Lego should invest in this heavily. They could get in at the ground floor by offering a Steam-like service where you can buy Lego plans online. You know all those custom parts Lego keeps coming up with? Instead of selling them in kits sell the plans for each piece.
Instead of it being the death of Lego, it could be the birth of Legos ginormous monopoly on small printed plastic parts.
Why do you say it will be open? Are there any OpenGL extensions or planned support for Raytracing?
Oh and to whoever modded parent off-topic: The whole reason I'm not currently switched to Linux is because of games. All it would take is one Killer App (game) to switch to running Linux full time and Windows in a VM. As the population grows that runs Linux natively, the demand for Linux games will start rising. A new game using Raytracing has awesome potential to become the next Linux or Microsoft killer app. At this point it's up for grabs. If it happens on Linux first the whole XP vs Windows 7 debate will be rendered moot. I say vs Windows 7 because Vista is already seen by the geeks as being another Windows ME.
I had to replace 3 hard drives in my Dell Inspiron laptop until I wised up to the massive amount of heat coming off of the underside of it and got a laptop cooler.
I don't think that's funny at all, that's downright scary. This kind of privacy attack would get past even proxies. It would fail to NoScript, however they could just intentionally break enough of their site to require scripting.
It should be used for primary validation because it is hardened against keylogging. The trick to this is that you don't have to type in the same phrase every time, in fact repeating the same phrase should be disallowed. Password login should be secondary and have it be algorithmic or challenge/response based.
Hear Hear. Ham radio should have been on the forefront of cellphone tech. If the band were licensed specifically for non-profit but private use we could have our cake and eat it too. Tie the systems together with VOIP, microwave or wireless mesh and we can rid ourselves of the phone company cartel.
I think that the big problem is that Microsoft is calling this new operating system "Windows". I agree wholeheartedly. I hereby nominate "Solid Brick Walls", or just Walls for short.
The fact that you can get stuck is a very glaring, obvious sign that the game design is a crock.
I would get stuck all the time in adventure games like you describe, because they are so linear. One time I got stuck because my monitor wasn't adjusted right and the passageway I was supposed to take was too dark to be visible. There really has to be more than one way to do required tasks. Optional tasks may be allowed to only have one solution, but to progress in a game you have to have more than one solution to the problem.
Case in point: Portal. In this instance there is only 1 exit door that you must go through, however this doesn't mean there is only one way to complete the puzzle. Try playing some of the harder challenges some time. After you get to feeling pretty good about your leet time, go hop on youtube and watch how someone else did it. You will see that there are many ways of accomplishing the objective because the rules are physics based, not an extremely limited set of choices.
I think you might be missing the fact that the state does not run the entire militia. During the revolutionary war there was no State, but there was a militia.
10 USC Sec. 311: "(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 year of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32 [32 USC sec. 313], under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are commissioned officers of the National Guard. (b) The classes of the militia are --
1. the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
2. the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt.
If we keep arms, it acts as a deterrent. We don't have to use them, there just has to be enough of us that look like we're crazy enough to use them to make a tyrant have second thoughts about oppressing us.
It would last a lot longer than 20 minutes. If it didn't our soldiers in Iraq would have been home months ago. We have the added bonus of speaking their language and persuading them to stay out of it. After all, if the Army was used to squelch an uprising they would be breaking the law.
Now that I think about it, I got a whole lot more viruses back in the day. I'm not sure if it's because I got a lot more paranoid, left college, quit using floppies, or anti-virus has gotten better.
It would do SMS and email (smtp, imap) quite handily.
This whole situation boils down the the ~"conversations may not be private" rule for Amateur Radio. If private communications had been allowed, hams would have multiple awesome, free cell services set up with none of this charging for minuscule SMS messaging or data garbage.
The idea behind the other designs is that the materials to build them are available today. It would be way cool if someone built 3 sections of a space elevator for a science fair project.
The safety issues may be more difficult to solve for the loops and fountains, but they are easier to construct. A full geosynch space elevator is usually grown down from GEO; these designs can be built from the ground up.
A space fountain could be used to get the material up to GEO to build a space elevator. They talk about needing a large asteroid maneuvered into GEO as a counterbalance. Instead of doing that just launch the material up there.
The reason I thought no current would flow for a traditional space elevator is for the same reason an electric motor does not generate electricity if it isn't moving. The linked article is talking about a mission flown from a moving spacecraft, not a stationary (with respect to the earth) object.
Yes, the materials had an easily solved problem, however compared to a space elevator (24,000+ miles) the length of the tether they used was positively tiny (12.5 miles). If I'm wrong about the magnetic field and it does generate electricity, you'd need to put up a microwave generating station every 20 or so miles to keep the cable weight down. Hmmm, I wonder if a superconductor in the shade of the cable and open to space would cool down enough to superconduct.
