used a highly detailed computer modeling system--one that divided the Earth and its impactor into more than 20,000 tiny particles
if you divided the surface of the United States into 20,000 longitudinal (sp?, or even a word?) slices of equal width, these "tiny particles" would be in excess of 500ft wide. That's much smaller than if you did it with the whole earth (plus whatever hit it). I dunno, maybe that's all the resolution needed to predict the outcome of celestial events. I'd tend to doubt it. This sounds like a *real* rough and dirty approximation, hardly worth the money it cost to build.
Never trust a tech who tattoes his IP address to his arm, especialy if it's DHCP.
Who would do that? what does DHCP have to do with it? DHCP does not necessarily mean dynamic ip addresses. But, more to the point, why would you tattoe it on yer damn arm? It's perplexing to the point of not being funny.
you know what i love even better than that? people who post bitter responses to bitter responses to others who express any sort of positive, non-sarcastic thought..
Do you see the stupidity in continuing this conversation? I'm sure you are a really philanthropic person, judging by the way chimed in. And I can obviously see that you are a non-conformist free-thinker, judging by the '666' in your nick. But please.... stop talking.
I suspect that when I die (if I do... stem cell research is advancing!)
You will.... I promise.
my biggest regret just might be that I won't be around to see how much further still we can reach
Yeah yeah yeah, Gene Roddenberry is sooooo proud of you....
...COOL! ZAEBIS! JEST BARDZO FAJNIE! Err, back to English now... (Russian and Polish slang aren't very well-known on/. I bet)
I love it when ppl try to act all spontaneous when writing an email or posting to/., as though they've made an innocent and cute mistake (like 'accidently' rambling in non-English, for example). Sometimes it's funny, but this guy is really stretching. What the hell does russian slang have anything to do with anything? Should I think that it's somehow cool or neat that this guy know's a Russian/Polish (what!?) exchange student who taught him some cuss words? OK, they may not be cuss words, but I wouldn't know. I considered looking for a "Russian/Polish slang" translator on the web, but why bother? I've already wasted enough time on this reply....
Here's a snip from their website regarding CycSecure, their network security app.
AttackPlan Analyzer
The AttackPlan AnalyzerTM employs a planning algorithm to identify sequences of actions which could result in a compromise of the network. The AttackPlan Analyzer plays the role of a hacker and performs a virtual attack on the network model, exploiting multiple vulnerabilities it has discovered throughout the network to gain unauthorized access, steal critical files, deface a website, etc.
Am I retarded, or is this asserting that the software will actually steal files, and deface websites. Thats too funny. Obviously not, but lets not give the Chinese any ideas, mmmmkay.
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I think you're all whiney babies... I practically majored in Quake (hence, I didn't graduate). No motion sickness or anything.... hours and hours and hours and hours
Powell acted quickly to bring the site down and in a lucky turn received a tip from an informant who knew the site's administrative password, allowing Powell to download the e-mail addresses of all the registered users.
OK, this is illegal, right? Computer fraud? unsolicited email? I know that if I did something similiar, I'd have the FBI busting into my house. Oh, let me guess... The DMCA allows this.
I wonder if this sort of intimidation holds any weight at a hosting company like Havenco. Any thoughts?
Micro-surgury while you sleep, maybe a little ether to assure that yer conked out, and you'd never even know that the Feds can pin-point your location to a few meters. Is this an absolutly unconstitutional, Gestapo-style thing to do? Yes. Do I really think its above the government to partake in such behavior? Shitcheah... If they'll bug your lamp, your phone, your car, your toilet, what makes you think they won't bug you if given the opportunity?
Fact is, most PC games are single user (multiplayer through the net at best).
You are right, but in the way that you think. Multiplayer_over_network==the_only_multiplayer_wor th_playing. Split-screen sucks, and any multiplayer game that uses them is fuckin' worthless (except for 007, but it would have been 100x better on a PC/LAN combo).
