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What most people don't understand is that Bungie has always been one of the most innovative game houses. Halo and Halo 2 have received quite a lot of attention since MS was able to do some real push with the game. But all of Bungies games are just as impressive, and more so when you realize what a variety of new thinking they put out.
Marathon, an FPS, to Myth, a team player RTS, to Oni a FPS/martial arts game, to Halo, possible the most creative FPS to date. If they had gotten with a big development team earlier I would love to see the games they would have produced!
So hats off to Bungie, I want to see the next non FPS!
Yes there were, and they failed. The general who was brought out of retirement to run the war game didn't play by the rules. He used guerrilla warfare tactics instead of just engaging with a superiorly armed enemy. He won the first round, after that they scripted the entire thing; giving emails, PowerPoint presentations, and memos daily to show what would happen. To save face the people in charge said it was a demonstration of what the technological effect was, not a real war game.
Loading people up with technology to fight guerrilla warfare is like using touch screens to fix voting problems. The current push in warfare before and after Sept. 11 is to make the Armed forces leaner and meaner. So they do things like load the shit out of the army with tech, make a missile defense system, etc. Hoping it will help them enough in battle they can do with less men.
What happened in Vietnam? What happened during the American Revolution? It was guerilla warfare! "Better" tech. failing to a leaner, meaner, smarter force. Now called "Terrorism."
Why did they rig the tests? Why do they keep pushing an incompetent missile defense system? Because there are no government contracts to be won for fighting real guerilla warfare.
Because I need to install Linux on an original All-In-One G3 (_right_ before the iMac, educational release only) for a server:) Can't do with OS X! Custom apps for Linux, especially Linux kernal extensions. PPC is a pretty powerful processor, clustering it with Linux is easier and less expensive than OS X. Uhh, and more:)
The key is the fact the Gene patens have blocked research into it. Every time a lab does something with the caucasian mutation this lab send out a cease and desist. They guy who they found it on originally is opposed to it, but he has no say, even if it is his body. Another thing software and genes have in common, neither should have patents.
All those cute, unimaginative ideas on what IT can do to X. Which in a few years after the ideas just never happen everyone comes to their senses and relizes: It was pretty much useless.
Now there are a lot cooler things happening in regards to that field that we couldn't have imagened then. The future is what we are doing times 2. Riiiiight, thats why we drive at 200Mph., or fly in out "cars." Or my personal favorite, 3d desktops.
Lots of low level radiation ? good idea
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Nuclear Batteries
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" Here's another idea: give each component--sensor, actuator, microprocessor--its own nuclear microbattery."
Okay, I was in Honors chemistry, my favorite part was nuclear chem, I did a massive research project on fusion reactors. I would take a good well managed Nuclear reactor over a coal one any day BUT just like I am tired of being exposed to waaaaaay too many low levels of chemicals as is this had better get some good shielding!
Since the nuclear industry has done sooo poorly in the past the maybe these batteries will be monitored like everything else should be!
And what about disposal? I am over an aquifer! A shitload of low amounts of radiation builds up. Now there are ways to lower the half life and recycle most of waste. Hopefully they just use tritium, then it's like 12 years and there is an unlimited supply of it in the ocean. Just one cubic kilometer is enough to power INSANE amounts.
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They have been doing that here for years. There are certain limits to how much things like matches you can buy, since you can get the sulphur out of them etc. Buy too much and they call the cops.
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No, that has too much bad press. Freedom Batteries.
Why can't Slashdot take some initiative and do a bittorrent of the videos? I mean even if they didn't use their own server there are plenty of free seeders out there! It would take a little extra time but would save these projects money and us exasperation. And the Corral link is already down!
I am amazed no one has mentioned that 40gb portable hard disk- the iPod. Screw files, I move computer images to the far flung and scattered computers at my work. Many have only 56k modems, which makes it nuts to do every damn patch over. At some places I need to make a custom image on the spot, I give the CD's to the staff and use my iPod to do image computers while I'm there.
Really USB thumb drives are already old. Cheap? Yes, but only until HD prices come down enough. Not cheap when compared to 1 and 2 Gig ones! For an iPod it is $399/40= $9.9, or ten bucks a gig. $10/Gig vs $100/Gig now that's kicking Flash drives ass! And if it's style you want 4Gig iPod Mini is $250 is still $62/Gig.
