Ya, thats what Taiwan did, if I remember, they were the original govt of China, but the "Cultural Revolutionaries" kicked em out. Now they rule the democratic Taiwan, which the UN recognizes as a sovereign nation - yet China continues to insist that Taiwan is really part of China and that they must be communist and let the Chinese mainland govt come in and "cleanse" the democratic govt of Taiwan.
Hell, with all the criticism we give the Chinese govt here on/. - I wouldnt doubt it a bit if they just have the entire domain blocked - much easier than getting into the/. database and finding every little anti-Chinese govt comment and deleting it. Not to mention the security they probly have on the/. database - nobody knows security like a/. geek (FELLOW/.ERS RISE, WE WILL RULE THE WORLD!)
sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to include the submission info about my rejected submission of this article: 2006-02-14 16:13:31 Not Another Semi-conductor Transistor (No, Really) (Science,Technology) (rejected)
I submitted the exact same story 30 or 40 minutes ago linking to the exact same Wired article, and the.pdf, gave a more comprehensible summary, and included the part about it being radiation resistant. Did mine get rejected just cuz this guy's submission was 3 up on the list or something?
I remember that... last I knew of it, it could only keep the plane (simulator in level flight, but even so its really something and is a start towards non-human pilots and learning just how brains are formed and work.
To me it sounded like it only said they cant put the physical servers in China. As far as the/. summary goes, I saw nothing in it to limit Google from doing business with China. But then again, I didnt RTFA, so I could be wrong...
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To reinforce the point of the direct parent of my post, he forgot to add a few extra things (most of it is directed to inform the grandparent "with the times" poster)...
Consoles make improvements in leaps and bounds - back when the first edition Playstations came out, games like Metal Gear Solid (Metal Gear #3, MGS 1) had literally state of the art graphics.
PS3 Graphics (GPU) - It'll be using what is currently top of the line NVidia graphics, the RSX is supposed to be faster than even the holy 7800 GTX - or at least on par with it.
Processor (Teh Cell) - upgrading from my AMD 64 Athlon 3400 to an IBM/Sony Cell processor would be like going from a Pentium 3 to at LEAST a first generation Pentium 4 (in comparison). Much as I love my A3400, as far as gaming physics engines and graphics go - Cell is the future (fars I can see, anyway , for the next few years)
Linux/Console OS - if you had been following more of the gaming industry than just your Linux gaming WINE type emulators and recompilers, you would have read that CELL IS DESIGNED FOR LINUX
Hell, there were fast as hell paced FPS like Tribes (the biggest one since it had vehicles, jetpacks, EVERYTHING), the Quake series, and Unreal Tournament (not the year #, just UT). The only people it changed FPS for was the people that play games to be cool on their XBox (when gaming went "mainstream")
It's the general medical symbol put on medical Army helicopters and other types of vehicles to let the opposing force know (if they follow the Geneva Convention anyway) that it the vehicle with the markings is for medical purposes only and by the Geneva Convention they are NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY WEAPONS OF ANY KIND, and so in turn, the opposing force is by law of the convention are NOT ALLOWED TO FIRE ON THE VEHICLE. On the other hand, it usually doesnt matter anymore since the countries that the UN and NATO members police dont follow the convention anyway.
True that chips before designs like the Cell and Niagra chips with 8 or so cores became popular by being low cost before concentrating on horsepower, but the way I figure IBM reasons the Cell and Niagra chips will be relatively low cost with uber performance is the same reason for the advent of the beowulf cluster - you use relatively cheap chips or in the case of Cell, cores, and use a lot of em in parallel. (I say relatively cheap cores in the case of Cell because I'm not sure just how much horsepower/cost each core would have by themselves, but I'll bet what little of an ass I have they are cheaper cores than, say, a high end Opteron or Xeon dual core (especially if you want a dual core, dual chip server with each opteron costing about 800 bucks a pop))
Especially when IBM's already setting the groundwork for Cell to be used in supercomputers (for seismic activity, nuclear warhead simulations, ect), rendering 3D MRIs (reportedly, current image rendering for this is done on Intel Pentium 4s and takes about 4 minutes, when they did the tech demo of it on a Cell platform, it took about 20 seconds).
Damn near all of the new "next gen" tech coming out such as the PS3's Cell, BD-ROMs, the Xbox360s (well, what superior tech does it use - add your own, just dont make my post the battlegrounds for a flamewar:(. The reason for the need for new high capacity optical discs is obvious - better graphics AND longer storylines (current gen DVDs have reached their limit and have to choose which the game values more). Most new console and PC games cost $50 or $40 bucks new, so personally I consider a mere $2x odd bucks nothing when it comes to buying optical discs (no, I dont buy a newly released game every week, its just that when I do, its a lot more than just a movie) so would you rather be able to fit the ENTIRE LOTR or Starwars saga on a SINGLE disc for only a (relatively) few bucks more or have 20 discs for one saga?
