It's not gonna give you a true 3D sensation since the image will appear identical to both eyes.
It's basically using your cam to track your head, then using software to munge up the incoming image from the other person's 2 cameras, as if your head was at that spot between the two, kind of like setting the fade and balance for audio, but for video.
> Red Dwarf To Return, Find Earth > > "Everyone's favorite live-action science fiction comedy series will > finally return to TV, with Lister, Rimmer, Kryten
> "A massive planet orbiting the star HD 80606 is on a roller-coaster orbit: it dive bombs > the star, in just 55 days dropping from over 120 million km to just 4 million km from the > star's surface!... results: an ueberviolent storm that acts as if a bomb were exploded > in the planet's atmosphere."
They started jumping the shark when Gaines wouldn't agree to let the authors own their own work, so Don Martin left, which was about 40% of the magazine as far as I was concerned. A big annual trip for all the writers just wasn't cutting it anymore as retirement approached, I guess.
Then Gaines himself croaked, and the downhill really started picking up steam. I think I've bought one mag since the color-and-ads stuff. There's a reason for that.
> Imagine the fun that some targeted malware could do
Imagine the fun that some targeted lawyers could do when they sue Lexus because some guy plowed into another person or school bus or something because he "was distracted by the advertisement blurting out."
And no, no matter how many disclaimers the driver clicks on, he can't wave away the other person's right to sue Lexus.
A small dictionary for prospective and noob Eve players:
ragequit: To quit the game because you just lost some hellishly expensive ships. I ragequit for 24 hours yesterday because my little stealth shuttle with tech 2 equipment and 600 million in goods got popped leading to a 1.092 billion Isk loss for me. Can last for a day or months, with or without actually cancelling.
popped: Blown up, especially in the face of overwhelming numbers and a quick death. My destroyer got popped at the double-sided gate camp in 4C, then I was podded.
podded: Your escape pod is popped, leading to the death of your clone. I sure hope you had a reserve clone stored with your full skill point total when you got podded.
clone: Just what it sounds like, it's actually like insurance you buy on yourself that preserves the total number of skill points you've earned. Please tell me you had a good insurance clone and that you didn't get podded to a grade alpha!
grade alpha, beta, etc.: Grades of stored clones, where alpha is the cheapest and default, 900,000 points. Shit, better upgrade to epsilon ASAP, I almost got popped and lost 6 million training points.
POS: Player-owned structure out in space, as opposed to ships. Very large and expensive. Fuckers took out my POS!
BS: Battleship What a load of BS! Three BS took out my POS, what a POS that defense tower was!
rats: Short for pirates, or NPC pirate ships that try to take out poorly-armed mining ships. WTF, those frigates were trying to kill me with a BC right next to me?!?!?
ratting: Going to such a system to hunt for rats, or to protect mining ships in your alliance. Don't rat the kings because (some reason I haven't learned yet), stick to the barons and lower.
blue: People in your alliance who are not in your corp. Since it's 0.0 space, you can attack each other without penalty, but you don't want to for obvious reasons. As opposed to red = kos = angry NPC anywhere, or PC in 0.0 space who are attacking. Oh thank god, we're finally in blue space. I had no idea your alliance space was 30 deep in red.
Statements like the OP's article may be a little strong, but the huge graphics upgrade earlier in the year was really nice.
Probably the most irritating thing in Eve currently is the lag that happens for 1-2 seconds almost every time you click on something. The mouse isn't frozen, just the 3D stops rendering for some reason. It feels like a network lag, as if the client has to communicate with the server (in Europe, I think), which can and does contribute to your death in tough situations. Others say it's graphics card lag, but I don't think that could be it as what happens when you click on something? Not much changes in the scene.
As if that isn't bad enough, the "real game" is out in 0.0 space, i.e. no security at all, which is the vast majority of space, actually. The four main empires and all civilized space (>= 0.5 security) is just a tiny fraction. A ginormous place, but just a tiny fraction. The rule there for PvP is that it's all legal, including lovely stuff like trapping a player and threatening to blow up his expensive ship if he doesn't pay a ransome.
So just learning the basics is one thing, then learning PvP all over again (hint: groups always beat singles, just like real life). It's at least two gauntlets of trial by fire in a row.
And 400,000 strong and growing...
My alliance (of corps, i.e. clans) took out another alliance's "POS", a player-owned structure, which is to say, a bunch of 'em actually, starting with a giant tower projecting an impenetrable 22.5 million hit point bubble 40km in diameter, with all kinds of lovely stuff inside, like a corporate ship hangar, station for ship fitting, and so on. Bet they hated to lose that. But we lost some crap to them SO SCREW THEM!
