You gave me a great visual which got completely out of control in my head:
Imagine India read your message and thought, "Hey, if we just GO there and build an artificial island, we'd clearly be reamed by the international community... but if we LAUNCHED enormous granite boulders from India into the sea as part of, say, a scientific experiment, and they happened to land on that island and were big enough, we'd have sovereignty again!"
Then of course, Bangladeshi spies discover the plan and formulate a boulder launching initiative of their own.
There's a great boulder arms race, a frantic push to move boulders to the coast, boulders destroyed before they can be loaded by opposition spies, boulder transport sabotage, and when they finally reach the coast and the enormous catapults specifically built by whichever local contractor said they could get them done in time are deployed, the great boulder launching war begins, each launching boulders "harmlessly" as part of scientific experiments toward the same island at the same time, using catapults prone to poor accuracy due to the late contractor bidding and the fact that they were built in India and Bangladesh.
I can see the headline now: Mar 29, 2014: RARE MID-AIR BOULDER COLLISION RAISING TENSIONS Indian statesman quoted as saying "This is the fourth incident of Bangladeshi's clearly ruthlessly expansionist government interfering with our harmless scientific experiments through high-tech mid-air boulder tracking technology they have secretly been developing with neighboring terrorist states for years."
There's no lock in. You can list an app and leave the whole thing as third party with no integration with Google Apps.
If I'm some random Google user and I use Gmail, Calendar, and other apps every day, and I also use Joe's Hosted Task Manager, it would be very convenient for that to be in the google apps tabs and on my google apps domain.
I'm sure the rats feel nervous about leaving the sanctuary of their hidey holes and walls to get to the cabling. Why not load in a few miles of old cabling into the walls so they can eat it there and not have to come out?:)
Enigma: Rising Tide is a WW2 naval sim covering all sorts of ships, surface and sub, and can be played entirely with voice control. The mouse and keyboard help a bit and the added value doesn't distract from the feeling that you're mainly controlling the game with voice.
Negotiating with enemies? Obviously impossible in our lifetimes to hold a conversation with an AI. But try Enigma, it's pretty intense - the glacially paced naval maneuvers seem to move at lightning speed during critical moments, and the buildup makes those moments all the more memorable.
In one of my first battles, I was a small surface based anti-sub ship, and could basically only roll depth charges or shoot at surface ships with a weak deck gun. I was hunting two AI subs simultaneously, which seemed to be toying with me, occasionally showing a periscope which I would blast with my deck gun, hoping for a hit while near the surface. I would have to stop the ship and cut the engines entirely in order to enable decent hydrophone-based detection. It was over an hour of stops and starts, checking the radar for blips of my prey, moving into a (hopefully) intercept course and rolling charges at various depths hoping for a hit, without knowing for sure whether I even hit anything until it sunk completely, and even then I'd only be informed if my engines were off so my sound guy could hear their bulkheads collapsing or the sub crunching the ocean floor.
After quite a bit of hunting, during my final attempt at cutting the engines to listen once again, not getting a reading, I stayed still a little too long. Both subs surfaced within mere feet of my ship, at an angle my deck gun could not quite reach, not to mention that they surfaced simultaneously. This is where I mean the glacial pace seems to be lightning fast. I found myself in a panic, barking orders into the microphone to start engines, ahead flank and hard to port to align my deck gun. I set the depth on my charges to 0 feet, hoping to detonate a few just under the subs as I moved away from them, since the charges roll out of the back of my ship. As my ship is crawling forward, charges prepared and slowly turning, the subs had enough time to surface prep, man the deck guns, and sink me. A few more seconds and I might have ejected death-barrels directly onto their bulkheads, or got the angle enough for the deck gun. But I died. It was one of the most exciting moments I ever had in a game, though I admit I rarely have the time or patience to sit through such scenarios again, it has the power to evoke a sense of real command and immersion due to the voice feature, excellent buildup and explosive excitement.
It ain't trek, but they called it Enterprise for a reason eh... go back to its roots and blast some nazis.
I'll argue that. UO. For a brief period from a month or two after launch to early 1999 it was the best game ever made. When you could kill anyone, anywhere, without penalty. When there was no bank, and all you had was your backpack, and if you got killed, you lost everything. When Dread Lords were truly feared.
I worked at Syncronys, makers of the infamous SoftRAM. Really. At one point I had the title "Visionary". Fortunately I avoided the later title of "felon".
That is the funniest thing I have ever read, mainly for the mental picture of the coked-up teenager that wrote it.
It's racist so I should feel sorry for him, or outraged. But it's so nonsensical and all over the map that it's hard to think the author is actually racist, I can only picture that he resembles that hyped-up coffee drinking kid from South Park.
But seriously, I've never laughed harder at a slashdot forum post.
Don't mod his as Flamebait. This guy is an internet treasure.
* Don't run from the cops. You'll probably get killed. * Don't get involved in drugs, violence, gangs, etc. You'll probably get killed. * If you lead 1/10th of the life of this character, you'll probably get killed about 1/10th the number of times you die in the game. Which is about 30. But in real life, you don't auto-rez at a hospital after plummeting off a cliff on a BMX or kamikaze dive-bombing a cessna into a crowded mall.
