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Ya, and the name on the Pentium chip was supposed to be for the 586 only, and people thought it was so catchy they called the 686, 786 (P3), and 886 (P4) Pentium's also. It's great they're finally changing the market name, but I mean, c'mon, "Yonah"? I'm sure they thought about it and to Intel it sounds cool, but personally I think they coulda came up with a better name. At that rate, what's the new "Intel Inside" replacement gonna be...?
Anybody remember the PC game Fallout? At last, Powersuits, now we are on our way to having war with China over hidden oil in the Pacific, both sides nuking each other, and having people running around glowing and the Vault Dweller going "Where the hell's the damn Water Chip?"... lol...
Anyway, the artical wasn't talking about a full power armor, more just the hydrolically powered leg braces that let people carry insane 200+ pound loads.
What a COMPLETE IDIOT... obviously the guy that sent the letter realize that micro-chips are in everything from his radio, car, coffee maker/machine, wrist-watch, his kid's toys, and damn near anything else you can think of...
Second, so what if they put it on PC's and dedicated movie players (like VHS decks, DVD players, ect). BD-ROMS are already for sure going to be in Sony's PS3 (even if if you hate consoles, wait till the cell comes out for workstations), and dedicated movie players, and PC's
Basically, while the HD-DVD's will be stuck with just movie content (who gives a crap if you can watch it on your PC if you cant put other content on an HD-DVD besides a movie?), while BD-ROM's broad usuage capabilities will be that of current gen DVD's, that is, movies, console games, PC game installers, ect.
So if you put a cat in a box that you can't see in, take a gun, and shoot the box, is the cat dead? What proof can you provide me the cat might still actually be alive? (you know the saying "there's more than one way to skin a cat..." ask this physics question to the judge trying you with animal cruelty, and you're sure to get off the hook - it can't be proven right or wrong...)
Um... isnt the auto-update on Firefox 1.5 and up? so your post of 1.06 or 1.07 having auto-update would be wrong? (btw: i've been using fire fox since what? 1.04? and dl the first deer park beta i saw, and then went through all 3 release candidates and now the official...)
F/A-22, Eurofighter Typhoon purchases get cut, F/A-22 or the F-35 programs might get totally eliminated by the US DoD
the Raptor is supposedly crap compared to some of the nicer Russian jets, the only reason why the US would win in a fight against the 2 is US has more money to produce planes, and they only have, what, ONE squad of F/A22's. it's possible Congress just cuts the funding for the whole Raptor and F35 program anyway, along with the (X)M8 rifle, OCSW ABG (25mm airbursting grenade) machine gun, and a host of other programs of the sort, just for the dipshit reasoning that "We have something that works now, it's been proven for 30-40 years, why stop using this ancient pos technology and weapons when there is much better stuff available?"
you both have no clue, AIM stands for AOL Instant Messenger, and AOL stands for America On Line
BTW, AOL and anything made by AOL is bound to suck, including AOL's Moviephone.com service (movie listings), and their Netscape browser, which they aquired in about '99 or so, sat on it, then realized that the AOL name was hurting them because it sucked so bad, so they switched it to Netscape, which as I said, is still AOL
With the removal of the hyphen and thanks to some clever software, astute deals, a once-in-a-lifetime deal with IBM and a touch of ruthlessness, world domination followed.
Muahahaha
In the book Hard Drive, authors James Wallace and Jim Erickson say that Allen was a much easier person to get along with. While Gates was often impossible, prone to fits of temper and an uncompromising workaholic, Allen had a life outside of work. He was interested in technology, rock music and science fiction. "Paul tended to be a lot more patient about things than Bill. That was always a very nice counter," Wallace and Erickson quote an early Microsoft employee.
sounds like Gates was kinda a whiner...
last of all: "Allen has been selling his Microsoft shares since he left the company, but still owns more than $3 billion worth.", sounds like somebody started to loose faith in the company there...
