Umm... I've seen Tidal Power Plants, one in France and one in England. Imagine a dam off the shore. The water comes, they open the dam, then close it with all the water on the shore side. The water goes, and they return the stored water to the (lower) sea by letting it run through some turbines.
Fusion is a messy thing. You don't simply fuse two Hydrogen atoms into one Helium atom.
You will also invariably fuse Helium with more Helium and whatnot, which yields radioactive isotopes of Lithium, which decays into fissible and fusible other elements, which in turn... and so on.
The Sun is actually a very, VERY dirty reactor. Fortunately, it's very far away.
These people are dying because of the capitalistic principles we introduced to their countries/kingdoms/tribes, and the fact that they can't afford certain limited resources in said system, among them no less education and IT than clean water and food.
Exporting even more non-free (in both senses of the word) goods will not improve their situation. Give a man a Fish, and feed him for a day, tech him how to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.
The problem is that "teaching how to fish" in today's terms means "allow them access to resources that should be free, especially better education".
The scientist who first did this did it very rigorously: Seal his sleeping room 100% to make sure he sees nothing in the morning before he picks up his inversion goggles.
He was able to ride a bike fine, and even went skiing after a fairly short time (definitely less than 6 weeks - I'd say a few days at most!).
On that skiing trip, he even rescued (while wearing the goggles) another scientist who was injured in an accident, ironically that scientist was one of those who ridiculed him the most and didn't believe he could go ski with a contraption like this twisting his senses.
It was, AFAIK, only an upside-down projection of the world he was looking at, though.
Nope, the A500 also had 4096 colours in HAM mode. They were basically the same hardware, except the A2000 had different - and more - expansion slots and was a desktop machine while the A500 was a typical home computer/console kind of thingy.
But technically, it's easy. It's just another scripting language. What's missing is the ability to modify objects by reference across large distances. e.g. llSetPos(key, vector) instead of having the current prim be the one in question.
Also, the permissions system could use a revamp.:)
But yeah, it's easy. Just like C++. (I should write that on a SL t-shirt...)
Yeah, sounds wacky, but really, despite the choppy and often ugly grapbhics - this is what it feels like. People rent virtual land and try to build popular, profitable or just comfortable places on them. The term "Home" gets a wholly new, old meaning in Second Life.
And a Wii controller might actually make things more controllable, especially object touching and viewport panning.
> Ever heard of aim-bots? Those work with closed-source clients.
Yeah, but it's actually just a "tool" that happens to break a "game". SL is not a game. It's a crude early version of cyberspace, and hence has performance, security and stability issues galore. However, it's the best there is at the moment, and, quite frankly - it's mind-boggling what some people pull off with nothing but finite state automatons and parametric geometry.
>On the other hand, it looks like the Linden folks are still working on server controls to make sure stuff doesn't run out of >control. Flying penis storms, grey goo, that sort of thing.
Yes, that's necessary, and it's good. Their Grid defense has become much better in the recent months, and grey goo type attacks can rather quickly be contained.
>Hey, it's the first beast specifically of this type. There are a lot of hard lessons you learn by being first.
Yes, it's the first beast of this kind, and the lessons learned are invaluable - and very tough.
Wow, i remember a rather recent post about finally reaching the 20.000 mark. That implies some seriously accelerated growth (looking at the official charts, and the linear predictions some people make for the future, I can only shake my head, because it's clearly exponential growth what we're seeing).
There are various open source objects in the game. The "gnubie"-Store is actually not "GNU", but it's often full mod/copy.
It's usually set to no transfer to prevent abuse (but there are plenty of full mod/copy/transfer freebies around, probably houses, too!)
Unfortunately, you can always take away permissions, meaning that you could take that FLOSS house, mod it, remove the next-owner-can-transfer/mod/copy permissions, and basically make it a closed source thing.
Really, this is a great step towards "Cyberspace" á la Snow Crash. Open Source and, eventually, Open Standars will vastly spur development of this technology.
