That's a lotta miles. If he had said light years, that'd be over a million times the distance to the farthest seen galaxy. (13,230,000,000 light years)
Stick his number into google, then put " miles in lightyears" after it. It's a good number of lightyears.
Well, for every person who dies after spending 48 hours playing EverQuest, there are 100 others still alive (and getting no work done) who only play it for 44 hours straight...
Righto, that's there, but we beat it eventually. Haven't you seen the rest of the series? Evil President (I think we both know who'll fit that role) makes a deal with the Evil Mars Aliens, and the space station people have to stop him and the aliens.
(Sure, the ISS is a bit smaller, but it'll work, right guys?)
The best part of that episode is they had like 10 buttons, with which they could completely control Spock. Walk, turn, blink, grab weird alien woman, etc. In 10 buttons.
If Trek had been done in the 80s they just would have whipped out an NES controller.
I've read pron involving space shuttle astronauts (remember one weird one where an Evil Tentacle Monster(tm) blew up the shuttle, then raped the (female) astronaut out on EVA. yergh), but sex WITH the space shuttle?
I think bipedal robots would be a lot more versatile - how do you jump over a large obstacle just with treads?
Ever seen a tank get knocked over?:)
Bipedal locomotion is just too damn unstable. If you REALLY want something with legs for rough terrain, build a spider. (Ever seen a spider trip and fall over?) If you're going for a budget model, cut it down to six legs. Think "cockroach".
But two legs is just silly. Way too easy to knock over (Even without people shooting at you! What's your unsteady mech gonna do when a tank shell hits in in the head? Answer: It'll fall right over)
It's damn hard to stand and move around on two legs, it took me years to figure it out:)
So, no. Mechs may look cool in animes, but I'm doubting we'll see any in real life.
(If I was in charge of military spending and you come to me with mech designs, I'd kick you out of my office and order 20 tanks instead.)
Actually, it was originally designed to provide comic-style word-balloons for the program Microsoft 3D Movie Maker. At some point, they figured out that whole "sound" deal, so 3DMM got voices, and the world got Comic Sans. (Sorry about that!)
I'm actually one of the leading programmers from the 3D Movie Maker Community (which still exists)... We're people celebrating a program that gave the world Comic Sans. Aren't we bastards?:)
The difference between AO vs. M is purely perception.
And Wal*Mart. Since they control a VERY LARGE section of the (retail) software market, Wal*Mart saying "SORRY, WON'T SELL YOUR GAME" could be considered a bad thing.
I have not seen any consistantly funny print comics. Most are painfully UNFUNNY. What does "unfunny" mean? That means they are the opposite of funny. They suck the funniness out of other things.
Unfunny print comics killed my inner child.
(Completely not joking. I have yet to see a single print comic that isn't completly unfunny. Calvin and Hobbes comes close, but cute!=funny.)
Atleast we'll finally know the truth about whether or not Microsoft's claim of only having security problems because they're so dominant is true or not.
We already know the truth. There is at least one place where MS is losing: Web servers.
Netcraft says Apache runs 68% of the web, and IIS is around 20%.
Now compare the security record of Apache and IIS, and you'll see "ONLY HACKED CAUSE IT'S POPULAR" is nonsense.
3D Movie Maker is an old (1995) game MS made, it's aimed at kids, but you can do some very nice simple movie making with it.
I have YET to find anything simpler. You have actors, props, and text-boxes, and you place them, pick animations and costumes, then animate them manually (where you select animation frames) or automaticly (where they play out their pre-made animations at a preset speed).
You can record dialog right into the movie, and it's saved into the final movie file. (a.3mm file, which contains only the sound files and the animation details, so they are TINY. You can get an hour long movie with dialog and music in 20mb)
It comes with 45 built in actors, 21 props, and 11 pre-built backgrounds. (Each of them with multiple camera angles)
They only drawbacks are: 1. No easy way to group objects or move more than one at a time. 2. Can't save to.AVI/.MPG (You can use other tools to do this though) 3. No way to import your own backgrounds,actors, props, or textures. (This is changing though. We've just recently figured out the model format, and I've written a program that lets you import quake 2 models. It's still pretty early-beta quality software however.) 4. Annoying barney-like host. You can skip his intro movies and shut him up after that, you you never see him. He's still annoying though.
Another nice thing is there are PLENTY of movies made with it. I've got a 3DMM movie archive site, and I currently have 1344 movies, all in about 2 gigs of space. (That's the largest 3dmm site, but still far from all movies released).
So I suggest you check it out, if you're looking for something to make fun movies in, quickly. You can often grab a copy on Ebay for under 10$. A quick search shows only one copy on right now: 5 days to go (I'm not connected to the seller, BTW. I just did a search.)
You can download it on a few sites (google for "3dmm"), since MS seems to no longer care about it. (They don't even mention it on their site anymore). It's about a 200mb download.
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That's a lotta miles.
If he had said light years, that'd be over a million times the distance to the farthest seen galaxy. (13,230,000,000 light years)
Stick his number into google, then put " miles in lightyears" after it. It's a good number of lightyears.
That's about a 1/8th of the way to the galactic center.
Methinks you are overestimating the size of this elevator, matey.
Instead of writing your games in C++, consider GW-Basic!
Well, for every person who dies after spending 48 hours playing EverQuest, there are 100 others still alive (and getting no work done) who only play it for 44 hours straight...
Righto, that's there, but we beat it eventually.
Haven't you seen the rest of the series?
Evil President (I think we both know who'll fit that role) makes a deal with the Evil Mars Aliens, and the space station people have to stop him and the aliens.
