Roger Waters (bassist, main song writer) has an anti-music establishment issue (despite being one of the biggest acts in rock history and making a bazillion dollars out of it)
Bakersfield is like 25 miles north of grapevine. I swear, check the video, he gets on 99. He stays in the left-hand lane Then he gets off on what I believe is 166 and goes west to I5, then goes north on 5.
I drive this area all the time from Lebec to Taft..
I just checked and slowed the video down to frame by frame, he does get on the 99. You can see the characteristic pink and white flowers in the median. However, it looks like he then realized his error, that he had meant to be on 5 and not 99, and takes either 166 or 119 west to re-intercept I5.
As a resident of South Kern county, I take offense at that! As far from Los Angeles to Grapevine is quite an interesting stretch, with Pyramid Lake, Tejon Lake, Frazier Mountain, the rolling hills near Gorman.
I commute this stretch of highway daily (Frazier Park exit to Lyons Ave) He takes some interesting detours on Lyons Ave in Newhall, which is actually the street where I work.
Though this would not permanently solve the problem with a faulty sensor, I hear you can cause the check engine light to go out after it detects a loose gas cap by simply disconnecting the battery of the vehicle for 20 minutes or so and reconnecting it.
I heard this from a few car-oriented friends of mine after I had the same problem on my Toyota Tacoma and stupidly forked out $70 for them to hook it up to a machine and press the 'reset' button.
Agreed. And yes, I enjoyed the training missions too, except perhaps the 'test' type missions. The weapons training and obstacle course and stuff was actually useful, I like when games have that kind of stuff.
It's just that they have been a continued inconvenience when trying to play LAN games of AA at work:)
I disagree. Anyone knows where a 203 (grenade launcher) can and cannot get to, and after playing for 5 minutes you should be smart enough to realize how to go about keeping out of a 203's reach. This is realism. Writing off AA as a grenade fest is like writing off quake as a rocket fest.
Also, I don't know any situations in which the maps you can play is restricted by your honor rating. Unofficial servers should give no bearing to honor at all, and people who do not like the honor concept can bypass it completely.
I agree with you that it sucks that idiot team mates can easily reduce your honor by running into your grenades because they do not pay attention, etc. This has certainly happened enough times to me, but in the end it is a rare enough event that I do not hate the game for it. Chock it up to realism, in real life you might want to anticipate that your team mates may be confused or just plain dumb, so throw your grenades far enough away that they won't injure themselves.
The biggest qualm I have with AA is the annoyance of the training missions. I just want to get my friends on the internet to play me... NOW. I don't want to go to people and say, I found this great game called America's Army, why don't you spend 3 hours tonight passing all the training, then sometime tomorrow night we'll play. It just isn't enticing when I try to sell it to friends and coworkers.
Otherwise, I love AA, more than counterstrike or quake. When on a good, communicative, cooperative team, facing creative opponents, the game is extremely enjoyable.
Yeah, I was not thinking of using my software on the same scale as Microsoft "envisions" but merely as a catalogue of hiking trails in a region.
It is certainly interesting to think of how this might be developed on a very large scale, though. Perhaps every copy of the software people run for personal sites could be configured to connect amongst each other in a peer-to-peer like configuration and 'trade' their knowledge with one another, allowing each site to have a massive amount of data. *Thats* the kinda stuff you'd think would grow into a true internet-representation of the 'real world'.
Just to expand on my idea, why not, I was going to first make a map manager that could take any map image, and let the user define the upper and lower / left and right latitude / longitude of the map.
Then the user could import and tag all their images with GPS data, via either manual entry of latitude and longitude per-image, maybe some kinda EXIF data (are there cameras that do this), or let them just point-and-click on a defined map and calculate the lat/lon that way. Images could also be assigned a 'trip' and 'trip sequence number', so when the maps are rendered, an entire hike could be represented by the lon/lat of the images as waypoints (maybe even make it able to import GPS tracks from GPS devices and have waypoints with or without imagery). Images should probably have a time stamp too so hikes could be represented accurately.
With this data, so many great interfaces could be created, like nice two-paned views, with a map on the left with click-able waypoints, and a image viewer on the right that shows the image taken at the given spot on the map.
