Writing a game in my spare time, which I intend to (one day) release open source. I keep notes in my journal. My business model is that I have almost no life.
Probably it will take me several more years to finish.
You know, my strategy is to put my mouse on that other side of my keyboard.
If righty-designed equipment is harder to use sometimes, its more than compensated for by the fact that the Vast Left Handed Conspiracy, of which I am a card carrying member, has convinced the righties of the world that we're more highly developed life forms than they.
You, for one, should welcome your new left handed overlords, and design more left handed video game paraphernalia.
. . . to call something that kind of hangs in the sky and circles round and round a "spacecraft?" "Satellite" or "wussy thing that kind of hangs in the sky" might be more accurate terms.
Sort of like how a little buoy with a light on it doesn't qualify as a Coast Guard cutter. Yes, it guards the coast, and yes it's on the sea, but it ain't it.
I'm one of these people. Starcraft is a great example of what you just described. It's a fun game, but I played through it largely for story value. It subtly but entirely imagined a cataclysmic, strategic war. I grilled my roommate on the platpoints for broodwar until they finally bought me my own copy.
The writers weren't brilliant, but they were extremely competant. I don't think the story would have the same value if you didn't have to experiance the gameplay.
Three years after my roommate introduced me I still play like a newb. Oh well.
And yes, the cinematic sequences were great.
And no, I havn't read the starcraft novels. Then I would really feel like a loser.
The vast majority of the DNA in the embryos is human, with a small percentage of genetic material -- called mitochondrial DNA -- contributed by the rabbit egg.
Ok guys. I'm all in favor of stem cell research, but . . . we need to just stop and figure out a way to do it without generating shocking headlines. This kind of headline is just going to piss everyone off and hinder the progress of the research.
It would be wrong to keep it quiet - and people would find out anyway. Just keep it below a certain shock level. I.e. no furry humans with long ears and twitchy noses showing up in the tabloids. Please?
This is not a joke, but it is at least +4 (Funny).
"If I don't catch you cheating on this spelling test, that camera will! Don't even think about it."
I had a high school science teacher at one point who believed that someone had hidden a camera inside the wall clock. (You know, the one no one even bothers to put batteries in?)
I had forgotten about it until I read this posting because 1) it was so long ago and 2) all the other crap she pulled.
At one point, she evacuated the classroom because she believed demons had inhabited the TV set. Demons. A science teacher. Some clever student had snuck in with a remote control. She unplugged tho TV after it mysteriously started turning on. The students, naturally more interested in freaking the teacher than learning dimensional analysis, plugged it back in.
Being a scientist, she knew that demons were a more plausible theory to explain the behavior of her television than bored, meddling students.
Ugg. We've known we were getting screwed since before the "56k" modem. Nothing ever goes that fast. 1ghz processors are actually 998.5 mhz. Foot long hot dogs are actually nine inches.
Linux was born out of a warm and fuzzy let's-work-together idealism that is typical of all open-source projects.
What about the hot and bothered let's-rip-his-spine-out-of-his-back and beat-him-with-it rage that is typical of all open-source developers when some -1 troll makes a kind comment about [insert closed-source platform here]?
Apple's model of mixing open source and proprietary software is an effective idea.
After all, no hacker wants to idle away his time polishing the mundane details of a user interface. I sure as hell don't want to, but I might if someone paid me. Why not let hackers build the fascinating technologies, open source them, and then let companies pay people (and make money) off of polished user interfaces? We hackers will always have our own (unpolished) interfaces, so we aren't tied down. Granted, the user interfaces are going to have all the problems of close source software - bugs that we can't fix, ect - but it seems like a very reasonable compromise.
Anyway think whatever you want, this model is the one that will carry the most real-world punch in the years to come. The 2.0 is just symbolic of Apple's intention to play the game.
If I wanted to contaminate the food supply, all I would have to do is put an RFID tag on myself identifying me as ground beef. Then I could sneak into the warehouse and none would be the wiser.
