The first time I heared of this technic was with Duke3D, so it's not very new. I wonder if this requires much CPU cycles. Perhaps future sound cards will get a high speed DSP and do this in hardware. (Pretty much the same route graphics cards went, so expect another fan inside the computer)
Even without tons of samples there are ways to make sound FX less monotone. A little change in frequency, speed and volume can make one sample sound slightly differend each time it's used.
Reboot them. Solves quite a lot of the problems. Male relatives can be rebooted with a well aimed kick in the nuts. (source: BOFH)
I'm not sure if there is a way to reboot female relatives. Except perhaps pulling the plug and doing a cold reboot, but I'm not sure if that's legal.
Easy to get not chosen to be eaten, just follow these guidelines:
* Don't wash yourself. Ever.
* Start each day with showing everyone your most unshowable parts.
* Mention how much bad cholesterol you have.
* Use publicly medication for any veneral decease you can think of.
Although they would all vote to kick you out the nearest airlock in a swimsuit, none of them would consider eating you.
Sorry to destroy your dream, but Basic is very alive and isn't going to die very soon. Check out Bascom for example.
And as computers keep getting faster, soon Qbasic will run just as fast on a P8 2THz as assembly on a 486DX 66MHz.
One of my first real programs in Qbasic was a text adventure. And since at that time all I knew about programming I had learn from the help-function, you can imagine I wouldn't like having that code showing up again.
In the end, if the parent is true, morality, law, and order IS POINTLESS and one could do '...whatever they want to whomever they want whenever they want.'
Actually, you can. Except that there will be consequences, you don't need a god for that. Suppose you kill someone, that person might have a relative willing to kill you for that. You don't even need morality or laws for that.
Also, science has yet to prove 'The Big Bang' is the correct explanation for 'all that is that is in existence'.
The big bang theory has more credible proof than theology has. Besides it only explains what happend in the very begining of the universe (the first few nanoseconds), Not what happend at the zero'th nanosecond, or right before it.
And you're always welcome to disprove any part of the theory. Religion on the other hand isn't very keen on people disproving anything it says.
The only other credible explanation according to Occam's Razor is:... "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. "
Weird idea of "credible explanation" you have. The Genesis tale doesn't explain the origine of the universe. It just replaces the question. It's the same as answering the question of where life came from by saying that Earths life was created by Aliens.
If God created the heavens and the Earth, where did God come from?
And is God alive? If she is, she didn't invented life, just made more of it, (Like a genetic engineer creating a new species), and if she isn't, than what is she?
Occam's Razor isn't a fundamental law, just a guide line. But this is a bad one to apply to quantum mechanics and astrophysics. Especially on the subject of the beginning of the universe.
I can't say anything about the US (or the rest of the world) but in Belgium you can bring a damaged bank note to the bank and have it replaced at no charge as long as the serial number is still readable. Can't say the same thing about CDs.
How about the right to make a backup of a CD you bought? Oops, you can't. They are protected and circumventing that is illegal under the DMCA. So if you want to use your right, you have to break the law. That's the same as losing that right.
I predict that we, those who are capable of reading the f*cking manual, will be spending even more time explaining them, the manual-illiterate mass, how to use their new shiny gizmos.
Unless, ofcourse, these gizmos are made out of indestructible unobtainum, contain a selfcleaning cold fusion reactor and have only an on-off button.
But I might be a little too optimistic about the latter.
It is considered highly dubious that all aspects of consciousness are implied or explainable within current physics.
Only by religious fanatics. Science will eventualy provide a full explaination of consciousness, one without the need of fairytails about gods and mystical foobar. But our religious friends will probably not like it. Takes them of the I-am-Gods-best-friend-and-therefor-better-than-the -rest-of-the-animal-kingdom - pedestal down to the more humble I-am-just-a-thinking-animal - soapbox. No heaven or hell to go to after you die. So you'll be behaving yourself because you're civilized and not just to get the price at the end of the ride.
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Funny, you mention Lego. Lego Mindstorm can be programmed with a sort of building block style programming system.
Also three or four years ago I got the chance to try out a PLC system that was programmed with building blocks (AND, OR, NOT, timer, trigger,...). It had a LCD and a few buttons on it and it could be programmed without a computer. Fun thing to play with, but I prefered the classic text programming.
This style of programming is quite neat to learn Boolean logic and PLC programming, but IMO it isn't very practical for larger programs.
Outrageous? No, I think it's funny. I already can see this happening: MPAA/RIAA henchman spends 2 houres trying to brainwash the kids. "Any questions?" he asks. One of the students raises his hand and asks: "What was the URL of that Kazaa-program again?"
When NaCl is dissolved in water it splits up in Na+ and Cl-. So the difference between a lethal toxin and food is a mere electron.
All bow down for the allmighty electron.
Exposing a metal structure (Let say, a tank) to a large dose of neutron radiation, makes it radioactive. FAFAIK A neutron bomb is a standard nuke without the depleted uranium shield to keep the neutrons inside the bomb until the bomb blasts apart.
It was designed as a countermeasure against the vast numbers of Soviet tanks. There were some places in Europe where those tanks would need to drive close together to pass and if a neutron bomb would be detonated above those tanks, it would turn the invading armor devisions into radioactive metal and death bodies.
For a real long-term solution, I propose an energy model built on porn, spam, political promises, and Slashdot karma!
Porn power might work for a short time. It's a well known fact that any system running on porn power requires more and more porn over time.
