Yep, I agree with Los Furtives up there. BitTorrent makes this possible. I was getting 120 kb/s on my DSL over Airport at 7:00 AM PST. There's builds for Mac OS X, Linux, and that other OS. The others have links posted above, the latest OS X build can be gotten by emailing:
bt gigagig.org
The trailer was scary. The monsters are big (that 18 foot guy looks unpleasant), small (winged baby-zombies), and ugly (in general).
Why hasn't he posted yet?
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The guy postsalloverslashdot--how can he leave this alone? I expect to see a reply to parent from CleverNickName stating unequivocally:
I rented Ratchet and Clank recently, and it was a blast. Nothing has come as close to the classic platformers as this has for me. I was playing as often as I could, looking for secret crap (everyone remember Minus World in Super Mario Bros.?), collecting bolts because I wanted to not because I needed them to advance (though you need them--to advance). I hear there's a sequel in the works too.
at purpose will linux on a Mac serve now that you can run most OSS apps in OS X?
Personally, I'm not sure. For me, Mac OS X is what I want in an OS. A well-supported configured OS with access to Open Source software. Some folks will always want the utmost in customizablity that comes with a flavor of Linux, and want to put it on the sexiest hardware of all time, hence the persistent existance of Linux on Mac.
"Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors"...a handful of people rejoice!:-)
That's kind of unfair. YDL is just about the only hope for users of some older Macs to keep the machines interesting. My 225MHz PPC Performa 6500 is looking forward to it's life as a MAME box.
I'm finally able to reward Del tha Funkee Homosapien for recording MistaDobalina, which I "ripped" back in '91 using FM and Maxell technology. I wasn't the wealthy man you see today, so now I feel like should help the guy eat a little.
Slashcode doesn't like the ITMS link directly using iTunes as described here. Cut and Paste if you want, iT4 users.
Tactical Ops: SWAT v Terrorists, realistic guns, damage, etc.
Strike-Force: all of the above, plus "pulse", a neat feature that takes into account how much gear you are rucking and what you've done recently--keeps folks from hopping constantly--pulse lowers their accuracy and makes them breathe noticeably, exposing position. Windows users click here.
Actually finding the download for Strike-Force for Mac was really hard--it took me a couple of days and a load of German. Tactical Ops has been called "better than CounterStrike", but I'm not sure I agree. The UT engine has trouble with ladders--you fall off of them a LOT.
Obviously, all this news is caveated by rumoritis. But I like the pile concept (as so thoughtfully illustrated by a previous poster). I think it's an intuitive and well-thought-out way to organize things. Sure, some folks will think it's adding to clutter, but if you saw my office you'd think it was a disaster area--but a disaster area that I can navigate very effectively. I can reach into a stack of paper and pull out the invoice I need because I know where it is. I wouldn't mind having my computer organized this way at all.
I want to remind people to check out this article as well, and keep this in mind as you hear about possible new features.
That's where I've done my Mac shopping these last few years. You can find some real gems in there. I'm typing this message on an Apple refurbished Powerbook I bought last June-here's the specs:
OS X and 9.2, Graphic Converter, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, Snapz Pro X, PixelNHance
All for $2200! Had a scratch on the bottom. And you can get it with all the Apple Protection Plan you want, just like it was new. If you're a student, it gets knocked down by another 5% or so. Those Educational deals are more easily spotted as well in the new layout.
The new design is busier for sure, but so is the rest of the web--hell, I can barely find the product I searched for on Amazon nowadays. They wanted more purchases on the front, trading "cleanliness" for "money."
If my twin is reading this, but reading it when he's younger (could happen, article says "There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices;" then for crying out loud, make sure you get more than some over-the-sweater action from Amy L. back in what-was-my-1991. She'll go for it.
Your father isn't NAT'd by his Cable modem at all? I have DSL into an Airport Base Station and the NATing inherent to that is enough to keep my neighbors at bay. I would think there had to be some measure of this capability in the modem. If not, can he not just finagle the settings in the Sharing control panel to limit access? It shouldn't affect his Software Base Station at all.