And with multiple maps, you could zoom out and see all the hikes in a specific region, or select a more detailed map to represent a specific hike. Have maps automatically scale to the users preference and display all the maps, regardless of their size, in the same display.
The programming is so easy, I have been dying to write this stuff! All I need is MAPS! ARGH!
Weird, I was just writing up plans the other day for php software which would be able to deal with relating images to GPS coordinates and compass headings, and make a nice interface. They stole my idea!
I have a lot of good ideas for the software, and have already written out a lot of db schema and logic, but I am having a hard time finding high resolution maps which I may use legally, and this was discouraging. Most of the big satellite image companies want an arm and a leg for the right to display their images on your site. Anyone know of a place where I can get at least semi-high resolution satellite maps, like 5m or better, that I'll have the rights to display on my website?
I assume that I would release the software under the GPL without any maps included, but its no fun writing software which nobody can really use unless they purchase satellite imagery!
"The only format that loads completely before it is allowed to play, the Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time."
*cough* doesn't look like anyone else has said anything yet, so I'll take the initiative.
A.) Lots of formats load completely before they are allowed to play. Flash? Java? What the hell, this must be the sales pitch they gave to the idiot exec's that manage these sites.
B.) I'll be damned surprised if they play perfectly for me in galeon, let alone in lynx/links. I wonder if those sites will be just straight non-accessible during those times.
If something is said to be exactly 100 meters, the precision of the source is infinite, or if you prefer, 100.000000000000000000000... 328.08 feet would be if anything rounded off for the ease of the readers.
Darl thinks that if you are going to create something and define terms for it's use, it is more American to charge money for it.
But, what if we sneaky free-sters tried to give away all our software for only $0.01 so that we could dictate terms? Then we would be forced to make all intellectual property be judged according to a government-controlled value formula. That would be a lot better anyway.
Imagine all those people out there NOT USING available services and instead DOING THINGS THEMSELVES. Washing the car themselves, undermining everything American and wholesome about car washes. People making their own dolls! Then distributing them for free to children! People playing music for free! Starving artists! Flood! Famine! Out of work car wash mechanics!!!
But anyway we all know Darl doesn't believe his own shit he just wants money. Hopefully in the end they end up in prison for extortion.
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Sean
Bakersfield is like 25 miles north of grapevine. I swear, check the video, he gets on 99. He stays in the left-hand lane Then he gets off on what I believe is 166 and goes west to I5, then goes north on 5.
I drive this area all the time from Lebec to Taft..
Sean
I just checked and slowed the video down to frame by frame, he does get on the 99. You can see the characteristic pink and white flowers in the median. However, it looks like he then realized his error, that he had meant to be on 5 and not 99, and takes either 166 or 119 west to re-intercept I5.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the 'boring part', the San Joaquin valley, is done on the 99 in the video.
Only on slashdot, eh?
As a resident of South Kern county, I take offense at that! As far from Los Angeles to Grapevine is quite an interesting stretch, with Pyramid Lake, Tejon Lake, Frazier Mountain, the rolling hills near Gorman.
I commute this stretch of highway daily (Frazier Park exit to Lyons Ave) He takes some interesting detours on Lyons Ave in Newhall, which is actually the street where I work.
Though this would not permanently solve the problem with a faulty sensor, I hear you can cause the check engine light to go out after it detects a loose gas cap by simply disconnecting the battery of the vehicle for 20 minutes or so and reconnecting it.
I heard this from a few car-oriented friends of mine after I had the same problem on my Toyota Tacoma and stupidly forked out $70 for them to hook it up to a machine and press the 'reset' button.
Sean
What a day to have my mod points expire. Hilarious. Thanks
Sean
Did it make you feel like crying? Or did you think it was kind of gay?
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It's just that they have been a continued inconvenience when trying to play LAN games of AA at work :)
Also, I don't know any situations in which the maps you can play is restricted by your honor rating. Unofficial servers should give no bearing to honor at all, and people who do not like the honor concept can bypass it completely.