> first, the expected (positive) FAA environmental impact report, and second, > the hoped-for but not immediately expected 'launch site operator's license.' > With this license, and with the previously accomplished creation of a tax > district, two of three pieces are in place as required by the New Mexico > legislature to receive its funding package
Actually, they had one and only one piece in-place quite a long time ago. "We're doing this here, and you elected officials are getting the F*** OUT OF THE WAY and letting us do it quickly and for cheap, or we're going to another country and we'll say why, loudly, this cool thing left your lands, and you can face the voters."
If you view things like environmental impact studies and tax regulations as anything other than parasitic memes engendering their reproduction through successful election, well, let's just say there's a hell of a lot more consciousness-raising you need than that deconstructionist crap from the 1960's.
> cedarhillbilly passes along a piece from TheHill.com on the chilly reception > that tech firms and lobbying groups are giving to a bill promoting union > formation, which has a chance of passing in a more strongly Democratic > congress and with a Democratic president.
Because it works so well in the auto industry, why not?
But I'd like to point out that, to professionals, it's grotesquely offensive. I have been programming professionally for over 20 years, have a 150 IQ, and absolutely adore what I do. I make Dilbert look like Jed Clampett. I do shit like clone Minesweeper in 4 hours from scratch just for the hell of it.
Sad. I thought I left "slow down! You're working too fast!" back at the factories in summer during college.
They will lose more votes cutting services just a little bit than by adding another straw to your back, which is to say, cutting funds to people who get money from government.
I can't imagine why businesses are fleeing overseas, with all this bread-and-circuses genius floating around like turds tied to balloons choking things more and more each year.
Even if you think every single law and every single payment level is needed, sooner or later the arteries clog and the heart stops, choked with a hundred balloon angioplasty stents.
The politicians won't grow balls, so you have to grow them for 'em.
> McMurdie said the device was needed because of a record number of PCs were being seized > by police and because the majority of cops don't have the skills to forensically analyse a computer.
Well if you dumbass computer programmers would stop building them tools, you would have less to worry about.
"Very light per unit length" is a clumsy way of saying "strength to weight ration is high enough that it won't snap easily". It doesn't, per se, suggest lightness in the material itself. A material that was a ton per inch would work just fine if it's strength was high enough.
Two, any unprotected structure like that would not vaporize on "reentry". Re-entry is a problem because of the speed of hitting the atmosphere. First, only the parts falling in excess of x thousands of feet per second would have a problem. Second, they'd have to be, umm, hitting the atmosphere. And most of it would be falling down the previous meter's path, essentially slipstreaming itself. Think of the long ribbons of Olympic dance gymnists just flowing along being pulled in loops and circles. Of course, that also has friction and possible feedback wave problems, but those aren't direct impact with atmosphere problems.
Third, there would be whiplash in the sense of energy release, because the whole thing has been falling down, faster and faster, in this slipstream method, and the end gaining tremendous amounts of energy that will dissipate in what is, at least, an attempt at a whiplash. That the massive energy might vaporize it and lots of dirt for half a mile around before it actually "snaps", is beside the point.
Yeah, just because they can figure out how to shoot dynamite, TNT, high explosives, and nuclear bombs out long-range supercannons without blowing up on "takeoff" or becoming busted, doesn't mean they can't figure out how to do so with other electronics, especially given the reduced need for weight control (due to lift cost anyway.)
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis
Furthermore, I wonder how many, outraged at this, are on the "Fairness in Broadcasting" bandwagon, wanting to de facto censor politics on the US airwaves by way of increasing costs.
Nope! Don't wanna hear arguments about it. The above description means you. That you're regurgitating the meme's defensive mechanism about "fairness", it's real goal, censorship, and thus destruction of the opposing meme, remains.
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Plus:
> "You don't want to be in a Thai prison!"
"Hey, what are you...HEY! Get away! You aren't a sweet little ladyboy!"
> Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey
And, unlike wind power, these are regular, predictable, reliable sources of energy.
It's not gonna give you a true 3D sensation since the image will appear identical to both eyes.
It's basically using your cam to track your head, then using software to munge up the incoming image from the other person's 2 cameras, as if your head was at that spot between the two, kind of like setting the fade and balance for audio, but for video.
But it'll still be a flat image.
But "it's very neat!"
> Red Dwarf To Return, Find Earth
>
> "Everyone's favorite live-action science fiction comedy series will
> finally return to TV, with Lister, Rimmer, Kryten
Oh yeah! News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
> "A massive planet orbiting the star HD 80606 is on a roller-coaster orbit: it dive bombs ... results: an ueberviolent storm that acts as if a bomb were exploded
> the star, in just 55 days dropping from over 120 million km to just 4 million km from the
> star's surface!
