I'll never understand how places that have priceless artifacts in their care treat them with less care and security than a janitor's closet. Between this and the thefts of major artworks over the years (The Scream, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum robbery, etc) I think either insurance companies or the government should force owners of items deemed "of major cutural significance" to properly protect them. Either you protect them or you can't publicly display them, force them to sell to someone who can protect them, and/or a big insurance premium increase.
"but do it on your machine so that the pre-rendered graphics are custom-tailored to your hardware capabilities and setup"
There is some of this being done already. In most games you get to choose the level of detail shown which affects how the scene is rendered which depends on you system's processing power. So there already is a precident for this sort of system customization. Granted it isn't the same as generating objects.
"...any war between the US Civil War and that one [WWI] isn't well-known enough to be made in to a game."
Says you! I'm dying for "France-Prussia 1870".
How about "Zulu"? Scenario #1, "Rourke's Drift" (choose Zulu side, choose to be spearman) (charge enemy) *bang* "Arrgh!" (you die) (respawn as spearman...)
If you preferred outdoor play, it would create more terrain for you. You would never finish exploring the world of the game because it would expand as you explored it"
Great! I could finally fly from Essen to attack Washington DC in Battlefield 1942.
"Running algorithms to generate every damn thing takes a lot of processor time."
Since detail decreases with viewing distance you only have to generate a lot of detail for objects in the foreground and can rough out objects further out. The real challenge will be interactivity. Now you'll want to be able to know when your generated object is being touched, how it reacts, it's physics, etc.
But since your energy states are also subgect to quantum fluctuations wouldn't you be as likely to lose energy to the quantum vacuum as you would be to gain, thus resulting in a net effect of 0?
Bacteriorhodopsin must be related to the rhodopsin that is the photosensitive pigment in the eye. It gets "bleached" when exposed to light which is why it takes a while for your night vision to return after looking at a bright light.
My suspicion is that bacteriorhodopsin evolved originally to protect microorganisms from the damage caused by UV radiation, especially in the pre-photosynthetic period in the earth's history when there was no ozone layer. Such pigments are probably the origin of photosynthetic chemicals like chlorophyll. The excess energy absoarbed by the pigments was being put to use to drive other chemical reactions. Our ability to see and plant life may be related.
The thing that annoys me is that they'd come up with a procedure that would cost many tens of thousands of dollars vs adopting one of the kids who is already here and needs parents, having sex, or going to a sperm bank. This much effort to add another person to a 6 billion+ population seems obscene.
This stuff is great. It is the blase feeling it has that makes it a kick to watch. Like footage from a security camera except this one is going into orbit.
The thing that surprised me the most was how fast it leaves the atmosphere and how fast the booster returns. Is this footage real time (I didn't RTFA)? If it is then even at high speed it is still amazing how quickly the sky goes black. The atmosphere really is like the skin on an onion.
Engineering the boosters must've been a real challenge. They go from land, to supersonic flight, to near space, into free fall, then land in salt water. Then they can still be reused! Quite a trip.
How would you get energy out of it? You'd have to have some sort of energy difference for it to produce work. How would you produce a lower energy state than empty space? I'm not including photons from the microwave background of course. If empty space had an energy of X wouldn't that mean that X was basically zero since there is no absolute reference in space?
Lets see..."If you think you're reading the news, be warned that this story -- and any other on the web -- will be barely read by anyone 36 hours after it was first posted. [*yawn*] That's the message from a team of statistical physicists who have analysed how people access information online. [*scratch*] Albert-László..."...huh? Pay attention to what now?
Does this mean that history ignorant Americans can't make lame anti-French jokes any more?
"The Americans also pioneered assymetrical warfare and fought "unfairly" (in the eyes of the British)"
Actually they learned much of this from the natives and their experiences from the French-Indian wars. Outgunned natives have fought this way against occupiers for millennia (i.e Spanish against Napoleon, Celts/Teutons against Rome).
"But make no mistake, Americans did not kick Britain's ass almost the entire time, and certainly not by ourselves."
Well said. Allies are important, something the current administation has forgotten.
