No, nation states are dissolving and no, the net has not ushered in a Brave New World overnight. Yes, it has created new problems because it does not relate directly to people in the way you seem to think it should.
Those minor problems are beans compared to the great strides that the net has made for people all around the world. The reason that corporations and countries such as China fear the net is that they know that it empowers individuals like no medium has ever done before. It allows them to communcate and share ideas like never before. Worse, in their eyes, it allows them to think new, alien thoughts.
Example: How many Americans were anime fans before the net brought Anime into a semi-mainstream position? Now, they show Tenchi Muyou, Gundam Wing, and Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network. This means that people from the East and West are communicating despite the language and culture barriers. We're relating to eachother instead of the computers!
That, in my mind at least, is the important thing.
More importantly and more socially relevant, Americans got a view of *both* sides of the war during the Serbian bombing during the last half of the Clinton administration. We got told by the gov't that they were doing everything they could to keep casualities to a minimum and nobody was really being hurt, but when it came down to it, each ane every one of us could look to Eastern european websites for a view of what was happing by the people it was happening to.
Business has not been affected positively by the internet you say? Bullshit. I work for a firm that does tens of thousands of dollars a day worth of business over the internet. The trick? We have a sane business model that relies on charging our users for our services and products that are in rare supply LIKE ANY SANE BUSINESS MODEL SHOULD!
As for the fact that computers are not as good as they should be? Well I callenge you to start writing everything you put down on an old IBM 8086. Computers are doing just fine and are clipping along at a rate that makes most people unable to afford to keep up with technology. People's expectation of how easy, fast, and cheap techonology needs to be have been watching too much Star Trek.
Katz, you need to keep in mind that you're still in the middle of the computer age and that advances and leaps and strides are going on all around you. Keep an eye out and you might see them.
The humor is not in the fact that the spammer is being sexually assaulted. The humor is in the fact that most spammers don't realize what they are doing hurts other people.
And as for prisons... well, I'd really like to live in a world where the American judicaial system sent people to prison to rehabilitate them rather than punish them.
As bad as I feel for these guys and as much as I feel that they got bent over by their school, I can't help but wonder if this is a true story.
In the last few months, all the really big victories by students over their schools have come from stuendts and families who were not afraid to identify themselves and fight for their individual freedoms.
Now, I respect these guys' privacies and understand that staying in this school is apparently more important than thier freedom of speech, but because there is no identification here, there can be no outcry. There can be no angry, pointed fingers at a school to permenantly (and rightly) damage their reputation as restricting their students' freedom of speech.
Maybe this kids' parents are rich enough that they have court cases going, but I would doubt it. Most likely this is a case of the school putting its needs before the students and the students and the parents going along with that because going to this school is the best way to get into a 'good' university.
C'mon guys. Identify yourselves. It's important to fight for your freedoms, if not for you, then for the guy next to you who *can't* afford to wage his own court battle.
And nearly as unnacceptable for webhosting, telnet or FTP. The latency involved in any connection can range well into the second-plus range, making 'instant' connections as seen with 50-250ms pings seem like slow waits. Despite the fact that you have a good download speed, it will still take many pages quite some time to 'respond' to the initial download requests.
Not for the serious gamer perhaps, but this is just another card that is completely overpowered, and therefore overpriced, for development and office purproses.
Personally, I would like to see an emphasis on increasing any given video adapter's efficiency and decreasing its price before increasing its power.
Let's be honest here. The idea of text-embedded hypertext links works only up to a point. There is a reason that pure search engines like google are needed.
There is a need for 'link lists', however. Anime Web Turnpike, and Anime 'portal' of sorts is a good example of this:
http://www.anipike.com
Anipike neither charges nor rewards users for inclusion on its lists of Anime-related sites. It makes money by targeted advertising. The people who advertise on Anipike are online stores or websites that sell Anime related goods. (You never see a porn ad on Anipike unless it's for an ecchi game or something similiar.)
Anipike also doesn't do anything to 'stick' a user to its pages like other portal sites. They count on the fact that they are such an invaluable resource to people trying to get a Dragonball or Tenchi fix that they will come back.