...why they need to _emulate_ the graphics cards? They are the same chip architecture isn't that the same instruction set, why can't they just dump it onto the chip?
Only on/. could some one making an enlightened historical commont about a norsen chief who became the Duke of Normandy in 860 AD be modded "funny."
fucking idiots
Or not since they won't license their FairPlay DRM tech for other software players. And it sucks. Good thing there are now work around like the earlier story with what Real did, and PlayFair.
How are you gonna make sure people don't get another one?
"You send in notarized copies of documentation such as passport, birth certificate, drivers license, utility bills etc."
Riiiiiight, I got three people in this house that won't be using this thing. Along with plenty of insecure garbages all over town full of utility bills. Even shit like SS# are _VERY_ easy to get. How do you think illegal workers work? With fake SS cards they buy for $50-$100.
This is a really useless idea.
Oh heeelllll no they are not. Skrew customer data mining! I have worked at two small buinessess and from personal experiance know how crabby a customer can be. We had bottled perfume at a shop. There were only TWO kinds of perfume and the lady INSISTED that she know the exact perfum smell. Well, a two dozen or so yanking out of a difficult case and she hadn't found it. She gave up, finally convinced we were right. Then she wanted a product that we sell & make in our store and a few others in the area. She swore up and down it was cheaper buy like $2-3 next door. At least she had the guts to come back afterward. Then there are those who come and try on EVERYTHING then leave a huge mess for us to clean up and don't buy anything. Not that they didn't like the stuff we had. They were just bored. Spend two hours getting attention from us (not just for customer service) yada yada yada. In the smaller buisness 70-80% of profit came from 40% of the same regular customers. Even 20% is a big chunk of change but that 2-5% of crappy customers were NOT worth it.
Going from 2d to 3d is like saying everyone should draw on cubes for their ideas. It might help in some situations but not most. Want real watershed new interface paradigms? Read The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin. You can take a sneak peak by downloading THI/THE from the Jef Raskin website.
I think that these screen shots and the entire DC Homebrew community would disagree with you: http://www.dcemulation.com/pay-bleemcast.htm If Bleem! wasn't constantly getting sued (and eventually out of existence) by Sony they could have gotten to their original plan of 100 games in one CD. But the games they did get to work, which was only the beginning, were amazing.
Farming only 6% of continental U.S. acreage with biomass crop would provide all of America's gas and oil energy needs, ending dependence upon fossil fuels. Manahan, Stanley E., Environmental Chemistry, 4th edition.
Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. Hemp is easy on the soil,* sheds it lush foliage throughout the season, adding mulch to the soil and helping retain moisture. Hemp is an ideal crop for the semi-arid West and open range land. * Adam Beatty, vice president of the Kentucky Agricultural Society, reported instances of good crops of hemp on the same ground for 14 years in a row without a decline in yield. Beatty, A., Southern Agriculture, C.M. Saxton & Co., NY; 1843, pg. 113. USDA Yearbook, 1913.
Hemp stems are 80% hurds (pulp byproduct after the hemp fiber is removed from the plant). Hemp hurds are 77% cellulose--a primary chemical feed stock (industrial raw material) used in the production of chemicals, plastics, and fibers. Depending on which U.S. agricultural report is correct, an acre of full grown hemp plants can sustainably provide from four to 50 or even 100 times the cellulose found in cornstalks, kenaf, or sugar cane--the planet's next highest annual cellulose plants.
In most places, hemp can be harvested twice a year and, in warmer areas such as Southern California, Texas, Florida, and the like, it could be a year-round crop. Hemp has a short growing season and can be planted after food crops have been harvested. Each acre of hemp would yield 1,000 gallons of methanol. Fuels from hemp, along with the recycling of paper, etc., would be enough to run American virtually without oil.
These are pretty old resources but the government has put a stop to all hemp research fora while. This is a really crappy website but the Jackherer.com is down: http://www.electricemperor.com
Slashdot Mirror
What most people don't understand is that Bungie has always been one of the most innovative game houses. Halo and Halo 2 have received quite a lot of attention since MS was able to do some real push with the game. But all of Bungies games are just as impressive, and more so when you realize what a variety of new thinking they put out.
