When I was a teenager we played risk....and then graduated to Risk with Nukes! The game is called Supremacy, basically risk style with Nukes, navies, ect...
The great thing about Supremacy was that you could play it with simple rules, or you could load it down with all sorts of upgradable options.
The bad thing was that the game almost always ended up in Nuclear Armegeddon....
I've always been concerned with the performance of windows games under linux. Since wine is able to translate (not emulate) windows calls into equivelant linux calls would it be possible to use the wine codebase to write software that, instead of trying to run it on the fly could look at a set of windows executables and libraries and then create a native linux binary and set of libraries (as close as wine translates now) so we could run it without running wine?
When you get into arguments over these types of discussions it invariably turns into disagreements about what words mean. What exactly is "intelligent". Just because you can whip out the Websters definition does NOT mean your opponant agrees with it.
When you start ANY philosophical argument it helps considerbly to start with an agreed upon set of premises and definitions that both sides accept, then you can work your way forward and find out exactly WHERE the difference is.
Most times when people argue about ANYTHING people talk past one another and make assumptions about why people believe whatever they believe, and then construct conter-arguments that make NO sense.
But it WAS college dropout patent office flunkie that published one of the greatest works of physics EVER. Einstein's work was dumped on by other scientists.
Like I said, not to validate this guys claims. But to dismiss it outright without even really looking at it (or ignoring actual results) puts one in the same class of people who dismissed Einstein.
Oh well....I suppose it will be a good thing to NOT buy the first generation of Intel Mac's, there is bound to be some minor engineering issues to be worked out.
I only have respect for anybody that works at UNISYS...historically it's been a horrible place to work. Don't feel bad though, the contract where I worked on Unisys equipment was for EDS.....which might even be worse...
I worked on Unisys Sperry Mainframe equipment for almost 7 years. I can tell you categorically that Unisys tried every possible way to kill products it's customer wanted. When IBM was bleeding money Unisys had the better Mainframe OS (OS2200). Since then IBM has done more to innovate the mainfame market (moved to CMOS, embrased UNIX/LINUX, enabled OS390 for the Internet world). Meanwhile Unisys tried to get in bed with Microsoft and changed their product line so that anything that was not MS centric was basically a "legacy" platform where they just wanted the old Sperry/Burroughs customer base to dump their investment in older technologies and move to WinNT/Win2k servers.
The history of Unisys is that they put their finger in the wind see which way it's going and join the crowd YEARS after the initial party is over.
The only GOOD thing I can say about Unisys is that my contract (I was a Lead computer operator/batch scheduler) ended as a result of them promising equipment to the customer at cut rates that they then dragged their feet delivering...and as a result I quit and found a better job, doing LINUX!....thank you UNISYS!
In my gov agency the only reason they have not officially supported google desktop is due to not having paid support. With this, and the next version of XP not out yet I would bet that google is going to get a LOT of sales to med/large organizations that want desktop search and support for it.
I find it interesting reading all the comments about "Well...if they do that then change providers" as if EVERYBODY as multiple broadband providers.
FACT:
The Majority of DSL/Broadband users have one and ONLY one provider available to them. Cable and DSL co-exist ONLY within short distance of CO office facilities. Beyond the DSL length restriction Cable modems are practically (don't start on high latency satelight) the only game in town. If Adelphia decided to block google there is not a damn thing I could do about it besides paying to provision a data line to my house. DSL really is'nt deployed on back roads beyond major metro areas.
year over year NSF funding goes UP not down. Now you could argue a 1% increase is'nt much, but if the U.S. were so anti-science there would'nt be an NSF.
The point of the post was to start a theoretical discussion about where the line should be drawn. Star wars is a good example of one where that's been done already.
You really should'nt hyperventilate like that. You'll have a heart attack and that's bad mkay....
I was thinking...what is to stop Lucas from re-doing all the special effects in the first three films with computer graphics? He could theoretically re-do ALL of the space scenes to make it mesh up with the latter films effects. Would it sell? I'm certain it would. AND he could do it without chaning anything with the story.
