IBM said its still-unfinished BlueGene/L System, named fot its ability to model the folding of human ptoteins, can sustain speeds of 36 tetaflops.
Hopefully we will actually be celebrating 36 tetaflops in 10*18 months = 15 years. Maybe then they'll have the computing capacity to figure out why I can't wake up at 7 for work but I can wake up at 6 for golf;)
It would be very cool if soemone would combine the photorealism of the GT models, the terrain maps of the world (see today's worldwind program), and finally the online road DBs of mapquest into one uber driving sim game. I know there's a lot to be desired in terms of terrain height maps (above a certain resolution is probably not available to the public), but if someone could just add details to high density areas, it would be worth the trouble.
Just think, if the PS3 had this game, they could put to use the BD-ROM's storage capacity to store the US (or wherever)'s road data. And with an internet connection, you could download the weather and maybe even traffic conditions of whatever town you are driving in at the moment. I know it sounds silly, but just think; I wouldn't mind practicing a drive in some town that I would be travelling to for business. I'd even do it for town I'm probably never going to but would be curious to 'see' (Barrow, AK in the dead of winter comes to mind).
Yeah, I know True Crime SofLA tried some of that, but all the models were rather low in resolution (cars, streets, and height maps).
Too bad the costs of such a project would probably be massive, but I would certainly 4-5 times more for it than a regular PS2 game.
Maybe with more cycles they could have the death blossom actually _aim_ at enemies. I recall seeing the scene and figuring that he wasn't shooting enough to kill all the enemies.
Another solution would be to have the ship stock more ordinance to make it plausible that he could blow everything to kingdom come.
If you played Sinistar, you know that all planetoids contain little sugar crystals. Some are especially sweet (the tiny, slightly non-spherical ones). So whenever we humans invent warping, we must remember not go over there, otherwise our ships will be devoured like all those little sweet sugar crystals.
The United States has 294 million [brillig.com] people. Britain has a small percentage of the total number of English speakers.
I don't know, but based on my experiences here in L.A., 294 mil is a bit generous for the U.S. Just go to a department store sometime here; you will most likely hear (depending where you are) at least 3-4 different languages during your trip there.
Apparently (I've heard from friends) in the cities in China, most bikes are not locked. It's because they are all equally old and dirty. The great thing is, is that you can just take a bike from whatever point you are at, bike it to your destination, and park it there. No one gets pissed because your bike was as equally old and rusty as the next. Kind of like a bike pool. The only problem is if you have a nice bike with shocks and what not, then you have to do the whole lock thing, but hey, it's your damn fault for buying the nice shiny one.
Hmm, well I saw GITS 2 as well last night, and I was bored DURING the movie. So I guess that's 90* minutes of boredom vs. your 50.
Seriously, just avoid the ads by coming in 10-15 before the show at a non-crowded theatre (which may or may not be an option). Otherwise, you can always talk with friends, play with the cell phone, kick the seat in front of you;) (and blame boredom)
*- Maybe 90 is being harsh. I liked the CG, Batou's hand-to-hand fight, and parts of the end battle; maybe that drops the bore timer to 70 minutes. But then, all that quoting and postulating on same ol' doll vs. human existentialism questions without bothering to come up with any new ideas made the movie seem longer than it actually was, so I'd push the time back up to 80 minutes.
You mean that someday soon I won't have to look at a 320x240 display at boot time? Or I can boot from a USB drive while not having to quickly rush to hit F8 to interrupt a windows boot? You mean my computer might boot even quicker?
Sniff sniff ergh... nostalgia fighting overwhelmingly conveinient features... Ack! POW! (sound of my head exploding)
Homonyms are a bitch aren't they. Be glad you're not speaking mandarin where mispronoucing 'ma' to someone's mom could get you slapped pretty damn quick.
It certainly sounds like a fun idea to try this. You could see what plants work the best; e.g. if leaf length would improve bass response (like blowing on a grass leaf), or if it would just rupture the plant tissues at each leaf's resonant freq.
Maybe this wouldn't work well at all; a plant with many different branch/leaf lengths might be similar to having a tweeter, mids, and a sub, or would the different branchs just cancel each others' signal out.
I don't know about keeping the bugs off though. How do they know that ants don't like Duran Duran (or maybe they'd prefer the mellow sounds of Lionel Ritche... hmm)?
