I doubt that there's any official relation between the two games. In all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me if they were just similar named and themed computer games.
I would, however, be willing to pay lots of monetary units (MUs) for a copy of Starflight 2 that would work on my current computer. I spent years of my childhood playing that game, even though I never quite figured out how to finish it. I just liked trying not to get the stuffing blown out of me by Spemin raiding parties by being obsequious to them.
As for SC2, I remember that being the funniest damn game that I've ever played...more so than Roger Wilco and Leisure Suit Larry. I can't wait till they work the bugs out of the open source version so I can waste my life some more with that game.
Then do the math. At full price, MS has a profit margin of 85%. If they discount to half price, their profit margin drops precipitously to 70%. Other businesses should be so lucky; if my business had a profit margin that high, we could all retire after one contract.
If you're going to get right down to it, any sort of EM radiation down to and including the microwaves currently used for wireless communications could be called "light." They just happen not to be different wavelengths and not visible.
I don't see what's so special about this system, unless you're going to make a comm system so secure that only people that the transmitter (which might be a laser) is pointed at would be able to receive the transmission. Kind of like "laser pulse" communications you sometimes see in sci-fi.
The whole space station was originally intended to keep former Soviet rocket scientists employed so that they wouldn't go build rockets for Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc. Even if this is a waste of money from a scientific/space standpoint, it was way to spend our foreign policy money to keep us from having nuclear tipped missiles built and pointed towards us and our allies.
In Richard Feynman's book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" he mentioned something about the space program's scientific value. Specifically, he said that he kept hearing about various experiments being performed in space, and people learning things and making scientific advances, but he never saw any studies or results published in any scientific journals. To him, this meant that whatever they were doing didn't have enough scientific value to be subjected to peer review, and the only reason that they were going on about "experiments" was to make people think that the space program wasn't a giant waste of money.
The experiments I've heard about sounded like nothing more than glorified science fair projects: "How Do Plants Grow in Zero Gravity?" "How Do Animals Behave in Zero Gravity?" etc.
...I think there needs to be someone watching out for internet-related matters. There are more computer nerds who have more untapped money and power out there than anyone can imagine. What if we all combined our voices and demanded attention to these matters? The "Hacker Community" seems to be gradually moving in that direction already.
If it weren't so far-fetched, I'd suggest a political party. But the last time it was suggested on/., it was moderated +5 Funny. Perhaps we don't need a political party so much as a lobbying group. Someone to seize the reins of government back from the hands of business and put them in the hands of computer nerds. Someone who actually knows what they're talking about when they talk about the internet. The country might not get any better, but it would certainly get better for nerds.
And maybe we can elect CowboyNeal as our chairman.
You could make a fortune on writing extensions and ironing out bugs that existed in the original project.
Your're advocating distributing software with bugs in it and charging people to fix those bugs?
Sounds like the Despair, Inc. definition of consulting: "If you can't be part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem." No wonder people don't like consultants.
Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.
It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.
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I doubt that there's any official relation between the two games. In all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me if they were just similar named and themed computer games.
I would, however, be willing to pay lots of monetary units (MUs) for a copy of Starflight 2 that would work on my current computer. I spent years of my childhood playing that game, even though I never quite figured out how to finish it. I just liked trying not to get the stuffing blown out of me by Spemin raiding parties by being obsequious to them.
As for SC2, I remember that being the funniest damn game that I've ever played...more so than Roger Wilco and Leisure Suit Larry. I can't wait till they work the bugs out of the open source version so I can waste my life some more with that game.
DiDio said that in some cases, the discounts could be as high as 50 percent.
Go read this.
Then do the math. At full price, MS has a profit margin of 85%. If they discount to half price, their profit margin drops precipitously to 70%. Other businesses should be so lucky; if my business had a profit margin that high, we could all retire after one contract.
If you're going to get right down to it, any sort of EM radiation down to and including the microwaves currently used for wireless communications could be called "light." They just happen not to be different wavelengths and not visible.
I don't see what's so special about this system, unless you're going to make a comm system so secure that only people that the transmitter (which might be a laser) is pointed at would be able to receive the transmission. Kind of like "laser pulse" communications you sometimes see in sci-fi.
I suppose that'd be a nice product. I dunno if I'd spend $299 for it, though...
The whole space station was originally intended to keep former Soviet rocket scientists employed so that they wouldn't go build rockets for Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc. Even if this is a waste of money from a scientific/space standpoint, it was way to spend our foreign policy money to keep us from having nuclear tipped missiles built and pointed towards us and our allies.
In Richard Feynman's book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" he mentioned something about the space program's scientific value. Specifically, he said that he kept hearing about various experiments being performed in space, and people learning things and making scientific advances, but he never saw any studies or results published in any scientific journals. To him, this meant that whatever they were doing didn't have enough scientific value to be subjected to peer review, and the only reason that they were going on about "experiments" was to make people think that the space program wasn't a giant waste of money.
The experiments I've heard about sounded like nothing more than glorified science fair projects: "How Do Plants Grow in Zero Gravity?" "How Do Animals Behave in Zero Gravity?" etc.
...I think there needs to be someone watching out for internet-related matters. There are more computer nerds who have more untapped money and power out there than anyone can imagine. What if we all combined our voices and demanded attention to these matters? The "Hacker Community" seems to be gradually moving in that direction already.
/., it was moderated +5 Funny. Perhaps we don't need a political party so much as a lobbying group. Someone to seize the reins of government back from the hands of business and put them in the hands of computer nerds. Someone who actually knows what they're talking about when they talk about the internet. The country might not get any better, but it would certainly get better for nerds.
If it weren't so far-fetched, I'd suggest a political party. But the last time it was suggested on
And maybe we can elect CowboyNeal as our chairman.
You could make a fortune on writing extensions and ironing out bugs that existed in the original project.
Your're advocating distributing software with bugs in it and charging people to fix those bugs?
Sounds like the Despair, Inc. definition of consulting: "If you can't be part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem." No wonder people don't like consultants.
...and said, "You're definitely a nerd. And you're reading too much slashdot."
I'm already shaving my head to get ready for the neural plug. I wonder how much electricity a 180 lb person like me can generate.
Just a little glowing...still good! Still good!
Complete Pentium 4 2.53 GHz system: $476
512 MB PC3500 DDR RAM upgrade: $173
GeForce4 TI4600 video card: $210
17 inch LCD monitor: $416
Realizing Medal of Honor looks great on a computer that costs 1/3 of what you spent on yours: priceless
Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.
It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.
"Isn't technology great?"
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...I'd rather see a "Switch" commercial featuring Morgan Webb. In fact, I'd rather see anything featuring Morgan Webb.