There ARE some hokey special effects in the Original Star Wars. The most fake looking is the crash of the super star destroyer into the death star at the end of the movie. The flames that shoot up make it look and FEEL like taking crashing two models together and using gunpowder for the effects. All that could be fixed.
The one thing that really made me go "Ahhhh" when I was first exposed to Slackware was the fact that the packages included with Slackware are much closer (or almost identical) to what you would get if you downloaded them direct from the original maintainer (SSH, Apache, ect...).
Consequently you don't find stuff hand hacked and installed in strange places. If the man page says its in "X" location, that's where it is. Too many distros take a third party app, modify it so that the way they install it is different from what the original INSTALL file says, which makes it fustrating to troubleshoot.
It's occured to me that we might move to a future when DVD's are burned at the store you buy them with your credit card number encoded (or some other form of identification) as a watermark and it's encrypted to work only with your DVD player at home which would provide you with a public key on a supplied USB stick (or something) you would take to the store.
Basically you would give your public key to the store attendant, they would stick it in a kiosk type device which would burn the encrypted copy of the DVD with watermark for the customer.
Sounds draconian but with the speed and cost of DVD burners it probably would not be that hard to do.
One of the problems with computer scientists who work on grand theories is that they don't give real world examples I can relate to. They end up using jargon wording and vague terms that are hard to define.
I have no problem with his ideas, but please provide and EXAMPLE!
Like I said in my post. There are somepeople who actually roleplay vs rollplay (You must of not caught the play on words).
But in the online world (and in tabletop though not as much) roleplaying has become a game of tweak the numbers (primarily...there are some small exceptions)
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When I was a teenager we played risk....and then graduated to Risk with Nukes! The game is called Supremacy, basically risk style with Nukes, navies, ect...
The great thing about Supremacy was that you could play it with simple rules, or you could load it down with all sorts of upgradable options.
The bad thing was that the game almost always ended up in Nuclear Armegeddon....
Enjoy!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/27
Def: To fool; dupe:
I've always been concerned with the performance of windows games under linux. Since wine is able to translate (not emulate) windows calls into equivelant linux calls would it be possible to use the wine codebase to write software that, instead of trying to run it on the fly could look at a set of windows executables and libraries and then create a native linux binary and set of libraries (as close as wine translates now) so we could run it without running wine?
Just a thought...
When you get into arguments over these types of discussions it invariably turns into disagreements about what words mean. What exactly is "intelligent". Just because you can whip out the Websters definition does NOT mean your opponant agrees with it.
When you start ANY philosophical argument it helps considerbly to start with an agreed upon set of premises and definitions that both sides accept, then you can work your way forward and find out exactly WHERE the difference is.
Most times when people argue about ANYTHING people talk past one another and make assumptions about why people believe whatever they believe, and then construct conter-arguments that make NO sense.
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ID is simply fundamentalist's latest attempt into having evolution taught in highschool science classes.
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Err....Now I'm Really confused. Are'nt religious fundamentalists AGAINST teaching evolution in science class?
yes
Not to validate this guys claims....
But it WAS college dropout patent office flunkie that published one of the greatest works of physics EVER. Einstein's work was dumped on by other scientists.
Like I said, not to validate this guys claims. But to dismiss it outright without even really looking at it (or ignoring actual results) puts one in the same class of people who dismissed Einstein.
Just because you believe in something (or don't) does NOT mean it IS or IS'NT true
Actually I can't REALY complain since it's being bought by my employer. My contract runs till next April, so if I waited till then I'd NEVER have one.
Oh well....I suppose it will be a good thing to NOT buy the first generation of Intel Mac's, there is bound to be some minor engineering issues to be worked out.
oh I don't know, both probably work
contract ended, then I found another position doing HP-UX, which led to LINUX work
Apogigies about my rant in another post...
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I only have respect for anybody that works at UNISYS...historically it's been a horrible place to work. Don't feel bad though, the contract where I worked on Unisys equipment was for EDS.....which might even be worse...
You may label this as a rant.....
