Wait till they start secretly adding free religious programing in place of channels you might actually want to watch. It's like Jesus and Folder's got together with some venture capitalists with one goal: to piss me off.
Surely you're not advocating personal responsibility? Just imagine what the world would come to if everyone did that? It might become the standard, and then who could I blame for my screw-ups!?
Just a bunch of Highschool punks, makeing radio worth listening to. They play basically dance, but it's an ecclectic mix of a fairly large number of songs.
I listen to them as much as I make use of my mp3 stereo. Which is pretty significant because until I accidently found them I hadn't used the radio for radio in months.
Thanks clear channel for taking the public's spectrum and filling it with useless garbage. Fortunately, we've got the government and highschool kids makeing some use out of it. MTV's right, kids can make a difference.
Oddly enough, when I listen to the radio, it's only for music now. I found this really great radio station in Seattle that plays something other than crap. When I found out it was a high school's station I was floored. But then I thought, wait, they're high school students, they probably still like music.
As much as news anchors it seems, at least to me, that their job is something of a popularity contest. There are a couple of ways to go about that, and he chose preaching to the choir. Seems to work pretty well in general, and it's not like his sentiment is strongly contested here.
I would think that the real criticism is the lack of subtlety in his excecution. Maybe the trick of herding cats is to do it such a way that they think they got to the final destination on their own.
A short list of cool things that wouldn't exist without war.
Godzilla The Death Star 99 Luftballoons All First Person Shooters Time Life's Music of the 70's would be all disco were it not for war Any movie with Nazi's as villians Any spy movie Any movie that features nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons Any movie about the morality of war Any movie about the fraternal nature of men at war Any movie about people suffering injustly durning war The History Channel
And if a game about the destruction of Saddam's regiem would make the Iraqis sad, perhaps they should decline to import it when they form their government. Or perhaps Iraqis would like to try their hand at shooting up all the fedayeen and Hussien. There could even be a shoe code. Time Splitters has bricks, Shock & Awe could have shoes.
State Of Emergency. But when the civilian penalty is in effect, you lose 1000 points, out of millions, for each one killed. And all offenses are punishible by death, especially being a cop.
Rape and child porn simulators? Try Japan.
So now that you know about these things which you think shouldn't exist, what are you going to do? Is yours a smaller life now? Your humanity diminished because people are participating in activities that you find objectionable? Of course, not. And a game that involves shooting up old soviet hardware, and assholes with rpgs doesn't either.
The skinnies even throw rocks at you, which do damage, and you're still not allowed to kill them. Well a lot of them. Of course the real challenge in that game is keeping the stupid computer squad members alive.
I would think that it would be fairly stright forward to write a jitter sensitivity control so that when the mouse was moving, presumably smoothly and relatively quickly, that the widget would have one context, and another when it was bouncing over a small range of points near each other. What would that annoying result be? I suspect an oh-no-second or so of lag between when you start to move the mouse, and when the cursor moves on the screen, with an additional slider in the driver window.
Even though, I'm a pc user and am not particularly fond of macs, apple shouldn't bite the bullet. Three things might happen: The market will embrace it and there will be a couple of clones, it'll be revolutionary and people will wonder how we ever made toast without it or why we ever drank beer out of bottles, or someone will collect unemployment. Either way, I don't see how any of those things are bad for me.
I think the idea would be that if you're moving the mouse you might use it as a button, but you might use for fine control over things like paning.
Seems like car stereo's have had these sorts of controls for a while, and flight sticks, and fighter planes before that. I would hope the patent is more for their particular implimentation rather than, "Look! We took a button off device x, and hooked it into device y. No one else can combine chocolate and peanut butter without paying us first!"
But I can't be bothered to RTFA, its sunday for christ's sake.
I'm stuck with second or even third rate software from a security standpoint for a while yet, because of applications I prefer.
