I loved this demo of the Q3 engine called "Quake 3 Arena" for about five minutes, but when are those people going to release a real game with that engine? Oh wait, that WAS a real game?
The reason why Intel is getting involved with this is easy. The AMD 64-bit architecture chip, the "Hammer" is already being embraced by the Linux community (and undoubtably other parts of the open source community) while the 64-bit architecture chips of Intell are riddled with errors or something else that is bad... I'm not sure because I haven't read allot about Intel's 64-bit efforts...
Re:Good idea for nuclear waste?
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Going Up?
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However, dumping it on the moon would be hampering further development of any lunar colonization. Suppose they find water in a crater on the moon, but someone dropped a few hundred tonnes of radioactive garbage on top of it... Not exactly the thing we want.
The moon though, would be an ideal launch site to get rid of this waste... Just build one large mass-driver, load the waste on it and shoot it wherever you don't care like the Sun, outer space or France...
Is it in any existing flight paths? One of the nice things about our anchor site is that it is in the middle of nowhere, approximately 400 miles from shipping or plane routes.
So how are they going to get stuff over there? Drive it through the middle of nowhere on a truck? I'm pretty sure equatorial conditions (high temp, high humidity) aren't the best thing that could happen to any satelite or other object bound for space. Besides, wouldn't a nice 20 Billion USD worth satelite be a nice target to attack? Once simple ambush with a 100 USD rocket launcher and poof goes 20 billion bucks. Are they going to provide every transport military cover all the way to the anchor site? Same thing applies to shipping and I don't think airplanes would be allowed near the anchor site... How do they intend to secure it all?
Are they going to set up massive defences at the anchor site? SAM batteries against air attacks? Will they station ground forces at the anchor station? If so, who will provide these forces? The US goverment? NASA? ESA? Or an independent body?
Also, suppose it all does work out after all, how are we going to deal with things in space? Is everybody going to do his thing or are we going to learn from history and immediatly develop some standards for cargo storage up there like container size, weight and capabilities?
Just imagine if ungrateful assholes like you had as open a forum as/. (and the rest of the net in general) back in the days when Picaso, Shakespeare, and Mozart were getting started. Back then you had to be talented to get your words in front of the kind of masses the above tripe was subjected to. Look at any of the big names' really early work, most of it was crap, or at least not up to the level they latter attained. Fred has asperations twoard manga, and a page at a time, even the best manga isn't always funny. Go pickup a good one, pick any page at random and read it, just by itself. Now a couple days later, read the next page... wait a couple days and read another page. You'll very soon note that it's about the same pace as reading MT. If you can't handle that, then don't read the new strips every few days, wait a month or more and come read several of them at the same time.
That's the whole point of the net, it's NOT as much of a meritocracy, you don't have to already be a master in order to put something out there, hell, as you've proven so very well, anyone that can string a sentence together (and even some that can't) can inflict their literary diarrhea on the unsuspecting masses.
That you've not found the humour in the recent stories doesn't suprise me. Fortunately not all the readers of MT are at your level, and even more fortunately, Fred understands this.
Look ma, a hypocrite!
Critics are nescesarry. We've got millions of critics who bother themselves with an equal ammount of topics and they are great. Why? Because they keep people on their toes and often the good critics can give you the critical advice you need to make things better. Now, you can listen to critics and try to improve things like they suggest, or you can just ignore them and do things like you want anyways. What would you choose? Would you ignore every bit of critique you receive or would you actually pay attention to serious critique and try to figure out why?
Lastly, I'd just like to point out that it's just my huble opinion on MT, as I stated. If you are so far above me according to your own post, then why can't you realize the simple fact every person got his own opinion and that you should respect other people, hmm?
That's a rhetorical question, don't asnwer it, please.
It might seem odd to reply to myself. Hell, it IS odd, but the first thing I saw after posting my comment is.... A Megatokyo advertisement/banner. This is a slight bit suspiscious to me. Someone been "donating" money to something perhaps or should I quit my fascination with conspiracies?
I loved MT for ages, but recently it all went to hell IMHO when the "storyline" got too drawn out and some comics (those things between the "Dead Piro Days") weren't even funny, just part of a (boring) storyline which is the main storyline in any "respected" soap series on TV, namely; "Does she love me/Will I be able to bone her eventually?". It gets old and tiring up to the point where even Largo isn't funny anymore. He's been ranting about zombies for month now in-comic and really, isn't it time for a change and go back to the small stories that actually oozed wit and humour?