They don't market their site, instead counting on word of mouth and thoughtshare to build a powerful presence. If you have an anime site and you're not trying to get it listed on Anipike.com, you don't care about getting your stuff seen.
By taking this targeted, intelligent approach, Anipike is a pretty successful little portal. I just wish others would take their example.
I believe that usability testing is performed not by developers.
This is a copout on the part of lazy eletist programmers. "We're the only developers there are. Everyone else is marketing..." Cry me a fucking river, you pansy.
If you add to a given piece of software, be it in the form of code, graphics, bug-testing, or usability-testing, you're helping to develop that software. You can make the distinction that a programmer is not responisble for testing if you work in a large programming department that has a testing or 'quality assurance' section working along side it.
How many Linux devleopers have 'quality assurance' departments backing them up? How many have usuability testing labs backing them up? Being that +90% of Linux development is done on a volunteer basis, not very damn many, I would imagine.
If you release a program, you are responsible for making sure that the testing gets done, usability or otherwise.
If you don't make your program usuable by Granny and Uncle Jimbo, you're just contributing to Microsoft and Corporate Content's stranglehold on the computer industry and intellecutal property.
The more and more content providors, be they government, entertainment or computer industry want to control information, the more and more Microsoft complies, probably more than anything to get on the government's good side. This is a disturbing trend, but sadly, not a surprising one.
Since this system and others like it are by definition incompatible with open-source software like Linux, Linux has become the defacto standard if you want to be sure that you control your own computer and the information on it. The benifits are plain to see. You can 'hack' any document you choose and know the format for, be it a PDF (as mentioned in previous story) or something that is marked as secret, or something like the format listed here.
Linux gives users the ability to control their information.
Turn that around and you can see that Microsoft is building all sorts of hooks into newer versions of Windows that allow companies to try to enforce copy control and try to preserve their 'intellectual property rights'.
Windows gives companies the ability to control their information.
If it were this simple, it's obvious what operating system that the masses would prefer if given this choice. Unfortuneately, Linux developers have shown again and again that they have no people skills, and therefore no ability to make their software usuably by Granny and Uncle Jimbo. The vast majority of Linux software has had no usability testing whatsoever. Compare this to Microsoft Windows and MacOS, for whom usuability testing with non-technical people is a major, albeit understated part of software development.
The onus here is on Linux developers and distributors. The software you work with and produce provides the ability to fight for freedom of information. Unfortuneately, these abilities go underused because the vast majority of computer users will never understand anything other than a simple point-and-click interface. Because Linux is a OS for hackers by hackers, the gains in information freedom it engenders will never be shared by the non-technically inclined.
Making Linux *easier* to use may dumb down the interface, but it means more freedom for all concerned, and therefore, a sweeter victory in the information wars.
Now what would be really cool was if I could right a program in the aforementioned display scripting language and have the powerwheel creep out my neighbors by making an unmanned 'morning round' every morning.
Neighbor: "What-what the hell was that?"
Me: That was my brother's powerwheel jeep from 1982. One day, he was hit by a car in it. He was killed, but the controls on the thing were broken anddon't work anymore. Now it just sits around. Every morning, it goes just where he used to ride.
Nope. It can slow down so that it doesn't rotate, always showing the same face to the sun rather than earth. This would make it appear to roate once per day around earth.
know that this has been defeated in the past, but I have a feeling that many of the... how do I say this without flaming people... "hick" states will pass this.
Hick states, such as Texas, which I sadly call home, will indeed be quick to pass such legislation. Why?
Whereas the political system in the rest of the country operates on the principals of influence, Texas congressmen make the wages of paid volunteers. Only the rich and elite can afford to be a state representative in Texas. Even then, they depend on graft, 'favors', and kickbacks to make it all worth while.
For example, our 'Railroad' commission has power to regulate the state's oil industry for the good of the citezens of Texas. Right?
This attitude of favoritism means that the Railroad Commision is peopled entirely by chairmen and executives of the oil industry. How's that for fair legislation?
As a Texan, I can very firmly say that I heartily disagree with the provisions in the UCITA.
