Any liquid will do, even your own saliva. You mean to tell me back during your elementary school days, when you had a substitute, you didn't blow bubbles with your own spit? I suppose, instead of disrupting class, I was engaging in scientific experimentation, at least to NASA standards.
They meant the interface. It's far more fluid then static images on a database. But that having been said, how hard would it be to add orbital defense satellites. Anyone up for a game of missile command 2k3?
Some l33t h4X0R says:
"Ohh YeaH BabY...Ur SiTe Has BeeN DeFaceD." Believe it or not, Mr L337 has acurately described what he is doing with this "protest". He is defacing public/private property, and that is a crime. The protests on the Streets of San Francisco are not "Civil" though they are assuredly disobedient. Sitting outside of a lunch counter, or not taking the bus, that is civil disobedience. Dragging newspaper vending machines into the street to block trafic, or breaking into a server to alter index.htm is illegal. Lets remember that words have meanings, and in describing these acts, "Civil" is not an accurate term.
If you want to put the linux spin on it, that'll work as well as anything else. I'm absolutely shocked that there is not a gaming specific OS on the market today that will operate on it's own, or make it simple to dual boot to another OS. No extras, No office, no MSpaint, no purpose other than to devote every available resource to gaming. It would be a gimme. Anyone who spends 100+ on a video card would drop 50 on this OS if it will run the games noticeably better. I only wish I had the coding skills to proof the concept. I know someone does though, and I desperately hope that person runs into some investment. Or gives his OS away for free. That would be cool too.
I've not part of the over clocking scene, nor the laptop scene, so I wouldn't know one way or the other, but would it be possible to take an already good laptop (battery life wise) such as one of these models with the centrino, and underclock it? I'd love a laptop, but I really only want one to access email and putz around with excel files on the move. Is it even possible to jimjam with the bios settings, and lower the performance of the CPU? Would that even have an effect on battery life?
My first real tech job was to build a LAN for my former High School, which naturally involved lots of running and capping of wires, etc... I was a youngin at the time, and not especially experienced, and along comes Net Day, in 1997 or 1998. We had about 25 volounteers come to the school on a weekend, to help string wires all over the place, most of them not having the slightest idea what they were doing. It was a bit of a pain, but it was nice to see some of these older cats looking to me for guidance as to what to do. The few experienced people I simply deputized, and let them handle a crew of about 4. They still came back to me for advice or a say-so. In all, it was a very long day, but I got a nice fuzzy feeling that maybe I knew what I was doing, moreso then I originally thought.
The other great thing about that job was I got to smoke on the roof while I was measuring ye olde cat 5 cable. Good times...
"Making a computer game now is incredibly expensive," said Mr Molyneux. "You're talking about millions and millions of pounds to make a triple-A, globally successful game." So rather than having you, or a small development house shell out the money in exchange for potential windfalls, we should all front your money, at no return to ourselves. This is why we have what is known as "Market Capitalization". Sell some stock, and that will allow you to finish the product. Business ventures are not for the faint of heart, whatever field you are talking about, and the development of videogames offers zero return on investment to the taxpayer. The closest example to this was the Army game, and that was given away for free, and had a purpose, namely, recruitment. I fail to see how a game featuring a giant cow furthers any objective a government might have. I oppose this for the exact same reason I oppose the National Endowment of the Arts. Do what you want to do, fine, but do it with your own resources. Don't make me subsidize a game that I'll end up paying for anyhow.
While it is entirely possible that they ARE interpreting the data to fit their pre-conceived notions, if you look at the larger images, not the thumbnails, you will notice a distinct circular ridge in the upper left of the photo of the yucatan peninsula. Clearly though, this better fits my hypothesis of an independance day like alien death ray.
Anime, on the whole has one major plus for me, which is not seen in American Cartooning. A concentration on what makes cartoons visually interesting, as opposed to attempting to make a cartoon similar to live action. Why bother animating an entire scene poorly all around, when you can have aspects in a scene the eye is naturally drawn to animated well? Putting out a cartoon takes a lot of time, and rather than spending your resources equally across the entire length of your show, why not concentrate them where they can be put to the best use? Animation has come a long way, but lip synching is still terrible, so why not spend less time on the close up, and spend more on the wide shot action scene? This is what anime does well, which US cartoons do not. If you want to see what I mean, check out Cowboy bebob episode 1, and witness one of the greatest hand to hand fighting moments in any cartoon
Those fucks (**AA) would try to regulate telepathy if it existed. I realize the parent was using the asterisk as a wildcard, but as I was scrolled through the comments, it first appeared that he was willing to say 'fucks' but censored himself when referencing the RIAA, and the MPAA. Good ol' unintentional comedy.
