About a year ago, there was a quiet rumbling within the underground internet MMO scene. Mythos was in closed betal; yours truely had access to it. In more ways than one, this game was what Diablo 3 should have been – or will be.
Well, MYTHOS IS BACK! According to Wikipedia, Mythos (the engine behind Hellgate: London) has been picked up by the Koreans. If they continue the trend, this will be one heck of a game.
You can head over to Mythos.com and sign up for the closed beta. GG anyone?
The Bloggess‘ war on William Shatner continues.
Here is an image of the tweets supporting her cause. Could William Shatner be the next Chuck Norris?
In this Reuters Article, a recent NASA panel has concluded that they (NASA) will not be ble to put a man on the moon by 2020. Somewhere, sometime, somebody proposed this date. I don’t even know who did. That in itself, I think, shows you the current state of the space program.
Are these events indicative of something more, I wonder? Has mankind lost the edge for exploration? Who’s to blame?
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Here is more on District 9. Did you know – this was supposed to be the Halo movie by Peter Jackson.
I need to start off by saying, if you don’t appreciate open-to-interpretation or non-A-list movies. You may very well hate this movie. The movie plays like a good book, so if you don’t like paying attention, reading, or thought-provocation, again…you may hate this movie. And most of the complaints on OT have very well been that…”Oh I didn’t like the story!”
The movie starts out slow, I will admit. You don’t have any clue where it’s going or what it’s going to be about. And to be honest, every idea you get from the commercials, become very minor aspects. At the 45-minute point, I will admit, I was like , this is becoming tedious and boring, just another 7/10 above-average scifi flick.
However, it truly does get better from there. I remember reading one of my favorite books, and how it got to the point where I couldn’t put it down until the last page. You just had to keep reading to see what was going to happen. The last half of the movie is EXACTLY like that. There aren’t any pee-break spots in the second half. And every minute of it is fantastic.
For his first movie, Blomkamp did an AMAZING job. You truly were torn between what side to take (human or alien). This is one of those movies where you will actually react in-real-life to what happened on screen.
I really cannot enough. However, while fantastic, at the same time, I can also say, while it’s a treat to see this movie on the big screen. You won’t miss any of the feeling by waiting for it on Blu-Ray. No telesync is going to do this movie justice though.
Oh and the nerd part of me loved how most of the vehicles and pistols looked like stuff they had ready to use for the Halo movie (which is what this movie was originally supposed to be).
(via offtopic)
Have you ever wanted to delv into the fabulous world of computer programming? Do you desire the chance to write 1,000 lines of code with the hopes of one day never working again and being surrounded by beautiful women? This article is a great place to start.
One of the more common questions here is about which language to learn; even which implementation of which language.
If I interviewed someone who told me they knew language Z, but didn’t know language R too well, I wouldn’t mind. We could have the interview in language Z. But I’d press them a little bit about what they thought of language R. They should know at least a little about it; what it is good for, what it’s not good for, and so on. If they start ranting about how it was invented by an evil scientist who worked at a company that everyone hates, or that it “just sucks”, or other such nonsense, I can’t imagine the interview would last very long.
A professional developer isn’t concerned with language; they’re even less concerned with style in a particular language. They’re able to pick up a language pretty rapidly, since it’s just a different way to express the ideas they should already be very familiar with. As they gain practice, they’ll get better and more fluent. But if they spend the first couple of weeks learning different things, that’s no big deal.
It never ceases to amaze me how *little* of the internet I actually know. In my daily foraging, I came across this gem of a blog: The Bloggess.
Comming across a find like this is awesome for one thing, but it’s even better when she’s engaged in a full out war against William Shatner:
(via thebloggess)
The Total Nerd loves the internet.
For those of you who are cool enough *NOT* to play World of Warcraft, this news won’t interest you in the slightest. In some ways, this news is directed at the original gansters of WoW, myself included. I’ve played this game since the 2004/2005 season; a fact I am not all too proud of…
Anyway, here is the news (I have it split up, so you’ll have to follow the link):
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the next expansion for World of Warcraft. Dark and forgotten threats that have long stayed out of sight have finally arrived on our shores, unleashing a cataclysmic event upon Azeroth and now preparing more nefarius plans to take it back.
The question asked:
I was reading this article about railguns, coilguns and some of the technical problems involved and it mentioned that (theoretically) an operational rail gun could fire a projectile 250 miles in about 6 minutes. If you really could fire a projectile this fast and this far how hot would it be when it reached it’s target.
Assume the projectile is made of tungsten and is the size and shape of a 12 oz can of soda. At that speed and considering atmospheric resistance how hot would it be when it got to the target?
The answer given:
If I haven’t missed something in my math, this comes out to be 2,500 miles per hour which equals about 3,600 feet per second. You most definitely could–and a lot of off the shelf rifles do–fire a projectile (bullet) this fast. The projectiles are much smaller and lighter than the one you propose, of course, around 50-150 grains in weight.
I keep thinking I must have bothed the equation, my result is not a very amazing speed. (250 miles in 6 min = 2500 miles per hour [which divided by 3600 secs in an hour]= .69444… miles per second which times 5280 feet per mile = 3666 feet per second)
No idea about the actual answer to your question, though. I know the SR-71 at speed (~ Mach 3 or so), did get its exterior skin very hot, but I don’t know just how hot, sorry.
What is the answer? Wiill we ever know?
(via the straight dope)
I have yet to see this movie, but according to the folks at Offtopic, it’s pretty good.
Here is a stellar review:
holy shit! its like they blended schindler’s list with transformers.
With an observation like that, this movie must be good.