I can't help but wonder, though, with the sheer level of "Good ol' Boy" style corruption evident in our grand state, if this will not be forced through sooner or later because someone's kids got a scholarship at UT, or something.
This sort of thing goes on all the time...
If it does go through and becomes widley accepted, I wonder if companies who are in a situation that would make it hard for them to tolerate the provisions of the bill would start using and supporting Open Source projects, which are by definition immune to the idiocies found within the UCITA.
Think about it. If Bell Helicopter, which produces the (in)famous 'tiltroter' helicopter were to suddenly lose its ability to operate because of a license dispute, wouldn't they be a hell of a lot more likely to use Open Source software rather than Closed Source software from the likes of M$ and Compaq?
I wonder...
There's also the problem with having floating space junk such as adrift sattelites slamming into spacecraft or functioning sattelites. Difference in orbits can create immense velocity differentials. If the spaceshuttle were to impact a 'lost' Iridium bird, that would be pretty much it for all aboard.
It's very difficult to put something into orbit and then have it stay in that exact same orbit for ever and ever.
Even the moon's orbit changes very slightly from day to day. Due to gravitational effects, the moon will slowly stop rotating in the distant future as well.
For items closer to the planet, their orbits are much less stable. Gyroscopes, jets, and small rockets are required to make orientation changes and orbit corrections from time to time to adjust for small orbit changes.
Low Earth Orbit sattellites such as the Iridium birds require much more control to keep their orbits from decaying than a higher-altitude sattellite.
People are going into business with sound ideas, even if they are risky ventures.
The thing that stood out most about the article was the fact that the new owners aren't even *trying* to market to the cellular world. They're going after peeps who can't use cellular/pcs becuase of their location(s). Despite the fact that this is an incredibly risky venture, it shows that people are less and less high on the 'tech boom' and more and more savvy about what their trying to do.
That said, it's a pretty sad state of affairs for the U.S. that this took a Canadian to get it working. (Some of my best friends are Canadian...)
C'mon you fat, lazy Americans. You can do better than this!
How hard is it to convert those realtime maps into Q3 levels?
"Where's Jones?" my boss says as he walks down the hallway.
"Oh, I saw him in the cube farm. Look's like he's working on the 3d building graphics project."
Of course, the boss would never know that what I was really doing was waiting for him around the corner with the rocket launcher and a good ol' boom-stick as backup.
I don't need the stress of having to be responsbile for my job while I am shopping/pissing/viewing pr0n... I certainly don't need to be responsible for actually *doing* my job when I am walking around to different parts of the building. That's just nuts!
The change that they're testing first is the addition of a luminosity gene from a jellyfish, and later an alteration that will make them sterile so they can mate with non-altered moths and create sterile offspring, thus reducing or eliminating the moths' population
Uhh... They're sterile, so they can mate and produce more sterile offspring?
I'm not sure what you guys are taking, but that's not the definition of 'sterile' in my dictionary.
Perhaps this is a new kind of 'sterile' where the sterile offspring can breed and produce even more sterile moths.
Seriously, sterility is something that should be included into *all* in-the-wild genomorphs. As has been suggested by the HGP's findings, the complexity of a form of life isn't created by the genes themselves, but by the way those genes interact. Just because it has extra genes that make is bio-luminescent doesn't mean that inclusion of those genes doesn't suddenly make it vulnerable to a killer virus or something.
Be smart. Don't release genomorphs into the wild without extensive, exhaustive testing.
If not, it sure looks like it. The levels in the screen shots certainly look familiar, and there are one or two places that definitely came from Super Mario 2 (which wasn't a Mario game in Japan the first time around...)
With all the 'copy protection' fizznits we've been heaving about being added to the HDTV standard, I think the ability to crack the signal is pretty important.
Will it be easier to crack CSS systems in the NTSC signal than the band allocated directly to HDTV broad?
This sounds like the sanest plan I've heard so far in this discussion. All the local game shops that I frequent also do things like carry Pokemon stuff, CCG's and anime goodies. It's neat to walk in and buy a DVD-ROM drive and that Ryouko action figure you've been wanting all from the same place.
