Yeah, things like Maple/Mathmatica and Tex are nice and all, but I get all of my serious thinking done on paper. I generally turn to such systems only when I need to solve hairy differential equations or when I am typing up a paper. I suppose I might be able to survive with a tablet and some sort of simple sketching program, but you still can't beat the stability and user friendliness of good old fashioned bleached wood pulp and graphite shaft.
Oh god, I hope not. IIRC, there are going to be two elements critical to FPSes missing: aiming and ammo management. There will be some sort of auto aim and/or target locking to make aiming unnecessary. Most guns will have unlimited ammo (freeze beam et al), and if it is like the older Metroids, enemies will respawn constantly and give you plenty of chances to refill. Metroid was always about: exploration, item collecting, shooting, and platforming. Sadly, it looks like we'll be losing the platforming, but such is life.
Starfox: is actually being made by Rare ( http://www.rareware.com/ ).
From the articls: "There appears to be an increase in deployment of these vehicles," Kelleher said. "The only time you see these things are when they are leaving or coming in. A lot of these sightings are at night. Our information is that they spend a long time aloft, weeks at a time. They can be thought of as ocean-going ships, rather than aircraft," he said.
This reminds me so much of Final Fantasy! How cool. I wonder when they'll make a luxury air liner; it could reach a lot more sights than an ocean liner. I wonder if they have one called The Big Whale, or if they have a captain named Setzer. They have to have a mechanic named Cid!
Go is a classic board game from Japan, China, and Korea. It is extremely strategic, and from what I understand, there still isn't an AI decent enough to beat even mildly skilled characters. This program consistently beats me, though:(.
You can also go to emulation.net and pick up some emulation software of your choice. You'll have to be willing to break copyright law to get the ROMs, though.
Both, actually. Whatever works best. Since the codecs would work on parts of the song that sound different anyway, listeners may not notice the transition, and may even appreciate the reduced drop in quality.
Considering that different codecs do better at different music w/ different frequency spreads, who else thinks that the next generation of audio codecs will be multi-modal; in effect, be several codecs in one. Then have each codec specialize on certain types of music. Perhaps even have them run in an advanced mode where they do a frequency analysis of whole songs, rather than just using genre, to automatically select the best codec for the job. Perhaps even use different codecs for different sections of the song. That would definitely help songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and orchestas with movements, etc.
Would this be too time consuming to implement or what?
that these codecs are lossy, and take advantage of the fact that the human ear is better at hearing certain things than others to pair out extraneous info and improve compression. IOW, it doesn't matter how technically different the new files are as long as they still sound the same to the human ear.
Note the picture. The asteroid in the story is a couple km wide, the one depicted was hundreds of km (big enough to discorporate this seemingly solid little planet of ours for a while). Also note that it is hitting right in the U.S. I think that the artist has some issues with Uncle Sam...
What kind of farking idiot would hook his pacemaker up to the internet? It sounds to me like the guy in charge of securing the computing infrastructure of the U.S. knows jack $hit about security. IIRC, the government has always known that the best way to secure a system is to have a "wall of air" (read: don't make it accessible remotely). Even if they do hook these systems up to the internet, as long as they don't run M$ products (Outlook, IE, etc.) on them, and they used a little common effing sense in their security measures, they should be fine.
It sounds to me like this still M$ crony is trying to use his position to push Palladium.
Some might claim that, but the pig who stood for Trotsky (Snowball) was, though less brutal than Napoleon (Stalin), just as elitist. Remember the bit about the apples?
You seem a little too eager to spy prejudice in others. If you actually read my list, you'll note that I put Japan right there with the West. Now that I think about it a little more, India may be on par with Eastern Orthodox, but I was basically going off my memory of the NASA map of the world at night.
>checks the map
Yep, India and China's sea board are about on par with the old Communist Bloc (eastern orthodox rooted civ). Another couple I forgot to mention are South Korea and Taiwan, but I generally don't think of them when I'm mentally considering civilizations. That is only the roughest approximation of electricity availability, though, and I admit it.
" It always comes back to the powerplant. You simply don't get even near the same performance as a gasoline car."
Well, sure. You're sticking a power plant with vastly different characteristics in a chasis designed for the gas power plant. It's like sticking horse shoes on cheetah. The shoes work great on horses, but won't do $hit for the cheetah.
Just look at that map of the world at night. The places you see high lighting density are pretty much the places that are advanced. Pretty much it goes like this:
Western Civilization and Japan Eastern Orthodox rooted Civilization (Russia et al) That's pretty much it. Everywhere else is developing.