I also wisely behave accordingly. And wasting tax dollars for the dubiously useful information on my computers is a waste. The money is better spent on protecting critical infrastructure against the next surprise. While that's a noble use for public funds, there's no reason the source code should be as transparent as the accounting over the short term.
My view of terrorists is, at their core, they're relatively lazy, maybe more so than me, not too bright, and secretly want a confrontation, anything we can do to make them work just a little harder, is bonus.
But should there be a compelling need to tighten up the security of my computer, as opposed to those that are part of the public's infrastructer, that's not the place for tax dollars. That's the place for my time, and or pocket book. Anyway, as Erik Fish said, the money was just being wasted on BSD anyway.
The point is, the government shouldn't waste money extending everyone's capability when individuals make that choice for themselves, and their responsibility is only to protect our resources.
I said, that if they're going to get it, I'd prefer my tax dollars didn't put it in their hands. The US goverment can still contribute to BSD, making changes and holding them back for time for instance. No one here has said that the US goverment is outlawing BSD, open or otherwise, or even preventing people from doing what they already seem inclined to do. The US goverment just isn't going to cut them a check for it any more. So what. As I said, if the terrorist are going to get the goodies, I just prefer they didn't do it with the governments help.
Oh. And Osama disagrees. He's a fan of the internet. It's a good way to coordinate and disiminate plans after all. It's just so fast, easy, cheap, and reliable with all those opportunities to protect one's privacy.
Don't forget financial transactions, flying school, and first class plane tickets where they cased everything out before the attacks, oh and coordination with their organization abroad probably done over the internet.
Strawman arguments and oversimplification hardly help your point. Hell, since you're certain OpenBSD won't even slow down, the money would have been wasted on that endevor anyway. If it's not going to have any affect, why spend it, right? The more I think about it, the more I agree with you. With us, against us, so what, the money was going to go to wasted anyway, now it might not.:) Thanks for talking some sence into me. I thought this wasn't a big deal for completely irrelavent reasons.
So would you feel safer knowing they have free and unfettered access to software people are pretty sure is exceptionally secure, and difficult to penetrate without the human factor? Or would you feel safer knowing they use less than current versions software of somewhat ambigious security, where a comparitively tiny fraction of people know precisely how secure that software is, and precisely the circumstances under which it isn't?
If the terrorist are going to have the best in, or even just better, security, I'd prefer they didn't download it off goarmy.com/downloads. Call it a quirk.
I would imagine that "If you record an episode of Cops, you may be eligiable for a guest appearence on Cops" would get a lot of attention, especially in Georgia.
It's nice that you think the practice of using statistics for anything should be outlawed and all (see I can do it too), but how about you get over yourself and take that deep breath you've been meaning to get around to.
Yeah war is bad. But how about all the good things that come from war.
Computers, while the transistor was first postulated in the 1920's iirc, it wasn't popularized until after the governments were supporting the infant industry for a couple of decades. It turns out computing things like artillary tables takes a little bit of skill if you want them to be accurate, and it's pretty boring stuff if you're good enough to be accurate. Fortunately, sometimes really smart people get together and tackle tough problems like writing a computer program to do something like calculate artillary tables, or crack codes on something perhaps not as smart as a stoplight. Which gives them all kinds of ideas about how they can make that difficult problem less of a pain in the ass, which has a side benefit of bringing other problems into the realm of solvible. A couple score of years later and presto a trillion dollar industry.
Or Aluminum cans. World wide information networks internet, satillites, tv, cellphones and otherwise. I don't think I need to remind anyone where jet engines came from! The world we all enjoy, it wasn't just protected by the weapons built with those billions, it was built on the revalations uncovered in their pursuit. Millitary investmens took us from marconi, and the spirit of st. louis to telepresence software, and the networks that support it. Far from buying us peace alone, they bought us time. Something few other investments can boast.
