Any good sim game has to have scenarios you can play where an impending crisis looms before you. Here are my thoughts on some possible scenarios:
- Your campus' Athletic fraternity have lost their frat house to a natural distaster. They, in turn, kick the nerd fraternity out of their house. Do you let the Athletes stay in the house or help the nerds get on the Greek council?
- The RIAA is threatening to sue your university over student mp3 servers running on network. Do you rebuff the RIAA or crack down on the warez sites?
- Students have petitioned administration to switch the student computer labs over to linux, saving thousands. The Evil company providing your university with their OS, has bound you with restrictive licences. Do you ignore the students or try and find a way around the licences?
for example, a person in an office complex tunes into the XM hip-hop station. Because some idiot was using an ibook with a wireless Airport card, Snoop dog is dropped from the ceiling all mutated and deformed!
My roommate's girlfriend invited her friends over for some drinking and beirut. I just completed building a robot I picked up at robotstore.com and was letting it run around my room by itself (the potientometer was cranked all the way up so it was flying.) Anyways, I went out into the living room to drink when the little robot rolled into the room. One of the girls litterally freaked out. We all had to convince her that the robot couldn't hurt her! I still go lol over it to this day.
Nvidia is dropping the Geforce name after the Geforce4. Depending when this new card is finally on selves, Nvidia will probably have a new family name.
IMO, there are two types of people who trade tv shows:
1. People who have already seen the show and want to view it again at a later date. These people have already seen the ads from the commercial sponsers from the first airing.
2. People who are the fan base of the show. These people archive the episodes for their own enjoyment. These people also probably view the shows during their original airing rather than waiting for the show to appear somewhere over the internet.
Both populations of people have probably seen the original airing of the program with the commericals in place. The only valid concern I can think of from the TV industry is that sponsers may not pay for ads during reruns of a particular show if viewers already have copies of it to watch. But how many of us sit down to watch a rerun of a episode we have already seen? Unless it rocked, most of us I imagine probably end up surfing the TV during breaks anyways. Reruns really only serve the population of people who didn't see the episode in the original airing. It seems to me that the industry wants to keep this population away from recorded TV shows.
Yeah, women love men ride with a muscle bound 5 volt engine bravely facing speeds in excess of 10mph.
Combine this with the ab roller...
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and laptop users will be the fittest people on the planet! I can see conversations now...
"Hey, Bob, your son is really getting big and strong!"
"Yeah, Steve, he's going to be as strong one day as a computer programmer! Maybe even as fit as a linux kernel hacker!"
"You don't say?"
Well, living colonists would not be frozen. To avoid celluar damage, they would be put under in a chamber just above the freezing point. That way, they would be in an induced state of hibernation. They would still be breathing, etc, but at an extremely slow rate. The colonists would still age in cyro, but at a much slower rate.
similar to 2001. I suspect that a couple of humans would have to be awake to monitor the ship's functions and make necessary repairs. I doubt automation would be trusted 24 - 7 for the lives of colonists for 200 years. These humans would rotate with other humans to prevent excessive aging and to ward off any mental instabilities being couped up in a ship would produce.
that just because you put your source behind lock and key doesn't mean it's any more secure. I hope more companies realize that competent programming and fast security patching is more effective than cloak and dagger secrecy.
1. Main characters get into threatening situation
2. Use StarGate to go to X world
3. Battle inhabitants with aid of native rebels
4. Return to base with solution to problem
5. Repeat
Maybe the show got better after I stopped watching it, but that's how every episode I watched played out.
In Scientific American, the writer gives the example of Mary's computer being ultilized by a Biotech company while it's idle. Another example is a movie that is stored on several hundred people's computers. Why should I let my computer be ultilized for someone else's for-profit work or entertainment when they can do it for themselves?
It's another thing when a person volunteers to participate (I run SETI@athome) but this proposal sounds like a forced standard upon a consumer.
we had wooden computers back when we were young. We will also say we only had 128 MB of RAM at the time (and we liked it! We loved it!), had to look at pr0n on a 15" monitor (CRT no less, not those fancy smancy plasma LCDs!!!), and had to walk 15 miles to download the latest version of Linux (uphill, both ways!!!).
If you watch Enterprise, you might have seen ads for Biobugs ($40), basically commericialized versions of the robots made by Mark Tilden. Although I don't have one, I have heard from others that they are perfectly hackable.
schools jumping on the technology bandwagon, buying computer equipment etc, without having any notion of what to do with computers once they get them. The focus of many schools is obtaining technology that is supposed to aid the student's learning process while neglecting to train the teachers these computers will go to how to use them.
I can personally atest that I have seen brand new PCs and Macs sit idle in schools I did volunteer work in because the teacher either didn't know how make use of the computer or the computer didn't augment the material in any meaningful way.
The only use I have seen computers in these situations get any meaningful use are through those students who have interest in computers and take the initiative to explore them outside of class.
Don't get me wrong, I believe there should be computers in schools, but there should be a greater emphasis on integrating teachers and relevant course material with computers. Buying dozens of computers just to spend grant money and appear bleeding edge serves no one.
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Any good sim game has to have scenarios you can play where an impending crisis looms before you. Here are my thoughts on some possible scenarios:
- Your campus' Athletic fraternity have lost their frat house to a natural distaster. They, in turn, kick the nerd fraternity out of their house. Do you let the Athletes stay in the house or help the nerds get on the Greek council?
- The RIAA is threatening to sue your university over student mp3 servers running on network. Do you rebuff the RIAA or crack down on the warez sites?
