One interesting concept of Satellite Radio is that it is possible to transmit data channels. Yes, this means that it is possible to transmit web pages and the like through satellite radio.
If you have a portable satellite radio (for example Hitachi worldspace digital receiever) you can get an adapter for it that will allow you to connect it to a computer and have it act as a modem. I believe it transmits at about 64k, slightly better than a 56k.
We are actually using this system where I work to transmit climate information to rural communites in africa (who then can translate the information into the local language and broadcast it over FM radio..pretty cool, and extremely useful).
We partner with the Worldspace Foundation to provide this information over the satellite data stream.
ummmmmmmm......that's what the internet is..the internet is made up of many diffrent networks..and if you look at the weathermap for GEANT, you can see it has links to the US
Yes, I too downloaded the free trial to try it out (afterall, I thought to myself, hey Lord British is part of it, it *must* be cool!). Oh how I was wrong. This thing was a steaming pile of dog doodoo. Not only were the graphics horrible (just gotta love the stuttering screen scrolling), the interface was horrible, and no tutorial to speak of. I really fail to see how this is going to last in the US. I also don't understand why Garriet attached his name to this product...it's freaking horrible! (AND for $15/month! the most expensive online game yet!)
Halo Online over ethernet..someone hacked it!
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First of course, you have to have broadband at home (dsl, cable, ethernet connect). Then you get a HUB. anyway, connect your xbox to the Hub, along with your computer, basically your computer and Xbox will be sharing your broadband connect now.
Now the xbox can play against any other xbox that it detects on the same subnet, i.e. I can play against anyone whose connected their xbox to my university ethernet connect.
Now, using a program that makes a VPN (virtual private network) like this one
and you use your computer to make a LAN with someone you know (you have to know their ip) and BAM! You have a what looks like a LAN to anything connected to your HUB, with anyone over the net.
Since there are tons of boards and irc channels devoted to Xbox, it shouldn't be hard to find ip addresses to make VPNs over the net.
Supposedly xbox developers have been doing this for a while to play with eachother over the net, and when you think about it there's not reason it shouldn't work, the Virtual network is indistinguishible from a real LAN, your computer can't tell the difference, and neither should the xbox.
Dynamix had about 100 employees...
about 30 of them were working on Tribes 2.
so, obviously, there was a lot of slack there. Tribes 2 is being advertised on http://www.sierra.com startup page. It's not like they aren't going to support it anymore. the master servers will still be up!
And I have a feeling that if anyone at dynamix is going to be offered a job with Sierra, it's going to be those that were working on Tribes 2.
here are some posts from dynamix employees that i've ripped from http://www.tribalwar.com
"It is true that the lot of us were locked out of the building today. Why this is happening nobody knows for certain, aside from those in upper management at Siera/Vivendi. The whole thing is quite a shock for most of us, aside from those few in upper management at Dynamix who could not manage the meager bit of human decency that it would have taken to give us a warning. It is like that in corporate america, these people really do not seem to have come equipped with a soul. I blame the 60-70 percent of Sierra that has nothing to do with creating anything but instead leech of the top like a bloated lamprey. Not only are they the cause of this situation, but they are the ones that stand to benefit in the short term whether they intended it or not. This liquidation is all about artificially inflating 3rd quarter profits for V/U, much like releasing before the game was ready wasabout inflating 2nd quarter profits.We should have become wary last week when a part of Dynamix management took their sick days afterreturning from a visit to Sierra
One thing I would like to say about the Tribes team: Please do not hate Dave Georgeson or the rest of the team. We all busted our asses and worked longer thanhumans ought to to make this game great, and you willsee that the latest beta patch has many of thefeatures that were cut for release, and the stabilityand performance that it should have had. Dave did whathe could to make this game work and fought for moretime when Sierra insited that we ship a buggy game. He
also has been religious about reading beta and meta tester's input and post release comments and doingwhat he can to make the game what the audience wanted. Please do not flame this guy. He can be a bit of a jerk sometimes, and working under him was hard, but I really think that he tried to do you right with T2. (Dave, Mitch, and Eric can ignore that comment). Trust me, this whole thing is a lot more complex that that, and cuts straight to the heart of the greed of VU's corporate interests. If you work for a major conglomerate, this will happen to you too someday. These types do not care about you or anything but cash.
I would like to say also: Thank you for your help in making the game. We tried always to weigh game changes against the community's wishes, and where we have failed, it was not for trying. We did our best.
