They also announced a COBOL App Store so users could easily find and install useful applications. The inaugural app was "Angry Birds" for the Honeywell 200. Ordering this app will have a box with the punch cards delivered to your house, and a complete installation manual. The second offering was a fart app for the UNIVAC series.
Actually, dinner time has become my only TV time. It's when I catch up on shows, but I watch Netflix DVDs 95% of the time, so does that count as internet?:-)
Where do video games land here? My HDTV shows more video games than TV or movies.
The whole point is just to enjoy the movie. I don't care if it's CGI, matte painting or a guy in a suit. Worrying about that stuff is completely immersion breaking and way too mchanical for what is supposed to be an artistic endeavor (yes, even good action films can be considered artistic).
The best CGI effects are supposed to be boring. In fact, they are supposed to be unnoticeable and blend in without you thinking about it.
Actually, they were going to use statistical tools from, I think, the futures market to assess various risk vectors for terrorism. I read an overview of it and, well, it seemed as good as anything else when trying to predict what a society of billions of individuals will generate. I thought it was enough outside the box to be interesting. But then the media so misreported it that people truly thought a market was being set up to *wager* on terrorist events. I remember it because it was one of the final things that made me give up on the news media as a pack of irredeemable shitheads. So they closed it up before it even had a chance to prove itself one way or the other.
Maybe it would have been useless, but where's the harm in trying? Science learns from its failures.
Or maybe they'd have actual numbers that say "Huh, we probably don't need to grope children and put the elderly in X-ray chambers before a flight."
Because the transmitter is way up there in orbit. And there's dozens of them. Good, steady work if you can get it, but the commute is a bitch. especially if there's no travel allowance.
Yes. You get a cookie. The *point* was why is this just now being done in parts of the actual military when the contractors have been required to do it for years?
A small kid at a school is getting picked on by a bunch of other kids. His friends step in and try to set things right. Is it the small kid's fault that his friends got into an altercation? No. Is he the cause of it? Yes. Indirectly, he is the cause of the other kids jumping in to save his bacon.
The prime mover here is still the bullies. No bullies, no problem.
I've worked in classified areas in aerospace, and USBs have been disabled since the first USB equipped PCs showed up. In then early days I think they actually removed the USB interface chip. Now it's disabled in software.
Red Dead Redemption had that problem- no ranking at all. You go in at level 1 riding a nag and armed with some dinky weapon loadout, and a level 50 guy with a golden gun riding a golden buffalo that runs at about Mach 3 keeps killing you. Whee. Always wondered what the fun was from the level 50 guy's POV. It seems it would be like playing a game with a God code activated. It would get boring after 5 minutes.
And you have to be a fanatic to even get to level 50. I got to level 36 and was burned out on it completely. I think the golden buffalo is for reaching 50, passing into legend, and going from 1 to 50 *again*! Crap, I'm just not that OCD.
Co-op is the real king in my book, especially games like Borderlands where you can play the same thing single or in co-op, and the game adjusts the difficulty based on how many people are in the group. I played that both ways, and it was great.
Portal 2 looks like the next great co-op. In that case it looks like added levels designed specifically for two players.
There always an "ist" of some sort to battle against. There were fascists, that went away. Then came communists, that got old. Now it's terrorist.
And tomorrow, the NUDISTS!
Seriously, you ever been to a nude beach? I have. It's like David Letterman said- there's more ocean going tonnage at a nude beach than at any major seaport.
Maybe he would have, maybe not. Or maybe he'd just be comfortable. That's my main point- the country isn't just the super rich and the super poor. It is, however, full of super stupid that I even have to explain stuff like this.
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Reality doesn't give a shit.
Obligatory: how is this news for nerds?
Let the flame war begin!
Was that your reason for posting this? Eff you, then.
They also announced a COBOL App Store so users could easily find and install useful applications. The inaugural app was "Angry Birds" for the Honeywell 200. Ordering this app will have a box with the punch cards delivered to your house, and a complete installation manual. The second offering was a fart app for the UNIVAC series.
So what gave us holographic theory? Was that when Bob and Bill gatewayed into meth?
Actually, dinner time has become my only TV time. It's when I catch up on shows, but I watch Netflix DVDs 95% of the time, so does that count as internet? :-)
Where do video games land here? My HDTV shows more video games than TV or movies.
It's worse than you imagine. It's a Visual Basic program.
