fucking texas, the oil state, is and has been deliberately slashing nasa's budget just as soon as they realised that nasa was going to eventually, inevitably, discover technologies which would supplant their product.
Huston has a problem, with not getting paid in oil.
This is the reason the space shuttle's design got played-back so hard.
From an original, huge, lifter vehicle with the orbiter atop it - taking off from a runway similar to spaceshipone - scaled down to a rougher orbiter with increased payload capacity (due to air force imposition). this is what happened to the original shuttle envisioned in the 60s.
fucking vietnam, the problems with the firehoses and the bus seating down south.
Long story short, the government doesn't want us to progress any more. if we progress suffeciently it is obvious that we will no longer have a need for government.
The new dark age might be just around the corner. a decade? two decades?
What will it take? war with china or some stupid bullshit.
What's nasa's number again? I need to explain to them that it is urgent that I get off the planet immediately!
someone should roll the katamari over that page
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seriously, look at that monolithic article with the red borders!
Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but in regards to public physical wireless internetworks, what keeps we private citizens from setting up a global wireless network?
Seriously, I don't mean a megabit dealy-bob or anything. just a couple nice 10's of K global wireless hot spot for the masses?
Don't we have the technology to broadcast great distances and without sophisticated (by todays standards) consumer-level equipment?
I'll setup an repeater if it's pretty cheap to buy and assemble one ¦D
(I imagine it would involve duct tape, a dissasembled cell-phone and some blinking LEDs!)
[Scene: Roboticon 3003. Leela looks around the robot presentation stands and sees Nannybot 1.0 which looks like a clunky robot version of the aliens from Alien. It holds a baby in it's arms and speaks in a booming voice.]
Nannybot 1.0: Sleep little dumpling. I have replaced your mother.
[It's mouth opens and a bottle of milk comes out on it's tongue. The baby drinks from the bottle.]
both 10x as expensive and 10x as not widely-deployed
¦P
http://www.maland.com/pics/plasma%20009.jpg
Sure there are less of them (the Gaming PC), but the owner/players are much more loyal. and that was a great boon to bungie as they were growing up(the mac users). I learned this on techtv and from my friend at work who loved marathon and screams "they're everywhere they're everywhere!" and I laugh...though I've never really heard the actual audio of it.
then of course microsoft freakin pimped them out and they wore the wigs happily. as would I have.
long story short. Half Life 2, AKA: HL2, shows the appeal of the higher powered machine. It's just up to the developer to figure ways to tap that power. and that's what I mean by, Just make a new game. If it rocks it will be played.
I buy very few games, and had actually never played the first HL (Half Life). But this one was, I can honestly say, the Roxxorz.
That amazing feeling of controlling this piece of technology holds quite an allure. And by "technology" I mean the software and the hardware.
I mean, look at this! there's potential out there for the small guys still. just get out there. there are still new engines to be written. all that jazz.
I love the Star Wars universe. I would actually be happy to just watch hours and hours of CGI with no dialog whatsoever so long as it takes place in the star wars universe.
I don't care that vader is lukes father, or anything...ok maybe I care how Han got the falcon. but mostly I would be happy just to watch Han fight and shoot and maybe say a line here and there. I don't need any more character development other than that he is just a space pirate...basically...
to keep the arms from constantly tangling themselves up, each arm has an independent peripheral nervous system and neural circuitry
Interesting. This seems somewhat like the honda robot Asimo, in that Asimo also doesn't have just a single "brain" but rather a single primary processing unit and smaller controller units for each of his joints.
well, when I need to destroy the bad guy's PC it's likely he will have guards outside the door.
And it would have been a total waste of my time to buy this ninja outfit and grappling hook if I was just going to give away my position with a shotgun blast...of course, I suppose I could just carry a microwave gun, but have you priced those things lately?
I'm a ninja, man. Not bill gates!
Overclocking damage via software, Possible on PCs?
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Do you remember the good old days? When software configuration had the power to wreak physical havoc on the machine components themselves?
ahhh, I recall a coworker telling me the other day about ancient IBM printers.
