Just a heads up for those who were expecting otherwise:/
crt has stated it'll be available in a future release however. Now, what I'm wondering is why he went ahead and packaged the soundtrack mp3's in the Linux release anyway...
The technology mentioned in the article was developed for the "Shkval" rocket torpedo (image), which was originally (according to intelligence analysis at the time) intended as a "revenge" weapon: the Russian boat in question would fire it back down the bearing a Western (or PLA-N I guess) submarine had already fired upon the Russian boat from. Since it travelled at around 200 knots (which is absolutely insane for even a torpedo) and was armed with a nuclear warhead, it probably had a fair chance of producing the desired datum even without a guidance system.
More recently (spring of 98 or so), the Russians tested a conventionally-armed version, which they could get away with by adding a guidance system to the weapon. Given that the Russian sub fleet barely puts to sea anymore, I have no idea if this is actually in service or not.
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Trying to keep the loss of the Scorpion and Thresher under wraps would also be difficult with regards to family and relatives: How do you keep approximately 250 people quiet?
It just doesn't work that way.
The least-fleeting of all government secrets are wartime operations involving only a handful of people... althought sometimes large-scale operations like Ultra (which managed to stay in the black until the *70's*) escape public notice for extensive periods of time.
The fact remains, I would hope the Feds have memories of CREEP, Tuskeegee experiments, radiation experiments on soldiers, Hoover's abuses of power, etc., and figure out eventually that any operation less than legal will likely be discovered by the general population sooner than they would like (i.e. Carnivore).
There have been several simultaneous ports [Unreal Tournament, Quake III: Arena, Terminus, Theocracy, the next Doom game, Anarchy Online (a non-fantasy-based MMORPG), Neverwinter Nights (the multiplayer AD&D RPG), Tribes 2 (well, nigh-simultaneous), and probably some I'm not thinking of off-hand] shipped or announced in the last 12 months, and the only way to maintain momentum is if you, the community, vote with your dollars.
Moreover, one of Loki's more recent ports, Soldier of Fortune, shipped only 4 months after the original Windows version, so the lag time on porting should hopefully be decreasing as well.
The gaming industry is ruled to a large degree by inertia, so it'll take time and effort to ensure a viable and diverse Linux gaming library, but I intend to do what's necessary to ensure that for all of us:).
Because neutrino oscillation (which there is strong evidence for thanks to the efforts of the Super-Kamiokande team) requires that neutrinos have mass; unfortunately, the manner in which they change types may require (mathematically speaking of course) another type of neutrino. Now this clearly will require a modification to the Standard Model, which originally only postulated the existence of 3 neutrinos to match the three lepton types (disregarding anti-particles of course).
No luck on Diablo 2 yet (or Tribes apparently), but Tribes 2 will be ported to Linux (mentioned here)... hopefully at some point the majority of PC gaming titles will be available with native Linux clients. However, the only way to bring that about is to support what's there already, so be sure to put your $ where your convictions lie:)
Saw this at the Cryptome... General Hayden basically gives a rundown of all the legislation and external oversight which prevents them from spying on every John Foo and James Baz in the US:
As several of the missiles in question in Space.com's footage are ICBM's or SLBM's, I figured I'd provide some info on more general accidents perpetrated by the defense establishment (on the 4th of July, how patriotic!):
So we've had more than our fair share of broken arrows and bent spears:) (the Spanish B-52 incident was particularly nasty). Also semi-amusing was some poor bastard drawing the duty of parking an armored vehicle on top of a silo whose Minuteman III was apparently preparing to launch itself...
Incidentally, the DoD is preparing to run the next NMD ground-based interceptor test on the 7th, which presumably will decide whether we'll deploy the thing or not... reading testimony from the Defense Dept. concerning a previous test is like reading an Abbott and Costello routine:
Q: Why didn't you tell us about these problems last fall after the first test? I mean, why are we hearing about this now?
SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Honestly?
Q: Sure.
SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Didn't see then as problems.
Q: What? SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Didn't see them as a problem. I mean, and maybe it's because we're lowly material developers -- you know, all we do is test. But, yeah, there's anomalies that happen on every test. And in fact, I would be concerned when we start doing tests if we don't have anomalies.
Q: The question is why you didn't tell us about the anomaly?
SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: My answer? Didn't think it was that important, to be honest with you.
Q: We were told last fall it was a successful test, things went well.
SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Yes. Yes. And it did. And I will say the same thing. It was a successful test; went well. Were there anomalies? Sure.
Q: Well why weren't we told about them?
SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Didn't think it was that big of a deal. To be honest, I --
More info on NMD and the EKV system proposed could normally be found at the BMDO's site (http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/bmdolink.html), but it seems down at the moment, so you'll have to settle for the press release:
And the company mentioned in the PR, Optiobionics, has a FAQ (which addresses questions of resolution and perception quality for potential patients... in short, they're not sure yet, but it won't be all that great) here.
Well, even if it mimics how neurons work in living, healthy, human brain tissue, we're still orders of magnitude away from human neural complexity. However (although the news release is really vague), making microprocessors behave like neurons in the first place was/is a big hurdle.
There was a conference at Stanford a while back (was mentioned here IIRC) on synthetic intelligence in general; all sorts of fun stuff was tossed out:
This quote (from John Holland) is particularly telling:
First of all, each element in the central nervous system contacts somewhere between 1000-10,000 other elements in the central nervous system. [The] most complex machines that we build, typically the fan out - this contact rate - is on the order of 10. A close colleague of mine, Murray Gell-Mann [Ed.: Nobel Prize winner in Theoretical Physics; Distinguished Fellow, Co-Chairman of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute, see website], is fond of saying, "when I go three orders of magnitude, I go to a new science." So here is one "three orders of magnitude" effect here.
So we're not quite there yet. Hans Moravec participated in the conference as well, and he has a fairly informative essay linked from his site entitled "When will computing hardware match the human brain?":
I'm not exactly a big fan of turn-based fantasy strategy, but the Heroes series is generally acknowledged as the best of the breed, and having the latest in the series available on the Linux platform is a Good Thing in and of itself.
Which is why I sincerely believe the only way to avoid a Bill Joy-esque nightmare scenario of self-induced extinction is to push as rapidly as possible towards transcending the limitations of organic processing to avoid the tragic loss of the only known haven for sapience in the universe...
I can think of no worse fate than the eradication of the species by an unintelligent mechanical microbe we've created... replacement by/evolving into synthetic intelligences seems to be what will have to be our ultimate option.
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Urban Terror will be released August 5th, and is pretty much Action Quake III in all but name.
http://www.planetquake.com/siliconice/
Just a heads up for those who were expecting otherwise :/
crt has stated it'll be available in a future release however. Now, what I'm wondering is why he went ahead and packaged the soundtrack mp3's in the Linux release anyway...
The technology mentioned in the article was developed for the "Shkval" rocket torpedo (image), which was originally (according to intelligence analysis at the time) intended as a "revenge" weapon: the Russian boat in question would fire it back down the bearing a Western (or PLA-N I guess) submarine had already fired upon the Russian boat from. Since it travelled at around 200 knots (which is absolutely insane for even a torpedo) and was armed with a nuclear warhead, it probably had a fair chance of producing the desired datum even without a guidance system.
More recently (spring of 98 or so), the Russians tested a conventionally-armed version, which they could get away with by adding a guidance system to the weapon. Given that the Russian sub fleet barely puts to sea anymore, I have no idea if this is actually in service or not.
Trying to keep the loss of the Scorpion and Thresher under wraps would also be difficult with regards to family and relatives: How do you keep approximately 250 people quiet?
It just doesn't work that way.
The least-fleeting of all government secrets are wartime operations involving only a handful of people... althought sometimes large-scale operations like Ultra (which managed to stay in the black until the *70's*) escape public notice for extensive periods of time.
The fact remains, I would hope the Feds have memories of CREEP, Tuskeegee experiments, radiation experiments on soldiers, Hoover's abuses of power, etc., and figure out eventually that any operation less than legal will likely be discovered by the general population sooner than they would like (i.e. Carnivore).
but the market has to start somewhere.
:).
There have been several simultaneous ports [Unreal Tournament, Quake III: Arena, Terminus, Theocracy, the next Doom game, Anarchy Online (a non-fantasy-based MMORPG), Neverwinter Nights (the multiplayer AD&D RPG), Tribes 2 (well, nigh-simultaneous), and probably some I'm not thinking of off-hand] shipped or announced in the last 12 months, and the only way to maintain momentum is if you, the community, vote with your dollars.
