I was lucky enough to be born in France too late for the mandatory military service, so instead of months of military training all we had was a full day of lecturing about how much arse the French military kicks (try to keep your generic obligatory jokes for yourself). I slept through most of it, but I recall them insisting on how deterrent nuclear force was what shielded us from any invasion, and I believe that holds true for any country with nuclear ICBMs and such.
So we know we need these, but these days, it's all about Iran and North Korea trying to join the club, and we don't want that to happen. What this story is talking about is preventing new weapons from being created (in a nutshell), that means precisely these guys, we still keep ours, but they can't get any. So this move isn't about making the world free of nukes, it's about making sure they don't fall in the hands of worst rivals. In other words it's completely opportunistic and hypocritical, amirite?
Huh? If I hadn't noticed your short UID I'd ask you how young you can possibly be. UT2004 isn't old, and is objectively superior to UT3. Besides, you play Quake, UT and Doom, so why on Earth would you want to play that pale imitation instead?
Folks don't like the maps? Build better ones - just like what has been done with UT, Quake, Doom, and others. Stop bitching about that stuff and fix it if you really have heartburn with it...
Are you a moron? Yeah, right, let's invest some precious spare time trying to save the shit out of an hopelessly lame knock off game just for the sake of it. If you like lost causes there you've got one.
Exactly, that's what boggles the mind about such projects. Why on Earth do they try to do exactly what the big studios have done to death in a way they'd never be able to equal, rather than something different?
That's exactly as if independent movies tried to be like Armageddon or Die Hard 4. They don't because they know it would be shitty and no one would pay to see that, that's why they do precisely what big studios can't afford to do, they innovate, they go in wild directions, they take risks, and more importantly, they don't get over ambitious.
And actually, independent commercial games are the same way, because they *have* to make money, so they can't afford to fail. But FOSS doesn't have to make money, what they do is free, so if what they do isn't worth a penny it's fine because it doesn't cost a penny either..
The thing is that "baladodiffusion" sounds so gay and forced you just know no one in their right mind is going to want to say it. It's just ridiculous. And why do you care if the French drop English words every five minutes? The Anglophones drop French words every five minutes too, usually pronounced beyond recognition. The French say English words to sound cool in a "hip" way, the Anglophones say French words to sound educated and smart.
Why would you think I'm upset, I'm just pointing out that they're upset, and si, español es mi tercera idioma, although I'm European and live in Europe so who cares.
No actually I'm French, but thanks for playing, wannabe stalker. A hint, usually when people have @yahoo.fr in their e-mail address they're likely to be from France.
Sorry about that, you're right, it's not. I was going to post about that large asteroid that's expected to hit the Atlantic ocean in a month, but I guess it would be too early to do it before it at least enters the atmosphere..
As a fluent English speaker, I know exactly what you mean, but as a French French, well, there's few people whose English is good enough so that the original version becomes preferable to the French translation. Besides, that's games we're talking about, not Blackadder.
Tabarnac, people less and less see the point of sticking to French when the rest of the continent ignores it royally! Maudis niaiseux d'anglophones! La la, let's get anal about forcing French everywhere, la!
What you say, forcing French translations of every English word from stop signs to podcasting ("baladodiffusion", can you believe that shit?) didn't help much?! Calice! Let's bribe Celine Dion back here, she's our only hope of achieving a seeming of cultural relevance!!
You can create custom GUIs? Cool0rz, where's my custom VLC 0.8.6 GUI for VLC 0.9.x?
As for conversion, VLC is powerful, but it could use some checks, not only will it let you create files that no other players will be able to read, but it will also let you choose things that are impossible for it to create. You need quite some trial and error before getting things right. It could use presets or rather, graying out what shouldn't be made available.
5 years actually. And shooting people never carries your intended message across, the friends of the victim in power just use it to advance their agenda.
Wait, do you even feel any acceleration if it's space-time that's being distorted? Sounds like you're not moving, it's space-time that's moving for you, or something like that?
-The world's life sustaining systems... lol... whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, what does it have to do with space exploration? You're not going to move billions of people into outer space anyways, ever. Not even in 1,000 years. That's just retarded.
-Big whoop, regression, that's like training hard for a pissing contest, winning it, and then whining that you've regressed cause you wouldn't be able to win that same winning contest again today.
-You missed the point, no one gives a fuck how it's like to actually go there, these guys didn't go up there to have a story to tell to their grandchildren, they went there to do some geology and astronomy. The Moon is dull from a scientific point of view. There's no compelling scientific reason to spend hundreds of billions to send people back there. Once again you're talking as a scifi nerd. You need to understand that space exploration isn't meant to be exciting, it's meant to advance science. And having people on the Moon just isn't worth it, no matter how wet it makes your bed sheets.
