from the sourceforge project description:
"The OpenGL TA project is aimed at taking the greatest RTS game of all time, Total Annihilation and converting it into true 3D and open source. It uses all of TA's media, but is a truely 3D engine, complete with movable cameras!"
Of course, it isn't based off the original TA source code, but I remember seeing some screenshots of it a while back which looked -very- sweet. While the project seems to have been inactive for quite some time, the source code is available for download, and could undoubtedly be improved upon.
"And it's not clear that NASDA's idea conforms to other standards laid out for solar power satellites ? that they should be environmentally benign and unusable as a weapon."
Here's the tidbit of interest: "The admiral also told reporters that the navy was launching the construction of the new Project 20380 corvettes, which will be used for coastal patrol, escort and antisubmarine warfare operations. The first of class is scheduled to be laid down at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St Petersburg later this year. The design of this 1,900t stealthy corvette was developed by the Almaz Central Marine Design bureau."
Note that this article uses the term "stealthy corvette," which I suspect may have a different connotation from the 'stealth' technology we're generally used to.
I currently have an ext2 / partition, with ReiserFS as my/home partition. I'm considering upgrading to the newest -ac kernel, compiling in ext3 support, and converting my ext2 partition to ext3.
Does anybody know of any problems with running both journaling filesystem types at the same time?
I watched Cowboy Bebop last night (Sunday). It seems that despite Cartoon Network's assurances to the contrary, a number of things were censored. The first one I noticed was the faux-nude magazine photos in Episode 5 (Ballad of Fallen Angels), which had swimsuits painted over the original images. Also, the scene at the opera in which it shows Mao Yenrai's slit throat was noticeably doctored up so as to show no blood around Mao's throat.
While those two censorings were marginally understandable, it also seems that they cut out Episode 6 (Sympathy for the Devil) completely and went straight to Episode 7 (Heavy Metal D). I'm not certain why they decided to cut that episode out, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the episode has (what looks like) a little boy being shot in the forehead.
I can't wait to see what they do with the next episode, Waltz for Venus, with it having a hijacking in the very beginning and all...
Or perhaps an XBill 3D (written using OpenGL, of course) where you're equipped with a sniper rifle and have to pick off all the little Bills from a distance. Now -that- would be fun.
So, I'm a student at CMU and am thinking about buying a cheap laptop (somewhere between a 486 and a Pentium II), slapping a wireless card on it, and exploiting CMU's almost-ubiquitous wireless network to use it as a nice and portable X terminal.
Are there any concerns specific to laptops that would be nice to know? For example, are there any particular types of laptop hardware I should avoid? Also, what mostly determines how smoothly an X terminal runs -- memory, the video card, cpu power, or something else?
Lastly, does anybody happen to know of a good place online (besides, say, E-Bay) to get "outdated" laptops?
Like Greg, I'm also a freshman at CMU. He is in (or was in, just remembered the semester's over) my calculus in 3d, programming, discrete math, and physics II courses. I've hung out with him a bit, and he's quite a cool guy, and smart to boot.
I remember him asking me to keep up on his courses for him whilst he was off at some palm conference to give a speech or some-such on his work. Unfortunately, I overslept through most of the classes, and was only of minimal assistance.:(
I also second that all cute available girls in Pittsburgh call Greg -- he's a good guy, if a little quiet. And once he's no longer available all those girls should call me; I'm so in badly need of a date it's only marginally funny.
Over at Carnegie-Mellon University, every mid-term, we play a little game called Capture the Flag with Stuff (the URL is http://www.cmukgb.org/activities/ctfws/ in case the linking doesn't work). Essentially, it's your plain old capture the flag, except played in two big-ass buildings, and with magical items and such (potions of lubrication, wands of vengeance, anti-magic wands, light grenades and the like).
Anyhoo, a few of these cameras set up in strategically important positions would really kick ass. Of course, for the information to be of much use we would likely require walkie-talkies and such, but such things may be easily procured.
It'd also be great to send one of these things on a remote-controlled car into enemy territory, in an attempt to find their flag and warn of deadly glyphs. As long as it's not captured by the other team, o' course.
