The science museum in london has had their raptors covered in feathers for quite a while. I remember going in a thinking, fluffy dinosaurs, wtf; their almost cute.
From what i can remember the raptor's feathers resembled something close to a newborn penguin's. That is, they look more like they had fur/hair than feathers - with maybe some longer, more bird like ones, around the arms
MWNY 1999, I remember watching the stream live and getting hyped over this MMO shooter. Its such a shame it never became the game it was intended to be.-=[shake fist]=-
> Many people who strongly oppose the possibility of 'god' seem to have a common problem an over-inflated believe in their own self
Religions generally arise from the arrogant human belief that we are some how special enough to warrant some form of extra metaphysical spiritual entity that makes up part of us. Namely a soul and the Idea of an afterlife
Identical twins are formed from one embryo which then splits into 2. Does this mean each twin has a whole soul; or do they share one?
Chimeras are an individual where 2 non identical embryos have fused to produce one human. Does this mean the person has 2 souls?
Then there is the taboo, even for science. What happens when you produce a hybrid zygote/embryo/feotus. Evidently the combination of a Human and Chimpanzee gametes has been grown to 2 weeks. The scientist who carried it out claimed his purpose was to bring attention to the law in the USA that allows you to patent the DNA/RNA of a living organism. But if the 'Chimmanzee' was allowed to be born - would it have a soul? And would it be eligible for entrance into an afterlife?
Saved me an extra post there. But then i posted this one. And remember the data generally follows normal distrobutions so the relationship is not linear.
Its not secret that there is a negative correlation between IQ and 'religiousness'. Infact, less than 10% of people with an IQ above 120 have any faith/religous belief.
Im not going to point out the rather obvious deduction that can be drawn from this fact;)
In the UK we dont immunise animals that are going to end up down the food chain to prevent antibodies from passing down the food chain. And ofcorse to prevent resistant strains of the desieses from forming.
This is why at the last foot and mouth outbreak we (UK) killed off all the infected stock. France etc treated their animals.
Bear with me, this could seem a little longwinded - and verging on the conspiricy theory side
As we know the beagle 2 mars mission tragically dissappeared on entry into the martian atmosphere. This shouldnt really come as any surprise to anyone in the UK who watch the televised lead up to the launch and landing as they will remember the breaking airbags never worked. Yes, when tested inside a low atmosphere chamber (wiithout even making contact with a surface - less at speed) they popped - boom - poof.
The only reason why I think they launched the probe, neihg - given it any funding, was the one funky peice of equiptment it had on it. A pocket sized Mass Spectrometer. The sooner they write off the beagle project the sooner they could commertialise their research.
I wonder if the above device has anything to do with a ceartain small hound. Meh, random speculation
Stall in local Street Market: less than $1 (less than authentic version)
likelyhood of this working:
It might also be work looking into how M$ would plan on manageing the activation of the software - the bulk of internet connected PCs in the developing world tend to be in internet cafés. And their rental package costs the same per year as an off the shelf boxed copy - except after 12 months it doesn't work. I dont think anyone is going to be fooled.
I think they should go back to the cell shaded look and focus more on the games. I think that modern consoles can still sell sidescrolling games - and the fewer gameplay gimmics the better
Then there is the story aspect - and having seen a few of the x360 cutscenes - anyone who hasn't watched a fair bit of anime are probably gona block them out; anyone who has, still questions the nessicity of the smooching between sonic and a realisticly rendered woman.
So basically: KISS, Dont bother trying to make a complicated story to justify the game, and remember what made your old games good.
Yes, you are be legaly allowed to install Vista via bootcamp on a mac because all bootcamp does is set up a bootloader and HD partition and then burns a CDROM of drivers for you. No virtualisation envolved... unless 'They' claim that the bootloader is one;)
This article should have been under a VMWare related thread. The pricing hits linux users most. (developers with win boxes propably are gona opt for the pro version anyway.)
Im an OS junkie. Im the guy that installs AthenaOS on his computer for no good reason. I even had NeXT Step v3 running for a while. And I've done the rhapsody and most subsequent builds. I must have installed about 5 diffrent linux distros on my 266mhzPowerbook G3 - wiping the HD each time to set up the sugested swap/usr/root partitions. I even did A/UX and OS/2.
