Fantastic idea, except for the fact that anyone in the path of Katrina who could have afforded a $385 water bottle could have afforded a $90 plane ticket, $35 bus ride, or $27 tank of gas.
I expect it's much easier and much faster to get a 1 lb. bottle to hurricane victims than to airdrop tons and tons of water on pallets.
>One day we might go out to the Solar Foci (around 550 AU) to use the Sun as a gravitational lens to image distant galaxies or the surface of exo-solar planets.
Or we could do it in 10 years, if we had the balls.
1) reductions in all rules requiring any DM adjudication 2) more caster nerfing to "balance" the classes across all levels 3) a new campaign world 4) idiotic marketing
Wizards doesn't seem to get the idea that it doesn't have enough momentum to carry the MMORPG market.
Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and the (incredible) Planescape:Torment put them on perfect footing to make a huge splash in the MMORPG arena, but they chose to hack their dong off by setting Dungeons and Dragons Online in Eberron, their new PnP setting.
Mind you DDO launched well after WoW.
They actually decided, I can only assume, to set their 1st mainstream attempt at an MMORPG in a completely foreign world to most of their customers in order to drive book sales.
Books.
Pulp.
Magazines. (now sadly gone)
That's how out of touch they were.
Wizards is still trapped in a world where metal must hit paper to make money, to their loss.
The erosion of civil rights, the rise of power gobbling fascists, corporate wars, the obscene gyrations of the unchecked unitary executive, gibbering mindless and enormous at the center of the universe, dancing to pipes only he can hear?
Yeah, that's news for everybody.
Here. I'll "Slashdot" the story for you.
"CEO Bush entered the Rose Garden to a pulse pounding U2 soundtrack. Stepping up to the podium, Bush sported a casual/sharp new look: too new denim pants and a black turtleneck. He pulled out a sleek off white plastic pen, spent a few awkward moments trying to turn it on, then proceeded to sign what he called an "iCommutation".
Bush continued by announcing that the iCommutation along with a "pro" model known as the "iPardon" would be available to the general public in limited quantities sometime in early Q1 2008. Line up now."
That this is listed under "Science" is nauseating, but what can you do?
"Memorandum for Chief, Strategic Policy Section, S&P Group, OPD, Subject: Use of the Atomic Bomb on Japan", Department of War report, April 1946:
"the Japanese leaders had decided to surrender and were merely looking for sufficient pretext\to convince the die-hard Army Group that Japan had lost the war and must capitulate to the Allies."
Russia's intervention the second week of August, 1945 "would almost certainly have furnished this pretext, and would have been sufficient to convince all responsible leaders that surrender was unavoidable."
The study concluded that even an initial November 1945 landing on the island of southern Japanese island of Kyushu would have been only a "remote" possibility and that the full invasion of Japan in the spring of 1946 would not have occurred.
...the page you are viewing will be sent to Google if you click on the "Cached Snapshot", "Backward Links" or "Similar Pages" features.
Wow, imagine that, google needing to know which page you're viewing so it can 1) show you a cache of that page, 2) show links to the current page, or 3) show pages related to the one you're viewing.
How on earth could they do this without knowing what page you're viewing?
I was at the "helm" as a consultant turned IT manager/overseer while a full nationwide exec search was conducted to permantely fill the position for just about 11 months.
I had a core group of 12 servers that were "mission critical", whose uptime from the day I started to the day my replacement came aboard was perfect.
Why is it that some kinds of bad journalism, like fabricating quotes, is career suicide, but Bob Novak can leak a CIA agent's identity and collect multiple paychecks?
Why don't the "journalists" who ignore real stories (the Bush/Blair "smoking gun" memo and the "misplaced" $9 billion in Iraq) in favor of sensationalism like runaway brides and missing white children lose their credibility?
There's a lot more wrong with the state of journalism in the U.S. than fictional quotes. Roger Ailes meeting with the Whitehouse to "shape" press coverage for example.
The risk of dissent against the current administration far outweights any value "experts" or "scientists" can bring to the table. Republican zealots have faith in the current leadership, literal faith, belief without reason, and facts that contradict the party line must be false.
People who disagree with the party line must be purged (even if they're highly valuable Arabic translators or CIA operatives) and those who tow the line are rewarded beyond their level of competence (Rice, Bolton).
We see this in how they treat science regarding stem cells, reproductive rights, evolution, and the environment. They routinely squash or discredit government funded science that contradicts their orthodoxy. Considering that they they're fighting long established scientfic and political reality (evolution and Marbury vs. Madison come to mind) it shouldn't surprise anybody that they'd exclude some telco paper pushers who might upset their love fest.
