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Why is everbody against it now? (247 comments)
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Why is everbody against it now? (247 comments)
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Re:Einstein is not god (118 comments)
I don't owe him an apology. I am a physicist, and my field of expertise is foundations of quantum mechanics. I did not say that this idea is insane as a knee-jerk reaction. I have read his paper, and I've been to a presentation by the men himself.
I find superdeterminism isane because it is too strong a hyphotesis: it can explain any experimental result. It is, therefore, incompatible with the very idea of doing science. Let me give you an example. Suppose that you want to measure some property of a particle, say, the polarization of a photon. In a superdeterministic theory, the photon's state could depend on which basis you chose to do the measurement, so you could conclude nothing at all from the result. Even the idea the a particle has some property independ of your choice of measurement does not apply.
And it's also deeply troubling how he arrived at superdeterminism. He wanted to do a deterministic model of quantum theory, but there is these pesky Bell inequalities tell you it's impossible. So what does he do? Simply assumes superdeterminism to brush off the issue.
It's not as if he was building a superdeterministic model per se, it is just an ad hoc hyphotesis that he added to get rid of Bell inequalities.
Einstein is not god (118 comments)
This kind of article bothers me immensely. It treats Einstein as the God of Science, and uses the fact the he worked on something as evidence that this idea is no crackpottery. Well, guess what, Einstein also shat, farted, pissed, had bad ideas, and even commited mathematical mistakes.
And one should never evaluate a scientific idea based on who's working on it. The Steady-State model of the universe is not a crackpot idea, simply because it is consistent with the laws of GR and (superficially) consistent with observational evidence. Philosophically, thought, it does seem quite silly, and I myself would never have regarded it as more than a mathematical curiosity, had it not been already falsified when I was born.
A more modern example would be 't Hooft's work on superdeterminisc models for quantum theory. The guy is obviously a genius, but this idea is pure insanity, and it saddens me to see people taking it seriously just because a Nobel prize is working on it.
Re:Control vs. Prosperity (119 comments)
That was a sarcastic answer to GP; I'm not one of these people, I think Sweden is a great country, and I'm fact gonna visit there in two weeks.
I'm aware that yours is the "correct" definition of socialism, but you should also taking into account that the definition is very much culture-dependent. People in Europe usually refer to Sweden as socialist, and I'm happy to go along, since the old form of socialsm doesn't exist anymore in Europe.
Re:Control vs. Prosperity (119 comments)
You should do some research on how Cuba was before the revolution. People don't revolt for nothing, you know? Although it's undeniable that today Cuba is quite poor (partly because of their own economic mismanagement, partly because of the US embargo), it is still in a better shape than it was under Fulgencio Batista. At least the people now have universal access to health and education.
Re:Control vs. Prosperity (119 comments)
Sweden also chose socialism. Look at the shithole it has become.
Re:Cool game, not at all quantum (71 comments)
Come on, Minecraft does not pretend the implement classical physics.
The problem isn't lack of rigour, is that it gives you the wrong intuition. For example, the essential feature that distinguishes superposition from a classical mixture is that there is a basis in which the result of a measurement is deterministic, and from what I have seen this is not the case in the mod.
One way that it could be done: a "superposition" block, that can be prepared in the states |0>, |1>, |+>, or |->. If you look at it vertically, you measure in the Z basis, and if you continue measuring in the Z basis, the result doesn't change. If you then measure in the X basis, it's gonna collapse randomly to either |+> or |->, and it's gonna keep being this one as long as you keep looking at it vertically.
And this gives you also complementarity, which I think is one of the fundamental quantum concepts. The way the "observation" block was implemented simply makes no sense whatsoever. It's just a block that is different depending on the way you look. There is no complementarity between the aspects of the block, or anything to deal with the randomness of the quantum observation.
I don't understand what are you talking about teleportation. It doesn't sound to me very much related to real quantum teleportation. But I think the trouble with teleportation is that it is actually quite boring, and would serve no purpose in a game.