"Giant beasts!" they were described as. "Stacks of alternating row color feed paper as tall as a MAN!" he said. He was in school and was waiting in line to print out a program he held in his hands as several hundred punch cards. The woman at the front of the line inserted her cards and set the system running.
Apparently she sent some kind of malformatted instruction, because this printer (which was quite substantial in size itself - computers used to be so much more like washing machines and fridges didn't they:) slowly opened it's mechanical lid and began to shoot paper 10 feet out at amazing velocities.
It took some time for an instructor to get called in to stop the madness, and apparently a good amount of paper had been blown through by that point ¦D
anyhow, the point of my story is a question. is it still possible to wreak havoc on modern PC's via non-bios software instructions? theoretically? without any physical hardware modification?
I am scared to death to drive on the freeways as a result of online games.
I mean, if a real life person can, in BF1942 Desert Combat, ram me with a hummer when I am in the middle of the desert in plain sight imagine how much easier it is when you are in the tight quarters of freeway driving!
And after all, playing with real people has shown me exactly how fallible we all are - especially how fallible I can be ¦ (
the Freeway is my most despised mutliplayer environment.
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I know what they are doing.
fucking texas, the oil state, is and has been deliberately slashing nasa's budget just as soon as they realised that nasa was going to eventually, inevitably, discover technologies which would supplant their product.
Huston has a problem, with not getting paid in oil.
This is the reason the space shuttle's design got played-back so hard.
From an original, huge, lifter vehicle with the orbiter atop it - taking off from a runway similar to spaceshipone - scaled down to a rougher orbiter with increased payload capacity (due to air force imposition). this is what happened to the original shuttle envisioned in the 60s.
fucking vietnam, the problems with the firehoses and the bus seating down south.
Long story short, the government doesn't want us to progress any more. if we progress suffeciently it is obvious that we will no longer have a need for government.
The new dark age might be just around the corner. a decade? two decades?
What will it take? war with china or some stupid bullshit.
What's nasa's number again? I need to explain to them that it is urgent that I get off the planet immediately!
seriously, look at that monolithic article with the red borders!
MY EYES ASPLODE!
;) happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
Really, the question is why do people do this?
How can people that make such stupid, short-sighted decisions work in sectors of the economy generally associated with intelligence?
this goes for scientific skewing as well.
WHY?
perhaps not enough people realized that happiness==success. not money.
field programmable gatorade...
Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but in regards to public physical wireless internetworks, what keeps we private citizens from setting up a global wireless network?
Seriously, I don't mean a megabit dealy-bob or anything. just a couple nice 10's of K global wireless hot spot for the masses?
Don't we have the technology to broadcast great distances and without sophisticated (by todays standards) consumer-level equipment?
I'll setup an repeater if it's pretty cheap to buy and assemble one ¦D
(I imagine it would involve duct tape, a dissasembled cell-phone and some blinking LEDs!)
[Scene: Roboticon 3003. Leela looks around the robot presentation stands and sees Nannybot 1.0 which looks like a clunky robot version of the aliens from Alien. It holds a baby in it's arms and speaks in a booming voice.]
Nannybot 1.0: Sleep little dumpling. I have replaced your mother.
[It's mouth opens and a bottle of milk comes out on it's tongue. The baby drinks from the bottle.]
Leela: Aww!
:(
I so confused! my head asplode on 4/1
Now, how many of those poisitions were required to be filled by minories to win the NASA contract?
why, do you wish to use the same ratio in order to achieve 99.9% perfect code?
'cause that's a good idea.
I can show you 10x that,both ways.
both 10x as expensive and 10x as not widely-deployed
¦P
http://www.maland.com/pics/plasma%20009.jpg
Sure there are less of them (the Gaming PC), but the owner/players are much more loyal. and that was a great boon to bungie as they were growing up(the mac users). I learned this on techtv and from my friend at work who loved marathon and screams "they're everywhere they're everywhere!" and I laugh...though I've never really heard the actual audio of it.
then of course microsoft freakin pimped them out and they wore the wigs happily. as would I have.
long story short. Half Life 2, AKA: HL2, shows the appeal of the higher powered machine. It's just up to the developer to figure ways to tap that power.
and that's what I mean by,
Just make a new game.