The problem with owning and operating a classic-gaming shop is not going to be getting the games, I think, but competing with some of the very, very good game emulators out there.
For example, I own an old Nintendo (Famicom) machine that I have kept in working order since childhood. Despite that fact, I play any Nintendo games I want to on Nesticle. Mario 3? Despite the fact that the Mario All-stars SNES (Supa Famicom) cartridge sits *on* my desk, I will load up SNES9x and play it, Zelda 3, Mario-Kart and all the other really great SNES games with my keyboard.
Older games, especially arcade boxes, have fallen into a kind of legal swamp because they're not really public domain but are treated that way anyway. They're even more easy to come by. Dozens, if not hundreds of really good Mame Rom sites exist on the net right now. They're very rarely shut down, SFAIK. YOu can get even more on Usenet, IRC, and Hotline. Build-Your-Own upright Mame box instructions have been posted to/. in the past.
Atari 2600-5200, NEC, and various other emulators are floating around out there. Considering the average speed and power of modern computers, they run the emulators easily while MP3's download in the background.
If you're going to sell Classic Games, I reccomend that you cater to collectors and arcades, people who are interested in *having* rather than *playing*. Otherwise, you're going to have a very hard time.
When Haley's comet came around, I was about 13. I don't remember clearly seeing it. I remember seeing a group of stars, my dad pointing at them and saying "See, son! Haley's comet is right in that group there."
Hale-Bopp, despite it's humorous name, was so unmistakanely an anomoly in the night sky, that it was pretty hard to miss. I remember staring at it with my new wife at the time and wondering just how far away it was. My 3 year old nephew just missed it, which is a damn shame, because I'm certain that even he could have picked it out from amoung the other glittering diamonds.
4000 years until humanity gets that opportunity again. *Sigh...*
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No, nation states are dissolving and no, the net has not ushered in a Brave New World overnight. Yes, it has created new problems because it does not relate directly to people in the way you seem to think it should.
Those minor problems are beans compared to the great strides that the net has made for people all around the world. The reason that corporations and countries such as China fear the net is that they know that it empowers individuals like no medium has ever done before. It allows them to communcate and share ideas like never before. Worse, in their eyes, it allows them to think new, alien thoughts.
Example: How many Americans were anime fans before the net brought Anime into a semi-mainstream position? Now, they show Tenchi Muyou, Gundam Wing, and Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network. This means that people from the East and West are communicating despite the language and culture barriers. We're relating to eachother instead of the computers!
That, in my mind at least, is the important thing.
More importantly and more socially relevant, Americans got a view of *both* sides of the war during the Serbian bombing during the last half of the Clinton administration. We got told by the gov't that they were doing everything they could to keep casualities to a minimum and nobody was really being hurt, but when it came down to it, each ane every one of us could look to Eastern european websites for a view of what was happing by the people it was happening to.
Business has not been affected positively by the internet you say? Bullshit. I work for a firm that does tens of thousands of dollars a day worth of business over the internet. The trick? We have a sane business model that relies on charging our users for our services and products that are in rare supply LIKE ANY SANE BUSINESS MODEL SHOULD!
As for the fact that computers are not as good as they should be? Well I callenge you to start writing everything you put down on an old IBM 8086. Computers are doing just fine and are clipping along at a rate that makes most people unable to afford to keep up with technology. People's expectation of how easy, fast, and cheap techonology needs to be have been watching too much Star Trek.
Katz, you need to keep in mind that you're still in the middle of the computer age and that advances and leaps and strides are going on all around you. Keep an eye out and you might see them.
The humor is not in the fact that the spammer is being sexually assaulted. The humor is in the fact that most spammers don't realize what they are doing hurts other people.
And as for prisons... well, I'd really like to live in a world where the American judicaial system sent people to prison to rehabilitate them rather than punish them.
Convict: Heh, what're you in here for?
Spammer: I don't really know! I'm just a business man with a little computer skill trying to make a buck.
Convict: Damn the man! Always screwin' over us small business men. Why, I'm in here for selling cars!
Spammer: Really?
Convict: Well, they weren't *my* cars.
Spammer: Uhh....
Convict: Hey nerd boy, You got a pretty mouth. You wanna have sex?
