"the aerodynamic forces are relatively easy to estimate"
On a vehicle like the X-wing...which no one's ever done aerodynamic tests on...which has reverse facing wings...and pylons sticking out from them...and is shaped like a rocket with huge wings attached.
If you can estimate those forces easily and come up with it's coefficient of drag then I would like to subscribe to your newsletter...
No Shields Needed, with enough inertial dampeners and repulser-lifts you can do anything. Remember, in an atmosphere the X-Wing functioned less like a plane and more like a helicopter with big engines on the back thanks to it's repulser-lifts, the thing could VTOL.
As for Atlantis, it's also pretty much a helicopter.
90% of spacecraft in fiction than enter atmospheres work like helicopters once there, not planes.
That can't be Ballmer...there wasn't even the mention of a chair in the post, much less throwing an IChair out the window to demonstrate Windows' superiority...
I would just like to point out that yours is the first post that mentions ID, but not the first post by Evolutionists attacking the supposed wave of Creationists arguments (which failed to materialize until lambasted I might add).
Creationists have claimed for a long time that the Appendix has a function, Evolutionists have attacked that claim vigorously, the fact that it seems to have a function is evidence in favor of Creationist arguments primarily as they have been the ones claiming that it has a function. Now of course it's not conclusive in any way shape or form, it just takes away a bit from the anti-creation argument, it doesn't add to the pro-creation argument much at all.
Just because the specifics aren't predicted doesn't mean it's not evidence. I don't seem to recall Newton's theory of gravity predicting the exact gravitational force of the Earth, just that it was there.
Agreed, it's much more likely that Linux boxes are being targeted because they're thought to be secure. Windows users (the good ones) are constantly on the lookout for rootkits and integrating good security practices into everything they do. Linux tends to make people feel more secure so you do a little less security, not much, of course, because the average Linux user is still a geek and is still not going to be clicking attachment's named "Dude watch this vid.exe", but some. Combine that with the fact that no OS can ever be 100% secure (for similar reasons as to why DRM can't be fully secure, the user and the flaw are the same person) and you've got a recipe for infection.
I'll bet that low level botnets are primarily run on Windows as it does have a few more vulnerabilities than Linux and that it's the high level ones that are run on Linux so that they'll last longer, who needs to do a rootkit check on a Linux box eh?
Last time I checked there was no Halo 4, Halo Wars is being developed, and that looks great (though I still don't know if they plan to port it to PC) but Bungie has a tradition of sorts of ending their games after the second sequel and moving on, I don't see them making a Halo 4. Microsoft might try something like that with a different group but it would never do as well as Halo 3 without Bungie (unless it magically because awesome:P).
I really, really doubt there'll be a Halo 4. Much more likely to have Halo Wars, perhaps a Space Battle game (that would be fun, and yet boring at the same time what with the fact that Covenant ships are 3x better than human ones. I can't see that working out well), maybe a prequel playing as Johnson (which I guess you could call Halo 4, though it won't have the MC) but I can't see another MC game coming out.
Hmm...that's a tricky obstacle. How do you cheat if nothing on your boat can touch other boats, and you can't EM them...
Wait...water gun. Super High Powered Water Gun. Doesn't use any mass off your boat (ergo you can't claim collision) and doesn't 'directly' interfere with electronics (if it's not properly sealed, which would be a little silly first off, then it might interfere). Just got to get enough PSI and a good targeting system.
The best part? Infinite ammo, as long as you have power you can hit the other boats. And with enough PSI you could at least slow them down, at best cause actual damage (if we're dreaming then I'd have the boat maneuver alongside, carefully staying outside of collision area, with that distance determined by the weather, and then then fire a high enough PSI spray of water to cut through the metal and destroy the interior. I dub it, Squirtal)
There is always a solution that involves ambiguously reading the rules and finding a way to cheat!
Gotta love how I even say that they're just figuring that what Apple did was illegal people assume I believe that and try to argue that with me. I never claim what they did was illegal, my claim is that the people filing this suit believe that Apple's actions were illegal and so, assuming that, they should be suing Apple.
So once more, with feeling. I'm not sure if this is illegal. IPhone owners think that it is. IPhone owners are suing. I think that they should be suing given their believe that it was illegal.
My mistake, the 360 only advertises that it plays it's games at 720p, and can upconvert to 1080i. They don't advertise 1080p, that's Sony's turf. So Bungie's running 2 buffers at slightly lower than the 360's default resolution, making it a little higher than the default 360's resolution.