It took me about 1 week to realize that these job boards were about as likely to get me a job as my affinity for IPA. The problem with these boards, is two fold:
1. The employer never sees you in your nice crisp suit as you deliver the resume. 2. The employer never has your resume on his desk, in physical form, printed on quality paper stock.
From the employers point of view, it's nice for them to know that an applicant is capable of completing a task, even one as mundane as locating their office, and delivering a resume, without accidently lighting him/herself on fire along the way.
Tomorrow's rocket scientists will likely come in large part from India, Pakistan, and China, countries looking to build the bigger better missile. Those countries are going to give incentive for engineers to go into rocketry programs, because that is a priority of theirs, and they will fund it accordingly. When it comes to Rocketry, Military need is going to produce more rocket scientists than will sheer enthusiasm, and to that end, shed no tears, the US military will always want that shinier rocket that can turn corners and stop on a dime. Your average kid may not grow up playing with model rockets, because he can't get his hands on the materiel, but I'm sure he'll take the tuition break and a career in rocketry if it's offered him.
After all, the only parts I liked in Ep:1 and ep:2 were roughly 2-3 minutes long. The opening chase in ep:2, yoda knife fight, all about 2-3 minutes long. The rest of the movie could have been cut all together. As a matter of fact, I nominate there not be a EP3: at all, that lucas just show a quick montage of lightsabers turning on, women with odd haircuts, and planets/planetoid bodies exploding. Maybe set it to techno music, rather than the john williams score. 10 minutes long, in total, no muss, no fuss, just give me my noisy splosions in space. I'm so tired of the train wreck of the star wars universe, I'm not even going to bother to preview this post before clicking submit.
The discovery of the York groundsel shows that species are created as well as made extinct, and that Charles Darwin was right and the Creationists are wrong. This is the part where I imagine Anthony Browne, the columnist, doing a little dance, and thumbing his nose at those bad ol creationists. News Bulletin to Mr Browne, this can be construed as further proving the validity of an already accepted idea in Evolution theory, but finding a weed, no matter how genetically shiney, in a field does not disprove the existance of God, nor the notion that the universe was created by the afforementioned entity.
And if this were digital media, it would most likely be ILLEGAL under the DMCA or other such bassackwards legislation Actually, to complete your analogy, it would be illegal to xerox the article and send the copy. It would also be illegal to type the contents into an email, and send that, while holding on to the physical newspaper. But this is just a day to day transfer of ownership from grandmother to grandson of a particular item with no change in medium. Just thought I'd pick nits.
But would you want to survive?....but when your options are dying instantly or dying gradually over the next few years (blocked out sun = no photosynthesis = no green plants = no food = good luck) I don't like to see this kind of pessimism, at least not on/. Okay, so the asteroid hits, dust in the air, no sunlight. Check. Sounds like it's about time to crack open a couple of books on hydroponic gardening, and rigging up an impromptu electric generator. I've never bought the whole "living will envy the dead" cliche. By god, I like to think humanity is made of sterner stuff. Asteroids. So you killed the Dinosaurs....big deal. If you can't pull off a mass extinction more than once, you can't do it at all.
I briefly worked IT for a local high school district, and while AIM doesn't consume much resource wise, it's an enormous productivity-sink for the student/employee. Instant Messaging can allow excellent, speedy communication in teams, but it can also utterly destroy productivity during lectures. AIM et all should be banned from installation on institution owned student computers, or at the very least, used in a very selective manner.
Just ask the CIA/FBI/Lawrence livermore cats who couldn't seem to hang onto a laptop from 1996-2000. It's all fine and good if your system is cracker proof, but do try to keep an eye on it. Software security means squat diddly if someone can just pop the HDD in as a slave.
In other news, poster reads the rest of the article, and is shocked, SHOCKED to find out that all this surveilance and fancy tech bothers some people. The traffic Dick! Think of the lack of traffic! I suppose in this future, slashdot posters will end with sigs reading "Those willing to sacrifice freedom for Unencumbered access to public roads deserve neither."
