It gets even more impressive with the likes of.kkrieger - a fully functional, quite pretty video game that does not come with any textures, models or level geometry at all - everything is procedurally generated. The result looks as good as most semi-recent shooters but comes in less than 96 kilobytes.
Okay, can anyone tell me whether Farbrausch's.theprodukkt (the demo that effectively started the 64k thing) and kewlers & mfx's 1995 are in there? 1995 might not be the most impressive demo ever, but it certainly is one of the most enjoyable ones in my opinion. Little Bitchard at his best.
I can't tell because the server and the Coralized version have melted. In fact, trying to access the server directly leads to a generic failure message from Godaddy.
Of course there's still the whole submarine thing... I don't know how effective railguns are against submarines, but supercavitation torpedos certainly should be effective against battleships.
Maybe navel weapon platforms, just big enough to mount a railgun and some defense weaponry, are the answer. They're less expensive so you can build more of them so one well-placed torpedo doesn't cripple your ability to shell enemies.
as long as my constituional rights don't get outright trampled on, I REALLY DON'T CARE HOW THEY FIND TERRORISTS... just as long as they catch and kill every goddamn one of them.
Including ignoring the rights citizens of other countries have in their countries? Beware, slippery slope ahead. It leads to a PR disaster that would crush the last bit of goodwill the rest of the world has for the USA. Which would be very welcome to any terrorists.
The trick to terror prevention is ensuring your safety without causing more damage than the terrorists could have. Alienating people is rarely a good idea because that only gets more people motivated to join the terrorists. Alienating entire countries is just as bad because they might not want to do business with you anymore (yes, that's possible; China is a viable alternative) and your economy suffers. Alienating your own people is even wore because it creates unrest and might even get som of them to help the terrorists out of the belief that the current government needs to be replaced.
Just finding terror suspects and killing them at any cost is quite likely to get the country into more trouble than just dealing with them like one did before the whole War on Terror(TM) started. The correct approach lies somewhere in the middle. One needs to be careful enough not to upset everyone but thorough enough to actually catch the dangerous plots. That requires more deliberation than zealotry.
Wait, I'm pretty sure that was actually not rule 11. 8? 17? Damn, I really need a print version of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates as reference material.
The railgun will also double as an emergency propulsion system. If the screws should ever be destroyed, they'll just flip the ship over and fire shells into the water to move.
No, he was talking more among the lines of "out of railgun, at Mach 8". Remember, it's not the shot that kills you... Well, actually in this case it does.
Why should the innocent be forced to pay for the illegal acts of others?
What illegal acts? The levy makes downloading perfectly legal.
Why should I pay for the illegal acts of people buying guns? Owning guns is only legal in my country (Germany) if you have proper training and the proper permissions. If we stopped issuing those permissions, the country could save a bit of money. Guns would become illegal, but that's not a problem. I don't own one.
Newsflash, countries do things even if only relatively few people actually profit from that. The relatively few people downloading msuic are still absolutely many, so Canada decides that they should be helped and not criminalized. That makes everything a bit more expensive for everyone else. That's the cost of living in a social (not socialist) country as opposed to a everyone-fights-for-themselves country like the USA.
Blanket fees are much easier. We have a similar system in Germany, where all blank CDs/DVDs and all CD/DVD burners have a levy attached (currently about 8 ct/hr playtime). The money is collected by the GEMA, an association managing the publication and copyrights of songs. The GEMA then distributes the money amongst its members - which are musicians, not record companies.
There are a lot of catches, though. For example, the GEMA is not free of scumbaggery. For example, it distinguishes between "serious music" ("E-Music") and "entertainment music" ("U-Music"); while a pop song might get valued at twelve points, an orchestral piece of 60 minutes might get 1.200. Assuming that the pop song has a length of three minutes that makes the orchestral piece 66% more valuable per time unit. The distinctio between E- and U- music is not entriely obvious.
