think of the research possibilities! NASA gets servers chock full of people dogfighting in space and uses the number crunching to further our understanding of spaceflight. the average user's bug report could effect how real spacecraft are designed!
rage? i was merely making assumptions on the Ukraine as a whole, based entirely off of a few minutes of a guy showing off a monitor. but honestly, you wouldn't see that kinda stuff in America, our crossbows would totally pwnz0r any kind of display device, as there is a market for strong personal ballistae. had we a demand for LCDs that could stand up to that punishment, we would have those as well. this would start an arms race of sorts between the crossbow and computer monitor industries, fluxing with the market.
The Ukraine? They have no market, Russia took it.
and the subject title isn't mean, it's a quote from Seinfeld.
With the hammer, he was definitely holding back at the last second of the swing. the crossbow was not all that impressive looking, i was expecting a modern hunting setup with titanium and pulleys and everything, but the 'weapon' he used was probably inherited from his Ukrainian dirt-farming ancestry. The bolt would have blunted just the same fired at my CRT.
What i learned here is that Ukrainians are timid and have access to only the most primitive of arms. How are they surviving the onslaught of Chernobyl super-mutated wildlife?
how can anyone be expected to do anything with a reflective LCD screen? it can only make images on a pathetic 2 dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane! thats only about a third of the axes you need to truly capture a flat picture! Descartes, you were a fool!
likely mobile devices will never be allowed on commercial flights on american airlines, as the government, and therefore the people's will, here has little sway over business practices. airlines dont want you to have portable electronic devices, so you aren't gonna get them. at least not overtly.
the question then is why, which people seem to think they know. it is most definitely not because they interfere with the flight systems. think about how many hundreds of people are on their cellphone or laptop inside the airport, why is there no record of that causing a problem with planes taking off/landing, or even messing with ATC? even if your device matched a signal a plane used, it stands to reason that the multi-million dollar commercial plane would overpower your cute little phone, and you would lose the connection, not them.
so then the most likely reason is that the airlines want to control communication. if something goes wrong, and it is apparent that the plane will go down, then passengers will of course call family and such. the stewardesses will make sure they do no such thing, believing that even the lowly gameboy might interfere with the pilots' rectifying of the situation.
once the plane crashed and everyone is either dead or in too much a state of shock, the airline can retrieve the blackbox, debrief the pilots if they survived, and now the only story on what exactly happened to the plane is one written by corporation not interested in being sued by the families of all the passengers.
But the developers need to accommodate for every form of stupid. This isn't about you or I (because i could prolly get Linux to work if i really felt like spending more hours and sleepless nights on it), it's about the sheep: The people we laugh at when we read about helpdesk stories. And to deal with all these potential missteps, your gonna need a lot of coders, and that will make it cost money. An OS needs to be as simple as possible to be successful, no matter the hype.
Look people, I'm a 15 year old male who has been using a computer half my life, and if the likes of myself couldn't wrap my head around Ubuntu, what are the chances the sheep majority will? Not to troll or anything, but Linux is nowhere near whats it's cracked up to be. At the risk of sounding n00bish to some of you, I could not even get programs that had been made specifically for Linux to run at all. Simplicity is the way to go, because it will appeal to more people, and with a bigger following, an OS will have more software made for it, and will become more popular. Windows ain't going anywhere soon.
for some reason, this reminds me of playing Yuri's Revenge. hehe, taking the guys that come out of the cloning vats and sending them to the grinders... Mmmm... soylent green is my kind of people
yeah, i'm just off on one of my tangents;) stumblin through wikipedia the other day and spent an hour or so just readin' on Einstein/Tesla/directed energy/whatever. combine recently acquired knowledge with coming down off your ritalin, and hey, you get a little exited:D
yeah, i'm not sure how he intended to implement it, but possibly by having numerous relatively small bubbles all around the border of a country. he was trying to sell the technology to the Soviets, and i dont thing Stalin would mind a few 'deadzones' between him and eastern europe.
the teleforce weapon is the Tesla 'Death Ray' (or Peace Ray as it was also known). the beam would spread out in all direction like a bubble. aircraft or ground forces would be disintegrated if they tried to cross. It was sometimes called a peace ray, because it would make war impossible.
bah, Nikola Tesla would've had these guys beat 70 years ago if he had funding for his teleforce weapon. Imagine, entire countries surrounded in an impenetrable force field! With a couple million dollars, he might have stopped WWII.