It really depends on who you are. If you're someone who expected Halo 3 to cure cancer and solve world hunger then you're going to be disappointed, as many fans are right now. If you're someone whose never heard of Halo before (all 3 of you) then you're probably going to be amazed by how great Halo 3 is. If you're someone, like me, who enjoyed Halo 1 and 2 and is just looking for a good gaming experience, not the greatest game of all time but at least a fun game you can get together with your friends and play then Halo 3 won't disappoint, it's a decent FPS with great balance, lots of players (on Live), a decent story (that gets better the more you put into it), good vehicle combat and it looks nice to boot.
It's a good game. It might not be the best game ever made but it is a good game worth checking out at the least.
I really have never understood the mentality that graphics are more important than gameplay. Guess that's why I own a Wii:P.
360's upconvert to whatever your TV can handle, and I believe that what's actually being put out is 720p (not 100% sure) which the 360 upconverts to 1080p.
Be that as it may (and I would argue it's only a partial truth that the USA is focused on moneymaking to the exclusion of all else, for the more cynical good PR also seems to be a focus) just because something is expected doesn't mean it shouldn't cause people to become upset. If your electric company sent you a letter telling you it would shut off your power tommorrow, then did it, would you be upset? I would imagine so, even though it was expected*.
It's not a matter of surprise that Apple did something like this (though a lot of the Apple fanboys, or at least the people who like Apple enough to buy an IPhone, but not devoted enough to do what Apple wants them to do and use AT&T, but still fanboy enough to believe Apple can do no wrong and would never spite any of it's customers, most of that group (which is larger than it sounds:P) do seem surprised). It's a matter of a company doing something you believe to be illegal, or at the least spitting on it's customers. If a company were to do anything remotely like this to me (and I was naive enough to run the update) I would be upset, it's a natural response to people doing something like this. Yes, it should have been expected. No, that doesn't mean you can't get upset. It's expected that the RIAA will go after obviously innocent people, should we say 'eh, who cares' when they do or should we get upset? It's expected (perhaps untruthful, but expected nonetheless) that Windows will be insecure, should we not care when a huge security hole is found or should [those of us who use Windows] be upset that something like that got past the bug checking?
Expected !-> (does not imply) Can't be upset about it.
*Disclaimer- This comparison isn't meant to be used on the IPhone issue, it's not a comparison about what Apple's doing with the IPhone, it is meerly meant to illustrate that expected events can still make people upset, and with reason.
Exactly. I've been hearing the 'It's my [thing], not the companies!' argument from young people just as often as older ones. I don't think it's an issue of age, but of mindset. There are many people for whom the default mindset is one of renting/leasing an object from a company, and those are the people that are more likely to buy products like the IPhone, DRM'd music (without un-DRMing it) and heavily DRM'd software. People who believe that buying something means buying it are the ones I hear complaining about these sort of things.
The simple fact is that Apple has given every indication that it bricked unlocked IPhones on purpose. They've done nothing to make it look like an accident, and everything to make it look intentional. From Steve Job's 'Cat and Mouse game' to an announcement that unlocked phones may be bricked (how and why would they test that for a standard update? Last time I checked most hardware and software companies don't even look at hacked equipment when making a new update, so either Apple was being very nice by checking it out, or it was intentional), to the general unhappiness Apple has expressed with unlocked IPhones (despite them being bought legitimately from Apple) it seems pretty clear that Apple intentionally bricked unlocked phones. If they can and do produce evidence to the contrary then that may clear them but right now it looks like they did this on purpose which is illegal and horribly immoral (you don't intentionally hurt someone who has done no real harm to you and call yourself a moral person last time I checked).
I refuse to buy anything Apple related because it's even more proprietary than Windows (the only exception is an old, first-gen shuffle. Got it in the sweet spot when it was relatively cheap and not coated in DRM and Apple 'management', and then found a free utility that would let me interact with the 'pod without using ITunes). I can hardly stand how locked in Windows feels*, I really don't understand why anyone would want something Apple (and then one of my friends talks about how she wants an Apple because they look cool and I get it).
*Before the inevitable Linux comments, I'm working on it. My primary computer right now is a Dell Laptop, with an ATI graphics card, and it's not liking Linux so far...
1. A bunch of people figure that Apple did something illegal. 2. We should all recognize that Apple is going to do stuff like this, just like MS 3. ??? 4. Profit?
Seriously, whether or not 'this is what Apple does' is completely and totally irrelevant to whether the Class Action Lawsuit should go through, in fact you couldn't get more irrelevant if you tried (well I guess you could mention Vista, and a Beowolf cluster of bricked IPhones...but you might still be more relevant)
Well it's remarkability has been proven by the number of comments.
