and the guys's name was U.S. Marine Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper - he gets talked about halfway down the transcript.
Makes you wonder - what would happen if in the next war, a whole bunch of what looks like "Coca Cola" delivery trucks pull up in major cities of the enemies of america, and then the Pres gets on TV and says that if the enemy country doesn't aquesce to demands of oil and abandonment of nuclear weapons programmes, those trucks will blow up at say 1000lbs of TNT each. Closer inspection of the trucks shows that they're highly sophisticated robot drones, monitored from space, with fake drivers, and rigged to explode if tampered with.
Plenty of time to get civilians out of the area, and it would smash things like major factories and what not.
When confronted with using "Terrorist Tactics", the Pres smiles disarmingly and says "Well, we've had it up to here with you. We figured, if you can't beat 'em, become exactly like them."
Read the wikki. The thing that is unique about the Tale in the Desert series is that there is a heavy emphasis on roleplay and not much emphasis on advancement through combat. The rioters could have probably killed the trader, but that would have had very real world style consequences rather than them just gaining XP.
Instead the players are forced to take political and social sanctions against the NPC, and resolve the issue of sexual discrimination as a societ.
Of course it could be argued that players are playing this game so that they don't have to deal with things like sexual discrimination that they already get in bucketloads from the real world. After all, roleplaying it out may cheapen the pain that real world sexual discrimination causes, if handled badly, and a roleplay is only as good as they players and GM combined.
I hope it ends well. I hope that the players are able to come to a happy conclusion and maybe teach some of us on the other side of the screen a thing or two about life.
The funniest thing about this is the bbc article that says that Rockstar will agressively persue the "theives" using all the appropriate measures. I pity the fool who gets in their way..
"to take "inssurance" that the US will not do war against them"
Hmm. How come other countries don't just pay America to not do war against them. Trying to build a WMD is like trying to buy a pistol while the Mafia has Tommy guns.
Pretty much what Onuma's team did was take the gene sequence that encodes a gene that bosses other genes around from a fly and stuck it in a frog. Now the frog has a compound eye with multiple lenses.
Of course, over evolutionary time you wouldn't need Onuma to do this, random mutagenesis could do it just fine. If there was an advantage to having compound eyes for frogs, then that frog would be populous and be easily found, along side their normal eyed ancestors (for a while at least).
The evidence of such missing link animals wouldn't show up on the fossil record - if you had a frog which could - at the change of a few base pairs in its DNA - form a compound eye, but the backup gene was working so they just had regular eyes, it's gross morphology would look like a regular frog when you dug it up.
For life to live and have kids, it has to work. You can have animals that have "half a circulatory system" (like flies which lack lungs but instead have an "open" circulatory system where blood mixes with air) but generally these look like fully fledged morphologyies because they work so well.
Exciting evolutionary events tend to happen at the molecular scale, and don't manifest until everything is ready.
"Microsoft's fortunes grew with personal computers or, more specifically, supplying the software for what used to be called "IBM-compatible PCs". It is easy to forget that 20 years ago there were a number of standards competing for dominance. (Of the others, only Apple survives.)"
"Google knows it cannot remain just a search engine company, because that leaves it vulnerable if someone else comes along and does it better. That is why it keeps adding services. The best publicised has been its proposed e-mail service, Gmail, which has upset privacy activists because it will include advertising based on the content of the e-mails. But it is likely to prove extremely popular because it will make searching through e-mail much easier and quicker, and because it offers a gigabyte of storage. For most users, that means they will never have to delete another e-mail. "
"But Microsoft is vulnerable if a competitor shifts the focus away from the PC and on to the internet. And we all know the company most capable of that."
Take that all to the extreme - If network centric computing and a company like google go to the logical conclusion of their efforts, subsuming encyclopedia software (remember encarta?), email, games and eventually word processing and other applications into an always on, globally available internet technology that would free you from not just your desktop but from even needing a permanent computer of your own, wouldn't the most logical thing to beat be problems with privacy?
After all, if you can eliminate "spying" on a distributed system like that, then you've aready eliminated spyware as a matter of course (maybe by using thin clients and making all the intelligence and security reside in the server and communication layers).
Slashdot Mirror
you would prefer to fly on the TCS Tiger's Claw (CVS-07) or the Concordia (CVS-65)?
e nt ry=t#tigersclaw
http://www.wcrevival.de/encyclopedia/index.php?
If only they had a business^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H army time machine.
"This is your PDA. Next to your flashlight this is the most important piece of gear we will issue you..."
I read that article.
It was called Battle Plan Under Fire
and the guys's name was U.S. Marine Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper - he gets talked about halfway down the transcript.
Makes you wonder - what would happen if in the next war, a whole bunch of what looks like "Coca Cola" delivery trucks pull up in major cities of the enemies of america, and then the Pres gets on TV and says that if the enemy country doesn't aquesce to demands of oil and abandonment of nuclear weapons programmes, those trucks will blow up at say 1000lbs of TNT each. Closer inspection of the trucks shows that they're highly sophisticated robot drones, monitored from space, with fake drivers, and rigged to explode if tampered with.
Plenty of time to get civilians out of the area, and it would smash things like major factories and what not.
