However, there is a two-video set at Fileplanet that does more than show close-ups of Alien and Predator skin. In it, there's an interview with the creator, as well as some concept art, detailing the story.
If you don't feel like downloading it, it takes place in 2004 in Antarctica, where scientists and men with guns find a pyramid built by predators and run into teenage predators fighting aliens in a manhood ritual.
When will we realize that these so-called "free trade" agreements aren't the least bit free? This draconian 220k document is only a small part of a much bigger document that only exists to undermine national sovereignty, workers rights, enviromental protections, and freedom in the name of profits.
Most of these "free trade" meetings go on behind close doors with every shady corporate and government goon in attendance, and no one else. NAFTA was thousands of pages in length, and was so long that no one has ever read it in its entirety -- yet it was rushed through our Congress. This FTAA is even worse, and we need to bring attention to it and stop it.
Max Payne 2 is a DirectX 9 game, meaning it doesn't work under Linux. Even under WINE, it just crashes out after playing the intro movies, meaning no Linux support whatsoever. I swear Microsoft pays game developers to use DirectX just to make it incompatible with Linux, since no programmer in their right mind would choose DirectX over OpenGL -- you can do with 5 lines in OpenGL what it takes 50 messy lines to do in DirectX.
I played the first Max Payne, and it's really not worth installing Windows to play. You mostly float around in slow-motion "bullet-time," and it's not much more than a gimmicky Matrix game that grows old fast, and has no multiplayer. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is entirely free, and is available on a gentoo liveCD -- a great way to show off Linux at a LAN, and it's a lot more fun.
This story is just another example of slashdot degenerating and catering to the nu-geek case mod Wintendo crowd, not computer and science enthusiasts. There's a lot more interesting stories out there happening right now, and a lot of cool stuff gets submitted that doesn't make it, though this somehow does.
Since this would require gigs upon gigs of RAM, this would not be practical on a PC, given its 32-bit architecture only allows for addressing of 4GB of RAM, since 2^32=4294967296 possible bytes of addressing. 64-bit addressing would be required, and that isn't going to get here any time soon.
Also, though you may not notice it, cosmic rays and other radiation frequently flip bits in your RAM, though most of it is done in unused space. If all the RAM is used up for a database, and it is holding sensitive materials for long periods of time before saving them, chances are good the data could be corrupted. All hell could break loose in some instances, and ECC RAM hardly ever protects the data, either.
Universities, even though most firewall p2p programs heavily, do not do enough -- the internet should be completely blocked out in dorm rooms across the nation.
The internet in dorms is hardly used for anything constructive -- 99% of internet usage is for piracy, online gaming, chatting, and wasting time browsing the internet. No work gets done, and if it is done, it usually results in plagiarism.
Having a huge internet connection to every dorm room drives tuition costs way up, and taxpayers often foot the bill -- internet usage in Universities should be limited to either off-campus connections or to computer labs and libraries, where real work can be done, instead of wasting students' time (either working or being social), stealing billions of dollars of artists' work, and/or creating more nu-geek drop-outs.
Solar power obviously cannot power a probe all the way to Pluto, where the sun is but a tiny speck of light and provides almost no power. NASA, of course, will have to use nuclear power to get there in the form of plutonium rods, much like they did with Cassini -- and this is highly, highly dangerous.
NASA's callous disregard for safety showed itself in the Columbia mission, and reports of ignroring engineers' pleas surface daily. Imagine if the Columbia or the Challenger were nuclear-powered: it would be a worldwide Chernobyl!
Plutonium is the deadliest substance known to man -- and it could be vaporized in the atmosphere, resulting in dangerously high radiation exposures and irradiating the planet.
This mission, if gone awry, could mean YOU could have mutant kids much like parents in Belarus and Ukraine do now. This mission should be shut down through peaceful protests before we all end up glowing green.
Finally, a use for all these things...