It's uselessness lies in the fact that it was a mis configured router causing the problems, and configuring it right fixed it. 99% of people on/. don't need to know this (because they're not running a university network, have configured their routers right, or were expecting this sort of thing from the largest game release in history) and the other 1% didn't read the article.
I'm not sure about the story part, though I guess any yarn told by an individual about an event qualifies.
Therefore the tale is a story, is remarkable, and is useless, ergo 'What a remarkably useless story'
Honestly this one irritates even me, and that's saying something. I'm usually fine with non-stories, as I'm bored enough to not care. Talking about how you didn't properly set up your university network and didn't prepare for the largest game release in history (I'm sorry, but if you're running a network for college kids, why in the world weren't you ready for Halo 3? You should know for a fact that it's going to be huge, if you don't then you're living in a cave) doesn't make me want to like you, and then mentioning that your response was basically to shut down the kids ability to play proudly, like 'Look at me, I'm so smart, I killed a bunch of kids fun because I couldn't think of any of the other hundred ways to solve my problem and would rather just shut them down', well that makes me want to punch you in the face for being dumb, and proud of that dumbness.
Yes but, last time I checked, someone who never learned proper aerodynamics isn't going to be designing an airplane, even with a bunch of them in a team.
Teamwork is nice, but it's more important that you know what you're doing. It's not too hard to learn at least the basics of teamwork while working on a large project, but it's extremely difficult to learn the basics of what you're doing while working on the same project.
One would imagine that, firstly, the cell walls could not take too much expansion and would likely ditch a lot of the water, secondly, that the cell walls would return to normal at the same speed as the water (if they matched the expansion, then why not the contractions?) and that, thirdly, one of the biggest cryo problems is that the water surrounding the cells become crystals and pierce the fragile cells, which this does nothing to alleviate.
And jets, don't forget those giant pieces of metal in the sky...perhaps this means the new 787 won't get hit because it's not metal or something...I don't really know, I mean, it's got birds seeing magnetic fields...what meme fits that?
1. See Magnetic Fields 2. Migrate 3. ??? 4. Profit This of a Beowolf Cluster of these. Do they run Linux? In Soviet Russia, Magnetic Field sees birds!
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Well they weren't...with this development? Who knows what they'll do... :P
I thought that was automatically done once you posted on /. :P.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
"the aerodynamic forces are relatively easy to estimate"
On a vehicle like the X-wing...which no one's ever done aerodynamic tests on...which has reverse facing wings...and pylons sticking out from them...and is shaped like a rocket with huge wings attached.
If you can estimate those forces easily and come up with it's coefficient of drag then I would like to subscribe to your newsletter...
No Shields Needed, with enough inertial dampeners and repulser-lifts you can do anything. Remember, in an atmosphere the X-Wing functioned less like a plane and more like a helicopter with big engines on the back thanks to it's repulser-lifts, the thing could VTOL.
As for Atlantis, it's also pretty much a helicopter.
90% of spacecraft in fiction than enter atmospheres work like helicopters once there, not planes.
That can't be Ballmer...there wasn't even the mention of a chair in the post, much less throwing an IChair out the window to demonstrate Windows' superiority...
I would just like to point out that yours is the first post that mentions ID, but not the first post by Evolutionists attacking the supposed wave of Creationists arguments (which failed to materialize until lambasted I might add).
Creationists have claimed for a long time that the Appendix has a function, Evolutionists have attacked that claim vigorously, the fact that it seems to have a function is evidence in favor of Creationist arguments primarily as they have been the ones claiming that it has a function. Now of course it's not conclusive in any way shape or form, it just takes away a bit from the anti-creation argument, it doesn't add to the pro-creation argument much at all.
Just because the specifics aren't predicted doesn't mean it's not evidence. I don't seem to recall Newton's theory of gravity predicting the exact gravitational force of the Earth, just that it was there.
Agreed, it's much more likely that Linux boxes are being targeted because they're thought to be secure. Windows users (the good ones) are constantly on the lookout for rootkits and integrating good security practices into everything they do. Linux tends to make people feel more secure so you do a little less security, not much, of course, because the average Linux user is still a geek and is still not going to be clicking attachment's named "Dude watch this vid.exe", but some. Combine that with the fact that no OS can ever be 100% secure (for similar reasons as to why DRM can't be fully secure, the user and the flaw are the same person) and you've got a recipe for infection.
I'll bet that low level botnets are primarily run on Windows as it does have a few more vulnerabilities than Linux and that it's the high level ones that are run on Linux so that they'll last longer, who needs to do a rootkit check on a Linux box eh?
