaning hour each day, in exchange for cooperating with the cops generally in coping with the criminals who live in the housing projects at the end of the street. That's bad for the parking solution, but that's how the police work.
Overall, it's clear to me from personal experience (my own and watching other people) that generally the meters keep the parking turning over quite a lot more than people would want.
And the fines from tickets from expired meters are big revenue for the city. Making C$7K per year look like chump change, especially when they add up to an extra $300 for towing and "redemption".
Those German wiretaps didn't need to go around the FISA law that protected us from them without warrants. They didn't need the FISA law weakened last month by Congress the way Bush wanted. McConnel is lying, and the NY Times knows it, though it didn't report that.
That "news" story isn't quoting Montreal bureaucrats. It's putting words in their mouths to make a (stupid) point. All the writer knows is that the city refused - they don't actually know why, and there's no sign they actually asked anyone.
Parking meters, as the writer did note, are designed not to collect a little revenue, but to keep parking turning over quickly so more people can share fewer parking spots. "No Parking" signs don't replace them where they're needed (like in front of stores like Apple's) because parking is appropriate there, just not unlimited.
This is a stupid story by a stupid writer. Published by a stupid Slashdot editor.
Anonymous Republican Coward, you think quoting some glib Republican nonsense can compete with the truth about Bush's terrorism. You're obviously part of the demented 30% who think Bush is a great president, Iraq is going great, and that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the Qaeda bombings on 9/11/2001.
Is this how you're spending the anniversary? Dick Cheney, is that you?
People in America are certainly living in fear of Bush's wiretaps illegally targeting their political activities. Just ask the peace demonstrators the FBI has already been revealed to have spied on under this wiretap system. That intimidation by fear (and implied threats of force, including arrest) has its desired political action. Terrorism. By definition, even though you don't like to admit it.
That court, unknowably how comparable to the rest of these cases on account of its being sealed, doesn't stop the Federal decision finding Bush guilty of many counts of violating FISA, which he has admitted. That decision you cited is based on their assertion that they "take for granted that the president does have that authority". In other words, it didn't deliberate on whether Bush has that authority. But FISA has been upheld many times. And that other court did decide that the authority isn't inherent, certainly not the way Bush has abused it. Even John Ashcroft and George Tenet threatened to resign when Bush, Card and Gonzales tried to get away with these abuses.
A tyrant is a ruler who abuses their unopposed powers. That is what we're looking at with Bush. You are defending Bush's "inherent" powers, even though they don't exist. Liberty is indeed freedom from fear. I don't expect you to understand, because you think you're a "Conservative", when any actual Conservative would do whatever they could to oppose these accumulation of tyrannical powers by Bush, not defend them (unconvincingly). You don't even understand why picking this losing fight with me today is about as revealing that you think voting for Republicans like Bush is worth mentioning.
Why aren't you in Iraq? I guess you've got "other priorities".
I didn't say we're in a "police state", though that's where Bush and his idiot apologists like you have us headed at top speed. I said East Germany was a police state, and that Bush's justification for his spying is the same as theirs was. Is the Soviet system so like ours already that you already can't tell them apart? Perhaps because you're in such a rush to get us there? While you post you sick fantasies of its arrival in America?
I've been slamming lying fascists like you for a while. I wish I could believe that I won't have to much longer. But it's obvious that whacking moles like you is a longterm commitment. I'm ready, because I actually love my country the way you fake "Conservatives" love to say you do, but are always pissing you pants instead of actually doing.
So fuck you and the fascist terrorists you rode in on.
1. Let's see your "Conservative" definition of "terrorism". 2. Let's see the procedure and requirements for wiretaps you think don't violate the 4th Amendment and the FISA. FYI, an authoritave Federal judge disagrees with Bush. 3. Tyranny wasn't invented by Bush, but we still have to stop his brand of it.
Liberty is freedom, including freedom from fear. Destroying the Bush propaganda you're pushing is required to get it back from fake "Conservative" true believers like you, who'd change everything just because you're scared of people who'd grab political power the way you would: by terrorizing us.
It's September 11. I've been around the world, most of our states, worn out 3 passports, lived abroad, speak multiple languages, have worked for several governments. I'm in NYC, where I'm from. Where are you? Where were you 6 years ago? What have you done to stop terrorism? What has it done to change your world, except give fake "Conservatives" like you new power to terrorize us all, in the name of me and my city?
What happens to your battery life when your phone becomes a node?
Other than the unpredictable reliability of mesh density required to get service, that battery cost is a certain problem.
