No, I don't want to hear "it's not your job" either or you pay blah blah blah. Sometimes you just chip in and get something done, don't wait for an invite in the real world.
Down the street from me is sort of a weird intersection, the weeds grow real high quickly, blocking the view so you can't tell if a car is coming around the corner or not making it hazardous. Ya, the county mows it once a month, sometimes that isn't enough. solution! Take weed whacker in trunk of car, stop, get out, and HORRORS OF DE HORRORS do something practical that benefits the neighbors and me just for the hell of it! And not get paid! And it's not my job! And it costs time, and uber leet mad weed whacking skillz! The horrors!
Thank you. Now I know I'm not the only one. It's my world, I have to live in it, why shouldn't I make it better? By all means, yell at me if I bork something up but until that day, I'm going to keep making my local world better for me and the people in it.
I've tried this setup twice in the past. It always feels like you are walking up an incline. To make it feel flat, the sphere has to be huge. As it is, the weight of the sphere is difficult to start moving and difficult to stop moving. What is required for a real-life VR environment is a flexible sphere that allows a flat surface for the user to walk on and power-assisted rotation to make it start and stop easily.
So a giant, partially inflated beach ball? What to use for a bearing... and a door... grease or other lubricant could work, but something that messy would need an excellent door to keep the user clean. Hrm, wonder if you could sandwich a limited flexible frame work into the ball so that it kept its structure without air pressure. Kind of a geodesic sphere where the joints aren't solid rather they can flex a few degrees... a big engineering project that I don't have the training for.
They're going to cancel Talk like a Pirate Day and hire a bunch of navy cruisers to protect the shipping lanes from murderous thieves? or are we talking about copyright infringment where the 'injured' gets to make up numbers to say how hurt they are? We're talking about the second. They're looking into things like yesterday's automatic IR flashlight.
Funny though, the BBC article talks about in-theatre technology and this article talks about distributing to "universities, companies, Internet service providers and other network operators," which aren't movie theatres.
Slashdot has lots and lots of readers who like to look at pictures. When you post an article with pictures, it tends to overwhelm the picture hosting server.
ARRGGHH my eyess!!
um, resize your browser window to be short and wide. Note how you can't to see all the text even with scrolling? How and why did they do this?
Peopel resize their browse windows! Don't break the web.
High energy lasers have very promising defensive purposes, such as being able to shoot down/burn up mortar and artilery fire as well as RPGs. You know, many of the things that the underdogs like to use in asymetric warfare? Being able to mount these things onto a fighter is a good step towards getting these things on the ground and in the field.
Good point about the anti-RPG/mortar thing. I wonder why they aren't mounting them on something that can loiter over the battlefield. Something slow like an A10 or a big radio/intelligence/whatever plane that can actually defend our groundtroops for an hour would be more useful than an F-16 zipping overhead at Mach 0.8.
Hrm, might be a range issue. If it can't cover much area, it would only be able to shoot down things that are Trying to get close.
>"Except it's not really about defence at all, it's all about being able to make the first strike with impunity. That is the whole point of the missile defense programme also."
Wrong missle defense tech skippy. That doctrine applies to ICBMs not AA missles.
Um, say I'm a ka-jillionaire and I hire a bunch of high schoolers to play GameDeJeur a bunch. When I get home from work, they should be online and go on quests with me to get me the good stuff.
How do you design your game to avoid that? It appears that we're all just friends.
Who's expecting to read about this in the RISKS digest in a couple years?
imagine: "Soldiers were found to be simply relying on their software agents' interpretation of the situation when they initiated the fire sequence."
There was an article about this recently, though I can't find it. The Patriot system said a plane was flying like a missle and the soldiers gave fire permission. They could have waited 1 minute but didn't. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.72.html#subj2
What's the law got to do with it? When you sign a contract you are making a promise. You shouldn't try to weasel out of a promise. I remember a kinder gentler time when people made agreements with no more assurance than a hand shake.
People generally don't read the contracts they sign. I know this because I continually surprise people who ask me to 'sign here'. I read the contract and ask for the things the contract says I should have (seperate agreement documents). The person who handed me the contract gets surprised when I tell them what it says.