As an off and on watcher of the show for years, here's my opinion of the show:
Seasons 1-2:
Homer excruciatingly normal. Show is more around Bart. Show has some heart. (Father Homer) Season 3-6 or so:
Homer into more gags, not too crazy. I think this was the best time, as there were funny points and some poignant points mixed in too. (Balanced Homer) 7- around 12 (2001 or so):
Homer is basically retarded. He seems to be the main character now. (Stupid Homer) Seasons 13-Now:
Homer is usually not as stupid, but plots are now all over the place, with the 'intro' lead in plot (far different from the main plot) taking nearly 1/3 to even 1/2 of the show. (wtf Homer)
There are occasional great shows that do not follow this, but usually for every Blowfish (7F11) episode or Treehouse of Horror V, you have a Maude dying or season 14 or any clip episode.
Don't you know, the highly advanced Japanese TV broadcasting system already telecasts at a very high resolution, one that is dependent upon cultural, economic, and nerd factors:
TV Resolution = [1920 1440] * Dollar/Yen*100 * Import Racers (in the US)/Stock Car Racers (in Japan) * # of (PS2+GC)/Xboxes sold globally
So you see, unless Bill Gates really improves his image in the streets of Shinjuku, or a NASCAR Japan series takes off in Japan, there's plenty of resolution for their zoom-in technology to use!
Yes it would, however that's not really the problem. That this error was never caught is the problem (maybe the playtesters mostly played single player mode.)
Oh well, I guess you'll start seeing 140 to 150 point games with 1200 yards total offense. Yea, back to Madden 92 days!;)
I don't know what people are talking about, this being the worst game and such. When I played it way back when, I was the fluff planting, towel wrapping, dark enjoying master. I don't recall finishing it though, but I recall reachign the point where Magrathea's Missles attacked.
The parser was fun to play with ("Maximum verbosity," is still a funny line I think), even though it was constricting (but then, most text adventures were.) And the story was, like the book, so way out there that it was just a lot of fun to play.
Yep. I never really understood the point of that either. I mean, you can only do so much to basically trick yourself into being more diciplined before you realize how good you're becoming at lying to yourself.
If I really wanted to do that, I should install a speed (rev I guess) limiter into my car, a power limiter on my computer's outlet, and a bill dispenser on my wallet. Look at all the fun I'd have then.
When I was a frosh in college in 1995, I would ytalk/talk with my friends at other colleges all the time. MIT, Caltech, Northwestern, UC schools; all were open. I even had a login script to let me know who of my friends were on. I guess it was evanecent in some way. It was also really cool to get talk requests from people all around the world, wondering how you are, how things are in your bit of the world.
Within four years, those ports were all shut down. Of course, we all had ICQ and AIM by then, but it's not the same as watching someone type r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-e-r-^H^H-l-y and finishing their sentences for them.
I remember playing Shining Force I or II many many times over, happening to find the special characters without really trying to do so.
I remember playing FFT till I fell asleep, and then woke up sometime later before dawn, and continued on.
I remember playing FF Legend(s) on the original ugly-ass yellow green LCD game boy, restarting an innunmerable amount of times, trying to kill that cactus looking 'Seven' character.
I remember re-playing the Fallout games just to see all the different things you could do with the character classes.
I remember playing Dungeon Master (anyone remember that game), and trying every damn spell combination to see if there were other 'unknown' spells besides zo-kath-ra.
So you see, I don't know what this guy is talking about;)
But there is a huge range between something that is considered free information in (or for) the public domain and classified. There's many levels between... while some information is certainly Protected or only for Offical use only (what the data that you list seems like), it would most likely not be classified. It's still not okay to disseminate such information to the world, but it's a world of difference between a wrist slap and fines/firing/jail time.
Man, I don't think you want to do this. I mean, I know that any homemade launcher like a potato cannon can be dangerous, but I certainly can't throw a potato though drywall (although it could dent). However, I have thrown a cd halfway through drywall during college. So be forwarned.
Would be Tetris. I like all the simple versions like the Arcade and the Nintendo (NES, GB) versions. I've tried the Xbox version and I think it's BS (you shouldn't be able to keep re-flipping a piece to keep it from sticking,) but my point is that the simple, set rules of gameplay have made it into classic game that I can still pick up and play at any time, even though I've been playing it a little more than half my life.
Now you've done it. Now the U.S.'s enemies know that the use of our so-called high energy weapons (which we will rename to the Wave Motion Gun Works after some petitioning) will leave each ship defenseless for a minute, will render us unable to warp, and it will require manual aiming by some guy dressed in red that needs to look just like Keith in Voltron I. Also they can tell we're aiming at them if we turn our ships straight at them.
Yeah, I'll hate the day when I can ruin my pop server and my pop tart server simultaneously. Next thing you know, car accidents will cause firewall(s) to break, RFID-tagged hats could be red colored running redhat, and people could get at my files by breaking through the Windows in my house (but they can do that one already)
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IBM said its still-unfinished BlueGene/L System, named fot its ability to model the folding of human ptoteins, can sustain speeds of 36 tetaflops.