Apparently Wes Craven's going to be directing it, which should be quite interesting. There's also rumors that Natalie Portman's going to be in it, which is bound to excite at least portions of the/. audience.
First off, I had woken up rather late (day after having 3 midterms in the same day), so I missed the synthetic interview with Bill Joy. I did, however, get to see the later synthetic interview, "Thoughts from Sri Lanka" with Arthur C. Clarke.
Unfortunately, due to poor health, he wasn't able to go through the hours of interviewing necessary for a "proper" synthetic interview, and was thus only able to answer a few questions. Because of this, they set up a "synthetic" synthetic interview, where the Dean of the School of Computer Science, Jim Morris, "pre-asked" all the questions Arthur C. Clarke was able to answer on videotape.
One of the questions I recall had to do with Napster-like technologies and its effect on copyright. He remarked how this was an important issue because it hit him right in the pocketbook, and how it would be important to find new ways to compensate people for their creative work. Hopefully, he said, such a compensation would not be in dot-com stock.
Another interesting remark was his thought that, if possible, every village in 3rd world countries should have access to at least one public computer terminal of sorts, to allow them to stay connected with the rest of the world.
Besides the "synthetic" synthetic interview with Arthur C. Clarke, there were quite a few other interesting bits of the Symposium. For example, I got to sit about 5 feet away from Alexander Singer, famous for directing a crapload of Star Trek stuff. I also got to listen to Lee Sproull, who was the co-author of a paper I had read earlier in the year in my English course, "Atheism, Sex, and Databases: The Internet as a Social Technology."
Also of significant interest was a talk by Nobel prize-winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of AI and partial namesake of the Newell-Simon Hall being dedicated in coordination with the Symposium.
The ceremonial opening of Newell-Simon Hall (a great place to eat Chinese food, btw), was also great fun. There were violinists performing, and some very expensive food. There were also various CMU robots wandering around, all of which were quite interesting.
"In turn, the two companies will work together on developing and testing products for Microsoft's.Net effort, which lets customers "rent" software over the Internet. Microsoft.Net will also encompass cell phones and handhelds computers."
Rather unsettling, eh?
"The two companies have also agreed to settle unspecified legal issues between them."
Anybody happen to have an idea on just which legal issues they might be referring to?
""They didn't want Apple to go away as a major competitor and they probably don't want Corel to go away right away, especially when things are on appeal," Enderle said. The deal may also give Microsoft access to in-house technology at Corel, including some Linux technology."
I volunteered as a congressional intern my junior year in high school. If I remember correctly, one of my tasks was to read through e-mails sent in, summarize them in a couple of sentences, and forward that to the congressman's Washington office. I would then file the original in a large cabinet, in case it was ever needed in the future.
Essentially, while a congressman/woman won't read each and every individual e-mail sent in, s/he will get the general idea. If a great number of constituents are concerned about an issue, a congressman -will- care.
The previous post seemed to have been describing a bot to play through single-player quake. The bots I'm aware of only play as opponents in multi-player games.
If I understand correctly, the Real3D StarFighter (which I happen to own) does this, making use of the AGP bus to access system memory. According to the FAQ, that's why the PCI StarFighters have so much more memory (32-64 MB) than the AGP StarFighters (4-8 MB).
If anybody's interested, the StarFighter FAQ is at http://support.intel.co m/support/graphics/starfighter/faq.htm
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It'd be nice to stop with the barricade nonsense, and actually address what he says.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openglta/
from the sourceforge project description:
"The OpenGL TA project is aimed at taking the greatest RTS game of all time, Total Annihilation and converting it into true 3D and open source. It uses all of TA's media, but is a truely 3D engine, complete with movable cameras!"
Of course, it isn't based off the original TA source code, but I remember seeing some screenshots of it a while back which looked -very- sweet. While the project seems to have been inactive for quite some time, the source code is available for download, and could undoubtedly be improved upon.
From a space.com article:
"And it's not clear that NASDA's idea conforms to other standards laid out for solar power satellites ? that they should be environmentally benign and unusable as a weapon."
