I'll second that!
i had totaly forgotten about N. has to be one of the best flash platformers created in years. no real goal, besides beat the level, no in depth story, just pure, magical, awsome platformer goodness.
and, as a bonus, it has great ragdoll physics on the character when it dies. my vote is for N, wich can eat your soul and spit it out a whimpering addict hours later.
First off, i only heard claims of 10x more efficient in the demo video, but i may have missed 30x in the article somewhere.
honestly though, if the device costs what he claimed it did (3-5$) and it can power a small radio. (it puts out enough power to replace a couple double A's) then its a useful device. as i understand it, its not a 10x more efficient in terms of wind energy converted to power, its 10x more cost efficient in terms of being able to power small devices for x number of $ invested. to make a turbine wind generator that is useful on any level for even 10$, is a VERY daunting task, if not impossible. This defiantly won't solve the world's energy problems, but it has lots of potential uses.
someone mentioned AC to DC. in the video, he talked about "costs a quarter" power conditioners, and we saw the device power a clock and a radio, which both use DC. i appears he has solved that problem.
this device is literally, a 5$ wind battery, provided the article/video was not just blowing smoke.
I live 2 towns away from McDonald Observatory in Texas, and in this town and most of the neighboring towns, the city lights have guards on them to reduce the amount of light going upwards into the atmosphere and reflecting down and interfering with the telescope. it is amazing the difference it makes. in a city about 100 miles from here, you can't see a single star at night, here, you walk out and look up at night, you are sure to see stars.
a lot of simple things can be done to reduce light pollution.
on the exact same note, the part of this that stood out most to me, is the controls. in episodes I II and III, they are all star trek TNG touchscreeny things which get replaced by switches and levers in the last 5 minutes of episode III, to match up with the original episodes.
the real trouble being, that as far as i know, no-one makes a residential instilation heat pump, much less one that could keep a house comfortable when the weather is 30 degrees below zero fahrenheit. In THAT context, electric heat (such as radient coils with forced air) is much less cost effective than gas heat.
central montana, refrigerator, freezer water heater and stove where natural gas, house was heated with a wood/coal fired furnace that was later replaced with a gas furnace. so true, it was not powering what one would consider a "modern home" but honestly, i'd rather have a gas stove and water heater any day. true, you would need a MUCH larger array if you planned on running a electric water heater and stove, but i know you can get full size fridges from GE that use the same amount of power as a normal lightbulb.
not to go off onto a diatribe or anything, but people forget that electricity is the most ineficiant way of heating water, powering a stove, or heating a house.
actualy, a 20x20 foot aray with good batterys and inverters will power a home with a family of four quite nicely. (I myself lived in a house that was totaly off the grid for about 5 years, pure sunlight on a 20x20 grid in the summer, minor supliment by propane generator in the winter months)
no, nuclear weapons in space are banned by treaty.
we use nuclear power in the form of nuclear batterys in space all the time. mostly because they can stand up to the temprature extremes of space, and will outlast the hardware they are installed in. (Vs a alkaline or some other form of battery, which does not have these properties.)
my first thought when it finaly started walking was "it walks like somone taped two mentaly defective chickens to eachother"
but then it got the hang of it.
so does this mean that they are going to pack up and stow in a secret warehouse the saturn V that is on display at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama?
i mean heck, who needs a poster when you can drive over with a tape mesure and check out the real thing?
well, the comments on this article have been educational. (oddly enough)
here is one that might intrest some folks:
http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/contactus/faq/l abeling.html#4 (the question about kosher coke)
here is more info http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2006/0 4/16/passover_cokehttp://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/kosh er-for-passover-coke-its-the-real-thing-baby/ shows a picture of a cap that indicates kosher.
i'd known about this for a while, but its nice to know that you can get coke that is made with real sugar, and not magic corn syrup if you know what to look for.
as for caffeine, i used to be on it like nobody's business. several 1 liter pepsi's a day, and that was the norm. i got the flu one week, and stopped the caffeine to keep from agrivating some of the symptoms, and have tryed to keep my caffeine intake to a minimum since. none after around 5pm, so i sleep better, and unless i'm driving somwhere, none in the mornings. i've found that if i start the day with caffeine, i crash and then drag around 2pm. so staying off it keeps me going all day.
so i drink a lot of gatorade, no caffeine, but it realy helps keep you going when you work construction in the heat all day.
is a bad idea, as long as the auto incramenting bid is in use.
because it would take like, 2 days, tops, for it to escalate out of control when two people bid like a million dollars max bid on a furby, and it keeps overtiming and auto incamenting the bid untill somone actualy wins a cheep plastic doll for seven hundred fifty thousand dolars.
you have to have one or the other, auto-bid, or overtime.