> in the planet's atmosphere."
F***ing Republicans! >:(
> Universal Disk Encryption Spec Finalized
25 minutes later...
Universal Disk Encryption Cracking Spec Finalized
Yeah, whatever dudes.
> 45% Of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates"
-1: Flamebait
-1: Troll
Grrrrrrrrrr!
So, how'd I do?
Amen to that.
They started jumping the shark when Gaines wouldn't agree to let the authors own their own work, so Don Martin left, which was about 40% of the magazine as far as I was concerned. A big annual trip for all the writers just wasn't cutting it anymore as retirement approached, I guess.
Then Gaines himself croaked, and the downhill really started picking up steam. I think I've bought one mag since the color-and-ads stuff. There's a reason for that.
Gaaaah! Now I have to figure out how to minimax my unlicensed positron collider on my back!
Gotta 1-shot the nimble mynx...gotta 1-shot the nimble mynx...
> Writer makes the case that Windows 7 is a turning point
> for Microsoft, and we all might start liking them soon...
Uhhh, a billion+ installations over the decades, I think they're liked pretty well, thxbie.
When someone can play a digitized version of Michael Jackson's Beat It by just vibrating the floppy disc head at different speeds, let me know...
His patter doesn't help: "...and you'll note the blue screen of death is rendered in full 32-bit blue..."
> Imagine the fun that some targeted malware could do
Imagine the fun that some targeted lawyers could do when they sue Lexus because some guy plowed into another person or school bus or something because he "was distracted by the advertisement blurting out."
And no, no matter how many disclaimers the driver clicks on, he can't wave away the other person's right to sue Lexus.
A small dictionary for prospective and noob Eve players:
ragequit: To quit the game because you just lost some hellishly expensive ships. I ragequit for 24 hours yesterday because my little stealth shuttle with tech 2 equipment and 600 million in goods got popped leading to a 1.092 billion Isk loss for me. Can last for a day or months, with or without actually cancelling.
popped: Blown up, especially in the face of overwhelming numbers and a quick death. My destroyer got popped at the double-sided gate camp in 4C, then I was podded.
podded: Your escape pod is popped, leading to the death of your clone. I sure hope you had a reserve clone stored with your full skill point total when you got podded.
clone: Just what it sounds like, it's actually like insurance you buy on yourself that preserves the total number of skill points you've earned. Please tell me you had a good insurance clone and that you didn't get podded to a grade alpha!
grade alpha, beta, etc.: Grades of stored clones, where alpha is the cheapest and default, 900,000 points. Shit, better upgrade to epsilon ASAP, I almost got popped and lost 6 million training points.
POS: Player-owned structure out in space, as opposed to ships. Very large and expensive. Fuckers took out my POS!
BS: Battleship What a load of BS! Three BS took out my POS, what a POS that defense tower was!
rats: Short for pirates, or NPC pirate ships that try to take out poorly-armed mining ships. WTF, those frigates were trying to kill me with a BC right next to me?!?!?
ratting: Going to such a system to hunt for rats, or to protect mining ships in your alliance. Don't rat the kings because (some reason I haven't learned yet), stick to the barons and lower.
blue: People in your alliance who are not in your corp. Since it's 0.0 space, you can attack each other without penalty, but you don't want to for obvious reasons. As opposed to red = kos = angry NPC anywhere, or PC in 0.0 space who are attacking. Oh thank god, we're finally in blue space. I had no idea your alliance space was 30 deep in red.
Statements like the OP's article may be a little strong, but the huge graphics upgrade earlier in the year was really nice.
Probably the most irritating thing in Eve currently is the lag that happens for 1-2 seconds almost every time you click on something. The mouse isn't frozen, just the 3D stops rendering for some reason. It feels like a network lag, as if the client has to communicate with the server (in Europe, I think), which can and does contribute to your death in tough situations. Others say it's graphics card lag, but I don't think that could be it as what happens when you click on something? Not much changes in the scene.
As if that isn't bad enough, the "real game" is out in 0.0 space, i.e. no security at all, which is the vast majority of space, actually. The four main empires and all civilized space (>= 0.5 security) is just a tiny fraction. A ginormous place, but just a tiny fraction. The rule there for PvP is that it's all legal, including lovely stuff like trapping a player and threatening to blow up his expensive ship if he doesn't pay a ransome.
So just learning the basics is one thing, then learning PvP all over again (hint: groups always beat singles, just like real life). It's at least two gauntlets of trial by fire in a row.
And 400,000 strong and growing...
