And on the flipside, that evil spamming domain is pulling contact information from people who *do* have legit info in the fields. Is it any wonder why people don't want real data in their whois record?
As I sit and stare out the window at a layer of snow, ice, and frigid temperatures, I'm pretty much thinking now would be a good time to burn some coal, cut down some rainforests, and club some baby seals for good measure.
Was just having this discussion with my dad, who is another huge flight sim buff. I would kill for new versions of Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, and TIE Fighter.
Sadly, it seems the PC market is in love with MMORPG's and FPS's. Which, I can't blame them too much - that's where the money is. The mass market seems to be all about fast paced, arcadey style games heavy on eye candy and light on realism. Which unfortunately makes producers gun shy about trying something new. And in turn, makes the joystick kind of pointless.
Which blows. I miss the days of desperately trying to keep my shot up biplane aloft while trying to shake Allied planes off my six and crawl back across the front.
It's how military R&D works. We're using stuff now that was developed what...20 or so years ago, if not more in many cases? The life cycle of this stuff is a lonnnnnnnng time (a combination of your standard red tape and just the time it really does take to properly push out this kinda stuff).
'Course, this often causes R&D to be fighting the last war. They're developing advanced technology that would be nice now, but not always useful for the next brand of warfare.
I wonder if the whole 'Take Two's Board will be gone March 23rd' could be construed as Jack making a terrorist threat....religious lunatic? Check....vague threats, targets, dates? Check.
CSS is such a pain in the butt we should all go back to using tables. I really think it's easier. Go back? I never stopped. I use CSS for text/form styles, and that's about it. Good old fashioned HTML tables are where it's at. I'm perfectly happy sticking with what works.
CSS is pretty much the one thing developer-wise that really gives me that 'dinosaur' feeling. Just don't see the need for those massive CSS files that try and lay out an entire site for you. I'm not sure whether I'm just getting old and curmudgeony, or there really isn't a good reason for laying out stuff in CSS.
I knew it was pretty much a ridiculous list when Wil Wright was not even *listed*. Especially with Spore in development, which could theoretically be huge for the future of game development.
There's no reason why a company, new, mature, huge, or small shouldn't be able to institute a similar policy in terms of access.
Frankly, I say it's a nightmare for a small company when a big boss reads shit like this, freaks out, and all of a sudden you have to spend the next week trying to implement some goofy policy that will either be totally ignored, or tossed aside when it becomes a hassle. For larger companies, yes, internal security is no laughing matter. For small companies, when there's one, maybe 2 admins running the show, it's a wasted expense. They don't need intricate security policies. They need nothing more than, "Okay, I can access everything, everyone else can access their own shit. Done."
Probably because in every MMORPG I've ever played (and I've played a whole lot of them), leveling is the most repetitive, dull, mind numbing time sink in the known universe?
There's no entertainment in killing slightly different colored sprites for 50-60 levels. It's a treadmill, and god awful boring.
2. Do you really think that anything really sensitive would be able to be accessed from the Internet?
This *is* the US gov't we're talking about here. I can almost guarantee you there are dozens of machines with highly sensitive data that are accidentally left accessible to the outside world.
I'm sure there's some sort of loophole (or will be when genetic testing inevitably becomes mainstream). Always is with insurance companies. Apply discounts to people who take (and pass) genetic screenings, et cetera.
Basically, similar to how auto insurances companies screw you over if you had a lapse. They legally can't jack up the price on someone who had a lapse in coverage, but they CAN offer a discount to people who have not had a lapse in coverage.
They really got up to 450 people? Christ. I interned at good 'ole Xor back before the dot-com insanity (their official name then was Xor Network Engineering, if memory serves. They stripped it down to Xor long after I was gone). About 25ish people there at the time.
And noone ever could tell me why in the hell they named it Xor.
While I figure I'd be in the minority for this, but if 'immortality' did indeed become feasible, I'd happily stay out of the way of society. I just want to see how we develop over the decades/centuries.
I'm pretty much certain all the *really* cool shit is gonna happen outside of my lifetime. I'd love to be able to kick back and watch us get to the stars and all that fun stuff.
