Well, this is certainly more fuel for the long-standing argument "Why I Hate Java".
Unfortunately, it's part of the curriculum at my college. Let's not even get into the fact that they change textbooks every semester because the current one isn't "adequate" enough.
When was the last time American troops went to the middle-east and were shot at by something other than arabs? Last I checked, the camels were still unable to hold guns. Makes sense, doesn't it? Who would want to shoot at you in the desert? Certainly not Scandanavian terrorists, or Eskimo terrorists. No, it's the arabs. Besides, it's just a sign of the times. If this game had been made twenty years ago it'd probably have been russian forces.
I sure am glad I use linux. I kinda feel sorry for the uninitiatied masses who will never find out about all this till someone malicous person reformats their hard drive from half-way around the world.
Wow, I could say something on Microsoft's shody workmenship or their testing and debugging strategies, but I think the best have already been said. It's almost as if they aren't even trying anymore. *sigh*
I just don't see it as being possible. How can we make something that surpasses something we hardly understand, and only in little pieces. How often does a brain somewhere do something that makes medical science scratch its beard and go "Wow, I didn't know it could do that. Neato!"
No, what IBM will wind up doing is creating a really fast computer (not that I'm saying thats a bad thing, just don't aliken it to the brain).
Besides, to create anything comparable to a brain, wouldn't you have to start using organic cells instead of silicon chips? And that's just something that's beyond us at this time.
Hell, this is still cool. They're making computers capable of crunching so much data I can hardly wrap my superior brain around the number.
Sorry for the poor typing. I was eating while typing (multi-tasking sure would be easier with more hands). And due to an misplaced overconfidence in my literary skills, I didn't hit the preview button like I should have. It should read:...Do they have him reoccur...
Gomen ne. Voice inside my head: You're not japanese! *kick* Me: Hai! German-speaking Shark swimming through my head: Yes? Everyone: Doh!
How are they going to bring Daniel Jackson's character back? I mean, he fscking died/ascended! Do they have reoccur as a sort of extra-dimensional guide to the SG-1 nyuknyuks? Have him "descend" or "un-ascend"?
Although, you know what would be interesting. The scifi/soap opera solution: Daniel's dead, but they just happen to find his long lost twin brother, a reknowed neurosurgeon raised by temporally displaced landsharks.
I believe Penny-Arcade's Gabe put it best with this comic from a few months ago. http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2 002-07 -22&res=l
As far as Passport goes, look, if Linux users are going to want to a use the most ridiculus form of password management ever, fine, let them. Their funeral. Me, I'll keep with my cryptic nmemonic passwords and pgp keys, stored in the greatest filesystem, my mind (hehe, formated into journalised ext3, of course. Yeah, I know, reiserfs can be a little faster, but it's not a true jfs)
I'm starting college in the fall, at Southern Polytechnic University. Going through the registration process (which they had us do entirely online [from the campus computer lab]), I noticed a few things that left me, well, disquited to say the least, paranoid to say the most. To login required a username and PIN. The username was of course you're student ID number. Unfortunately, your student ID number is *pause for dramatic effect* your social security number. And the PIN's not much better. A six digit number initially consisting of...guess. Yup, the student's birthdate. Needless to say, first thing I did was change my PIN. Just wish we didn't have to toss our SSN around so much. If you think I'm overly paranoid, well, you have a knack for discerning the obvious.
I tried to get my school to start one, but everyone just gave me strange looks. I tried to explain the logistics of it and how it would be relativly easy to get materials once we lined up a company or two to sponser, even came up with a few designs, but no one really took me seriously. Oh well, there loss.
To be succint and sum up what everyone has said, will say, and was thinking of saying, its been done already. And frankly, they weren't that good.
Love and Peace, Valen
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How do they know they didn't just create some sort of neuro-toxin? All they did was assemble the same basic "components" which made up the original virus. You could do the same thing with human body (admittdly with much more effort), and all you're essentially getting is a stack of carbon-based junk.
The distinguishing factors between a stack of carbon-based junk and a human being still elude me.
I only see one jackass here, and it's not Cmdr Taco. We all experience computer related problems at one time or another. Each system, regardless of which OS is running, is unique, affected by innumerable (okay, they're numerable, but do you really want to count) bytes of data constantly changing. Conflicts are bound to occur by nature. I don't care if you run Window 2000, XP, Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS fraeling version 7.1, you're a lying bastard (sorry, "lying illegitimate child" just doesn't have the same ring to it) if you say you can get everything to run flawlessly.
I'd missplace the disk, and probably the drive too, about 30 minutes after purchasing them. I can't keep track of my media as it is. There's never a felt tip sharpie pen around when you need one. Not to mention the choking hazard it poses for the small computer users.
Anyone ever see that movie? Really good. Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, and a bunch of other people of less noteriety are hired by the president to fabricate a war in order to boost opinions and public support for the administration. Obviously, hilarity ensues. Bunch of "one hand doesn't know what the other hand's doing" jokes. They even turn an ex-military rapist into a war hero (and then accidently kill him). And Willy Nelson writes him a song! Very funny, and very remeniscent of this whole thing. If your in the mood for some good old fashioned goverment bashing entertainment, rent it. And then rent "My Fellow Americans". Also very nice.
