Bear in mind while doing so, of course, that the first flag on the Moon was red.
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Hey, this is DOOM 3.
Do you have any idea how widely pirated Doom and Doom 2 were? Back in the Elder Days of passing stacks of floppies about at school EVERYONE had a (virus-riddled) copy.
Did it stop Doom being massive? Not really. It probably helped: if everyone has Doom, even a pirate Doom, then the value of Doom to a prospective customer rises because there are more possible Deathmatch opponents.
So people are pirating Doom 3. Big deal. People are spending hundreds of dollars on new kit just to play this game, so I doubt they'll blink at the cost of it. Meanwhile, kiddies pirating it are probably getting about 10fps...
Indeed, Soyuz would have been the Soviets' moon spacecraft, if things had gone a little differently. What worries me is this:
Soyuz has gone into Earth orbit a bazillion times and has had two lethal failures, both in the early days of the programme. As a space tourist, I'd accept those odds. But Soyuz has never been to the Moon, except IIRC as an unmanned Zond test flight... Apollo went nine times, one of which was very, very nearly a lethal failure. I'm not so sure of those odds, especially since an Apollo XIII failure would be very, very likely to become lethal due to the presence of an incompetent, untrained and panicking tourist in the capsule!
I just hope that one of the big'uns start a fight! And we'll get to watch all the Microsofts and the IBMs and the Novells and all the rest of the patent pimps Mutually destroy each other. Oh, man, it would be so great:
The victor would emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt.
-- Gandalf
The last man standing in a patent war would 0wnz0r. That, or the Chinese just ignore patents completely and inherit the earth...
All I know about Alabama is they occasionally put strange stickers in biology textbooks. Consequently I'm not surprised to learn that they're all completely humourless...
That said I have always wondered why the US condones having foreign nationals work with our most valued IT assets
True, that. Do you know who they've got programming the systems responsible for a shockingly large proportion of critical internet systems? Finns! That's nearly Russian!
Linux has always run on multiple processor architectures which meant that it wasn't possible for it to make use of any processor specifics that make it difficult to port it to a new architecture.
Not quite always.
"Portability is for people who cannot write new programs"
-- Linus Torvalds, on comp.os.minix, 29 Jan 1992
I always thought the stellar converter was overrated. After a couple of tech levels of miniaturisation, the Mauler Device gave you more firepower for a given cost. And having an equivalent bank of little blasters rather than one Big Momma cannon gives you versatility, too: I can take out ten cruisers or one dreadnought with my bank of Maulers; your Stellar Converter will nail the dreadnought just as well, but while it's recharging those other nine cruisers are going to be causing some trouble.
To my mind, the ultimate weapon in MOO2 was probably the phasor. With sufficient tech (OK, with really uber, 'I already own the galaxy but I'm researching Hyper-Advanced Physics XXVIII to see if I can beat the Antaran Home Fleet with a Destroyer' tech), it miniaturised down to a base size and cost of 1, and got just about every mod. Picking the shield piercing modification in conjunction with the (armour piercing) Achilles Targeting Unit, adding autofire and compensating for the reduced accuracy with battle computers and rangemaster units and whatnot, you end up with a truly magnificent weapon. Not for use against Antarans, though - they use Damper Fields not shields, and xentronium is immune to Achilles' armour piercing effect, so your best bet there is probably to go for brute damage using maulers.
Intel's processor is "Xeon". "Zeon" is something else entirely.
The most powerful explosive ever devised. IIRC, zeon missiles were more powerful than even antimatter missiles.
Of course by that stage of the game I was using phasers and mauler devices backed by the cumulative effects of every targetting computer there was, and generally battles were over before any missiles would have reached their targets:-)
If you could make a conscious machine, you could look into it and see two parts pushing on each other and you could point to it and say "that's a thought."
Rubbish. The Mona Lisa is just blobs of pigment on canvas. Surely, then, I should be able to point to a particular blob of pigment and say "that's beauty"?
Nope: because beauty in the case of the Mona Lisa is an emergent quality of the whole system of blobs. Same, I suspect, with thought.
And if the brain is not a conscious machine, what is it? A device to cool the blood?
It occurs to me, that when those "authenticity" geeks who go to movies to point out continuity flaws (like the spiderman article here on/. a few weeks ago) see this movie, their heads will explode.
Continuity flaws, continuity flaws...
I'm eagerly looking forward to the Slashdot discussion when this film comes out. Thousands of geeks, livid that the movie contradicts the books... when the books happily contradict
the TV series
the radio series
the LP
each other
basic axioms of logic
on every single page!
Anyone got a phone number for NASA? I think I want to leave the planet...
The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Company defines a robot as 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with'.
Marvin's personality was screwed up, because he was a prototype model of the Genuine People Personalities line, but certainly his body ought to be cute, friendly and marketable by the kind of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
And here I was thinking that flag-burning was a criminal offence in the USA.
It definitely is, if you consider laws to be stricken as unconstitutional to be valid.