Sadly, I have seen this happening to other comics as well. Anyone remember GPF? (The comic, that is. Put down that Windows developer right now before you break something!) It used to be funny, I read it all the way from the start to the end and then religious started following it because it too had loads of simple jokes. Look at it right now, it's nothing but pure and utter online filth that ended up in a overdrawn B-moviesque storyline. And I'm not even going to mention the total irrelevance of MT to Slashdot or question why it ended up on the front page.
And this is a call to comic artists: Notice the ARTIST bit. It means you can draw better then most of us, it doesn't mean that you can also think up of a decent storyline. Don't get illusions of grandeur, fooling yourself that you're capable of writing a novel in comic form. Thank you.
Steps of his soapbox...
Re:How to get girls to put their head on your arm!
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The Bulova Accutron
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Where can I order those watches? I need to buy one for my mate...
You forgot to obligatory reference to the chronological powers of a Beowulf cluster of Bulova Accutrons and why Microsoft is evil because... Well... Just because!
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA37 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) The 1 scanned port on snsonline.net (203.62.158.32) is: closed
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4 seconds
I fail to see what's the use of this "trojan". It doesn't make sense for a script kiddie to try to connect to a closed port on a legitimate looking machine.
Floppies rock, I still use them allot for various reasons, like transfering pornogra... uh, files between college and home, (mainly because the proxy isn't very FTP friendly and I really can't be bothered to make a PHP-FTP client) to boot bootdisks, to temp. store small files in case a part of your network goes tits up, tiny linux distros for firewalling/routing/(S)NAT and for transfering files with/to an ancient computer. (It's not like my 486 with MSDOS can be hooked on the network untill I get more mem for it and find my lovely Slackware CD again)
Even though I I agree that there is lots of better stuff around these days. LS-120 are too slow though, but I'm thinking of Zip-drives, which genuinely rock. Try cramming 250mb over a FTP connetion. It's highly unamusing unless both people got a T1 connection.
Now, I don't expect my college to change anytime soon unless MS buys out Iomega, (Long story involving people from my college rimming Mr. Gates.) but Zip drives would be ideal. They can store pretty much anything medium-sized, like PDF files for learning stuff occasionally, graphic files for the artistic people in the photography department, CAD/CAM templates/projects for the guys in the engineering departments, source codes and programs for the programming department, large documents/essays which pretty much everyone has and essentially just a hell of allot more then a normal floppy. So many uses already for just ONE college...
The XP fisher-price look has leaked into a linux distro. I say we ritually burn it unless they come up with a distro that hasn't got the XP look and its intended audience as target. (retards, who regulary say the follwing: "OH NIFTY COLOURS!!! CLICKETITYCLICK! PRETTY! What did I do?")
CA Marine got splattered by US pilot1's bombs! CA Marine: Medic! CA Marine [South of Kabul]: wtf!?!? US Pilot1 [South of Kabul]: Shit I killed some cannucks! US Pilot1: Sorry! US Pilot2 [South-East of Kabul]: Goddamn tker > Console: >/g_friendlyFire 0 Friendly Fire is now off! US Pilot1 [South of Kabul]: fagg0t Unable to kick US Pilot1: Option Disabled Osama Bin Laden: TEAMS FFS!!! Osama Bin Laden got vaporized by US Pilot2's Daisy Cutter!
They could, however I hardly think the Chinese goverment employees responsible would show up in a US court. I hardly think the Chinese goverment even acknowledges the US legal system and just disregards it as capitalistic "justice" for the rich, easy punishment for the poor. (Sad thing is they are prolly right with this, too...):(
Micrsoft just called, they say Slashdot violated their copyright on favouritism, biased journalism and immoral propaganda towards other OSes. They are now deploying Special Agent Ballmer to sodomize Taco for this. Have a nice day.
I wonder, with todays CPUs becoming more and more powerful, won't the actual internal architecture and the standard data transmission system (copper or gold or whatever those conduits are made of) end up outdated and not being able to cope with the CPU's speed? Maybe this applies to other pieces of hardware as well? HDs not being able to feed procs the data they require fast enough or RAM suffering from aforementioned problem...
How do they solve these kind of issues anyways, especially in extremely large computer arrays like this one mentioned here but also in supercomputers or maybe even in our home PCs which are getting faster and faster as well every few months...
Surely for that ammount of money we can invent a mass driver that can shoot all this nuclear waste somewhere save, like outer space or the sun. Just contain it in something cheap like aluminium or a magnetic material if you want to use some sort of magnetic mass driver, but also to stop radiating the atmosphere. For the rest just jam it into the sun or somewhere else people don't care (excluding Redmond.)...
The guy does seem to be a favourite target for piss taking with many comic writers/drawers...
History about to repeat itself?