[I]My concern is that we use wisdom in the race to build bigger and better weapons. Do we REALLY need a weapon like this?[I]
Not really, but an energy source like this sure wouldn't suck. Which, granted, I know jack shit about this technology in general, but it seems likely that if you figured out how to build a bomb with the stuff, you could at least have some good ideas how to make a 'fuel' out of it.
Tell you what, I'd buy a PS2 just for the game if they came out with a redesigned/expanded version of Final Fantasy 3/6. 2/4 wouldn't suck either. Both of them with full cinematics and real sound would just rock.
"Ah yes, the words of someone who has not actually sat down to watch a good amount of it. Actually watch the movies. Get something directed by Miyazaki. Castle in the Sky. Princess Mononoke. Grave of the Fireflies. Nausicaa. You will understand."
Have. Hated it. Don't understand the attraction at all. Subjected to endless hours of the drivel by several friends of mine who utterly love anime. I find it chock full of nonsensical plots and bloated with mood-breaking utterly silly/stupid scenes.
Some anime (very, very little) I wouldn't mind, were it not for the fact that they set you up in a dark, moody universe, just to subject you to a bouncing girl with no face screaming at the protaganist for failing to do the wakawaka dance properly.
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You bring up a good point, though. I find myself wondering if a no-name developer was presenting this idea, instead of Wil Wright, if it would have ever been produced.
"NetRatings, based in New York and Milpitas, Calif., used a panel of 50,000 participants selected through calls to randomly generated phone numbers. Each participating household provides a profile of the users in the home, and a device connected to each Internet-linked PC in the home logs where those users go on the Internet. Users have to log in to identify themselves when they start using the computer, Ryan said."
Seems to me that sample size is just too low for an even remotely accurate portrayal. Personally, I still think the vast majority of folks are using dialup. There's a whole lot of people who just dial in, check their mail, log off
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Ahem, isn't plutonium available at every corner drug store nowadays?
And on the flipside, that evil spamming domain is pulling contact information from people who *do* have legit info in the fields. Is it any wonder why people don't want real data in their whois record?
As I sit and stare out the window at a layer of snow, ice, and frigid temperatures, I'm pretty much thinking now would be a good time to burn some coal, cut down some rainforests, and club some baby seals for good measure.
I dunno, maybe an attempt to prevent the next generation from being 300 pound lard asses?
Was just having this discussion with my dad, who is another huge flight sim buff. I would kill for new versions of Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, and TIE Fighter.
Sadly, it seems the PC market is in love with MMORPG's and FPS's. Which, I can't blame them too much - that's where the money is. The mass market seems to be all about fast paced, arcadey style games heavy on eye candy and light on realism. Which unfortunately makes producers gun shy about trying something new. And in turn, makes the joystick kind of pointless.
Which blows. I miss the days of desperately trying to keep my shot up biplane aloft while trying to shake Allied planes off my six and crawl back across the front.
It's how military R&D works. We're using stuff now that was developed what...20 or so years ago, if not more in many cases? The life cycle of this stuff is a lonnnnnnnng time (a combination of your standard red tape and just the time it really does take to properly push out this kinda stuff).
'Course, this often causes R&D to be fighting the last war. They're developing advanced technology that would be nice now, but not always useful for the next brand of warfare.
I wonder if the whole 'Take Two's Board will be gone March 23rd' could be construed as Jack making a terrorist threat. ...religious lunatic? Check. ...vague threats, targets, dates? Check.
Ping: Homeland Security!
We have a colony on Mars, but we're STILL using IPV4. God help us. :)
fashioned HTML tables are where it's at. I'm perfectly happy sticking with what works.
CSS is pretty much the one thing developer-wise that really gives me that 'dinosaur' feeling.
Just don't see the need for those massive CSS files that try and lay out an entire site for
you. I'm not sure whether I'm just getting old and curmudgeony, or there really isn't a good
reason for laying out stuff in CSS.
Hell, might be both.
How about a Master of Orion sequel (okay, 2 was fun, but most of us know about the fiasco that was 3) that doesn't suck?
Failing that...Colonization 2 and Master of Magic 2. Please. Purty please.
I knew it was pretty much a ridiculous list when Wil Wright was not even *listed*. Especially with Spore in development, which could theoretically be huge for the future of game development.
