It bores me out of my mind. OOooo look he can run fast...
Then I came up with a great idea. Make the Olympics old Skool, like the real greeks used to. Where people were brutal and we could have sports like "LIve-Angry-Lion Tossing" and get rid of "sports" (using the term lightly) like ice skating.
Oh yeah and get rid of ALL safety equipment. Let's see some pain.
They can ship a box full of mock-screenshots and a book telling aboput all the cool features the game is going to have in the year 21XX when they finally release it.
Seriously though, wth are they getting money to continue developing? THat's some kind of money-pit.
It sounds kind of similar to an idea I cooked up late one night while doped up on too much caffiene.
It involved wiring my Sony Mini-Disc deck to my PC and writing a program that converts data to blips, and a reader program that converts it back, so I could use all those mini-discs I had for something really cool.
But then I thought how much a pain in the ass it would be to write the assembly code so that it was fast enough to even think about using it. I'm also unsure how fast the Sony MD-deck is capable of reading at.
Um so? I imagine a lot of things could look like an explosive to a "Layman". Ever seen the inside of a CRT monitor or a TV? Imagine how much C4 you could hide in that.
This is just plain silly.
Are we moving to a society that fears anything that could potentially look like a bomb to an uneducated twit?
I really wish they could do it, I'm in the military and am looking at one of those long stints away from loved ones soon... but the fact of the matter is, if it's not for official military use, it won't get funding. That and rolling cable in the desert just makes one more security issue to deal with which requires manpower we can't spare right now.
Yeah yeah, but WIRELESS!.... is a security nightmare right now and lets face it, no matter how many times COMSEC and COMPUSEC are briefed there is always some nimrod on the network violating the security measures.
War isn't about being comfortable, the military's primary concern is that we stay alive, not that we have email. They've actually gone to great lengths to set up call centers and email access as it is, but you could easily wait in line for 2 hours for your turn. But trust me when I tell you that those connections that are allowed are closely monitored (fewer connections mean fewer resources required to monitor them).
Warfare is as much about information control as manpower these days.
... at least when setting standards with technology. the US Gov. has messed up technology enough as it is.
ex. See Cellphones.
Let some geek come up with the answer and get enough geek power behind him to implement it into standard.
Besides... the government can't even track down all those Nigerian email frauds, what makes me think they can be trusted with several MILLION more complaints?
Now they'll know exactly how fast i was going! without using those arbitrary numbers those radar guns make.
Now all I need is a RFID tag stapled to my little buddy so the government can track how often i get it on with the wife. May come in handy for the future population controls and killing off all ppl over 30....
besides our cars are supposed to be just metaphorical extensions of our penises anyway right?
The problem is have you looked at the price of getting an education in the health care field? then you have to do a very underpaid/overworked internship... and after all that you have to pay INSANE insurance rates due to our litigation happy society?
No that field has already been traumatized by over litigation, extreme government regulation and over pricing. Very soon there will be no affordable health care in the US, which will be further offset by the drops in students going into the medical field due to the extreme costs of higher education. There is already a huge shortage of nurses, who are being replaced with "health technicians"(monkeys who went through a 12 month course). Who will we replace our doctors with?
Of course these questions are rather pointless as when our new alien overlords get here most of us will be offshored to alien worlds as menial slave labor. THose of us that aren't killed off by the terrorists.
Or the vast nuclear war
followed by the geneticly engineered supervirii.....
I believe those ringtone wouldn't be so annoying if they used something other than one of those cheap 3 tone speakers with a dumbed down midi as the notes.
THats the most annoying thing about ringtones, they butcher some peice of music to play on a pos tin speaker.
I recently hear a phone that had an honest to goodness speaker as a ringer and it played (I'm assuming) a wav file as a ring.... so the tone was actually a song... that wasn't completely grating on my nerves.
So there may be hope for the whole phone ringer thing. but if I hear another cell-phone in a movie I'm gonna go postal.
I haven't bought a CD since. Honestly I hate buying CDs cause they usually only have one song I like.