But if their routing protocol includes battery costs, so battery wear across the whole network is evened, then that problem could be alleviated. It might even offer a way for people to be compensated for contributing to the network, perhaps just by keeping their phone recharged. Getting power to the towers is probably the biggest infrastructure problem, especially in rural areas. If that doesn't also mean peers are too sparse for a reliable network (including batteries finally dying), then this tech could be worth the hassles getting it up and running.
Especially for temporary deployments where there usually aren't any people to justify a permanent infrastructure. Exploration/camping trips, rural festival concerts, rescue operations, warfare, ocean fleets... there are many niches. Including the initial infrastructure for crews building the permanent infrastructure, before permanent cells are online.
Soviet East Germany had practically no terrorist activities. It did have about a third of its people spying on everyone else. Universal wiretaps, keeping political order by terrorizing them.
Spying on our own people without even a warrant is terrorism. It's political control by fear and threat of force.
Under Bush, the terrorists have won everything, because Bush is a terrorist. Even in Germany, people aren't safe from Bush's terrorism. Bush is indeed the greatest terrorist of them all. By any measure, including by body count (the way terrorists terrorize) and by how much liberty he's destroyed.
That's an interesting idea: use excess daytime solar power to gain altitude, storing power in the entire craft gravitationally, rather than in a battery. Perhaps using some small amount of power (while the sunlight is available) to change the wing shape from whatever best suits the primary application into one that glides farther (falls slower). Gravitational storage rather than battery means the entire vehicle is lighter, therefore more efficient, if a minimum of mass is dedicated to accommodating the nighttime storage "on the top shelf".
In fact, that approach suggests some other alternatives. Perhaps some material could be used to make the vehicle lighter than air at night. But which contracts its volume into a more efficient shape when solar power is available. Another strategy could make the vehicle use a very fast and efficient shape to fly quickly away from the approaching night, if speed can exceed 1000 MPH, to return when daylight returns.
If one of these solutions doesn't conflict with the primary mission of the vehicle, it could work well. Most of them exclude quite a lot of applications during the night, and could be cost or tech prohibitive.
But we're clearly on the cusp of a completely new era in something fundamental. We've been flirting with it for a century, since we first achieved flight. But is something that stays aloft permanently really a vehicle? Or isn't it really more like a place, even if it's in motion? If we deploy a whole bunch of new places that are well above the ground, haven't we in a way raised the upper surface of the Earth? That way of looking up has been coming for a while, with artificial satellites in a way offering at least the highest "mountaintops", but we don't see them or think of them much except in the abstract - and practically never visit them. But if it becomes common for most people to either visit a floating platform, or just know enough people who do (or see it on TV as often as we see, say, ocean cruises), then we might change our basic sense of our own place "on" the planet. We might start to feel like we're embedded in the planet. And start to think the planet is "wide open" again, with a third dimension now available in a way it hasn't been with mere "skyscrapers" still rooted to the ground and isolated from one another except by going back to the surface.
This simple incremental advance, solar powered vehicles discharging slower than charging, through a couple of nights, could move us through what I called a "tipping point". Beyond which we might have a revolutionary change in much more than a battery.
Maybe our eyes are looking at multiple letters simultaneously a lot of the time in order to find where one ends and the next begins. How can we find the separate individual letters without inspecting them to see if they're not just a single letter?
This is interesting research, but the conclusions seem hasty.
This is the watershed performance for solar powered vehicles. If it can go through 2 nights, it can go through any number of them. Though we're still on the sunny side of the equinox (2 weeks prior), so there is a little more time charging in the sunshine than discharging in the darkness.
When a vehicle can go 24h on only 12h prior charge, that will be the next major milestone. Still not enough for uninterrupted travel past a latitude where nights are longer than a whole couple of days (depending on the battery - a yearlong discharge battery would be good anywhere with current performance).
The next parallel milestone is automated rechargers leaving ground charging stations to recharge the permanently aloft vehicle in flight.
After that, there's not a lot more demand for improvement, except overall efficiency for carrying heavier loads and more demanding equipment.
Like a network of these permanently in high atmosphere propelling solar sails through the solar system and down to blimp spaceports.
The most important part of being a Web programmer is knowing how to meet a deadline. Part of which is designing the project schedule, which means designing the product in terms of delivery dates and contingencies. And therefore almost as important is how to notice, and to communicate in advance when a delivery might be late, and by how much.
After learning how to use calendar tech and spoken/email languages for project communication, the rest of the development is relatively easy.
It's a toy "meant" by me to entertain me. I want what I want. I don't have to respect any artist's "intention", if such a thing actually exists. I will do with it what I want, for my own purposes.