Also, GEMA demands that you register each and every sngle song with them, which makes your entire work subject to their terms - releasing songs for free on the internet is problematic because that requires you to renegotiate your entire contract with them. Also, once something is registered, it stays registered until the contract runs out. Plus, German law automatically assumes that every song is registered with GEMA unless the artist explicitly states that it isn't.
As for releasing songs on the internet - you have to pay royalties to GEMA if you release your own songs on your website. You get them back because it's your songs you're hosting, but you vave to pay them nonetheless. The only way to circumvent that is to not offer downloads but only streams. Which just isn't the same, of course.
There's also some squabling over who gets how much; artists with many performances get more money, for example.
But in the end, the system works. It's not too pretty, but it works. If someone polished it, it might even shine.
I think Canada already has a similar system, but brobably with less beaurocracy, because they're not Germany. (Seriously, we'll never have a riot in Germany because you have to file protest marches with the police some time in advance and until the rioters got permission most of them would've calmed down already. Nobody would do a riot without going through the proper channels before. That would be against the law, you know.) Extending such a system to online downloads could work rather well.
Democracies only work properly if the people making the decisions are well-informed. Someone who gets all his informations from publications like the National Enquirer (USA), the Sun (UK) or the BILD (Germany) is unlikely to make a useful decision.
But hey, that's what we elect people for: So they can inform themselves and make wise decisions. We elect them based on those decisions so they better get their knowledge up to snuff. Before election time. And that doesn't mean "listen to one lobbyist from Chevron and one from Greenpeace", that means "read current publications and try to figure out what the scientific community's most important current stances on the topic are". If you can't do it yourself due to lack of time, hire someone to do it for you and make the campaign a couple million dollars less lavish. Have one part of the party inform themselves and then educate the rest about the important points; that's still better than having nobody informed.
When I elect people to run the country for me I expect them to be smarter and/or at the very least better informed than I am. That's what I pay them for. I give them my money and I'm not content with substandard legislation. You can't have someone in a pro/contra nuclear power debate who doesn't know what the difference between an RBMK and an IFR is or what exactly lead to the disasters in Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. Unless you want someone to make decisions on outdated and incorrect data, that is. The same applies to every other field, whether it be patent law, global warming or education.
Unfortunately, being knowledgeable about stuff is not nearly as profitable as just parroting what the media and/or lobbyists say, so it's pretty rare in politics.
Well, duh. Teconic Enginnering is a pretty advanced tech field so it's obvious that we don't have Core Waste Dumps and/or Deep Core Mining yet. Given the fact that neither do we have developed Artificial Planets nor do we have contact with any other intelligent species yet, there's no way for us to have access to that stuff. I mean, we don't even have a Nuclear Drive yet.
If/when the Antarans show up we're going to be so screwed...
In the Nokia example that's right - the closure is bad for the region (which by the way is considering demanding its tax breaks back) but good for Romania (until people start becoming more expensive there). However, making someone work overtime without paying extra does not spread wealth at all, especially not when it's used as a means to get by with fewer employees than one should need.
Another example of where it doesn't work too well is when a company lowers their production costs but keeps the prices at the same level. If they can get away with it, they will.
The system works, mostly, which is not bad. But there are a lot of loopholes and a lot of slimy bastards that abuse them.
Society is much different in Europe, but we suffer from asshole employers, too. For example recently Nokia closed a factory in Germany. Nokia has record revenues, the factory is highly profitable - but in Romania they have to pay the workers much less and they can get away with it, so they shut down the factory.
That kind of attitude can bite anyone. We have stricter laws concerning employment, but an employer still has a number of ways he can screw you over if he decides that he'd rather like a new car instead of paying wages appropriate to the amount of work being done. That especially applies to areas where there are more potential employees than jobs.
It's just one of the downsides of capitalism - if a company can make money, they will want to make money, even if that involves working against the employees. Especially when the company is a multnational corporation that can just go elsewhere if there's trouble.
That's why it's not allowed to drive and mess with your mobile at the same time in Germany. It's a really great way to get your car wrapped around a tree.