-STFU about redundancy already, even if we tried right now we couldn't terraform Mars. There's no redundancy, just fucking face it already. There's a reason why space agencies actually test things to deflect eventual such asteroids, thing which must I recall only happens every few hundreds of million years. But that's the problem with people like you or that loser Freeman Dyson whose solution to global warming is "let's just wait until we make genetically engineered trees that eat more carbon". You guys are too happy to throw feasibility and pragmatism out the window to give more room to your wishful thinking.
-So? I too have visions? Hence the link in my sig? Like I fucking said, you little suckers with your plastic wrapping covered comic books, Star Wars action figures and RPG card games don't have the monopoly on that shit. It's not because some fool had "the vision" to imagine a future in which phones would have no wire that cell phones exist, that's because engineers in the 1970s tried that, because they could. Nuclear submarines don't exist because it as written about by Jules Verne (Jules Verne, the _nuclear_ submarine, really?) that it exists, it's because engineers concluded that it would be a good propulsion mode, and because they could. What's next, you're going to credit the guy who wrote The Fly when a team of scientists manage to teleport a whole molecule?
-Unoriginal software? lol, you wouldn't say that if you understood the _vision_ behind it. You see, that's not original because of the technique it uses, that's original by the vision that guides, that is processing anything as images, that's how it does things other can't do.
-You've got friends? Oh snap, you got me there. By the way, that was the single most douchey thing I've read since last time I read of a Jersey guido bragging about the quality ass he gets while people on the Internet "jerk off to facebook pics".
-No, sorry, I haven't read some random NASA dude's paper about NIAC or CIAB, however I've read that other ESA dude's paper about JBKL, ICDH and most importantly, JNDMFMNIJFNJFEKBNLZEPL. Fascinating reads, you don't know what science is about until you've read those very particular papers.
Typical scifi nerd comments. The survival of our race for the next 1000 years? Alright, there's so many things that are wrong with this comment. NASA are scientists, they do science, they're not supposed to be the ones who save us from the end of times, that's not their job. Then, dude, quit reading/watching science fiction bullshit, the foreseeable future of mankind is on Earth, anything else is scifi fanboi wet pipe dreams.
Going to the Moon next month? What for? What's so special about the fucking Moon? There's a reason why we don't do much more than send a couple of probes there every decade at best, it's because it's not a very interesting place. That's the problem with people like you, you guys think that we somehow have to live up to the comic books and Star Trek episodes you watched as a kid. We don't, scifi isn't the future as it should be or will be. For all we care about we don't need to ever walk on another planet again.
Then, STFU about the imagination thing. I hate it when scifi losers act like they have the monopoly on imagination. I have a great imagination and I use that to create cool stuff, just like you said (check my sig), it doesn't take a comic book fan for that. And how does having a poor grounding in reality and being obsessed over emulating what you read as a kid helps anyways? It may provide some inspiration but when I see mislead people like you or losers like Kurzweil who are clinging hard onto their scifi dreams I cringe. What kind of shit is that anyways, you want science fiction fans to get credit for what scientists and engineers have done, before there even was modern science fiction? That's bullshit, I know that in the USA you guys love to pigeonhole together losers who play with Pokemon cards and people who like to look through telescopes, but that's really about related as the military personel and politicians. I bet you most of your fellow scifi loser friends from school became shit like accountants.
Oh and thank you soooo fucking much, science fiction fan, for lobbying the government for science to be done. Where would we be without you scifi loser type guys? We probably wouldn't get any sciencing done! Now if you'll excuse me I have to go thank the NRA for lobbying and fighting so hard for my constitutional rights.
And the parameters of that single environment (air pressure and content, temperature, etc) can be modified locally only with great effort; some things like gravity are basically out of the question entirely.
I can totally relate to that, I hate it when I can't choose the gravity I want or the chemical composition of my atmosphere. I mean some days you just need that extra pinch of Argon, you know?
No! I want my pitch dark sky, my month-long days, my utter lack of atmosphere, water, fauna or flora and basically just live in the middle of a rocky desert with shadows so dark you'd lose your car if you parked it on the dark side of a hill. Did I also mention I want to live far away from anyone and I love pings of 3 seconds when I play games online?
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I misread your comment as "most of the HQs *are* high crime areas". Maybe crimes are actually committed inside the HQ?
I was lucky enough to be born in France too late for the mandatory military service, so instead of months of military training all we had was a full day of lecturing about how much arse the French military kicks (try to keep your generic obligatory jokes for yourself). I slept through most of it, but I recall them insisting on how deterrent nuclear force was what shielded us from any invasion, and I believe that holds true for any country with nuclear ICBMs and such.