Better Physics Stuff like deformable terrain, not just like Red Faction either. Rendering shockwaves and explosions. Wreckless for the xbox kinda approximated this. As did the first AvP with it's deformable explosions. Explosions that fully interact with the enviroment. How many games have explosions that pick up stuff lying around and turn it into shrapnel? Which also ties into material physics. Doors/walls that can be shot through, or not, shooting open locks, effect of explosions such as a door being reduced to spinters, blown in, or just deformed and possibly jammed shut. Etc. Different index of refraction for different mediums. Not just water, but hot air. Many games also have lowlight vision, or thermoptics, which can be improved on.
You might like Black Hawk Down. Much of the team games are stalking, and shooting anything that's not on your team, and one solid shot gets a kill. So instead of hording weapons, it's more about detecting the target before the target detects you.
There are a few studies. Most are inconclusive. The one guys who's studies were conclusive was discredited for faking those results. Oops.
But much of it comes from annecdotal evidence of people who have brain tumors shaped like their cell phone antenna, and there aren't very many annecdotes at that.
I'm not a molecular biologist or anything, but I would guess the low frequency radiation which can penetrate a little way into the body isn't damaging because it ionizes anything, but because it might trick some cells into setting up shop. So it wouldn't be the energy of the signal so much as the asymetry with which it is delivered. And it wouldn't so much cause a tumor, as choose it's location. But that's my layman's supposition. And I don't think I've seen any articles or research that support that viewpoint.
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Wait till they start secretly adding free religious programing in place of channels you might actually want to watch. It's like Jesus and Folder's got together with some venture capitalists with one goal: to piss me off.
Surely you're not advocating personal responsibility? Just imagine what the world would come to if everyone did that? It might become the standard, and then who could I blame for my screw-ups!?
Just a bunch of Highschool punks, makeing radio worth listening to. They play basically dance, but it's an ecclectic mix of a fairly large number of songs.
I listen to them as much as I make use of my mp3 stereo. Which is pretty significant because until I accidently found them I hadn't used the radio for radio in months.
Thanks clear channel for taking the public's spectrum and filling it with useless garbage. Fortunately, we've got the government and highschool kids makeing some use out of it. MTV's right, kids can make a difference.
Oddly enough, when I listen to the radio, it's only for music now. I found this really great radio station in Seattle that plays something other than crap. When I found out it was a high school's station I was floored. But then I thought, wait, they're high school students, they probably still like music.
As much as news anchors it seems, at least to me, that their job is something of a popularity contest. There are a couple of ways to go about that, and he chose preaching to the choir. Seems to work pretty well in general, and it's not like his sentiment is strongly contested here.
I would think that the real criticism is the lack of subtlety in his excecution. Maybe the trick of herding cats is to do it such a way that they think they got to the final destination on their own.
A short list of cool things that wouldn't exist without war.
Godzilla
The Death Star
99 Luftballoons
All First Person Shooters
Time Life's Music of the 70's would be all disco were it not for war
Any movie with Nazi's as villians
Any spy movie
Any movie that features nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons
Any movie about the morality of war
Any movie about the fraternal nature of men at war
Any movie about people suffering injustly durning war
The History Channel
And if a game about the destruction of Saddam's regiem would make the Iraqis sad, perhaps they should decline to import it when they form their government. Or perhaps Iraqis would like to try their hand at shooting up all the fedayeen and Hussien. There could even be a shoe code. Time Splitters has bricks, Shock & Awe could have shoes.
State Of Emergency. But when the civilian penalty is in effect, you lose 1000 points, out of millions, for each one killed. And all offenses are punishible by death, especially being a cop.
Rape and child porn simulators? Try Japan.
So now that you know about these things which you think shouldn't exist, what are you going to do? Is yours a smaller life now? Your humanity diminished because people are participating in activities that you find objectionable? Of course, not. And a game that involves shooting up old soviet hardware, and assholes with rpgs doesn't either.
I'll put that down as a "No Thanks."
