Global Operations fits somewhat closely with your criteria. It's not so much that it has a lot of cheat protection as it just isn't popular enough to spawn any signifigant cheats.
It's got pretty decent gameplay, it's cheap ($10), runs great on a somewhat dated computer since it's got dated graphics, and doesn't require quite so many different key presses as some of the other 1st person shooters out there.
So, no, it doesn't do better. It has a small following, but enough people that you can always find at least one 8 vs 8 game full at all hours. I've been playing daily for about 6 months (and I get tired of games fast).
Don't both trying with a modem. It's pretty bandwidth intensive, and a lot of people will kick you out if you have modem-level pings.
Rock-solid slides for milling machines would rock the world.
Quality milling machine slides are already rock-solid. The gain from linear motors is speed. As the article mentions, this can benefit very large milling operations like milling a long slot in an aircraft wing. In most milling operations, torque is more important than speed, because you've got to keep the work stationary against the cutting forces.
If you really want speed in a CNC machine, just gear the servos or steppers up instead of down. It'll work great as long as you keep your cuts light.
No, it ain't a sexy application,
CNC is always sexy!
but it brings us a step closer to the ideal manufacturing scenario, where mechanical parts can actually be CNC-milled before they're even designed.
I doubt these linear motors run fast enough to travel in time.
We can use a similar technique to visualise a 4D object. By the way, dimensions come in different sorts. Our three spatial dimensions are bidirectional but time is monodirectional and we can only travel through time in one direction.
Time is an observational reference, not a measured dimension. We don't move forward in time, we experience infinitely small discrete moments, which do not necessarily sync with someone else's experienced moments.
My fourth dimension is quite clearly a bidrectional spatial dimension. ...A suitable object to conceptualise is a person changing from a baby to a child to an adult to a public servant.
Huh? Let's recap his logic:
1) Time is monodirectional 2) 4th dimension is bidirectional 3) 4th dimension can be compared to a human growing from baby to adult
Logical conclusions: Human growth has nothing to do with time, and is bidirectional. Oopth (or human growth and career path) can be measured using common spatial measurements.
I can only guess at the number of kilometers I've traveled in my progression from embryo to my current job title.
Strangely enough, this is pretty much the only show on tv (besides the simpsons) my wife and I both like. Maybe that's because we just bought our first house?
The xmas day marathon was the only thing worth watching around here, so we now know everybody's names and personal quirks. Scary.
I'm using the All-In_Wonder Radeon DDR for this purpose (it's also great for watching and recording cable TV). The card has great performance for the price, and it's got a nice little extension module that has svideo, composite video, and audio inputs. It also has audio and video out in case you want to use your 13" tv as a remote monitor.
I tend to watch tv in a small window while reading email and waiting for web pages to load, then with a few keypresses switch to composite input and play some GTA3 on the PS2. I hardly ever have to leave the computer desk! Woohoo!
Well, all the simulators I worked with either ran on custom or near custom hardware (anyone remember the Harris NightHawk?), and/or used REAL hardware to 'simulate' subsystems.
Nighthawk code is fairly portable to other posix unix systems. The interface hardware isn't really important, since it's the flight and systems models that matter. Port those and add an X display interface and visual scene generator and you've got a high-fidelity sim based on real flight data.
These days I work on commercial flight sims (the full-motion FAA-certified kind) running on linux computers. You can run the simulation on any old off the shelf pc. Not that anyone could afford to pay upwards of $1,000,000 to license the software for a single flight model.
The idea that colleges with paying students would spend money trying to force their customers to pay attention is incredible. They paid for the class, so let them fail if they want. Better yet, students can probably be getting better information from the net than they get from your average professor anyway.
Bottom line: Let the adults paying to surf in your class surf. Or crack down on doodling in notebooks as well.
It might be possible and it sounds very beneficial if it could be done, BUT it certainly does not sound at all practical. This was done near enough to the Red Sea that the water could flow into the farm via a man-made river. The water would have to be continually brought in. The system to replicate this a great distance from the ocean would probably be astronomically expensive. And would it even work at such a scale? Could one bring large amounts of saltwater inland and properly contain it, now allowing it to affect surrounding ecosystems?
The article hypes it as a very profitable system. While it may not be as profitable as oil, the technology to pump large quantities of liquid are readily available and affordable if this farm really can make money.
This could be an incredible opportunity for third-world nations. Although a lot of research has gone into the planning, I didn't see anything in the article that implied that it couldn't be implemented in low-tech environments. It should also be easy for poor countries to secure loans for food production projects.