;)
Hopefully we will actually be celebrating 36 tetaflops in 10*18 months = 15 years. Maybe then they'll have the computing capacity to figure out why I can't wake up at 7 for work but I can wake up at 6 for golf
It would be very cool if soemone would combine the photorealism of the GT models, the terrain maps of the world (see today's worldwind program), and finally the online road DBs of mapquest into one uber driving sim game. I know there's a lot to be desired in terms of terrain height maps (above a certain resolution is probably not available to the public), but if someone could just add details to high density areas, it would be worth the trouble.
Just think, if the PS3 had this game, they could put to use the BD-ROM's storage capacity to store the US (or wherever)'s road data. And with an internet connection, you could download the weather and maybe even traffic conditions of whatever town you are driving in at the moment. I know it sounds silly, but just think; I wouldn't mind practicing a drive in some town that I would be travelling to for business. I'd even do it for town I'm probably never going to but would be curious to 'see' (Barrow, AK in the dead of winter comes to mind).
Yeah, I know True Crime SofLA tried some of that, but all the models were rather low in resolution (cars, streets, and height maps).
Too bad the costs of such a project would probably be massive, but I would certainly 4-5 times more for it than a regular PS2 game.
Maybe with more cycles they could have the death blossom actually _aim_ at enemies. I recall seeing the scene and figuring that he wasn't shooting enough to kill all the enemies.
Another solution would be to have the ship stock more ordinance to make it plausible that he could blow everything to kingdom come.
If you played Sinistar, you know that all planetoids contain little sugar crystals. Some are especially sweet (the tiny, slightly non-spherical ones). So whenever we humans invent warping, we must remember not go over there, otherwise our ships will be devoured like all those little sweet sugar crystals.
The United States has 294 million [brillig.com] people. Britain has a small percentage of the total number of English speakers.
I don't know, but based on my experiences here in L.A., 294 mil is a bit generous for the U.S. Just go to a department store sometime here; you will most likely hear (depending where you are) at least 3-4 different languages during your trip there.
Apparently (I've heard from friends) in the cities in China, most bikes are not locked. It's because they are all equally old and dirty. The great thing is, is that you can just take a bike from whatever point you are at, bike it to your destination, and park it there. No one gets pissed because your bike was as equally old and rusty as the next. Kind of like a bike pool. The only problem is if you have a nice bike with shocks and what not, then you have to do the whole lock thing, but hey, it's your damn fault for buying the nice shiny one.
Hmm, well I saw GITS 2 as well last night, and I was bored DURING the movie. So I guess that's 90* minutes of boredom vs. your 50.
;) (and blame boredom)
Seriously, just avoid the ads by coming in 10-15 before the show at a non-crowded theatre (which may or may not be an option). Otherwise, you can always talk with friends, play with the cell phone, kick the seat in front of you
*- Maybe 90 is being harsh. I liked the CG, Batou's hand-to-hand fight, and parts of the end battle; maybe that drops the bore timer to 70 minutes. But then, all that quoting and postulating on same ol' doll vs. human existentialism questions without bothering to come up with any new ideas made the movie seem longer than it actually was, so I'd push the time back up to 80 minutes.
You mean that someday soon I won't have to look at a 320x240 display at boot time? Or I can boot from a USB drive while not having to quickly rush to hit F8 to interrupt a windows boot? You mean my computer might boot even quicker?
Sniff sniff ergh... nostalgia fighting overwhelmingly conveinient features... Ack! POW! (sound of my head exploding)
There'd better be more than meets the eye.
Homonyms are a bitch aren't they. Be glad you're not speaking mandarin where mispronoucing 'ma' to someone's mom could get you slapped pretty damn quick.
It certainly sounds like a fun idea to try this. You could see what plants work the best; e.g. if leaf length would improve bass response (like blowing on a grass leaf), or if it would just rupture the plant tissues at each leaf's resonant freq.
Maybe this wouldn't work well at all; a plant with many different branch/leaf lengths might be similar to having a tweeter, mids, and a sub, or would the different branchs just cancel each others' signal out.
I don't know about keeping the bugs off though. How do they know that ants don't like Duran Duran (or maybe they'd prefer the mellow sounds of Lionel Ritche... hmm)?
As an off and on watcher of the show for years, here's my opinion of the show:
Seasons 1-2:
Homer excruciatingly normal. Show is more around Bart. Show has some heart. (Father Homer)
Season 3-6 or so:
Homer into more gags, not too crazy. I think this was the best time, as there were funny points and some poignant points mixed in too. (Balanced Homer)
7- around 12 (2001 or so):
Homer is basically retarded. He seems to be the main character now. (Stupid Homer)
Seasons 13-Now:
Homer is usually not as stupid, but plots are now all over the place, with the 'intro' lead in plot (far different from the main plot) taking nearly 1/3 to even 1/2 of the show. (wtf Homer)
There are occasional great shows that do not follow this, but usually for every Blowfish (7F11) episode or Treehouse of Horror V, you have a Maude dying or season 14 or any clip episode.