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It gets even more impressive with the likes of .kkrieger - a fully functional, quite pretty video game that does not come with any textures, models or level geometry at all - everything is procedurally generated. The result looks as good as most semi-recent shooters but comes in less than 96 kilobytes.
Okay, can anyone tell me whether Farbrausch's .theprodukkt (the demo that effectively started the 64k thing) and kewlers & mfx's 1995 are in there? 1995 might not be the most impressive demo ever, but it certainly is one of the most enjoyable ones in my opinion. Little Bitchard at his best.
I can't tell because the server and the Coralized version have melted. In fact, trying to access the server directly leads to a generic failure message from Godaddy.
Ouch. Of course Wikipedia was the only reachable place I didn't check.
Of course there's still the whole submarine thing... I don't know how effective railguns are against submarines, but supercavitation torpedos certainly should be effective against battleships.
Maybe navel weapon platforms, just big enough to mount a railgun and some defense weaponry, are the answer. They're less expensive so you can build more of them so one well-placed torpedo doesn't cripple your ability to shell enemies.
The trick to terror prevention is ensuring your safety without causing more damage than the terrorists could have. Alienating people is rarely a good idea because that only gets more people motivated to join the terrorists. Alienating entire countries is just as bad because they might not want to do business with you anymore (yes, that's possible; China is a viable alternative) and your economy suffers. Alienating your own people is even wore because it creates unrest and might even get som of them to help the terrorists out of the belief that the current government needs to be replaced.
Just finding terror suspects and killing them at any cost is quite likely to get the country into more trouble than just dealing with them like one did before the whole War on Terror(TM) started. The correct approach lies somewhere in the middle. One needs to be careful enough not to upset everyone but thorough enough to actually catch the dangerous plots. That requires more deliberation than zealotry.
Wait, I'm pretty sure that was actually not rule 11. 8? 17? Damn, I really need a print version of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates as reference material.
The railgun will also double as an emergency propulsion system. If the screws should ever be destroyed, they'll just flip the ship over and fire shells into the water to move.
Not to forget about rule 11: If you leave scorch marks, you need a bigger gun.
No, he was talking more among the lines of "out of railgun, at Mach 8". Remember, it's not the shot that kills you... Well, actually in this case it does.
Why should I pay for the illegal acts of people buying guns? Owning guns is only legal in my country (Germany) if you have proper training and the proper permissions. If we stopped issuing those permissions, the country could save a bit of money. Guns would become illegal, but that's not a problem. I don't own one.
Newsflash, countries do things even if only relatively few people actually profit from that. The relatively few people downloading msuic are still absolutely many, so Canada decides that they should be helped and not criminalized. That makes everything a bit more expensive for everyone else. That's the cost of living in a social (not socialist) country as opposed to a everyone-fights-for-themselves country like the USA.
Blanket fees are much easier. We have a similar system in Germany, where all blank CDs/DVDs and all CD/DVD burners have a levy attached (currently about 8 ct/hr playtime). The money is collected by the GEMA, an association managing the publication and copyrights of songs. The GEMA then distributes the money amongst its members - which are musicians, not record companies.
There are a lot of catches, though. For example, the GEMA is not free of scumbaggery. For example, it distinguishes between "serious music" ("E-Music") and "entertainment music" ("U-Music"); while a pop song might get valued at twelve points, an orchestral piece of 60 minutes might get 1.200. Assuming that the pop song has a length of three minutes that makes the orchestral piece 66% more valuable per time unit. The distinctio between E- and U- music is not entriely obvious.
Also, GEMA demands that you register each and every sngle song with them, which makes your entire work subject to their terms - releasing songs for free on the internet is problematic because that requires you to renegotiate your entire contract with them. Also, once something is registered, it stays registered until the contract runs out. Plus, German law automatically assumes that every song is registered with GEMA unless the artist explicitly states that it isn't.