I strongly think extreme video game violence is OK as long as it is clear that the character is DYING, not just being hurt. The resurrection is OK to resume the game, even a child knows you don't come back after about age 6 or so. The most important part is making it ABSOLETELY CLEAR that the death of a human being occurred. I like the way it's handled in the Brothers in Arms series - the death of your squadmates is an important, emotional event. They're not disposable automatons.
I've re-written the same applications dozens of times, sometimes because my code is unreadable, sometimes just for fun to find a new way to do it, and occasionally because it's so easy that it's actually faster than spending 2 minutes finding the previous version. Gotta keep my mind fresh, I'm over 30 you know.
Though.. I suppose if I could call my Perl application portfolio manager and ask them where that 10 line text parser is that I wrote yesterday, and they could provide it right away, it would save me 2 minutes of searching my own hard disk. Of course, since the portfolio manager can't understand what the app does unless I spend 15 minutes writing documentation and explaining it to them, I get a net loss of productivity anyway.
I don't care how much fun it is, if it's helping a for-profit company gain more profits, I expect to be compensated. I can't believe how many of you people buy into this idea that Google made a fun pseudo-game that boosts their search engine effectiveness. Let's all play and boost their profits! Yay!
If they offered you points for cleaning out the gutters at the Google Campus, would you spend your weekends doing it?
I love Google and it's the main search engine I use, and I hope they do well (though I'm all for competitiveness too). But I don't work for free, sorry.
Here's a better idea: Pay people minimum wage to do this. I'll bet there's armies of people happy to make that kind of money sitting in front of their computer instead of shoveling poop or whatever else crap jobs are available at minimum wage.
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You gave me a great visual which got completely out of control in my head:
Imagine India read your message and thought, "Hey, if we just GO there and build an artificial island, we'd clearly be reamed by the international community... but if we LAUNCHED enormous granite boulders from India into the sea as part of, say, a scientific experiment, and they happened to land on that island and were big enough, we'd have sovereignty again!"
Then of course, Bangladeshi spies discover the plan and formulate a boulder launching initiative of their own.
There's a great boulder arms race, a frantic push to move boulders to the coast, boulders destroyed before they can be loaded by opposition spies, boulder transport sabotage, and when they finally reach the coast and the enormous catapults specifically built by whichever local contractor said they could get them done in time are deployed, the great boulder launching war begins, each launching boulders "harmlessly" as part of scientific experiments toward the same island at the same time, using catapults prone to poor accuracy due to the late contractor bidding and the fact that they were built in India and Bangladesh.
I can see the headline now:
Mar 29, 2014: RARE MID-AIR BOULDER COLLISION RAISING TENSIONS
Indian statesman quoted as saying "This is the fourth incident of Bangladeshi's clearly ruthlessly expansionist government interfering with our harmless scientific experiments through high-tech mid-air boulder tracking technology they have secretly been developing with neighboring terrorist states for years."
There's no lock in. You can list an app and leave the whole thing as third party with no integration with Google Apps.
If I'm some random Google user and I use Gmail, Calendar, and other apps every day, and I also use Joe's Hosted Task Manager, it would be very convenient for that to be in the google apps tabs and on my google apps domain.
I'm sure the rats feel nervous about leaving the sanctuary of their hidey holes and walls to get to the cabling. Why not load in a few miles of old cabling into the walls so they can eat it there and not have to come out? :)
So, someone has chrome.com too, no guarantee Google will even be interested.
Whoever owns gdrive.com would be wise to offer a backup service though :)
On reason being overlooked for web apps is that the app keeps running, doing things for other people, even when your system isn't.
So if we create one, you're saying we can't throw garbage into it and solve the world's waste disposal problems?
http://knepfler.com/index.php?title=The_Human_Avatar
I wasn't on acid when I wrote this but I might as well have been.
That's all..
Enigma: Rising Tide is a WW2 naval sim covering all sorts of ships, surface and sub, and can be played entirely with voice control. The mouse and keyboard help a bit and the added value doesn't distract from the feeling that you're mainly controlling the game with voice.
Negotiating with enemies? Obviously impossible in our lifetimes to hold a conversation with an AI. But try Enigma, it's pretty intense - the glacially paced naval maneuvers seem to move at lightning speed during critical moments, and the buildup makes those moments all the more memorable.
In one of my first battles, I was a small surface based anti-sub ship, and could basically only roll depth charges or shoot at surface ships with a weak deck gun. I was hunting two AI subs simultaneously, which seemed to be toying with me, occasionally showing a periscope which I would blast with my deck gun, hoping for a hit while near the surface. I would have to stop the ship and cut the engines entirely in order to enable decent hydrophone-based detection. It was over an hour of stops and starts, checking the radar for blips of my prey, moving into a (hopefully) intercept course and rolling charges at various depths hoping for a hit, without knowing for sure whether I even hit anything until it sunk completely, and even then I'd only be informed if my engines were off so my sound guy could hear their bulkheads collapsing or the sub crunching the ocean floor.
