Nanotech has about two (or more) different meanings.
1) Tiny assemblies of atoms that perform a function
2) Tiny mechanical assemblies with motors, power supplies etc Possibly self replicating.
My guess is that the root of the thread is talking about the second type of Nanotech.
Food will become more expensive as oil and gas become rarer as transpotation of goods and farm machinery and fertilisers will become more expensive. It is possible then that we will be able to feed fewer people than we do now.
Also considering that if global warming does occur we may have a worse climate for growing food.
Actually I have realised we are talking past each other.
You are talking about sparkle and we are talking about WVG and XAML.
Sparkle won't be the only engine to read WVG and XAML (as I think I have shown with my links to the documents such as this one which interestingly references current failings in HTML as a reason for a feature in xaml) and so it is justified for developers of non-windows platforms to be anxious about whether they will be able to create program that can parse future data on the web.
Fixed Format Documents suggest they are thinking about using WVG in a cross platform manner. The different platforms most likely being Win CE etc.
And note the use of the term document, not application.
However the ludologist's list was far better on the old school systems such as Amigas and Spectrums.
What is the purpose of such lists? To give game designers ideas?
The best way would not to divide them into genres but to label them in a way that gives some indication of what should be looked for.
Take starcraft. A fine RTS, but why. I would argue for its game balance, but mainly for the pure personality and individualness of the units. The zerg, protoss and terrans each had different and strong characters, that I haven't seen rivaled in a game yet.
Another example of good game design would be Rainbow Islands and Magic Pockets(Bitmap brothers), that had complex power up schemes. I played through them to try and get the strange and interesting power ups. Something you don't see in modern games so much.
So organisation by distinguishing feature would be far more useful than Genre or platform.
Or maybe compared to rolling demos, those pointless bits of fluff that make you go all "Thats pretty" and then get bored. But interactive would have been a better word by far.
Its not the speed, its the fact that people on dial up generally don't have a dedicated land line for the internet.
Not many people would be happy to tie up the telephone for over a day.
Is this a security feature to confuse crackers when they break into your system?
You should know security by obfuscation never works in the long run. Also it would break other people scripts.
Sorry I should have said I was a bit off topic, I was referring to the macroscale experiments with large sheets of alluminium. I wasn't aware of the methodology used for the nanoscale.
A cool picture of one of the earlier experiments can be found here.
I would still like to know the weight of the substrate and the ball to put my mind at rest. For example if the ball weighed 1*10^-20 kg and the plate 1 g then the force would be in the order of 6.6*10-15 N at the distance of 100nM they measured at which is detectable with the AFM referenced in the article. So either the ball is a lot lighter than my uniformed guess or the gravity between a ball and plate is vastly different between two point sources. OR I have mucked up my calculations somewhere.
Probably all of the above:)
Do you happen to know whether these people measuring the forces factored gravity into their measurements?
I know it is not normally a problem but the plates were very close together and so the force of gravity might be measurable. This has been niggling at me since I first heard about the casmir affect. Can anyone point me to a paper that explains the set up and the calculations.
"Junk the I part of AI, and just make an annoying paperclip instead of a helpful tool."
I think we should term Clippy, AA, artificial annoyance.
I am working slowly but surely on a system that does this type of thing. However I am going for a different approach altogether, trying an Evolving Operating System. Could be great or it could destroy it usefulness in an burst of parasitism.
It sucked. Well it wasn't too bad for a first attempt at interactive Gaming TV.
The controls weren't fluid enough and the qualification games were dull. Also there was a limited number of moves (punch kick etc).
The main way to customise the warrior was to upgrade the thing to have better power so you could attack more often. Which was yawnsome.
Something with the move depth of a fighting game and the character building of a Final Fantasy. So getting the dragon fist would allow you to do a jumping upper-cut punch and link other combos in to it. Actually a MMORPG based on a sci-fi gladiatorial arena and surrounding world would be ideal.
I mean it all well and good for America to have these, but if places like the Sudan and Afghanistan can't afford fancy digital passports, how will it make getting a fake non-US passport any harder?
So non-US terrorist gets fake passport from home country, is this any different from pre-911. It only seems worthwhile to crack down on illegal immigrants and the like, not terrorists.
Before reading a few comments I thought Machinima was something to do with anime anyway.
How about in true geek fashion, LANPR meaning LANPR are not pre-rendered. Pronounced Lanper. This idea will obviously sink without trace and settle at the bottom of the ideas ocean, and the horrible Machinima will continue to be used, ho-hum.
Slashdot Mirror
Like I did here.
Maybe the slashdot article could be the Top 10 US computers.... or would that be too much to ask.
Maybe they are worried that the Pigs will be able to track them by GPS and forcefully take over their snow plows.
Nanotech has about two (or more) different meanings. 1) Tiny assemblies of atoms that perform a function 2) Tiny mechanical assemblies with motors, power supplies etc Possibly self replicating. My guess is that the root of the thread is talking about the second type of Nanotech.