A few objections to Constant interntet connectivity. so she briefs herself on politics and votes on some of the half-dozen referendums held every day. First off, if we ever get to the point where government is producing more than a half dozen referendums every day, I'm finding another country. Enough garbage gets out with elections "only" once a year as it is.
Also, Terrorism eliminated just because of security cameras? As though a security camera can stop someone intent on, say, blowing themselves up. I suppose, on the bright side, you would be able to identify him, after he had blown himself up.
And traffic, a thing of the past, thanks to the hand-held portable and 3d image viewer. I don't see working from home ever happening on the scale it's been touted. It is far more efficient to have your employees at the same place at the same time, rather than off at the opera, supposedly working "on the go". But back to the article, there are plenty of people who's business it is to drive for a living. There will always be traffic in a moderately large city. I guess my problem with articles like this is that they make it sound like with just a few more GHZs and MBs, we'll somehow eliminate all the problems of modern society. A toast to foolhardy optimism!
and I've always considered them to be a good size. "Brodie, when a woman tells you it's a good size, that's a nice way of saying 'It's too small'". /mallrats
Sega is gone and nintendo might be next Nintendo Isn't going anywhere. They have a lock on the portable market, and we know how many hundreds of games come out on those systems per day/month/year, all of which nintendo gets royalties on. Sony will take a long time to kill but its possible ms can majorily harm it.
Nothing can kill The Sony, or the playstation, least of all Microsoft. Microsoft needs to prove it can sell more that 12 machines in Japan to get developer support, and it has not shown that in any way. Microsoft is an American company, and it's simply not going to make headway in Japan, when competing with your Sony and your Nintendos. Don't be so dire. Sega dropping out of hardware was probably a long time in coming. Nintendo has had only one real system which could be called a failure (Excluding Virtual Boy).
I'm not saying I like the idea of this legislation, but this legislation could do something great for the game industry, namely, slow the production of First person shooters. The market saturation with FPS's is worse than it was back in the Street fighter 2 days. Maybe we'll have developers producing clever all ages games, rather than just another romp through a scary mansion.
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Any liquid will do, even your own saliva. You mean to tell me back during your elementary school days, when you had a substitute, you didn't blow bubbles with your own spit?
I suppose, instead of disrupting class, I was engaging in scientific experimentation, at least to NASA standards.
They meant the interface. It's far more fluid then static images on a database.
But that having been said, how hard would it be to add orbital defense satellites. Anyone up for a game of missile command 2k3?
Some l33t h4X0R says: "Ohh YeaH BabY...Ur SiTe Has BeeN DeFaceD."
Believe it or not, Mr L337 has acurately described what he is doing with this "protest". He is defacing public/private property, and that is a crime.
The protests on the Streets of San Francisco are not "Civil" though they are assuredly disobedient. Sitting outside of a lunch counter, or not taking the bus, that is civil disobedience. Dragging newspaper vending machines into the street to block trafic, or breaking into a server to alter index.htm is illegal.
Lets remember that words have meanings, and in describing these acts, "Civil" is not an accurate term.
If you want to put the linux spin on it, that'll work as well as anything else. I'm absolutely shocked that there is not a gaming specific OS on the market today that will operate on it's own, or make it simple to dual boot to another OS.
No extras, No office, no MSpaint, no purpose other than to devote every available resource to gaming. It would be a gimme. Anyone who spends 100+ on a video card would drop 50 on this OS if it will run the games noticeably better.
I only wish I had the coding skills to proof the concept. I know someone does though, and I desperately hope that person runs into some investment.
Or gives his OS away for free. That would be cool too.
I've not part of the over clocking scene, nor the laptop scene, so I wouldn't know one way or the other, but would it be possible to take an already good laptop (battery life wise) such as one of these models with the centrino, and underclock it? I'd love a laptop, but I really only want one to access email and putz around with excel files on the move.
Is it even possible to jimjam with the bios settings, and lower the performance of the CPU? Would that even have an effect on battery life?
My first real tech job was to build a LAN for my former High School, which naturally involved lots of running and capping of wires, etc... I was a youngin at the time, and not especially experienced, and along comes Net Day, in 1997 or 1998.
We had about 25 volounteers come to the school on a weekend, to help string wires all over the place, most of them not having the slightest idea what they were doing.
It was a bit of a pain, but it was nice to see some of these older cats looking to me for guidance as to what to do. The few experienced people I simply deputized, and let them handle a crew of about 4. They still came back to me for advice or a say-so.