He invented those shapes, nerds were tiling their bathrooms with them. I don't see why he shouldn't be able to gain royalties from commercial exploitation of his idea. Patenting vs copyrighting is immaterial--isn't he simply protecting intellectual property?
Kubrick's AI theme in 2001
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I think AI was much more effectively explored in 2001:A Space Odyssey than AI. I think the most potent question being asked in 2001 is "If a computer is conscious, is it OK to turn it off at the end of the day?" What if it objects (as HAL did)? This is necessarily a parent-child relationship--"I said GO TO BED!"--this is something else entirely.
Kubrick intentionally made HAL the most interesting person in that movie--Dave is a ~stiff~! In many ways, Dave is -far- more robotic than HAL is. The irony is, Dave is allowed to make decisions, even if they contradict his mission, and HAL is not. I've spoken with a lot of people about this movie and an assumption is made (it's also made by Dave and Frank) that 'HAL just went crazy'. So it's OK to turn him off, or at least lobotomize him. But if you are paying attention, HAL has a programmed directive to not endanger the mission--he cannot allow the mission to fail. He also knows the mission cannot be completed without him, so he must act to prevent Dave and Frank (and those in stasis) from damaging himself. Whether there was an anomoly on that antenna or not is immaterial--HAL, a sentient being, concludes that Dave and Frank are going to endanger the mission, and ~programmatically~ is compelled to eliminate that threat. You end up with a masked Asimov short story about the Rules of Robotics. HAL cannot allow the mission to be endangered, HAL cannot discuss this directive with the crew that wishes to shut him down, perhaps changing their minds, so he has to kill them.
It's also interesting to me to see the abbreviated death scene of Frank, just kicked into space in silence (the merciful HAL?) and the drawn-out agonzing demise of HAL (the sadistic Dave?). Again we see the contrast being HAL's "humanity" and Dave's lack thereof.
These are the questions I think will be more interesting when and if real AI arrives. With it, you have a sentient conscious mind that you can -perfectly brainwash- if you so desire. Just make sure you do a lot of beta-testing!
When I first saw this topic I thought of Real Genius and Raising Arizona, and then I saw that someone had beaten me to Lazslo Holyfeld and Co. and that Raising Arizona isn't really unsung--folks love that movie. So I dug a little deeper in my memory banks and came up with:
The Reflecting Skin: A weird trip through what seems like Amish country. I remember embyos figuring prominently. Like a less obtuse Eraserhead. I don't think this will hit DVD any time soon.
Babe: I don't how someone couldn't like this movie. But I know a -LOT- of people that haven't seen it because it's in the dreaded Children's Section at Blockbuster. Sack up and rent it, foo. It's great.
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster: I grew up watching Creature Double Feature on Channel 56 every Saturday, so I've seen allllllll the schlocky movies, but this is the only one that genuinely horrified me. There was a scene in which the Smog Monster oozes and "inhales" a crying infant. Freaked me out. That and the weird Japanese disco music.
I dropped $2200 on my refurbished TiBook, though, and never looked back. If this can get someone to try out the OS, it's worth it. Anyone languishing in Windows really needs to investigate OS X as an alternative--especially if they think Linux is daunting.
Hint of the post: The TiBook lid can be closed and the computer swung to-and-fro to fend off the chicks that will surround your sexy computer.
The RealBasic Garage, a repository of all things RB, has a Sherlock Channel. Note, that link is to ADD the channel. If you want to just visit the place, click here.
If you are using Mozilla, then you might have to associate sherlock: with the Sherlock 3 app, just like you had to do with.cal files to iCal. I'm sure there's some super 1337 way of modifying the plist file, but I just started IE5.2, added it to the protocols preference and closed it. Mozilla picks those chnages up after quitting and re-opening the browser.
Base-10 is a remarkably UN-interesting base to use. It's only "natural" because we have 10 fingers. Finances would be better with base-12 units (the number of knuckles on your fingers) as this has more even divisors. We could have dollars, halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, and units. With base-10, you have already taken half-units when you get to quarters. Terrible.
Mathematically, a base-prime system is best. Like 11. This makes fractions unique. There are no "4ths" of a base-11 system that are the same as "8ths". That is, 60/80 in base-11 is not the same as 30/40 base-11. 60/80 base-11 would be written as 55/73, 30/40 base-11 would be 28/37.