I agree with you that it sucks that idiot team mates can easily reduce your honor by running into your grenades because they do not pay attention, etc. This has certainly happened enough times to me, but in the end it is a rare enough event that I do not hate the game for it. Chock it up to realism, in real life you might want to anticipate that your team mates may be confused or just plain dumb, so throw your grenades far enough away that they won't injure themselves.
The biggest qualm I have with AA is the annoyance of the training missions. I just want to get my friends on the internet to play me... NOW. I don't want to go to people and say, I found this great game called America's Army, why don't you spend 3 hours tonight passing all the training, then sometime tomorrow night we'll play. It just isn't enticing when I try to sell it to friends and coworkers.
Otherwise, I love AA, more than counterstrike or quake. When on a good, communicative, cooperative team, facing creative opponents, the game is extremely enjoyable.
My story was more, dang, I had that idea way back when, but I couldn't get any free satellite imagery.. anyone know where to get some?
...got a link? :)
It is certainly interesting to think of how this might be developed on a very large scale, though. Perhaps every copy of the software people run for personal sites could be configured to connect amongst each other in a peer-to-peer like configuration and 'trade' their knowledge with one another, allowing each site to have a massive amount of data. *Thats* the kinda stuff you'd think would grow into a true internet-representation of the 'real world'.
Just to expand on my idea, why not, I was going to first make a map manager that could take any map image, and let the user define the upper and lower / left and right latitude / longitude of the map. Then the user could import and tag all their images with GPS data, via either manual entry of latitude and longitude per-image, maybe some kinda EXIF data (are there cameras that do this), or let them just point-and-click on a defined map and calculate the lat/lon that way. Images could also be assigned a 'trip' and 'trip sequence number', so when the maps are rendered, an entire hike could be represented by the lon/lat of the images as waypoints (maybe even make it able to import GPS tracks from GPS devices and have waypoints with or without imagery). Images should probably have a time stamp too so hikes could be represented accurately. With this data, so many great interfaces could be created, like nice two-paned views, with a map on the left with click-able waypoints, and a image viewer on the right that shows the image taken at the given spot on the map. And with multiple maps, you could zoom out and see all the hikes in a specific region, or select a more detailed map to represent a specific hike. Have maps automatically scale to the users preference and display all the maps, regardless of their size, in the same display. The programming is so easy, I have been dying to write this stuff! All I need is MAPS! ARGH!
I have a lot of good ideas for the software, and have already written out a lot of db schema and logic, but I am having a hard time finding high resolution maps which I may use legally, and this was discouraging. Most of the big satellite image companies want an arm and a leg for the right to display their images on your site. Anyone know of a place where I can get at least semi-high resolution satellite maps, like 5m or better, that I'll have the rights to display on my website?
I assume that I would release the software under the GPL without any maps included, but its no fun writing software which nobody can really use unless they purchase satellite imagery!
A.) Lots of formats load completely before they are allowed to play. Flash? Java? What the hell, this must be the sales pitch they gave to the idiot exec's that manage these sites.
B.) I'll be damned surprised if they play perfectly for me in galeon, let alone in lynx/links. I wonder if those sites will be just straight non-accessible during those times.
Sean
I think that's why the story is from the soon-to-be-distributed-slashdotting department.
Sean
Thought I heard someone talking about sex..
Wish I had some moderator points!
Sean
I wonder what percentage of clueless execs who read this end up agreeing with "what he is saying".
If this is the best argument they can come up with to undermine the GPL, this is going to be a comical court battle. Comical and painful.
Sean
But, what if we sneaky free-sters tried to give away all our software for only $0.01 so that we could dictate terms? Then we would be forced to make all intellectual property be judged according to a government-controlled value formula. That would be a lot better anyway.
Imagine all those people out there NOT USING available services and instead DOING THINGS THEMSELVES. Washing the car themselves, undermining everything American and wholesome about car washes. People making their own dolls! Then distributing them for free to children! People playing music for free! Starving artists! Flood! Famine! Out of work car wash mechanics!!!
But anyway we all know Darl doesn't believe his own shit he just wants money. Hopefully in the end they end up in prison for extortion.
Sean
It was a pretty weak troll though, way less convincing than your average troll. I'm glad someone was there to highlight it.
Your troll masters will be disappointed at your nonuniformity.