In all, it was a very long day, but I got a nice fuzzy feeling that maybe I knew what I was doing, moreso then I originally thought.
The other great thing about that job was I got to smoke on the roof while I was measuring ye olde cat 5 cable. Good times...
"Making a computer game now is incredibly expensive," said Mr Molyneux. "You're talking about millions and millions of pounds to make a triple-A, globally successful game."
So rather than having you, or a small development house shell out the money in exchange for potential windfalls, we should all front your money, at no return to ourselves. This is why we have what is known as "Market Capitalization". Sell some stock, and that will allow you to finish the product.
Business ventures are not for the faint of heart, whatever field you are talking about, and the development of videogames offers zero return on investment to the taxpayer. The closest example to this was the Army game, and that was given away for free, and had a purpose, namely, recruitment. I fail to see how a game featuring a giant cow furthers any objective a government might have.
I oppose this for the exact same reason I oppose the National Endowment of the Arts. Do what you want to do, fine, but do it with your own resources. Don't make me subsidize a game that I'll end up paying for anyhow.
While it is entirely possible that they ARE interpreting the data to fit their pre-conceived notions, if you look at the larger images, not the thumbnails, you will notice a distinct circular ridge in the upper left of the photo of the yucatan peninsula.
Clearly though, this better fits my hypothesis of an independance day like alien death ray.
Cowboy bebop also has the most rediculously awesome opening title sequence of anything commited to celluloid, ever. IMHO of course.
Anime, on the whole has one major plus for me, which is not seen in American Cartooning. A concentration on what makes cartoons visually interesting, as opposed to attempting to make a cartoon similar to live action.
Why bother animating an entire scene poorly all around, when you can have aspects in a scene the eye is naturally drawn to animated well?
Putting out a cartoon takes a lot of time, and rather than spending your resources equally across the entire length of your show, why not concentrate them where they can be put to the best use? Animation has come a long way, but lip synching is still terrible, so why not spend less time on the close up, and spend more on the wide shot action scene? This is what anime does well, which US cartoons do not.
If you want to see what I mean, check out Cowboy bebob episode 1, and witness one of the greatest hand to hand fighting moments in any cartoon
Those fucks (**AA) would try to regulate telepathy if it existed.
I realize the parent was using the asterisk as a wildcard, but as I was scrolled through the comments, it first appeared that he was willing to say 'fucks' but censored himself when referencing the RIAA, and the MPAA.
Good ol' unintentional comedy.
It took me about 1 week to realize that these job boards were about as likely to get me a job as my affinity for IPA. The problem with these boards, is two fold:
1. The employer never sees you in your nice crisp suit as you deliver the resume.
2. The employer never has your resume on his desk, in physical form, printed on quality paper stock.
From the employers point of view, it's nice for them to know that an applicant is capable of completing a task, even one as mundane as locating their office, and delivering a resume, without accidently lighting him/herself on fire along the way.
Tomorrow's rocket scientists will likely come in large part from India, Pakistan, and China, countries looking to build the bigger better missile. Those countries are going to give incentive for engineers to go into rocketry programs, because that is a priority of theirs, and they will fund it accordingly.
When it comes to Rocketry, Military need is going to produce more rocket scientists than will sheer enthusiasm, and to that end, shed no tears, the US military will always want that shinier rocket that can turn corners and stop on a dime.
Your average kid may not grow up playing with model rockets, because he can't get his hands on the materiel, but I'm sure he'll take the tuition break and a career in rocketry if it's offered him.
After all, the only parts I liked in Ep:1 and ep:2 were roughly 2-3 minutes long. The opening chase in ep:2, yoda knife fight, all about 2-3 minutes long. The rest of the movie could have been cut all together. As a matter of fact, I nominate there not be a EP3: at all, that lucas just show a quick montage of lightsabers turning on, women with odd haircuts, and planets/planetoid bodies exploding. Maybe set it to techno music, rather than the john williams score. 10 minutes long, in total, no muss, no fuss, just give me my noisy splosions in space.
I'm so tired of the train wreck of the star wars universe, I'm not even going to bother to preview this post before clicking submit.
The discovery of the York groundsel shows that species are created as well as made extinct, and that Charles Darwin was right and the Creationists are wrong.