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Most of the used, old box-style NES consoles are completely useless nowadays and can be had for a few dollars at any random junk sale, as about 98% will hardly play any old NES cartridges without a lot of fiddling around and resetting, and many will go to a blue screen or pop up random garbage during the game.
Turning them into a NESticle machine is their only salvation -- though the only problem is getting TV out, which the article does not cover.
It seems as if the American government actually WANTS its 9 million illegal immigrants to drive down wages, suck up welfare disproporationately (bankrupting state governments like California), and completely change the demographics of the country to minority-white within decades.
They will spend millions of dollars on ID cards to hassle the honest immigrants, while thousands invade through our porous border every year. The only thing they should be spending money on right now is higher walls and more border guards, not ID cards.
In fact, it's gotten so bad, we should use the money to send our troops to the US-Mexico border before instead of Iraq. America is overpopulated as it is, and we don't need ILLEGAL immigration turning us into a third world country.
All they have put out since their Atari classics are nothing more than lame rehashes of their old games -- which are available for FREE with MAME -- sold for the latest consoles and PCs for $50.
They have produced nothing of value since, and though it would have been shameful had they been aborted before they put out their classics, they were headed to the dustbin of history due to their lack of inspiration.
Hopefully, Midway will hire 30 young, ambitious, and talented programmers in their place.
An average $50 DVD player from Walmart or Circuit City will do all that, and then some -- and some will even play Windows Media files, too, which Linux can't do. Your grandma won't even have to solder in a modchip, either, to get it working.
The Xbox is good for regular console games, but as far as media playing goes, DVD players can be purchased for $50 or less -- why bother?
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.... The Satanist knows that praying does absolutely no good -- in fact, it actually lessens the chance of success, for the devoutly religious too often sit back complacently and pray for a situation which, if they were to do something about it on their own, could be accomplished much quicker.
-Anton LaVey
That means you should unfold your hands and give blood, give donation money to the families of the victims, and call your Congressmen and Senators and tell them to not terminate space exploration -- right now!
Right now, your neighborhood amateur scientist/genius, with the right funding -- notably, Saudi millions -- could build a rocket much like Carmack did.
Loaded with a EMP bomb -- which Discover magazine said could be built for $400 out of ordinary parts -- it could seriously hit the rocket ship.
Calculating where and when it would be would be easy, as it's not classified, and it's just a matter of math.
Al-Qaeda is known for its audacity and boldness in killing Americans and Israelis, and this is clearly terrorism. In fact, I just heard on TV as I was typing this the Department of Defense is mobilizing some emergency forces somewhere.
The first thing that came to my mind was this: Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda have attacked us by air (WTC 9/11), by sea (Yemen, USS Cole) and by land (Embassy Bombings) -- now, he has finally gone into the final frontier and attacked space. It is no coincidence that there was an Israeli astronaut aboard and the space shuttle blew up.
According just now to Fox News, around the area where it broke up in space, electronics were reported shorted out -- meaning the space shuttle was hit with an EMP bomb!
While the idea of an all wireless world is tantalizing, there is the danger of radiating everything, if wireless transmitters become even more ubiquitous than they already are; however, people like Hughes and the wireless communication companies don't want you to believe their products emit harmful radiation.
All the generation of electromagnetic radiation will only lead to headaches, eye discomfort, facial redness, ringing or high-pitch sounds, fatigue, dizziness, sleep disturbances, irregular heartbeat, high blood-pressure, nausea, pain in the joints and muscles, difficulty in concentrating, memory difficulties, immune system abnormalities, asthma, allergies, and so forth, not to mention the environmental damage it could cause.
Wireless is a neat technology, but with the way it's being expanded at all costs with complete disregard, Soviet-style, we could end up with quite a nasty health/environment dilemma.
After 9/11, it occured to me how the internet could be down for quite a long time if another far worse disaster took place, and how it could take months to restore the internet to proper functionality.