Let's just hop 2011 isn't Mike Godwin for any reason.
People will then make the Hitler reference, and reality as we know will collapse into a singularity of self reference.
I need to concentrate. My requests at work for a small pocket universe have gone unanswered, sadly.
It's not a new tool anymore. Now the trick is to use the tool in an artistic manner.
Computer art used to be someone looping random calls to shape routines. Now you really have to create something compelling.
The whole point is just to enjoy the movie. I don't care if it's CGI, matte painting or a guy in a suit. Worrying about that stuff is completely immersion breaking and way too mchanical for what is supposed to be an artistic endeavor (yes, even good action films can be considered artistic).
The best CGI effects are supposed to be boring. In fact, they are supposed to be unnoticeable and blend in without you thinking about it.
Chess III: Checkmate
Haunted by the ghosts of his past, lost in a maze of madness, a man turns to pills...
old-timey==good vs industrialism-and-change==bad story
Segmentation fault
Cripes, I hope they don't give it a 1970s/1980s sounding computer voice.
That and the Mass Effect 3 teaser gave me a happy today. :-)
Actually, they were going to use statistical tools from, I think, the futures market to assess various risk vectors for terrorism. I read an overview of it and, well, it seemed as good as anything else when trying to predict what a society of billions of individuals will generate. I thought it was enough outside the box to be interesting. But then the media so misreported it that people truly thought a market was being set up to *wager* on terrorist events. I remember it because it was one of the final things that made me give up on the news media as a pack of irredeemable shitheads. So they closed it up before it even had a chance to prove itself one way or the other.
Maybe it would have been useless, but where's the harm in trying? Science learns from its failures.
Or maybe they'd have actual numbers that say "Huh, we probably don't need to grope children and put the elderly in X-ray chambers before a flight."
Because the transmitter is way up there in orbit. And there's dozens of them. Good, steady work if you can get it, but the commute is a bitch. especially if there's no travel allowance.
Yes. You get a cookie. The *point* was why is this just now being done in parts of the actual military when the contractors have been required to do it for years?
A small kid at a school is getting picked on by a bunch of other kids. His friends step in and try to set things right. Is it the small kid's fault that his friends got into an altercation? No. Is he the cause of it? Yes. Indirectly, he is the cause of the other kids jumping in to save his bacon.
The prime mover here is still the bullies. No bullies, no problem.
I've worked in classified areas in aerospace, and USBs have been disabled since the first USB equipped PCs showed up. In then early days I think they actually removed the USB interface chip. Now it's disabled in software.
Red Dead Redemption had that problem- no ranking at all. You go in at level 1 riding a nag and armed with some dinky weapon loadout, and a level 50 guy with a golden gun riding a golden buffalo that runs at about Mach 3 keeps killing you. Whee. Always wondered what the fun was from the level 50 guy's POV. It seems it would be like playing a game with a God code activated. It would get boring after 5 minutes.
And you have to be a fanatic to even get to level 50. I got to level 36 and was burned out on it completely. I think the golden buffalo is for reaching 50, passing into legend, and going from 1 to 50 *again*! Crap, I'm just not that OCD.
Co-op is the real king in my book, especially games like Borderlands where you can play the same thing single or in co-op, and the game adjusts the difficulty based on how many people are in the group. I played that both ways, and it was great.
Portal 2 looks like the next great co-op. In that case it looks like added levels designed specifically for two players.
There always an "ist" of some sort to battle against. There were fascists, that went away. Then came communists, that got old. Now it's terrorist.
And tomorrow, the NUDISTS!
Seriously, you ever been to a nude beach? I have. It's like David Letterman said- there's more ocean going tonnage at a nude beach than at any major seaport.
But this isn't free speech anymore, it's just mob justice and there's no due process in mob justice.
Actually, I didn't start cheering *until* it become mob justice. :-)
It gives a happy to the little anarchist that lives in my black, stunted heart.
YARGH! Damn the G-Man, and let slip the DoS scripts of war!
Hoist the skull and crossbones, me mateys, and let us send these oppressive land lubbers to the briny deep!
Wait, what, falsely accused? (lowers authentic reproduction sabre) Aw, nuts. :-(
Nice strawman and cherry picked example.
Maybe he would have, maybe not. Or maybe he'd just be comfortable. That's my main point- the country isn't just the super rich and the super poor. It is, however, full of super stupid that I even have to explain stuff like this.