So we know we need these, but these days, it's all about Iran and North Korea trying to join the club, and we don't want that to happen. What this story is talking about is preventing new weapons from being created (in a nutshell), that means precisely these guys, we still keep ours, but they can't get any. So this move isn't about making the world free of nukes, it's about making sure they don't fall in the hands of worst rivals. In other words it's completely opportunistic and hypocritical, amirite?
Huh? If I hadn't noticed your short UID I'd ask you how young you can possibly be. UT2004 isn't old, and is objectively superior to UT3. Besides, you play Quake, UT and Doom, so why on Earth would you want to play that pale imitation instead?
Folks don't like the maps? Build better ones - just like what has been done with UT, Quake, Doom, and others. Stop bitching about that stuff and fix it if you really have heartburn with it...
Are you a moron? Yeah, right, let's invest some precious spare time trying to save the shit out of an hopelessly lame knock off game just for the sake of it. If you like lost causes there you've got one.
Exactly, that's what boggles the mind about such projects. Why on Earth do they try to do exactly what the big studios have done to death in a way they'd never be able to equal, rather than something different?
That's exactly as if independent movies tried to be like Armageddon or Die Hard 4. They don't because they know it would be shitty and no one would pay to see that, that's why they do precisely what big studios can't afford to do, they innovate, they go in wild directions, they take risks, and more importantly, they don't get over ambitious.
And actually, independent commercial games are the same way, because they *have* to make money, so they can't afford to fail. But FOSS doesn't have to make money, what they do is free, so if what they do isn't worth a penny it's fine because it doesn't cost a penny either..
The thing is that "baladodiffusion" sounds so gay and forced you just know no one in their right mind is going to want to say it. It's just ridiculous. And why do you care if the French drop English words every five minutes? The Anglophones drop French words every five minutes too, usually pronounced beyond recognition. The French say English words to sound cool in a "hip" way, the Anglophones say French words to sound educated and smart.
Wouldn't your invention constitute prior art in the event of someone patenting after you, thereby nullifying any patent?
Why would you think I'm upset, I'm just pointing out that they're upset, and si, español es mi tercera idioma, although I'm European and live in Europe so who cares.
No actually I'm French, but thanks for playing, wannabe stalker. A hint, usually when people have @yahoo.fr in their e-mail address they're likely to be from France.
lol, 3 comments? Don't worry, I didn't read any of those either ;-)
Sorry about that, you're right, it's not. I was going to post about that large asteroid that's expected to hit the Atlantic ocean in a month, but I guess it would be too early to do it before it at least enters the atmosphere..
Tell Lou Dobbs.
As a fluent English speaker, I know exactly what you mean, but as a French French, well, there's few people whose English is good enough so that the original version becomes preferable to the French translation. Besides, that's games we're talking about, not Blackadder.
Toute votre base sont appartiennent a nous! (and that ARE belong)
Tabarnac, people less and less see the point of sticking to French when the rest of the continent ignores it royally! Maudis niaiseux d'anglophones! La la, let's get anal about forcing French everywhere, la!
What you say, forcing French translations of every English word from stop signs to podcasting ("baladodiffusion", can you believe that shit?) didn't help much?! Calice! Let's bribe Celine Dion back here, she's our only hope of achieving a seeming of cultural relevance!!
You can create custom GUIs? Cool0rz, where's my custom VLC 0.8.6 GUI for VLC 0.9.x?
As for conversion, VLC is powerful, but it could use some checks, not only will it let you create files that no other players will be able to read, but it will also let you choose things that are impossible for it to create. You need quite some trial and error before getting things right. It could use presets or rather, graying out what shouldn't be made available.
5 years actually. And shooting people never carries your intended message across, the friends of the victim in power just use it to advance their agenda.
Roland, aren't you supposed to be dead?
Wait, do you even feel any acceleration if it's space-time that's being distorted? Sounds like you're not moving, it's space-time that's moving for you, or something like that?
tl;dr lol
TFA says 19th century photographs of Jupiter show the red spot was huge and elongated like a sausage. Never saw that before, pics please?
Also, in b4 irrelevant and misplaced global warming and politics-related comments. Oh wait, crap, you guys can't help it can you?
Besides James Webb you mean?
-The world's life sustaining systems... lol... whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, what does it have to do with space exploration? You're not going to move billions of people into outer space anyways, ever. Not even in 1,000 years. That's just retarded.
-Big whoop, regression, that's like training hard for a pissing contest, winning it, and then whining that you've regressed cause you wouldn't be able to win that same winning contest again today.