I wonder if you could use a miniature version of that to transport goods. We could sort of work up to space capability: use small ones to throw & catch cargo across increasingly long distances. You could reduce drag using Hydrogen Injection.
Come to think of it, could you use a mini space fountain to enable VTOL in your back yard? Entry would be near vertical, and the abort scenario would be for the computer to execute an immediate pull-up in case of latch-on failure to the fountain. It wouldn't need to be active all the time, it could automatically grow from 20 feet to 300 feet given an automatic feeder for the fountain sections.
Not true, if we alter some of your basic premises.
#1> You don't have to go all the way to orbit. There are several ways to split this up. Skyhooks, Partial elevators etc. The cool part about these are that they aren't nearly as vulnerable to terrorists due to their high altitude.
#2> The space elevator can be active. See Space Fountain
In order to make a power available from a space elevator you'd need superconductors. Even on a relatively short (12.5 mile) cable they got 3500 volts@amp.
Actually on second thought, I'm not sure they would get ANY current to flow. The reason current flows is because the conductor is traveling with respect to the magnetic field. That probably doesn't apply to a stationary space elevator. A skyhook, or a series of space elevators sure. Also, if instead of generating power you feed it power from solar panels, you can alter its orbit.
I think it comes down to cost. It would be way cheaper and easier to shoot down a low altitude drone than to pay for development of a spread spectrum signal jammer capable of masking a signal engineered to be resistant to jamming. If we're talking high altitude that's a different story. I wonder though, are there any EMP weapons that can be fit onto a small rocket that would have more range than an explosive?
If you're trying to jam, it boils down to three things: how far you are from the two signal endpoints, how much power you have, and how fast/smart your equipment is versus the enemies equipment.
I don't think they will get taken out though... after all we still have speed cameras, and they're dead easy to disable.
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I think tar and feathers are the appropriate historical response.
I live in California, and I would applaud the day they ALL get T&F'd. Well maybe not our Governator, but everyone else.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
Lego should invest in this heavily. They could get in at the ground floor by offering a Steam-like service where you can buy Lego plans online. You know all those custom parts Lego keeps coming up with? Instead of selling them in kits sell the plans for each piece.
Instead of it being the death of Lego, it could be the birth of Legos ginormous monopoly on small printed plastic parts.
Is THAT why they went downhill. I used Altavista for quite a while, then suddenly its searches went down the tubes.. Always wondered why.
Why do you say it will be open?
Are there any OpenGL extensions or planned support for Raytracing?
Oh and to whoever modded parent off-topic: The whole reason I'm not currently switched to Linux is because of games. All it would take is one Killer App (game) to switch to running Linux full time and Windows in a VM. As the population grows that runs Linux natively, the demand for Linux games will start rising. A new game using Raytracing has awesome potential to become the next Linux or Microsoft killer app. At this point it's up for grabs. If it happens on Linux first the whole XP vs Windows 7 debate will be rendered moot. I say vs Windows 7 because Vista is already seen by the geeks as being another Windows ME.
Yes but google doesn't use laptops.
I had to replace 3 hard drives in my Dell Inspiron laptop until I wised up to the massive amount of heat coming off of the underside of it and got a laptop cooler.
I don't think that's funny at all, that's downright scary.
This kind of privacy attack would get past even proxies. It would fail to NoScript, however they could just intentionally break enough of their site to require scripting.
It should be used for primary validation because it is hardened against keylogging. The trick to this is that you don't have to type in the same phrase every time, in fact repeating the same phrase should be disallowed.
Password login should be secondary and have it be algorithmic or challenge/response based.
Hear Hear.
Ham radio should have been on the forefront of cellphone tech. If the band were licensed specifically for non-profit but private use we could have our cake and eat it too. Tie the systems together with VOIP, microwave or wireless mesh and we can rid ourselves of the phone company cartel.
The fact that you can get stuck is a very glaring, obvious sign that the game design is a crock.
I would get stuck all the time in adventure games like you describe, because they are so linear. One time I got stuck because my monitor wasn't adjusted right and the passageway I was supposed to take was too dark to be visible.
There really has to be more than one way to do required tasks. Optional tasks may be allowed to only have one solution, but to progress in a game you have to have more than one solution to the problem.
Case in point: Portal.
In this instance there is only 1 exit door that you must go through, however this doesn't mean there is only one way to complete the puzzle. Try playing some of the harder challenges some time. After you get to feeling pretty good about your leet time, go hop on youtube and watch how someone else did it. You will see that there are many ways of accomplishing the objective because the rules are physics based, not an extremely limited set of choices.
