How soon till I can hop into my 75 ton Mad Cat 'Mech and commute to work - while unleashing 40 LRM 20s to clear traffic? 1000+ years isn't soon enough.
This sound is used in Command & Conquer (PS-1) for when you lead your infantry into a Nod artillery nest. Or, more accurately, they wander into one while you're building a new power plant onto the base camp.
They also used the "guy burning to death" scream. (HHHRRRAAAAGH!)
This system is line of sight, so the aircraft would either have to circle the laser station or get handed off to another one. Better hope there aren't any mountains or buildings nearby.
How powerful does this beam have to be to get a significant range? What happens to passing birds or say, aircraft, if they happen to be in its path?
I could see it possibly being used as a cheap communications platform, circling a service area. There are much more effective platforms that can handle bad weather that can serve the same purpose ( radio tower ).
Luckily, this is just a research project at this point, so either it dies off or inspires a more useful innovation later.
I don't own all that crap. The point is that there are too many single-purpose consumer electronics out there. Each has its own form factor that doesn't fit the others. It would be better if they had a standard, like PC hardware tends to have.
Besides, who'd brag about buying all that junk on Slashdot? "Look at me! I'm rich enough to buy every consumer grade ephemera on the market" (maybe I'll get that homophobe anonymous coward to come out of the closet)
Lowering the barriers to entry for the most part means a lot more mediocre material will get into ciruclation.
The way to manage the mediocrity is to publish to a forum, where the readers (listeners) are also the editors or judges. The crap settles to the bottom and the good stuff is listed on the front page.
This would work for writing or music. Or any other kind of art.
I went to school at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee to get a graphic design degree. As I worked my way through all the required classes, there are these major groups of creative types:
There are the traditionalists - those who stick to painting, drawing and sculpture
The pragmatists - best tool for the job.
Technophiles - use a computer unless forced to do otherwise.
Of course, everyone is somewhere between the three, but those are the major groups.
I try to be pragmatic, though I used to be a hardcore technophile. Sketching general ideas with a pencil on paper is faster than sitting down in front of Adobe Illustrator.
It's much easier and less time consuming to get a clean final piece using digital media.
My older coworkers used to paint layouts with airbrushes and frisket (mask). They'll never go back because of "Undo".
Plus, the scouring job that's required by NYT's IT department to ensure there aren't any new "easter eggs" in their system will go into significant coin too.
Or make sure that there aren't any old "easter eggs". Adrian Lamo allegedly only used a "properly configured" web browser to exploit holes in NYT's system. How do they know what damage he caused, vs. damage caused by a less vocal individual?
This work should be done whether a homeless kid with a laptop adds his name to the contributer list or not.
But seriously, I'd be more excited if someone announced that they'd continue the series on their network. Instead, we have "news" that possibly, maybe, the cast will be reunited for a possible big-screen release.
I'm a graphic designer working for a small design firm. We're still mostly working in an OS 9 environment, running QuarkXpress 4.1.
The senior designer/IT geek here had a poll whether we want to upgrade to Quark 6 or go with Adobe InDesign. Most of us are sick of Quark's "idiosyncracies". Quark's noodle code delayed OS X compatibility for 2 years. I like Adobe's standardization between apps, but that's just a way of seeding dependence in customers (a la MS). Will Adobe become the Microsoft of the design field? Probably not, since Adobe's interface actually makes sense and is consistent (with some exceptions). But they've been the plaintiff on the wrong side of court cases a little too often for me to be very enthusiastic.
So it's down to choosing the lesser of two evils.
I guess I'm sort of rare in that I understand something of what printing companies go through - trying to get files supplied by designers clueless to how a layout is put to paper. The thought of trapping some of the pieces I've seen makes me shudder. {smartass}That's why they get the big bucks, right? {/smartass}
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How soon till I can hop into my 75 ton Mad Cat 'Mech and commute to work - while unleashing 40 LRM 20s to clear traffic? 1000+ years isn't soon enough.