- Students have petitioned administration to switch the student computer labs over to linux, saving thousands. The Evil company providing your university with their OS, has bound you with restrictive licences. Do you ignore the students or try and find a way around the licences?
Web Designer 1: "Hey, this JPG compression will save our average 56k user about 5 seconds on load time."
Web Designer 2: "That's means we can load even more useless content on our website and they won't notice the difference!"
Web Designer 1: "As well as include more popup and banner ads, too!"
"JPEG2000 Standard! For when you needed that hardcore pr0n yesterday!"
for example, a person in an office complex tunes into the XM hip-hop station. Because some idiot was using an ibook with a wireless Airport card, Snoop dog is dropped from the ceiling all mutated and deformed!
:)
Again, serious implications!
Now I can have the best of both worlds: a laptop computer with an integrated sports water bottle!
Proper computing for the athletic geek!
New edit...present day digital technology...is anyone thinking what I'm thinking?
::Falls down and starts farting::
Jar-Jar Binks: "Mesa not a replicant! Mesa a Gungan!"
My roommate's girlfriend invited her friends over for some drinking and beirut. I just completed building a robot I picked up at robotstore.com and was letting it run around my room by itself (the potientometer was cranked all the way up so it was flying.) Anyways, I went out into the living room to drink when the little robot rolled into the room. One of the girls litterally freaked out. We all had to convince her that the robot couldn't hurt her! I still go lol over it to this day.
Nvidia is dropping the Geforce name after the Geforce4. Depending when this new card is finally on selves, Nvidia will probably have a new family name.
IMO, there are two types of people who trade tv shows:
1. People who have already seen the show and want to view it again at a later date. These people have already seen the ads from the commercial sponsers from the first airing.
2. People who are the fan base of the show. These people archive the episodes for their own enjoyment. These people also probably view the shows during their original airing rather than waiting for the show to appear somewhere over the internet.
Both populations of people have probably seen the original airing of the program with the commericals in place. The only valid concern I can think of from the TV industry is that sponsers may not pay for ads during reruns of a particular show if viewers already have copies of it to watch. But how many of us sit down to watch a rerun of a episode we have already seen? Unless it rocked, most of us I imagine probably end up surfing the TV during breaks anyways. Reruns really only serve the population of people who didn't see the episode in the original airing. It seems to me that the industry wants to keep this population away from recorded TV shows.
Yeah, women love men ride with a muscle bound 5 volt engine bravely facing speeds in excess of 10mph.
and laptop users will be the fittest people on the planet! I can see conversations now...
"Hey, Bob, your son is really getting big and strong!"
"Yeah, Steve, he's going to be as strong one day as a computer programmer! Maybe even as fit as a linux kernel hacker!"
"You don't say?"
Well, living colonists would not be frozen. To avoid celluar damage, they would be put under in a chamber just above the freezing point. That way, they would be in an induced state of hibernation. They would still be breathing, etc, but at an extremely slow rate. The colonists would still age in cyro, but at a much slower rate.
similar to 2001. I suspect that a couple of humans would have to be awake to monitor the ship's functions and make necessary repairs. I doubt automation would be trusted 24 - 7 for the lives of colonists for 200 years. These humans would rotate with other humans to prevent excessive aging and to ward off any mental instabilities being couped up in a ship would produce.
that just because you put your source behind lock and key doesn't mean it's any more secure. I hope more companies realize that competent programming and fast security patching is more effective than cloak and dagger secrecy.
1. Main characters get into threatening situation
2. Use StarGate to go to X world
3. Battle inhabitants with aid of native rebels
4. Return to base with solution to problem
5. Repeat
Maybe the show got better after I stopped watching it, but that's how every episode I watched played out.
then they are grossly mishandling their activation system or they seriously underestimate the intelligence of most Windows users.
Considering M$, I think it's a little of the former and the latter.
One film to rule them all;
One film to find them;
One film to bring them all;
And in the darkness bind them.
In Scientific American, the writer gives the example of Mary's computer being ultilized by a Biotech company while it's idle. Another example is a movie that is stored on several hundred people's computers. Why should I let my computer be ultilized for someone else's for-profit work or entertainment when they can do it for themselves?
It's another thing when a person volunteers to participate (I run SETI@athome) but this proposal sounds like a forced standard upon a consumer.
if you are putting Palm pilots on pizzas as toppings. :)
No, only Darwin is open sourced. The rest of code that makes up OS X is propietory.
we had wooden computers back when we were young. We will also say we only had 128 MB of RAM at the time (and we liked it! We loved it!), had to look at pr0n on a 15" monitor (CRT no less, not those fancy smancy plasma LCDs!!!), and had to walk 15 miles to download the latest version of Linux (uphill, both ways!!!).
If you watch Enterprise, you might have seen ads for Biobugs ($40), basically commericialized versions of the robots made by Mark Tilden. Although I don't have one, I have heard from others that they are perfectly hackable.
Cardboard buildings: not for the homeless anymore!
schools jumping on the technology bandwagon, buying computer equipment etc, without having any notion of what to do with computers once they get them. The focus of many schools is obtaining technology that is supposed to aid the student's learning process while neglecting to train the teachers these computers will go to how to use them.
I can personally atest that I have seen brand new PCs and Macs sit idle in schools I did volunteer work in because the teacher either didn't know how make use of the computer or the computer didn't augment the material in any meaningful way.
The only use I have seen computers in these situations get any meaningful use are through those students who have interest in computers and take the initiative to explore them outside of class.
Don't get me wrong, I believe there should be computers in schools, but there should be a greater emphasis on integrating teachers and relevant course material with computers. Buying dozens of computers just to spend grant money and appear bleeding edge serves no one.