Of course one day reality will assert itself and they'll have to face the music. I'm just hoping it doesn't cost a few million lives.
The first thing I though of when I heard about physics processing units was that you might be able to make a realistic pinball simulation on the pc.
The 3d effects and models have been around for a while, but what makes most computerized pinball games lame to me is their arbitrary and clunky "feel" when the ball interacts with the environment.
Physics processing units might add that extra kick of realism and make it easier to stomach the dwindling population of real pinball machines. Lot of room for force feedback pinbabll controllers here.
-dameron
So on April Fools day...
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EU to Ban Macs
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· Score: 1, Funny
If I post a criticism of Apple or MacOS, I'll get modded up right?
Example: Macs are kinda expensive for cash strapped college students who shouldn't take on extra debt. Maybe a cheap x86 machine would be a better choice.
Well, you did say "put it on your network"... so I thought it was a fair assumption that TCP/IP was present.
You have to remember Win95 was a "networkable" (har har) system when TPC stacks were purchased as 3rd party applications (you can still buy them, bwt). I can easily put a win95 box on my network without touching a tcp stack at all. Hell, Apple did it for -years-.
About six months ago I had to access some information on an aging (as in 13 year old) PICK server. The multiport board was fried years ago and I couldn't raise a terminal on the serial port. After a few hours of trying to capture the data I had the person who needed access to it copy it to a pad of paper from the screen.
Not good, to say the least, but the server in question hadn't been fired up in years.
Since then I've been putting disk images of our currently running database software on a Qemu image along with a copy of the qemu source and binaries on a DVD (and in the future the media might change, but you get the idea).
For emergency situations I can put a dvd into any available machine and have a "live" version of our DB running in minutes. I'd have loved it if I could've booted that PICK server in an emulator.
Slashdot Mirror
Fantastic idea, except for the fact that anyone in the path of Katrina who could have afforded a $385 water bottle could have afforded a $90 plane ticket, $35 bus ride, or $27 tank of gas.
I expect it's much easier and much faster to get a 1 lb. bottle to hurricane victims than to airdrop tons and tons of water on pallets.
>One day we might go out to the Solar Foci (around 550 AU) to use the Sun as a gravitational lens to image distant galaxies or the surface of exo-solar planets.
Or we could do it in 10 years, if we had the balls.
That would be a very good thing.
Predictions:
1) reductions in all rules requiring any DM adjudication
2) more caster nerfing to "balance" the classes across all levels
3) a new campaign world
4) idiotic marketing
Wizards doesn't seem to get the idea that it doesn't have enough momentum to carry the MMORPG market.
Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and the (incredible) Planescape:Torment put them on perfect footing to make a huge splash in the MMORPG arena, but they chose to hack their dong off by setting Dungeons and Dragons Online in Eberron, their new PnP setting.
Mind you DDO launched well after WoW.
They actually decided, I can only assume, to set their 1st mainstream attempt at an MMORPG in a completely foreign world to most of their customers in order to drive book sales.
Books.
Pulp.
Magazines. (now sadly gone)
That's how out of touch they were.
Wizards is still trapped in a world where metal must hit paper to make money, to their loss.
The erosion of civil rights, the rise of power gobbling fascists, corporate wars, the obscene gyrations of the unchecked unitary executive, gibbering mindless and enormous at the center of the universe, dancing to pipes only he can hear?
Yeah, that's news for everybody.
Here. I'll "Slashdot" the story for you.
"CEO Bush entered the Rose Garden to a pulse pounding U2 soundtrack. Stepping up to the podium, Bush sported a casual/sharp new look: too new denim pants and a black turtleneck. He pulled out a sleek off white plastic pen, spent a few awkward moments trying to turn it on, then proceeded to sign what he called an "iCommutation".
Bush continued by announcing that the iCommutation along with a "pro" model known as the "iPardon" would be available to the general public in limited quantities sometime in early Q1 2008. Line up now."
There is no way they could keep a secret of this magnitude and cover it up for 60 years.
Thus the > 1,000,000 results google returns for "roswell ufo".
That being said... the U.S. government is remarkably inept at keeping secrets much less orchestrating a cover up of this size.
Well, we are discussing it on Slashdot.
Stem Cells, no, that'd be immoral.
Mind control steal sharks? Sure.
It's all priorities.
Wow, it doubles every day.
B) Don't live in a city that is 8 feet below sea level. Flooding WILL occur.
This option involves not having a port city on the largest river in North America.
In other words, ain't gonna happen.
That this is listed under "Science" is nauseating, but what can you do?