The skinnies even throw rocks at you, which do damage, and you're still not allowed to kill them. Well a lot of them. Of course the real challenge in that game is keeping the stupid computer squad members alive.
It mentions S-video and 6.1 sound. At least in their pdf order form.
I would think that it would be fairly stright forward to write a jitter sensitivity control so that when the mouse was moving, presumably smoothly and relatively quickly, that the widget would have one context, and another when it was bouncing over a small range of points near each other. What would that annoying result be? I suspect an oh-no-second or so of lag between when you start to move the mouse, and when the cursor moves on the screen, with an additional slider in the driver window.
Even though, I'm a pc user and am not particularly fond of macs, apple shouldn't bite the bullet. Three things might happen: The market will embrace it and there will be a couple of clones, it'll be revolutionary and people will wonder how we ever made toast without it or why we ever drank beer out of bottles, or someone will collect unemployment. Either way, I don't see how any of those things are bad for me.
I think the idea would be that if you're moving the mouse you might use it as a button, but you might use for fine control over things like paning.
Seems like car stereo's have had these sorts of controls for a while, and flight sticks, and fighter planes before that. I would hope the patent is more for their particular implimentation rather than, "Look! We took a button off device x, and hooked it into device y. No one else can combine chocolate and peanut butter without paying us first!"
But I can't be bothered to RTFA, its sunday for christ's sake.
I'm stuck with second or even third rate software from a security standpoint for a while yet, because of applications I prefer.
I also wisely behave accordingly. And wasting tax dollars for the dubiously useful information on my computers is a waste. The money is better spent on protecting critical infrastructure against the next surprise. While that's a noble use for public funds, there's no reason the source code should be as transparent as the accounting over the short term.
My view of terrorists is, at their core, they're relatively lazy, maybe more so than me, not too bright, and secretly want a confrontation, anything we can do to make them work just a little harder, is bonus.
But should there be a compelling need to tighten up the security of my computer, as opposed to those that are part of the public's infrastructer, that's not the place for tax dollars. That's the place for my time, and or pocket book. Anyway, as Erik Fish said, the money was just being wasted on BSD anyway.
The point is, the government shouldn't waste money extending everyone's capability when individuals make that choice for themselves, and their responsibility is only to protect our resources.
Did I say that? I'm pretty sure you did.
:) Thanks for talking some sence into me. I thought this wasn't a big deal for completely irrelavent reasons.
I said, that if they're going to get it, I'd prefer my tax dollars didn't put it in their hands. The US goverment can still contribute to BSD, making changes and holding them back for time for instance. No one here has said that the US goverment is outlawing BSD, open or otherwise, or even preventing people from doing what they already seem inclined to do. The US goverment just isn't going to cut them a check for it any more. So what. As I said, if the terrorist are going to get the goodies, I just prefer they didn't do it with the governments help.
Oh. And Osama disagrees. He's a fan of the internet. It's a good way to coordinate and disiminate plans after all. It's just so fast, easy, cheap, and reliable with all those opportunities to protect one's privacy.
Don't forget financial transactions, flying school, and first class plane tickets where they cased everything out before the attacks, oh and coordination with their organization abroad probably done over the internet.
Strawman arguments and oversimplification hardly help your point. Hell, since you're certain OpenBSD won't even slow down, the money would have been wasted on that endevor anyway. If it's not going to have any affect, why spend it, right? The more I think about it, the more I agree with you. With us, against us, so what, the money was going to go to wasted anyway, now it might not.
So would you feel safer knowing they have free and unfettered access to software people are pretty sure is exceptionally secure, and difficult to penetrate without the human factor? Or would you feel safer knowing they use less than current versions software of somewhat ambigious security, where a comparitively tiny fraction of people know precisely how secure that software is, and precisely the circumstances under which it isn't?
If the terrorist are going to have the best in, or even just better, security, I'd prefer they didn't download it off goarmy.com/downloads. Call it a quirk.