World of warcraft uses an overtime system, and its nice, it also includes a buyout, but there is no bidding a max ammount, and letting the bid rise to that, you bid, and your bid is the new minimum that the auction is at.
cant have it both ways.
ok, i'm no trained profesional in hydrophysics, but where i'm from, water obeys the laws of gravity. if you look closely at that picture, you see what is claimed to be "water" in a configuration that it could not hold, and/or would not end up in on any surface. especialy a sloped one. (short runs both up and down the "slope" and runs in oposite direction of what apears to be "primary flow"
it looks like extermely fine blown sand to me. blown sand on rock.
i did not read the article, but it seems like an entirely expensive undertaking to me.
on a almost unrelated note, i've always felt that the best way to send anything over massive distance would be to open a gateway to another dimention or whatever, put your item through, then the person on the other end opens a gate to the same spot and picks it up.
and from a laymans view, that would be easyer to find out how to do. lol.
I admit, i'm somwhat exited to hear this, ID has always been at the top of the list of awsome for me.
but i have to say, the thing that interests me the most is the "building a new graphics engine" thing. i mean i honestly have no idea what that entails. to the average gamer, the idea of creating a new way to render a game from scratch is nothing short of a miricle.
i honestly can say i realy realy wonder what the first line of code is for a bran-spanking-new graphics engine.
my personal favorite, at the ISP where i worked, they would buy lots of nic's for instilation in new customers computers (because some of the people around here have oooold comps with no nic, and we have bad electrical storms, so peoples nics seem to fry a lot)
anyways, the ones they got came in a nice box, with a slip of paper inside that says "before installing this nic, visit www.netgear.com and download and install the driver" or something along those lines.
and invariably, the floppy drive in the computer had half a jelly sandwich in it, or the usb drivers where corupt, or the thumb drive was borrowed/lost/broken.
real pain in the butt.
soo, what this says is that company A is yelling "you don't use our product! your a TERRORIST!" at companys B, C, D, E, F, and so on.
thats it, i have to say it. This is Re-Damn-Tarded.
people that bring law suits like this should be fish-slapped and left in the street.
they need to add a Beating the Dead Horse tag.
honestly, this is a moronic idea IMOH. i am not a lawyer, but i don't see how this could be done in a way that will not cause huge leagal battles, angst, anger, frustraion, and a general unpleasentness. its like the idea of prohabition, it will not go over lightly if any misguided individual actualy takes steps to start taxing virtual ecinomics.
and where does it end? do researchers have to pay tax on gains in ecinomic computer models? this is a barel of apes we don't want to open.
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is, will they be trashing all the sites currently on google pages? 'cause that would be bad. for a lot of people.
edison Electrocuted an elephant to death in central park to show how evil AC electricity was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant) i guess people just have no sympathy...
that if you have to ask what they cost, it means you cant afford one.
I'll second that! i had totaly forgotten about N. has to be one of the best flash platformers created in years. no real goal, besides beat the level, no in depth story, just pure, magical, awsome platformer goodness. and, as a bonus, it has great ragdoll physics on the character when it dies. my vote is for N, wich can eat your soul and spit it out a whimpering addict hours later.
for good old fassioned runescape (.com) cant beat a free MMO that plays in the browser with half decent graphics.
First off, i only heard claims of 10x more efficient in the demo video, but i may have missed 30x in the article somewhere. honestly though, if the device costs what he claimed it did (3-5$) and it can power a small radio. (it puts out enough power to replace a couple double A's) then its a useful device. as i understand it, its not a 10x more efficient in terms of wind energy converted to power, its 10x more cost efficient in terms of being able to power small devices for x number of $ invested. to make a turbine wind generator that is useful on any level for even 10$, is a VERY daunting task, if not impossible. This defiantly won't solve the world's energy problems, but it has lots of potential uses. someone mentioned AC to DC. in the video, he talked about "costs a quarter" power conditioners, and we saw the device power a clock and a radio, which both use DC. i appears he has solved that problem. this device is literally, a 5$ wind battery, provided the article/video was not just blowing smoke.
didn't we *just* go through this with Francis Ford Coppola? http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/27/people.coppola.ap/index.htmlyou'd think that people would invest in better locks when they have that kind of thing lying about.
I live 2 towns away from McDonald Observatory in Texas, and in this town and most of the neighboring towns, the city lights have guards on them to reduce the amount of light going upwards into the atmosphere and reflecting down and interfering with the telescope. it is amazing the difference it makes. in a city about 100 miles from here, you can't see a single star at night, here, you walk out and look up at night, you are sure to see stars. a lot of simple things can be done to reduce light pollution.
on the exact same note, the part of this that stood out most to me, is the controls. in episodes I II and III, they are all star trek TNG touchscreeny things which get replaced by switches and levers in the last 5 minutes of episode III, to match up with the original episodes.
the real trouble being, that as far as i know, no-one makes a residential instilation heat pump, much less one that could keep a house comfortable when the weather is 30 degrees below zero fahrenheit. In THAT context, electric heat (such as radient coils with forced air) is much less cost effective than gas heat.
central montana, refrigerator, freezer water heater and stove where natural gas, house was heated with a wood/coal fired furnace that was later replaced with a gas furnace. so true, it was not powering what one would consider a "modern home" but honestly, i'd rather have a gas stove and water heater any day. true, you would need a MUCH larger array if you planned on running a electric water heater and stove, but i know you can get full size fridges from GE that use the same amount of power as a normal lightbulb. not to go off onto a diatribe or anything, but people forget that electricity is the most ineficiant way of heating water, powering a stove, or heating a house.