Spammer: MOMMY!
As bad as I feel for these guys and as much as I feel that they got bent over by their school, I can't help but wonder if this is a true story.
In the last few months, all the really big victories by students over their schools have come from stuendts and families who were not afraid to identify themselves and fight for their individual freedoms.
Now, I respect these guys' privacies and understand that staying in this school is apparently more important than thier freedom of speech, but because there is no identification here, there can be no outcry. There can be no angry, pointed fingers at a school to permenantly (and rightly) damage their reputation as restricting their students' freedom of speech.
Maybe this kids' parents are rich enough that they have court cases going, but I would doubt it. Most likely this is a case of the school putting its needs before the students and the students and the parents going along with that because going to this school is the best way to get into a 'good' university.
C'mon guys. Identify yourselves. It's important to fight for your freedoms, if not for you, then for the guy next to you who *can't* afford to wage his own court battle.
And nearly as unnacceptable for webhosting, telnet or FTP. The latency involved in any connection can range well into the second-plus range, making 'instant' connections as seen with 50-250ms pings seem like slow waits. Despite the fact that you have a good download speed, it will still take many pages quite some time to 'respond' to the initial download requests.
Not for the serious gamer perhaps, but this is just another card that is completely overpowered, and therefore overpriced, for development and office purproses.
Personally, I would like to see an emphasis on increasing any given video adapter's efficiency and decreasing its price before increasing its power.
Guardent is trying to garner publicity by 'announcing' a known vulnerability that has been, for the most part, cmpletely addressed!
Way to go guys! Before, I didn't who you were. Now I know you're a complete bunch of retarded chimpanzees!
Let's be honest here. The idea of text-embedded hypertext links works only up to a point. There is a reason that pure search engines like google are needed.
There is a need for 'link lists', however. Anime Web Turnpike, and Anime 'portal' of sorts is a good example of this:
http://www.anipike.com
Anipike neither charges nor rewards users for inclusion on its lists of Anime-related sites. It makes money by targeted advertising. The people who advertise on Anipike are online stores or websites that sell Anime related goods. (You never see a porn ad on Anipike unless it's for an ecchi game or something similiar.)
Anipike also doesn't do anything to 'stick' a user to its pages like other portal sites. They count on the fact that they are such an invaluable resource to people trying to get a Dragonball or Tenchi fix that they will come back.
They don't market their site, instead counting on word of mouth and thoughtshare to build a powerful presence. If you have an anime site and you're not trying to get it listed on Anipike.com, you don't care about getting your stuff seen.
By taking this targeted, intelligent approach, Anipike is a pretty successful little portal. I just wish others would take their example.
I believe that usability testing is performed not by developers.
This is a copout on the part of lazy eletist programmers. "We're the only developers there are. Everyone else is marketing..." Cry me a fucking river, you pansy.
If you add to a given piece of software, be it in the form of code, graphics, bug-testing, or usability-testing, you're helping to develop that software. You can make the distinction that a programmer is not responisble for testing if you work in a large programming department that has a testing or 'quality assurance' section working along side it.
How many Linux devleopers have 'quality assurance' departments backing them up? How many have usuability testing labs backing them up? Being that +90% of Linux development is done on a volunteer basis, not very damn many, I would imagine.
If you release a program, you are responsible for making sure that the testing gets done, usability or otherwise.
If you don't make your program usuable by Granny and Uncle Jimbo, you're just contributing to Microsoft and Corporate Content's stranglehold on the computer industry and intellecutal property.
The more and more content providors, be they government, entertainment or computer industry want to control information, the more and more Microsoft complies, probably more than anything to get on the government's good side. This is a disturbing trend, but sadly, not a surprising one.
Since this system and others like it are by definition incompatible with open-source software like Linux, Linux has become the defacto standard if you want to be sure that you control your own computer and the information on it. The benifits are plain to see. You can 'hack' any document you choose and know the format for, be it a PDF (as mentioned in previous story) or something that is marked as secret, or something like the format listed here.
Linux gives users the ability to control their information.