They did what the Spanish did to the Aztecs, they played off internal rivalries. They made seperate deals with competing rulers to fragment them and prevent them from seeing the bigger threat. If any one ruler tried to resist they could either have a competitor fight them as a proxy (with promises of spoils) or the British troops they had there would have enough technical superiority to outgun them (as with the Zulus). Later the British rushed to consolidate their hold with a train network and mapping. Natives put in power were always reminded that they were in charge at the Empire's whim and never had true authority.
It wasn't until the Indians were unified under the leadership of Ghandi (and the draining of the Empire from WWI and II) that they were able to force the British out.
"America was a dirt-poor country with no electricity, no running water and no infrastructure"
England had electricity in the 1700's? That would have been news to them. Most English didn't have running water either (communal wells) and American cities and infrastructure were reasonably developed. I don't know were you came up with "dirt poor".
Yo! I'm startn' an IT gang. Yah, you got that right bitch. I'm gonna put a cap in yo ass if you're not puttin' comments in yo code. You think I'm shitt'n you? I'm pimp'n a 3 terabyte database beeotch! We're gonna lay it down for the candy asses down in accounting. They think they can say no to my bad ass chrome trimmed workstation request? They be mutha f*ing fools!
Props to my homeys at Oracle! *pours a diet coke on a dead server*
Well said. Supposedly the witch hunts also went after people who practiced herbalism (and competed with doctors aka "barbers"), odd old lonely woman who kept cats as pets (plus you could take their land afterwards), and anyone who practiced a form of Christianity that veered from dogma (i.e. Cathars). Even printing a bible in English could get you burned alive (John Hus).
The period of the Spanish Inquisition resembled the petty snitching that took place in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. People would make false accusations just to settle scores or grab someone's property.
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I'll never understand how places that have priceless artifacts in their care treat them with less care and security than a janitor's closet. Between this and the thefts of major artworks over the years (The Scream, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum robbery, etc) I think either insurance companies or the government should force owners of items deemed "of major cutural significance" to properly protect them. Either you protect them or you can't publicly display them, force them to sell to someone who can protect them, and/or a big insurance premium increase.
What is the old spy rule? The percentage chance that a secret will leak out is equal to the number of people who know about it squared.
The Feds couldn't even keep the details of nuclear weapons secret never mind a massive moon landing fake.
I also see emulation becoming more and more mainstream. That's another CPU intensive app.
The 7800GTX is old? It is only 1 generation back! I guess the 7600 must feel positively antediluvian to you.
"but do it on your machine so that the pre-rendered graphics are custom-tailored to your hardware capabilities and setup"
There is some of this being done already. In most games you get to choose the level of detail shown which affects how the scene is rendered which depends on you system's processing power. So there already is a precident for this sort of system customization. Granted it isn't the same as generating objects.
If you think "urban culture" is different from trolls and zombies then you clearly have never ridden the T (train) in Boston.
"...any war between the US Civil War and that one [WWI] isn't well-known enough to be made in to a game."
Says you! I'm dying for "France-Prussia 1870".
How about "Zulu"?
Scenario #1, "Rourke's Drift"
(choose Zulu side, choose to be spearman)
(charge enemy)
*bang* "Arrgh!" (you die)
(respawn as spearman...)
If you preferred outdoor play, it would create more terrain for you. You would never finish exploring the world of the game because it would expand as you explored it"
Great! I could finally fly from Essen to attack Washington DC in Battlefield 1942.
"Running algorithms to generate every damn thing takes a lot of processor time."
Since detail decreases with viewing distance you only have to generate a lot of detail for objects in the foreground and can rough out objects further out. The real challenge will be interactivity. Now you'll want to be able to know when your generated object is being touched, how it reacts, it's physics, etc.
But since your energy states are also subgect to quantum fluctuations wouldn't you be as likely to lose energy to the quantum vacuum as you would be to gain, thus resulting in a net effect of 0?
Bacteriorhodopsin must be related to the rhodopsin that is the photosensitive pigment in the eye. It gets "bleached" when exposed to light which is why it takes a while for your night vision to return after looking at a bright light.
My suspicion is that bacteriorhodopsin evolved originally to protect microorganisms from the damage caused by UV radiation, especially in the pre-photosynthetic period in the earth's history when there was no ozone layer. Such pigments are probably the origin of photosynthetic chemicals like chlorophyll. The excess energy absoarbed by the pigments was being put to use to drive other chemical reactions. Our ability to see and plant life may be related.