Pricing is of course an issue. PC's are roughly 10x more expensive than N64. My issues w/ N64 are that:
the controller is really lame. I'm sorry but, for most games (3D shooters, RTS, Sims) there is no substitute for the mouse/joystick/keyboard combo. N64's is just atrocious. PSX's isn't so bad, but it is what it is.
with a few exceptions (007, Zelda64, etc)all N64 games are inherently boring. I'd say that 85% of N64 games have a play life of 1~2 weeks. I suppose that this is due to the low storage capacity of the cartridges.
That's all I have to rant about for now.... back to my cell....
...then you should be terrified of the government. Personally, in comparison to the gov't, I find corporations are to be rather harmless (which is a drastic oversimplification, but it's just to make a point). McDonalds only makes me vomit if I choose to buy it and eat it. MS Frontpage only drives me insane if I choose to buy it and use it. The gov't fucks me whether I ask them to or not. Without someone bigger bullying them around (i.e. the government), they have almost no accountability for their actions. And tell me who holds the gov't accountable for it's actions? More gov't. Isn't that convient... The whole idea that people can control the actions of corporations by single-handedly not purchasing from them is ridiculous. That's why corporations are so dangerous. Who ever said that one or a few people should be able to bring down a corporation. That, my friend, is ridiculous. You weren't born stupid, so stop acting that way. Like justin_cave said people either agree, disagree, are ignorant, or don't care. I'm not going to stop someone from eating McDonalds if that's what they want. And as much as I may like to, I'm not going to stop anyone from using FrontPage. Anyway, why should you care if there is a McD's down the street anyway. They are not going to force feed you. What a stupid fucking crusade. With all the shit going on, all over the world, some dirt farmer at war with McDonalds is the least of our problems. I mean, really, get a life.
Why has text simul-casting not progressed any past closed captions? It would seem to me that with the downstream bandwidth that coaxial provides (which would have been plenty, even 10 years ago), and a compliant television (manufacturers would have to participate) cable companies could have been streaming texted based multi-lingual captions, weather info, news headlines, etc etc, along side of their regular programming for years now. Any one have a clue?
--MessiahXI Oh, and uhh,... first post... i guess.
I'm pretty sure that book's copyright has expired long before it ever came into your hands.
Not exactly. I was trying to imply any copyright issues involving Thoreau. I was just trying to point out the idealic way in which we teach our youth, versus the the cold practicality that we create with suits and countersuits and copyrights and patents.
It should be illegal to circumvent technological measures, right? Technological measures that protect what? Movies, music, software, and various other forms of information that people want. But do you really care if a "technological measure" is "circumvented?" No you care that your stuff is being plundered (that is what pirates do, right?). So what you mean is that is should be illegal to plunder copyrighted material....but wait a minute...that already is illegal. Ok, you heard that everyone! If you didn't know, now you do. It is illegal to sell, distribute, or possess unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. That is the law.
Which is funny, because the Forces that would abuse such a law exist in the same society that, when I was in the 9th grade, handed me a copy of assorted works of Henry David Thoreau and said, "Read it. There will be test later."
The Enterainment Industry is driven by a market, and when a market decides that it doesn't need/want something, that Thing will die. The Industry is indeed very powerful, but there are more of Us. And can We help it that, from time to time, some of Us are smarter than Them? We are the market. Spread the damn word!
"Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respet for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice." Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1848.
those N64 chip's ought to be pretty powerful suckers Those 'suckers' are 5 freakin years old. Sure, they get the job done, but an Athlon 600 would smoke it 100 times before you could blink.
And imagine running Quake on this:) uhh, you can. It's called Quake64. And it ain't all that.
The machine is probably really power efficient as well. Get a laptop.
My point is that it's a console. Consoles are keen and all, but in terms of hardware power, they're well behind the tech curve. Granted that's by design. It may be interesting to get some N64's running in some distributed mode, but how many $100 consoles would you need when you can pick up a TNT2 for $150? Oh well, just my $0.02.
Emulators are semi-functional are available for both the Saturn and PlayStation. Much of the work which has been done is more for specific games, than a general emulator, such as the successful emulation of Resident Evil. The PlayStation and Saturn's power are difficult to capture, and are going to take incredibly efficient code to work well. The N64 will prove to be even more challenging, especially with the mystery of the RCP and its amazing power for 3D. An emulator for the N64 is out, but it only emulates opcodes. It's an amazing piece of code in the sheer numbers of hours represented in work, but game emulation has a long way to go before its functional.
