I just read a post from a guy that is designing a 2D side-scrolling mod for UT2003. He's now looking for people to help design maps. There's a basic screenshot there. Another post there pointed to an interesting game called Soldat. From the site: "Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal. This is why multiplayer was invented."
An interesting article regarding the technology, business, and history behind laying of transcontinental cables is Mother Earth Mother Board, by Neal Stephenson. The tagline is "The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth."
False!? This sounds exactly like the story about a women stuck in an airliner toilet, carried by AP/Reuters/BBC earlier this year, which was retracted and declared false by Snopes.
You laugh, but it's a good thing that the Scientologists haven't found your link to Operation Clambake yet.;)
OT, you may find this article interesting about a new book backed by the Vatican called _the Eleven Commandments_ that "is dedicated to exposing the "equivocations and lies" contained in the Bible and traditional Christian teaching."
Unfortunately the money may take a while in coming. The rules state, "a proposed solution must be published in a refereed mathematics journal of world wide repute, and it must also have have general acceptance in the mathematics community two years after." After this a committe is formed to determine whether the money should be awarded.
I was impressed that she so readily confessed it was her when AP called her on it. I wonder if it crossed her mind that Ballmer himself would be castigating her. Especially since it is so obvious that one lowly PR person can't just start a whole missinformation campaign on their own. From observing marketing work where I work, I know that in advertising contracts are signed, legal has to sign off, and management has to sign off.
They're just lucky that AP didn't also stress some of the other things found by other people here like how the Word doc was done on a Mac, how the Word doc invaded privacy and how they were going to get her to try Pocket PC, but she was already a professional consultant on them.
This could be the perfect host everyone's been waiting for to distribute xp keygens, warez, mp3s and isos! Actually how long until someone writes some really spiffy win utils with backdoors which then get incorporated into official MS releases? I wonder if MS is thinking of this as a cheap way to get code written for them?
First they'll have to remove the story from their own site! It's always great when MSNBC mentions Slashdot. The story is currently number nine on the Yahoo! most viewed news page. A lot of people are going to be reading this story tomorrow.</grin>
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Please use this abacus to quickly add 387 to 495. It's not intuitive? Well, here a tutorial to help.
As for Blender, I tried it and gave up as well. I think some software has so many features that it becomes difficult to give intuitive ways to quickly perform all appropriate actions.
Coincidence? From the article, "The 55-year-old said he sought the name change as a way to gain release from feelings of "panic, anxiety, fear, rage, murder, suicide," that have plagued him since he served in the Vietnam War."
I don't understand the fascination with the 600 mile separation. The people who need to control things directly with their neurons are going to be much more interested in manipulating their immediate environment. Anyway, these days aren't the next room and 600 miles pretty much equivalent?
Two things in this study did strike me as amazing though. One is that the connection has lasted a year. I remember when they first started this the neural connection didn't last long. The other is the fact that the monkey took only a few days to figure out that she didn't have to use her hand and just had to think about moving the lever.
I don't have any hard conclusions, but I noticed a few things. The info page explicitely says that they are not affiliated. "Is this site affiliated with Mutant Enemy Production or 20th Century Fox?
Nope. But if you want to visit an official website, please visit The Official Firefly Website at FOX." At the bottom it also says "This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox."
Also, it states that the site took 40 hours to develop. So in 40 hours he developed a site with full chat, community, logins, dynamic news, dynamic episode guide, and a full database of character and episode info and the whole thing is blazingly fast while being slashdotted. I'm impressed.
As for domains, advancemania.com isn't registered, but fireflyfans.net, choi.org and plzfeedme.com all have the same admin contact in Kihei, HI.
1) water maser emissions? Geez, what's next, they can smell it from here?
I wonder if they only look for water? Wouldn't there be other elements they could detect using the same methods?
2) how far away are these planets? Are they far enough away that by the time these "maser emissions" get to us that the water is gone?
Most extrasolar planets are less than 150 light years away which is nothing in geologic time. Refer to The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia for more information. The finding of the 100th extrasolar planet was reported yesterday.
> Aiming sucks
What kind of mouse are you using? I had no problems.
> the AI's are stupid as dirt
Try putting the bot's skill level on godlike. In UT I can hold my own against godlike, but in UT2003 I got my butt kicked. The bots are supposed to 'learn' over time, but that might only be in the full version.
> graphics are wishy washy
They look great to me. Video card?
> demo was rushed out the door way too quickly
It was supposed to be out in may.
> hope the final version is much better
It is. I've *ahem* watched people play the full version v927 with about 40 incredible maps.
Having only one model and a few maps for each game type makes sense for download speeds, but it is going to get boring fast. I hope they don't delay the full version as long as they delayed the demo.
Slashdot Mirror
I propose a new rule that if a misspelling has more than 2000 hits, then it should be officially declared good enough for Slashdot. ;)
I just read a post from a guy that is designing a 2D side-scrolling mod for UT2003. He's now looking for people to help design maps. There's a basic screenshot there. Another post there pointed to an interesting game called Soldat. From the site: "Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal. This is why multiplayer was invented."