Well, I suppose at least if it eventually goes to the supreme court, we wont have to hear bout this bs anymore after they make a decision, most likely the same that the California court decided...
I'm not sure if you're just joking, or if you genuinly can't comprehend that the technology being discussed in the post IS BEING DEVELOPED TO CURE DISEASE!
I think I heard something about somebody using a bunch of furby's to make a beowulf cluster (furbeowulf) of parallel processors, now that's what you call having too much time on your hands...
all this means is some programmer taught a robot to remember its limb positions and reverse the coordinates for a mirror image and compare the two. how the heck is telling a robot "your arm is here, his is in a different position, therefore, you are not the same" lead to teaching a robot how to think "that girl-bot just flashed me, i almost short-circuited my-self" and "that sob just flipped me off and passed me on the freeway, I'm going to pointlessly blare my horn for an hour at him!"
Are adaptations of books, old movies and sequels all that Hollywood can produce now? Sad state for a supposedly "creative" industry.
At the rate and quality Hollywood is going with their usual productions, its a good thing American film studios are phasing out, and Japanese managed (or at least owned) studios are phasing in. Look at most movies you see now, they are produced by Sony (all hail Sony corporation!!!). My guess is the reason why films produced by Sony are usually so much better is because they actually care about making money, except that unlike American producers and studios, who would just jack up the ticket price, Sony and other Japanese companies make more money by making a better film, one that will actually attract people and make them want to buy the movie instead of some half-assed movie out of Hollywood that people consider not even worth illegally downloading.
the hell why would they, its publicly available info, if they dint want us to see it, it would be on a uber encrypted server, and the page design would look like the usual crap idiots that know nothing of design turn out (btw its on the regular US army web site, its a publicity stunt press release, to say that they actually care about their soldiers (I'm not saying they dont, but it IS after all, a publicity stunt). this is about an air conditioner, not next-gen thermo-nuclear warheads...
BTW: it's not really all that relevant, except that it was a "launcher" of sorts to be embedded into a mountain side. Back in the 80's or early 90's (not sure) Saddam Hussein was contracting somebody (I think it was a Canadian astrophysist(spelling?)) to build a cannon into a mountain-side to launch nuclear warheads at Israel. However, it wouldn't have been able to re-aim, not to mention the Israeli Air-Force woulda had it in a few minutes. The point is, though, that it was embedded into a mountain-side with the same general curvature of what I've been trying to describe.
As to the curve towards the end of the rail, as I said, (again I know it's a really bad idea to reference to games when you are trying to get people to take you seriously, but games are the only place I have seen creative enough to display anything like it). BTW as I said before, I have seen the rail design in Namco's Ace Combat 5 (the space-port facility you protect during the cargo launch, but its a rocket sled, not rail-gun) and in Squaresoft's Final Fantasy 8 (the Lunar Gate, where they send you into space, and what they launched the Ragnarok from)
BTW: The part about embedding/tunneling part of the rail into a mountain side is a great idea, really efficient (that way you dont have to build a huge super-structure to support the rail at the launching end)
And to reinforce what I stated before, yes, it would be economical (more so than just the Shuttle, which has only one use, to send people to space), the nuclear power plant could sell power to cities that need it (except for when you need it to launch cargo from the rail)
Its sad as hell when a company like MS admits that their product is inferior (they already knew it was, but admitting it is another story), when they should put a few $xx thousand into it to bring it up to par...
Since they waste like what? a couple billion dollars just to deliver food and basic necessities. Why not experiment with the feasibility of making an electrically powered rail gun/mass driver and set the cargo pod (no humans or other life-forms (animals, ect), as they would be crushed in the g forces from acceleration). This would give NASA (or whoever expiremented with it, maybe China or ESA) a permanent external launcher for the cargo pods, meaning that if the pod goes down, you dont lose your engines with it, and instead of using expensive rocket fuel for current generation shuttles, the driver could be connected to its own dedicated nuclear power plant on the ground (the power produced by the plant could be diverted to cities when the driver isn't being used). Then when the cargo pod gets into orbit, the ISS could send out a small rendevous craft (the thrusters wouldn't have to be very powerfull) to retrieve the pod, and of course, you would want to put in an orbit that would cross with the station so ISS crew wouldn't have to go out of their way to get their own supplies.