Looks like even with its crappy story Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was partly true about GW/Arsenal... AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! Giant mile wide mechs monitoring/.! (heheh, the dreams of otaku are coming true, forget about Snake, the otaku will destroy the gears:}
chose to comply with Chinese law and filter results of the Chinese version of the search engine. This and MS helping China find the blogger that was posting the truth about how people are treated in China are the real crimes, not Google filtering results. I know people are pissed cuz they broke their "Do no evil" mantra, but its not evil to filter search results, even if for propaganda uses. However, it is evil to do what Yahoo just did and MS a while back as their actions would EASILY result in the imprisonment/"re-education"/execution of the dissident.
IMO most economical if all you are doing is heavy lifting/cargo - thats all the Shuttle ever was in the first place - a glorified bus to take up people and supplies. Go ahead and try to argue that the shuttle was also used for science expirements, the only reason that happened is it has a decent amount of space inside to put shelves with expirements in the shuttle.
BTW: previous points I've made here on/. as to why a mass driver would be economical is
One: no more buying million dollar per pound of thrust rocket fuel.
Two: If you make it an electromagnetic rail (a rail-gun) or a gauss gun system and power it with a nuclear reactor, you could sell the electricity being produced when you arent launching things, and so in the long run cutting costs and maybe even paying for the whole launching system (mass driver and reactor). If you are worried you might not get enough energy at once, do what that laser-fusion facility is supposed to use - basically a bunch of capacitators with a fast discharge rate - the fusion facility claims it only costs a few pennies (actual pennies, not just that it doesnt make a dent in their budget)
the moon rotated fast/slow enough to change which side faced the earth, and people just referred to the dark side as whichever side happened to be facing away from the earth.
however, it couldnt much hurt (aside from money) to have the observatory on a rail system to make it more versatile as far as which direction in space it is pointing from the moon relative to earth (so you could have it point parallel or perpendicular to the earth)
E---M-S, or E---M|S, where E represents Earth, M=Moon, and S=Station/observatory
If you wanted to put an observatory on the moon and keep the moon between it and the interference from the Earth, it would be best to have your observatory on a rail transport system so that when the moon rotates, the observatory can move away from the earth towards whatever side of the moon happens to be the "dark side of the moon" at that time.
Using the same system, you would also want a comms station on rail always pointing TOWARDS Earth so you can keep constant communications with your lunar base(s)
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Alternatively, you could put your observatory out at one of the Lagrange points where gravity between the Earth, Moon, Sun, and stars pretty much hold a station in place at the L point - however, this would not give you the mineral mining capability that a genuin lunar base would.
a large amount of their inspiration for The Matrix movies (from first to last) from the Ghost in the Shell manga/movies/show - that little bit of info seems to pop up in a large number of GITS sites and the Wikipedia Ghost in the Shell, down in the "Impact and Influence" section of the Wikipedia article.
So how do I pilot a fighter jet, chopper, or mech-
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without all of that "useless" HUD info. Ya, I know the writer is thinking more about games that are meant to be more of a cinematic experience than a game - but personally, I think games like the Ace Combat series, Armored Core, the Battlefield series, and a LOT of others achieve a cinematic effect through plot lines and making the player THINK about where they are in absolute space compared to, say the ground they could smash into, and their relative position to the enemy they are combating.
Personally (keep in mind that this might be just me here), I don't give a shit about the HUD getting in my way - I like it there, if I cant see my speed, altitude, radar, angle, ammo count (how much I have total and how long it'll take to reload) I'll go crazy from information deprivation.
If the game's designers cant tell me the story during gameplay when I'm pulling 3 or 4 g's via the radio chatter (or about to breach a room in a house to house clearing in a FPS with my squadmates talking to me) and a mix of cutscenes/cinematics (depending on how far back you wanna go - include FMV's) - the game designers and story writers need to rethink their methods before I play a game by their design house again.
would be a good concept for Ghost in the Shell games, since in the movies and show people get their artificial eyes and cybernetic additions to their real brain hacked so the person they are chasing is right in front of em and they see their surroundings minus the person the hacker doesnt want em to see (usually the hacker)
Exactly the point, less of our guys die, more of theirs (especially since an armored bot could plow through people with puny assault rifles) - I think Gen. Patton said something like "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country." Wars are "won" by one side killing more of the opposing force, or at least killing enough of em that they can't operate.
which is why (besides that I would never switch back to IE anyway) I wouldnt use IE7 for at least a year or so to give em enough time to get a minimum of (30% a low enough number for M$). Try it on the initial release, and you'll fry your system in 30 seconds (or will IE let spyware do it quicker?)