I have that one, it's a "small" capacitor microphone. However, it's not at all inoccuous, it's huge and the clip looks every bit like a microphone and only vaguely like a tie clip. This is for legit, non clandestine uses only.
They do EXACTLY this in Germany. There's a supermarket I've been going to for the past five years, and I almost always pay using my ATM card. No fraud has happened, but I've gotten considerably more wary now.
I've noticed the following behaviour:
1st Visit per day: The system prompts for a signature.
2nd and subsequent visits: The exact same (mag stripe) system prompts me for my pin.
1st Visit, Transaction error (probably dialup): System halts, waits for a while, says "Doch, Operation möglich" (which translates into "Oh, operation possible... anyway" - and prompts me for my PIN!
That's pretty much the same deal; but I believe the "untraining" couldn't be so bad, though. I think it'd be a lot like riding a bicycle or even speaking (I rarely use the words "femme" or "lass" in everyday speech, but I can still say them)
All I want is a simple neurally-interfaced text terminal. So I could keep writing code and playing text-based role playing games in case I lose my hands. Actually, just a neurally interfaced keyboard would be enough, though the reception of characters could be way cool, as well, especially once you learn to directly subvocalize without deciphering it first. That should only take a couple of months, seriously!
(or, on a funny side, surf porn with no hands at the keyboard... uhh... and the term dumb terminal would have a considerably literal sense)
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Supreme Commander and its Add-On Forged Alliance are clearly my personal picks as "Game of the Year", somewhat closely followed by Team Fortress 2.
Umm... I've seen Tidal Power Plants, one in France and one in England. Imagine a dam off the shore. The water comes, they open the dam, then close it with all the water on the shore side. The water goes, and they return the stored water to the (lower) sea by letting it run through some turbines.
Tadaa.
It's ony of my favourite documentary sites on the net. The images are impressive, the concise comments touching and to the point.
Scary.
I'm at a loss for words (apart from this one)
Actually, the current major patch (only 12.5 mb in size, but contains over 800 changes to code and scripts) reallly improved Supcom's performance.
I still recommend a Dual Core CPU, but a high-end single core with a decent Graphics card will do fine.
Supreme Commander, TA, or TA:Spring. One of these three will suffice; I prefer Supreme Commander, though.
You use other isotopes of Hydrogen. Deuterium, Tritium...
Fusion is a messy thing. You don't simply fuse two Hydrogen atoms into one Helium atom.
You will also invariably fuse Helium with more Helium and whatnot, which yields radioactive isotopes of Lithium, which decays into fissible and fusible other elements, which in turn... and so on.
The Sun is actually a very, VERY dirty reactor. Fortunately, it's very far away.
Actually, we shouldn't.
These people are dying because of the capitalistic principles we introduced to their countries/kingdoms/tribes, and the fact that they can't afford certain limited resources in said system, among them no less education and IT than clean water and food.
Exporting even more non-free (in both senses of the word) goods will not improve their situation. Give a man a Fish, and feed him for a day, tech him how to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.
The problem is that "teaching how to fish" in today's terms means "allow them access to resources that should be free, especially better education".
That's a really neat idea. Thanks for sharing it.
Actually, it doesn't take that long AT ALL.
The scientist who first did this did it very rigorously: Seal his sleeping room 100% to make sure he sees nothing in the morning before he picks up his inversion goggles.
He was able to ride a bike fine, and even went skiing after a fairly short time (definitely less than 6 weeks - I'd say a few days at most!).
On that skiing trip, he even rescued (while wearing the goggles) another scientist who was injured in an accident, ironically that scientist was one of those who ridiculed him the most and didn't believe he could go ski with a contraption like this twisting his senses.
It was, AFAIK, only an upside-down projection of the world he was looking at, though.
Nope, the A500 also had 4096 colours in HAM mode. They were basically the same hardware, except the A2000 had different - and more - expansion slots and was a desktop machine while the A500 was a typical home computer/console kind of thingy.
ninjitsu
ninjutsu
fujitsu
daihatsu
runoratsu
and, of course, let's not omit...
