Well, International Astronomical Union so far has not defined pluto as non-planet but is edging towards it with the detection of many other objects of similar scope and size as Pluto and Charon (Pluto's moon).
http://www.iau.org/PlutoPR.html
Pluto's been a planet for a long time, why change it? It just confuses people, anyway MVEMJSNUP doesn't work if you kill pluto.:(
I don't think he implied that everyone in the industry would die, but it would put a lot of people on the streets if the market vanished overnight. Programmers, publishers, distributers, designers, artists, sound techs, retailers, management... The industry supports a lot of people. EBX, Software Etc, Babbages, Eidos, Activision, ID, Microprose, Epic, Valve, Monolith, all come to mind, maybe even Wizard's of the coast. And on a local scale, Gameworks! Even Microsoft would take a decent hit. Chip makers would be hit as one of the driving forces behind their 'Need for Speed' would be gone. I don't think it would be a huge hit for them, but the likes of NVidia would suddenly have share in a vapormarket.
I'd say on the order of a couple million people at least.
Some would die. Guaranteed. 2 or 3 million people worldwide suddenly without jobs. There aren't enough open positions for which they'd be qualified to do.
But I agree with you, it is a little bit indirect.;)
IIRC Abrash has always worked for Microsoft. He just took a leave of absence when he went to ID because Microsoft _really_ likes Abrash and enjoys keeping him happy. When he felt he'd had enough of ID (not necessarily in the bad way;) he just went back to Microsoft and walked back into his office...
Half life's rendering routines were updated when Q2 was released, but most of the network and game logic is descended from Q1.
I could run across the street and ask for all the specifics, but it's raining out and it makes me miserable.:)
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I disagree... I don't think it needs to predict very much at all. It doesn't have to lead the target at all so why does it need to know where it's *going* to be? It can calculate where it _is_ and adjust the beam direction to compensate for the motion. Assuming the target is just at the horizon (outside of missile range, and assuming that atmospheric effects don't corrupt the beam, yadda yadda) it's just a point and shoot matter... I guess it just depends on how quickly you can adjust the laser's targetting mechanism to accomodate the motion of the target.
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The 747 could be up to 30,000 ft, putting the horizon at 202 miles (176 nautical miles). And if you're that far away you'll be taking several hours to fly around him and by the time you're behind him and his AWACS picks you up, he'll just leisurely turn around and point the laser at you again...
Also, from what I've been able to determine, the maximum effective range for most US Air to Air guided missiles is about 110 nautical miles. And unless you're terrain hugging you'll probably be visible at a range over the 202 (176 nautical miles) mile mark, but we'll ignore that slight difference. So you're approximately 66 nautical miles from firing range. It's a safe bet you'll be travelling at or near supersonic speeds so you could bridge that gap within a minute. Now I am not an expert in materials technology so I can't tell you how long it would take for the laser to burn through a critical system in a plane. I just think that a minute would be cutting it pretty close...
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if they equipped the 747 (or it's escort craft) with some form of point defense mechanism.
It'd be an interesting to see what would happen.:)
"Windows conceptually was ripped off from the Mac"
*bzzt*
Xerox PARC, IIRC, had the first GUI and it was they who got ripped off. The Mouse as well I believe. and OOB... Pulldown menus...
Just to be nitpicky:)
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IMHO, it would appear to be some sort of flying vehicle that runs on an unconventional power source (IE, not Oil products [hmm... Karma?]). The car companies would oppose it, the gas companies would oppose it, even cities would oppose it due to the hazards flying vehicles could pose in the hands of general consumers.
It sounds like it is highly portable: "In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers -- or ITs -- in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes. ".
I don't think it's a hovercraft as that would not really conjure up the notions such as these: "Kemper says the invention will "sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking."", "Jobs is quoted as saying: "...If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen." ".
A flying craft, however, would require design consideration for buildings (entrances on many levels, less overhangs to bang your head on, etc) where a hovercraft could be suited for ordinary streets (really, what modifications to a city would you need for a hovercraft? how could it benifit significantly from any changes?)