The ONLY thing I can personally see about this is that
1: The power of the rail gun/mass driver would have to be limited so that it does not crush the entire cargo pod (even without having people and or animals on it, you would still have to worry about the cargo and the pod itself being crushed in the acceleration).
2: It would not solve the problem of still having to use shuttles to send people up, but since most of what NASA does right now is sending food and supplies to the ISS, which could be done remotely through robotics (the only major problem with robotics might be the time lag between sending and receiving of the signals).
All in all, (I know its REALLY bad to refer to video games when you are trying to get people to take you seriously) it would be kinda like the mass driver in the PS2 title from Namco "Ace Combat 5", if any of you have ever played that, it might help you to visualise what I have tried to describe...
I admit, I stay up until 4 or 5 in the morning playing PC games, but then I go to sleep for the normal 8 or 10 hours a person would sleep and get up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. However, what these people are doing is completely different, they stay up non-stop, for days and even weeks on end. Of course staying in a room with bad ventilation and a bad air supply (smoking) will cause asphyxiation, and of course staying up for days on end will drain your energy to the point where you can't move.
My point is, its not the games that kill, its the life-style that these people are living.
but don't you see? you don't need to look backwards (through your skull), since the forward looking cameras will show you whatever's infront of you (your infront of your face), say your head is facing the same direction as the rest of your body, it will show you whats in that direction, and if you keep your body still and look over your shoulder, you'll see whats behind you, giving you a 360degree view of whats around your body (just like looking around without any techno-hardware, but with the display image overlay ontop of whatever real-world object(s) you are looking at)
this would be much easier than having mounted or flying/free-floating cameras all around you, which would give you a rather odd "out of body experience," in the case of which, it would be like running around in a 3rd person shooter, I know the things are fun to play, but take another case of 3rd person gaming - 3rd person view offered in some flight simulators (mostly the arcade style combat sims granted (like Namco's Ace Combat series, Battlefield, Lethal Skies, ect. which ever you prefer)), it sounds cool at first, but the only time you ever even wanna use it is if you are recording an air battle, the reason why you'll never wanna do something like this in 3rd person is cause' its a real pain in the ass to tell where you are relative to the camera (you picture where you are in a turn or loop, which a cakewalk in 1st person, but in 3rd person you crash n burn into the ocean or a mountain side real fast).
my point is, with a 3rd person view you are watching the ground and where your feet are and not what you really wanna be doin (manipulating book pages, drawing, what ever you do on your comp,) plus the image display overlay wouldnt work, because YOU (as in your physical body) would be in the way.
PS: sorry if I got kinda off the original topic, its 4:30am right now and I'm tired as hell...
most people would consider all those cameras expensive, not to mention what you've described has a MAJOR flaw: you could only use your comp where the cameras are (no laptops or pda's with your system, and you woulndt be able to take your comp to a lan party that doesnt have it set up).
So here's a quick fix to your system: instead of using a bunch of cameras away from the user, hard-mounted to the building, hard-mount the cameras to the glasses with the screen. This makes a heck of a lot more sense due to ONE SIMPLE FACT: theres no need to have a camera show a person whats behind them when they want the screen to overlay on whats INFRONT OF THEM
If hardware companies didnt release their new drivers for free, its likely nobody would buy their hardware, since you wouldnt be able keep the product drivers up to date (you get artifacts from your card, so your mobo manufacturer tells you to upgrade your drivers, and you tell them, ya, but I went broke buying the card, how am I supposed to afford the drivers?)