I hope CD sales continue to decline, they need to move along into the next century. And I concur with the previous statements that there just aren't really that many bands out there that make anything worth listening to.
"I'm going to my room to lishten to my Britney Shpears records."
Guess I just posted another worthless opinion to/..
I've always been taken with the Mechwarrior "Elemental". It's basically a one man power suit with a fusion generator strapped to it. Throw in some good steroids/muscle response time enhancers, and you got yourself a good little "FAST" super soldier.
I could only see a big mech used as psychological control on large populations (of say a city of militarily ignorant people).
If they have no physical presence how can it be fined? And if it is, how would that be any different than that rediculous stuff where the US imposed insane terrifs on imported steel.
I mean if sony has no New Zealand office, it doesn't mean people in New Zealand can't buy Sony products. (btw this is just an out-of-my-ass example).
by all means correct me if I am wrong, i'd like further education on this matter.
How is The EU going to make MS pay? Couldn't MS just pull completely out of the EU? If they have such a huge monopoly, wouldn't that be a big blow to a set of systems that already "dependent" on MS Software?
I'm just wondering which will be deemed the bigger loss of property to them... the forced OSing of their software and a huge fine, or to pull out and make any EU company who wants their software go through import channels.
I'm not a MS fan, but forced source disclosure seems a bit of a slippery slope to me.
Just a thought. Please resume, the "YAY EU!!"s and MS Bashing.
I agree completely, I've worked in retail before and that was one of my major gripes, people who rip stuff off and return it for store credit. I knew it was stolen merchendise but couldn't prove it, so we had to stand there grin and take it back. I hate that kind of sleaziness.
Trackable merchandise is good. And besides if they do manage to hook it up to the "system" that tracks what I buy and start sending me advertisement it will end up just like all the other advertisements that I don't read, in my garbage, shredded of course.
What good does it do them to know I buy my toilet paper from walmart?
This way they'll find out much more swiftly that many americans like myself are turning themselves off to the advertising machine. I just don't respond to it, and actually respond adversly to telemarketers, i will go out of my way not to buy stuff people pester me about.
Enough with that I suppose, we now return you to your regular sentient slashdot responses.
Correct me if I am wrong, and I'm sure you logistic nazis will;P, but isn't the whole premise of a RAIL-GUN based on the fact of taking a very light and small object and accelerating it to a high velocity? So that 1gram peice of aluminum becomes something capable of putting a basketball sized hole in a tank?
Just food for thought, but it seems to me that NASA would have a whole crew of people working on velocities of small objects since our atmosphere is getting junked up with them.
Also, how do they keep birds out of the way of a shuttle launch? Would I be wrong in thinking that the shuttle hitting a bird at that speed could cause significant damage as well?
Sounds to me like your trying to piss them off, especially when you charge $300 for the operating system... I think they are shooting themselves in the foot with this one. I mean is it easier to upgrade the OS or try to find a free alternative that supports the added features...
oh say like MOZILLA...
I have faith that the mozilla project coders will be able to implement any 'special' features microsoft adds to their browser. Especially if its based on open web standards like XML, CSS, HTML...
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Okay, I just saw it. Wasn't what I was expecting.
I was thinking at worse some hugely obese naked chick. It's not. It's far more disturbing than that.
And now I'm wondering who the hell this person is and how the F--K can they do that?
It's worse than goatse.
I'm going to cry myself to sleep now. Make the horrible image go away...
DAMN MY CURIOSITY!!!!!!!
Canada, or the Sahara Desert.
WAY out in the middle of the sticks.
That way if it goes boom, not as many people need to translocate. If they get it working, Canada could definately benefit from the power sales.
It just wouldn't work that well here in the US. Too many shady businesses and Unions to ever even get the project off the ground.
Of course, I forsee the Female Gymnastics competition viewing to be the most watched television ever, in such a scenerio.
People still watch the olympics?
It bores me out of my mind. OOooo look he can run fast...