It's reassuring that even after a disastrous blaze it only took 36 hours to repair the digital infrastructure at the University. Even if a major city came under a nuclear terrorist attack and was nearly destroyed, it would be possible for tech experts to repair it quickly so the citizenry could find their loved ones and the Pentagon could mobilize and retaliate.
Nanotechnology could destroy the universe
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What would a self-replicating nano-machine do if it went out of control? It would begin grabbing every other atom nearby, and converting them into the same nanomachines, and would multiply unstoppably and explosively.
It would eventually destroy the planet, as well as possibly the solar system and even the universe.
The Tunguska explosion devastated an area the size of England in the grimmest and most frostbitten lands of Siberia -- if one occurs every 1000 years, then it could absolutely devastate civilization and make the destruction of 9/11 seem absolutely trivial. If it had hit Europe or an ocean instead of killing a few Siberian eskimos, we would have been set back a century.
Too bad there is no chance we'll ever develop a system to intercept asteroids should we ever have to within our lifetimes.
It's strange that they won't offer cable internet connections in many rural towns, but the government would want to run a fiber line to the south pole.
Down in Antarctica, the only internet access available is by satellite -- and it's so impossibly slow that when that woman down there got breast cancer, they barely could get the doctor's recommendations and instructions for a biopsy over the satellite, since it only worked every few hours at best and the transfer rate was something akin (no exaggeration!) to 300Bps.
In fact, it's so bad that some groups are actually considering running a digital fiber line all the way to the south pole.
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If you don't feel like downloading it, it takes place in 2004 in Antarctica, where scientists and men with guns find a pyramid built by predators and run into teenage predators fighting aliens in a manhood ritual.
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/132403.shtm l
When will we realize that these so-called "free trade" agreements aren't the least bit free? This draconian 220k document is only a small part of a much bigger document that only exists to undermine national sovereignty, workers rights, enviromental protections, and freedom in the name of profits.
Most of these "free trade" meetings go on behind close doors with every shady corporate and government goon in attendance, and no one else. NAFTA was thousands of pages in length, and was so long that no one has ever read it in its entirety -- yet it was rushed through our Congress. This FTAA is even worse, and we need to bring attention to it and stop it.
Max Payne 2 is a DirectX 9 game, meaning it doesn't work under Linux. Even under WINE, it just crashes out after playing the intro movies, meaning no Linux support whatsoever. I swear Microsoft pays game developers to use DirectX just to make it incompatible with Linux, since no programmer in their right mind would choose DirectX over OpenGL -- you can do with 5 lines in OpenGL what it takes 50 messy lines to do in DirectX.
I played the first Max Payne, and it's really not worth installing Windows to play. You mostly float around in slow-motion "bullet-time," and it's not much more than a gimmicky Matrix game that grows old fast, and has no multiplayer. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is entirely free, and is available on a gentoo liveCD -- a great way to show off Linux at a LAN, and it's a lot more fun.
This story is just another example of slashdot degenerating and catering to the nu-geek case mod Wintendo crowd, not computer and science enthusiasts. There's a lot more interesting stories out there happening right now, and a lot of cool stuff gets submitted that doesn't make it, though this somehow does.
Since this would require gigs upon gigs of RAM, this would not be practical on a PC, given its 32-bit architecture only allows for addressing of 4GB of RAM, since 2^32=4294967296 possible bytes of addressing. 64-bit addressing would be required, and that isn't going to get here any time soon.
Also, though you may not notice it, cosmic rays and other radiation frequently flip bits in your RAM, though most of it is done in unused space. If all the RAM is used up for a database, and it is holding sensitive materials for long periods of time before saving them, chances are good the data could be corrupted. All hell could break loose in some instances, and ECC RAM hardly ever protects the data, either.
Universities, even though most firewall p2p programs heavily, do not do enough -- the internet should be completely blocked out in dorm rooms across the nation.