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Ya, and the name on the Pentium chip was supposed to be for the 586 only, and people thought it was so catchy they called the 686, 786 (P3), and 886 (P4) Pentium's also. It's great they're finally changing the market name, but I mean, c'mon, "Yonah"? I'm sure they thought about it and to Intel it sounds cool, but personally I think they coulda came up with a better name. At that rate, what's the new "Intel Inside" replacement gonna be...?
um... one of the key points IBM made on the chip was it is scalable and would be put in workstations and super-computers.
Anybody remember the PC game Fallout? At last, Powersuits, now we are on our way to having war with China over hidden oil in the Pacific, both sides nuking each other, and having people running around glowing and the Vault Dweller going "Where the hell's the damn Water Chip?"... lol...
Anyway, the artical wasn't talking about a full power armor, more just the hydrolically powered leg braces that let people carry insane 200+ pound loads.
PS: LONG LIVE THE VAULT DWELLER!
What a COMPLETE IDIOT... obviously the guy that sent the letter realize that micro-chips are in everything from his radio, car, coffee maker/machine, wrist-watch, his kid's toys, and damn near anything else you can think of...
First, the MS backing HD-DVD is MONTHS OLD NEWS.
Second, so what if they put it on PC's and dedicated movie players (like VHS decks, DVD players, ect). BD-ROMS are already for sure going to be in Sony's PS3 (even if if you hate consoles, wait till the cell comes out for workstations), and dedicated movie players, and PC's
Basically, while the HD-DVD's will be stuck with just movie content (who gives a crap if you can watch it on your PC if you cant put other content on an HD-DVD besides a movie?), while BD-ROM's broad usuage capabilities will be that of current gen DVD's, that is, movies, console games, PC game installers, ect.
So if you put a cat in a box that you can't see in, take a gun, and shoot the box, is the cat dead? What proof can you provide me the cat might still actually be alive? (you know the saying "there's more than one way to skin a cat..." ask this physics question to the judge trying you with animal cruelty, and you're sure to get off the hook - it can't be proven right or wrong...)
Um... isnt the auto-update on Firefox 1.5 and up? so your post of 1.06 or 1.07 having auto-update would be wrong? (btw: i've been using fire fox since what? 1.04? and dl the first deer park beta i saw, and then went through all 3 release candidates and now the official...)
F/A-22, Eurofighter Typhoon purchases get cut, F/A-22 or the F-35 programs might get totally eliminated by the US DoD
the Raptor is supposedly crap compared to some of the nicer Russian jets, the only reason why the US would win in a fight against the 2 is US has more money to produce planes, and they only have, what, ONE squad of F/A22's. it's possible Congress just cuts the funding for the whole Raptor and F35 program anyway, along with the (X)M8 rifle, OCSW ABG (25mm airbursting grenade) machine gun, and a host of other programs of the sort, just for the dipshit reasoning that "We have something that works now, it's been proven for 30-40 years, why stop using this ancient pos technology and weapons when there is much better stuff available?"
you both have no clue, AIM stands for AOL Instant Messenger, and AOL stands for America On Line
BTW, AOL and anything made by AOL is bound to suck, including AOL's Moviephone.com service (movie listings), and their Netscape browser, which they aquired in about '99 or so, sat on it, then realized that the AOL name was hurting them because it sucked so bad, so they switched it to Netscape, which as I said, is still AOL
With the removal of the hyphen and thanks to some clever software, astute deals, a once-in-a-lifetime deal with IBM and a touch of ruthlessness, world domination followed.
Muahahaha
In the book Hard Drive, authors James Wallace and Jim Erickson say that Allen was a much easier person to get along with. While Gates was often impossible, prone to fits of temper and an uncompromising workaholic, Allen had a life outside of work. He was interested in technology, rock music and science fiction. "Paul tended to be a lot more patient about things than Bill. That was always a very nice counter," Wallace and Erickson quote an early Microsoft employee.
sounds like Gates was kinda a whiner...
last of all: "Allen has been selling his Microsoft shares since he left the company, but still owns more than $3 billion worth.", sounds like somebody started to loose faith in the company there...
