Anyone read 'Moving Mars', I think it's Greg Bear.
I want one of those thingummies, their AIs. That would be sweet. Although I do think that it's going to be more ubiquitous than a 1m qube.
True AI is cool, although I'd hate to buy a $5000 computer and have it stop speaking to me because of an argument. That pisses me off enough when my friends do it(friends, as in plural greater than 5), let alone something that I bought...
I think it would be good if we could help people rather than lock them up.
I kinda envision it like a doctor's apptmnt, where you go in and he says, "gee, looks like you're at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and violent behavior" and tells you to lay off the sweets, fatty foods, and 'violent video games';-)
I would also be willing to bet you that the people in jail right now would rather have been put into therapy before they committed a crime than spend many, if not all, of their remaining years being sodomized and beaten in prison.
I think early detection would definetly be a better alternative than prison. And if people still commit crimes, well, that's what jail's for.
DL graphics/etc off the net? At AOL speeds? Are you kidding me? The users would shoot themselves... Not that they shouldn't want to do that already if they're using AOL...
Audiogalaxy has rolled over... I don't know how much "illegal" music I've distributed. And that's not counting how much I've done on napster pre-metallica-ban, and scour pre-shutdown.
At the rate the RIAA is going, I hope they keep shutting down trading systems. Every one they've shut down, I've moved to a better one immediatly thereafter. It's evolution amongst the file-sharing services!
Honestly, they're doing the file-traders a great service by shutting down all the crappy ones:
Napster: Took me almost as long to find and retrive a good copy as to listen to it.
Scour: Fewer bad copies, more media to choose from...
Audiogalaxy: I just downloaded 1.5 GB last night!
Took me 10 min of clicking file names... Now I have over 15 _HOURS_ of music to which I shall listen (royalty free) as many times as I wish.
What comes next? Is it going to download what I want before I want it? Going to grab good house/breakbeat before I need more?
Here, prior art for ya!: I push play in winamp, and it goes and finds good music straight off the net... No maintenance!
Don't the moderators know that it's not troll if it's posted under a login?!? LOL, Karma is my life... not!
I still say that these things had better be filtered, or at least wipe-clean...
I could just see ATT installing a web-cam on every one, with a tie-in to the central database via face recognition to look up your records and sexual preferences.
OT: Anybody else get bogus subscriptions in the mail? I've got the Star, Reader's Digest, and some others that some asshole signed me onto. Probably making cash off me, too. If the bastards want to sign me up, they can go ahead, I just want them to send me a fiver first...
This sux. I had hoped it would be a MMPRTS
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Star Wars Galaxies
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With huge space battles, people working their way up the ranks to be Grand Moff Tarkin (eventually) or that Admiral calimari dude.
Then, every turret on the capital ships, every tie fighter, every x-wing, jedi knight, sith lord, etc would all be crewed by real people, with the computer to fill in if there aren't enough.
Take WW2Online, add some Allegiance and Tie Fighter, and set it in the starwars universe. That would be my perfect game.
As it is, I doubt if I will even try this one. It's EQ+SW.
It's a trip to orbit in a Soyuz.
Previous poster said that it was 'bout 10m to get a soyuz up, with 2 passengers, that can easily make them 10m even if the price is half Tito's pay.
That's entirely different than all the karma whores going off about wasting ISS cash.
Lay off the karma, read the article, and think before you post... Christ.
Well, it is accessible from just about everywhere, as long as you can excape gravity. I'm no rocket scientist, but AFAIK that's about everywhere.
I'm hoping that they can get this to a level where I can go up (months, winter home, etc;) when I retire with lots of cash... BYO habitat!
PS: OT: My roommate is going off about exploratory cats.... redundant?
Yo! Smart guy! It's
A. Not going to dock with the ISS
B. All Russian, baby.
Therefore, most of what you said is wrong!
RTFarticle...
I'd have to say that this is one of the better things that can happen to space tourism. Someone finally needs the money... Next, it's a billion dollar a year industry! (20mil*50=1bil) Next, we all get to go!
if you call 2 pictures of Dual Athlons on that page lots... and of the same manufacurer, super micro... Still a cool page tho, especially if you have the karate skills of japanese like me... wait, that was a public school... 3 years down the drain, and I still don't know karate or japanese...