I was excited 5 years ago about the MorphOS/AmigaOS (henceforth called AO/S) when the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) was promising cheap PPC boards with Cheap PC connectivity compared to the macs available at the time.
It has to be said, when you compare A/OS to vista or any incarnation of OSX it comes up lacking. I've used workbench under UAE for some time for random OS Porn, and the new version actually looks worse than 1994 A/OS.
Unless they can find a reason why A/OS is better - and it was for multitasking/threading a while back - its not really worth perusing the project further, unless for past nostalgia, which is a perfectly valid reason from a hobbyists' perspective.
BeOS had the multimedia aspect as its selling point, and then it upped and went to the embedded side, which put the final nail in the coffin. Amiga OS doesn't see to have any funky buzzwords associated with it. Its all about buzzwords in this marketing ; consumer based society.
Then there is yellow box for windows which is essentially the cocoa api/toolkit. It was actually available for a while (pre osx) because a lot of Swiss banks used NeXT systems IIRC.
Now with the advent of universal development (PPC/Intel), selling a packaged yellow box (or just giving it away) could drive people to develop for the Mac by being able to run one binary on 2 OS's
I think that the only way that Robotics can go software wise is; an application to control the Unit with various drivers to control the inputs and outputs. And developers can take their pick from what ever OS they want - some allowing the developer to seed a cutdown version of the OS onto the device, to save space and CPU cycles. (and blue screens/eyes/tallons of doom)
So unless microsoft wants to get into defining/developing/prototyoing a new breed of controller platform (DMX etc), where the product has to be scalable and adaptable to god knows how many needs (I need at least 16 weapons controllers on my death droids), there R&D bucks are probably better placed.
... and as for AI, well - we all know what the paper clip is after!
Well, most people have one desktop computer that they tend to do most things on. In my computer I have a 5.1 compatible sound card, an ultra wide SCSI card for some old but expensive drives, a tv card, an extra ethernet card and a PCI radeon for the tv out/other display in addition to the agp graphics card. Admittedly most people will forgo the SCSI and the extra ethernet, but there's still a lot of cards once you add the physics card and take into account the extra slot occupied by the GPU fan.
Is it me or is the demo system fast running out of expansion slots. If these large Physics/Graphic card setups become a mainstay of the future gamers system, the Motherboard manufactures are going to have to add more slots, or at least space them out to allow for the slot hugging cooling systems that these powerful and hot cpu/gpu/ppu's need.
It might even be worth revising the ATX standard to allow for a more independent graphics card section (of the bord/case) that could allow for a specialised cooling compartment, with double width between the cards.
Those eco-friendly germans not content with recycling industrial waste have found a novel way to despose of the neighbours moggie that you've just accidentally reversed over:
I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Whiny shinji.
I remember one of the highlights of my trip to the states (from the UK) in 2001 was going round the dvd and comic shops looking for NGE on DVD, and i spent all my traveling money on the complete set as there were no plans to release it on dvd in the UK. The first 2 DVDs having 4 episodes which was ok, but 3 on the rest was a little steep, considering the last 2 episodes being a wonder in no-budget production.
I also picked up the first DVD of serial experiment lain, but thats another story...
With lots of ISPs restricting the ports that BitTorrent clients generally work on to preserve bandwidth often on the premise that bittorrent is used for illegal file swapping. So with the option of using your 40 Gigs a months bandwidth to get yourself a substantial volume of music/whatever, it would be an attractive offer. But I can see that with a legitimate use of such huge amounts of bandwidth being used, is this going to point out the naughty tactics that Broadband ISP sell services that their network couldn't sustain given higher usage.
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The science museum in london has had their raptors covered in feathers for quite a while. I remember going in a thinking, fluffy dinosaurs, wtf; their almost cute.
From what i can remember the raptor's feathers resembled something close to a newborn penguin's. That is, they look more like they had fur/hair than feathers - with maybe some longer, more bird like ones, around the arms
MWNY 1999, I remember watching the stream live and getting hyped over this MMO shooter. Its such a shame it never became the game it was intended to be.-=[shake fist]=-
The video of the demo is still up on the web, ah the nostalgia. http://nikon.bungie.org/movie1.html
Yet another sign of the imminent apocalypse, Uwe Boll gets a 3 movie deal.