I don't know of any Pizza places taking orders by email...but that would be cool, and also doable from an IDE
;)
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This is getting off-topic, but you can actually order pizzas online through Papa John's.
http://www.papajohnsonline.com/html/pj/pj_index.j
JonKatz is all alone in the world.
http://slashdot.org/~JonKatz/friends
http://www.janes.com/defence/naval_forces/news/jdw /jdw010417_3_n.shtml
Here's the tidbit of interest: "The admiral also told reporters that the navy was launching the construction of the new Project 20380 corvettes, which will be used for coastal patrol, escort and antisubmarine warfare operations. The first of class is scheduled to be laid down at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St Petersburg later this year. The design of this 1,900t stealthy corvette was developed by the Almaz Central Marine Design bureau."
Note that this article uses the term "stealthy corvette," which I suspect may have a different connotation from the 'stealth' technology we're generally used to.
Just play Dance Dance Revolution. After a few hours in non-stop mode, I'm sure you'll have had enough of a workout.
I currently have an ext2 / partition, with ReiserFS as my /home partition. I'm considering upgrading to the newest -ac kernel, compiling in ext3 support, and converting my ext2 partition to ext3.
Does anybody know of any problems with running both journaling filesystem types at the same time?
I watched Cowboy Bebop last night (Sunday). It seems that despite Cartoon Network's assurances to the contrary, a number of things were censored. The first one I noticed was the faux-nude magazine photos in Episode 5 (Ballad of Fallen Angels), which had swimsuits painted over the original images. Also, the scene at the opera in which it shows Mao Yenrai's slit throat was noticeably doctored up so as to show no blood around Mao's throat.
While those two censorings were marginally understandable, it also seems that they cut out Episode 6 (Sympathy for the Devil) completely and went straight to Episode 7 (Heavy Metal D). I'm not certain why they decided to cut that episode out, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the episode has (what looks like) a little boy being shot in the forehead.
I can't wait to see what they do with the next episode, Waltz for Venus, with it having a hijacking in the very beginning and all...
Remember, if you're have auto-rip enabled in Grip, then all you have to do is pop in the CD. ;)
In that case, looks like I'm going to have to learn how to program with OpenGL.
(^o^)
Or perhaps an XBill 3D (written using OpenGL, of course) where you're equipped with a sniper rifle and have to pick off all the little Bills from a distance. Now -that- would be fun.
So, I'm a student at CMU and am thinking about buying a cheap laptop (somewhere between a 486 and a Pentium II), slapping a wireless card on it, and exploiting CMU's almost-ubiquitous wireless network to use it as a nice and portable X terminal.
Are there any concerns specific to laptops that would be nice to know? For example, are there any particular types of laptop hardware I should avoid? Also, what mostly determines how smoothly an X terminal runs -- memory, the video card, cpu power, or something else?
Lastly, does anybody happen to know of a good place online (besides, say, E-Bay) to get "outdated" laptops?
http://www.genkiland.net/CowboyBebop/Sessions/sess ion14.txt
Besides that, I really can't think of a practical use for this, besides reworking FreeNet's topology and such. In any case, it's interesting.
They seem alright to me.
(^o^)
nsh2@andrew
Greg deserves all the credit he can get.
:(
Like Greg, I'm also a freshman at CMU. He is in (or was in, just remembered the semester's over) my calculus in 3d, programming, discrete math, and physics II courses. I've hung out with him a bit, and he's quite a cool guy, and smart to boot.
I remember him asking me to keep up on his courses for him whilst he was off at some palm conference to give a speech or some-such on his work. Unfortunately, I overslept through most of the classes, and was only of minimal assistance.
I also second that all cute available girls in Pittsburgh call Greg -- he's a good guy, if a little quiet. And once he's no longer available all those girls should call me; I'm so in badly need of a date it's only marginally funny.
(^o^)
Over at Carnegie-Mellon University, every mid-term, we play a little game called Capture the Flag with Stuff (the URL is http://www.cmukgb.org/activities/ctfws/ in case the linking doesn't work). Essentially, it's your plain old capture the flag, except played in two big-ass buildings, and with magical items and such (potions of lubrication, wands of vengeance, anti-magic wands, light grenades and the like).