I don't know what it is that makes you think a PS3 isn't for playing games, unless you've got some kind of Xbox prejudice. But then, I did buy it to experiment with Linux on Cell. So the "art" I want to use it for is just a bonus.
Oh, and the thing cost me $550. And it's a damn good DVD player.
That is so crazy that it would probably work. But I have in mind doing all the rendering locally. Maybe if their championship bouts could be recorded as events and replayed... We might see people commissioning competitive performances to watch played on the PS3, rather than video. "Mechanime Performance" is born!
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Any changes Novell makes to the Linux kernel or supporting OS code (and apps), all distributed under GPL, will be available for any other developer to use under GPL, as per the GPL.
Novell's Linux products might eventually become traps for Microsoft lockin, but the code itself need not be if included in other distros. That would be up to the other distro.
I don't think kernel development consists of just copying/pasting code between OS'es. And the QNX license won't permit that, anyway.
But Linux kernel developers can now study the QNX code to see the techniques they use to solve realtime problems. And implementing new functions supporting the QNX API will now be more straightforward, in new code. That's what I want to see.
Now Linux kernel developers can use code from QNX to make a RTOS that runs Linux apps and the smaller (but still valuable) library of QNX apps. And maybe port Linux (or the new combo) to HW that now runs QNX but not Linux.
It comes too late to finally get Linux working on the Geode-based 3Com "Ergo Audrey" I had such hopes for. But the HW was already obsolete. Maybe now a QNX/Linux OS will get such a promising "home GUI" to work with all the apps that would make it such a neat terminal.
I like pig wrestling. Good exercise. And it wipes the other mud off me.
It's also true that the IRS is coercion. Like any other government order enforced with threat of violence (like arrest, or shooting fugitives). There is a degree of difference between coercion fear and terrorism: the difference between fear and hysteria. When the law is just, the fear of coercion when breaking it is not hysterical. The intimidation by wiretaps (and public threat of unlimited wiretaps) is beyond hysteria: it generates paranoia. The ultimate self-policing force. Brought to you by terrorists.
Terrorists like Bush. Who make terrorists like Binladen look like horror movie monsters, with global wars that make carbombings (or planebombings) look like door to door trick or treat.
And so Bush's zombie army is even more horrible than Binladen's suicide bombers. Individually they might not inspire so much fear. But Qaeda killers have boxcutters, bomb belts and very rarely a plane or four. Bush's zombie army has The Button and perpetual war, with zombies so cavalier they won't even pay higher taxes, far from taking themselves out in a suicide.
And all that is why both Binladen and Bush are winning. And the rest of us are losing everything. Except we get to keep the simple pleasure of wrestling a pig into sausage, unafraid of any mud in which they'd prefer to hide.
That's why I require the registered cost be auditable. The return must also be auditable. Remember, the return is revenue, not more easily gameable profit. The revenue must also agree with IRS reports. The extra auditing should make both reports a bigger trap for fraudsters. I hope that the audits make some registrants leave some content in public domain, rather than expose to audit the rest of their Hollywood accounting.
No, I just think that this stupid story could be published only by a stupid editor.
It's a statistical approach, like any such solution to a statistical problem should be.
Most people don't have people to feed the meter. Instead, most people find it at least more economical to pay for commercial parking rather than pay for the time for other people to feed the meter. And take the risk of missing the meter.
I don't know why the city doesn't bust people for feeding the meter. In NYC, all the meters are under signs that state the longest time allowed to park. I'm sure plenty of cops look the other way when, say, a merchant or resident they know personally is getting away with it, or they just have some kind of compromise worked out with the neighborhood. We have a double parking deal with the cops in my neighborhood to deal with the "alternate side" street cleaning hour each day, in exchange for cooperating with the cops generally in coping with the criminals who live in the housing projects at the end of the street. That's bad for the parking solution, but that's how the police work.
Overall, it's clear to me from personal experience (my own and watching other people) that generally the meters keep the parking turning over quite a lot more than people would want.
And the fines from tickets from expired meters are big revenue for the city. Making C$7K per year look like chump change, especially when they add up to an extra $300 for towing and "redemption".
Those German wiretaps didn't need to go around the FISA law that protected us from them without warrants. They didn't need the FISA law weakened last month by Congress the way Bush wanted. McConnel is lying, and the NY Times knows it, though it didn't report that.
That "news" story isn't quoting Montreal bureaucrats. It's putting words in their mouths to make a (stupid) point. All the writer knows is that the city refused - they don't actually know why, and there's no sign they actually asked anyone.