actualy, a 20x20 foot aray with good batterys and inverters will power a home with a family of four quite nicely. (I myself lived in a house that was totaly off the grid for about 5 years, pure sunlight on a 20x20 grid in the summer, minor supliment by propane generator in the winter months)
if it turns out to not be vaporware, it may very well actualy make a dent in our use of coal and other fuels for generating electricity.
no, nuclear weapons in space are banned by treaty. we use nuclear power in the form of nuclear batterys in space all the time. mostly because they can stand up to the temprature extremes of space, and will outlast the hardware they are installed in. (Vs a alkaline or some other form of battery, which does not have these properties.)
my first thought when it finaly started walking was "it walks like somone taped two mentaly defective chickens to eachother" but then it got the hang of it.
somone has to. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! all jesting aside, i am impressed by this.
so does this mean that they are going to pack up and stow in a secret warehouse the saturn V that is on display at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama? i mean heck, who needs a poster when you can drive over with a tape mesure and check out the real thing?
well, the comments on this article have been educational. (oddly enough) here is one that might intrest some folks: http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/contactus/faq/l abeling.html#4 (the question about kosher coke)
here is more info http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2006/0 4/16/passover_coke
http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/kosh er-for-passover-coke-its-the-real-thing-baby/ shows a picture of a cap that indicates kosher.
i'd known about this for a while, but its nice to know that you can get coke that is made with real sugar, and not magic corn syrup if you know what to look for.
as for caffeine, i used to be on it like nobody's business. several 1 liter pepsi's a day, and that was the norm. i got the flu one week, and stopped the caffeine to keep from agrivating some of the symptoms, and have tryed to keep my caffeine intake to a minimum since. none after around 5pm, so i sleep better, and unless i'm driving somwhere, none in the mornings. i've found that if i start the day with caffeine, i crash and then drag around 2pm. so staying off it keeps me going all day.
so i drink a lot of gatorade, no caffeine, but it realy helps keep you going when you work construction in the heat all day.
is a bad idea, as long as the auto incramenting bid is in use. because it would take like, 2 days, tops, for it to escalate out of control when two people bid like a million dollars max bid on a furby, and it keeps overtiming and auto incamenting the bid untill somone actualy wins a cheep plastic doll for seven hundred fifty thousand dolars. you have to have one or the other, auto-bid, or overtime. World of warcraft uses an overtime system, and its nice, it also includes a buyout, but there is no bidding a max ammount, and letting the bid rise to that, you bid, and your bid is the new minimum that the auction is at. cant have it both ways.
ok, i'm no trained profesional in hydrophysics, but where i'm from, water obeys the laws of gravity. if you look closely at that picture, you see what is claimed to be "water" in a configuration that it could not hold, and/or would not end up in on any surface. especialy a sloped one. (short runs both up and down the "slope" and runs in oposite direction of what apears to be "primary flow" it looks like extermely fine blown sand to me. blown sand on rock.
i did not read the article, but it seems like an entirely expensive undertaking to me. on a almost unrelated note, i've always felt that the best way to send anything over massive distance would be to open a gateway to another dimention or whatever, put your item through, then the person on the other end opens a gate to the same spot and picks it up. and from a laymans view, that would be easyer to find out how to do. lol.
I admit, i'm somwhat exited to hear this, ID has always been at the top of the list of awsome for me. but i have to say, the thing that interests me the most is the "building a new graphics engine" thing. i mean i honestly have no idea what that entails. to the average gamer, the idea of creating a new way to render a game from scratch is nothing short of a miricle. i honestly can say i realy realy wonder what the first line of code is for a bran-spanking-new graphics engine.
my personal favorite, at the ISP where i worked, they would buy lots of nic's for instilation in new customers computers (because some of the people around here have oooold comps with no nic, and we have bad electrical storms, so peoples nics seem to fry a lot) anyways, the ones they got came in a nice box, with a slip of paper inside that says "before installing this nic, visit www.netgear.com and download and install the driver" or something along those lines. and invariably, the floppy drive in the computer had half a jelly sandwich in it, or the usb drivers where corupt, or the thumb drive was borrowed/lost/broken. real pain in the butt.
soo, what this says is that company A is yelling "you don't use our product! your a TERRORIST!" at companys B, C, D, E, F, and so on. thats it, i have to say it. This is Re-Damn-Tarded. people that bring law suits like this should be fish-slapped and left in the street.
they need to add a Beating the Dead Horse tag. honestly, this is a moronic idea IMOH. i am not a lawyer, but i don't see how this could be done in a way that will not cause huge leagal battles, angst, anger, frustraion, and a general unpleasentness. its like the idea of prohabition, it will not go over lightly if any misguided individual actualy takes steps to start taxing virtual ecinomics. and where does it end? do researchers have to pay tax on gains in ecinomic computer models? this is a barel of apes we don't want to open.