Of course I could be totally wrong about this... But based on the information provided in the article it sounds like a fair bet.
heh, checked one with from one of our 'partners' (WebMethods, Inc.)
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Bastards.
Among many other embedded images at system generated URLs (but all have a similar ID string
[http://tako.sierra.com/wrclick?v&CoreNewsletter He ader&ID=fPb8itB1P3Hupellk.vjI])
Network Solutions (even had my email address embedded in the image URL)
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They seem to embed them between the closing BODY tag and the closing HTML tag in most cases.
Kind of scary. I think I'm going to stop using Outlook... *shiver*
(not to say *all* of these are web bugs, but they were suspicious)
what annoys me is that X-Com runs poorly on newer systems (or not at all...), are the re-released versions modified to accomodate things such as Windows?
I miss X-Com:(
How much do you think they'll charge the other "free" ISPs to license the technology? AFAIK this is the only revenue "free" ISPs have from consumers. If Netzero wins, will they be the only "free" ISP standing in a few years? A Monopoly on a "free" market?
"free" - Banner ads are not free. they waste CPU cycle, bandwidth, time, and damn they're annoying.
In my Elementary school and highschool most of the teachers couldn't figure out to turn it on (Now where did the training portion of that $3 million tech budget go?)
I actually got suspended for opening up a DOS prompt and "hacking into the network" (C:\> x:, oops! I'm on the network, I'm a hacker. *cough*) in 7th grade.
The tech teacher at the highschool when I got there was actually pleased that I had been looking around and wished more students would.
It's sad that people are afraid of things they don't understand. So afraid that they punish people who do understand it.
Well, not entirely true. Matrox still has a strong position in the market. It's niche is not in the 3d acceleration but it does field some impressive technology. ATI has been gaining significant ground in it's latest generation of cards. There are still issues and ATI still seems to have a fairly dirty reputation due to it's previous dilemmas but it could pose a threat to nVidia if they play their cards right. There are a few others in the field but none that are exceptionally noteworthy.
The news of the deal with Quantum3D over the V5 6000 gave hints that 3dfx starting to run into trouble. The recognized grandfather of consumer 3d acceleration bowing out of the race could very well change the shape of the market in the future. nVidia has a huge lead over most of it's competitors (BitBoys [do they even have a product yet?], S3 [i think diamond bought them...], ATI [they're catching up, but not fast enough. Had they bought 3dfx they could probably have weilded the combined technology's to bring themselves par with nVidia in a few short years.], Matrox, et al) even with it's current products. The technical inovation that 3dfx's technology and production facilties can bring to nVidia are staggering. Think of what nVidia could do with SLI geForce chips? How about T-buffer and an improved Anti-Alias? Will there be a joint venture with Quantum3D similar to what 3dfx had?(Just no extra power supply needed *please*)
This news is not without possibly dire consequences. Though unlikely, it could bring about an era of stagnation within nVidia as it figures out what the hell to do with all the stuff it acquired and how to integrate it into it's products. Once they're so far ahead that it's clear no one can catch them in the near future, will they start to exploit their position in an unfriendly manner?
Time will tell.
I just can't wait to get my hands on whatever they can do with the hybrid technologies...
Slashdot Mirror
dammit, I post and then scroll up to see what was posted while I was typing, and someone already did it!
*grumble*
wiposucks.com
udrpsucks.com
and while we're at it...
dmcasucks.com
riaasucks.com
mpaasucks.com
thisdomainnamereallysucks.com
hmmmm...
Eh, it was an out of my ass thing and I never used it anyway ;)
IDG Books sues Slashdot and it's parent Andover for diluting their trademark with confusing and misleading story headings... More at 11 o'clock.
Well, International Astronomical Union so far has not defined pluto as non-planet but is edging towards it with the detection of many other objects of similar scope and size as Pluto and Charon (Pluto's moon).
:(
http://www.iau.org/PlutoPR.html
Pluto's been a planet for a long time, why change it? It just confuses people, anyway MVEMJSNUP doesn't work if you kill pluto.