This is the part where I imagine Anthony Browne, the columnist, doing a little dance, and thumbing his nose at those bad ol creationists. News Bulletin to Mr Browne, this can be construed as further proving the validity of an already accepted idea in Evolution theory, but finding a weed, no matter how genetically shiney, in a field does not disprove the existance of God, nor the notion that the universe was created by the afforementioned entity.
And if this were digital media, it would most likely be ILLEGAL under the DMCA or other such bassackwards legislation
Actually, to complete your analogy, it would be illegal to xerox the article and send the copy. It would also be illegal to type the contents into an email, and send that, while holding on to the physical newspaper. But this is just a day to day transfer of ownership from grandmother to grandson of a particular item with no change in medium. Just thought I'd pick nits.
But would you want to survive?....but when your options are dying instantly or dying gradually over the next few years (blocked out sun = no photosynthesis = no green plants = no food = good luck) /.
I don't like to see this kind of pessimism, at least not on
Okay, so the asteroid hits, dust in the air, no sunlight. Check. Sounds like it's about time to crack open a couple of books on hydroponic gardening, and rigging up an impromptu electric generator.
I've never bought the whole "living will envy the dead" cliche. By god, I like to think humanity is made of sterner stuff. Asteroids. So you killed the Dinosaurs....big deal. If you can't pull off a mass extinction more than once, you can't do it at all.
I briefly worked IT for a local high school district, and while AIM doesn't consume much resource wise, it's an enormous productivity-sink for the student/employee.
Instant Messaging can allow excellent, speedy communication in teams, but it can also utterly destroy productivity during lectures. AIM et all should be banned from installation on institution owned student computers, or at the very least, used in a very selective manner.
Just ask the CIA/FBI/Lawrence livermore cats who couldn't seem to hang onto a laptop from 1996-2000. It's all fine and good if your system is cracker proof, but do try to keep an eye on it.
Software security means squat diddly if someone can just pop the HDD in as a slave.
In other news, poster reads the rest of the article, and is shocked, SHOCKED to find out that all this surveilance and fancy tech bothers some people. The traffic Dick! Think of the lack of traffic!
I suppose in this future, slashdot posters will end with sigs reading "Those willing to sacrifice freedom for Unencumbered access to public roads deserve neither."
A few objections to Constant interntet connectivity.
so she briefs herself on politics and votes on some of the half-dozen referendums held every day.
First off, if we ever get to the point where government is producing more than a half dozen referendums every day, I'm finding another country. Enough garbage gets out with elections "only" once a year as it is.
Also, Terrorism eliminated just because of security cameras? As though a security camera can stop someone intent on, say, blowing themselves up. I suppose, on the bright side, you would be able to identify him, after he had blown himself up.
And traffic, a thing of the past, thanks to the hand-held portable and 3d image viewer. I don't see working from home ever happening on the scale it's been touted. It is far more efficient to have your employees at the same place at the same time, rather than off at the opera, supposedly working "on the go". But back to the article, there are plenty of people who's business it is to drive for a living. There will always be traffic in a moderately large city.
I guess my problem with articles like this is that they make it sound like with just a few more GHZs and MBs, we'll somehow eliminate all the problems of modern society. A toast to foolhardy optimism!
and I've always considered them to be a good size.
"Brodie, when a woman tells you it's a good size, that's a nice way of saying 'It's too small'".
/mallrats
Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head
Someone be sure to cauterize the wound! Quickly, Or seven more execs will take her place!
Sega is gone and nintendo might be next
Nintendo Isn't going anywhere. They have a lock on the portable market, and we know how many hundreds of games come out on those systems per day/month/year, all of which nintendo gets royalties on.
Sony will take a long time to kill but its possible ms can majorily harm it.
Nothing can kill The Sony, or the playstation, least of all Microsoft. Microsoft needs to prove it can sell more that 12 machines in Japan to get developer support, and it has not shown that in any way. Microsoft is an American company, and it's simply not going to make headway in Japan, when competing with your Sony and your Nintendos.
Don't be so dire. Sega dropping out of hardware was probably a long time in coming. Nintendo has had only one real system which could be called a failure (Excluding Virtual Boy).
I'm not saying I like the idea of this legislation, but this legislation could do something great for the game industry, namely, slow the production of First person shooters.
The market saturation with FPS's is worse than it was back in the Street fighter 2 days. Maybe we'll have developers producing clever all ages games, rather than just another romp through a scary mansion.