I mean I too have the feeling that somehow it doesn't 'count' if you hear someone else's end to the story but why?
Actually, from what I hear Jordan had made pretty extensive notes on how he felt the series should end, just for this very eventuality. So we will be reading his end of the story, but it will be written in someone else's words and with someone else filling in the details.
Funny that in the 9th book, something did finally happen. A pretty big something. Then book 10 completely dropped the ball by not following up.... I haven't read book 11 yet, but from what I've heard, it's very good. 8 and 10 are the low points of the series that should be skimmed instead of read.
But the point is that you're not pointing the wiimote/zapper at a the target on the screen, are you? You're just moving it until your shots start hitting the target, even if the angle is 15 degrees away from where the controller is actually pointing. Unless I'm misunderstanding somethign about the technology. FPS's like Call of Duty are fine because you always shoot at the same spot on the screen, the controller just moves the view itself (I'm assuming that's what the Wii version of CoD is like.) But try that with any game where you're view and aim are separate. Could you do the shooting range in Wii play without an onscreen reticle?
Wait, I'm not too familiar with the wii, only having played with it once, but my impression was that the wiimote used motion-sensitive technology. If that's true, and the zapper is merely a holder for the wiimote, then aiming with it is no different than aiming with a mouse, isn't it? You move it until the onscreen reticle is over the target and push the trigger, instead of actually lining up a shot as you would with, say, a light gun. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
I actually remember hearing somewhere that Hellgate was going to be a turnbased title. Has that changed? Diablo was originally going to be turnbased as well....
Actually I think the Heroes graphic novels (still continuing while the series is on break!) on nbc's site are often more deserving of awards than the show itself.
What about the truth serum? You know the one given to Ahnold in True Lies? Though apparently it also lets you see the future, and we probably would not want to give that power to criminals....
In theory, entanglement could violate causality. Basically with QM, photons and electrons and the like appear to behave like waves in a double-slit experiment, unless their location is measured. If measured, they behave like particles. If you have two entangled photons, measuring one will cause its partner to behave as a particle instead of a wave, no matter how far apart the two photons are. The best part is that this is supposed to stretch back into the past - if both photons are unmeasured but the first is observed to behave like a wave, that means the second photon will be measured, and vice versa. Of course you can't really tell if a single photon behaves as a wave, you need a stream of them, but that's doable with the right experimental setup.
"Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe--ninety-six billion planets--into the supercircuit that would connect them all into the one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a moment's silence, he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.* "
TextPad is no-nonsense Windows text editor with tons of functionality. Almost like a user-friendly vi for Windows. It won't replace an dedicated IDE (even though it has some configurable IDE-type functionality), but I use it every day for other tasks. One of the very few programs I've paid the registration fee for.
To paraphrase the common adage, if The President ordered our troops to jump of a building without a parachute, would you "support them" by supporting him?
I remember reading an account (I think it was in PC Gamer) of an Air Force trainee who aced his very first flight. They asked him how he did it, and he said that he'd flown the plane in a PC flight sim that accurately represented the controls. That's when the military started paying more attention to PC games.
Slashdot Mirror
"Look at those two, pretending to have sex while they're planning to kill us. Go in with guns blazing!"
I mean I too have the feeling that somehow it doesn't 'count' if you hear someone else's end to the story but why?
Actually, from what I hear Jordan had made pretty extensive notes on how he felt the series should end, just for this very eventuality. So we will be reading his end of the story, but it will be written in someone else's words and with someone else filling in the details.
Funny that in the 9th book, something did finally happen. A pretty big something. Then book 10 completely dropped the ball by not following up.... I haven't read book 11 yet, but from what I've heard, it's very good. 8 and 10 are the low points of the series that should be skimmed instead of read.
A (wizard|god|spirit|quantum flux) does it.
Yes, that's why I prefer pure nitroglycerin. Actually I'm mixing up a batch right n
But the point is that you're not pointing the wiimote/zapper at a the target on the screen, are you? You're just moving it until your shots start hitting the target, even if the angle is 15 degrees away from where the controller is actually pointing. Unless I'm misunderstanding somethign about the technology. FPS's like Call of Duty are fine because you always shoot at the same spot on the screen, the controller just moves the view itself (I'm assuming that's what the Wii version of CoD is like.) But try that with any game where you're view and aim are separate. Could you do the shooting range in Wii play without an onscreen reticle?
Wait, I'm not too familiar with the wii, only having played with it once, but my impression was that the wiimote used motion-sensitive technology. If that's true, and the zapper is merely a holder for the wiimote, then aiming with it is no different than aiming with a mouse, isn't it? You move it until the onscreen reticle is over the target and push the trigger, instead of actually lining up a shot as you would with, say, a light gun. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
I actually remember hearing somewhere that Hellgate was going to be a turnbased title. Has that changed? Diablo was originally going to be turnbased as well....
900MB would take closer to 40 hours on dial-up, assuming near-peak speed and un-interrupted. What fun!
It may be owned by the church in this world, but the summary clearly states that the game takes place in an alternate reality.
Wow, I actually read that pretty easily. Except for Sttucle, which caused me to look at the editor's name.
Actually I think the Heroes graphic novels (still continuing while the series is on break!) on nbc's site are often more deserving of awards than the show itself.
What about the truth serum? You know the one given to Ahnold in True Lies? Though apparently it also lets you see the future, and we probably would not want to give that power to criminals....
Keep that in mind when our future alien overlords put you in a zoo and feed you happy pills.
Are those countries populated by Trolls with silicon brains?
In theory, entanglement could violate causality. Basically with QM, photons and electrons and the like appear to behave like waves in a double-slit experiment, unless their location is measured. If measured, they behave like particles. If you have two entangled photons, measuring one will cause its partner to behave as a particle instead of a wave, no matter how far apart the two photons are. The best part is that this is supposed to stretch back into the past - if both photons are unmeasured but the first is observed to behave like a wave, that means the second photon will be measured, and vice versa. Of course you can't really tell if a single photon behaves as a wave, you need a stream of them, but that's doable with the right experimental setup.
3C 273 is a Quasar, not a galaxy (According to wikipedia at least). Are they talking about the galaxy containing/near the Quasar, or what?
And I believe there was an SF story or two about how a computer could put up resistance to being unplugged.
Ah yes, one of my favorite (very) short stories, Answer by Fredric Brown:
"Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore through the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe--ninety-six billion planets--into the supercircuit that would connect them all into the one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then, after a moment's silence, he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.* "
Of course there is: Libraries of Congress per second.
.000000001 LoC spams.
I think "Populations of India per second" a supercomputer might send a single 1LoC spam faster than a billion
I think the real question is -- what are the FBI / police doing about it?
[puts on tinfoil hat]
How do you know it's not a government agency controlling it?
Why should you be allowed onto the internet without a firewall at the very least?
You mean like the Windows Firewall?
TextPad is no-nonsense Windows text editor with tons of functionality. Almost like a user-friendly vi for Windows. It won't replace an dedicated IDE (even though it has some configurable IDE-type functionality), but I use it every day for other tasks. One of the very few programs I've paid the registration fee for.
What, falling down and climbing out of holes cannot hold your attention for two hours? You got ADD, boy?
To paraphrase the common adage, if The President ordered our troops to jump of a building without a parachute, would you "support them" by supporting him?
I remember reading an account (I think it was in PC Gamer) of an Air Force trainee who aced his very first flight. They asked him how he did it, and he said that he'd flown the plane in a PC flight sim that accurately represented the controls. That's when the military started paying more attention to PC games.