Granted, it is theoretically possible for China to pull something like that off, but the government is the biggest hindrance. Until there is some serious reform (i.e. eliminate corruption), I don't see China catching up within the next 50 years.
Yes, the future of advertising, yesterday. People walking around wearing placards are as old as advertising, this just happens to be an interactive placard.
"Think about the future this could bring, We advance from having a flat screen on the front and batteries on the back to an imbeded LCD/plasma screen in the chest and runs right off the electricity created by the brain. The games/advertisements are stored in the brain as well and just played back from memory."
Yeah, but what will the screen show when he checks out that hot chick walking by? Memories of his first time?;)
I've always been told that Dick's defining characteristic is a bitterness along with "European" sad endings. How does this guy rate on that? I admit, I skipped the review because I hate spoilers and such.
Even better, how does this guy rate against Heinlein and Asimov?
Ask a bodybuilder. These people annually drop themselves down to what looks like less than 1% body fat for the contest season. If anyone would know how to drop the pounds, it's these people.
Don't forget that muscle is denser than fat. So if you actually put on some weight during the diet you're describing, don't sweat it. You don't walk around with your weight tatooed on your head, so if you're concerned about appearances, let the mirror tell you how well you're doing.
My sister is always complaining, "Why are we spending so much money on NASA, when there are starving people we could feed?" I get rather frustrated every time she makes a comment like that. Does she not realize how much potential the space program has? But then, I guess that the people running the space program lost sight of any kind of ultimate goals themselves. Content to just launch a couple of experiments, that are really only of interests to theorists and philosophers, instead of making real progress in to moving out there.
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Yeah, things like Maple/Mathmatica and Tex are nice and all, but I get all of my serious thinking done on paper. I generally turn to such systems only when I need to solve hairy differential equations or when I am typing up a paper. I suppose I might be able to survive with a tablet and some sort of simple sketching program, but you still can't beat the stability and user friendliness of good old fashioned bleached wood pulp and graphite shaft.
My $.02
BlackGriffen
Ever played Arch Rivals? Now that was fun/funny!
BlackGriffen
"Metroid: Will be set in an FPS style."
Oh god, I hope not. IIRC, there are going to be two elements critical to FPSes missing: aiming and ammo management. There will be some sort of auto aim and/or target locking to make aiming unnecessary. Most guns will have unlimited ammo (freeze beam et al), and if it is like the older Metroids, enemies will respawn constantly and give you plenty of chances to refill. Metroid was always about: exploration, item collecting, shooting, and platforming. Sadly, it looks like we'll be losing the platforming, but such is life.
Starfox: is actually being made by Rare ( http://www.rareware.com/ ).
BlackGriffen
From the articls: "There appears to be an increase in deployment of these vehicles," Kelleher said. "The only time you see these things are when they are leaving or coming in. A lot of these sightings are at night. Our information is that they spend a long time aloft, weeks at a time. They can be thought of as ocean-going ships, rather than aircraft," he said.
This reminds me so much of Final Fantasy! How cool. I wonder when they'll make a luxury air liner; it could reach a lot more sights than an ocean liner. I wonder if they have one called The Big Whale, or if they have a captain named Setzer. They have to have a mechanic named Cid!
BlackGriffen
You can also go to emulation.net and pick up some emulation software of your choice. You'll have to be willing to break copyright law to get the ROMs, though.
BlackGriffen
"removing limits on public criticism,"
How can they limit public criticism? Isn't that a serious violation of the first amendment?
BG
Both, actually. Whatever works best. Since the codecs would work on parts of the song that sound different anyway, listeners may not notice the transition, and may even appreciate the reduced drop in quality.
BlackGriffen
Considering that different codecs do better at different music w/ different frequency spreads, who else thinks that the next generation of audio codecs will be multi-modal; in effect, be several codecs in one. Then have each codec specialize on certain types of music. Perhaps even have them run in an advanced mode where they do a frequency analysis of whole songs, rather than just using genre, to automatically select the best codec for the job. Perhaps even use different codecs for different sections of the song. That would definitely help songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and orchestas with movements, etc.
Would this be too time consuming to implement or what?
BlackGriffen
that these codecs are lossy, and take advantage of the fact that the human ear is better at hearing certain things than others to pair out extraneous info and improve compression. IOW, it doesn't matter how technically different the new files are as long as they still sound the same to the human ear.