I don't think he implied that everyone in the industry would die, but it would put a lot of people on the streets if the market vanished overnight. Programmers, publishers, distributers, designers, artists, sound techs, retailers, management... The industry supports a lot of people. EBX, Software Etc, Babbages, Eidos, Activision, ID, Microprose, Epic, Valve, Monolith, all come to mind, maybe even Wizard's of the coast. And on a local scale, Gameworks! Even Microsoft would take a decent hit. Chip makers would be hit as one of the driving forces behind their 'Need for Speed' would be gone. I don't think it would be a huge hit for them, but the likes of NVidia would suddenly have share in a vapormarket.
;)
I'd say on the order of a couple million people at least.
Some would die. Guaranteed. 2 or 3 million people worldwide suddenly without jobs. There aren't enough open positions for which they'd be qualified to do.
But I agree with you, it is a little bit indirect.
IIRC Abrash has always worked for Microsoft. He just took a leave of absence when he went to ID because Microsoft _really_ likes Abrash and enjoys keeping him happy. When he felt he'd had enough of ID (not necessarily in the bad way;) he just went back to Microsoft and walked back into his office...
:)
Or so I've been told.
Half life's rendering routines were updated when Q2 was released, but most of the network and game logic is descended from Q1.
:)
I could run across the street and ask for all the specifics, but it's raining out and it makes me miserable.
I disagree... I don't think it needs to predict very much at all. It doesn't have to lead the target at all so why does it need to know where it's *going* to be? It can calculate where it _is_ and adjust the beam direction to compensate for the motion. Assuming the target is just at the horizon (outside of missile range, and assuming that atmospheric effects don't corrupt the beam, yadda yadda) it's just a point and shoot matter... I guess it just depends on how quickly you can adjust the laser's targetting mechanism to accomodate the motion of the target.
The 747 could be up to 30,000 ft, putting the horizon at 202 miles (176 nautical miles). And if you're that far away you'll be taking several hours to fly around him and by the time you're behind him and his AWACS picks you up, he'll just leisurely turn around and point the laser at you again...
:)
Also, from what I've been able to determine, the maximum effective range for most US Air to Air guided missiles is about 110 nautical miles. And unless you're terrain hugging you'll probably be visible at a range over the 202 (176 nautical miles) mile mark, but we'll ignore that slight difference. So you're approximately 66 nautical miles from firing range. It's a safe bet you'll be travelling at or near supersonic speeds so you could bridge that gap within a minute. Now I am not an expert in materials technology so I can't tell you how long it would take for the laser to burn through a critical system in a plane. I just think that a minute would be cutting it pretty close...
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if they equipped the 747 (or it's escort craft) with some form of point defense mechanism.
It'd be an interesting to see what would happen.
"Windows conceptually was ripped off from the Mac"
:)
*bzzt*
Xerox PARC, IIRC, had the first GUI and it was they who got ripped off. The Mouse as well I believe. and OOB... Pulldown menus...
Just to be nitpicky
IMHO, it would appear to be some sort of flying vehicle that runs on an unconventional power source (IE, not Oil products [hmm... Karma?]). The car companies would oppose it, the gas companies would oppose it, even cities would oppose it due to the hazards flying vehicles could pose in the hands of general consumers.
It sounds like it is highly portable: "In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers -- or ITs -- in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes. ".
I don't think it's a hovercraft as that would not really conjure up the notions such as these: "Kemper says the invention will "sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking."", "Jobs is quoted as saying: "...If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen." ".
A flying craft, however, would require design consideration for buildings (entrances on many levels, less overhangs to bang your head on, etc) where a hovercraft could be suited for ordinary streets (really, what modifications to a city would you need for a hovercraft? how could it benifit significantly from any changes?)
Of course I could be totally wrong about this... But based on the information provided in the article it sounds like a fair bet.
heh, checked one with from one of our 'partners' (WebMethods, Inc.) img src="http://207.252.6.138/servlet/com.marketsoft.j sp.servlets.CustomerOfferViewed?watermark=1%3A-1%3 A-1%3A-1%3A-1%3A7785%3A-1%3A-1%3A680%3A-1"
Bastards.