It could also be applied to landlocked nations that have large brackish marshes. It would mean more study, but there are plenty of flora and fauna species that thrive in semi-salty water.
Perhaps oil-rich middle east countries can afford to pump large quantities of seawater to low areas (possibly as far as landlocked oil-poor african nations?).
This will be very interesting and exciting to follow.
Evans and Sutherland may not be a household name, but they're still a world-class image generation company, at least in the real-time arena. E&S image generators are very common in flight simulation. They may not have a large market share, but from my experience that would mainly be due to potential customers ordering cheaper (and inferior) systems.
So you're arguing that in developing a $2 million pen, NASA was showing great foresight and flexibility, spending all that money for a pen that writes in space and doubles as a screwdriver?
If NASA really wanted their astronauts to be prepared for anything, they would have issued each one a paperclip.
Sure they glossed over asking NASA or the ISS about this. But say you've been on the ISS a couple months, hear a knock on the airlock, and see some bloke with a keg of St. Pauli Girl, fresh T-shirts, and the newly released Playstation IV. You gonna turn 'em away?
Whoa! Playstation IV? The damn thing is addictive enough, and now you can take it directly into the bloodstream?
Will Madden 2002 be over-the-counter, or prescription?
This is certainly no big surprise. Anyone who has spent enough time troubleshooting hardware or software understands at least subconciously that we are all dabbling in magic. Those of use with a special affinity for the "ether" routinely fix problems in ways that cannot be explained by "computer science."
This is a serious subject. This very evening I called upon the daemons of Mandrake while windows into the microsoft underworld were still closing. In my ignorance I created a rent in the ether and brought my local time-space to a screeching halt. This required several hours of meditation and propitation to save my soul.
"Do not call up what you can not put down."
- Aleister Crowley
Aside from the minor problems of getting a cold fusion process to work and getting the idea past the tree-hugging hippies, there's one really big problem with bringing home a shuttle full of helium.
How in the world do we land a shuttle whith all that helium keeping it afloat?
Of course, if the floating problem can be overcome, imagine the impact on the party supplies industry.
Have the scientists who insist that information can't be transmitted at this speed missed the fact that the pulse itself is information?
The pulse is there or it is not. This binary state is the basis of all non-quantum computers. We may be years or decades from developing a fast enough switch to take advantage of faster than light transmission, but the article doesn't mention this as a possibility, let alone provide an explanation as to why this wouldn't be possible.
As for the supposed paradox of the pulse exiting the chamber before it enters, I would question their data-gathering equipment/methodology. Electrical signals travelling from sensors to recording devices are slower than light. A light pulse that travels over 300 times faster than the sensor signals may be read incorrectly if there is the slightest difference in propagation time between the entry and exit sensor signals. This could be explained by an inch of length difference in the cables.
I'd be very interested to see if this "time paradox" is repeatable by independant researchers.
I knew I was holding on to the old 3/50 for something. I suppose the 19 inch monochrome monitor could be strapped on your back for rear protection, and the external SCSI "shoebox" unit could either be made into a helmet, or dangled below the cpu unit for extra protection of sensitive areas. Beige cases with stains of various origin provide urban camouflage.
If I can't find a good home for it, maybe I'll do my part for the scientific community and see how well it stands up to NATO 7.62 mm rifle rounds (FMJ and solid steel AP).
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Global Operations fits somewhat closely with your criteria. It's not so much that it has a lot of cheat protection as it just isn't popular enough to spawn any signifigant cheats.
It's got pretty decent gameplay, it's cheap ($10), runs great on a somewhat dated computer since it's got dated graphics, and doesn't require quite so many different key presses as some of the other 1st person shooters out there.
So, no, it doesn't do better. It has a small following, but enough people that you can always find at least one 8 vs 8 game full at all hours. I've been playing daily for about 6 months (and I get tired of games fast).
Don't both trying with a modem. It's pretty bandwidth intensive, and a lot of people will kick you out if you have modem-level pings.
While you're waiting around for the vaporware title "Peanut Butter Toast," I'll be playing Bronco Trolley!
Quality milling machine slides are already rock-solid. The gain from linear motors is speed. As the article mentions, this can benefit very large milling operations like milling a long slot in an aircraft wing. In most milling operations, torque is more important than speed, because you've got to keep the work stationary against the cutting forces.
If you really want speed in a CNC machine, just gear the servos or steppers up instead of down. It'll work great as long as you keep your cuts light.