But it would be nice if we had some "quantum interaction" thingie (a CNOT) that would take two "superpositions" in different basis to an entangled state, and with this entangled state we could run the chsh game or ek91 qcrypto protocol.
Re:Interesting psychological experiment (71 comments)
Well, you could say that doing a PhD in physics is playing such a game, and, sure enough, most physicists have a working intuition on how quantum mechanics work -- more on the level of given a description of a situation, they can tell more or less what will happen without doing the calculatios. Doing that part is not hard at all. Heck, this kind of intuition mathematicians develop about the most abstract and artificial objects.
But on a more fundamental level, I don't think it is possible to develop a good intuition, because our brains process information classically; we need well defined bits to reason about. But it might not even make sense to be able to reason quantumly, as the essential feature would be preserving the superposition of the systems we interact with. But to preserve the superposition is to have no memory of the interaction, so... it would be very weird indeed.
Try to imagine what a quantum computer would feel as it processes quantum information: it can only apply transformations to its information blindly, without ever reading out what its input actually is, until the very end of the calculation -- and even this final measurement only because we, humans, want it, it's perfectly legitimate to never have a final measurement at all.
I am a physicist, but these are only drunken speculations...
Cool game, not at all quantum (71 comments)
At first I was quite excited with the idea that someone was able to use quantum mechanical elements in a game. But of course, they were not able to do this. They just created a mod vaguely inspired by quantum mechanics, that helps to perpetuate the myths so beloved by the lay media.
The video linked just shows a dude running around, nothing very interesting. If you search youtube a bit, you can find videos talking about the mechanics they implemented. I found this one, about the basic elements -- observation, superposition, and entanglement --, and this one, with the extremely exciting title "quantum computers and teleportation".
Of course, what they call observation and superposition have nothing to do with the quantum concepts, they are just blocks that are different depending on which direction you look at them, and the "entanglement" block is just a glorifed telephone. Their quantum computer doesn't seem to do anything besides teleportation, which is Star Trek teleportation instead of quantum teleportation.
Admitedly, these guys set out do to a terribly difficult task: quantum mechanics is a bit subtle, and quite far from games. The only ones I can remember off the top of my mind are the CHSH game, which is about as exciting as tic-tac-toe, and a quantum strategy to cheat at bridge, which requires you to do a nontrivial amount of maths (and is actually unpublished research =).
They have, nevertheless, failed. The mod looks cool as a game, though.
Re:Biggest problem with Ubuntu: Upgrades (143 comments)
That's the kind of mentality that leads Firefox to shipping with a different interface every version.
Re:Any different than those other governments? (223 comments)
This is completely beside the point (although true). The problem is that the voting system allows for such a thing to happen. Ever wondered why no European democracy has a two-party state? Well, they have sane voting laws. First past the post system without runnofs is just insane. Gerrymandering, electoral college, come on. Once the US was an inspiration to every democracy in the world. Now it has become a laughing matter.
Re:Quantum processor != quantum chip (73 comments)
As far as I know the Bristol folks do integrated optics, so it is in fact a chip; not as small as a classical chip, but about the size of a fingernail.
As a side note, it makes me sad that such an awesome project had to taint itself with the mention of Google and NASA waste of millions of dollars to D-Wave. What the Bristol people are doing is quantum computing. What D-Wave is doing isn't.
Re:The simulator (73 comments)
I don't think the analogy holds. Certainly knowing the details of quantum optics is quite labourious, but doing quantum programming is already some kind of quantum mechanics, that does not reference any particular physical system. Just like a Turing Machine uses Boolean algebra, but does not reference any particular machine to implement it.
Also, it's true that the algorithms are described in purely classical terms, but they probably sound like gibberish if you are not familiar with the concepts. As an example, let me describe you one of the simplest quantum algorithms known, the single-qubit version of Deutsch's algorithm, which decides whether a (classical) single-bit function f is such that f(0)=f(1) or f(0) != f(1):
Initialize your qubit in the state |0>
Apply the Hadamard gate to it
Apply the oracle that calculates f to it; it is described by the operator e^(i pi f(0)) |0>1|
Apply the Hadamard gate to it again
Measure in the computational basis.
