Why is stuff like this left to university departments anyway? Where's the startup companies doing research to make a quantum chip and be the next Intel/Motorolla/AMD? Speaking of the current giants, why aint they doing this research in an effort to stay ahead of their competitors? It's just fat cat compacancy and it makes my stomach churn to see no-one putting their hand up to knock them off their perch.
does this really change how we deal with the warming problem that much?
Uhhh, I wasn't aware that we were dealing with the warming problem. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to stop global warming. That's the nature of a greenhouse, you point light at it and it will trap the heat. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions just stablizes the rate at which the heat is trapped. It doesn't decrease that rate and it doesn't reduce the heat that has already been captured.
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Sigh. If you are able to apply a constant acceleration to a body there's no reason why its velocity could not someday exceed the speed of light. The point of relativity is that you are not able to apply a constant acceleration as the amount of energy required to produce a constant acceleration is not a constant - it increases exponentially as you approach the speed of light. So if you were to develop a means of accelerating a body without expending energy the body would behave classically even as its velocity approaches the speed of light. Not that anyone knows how to do that.
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No scientists I know of say FTL travel is impossible. Some of them may express their opinion that we'll never have FTL travel.
Yes, because game rules in MMORPGs are implemented client side.
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No offense, but that's cause you're a smelly hippy. You're like the old man who complains about tits in a teen movie, no-one is listening to you because you're not the target audience.
If Google can do it then it isn't evil right? But seriously, Google is the egg head capital of the valley. If anyone is capable of making a DRM system that isn't crackable it'll be these guys. So how long till we see it cracked? I say no more than a week. Anyone wan running a pool?
Second Life is continually toted as a great platform for casual game developers to create interesting creations and, in fact, many games have been made in Second Life and the modelling and scripting available to every player is remarkably flexible. However, what is sorely lacking is the ability to script the UI aspects of a game. I read early last year that "viewer overlays" are currently under development, but to date there has been no progress. Without the ability to script the UI the kinds of games you can make in Second Life will remain limited to poor resolution puzzle games and gambling trivialities. With the ability to script the UI the possibilities suddenly become unlimited.
Another limitation of the current system is the third party tools required to make animations. These tools are expensive and/or hard to use. Building an animation editor into the game would make player interactions so much richer and encourage the creation of games that can utilize such richness (like fighting games).
You can play the game without owning land. You can even make money. Why would you want to own land and pay a monthly fee for it then? For the same people want to own houses and pay rent/taxes on it: somewhere to put all your shit and entertain people.
Firstly, those antiprotons are high energy and hard to capture. At CERN they're creating low energy antiprotons, combining them with antielectrons and storing antihydrogen in high density magnetic traps. Secondly, I didn't say anything about antimatter being an energy source.. it's an energy storage mechanism and so high density that it is the ultimate rocket fuel currently within our capability to create.
It's such a shame that crap like this gets on Slashdot but real technological breakthroughs don't. For example, how many of Slashdot's readers are aware that antimatter is currently being produced and stored in quantity at CERN and soon in facilities in the US? Antimatter is the ultimate in energy storage. Creating an antimatter rocket is trivial compared to regular chemical rockets. All you need is a sufficient supply of antimatter and a way to store it and we now have both.
If they've been suspended (and I think that should always be the case, banning is just too extreme) why not give them access to an area where other players can come visit them? They'll start to learn how important treating other people nicely is to the game and, when their suspension is up, reintegrate into society better.
It amazes me how much power players are willing to give to people who have no sense of due process. If you've ever been banned from a MMORPG you would know that typically you are not given any access to the evidence against you, the right to confront your accuser, or the chance to respond. Once banned or suspended no-one in the game gets the opportunity to communicate with you. The only way to stay in touch with people who have been banned is via out-of-band messages that typically require giving the anonymity the game supplies. As such not only does banning harm the individual, it harms the friends of the individual and through them the entire community.
I agree. Even once we can go and get a replacement heart grown from our own stem cells there will be people picketting the hospital saying we're evil for having our defective heart transplanted. Just like there are people now who consider blood transfusions to be evil even if it's your own blood you have banked that you are transplanting.
Second Life is a social game. Being sent to play "by yourself" teaches an important lesson: we are dependant on each other to make the game fun. When Yaffle returns to society he may be a little bitter at his timeout but I think he will be affected by it, whether he knows it or not, and show a greater respect for others.
This has to be the biggest "article" submitted to Slashdot ever.
Here's my idea: If you have a Bose-Einstein condensate of heavy atoms, why happens when they radioactively decay? Does every atom decay simultaniously? Wouldn't that be kinda like a bomb?
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Why is stuff like this left to university departments anyway? Where's the startup companies doing research to make a quantum chip and be the next Intel/Motorolla/AMD? Speaking of the current giants, why aint they doing this research in an effort to stay ahead of their competitors? It's just fat cat compacancy and it makes my stomach churn to see no-one putting their hand up to knock them off their perch.
does this really change how we deal with the warming problem that much?
Uhhh, I wasn't aware that we were dealing with the warming problem. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to stop global warming. That's the nature of a greenhouse, you point light at it and it will trap the heat. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions just stablizes the rate at which the heat is trapped. It doesn't decrease that rate and it doesn't reduce the heat that has already been captured.