I get the willies whenever I shop at my local market and use the we-dont-have-coupons-anymore-your-savings-are-from -swiping-your-membership-fob thingamadealie. Yes, I like to pay $5 for 27 gallons of cranberry juice, but I'm antsy that they "know" I'm a Ben & Jerry's buyer and not a Sherbet-by-the-ton purchaser. I also buy a lot of kosher food--can I be labeled as Jewish?
I mentioned this to a friend of mine, a former president of a humongous advertising agency, and she said, "That data is out there, but nobody wants it." The supermarket is collecting all this profiling information, but they can't sell it to anyone--nobody's interested. It's still cheaper to carpetbomb a town with generic mailings than it is to purchase market info and make a more targeted one.
I'm hoping Nemesis does something to redeem the TNG movies, as Insurrection kinda put it on a low note. Generations is the best TNG movie so far.
Apparently, you are not familiar with the "Even-Odd" rule of Star Trek movies. This is an even-numbered movie, and thus, will rock. Think about it:
The V-ger debacle.
KHAAAAAAAN!
The Spock debacle.
The whale one--rocked.
Worst...Debacle...Ever--search for Jebus.
Klingons, in-jokes, etc.
Cross-generation debacle.*
BORG QUEEN.
Zzz..debzzzaczz..zle.zzz...
Obviously, this movie will kick some ass. Go out on a high note!
*I find it odd that you thought -Generations- better than First Contact. Really, that struck me. I know plenty of folks that like Generations, but those folks LOVE First Contact. Borg Queen man! Time travel! Wow. Did you like Search for Spock more than Wrath of Khan (shudder)?
Gathering momentum as a meme here in the office is the word "Khan", shrieked at the top of one's lungs to express a pained, frustrated, attitude as a result of someone else's stupidity, arrogance, etc.
How many takes were there for that seminal scene? Were you so in character that you just nailed it spontaneously--it's clearly not unscripted, as the overhead camera shows. Did Meyer (or perhaps second unit directors Wise or Espinoza) have to coax the anguish out of you? Was there catharsis after knowing you'd perfected it and created a moment that endures 20 years later--even amongst the non-Trekker crowd?
This would be much appreciated, and is good editing practice in general. After all, Google thinks this is a real news site. The first appearence of MSDN, OSS, OEM, CKK, API, (ok, MSFT and IBM are probably fine, but it's a maze for non-programmers--set some standards) and on and on and on. I figured out some of them, but I want to get a headache from the gay-porn offtopic posts, not trying to work out what the friggin question is.
Re:Damn, it sucks to be a moderator at times like
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"-1 Too fucking stupid to get the joke,"
Heh, no kidding. I fully deserve that -1 Troll, but the "helpful" folks who told me where my mistake was (6 at last count! SIX!) need to be modded down in life. Mouthbreathers.
That said: this spurious proof is the reason why division by 0 is "not allowed". Every kid hears this rule in primary school, and most assume it has something to do with infinite values and whatever else, but that's just not true. Division by zero is undefined because tolerating it makes for uncomfortable number systems where every number is equal to every other. As demonstrated by derf #4 in this thread.
Re:It's been asked before, but...
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At least make it something at least a little interesting, like my proof that 1 + 1 = 3.
Here's my proof:
a = a
a^2 = a^2
a^2 - a^2 = a^2 - a^2
Factor both sides, one by binomial, the other by a
(a + a)(a - a) = a(a - a)
Divide by the common (a - a) factor...
(a + a) = a
2a = a
2 = 1
Not on my version. I'm using the OS X Screensaver (OSX-SS-3.12.pkg.tgz). My preferences limit me to name and team number, proxy or no, and what kind of protein I want to see. There's a lot of real estate on that Settings tab--maybe it's in development?
<sheepish>I will sleep my display though. OS X 10.2 added a lot of functionality here (like the battery vs. AC Adapter settings), I should have checked it out.</sheepish>
It's not exactly overwhelming. They have alpha-trace, ball and stick, wireframe, and most interesting (I guess) is space filled. This big blob rotates about once every second, and these two static images sit at the bottom "provided by COSM" and a bad "Folding@home" graphic. They look ugly. Plus I'm not too anxious to let the static images sit on my LCD screen overnight. (Please don't respond with a torrent of "u ID10T, u w0n7 hur7 ur scrn!!!!" --Call it voodoo.)