We also don't crash when you divide by zero ;)
> Many people who strongly oppose the possibility of 'god' seem to have a common problem an over-inflated believe in their own self
Religions generally arise from the arrogant human belief that we are some how special enough to warrant some form of extra metaphysical spiritual entity that makes up part of us. Namely a soul and the Idea of an afterlife
Identical twins are formed from one embryo which then splits into 2. Does this mean each twin has a whole soul; or do they share one?
Chimeras are an individual where 2 non identical embryos have fused to produce one human. Does this mean the person has 2 souls?
Then there is the taboo, even for science. What happens when you produce a hybrid zygote/embryo/feotus. Evidently the combination of a Human and Chimpanzee gametes has been grown to 2 weeks. The scientist who carried it out claimed his purpose was to bring attention to the law in the USA that allows you to patent the DNA/RNA of a living organism. But if the 'Chimmanzee' was allowed to be born - would it have a soul? And would it be eligible for entrance into an afterlife?
A few things to ponder
Saved me an extra post there. But then i posted this one. And remember the data generally follows normal distrobutions so the relationship is not linear.
Its not secret that there is a negative correlation between IQ and 'religiousness'. Infact, less than 10% of people with an IQ above 120 have any faith/religous belief.
Im not going to point out the rather obvious deduction that can be drawn from this fact ;)
In the UK we dont immunise animals that are going to end up down the food chain to prevent antibodies from passing down the food chain. And ofcorse to prevent resistant strains of the desieses from forming.
This is why at the last foot and mouth outbreak we (UK) killed off all the infected stock. France etc treated their animals.
Bear with me, this could seem a little longwinded - and verging on the conspiricy theory side
As we know the beagle 2 mars mission tragically dissappeared on entry into the martian atmosphere. This shouldnt really come as any surprise to anyone in the UK who watch the televised lead up to the launch and landing as they will remember the breaking airbags never worked. Yes, when tested inside a low atmosphere chamber (wiithout even making contact with a surface - less at speed) they popped - boom - poof.
The only reason why I think they launched the probe, neihg - given it any funding, was the one funky peice of equiptment it had on it. A pocket sized Mass Spectrometer. The sooner they write off the beagle project the sooner they could commertialise their research.
I wonder if the above device has anything to do with a ceartain small hound. Meh, random speculation
A quick breakdown of the cost:
M$ Office 2003 US Retail price: $180-$250
$15 x 12 months = $180
Stall in local Street Market: less than $1 (less than authentic version)
likelyhood of this working:
It might also be work looking into how M$ would plan on manageing the activation of the software - the bulk of internet connected PCs in the developing world tend to be in internet cafés. And their rental package costs the same per year as an off the shelf boxed copy - except after 12 months it doesn't work. I dont think anyone is going to be fooled.
dag nab it, you got there first!
I think they should go back to the cell shaded look and focus more on the games. I think that modern consoles can still sell sidescrolling games - and the fewer gameplay gimmics the better
Then there is the story aspect - and having seen a few of the x360 cutscenes - anyone who hasn't watched a fair bit of anime are probably gona block them out; anyone who has, still questions the nessicity of the smooching between sonic and a realisticly rendered woman.
So basically: KISS, Dont bother trying to make a complicated story to justify the game, and remember what made your old games good.
What terrorist would leave a bomb decorated with a scaled-up 32x32 pixel motif lit up in bright blue LEDs?
Osama Bin LightBright
Yes, you are be legaly allowed to install Vista via bootcamp on a mac because all bootcamp does is set up a bootloader and HD partition and then burns a CDROM of drivers for you. No virtualisation envolved... unless 'They' claim that the bootloader is one ;)
This article should have been under a VMWare related thread. The pricing hits linux users most. (developers with win boxes propably are gona opt for the pro version anyway.)
Im an OS junkie. Im the guy that installs AthenaOS on his computer for no good reason. I even had NeXT Step v3 running for a while. And I've done the rhapsody and most subsequent builds. I must have installed about 5 diffrent linux distros on my 266mhzPowerbook G3 - wiping the HD each time to set up the sugested swap/usr/root partitions. I even did A/UX and OS/2.
