is showing a horrible fate without any actual, you know, _horror_, really something suitable for children?
Remember that Lucas has pretensions of telling an epic story suitable for being the basis of mythology for centuries to come. (Or at least that's how he comes off in interviews.)
We tell our kids about the Spartans at Thermopylae, and The Trojan Horse, The Sack of Troy and so on. We tell them about valiant men who put whole civilisations being put to the sword.
We do this so that when we want them to go off and fight wars of imperial conquest, they have some idea of how we want them to behave.
Of course we don't tell our kids that if you stab somebody in the liver the stuff that comes out of them as they lie dying is coloured green.
an ac wrote:"Try stepping out of the basement once in a while"
And get killed by falling rocks and ash?!?! No thanks! I'd rather live in my world where I saw the headline and thought that somebody had shot the Halflife game management system and that nice man with the chainsaw from Army of Darkness.
not an expert. I met a man with a needle who asked me to hold it for a minute, while he had to do something. I said um no I'm just a tourist. He said ok. And then we parted ways.
In singapore he would have hung, but it's decriminalised over there apparently.
"We believe that other countries or groups will pursue robotics," Richards said. "We can be at the vanguard, or we can lag behind and some day have to oppose a lethal robotic force. Better to be in the lead."
In other words, even ignoring performance benefits for a moment, if a game engine is correctly multi-threaded, I could continue to have 'command and control', and chat, functionality while the game engine, in another thread, is loading models and textures.
That would put the pressure back where it should be - on the level designers - to make sure that each segment was challenging enough so that a player couldn't pass through two loadzones simply by running so fast that the first zone hasn't fully loaded yet and wind up in a scary blank world full of placeholder objects.
I can see it now. Sony Playstaion X being bought by enemy nations to harvest their AI cards and install them in a new autonomous guidance module for SWORDs.
At present, the SWORD robot is operated with a thirty-pound control unit with two joysticks, buttons and a video screen. I wonder how much the current control module looks like a playstation portable?
It's just that it's called a GPU, sits on a special card, on a special slot and is sold to you regularly about once every six months for an ungodly amount of money.
It would be interesting if games were rewritten to run with the game logic on one core, the graphics on another core and the networking code on a third core of a multicore chip...
Hey. You could even have a mega-multicore chip and do first person shooters with realtime raytracing... each core is responsible for raytracing a small area of the screen. I'm sure that there's a company working on this. I saw a demo video in a computer graphics lecture. I'll have to check my notes.
One Ring My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor, And they're like, "It's better than yours" Damn right, it's better than yours, I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
I know you want it... The thing that makes me, What the wringwraiths crazy for, They lose their minds, the way I whine,
(Spoken:) I think it's time.
(La-La-La-La-la) Put it on, (La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching, (La-La-La-La-la) Disappear, (La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor, And they're like, "It's better than yours" Damn right, it's better than yours, I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
I can see you're on it... You want me to give the, one ring that freaks these elves, It can't be bought, Just the thieves get caught,
Spoken (By Gollum): My precioussses!.
(La-La-La-La-la) Put it on, (La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching, (La-La-La-La-la) Disappear, (La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching,
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor, And they're like "It's better than yours" Damn right, it's better than yours, I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
Oh, once you get involved, Everyone will look this way, kill, You're tougher than you look, Sametime maintain your mithril, Just get the perfect blend, Plus what you have within,
Then next his eyes'll squint, Then he's picked up your scent,
(La-La-La-La-la) Put it on, (La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching, (La-La-La-La-la) Disappear, (La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching.
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor, And they're like, "It's better than yours" Damn right, it's better than yours, I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
In ancient greece old men and young boys was a normal part of society. Go look up the sex lives of your favourite philosopher.
The reason why we ban child porn today is because (to my mind at least) we believe that a) old men and young kids will damage the kid b) the kid has rights that must be protected (not so in ancient greece) d) making the porn violates the rights of the kid in the porn (they are too young to stand up for themselves)
an ac wrote: This is to protect your printer, and renders the cart useless because the OPC is a living material that will be useless after a certain date...
"No one would have believed in the first years of the 21st century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Martians' and yet as mortal as his own; that as Martians busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a Martian with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency Martians went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of Martian danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most Martian men fancied there might be other men upon planet three, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this mars with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And to mars in the 21st century came the great disillusionment."
Slashdot Mirror
that was inspired
Isn't the enemy on the ground.
Says the general about the Iraqui insurgent forces.
What the general doesn't say is that the enemy they wargamed against were orks.
Our mission is to defend capitalism, not to practice it.
We give the nightvision goggles to pro-capitalism fighters.
Lets hack some cams, stick them on $89 lcd handheld tvs and send them to tibet as freedom fighter nightvision goggles.
It might make the fight more interesting.
is showing a horrible fate without any actual, you know, _horror_, really something suitable for children?
Remember that Lucas has pretensions of telling an epic story suitable for being the basis of mythology for centuries to come. (Or at least that's how he comes off in interviews.)
We tell our kids about the Spartans at Thermopylae, and The Trojan Horse, The Sack of Troy and so on. We tell them about valiant men who put whole civilisations being put to the sword.
We do this so that when we want them to go off and fight wars of imperial conquest, they have some idea of how we want them to behave.