Well, I suppose at least if it eventually goes to the supreme court, we wont have to hear bout this bs anymore after they make a decision, most likely the same that the California court decided...
I'm not sure if you're just joking, or if you genuinly can't comprehend that the technology being discussed in the post IS BEING DEVELOPED TO CURE DISEASE!
I think I heard something about somebody using a bunch of furby's to make a beowulf cluster (furbeowulf) of parallel processors, now that's what you call having too much time on your hands...
all this means is some programmer taught a robot to remember its limb positions and reverse the coordinates for a mirror image and compare the two. how the heck is telling a robot "your arm is here, his is in a different position, therefore, you are not the same" lead to teaching a robot how to think "that girl-bot just flashed me, i almost short-circuited my-self" and "that sob just flipped me off and passed me on the freeway, I'm going to pointlessly blare my horn for an hour at him!"
Are adaptations of books, old movies and sequels all that Hollywood can produce now? Sad state for a supposedly "creative" industry.
At the rate and quality Hollywood is going with their usual productions, its a good thing American film studios are phasing out, and Japanese managed (or at least owned) studios are phasing in. Look at most movies you see now, they are produced by Sony (all hail Sony corporation!!!). My guess is the reason why films produced by Sony are usually so much better is because they actually care about making money, except that unlike American producers and studios, who would just jack up the ticket price, Sony and other Japanese companies make more money by making a better film, one that will actually attract people and make them want to buy the movie instead of some half-assed movie out of Hollywood that people consider not even worth illegally downloading.
the hell why would they, its publicly available info, if they dint want us to see it, it would be on a uber encrypted server, and the page design would look like the usual crap idiots that know nothing of design turn out (btw its on the regular US army web site, its a publicity stunt press release, to say that they actually care about their soldiers (I'm not saying they dont, but it IS after all, a publicity stunt). this is about an air conditioner, not next-gen thermo-nuclear warheads...
BTW: it's not really all that relevant, except that it was a "launcher" of sorts to be embedded into a mountain side. Back in the 80's or early 90's (not sure) Saddam Hussein was contracting somebody (I think it was a Canadian astrophysist(spelling?)) to build a cannon into a mountain-side to launch nuclear warheads at Israel. However, it wouldn't have been able to re-aim, not to mention the Israeli Air-Force woulda had it in a few minutes. The point is, though, that it was embedded into a mountain-side with the same general curvature of what I've been trying to describe.
As to the curve towards the end of the rail, as I said, (again I know it's a really bad idea to reference to games when you are trying to get people to take you seriously, but games are the only place I have seen creative enough to display anything like it). BTW as I said before, I have seen the rail design in Namco's Ace Combat 5 (the space-port facility you protect during the cargo launch, but its a rocket sled, not rail-gun) and in Squaresoft's Final Fantasy 8 (the Lunar Gate, where they send you into space, and what they launched the Ragnarok from)
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BTW: The part about embedding/tunneling part of the rail into a mountain side is a great idea, really efficient (that way you dont have to build a huge super-structure to support the rail at the launching end)
here's a pic I made real quick to show you (i'm no good at ASCII pix) http://www.geocities.com/xtecha_omega/mass-driver
And to reinforce what I stated before, yes, it would be economical (more so than just the Shuttle, which has only one use, to send people to space), the nuclear power plant could sell power to cities that need it (except for when you need it to launch cargo from the rail)
Its sad as hell when a company like MS admits that their product is inferior (they already knew it was, but admitting it is another story), when they should put a few $xx thousand into it to bring it up to par...
