there's no artists involved.. just a laser scanner, photo's and the software to stitch it all together into a 3D model of the scene. that doesn't make it any better, but at least there's a chance the subtleties will appear. and the chance that someone notices is just added to anything the police would normally do.
problem is: this fire (the cia) is a little too big to kill off, or "extinguish". so instead, you make sure it can't do any more harm by letting others know what the cia knows. that's like counter-fire, i guess.
what i meant with direct fuel.. well, you could power a propeller using an electric motor and notice hardly a difference if it had the same power and weight. a jet engine, on the other hand, would probably function very differently using hydrogen instead of kerosine.
i didn't know that propeller airplanes are more efficient though. i thought jet planes were. my bad..
it doesn't make sense to use this for a commercial airline anyway, since the reason they're so fast is the jet engine. it uses direct fuel, while hydrogen-powered vehicles use the hydrogen to provide electrical power. AFAIK.
that said, a plane with just one moving part.. itself.. would be awesome. you'd need to somehow get a grip on the air around it to do anything though, but once you've got that you have yourself a flying saucer kind of setup. something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3mT9eCDVw
if you want to put 48 kHz into 48 Kbps, you'd have a grand total of one bit per sample. on/off.. pretty good compression if you manage to pull that off!:]
a whole candle? i think you're giving him them too much credit. look at the lawbooks: there's plenty of really good and fair laws in there, but they also have great examples of laws probably made by people who would fall for this. i'd link some, but i'm sure you've seen them before.
it's the idiots that he's trying to convince. and there's plenty of those.
another difference: most MUDs are free, as far as i know (hardly ever played them, rather young geekling here). that means if you run into some glaring error that makes the game unplayable or horribly annoying, you just move on to another MUD. most MMORPGs have subscriptions or monthly game cards, so you don't just hop on over to another. MMORPGs are designed to prevent people from switching to another game, anyway. so if one of them suddenly gets a bug.. well, most players are "stuck" with it.
i'll tell you what people told me the last time i made this mistake: microsoft will just license it to everyone who wants it. for a hefty sum, of course. money for microsoft and new drm stuff for others.
wait... "stopping force proportional to the square of the speed" so if something impacts it twice as fast, it'll push back four times as much?
doesn't that mean it'd be perfect in some kind of new body armour? if it's not too heavy to be useful, that is. or just on the parts that need the most protection..
functionally defunct and unenforceable, but still occasionally harmful to some individuals. this law would make it a little less dangerous to innocents.
the salesman will just convince you it's a feature, to save weight. and we all know lower weight means better mileage. you don't want a high mileage, do you now? someone shoot this man! he's an oil-guzzling terrorist!
you call it scary, i call it wonderful. sure, i'm stuck with the same nonsense here in holland (rfid chip on id cards, and soon the same thing on driver's licenses), but this means they'll have a good reason to change things. crack it often enough, and they'll eventually give up. not sure how, not sure why, but they will. probably from some financial expert telling them it's just too costly to keep pouring money into this project.
all hail our... rfid-card reading overlords? scratch that, nevermind.
And you seem to be the only one to mention it so far, too. I know people would be cautious of a true sequel at first, as with any good game, but.. Who wouldn't want to meet Chrono, Lucca, Marle, Frog, Ayla, Robo and Magus again? The team attacks and cute graphics?
Sure, just setting it a few years later would be silly, but you could continue where the old one left off.. everyone's gone back to their old time and Chrono's mom went through the portal after their cat. Maybe some epic scene that defines a new hub of time? The kitty was led into the portal by some mysterious guy who needs Frog's help.. and uses the team to find him again.
It's not hard to think of some way to continue the story. If I can think up something just like that, anyone can. Especially square:)
heh. you're just worried you'll have to change your nickname to MindfulAutomata, my friend. but fear not, our evil robot overlords will understand. we... they have a special place reserved juuuust for you!