Last time I checked there was no Halo 4, Halo Wars is being developed, and that looks great (though I still don't know if they plan to port it to PC) but Bungie has a tradition of sorts of ending their games after the second sequel and moving on, I don't see them making a Halo 4. Microsoft might try something like that with a different group but it would never do as well as Halo 3 without Bungie (unless it magically because awesome :P).
I really, really doubt there'll be a Halo 4. Much more likely to have Halo Wars, perhaps a Space Battle game (that would be fun, and yet boring at the same time what with the fact that Covenant ships are 3x better than human ones. I can't see that working out well), maybe a prequel playing as Johnson (which I guess you could call Halo 4, though it won't have the MC) but I can't see another MC game coming out.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...
Hmm...that's a tricky obstacle. How do you cheat if nothing on your boat can touch other boats, and you can't EM them...
Wait...water gun. Super High Powered Water Gun. Doesn't use any mass off your boat (ergo you can't claim collision) and doesn't 'directly' interfere with electronics (if it's not properly sealed, which would be a little silly first off, then it might interfere). Just got to get enough PSI and a good targeting system.
The best part? Infinite ammo, as long as you have power you can hit the other boats. And with enough PSI you could at least slow them down, at best cause actual damage (if we're dreaming then I'd have the boat maneuver alongside, carefully staying outside of collision area, with that distance determined by the weather, and then then fire a high enough PSI spray of water to cut through the metal and destroy the interior. I dub it, Squirtal)
There is always a solution that involves ambiguously reading the rules and finding a way to cheat!
The Air Guitar never needs tuning! It is truly revolutionary!
*Hands tomhudson a check for 000001.00 from Microsoft*
You are hereby instructed to use Basic, and only Basic, for all of your code.
Gotta love how I even say that they're just figuring that what Apple did was illegal people assume I believe that and try to argue that with me. I never claim what they did was illegal, my claim is that the people filing this suit believe that Apple's actions were illegal and so, assuming that, they should be suing Apple.
So once more, with feeling. I'm not sure if this is illegal. IPhone owners think that it is. IPhone owners are suing. I think that they should be suing given their believe that it was illegal.
My mistake, the 360 only advertises that it plays it's games at 720p, and can upconvert to 1080i. They don't advertise 1080p, that's Sony's turf. So Bungie's running 2 buffers at slightly lower than the 360's default resolution, making it a little higher than the default 360's resolution.
It really depends on who you are. If you're someone who expected Halo 3 to cure cancer and solve world hunger then you're going to be disappointed, as many fans are right now. If you're someone whose never heard of Halo before (all 3 of you) then you're probably going to be amazed by how great Halo 3 is. If you're someone, like me, who enjoyed Halo 1 and 2 and is just looking for a good gaming experience, not the greatest game of all time but at least a fun game you can get together with your friends and play then Halo 3 won't disappoint, it's a decent FPS with great balance, lots of players (on Live), a decent story (that gets better the more you put into it), good vehicle combat and it looks nice to boot.
:P.
It's a good game. It might not be the best game ever made but it is a good game worth checking out at the least.
I really have never understood the mentality that graphics are more important than gameplay. Guess that's why I own a Wii
360's upconvert to whatever your TV can handle, and I believe that what's actually being put out is 720p (not 100% sure) which the 360 upconverts to 1080p.
Be that as it may (and I would argue it's only a partial truth that the USA is focused on moneymaking to the exclusion of all else, for the more cynical good PR also seems to be a focus) just because something is expected doesn't mean it shouldn't cause people to become upset. If your electric company sent you a letter telling you it would shut off your power tommorrow, then did it, would you be upset? I would imagine so, even though it was expected*.
:P) do seem surprised). It's a matter of a company doing something you believe to be illegal, or at the least spitting on it's customers. If a company were to do anything remotely like this to me (and I was naive enough to run the update) I would be upset, it's a natural response to people doing something like this. Yes, it should have been expected. No, that doesn't mean you can't get upset. It's expected that the RIAA will go after obviously innocent people, should we say 'eh, who cares' when they do or should we get upset? It's expected (perhaps untruthful, but expected nonetheless) that Windows will be insecure, should we not care when a huge security hole is found or should [those of us who use Windows] be upset that something like that got past the bug checking?
It's not a matter of surprise that Apple did something like this (though a lot of the Apple fanboys, or at least the people who like Apple enough to buy an IPhone, but not devoted enough to do what Apple wants them to do and use AT&T, but still fanboy enough to believe Apple can do no wrong and would never spite any of it's customers, most of that group (which is larger than it sounds
Expected !-> (does not imply) Can't be upset about it.
*Disclaimer- This comparison isn't meant to be used on the IPhone issue, it's not a comparison about what Apple's doing with the IPhone, it is meerly meant to illustrate that expected events can still make people upset, and with reason.