Man, I've seen UltraHLE play N64 games 6 months ago, in much higher res too. If this guy is so into N64, why hasn't he heard of it? I know UHLE's been pulled, but it made HUGE waves, and it's still not hard to find on the net. Is this page insanely old or something? And is he planning on optimizing the kernel for N64 hardware, or does he really think that 'off-the-shelf' OSS can really stand up to super-optimized Nintendo/SGI code? Where's the gain? To check email on yer console? Last I checked, my PC does that just fine.
Why is it that whenever I bang the Libertarian drum, everyone jumps all over me;)
Here goes... Why does everyone seem to think that the sky will come crashing down if they're allowed to make their own decisions?! The government needs to take about eight giant steps back and get the fsck out of my life....[whew] OK, I'm done, unless I get a good flame.
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if you divided the surface of the United States into 20,000 longitudinal (sp?, or even a word?) slices of equal width, these "tiny particles" would be in excess of 500ft wide. That's much smaller than if you did it with the whole earth (plus whatever hit it). I dunno, maybe that's all the resolution needed to predict the outcome of celestial events. I'd tend to doubt it. This sounds like a *real* rough and dirty approximation, hardly worth the money it cost to build.
He even said "Please ignore my previous AC post" in the comment you linked to.... chill out.
Who would do that? what does DHCP have to do with it? DHCP does not necessarily mean dynamic ip addresses. But, more to the point, why would you tattoe it on yer damn arm? It's perplexing to the point of not being funny.
They would be if they were... oh say.... on Mars.
Do you see the stupidity in continuing this conversation? I'm sure you are a really philanthropic person, judging by the way chimed in. And I can obviously see that you are a non-conformist free-thinker, judging by the '666' in your nick. But please.... stop talking.
You will.... I promise.
my biggest regret just might be that I won't be around to see how much further still we can reach
Yeah yeah yeah, Gene Roddenberry is sooooo proud of you....
I love it when ppl try to act all spontaneous when writing an email or posting to /., as though they've made an innocent and cute mistake (like 'accidently' rambling in non-English, for example). Sometimes it's funny, but this guy is really stretching. What the hell does russian slang have anything to do with anything? Should I think that it's somehow cool or neat that this guy know's a Russian/Polish (what!?) exchange student who taught him some cuss words? OK, they may not be cuss words, but I wouldn't know. I considered looking for a "Russian/Polish slang" translator on the web, but why bother? I've already wasted enough time on this reply....
AttackPlan Analyzer
The AttackPlan AnalyzerTM employs a planning algorithm to identify sequences of actions which could result in a compromise of the network. The AttackPlan Analyzer plays the role of a hacker and performs a virtual attack on the network model, exploiting multiple vulnerabilities it has discovered throughout the network to gain unauthorized access, steal critical files, deface a website, etc.
Am I retarded, or is this asserting that the software will actually steal files, and deface websites. Thats too funny. Obviously not, but lets not give the Chinese any ideas, mmmmkay.
I think you're all whiney babies... I practically majored in Quake (hence, I didn't graduate). No motion sickness or anything.... hours and hours and hours and hours
OK, this is illegal, right? Computer fraud? unsolicited email? I know that if I did something similiar, I'd have the FBI busting into my house. Oh, let me guess... The DMCA allows this.
I wonder if this sort of intimidation holds any weight at a hosting company like Havenco. Any thoughts?
They did.... I guess you weren't....
--MessiahXI
actually MS stole from Apple, who stole it from Xerox.
You are right, but in the way that you think. Multiplayer_over_network==the_only_multiplayer_wor th_playing. Split-screen sucks, and any multiplayer game that uses them is fuckin' worthless (except for 007, but it would have been 100x better on a PC/LAN combo).
Pricing is of course an issue. PC's are roughly 10x more expensive than N64. My issues w/ N64 are that:
That's all I have to rant about for now.... back to my cell....