Organic doesn't nesessarily mean that it has a short life span. Look at oil deposits, those hydrocarbons have been there for millions of years.
Don't waste your $ on this procedure. I alone have millions of sperm to spare (at least). I'd say my services are much more economical.
The thing that annoys me is that they'd come up with a procedure that would cost many tens of thousands of dollars vs adopting one of the kids who is already here and needs parents, having sex, or going to a sperm bank. This much effort to add another person to a 6 billion+ population seems obscene.
This stuff is great. It is the blase feeling it has that makes it a kick to watch. Like footage from a security camera except this one is going into orbit.
The thing that surprised me the most was how fast it leaves the atmosphere and how fast the booster returns. Is this footage real time (I didn't RTFA)? If it is then even at high speed it is still amazing how quickly the sky goes black. The atmosphere really is like the skin on an onion.
Engineering the boosters must've been a real challenge. They go from land, to supersonic flight, to near space, into free fall, then land in salt water. Then they can still be reused! Quite a trip.
I'm not an expert so please bear with me...
How would you get energy out of it? You'd have to have some sort of energy difference for it to produce work. How would you produce a lower energy state than empty space? I'm not including photons from the microwave background of course. If empty space had an energy of X wouldn't that mean that X was basically zero since there is no absolute reference in space?
Steven Hawking may be cute but he isn't a broad.
Lets see..."If you think you're reading the news, be warned that this story -- and any other on the web -- will be barely read by anyone 36 hours after it was first posted. [*yawn*] That's the message from a team of statistical physicists who have analysed how people access information online. [*scratch*] Albert-László..."...huh? Pay attention to what now?
"The French helped a lot"
Does this mean that history ignorant Americans can't make lame anti-French jokes any more?
"The Americans also pioneered assymetrical warfare and fought "unfairly" (in the eyes of the British)"
Actually they learned much of this from the natives and their experiences from the French-Indian wars. Outgunned natives have fought this way against occupiers for millennia (i.e Spanish against Napoleon, Celts/Teutons against Rome).
"But make no mistake, Americans did not kick Britain's ass almost the entire time, and certainly not by ourselves."
Well said. Allies are important, something the current administation has forgotten.
They did what the Spanish did to the Aztecs, they played off internal rivalries. They made seperate deals with competing rulers to fragment them and prevent them from seeing the bigger threat. If any one ruler tried to resist they could either have a competitor fight them as a proxy (with promises of spoils) or the British troops they had there would have enough technical superiority to outgun them (as with the Zulus). Later the British rushed to consolidate their hold with a train network and mapping. Natives put in power were always reminded that they were in charge at the Empire's whim and never had true authority.
It wasn't until the Indians were unified under the leadership of Ghandi (and the draining of the Empire from WWI and II) that they were able to force the British out.
"America was a dirt-poor country with no electricity, no running water and no infrastructure"
England had electricity in the 1700's? That would have been news to them. Most English didn't have running water either (communal wells) and American cities and infrastructure were reasonably developed. I don't know were you came up with "dirt poor".
Please, that would be reasonable. Marketing is based on hype, not outcomes. That is why so many people say "All publicity is good publicity"
Suddenly, cab drivers across NYC change their name to George Bush
Yo! I'm startn' an IT gang. Yah, you got that right bitch. I'm gonna put a cap in yo ass if you're not puttin' comments in yo code. You think I'm shitt'n you? I'm pimp'n a 3 terabyte database beeotch! We're gonna lay it down for the candy asses down in accounting. They think they can say no to my bad ass chrome trimmed workstation request? They be mutha f*ing fools!
Props to my homeys at Oracle! *pours a diet coke on a dead server*
Well said. Supposedly the witch hunts also went after people who practiced herbalism (and competed with doctors aka "barbers"), odd old lonely woman who kept cats as pets (plus you could take their land afterwards), and anyone who practiced a form of Christianity that veered from dogma (i.e. Cathars). Even printing a bible in English could get you burned alive (John Hus).
The period of the Spanish Inquisition resembled the petty snitching that took place in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. People would make false accusations just to settle scores or grab someone's property.
Thanks for giving me this lovely mental image for the rest of the day. If I wasn't so nice I'd post a picture of goatse for you.
*pushing food away*