All I have to do then is contaminate all the food. Since, of course, RFID tags in contaminated food would detect the contamination and send a warning signal to the Dept. of Homeland Security, I would need to carefully replace all the RFID tags as I distributed the biological agent. I would just zap the food with ionizing radiation, killing the RFID tag, and slip in my own tags. Since RFID tags are so cheap, this would all cost a lot less than, say, a plane ticket.
I can only see one problem: the ionizing radiation would kill all of my bacterial agents . . . Ohthat's how they're preventing terrorism. Brilliant!!!! So sneaky. I would have done all that work for nothing.
The article and, I'm sure, a lot of/.ers are making light of this as though it were a victory for Apple and Linux that they are being used by the Navy. In fact, this is a very important victory for the poor sailors on our nuclear submarines.
In the past year, no less than twelve nuclear submarines were destroyed and sunk by giant octopi. Giant octopi are deadly. Their tentacles rip poor submariners to shreds. Since they are soft and filled with water, they don't show up on sonar. Powerful image processing software is the only way to detect these destructive creatures through the murky waters. Most of the submarines lost last year were lost when their image processing software failed. This has been a problem since the days of Captain Nemo, whose submarine might been able to avoid the giant octopus encounter had it been equipped with better image processing software.
Eventually, our war against giant octopi will be complete. In the meantime, I encourage everyone to spend some time contributing to the anti-octopi image processing software for Linux on X-Serve (AOIPSfLoX-S) project. You could save a life!
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Writing a game in my spare time, which I intend to (one day) release open source. I keep notes in my journal. My business model is that I have almost no life.
Probably it will take me several more years to finish.
Excellent point!
But the SAT isn't an IQ test.
Sun needs to hold of for a while.
These "opteron" servers are too powerful. We just don't have the bandwidth to process the amount of energy the sun is throwing at us right now.
Oh.
Never mind.
I suggested this in my journal back in june. I guess I shoulda written a review.
Repent, air breather, and you shall be saved!
You know, my strategy is to put my mouse on that other side of my keyboard.
If righty-designed equipment is harder to use sometimes, its more than compensated for by the fact that the Vast Left Handed Conspiracy, of which I am a card carrying member, has convinced the righties of the world that we're more highly developed life forms than they.
You, for one, should welcome your new left handed overlords, and design more left handed video game paraphernalia.
. . . to call something that kind of hangs in the sky and circles round and round a "spacecraft?" "Satellite" or "wussy thing that kind of hangs in the sky" might be more accurate terms.
Sort of like how a little buoy with a light on it doesn't qualify as a Coast Guard cutter. Yes, it guards the coast, and yes it's on the sea, but it ain't it.
I'm one of these people. Starcraft is a great example of what you just described. It's a fun game, but I played through it largely for story value. It subtly but entirely imagined a cataclysmic, strategic war. I grilled my roommate on the platpoints for broodwar until they finally bought me my own copy.
The writers weren't brilliant, but they were extremely competant. I don't think the story would have the same value if you didn't have to experiance the gameplay.
Three years after my roommate introduced me I still play like a newb. Oh well.
And yes, the cinematic sequences were great.
And no, I havn't read the starcraft novels. Then I would really feel like a loser.
Ok guys. I'm all in favor of stem cell research, but . . . we need to just stop and figure out a way to do it without generating shocking headlines. This kind of headline is just going to piss everyone off and hinder the progress of the research.
It would be wrong to keep it quiet - and people would find out anyway. Just keep it below a certain shock level. I.e. no furry humans with long ears and twitchy noses showing up in the tabloids. Please?
"If I don't catch you cheating on this spelling test, that camera will! Don't even think about it."
I had a high school science teacher at one point who believed that someone had hidden a camera inside the wall clock. (You know, the one no one even bothers to put batteries in?)
I had forgotten about it until I read this posting because 1) it was so long ago and 2) all the other crap she pulled.