SETI@home has much nicer graphics, albeit, a much dumber purpose. I'll stick with folding@home, but I wish they would pretty the damn thing up a little--at least on the Mac OS X platform.
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The trailer was scary. The monsters are big (that 18 foot guy looks unpleasant), small (winged baby-zombies), and ugly (in general).
OMFG DANSIG BARFUT IS TEH FUTAR!!11
With a link to Amazon.
I rented Ratchet and Clank recently, and it was a blast. Nothing has come as close to the classic platformers as this has for me. I was playing as often as I could, looking for secret crap (everyone remember Minus World in Super Mario Bros.?), collecting bolts because I wanted to not because I needed them to advance (though you need them--to advance). I hear there's a sequel in the works too.
Slashcode doesn't like the ITMS link directly using iTunes as described here. Cut and Paste if you want, iT4 users.
Tactical Ops: SWAT v Terrorists, realistic guns, damage, etc.
Strike-Force: all of the above, plus "pulse", a neat feature that takes into account how much gear you are rucking and what you've done recently--keeps folks from hopping constantly--pulse lowers their accuracy and makes them breathe noticeably, exposing position. Windows users click here.
Actually finding the download for Strike-Force for Mac was really hard--it took me a couple of days and a load of German. Tactical Ops has been called "better than CounterStrike", but I'm not sure I agree. The UT engine has trouble with ladders--you fall off of them a LOT.
I want to remind people to check out this article as well, and keep this in mind as you hear about possible new features.
- 15.1" screen, 16MB ATI Rage
- 667 MHz G4, 256 MHz L2, 133 MHz bus
- 30GB HD, 512MB RAM (in bottom slot), Combo Drive
- 2 USB, FireWire, PCMCIA, S-Video out, GigE, Airport
- OS X and 9.2, Graphic Converter, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, Snapz Pro X, PixelNHance
All for $2200! Had a scratch on the bottom. And you can get it with all the Apple Protection Plan you want, just like it was new. If you're a student, it gets knocked down by another 5% or so. Those Educational deals are more easily spotted as well in the new layout.The new design is busier for sure, but so is the rest of the web--hell, I can barely find the product I searched for on Amazon nowadays. They wanted more purchases on the front, trading "cleanliness" for "money."
If my twin is reading this, but reading it when he's younger (could happen, article says "There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices;" then for crying out loud, make sure you get more than some over-the-sweater action from Amy L. back in what-was-my-1991. She'll go for it.
Your father isn't NAT'd by his Cable modem at all? I have DSL into an Airport Base Station and the NATing inherent to that is enough to keep my neighbors at bay. I would think there had to be some measure of this capability in the modem. If not, can he not just finagle the settings in the Sharing control panel to limit access? It shouldn't affect his Software Base Station at all.
He invented those shapes, nerds were tiling their bathrooms with them. I don't see why he shouldn't be able to gain royalties from commercial exploitation of his idea. Patenting vs copyrighting is immaterial--isn't he simply protecting intellectual property?
Kubrick intentionally made HAL the most interesting person in that movie--Dave is a ~stiff~! In many ways, Dave is -far- more robotic than HAL is. The irony is, Dave is allowed to make decisions, even if they contradict his mission, and HAL is not. I've spoken with a lot of people about this movie and an assumption is made (it's also made by Dave and Frank) that 'HAL just went crazy'. So it's OK to turn him off, or at least lobotomize him. But if you are paying attention, HAL has a programmed directive to not endanger the mission--he cannot allow the mission to fail. He also knows the mission cannot be completed without him, so he must act to prevent Dave and Frank (and those in stasis) from damaging himself. Whether there was an anomoly on that antenna or not is immaterial--HAL, a sentient being, concludes that Dave and Frank are going to endanger the mission, and ~programmatically~ is compelled to eliminate that threat. You end up with a masked Asimov short story about the Rules of Robotics. HAL cannot allow the mission to be endangered, HAL cannot discuss this directive with the crew that wishes to shut him down, perhaps changing their minds, so he has to kill them.