Of course, if you're in the mood for anything else, see Memento. Words fail me...
Well, I'm definately not the first one to point at Adam's giant computer the size of a planet (First person who hasn't read the trilogy to guess which planet it is gets a cookie; first person to laugh at the word trilogy gets two cookies) but I'll do it anyway. *Points at his feet*
I've always been fond of the idea that space, like time, is an unmeasurable quantity, at least in the dimensions we are capable of percieving. Not everything can fit in that neat little box that we can hold a ruler up to.
I always liked the cyber-punk use of goggle type visulization systems in novels (greats like Snow Crash and Neuromancer come to mind, although Gibson's tech was a bit more invasive). They usually involve small wireless goggle/headphone combos receiving data from another source (triangular box on the floor, pack on the belt, spaceship's main computer, etc.) In fact one of the best fight scenes I ever read involved Hiro Protagonist (For those of you who never read Snow Crash, go out and do so at once! It's worth it for the post-rational and post-superpower America devoid of natural resources.) goggled to an infrared display while listening to his friend's band as he hacks apart some generally un-nice guys. Well, in case I've peaked anyone's interest I won't say anymore.
No, I don't think it's him. He was all green. And he was only in the Flintstones; though there was that one episode were Fred and Barney wished that they could go to the future and wound up in a distinctly Jetson-esqe era only to be chased back to the past due to a slight miscalculation and a few eons old debt.
Neat idea, poor implementation. (Now, where have we seen that before?) It's slow, and graphically intense, not really something one looks for in a screensaver, a several of my searches failed. One of the reasons Google's so popular is its speed and lack of goobldy-gook.
A very neat thing, though that big floating head's a bit freaky, and I'm sure it'll be great if they can ever get it to run faster (Maybe trim down a bit on the effects) Love and Peace, Valen Faerlwynd
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Well, this is certainly more fuel for the long-standing argument "Why I Hate Java".
Unfortunately, it's part of the curriculum at my college. Let's not even get into the fact that they change textbooks every semester because the current one isn't "adequate" enough.
Love and Peace,
Valen
When was the last time American troops went to the middle-east and were shot at by something other than arabs? Last I checked, the camels were still unable to hold guns. Makes sense, doesn't it? Who would want to shoot at you in the desert? Certainly not Scandanavian terrorists, or Eskimo terrorists. No, it's the arabs. Besides, it's just a sign of the times. If this game had been made twenty years ago it'd probably have been russian forces.
Love and Peace,
Valen
I sure am glad I use linux.
I kinda feel sorry for the uninitiatied masses who will never find out about all this till someone malicous person reformats their hard drive from half-way around the world.
Wow, I could say something on Microsoft's shody workmenship or their testing and debugging strategies, but I think the best have already been said. It's almost as if they aren't even trying anymore. *sigh*
Love and Peace,
Valen
I just don't see it as being possible. How can we make something that surpasses something we hardly understand, and only in little pieces. How often does a brain somewhere do something that makes medical science scratch its beard and go "Wow, I didn't know it could do that. Neato!"
No, what IBM will wind up doing is creating a really fast computer (not that I'm saying thats a bad thing, just don't aliken it to the brain).
Besides, to create anything comparable to a brain, wouldn't you have to start using organic cells instead of silicon chips? And that's just something that's beyond us at this time.
Hell, this is still cool. They're making computers capable of crunching so much data I can hardly wrap my superior brain around the number.
Love and Peace,
Valen
Sorry for the poor typing. I was eating while typing (multi-tasking sure would be easier with more hands). And due to an misplaced overconfidence in my literary skills, I didn't hit the preview button like I should have. It should read: ...Do they have him reoccur...
Gomen ne.
Voice inside my head: You're not japanese! *kick*
Me: Hai!
German-speaking Shark swimming through my head: Yes?
Everyone: Doh!
Love and Peace,
Valen
How are they going to bring Daniel Jackson's character back? I mean, he fscking died/ascended! Do they have reoccur as a sort of extra-dimensional guide to the SG-1 nyuknyuks? Have him "descend" or "un-ascend"?
Although, you know what would be interesting. The scifi/soap opera solution: Daniel's dead, but they just happen to find his long lost twin brother, a reknowed neurosurgeon raised by temporally displaced landsharks.
Sniff...I miss Farscape...
Love and Peace,
-Valen
I believe Penny-Arcade's Gabe put it best with this comic from a few months ago.2 002-07 -22&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=
As far as Passport goes, look, if Linux users are going to want to a use the most ridiculus form of password management ever, fine, let them. Their funeral. Me, I'll keep with my cryptic nmemonic passwords and pgp keys, stored in the greatest filesystem, my mind (hehe, formated into journalised ext3, of course. Yeah, I know, reiserfs can be a little faster, but it's not a true jfs)
Love and Peace,
Valen
Wow, that haiku's awful. Almost as bad as one of mine.