Don't you know, the highly advanced Japanese TV broadcasting system already telecasts at a very high resolution, one that is dependent upon cultural, economic, and nerd factors:
TV Resolution = [1920 1440] * Dollar/Yen*100 * Import Racers (in the US)/Stock Car Racers (in Japan) * # of (PS2+GC)/Xboxes sold globally
So you see, unless Bill Gates really improves his image in the streets of Shinjuku, or a NASCAR Japan series takes off in Japan, there's plenty of resolution for their zoom-in technology to use!
Bug eating robots invented. All Windows machines are now in danger.
Yes it would, however that's not really the problem. That this error was never caught is the problem (maybe the playtesters mostly played single player mode.)
;)
Oh well, I guess you'll start seeing 140 to 150 point games with 1200 yards total offense. Yea, back to Madden 92 days!
I don't know what people are talking about, this being the worst game and such. When I played it way back when, I was the fluff planting, towel wrapping, dark enjoying master. I don't recall finishing it though, but I recall reachign the point where Magrathea's Missles attacked.
The parser was fun to play with ("Maximum verbosity," is still a funny line I think), even though it was constricting (but then, most text adventures were.) And the story was, like the book, so way out there that it was just a lot of fun to play.
Yep. I never really understood the point of that either. I mean, you can only do so much to basically trick yourself into being more diciplined before you realize how good you're becoming at lying to yourself.
If I really wanted to do that, I should install a speed (rev I guess) limiter into my car, a power limiter on my computer's outlet, and a bill dispenser on my wallet. Look at all the fun I'd have then.
When I was a frosh in college in 1995, I would ytalk/talk with my friends at other colleges all the time. MIT, Caltech, Northwestern, UC schools; all were open. I even had a login script to let me know who of my friends were on. I guess it was evanecent in some way. It was also really cool to get talk requests from people all around the world, wondering how you are, how things are in your bit of the world.
Within four years, those ports were all shut down. Of course, we all had ICQ and AIM by then, but it's not the same as watching someone type r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-e-r-^H^H-l-y and finishing their sentences for them.
That is completely not me nor any other RPG fan.
;)
I remember playing Shining Force I or II many many times over, happening to find the special characters without really trying to do so.
I remember playing FFT till I fell asleep, and then woke up sometime later before dawn, and continued on.
I remember playing FF Legend(s) on the original ugly-ass yellow green LCD game boy, restarting an innunmerable amount of times, trying to kill that cactus looking 'Seven' character.
I remember re-playing the Fallout games just to see all the different things you could do with the character classes.
I remember playing Dungeon Master (anyone remember that game), and trying every damn spell combination to see if there were other 'unknown' spells besides zo-kath-ra.
So you see, I don't know what this guy is talking about
But there is a huge range between something that is considered free information in (or for) the public domain and classified. There's many levels between... while some information is certainly Protected or only for Offical use only (what the data that you list seems like), it would most likely not be classified. It's still not okay to disseminate such information to the world, but it's a world of difference between a wrist slap and fines/firing/jail time.
I always thought it was how long the ftp server stayed up before some su figured out what was happening to their bandwidth.
Man, I don't think you want to do this. I mean, I know that any homemade launcher like a potato cannon can be dangerous, but I certainly can't throw a potato though drywall (although it could dent). However, I have thrown a cd halfway through drywall during college. So be forwarned.
Would be Tetris. I like all the simple versions like the Arcade and the Nintendo (NES, GB) versions. I've tried the Xbox version and I think it's BS (you shouldn't be able to keep re-flipping a piece to keep it from sticking,) but my point is that the simple, set rules of gameplay have made it into classic game that I can still pick up and play at any time, even though I've been playing it a little more than half my life.
Now you've done it. Now the U.S.'s enemies know that the use of our so-called high energy weapons (which we will rename to the Wave Motion Gun Works after some petitioning) will leave each ship defenseless for a minute, will render us unable to warp, and it will require manual aiming by some guy dressed in red that needs to look just like Keith in Voltron I. Also they can tell we're aiming at them if we turn our ships straight at them.
Oh well.
Yeah, I'll hate the day when I can ruin my pop server and my pop tart server simultaneously. Next thing you know, car accidents will cause firewall(s) to break, RFID-tagged hats could be red colored running redhat, and people could get at my files by breaking through the Windows in my house (but they can do that one already)