GOSU!
It's awkward.
:)
But technically, it's easy. It's just another scripting language. What's missing is the ability to modify objects by reference across large distances. e.g. llSetPos(key, vector) instead of having the current prim be the one in question.
Also, the permissions system could use a revamp.
But yeah, it's easy. Just like C++. (I should write that on a SL t-shirt...)
Yeah, sounds wacky, but really, despite the choppy and often ugly grapbhics - this is what it feels like. People rent virtual land and try to build popular, profitable or just comfortable places on them. The term "Home" gets a wholly new, old meaning in Second Life.
And a Wii controller might actually make things more controllable, especially object touching and viewport panning.
> Ever heard of aim-bots? Those work with closed-source clients.
Yeah, but it's actually just a "tool" that happens to break a "game". SL is not a game. It's a crude early version of cyberspace, and hence has performance, security and stability issues galore. However, it's the best there is at the moment, and, quite frankly - it's mind-boggling what some people pull off with nothing but finite state automatons and parametric geometry.
>On the other hand, it looks like the Linden folks are still working on server controls to make sure stuff doesn't run out of >control. Flying penis storms, grey goo, that sort of thing.
Yes, that's necessary, and it's good. Their Grid defense has become much better in the recent months, and grey goo type attacks can rather quickly be contained.
>Hey, it's the first beast specifically of this type. There are a lot of hard lessons you learn by being first.
Yes, it's the first beast of this kind, and the lessons learned are invaluable - and very tough.
Install the client, log on, search "New Citizens Plaza" in the in-world search, and teleport there. Look around.
You'll understand.
Wow, i remember a rather recent post about finally reaching the 20.000 mark. That implies some seriously accelerated growth (looking at the official charts, and the linear predictions some people make for the future, I can only shake my head, because it's clearly exponential growth what we're seeing).
I bet they counted the OS source code that the servers run on.
There are various open source objects in the game. The "gnubie"-Store is actually not "GNU", but it's often full mod/copy.
It's usually set to no transfer to prevent abuse (but there are plenty of full mod/copy/transfer freebies around, probably houses, too!)
Unfortunately, you can always take away permissions, meaning that you could take that FLOSS house, mod it, remove the next-owner-can-transfer/mod/copy permissions, and basically make it a closed source thing.
Really, this is a great step towards "Cyberspace" á la Snow Crash. Open Source and, eventually, Open Standars will vastly spur development of this technology.
I have that one, it's a "small" capacitor microphone.
However, it's not at all inoccuous, it's huge and the clip looks every bit like a microphone and only vaguely like a tie clip.
This is for legit, non clandestine uses only.
They do EXACTLY this in Germany. There's a supermarket I've been going to for the past five years, and I almost always pay using my ATM card. No fraud has happened, but I've gotten considerably more wary now.
I've noticed the following behaviour:
1st Visit per day: The system prompts for a signature.
2nd and subsequent visits: The exact same (mag stripe) system prompts me for my pin.
1st Visit, Transaction error (probably dialup): System halts, waits for a while, says "Doch, Operation möglich" (which translates into "Oh, operation possible... anyway" - and prompts me for my PIN!
That's pretty much the same deal; but I believe the "untraining" couldn't be so bad, though. I think it'd be a lot like riding a bicycle or even speaking (I rarely use the words "femme" or "lass" in everyday speech, but I can still say them)
All I want is a simple neurally-interfaced text terminal. So I could keep writing code and playing text-based role playing games in case I lose my hands. Actually, just a neurally interfaced keyboard would be enough, though the reception of characters could be way cool, as well, especially once you learn to directly subvocalize without deciphering it first. That should only take a couple of months, seriously!
... uhh ... and the term dumb terminal would have a considerably literal sense)
(or, on a funny side, surf porn with no hands at the keyboard