Moreover, one of Loki's more recent ports, Soldier of Fortune, shipped only 4 months after the original Windows version, so the lag time on porting should hopefully be decreasing as well.
The gaming industry is ruled to a large degree by inertia, so it'll take time and effort to ensure a viable and diverse Linux gaming library, but I intend to do what's necessary to ensure that for all of us
Because neutrino oscillation (which there is strong evidence for thanks to the efforts of the Super-Kamiokande team) requires that neutrinos have mass; unfortunately, the manner in which they change types may require (mathematically speaking of course) another type of neutrino. Now this clearly will require a modification to the Standard Model, which originally only postulated the existence of 3 neutrinos to match the three lepton types (disregarding anti-particles of course).
No luck on Diablo 2 yet (or Tribes apparently), but Tribes 2 will be ported to Linux (mentioned here)... hopefully at some point the majority of PC gaming titles will be available with native Linux clients. However, the only way to bring that about is to support what's there already, so be sure to put your $ where your convictions lie :)
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More info:
http:/
http://www.ifm.liu.se/~edjag/FS/edjag.ht ml
Incidentally, the DoD is preparing to run the next NMD ground-based interceptor test on the 7th, which presumably will decide whether we'll deploy the thing or not... reading testimony from the Defense Dept. concerning a previous test is like reading an Abbott and Costello routine: More info on NMD and the EKV system proposed could normally be found at the BMDO's site (http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo
http://www.defensel ink.mil/news/Jun2000/b06202000_bt350-00.html
Optobionics rather... grrr *gets daily caffeine supplement*
Here's the original press release: /depts/paff/opa/releases/retinas_advisory.html
http://www.uic.edu
And the company mentioned in the PR, Optiobionics, has a FAQ (which addresses questions of resolution and perception quality for potential patients... in short, they're not sure yet, but it won't be all that great) here.
There was a conference at Stanford a while back (was mentioned here IIRC) on synthetic intelligence in general; all sorts of fun stuff was tossed out:
http://www.technetcast.co m/tnc_program.html?program_id=82
This quote (from John Holland) is particularly telling: So we're not quite there yet. Hans Moravec participated in the conference as well, and he has a fairly informative essay linked from his site entitled "When will computing hardware match the human brain?":
http://www.transhumanist.com/volum e 1/moravec.htm
Strangely enough, one of their titles is available for Linux:
Heroes of Might and Magic III
http://www.lokigames.com/products/heroes 3/
I'm not exactly a big fan of turn-based fantasy strategy, but the Heroes series is generally acknowledged as the best of the breed, and having the latest in the series available on the Linux platform is a Good Thing in and of itself.
It was "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero".
On that note (Windows and the Navy):
http://www.sciam.com/1998/119 8issue/1198techbus2.html
Incidentally... Penguin Computing has another Tux graphic rendered with Quake-style armor:
http://www.penguincom puting.com/graphics/gamingtux800x600.jpg
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10040-100-886 616.html?tag=st.dl.10040_106_16.ls t.td
"Professional Minesweeper is the BEST product ever. really."
Gonzo... please... say it ain't so!
Which is why I sincerely believe the only way to avoid a Bill Joy-esque nightmare scenario of self-induced extinction is to push as rapidly as possible towards transcending the limitations of organic processing to avoid the tragic loss of the only known haven for sapience in the universe...
I can think of no worse fate than the eradication of the species by an unintelligent mechanical microbe we've created... replacement by/evolving into synthetic intelligences seems to be what will have to be our ultimate option.
I think you'll end up being off by two orders of magnitude... I'm willing to bet it'll be within the next century:
b ot.papers/1991/Universal.Robot .910618.html
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/ro
http://www.transhumanist.com/volum e1/moravec.htm
Actually.... there is the distinct possibility that a Microsoft space sim will be ported:
http://www.linuxgames.com/followup/23 08.shtml
87 Megs
Mirrors:
ftp://ftp.lokigames.com/pub/ demos/sof/sof-demo-x86.run
http://www.3ddownloads.com/s howfile.php3?file_id=87646
Uh, only the guy who ported Doom to Linux, among other things. He's at Transmeta now.