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Among many other embedded images at system generated URLs (but all have a similar ID string
[http://tako.sierra.com/wrclick?v&CoreNewslette
HomeGain.com img src="http://click.homegain.com/kc1231313040.1001.
Barnes & Noble img src="http://www.ensuredmail.com/mbna/ctr.asp?e=YE
Buy.Com IMG SRC="http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/flosensing?y=C
WestWood Studios img width="1" height="1" src="http://www.m0.net/m/logopen02.asp?vid=676&ca
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Network Solutions (even had my email address embedded in the image URL)
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They seem to embed them between the closing BODY tag and the closing HTML tag in most cases.
Kind of scary. I think I'm going to stop using Outlook... *shiver*
(not to say *all* of these are web bugs, but they were suspicious)
Actually, I think the labor was free. I'll have to ask how much the supplies were, I'll post it when I get home... ;)
what annoys me is that X-Com runs poorly on newer systems (or not at all...), are the re-released versions modified to accomodate things such as Windows? I miss X-Com :(
The government of most states already do this. It's called TAX.
How much do you think they'll charge the other "free" ISPs to license the technology? AFAIK this is the only revenue "free" ISPs have from consumers. If Netzero wins, will they be the only "free" ISP standing in a few years? A Monopoly on a "free" market?
"free" - Banner ads are not free. they waste CPU cycle, bandwidth, time, and damn they're annoying.
oops, my bad, the threatening is in the second one and the first one is just a whiney message to detonate.net
(we put the weak in tweaktown...)
;)
Tweaktown threatening lawsuits because they weren't linked by a site from Detonate.net
and an email sent out by tweaktown and posted on detonate.net that prompted the reply above
Makes for some humorous reading
In my Elementary school and highschool most of the teachers couldn't figure out to turn it on (Now where did the training portion of that $3 million tech budget go?)
I actually got suspended for opening up a DOS prompt and "hacking into the network" (C:\> x:, oops! I'm on the network, I'm a hacker. *cough*) in 7th grade.
The tech teacher at the highschool when I got there was actually pleased that I had been looking around and wished more students would.
It's sad that people are afraid of things they don't understand. So afraid that they punish people who do understand it.
Oh, woops. Thanks for the heads up.
Just wait till Creative Labs swallows nVidia (or vice versa...), won't *that* be ugly?
Well, not entirely true. Matrox still has a strong position in the market. It's niche is not in the 3d acceleration but it does field some impressive technology. ATI has been gaining significant ground in it's latest generation of cards. There are still issues and ATI still seems to have a fairly dirty reputation due to it's previous dilemmas but it could pose a threat to nVidia if they play their cards right. There are a few others in the field but none that are exceptionally noteworthy.
The news of the deal with Quantum3D over the V5 6000 gave hints that 3dfx starting to run into trouble. The recognized grandfather of consumer 3d acceleration bowing out of the race could very well change the shape of the market in the future. nVidia has a huge lead over most of it's competitors (BitBoys [do they even have a product yet?], S3 [i think diamond bought them...], ATI [they're catching up, but not fast enough. Had they bought 3dfx they could probably have weilded the combined technology's to bring themselves par with nVidia in a few short years.], Matrox, et al) even with it's current products. The technical inovation that 3dfx's technology and production facilties can bring to nVidia are staggering. Think of what nVidia could do with SLI geForce chips? How about T-buffer and an improved Anti-Alias? Will there be a joint venture with Quantum3D similar to what 3dfx had?(Just no extra power supply needed *please*)
This news is not without possibly dire consequences. Though unlikely, it could bring about an era of stagnation within nVidia as it figures out what the hell to do with all the stuff it acquired and how to integrate it into it's products. Once they're so far ahead that it's clear no one can catch them in the near future, will they start to exploit their position in an unfriendly manner?
Time will tell.
I just can't wait to get my hands on whatever they can do with the hybrid technologies...