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wanna join my epic raid guild? we're doing Proxima Centauri tomorrow night.
think of the research possibilities! NASA gets servers chock full of people dogfighting in space and uses the number crunching to further our understanding of spaceflight. the average user's bug report could effect how real spacecraft are designed!
this of course will result in the Koreans being the first on Mars.
rage? i was merely making assumptions on the Ukraine as a whole, based entirely off of a few minutes of a guy showing off a monitor. but honestly, you wouldn't see that kinda stuff in America, our crossbows would totally pwnz0r any kind of display device, as there is a market for strong personal ballistae. had we a demand for LCDs that could stand up to that punishment, we would have those as well. this would start an arms race of sorts between the crossbow and computer monitor industries, fluxing with the market. The Ukraine? They have no market, Russia took it. and the subject title isn't mean, it's a quote from Seinfeld.
With the hammer, he was definitely holding back at the last second of the swing. the crossbow was not all that impressive looking, i was expecting a modern hunting setup with titanium and pulleys and everything, but the 'weapon' he used was probably inherited from his Ukrainian dirt-farming ancestry. The bolt would have blunted just the same fired at my CRT. What i learned here is that Ukrainians are timid and have access to only the most primitive of arms. How are they surviving the onslaught of Chernobyl super-mutated wildlife?
forced sharing of business? thats communist! i knew the the FCC was ebil all along!
what's that? i cant hear you over the sound of SimCity Classic, courtesy of the Underdogs.
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=4642
but its no longer protected by the ESA
isnt SimCity classic abandonware? should be free to download if you want.
how can anyone be expected to do anything with a reflective LCD screen? it can only make images on a pathetic 2 dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane! thats only about a third of the axes you need to truly capture a flat picture! Descartes, you were a fool!
likely mobile devices will never be allowed on commercial flights on american airlines, as the government, and therefore the people's will, here has little sway over business practices. airlines dont want you to have portable electronic devices, so you aren't gonna get them. at least not overtly.
the question then is why, which people seem to think they know. it is most definitely not because they interfere with the flight systems. think about how many hundreds of people are on their cellphone or laptop inside the airport, why is there no record of that causing a problem with planes taking off/landing, or even messing with ATC? even if your device matched a signal a plane used, it stands to reason that the multi-million dollar commercial plane would overpower your cute little phone, and you would lose the connection, not them.
so then the most likely reason is that the airlines want to control communication. if something goes wrong, and it is apparent that the plane will go down, then passengers will of course call family and such. the stewardesses will make sure they do no such thing, believing that even the lowly gameboy might interfere with the pilots' rectifying of the situation.
once the plane crashed and everyone is either dead or in too much a state of shock, the airline can retrieve the blackbox, debrief the pilots if they survived, and now the only story on what exactly happened to the plane is one written by corporation not interested in being sued by the families of all the passengers.
eat the monkeys. problem solved.
i must have my purple alien bloodspray!
But the developers need to accommodate for every form of stupid. This isn't about you or I (because i could prolly get Linux to work if i really felt like spending more hours and sleepless nights on it), it's about the sheep: The people we laugh at when we read about helpdesk stories. And to deal with all these potential missteps, your gonna need a lot of coders, and that will make it cost money. An OS needs to be as simple as possible to be successful, no matter the hype.
Look people, I'm a 15 year old male who has been using a computer half my life, and if the likes of myself couldn't wrap my head around Ubuntu, what are the chances the sheep majority will? Not to troll or anything, but Linux is nowhere near whats it's cracked up to be. At the risk of sounding n00bish to some of you, I could not even get programs that had been made specifically for Linux to run at all. Simplicity is the way to go, because it will appeal to more people, and with a bigger following, an OS will have more software made for it, and will become more popular. Windows ain't going anywhere soon.
for some reason, this reminds me of playing Yuri's Revenge. hehe, taking the guys that come out of the cloning vats and sending them to the grinders... Mmmm... soylent green is my kind of people
yeah, i'm just off on one of my tangents ;) stumblin through wikipedia the other day and spent an hour or so just readin' on Einstein/Tesla/directed energy/whatever. combine recently acquired knowledge with coming down off your ritalin, and hey, you get a little exited :D
yeah, i'm not sure how he intended to implement it, but possibly by having numerous relatively small bubbles all around the border of a country. he was trying to sell the technology to the Soviets, and i dont thing Stalin would mind a few 'deadzones' between him and eastern europe.
the teleforce weapon is the Tesla 'Death Ray' (or Peace Ray as it was also known). the beam would spread out in all direction like a bubble. aircraft or ground forces would be disintegrated if they tried to cross. It was sometimes called a peace ray, because it would make war impossible.
bah, Nikola Tesla would've had these guys beat 70 years ago if he had funding for his teleforce weapon. Imagine, entire countries surrounded in an impenetrable force field! With a couple million dollars, he might have stopped WWII.
isn't anyone worried about the antarctic? If it warms up there, more and more fools will make expeditions there, and awake the Old Ones!