Frankly, I say it's a nightmare for a small company when a big boss reads shit like this, freaks out, and all of a sudden you have to spend the next week trying to implement some goofy policy that will either be totally ignored, or tossed aside when it becomes a hassle. For larger companies, yes, internal security is no laughing matter. For small companies, when there's one, maybe 2 admins running the show, it's a wasted expense. They don't need intricate security policies. They need nothing more than, "Okay, I can access everything, everyone else can access their own shit. Done."
Probably because in every MMORPG I've ever played (and I've played a whole lot of them), leveling is the most repetitive, dull, mind numbing time sink in the known universe?
There's no entertainment in killing slightly different colored sprites for 50-60 levels. It's a treadmill, and god awful boring.
We will achieve faster than light travel (of speeds useful to travelling through space) exactly 5 minutes after I die.
Approximately 5 minutes later, we will find the cure for whatever I died from.
2. Do you really think that anything really sensitive would be able to be accessed from the Internet?
This *is* the US gov't we're talking about here. I can almost guarantee you there are dozens of machines with highly sensitive data that are accidentally left accessible to the outside world.
I'm sure there's some sort of loophole (or will be when genetic
testing inevitably becomes mainstream). Always is with insurance
companies. Apply discounts to people who take (and pass) genetic
screenings, et cetera.
Basically, similar to how auto insurances companies screw you over
if you had a lapse. They legally can't jack up the price on someone
who had a lapse in coverage, but they CAN offer a discount to people
who have not had a lapse in coverage.
He landed in Kansas. That was the entire population of the state that came out. :)
They really got up to 450 people? Christ. I interned at good 'ole Xor back before the dot-com insanity (their official name then was Xor Network Engineering, if memory serves. They stripped it down to Xor long after I was gone). About 25ish people there at the time.
And noone ever could tell me why in the hell they named it Xor.
While I figure I'd be in the minority for this, but if 'immortality' did indeed become feasible, I'd happily stay out of the way of society. I just want to see how we develop over the decades/centuries.
I'm pretty much certain all the *really* cool shit is gonna happen outside of my lifetime. I'd love to be able to kick back and watch us get to the stars and all that fun stuff.
I've always preferred "Yaks make good bricks."
It just rolls off the tongue.
[I]My concern is that we use wisdom in the race to build bigger and better weapons. Do we REALLY need a weapon like this?[I]
Not really, but an energy source like this sure wouldn't suck. Which, granted, I know jack shit about this technology in general, but it seems likely that if you figured out how to build a bomb with the stuff, you could at least have some good ideas how to make a 'fuel' out of it.
Tell you what, I'd buy a PS2 just for the game if they came out with a redesigned/expanded version of Final Fantasy 3/6. 2/4 wouldn't suck either. Both of them with full cinematics and real sound would just rock.
But 7? Why on earth choose 7?
"Ah yes, the words of someone who has not actually sat down to watch a good amount of it. Actually watch the movies. Get something directed by Miyazaki. Castle in the Sky. Princess Mononoke. Grave of the Fireflies. Nausicaa. You will understand."
Have. Hated it. Don't understand the attraction at all. Subjected to endless hours of the drivel by several friends of mine who utterly love anime.
I find it chock full of nonsensical plots and bloated with mood-breaking utterly silly/stupid scenes.
Some anime (very, very little) I wouldn't mind, were it not for the fact that they set you up in a dark, moody universe, just to subject you to a bouncing girl with no face screaming at the protaganist for failing to do the wakawaka dance properly.
You bring up a good point, though. I find myself wondering if a no-name developer was presenting this idea, instead of Wil Wright, if it would have ever been produced.
"NetRatings, based in New York and Milpitas, Calif., used a panel of 50,000 participants selected through calls to randomly generated phone numbers. Each participating household provides a profile of the users in the home, and a device connected to each Internet-linked PC in the home logs where those users go on the Internet. Users have to log in to identify themselves when they start using the computer, Ryan said."
Seems to me that sample size is just too low for an even remotely accurate portrayal. Personally, I still think the vast majority of folks are using dialup. There's a whole lot of people who just dial in, check their mail, log off