They make a stand-alone machine to transfer files from a floppy (mac or PC) to a pen drive or some future format. That way you wouldn't need to keep an old comp around for legacy reasons.
Thomas Edison used AC power to electrocute cats, dogs, a horse, and even a 3-ton elephant. He also created the first electric chair, which ran on DC power and almost set the person to be executed on fire (nowadays they are AC). As our knowledge of electricity expanded so did the uses to which this most versatile form of power has been put to.
And he was the greatest inventor of all time... why?
Simple: Just create a battery powered circuit which states that if no power is going to the computer/scanner then allow for key entry... of course making it would be harder than that.
Now we don't have to develop a static powered car, but can rather make a Mr Fusion to power the Flux Capacitor so we can go to the future where all of life's problems are already solved!
Diamonds have been perfectly maufactured, but Debeers somehow can control the amount that are made per year to create artificial demand. Also Debeers puts IDs on the diamonds to make them "authentic."
Even if manufacture isn't perfect, this isn't for looks, it's for electrical use.
Everybody is saying how a nice "beowulf" cluster of these could be made in say... a full tower, but what you're missing is that all the IO ports are on the back, this may be more practical as a standalone system...
You would need another open bay just to run all the I/O wires! That, coupled with the fact that a vent seems to be places on the top makes this seem to be a "PC the size of a cd-rom drive bay" rather than a "PC that goes into a cd-rom drive bay"
Also there seems to be no place for mounting rails, but that can be solved with a little krazy glue or duck tape:)
At first we wanted everything to be transfered from analog type formats to pure digital, now we are exploiting analog formats (like optics) to get insane speeds.
I remember getting JourneyMan Project Turbo as a bundle with an old PackardBell 75MHz computer... It was quite fun, and at the time I was too young to figure out how to get through it.
Sadly, we had to return the comptuer (guess why, packard bells's suck) and with it wen JMPT and I never played it again, although i'd like to.
Megarace also came with that packard bell, megarace ruled.
I agree that saying how the game is really open-ended and a "peaceful" game is very wrong to use as an example to combat these media sensations.
Going through the game and not killing anyone is more of something to do when you have beat it and want to explore every possibility, but not if you are a casual player.
Please, don't post half-assed comments like "oh i can complete it without bloodshed!" because that makes us no better than the RIAA, MPAA, and all those other stupid groups that manipulate facts and stats to server their purpose.
Of course, this is mostly because Deus Ex (my fav game of all time) is ment to be a stealth type game against impossible odds so to speak. It has much more of a role playing element and you are rewarded at the end for stelth and colletion of items.
Heck, (spoiler) toward the end when you are in level4 lab under the UNATCO base and all those gaurds are comming, I just unleashed those big genetic mutations and hit up the stairs.. watching the slaughter of course. That has to be THE MOST satisfying moment of the entire game. It's such a thrill to not do any work in that game (no joke!)
Now that i see the project itself, a thought came to me...
What if lego pulls a patent suit in order to only let children use them? Just think of all the tinkerers who will have to pay royalties in order to mount prototypes on legos... It's also quite funny to see a lego device hooked up with some tubes to this huge complex computer.
Well, since the site is already slashdotted (only the title is showing up for me) i'll have to use all the power of my brain to guesstimate.
Why not use water? The answer is simple really. If you can use such liquids to proform logical computations then it would be adventageous to use a liquid with a VERY high boiling point to prevent all your data from boiling off into steam...
Hmmm... I can see it now "that data has to be uncompressed into steam, heat it up a bit."
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I said RELEASE, not maintain or otherwise subscribe.
Ever hear of a little non-killing game called The Sims and how it became a best-seller??
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Killing is not the only basis there is for a video game, or more spacifically a MMORPG, but it is an over used one
Oh and I see they finally release a P2P game in a way that makes sense.... free.
We're not all rich momma's boys, you know. I'm still running a Ti4400, and I consider it to be very good :)
Well, I WAS gonna sign up, but if it's posted on slashdot then 10,000 slots seems slim to none...
How fast they can now render over the old Sun servers?
(imaging a Beowulf cluster of THESE!)
They make a stand-alone machine to transfer files from a floppy (mac or PC) to a pen drive or some future format. That way you wouldn't need to keep an old comp around for legacy reasons.
Thomas Edison used AC power to electrocute cats, dogs, a horse, and even a 3-ton elephant. He also created the first electric chair, which ran on DC power and almost set the person to be executed on fire (nowadays they are AC). As our knowledge of electricity expanded so did the uses to which this most versatile form of power has been put to.