Of course we don't tell our kids that if you stab somebody in the liver the stuff that comes out of them as they lie dying is coloured green.
an ac wrote:"Try stepping out of the basement once in a while"
And get killed by falling rocks and ash?!?! No thanks! I'd rather live in my world where I saw the headline and thought that somebody had shot the Halflife game management system and that nice man with the chainsaw from Army of Darkness.
They have your webpages. They have your email. Soon they will have your voice.
We get signal!
why is there no article about slashdotters who make it happen? :_(
Instead we are seen as this kind of human wave that takes down websites.
Maybe it's more eligatarian this way.
my mistake. If they did tax it, sell licences to deal, imagine the money they'd make.
not an expert. I met a man with a needle who asked me to hold it for a minute, while he had to do something. I said um no I'm just a tourist. He said ok. And then we parted ways.
In singapore he would have hung, but it's decriminalised over there apparently.
I had no idea that sites like that existed. Lets hope that you're kidding and that you'll never be able to buy or make parts.
like passing a law that makes it illegal for drug dealers to sell without a license.
Actually when governments pass a law like that, they're usually trying to make money. Take cigarettes, alcohol, and in amsterdam, heroin, for example.
I think ohio has seen a big fat cash cow and has decided to get down to milk it at gunpoint.
And the clock may be ticking. Perhaps an even larger imperative, according to Richards, is that the United States is not the only nation that recognizes the future of integrated battlefield robotics.
"We believe that other countries or groups will pursue robotics," Richards said. "We can be at the vanguard, or we can lag behind and some day have to oppose a lethal robotic force. Better to be in the lead."
In other words, even ignoring performance benefits for a moment, if a game engine is correctly multi-threaded, I could continue to have 'command and control', and chat, functionality while the game engine, in another thread, is loading models and textures.
That would put the pressure back where it should be - on the level designers - to make sure that each segment was challenging enough so that a player couldn't pass through two loadzones simply by running so fast that the first zone hasn't fully loaded yet and wind up in a scary blank world full of placeholder objects.
I can see it now. Sony Playstaion X being bought by enemy nations to harvest their AI cards and install them in a new autonomous guidance module for SWORDs.
At present, the SWORD robot is operated with a thirty-pound control unit with two joysticks, buttons and a video screen. I wonder how much the current control module looks like a playstation portable?
It's just that it's called a GPU, sits on a special card, on a special slot and is sold to you regularly about once every six months for an ungodly amount of money.
It would be interesting if games were rewritten to run with the game logic on one core, the graphics on another core and the networking code on a third core of a multicore chip...
Hey. You could even have a mega-multicore chip and do first person shooters with realtime raytracing... each core is responsible for raytracing a small area of the screen. I'm sure that there's a company working on this. I saw a demo video in a computer graphics lecture. I'll have to check my notes.
A Joseph Heller Novel
One Ring
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor,
And they're like, "It's better than yours"
Damn right, it's better than yours,
I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
I know you want it...
The thing that makes me,
What the wringwraiths crazy for,
They lose their minds, the way I whine,
(Spoken:) I think it's time.
(La-La-La-La-la) Put it on,
(La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching,
(La-La-La-La-la) Disappear,
(La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor,
And they're like, "It's better than yours"
Damn right, it's better than yours,
I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
I can see you're on it...
You want me to give the,
one ring that freaks these elves,
It can't be bought,
Just the thieves get caught,
Spoken (By Gollum): My precioussses!.
(La-La-La-La-la) Put it on,
(La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching,
(La-La-La-La-la) Disappear,
(La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching,
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor,
And they're like "It's better than yours"
Damn right, it's better than yours,
I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
Oh, once you get involved,
Everyone will look this way, kill,
You're tougher than you look,
Sametime maintain your mithril,
Just get the perfect blend,
Plus what you have within,
Then next his eyes'll squint,
Then he's picked up your scent,
(La-La-La-La-la) Put it on,
(La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching,
(La-La-La-La-la) Disappear,
(La-La-La-La-la) The wringwraiths searching.
My one ring brings all the boys from Gondor,
And they're like, "It's better than yours"
Damn right, it's better than yours,
I can't stop now, gotta go to Mordor (2x)
slashdot quote of the day
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. -- John O'Hara
I know it's unfair (global problem, australian issue etc), but it's still OT.
In ancient greece old men and young boys was a normal part of society. Go look up the sex lives of your favourite philosopher.
The reason why we ban child porn today is because (to my mind at least) we believe that
a) old men and young kids will damage the kid
b) the kid has rights that must be protected (not so in ancient greece)
d) making the porn violates the rights of the kid in the porn (they are too young to stand up for themselves)
Looks like the expiry dates weren't secret. just obscure.
btw, the page 58 is the page 58 in the manual, which is page 64 in the pdf due to the cover and front matter being counted.
an ac wrote:
This is to protect your printer, and renders the cart useless because the OPC is a living material that will be useless after a certain date...
What is the OPC? The company who made robocop?
Tiiiiime... is on my side.
yes it is.
"No one would have believed in the first years of the 21st century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Martians' and yet as mortal as his own; that as Martians busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a Martian with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency Martians went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of Martian danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most Martian men fancied there might be other men upon planet three , perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this mars with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And to mars in the 21st century came the great disillusionment."