"Memorandum for Chief, Strategic Policy Section, S&P Group, OPD, Subject: Use of the Atomic Bomb on Japan", Department of War report, April 1946:
"the Japanese leaders had decided to surrender and were merely looking for sufficient pretext\to convince the die-hard Army Group that Japan had lost the war and must capitulate to the Allies."
Russia's intervention the second week of August, 1945
"would almost certainly have furnished this pretext, and would have been sufficient to convince all responsible leaders that surrender was unavoidable."
The study concluded that even an initial November 1945 landing on the island of southern Japanese island of Kyushu would have been only a "remote" possibility and that the full invasion of Japan in the spring of 1946 would not have occurred.
...the page you are viewing will be sent to Google if you click on the "Cached Snapshot", "Backward Links" or "Similar Pages" features.
Wow, imagine that, google needing to know which page you're viewing so it can 1) show you a cache of that page, 2) show links to the current page, or 3) show pages related to the one you're viewing.
How on earth could they do this without knowing what page you're viewing?
If municipalities were able to raise revenue in traditional ways there wouldn't be as much pressure to use eminent domain to increase the tax base.
I'm interested in their time machine.
I was at the "helm" as a consultant turned IT manager/overseer while a full nationwide exec search was conducted to permantely fill the position for just about 11 months.
I had a core group of 12 servers that were "mission critical", whose uptime from the day I started to the day my replacement came aboard was perfect.
You didn't patch your servers for 11 months?
I was so expecting to see an article about a Windows Emulator...I'm offically a hopeless nerd.
Hopeless nerds know that "Wine Is Not an Emulator."
So there's hope for you.
Why is it that some kinds of bad journalism, like fabricating quotes, is career suicide, but Bob Novak can leak a CIA agent's identity and collect multiple paychecks?
Why don't the "journalists" who ignore real stories (the Bush/Blair "smoking gun" memo and the "misplaced" $9 billion in Iraq) in favor of sensationalism like runaway brides and missing white children lose their credibility?
There's a lot more wrong with the state of journalism in the U.S. than fictional quotes. Roger Ailes meeting with the Whitehouse to "shape" press coverage for example.
-dameron
The risk of dissent against the current administration far outweights any value "experts" or "scientists" can bring to the table. Republican zealots have faith in the current leadership, literal faith, belief without reason, and facts that contradict the party line must be false.
People who disagree with the party line must be purged (even if they're highly valuable Arabic translators or CIA operatives) and those who tow the line are rewarded beyond their level of competence (Rice, Bolton).
We see this in how they treat science regarding stem cells, reproductive rights, evolution, and the environment. They routinely squash or discredit government funded science that contradicts their orthodoxy. Considering that they they're fighting long established scientfic and political reality (evolution and Marbury vs. Madison come to mind) it shouldn't surprise anybody that they'd exclude some telco paper pushers who might upset their love fest.
Of course one day reality will assert itself and they'll have to face the music. I'm just hoping it doesn't cost a few million lives.
-dameron
The first thing I though of when I heard about physics processing units was that you might be able to make a realistic pinball simulation on the pc.
The 3d effects and models have been around for a while, but what makes most computerized pinball games lame to me is their arbitrary and clunky "feel" when the ball interacts with the environment.
Physics processing units might add that extra kick of realism and make it easier to stomach the dwindling population of real pinball machines. Lot of room for force feedback pinbabll controllers here.
-dameron
Example: Macs are kinda expensive for cash strapped college students who shouldn't take on extra debt. Maybe a cheap x86 machine would be a better choice.
Pour on the mod points.
Not IP, yet...
-dameron
Well, you did say "put it on your network"... so I thought it was a fair assumption that TCP/IP was present.
You have to remember Win95 was a "networkable" (har har) system when TPC stacks were purchased as 3rd party applications (you can still buy them, bwt). I can easily put a win95 box on my network without touching a tcp stack at all. Hell, Apple did it for -years-.
-dameron
You would have to install a TCP stack on that puppy first.
-dameron
Put a DOS or WIN95 machine on your network, unpatched from the original cds (floppies!) and call me when it get's compromised.
-dameron
About six months ago I had to access some information on an aging (as in 13 year old) PICK server. The multiport board was fried years ago and I couldn't raise a terminal on the serial port. After a few hours of trying to capture the data I had the person who needed access to it copy it to a pad of paper from the screen.
Not good, to say the least, but the server in question hadn't been fired up in years.
Since then I've been putting disk images of our currently running database software on a Qemu image along with a copy of the qemu source and binaries on a DVD (and in the future the media might change, but you get the idea).
For emergency situations I can put a dvd into any available machine and have a "live" version of our DB running in minutes. I'd have loved it if I could've booted that PICK server in an emulator.
-dameron