Wow. Where did you pull that quote from? I believe I said "Beats the hell outta the PS2(Sony not IBM) and the Dreamcast." Where do you get a reference to OS/2 from that?
I do. And all of you should too. There's no better reason to own a computer than gaming. Beats the hell outta the PS2(Sony, not IBM) and the Dreamcast.
With more games available on Linux, this is leading more and more into a situation where I can kill a certain partition on my hard-drive.
Well, I guess it's not so bad as long as the evil overlords don't require me to upgrade. That partition is still running '98, since they haven't added any killer-app features. That may well be their downfall.
Here's to more and better and faster games on *nix. May they not crash or close on the windows button. [/karmawhore]
Actually, you'd want to make it in the orbit it's going to stay in. "Lower" both ends in opposite directions as you build it. Red Mars says it nicely, move an asteroid in at the balance point. The asteroid eventually becomes the ballast, after the elevator is complete.
era-era-boom shakalaka.
Mixmaster Mike on the network! Raise the Latency!
On a more serious note, what happens if you connect several in sequence? Is it like dueling banjos? What about 4? A barbershop quartet?
Maybe it's just laggy.
Realize also that he's only going 30 miles up, about 150,000 feet. That's not space, that's low pressure. Still needs pressurization, unless he suits up, but not as suicidal as fiberglass shell in outer space...
Man I hope he has tested a mini...
This, in itself, is something for which we select.
Right now, the ability to make wads and wads of money is mildly selected in places with a high general standard of living, like the US.
However, this same trait is probably very strongly selected for in India*, where there are people with no money, and those with enough**.
* I've never been there, but it seems like it might be an example.
** Enough is all you need, more is a waste...
I hear you, honestly, the amount of MP3s I download, you can never count that as lost royalty. I wouldn't ever buy 5 Steely Dan albums, thanks, but I'll happily take them for (free). Even though it actually isn't as free as anyone thinks...
I don't know how many times I've stopped at a payphone to look up the address of that pizza place, my friend's house, or the nearest hospital/police/bar/netcafe.
Fuzed so that they don't go off on bandoliers when shot or when they are bumped hard. The fuze has to be set by them leaving the casing.
In the unlikely event that a bullet hits the primer of the round, the grenade has to travel a certain distance, I'm not sure how far, but at least 10m, before it goes off.
It's more likely IMHO that some joker next to you throws the pin... PEBCAK.
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not that you can learn now because of the dubbing, but still cool show.
True AI is cool, although I'd hate to buy a $5000 computer and have it stop speaking to me because of an argument. That pisses me off enough when my friends do it(friends, as in plural greater than 5), let alone something that I bought...
I kinda envision it like a doctor's apptmnt, where you go in and he says, "gee, looks like you're at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and violent behavior" and tells you to lay off the sweets, fatty foods, and 'violent video games' ;-)
I would also be willing to bet you that the people in jail right now would rather have been put into therapy before they committed a crime than spend many, if not all, of their remaining years being sodomized and beaten in prison.
I think early detection would definetly be a better alternative than prison. And if people still commit crimes, well, that's what jail's for.
DL graphics/etc off the net? At AOL speeds? Are you kidding me? The users would shoot themselves... Not that they shouldn't want to do that already if they're using AOL...
Audiogalaxy has rolled over... I don't know how much "illegal" music I've distributed. And that's not counting how much I've done on napster pre-metallica-ban, and scour pre-shutdown.
At the rate the RIAA is going, I hope they keep shutting down trading systems. Every one they've shut down, I've moved to a better one immediatly thereafter. It's evolution amongst the file-sharing services!
Honestly, they're doing the file-traders a great service by shutting down all the crappy ones:
Napster: Took me almost as long to find and retrive a good copy as to listen to it.
Scour: Fewer bad copies, more media to choose from...
Audiogalaxy: I just downloaded 1.5 GB last night!
Took me 10 min of clicking file names...
Now I have over 15 _HOURS_ of music to which I shall listen (royalty free) as many times as I wish.
What comes next? Is it going to download what I want before I want it? Going to grab good house/breakbeat before I need more?
Here, prior art for ya!: I push play in winamp, and it goes and finds good music straight off the net... No maintenance!
Don't the moderators know that it's not troll if it's posted under a login?!? LOL, Karma is my life... not! I still say that these things had better be filtered, or at least wipe-clean...