And he was the greatest inventor of all time... why?
Just what I was thinking. What gives the Government the right to store copyrighted material all the sudden?
Bwa hahaa!
Simple: Just create a battery powered circuit which states that if no power is going to the computer/scanner then allow for key entry... of course making it would be harder than that.
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It says that Yet pound for pound, the sturdiest spider silks are stronger than steel and stretchier than nylon.
I heard that while back the Army made a vest out of Spider Silk rather than Kevlar and it was able to stop even small rifle bullets O_o.
This could be very revolutionary. I wonder how it compares to silk?
If it were for toddlers then this wouldn't be news at all...
When I was little I remember reading verious Seseme Street books that were made of fluffy plastic stuff so you could take them in the tub.
For only 10,000 shares of a Slashdot IPO i'll be a full time meta mod for free.
(yes that was a joke)
Now we don't have to develop a static powered car, but can rather make a Mr Fusion to power the Flux Capacitor so we can go to the future where all of life's problems are already solved!
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Diamonds have been perfectly maufactured, but Debeers somehow can control the amount that are made per year to create artificial demand. Also Debeers puts IDs on the diamonds to make them "authentic."
Even if manufacture isn't perfect, this isn't for looks, it's for electrical use.
Good point, that could be a serious argument to try to show the RIAA being a hipocryte, and not trustwrothy.
Developing the equipment to identify unique scents would be costly, bulky, and probably easily confused by purfumes and other forms of distraction.
I say that nature does the best job, use some sort of animal to sniff a trail, or use a better means to identify a person.
As it is, fingerprints, eye scans, and DNA are much better than smell, and how would you store the signature of a scent in a database?
"subject has a old-man on crack smell about him."
"duck tape" is a brand name form of "duct tape" made by Manco and is the most used kind.
Everybody is saying how a nice "beowulf" cluster of these could be made in say... a full tower, but what you're missing is that all the IO ports are on the back, this may be more practical as a standalone system...
:)
You would need another open bay just to run all the I/O wires! That, coupled with the fact that a vent seems to be places on the top makes this seem to be a "PC the size of a cd-rom drive bay" rather than a "PC that goes into a cd-rom drive bay"
Also there seems to be no place for mounting rails, but that can be solved with a little krazy glue or duck tape
At first we wanted everything to be transfered from analog type formats to pure digital, now we are exploiting analog formats (like optics) to get insane speeds.
Will we go back to all digital in about 10 years?
1) Lose your job
2) Build geometric and paradoxical shapes out of legos
3) Get them posted on Slashdot
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
I actually like his work, it's very mathmatical.
I remember getting JourneyMan Project Turbo as a bundle with an old PackardBell 75MHz computer... It was quite fun, and at the time I was too young to figure out how to get through it.
Sadly, we had to return the comptuer (guess why, packard bells's suck) and with it wen JMPT and I never played it again, although i'd like to.
Megarace also came with that packard bell, megarace ruled.
I agree that saying how the game is really open-ended and a "peaceful" game is very wrong to use as an example to combat these media sensations.
Going through the game and not killing anyone is more of something to do when you have beat it and want to explore every possibility, but not if you are a casual player.
Please, don't post half-assed comments like "oh i can complete it without bloodshed!" because that makes us no better than the RIAA, MPAA, and all those other stupid groups that manipulate facts and stats to server their purpose.
Of course, this is mostly because Deus Ex (my fav game of all time) is ment to be a stealth type game against impossible odds so to speak. It has much more of a role playing element and you are rewarded at the end for stelth and colletion of items.
Heck, (spoiler) toward the end when you are in level4 lab under the UNATCO base and all those gaurds are comming, I just unleashed those big genetic mutations and hit up the stairs.. watching the slaughter of course. That has to be THE MOST satisfying moment of the entire game. It's such a thrill to not do any work in that game (no joke!)
Now that i see the project itself, a thought came to me...
What if lego pulls a patent suit in order to only let children use them? Just think of all the tinkerers who will have to pay royalties in order to mount prototypes on legos... It's also quite funny to see a lego device hooked up with some tubes to this huge complex computer.
So why not use water..."
Well, since the site is already slashdotted (only the title is showing up for me) i'll have to use all the power of my brain to guesstimate.
Why not use water? The answer is simple really. If you can use such liquids to proform logical computations then it would be adventageous to use a liquid with a VERY high boiling point to prevent all your data from boiling off into steam...
Hmmm... I can see it now "that data has to be uncompressed into steam, heat it up a bit."