(Sure, the ISS is a bit smaller, but it'll work, right guys?)
How many languages are broken by design and will never be fixed because "It's always been that way"?
Reinventing the wheel isn't a waste of time if the old one is square.
The best part of that episode is they had like 10 buttons, with which they could completely control Spock.
Walk, turn, blink, grab weird alien woman, etc.
In 10 buttons.
If Trek had been done in the 80s they just would have whipped out an NES controller.
I've read pron involving space shuttle astronauts
(remember one weird one where an Evil Tentacle Monster(tm) blew up the shuttle, then raped the (female) astronaut out on EVA. yergh),
but sex WITH the space shuttle?
That's new.
I think bipedal robots would be a lot more versatile - how do you jump over a large obstacle just with treads?
:)
:)
Ever seen a tank get knocked over?
Bipedal locomotion is just too damn unstable. If you REALLY want something with legs for rough terrain, build a spider. (Ever seen a spider trip and fall over?)
If you're going for a budget model, cut it down to six legs. Think "cockroach".
But two legs is just silly. Way too easy to knock over (Even without people shooting at you! What's your unsteady mech gonna do when a tank shell hits in in the head? Answer: It'll fall right over)
It's damn hard to stand and move around on two legs, it took me years to figure it out
So, no. Mechs may look cool in animes, but I'm doubting we'll see any in real life.
(If I was in charge of military spending and you come to me with mech designs, I'd kick you out of my office and order 20 tanks instead.)
Actually, it was originally designed to provide comic-style word-balloons for the program Microsoft 3D Movie Maker.
:)
At some point, they figured out that whole "sound" deal, so 3DMM got voices, and the world got Comic Sans. (Sorry about that!)
I'm actually one of the leading programmers from the 3D Movie Maker Community (which still exists)... We're people celebrating a program that gave the world Comic Sans.
Aren't we bastards?
Ahh, the wonders of homosexuality=adult.
A man kissing a woman? ESRB hands you an "Everyone" sticker.
A woman kissing a woman? ESRB shakes its head and hands you a "Teen" sticker.
A man kissing a man? ESRB looks disgusted and lets you get by with a "Mature" sticker, you evil pervert.
Because the company instantly fired the person responsible, updated all future releases to not include it, and released a patch that took it out.
(And a happy helicopter rescue game doesn't work as well as a violent street thug game for your "GAMES ARE TEH EVIL!!!" political position.)
The difference between AO vs. M is purely perception.
And Wal*Mart.
Since they control a VERY LARGE section of the (retail) software market, Wal*Mart saying "SORRY, WON'T SELL YOUR GAME" could be considered a bad thing.
But then the Loonies could revolt and use the rail gun to bomb the Earth!
I read a scientific article about it once.
it don't suck no more
No, but now we have Csrster's corollary to Godwin's Law. :)
I have not seen any consistantly funny print comics. Most are painfully UNFUNNY. What does "unfunny" mean? That means they are the opposite of funny. They suck the funniness out of other things.
Unfunny print comics killed my inner child.
(Completely not joking. I have yet to see a single print comic that isn't completly unfunny. Calvin and Hobbes comes close, but cute!=funny.)
Why would they benchmark an ATI card in order to show an improvement in nvidia performance?
Star Trek started 11 years earlier.
If there were aliens close enough that we could detect heat coming from their CITIES, we'd have found them already.
(Assuming they don't built very-very-hot cities the size of planets. Hey, why not?)
(WINE = WINE Is Not an Emulator)
We already know the truth. There is at least one place where MS is losing: Web servers.
Netcraft says Apache runs 68% of the web, and IIS is around 20%.
Now compare the security record of Apache and IIS, and you'll see "ONLY HACKED CAUSE IT'S POPULAR" is nonsense.
With cufflinks.
3D Movie Maker is an old (1995) game MS made, it's aimed at kids, but you can do some very nice simple movie making with it.
.3mm file, which contains only the sound files and the animation details, so they are TINY. You can get an hour long movie with dialog and music in 20mb)
.AVI/.MPG (You can use other tools to do this though)
I have YET to find anything simpler. You have actors, props, and text-boxes, and you place them, pick animations and costumes, then animate them manually (where you select animation frames) or automaticly (where they play out their pre-made animations at a preset speed).
You can record dialog right into the movie, and it's saved into the final movie file. (a
It comes with 45 built in actors, 21 props, and 11 pre-built backgrounds. (Each of them with multiple camera angles)
They only drawbacks are:
1. No easy way to group objects or move more than one at a time.
2. Can't save to
3. No way to import your own backgrounds,actors, props, or textures. (This is changing though. We've just recently figured out the model format, and I've written a program that lets you import quake 2 models. It's still pretty early-beta quality software however.)
4. Annoying barney-like host. You can skip his intro movies and shut him up after that, you you never see him. He's still annoying though.
Another nice thing is there are PLENTY of movies made with it. I've got a 3DMM movie archive site, and I currently have 1344 movies, all in about 2 gigs of space. (That's the largest 3dmm site, but still far from all movies released).
So I suggest you check it out, if you're looking for something to make fun movies in, quickly.
You can often grab a copy on Ebay for under 10$.
A quick search shows only one copy on right now: 5 days to go (I'm not connected to the seller, BTW. I just did a search.)
You can download it on a few sites (google for "3dmm"), since MS seems to no longer care about it. (They don't even mention it on their site anymore). It's about a 200mb download.
Have fun!
Something tells me Rorschach would be a big fan of Max Max.
Come on, he's [spoiler]a "the end is near" sign walker[/spoiler]! I'm sure all his favorite movies are apocalyptic!