I worked on Unisys Sperry Mainframe equipment for almost 7 years. I can tell you categorically that Unisys tried every possible way to kill products it's customer wanted. When IBM was bleeding money Unisys had the better Mainframe OS (OS2200). Since then IBM has done more to innovate the mainfame market (moved to CMOS, embrased UNIX/LINUX, enabled OS390 for the Internet world). Meanwhile Unisys tried to get in bed with Microsoft and changed their product line so that anything that was not MS centric was basically a "legacy" platform where they just wanted the old Sperry/Burroughs customer base to dump their investment in older technologies and move to WinNT/Win2k servers.
The history of Unisys is that they put their finger in the wind see which way it's going and join the crowd YEARS after the initial party is over.
The only GOOD thing I can say about Unisys is that my contract (I was a Lead computer operator/batch scheduler) ended as a result of them promising equipment to the customer at cut rates that they then dragged their feet delivering...and as a result I quit and found a better job, doing LINUX!....thank you UNISYS!
China has NEVER signed either the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 OR the updated Moon Treaty of 1979.
If they want to claim it there is no international legal mumbo jumbo to say it's not theirs.
In my gov agency the only reason they have not officially supported google desktop is due to not having paid support. With this, and the next version of XP not out yet I would bet that google is going to get a LOT of sales to med/large organizations that want desktop search and support for it.
I find it interesting reading all the comments about "Well...if they do that then change providers" as if EVERYBODY as multiple broadband providers.
FACT:
The Majority of DSL/Broadband users have one and ONLY one provider available to them. Cable and DSL co-exist ONLY within short distance of CO office facilities. Beyond the DSL length restriction Cable modems are practically (don't start on high latency satelight) the only game in town. If Adelphia decided to block google there is not a damn thing I could do about it besides paying to provision a data line to my house. DSL really is'nt deployed on back roads beyond major metro areas.
year over year NSF funding goes UP not down. Now you could argue a 1% increase is'nt much, but if the U.S. were so anti-science there would'nt be an NSF.
http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/
So has China, but they still pirate it there....
Chill..
I said "could" NOT "should"
The point of the post was to start a theoretical discussion about where the line should be drawn. Star wars is a good example of one where that's been done already.
You really should'nt hyperventilate like that. You'll have a heart attack and that's bad mkay....
I was thinking...what is to stop Lucas from re-doing all the special effects in the first three films with computer graphics? He could theoretically re-do ALL of the space scenes to make it mesh up with the latter films effects. Would it sell? I'm certain it would. AND he could do it without chaning anything with the story.
There ARE some hokey special effects in the Original Star Wars. The most fake looking is the crash of the super star destroyer into the death star at the end of the movie. The flames that shoot up make it look and FEEL like taking crashing two models together and using gunpowder for the effects. All that could be fixed.
The one thing that really made me go "Ahhhh" when I was first exposed to Slackware was the fact that the packages included with Slackware are much closer (or almost identical) to what you would get if you downloaded them direct from the original maintainer (SSH, Apache, ect...).
Consequently you don't find stuff hand hacked and installed in strange places. If the man page says its in "X" location, that's where it is. Too many distros take a third party app, modify it so that the way they install it is different from what the original INSTALL file says, which makes it fustrating to troubleshoot.
It's occured to me that we might move to a future when DVD's are burned at the store you buy them with your credit card number encoded (or some other form of identification) as a watermark and it's encrypted to work only with your DVD player at home which would provide you with a public key on a supplied USB stick (or something) you would take to the store.
Basically you would give your public key to the store attendant, they would stick it in a kiosk type device which would burn the encrypted copy of the DVD with watermark for the customer.
Sounds draconian but with the speed and cost of DVD burners it probably would not be that hard to do.
One of the problems with computer scientists who work on grand theories is that they don't give real world examples I can relate to. They end up using jargon wording and vague terms that are hard to define.
I have no problem with his ideas, but please provide and EXAMPLE!
Like I said in my post. There are somepeople who actually roleplay vs rollplay (You must of not caught the play on words).
But in the online world (and in tabletop though not as much) roleplaying has become a game of tweak the numbers (primarily...there are some small exceptions)