If it rocks it will be played.
I buy very few games, and had actually never played the first HL (Half Life). But this one was, I can honestly say, the Roxxorz.
That amazing feeling of controlling this piece of technology holds quite an allure. And by "technology" I mean the software and the hardware.
I mean, look at this! there's potential out there for the small guys still. just get out there. there are still new engines to be written. all that jazz.
Which deployed video game console is friendly to independent developers who want their games distributed on that console?
The PC
I love the Star Wars universe.
I would actually be happy to just watch hours and hours of CGI with no dialog whatsoever so long as it takes place in the star wars universe.
I don't care that vader is lukes father, or anything...ok maybe I care how Han got the falcon. but mostly I would be happy just to watch Han fight and shoot and maybe say a line here and there. I don't need any more character development other than that he is just a space pirate...basically...
that's all. I am simple, yes.
just give me images, sound and music.
That's what I want.
Just make a new game.
If it rocks it will be played.
Another example of utilitarian design being not the best method would be the early Intersates in the US.
At first they were built as vast point-to-point straight lines miles and miles long.
This design led to very boring drives, and consequently people fell asleep at the wheel.
Modern highways the world over tend to have gradually sweeping or rising and descending layouts as a result of this.
And when it collapses under the weight of that flock...
that's what makes it art!
In latin cerebellum means "Small Brain" or "little brain".
to keep the arms from constantly tangling themselves up, each arm has an independent peripheral nervous system and neural circuitry
Interesting. This seems somewhat like the honda robot Asimo, in that Asimo also doesn't have just a single "brain" but rather a single primary processing unit and smaller controller units for each of his joints.
AND nuclear fusion
¦D
if you had to decide if 4,294,967,297 was prime or not.
It would seem this "resoning" is only applicable to certain kinds of decisions. Likely those more influenced by emotion than logic.
well, when I need to destroy the bad guy's PC it's likely he will have guards outside the door.
And it would have been a total waste of my time to buy this ninja outfit and grappling hook if I was just going to give away my position with a shotgun blast...of course, I suppose I could just carry a microwave gun, but have you priced those things lately?
I'm a ninja, man. Not bill gates!
Do you remember the good old days? When software configuration had the power to wreak physical havoc on the machine components themselves?
:) slowly opened it's mechanical lid and began to shoot paper 10 feet out at amazing velocities.
ahhh, I recall a coworker telling me the other day about ancient IBM printers.
"Giant beasts!" they were described as. "Stacks of alternating row color feed paper as tall as a MAN!" he said. He was in school and was waiting in line to print out a program he held in his hands as several hundred punch cards. The woman at the front of the line inserted her cards and set the system running.
Apparently she sent some kind of malformatted instruction, because this printer (which was quite substantial in size itself - computers used to be so much more like washing machines and fridges didn't they
It took some time for an instructor to get called in to stop the madness, and apparently a good amount of paper had been blown through by that point ¦D
anyhow, the point of my story is a question. is it still possible to wreak havoc on modern PC's via non-bios software instructions? theoretically? without any physical hardware modification?
just curious =)
You can't patent a chemical, right?
you can only patent the process for creating/refining that chemical.
DNA is still an acid, is it not?
I am scared to death to drive on the freeways as a result of online games.
I mean, if a real life person can, in BF1942 Desert Combat, ram me with a hummer when I am in the middle of the desert in plain sight imagine how much easier it is when you are in the tight quarters of freeway driving!
And after all, playing with real people has shown me exactly how fallible we all are - especially how fallible I can be ¦ (
the Freeway is my most despised mutliplayer environment.
If I am not the only thing which exists, then Ego must be the boundry between I and everything else.
well, I'm fairly covered in philosophical wax I do say ¦ )
something which does not exist cannot
state, "I exist".
Therefore, since I can state such, I am.
Furthermore, I am almost certain that I am something.
As for what I am? Well, I'm still working on that.