An interesting article regarding the technology, business, and history behind laying of transcontinental cables is Mother Earth Mother Board, by Neal Stephenson. The tagline is "The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth."
Could a sophisticated worm disable up2date, or other update utilities, but still make it look like they're functioning correctly?
You and Slashdot are partners too!
False!? This sounds exactly like the story about a women stuck in an airliner toilet, carried by AP/Reuters/BBC earlier this year, which was retracted and declared false by Snopes.
You laugh, but it's a good thing that the Scientologists haven't found your link to Operation Clambake yet. ;)
OT, you may find this article interesting about a new book backed by the Vatican called _the Eleven Commandments_ that "is dedicated to exposing the "equivocations and lies" contained in the Bible and traditional Christian teaching."
Unfortunately the money may take a while in coming. The rules state, "a proposed solution must be published in a refereed mathematics journal of world wide repute, and it must also have have general acceptance in the mathematics community two years after." After this a committe is formed to determine whether the money should be awarded.
I was impressed that she so readily confessed it was her when AP called her on it. I wonder if it crossed her mind that Ballmer himself would be castigating her. Especially since it is so obvious that one lowly PR person can't just start a whole missinformation campaign on their own. From observing marketing work where I work, I know that in advertising contracts are signed, legal has to sign off, and management has to sign off.
They're just lucky that AP didn't also stress some of the other things found by other people here like how the Word doc was done on a Mac, how the Word doc invaded privacy and how they were going to get her to try Pocket PC, but she was already a professional consultant on them.
Is the Bobby Test even usable? I couldn't find a single site, besides Bobby, that passes. I tried Google, the W3C validator, American Council for the Blind, and the National Federation for the Blind. As long as I'm complaining, wouldn't Bobby me more accessible if the reports had some coherent means of navigating to other parts of the site?
This could be the perfect host everyone's been waiting for to distribute xp keygens, warez, mp3s and isos! Actually how long until someone writes some really spiffy win utils with backdoors which then get incorporated into official MS releases? I wonder if MS is thinking of this as a cheap way to get code written for them?
First they'll have to remove the story from their own site! It's always great when MSNBC mentions Slashdot. The story is currently number nine on the Yahoo! most viewed news page. A lot of people are going to be reading this story tomorrow.</grin>
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Please use this abacus to quickly add 387 to 495. It's not intuitive? Well, here a tutorial to help.
As for Blender, I tried it and gave up as well. I think some software has so many features that it becomes difficult to give intuitive ways to quickly perform all appropriate actions.
Coincidence? From the article, "The 55-year-old said he sought the name change as a way to gain release from feelings of "panic, anxiety, fear, rage, murder, suicide," that have plagued him since he served in the Vietnam War."
Klez did this as well. Also, Melissa turned off Word's security protection.
..and then progress to Linux 95, Linux 98, LiNTux, Linux 2000, LinuXP and then *drum roll* Li.NET? :P
I don't understand the fascination with the 600 mile separation. The people who need to control things directly with their neurons are going to be much more interested in manipulating their immediate environment. Anyway, these days aren't the next room and 600 miles pretty much equivalent?
Two things in this study did strike me as amazing though. One is that the connection has lasted a year. I remember when they first started this the neural connection didn't last long. The other is the fact that the monkey took only a few days to figure out that she didn't have to use her hand and just had to think about moving the lever.
I don't have any hard conclusions, but I noticed a few things. The info page explicitely says that they are not affiliated. "Is this site affiliated with Mutant Enemy Production or 20th Century Fox? Nope. But if you want to visit an official website, please visit The Official Firefly Website at FOX." At the bottom it also says "This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox."
Also, it states that the site took 40 hours to develop. So in 40 hours he developed a site with full chat, community, logins, dynamic news, dynamic episode guide, and a full database of character and episode info and the whole thing is blazingly fast while being slashdotted. I'm impressed.
As for domains, advancemania.com isn't registered, but fireflyfans.net, choi.org and plzfeedme.com all have the same admin contact in Kihei, HI.
I was referring only to the planets that have been found and are being checked for water. Sorry about the confusion.
I wonder if they only look for water? Wouldn't there be other elements they could detect using the same methods?
Most extrasolar planets are less than 150 light years away which is nothing in geologic time. Refer to The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia for more information. The finding of the 100th extrasolar planet was reported yesterday.
Best.. Triumph.. Video.. Ever!!
For me to poop on!
> Aiming sucks
What kind of mouse are you using? I had no problems.
> the AI's are stupid as dirt
Try putting the bot's skill level on godlike. In UT I can hold my own against godlike, but in UT2003 I got my butt kicked. The bots are supposed to 'learn' over time, but that might only be in the full version.
> graphics are wishy washy
They look great to me. Video card?
> demo was rushed out the door way too quickly
It was supposed to be out in may.
> hope the final version is much better
It is. I've *ahem* watched people play the full version v927 with about 40 incredible maps.
Having only one model and a few maps for each game type makes sense for download speeds, but it is going to get boring fast. I hope they don't delay the full version as long as they delayed the demo.