Food will become more expensive as oil and gas become rarer as transpotation of goods and farm machinery and fertilisers will become more expensive. It is possible then that we will be able to feed fewer people than we do now.
Also considering that if global warming does occur we may have a worse climate for growing food.
GNU's Not Unix.
You could do something relatively easy like adding one to each number of your normal pin(mod 10 obv) to get the duress one.
Actually I have realised we are talking past each other.
You are talking about sparkle and we are talking about WVG and XAML.
Sparkle won't be the only engine to read WVG and XAML (as I think I have shown with my links to the documents such as this one which interestingly references current failings in HTML as a reason for a feature in xaml) and so it is justified for developers of non-windows platforms to be anxious about whether they will be able to create program that can parse future data on the web.
Fixed Format Documents suggest they are thinking about using WVG in a cross platform manner. The different platforms most likely being Win CE etc.
And note the use of the term document, not application.
Since when did you work in london? And in an office.
Last I heard you were a radio presenter in Norwich.
However the ludologist's list was far better on the old school systems such as Amigas and Spectrums. What is the purpose of such lists? To give game designers ideas? The best way would not to divide them into genres but to label them in a way that gives some indication of what should be looked for. Take starcraft. A fine RTS, but why. I would argue for its game balance, but mainly for the pure personality and individualness of the units. The zerg, protoss and terrans each had different and strong characters, that I haven't seen rivaled in a game yet. Another example of good game design would be Rainbow Islands and Magic Pockets(Bitmap brothers), that had complex power up schemes. I played through them to try and get the strange and interesting power ups. Something you don't see in modern games so much. So organisation by distinguishing feature would be far more useful than Genre or platform.
Hava a look here.
I wouldn't say MD was that big in the UK, but then neither is the Ipod. I know of no-one that has either for portable music.
Or maybe compared to rolling demos, those pointless bits of fluff that make you go all "Thats pretty" and then get bored. But interactive would have been a better word by far.
Oh and yeah torrid is used negatively in Britain.
Its not the speed, its the fact that people on dial up generally don't have a dedicated land line for the internet. Not many people would be happy to tie up the telephone for over a day.
About your sig.
"I named my cat Script."
Is this a security feature to confuse crackers when they break into your system?
You should know security by obfuscation never works in the long run. Also it would break other people scripts.
I should go call myself FUD. I could make a fortune.
Ah even better
1) Patent the "1) blah 2) ??? 3) Profit!" business practice
2) Read slashdot
3) Profit!
A cool picture of one of the earlier experiments can be found here.
I would still like to know the weight of the substrate and the ball to put my mind at rest. For example if the ball weighed 1*10^-20 kg and the plate 1 g then the force would be in the order of 6.6*10-15 N at the distance of 100nM they measured at which is detectable with the AFM referenced in the article. So either the ball is a lot lighter than my uniformed guess or the gravity between a ball and plate is vastly different between two point sources. OR I have mucked up my calculations somewhere.Probably all of the above
IANAPhysicist. Got that out of the way.
Do you happen to know whether these people measuring the forces factored gravity into their measurements?
I know it is not normally a problem but the plates were very close together and so the force of gravity might be measurable. This has been niggling at me since I first heard about the casmir affect. Can anyone point me to a paper that explains the set up and the calculations.
Fabulous it has past the Tearing* test!
Now that AA is solved we must stop it from ever being developed again for the safety of our folicles.
* of hair out
"Junk the I part of AI, and just make an annoying paperclip instead of a helpful tool."
I think we should term Clippy, AA, artificial annoyance.
I am working slowly but surely on a system that does this type of thing. However I am going for a different approach altogether, trying an Evolving Operating System. Could be great or it could destroy it usefulness in an burst of parasitism.
It sucked. Well it wasn't too bad for a first attempt at interactive Gaming TV. The controls weren't fluid enough and the qualification games were dull. Also there was a limited number of moves (punch kick etc). The main way to customise the warrior was to upgrade the thing to have better power so you could attack more often. Which was yawnsome. Something with the move depth of a fighting game and the character building of a Final Fantasy. So getting the dragon fist would allow you to do a jumping upper-cut punch and link other combos in to it. Actually a MMORPG based on a sci-fi gladiatorial arena and surrounding world would be ideal.
I mean it all well and good for America to have these, but if places like the Sudan and Afghanistan can't afford fancy digital passports, how will it make getting a fake non-US passport any harder?
So non-US terrorist gets fake passport from home country, is this any different from pre-911. It only seems worthwhile to crack down on illegal immigrants and the like, not terrorists.
Before reading a few comments I thought Machinima was something to do with anime anyway.
How about in true geek fashion, LANPR meaning LANPR are not pre-rendered. Pronounced Lanper. This idea will obviously sink without trace and settle at the bottom of the ideas ocean, and the horrible Machinima will continue to be used, ho-hum.
Look for the kernel HOWTO in your distribution. Or online here