Turn that around and you can see that Microsoft is building all sorts of hooks into newer versions of Windows that allow companies to try to enforce copy control and try to preserve their 'intellectual property rights'.
Windows gives companies the ability to control their information.
If it were this simple, it's obvious what operating system that the masses would prefer if given this choice. Unfortuneately, Linux developers have shown again and again that they have no people skills, and therefore no ability to make their software usuably by Granny and Uncle Jimbo. The vast majority of Linux software has had no usability testing whatsoever. Compare this to Microsoft Windows and MacOS, for whom usuability testing with non-technical people is a major, albeit understated part of software development.
The onus here is on Linux developers and distributors. The software you work with and produce provides the ability to fight for freedom of information. Unfortuneately, these abilities go underused because the vast majority of computer users will never understand anything other than a simple point-and-click interface. Because Linux is a OS for hackers by hackers, the gains in information freedom it engenders will never be shared by the non-technically inclined.
Making Linux *easier* to use may dumb down the interface, but it means more freedom for all concerned, and therefore, a sweeter victory in the information wars.
Now what would be really cool was if I could right a program in the aforementioned display scripting language and have the powerwheel creep out my neighbors by making an unmanned 'morning round' every morning.
Neighbor: "What-what the hell was that?"
Me: That was my brother's powerwheel jeep from 1982. One day, he was hit by a car in it. He was killed, but the controls on the thing were broken anddon't work anymore. Now it just sits around. Every morning, it goes just where he used to ride.
Nope. It can slow down so that it doesn't rotate, always showing the same face to the sun rather than earth. This would make it appear to roate once per day around earth.
know that this has been defeated in the past, but I have a feeling that many of the... how do I say this without flaming people... "hick" states will pass this.
Hick states, such as Texas, which I sadly call home, will indeed be quick to pass such legislation. Why?
Whereas the political system in the rest of the country operates on the principals of influence, Texas congressmen make the wages of paid volunteers. Only the rich and elite can afford to be a state representative in Texas. Even then, they depend on graft, 'favors', and kickbacks to make it all worth while.
For example, our 'Railroad' commission has power to regulate the state's oil industry for the good of the citezens of Texas. Right?
This attitude of favoritism means that the Railroad Commision is peopled entirely by chairmen and executives of the oil industry. How's that for fair legislation?
As a Texan, I can very firmly say that I heartily disagree with the provisions in the UCITA. I can't help but wonder, though, with the sheer level of "Good ol' Boy" style corruption evident in our grand state, if this will not be forced through sooner or later because someone's kids got a scholarship at UT, or something. This sort of thing goes on all the time... If it does go through and becomes widley accepted, I wonder if companies who are in a situation that would make it hard for them to tolerate the provisions of the bill would start using and supporting Open Source projects, which are by definition immune to the idiocies found within the UCITA. Think about it. If Bell Helicopter, which produces the (in)famous 'tiltroter' helicopter were to suddenly lose its ability to operate because of a license dispute, wouldn't they be a hell of a lot more likely to use Open Source software rather than Closed Source software from the likes of M$ and Compaq? I wonder...
There's also the problem with having floating space junk such as adrift sattelites slamming into spacecraft or functioning sattelites. Difference in orbits can create immense velocity differentials. If the spaceshuttle were to impact a 'lost' Iridium bird, that would be pretty much it for all aboard.
It's very difficult to put something into orbit and then have it stay in that exact same orbit for ever and ever.
Even the moon's orbit changes very slightly from day to day. Due to gravitational effects, the moon will slowly stop rotating in the distant future as well.
For items closer to the planet, their orbits are much less stable. Gyroscopes, jets, and small rockets are required to make orientation changes and orbit corrections from time to time to adjust for small orbit changes.
Low Earth Orbit sattellites such as the Iridium birds require much more control to keep their orbits from decaying than a higher-altitude sattellite.
People are going into business with sound ideas, even if they are risky ventures.
The thing that stood out most about the article was the fact that the new owners aren't even *trying* to market to the cellular world. They're going after peeps who can't use cellular/pcs becuase of their location(s). Despite the fact that this is an incredibly risky venture, it shows that people are less and less high on the 'tech boom' and more and more savvy about what their trying to do.