You forgot email. It's costing me a fortune to keep 500 items juggled in there.
Burn the Witches^H^H^H^H^H^HTerrorists!
All those users that posted a signature that looked exactly like the reply to this line, linked to the logout function in /.
Yeah, the buttons are too tall.
I think you might be missing the fact that the state does not run the entire militia. During the revolutionary war there was no State, but there was a militia.
From http://www.urbin.net/EWW/polyticks/RKBA/militia.html:
10 USC Sec. 311:
"(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 year of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32 [32 USC sec. 313], under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are commissioned officers of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are --
1. the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
2. the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt.
If we keep arms, it acts as a deterrent. We don't have to use them, there just has to be enough of us that look like we're crazy enough to use them to make a tyrant have second thoughts about oppressing us.
It would last a lot longer than 20 minutes. If it didn't our soldiers in Iraq would have been home months ago. We have the added bonus of speaking their language and persuading them to stay out of it. After all, if the Army was used to squelch an uprising they would be breaking the law.
Now that I think about it, I got a whole lot more viruses back in the day.
I'm not sure if it's because I got a lot more paranoid, left college, quit using floppies, or anti-virus has gotten better.
It would do SMS and email (smtp, imap) quite handily.
This whole situation boils down the the ~"conversations may not be private" rule for Amateur Radio. If private communications had been allowed, hams would have multiple awesome, free cell services set up with none of this charging for minuscule SMS messaging or data garbage.
The idea behind the other designs is that the materials to build them are available today.
It would be way cool if someone built 3 sections of a space elevator for a science fair project.
The safety issues may be more difficult to solve for the loops and fountains, but they are easier to construct. A full geosynch space elevator is usually grown down from GEO; these designs can be built from the ground up.
A space fountain could be used to get the material up to GEO to build a space elevator. They talk about needing a large asteroid maneuvered into GEO as a counterbalance. Instead of doing that just launch the material up there.
The reason I thought no current would flow for a traditional space elevator is for the same reason an electric motor does not generate electricity if it isn't moving. The linked article is talking about a mission flown from a moving spacecraft, not a stationary (with respect to the earth) object.
Yes, the materials had an easily solved problem, however compared to a space elevator (24,000+ miles) the length of the tether they used was positively tiny (12.5 miles). If I'm wrong about the magnetic field and it does generate electricity, you'd need to put up a microwave generating station every 20 or so miles to keep the cable weight down. Hmmm, I wonder if a superconductor in the shade of the cable and open to space would cool down enough to superconduct.
Nice. I'd forgotten about those.
I wonder if you could use a miniature version of that to transport goods. We could sort of work up to space capability: use small ones to throw & catch cargo across increasingly long distances. You could reduce drag using Hydrogen Injection.
Come to think of it, could you use a mini space fountain to enable VTOL in your back yard? Entry would be near vertical, and the abort scenario would be for the computer to execute an immediate pull-up in case of latch-on failure to the fountain. It wouldn't need to be active all the time, it could automatically grow from 20 feet to 300 feet given an automatic feeder for the fountain sections.
Not true, if we alter some of your basic premises.
#1> You don't have to go all the way to orbit.
There are several ways to split this up. Skyhooks, Partial elevators etc. The cool part about these are that they aren't nearly as vulnerable to terrorists due to their high altitude.
#2> The space elevator can be active. See Space Fountain
They tried to do that once and failed, so they're skittish about the whole current carrying tether thing.
In order to make a power available from a space elevator you'd need superconductors. Even on a relatively short (12.5 mile) cable they got 3500 volts@amp.
Actually on second thought, I'm not sure they would get ANY current to flow. The reason current flows is because the conductor is traveling with respect to the magnetic field. That probably doesn't apply to a stationary space elevator. A skyhook, or a series of space elevators sure. Also, if instead of generating power you feed it power from solar panels, you can alter its orbit.
One of the big reasons Atari failed in its computer line is due to people perceiving them as being a game company.
So what you're saying is that in 20 years Microsoft will have the same problem?
I think it comes down to cost.
It would be way cheaper and easier to shoot down a low altitude drone than to pay for development of a spread spectrum signal jammer capable of masking a signal engineered to be resistant to jamming. If we're talking high altitude that's a different story. I wonder though, are there any EMP weapons that can be fit onto a small rocket that would have more range than an explosive?
If you're trying to jam, it boils down to three things: how far you are from the two signal endpoints, how much power you have, and how fast/smart your equipment is versus the enemies equipment.
I don't think they will get taken out though... after all we still have speed cameras, and they're dead easy to disable.