The internet in dorms is hardly used for anything constructive -- 99% of internet usage is for piracy, online gaming, chatting, and wasting time browsing the internet. No work gets done, and if it is done, it usually results in plagiarism.
Having a huge internet connection to every dorm room drives tuition costs way up, and taxpayers often foot the bill -- internet usage in Universities should be limited to either off-campus connections or to computer labs and libraries, where real work can be done, instead of wasting students' time (either working or being social), stealing billions of dollars of artists' work, and/or creating more nu-geek drop-outs.
Solar power obviously cannot power a probe all the way to Pluto, where the sun is but a tiny speck of light and provides almost no power. NASA, of course, will have to use nuclear power to get there in the form of plutonium rods, much like they did with Cassini -- and this is highly, highly dangerous.
NASA's callous disregard for safety showed itself in the Columbia mission, and reports of ignroring engineers' pleas surface daily. Imagine if the Columbia or the Challenger were nuclear-powered: it would be a worldwide Chernobyl!
Plutonium is the deadliest substance known to man -- and it could be vaporized in the atmosphere, resulting in dangerously high radiation exposures and irradiating the planet.
This mission, if gone awry, could mean YOU could have mutant kids much like parents in Belarus and Ukraine do now. This mission should be shut down through peaceful protests before we all end up glowing green.
Most of the used, old box-style NES consoles are completely useless nowadays and can be had for a few dollars at any random junk sale, as about 98% will hardly play any old NES cartridges without a lot of fiddling around and resetting, and many will go to a blue screen or pop up random garbage during the game.
Turning them into a NESticle machine is their only salvation -- though the only problem is getting TV out, which the article does not cover.
It seems as if the American government actually WANTS its 9 million illegal immigrants to drive down wages, suck up welfare disproporationately (bankrupting state governments like California), and completely change the demographics of the country to minority-white within decades.
They will spend millions of dollars on ID cards to hassle the honest immigrants, while thousands invade through our porous border every year. The only thing they should be spending money on right now is higher walls and more border guards, not ID cards.
In fact, it's gotten so bad, we should use the money to send our troops to the US-Mexico border before instead of Iraq. America is overpopulated as it is, and we don't need ILLEGAL immigration turning us into a third world country.
Economic Costs of Illegal Immigration
All they have put out since their Atari classics are nothing more than lame rehashes of their old games -- which are available for FREE with MAME -- sold for the latest consoles and PCs for $50.
They have produced nothing of value since, and though it would have been shameful had they been aborted before they put out their classics, they were headed to the dustbin of history due to their lack of inspiration.
Hopefully, Midway will hire 30 young, ambitious, and talented programmers in their place.
An average $50 DVD player from Walmart or Circuit City will do all that, and then some -- and some will even play Windows Media files, too, which Linux can't do. Your grandma won't even have to solder in a modchip, either, to get it working.
The Xbox is good for regular console games, but as far as media playing goes, DVD players can be purchased for $50 or less -- why bother?
Columbia was the finest in its fleet, and shuttle experts made absolutely sure that it would not have any problems for this historic mission.
NASA engineers are the best in the world, and don't make mistakes; only a deliberate, very malicious attempt would bring our space shuttle down.
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.... The Satanist knows that praying does absolutely no good -- in fact, it actually lessens the chance of success, for the devoutly religious too often sit back complacently and pray for a situation which, if they were to do something about it on their own, could be accomplished much quicker.
-Anton LaVey
That means you should unfold your hands and give blood, give donation money to the families of the victims, and call your Congressmen and Senators and tell them to not terminate space exploration -- right now!
There's honestly no telling what other space-borne diseases, mutant bacteria, secret black classified projects, and so forth.
In fact, there could be even nuclear materials onboard -- and even one gram of plutonium released into the atmosphere could poison half of America!
It's no wonder that a LOT of teams are being mobilized to that area, X-Files style.
Right now, your neighborhood amateur scientist/genius, with the right funding -- notably, Saudi millions -- could build a rocket much like Carmack did.