Parking meters, as the writer did note, are designed not to collect a little revenue, but to keep parking turning over quickly so more people can share fewer parking spots. "No Parking" signs don't replace them where they're needed (like in front of stores like Apple's) because parking is appropriate there, just not unlimited.
This is a stupid story by a stupid writer. Published by a stupid Slashdot editor.
Anonymous Republican Coward, you think quoting some glib Republican nonsense can compete with the truth about Bush's terrorism. You're obviously part of the demented 30% who think Bush is a great president, Iraq is going great, and that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the Qaeda bombings on 9/11/2001.
Is this how you're spending the anniversary? Dick Cheney, is that you?
You're a coward. Ruled by fear. Sending people to die for your terror, while defending your terrorism.
Happy September 11.
People in America are certainly living in fear of Bush's wiretaps illegally targeting their political activities. Just ask the peace demonstrators the FBI has already been revealed to have spied on under this wiretap system. That intimidation by fear (and implied threats of force, including arrest) has its desired political action. Terrorism. By definition, even though you don't like to admit it.
That court, unknowably how comparable to the rest of these cases on account of its being sealed, doesn't stop the Federal decision finding Bush guilty of many counts of violating FISA, which he has admitted. That decision you cited is based on their assertion that they "take for granted that the president does have that authority". In other words, it didn't deliberate on whether Bush has that authority. But FISA has been upheld many times. And that other court did decide that the authority isn't inherent, certainly not the way Bush has abused it. Even John Ashcroft and George Tenet threatened to resign when Bush, Card and Gonzales tried to get away with these abuses.
A tyrant is a ruler who abuses their unopposed powers. That is what we're looking at with Bush. You are defending Bush's "inherent" powers, even though they don't exist. Liberty is indeed freedom from fear. I don't expect you to understand, because you think you're a "Conservative", when any actual Conservative would do whatever they could to oppose these accumulation of tyrannical powers by Bush, not defend them (unconvincingly). You don't even understand why picking this losing fight with me today is about as revealing that you think voting for Republicans like Bush is worth mentioning.
Why aren't you in Iraq? I guess you've got "other priorities".
You're a fucking Republican asshole.
I didn't say we're in a "police state", though that's where Bush and his idiot apologists like you have us headed at top speed. I said East Germany was a police state, and that Bush's justification for his spying is the same as theirs was. Is the Soviet system so like ours already that you already can't tell them apart? Perhaps because you're in such a rush to get us there? While you post you sick fantasies of its arrival in America?
I've been slamming lying fascists like you for a while. I wish I could believe that I won't have to much longer. But it's obvious that whacking moles like you is a longterm commitment. I'm ready, because I actually love my country the way you fake "Conservatives" love to say you do, but are always pissing you pants instead of actually doing.
So fuck you and the fascist terrorists you rode in on.
1. Let's see your "Conservative" definition of "terrorism".
2. Let's see the procedure and requirements for wiretaps you think don't violate the 4th Amendment and the FISA. FYI, an authoritave Federal judge disagrees with Bush.
3. Tyranny wasn't invented by Bush, but we still have to stop his brand of it.
Liberty is freedom, including freedom from fear. Destroying the Bush propaganda you're pushing is required to get it back from fake "Conservative" true believers like you, who'd change everything just because you're scared of people who'd grab political power the way you would: by terrorizing us.
It's September 11. I've been around the world, most of our states, worn out 3 passports, lived abroad, speak multiple languages, have worked for several governments. I'm in NYC, where I'm from. Where are you? Where were you 6 years ago? What have you done to stop terrorism? What has it done to change your world, except give fake "Conservatives" like you new power to terrorize us all, in the name of me and my city?
Other than the unpredictable reliability of mesh density required to get service, that battery cost is a certain problem.
But if their routing protocol includes battery costs, so battery wear across the whole network is evened, then that problem could be alleviated. It might even offer a way for people to be compensated for contributing to the network, perhaps just by keeping their phone recharged. Getting power to the towers is probably the biggest infrastructure problem, especially in rural areas. If that doesn't also mean peers are too sparse for a reliable network (including batteries finally dying), then this tech could be worth the hassles getting it up and running.
Especially for temporary deployments where there usually aren't any people to justify a permanent infrastructure. Exploration/camping trips, rural festival concerts, rescue operations, warfare, ocean fleets... there are many niches. Including the initial infrastructure for crews building the permanent infrastructure, before permanent cells are online.
Soviet East Germany had practically no terrorist activities. It did have about a third of its people spying on everyone else. Universal wiretaps, keeping political order by terrorizing them.