So long, and thanks for all the Fish. See you in the pubs."
and from Rated Z, a dynamix employee (and great tribes player)
" Ok, I've kept my mouth shut for a long time. I'm Eric, and working for Dave wasn't "hard", it was fucked! I will never work for anyone like that again. Whoever you are, Anonymous employee, no offense, but you must have had an office in the far corner. As for Dave trying to do you (the Tribes playing public) right: Bullshit. Dave did what Dave wanted to do. And Dave's "you" was the 5 guys on TW that posted 2 page bitches about one thing or another who managed to offend him enough that he replied. Actually, I shouldn't even say "caught his attention" since a major part of his day was spent surfing and posting on TW. Dave G is/was PRODUCER, not Publicist, QA Lead, Art Director, and Lead Designer. There were 30+ people on that team; everyone of them worked very hard, and very long. How many of them have you even heard of?
I love Starsiege: Tribes. I've played 5+ days per week, since the day it came out. First, as BMF Balefire, then as Rated z.
I try hard not to appear a bitter, petty, disgruntled ex-employee, but I'm sicker than shit of the spin doctoring that I've seen on this forum in the last few months. So here I am, disgruntled and saying "Fuck that." "
Was flipping through channels the other night, and low and behold, on A&E, I stumble upon Next : The Future Just Happened TV show...it was really quite good, reminded me a lot of reading posts on slashdot. He interviewed a 15 year old that was helping with Gnutella. The 15 year old (english) kid was talking about smashing capitalism. I didn't see the whole program, but they also had a bit on cell phones in Finland.
Witchblade on TSN (i think?) is pretty damn good. Took me a few episodes to get into it (afterall, her costume was much more..ahem, revealing....in the comic), but I really dig it. If you haven't seen it, it's on tuesday nights.
Re:Chris Morris is a total genius... More on him..
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well, if I remember correctly, the FDA's stance is that all DNA is the same...therefore, genitically modified food is not going to hurt you. The main problems are what if the GM food overtakes the natural food in the wild, and if people develop allergies to some of the GM food.
It's not going to cause people to start growing 4 arms or anything...
not sure if any of you know this, but the source code to the Tribes 2 engine (called the V12 engine) will be available from http://www.garagegames.com for $100. They were going to make it free, but legal fees made them charge $100. It won't include any tribes 2 related stuff though (ie, artwork).
more information about the engine can be found here:
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=te chnology&page=home
The problem is that you are in Bangor, Maine. I mean, say , if i went to Roxburgh, Scotland, do you think i would find some great wealth of culture?, on the other hand, if i went to New York City, or Washington DC, or San Francisco, there would be a great wealth of culture.
It seems to be that America is damned if it doesn't, and damned if it does. Case in point, Iraq and Bosnia. People say that we are doing too much in Iraq, but not enough in Bosnia. wtf?
Personally, I don't think America should be the global police.
I did RAGBRAI last year, and had a blast..you should see what people haul on their bikes....a fully stocked bar, a kitchen sink, a barbaque, inflatable women, sheep, etc. , stereo systems that you can hear from at least a mile away...
you can't be arrested in Belgium for possesing pot, but you can be arrested for using napster?! what the hell??
(They just passed pot decriminalization laws simular to the netherlands there)
I guess this means that they will not be having that TV show made by the same guy who made Survivor, where the winner gets to go up to Mir? (can't remember offhand what the TV show was going to be called)
What about Rendition? I mean afterall, the Verdite 1000 was what Direct3D was tested on..and also was the first card to support 3d acceleration for Quake!
Then they were late on delivering new tech....and then Micron bought them out....and now it looks like the only thing we may see from Rendition is 3D Toaster and Refridgerator displays..
you know, i think we (americans that is) should take lesson from Europe. The average vacation time over there is 4 weeks, with many having 6 weeks of vacation, and in italy i know they have up to 8 weeks of vacation!!!! You seem to be lucky in america if you have 3 weeks of vacation! It's totally insane. We weren't put here on earth to WORK ourselves to death!
okay, this just occured to me..... that LL Cool J movie, about the Shark's that were "intelligent". Can't remember the name. anyway, there was a concerte tower in the middle of the ocean used in that movie......could that be sealand?
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One interesting concept of Satellite Radio is that it is possible to transmit data channels. Yes, this means that it is possible to transmit web pages and the like through satellite radio.
If you have a portable satellite radio (for example Hitachi worldspace digital receiever) you can get an adapter for it that will allow you to connect it to a computer and have it act as a modem. I believe it transmits at about 64k, slightly better than a 56k.