Sigh. If you are able to apply a constant acceleration to a body there's no reason why its velocity could not someday exceed the speed of light. The point of relativity is that you are not able to apply a constant acceleration as the amount of energy required to produce a constant acceleration is not a constant - it increases exponentially as you approach the speed of light. So if you were to develop a means of accelerating a body without expending energy the body would behave classically even as its velocity approaches the speed of light. Not that anyone knows how to do that.
No scientists I know of say FTL travel is impossible. Some of them may express their opinion that we'll never have FTL travel.
Summary: Masturbation on a global scale.
He also said that the developers need to release a patch to fix problems in the rules. You don't release patches for server updates.
Yes, because game rules in MMORPGs are implemented client side.
No offense, but that's cause you're a smelly hippy. You're like the old man who complains about tits in a teen movie, no-one is listening to you because you're not the target audience.
If Google can do it then it isn't evil right? But seriously, Google is the egg head capital of the valley. If anyone is capable of making a DRM system that isn't crackable it'll be these guys. So how long till we see it cracked? I say no more than a week. Anyone wan running a pool?
Second Life is continually toted as a great platform for casual game developers to create interesting creations and, in fact, many games have been made in Second Life and the modelling and scripting available to every player is remarkably flexible. However, what is sorely lacking is the ability to script the UI aspects of a game. I read early last year that "viewer overlays" are currently under development, but to date there has been no progress. Without the ability to script the UI the kinds of games you can make in Second Life will remain limited to poor resolution puzzle games and gambling trivialities. With the ability to script the UI the possibilities suddenly become unlimited.
Another limitation of the current system is the third party tools required to make animations. These tools are expensive and/or hard to use. Building an animation editor into the game would make player interactions so much richer and encourage the creation of games that can utilize such richness (like fighting games).
You can play the game without owning land. You can even make money. Why would you want to own land and pay a monthly fee for it then? For the same people want to own houses and pay rent/taxes on it: somewhere to put all your shit and entertain people.
when antiprotons annihilate with protons, the annihilation process does NOT produce gamma rays immediately. Instead, the products of the annihilation are from three to seven particles called pions. On the average there are three charged pions and two neutral pions. The neutral pions have a very short lifetime and almost immediately convert into two high energy gamma rays. The charged pions have a normal half-life or 28 ns. Because they are moving at 94% of the speed of light, however, their lives are lengthened to 70 ns. Thus, they travel an average of 21 m before they decay. These charged pions contain 60% of the annihilation energy.
Firstly, those antiprotons are high energy and hard to capture. At CERN they're creating low energy antiprotons, combining them with antielectrons and storing antihydrogen in high density magnetic traps. Secondly, I didn't say anything about antimatter being an energy source.. it's an energy storage mechanism and so high density that it is the ultimate rocket fuel currently within our capability to create.
The purpose of antimatter is not energy production, it's high density energy storage.
To world-wide notice, in 2002 the ATHENA collaboration at CERN (in Geneva, Switzerland) announced the creation of order 100,000 low energy antihydrogen atoms. Creation of antihydrogen and its high density storage in magnetic traps is now a reality.
It's such a shame that crap like this gets on Slashdot but real technological breakthroughs don't. For example, how many of Slashdot's readers are aware that antimatter is currently being produced and stored in quantity at CERN and soon in facilities in the US? Antimatter is the ultimate in energy storage. Creating an antimatter rocket is trivial compared to regular chemical rockets. All you need is a sufficient supply of antimatter and a way to store it and we now have both.
Erased from history, 1984 style? Hmmm.. an MMORPG set in 1984, there's an idea :)
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that regardless of the procedure there will always be people apposed to it.
If they've been suspended (and I think that should always be the case, banning is just too extreme) why not give them access to an area where other players can come visit them? They'll start to learn how important treating other people nicely is to the game and, when their suspension is up, reintegrate into society better.
It amazes me how much power players are willing to give to people who have no sense of due process. If you've ever been banned from a MMORPG you would know that typically you are not given any access to the evidence against you, the right to confront your accuser, or the chance to respond. Once banned or suspended no-one in the game gets the opportunity to communicate with you. The only way to stay in touch with people who have been banned is via out-of-band messages that typically require giving the anonymity the game supplies. As such not only does banning harm the individual, it harms the friends of the individual and through them the entire community.
I agree. Even once we can go and get a replacement heart grown from our own stem cells there will be people picketting the hospital saying we're evil for having our defective heart transplanted. Just like there are people now who consider blood transfusions to be evil even if it's your own blood you have banked that you are transplanting.
You mean like imitation sushi?
Good to see you did plenty of research before posting this comment. Second Life doesn't have stats.
Second Life is a social game. Being sent to play "by yourself" teaches an important lesson: we are dependant on each other to make the game fun. When Yaffle returns to society he may be a little bitter at his timeout but I think he will be affected by it, whether he knows it or not, and show a greater respect for others.
This has to be the biggest "article" submitted to Slashdot ever.
Here's my idea: If you have a Bose-Einstein condensate of heavy atoms, why happens when they radioactively decay? Does every atom decay simultaniously? Wouldn't that be kinda like a bomb?