That said, it's a pretty sad state of affairs for the U.S. that this took a Canadian to get it working. (Some of my best friends are Canadian...)
C'mon you fat, lazy Americans. You can do better than this!
How hard is it to convert those realtime maps into Q3 levels?
"Where's Jones?" my boss says as he walks down the hallway.
"Oh, I saw him in the cube farm. Look's like he's working on the 3d building graphics project."
Of course, the boss would never know that what I was really doing was waiting for him around the corner with the rocket launcher and a good ol' boom-stick as backup.
I don't need the stress of having to be responsbile for my job while I am shopping/pissing/viewing pr0n... I certainly don't need to be responsible for actually *doing* my job when I am walking around to different parts of the building. That's just nuts!
The change that they're testing first is the addition of a luminosity gene from a jellyfish, and later an alteration that will make them sterile so they can mate with non-altered moths and create sterile offspring, thus reducing or eliminating the moths' population
Uhh... They're sterile, so they can mate and produce more sterile offspring?
I'm not sure what you guys are taking, but that's not the definition of 'sterile' in my dictionary.
Perhaps this is a new kind of 'sterile' where the sterile offspring can breed and produce even more sterile moths.
Seriously, sterility is something that should be included into *all* in-the-wild genomorphs. As has been suggested by the HGP's findings, the complexity of a form of life isn't created by the genes themselves, but by the way those genes interact. Just because it has extra genes that make is bio-luminescent doesn't mean that inclusion of those genes doesn't suddenly make it vulnerable to a killer virus or something.
Be smart. Don't release genomorphs into the wild without extensive, exhaustive testing.
If not, it sure looks like it. The levels in the screen shots certainly look familiar, and there are one or two places that definitely came from Super Mario 2 (which wasn't a Mario game in Japan the first time around...)
With all the 'copy protection' fizznits we've been heaving about being added to the HDTV standard, I think the ability to crack the signal is pretty important.
Will it be easier to crack CSS systems in the NTSC signal than the band allocated directly to HDTV broad?
Is this completely irrelevant?
This sounds like the sanest plan I've heard so far in this discussion. All the local game shops that I frequent also do things like carry Pokemon stuff, CCG's and anime goodies. It's neat to walk in and buy a DVD-ROM drive and that Ryouko action figure you've been wanting all from the same place.
The problem with owning and operating a classic-gaming shop is not going to be getting the games, I think, but competing with some of the very, very good game emulators out there.
/. in the past.
For example, I own an old Nintendo (Famicom) machine that I have kept in working order since childhood. Despite that fact, I play any Nintendo games I want to on Nesticle. Mario 3? Despite the fact that the Mario All-stars SNES (Supa Famicom) cartridge sits *on* my desk, I will load up SNES9x and play it, Zelda 3, Mario-Kart and all the other really great SNES games with my keyboard.
Older games, especially arcade boxes, have fallen into a kind of legal swamp because they're not really public domain but are treated that way anyway. They're even more easy to come by. Dozens, if not hundreds of really good Mame Rom sites exist on the net right now. They're very rarely shut down, SFAIK. YOu can get even more on Usenet, IRC, and Hotline. Build-Your-Own upright Mame box instructions have been posted to
Atari 2600-5200, NEC, and various other emulators are floating around out there. Considering the average speed and power of modern computers, they run the emulators easily while MP3's download in the background.
If you're going to sell Classic Games, I reccomend that you cater to collectors and arcades, people who are interested in *having* rather than *playing*. Otherwise, you're going to have a very hard time.
When Haley's comet came around, I was about 13. I don't remember clearly seeing it. I remember seeing a group of stars, my dad pointing at them and saying "See, son! Haley's comet is right in that group there."
Hale-Bopp, despite it's humorous name, was so unmistakanely an anomoly in the night sky, that it was pretty hard to miss. I remember staring at it with my new wife at the time and wondering just how far away it was. My 3 year old nephew just missed it, which is a damn shame, because I'm certain that even he could have picked it out from amoung the other glittering diamonds.
4000 years until humanity gets that opportunity again. *Sigh...*