When confronted with using "Terrorist Tactics", the Pres smiles disarmingly and says "Well, we've had it up to here with you. We figured, if you can't beat 'em, become exactly like them."
Perversely, in three cases, U.S. vehicles were actually attacked while they stopped to receive intelligence data on enemy positions.
Oh great. All that money and all we get is someone yelling "BEHIND YOU!!!"
the technology review pasted this flash ad right in the middle of the page --
"See How IBM Middleware connects people, processes and information.
Middleware is Everywhere. Can You See It?"
sheesh.
Read the wikki. The thing that is unique about the Tale in the Desert series is that there is a heavy emphasis on roleplay and not much emphasis on advancement through combat. The rioters could have probably killed the trader, but that would have had very real world style consequences rather than them just gaining XP.
Instead the players are forced to take political and social sanctions against the NPC, and resolve the issue of sexual discrimination as a societ.
Of course it could be argued that players are playing this game so that they don't have to deal with things like sexual discrimination that they already get in bucketloads from the real world. After all, roleplaying it out may cheapen the pain that real world sexual discrimination causes, if handled badly, and a roleplay is only as good as they players and GM combined.
I hope it ends well. I hope that the players are able to come to a happy conclusion and maybe teach some of us on the other side of the screen a thing or two about life.
"Hey! Can you save that article that's just about to come off the roll about the new Microsoft IE exploit?"
"Too late."
"Ah well. It'll probably come up as a dupe again later."
Except for the native americans.
This time the probe is the mission.
"I tell you this Huygens had better develop a better theory of light or something..." -Cpt Miller
"Nasa has lost so many probes. We can't let them lose any more. We have to bring the data back." - Boris Smeds
genetic algorithms
ZeeWeed is people! Tell everyone!
Yeah, I remember how pong was going to simulate real tennis in every minute detail.
Stop overpromising.
The funniest thing about this is the bbc article that says that Rockstar will agressively persue the "theives" using all the appropriate measures. I pity the fool who gets in their way..
"to take "inssurance" that the US will not do war against them"
Hmm. How come other countries don't just pay America to not do war against them. Trying to build a WMD is like trying to buy a pistol while the Mafia has Tommy guns.
Rockstar Games has vowed to track down the "thieves" who leaked GTA san Andreas to the p2p networks
I wonder if they're going to run them over multiple times... before shooting them. and jumping on them.
This article by Yasuko Onuma et al Univeristy of Tokyo shows how grossly different physical traits come about by small changes to sequence within key genes.
Pretty much what Onuma's team did was take the gene sequence that encodes a gene that bosses other genes around from a fly and stuck it in a frog. Now the frog has a compound eye with multiple lenses.
Of course, over evolutionary time you wouldn't need Onuma to do this, random mutagenesis could do it just fine. If there was an advantage to having compound eyes for frogs, then that frog would be populous and be easily found, along side their normal eyed ancestors (for a while at least).
The evidence of such missing link animals wouldn't show up on the fossil record - if you had a frog which could - at the change of a few base pairs in its DNA - form a compound eye, but the backup gene was working so they just had regular eyes, it's gross morphology would look like a regular frog when you dug it up.
For life to live and have kids, it has to work. You can have animals that have "half a circulatory system" (like flies which lack lungs but instead have an "open" circulatory system where blood mixes with air) but generally these look like fully fledged morphologyies because they work so well.
Exciting evolutionary events tend to happen at the molecular scale, and don't manifest until everything is ready.
Watch your children.
Where did all these Evil Associations of America come from? Is there some kind Uber Evil Association of America that keeps spinning these guys off?
I guess the best defense is a good slashdotting.
5TB? how much is that in Libraries of Congress?
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1144882004
The above link has three pertinant quotes.
"Microsoft's fortunes grew with personal computers or, more specifically, supplying the software for what used to be called "IBM-compatible PCs". It is easy to forget that 20 years ago there were a number of standards competing for dominance. (Of the others, only Apple survives.)"
"Google knows it cannot remain just a search engine company, because that leaves it vulnerable if someone else comes along and does it better. That is why it keeps adding services. The best publicised has been its proposed e-mail service, Gmail, which has upset privacy activists because it will include advertising based on the content of the e-mails. But it is likely to prove extremely popular because it will make searching through e-mail much easier and quicker, and because it offers a gigabyte of storage. For most users, that means they will never have to delete another e-mail. "
"But Microsoft is vulnerable if a competitor shifts the focus away from the PC and on to the internet. And we all know the company most capable of that."
Take that all to the extreme - If network centric computing and a company like google go to the logical conclusion of their efforts, subsuming encyclopedia software (remember encarta?), email, games and eventually word processing and other applications into an always on, globally available internet technology that would free you from not just your desktop but from even needing a permanent computer of your own, wouldn't the most logical thing to beat be problems with privacy?
After all, if you can eliminate "spying" on a distributed system like that, then you've aready eliminated spyware as a matter of course (maybe by using thin clients and making all the intelligence and security reside in the server and communication layers).
ouch.
123 fake street is on the waterfront between Bart's Demolished Factory and Fake Vomit Inc, off Industrial Way.
It's a tiny beige square downtown, between Springfield Junior High and King Toots on Walnut Street.