Then I came up with a great idea. Make the Olympics old Skool, like the real greeks used to. Where people were brutal and we could have sports like "LIve-Angry-Lion Tossing" and get rid of "sports" (using the term lightly) like ice skating.
Oh yeah and get rid of ALL safety equipment. Let's see some pain.
haven't they changed the name yet?
Duke Nukem: Waiting Forever
They can ship a box full of mock-screenshots and a book telling aboput all the cool features the game is going to have in the year 21XX when they finally release it.
Seriously though, wth are they getting money to continue developing? THat's some kind of money-pit.
It sounds kind of similar to an idea I cooked up late one night while doped up on too much caffiene.
It involved wiring my Sony Mini-Disc deck to my PC and writing a program that converts data to blips, and a reader program that converts it back, so I could use all those mini-discs I had for something really cool.
But then I thought how much a pain in the ass it would be to write the assembly code so that it was fast enough to even think about using it. I'm also unsure how fast the Sony MD-deck is capable of reading at.
Once again I was pretty hopped up.
"It may look like a IED to a layman..."
Um so? I imagine a lot of things could look like an explosive to a "Layman". Ever seen the inside of a CRT monitor or a TV? Imagine how much C4 you could hide in that.
This is just plain silly.
Are we moving to a society that fears anything that could potentially look like a bomb to an uneducated twit?
damn, I guess there will be no more public Urination for me...
How do you suggest that they do this?
I really wish they could do it, I'm in the military and am looking at one of those long stints away from loved ones soon... but the fact of the matter is, if it's not for official military use, it won't get funding. That and rolling cable in the desert just makes one more security issue to deal with which requires manpower we can't spare right now.
Yeah yeah, but WIRELESS!.... is a security nightmare right now and lets face it, no matter how many times COMSEC and COMPUSEC are briefed there is always some nimrod on the network violating the security measures.
War isn't about being comfortable, the military's primary concern is that we stay alive, not that we have email. They've actually gone to great lengths to set up call centers and email access as it is, but you could easily wait in line for 2 hours for your turn. But trust me when I tell you that those connections that are allowed are closely monitored (fewer connections mean fewer resources required to monitor them).
Warfare is as much about information control as manpower these days.
... at least when setting standards with technology. the US Gov. has messed up technology enough as it is.
ex. See Cellphones.
Let some geek come up with the answer and get enough geek power behind him to implement it into standard.
Besides... the government can't even track down all those Nigerian email frauds, what makes me think they can be trusted with several MILLION more complaints?
Now they'll know exactly how fast i was going! without using those arbitrary numbers those radar guns make.
Now all I need is a RFID tag stapled to my little buddy so the government can track how often i get it on with the wife. May come in handy for the future population controls and killing off all ppl over 30....
besides our cars are supposed to be just metaphorical extensions of our penises anyway right?
The future is so BRIGHT!
better be carefull...
"he'll make you an offer that you cannot refuse..."
wtf is that a violin playing?
The problem is have you looked at the price of getting an education in the health care field? then you have to do a very underpaid/overworked internship... and after all that you have to pay INSANE insurance rates due to our litigation happy society?
No that field has already been traumatized by over litigation, extreme government regulation and over pricing. Very soon there will be no affordable health care in the US, which will be further offset by the drops in students going into the medical field due to the extreme costs of higher education. There is already a huge shortage of nurses, who are being replaced with "health technicians"(monkeys who went through a 12 month course). Who will we replace our doctors with?
Of course these questions are rather pointless as when our new alien overlords get here most of us will be offshored to alien worlds as menial slave labor. THose of us that aren't killed off by the terrorists.
Or the vast nuclear war
followed by the geneticly engineered supervirii.....
oh and asteroids.
You mean all this time I've spent sweet-talking my computer has been wasted?
very cool, wish I had some mod points for some +1 informative action.
I believe those ringtone wouldn't be so annoying if they used something other than one of those cheap 3 tone speakers with a dumbed down midi as the notes.
THats the most annoying thing about ringtones, they butcher some peice of music to play on a pos tin speaker.