My alliance (of corps, i.e. clans) took out another alliance's "POS", a player-owned structure, which is to say, a bunch of 'em actually, starting with a giant tower projecting an impenetrable 22.5 million hit point bubble 40km in diameter, with all kinds of lovely stuff inside, like a corporate ship hangar, station for ship fitting, and so on. Bet they hated to lose that. But we lost some crap to them SO SCREW THEM!
We lost 2 battleships but it was worth it.
That'll teach 'em a lesson! >:(
> first, the expected (positive) FAA environmental impact report, and second,
> the hoped-for but not immediately expected 'launch site operator's license.'
> With this license, and with the previously accomplished creation of a tax
> district, two of three pieces are in place as required by the New Mexico
> legislature to receive its funding package
Actually, they had one and only one piece in-place quite a long time ago. "We're doing this here, and you elected officials are getting the F*** OUT OF THE WAY and letting us do it quickly and for cheap, or we're going to another country and we'll say why, loudly, this cool thing left your lands, and you can face the voters."
If you view things like environmental impact studies and tax regulations as anything other than parasitic memes engendering their reproduction through successful election, well, let's just say there's a hell of a lot more consciousness-raising you need than that deconstructionist crap from the 1960's.
I don't mean to sound arrogant or balloon-headed, but someone's touching my balls and I don't want it and I'm gonna fight.
> cedarhillbilly passes along a piece from TheHill.com on the chilly reception
> that tech firms and lobbying groups are giving to a bill promoting union
> formation, which has a chance of passing in a more strongly Democratic
> congress and with a Democratic president.
Because it works so well in the auto industry, why not?
But I'd like to point out that, to professionals, it's grotesquely offensive. I have been programming professionally for over 20 years, have a 150 IQ, and absolutely adore what I do. I make Dilbert look like Jed Clampett. I do shit like clone Minesweeper in 4 hours from scratch just for the hell of it.
Sad. I thought I left "slow down! You're working too fast!" back at the factories in summer during college.
That's always the case, say the politicians.
They will lose more votes cutting services just a little bit than by adding another straw to your back, which is to say, cutting funds to people who get money from government.
I can't imagine why businesses are fleeing overseas, with all this bread-and-circuses genius floating around like turds tied to balloons choking things more and more each year.
Even if you think every single law and every single payment level is needed, sooner or later the arteries clog and the heart stops, choked with a hundred balloon angioplasty stents.
The politicians won't grow balls, so you have to grow them for 'em.
> McMurdie said the device was needed because of a record number of PCs were being seized
> by police and because the majority of cops don't have the skills to forensically analyse a computer.
Well if you dumbass computer programmers would stop building them tools, you would have less to worry about.
Which is, of course, not what would happen.
"Very light per unit length" is a clumsy way of saying "strength to weight ration is high enough that it won't snap easily". It doesn't, per se, suggest lightness in the material itself. A material that was a ton per inch would work just fine if it's strength was high enough.
Two, any unprotected structure like that would not vaporize on "reentry". Re-entry is a problem because of the speed of hitting the atmosphere. First, only the parts falling in excess of x thousands of feet per second would have a problem. Second, they'd have to be, umm, hitting the atmosphere. And most of it would be falling down the previous meter's path, essentially slipstreaming itself. Think of the long ribbons of Olympic dance gymnists just flowing along being pulled in loops and circles. Of course, that also has friction and possible feedback wave problems, but those aren't direct impact with atmosphere problems.
Third, there would be whiplash in the sense of energy release, because the whole thing has been falling down, faster and faster, in this slipstream method, and the end gaining tremendous amounts of energy that will dissipate in what is, at least, an attempt at a whiplash. That the massive energy might vaporize it and lots of dirt for half a mile around before it actually "snaps", is beside the point.
Yeah, just because they can figure out how to shoot dynamite, TNT, high explosives, and nuclear bombs out long-range supercannons without blowing up on "takeoff" or becoming busted, doesn't mean they can't figure out how to do so with other electronics, especially given the reduced need for weight control (due to lift cost anyway.)
Well...
> a [news] report about a Michigan State University student who is facing suspension
> for bulk emailing a number of professors...
I see one of the girls at Moo U was trying to up her grades with nudie shots...
Why?
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis
Furthermore, I wonder how many, outraged at this, are on the "Fairness in Broadcasting" bandwagon, wanting to de facto censor politics on the US airwaves by way of increasing costs.
Nope! Don't wanna hear arguments about it. The above description means you. That you're regurgitating the meme's defensive mechanism about "fairness", it's real goal, censorship, and thus destruction of the opposing meme, remains.