No, it ain't a sexy application,
CNC is always sexy!
but it brings us a step closer to the ideal manufacturing scenario, where mechanical parts can actually be CNC-milled before they're even designed.
I doubt these linear motors run fast enough to travel in time.
How about we work on improving the intelligence of robots with no pnuematic flippers or spinning saws and see how that works out first?
Time is an observational reference, not a measured dimension. We don't move forward in time, we experience infinitely small discrete moments, which do not necessarily sync with someone else's experienced moments.
My fourth dimension is quite clearly a bidrectional spatial dimension.
...A suitable object to conceptualise is a person changing from a baby to a child to an adult to a public servant.
Huh? Let's recap his logic:
1) Time is monodirectional
2) 4th dimension is bidirectional
3) 4th dimension can be compared to a human growing from baby to adult
Logical conclusions: Human growth has nothing to do with time, and is bidirectional. Oopth (or human growth and career path) can be measured using common spatial measurements.
I can only guess at the number of kilometers I've traveled in my progression from embryo to my current job title.
The xmas day marathon was the only thing worth watching around here, so we now know everybody's names and personal quirks. Scary.
I tend to watch tv in a small window while reading email and waiting for web pages to load, then with a few keypresses switch to composite input and play some GTA3 on the PS2. I hardly ever have to leave the computer desk! Woohoo!
Nighthawk code is fairly portable to other posix unix systems. The interface hardware isn't really important, since it's the flight and systems models that matter. Port those and add an X display interface and visual scene generator and you've got a high-fidelity sim based on real flight data.
These days I work on commercial flight sims (the full-motion FAA-certified kind) running on linux computers. You can run the simulation on any old off the shelf pc. Not that anyone could afford to pay upwards of $1,000,000 to license the software for a single flight model.
Bottom line: Let the adults paying to surf in your class surf. Or crack down on doodling in notebooks as well.
Sam
The article hypes it as a very profitable system. While it may not be as profitable as oil, the technology to pump large quantities of liquid are readily available and affordable if this farm really can make money.
It could also be applied to landlocked nations that have large brackish marshes. It would mean more study, but there are plenty of flora and fauna species that thrive in semi-salty water.
Perhaps oil-rich middle east countries can afford to pump large quantities of seawater to low areas (possibly as far as landlocked oil-poor african nations?).
This will be very interesting and exciting to follow.
Evans and Sutherland may not be a household name, but they're still a world-class image generation company, at least in the real-time arena. E&S image generators are very common in flight simulation. They may not have a large market share, but from my experience that would mainly be due to potential customers ordering cheaper (and inferior) systems.
God had a vic-20, and it was obsolete before he got it home.
So you're arguing that in developing a $2 million pen, NASA was showing great foresight and flexibility, spending all that money for a pen that writes in space and doubles as a screwdriver? If NASA really wanted their astronauts to be prepared for anything, they would have issued each one a paperclip.
Whoa! Playstation IV? The damn thing is addictive enough, and now you can take it directly into the bloodstream?
Will Madden 2002 be over-the-counter, or prescription?
This is a serious subject. This very evening I called upon the daemons of Mandrake while windows into the microsoft underworld were still closing. In my ignorance I created a rent in the ether and brought my local time-space to a screeching halt. This required several hours of meditation and propitation to save my soul.
"Do not call up what you can not put down." - Aleister Crowley
How in the world do we land a shuttle whith all that helium keeping it afloat?
Of course, if the floating problem can be overcome, imagine the impact on the party supplies industry.
What I'm wondering is how soon can I get a copy of the new Lego Mindstorms "Lamprey" kit, and will I have to supply my own fish nerves?
The pulse is there or it is not. This binary state is the basis of all non-quantum computers. We may be years or decades from developing a fast enough switch to take advantage of faster than light transmission, but the article doesn't mention this as a possibility, let alone provide an explanation as to why this wouldn't be possible.
As for the supposed paradox of the pulse exiting the chamber before it enters, I would question their data-gathering equipment/methodology. Electrical signals travelling from sensors to recording devices are slower than light. A light pulse that travels over 300 times faster than the sensor signals may be read incorrectly if there is the slightest difference in propagation time between the entry and exit sensor signals. This could be explained by an inch of length difference in the cables.
I'd be very interested to see if this "time paradox" is repeatable by independant researchers.
If I can't find a good home for it, maybe I'll do my part for the scientific community and see how well it stands up to NATO 7.62 mm rifle rounds (FMJ and solid steel AP).
Sam