Spying on our own people without even a warrant is terrorism. It's political control by fear and threat of force.
Under Bush, the terrorists have won everything, because Bush is a terrorist. Even in Germany, people aren't safe from Bush's terrorism. Bush is indeed the greatest terrorist of them all. By any measure, including by body count (the way terrorists terrorize) and by how much liberty he's destroyed.
That's an interesting idea: use excess daytime solar power to gain altitude, storing power in the entire craft gravitationally, rather than in a battery. Perhaps using some small amount of power (while the sunlight is available) to change the wing shape from whatever best suits the primary application into one that glides farther (falls slower). Gravitational storage rather than battery means the entire vehicle is lighter, therefore more efficient, if a minimum of mass is dedicated to accommodating the nighttime storage "on the top shelf".
In fact, that approach suggests some other alternatives. Perhaps some material could be used to make the vehicle lighter than air at night. But which contracts its volume into a more efficient shape when solar power is available. Another strategy could make the vehicle use a very fast and efficient shape to fly quickly away from the approaching night, if speed can exceed 1000 MPH, to return when daylight returns.
If one of these solutions doesn't conflict with the primary mission of the vehicle, it could work well. Most of them exclude quite a lot of applications during the night, and could be cost or tech prohibitive.
But we're clearly on the cusp of a completely new era in something fundamental. We've been flirting with it for a century, since we first achieved flight. But is something that stays aloft permanently really a vehicle? Or isn't it really more like a place, even if it's in motion? If we deploy a whole bunch of new places that are well above the ground, haven't we in a way raised the upper surface of the Earth? That way of looking up has been coming for a while, with artificial satellites in a way offering at least the highest "mountaintops", but we don't see them or think of them much except in the abstract - and practically never visit them. But if it becomes common for most people to either visit a floating platform, or just know enough people who do (or see it on TV as often as we see, say, ocean cruises), then we might change our basic sense of our own place "on" the planet. We might start to feel like we're embedded in the planet. And start to think the planet is "wide open" again, with a third dimension now available in a way it hasn't been with mere "skyscrapers" still rooted to the ground and isolated from one another except by going back to the surface.
This simple incremental advance, solar powered vehicles discharging slower than charging, through a couple of nights, could move us through what I called a "tipping point". Beyond which we might have a revolutionary change in much more than a battery.
Maybe our eyes are looking at multiple letters simultaneously a lot of the time in order to find where one ends and the next begins. How can we find the separate individual letters without inspecting them to see if they're not just a single letter?
This is interesting research, but the conclusions seem hasty.
This is the watershed performance for solar powered vehicles. If it can go through 2 nights, it can go through any number of them. Though we're still on the sunny side of the equinox (2 weeks prior), so there is a little more time charging in the sunshine than discharging in the darkness.
When a vehicle can go 24h on only 12h prior charge, that will be the next major milestone. Still not enough for uninterrupted travel past a latitude where nights are longer than a whole couple of days (depending on the battery - a yearlong discharge battery would be good anywhere with current performance).
The next parallel milestone is automated rechargers leaving ground charging stations to recharge the permanently aloft vehicle in flight.
After that, there's not a lot more demand for improvement, except overall efficiency for carrying heavier loads and more demanding equipment.
Like a network of these permanently in high atmosphere propelling solar sails through the solar system and down to blimp spaceports.
The most important part of being a Web programmer is knowing how to meet a deadline. Part of which is designing the project schedule, which means designing the product in terms of delivery dates and contingencies. And therefore almost as important is how to notice, and to communicate in advance when a delivery might be late, and by how much.
After learning how to use calendar tech and spoken/email languages for project communication, the rest of the development is relatively easy.
It's a toy "meant" by me to entertain me. I want what I want. I don't have to respect any artist's "intention", if such a thing actually exists. I will do with it what I want, for my own purposes.
I don't know what it is that makes you think a PS3 isn't for playing games, unless you've got some kind of Xbox prejudice. But then, I did buy it to experiment with Linux on Cell. So the "art" I want to use it for is just a bonus.
Oh, and the thing cost me $550. And it's a damn good DVD player.
Anonymous rightwing Coward wants me to do extra mod and criticism work because they can't trollMod enough on their own. Total bullshit.
Excellent pointer. Thank you very much :).
That is so crazy that it would probably work. But I have in mind doing all the rendering locally. Maybe if their championship bouts could be recorded as events and replayed... We might see people commissioning competitive performances to watch played on the PS3, rather than video. "Mechanime Performance" is born!
I'm trying to replace them with a machine. Cheaper and more reliable, without stealing my comic books.