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Ya, thats what Taiwan did, if I remember, they were the original govt of China, but the "Cultural Revolutionaries" kicked em out. Now they rule the democratic Taiwan, which the UN recognizes as a sovereign nation - yet China continues to insist that Taiwan is really part of China and that they must be communist and let the Chinese mainland govt come in and "cleanse" the democratic govt of Taiwan.
Hell, with all the criticism we give the Chinese govt here on /. - I wouldnt doubt it a bit if they just have the entire domain blocked - much easier than getting into the /. database and finding every little anti-Chinese govt comment and deleting it. Not to mention the security they probly have on the /. database - nobody knows security like a /. geek (FELLOW /.ERS RISE, WE WILL RULE THE WORLD!)
Tienamen square and all the other attempts at revolution as pornography?
sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to include the submission info about my rejected submission of this article: 2006-02-14 16:13:31 Not Another Semi-conductor Transistor (No, Really) (Science,Technology) (rejected)
I submitted the exact same story 30 or 40 minutes ago linking to the exact same Wired article, and the .pdf, gave a more comprehensible summary, and included the part about it being radiation resistant. Did mine get rejected just cuz this guy's submission was 3 up on the list or something?
I remember that... last I knew of it, it could only keep the plane (simulator in level flight, but even so its really something and is a start towards non-human pilots and learning just how brains are formed and work.
To me it sounded like it only said they cant put the physical servers in China. As far as the /. summary goes, I saw nothing in it to limit Google from doing business with China. But then again, I didnt RTFA, so I could be wrong...
Consoles make improvements in leaps and bounds - back when the first edition Playstations came out, games like Metal Gear Solid (Metal Gear #3, MGS 1) had literally state of the art graphics.
PS3 Graphics (GPU) - It'll be using what is currently top of the line NVidia graphics, the RSX is supposed to be faster than even the holy 7800 GTX - or at least on par with it.
Processor (Teh Cell) - upgrading from my AMD 64 Athlon 3400 to an IBM/Sony Cell processor would be like going from a Pentium 3 to at LEAST a first generation Pentium 4 (in comparison). Much as I love my A3400, as far as gaming physics engines and graphics go - Cell is the future (fars I can see, anyway , for the next few years)
Linux/Console OS - if you had been following more of the gaming industry than just your Linux gaming WINE type emulators and recompilers, you would have read that CELL IS DESIGNED FOR LINUX
Hell, there were fast as hell paced FPS like Tribes (the biggest one since it had vehicles, jetpacks, EVERYTHING), the Quake series, and Unreal Tournament (not the year #, just UT). The only people it changed FPS for was the people that play games to be cool on their XBox (when gaming went "mainstream")
It's the general medical symbol put on medical Army helicopters and other types of vehicles to let the opposing force know (if they follow the Geneva Convention anyway) that it the vehicle with the markings is for medical purposes only and by the Geneva Convention they are NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY WEAPONS OF ANY KIND, and so in turn, the opposing force is by law of the convention are NOT ALLOWED TO FIRE ON THE VEHICLE. On the other hand, it usually doesnt matter anymore since the countries that the UN and NATO members police dont follow the convention anyway.
True that chips before designs like the Cell and Niagra chips with 8 or so cores became popular by being low cost before concentrating on horsepower, but the way I figure IBM reasons the Cell and Niagra chips will be relatively low cost with uber performance is the same reason for the advent of the beowulf cluster - you use relatively cheap chips or in the case of Cell, cores, and use a lot of em in parallel. (I say relatively cheap cores in the case of Cell because I'm not sure just how much horsepower/cost each core would have by themselves, but I'll bet what little of an ass I have they are cheaper cores than, say, a high end Opteron or Xeon dual core (especially if you want a dual core, dual chip server with each opteron costing about 800 bucks a pop))
Especially when IBM's already setting the groundwork for Cell to be used in supercomputers (for seismic activity, nuclear warhead simulations, ect), rendering 3D MRIs (reportedly, current image rendering for this is done on Intel Pentium 4s and takes about 4 minutes, when they did the tech demo of it on a Cell platform, it took about 20 seconds).
Damn near all of the new "next gen" tech coming out such as the PS3's Cell, BD-ROMs, the Xbox360s (well, what superior tech does it use - add your own, just dont make my post the battlegrounds for a flamewar:(. The reason for the need for new high capacity optical discs is obvious - better graphics AND longer storylines (current gen DVDs have reached their limit and have to choose which the game values more). Most new console and PC games cost $50 or $40 bucks new, so personally I consider a mere $2x odd bucks nothing when it comes to buying optical discs (no, I dont buy a newly released game every week, its just that when I do, its a lot more than just a movie) so would you rather be able to fit the ENTIRE LOTR or Starwars saga on a SINGLE disc for only a (relatively) few bucks more or have 20 discs for one saga?