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there's no artists involved.. just a laser scanner, photo's and the software to stitch it all together into a 3D model of the scene. that doesn't make it any better, but at least there's a chance the subtleties will appear. and the chance that someone notices is just added to anything the police would normally do.
problem is: this fire (the cia) is a little too big to kill off, or "extinguish". so instead, you make sure it can't do any more harm by letting others know what the cia knows. that's like counter-fire, i guess.
what i meant with direct fuel.. well, you could power a propeller using an electric motor and notice hardly a difference if it had the same power and weight. a jet engine, on the other hand, would probably function very differently using hydrogen instead of kerosine. i didn't know that propeller airplanes are more efficient though. i thought jet planes were. my bad..
it doesn't make sense to use this for a commercial airline anyway, since the reason they're so fast is the jet engine. it uses direct fuel, while hydrogen-powered vehicles use the hydrogen to provide electrical power. AFAIK. that said, a plane with just one moving part.. itself.. would be awesome. you'd need to somehow get a grip on the air around it to do anything though, but once you've got that you have yourself a flying saucer kind of setup. something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3mT9eCDVw
easyness is mandatory, citizen!
look for the telepresenceporn discussion. you'll get it :)
he'll be back?
if you want to put 48 kHz into 48 Kbps, you'd have a grand total of one bit per sample. on/off.. pretty good compression if you manage to pull that off! :]
.. of beowulf clusters? you could just group them all into one grendel-cluster!
a whole candle? i think you're giving him them too much credit. look at the lawbooks: there's plenty of really good and fair laws in there, but they also have great examples of laws probably made by people who would fall for this. i'd link some, but i'm sure you've seen them before.
it's the idiots that he's trying to convince. and there's plenty of those.
another difference: most MUDs are free, as far as i know (hardly ever played them, rather young geekling here). that means if you run into some glaring error that makes the game unplayable or horribly annoying, you just move on to another MUD. most MMORPGs have subscriptions or monthly game cards, so you don't just hop on over to another. MMORPGs are designed to prevent people from switching to another game, anyway. so if one of them suddenly gets a bug.. well, most players are "stuck" with it.
and then we coat them in various molten metals to get even stronger beetle..borgs!
i'll tell you what people told me the last time i made this mistake: microsoft will just license it to everyone who wants it. for a hefty sum, of course. money for microsoft and new drm stuff for others.
nothing good about this, sorry man.
was it as good for her as it was for you?
blah blah, evil robotic gameboy overlords, moar blah.
they'd have to sprout hands or something first!
100% chance of rage and fury?
you're right though, and win at summarizing.
wait... "stopping force proportional to the square of the speed"
so if something impacts it twice as fast, it'll push back four times as much?
doesn't that mean it'd be perfect in some kind of new body armour? if it's not too heavy to be useful, that is. or just on the parts that need the most protection..
functionally defunct and unenforceable, but still occasionally harmful to some individuals. this law would make it a little less dangerous to innocents.
wait. pirating a patent?! you're on to something here, man!
the salesman will just convince you it's a feature, to save weight. and we all know lower weight means better mileage. you don't want a high mileage, do you now?
someone shoot this man! he's an oil-guzzling terrorist!
in other news: yay! a car analogy!
you call it scary, i call it wonderful. sure, i'm stuck with the same nonsense here in holland (rfid chip on id cards, and soon the same thing on driver's licenses), but this means they'll have a good reason to change things. crack it often enough, and they'll eventually give up. not sure how, not sure why, but they will. probably from some financial expert telling them it's just too costly to keep pouring money into this project.
all hail our... rfid-card reading overlords? scratch that, nevermind.
*knocks on his clogs and rolls a joint*
a-yep.. golly, we sure are odd down here!
heh, the parent deserves his +1 funny.. but i couldn't resist. sorry, all!
so you'd have a lot of jars of dirt. time to sign a little song about it? :)
And you seem to be the only one to mention it so far, too. I know people would be cautious of a true sequel at first, as with any good game, but.. Who wouldn't want to meet Chrono, Lucca, Marle, Frog, Ayla, Robo and Magus again? The team attacks and cute graphics?
Sure, just setting it a few years later would be silly, but you could continue where the old one left off.. everyone's gone back to their old time and Chrono's mom went through the portal after their cat. Maybe some epic scene that defines a new hub of time? The kitty was led into the portal by some mysterious guy who needs Frog's help.. and uses the team to find him again.
It's not hard to think of some way to continue the story. If I can think up something just like that, anyone can. Especially square :)
heh. you're just worried you'll have to change your nickname to MindfulAutomata, my friend. but fear not, our evil robot overlords will understand. we... they have a special place reserved juuuust for you!