We are actually using this system where I work to transmit climate information to rural communites in africa (who then can translate the information into the local language and broadcast it over FM radio..pretty cool, and extremely useful).
We partner with the Worldspace Foundation to provide this information over the satellite data stream.
I is also the Worldspace Corporation (different than the foundation), but related.
So I wonder if XM and Sirrus have something like this up their sleeve. (I'm not sure if the systems are similiar or not)
ummmmmmmm......that's what the internet is..the internet is made up of many diffrent networks..and if you look at the weathermap for GEANT, you can see it has links to the US
Yes, I too downloaded the free trial to try it out (afterall, I thought to myself, hey Lord British is part of it, it *must* be cool!). Oh how I was wrong. This thing was a steaming pile of dog doodoo. Not only were the graphics horrible (just gotta love the stuttering screen scrolling), the interface was horrible, and no tutorial to speak of. I really fail to see how this is going to last in the US. I also don't understand why Garriet attached his name to this product...it's freaking horrible! (AND for $15/month! the most expensive online game yet!)
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First of course, you have to have broadband at home (dsl, cable, ethernet connect). Then you get a HUB. anyway, connect your xbox to the Hub, along with your computer, basically your computer and Xbox will be sharing your broadband connect now.
Now the xbox can play against any other xbox that it detects on the same subnet, i.e. I can play against anyone whose connected their xbox to my university ethernet connect.
Now, using a program that makes a VPN (virtual private network) like this one
and you use your computer to make a LAN with someone you know (you have to know their ip) and BAM! You have a what looks like a LAN to anything connected to your HUB, with anyone over the net.
Since there are tons of boards and irc channels devoted to Xbox, it shouldn't be hard to find ip addresses to make VPNs over the net.
Supposedly xbox developers have been doing this for a while to play with eachother over the net, and when you think about it there's not reason it shouldn't work, the Virtual network is indistinguishible from a real LAN, your computer can't tell the difference, and neither should the xbox.
whatever, play tribes 1 on a 3dfx card, then play the opengl version, and try to tell me the opengl version rocks.....IT SUCKS.
Dynamix had about 100 employees... about 30 of them were working on Tribes 2. so, obviously, there was a lot of slack there. Tribes 2 is being advertised on http://www.sierra.com startup page. It's not like they aren't going to support it anymore. the master servers will still be up! And I have a feeling that if anyone at dynamix is going to be offered a job with Sierra, it's going to be those that were working on Tribes 2.
here are some posts from dynamix employees that i've ripped from http://www.tribalwar.com "It is true that the lot of us were locked out of the building today. Why this is happening nobody knows for certain, aside from those in upper management at Siera/Vivendi. The whole thing is quite a shock for most of us, aside from those few in upper management at Dynamix who could not manage the meager bit of human decency that it would have taken to give us a warning. It is like that in corporate america, these people really do not seem to have come equipped with a soul. I blame the 60-70 percent of Sierra that has nothing to do with creating anything but instead leech of the top like a bloated lamprey. Not only are they the cause of this situation, but they are the ones that stand to benefit in the short term whether they intended it or not. This liquidation is all about artificially inflating 3rd quarter profits for V/U, much like releasing before the game was ready wasabout inflating 2nd quarter profits.We should have become wary last week when a part of Dynamix management took their sick days afterreturning from a visit to Sierra One thing I would like to say about the Tribes team: Please do not hate Dave Georgeson or the rest of the team. We all busted our asses and worked longer thanhumans ought to to make this game great, and you willsee that the latest beta patch has many of thefeatures that were cut for release, and the stabilityand performance that it should have had. Dave did whathe could to make this game work and fought for moretime when Sierra insited that we ship a buggy game. He also has been religious about reading beta and meta tester's input and post release comments and doingwhat he can to make the game what the audience wanted. Please do not flame this guy. He can be a bit of a jerk sometimes, and working under him was hard, but I really think that he tried to do you right with T2. (Dave, Mitch, and Eric can ignore that comment). Trust me, this whole thing is a lot more complex that that, and cuts straight to the heart of the greed of VU's corporate interests. If you work for a major conglomerate, this will happen to you too someday. These types do not care about you or anything but cash. I would like to say also: Thank you for your help in making the game. We tried always to weigh game changes against the community's wishes, and where we have failed, it was not for trying. We