OT: Anybody else get bogus subscriptions in the mail? I've got the Star, Reader's Digest, and some others that some asshole signed me onto. Probably making cash off me, too. If the bastards want to sign me up, they can go ahead, I just want them to send me a fiver first...
Then, every turret on the capital ships, every tie fighter, every x-wing, jedi knight, sith lord, etc would all be crewed by real people, with the computer to fill in if there aren't enough.
Take WW2Online, add some Allegiance and Tie Fighter, and set it in the starwars universe. That would be my perfect game.
As it is, I doubt if I will even try this one. It's EQ+SW.
Previous poster said that it was 'bout 10m to get a soyuz up, with 2 passengers, that can easily make them 10m even if the price is half Tito's pay.
That's entirely different than all the karma whores going off about wasting ISS cash.
Lay off the karma, read the article, and think before you post... Christ.
I'm hoping that they can get this to a level where I can go up (months, winter home, etc
PS: OT: My roommate is going off about exploratory cats.... redundant?
A. Not going to dock with the ISS B. All Russian, baby.
Therefore, most of what you said is wrong!
RTFarticle...
I'd have to say that this is one of the better things that can happen to space tourism. Someone finally needs the money... Next, it's a billion dollar a year industry! (20mil*50=1bil) Next, we all get to go!
if you call 2 pictures of Dual Athlons on that page lots... and of the same manufacurer, super micro... Still a cool page tho, especially if you have the karate skills of japanese like me...
wait, that was a public school... 3 years down the drain, and I still don't know karate or japanese...
Damn them to hell! Hell I say!
-2, offtopic, troll.
Wow. Where did you pull that quote from? I believe I said "Beats the hell outta the PS2(Sony not IBM) and the Dreamcast." Where do you get a reference to OS/2 from that?
I do. And all of you should too. There's no better reason to own a computer than gaming. Beats the hell outta the PS2(Sony, not IBM) and the Dreamcast.
With more games available on Linux, this is leading more and more into a situation where I can kill a certain partition on my hard-drive.
Well, I guess it's not so bad as long as the evil overlords don't require me to upgrade. That partition is still running '98, since they haven't added any killer-app features. That may well be their downfall.
Here's to more and better and faster games on *nix. May they not crash or close on the windows button.
[/karmawhore]
Actually, you'd want to make it in the orbit it's going to stay in. "Lower" both ends in opposite directions as you build it. Red Mars says it nicely, move an asteroid in at the balance point.
The asteroid eventually becomes the ballast, after the elevator is complete.
era-era-boom shakalaka.
Mixmaster Mike on the network! Raise the Latency!
On a more serious note, what happens if you connect several in sequence? Is it like dueling banjos? What about 4? A barbershop quartet?
Maybe it's just laggy.
Realize also that he's only going 30 miles up, about 150,000 feet. That's not space, that's low pressure. Still needs pressurization, unless he suits up, but not as suicidal as fiberglass shell in outer space... Man I hope he has tested a mini...
This, in itself, is something for which we select.
Right now, the ability to make wads and wads of money is mildly selected in places with a high general standard of living, like the US.
However, this same trait is probably very strongly selected for in India*, where there are people with no money, and those with enough**.
* I've never been there, but it seems like it might be an example.
** Enough is all you need, more is a waste...
I hear you, honestly, the amount of MP3s I download, you can never count that as lost royalty.
I wouldn't ever buy 5 Steely Dan albums, thanks, but I'll happily take them for (free).
Even though it actually isn't as free as anyone thinks...
I've been back only twice, both times through an anonymizing proxy to see if they'd taken down the ads. They hadn't.
I even submitted a story to F***ed Company, but was turned down. I said that the pop-ups were a sign of impending doom. Guess who was right?
10+ gigs on AG and running...
It's better than Napster is, was, or ever could be.
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That's basically all I use pay phones for!
In the unlikely event that a bullet hits the primer of the round, the grenade has to travel a certain distance, I'm not sure how far, but at least 10m, before it goes off.
It's more likely IMHO that some joker next to you throws the pin... PEBCAK.
Like the sit-ins in '60's civil rights movement, only more expensive and without the guns, dogs, and firehoses.
That's a lot bigger than 2.5 million...