Stiffness or stiffness per unit wieght, or per unit volume are what springs are all about.
This sounds like a typical shape memory alloy, aside from the amount of strain that is able to be recovered, exhibiting superplasticity.
The Russians years ago even made a cool movie of the shape memory effect with their giant sychrotron x-ray sources.
I would imagine that "If you record an episode of Cops, you may be eligiable for a guest appearence on Cops" would get a lot of attention, especially in Georgia.
They are technology so advanced that it appeares to be magic, and that's not scifi? Seems like they do a hell of a job selling it.
I guess the Joss Whedon, Rick Berman & Brannon Braga mutual admiration society didn't leave any room for something watchable.
Read much into things?
It's nice that you think the practice of using statistics for anything should be outlawed and all (see I can do it too), but how about you get over yourself and take that deep breath you've been meaning to get around to.
Thanks.
Yeah war is bad. But how about all the good things that come from war.
Computers, while the transistor was first postulated in the 1920's iirc, it wasn't popularized until after the governments were supporting the infant industry for a couple of decades. It turns out computing things like artillary tables takes a little bit of skill if you want them to be accurate, and it's pretty boring stuff if you're good enough to be accurate. Fortunately, sometimes really smart people get together and tackle tough problems like writing a computer program to do something like calculate artillary tables, or crack codes on something perhaps not as smart as a stoplight. Which gives them all kinds of ideas about how they can make that difficult problem less of a pain in the ass, which has a side benefit of bringing other problems into the realm of solvible. A couple score of years later and presto a trillion dollar industry.
Or Aluminum cans. World wide information networks internet, satillites, tv, cellphones and otherwise. I don't think I need to remind anyone where jet engines came from! The world we all enjoy, it wasn't just protected by the weapons built with those billions, it was built on the revalations uncovered in their pursuit. Millitary investmens took us from marconi, and the spirit of st. louis to telepresence software, and the networks that support it. Far from buying us peace alone, they bought us time. Something few other investments can boast.
It already exists for windows too. I thought it was neat for about a week.
That's not entirely true. Mechassault has mods, new mechs new maps etc. The game might not be that great, but it isn't devoid of mods.
While there might not be Total Conversions for DooM ]I[ on the xbox, it could still have mods.
Volumetric lighting, redering
Nice Anisotropic textures
Better Physics
Stuff like deformable terrain, not just like Red Faction either.
Rendering shockwaves and explosions. Wreckless for the xbox kinda approximated this. As did the first AvP with it's deformable explosions.
Explosions that fully interact with the enviroment. How many games have explosions that pick up stuff lying around and turn it into shrapnel?
Which also ties into material physics. Doors/walls that can be shot through, or not, shooting open locks, effect of explosions such as a door being reduced to spinters, blown in, or just deformed and possibly jammed shut. Etc.
Different index of refraction for different mediums. Not just water, but hot air.
Many games also have lowlight vision, or thermoptics, which can be improved on.
You might like Black Hawk Down. Much of the team games are stalking, and shooting anything that's not on your team, and one solid shot gets a kill. So instead of hording weapons, it's more about detecting the target before the target detects you.
That was the best troll I've seen in a while. Thanks. (But the ancient "No Shadows In Space" thread from the days of yore was still better.)
There are a few studies. Most are inconclusive. The one guys who's studies were conclusive was discredited for faking those results. Oops.
But much of it comes from annecdotal evidence of people who have brain tumors shaped like their cell phone antenna, and there aren't very many annecdotes at that.
I'm not a molecular biologist or anything, but I would guess the low frequency radiation which can penetrate a little way into the body isn't damaging because it ionizes anything, but because it might trick some cells into setting up shop. So it wouldn't be the energy of the signal so much as the asymetry with which it is delivered. And it wouldn't so much cause a tumor, as choose it's location. But that's my layman's supposition. And I don't think I've seen any articles or research that support that viewpoint.