Spam energy would be hard to control. As soon as you get a little of it, it keeps increasing until the system vaporizes in flash of penis enlargement pills and cheap medication.
Political promises contain zero energy. This easely to prove. The day after the election they disappear without a trace. So if they would have contained any energy, this would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
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The first time I heared of this technic was with Duke3D, so it's not very new. I wonder if this requires much CPU cycles. Perhaps future sound cards will get a high speed DSP and do this in hardware. (Pretty much the same route graphics cards went, so expect another fan inside the computer)
Even without tons of samples there are ways to make sound FX less monotone. A little change in frequency, speed and volume can make one sample sound slightly differend each time it's used.
Nah! Ebay! That nigerian guy, the son of some general, sells those very cheaply. All he asks you is to pay upfront for shipping.
How do you mean scre
Scary isn't it. What will be next? French influences? Who knows what they would call pork or a chair then.
Reboot them. Solves quite a lot of the problems. Male relatives can be rebooted with a well aimed kick in the nuts. (source: BOFH)
I'm not sure if there is a way to reboot female relatives. Except perhaps pulling the plug and doing a cold reboot, but I'm not sure if that's legal.
Easy to get not chosen to be eaten, just follow these guidelines:
* Don't wash yourself. Ever.
* Start each day with showing everyone your most unshowable parts.
* Mention how much bad cholesterol you have.
* Use publicly medication for any veneral decease you can think of.
Although they would all vote to kick you out the nearest airlock in a swimsuit, none of them would consider eating you.
Down modding? I say publish the trolls name and address here.
High salary?! I thought Al Qaida was a non-profit organisation and its terrorist were unpaid volunteers.
Sorry to destroy your dream, but Basic is very alive and isn't going to die very soon. Check out Bascom for example.
And as computers keep getting faster, soon Qbasic will run just as fast on a P8 2THz as assembly on a 486DX 66MHz.
One of my first real programs in Qbasic was a text adventure. And since at that time all I knew about programming I had learn from the help-function, you can imagine I wouldn't like having that code showing up again.
<In a typical self help group> Hello, my name is Patrik and I was a Basic user. But I haven't touched a Basic interpreter for over 6 years.
The big bang theory has more credible proof than theology has. Besides it only explains what happend in the very begining of the universe (the first few nanoseconds), Not what happend at the zero'th nanosecond, or right before it.
And you're always welcome to disprove any part of the theory. Religion on the other hand isn't very keen on people disproving anything it says. Weird idea of "credible explanation" you have.
The Genesis tale doesn't explain the origine of the universe. It just replaces the question. It's the same as answering the question of where life came from by saying that Earths life was created by Aliens.
If God created the heavens and the Earth, where did God come from? And is God alive? If she is, she didn't invented life, just made more of it, (Like a genetic engineer creating a new species), and if she isn't, than what is she?
Occam's Razor isn't a fundamental law, just a guide line. But this is a bad one to apply to quantum mechanics and astrophysics. Especially on the subject of the beginning of the universe.
I can't say anything about the US (or the rest of the world) but in Belgium you can bring a damaged bank note to the bank and have it replaced at no charge as long as the serial number is still readable. Can't say the same thing about CDs.
How about the right to make a backup of a CD you bought? Oops, you can't. They are protected and circumventing that is illegal under the DMCA. So if you want to use your right, you have to break the law. That's the same as losing that right.
I predict that we, those who are capable of reading the f*cking manual, will be spending even more time explaining them, the manual-illiterate mass, how to use their new shiny gizmos.
Unless, ofcourse, these gizmos are made out of indestructible unobtainum, contain a selfcleaning cold fusion reactor and have only an on-off button.
But I might be a little too optimistic about the latter.
Funny, you mention Lego. Lego Mindstorm can be programmed with a sort of building block style programming system.
Also three or four years ago I got the chance to try out a PLC system that was programmed with building blocks (AND, OR, NOT, timer, trigger,...). It had a LCD and a few buttons on it and it could be programmed without a computer. Fun thing to play with, but I prefered the classic text programming.
This style of programming is quite neat to learn Boolean logic and PLC programming, but IMO it isn't very practical for larger programs.
She might not make much mistakes, but when she does, well, those little mishaps are remembered for a very long time.
Outrageous? No, I think it's funny. I already can see this happening: MPAA/RIAA henchman spends 2 houres trying to brainwash the kids. "Any questions?" he asks. One of the students raises his hand and asks: "What was the URL of that Kazaa-program again?"
When NaCl is dissolved in water it splits up in Na+ and Cl-. So the difference between a lethal toxin and food is a mere electron.
All bow down for the allmighty electron.
Exposing a metal structure (Let say, a tank) to a large dose of neutron radiation, makes it radioactive. FAFAIK A neutron bomb is a standard nuke without the depleted uranium shield to keep the neutrons inside the bomb until the bomb blasts apart.
It was designed as a countermeasure against the vast numbers of Soviet tanks. There were some places in Europe where those tanks would need to drive close together to pass and if a neutron bomb would be detonated above those tanks, it would turn the invading armor devisions into radioactive metal and death bodies.
Spam energy would be hard to control. As soon as you get a little of it, it keeps increasing until the system vaporizes in flash of penis enlargement pills and cheap medication.
Political promises contain zero energy. This easely to prove. The day after the election they disappear without a trace. So if they would have contained any energy, this would violate the laws of thermodynamics.