I think physical media support will die. Why put movies on another medium when you can send them from the net to the client? The only storage needed is the current super big, super cheap hard drives on the provider side and on the client side.
This is not sci-fi. A French buddy of mine has cheap ass broadband (20 mb) with phone and HDTV and for something like 8 bucks a month he gets to watch up to 6 full HD movies on demand. It's so cheap and easy that he's preferring that to the usual torrents he used to get movies.
Every scene shown brings me back to it's corresponding scene in the comic. The characters look spot on. Damn is this getting my hopes up. It's going to be hard.
What the article doesn't say it that thing weights 70 kilos more or less. You won't pass for a tourist carrying one of these with a "buddy" helping you carry it.
As usual, this will create a support nightmare (for paying customers), and will be cracked in 4 months at most...
The "apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards" will transform into "mostly implemented on most MBs... poorly". Make sure to have the right model of that ASUS MB to play that game you just bought or else get the crack.
"People don't play Americas Army so they can learn about how our miltary works"
Not that I support a game used to recruit people in the army but played it once and for some reason I had to watch a medic training presentation in order to become spec ops or something. I actually read somewhere on the net that some guy helped save two people involved in a car accident using that training.
It doesn't teach about the army but is more like a military training tool to teach you the basics and perhaps a little bit about team work in combat.
Dude, it's a game. What do you expect? Spore adding calendar entries in order to balance your social and gaming life?
"Hum, I'm scheduling you for two hours of playtime Friday, right between jogging and dinner" - Spore
"Now do you understand the reason for landmines to exist"
As long as kids and farmers will keep loosing limbs or worse in past conflict zones, no I won't understand. It's not because in one case they are used in a well defined DMZ that their existence is justified.
If only it was legal only in America:-(. In Europe you'll find the lobbies strong and well fed. Keeping politician pockets fat and corporations happy. I think democracy would be better off without ANY lobbies.
Many peripherals work better with Linux then Vista (my old webcam) and some work better in Linux then XP (SATA drives). And not drivers need be installed from a CD/download from the net.
Well, that's what asymmetric war is all about. You pay billions for tanks and planes, they make cheap IEDs to take on your tanks, old Russian/Chinese made.50 machine guns and shoulder-fired rockets against expensive helicopters. It's not balanced but every loss the US makes, costs it a lot in terms of politics. It would be a big win to loose (a.k.a "martyr") 20 soldiers to damage a US airliner as the terror effect works so well.
In that case bring a cheapo.50 cal machine gun, slap it with a fix tripod on a SUV, ram down the airport fence and spray the first plane that goes down the runway.
Well, that is the military solution. Plane/tank/boat gets better defense, fire more bullets/missiles/torpedoes/bombs at the same time. On the good side, it makes the terrorist logistic a bit more complicated getting 2-3-4 MANPADS and people to fire them instead of one. But it will still not make it impossible.
Special when you consider that Israel (El-Al) has had this stuff on it's plane for quite some time. It's not laser based, just a sort of non-incendiary device dropped on take offs and landings designed to distract IR missiles. It's probably a hell lot cheaper.
And that's why fighter jets have access to radar guided missiles and machine guns.
Or just fire the missile facing the liner or from a the back at a higher altitude (laser defense would be at the back, angling down). Firing more then one missile at the same time would overload the defenses and one would be bound to make a hit.
Shoulder mounted missiles cannot reach a plane in cruise altitude either. They would work on take off and landings as well. But they have the advantage of better range, self-tracking and a bigger bang.
You machine gun link is for a sniper rifle. A powerful one but still just a sniper rifle. Range is going to be an issue and you have to bring the plane down with one shot, good luck.
I'd go beyond saying that thing wouldn't be repeatable. If you discover a bug in the "simulation", then why not fix it and then "rewind" back to the time just before this guy found the bug. That way in our time-line we never saw the bug. In that same mater, if this was a simulation, retroactively delete this guy before he was conceived,and all of the sudden he never existed or wrote any theories. The only way a simulation scenario would be found is if the simulation allowed for it (simulation QA, ancestor philosophical/psychological research, The Sims 40'000).
I love that "piss off the honest customer" tactic. Makes me feel like I should have downloaded the movie instead of being stupid and coming up with the bright idea of buying it and then been subjected to propaganda like I did something wrong. They may just as well stick a "go to piratebay and get this movie" add or something. Maybe somebody at the MPAA was convinced that when you rip a DVD, you get the whole thing and "pirates" release the movie with propaganda and all.
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Someone needs to invest in one of those screen filters. They can just say it's for State secrets and pass it as a business expense.