BlackGriffen
Note the picture. The asteroid in the story is a couple km wide, the one depicted was hundreds of km (big enough to discorporate this seemingly solid little planet of ours for a while). Also note that it is hitting right in the U.S. I think that the artist has some issues with Uncle Sam...
In short, definitely unwarranted.
BlackGriffen
sorry, gcc = gnu compiler collection.
BGriff
How many of these "faster, better, cheaper" probes have lasted long enough to reach their objective, let alone lasting long after.
I know, it's mean, but NASA really needs to work on its quality control.
BlackGriffen
What kind of farking idiot would hook his pacemaker up to the internet? It sounds to me like the guy in charge of securing the computing infrastructure of the U.S. knows jack $hit about security. IIRC, the government has always known that the best way to secure a system is to have a "wall of air" (read: don't make it accessible remotely). Even if they do hook these systems up to the internet, as long as they don't run M$ products (Outlook, IE, etc.) on them, and they used a little common effing sense in their security measures, they should be fine.
It sounds to me like this still M$ crony is trying to use his position to push Palladium.
BlackGriffen
Anybody have any idea when/if Apple will integrate improvements from this scheduler in to Darwin/OSX?
I find http://www.cplusplus.com to be a handy reference for C/C++ standard libraries and syntax/operators.
BlackGriffen
Some might claim that, but the pig who stood for Trotsky (Snowball) was, though less brutal than Napoleon (Stalin), just as elitist. Remember the bit about the apples?
BlackGriffen
You seem a little too eager to spy prejudice in others. If you actually read my list, you'll note that I put Japan right there with the West. Now that I think about it a little more, India may be on par with Eastern Orthodox, but I was basically going off my memory of the NASA map of the world at night.
>checks the map
Yep, India and China's sea board are about on par with the old Communist Bloc (eastern orthodox rooted civ). Another couple I forgot to mention are South Korea and Taiwan, but I generally don't think of them when I'm mentally considering civilizations. That is only the roughest approximation of electricity availability, though, and I admit it.
BlackGriffen
" It always comes back to the powerplant. You simply don't get even near the same performance as a gasoline car."
Well, sure. You're sticking a power plant with vastly different characteristics in a chasis designed for the gas power plant. It's like sticking horse shoes on cheetah. The shoes work great on horses, but won't do $hit for the cheetah.
BlackGriffen
Just look at that map of the world at night. The places you see high lighting density are pretty much the places that are advanced. Pretty much it goes like this:
Western Civilization and Japan
Eastern Orthodox rooted Civilization (Russia et al)
That's pretty much it. Everywhere else is developing.
Granted, it is theoretically possible for China to pull something like that off, but the government is the biggest hindrance. Until there is some serious reform (i.e. eliminate corruption), I don't see China catching up within the next 50 years.
BlackGriffen
Yes, the future of advertising, yesterday. People walking around wearing placards are as old as advertising, this just happens to be an interactive placard.
;)
"Think about the future this could bring, We advance from having a flat screen on the front and batteries on the back to an imbeded LCD/plasma screen in the chest and runs right off the electricity created by the brain. The games/advertisements are stored in the brain as well and just played back from memory."
Yeah, but what will the screen show when he checks out that hot chick walking by? Memories of his first time?
BlackGriffen
Not to mention more of them, with better armaments...
BlackGriffen
I've always been told that Dick's defining characteristic is a bitterness along with "European" sad endings. How does this guy rate on that? I admit, I skipped the review because I hate spoilers and such.
Even better, how does this guy rate against Heinlein and Asimov?
BlackGriffen
Ask a bodybuilder. These people annually drop themselves down to what looks like less than 1% body fat for the contest season. If anyone would know how to drop the pounds, it's these people.
BlackGriffen
Don't forget that muscle is denser than fat. So if you actually put on some weight during the diet you're describing, don't sweat it. You don't walk around with your weight tatooed on your head, so if you're concerned about appearances, let the mirror tell you how well you're doing.
BlackGriffen
My sister is always complaining, "Why are we spending so much money on NASA, when there are starving people we could feed?" I get rather frustrated every time she makes a comment like that. Does she not realize how much potential the space program has? But then, I guess that the people running the space program lost sight of any kind of ultimate goals themselves. Content to just launch a couple of experiments, that are really only of interests to theorists and philosophers, instead of making real progress in to moving out there.
*sigh*
BlackGriffen