i saw some reports on the super-hyper brick gun about a year ago, also another blurb a couple of months ago on history network (yah i know they have such accurate info) but, yet again, as astounding as these weapons are, any numbers you hear are WAY low. the gun that shoots so fast is a brick of tubes stacked with bullets (caseless). the bullets can be shot one at a time or in a crazy volley, but, in both the earlier article i had read, and on the history channel, both articles said ~180,000 rounds in a fraction of a second!! way way faster than 1 million per miute. both had also mentioned that the bricks could be scaled up, achieving up to and above 1,000,000 per second. this rule of "public lowball" is SOP with the military R&D, but it really is a low, low, ball. the b-2 bomber was being flown in public for over 17 years before any one knew about it! same goes for every skunk works project. the new $2 billion (and up, no no, really, 2 billion $) subs are quieter at top speed than the quietest one we know about at rest. if you think about it, we have been in the dark since the a-bomb, crap why dont we have anything super advanced? when was the TV created - 50 years, 60 years, 70? jeez, it bends light and they still dont have anything fancier?! wheres my teleporter? wheres free power? on the shelf, with the rest of the goodies, until another country or some schmo figures it out. on a side note -my friends brother works for ratheon (sp?) and nobody knows what he does (hed have to kill us) but one night at the bar, we asked - "so exactly how tapped are our phones?" he laughed (this was after a few beers) and then got kinda serious "dont say anything important on the phone - ever", wow.
i say more power to 'em. whenever people get out and have a good time without hurting anyone and without reservations about having fun and expressing passion in their hobbies, it gives me hope. that being said, i highly suggest checking out this documentary, it was great. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120370/
im no treckkie, but i enjoy getting down as much as these people, just not with startrek. better than being a lame naysayer and cynic.
dude... lets put a huge ball of jiffy pop in the deans house, then sneak into the secret military compound and reprogram the targeting system so that it'll fry the deans house and give us a tasty treat!
that'll stop them from using science to effectively kill people from great distances!
thanks, this gives me a few more things to play with. im thinking of moving to the 2.6 kernel too, just getting up the brass to sit down and go throught the whole thing.
if individual votes are counted, but then farted out through the electorial college. the system was good, when it was difficult to tally the vote of all the individuals, but it has no place today.
i switched to linux only, just because i got fed up with M$. i still dont have a fully functional sound card. granted, this card (turtle beach santa cruz) has many known problems with linux, and some people have been able to get it to work fully - but i have not talked or read a response from any of them. sure the card has hardware decoding, 4.1, many effects, and good recording, but does any of it work-- sometimes, and never all at once all things that worked without a hitch in M$. i love the santa cruz, not the best for linux, but a solid card, my favorite of its time, still [would] hold up against new cards (so little overhead)
even the cards that do have good alsa support still have problems. say you get a new audigy 2 or some other widespread commercial card, does the surround work in all applications? does the optical in and out work? does it transition well between applications, and can it do multi channel effects from different sources? can it record? are all of the knobs and jacks even usable? i could go on and on.
i will say that they have made many improvements over the years, but how is linux going to become a viable home multimedia platform (which i would say most of the home pcs sold today are used for) with such a slow curve on sound! crap i like fewer viruses and better stability, but i like my music, games, and instruments more. were not talking enterprise here, just my home pc, web, music, games, papers, schedule, ya know? big win still wins in the "ill play nice with your hardware".
mental note: next box, make sure all hardware works 100% in linux
with Crichton's terminal man (ok book, good idea) and the ratbot (http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-9.html) that we have all read about, and monkeys controling computers with thier minds (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1871803.stm), who will win? good or evil? i can think of great uses for both good and evil, but i think evil is better funded.
things like the power-loaders from aliens sure could help in both the commercial and military sector, but what is the likelyhood of an exosleleton or walkers helping the disabled before the military uses such things for advanced target acquisition (a non direct brain input -ie following eye movements- is already used by the gunners in apache helicopters, you look, it shoots where you look) and super ninja exoskeletons from my favorite animations. hell, anybody remember exosquad? mechwarrior?
i guess it would even out, the technology would be used to create disabled people, and then could be used to help them walk again -albeit with servos and hydraulics.