I think physical media support will die. Why put movies on another medium when you can send them from the net to the client? The only storage needed is the current super big, super cheap hard drives on the provider side and on the client side. This is not sci-fi. A French buddy of mine has cheap ass broadband (20 mb) with phone and HDTV and for something like 8 bucks a month he gets to watch up to 6 full HD movies on demand. It's so cheap and easy that he's preferring that to the usual torrents he used to get movies.
Every scene shown brings me back to it's corresponding scene in the comic. The characters look spot on. Damn is this getting my hopes up. It's going to be hard.
What the article doesn't say it that thing weights 70 kilos more or less. You won't pass for a tourist carrying one of these with a "buddy" helping you carry it.
As usual, this will create a support nightmare (for paying customers), and will be cracked in 4 months at most... The "apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards" will transform into "mostly implemented on most MBs... poorly". Make sure to have the right model of that ASUS MB to play that game you just bought or else get the crack.
It's visual alright (IR): http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/ABM_Target_Viewed_From_SM-3_Seeker_lg.jpg
No more pr0n for Egypt. Or 2-6 pics per person per day. Poor chaps.
Mythbusters did. Put JETO rockets on it and made it go real fast.
"People don't play Americas Army so they can learn about how our miltary works"
Not that I support a game used to recruit people in the army but played it once and for some reason I had to watch a medic training presentation in order to become spec ops or something. I actually read somewhere on the net that some guy helped save two people involved in a car accident using that training.
It doesn't teach about the army but is more like a military training tool to teach you the basics and perhaps a little bit about team work in combat.
Dude, it's a game. What do you expect? Spore adding calendar entries in order to balance your social and gaming life?
"Hum, I'm scheduling you for two hours of playtime Friday, right between jogging and dinner" - Spore
Indeed, source code for the robot states that correctly.
"Now do you understand the reason for landmines to exist"
As long as kids and farmers will keep loosing limbs or worse in past conflict zones, no I won't understand. It's not because in one case they are used in a well defined DMZ that their existence is justified.
If only it was legal only in America :-(. In Europe you'll find the lobbies strong and well fed. Keeping politician pockets fat and corporations happy. I think democracy would be better off without ANY lobbies.
For a new "blackest black" album.
Light gets lost in the cover, now that's heavy.
Many peripherals work better with Linux then Vista (my old webcam) and some work better in Linux then XP (SATA drives). And not drivers need be installed from a CD/download from the net.
Well, that's what asymmetric war is all about. You pay billions for tanks and planes, they make cheap IEDs to take on your tanks, old Russian/Chinese made .50 machine guns and shoulder-fired rockets against expensive helicopters. It's not balanced but every loss the US makes, costs it a lot in terms of politics. It would be a big win to loose (a.k.a "martyr") 20 soldiers to damage a US airliner as the terror effect works so well.
In that case bring a cheapo .50 cal machine gun, slap it with a fix tripod on a SUV, ram down the airport fence and spray the first plane that goes down the runway.
Well, that is the military solution. Plane/tank/boat gets better defense, fire more bullets/missiles/torpedoes/bombs at the same time. On the good side, it makes the terrorist logistic a bit more complicated getting 2-3-4 MANPADS and people to fire them instead of one. But it will still not make it impossible.
Special when you consider that Israel (El-Al) has had this stuff on it's plane for quite some time. It's not laser based, just a sort of non-incendiary device dropped on take offs and landings designed to distract IR missiles. It's probably a hell lot cheaper.
And that's why fighter jets have access to radar guided missiles and machine guns. Or just fire the missile facing the liner or from a the back at a higher altitude (laser defense would be at the back, angling down). Firing more then one missile at the same time would overload the defenses and one would be bound to make a hit.
Shoulder mounted missiles cannot reach a plane in cruise altitude either. They would work on take off and landings as well. But they have the advantage of better range, self-tracking and a bigger bang.
You machine gun link is for a sniper rifle. A powerful one but still just a sniper rifle. Range is going to be an issue and you have to bring the plane down with one shot, good luck.
I'd go beyond saying that thing wouldn't be repeatable. If you discover a bug in the "simulation", then why not fix it and then "rewind" back to the time just before this guy found the bug. That way in our time-line we never saw the bug. In that same mater, if this was a simulation, retroactively delete this guy before he was conceived,and all of the sudden he never existed or wrote any theories. The only way a simulation scenario would be found is if the simulation allowed for it (simulation QA, ancestor philosophical/psychological research, The Sims 40'000).
It's Spanish:
Alta = something high
Vista = view
Translated to "high-view" and from my understanding it's some place in California.
I love that "piss off the honest customer" tactic. Makes me feel like I should have downloaded the movie instead of being stupid and coming up with the bright idea of buying it and then been subjected to propaganda like I did something wrong. They may just as well stick a "go to piratebay and get this movie" add or something.
Maybe somebody at the MPAA was convinced that when you rip a DVD, you get the whole thing and "pirates" release the movie with propaganda and all.