As for releasing songs on the internet - you have to pay royalties to GEMA if you release your own songs on your website. You get them back because it's your songs you're hosting, but you vave to pay them nonetheless. The only way to circumvent that is to not offer downloads but only streams. Which just isn't the same, of course.
There's also some squabling over who gets how much; artists with many performances get more money, for example.
But in the end, the system works. It's not too pretty, but it works. If someone polished it, it might even shine.
I think Canada already has a similar system, but brobably with less beaurocracy, because they're not Germany. (Seriously, we'll never have a riot in Germany because you have to file protest marches with the police some time in advance and until the rioters got permission most of them would've calmed down already. Nobody would do a riot without going through the proper channels before. That would be against the law, you know.) Extending such a system to online downloads could work rather well.
Democracies only work properly if the people making the decisions are well-informed. Someone who gets all his informations from publications like the National Enquirer (USA), the Sun (UK) or the BILD (Germany) is unlikely to make a useful decision.
But hey, that's what we elect people for: So they can inform themselves and make wise decisions. We elect them based on those decisions so they better get their knowledge up to snuff. Before election time. And that doesn't mean "listen to one lobbyist from Chevron and one from Greenpeace", that means "read current publications and try to figure out what the scientific community's most important current stances on the topic are". If you can't do it yourself due to lack of time, hire someone to do it for you and make the campaign a couple million dollars less lavish. Have one part of the party inform themselves and then educate the rest about the important points; that's still better than having nobody informed.
When I elect people to run the country for me I expect them to be smarter and/or at the very least better informed than I am. That's what I pay them for. I give them my money and I'm not content with substandard legislation. You can't have someone in a pro/contra nuclear power debate who doesn't know what the difference between an RBMK and an IFR is or what exactly lead to the disasters in Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. Unless you want someone to make decisions on outdated and incorrect data, that is. The same applies to every other field, whether it be patent law, global warming or education.
Unfortunately, being knowledgeable about stuff is not nearly as profitable as just parroting what the media and/or lobbyists say, so it's pretty rare in politics.
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Well, duh. Teconic Enginnering is a pretty advanced tech field so it's obvious that we don't have Core Waste Dumps and/or Deep Core Mining yet. Given the fact that neither do we have developed Artificial Planets nor do we have contact with any other intelligent species yet, there's no way for us to have access to that stuff. I mean, we don't even have a Nuclear Drive yet.
If/when the Antarans show up we're going to be so screwed...
Let's not forget the fact that you can't remove your pants without complete amputation of everything below the navel...
The launch went over well. Deployment didn't. This scenario should be familiar to anyone using Microsoft Windows. (SCNR)
But hey, the rocket didn't explode or something. Certainly a successful launch.
In the Nokia example that's right - the closure is bad for the region (which by the way is considering demanding its tax breaks back) but good for Romania (until people start becoming more expensive there). However, making someone work overtime without paying extra does not spread wealth at all, especially not when it's used as a means to get by with fewer employees than one should need.
Another example of where it doesn't work too well is when a company lowers their production costs but keeps the prices at the same level. If they can get away with it, they will.
The system works, mostly, which is not bad. But there are a lot of loopholes and a lot of slimy bastards that abuse them.
Society is much different in Europe, but we suffer from asshole employers, too. For example recently Nokia closed a factory in Germany. Nokia has record revenues, the factory is highly profitable - but in Romania they have to pay the workers much less and they can get away with it, so they shut down the factory.
That kind of attitude can bite anyone. We have stricter laws concerning employment, but an employer still has a number of ways he can screw you over if he decides that he'd rather like a new car instead of paying wages appropriate to the amount of work being done. That especially applies to areas where there are more potential employees than jobs.
It's just one of the downsides of capitalism - if a company can make money, they will want to make money, even if that involves working against the employees. Especially when the company is a multnational corporation that can just go elsewhere if there's trouble.
That's why it's not allowed to drive and mess with your mobile at the same time in Germany. It's a really great way to get your car wrapped around a tree.
Breeders can be used to reduce nuclear waste. The reduction of breeders does not help with that.