Since they waste like what? a couple billion dollars just to deliver food and basic necessities. Why not experiment with the feasibility of making an electrically powered rail gun/mass driver and set the cargo pod (no humans or other life-forms (animals, ect), as they would be crushed in the g forces from acceleration). This would give NASA (or whoever expiremented with it, maybe China or ESA) a permanent external launcher for the cargo pods, meaning that if the pod goes down, you dont lose your engines with it, and instead of using expensive rocket fuel for current generation shuttles, the driver could be connected to its own dedicated nuclear power plant on the ground (the power produced by the plant could be diverted to cities when the driver isn't being used). Then when the cargo pod gets into orbit, the ISS could send out a small rendevous craft (the thrusters wouldn't have to be very powerfull) to retrieve the pod, and of course, you would want to put in an orbit that would cross with the station so ISS crew wouldn't have to go out of their way to get their own supplies.
The ONLY thing I can personally see about this is that
1: The power of the rail gun/mass driver would have to be limited so that it does not crush the entire cargo pod (even without having people and or animals on it, you would still have to worry about the cargo and the pod itself being crushed in the acceleration).
2: It would not solve the problem of still having to use shuttles to send people up, but since most of what NASA does right now is sending food and supplies to the ISS, which could be done remotely through robotics (the only major problem with robotics might be the time lag between sending and receiving of the signals).
All in all, (I know its REALLY bad to refer to video games when you are trying to get people to take you seriously) it would be kinda like the mass driver in the PS2 title from Namco "Ace Combat 5", if any of you have ever played that, it might help you to visualise what I have tried to describe...
I admit, I stay up until 4 or 5 in the morning playing PC games, but then I go to sleep for the normal 8 or 10 hours a person would sleep and get up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. However, what these people are doing is completely different, they stay up non-stop, for days and even weeks on end. Of course staying in a room with bad ventilation and a bad air supply (smoking) will cause asphyxiation, and of course staying up for days on end will drain your energy to the point where you can't move.
My point is, its not the games that kill, its the life-style that these people are living.
but don't you see? you don't need to look backwards (through your skull), since the forward looking cameras will show you whatever's infront of you (your infront of your face), say your head is facing the same direction as the rest of your body, it will show you whats in that direction, and if you keep your body still and look over your shoulder, you'll see whats behind you, giving you a 360degree view of whats around your body (just like looking around without any techno-hardware, but with the display image overlay ontop of whatever real-world object(s) you are looking at)
this would be much easier than having mounted or flying/free-floating cameras all around you, which would give you a rather odd "out of body experience," in the case of which, it would be like running around in a 3rd person shooter, I know the things are fun to play, but take another case of 3rd person gaming - 3rd person view offered in some flight simulators (mostly the arcade style combat sims granted (like Namco's Ace Combat series, Battlefield, Lethal Skies, ect. which ever you prefer)), it sounds cool at first, but the only time you ever even wanna use it is if you are recording an air battle, the reason why you'll never wanna do something like this in 3rd person is cause' its a real pain in the ass to tell where you are relative to the camera (you picture where you are in a turn or loop, which a cakewalk in 1st person, but in 3rd person you crash n burn into the ocean or a mountain side real fast).
my point is, with a 3rd person view you are watching the ground and where your feet are and not what you really wanna be doin (manipulating book pages, drawing, what ever you do on your comp,) plus the image display overlay wouldnt work, because YOU (as in your physical body) would be in the way.
PS: sorry if I got kinda off the original topic, its 4:30am right now and I'm tired as hell...
So here's a quick fix to your system: instead of using a bunch of cameras away from the user, hard-mounted to the building, hard-mount the cameras to the glasses with the screen. This makes a heck of a lot more sense due to ONE SIMPLE FACT: theres no need to have a camera show a person whats behind them when they want the screen to overlay on whats INFRONT OF THEM
If hardware companies didnt release their new drivers for free, its likely nobody would buy their hardware, since you wouldnt be able keep the product drivers up to date (you get artifacts from your card, so your mobo manufacturer tells you to upgrade your drivers, and you tell them, ya, but I went broke buying the card, how am I supposed to afford the drivers?)
if Pluto is insanely cold (like a couple hunrded celsius below zero or something i think?) imagine how bitch ass cold it must be on this new "Buffy"