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Coursey on Palladium
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In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a statue of the goddess Athena. Legend has it that the safety of the city depended on that icon's preservation. Later the term came to mean a more generic safeguard.
Always remember the city of Troy eventually fell, ironically thanks to a trojan horse.
Slashdot Mirror
I loved this demo of the Q3 engine called "Quake 3 Arena" for about five minutes, but when are those people going to release a real game with that engine? Oh wait, that WAS a real game?
RTCW anyone?
I know a few kiwi girls though... Their hobbies include chatting, messing around with computers, movies, reading and lanparties.
Now where is my damned passport? (prays MS won't sue him for saying the word "Passport(TM)")
Sounds like a MUD. Imagine someone accidently logging on to it and thinking it's a MUD...
Go east.
Go south.
Go west.
Kill dog.
Skin corpse.
I can't see any connection at all.
Warning: Too many connections inWarning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
could not connect to database
That's why you can't see a connection.
The reason why Intel is getting involved with this is easy. The AMD 64-bit architecture chip, the "Hammer" is already being embraced by the Linux community (and undoubtably other parts of the open source community) while the 64-bit architecture chips of Intell are riddled with errors or something else that is bad... I'm not sure because I haven't read allot about Intel's 64-bit efforts...
However, dumping it on the moon would be hampering further development of any lunar colonization. Suppose they find water in a crater on the moon, but someone dropped a few hundred tonnes of radioactive garbage on top of it... Not exactly the thing we want.
The moon though, would be an ideal launch site to get rid of this waste... Just build one large mass-driver, load the waste on it and shoot it wherever you don't care like the Sun, outer space or France...
Is it in any existing flight paths?
One of the nice things about our anchor site is that it is in the middle of nowhere, approximately 400 miles from shipping or plane routes.
So how are they going to get stuff over there? Drive it through the middle of nowhere on a truck? I'm pretty sure equatorial conditions (high temp, high humidity) aren't the best thing that could happen to any satelite or other object bound for space. Besides, wouldn't a nice 20 Billion USD worth satelite be a nice target to attack? Once simple ambush with a 100 USD rocket launcher and poof goes 20 billion bucks. Are they going to provide every transport military cover all the way to the anchor site? Same thing applies to shipping and I don't think airplanes would be allowed near the anchor site... How do they intend to secure it all?
Are they going to set up massive defences at the anchor site? SAM batteries against air attacks? Will they station ground forces at the anchor station? If so, who will provide these forces? The US goverment? NASA? ESA? Or an independent body?
Also, suppose it all does work out after all, how are we going to deal with things in space? Is everybody going to do his thing or are we going to learn from history and immediatly develop some standards for cargo storage up there like container size, weight and capabilities?
...the area previously used for underground nuclear weapon testing?
Critics are nescesarry. We've got millions of critics who bother themselves with an equal ammount of topics and they are great. Why? Because they keep people on their toes and often the good critics can give you the critical advice you need to make things better. Now, you can listen to critics and try to improve things like they suggest, or you can just ignore them and do things like you want anyways. What would you choose? Would you ignore every bit of critique you receive or would you actually pay attention to serious critique and try to figure out why?
Lastly, I'd just like to point out that it's just my huble opinion on MT, as I stated. If you are so far above me according to your own post, then why can't you realize the simple fact every person got his own opinion and that you should respect other people, hmm?
That's a rhetorical question, don't asnwer it, please.
It might seem odd to reply to myself. Hell, it IS odd, but the first thing I saw after posting my comment is.... A Megatokyo advertisement/banner. This is a slight bit suspiscious to me. Someone been "donating" money to something perhaps or should I quit my fascination with conspiracies?
I loved MT for ages, but recently it all went to hell IMHO when the "storyline" got too drawn out and some comics (those things between the "Dead Piro Days") weren't even funny, just part of a (boring) storyline which is the main storyline in any "respected" soap series on TV, namely; "Does she love me/Will I be able to bone her eventually?". It gets old and tiring up to the point where even Largo isn't funny anymore. He's been ranting about zombies for month now in-comic and really, isn't it time for a change and go back to the small stories that actually oozed wit and humour?
Sadly, I have seen this happening to other comics as well. Anyone remember GPF? (The comic, that is. Put down that Windows developer right now before you break something!) It used to be funny, I read it all the way from the start to the end and then religious started following it because it too had loads of simple jokes. Look at it right now, it's nothing but pure and utter online filth that ended up in a overdrawn B-moviesque storyline. And I'm not even going to mention the total irrelevance of MT to Slashdot or question why it ended up on the front page.