At one point, she evacuated the classroom because she believed demons had inhabited the TV set. Demons. A science teacher. Some clever student had snuck in with a remote control. She unplugged tho TV after it mysteriously started turning on. The students, naturally more interested in freaking the teacher than learning dimensional analysis, plugged it back in.
Being a scientist, she knew that demons were a more plausible theory to explain the behavior of her television than bored, meddling students.
. . . thousands of playa's were somehow surprised to discover that they had been infected with a virus after cheating on their wives.
Guys, when you do something you're not supposed to do, you get in trouble.
This is not a new concept.
This is not a surprise.
This is a natural consequence of getting involved with low-lifes and morons.
Don't do it.
You can't make such a generalization on processor speed because there is always a margin of error. Nothing is perfect.
Actually, I can't make such a generalization about hot dogs lengths either.
That wasn't the point.
But thanks for the info.
And my iBook isn't even a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ugg. We've known we were getting screwed since before the "56k" modem. Nothing ever goes that fast. 1ghz processors are actually 998.5 mhz. Foot long hot dogs are actually nine inches.
Linux was born out of a warm and fuzzy let's-work-together idealism that is typical of all open-source projects.
What about the hot and bothered let's-rip-his-spine-out-of-his-back and beat-him-with-it rage that is typical of all open-source developers when some -1 troll makes a kind comment about [insert closed-source platform here]?
Speaking as an open source developer, of course.
Apple's model of mixing open source and proprietary software is an effective idea.
After all, no hacker wants to idle away his time polishing the mundane details of a user interface. I sure as hell don't want to, but I might if someone paid me. Why not let hackers build the fascinating technologies, open source them, and then let companies pay people (and make money) off of polished user interfaces? We hackers will always have our own (unpolished) interfaces, so we aren't tied down. Granted, the user interfaces are going to have all the problems of close source software - bugs that we can't fix, ect - but it seems like a very reasonable compromise.
Anyway think whatever you want, this model is the one that will carry the most real-world punch in the years to come. The 2.0 is just symbolic of Apple's intention to play the game.
All I have to do then is contaminate all the food. Since, of course, RFID tags in contaminated food would detect the contamination and send a warning signal to the Dept. of Homeland Security, I would need to carefully replace all the RFID tags as I distributed the biological agent. I would just zap the food with ionizing radiation, killing the RFID tag, and slip in my own tags. Since RFID tags are so cheap, this would all cost a lot less than, say, a plane ticket.
I can only see one problem: the ionizing radiation would kill all of my bacterial agents . . . Oh that's how they're preventing terrorism. Brilliant!!!! So sneaky. I would have done all that work for nothing.
The article and, I'm sure, a lot of /.ers are making light of this as though it were a victory for Apple and Linux that they are being used by the Navy. In fact, this is a very important victory for the poor sailors on our nuclear submarines.
In the past year, no less than twelve nuclear submarines were destroyed and sunk by giant octopi. Giant octopi are deadly. Their tentacles rip poor submariners to shreds. Since they are soft and filled with water, they don't show up on sonar. Powerful image processing software is the only way to detect these destructive creatures through the murky waters. Most of the submarines lost last year were lost when their image processing software failed. This has been a problem since the days of Captain Nemo, whose submarine might been able to avoid the giant octopus encounter had it been equipped with better image processing software.
Eventually, our war against giant octopi will be complete. In the meantime, I encourage everyone to spend some time contributing to the anti-octopi image processing software for Linux on X-Serve (AOIPSfLoX-S) project. You could save a life!
Thanks.
Atlantic: You dare challenge me again, little 11-Pound Model Plane? Your whirly propeller is no match for my spinning hurricanes of doom.
11-Pound Model Plane: My light weight allows me to cross great distances! You shall not stop me!
Atlantic: WTF? I'm the freaking Atlantic Ocean. Come here you little punk ass 11-Pound Model - wha?
Gecko: Excuse me. Did you know you can save 15% or more on your car insurance by switching to Geiko?
Atlantic: Impressive, green one!