thats how the current hybrid cars work, they use the combustion engine to generate power to recharge batteries which power the electric motor that drives the car. the problem with the original electric cars was that they worked like a golf cart - had to plug them in. saturn had a car like that -recalled all of them (only 100+), it never worked in real life, because recharge times were too long, and there were not enough public facilities to "re-fuel". hence the combustion generator, which has plentiful fuel stations, to charge the electric motor.
this is why im still confused, why (magnets or no) do we not have diesel hybrids? diesels always had slow accelerationa (save turbo-diesel) but the electric motors would certainly make up for them.
while we are at it, why not have the brakes be generators, with the gear resistance decelerating the car and giving charge to the batteries (or better yet, a capacitor to aid in a quick burst of energy for accelerating from stop, the 0-20 is what requires the most energy and loses the most efficiency)
one of the next "the future is now" signs will be a distributed power grid, where each home or city block supplies its own power, and feeds excess power to a storage battery or back into the grid.(actually i hope it turns into micro generators, like one for each office, or even for each large unit- ie compressor, refridgerator, etc).
would this technology would allow for each house to have its own generator and have a trickle charge from the master grid keep kicking the magnets to turn the gens kinetic energy back to electric, at 1/5 power consumption? granted this would hinge on efficient generators, dynamos etc. but it could cut total home energy consumption by 80% if it isnt some blatent physics blasphemy.
on a diferent note, why not have these magnets help out combustion engines and reduce fuel consumption. the combustion would provide crazy power, to kick the magnets and generator to do so which would power the magnets that are helping the engine turn over (or a flywheel), thereby reducing the force needed to compensate for the engines inertia.
then... you could have a small diesel engine (running a biodiesel mix no doubt) with these magnetic helpers generating power (the generator has these helpers too)to drive another electric motor (with helpers)that would propel the vehicle. diesel engines can idle for_a_long_time (while maintaining good amounts of torque at such low rpm) and can run on alternative fuels. but, easier said than done im sure. doesnt mean it shouldnt be.
mya, i saw this a while back, theres tons of projects like this, but few seem to be making it anywhere. perhaps because the problem isnt quite the human/tool interface problem, its the human/human interface problem.
anyhoo: MIT Project Oxygen been covered here before, but for the love of redundancy...
-nsa: you are a terrorist
-shmo: what?
-nsa: what country are you from
-shmo: what!?!
-nsa: "what" ain't no country we ever heard of... they speak english in what? [enter large guns] say "what" again. we dare you, we double dare you. english, motherfucker, do you speak it?
-shmo: yes
-nsa: then you know what we're saying.
-shmo: yes
-nsa: what does America look like?
-shmo: w-w-white...
-nsa: go on
-shmo: fat...
-nsa: does America look like a bitch?
-shmo: what? *BANG* NO!
-nsa: then why you trying to fuck him like a bitch?
-shmo: no!...
-nsa: yes you were... yes you were, and the only person America likes to be fucked by is Uncle Sam
stupid foreigners, with their advanced hyper skills, crafty efficient work ethics, and low short term costs!
i dunno, seems like theres been a lot of hate/blame them not us ads/articles/meh shoveled around. im so saturated that i just discount all that stuff (well, except to post lame stuff like this in response to said discounted stuff). yay greed [insert rant]. screw it, im gonna eat some pills.
there are no bounding box issues!...you go to shoot a bakup config, but it registers as bin; you trip and slap the keyboard, agreeing to yes really delete all. doh! time to start compiling.
i swear im soo 1337 if my mouse cord hadnt caught on the edge of my speaker, i would totally have gibed your home directory!
im a complete linux idiot, but just to plug, after i set up gentoo, the whole dependencies thing has been moot, the emerge process is just like ron-co "set it and forget it". has been for the 100's of apps ive compiled. and i still really have no clue what im doing. (just to mention, i develop, and listen to music and surf the web and do everything except 3d game while i compile) i dont get what the whole compiling hubbub is about, i do it while i sleep or work, have not lost any productivity because of it.
i personally use a modded console just so i can run linux apps on it, it already has tv output, and makes it the cheapest xvid/dvd/music/net/fileserver ever.