Looks like even with its crappy story Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was partly true about GW/Arsenal... AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! Giant mile wide mechs monitoring /.! (heheh, the dreams of otaku are coming true, forget about Snake, the otaku will destroy the gears:}
chose to comply with Chinese law and filter results of the Chinese version of the search engine. This and MS helping China find the blogger that was posting the truth about how people are treated in China are the real crimes, not Google filtering results. I know people are pissed cuz they broke their "Do no evil" mantra, but its not evil to filter search results, even if for propaganda uses. However, it is evil to do what Yahoo just did and MS a while back as their actions would EASILY result in the imprisonment/"re-education"/execution of the dissident.
Mass... Driver...
/. as to why a mass driver would be economical is
IMO most economical if all you are doing is heavy lifting/cargo - thats all the Shuttle ever was in the first place - a glorified bus to take up people and supplies. Go ahead and try to argue that the shuttle was also used for science expirements, the only reason that happened is it has a decent amount of space inside to put shelves with expirements in the shuttle.
BTW: previous points I've made here on
One: no more buying million dollar per pound of thrust rocket fuel.
Two: If you make it an electromagnetic rail (a rail-gun) or a gauss gun system and power it with a nuclear reactor, you could sell the electricity being produced when you arent launching things, and so in the long run cutting costs and maybe even paying for the whole launching system (mass driver and reactor). If you are worried you might not get enough energy at once, do what that laser-fusion facility is supposed to use - basically a bunch of capacitators with a fast discharge rate - the fusion facility claims it only costs a few pennies (actual pennies, not just that it doesnt make a dent in their budget)
those toilets that shoot water at your ass to clean it - I'll stick with toilet paper thank you...
the moon rotated fast/slow enough to change which side faced the earth, and people just referred to the dark side as whichever side happened to be facing away from the earth.
however, it couldnt much hurt (aside from money) to have the observatory on a rail system to make it more versatile as far as which direction in space it is pointing from the moon relative to earth (so you could have it point parallel or perpendicular to the earth)
E---M-S, or E---M|S, where E represents Earth, M=Moon, and S=Station/observatory
If you wanted to put an observatory on the moon and keep the moon between it and the interference from the Earth, it would be best to have your observatory on a rail transport system so that when the moon rotates, the observatory can move away from the earth towards whatever side of the moon happens to be the "dark side of the moon" at that time.
Using the same system, you would also want a comms station on rail always pointing TOWARDS Earth so you can keep constant communications with your lunar base(s)
-------------
Alternatively, you could put your observatory out at one of the Lagrange points where gravity between the Earth, Moon, Sun, and stars pretty much hold a station in place at the L point - however, this would not give you the mineral mining capability that a genuin lunar base would.
"Tech support for celestial bodies of plasma" (aka: the stars)
a large amount of their inspiration for The Matrix movies (from first to last) from the Ghost in the Shell manga/movies/show - that little bit of info seems to pop up in a large number of GITS sites and the Wikipedia Ghost in the Shell, down in the "Impact and Influence" section of the Wikipedia article.
without all of that "useless" HUD info. Ya, I know the writer is thinking more about games that are meant to be more of a cinematic experience than a game - but personally, I think games like the Ace Combat series, Armored Core, the Battlefield series, and a LOT of others achieve a cinematic effect through plot lines and making the player THINK about where they are in absolute space compared to, say the ground they could smash into, and their relative position to the enemy they are combating.
Personally (keep in mind that this might be just me here), I don't give a shit about the HUD getting in my way - I like it there, if I cant see my speed, altitude, radar, angle, ammo count (how much I have total and how long it'll take to reload) I'll go crazy from information deprivation.
If the game's designers cant tell me the story during gameplay when I'm pulling 3 or 4 g's via the radio chatter (or about to breach a room in a house to house clearing in a FPS with my squadmates talking to me) and a mix of cutscenes/cinematics (depending on how far back you wanna go - include FMV's) - the game designers and story writers need to rethink their methods before I play a game by their design house again.
would be a good concept for Ghost in the Shell games, since in the movies and show people get their artificial eyes and cybernetic additions to their real brain hacked so the person they are chasing is right in front of em and they see their surroundings minus the person the hacker doesnt want em to see (usually the hacker)
Exactly the point, less of our guys die, more of theirs (especially since an armored bot could plow through people with puny assault rifles) - I think Gen. Patton said something like "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country." Wars are "won" by one side killing more of the opposing force, or at least killing enough of em that they can't operate.
which is why (besides that I would never switch back to IE anyway) I wouldnt use IE7 for at least a year or so to give em enough time to get a minimum of (30% a low enough number for M$). Try it on the initial release, and you'll fry your system in 30 seconds (or will IE let spyware do it quicker?)