Real muscles contract by myofilaments sliding past each other, shortening the overall length of the muscle. In this case no sliding past occurs, and the overall length of the nanotube "muscle" doesn't diminish, so I can't see how this technology could be used to replace actual muscles.
It can be used to replace muscles due to something called Poisson's ratio, which is very high for the nanotube muscle. This effectively does allow it too shorten the overall length.
Applying for a job at Google some of the things they asked were "Do you have any ideas for the [Google] company?", "Have you competed in Topcoder?", "Have you done any open source work?". They didn't seem as interested in past paid work, as much as being interested in current programming ability evaluated by a day of peer-reviewed whiteboard coding and problem solving.
So perhaps the crux lies in open source game development tools. Blender 3d and AGS are fairly good examples of what I mean. Perhaps a tool similar to Kodu but have it open source instead.
My mom made us watch The Birds when we were about 12 or so. We giggled at the obvious wires and rubber birds... she had nightmares for a week when she watched the same thing when she was about the same age.
I want RTS to be less complex, with less micro-management, and more strategy. By less complex I mean, easy to learn hard to master. Trying too add depth by injecting complexity is a cop-out. However, I can't think of a single RTS that is simple with a great depth of strategy. Usually this description is given to the best turn-based games such as chess and arimaa. I would like to see this type of approach applied to RTSes.
Being a slow game doesn't mean that a mouse isn't needed. Even a slow game like Counter Strike requires a mouse for one to be competative. The reason halo works with a controller is because the enemies aren't nearly as skillful as they would need to be to make an equivalent mouse controlled game similarly challenging.
This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect... The only important difference is that OpenOffice.org doesn't support all of Microsoft Office's weird macros...
Wait, what? Um, that's the useful bit. Smari McCarthy needs to practice English a little more. For example, the meaning of "superior in every respect".
I use windows xp on my laptop and I set it to sleep every night, and have no problems. I've just checked the task manager and the system idle processes cpu time has been going for 133 hours. I too usually only reboot after installing stuff that requires it.
This is an updated version of the bland old "we had no calculators in our day". The questions that will be answerable will aid in the research of questions and answers that are unanswerable by the technology of the time, yielding progress.
I pay dearly to use Facebook. It is definatelly not free. Try adding an app and you'll see the garbage pit of advertising that has soaked into Facebook while you scan your entire monitor to find the "skip it" or "no thanks, just add it" link in 6 pt font, narrowly missing the "Continue" button that is strategically embedded into the commercial.
If it has advertising, it's not free... downloading the advertising media is using up your ISP bandwidth, besides the work required to dodge or not pay attention to the commercials.
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pilot747?
I wouldn't put it past him with a "backup" like that.
Accessing a game's internal data structures could often be against the EULA, whereas reading your graphics card's frame buffer isn't.
Look, Palestine already has an invisibility cloak! They've cloaked their rockets to look like hospital oxygen tanks!
Because he posted as Anonymous Coward? Looks like yours is pretty snug too.
....Unless the US is in a state of declared war. Then you cannot photograph any military or government facilities or installations.
It is in a state of war. A war declared on the "terrorists" that were invented to justify it.
What do you do about the piranitos?
What if the day is cloudy and he doesn't want to fish? If he had money, he could do something else. Instead, he has to sit in the rain and fish.
The dream is a fallacy, which only seems attractive to those who cannot think past the lustre.
Most insightful of parent post is that it was done anonymously.
Real muscles contract by myofilaments sliding past each other, shortening the overall length of the muscle. In this case no sliding past occurs, and the overall length of the nanotube "muscle" doesn't diminish, so I can't see how this technology could be used to replace actual muscles.
It can be used to replace muscles due to something called Poisson's ratio, which is very high for the nanotube muscle. This effectively does allow it too shorten the overall length.
Applying for a job at Google some of the things they asked were "Do you have any ideas for the [Google] company?", "Have you competed in Topcoder?", "Have you done any open source work?". They didn't seem as interested in past paid work, as much as being interested in current programming ability evaluated by a day of peer-reviewed whiteboard coding and problem solving.
So perhaps the crux lies in open source game development tools. Blender 3d and AGS are fairly good examples of what I mean. Perhaps a tool similar to Kodu but have it open source instead.
the grammar mistake was intentional, to test weather my last message was suffering from warnock's dilema.
My mom made us watch The Birds when we were about 12 or so. We giggled at the obvious wires and rubber birds... she had nightmares for a week when she watched the same thing when she was about the same age.
You're mother didn't love you.
I want RTS to be less complex, with less micro-management, and more strategy. By less complex I mean, easy to learn hard to master. Trying too add depth by injecting complexity is a cop-out. However, I can't think of a single RTS that is simple with a great depth of strategy. Usually this description is given to the best turn-based games such as chess and arimaa. I would like to see this type of approach applied to RTSes.
Being a slow game doesn't mean that a mouse isn't needed. Even a slow game like Counter Strike requires a mouse for one to be competative. The reason halo works with a controller is because the enemies aren't nearly as skillful as they would need to be to make an equivalent mouse controlled game similarly challenging.
This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect ... The only important difference is that OpenOffice.org doesn't support all of Microsoft Office's weird macros...
Wait, what? Um, that's the useful bit.
Smari McCarthy needs to practice English a little more. For example, the meaning of "superior in every respect".
I use windows xp on my laptop and I set it to sleep every night, and have no problems. I've just checked the task manager and the system idle processes cpu time has been going for 133 hours. I too usually only reboot after installing stuff that requires it.
This is an updated version of the bland old "we had no calculators in our day". The questions that will be answerable will aid in the research of questions and answers that are unanswerable by the technology of the time, yielding progress.
So... I really hope Microsoft says "sure" and bundles 10-20 really crappy and outdated browsers, with firefox and opera nowhere in sight.
Yeah, they'll bundle chrome and safari.
People who understand what "!=" means will already know that, so
Java does NOT equal Javascript.
I pay dearly to use Facebook. It is definatelly not free. Try adding an app and you'll see the garbage pit of advertising that has soaked into Facebook while you scan your entire monitor to find the "skip it" or "no thanks, just add it" link in 6 pt font, narrowly missing the "Continue" button that is strategically embedded into the commercial.
If it has advertising, it's not free... downloading the advertising media is using up your ISP bandwidth, besides the work required to dodge or not pay attention to the commercials.
so it's not really an earthquake, more like an airquake.
and if you get stuck somewhere without power... well, use your imagination.
Get a cat and don't feed it. Keep it inside so that it doesn't eat local wildlife. Give it a bowl of milk every day.
Throw away for a moment the fact that Direct X translation to OpenGl is super slow compared with native OpenGL.
People are still using Direct3D instead of OpenGL for anything but the XBox? Tysk, tysk.