Anyhoo, a few of these cameras set up in strategically important positions would really kick ass. Of course, for the information to be of much use we would likely require walkie-talkies and such, but such things may be easily procured.
It'd also be great to send one of these things on a remote-controlled car into enemy territory, in an attempt to find their flag and warn of deadly glyphs. As long as it's not captured by the other team, o' course.
(^o^)
If done right, it could actually be a decent movie.
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http://firingsquad.gamers.com/news/newsarticle.
Apparently Wes Craven's going to be directing it, which should be quite interesting. There's also rumors that Natalie Portman's going to be in it, which is bound to excite at least portions of the
Sounds cool. What time will you all be doing this?
;)
Also, happen to have instructions for getting there by bus from Carnegie Mellon?
First off, I had woken up rather late (day after having 3 midterms in the same day), so I missed the synthetic interview with Bill Joy. I did, however, get to see the later synthetic interview, "Thoughts from Sri Lanka" with Arthur C. Clarke.
Unfortunately, due to poor health, he wasn't able to go through the hours of interviewing necessary for a "proper" synthetic interview, and was thus only able to answer a few questions. Because of this, they set up a "synthetic" synthetic interview, where the Dean of the School of Computer Science, Jim Morris, "pre-asked" all the questions Arthur C. Clarke was able to answer on videotape.
One of the questions I recall had to do with Napster-like technologies and its effect on copyright. He remarked how this was an important issue because it hit him right in the pocketbook, and how it would be important to find new ways to compensate people for their creative work. Hopefully, he said, such a compensation would not be in dot-com stock.
Another interesting remark was his thought that, if possible, every village in 3rd world countries should have access to at least one public computer terminal of sorts, to allow them to stay connected with the rest of the world.
Besides the "synthetic" synthetic interview with Arthur C. Clarke, there were quite a few other interesting bits of the Symposium. For example, I got to sit about 5 feet away from Alexander Singer, famous for directing a crapload of Star Trek stuff. I also got to listen to Lee Sproull, who was the co-author of a paper I had read earlier in the year in my English course, "Atheism, Sex, and Databases: The Internet as a Social Technology."
Also of significant interest was a talk by Nobel prize-winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of AI and partial namesake of the Newell-Simon Hall being dedicated in coordination with the Symposium.
The ceremonial opening of Newell-Simon Hall (a great place to eat Chinese food, btw), was also great fun. There were violinists performing, and some very expensive food. There were also various CMU robots wandering around, all of which were quite interesting.
All in all, an enlightening experience.
http://yahoo. cne t.com/news/0-1003-200-2917375.html?pt.yfin.cat_fin .txt.ne
Some choice snippets from the article:
"In turn, the two companies will work together on developing and testing products for Microsoft's .Net effort, which lets customers "rent" software over the Internet. Microsoft.Net will also encompass cell phones and handhelds computers."
Rather unsettling, eh?
"The two companies have also agreed to settle unspecified legal issues between them."
Anybody happen to have an idea on just which legal issues they might be referring to?
""They didn't want Apple to go away as a major competitor and they probably don't want Corel to go away right away, especially when things are on appeal," Enderle said. The deal may also give Microsoft access to in-house technology at Corel, including some Linux technology."
MS Linux? ::shivers::
Hey all.
I volunteered as a congressional intern my junior year in high school. If I remember correctly, one of my tasks was to read through e-mails sent in, summarize them in a couple of sentences, and forward that to the congressman's Washington office. I would then file the original in a large cabinet, in case it was ever needed in the future.
Essentially, while a congressman/woman won't read each and every individual e-mail sent in, s/he will get the general idea. If a great number of constituents are concerned about an issue, a congressman -will- care.
The previous post seemed to have been describing a bot to play through single-player quake. The bots I'm aware of only play as opponents in multi-player games.
If I understand correctly, the Real3D StarFighter (which I happen to own) does this, making use of the AGP bus to access system memory. According to the FAQ, that's why the PCI StarFighters have so much more memory (32-64 MB) than the AGP StarFighters (4-8 MB). If anybody's interested, the StarFighter FAQ is at http://support.intel.co m/support/graphics/starfighter/faq.htm