Imagine integrated a virtual machine into a game! Imagine a sort of computer nerd-oriented infiltration game or something, in which you'd get to sneak into some place, sit at a computer and get 'hacking' the in-game local network, for real, with real virtual machines running real OSes with real virtual servers at the other hand, and so on. Only a real computer nerd could enjoy it, but damnit that would be immersive.
I know, a game that consists in sitting on a chair at a computer playing a guy who's sitting on a chair at a computer can sound a bit twisted, but it's nothing yet if you get the game you're playing running in the game's virtual machines!
And I just to clear that up, I don't necessarily mean running Windows Vista or something with GNOME, no, a Unix with a bash shell would be enough. Even better, you can use legacy OSes, like, if your game takes place in 1975, you can use System V stuff and hack a mainframe or something.
Oh crap, did I just invent the perfect mix of modern 3D games and computer history? Don't tell Shampoo..
What, you haven't played ENOUGH with that guy yet? You just want more of the exact same stuff? What do you know, maybe you're gonna like the new biker character better? I mean at least he's gonna do new stuff, differently and all that.
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That's just silly whining. What, you want to see a fully original city the size and detailedness of Liberty City done from scratch every 9 months? Well don't count on it because they couldn't do as good in little enough time if they had a billion dollar budget.
What they're doing is try to give you as much to play with for the work they did. You have a fantastic game but yet you don't want to see more content for it? That's mad, what's next, you're going to whine about bonus tracks on music albums? It's either you get more content so that you get more to play with and get to play the game from a different point of view which I find interesting (i.e. a badass American biker instead of an Eastern European immigrant) and get to do different stuff you didn't get to do so far, or you just wait for 4 years for the next installement. That's an easy choice if you ask me.
It's about misleading? I was under the impression that it's just that it was against the AP's policy or whatever they call it, and that therefore they responded accordingly. I'm afraid people here are looking for a bit too much significance in this story, there's really not much to be seen in it, it's just a story about rules and enforcing them.
BS. 50 years from now the world of programmers will divide in two categories. Those who use vi, and those who have emacs make them coffee and rub their back while auto-piloting their flying car.
Oh that's a pretty sweet idea! An automated glider that would use the strong winds to go where it wants to go and climb up and down at will. That would be pretty ambitious and risky. And awfully cool.
Interesting. As much as I've read about space probes or Venus, I never even knew about it. I know about the Soviet landers, but never about the balloons. Quite fascinating.
Coincidentally yesterday after I googled Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious I read this:
The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades, aftercataracts,[17] and the more common but sometimes hyphenated sweaterdresses.[18] Using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, hypolimnion.
Yay, a Slashdot article as newsworthy as my random Wikipedia browsing!
Interesting. With regards to high wind shear, does that exclude Neptune, or is it safe depending on where you send it? I assume Saturn and Uranus can be fairly safe, and that Jupiter is suicide?
Good point. I don't know, maybe you can make a transparent blimp with a greenhouse effect that warms the inside of it? Considered how cold these atmospheres are it would maybe be a trivial problem, I don't know.
As for an "atomic mass of 0" well it's called vacuum. However we don't use it in blimps because in order to keep a balloon "filled with vacuum" inflated, you need something pretty damn rigid, which most of the time (I think) means too heavy. I'm far too unqualified to "call" any of these ideas, i.e. I have no idea what would be an utter pipe dream or feasible.
I want to see balloons dropped into the atmosphere of planets. Particularly giant planets. Best pick would probably be Saturn, but I'm sure we could learn interesting about Uranus if we sent a balloon there. And Neptune too, although I'm afraid the winds are a bit too violent there. Jupiter would also be great but I'm afraid the superior "surface" gravity there would make it harder.
I wonder if you could also do that on Venus (too hot maybe?) or Titan.
Oh and to clarify my idea : the balloons/blimps would stay aloft for months on end, going up and down in the atmosphere on command to study different altitudes, drifting off the winds, telling us more about them, performing all the analyses possible, and not just about the atmosphere but also (why not) the magnetic field and whatever else might be interesting. And of course a good colour camera, so we can see what it looks like from there, see the clouds, thunderstorms, the moons through the coloured atmosphere, boreal auroras, and so on.. That would be pretty exciting.
Get a clue from the moderation and from the replies you got, it's completely off-topic. You can do the exact same fucking thing no matter if it's in Brainfuck, C# or Smalltalk. That's what Turing completeness is for. The practicality of approaches has nothing to do with anything, and the only reason we're talking about this is that two terms sound too similar to you for you to see they're not related. You're only making a fool of yourself.
No that's complete and utter off-topic bullcrap. It's all about the algorithm. The programming "paradigm" doesn't change the results a bit, you can do anything and get the same results either way. Whether you use classes, operator overloading or whatever OOP is about doesn't change a damn thing. Get a clue and just drop it?
No. Would we ever talk about strong AI bullshit if it weren't for Kurzweil spouting his pipe dreams anyways? Everytime you hear about strong AI you hear Kruzweil's name. I know the guy has "mad geek credentials", but by now it should be very obvious that he's a strong AI zealot, and one of the very few at that. He should start his own apocalyptic cult.
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Bad memory is a problem to you? I've always had a bad memory and I don't remember it ever posing a problem.
Imagine integrated a virtual machine into a game! Imagine a sort of computer nerd-oriented infiltration game or something, in which you'd get to sneak into some place, sit at a computer and get 'hacking' the in-game local network, for real, with real virtual machines running real OSes with real virtual servers at the other hand, and so on. Only a real computer nerd could enjoy it, but damnit that would be immersive.