It's the journey, not the destination.
This sound is used in Command & Conquer (PS-1) for when you lead your infantry into a Nod artillery nest. Or, more accurately, they wander into one while you're building a new power plant onto the base camp. They also used the "guy burning to death" scream. (HHHRRRAAAAGH!)
How powerful does this beam have to be to get a significant range? What happens to passing birds or say, aircraft, if they happen to be in its path?
I could see it possibly being used as a cheap communications platform, circling a service area. There are much more effective platforms that can handle bad weather that can serve the same purpose ( radio tower ).
Luckily, this is just a research project at this point, so either it dies off or inspires a more useful innovation later.
This seems more promising to me
Besides, who'd brag about buying all that junk on Slashdot? "Look at me! I'm rich enough to buy every consumer grade ephemera on the market" (maybe I'll get that homophobe anonymous coward to come out of the closet)
TV
DVD
VCR (legacy)
Cable decoder
Tivo
Surround sound receiver
Playstations (1 & 2)
Xbox
Game Cube
and now a Disney decoder box you rent PLUS movie rental. Great. Another box to dust.
Not quite, but it usually has some interesting articles that I might want to read more in-depth.
The way to manage the mediocrity is to publish to a forum, where the readers (listeners) are also the editors or judges. The crap settles to the bottom and the good stuff is listed on the front page.
This would work for writing or music. Or any other kind of art.
There are the traditionalists - those who stick to painting, drawing and sculpture The pragmatists - best tool for the job. Technophiles - use a computer unless forced to do otherwise.
Of course, everyone is somewhere between the three, but those are the major groups.
I try to be pragmatic, though I used to be a hardcore technophile. Sketching general ideas with a pencil on paper is faster than sitting down in front of Adobe Illustrator.
It's much easier and less time consuming to get a clean final piece using digital media.
My older coworkers used to paint layouts with airbrushes and frisket (mask). They'll never go back because of "Undo".
So when will this film become public domain?
Or make sure that there aren't any old "easter eggs". Adrian Lamo allegedly only used a "properly configured" web browser to exploit holes in NYT's system. How do they know what damage he caused, vs. damage caused by a less vocal individual?
This work should be done whether a homeless kid with a laptop adds his name to the contributer list or not.
between Sony, Universal, and Time Warner:
Maybe next generation.
It rebooted. China 0wns
me. Blue screen now red.
But seriously, I'd be more excited if someone announced
that they'd continue the series on their network. Instead, we have
"news" that possibly, maybe, the cast will be reunited for
a possible big-screen release.
Maybe.
Today, four years into the five-year
partnership, the protests are over and
Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT.
Aeronautical design classes now use
Microsoft's Flight Simulator computer program.
Whatever happened to X-Plane?
I suppose if you try to use a first generation G3 iMac
with 64MB of RAM to edit video, your Mac experience would suck too.
I'll be generous and chalk it up to comedic license.
I'm a graphic designer working for a small design firm. We're still mostly working
in an OS 9 environment, running QuarkXpress 4.1.
The senior designer/IT geek here had a poll whether we want to upgrade to Quark 6
or go with Adobe InDesign. Most of us are sick of Quark's "idiosyncracies".
Quark's noodle code delayed OS X compatibility for 2 years. I like Adobe's
standardization between apps, but that's just a way of seeding dependence in customers (a la MS).
Will Adobe become the Microsoft of the design field? Probably not,
since Adobe's interface actually makes sense and is consistent (with some exceptions).
But they've been the plaintiff on the wrong side of court cases
a little too often for me to be very enthusiastic.
So it's down to choosing the lesser of two evils.
I guess I'm sort of rare in that I understand something of what printing companies
go through - trying to get files supplied by designers clueless to how a layout is put to paper.
The thought of trapping some of the pieces I've seen makes me shudder.
{smartass}That's why they get the big bucks, right? {/smartass}
Damn it.= 1
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