Loaded with a EMP bomb -- which Discover magazine said could be built for $400 out of ordinary parts -- it could seriously hit the rocket ship.
Calculating where and when it would be would be easy, as it's not classified, and it's just a matter of math.
Al-Qaeda is known for its audacity and boldness in killing Americans and Israelis, and this is clearly terrorism. In fact, I just heard on TV as I was typing this the Department of Defense is mobilizing some emergency forces somewhere.
The first thing that came to my mind was this: Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda have attacked us by air (WTC 9/11), by sea (Yemen, USS Cole) and by land (Embassy Bombings) -- now, he has finally gone into the final frontier and attacked space. It is no coincidence that there was an Israeli astronaut aboard and the space shuttle blew up.
According just now to Fox News, around the area where it broke up in space, electronics were reported shorted out -- meaning the space shuttle was hit with an EMP bomb!
While the idea of an all wireless world is tantalizing, there is the danger of radiating everything, if wireless transmitters become even more ubiquitous than they already are; however, people like Hughes and the wireless communication companies don't want you to believe their products emit harmful radiation.
All the generation of electromagnetic radiation will only lead to headaches, eye discomfort, facial redness, ringing or high-pitch sounds, fatigue, dizziness, sleep disturbances, irregular heartbeat, high blood-pressure, nausea, pain in the joints and muscles, difficulty in concentrating, memory difficulties, immune system abnormalities, asthma, allergies, and so forth, not to mention the environmental damage it could cause.
Wireless is a neat technology, but with the way it's being expanded at all costs with complete disregard, Soviet-style, we could end up with quite a nasty health/environment dilemma.
It's on CNN right now!
Some kind of massive explosion, possibly a dirty bomb, has hit Times Square!
After 9/11, it occured to me how the internet could be down for quite a long time if another far worse disaster took place, and how it could take months to restore the internet to proper functionality.
It's reassuring that even after a disastrous blaze it only took 36 hours to repair the digital infrastructure at the University. Even if a major city came under a nuclear terrorist attack and was nearly destroyed, it would be possible for tech experts to repair it quickly so the citizenry could find their loved ones and the Pentagon could mobilize and retaliate.
What would a self-replicating nano-machine do if it went out of control? It would begin grabbing every other atom nearby, and converting them into the same nanomachines, and would multiply unstoppably and explosively.
It would eventually destroy the planet, as well as possibly the solar system and even the universe.
Read this before you tout nanotech as a panacea! It is scary.
The Star Wars universe puts LucasArts online!
The Tunguska explosion devastated an area the size of England in the grimmest and most frostbitten lands of Siberia -- if one occurs every 1000 years, then it could absolutely devastate civilization and make the destruction of 9/11 seem absolutely trivial. If it had hit Europe or an ocean instead of killing a few Siberian eskimos, we would have been set back a century.
Too bad there is no chance we'll ever develop a system to intercept asteroids should we ever have to within our lifetimes.
I literally was rolling on the floor, laughing!
I fucking had tears in my eyes, and a droplet of urine on my panties is now chilling my leg!!
Beautiful! Just beautiful! I love you!
Be a man: add John Carmack to your foes list!
Click here and select foe, and thereby refuse to kiss his pale, skinny ass.
Too bad John Carmack wasn't in that rocket.
Rock on, Anonymous Pancake, you were the first!
http://www.rense.com/general28/ptocss.htm
Gotta love google.
It's strange that they won't offer cable internet connections in many rural towns, but the government would want to run a fiber line to the south pole.
Down in Antarctica, the only internet access available is by satellite -- and it's so impossibly slow that when that woman down there got breast cancer, they barely could get the doctor's recommendations and instructions for a biopsy over the satellite, since it only worked every few hours at best and the transfer rate was something akin (no exaggeration!) to 300Bps.
In fact, it's so bad that some groups are actually considering running a digital fiber line all the way to the south pole.