It's also interesting to me to see the abbreviated death scene of Frank, just kicked into space in silence (the merciful HAL?) and the drawn-out agonzing demise of HAL (the sadistic Dave?). Again we see the contrast being HAL's "humanity" and Dave's lack thereof.
These are the questions I think will be more interesting when and if real AI arrives. With it, you have a sentient conscious mind that you can -perfectly brainwash- if you so desire. Just make sure you do a lot of beta-testing!
I dropped $2200 on my refurbished TiBook, though, and never looked back. If this can get someone to try out the OS, it's worth it. Anyone languishing in Windows really needs to investigate OS X as an alternative--especially if they think Linux is daunting.
Hint of the post: The TiBook lid can be closed and the computer swung to-and-fro to fend off the chicks that will surround your sexy computer.
If you are using Mozilla, then you might have to associate sherlock: with the Sherlock 3 app, just like you had to do with .cal files to iCal. I'm sure there's some super 1337 way of modifying the plist file, but I just started IE5.2, added it to the protocols preference and closed it. Mozilla picks those chnages up after quitting and re-opening the browser.
Mathematically, a base-prime system is best. Like 11. This makes fractions unique. There are no "4ths" of a base-11 system that are the same as "8ths". That is, 60/80 in base-11 is not the same as 30/40 base-11. 60/80 base-11 would be written as 55/73, 30/40 base-11 would be 28/37.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine, a former president of a humongous advertising agency, and she said, "That data is out there, but nobody wants it." The supermarket is collecting all this profiling information, but they can't sell it to anyone--nobody's interested. It's still cheaper to carpetbomb a town with generic mailings than it is to purchase market info and make a more targeted one.
- The V-ger debacle.
- KHAAAAAAAN!
- The Spock debacle.
- The whale one--rocked.
- Worst...Debacle...Ever--search for Jebus.
- Klingons, in-jokes, etc.
- Cross-generation debacle.*
- BORG QUEEN.
- Zzz..debzzzaczz..zle.zzz...
Obviously, this movie will kick some ass. Go out on a high note!*I find it odd that you thought -Generations- better than First Contact. Really, that struck me. I know plenty of folks that like Generations, but those folks LOVE First Contact. Borg Queen man! Time travel! Wow. Did you like Search for Spock more than Wrath of Khan (shudder)?
How many takes were there for that seminal scene? Were you so in character that you just nailed it spontaneously--it's clearly not unscripted, as the overhead camera shows. Did Meyer (or perhaps second unit directors Wise or Espinoza) have to coax the anguish out of you? Was there catharsis after knowing you'd perfected it and created a moment that endures 20 years later--even amongst the non-Trekker crowd?
This would be much appreciated, and is good editing practice in general. After all, Google thinks this is a real news site. The first appearence of MSDN, OSS, OEM, CKK, API, (ok, MSFT and IBM are probably fine, but it's a maze for non-programmers--set some standards) and on and on and on. I figured out some of them, but I want to get a headache from the gay-porn offtopic posts, not trying to work out what the friggin question is.
That said: this spurious proof is the reason why division by 0 is "not allowed". Every kid hears this rule in primary school, and most assume it has something to do with infinite values and whatever else, but that's just not true. Division by zero is undefined because tolerating it makes for uncomfortable number systems where every number is equal to every other. As demonstrated by derf #4 in this thread.
a = a
a^2 = a^2
a^2 - a^2 = a^2 - a^2
Factor both sides, one by binomial, the other by a
(a + a)(a - a) = a(a - a)
Divide by the common (a - a) factor...
(a + a) = a
2a = a
2 = 1
Therefore 1 + 1 = 2 + 1 = 3.
QED
<sheepish>I will sleep my display though. OS X 10.2 added a lot of functionality here (like the battery vs. AC Adapter settings), I should have checked it out.</sheepish>
SETI@home has much nicer graphics, albeit, a much dumber purpose. I'll stick with folding@home, but I wish they would pretty the damn thing up a little--at least on the Mac OS X platform.