I was excited 5 years ago about the MorphOS/AmigaOS (henceforth called AO/S) when the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) was promising cheap PPC boards with Cheap PC connectivity compared to the macs available at the time.
It has to be said, when you compare A/OS to vista or any incarnation of OSX it comes up lacking. I've used workbench under UAE for some time for random OS Porn, and the new version actually looks worse than 1994 A/OS.
Unless they can find a reason why A/OS is better - and it was for multitasking/threading a while back - its not really worth perusing the project further, unless for past nostalgia, which is a perfectly valid reason from a hobbyists' perspective.
BeOS had the multimedia aspect as its selling point, and then it upped and went to the embedded side, which put the final nail in the coffin. Amiga OS doesn't see to have any funky buzzwords associated with it. Its all about buzzwords in this marketing ; consumer based society.
Three words: Howard the Duck
Yeh, I noticed that. I wonder how long before they change it, possibly to hourglass that just goes on forever.
Then there is yellow box for windows which is essentially the cocoa api/toolkit. It was actually available for a while (pre osx) because a lot of Swiss banks used NeXT systems IIRC.
Now with the advent of universal development (PPC/Intel), selling a packaged yellow box (or just giving it away) could drive people to develop for the Mac by being able to run one binary on 2 OS's
I think that the only way that Robotics can go software wise is; an application to control the Unit with various drivers to control the inputs and outputs. And developers can take their pick from what ever OS they want - some allowing the developer to seed a cutdown version of the OS onto the device, to save space and CPU cycles. (and blue screens/eyes/tallons of doom)
So unless microsoft wants to get into defining/developing/prototyoing a new breed of controller platform (DMX etc), where the product has to be scalable and adaptable to god knows how many needs (I need at least 16 weapons controllers on my death droids), there R&D bucks are probably better placed.
... and as for AI, well - we all know what the paper clip is after!
Well, most people have one desktop computer that they tend to do most things on. In my computer I have a 5.1 compatible sound card, an ultra wide SCSI card for some old but expensive drives, a tv card, an extra ethernet card and a PCI radeon for the tv out/other display in addition to the agp graphics card. Admittedly most people will forgo the SCSI and the extra ethernet, but there's still a lot of cards once you add the physics card and take into account the extra slot occupied by the GPU fan.
Is it me or is the demo system fast running out of expansion slots. If these large Physics/Graphic card setups become a mainstay of the future gamers system, the Motherboard manufactures are going to have to add more slots, or at least space them out to allow for the slot hugging cooling systems that these powerful and hot cpu/gpu/ppu's need.
It might even be worth revising the ATX standard to allow for a more independent graphics card section (of the bord/case) that could allow for a specialised cooling compartment, with double width between the cards.
"Oh no! The connection's lagging doctor!"
"Reconfigure the upstream bandwidth, and re-route all traffic to the backup server!"
Those eco-friendly germans not content with recycling industrial waste have found a novel way to despose of the neighbours moggie that you've just accidentally reversed over:
http://www.tnn.co.uk/EuropeanNews/plonearticle.200 5-09-14.1389094726
and the inventors denial:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9339530/
Just think; turning the key in your turbo-diesel sports car, and hearing the engine purr :)
I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away! I mustn't run away!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Whiny shinji.
I remember one of the highlights of my trip to the states (from the UK) in 2001 was going round the dvd and comic shops looking for NGE on DVD, and i spent all my traveling money on the complete set as there were no plans to release it on dvd in the UK. The first 2 DVDs having 4 episodes which was ok, but 3 on the rest was a little steep, considering the last 2 episodes being a wonder in no-budget production.
I also picked up the first DVD of serial experiment lain, but thats another story...
With lots of ISPs restricting the ports that BitTorrent clients generally work on to preserve bandwidth often on the premise that bittorrent is used for illegal file swapping. So with the option of using your 40 Gigs a months bandwidth to get yourself a substantial volume of music/whatever, it would be an attractive offer. But I can see that with a legitimate use of such huge amounts of bandwidth being used, is this going to point out the naughty tactics that Broadband ISP sell services that their network couldn't sustain given higher usage.