Exactly. I've been hearing the 'It's my [thing], not the companies!' argument from young people just as often as older ones. I don't think it's an issue of age, but of mindset. There are many people for whom the default mindset is one of renting/leasing an object from a company, and those are the people that are more likely to buy products like the IPhone, DRM'd music (without un-DRMing it) and heavily DRM'd software. People who believe that buying something means buying it are the ones I hear complaining about these sort of things.
The simple fact is that Apple has given every indication that it bricked unlocked IPhones on purpose. They've done nothing to make it look like an accident, and everything to make it look intentional. From Steve Job's 'Cat and Mouse game' to an announcement that unlocked phones may be bricked (how and why would they test that for a standard update? Last time I checked most hardware and software companies don't even look at hacked equipment when making a new update, so either Apple was being very nice by checking it out, or it was intentional), to the general unhappiness Apple has expressed with unlocked IPhones (despite them being bought legitimately from Apple) it seems pretty clear that Apple intentionally bricked unlocked phones. If they can and do produce evidence to the contrary then that may clear them but right now it looks like they did this on purpose which is illegal and horribly immoral (you don't intentionally hurt someone who has done no real harm to you and call yourself a moral person last time I checked).
I refuse to buy anything Apple related because it's even more proprietary than Windows (the only exception is an old, first-gen shuffle. Got it in the sweet spot when it was relatively cheap and not coated in DRM and Apple 'management', and then found a free utility that would let me interact with the 'pod without using ITunes). I can hardly stand how locked in Windows feels*, I really don't understand why anyone would want something Apple (and then one of my friends talks about how she wants an Apple because they look cool and I get it).
*Before the inevitable Linux comments, I'm working on it. My primary computer right now is a Dell Laptop, with an ATI graphics card, and it's not liking Linux so far...
So this is what you're saying...
1. A bunch of people figure that Apple did something illegal.
2. We should all recognize that Apple is going to do stuff like this, just like MS
3. ???
4. Profit?
Seriously, whether or not 'this is what Apple does' is completely and totally irrelevant to whether the Class Action Lawsuit should go through, in fact you couldn't get more irrelevant if you tried (well I guess you could mention Vista, and a Beowolf cluster of bricked IPhones...but you might still be more relevant)
Well it's remarkability has been proven by the number of comments.
/. don't need to know this (because they're not running a university network, have configured their routers right, or were expecting this sort of thing from the largest game release in history) and the other 1% didn't read the article.
It's uselessness lies in the fact that it was a mis configured router causing the problems, and configuring it right fixed it. 99% of people on
I'm not sure about the story part, though I guess any yarn told by an individual about an event qualifies.
Therefore the tale is a story, is remarkable, and is useless, ergo 'What a remarkably useless story'
Honestly this one irritates even me, and that's saying something. I'm usually fine with non-stories, as I'm bored enough to not care. Talking about how you didn't properly set up your university network and didn't prepare for the largest game release in history (I'm sorry, but if you're running a network for college kids, why in the world weren't you ready for Halo 3? You should know for a fact that it's going to be huge, if you don't then you're living in a cave) doesn't make me want to like you, and then mentioning that your response was basically to shut down the kids ability to play proudly, like 'Look at me, I'm so smart, I killed a bunch of kids fun because I couldn't think of any of the other hundred ways to solve my problem and would rather just shut them down', well that makes me want to punch you in the face for being dumb, and proud of that dumbness.
Yes but, last time I checked, someone who never learned proper aerodynamics isn't going to be designing an airplane, even with a bunch of them in a team.
Teamwork is nice, but it's more important that you know what you're doing. It's not too hard to learn at least the basics of teamwork while working on a large project, but it's extremely difficult to learn the basics of what you're doing while working on the same project.
One would imagine that, firstly, the cell walls could not take too much expansion and would likely ditch a lot of the water, secondly, that the cell walls would return to normal at the same speed as the water (if they matched the expansion, then why not the contractions?) and that, thirdly, one of the biggest cryo problems is that the water surrounding the cells become crystals and pierce the fragile cells, which this does nothing to alleviate.
And jets, don't forget those giant pieces of metal in the sky...perhaps this means the new 787 won't get hit because it's not metal or something...I don't really know, I mean, it's got birds seeing magnetic fields...what meme fits that?
1. See Magnetic Fields
2. Migrate
3. ???
4. Profit
This of a Beowolf Cluster of these.
Do they run Linux?
In Soviet Russia, Magnetic Field sees birds!
None really work...what are we to do?
So how bad are we talking? Vista Speech Recognition bad or Zero Wing bad?