How long was the discussion here on the Pledge of Allegiance? A lot of people seem to consider laws valid, constitutional or no, where flags and things are concerned.
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Bear in mind while doing so, of course, that the first flag on the Moon was red.
Do you have any idea how widely pirated Doom and Doom 2 were? Back in the Elder Days of passing stacks of floppies about at school EVERYONE had a (virus-riddled) copy.
Did it stop Doom being massive? Not really. It probably helped: if everyone has Doom, even a pirate Doom, then the value of Doom to a prospective customer rises because there are more possible Deathmatch opponents.
So people are pirating Doom 3. Big deal. People are spending hundreds of dollars on new kit just to play this game, so I doubt they'll blink at the cost of it. Meanwhile, kiddies pirating it are probably getting about 10fps...
Indeed, Soyuz would have been the Soviets' moon spacecraft, if things had gone a little differently. What worries me is this:
Soyuz has gone into Earth orbit a bazillion times and has had two lethal failures, both in the early days of the programme. As a space tourist, I'd accept those odds. But Soyuz has never been to the Moon, except IIRC as an unmanned Zond test flight... Apollo went nine times, one of which was very, very nearly a lethal failure. I'm not so sure of those odds, especially since an Apollo XIII failure would be very, very likely to become lethal due to the presence of an incompetent, untrained and panicking tourist in the capsule!
The victor would emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt.
-- Gandalf
The last man standing in a patent war would 0wnz0r. That, or the Chinese just ignore patents completely and inherit the earth...
Note: the Swedish government has apologised on several occasions for Abba.
All I know about Alabama is they occasionally put strange stickers in biology textbooks. Consequently I'm not surprised to learn that they're all completely humourless...
I tell you what: the first thing we do, let's read Henry VI part II, act iv, scene ii.
Good advice from 410 years ago.
True, that. Do you know who they've got programming the systems responsible for a shockingly large proportion of critical internet systems? Finns! That's nearly Russian!
There's an inspiring slogan for the free world, eh?
Well, it would be rather nice to find that out, wouldn't it?
* hollow laughter *
With OFCOM and BT in charge of it, I'm amazed we've even got ADSL.
Couldn't it just open up port umpteen-thousand-and-twelve and run its spam relay there?
What are these, I wonder? Something along the lines of changing the prompt to always display [litigious@bastards]$, perhaps?
Not quite always.
"Portability is for people who cannot write new programs"
-- Linus Torvalds, on comp.os.minix, 29 Jan 1992
Isn't that illegal?
Don't like it? Try replacing 'it' with 'yro' in the URL. Yellow and brown! Or try 'games'. Purple! Or 'apple'. Aqua! Or 'ask'. Grey!
It's not exactly difficult, you know.
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To my mind, the ultimate weapon in MOO2 was probably the phasor. With sufficient tech (OK, with really uber, 'I already own the galaxy but I'm researching Hyper-Advanced Physics XXVIII to see if I can beat the Antaran Home Fleet with a Destroyer' tech), it miniaturised down to a base size and cost of 1, and got just about every mod. Picking the shield piercing modification in conjunction with the (armour piercing) Achilles Targeting Unit, adding autofire and compensating for the reduced accuracy with battle computers and rangemaster units and whatnot, you end up with a truly magnificent weapon. Not for use against Antarans, though - they use Damper Fields not shields, and xentronium is immune to Achilles' armour piercing effect, so your best bet there is probably to go for brute damage using maulers.
If dollars are worthless, how am I to buy gold at kitco.com? Surely nobody who has gold will accept these worthless dollars in exchange?
Oh, and about the post: +1 Funny, if I had a modpoint...
The most powerful explosive ever devised. IIRC, zeon missiles were more powerful than even antimatter missiles.
Of course by that stage of the game I was using phasers and mauler devices backed by the cumulative effects of every targetting computer there was, and generally battles were over before any missiles would have reached their targets :-)
Rubbish. The Mona Lisa is just blobs of pigment on canvas. Surely, then, I should be able to point to a particular blob of pigment and say "that's beauty"?
Nope: because beauty in the case of the Mona Lisa is an emergent quality of the whole system of blobs. Same, I suspect, with thought.
And if the brain is not a conscious machine, what is it? A device to cool the blood?
The only thing I'll gripe about is if Arthur forgets to take the pile of junk mail with him when he leaves the house.
Continuity flaws, continuity flaws...
I'm eagerly looking forward to the Slashdot discussion when this film comes out. Thousands of geeks, livid that the movie contradicts the books... when the books happily contradict
the TV series
the radio series
the LP
each other
basic axioms of logic
on every single page!
Anyone got a phone number for NASA? I think I want to leave the planet...
Marvin's personality was screwed up, because he was a prototype model of the Genuine People Personalities line, but certainly his body ought to be cute, friendly and marketable by the kind of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It definitely is, if you consider laws to be stricken as unconstitutional to be valid. How long was the discussion here on the Pledge of Allegiance? A lot of people seem to consider laws valid, constitutional or no, where flags and things are concerned.