did our best. So long, and thanks for all the Fish. See you in the pubs." and from Rated Z, a dynamix employee (and great tribes player) " Ok, I've kept my mouth shut for a long time. I'm Eric, and working for Dave wasn't "hard", it was fucked! I will never work for anyone like that again. Whoever you are, Anonymous employee, no offense, but you must have had an office in the far corner. As for Dave trying to do you (the Tribes playing public) right: Bullshit. Dave did what Dave wanted to do. And Dave's "you" was the 5 guys on TW that posted 2 page bitches about one thing or another who managed to offend him enough that he replied. Actually, I shouldn't even say "caught his attention" since a major part of his day was spent surfing and posting on TW. Dave G is/was PRODUCER, not Publicist, QA Lead, Art Director, and Lead Designer. There were 30+ people on that team; everyone of them worked very hard, and very long. How many of them have you even heard of? I love Starsiege: Tribes. I've played 5+ days per week, since the day it came out. First, as BMF Balefire, then as Rated z. I try hard not to appear a bitter, petty, disgruntled ex-employee, but I'm sicker than shit of the spin doctoring that I've seen on this forum in the last few months. So here I am, disgruntled and saying "Fuck that." "
Was flipping through channels the other night, and low and behold, on A&E, I stumble upon Next : The Future Just Happened TV show...it was really quite good, reminded me a lot of reading posts on slashdot. He interviewed a 15 year old that was helping with Gnutella. The 15 year old (english) kid was talking about smashing capitalism. I didn't see the whole program, but they also had a bit on cell phones in Finland.
Star Wars Episode II : When Clones Go Bad
Witchblade on TSN (i think?) is pretty damn good. Took me a few episodes to get into it (afterall, her costume was much more..ahem, revealing....in the comic), but I really dig it. If you haven't seen it, it's on tuesday nights.
nitpicking, but he is *not* an american
well, if I remember correctly, the FDA's stance is that all DNA is the same...therefore, genitically modified food is not going to hurt you. The main problems are what if the GM food overtakes the natural food in the wild, and if people develop allergies to some of the GM food. It's not going to cause people to start growing 4 arms or anything...
actually, the parents of the victims *did* sue the parents of the two shooters.
not sure if any of you know this, but the source code to the Tribes 2 engine (called the V12 engine) will be available from http://www.garagegames.com for $100. They were going to make it free, but legal fees made them charge $100. It won't include any tribes 2 related stuff though (ie, artwork). more information about the engine can be found here: http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=te chnology&page=home
The problem is that you are in Bangor, Maine. I mean, say , if i went to Roxburgh, Scotland, do you think i would find some great wealth of culture?, on the other hand, if i went to New York City, or Washington DC, or San Francisco, there would be a great wealth of culture. It seems to be that America is damned if it doesn't, and damned if it does. Case in point, Iraq and Bosnia. People say that we are doing too much in Iraq, but not enough in Bosnia. wtf? Personally, I don't think America should be the global police.
I did RAGBRAI last year, and had a blast..you should see what people haul on their bikes....a fully stocked bar, a kitchen sink, a barbaque, inflatable women, sheep, etc. , stereo systems that you can hear from at least a mile away...
you can't be arrested in Belgium for possesing pot, but you can be arrested for using napster?! what the hell?? (They just passed pot decriminalization laws simular to the netherlands there)
uh, when I try to go to MSN, it takes me to www.sixer.com instead. I'd say something is hacked.
I guess this means that they will not be having that TV show made by the same guy who made Survivor, where the winner gets to go up to Mir? (can't remember offhand what the TV show was going to be called)
>So screw computer technology. What we want is >advances in case technology! Ed : So invent it yourself! LOL!
It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to shoot the bastards
What about Rendition? I mean afterall, the Verdite 1000 was what Direct3D was tested on..and also was the first card to support 3d acceleration for Quake! Then they were late on delivering new tech....and then Micron bought them out....and now it looks like the only thing we may see from Rendition is 3D Toaster and Refridgerator displays..
the cube is a pretty lame name...they should have called it The Hellraiser.... Sure, go ahead, pull the handle....but you just might meet Pinhead.
you know, i think we (americans that is) should take lesson from Europe. The average vacation time over there is 4 weeks, with many having 6 weeks of vacation, and in italy i know they have up to 8 weeks of vacation!!!! You seem to be lucky in america if you have 3 weeks of vacation! It's totally insane. We weren't put here on earth to WORK ourselves to death!
okay, this just occured to me..... that LL Cool J movie, about the Shark's that were "intelligent". Can't remember the name. anyway, there was a concerte tower in the middle of the ocean used in that movie......could that be sealand?