Marathon, an FPS, to Myth, a team player RTS, to Oni a FPS/martial arts game, to Halo, possible the most creative FPS to date. If they had gotten with a big development team earlier I would love to see the games they would have produced!
So hats off to Bungie, I want to see the next non FPS!
Yes there were, and they failed. The general who was brought out of retirement to run the war game didn't play by the rules. He used guerrilla warfare tactics instead of just engaging with a superiorly armed enemy. He won the first round, after that they scripted the entire thing; giving emails, PowerPoint presentations, and memos daily to show what would happen. To save face the people in charge said it was a demonstration of what the technological effect was, not a real war game.
Loading people up with technology to fight guerrilla warfare is like using touch screens to fix voting problems. The current push in warfare before and after Sept. 11 is to make the Armed forces leaner and meaner. So they do things like load the shit out of the army with tech, make a missile defense system, etc. Hoping it will help them enough in battle they can do with less men.
What happened in Vietnam? What happened during the American Revolution? It was guerilla warfare! "Better" tech. failing to a leaner, meaner, smarter force. Now called "Terrorism."
Why did they rig the tests? Why do they keep pushing an incompetent missile defense system? Because there are no government contracts to be won for fighting real guerilla warfare.
Because I need to install Linux on an original All-In-One G3 (_right_ before the iMac, educational release only) for a server :) Can't do with OS X! Custom apps for Linux, especially Linux kernal extensions. PPC is a pretty powerful processor, clustering it with Linux is easier and less expensive than OS X. Uhh, and more :)
Well, did they try using the cool BannedMusic wrapper? http://bannedmusic.org/download_system.php
Why don't we get to the point? http://corelog.unix.int0r.net/strangerhood1.mov.to rrent
The key is the fact the Gene patens have blocked research into it. Every time a lab does something with the caucasian mutation this lab send out a cease and desist. They guy who they found it on originally is opposed to it, but he has no say, even if it is his body. Another thing software and genes have in common, neither should have patents.
All those cute, unimaginative ideas on what IT can do to X. Which in a few years after the ideas just never happen everyone comes to their senses and relizes: It was pretty much useless. Now there are a lot cooler things happening in regards to that field that we couldn't have imagened then. The future is what we are doing times 2. Riiiiight, thats why we drive at 200Mph., or fly in out "cars." Or my personal favorite, 3d desktops.
" Here's another idea: give each component--sensor, actuator, microprocessor--its own nuclear microbattery."
Okay, I was in Honors chemistry, my favorite part was nuclear chem, I did a massive research project on fusion reactors. I would take a good well managed Nuclear reactor over a coal one any day BUT just like I am tired of being exposed to waaaaaay too many low levels of chemicals as is this had better get some good shielding!
Since the nuclear industry has done sooo poorly in the past the maybe these batteries will be monitored like everything else should be!
And what about disposal? I am over an aquifer! A shitload of low amounts of radiation builds up. Now there are ways to lower the half life and recycle most of waste. Hopefully they just use tritium, then it's like 12 years and there is an unlimited supply of it in the ocean. Just one cubic kilometer is enough to power INSANE amounts.
They have been doing that here for years. There are certain limits to how much things like matches you can buy, since you can get the sulphur out of them etc. Buy too much and they call the cops.
No, that has too much bad press. Freedom Batteries.
Why can't Slashdot take some initiative and do a bittorrent of the videos? I mean even if they didn't use their own server there are plenty of free seeders out there! It would take a little extra time but would save these projects money and us exasperation. And the Corral link is already down!
I am amazed no one has mentioned that 40gb portable hard disk- the iPod. Screw files, I move computer images to the far flung and scattered computers at my work. Many have only 56k modems, which makes it nuts to do every damn patch over. At some places I need to make a custom image on the spot, I give the CD's to the staff and use my iPod to do image computers while I'm there.
Really USB thumb drives are already old. Cheap? Yes, but only until HD prices come down enough. Not cheap when compared to 1 and 2 Gig ones! For an iPod it is $399/40= $9.9, or ten bucks a gig. $10/Gig vs $100/Gig now that's kicking Flash drives ass! And if it's style you want 4Gig iPod Mini is $250 is still $62/Gig.
Yeah, there is definitely a reason coral cache is still in beta
There is an actual company backing this spam and website, couldn't someone sue for damages?