Since people are not Reading their contracts, they are not Promising what's written. They are agreeing that they trust someone they haven't met to not rape them with the law at some future date. It's stupid behaivor, but it is the norm.
The time without contracts that you remember is called 'Childhood'. I miss it too.
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>POTS is damn near 100% reliable
My phone company charges $12 for my no-frills service. Somehow the bill I pay is $45 after all the fees and taxes. Those extra charges are the main reason I'm considering bailing from POTS to VoIP. They'll catch up sooner or later, but for a time, I can keep some of my money.
Heck I might have some cash to enter the sucker mill^H^H cell phone subscriber pool.
dude, gimme some links/sources. Without them, you sound like a nut. No offense intended, it's just my shortcut to judging people's arguements when I'm short on time.
After you've drag and dropped into the cart, the image should disappear and reappear rather than sliding. The current sliding back animation makes it look like the computer has refused your instruction.
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How many of the internets do you run?
I like it! That way, news.com.com's URL will be news.com.com.us, making it even stupider! FABU! nonono, us.com.com.news.news.com.com.us
How else are you going to get bugfixes onto your console?
*insert comment about people today* It seemed the world wasn't like this when I was a kid and not paying attention to the world.
And thanks for the weedwacking too.
awesome. freakin awesome summary.
Funny though, the BBC article talks about in-theatre technology and this article talks about distributing to "universities, companies, Internet service providers and other network operators," which aren't movie theatres.
Personally, I'd rather we keep the pirates in order to combat global warming.
Just thought you might like to know.
Mod parent up!! Dude sweet! erm, Thank you sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
ARRGGHH my eyess!! um, resize your browser window to be short and wide. Note how you can't to see all the text even with scrolling? How and why did they do this? Peopel resize their browse windows! Don't break the web.
Hrm, might be a range issue. If it can't cover much area, it would only be able to shoot down things that are Trying to get close.
>"Except it's not really about defence at all, it's all about being able to make the first strike with impunity. That is the whole point of the missile defense programme also." Wrong missle defense tech skippy. That doctrine applies to ICBMs not AA missles.
Um, say I'm a ka-jillionaire and I hire a bunch of high schoolers to play GameDeJeur a bunch. When I get home from work, they should be online and go on quests with me to get me the good stuff. How do you design your game to avoid that? It appears that we're all just friends.
Meta mod these people some smackdown please.
see this excellent and surprisingly large list of rights that marriage gives you: http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14687 7&threshold=4&commentsort=0&tid=109&tid=219&mode=t hread&cid=12306231
Not that I Want to be part of this Thing, but I doubt that you could classify 75% or my pr0n correctly by any simple rule.
Who's expecting to read about this in the RISKS digest in a couple years? imagine: "Soldiers were found to be simply relying on their software agents' interpretation of the situation when they initiated the fire sequence." There was an article about this recently, though I can't find it. The Patriot system said a plane was flying like a missle and the soldiers gave fire permission. They could have waited 1 minute but didn't. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.72.html#subj2
Since people are not Reading their contracts, they are not Promising what's written. They are agreeing that they trust someone they haven't met to not rape them with the law at some future date. It's stupid behaivor, but it is the norm.
The time without contracts that you remember is called 'Childhood'. I miss it too.
>POTS is damn near 100% reliable
My phone company charges $12 for my no-frills service. Somehow the bill I pay is $45 after all the fees and taxes. Those extra charges are the main reason I'm considering bailing from POTS to VoIP. They'll catch up sooner or later, but for a time, I can keep some of my money.
Heck I might have some cash to enter the sucker mill^H^H cell phone subscriber pool.
dude, gimme some links/sources. Without them, you sound like a nut. No offense intended, it's just my shortcut to judging people's arguements when I'm short on time.
After you've drag and dropped into the cart, the image should disappear and reappear rather than sliding. The current sliding back animation makes it look like the computer has refused your instruction.
Was this article just an advertisement for AutoRealm?
Wish this was implemented server side with web access and downloads so that everyone could use it.