I know, a game that consists in sitting on a chair at a computer playing a guy who's sitting on a chair at a computer can sound a bit twisted, but it's nothing yet if you get the game you're playing running in the game's virtual machines!
And I just to clear that up, I don't necessarily mean running Windows Vista or something with GNOME, no, a Unix with a bash shell would be enough. Even better, you can use legacy OSes, like, if your game takes place in 1975, you can use System V stuff and hack a mainframe or something.
Oh crap, did I just invent the perfect mix of modern 3D games and computer history? Don't tell Shampoo..
Am I the only one who wants to see Lynx integrated into Nethack? Imagine going up against the front-page of Google?
Well, how is that DLC inferior to the rest of the game? I mean, is the experience any worse?
What, you haven't played ENOUGH with that guy yet? You just want more of the exact same stuff? What do you know, maybe you're gonna like the new biker character better? I mean at least he's gonna do new stuff, differently and all that.
That's just silly whining. What, you want to see a fully original city the size and detailedness of Liberty City done from scratch every 9 months? Well don't count on it because they couldn't do as good in little enough time if they had a billion dollar budget.
What they're doing is try to give you as much to play with for the work they did. You have a fantastic game but yet you don't want to see more content for it? That's mad, what's next, you're going to whine about bonus tracks on music albums? It's either you get more content so that you get more to play with and get to play the game from a different point of view which I find interesting (i.e. a badass American biker instead of an Eastern European immigrant) and get to do different stuff you didn't get to do so far, or you just wait for 4 years for the next installement. That's an easy choice if you ask me.
It's about misleading? I was under the impression that it's just that it was against the AP's policy or whatever they call it, and that therefore they responded accordingly. I'm afraid people here are looking for a bit too much significance in this story, there's really not much to be seen in it, it's just a story about rules and enforcing them.
BS. 50 years from now the world of programmers will divide in two categories. Those who use vi, and those who have emacs make them coffee and rub their back while auto-piloting their flying car.
Oh that's a pretty sweet idea! An automated glider that would use the strong winds to go where it wants to go and climb up and down at will. That would be pretty ambitious and risky. And awfully cool.
Interesting. As much as I've read about space probes or Venus, I never even knew about it. I know about the Soviet landers, but never about the balloons. Quite fascinating.
And after they're done I'd like to see this technique applied on Jesus of Nazareth as well. That whole shroud thing looks too creepy.
Can't gliders be towed from the ground by a tower?
B is now considered a swing key, although it's been a left-hand key since 1964.
Coincidentally yesterday after I googled Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious I read this :
The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades, aftercataracts,[17] and the more common but sometimes hyphenated sweaterdresses.[18] Using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, hypolimnion.
Yay, a Slashdot article as newsworthy as my random Wikipedia browsing!
Interesting. With regards to high wind shear, does that exclude Neptune, or is it safe depending on where you send it? I assume Saturn and Uranus can be fairly safe, and that Jupiter is suicide?
Good point. I don't know, maybe you can make a transparent blimp with a greenhouse effect that warms the inside of it? Considered how cold these atmospheres are it would maybe be a trivial problem, I don't know.
As for an "atomic mass of 0" well it's called vacuum. However we don't use it in blimps because in order to keep a balloon "filled with vacuum" inflated, you need something pretty damn rigid, which most of the time (I think) means too heavy. I'm far too unqualified to "call" any of these ideas, i.e. I have no idea what would be an utter pipe dream or feasible.
learn interesting things about Uranus
Crap, so much for proof-reading.
I want to see balloons dropped into the atmosphere of planets. Particularly giant planets. Best pick would probably be Saturn, but I'm sure we could learn interesting about Uranus if we sent a balloon there. And Neptune too, although I'm afraid the winds are a bit too violent there. Jupiter would also be great but I'm afraid the superior "surface" gravity there would make it harder.
I wonder if you could also do that on Venus (too hot maybe?) or Titan.
Oh and to clarify my idea : the balloons/blimps would stay aloft for months on end, going up and down in the atmosphere on command to study different altitudes, drifting off the winds, telling us more about them, performing all the analyses possible, and not just about the atmosphere but also (why not) the magnetic field and whatever else might be interesting. And of course a good colour camera, so we can see what it looks like from there, see the clouds, thunderstorms, the moons through the coloured atmosphere, boreal auroras, and so on.. That would be pretty exciting.
Get a clue from the moderation and from the replies you got, it's completely off-topic. You can do the exact same fucking thing no matter if it's in Brainfuck, C# or Smalltalk. That's what Turing completeness is for. The practicality of approaches has nothing to do with anything, and the only reason we're talking about this is that two terms sound too similar to you for you to see they're not related. You're only making a fool of yourself.
No that's complete and utter off-topic bullcrap. It's all about the algorithm. The programming "paradigm" doesn't change the results a bit, you can do anything and get the same results either way. Whether you use classes, operator overloading or whatever OOP is about doesn't change a damn thing. Get a clue and just drop it?
No it has nothing to do with styles of programming. It's completely off-topic.
You don't the *whole* answer?
He accidently the whole answer.
No. Would we ever talk about strong AI bullshit if it weren't for Kurzweil spouting his pipe dreams anyways? Everytime you hear about strong AI you hear Kruzweil's name. I know the guy has "mad geek credentials", but by now it should be very obvious that he's a strong AI zealot, and one of the very few at that. He should start his own apocalyptic cult.
but whats a nuculus?
lol.
No it's called procedural because it's done by a procedure. Look it up.