but as far as the title of parent thread, i feel that modchips have little to do with the video game industry sales decline. times are tighter than they were back a few years ago, at least compared with profits and revs of 1999 (the likes of which had never been seen before- those were GOOOOOD years) there was more disposable income, there were more innovations (remember when 3d [console] gaming was a new thing?) and lots more was being spent on consumables. come to think of it people are consuming more now than ever, americans are the most voracious consumers of any known civilization. the only change is that they are only having great profit years, not insaneo threee-thousand-per-cent return on invenstment years. sheesh there was a time when companies had bad years that they just broke even, or at a loss and they said "wow thats been happening every now and then to everything since forever, its a cycle, its ok"
who to blame? not the fact that alot of hyped games have really really sucked worse than you could have prepared yourself for. not the fact that people are reaching a period of video saturation and need to cool out, or that parents are seeing that maybe they shouldnt turn their kids into tubers (still parents buy an crazy amount of games and electronic crap for their children again probably more than ever, screw the park or all that fresh air). dont blame the fact that the good years of the net boom was an anomaly of type that is only seen when an innovation (read- steam engine, wheel, tacking sails, plane, car, transistor) enters hypergrowth. quick the investors are restless! who to blame? mod chips! pirates!
seriously, out of all my geek friends, i know one other person who would consider cracking their precious video whatever and throwing this "mod chip" that they got via mail via internet, then flash it with a bios (the very word bios sets off !do not touch! alarms in most peoples minds) so that they can burn a disk on a special media in X format so they can hold the button down and lean it left while rubbing thier tummy while chewing gum so that they can play a pirate game, cause its way easier than paying 50 USD and having it "just work". out of the great number of people buying video games i think the few pirates are not making the slightest dent in sales especially when you consider the large number of sales that come from parents, for kids that dont know what a soldering iron looks like (and i dont know any parent that would take a screwdriver to any consumer piece of electronics, remember we consume, dont fix - heck, people dont even clean electronics any more). so to stop this rant -- the industry is pointing the finger at pirates to appease the investors while maintaining their control freakishness to thwart innovation and shelf ideas to garantee a few more years of easy profit. modchip!=pirate but pirate==modchip
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i saw some reports on the super-hyper brick gun about a year ago, also another blurb a couple of months ago on history network (yah i know they have such accurate info) but, yet again, as astounding as these weapons are, any numbers you hear are WAY low. the gun that shoots so fast is a brick of tubes stacked with bullets (caseless). the bullets can be shot one at a time or in a crazy volley, but, in both the earlier article i had read, and on the history channel, both articles said ~180,000 rounds in a fraction of a second!! way way faster than 1 million per miute. both had also mentioned that the bricks could be scaled up, achieving up to and above 1,000,000 per second. this rule of "public lowball" is SOP with the military R&D, but it really is a low, low, ball. the b-2 bomber was being flown in public for over 17 years before any one knew about it! same goes for every skunk works project. the new $2 billion (and up, no no, really, 2 billion $) subs are quieter at top speed than the quietest one we know about at rest. if you think about it, we have been in the dark since the a-bomb, crap why dont we have anything super advanced? when was the TV created - 50 years, 60 years, 70? jeez, it bends light and they still dont have anything fancier?! wheres my teleporter? wheres free power? on the shelf, with the rest of the goodies, until another country or some schmo figures it out. on a side note -my friends brother works for ratheon (sp?) and nobody knows what he does (hed have to kill us) but one night at the bar, we asked - "so exactly how tapped are our phones?" he laughed (this was after a few beers) and then got kinda serious "dont say anything important on the phone - ever", wow.
you know the rest.
how else will skynet have enough juice to defend the country?
maybe now i'll be able to convince my employer to switch!
i say more power to 'em. whenever people get out and have a good time without hurting anyone and without reservations about having fun and expressing passion in their hobbies, it gives me hope.
that being said, i highly suggest checking out this documentary, it was great. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120370/
im no treckkie, but i enjoy getting down as much as these people, just not with startrek. better than being a lame naysayer and cynic.
exactly how much is it that i do not know that i do not know? forest? trees? grilled cheese? sleep.
yep.
if this is the book im thinking of, it will tell you how to hack a "furby". pretty slick. turn your furby into funzo!
dude... lets put a huge ball of jiffy pop in the deans house, then sneak into the secret military compound and reprogram the targeting system so that it'll fry the deans house and give us a tasty treat!
that'll stop them from using science to effectively kill people from great distances!
genius! really! (crap im lame)
thanks, this gives me a few more things to play with. im thinking of moving to the 2.6 kernel too, just getting up the brass to sit down and go throught the whole thing.
