tell me you have noticed that the FOSS movement is disorganized, free of any sort of recognized governing, directing body or group?...pretty anarchist, no?
Tell me, that in all of your time studying the "freetards", you have not noticed the fanatical devotion they give to a few men like RMS. Not very anarchistic at all...
Sure, I'm very much aware of Centralia, and have been near there on more than one occasion. I didn't mention it because the mine fire at Centralia was the result of negligence (kind of like the BP oil spill really...), not the result of engineers trying to fix something.
If you are trying to point out that the US fucks shit up as well as the Russians, then sure, that'd be a great example. I was only trying to point out that sometimes the Russians don't think their "fixes" through.
We're talking about an absolutely ludicrous amount of crude oil here. I'm not convinced at all that enough hay could be procured in the time-frame needed to effectively act.
It is also important to note that Penumbra: Oveture source will not run Black Plague or Requiem. AI for the infected, GUI elements, etc are all missing, but all needed to implement them is present in the engine code (in case anybody is up for the challenge).
These two sentences comprise the entire paragraph. Thus, logically, hey are related. If you were not previously familar with the games, then you should understand that there are 3 separate games, Overture is only one of them, and it is the only one of them for which sourcecode is claimed to have been released. As explained by other posters, Oveture never had AI for infected humans in the first place.
Don't make me have to jump into a deeper explanation of the meaning of these sentences, I am not your 2nd grade english teacher.
Nice job selectively quoting to be misleading. Here is the entirety of that quote:
"It is also important to note that Penumbra: Oveture source will not run Black Plague or Requiem. AI for the infected, GUI elements, etc are all missing, but all needed to implement them is present in the engine code (in case anybody is up for the challenge)."
In other words, this is the entirety of the source code for Penumbra: Oveture. AI, GUI, etc are all present. What it isn't is the sourcecode for the next two games in the series, Black Plague and Requiem.
*Note that the art resources have not been open sourced. You should still purchase the game if you want to play it, but now you can build your own binary. This is basically what iD has done in the past with their old Quake engines.
I've lived next to Three Mile Island practically my entire life, I'm sure you are familiar with it. Yet, I'm not concerned in the slightest.
Why? Well statistically speaking, nuclear plants are incredibly safe. There are almost 500 nuclear reactors active in the world today, 104 of them being in the US. How many incidents have presented a sincere threat to human life in the past few decades? I can count the number on my hands. It's just not worth worrying about this sort of thing, unless your worry threshold is so low that you'd never live in a house in the woods for fear of falling trees.
My home as a child was surrounded by trees, on one particularly stormy night a sizeable branch from an oak tree fell onto the roof of my house and nearly broke through the roof. I'll consider becoming concerned about trees long before I ever start worrying myself about nuclear.
We could have been killed by a few of those plants going critical.
All nuclear plants are critical. That is how they goddamned work. Once again, another anti-nuke wacko proves he has no fucking idea what he is talking about, prefering to throw around "scary" words instead of actually researching shit. I swear to god, it's like knowledge is actually taboo to you people.
No kidding. You don't think I know what "one way ticket" means? Even if the provided life support was only designed to keep me alive for a few days, I'd still jump at the opportunity.
Teaching assembly (which CPU?) wouldn't be practical but C is the next best thing.
Doesn't nearly every CS program have a handful of classes where they teach you exactly that? My school's program offers a series of "system architecture" classes that feature, somewhat heavily, MIPS assembly. MIPS is a pretty obvious choice when picking an architecture for an academic setting. The rest of my classes are largely language agnostic, most students chose to do assignments in C.
The grad student doesn't need to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (the no pay part is surprisingly easy to get a grad student to do though...). The DNA mechanisms that he sets up need to. Once he sets it up who is to say that this technology, once improved, won't be largely autonomous?
I purchased the iD pack on steam and currently play the games I got from it on Linux. Just because you buy it from steam doesn't mean the DRM aspects are going to be used.
Tundra Orbits and the like are pretty popular for spy satellites, but honestly I'm not sure that would work well for North Korea, they are at a relatively low latitude. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had a geosync satellite parked near North Korea as an early warning system. Such a high orbit would not be very good for general spy satellite tasks, but at the same time you don't want to have periods of time you aren't monitoring a country like that for launches.
tl;dr: There are likely a shitton of sats watching North Korea, at least some of them are probably geosync.
It never fails. Whenever chiropractors are mentioned on slashdot inevitably a dozen people and their cats sign on and make comments about how they know it is all mumbo jumbo but they or a loved one actually benefited from it. They, and the occasional mod, think these are actually insightful comments, which they are not.
Of course, someone that goes to a chiropractor is probably more pre-disposed to not understand the concept of scientific evidence so I guess it's not all that puzzling...
Sure, I'm not familiar with exactly what sort of trained medical professional you'd want to see for specific injuries, I only know that you'd want to see one;)
The Linux support for IBM/Lenovo gear like this is generally absolutely superb. I don't have one of these per-say, but the trackpoint/trackpad on my thinkpad is actually more configurable (that I can figure out) in Linux than it is in Windows. Works absolutely flawlessly.
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Tell me, that in all of your time studying the "freetards", you have not noticed the fanatical devotion they give to a few men like RMS. Not very anarchistic at all...