I prefer free verse and prose myself.
Love and Peace,
Valen
I'm starting college in the fall, at Southern Polytechnic University. Going through the registration process (which they had us do entirely online [from the campus computer lab]), I noticed a few things that left me, well, disquited to say the least, paranoid to say the most. To login required a username and PIN. The username was of course you're student ID number. Unfortunately, your student ID number is *pause for dramatic effect* your social security number. And the PIN's not much better. A six digit number initially consisting of...guess. Yup, the student's birthdate. Needless to say, first thing I did was change my PIN. Just wish we didn't have to toss our SSN around so much. If you think I'm overly paranoid, well, you have a knack for discerning the obvious.
Love and Peace,
Valen
Thanks.
Sometimes I make the most ridiculus mistakes.
Love and Peace,
Valen
That's a cop-out.
Thats like answering "Uh, the Force" to that whole lightsaber termination point issue.
I tried to get my school to start one, but everyone just gave me strange looks. I tried to explain the logistics of it and how it would be relativly easy to get materials once we lined up a company or two to sponser, even came up with a few designs, but no one really took me seriously. Oh well, there loss.
Love and Peace,
Valen
To be succint and sum up what everyone has said, will say, and was thinking of saying, its been done already. And frankly, they weren't that good.
Love and Peace,
Valen
How do they know they didn't just create some sort of neuro-toxin? All they did was assemble the same basic "components" which made up the original virus. You could do the same thing with human body (admittdly with much more effort), and all you're essentially getting is a stack of carbon-based junk.
The distinguishing factors between a stack of carbon-based junk and a human being still elude me.
Love and Peace,
Valen
I only see one jackass here, and it's not Cmdr Taco. We all experience computer related problems at one time or another. Each system, regardless of which OS is running, is unique, affected by innumerable (okay, they're numerable, but do you really want to count) bytes of data constantly changing. Conflicts are bound to occur by nature. I don't care if you run Window 2000, XP, Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS fraeling version 7.1, you're a lying bastard (sorry, "lying illegitimate child" just doesn't have the same ring to it) if you say you can get everything to run flawlessly.
Love and Peace,
Valen
I'd missplace the disk, and probably the drive too, about 30 minutes after purchasing them. I can't keep track of my media as it is. There's never a felt tip sharpie pen around when you need one. Not to mention the choking hazard it poses for the small computer users.
Love and Peace,
Valen
Anyone ever see that movie? Really good. Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, and a bunch of other people of less noteriety are hired by the president to fabricate a war in order to boost opinions and public support for the administration. Obviously, hilarity ensues. Bunch of "one hand doesn't know what the other hand's doing" jokes. They even turn an ex-military rapist into a war hero (and then accidently kill him). And Willy Nelson writes him a song! Very funny, and very remeniscent of this whole thing. If your in the mood for some good old fashioned goverment bashing entertainment, rent it. And then rent "My Fellow Americans". Also very nice.
Of course, if you're in the mood for anything else, see Memento. Words fail me...
Love and Peace,
Valen
Well, I'm definately not the first one to point at Adam's giant computer the size of a planet (First person who hasn't read the trilogy to guess which planet it is gets a cookie; first person to laugh at the word trilogy gets two cookies) but I'll do it anyway. *Points at his feet*
I've always been fond of the idea that space, like time, is an unmeasurable quantity, at least in the dimensions we are capable of percieving. Not everything can fit in that neat little box that we can hold a ruler up to.
Love and Peace,
Valen
I always liked the cyber-punk use of goggle type visulization systems in novels (greats like Snow Crash and Neuromancer come to mind, although Gibson's tech was a bit more invasive). They usually involve small wireless goggle/headphone combos receiving data from another source (triangular box on the floor, pack on the belt, spaceship's main computer, etc.) In fact one of the best fight scenes I ever read involved Hiro Protagonist (For those of you who never read Snow Crash, go out and do so at once! It's worth it for the post-rational and post-superpower America devoid of natural resources.) goggled to an infrared display while listening to his friend's band as he hacks apart some generally un-nice guys. Well, in case I've peaked anyone's interest I won't say anymore.
Love and Peace,
Valen
No, I don't think it's him. He was all green. And he was only in the Flintstones; though there was that one episode were Fred and Barney wished that they could go to the future and wound up in a distinctly Jetson-esqe era only to be chased back to the past due to a slight miscalculation and a few eons old debt.
Love and Peace,
Valen
Neat idea, poor implementation. (Now, where have we seen that before?)
It's slow, and graphically intense, not really something one looks for in a screensaver, a several of my searches failed. One of the reasons Google's so popular is its speed and lack of goobldy-gook.
A very neat thing, though that big floating head's a bit freaky, and I'm sure it'll be great if they can ever get it to run faster (Maybe trim down a bit on the effects)
Love and Peace,
Valen Faerlwynd
That's what I was going to say!
They're treating it like it's a brand new technology.