...then you should be terrified of the government. Personally, in comparison to the gov't, I find corporations are to be rather harmless (which is a drastic oversimplification, but it's just to make a point). McDonalds only makes me vomit if I choose to buy it and eat it. MS Frontpage only drives me insane if I choose to buy it and use it. The gov't fucks me whether I ask them to or not.
Without someone bigger bullying them around (i.e. the government), they have almost no accountability for their actions.
And tell me who holds the gov't accountable for it's actions? More gov't. Isn't that convient...
The whole idea that people can control the actions of corporations by single-handedly not purchasing from them is ridiculous. That's why corporations are so dangerous.
Who ever said that one or a few people should be able to bring down a corporation. That, my friend, is ridiculous. You weren't born stupid, so stop acting that way.
Like justin_cave said people either agree, disagree, are ignorant, or don't care. I'm not going to stop someone from eating McDonalds if that's what they want. And as much as I may like to, I'm not going to stop anyone from using FrontPage.
Anyway, why should you care if there is a McD's down the street anyway. They are not going to force feed you. What a stupid fucking crusade. With all the shit going on, all over the world, some dirt farmer at war with McDonalds is the least of our problems. I mean, really, get a life.
dood, what r u doing with a 28.8 if you had enough $$ to spring for the burner?
Why has text simul-casting not progressed any past closed captions? It would seem to me that with the downstream bandwidth that coaxial provides (which would have been plenty, even 10 years ago), and a compliant television (manufacturers would have to participate) cable companies could have been streaming texted based multi-lingual captions, weather info, news headlines, etc etc, along side of their regular programming for years now. Any one have a clue?
--MessiahXI
Oh, and uhh,... first post... i guess.
"But Mr. Cooper said Intel believes in choice. "It's certainly good news for consumers," he said of the talks."
Anyone else see a conflict here?
--MessiahXI
Not exactly. I was trying to imply any copyright issues involving Thoreau. I was just trying to point out the idealic way in which we teach our youth, versus the the cold practicality that we create with suits and countersuits and copyrights and patents.
--MessiahXI
Which is funny, because the Forces that would abuse such a law exist in the same society that, when I was in the 9th grade, handed me a copy of assorted works of Henry David Thoreau and said, "Read it. There will be test later."
The Enterainment Industry is driven by a market, and when a market decides that it doesn't need/want something, that Thing will die. The Industry is indeed very powerful, but there are more of Us. And can We help it that, from time to time, some of Us are smarter than Them? We are the market. Spread the damn word!
"Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respet for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1848.
--MessiahXI
I think someone needs to add a > to the end of that /a tag. dontchathink?
It did... pay no attention these people ;)
Those 'suckers' are 5 freakin years old. Sure, they get the job done, but an Athlon 600 would smoke it 100 times before you could blink.
And imagine running Quake on this :)
uhh, you can. It's called Quake64. And it ain't all that.
The machine is probably really power efficient as well.
Get a laptop.
My point is that it's a console. Consoles are keen and all, but in terms of hardware power, they're well behind the tech curve. Granted that's by design.
It may be interesting to get some N64's running in some distributed mode, but how many $100 consoles would you need when you can pick up a TNT2 for $150? Oh well, just my $0.02.
Oh, my fault, apparently the page is 18 months old... Why was this posted on /.?
Man, I've seen UltraHLE play N64 games 6 months ago, in much higher res too. If this guy is so into N64, why hasn't he heard of it? I know UHLE's been pulled, but it made HUGE waves, and it's still not hard to find on the net. Is this page insanely old or something?
And is he planning on optimizing the kernel for N64 hardware, or does he really think that 'off-the-shelf' OSS can really stand up to super-optimized Nintendo/SGI code? Where's the gain? To check email on yer console? Last I checked, my PC does that just fine.
Here goes... Why does everyone seem to think that the sky will come crashing down if they're allowed to make their own decisions?! The government needs to take about eight giant steps back and get the fsck out of my life....[whew] OK, I'm done, unless I get a good flame.