-You missed the point, no one gives a fuck how it's like to actually go there, these guys didn't go up there to have a story to tell to their grandchildren, they went there to do some geology and astronomy. The Moon is dull from a scientific point of view. There's no compelling scientific reason to spend hundreds of billions to send people back there. Once again you're talking as a scifi nerd. You need to understand that space exploration isn't meant to be exciting, it's meant to advance science. And having people on the Moon just isn't worth it, no matter how wet it makes your bed sheets.
-STFU about redundancy already, even if we tried right now we couldn't terraform Mars. There's no redundancy, just fucking face it already. There's a reason why space agencies actually test things to deflect eventual such asteroids, thing which must I recall only happens every few hundreds of million years. But that's the problem with people like you or that loser Freeman Dyson whose solution to global warming is "let's just wait until we make genetically engineered trees that eat more carbon". You guys are too happy to throw feasibility and pragmatism out the window to give more room to your wishful thinking.
-So? I too have visions? Hence the link in my sig? Like I fucking said, you little suckers with your plastic wrapping covered comic books, Star Wars action figures and RPG card games don't have the monopoly on that shit. It's not because some fool had "the vision" to imagine a future in which phones would have no wire that cell phones exist, that's because engineers in the 1970s tried that, because they could. Nuclear submarines don't exist because it as written about by Jules Verne (Jules Verne, the _nuclear_ submarine, really?) that it exists, it's because engineers concluded that it would be a good propulsion mode, and because they could. What's next, you're going to credit the guy who wrote The Fly when a team of scientists manage to teleport a whole molecule?
-Unoriginal software? lol, you wouldn't say that if you understood the _vision_ behind it. You see, that's not original because of the technique it uses, that's original by the vision that guides, that is processing anything as images, that's how it does things other can't do.
-You've got friends? Oh snap, you got me there. By the way, that was the single most douchey thing I've read since last time I read of a Jersey guido bragging about the quality ass he gets while people on the Internet "jerk off to facebook pics".
-No, sorry, I haven't read some random NASA dude's paper about NIAC or CIAB, however I've read that other ESA dude's paper about JBKL, ICDH and most importantly, JNDMFMNIJFNJFEKBNLZEPL. Fascinating reads, you don't know what science is about until you've read those very particular papers.
Typical scifi nerd comments. The survival of our race for the next 1000 years? Alright, there's so many things that are wrong with this comment. NASA are scientists, they do science, they're not supposed to be the ones who save us from the end of times, that's not their job. Then, dude, quit reading/watching science fiction bullshit, the foreseeable future of mankind is on Earth, anything else is scifi fanboi wet pipe dreams.
Going to the Moon next month? What for? What's so special about the fucking Moon? There's a reason why we don't do much more than send a couple of probes there every decade at best, it's because it's not a very interesting place. That's the problem with people like you, you guys think that we somehow have to live up to the comic books and Star Trek episodes you watched as a kid. We don't, scifi isn't the future as it should be or will be. For all we care about we don't need to ever walk on another planet again.
Then, STFU about the imagination thing. I hate it when scifi losers act like they have the monopoly on imagination. I have a great imagination and I use that to create cool stuff, just like you said (check my sig), it doesn't take a comic book fan for that. And how does having a poor grounding in reality and being obsessed over emulating what you read as a kid helps anyways? It may provide some inspiration but when I see mislead people like you or losers like Kurzweil who are clinging hard onto their scifi dreams I cringe. What kind of shit is that anyways, you want science fiction fans to get credit for what scientists and engineers have done, before there even was modern science fiction? That's bullshit, I know that in the USA you guys love to pigeonhole together losers who play with Pokemon cards and people who like to look through telescopes, but that's really about related as the military personel and politicians. I bet you most of your fellow scifi loser friends from school became shit like accountants.
Oh and thank you soooo fucking much, science fiction fan, for lobbying the government for science to be done. Where would we be without you scifi loser type guys? We probably wouldn't get any sciencing done! Now if you'll excuse me I have to go thank the NRA for lobbying and fighting so hard for my constitutional rights.
And the parameters of that single environment (air pressure and content, temperature, etc) can be modified locally only with great effort; some things like gravity are basically out of the question entirely.
I can totally relate to that, I hate it when I can't choose the gravity I want or the chemical composition of my atmosphere. I mean some days you just need that extra pinch of Argon, you know?
No! I want my pitch dark sky, my month-long days, my utter lack of atmosphere, water, fauna or flora and basically just live in the middle of a rocky desert with shadows so dark you'd lose your car if you parked it on the dark side of a hill. Did I also mention I want to live far away from anyone and I love pings of 3 seconds when I play games online?