It makes me so happy that a mod recognized this comment for the brilliance it is :)
Sure, I'm very much aware of Centralia, and have been near there on more than one occasion. I didn't mention it because the mine fire at Centralia was the result of negligence (kind of like the BP oil spill really...), not the result of engineers trying to fix something.
If you are trying to point out that the US fucks shit up as well as the Russians, then sure, that'd be a great example. I was only trying to point out that sometimes the Russians don't think their "fixes" through.
We're talking about an absolutely ludicrous amount of crude oil here. I'm not convinced at all that enough hay could be procured in the time-frame needed to effectively act.
The Russians also thought that this would work.
They don't exactly have a flawless track-record when it comes to this sort of thing.
From the article, as a paragraph all to itself:
These two sentences comprise the entire paragraph. Thus, logically, hey are related. If you were not previously familar with the games, then you should understand that there are 3 separate games, Overture is only one of them, and it is the only one of them for which sourcecode is claimed to have been released. As explained by other posters, Oveture never had AI for infected humans in the first place.
Don't make me have to jump into a deeper explanation of the meaning of these sentences, I am not your 2nd grade english teacher.
Nice job selectively quoting to be misleading. Here is the entirety of that quote:
In other words, this is the entirety of the source code for Penumbra: Oveture. AI, GUI, etc are all present. What it isn't is the sourcecode for the next two games in the series, Black Plague and Requiem.
*Note that the art resources have not been open sourced. You should still purchase the game if you want to play it, but now you can build your own binary. This is basically what iD has done in the past with their old Quake engines.
Oh you...
Wow, it is like you have managed to completely avoid reading my post you responded to entirely.
I'll sum it up for you: Your story doesn't mean shit. It is absolutely worthless.
Barring a technological singularity, everyone will die eventually. Even you.
I propose we line everyone up in a line and shoot them.
End result is the same, just far more efficient.
I've lived next to Three Mile Island practically my entire life, I'm sure you are familiar with it. Yet, I'm not concerned in the slightest.
Why? Well statistically speaking, nuclear plants are incredibly safe. There are almost 500 nuclear reactors active in the world today, 104 of them being in the US. How many incidents have presented a sincere threat to human life in the past few decades? I can count the number on my hands. It's just not worth worrying about this sort of thing, unless your worry threshold is so low that you'd never live in a house in the woods for fear of falling trees.
My home as a child was surrounded by trees, on one particularly stormy night a sizeable branch from an oak tree fell onto the roof of my house and nearly broke through the roof. I'll consider becoming concerned about trees long before I ever start worrying myself about nuclear.
All nuclear plants are critical. That is how they goddamned work. Once again, another anti-nuke wacko proves he has no fucking idea what he is talking about, prefering to throw around "scary" words instead of actually researching shit. I swear to god, it's like knowledge is actually taboo to you people.
Get corporate sponsorship for your last words, to ensure your family's future: "I should have packed more cheetos!"
No kidding. You don't think I know what "one way ticket" means? Even if the provided life support was only designed to keep me alive for a few days, I'd still jump at the opportunity.
Wait, isn't the LOC a building too? Should work for volume measurements.
Give me a one-way ticket to Mars and I'd take it in a heartbeat. No joke.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Doesn't nearly every CS program have a handful of classes where they teach you exactly that? My school's program offers a series of "system architecture" classes that feature, somewhat heavily, MIPS assembly. MIPS is a pretty obvious choice when picking an architecture for an academic setting. The rest of my classes are largely language agnostic, most students chose to do assignments in C.
Yeah, it shows.
The grad student doesn't need to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (the no pay part is surprisingly easy to get a grad student to do though...). The DNA mechanisms that he sets up need to. Once he sets it up who is to say that this technology, once improved, won't be largely autonomous?
I purchased the iD pack on steam and currently play the games I got from it on Linux. Just because you buy it from steam doesn't mean the DRM aspects are going to be used.
The Farnsworth I was thinking of was that TV guy. You know the one I mean.
Tundra Orbits and the like are pretty popular for spy satellites, but honestly I'm not sure that would work well for North Korea, they are at a relatively low latitude. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had a geosync satellite parked near North Korea as an early warning system. Such a high orbit would not be very good for general spy satellite tasks, but at the same time you don't want to have periods of time you aren't monitoring a country like that for launches.
tl;dr: There are likely a shitton of sats watching North Korea, at least some of them are probably geosync.
It never fails. Whenever chiropractors are mentioned on slashdot inevitably a dozen people and their cats sign on and make comments about how they know it is all mumbo jumbo but they or a loved one actually benefited from it. They, and the occasional mod, think these are actually insightful comments, which they are not.
Of course, someone that goes to a chiropractor is probably more pre-disposed to not understand the concept of scientific evidence so I guess it's not all that puzzling...
Sure, I'm not familiar with exactly what sort of trained medical professional you'd want to see for specific injuries, I only know that you'd want to see one ;)
The Linux support for IBM/Lenovo gear like this is generally absolutely superb. I don't have one of these per-say, but the trackpoint/trackpad on my thinkpad is actually more configurable (that I can figure out) in Linux than it is in Windows. Works absolutely flawlessly.