if individual votes are counted, but then farted out through the electorial college. the system was good, when it was difficult to tally the vote of all the individuals, but it has no place today.
i switched to linux only, just because i got fed up with M$. i still dont have a fully functional sound card. granted, this card (turtle beach santa cruz) has many known problems with linux, and some people have been able to get it to work fully - but i have not talked or read a response from any of them. sure the card has hardware decoding, 4.1, many effects, and good recording, but does any of it work-- sometimes, and never all at once all things that worked without a hitch in M$. i love the santa cruz, not the best for linux, but a solid card, my favorite of its time, still [would] hold up against new cards (so little overhead)
even the cards that do have good alsa support still have problems. say you get a new audigy 2 or some other widespread commercial card, does the surround work in all applications? does the optical in and out work? does it transition well between applications, and can it do multi channel effects from different sources? can it record? are all of the knobs and jacks even usable? i could go on and on.
i will say that they have made many improvements over the years, but how is linux going to become a viable home multimedia platform (which i would say most of the home pcs sold today are used for) with such a slow curve on sound! crap i like fewer viruses and better stability, but i like my music, games, and instruments more. were not talking enterprise here, just my home pc, web, music, games, papers, schedule, ya know? big win still wins in the "ill play nice with your hardware".
mental note: next box, make sure all hardware works 100% in linux
with Crichton's terminal man (ok book, good idea) and the ratbot (http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-9.html) that we have all read about, and monkeys controling computers with thier minds (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1871803 .stm), who will win? good or evil? i can think of great uses for both good and evil, but i think evil is better funded.
things like the power-loaders from aliens sure could help in both the commercial and military sector, but what is the likelyhood of an exosleleton or walkers helping the disabled before the military uses such things for advanced target acquisition (a non direct brain input -ie following eye movements- is already used by the gunners in apache helicopters, you look, it shoots where you look) and super ninja exoskeletons from my favorite animations. hell, anybody remember exosquad? mechwarrior?
i guess it would even out, the technology would be used to create disabled people, and then could be used to help them walk again -albeit with servos and hydraulics.
thats how the current hybrid cars work, they use the combustion engine to generate power to recharge batteries which power the electric motor that drives the car. the problem with the original electric cars was that they worked like a golf cart - had to plug them in. saturn had a car like that -recalled all of them (only 100+), it never worked in real life, because recharge times were too long, and there were not enough public facilities to "re-fuel". hence the combustion generator, which has plentiful fuel stations, to charge the electric motor.
this is why im still confused, why (magnets or no) do we not have diesel hybrids? diesels always had slow accelerationa (save turbo-diesel) but the electric motors would certainly make up for them.
while we are at it, why not have the brakes be generators, with the gear resistance decelerating the car and giving charge to the batteries (or better yet, a capacitor to aid in a quick burst of energy for accelerating from stop, the 0-20 is what requires the most energy and loses the most efficiency)
one of the next "the future is now" signs will be a distributed power grid, where each home or city block supplies its own power, and feeds excess power to a storage battery or back into the grid.(actually i hope it turns into micro generators, like one for each office, or even for each large unit- ie compressor, refridgerator, etc).
would this technology would allow for each house to have its own generator and have a trickle charge from the master grid keep kicking the magnets to turn the gens kinetic energy back to electric, at 1/5 power consumption? granted this would hinge on efficient generators, dynamos etc. but it could cut total home energy consumption by 80% if it isnt some blatent physics blasphemy.
on a diferent note, why not have these magnets help out combustion engines and reduce fuel consumption. the combustion would provide crazy power, to kick the magnets and generator to do so which would power the magnets that are helping the engine turn over (or a flywheel), thereby reducing the force needed to compensate for the engines inertia.
then... you could have a small diesel engine (running a biodiesel mix no doubt) with these magnetic helpers generating power (the generator has these helpers too)to drive another electric motor (with helpers)that would propel the vehicle. diesel engines can idle for_a_long_time (while maintaining good amounts of torque at such low rpm) and can run on alternative fuels. but, easier said than done im sure. doesnt mean it shouldnt be.
mya, i saw this a while back, theres tons of projects like this, but few seem to be making it anywhere. perhaps because the problem isnt quite the human/tool interface problem, its the human/human interface problem.
anyhoo: MIT Project Oxygen
been covered here before, but for the love of redundancy...
i thought sales were down 7.6 percent, not just records. huh. movin on up (movin on up)...