...why they need to _emulate_ the graphics cards? They are the same chip architecture isn't that the same instruction set, why can't they just dump it onto the chip?
Well when you have to take every instruction, translate it, run it, and translate it back it would be dog slow. Just run 98 or 2K.
Only on /. could some one making an enlightened historical commont about a norsen chief who became the Duke of Normandy in 860 AD be modded "funny."
fucking idiots
Or not since they won't license their FairPlay DRM tech for other software players. And it sucks. Good thing there are now work around like the earlier story with what Real did, and PlayFair.
There needs to be a REAL Linux conference in SLC, so I can incite a riot and burn down SCO.
How are you gonna make sure people don't get another one? "You send in notarized copies of documentation such as passport, birth certificate, drivers license, utility bills etc." Riiiiiight, I got three people in this house that won't be using this thing. Along with plenty of insecure garbages all over town full of utility bills. Even shit like SS# are _VERY_ easy to get. How do you think illegal workers work? With fake SS cards they buy for $50-$100. This is a really useless idea.
Oh heeelllll no they are not. Skrew customer data mining! I have worked at two small buinessess and from personal experiance know how crabby a customer can be. We had bottled perfume at a shop. There were only TWO kinds of perfume and the lady INSISTED that she know the exact perfum smell. Well, a two dozen or so yanking out of a difficult case and she hadn't found it. She gave up, finally convinced we were right. Then she wanted a product that we sell & make in our store and a few others in the area. She swore up and down it was cheaper buy like $2-3 next door. At least she had the guts to come back afterward.
Then there are those who come and try on EVERYTHING then leave a huge mess for us to clean up and don't buy anything. Not that they didn't like the stuff we had. They were just bored. Spend two hours getting attention from us (not just for customer service) yada yada yada.
In the smaller buisness 70-80% of profit came from 40% of the same regular customers. Even 20% is a big chunk of change but that 2-5% of crappy customers were NOT worth it.
Going from 2d to 3d is like saying everyone should draw on cubes for their ideas. It might help in some situations but not most. Want real watershed new interface paradigms? Read The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin. You can take a sneak peak by downloading THI/THE from the Jef Raskin website.
I think that these screen shots and the entire DC Homebrew community would disagree with you:m
http://www.dcemulation.com/pay-bleemcast.ht
If Bleem! wasn't constantly getting sued (and eventually out of existence) by Sony they could have gotten to their original plan of 100 games in one CD. But the games they did get to work, which was only the beginning, were amazing.
Microsoft killed Be, but it seems that /. just killed Zeta
Farming only 6% of continental U.S. acreage with biomass crop would provide all of America's gas and oil energy needs, ending dependence upon fossil fuels.
Manahan, Stanley E., Environmental Chemistry, 4th edition.
Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. Hemp is easy on the soil,* sheds it lush foliage throughout the season, adding mulch to the soil and helping retain moisture. Hemp is an ideal crop for the semi-arid West and open range land.
* Adam Beatty, vice president of the Kentucky Agricultural Society, reported instances of good crops of hemp on the same ground for 14 years in a row without a decline in yield. Beatty, A., Southern Agriculture, C.M. Saxton & Co., NY; 1843, pg. 113. USDA Yearbook, 1913.
Hemp stems are 80% hurds (pulp byproduct after the hemp fiber is removed from the plant). Hemp hurds are 77% cellulose--a primary chemical feed stock (industrial raw material) used in the production of chemicals, plastics, and fibers. Depending on which U.S. agricultural report is correct, an acre of full grown hemp plants can sustainably provide from four to 50 or even 100 times the cellulose found in cornstalks, kenaf, or sugar cane--the planet's next highest annual cellulose plants.
In most places, hemp can be harvested twice a year and, in warmer areas such as Southern California, Texas, Florida, and the like, it could be a year-round crop. Hemp has a short growing season and can be planted after food crops have been harvested.
Each acre of hemp would yield 1,000 gallons of methanol. Fuels from hemp, along with the recycling of paper, etc., would be enough to run American virtually without oil.
Text from "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" © Jack Herer
These are pretty old resources but the government has put a stop to all hemp research fora while. This is a really crappy website but the Jackherer.com is down: http://www.electricemperor.com