And this is a call to comic artists: Notice the ARTIST bit. It means you can draw better then most of us, it doesn't mean that you can also think up of a decent storyline. Don't get illusions of grandeur, fooling yourself that you're capable of writing a novel in comic form. Thank you.
Steps of his soapbox...
Where can I order those watches? I need to buy one for my mate...
You forgot to obligatory reference to the chronological powers of a Beowulf cluster of Bulova Accutrons and why Microsoft is evil because... Well... Just because!
[14:20:15] *** Connecting to 203.62.158.32 (6667)
-
[14:20:17] *** Unable to connect (Connection refused)
[root@Server root]# nmap -sS -p 6667 203.62.158.32
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA37 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
The 1 scanned port on snsonline.net (203.62.158.32) is: closed
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4 seconds
I fail to see what's the use of this "trojan". It doesn't make sense for a script kiddie to try to connect to a closed port on a legitimate looking machine.
OpenBSD being focussed on security and all...
Floppies rock, I still use them allot for various reasons, like transfering pornogra... uh, files between college and home, (mainly because the proxy isn't very FTP friendly and I really can't be bothered to make a PHP-FTP client) to boot bootdisks, to temp. store small files in case a part of your network goes tits up, tiny linux distros for firewalling/routing/(S)NAT and for transfering files with/to an ancient computer. (It's not like my 486 with MSDOS can be hooked on the network untill I get more mem for it and find my lovely Slackware CD again)
Even though I I agree that there is lots of better stuff around these days. LS-120 are too slow though, but I'm thinking of Zip-drives, which genuinely rock. Try cramming 250mb over a FTP connetion. It's highly unamusing unless both people got a T1 connection.
Now, I don't expect my college to change anytime soon unless MS buys out Iomega, (Long story involving people from my college rimming Mr. Gates.) but Zip drives would be ideal. They can store pretty much anything medium-sized, like PDF files for learning stuff occasionally, graphic files for the artistic people in the photography department, CAD/CAM templates/projects for the guys in the engineering departments, source codes and programs for the programming department, large documents/essays which pretty much everyone has and essentially just a hell of allot more then a normal floppy. So many uses already for just ONE college...
The XP fisher-price look has leaked into a linux distro. I say we ritually burn it unless they come up with a distro that hasn't got the XP look and its intended audience as target. (retards, who regulary say the follwing: "OH NIFTY COLOURS!!! CLICKETITYCLICK! PRETTY! What did I do?")
... has been around for some time now.
CA Marine got splattered by US pilot1's bombs! /g_friendlyFire 0
CA Marine: Medic!
CA Marine [South of Kabul]: wtf!?!?
US Pilot1 [South of Kabul]: Shit I killed some cannucks!
US Pilot1: Sorry!
US Pilot2 [South-East of Kabul]: Goddamn tker
> Console:
>
Friendly Fire is now off!
US Pilot1 [South of Kabul]: fagg0t
Unable to kick US Pilot1: Option Disabled
Osama Bin Laden: TEAMS FFS!!!
Osama Bin Laden got vaporized by US Pilot2's Daisy Cutter!
Ah yes, if only Afghanistan was like RTCW...
They could, however I hardly think the Chinese goverment employees responsible would show up in a US court. I hardly think the Chinese goverment even acknowledges the US legal system and just disregards it as capitalistic "justice" for the rich, easy punishment for the poor. (Sad thing is they are prolly right with this, too...) :(
Micrsoft just called, they say Slashdot violated their copyright on favouritism, biased journalism and immoral propaganda towards other OSes. They are now deploying Special Agent Ballmer to sodomize Taco for this. Have a nice day.
I wonder, with todays CPUs becoming more and more powerful, won't the actual internal architecture and the standard data transmission system (copper or gold or whatever those conduits are made of) end up outdated and not being able to cope with the CPU's speed? Maybe this applies to other pieces of hardware as well? HDs not being able to feed procs the data they require fast enough or RAM suffering from aforementioned problem...
How do they solve these kind of issues anyways, especially in extremely large computer arrays like this one mentioned here but also in supercomputers or maybe even in our home PCs which are getting faster and faster as well every few months...
Surely for that ammount of money we can invent a mass driver that can shoot all this nuclear waste somewhere save, like outer space or the sun. Just contain it in something cheap like aluminium or a magnetic material if you want to use some sort of magnetic mass driver, but also to stop radiating the atmosphere. For the rest just jam it into the sun or somewhere else people don't care (excluding Redmond.)...
The guy does seem to be a favourite target for piss taking with many comic writers/drawers...
Always remember the city of Troy eventually fell, ironically thanks to a trojan horse.