I recently hear a phone that had an honest to goodness speaker as a ringer and it played (I'm assuming) a wav file as a ring.... so the tone was actually a song... that wasn't completely grating on my nerves.
So there may be hope for the whole phone ringer thing. but if I hear another cell-phone in a movie I'm gonna go postal.
I haven't bought a CD since. Honestly I hate buying CDs cause they usually only have one song I like.
/. .
I hope CD sales continue to decline, they need to move along into the next century. And I concur with the previous statements that there just aren't really that many bands out there that make anything worth listening to.
"I'm going to my room to lishten to my Britney Shpears records."
Guess I just posted another worthless opinion to
Thats why you don't make big slow mechs. :)
I've always been taken with the Mechwarrior "Elemental". It's basically a one man power suit with a fusion generator strapped to it. Throw in some good steroids/muscle response time enhancers, and you got yourself a good little "FAST" super soldier.
I could only see a big mech used as psychological control on large populations (of say a city of militarily ignorant people).
allow? no, but do they yes?
if the companies want the software they will pay the tarrifs for it. I think it will just mean higher prices for the EU customers.
I was refering to just they're EU HQ.
If they have no physical presence how can it be fined? And if it is, how would that be any different than that rediculous stuff where the US imposed insane terrifs on imported steel.
I mean if sony has no New Zealand office, it doesn't mean people in New Zealand can't buy Sony products. (btw this is just an out-of-my-ass example).
by all means correct me if I am wrong, i'd like further education on this matter.
How is The EU going to make MS pay? Couldn't MS just pull completely out of the EU? If they have such a huge monopoly, wouldn't that be a big blow to a set of systems that already "dependent" on MS Software?
I'm just wondering which will be deemed the bigger loss of property to them... the forced OSing of their software and a huge fine, or to pull out and make any EU company who wants their software go through import channels.
I'm not a MS fan, but forced source disclosure seems a bit of a slippery slope to me.
Just a thought. Please resume, the "YAY EU!!"s and MS Bashing.
My thoughts exactly, sounds like a huge, frivolous waste of money to me.
If a model is to an exact scale what difference does it make as to how large it is (other than the obvious, it has to be big enough to see).
I'm tempted to wonder how many man hours and tax money were wasted on this project.
I agree completely, I've worked in retail before and that was one of my major gripes, people who rip stuff off and return it for store credit. I knew it was stolen merchendise but couldn't prove it, so we had to stand there grin and take it back. I hate that kind of sleaziness.
Trackable merchandise is good. And besides if they do manage to hook it up to the "system" that tracks what I buy and start sending me advertisement it will end up just like all the other advertisements that I don't read, in my garbage, shredded of course.
What good does it do them to know I buy my toilet paper from walmart?
This way they'll find out much more swiftly that many americans like myself are turning themselves off to the advertising machine. I just don't respond to it, and actually respond adversly to telemarketers, i will go out of my way not to buy stuff people pester me about.
Enough with that I suppose, we now return you to your regular sentient slashdot responses.
Correct me if I am wrong, and I'm sure you logistic nazis will ;P, but isn't the whole premise of a RAIL-GUN based on the fact of taking a very light and small object and accelerating it to a high velocity? So that 1gram peice of aluminum becomes something capable of putting a basketball sized hole in a tank?
Just food for thought, but it seems to me that NASA would have a whole crew of people working on velocities of small objects since our atmosphere is getting junked up with them.
Also, how do they keep birds out of the way of a shuttle launch? Would I be wrong in thinking that the shuttle hitting a bird at that speed could cause significant damage as well?
Sounds to me like your trying to piss them off, especially when you charge $300 for the operating system... I think they are shooting themselves in the foot with this one. I mean is it easier to upgrade the OS or try to find a free alternative that supports the added features...
oh say like MOZILLA...
I have faith that the mozilla project coders will be able to implement any 'special' features microsoft adds to their browser. Especially if its based on open web standards like XML, CSS, HTML...