-nsa: you are a terrorist
-shmo: what?
-nsa: what country are you from
-shmo: what!?!
-nsa: "what" ain't no country we ever heard of... they speak english in what? [enter large guns] say "what" again. we dare you, we double dare you. english, motherfucker, do you speak it?
-shmo: yes
-nsa: then you know what we're saying.
-shmo: yes
-nsa: what does America look like?
-shmo: w-w-white...
-nsa: go on
-shmo: fat...
-nsa: does America look like a bitch?
-shmo: what? *BANG* NO!
-nsa: then why you trying to fuck him like a bitch?
-shmo: no!...
-nsa: yes you were... yes you were, and the only person America likes to be fucked by is Uncle Sam
i dunno, seems like theres been a lot of hate/blame them not us ads/articles/meh shoveled around. im so saturated that i just discount all that stuff (well, except to post lame stuff like this in response to said discounted stuff). yay greed [insert rant].
screw it, im gonna eat some pills.
wheres the megabass?
hoa! [good god yall]
what is it good for?
absolutely nothing!
say it again!
woo hoo! lets hear it for insta-gib from space. seriously though, pretty neat technology, really crappy purpose.
pshaw!
america has been a separate ecosystem for years!
there are no bounding box issues! ...you go to shoot a bakup config, but it registers as bin; you trip and slap the keyboard, agreeing to yes really delete all. doh! time to start compiling.
i swear im soo 1337 if my mouse cord hadnt caught on the edge of my speaker, i would totally have gibed your home directory!
im a complete linux idiot, but just to plug, after i set up gentoo, the whole dependencies thing has been moot, the emerge process is just like ron-co "set it and forget it". has been for the 100's of apps ive compiled. and i still really have no clue what im doing. (just to mention, i develop, and listen to music and surf the web and do everything except 3d game while i compile) i dont get what the whole compiling hubbub is about, i do it while i sleep or work, have not lost any productivity because of it.
i personally use a modded console just so i can run linux apps on it, it already has tv output, and makes it the cheapest xvid/dvd/music/net/fileserver ever.
but as far as the title of parent thread, i feel that modchips have little to do with the video game industry sales decline. times are tighter than they were back a few years ago, at least compared with profits and revs of 1999 (the likes of which had never been seen before- those were GOOOOOD years) there was more disposable income, there were more innovations (remember when 3d [console] gaming was a new thing?) and lots more was being spent on consumables.
come to think of it people are consuming more now than ever, americans are the most voracious consumers of any known civilization. the only change is that they are only having great profit years, not insaneo threee-thousand-per-cent return on invenstment years. sheesh there was a time when companies had bad years that they just broke even, or at a loss and they said "wow thats been happening every now and then to everything since forever, its a cycle, its ok"
who to blame? not the fact that alot of hyped games have really really sucked worse than you could have prepared yourself for. not the fact that people are reaching a period of video saturation and need to cool out, or that parents are seeing that maybe they shouldnt turn their kids into tubers (still parents buy an crazy amount of games and electronic crap for their children again probably more than ever, screw the park or all that fresh air). dont blame the fact that the good years of the net boom was an anomaly of type that is only seen when an innovation (read- steam engine, wheel, tacking sails, plane, car, transistor) enters hypergrowth. quick the investors are restless! who to blame? mod chips! pirates!
seriously, out of all my geek friends, i know one other person who would consider cracking their precious video whatever and throwing this "mod chip" that they got via mail via internet, then flash it with a bios (the very word bios sets off !do not touch! alarms in most peoples minds) so that they can burn a disk on a special media in X format so they can hold the button down and lean it left while rubbing thier tummy while chewing gum so that they can play a pirate game, cause its way easier than paying 50 USD and having it "just work". out of the great number of people buying video games i think the few pirates are not making the slightest dent in sales especially when you consider the large number of sales that come from parents, for kids that dont know what a soldering iron looks like (and i dont know any parent that would take a screwdriver to any consumer piece of electronics, remember we consume, dont fix - heck, people dont even clean electronics any more). so to stop this rant -- the industry is pointing the finger at pirates to appease the investors while maintaining their control freakishness to thwart innovation and shelf ideas to garantee a few more years of easy profit. modchip!=pirate but pirate==modchip