After quite a bit of hunting, during my final attempt at cutting the engines to listen once again, not getting a reading, I stayed still a little too long. Both subs surfaced within mere feet of my ship, at an angle my deck gun could not quite reach, not to mention that they surfaced simultaneously. This is where I mean the glacial pace seems to be lightning fast. I found myself in a panic, barking orders into the microphone to start engines, ahead flank and hard to port to align my deck gun. I set the depth on my charges to 0 feet, hoping to detonate a few just under the subs as I moved away from them, since the charges roll out of the back of my ship. As my ship is crawling forward, charges prepared and slowly turning, the subs had enough time to surface prep, man the deck guns, and sink me. A few more seconds and I might have ejected death-barrels directly onto their bulkheads, or got the angle enough for the deck gun. But I died. It was one of the most exciting moments I ever had in a game, though I admit I rarely have the time or patience to sit through such scenarios again, it has the power to evoke a sense of real command and immersion due to the voice feature, excellent buildup and explosive excitement.
It ain't trek, but they called it Enterprise for a reason eh... go back to its roots and blast some nazis.
1) Copy current data to a backup file
2) Overwrite current data
3) Test new data
4) If okay, delete backup
Now why the hell would you do that when you could just 1) Write new data, 2.) Test new data, 3.) Delete old, 4.) Rename new? You save a write.
It's supposed to represent that the PS3 can elicit new emotions you didn't even know you had. It's that powerful.
Typical marketer thinking.
I'll argue that. UO. For a brief period from a month or two after launch to early 1999 it was the best game ever made. When you could kill anyone, anywhere, without penalty. When there was no bank, and all you had was your backpack, and if you got killed, you lost everything. When Dread Lords were truly feared.
I worked at Syncronys, makers of the infamous SoftRAM. Really. At one point I had the title "Visionary". Fortunately I avoided the later title of "felon".
about:config
configure.trim_on_minimize = true
Should fix you right up
Hm, reading the rules more carefully.. I don't think the Thought Gang has won yet. They are in the running though.
Looks like they already gave away the Grand Prize to "The Thought Gang." This just appeared on the site within the last hour.
And I just finished downloading the dataset... jesus.
I was expecting information about a quantum leap in Rocket Propelled Grenade technology.
That is the funniest thing I have ever read, mainly for the mental picture of the coked-up teenager that wrote it.
It's racist so I should feel sorry for him, or outraged. But it's so nonsensical and all over the map that it's hard to think the author is actually racist, I can only picture that he resembles that hyped-up coffee drinking kid from South Park.
But seriously, I've never laughed harder at a slashdot forum post.
Don't mod his as Flamebait. This guy is an internet treasure.
Troubleshooting IT on message boards involving the public is a highly effective way to get things done.
Allow me to start. *ahem*
WHY is SourceForge even using SMTP????!!!
I learned several things playing GTA:
* Don't run from the cops. You'll probably get killed.
* Don't get involved in drugs, violence, gangs, etc. You'll probably get killed.
* If you lead 1/10th of the life of this character, you'll probably get killed about 1/10th the number of times you die in the game. Which is about 30. But in real life, you don't auto-rez at a hospital after plummeting off a cliff on a BMX or kamikaze dive-bombing a cessna into a crowded mall.
I strongly think extreme video game violence is OK as long as it is clear that the character is DYING, not just being hurt. The resurrection is OK to resume the game, even a child knows you don't come back after about age 6 or so. The most important part is making it ABSOLETELY CLEAR that the death of a human being occurred. I like the way it's handled in the Brothers in Arms series - the death of your squadmates is an important, emotional event. They're not disposable automatons.
Agree with parent, should have your compy hooked to your TV.
If your living room doesn't resemble this, you don't belong here:
http://knepfler.com/compy
Man, Gartner must hate Perl.
I've re-written the same applications dozens of times, sometimes because my code is unreadable, sometimes just for fun to find a new way to do it, and occasionally because it's so easy that it's actually faster than spending 2 minutes finding the previous version. Gotta keep my mind fresh, I'm over 30 you know.
Though.. I suppose if I could call my Perl application portfolio manager and ask them where that 10 line text parser is that I wrote yesterday, and they could provide it right away, it would save me 2 minutes of searching my own hard disk. Of course, since the portfolio manager can't understand what the app does unless I spend 15 minutes writing documentation and explaining it to them, I get a net loss of productivity anyway.
What kind of ATM gives out $5 bills?
I've never used one that didn't give only $20s.
He needs to remove the Ionic cooling system and see if the temperatures and CPU speeds change.
I don't care how much fun it is, if it's helping a for-profit company gain more profits, I expect to be compensated. I can't believe how many of you people buy into this idea that Google made a fun pseudo-game that boosts their search engine effectiveness. Let's all play and boost their profits! Yay!
If they offered you points for cleaning out the gutters at the Google Campus, would you spend your weekends doing it?
I love Google and it's the main search engine I use, and I hope they do well (though I'm all for competitiveness too). But I don't work for free, sorry.
Here's a better idea: Pay people minimum wage to do this. I'll bet there's armies of people happy to make that kind of money sitting in front of their computer instead of shoveling poop or whatever else crap jobs are available at minimum wage.