I don't think it is particularly hard to understand it, though; if you want to do it seriously, there's a quite good book about the subject: it's called "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information", by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang.
Re:The emperor has no clothes (526 comments)
Can you elaborate on that? My laymen impression is that prosecutorial discretion allows you to at any time ignore any law you wish. But to ignore a specific law all the time seems a bit of an exaggeration.
Re:And just maybe... (530 comments)
So you'd rather trust a 89-year physicist with no training in climate science than the ones who have actually learned the subject? That's very enlightened of you.
I don't know what you mean by "very skeptical", but wikipedia says he does believe that the planet is warming and it is our fault; he seems to distrust the mathematical models we used to predict the climate.
For whatever it's worth, I am a physicist, and I have never met (personally) a physicist that is a climate change denier.
Re:I could never defend a cyber squatter (381 comments)
This sounds cool, but actually doesn't make any sense. The problem is not big endian versus litlle endian. Microsoft could very well use com.microsoft.xbox.360, but then somebody could squat com.xbox.360. Or microsoft could use com.xbox.360, and somebody would try to squat com.xbox360. The advantage of USENET is that its hierarchical structure was more or less well defined, while in the WWW it is completely arbitrary what you put before the
Re:Blog Spam (44 comments)
How the source adds nothing to the discussion? I've seen this on slashdot when the story first appeared, and the media coverage was uniformly believing CERN's hype, without a shred of scepticism. This blog has a simple, correct explanation of the physics involved, and its interpretation of the data pretty much agrees with I've been hearing at the University.
Re:Is this review from 2009? (514 comments)
I was not expecting it to be like old stark trek. I was just hoping that this time the plot would make any sense. Clearly I was mistaken.
Re:6 word review. (514 comments)
I did just that. Watched "the wrath of khan" for the first time this wednesday and then watched "into darkness" yesterday. Damm sure this made me dislike "into darkness" more. It's just a rehatch of the "emotional" scenes of "the wrath of khan" without any coherent plot to link them together. While "the wrath of khan" had a plot that made sense, and was thought provoking, this one had... nothing.
I wouldn't mind to see good visual effects and some action scenes in a Trek movie. But why can't they also use a decent script? It's not difficult to find somebody capable of writing a better story then the one that was used.
Re:No (209 comments)
I don't mean to insult you, but you seem to be talking without having read TFP, which I did. It is here. (Incidentally, this paper just repeats the arguments first published here, but with a better experimental setup.)
I'm saying this because, as the paper says explicitly, the number 10,000 c has nothing to do with resolution of the clocks, but with their choice of preferred reference frame.
And the experiment I had in mind was quantum teleportation, where it is a little bit less insane talking about the "speed of quantum information".
So what you do is to send a quantum state from Alice to Bob. If you do the calculations, they show that quantum teleportation instantly transfers the state from Alice to Bob. But Bob is only capable of acessing the state after A also sends him some auxiliary classical information (two bits, to be precise). That's why I said that the only scientific thing that you can claim is that the information propagates at lightspeed, because before receiving also the classical information no measurement that Bob can do can say whether he received the state or not.
About the subjectivity, I know this is weird, but there dosn't seem to be any way around it. The state that the calculations show changing instantaneously is Alice's knowledge of the spin, which in fact does change as soon as she makes the measurement. But it makes no sense to say that this is also Bob's knowledge about the state of the particle, since he has no idea about what's going on.
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I have a terrible memory, and it's not just age.
I can remember the very first SP FPS game I tried (and hated) Kingdon Honor Guard, the next FPS I tried (and LOVED!) Unreal Tournament and the first SP game I played all the way through: Unreal.
I even remember walking around a PC store and seeing Half-Life but not wanting to try it because I was worried I would lose my love of Unreal.
But one thing I can't remember is the first map or mod I played for Half-Life.
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If I remember right and although a demo really it was called uplink I believe
ahh yes, uplink. I don't think it's a mod though but I remember playing that and me and my friend thought it was the full game. Half-Life made such a big impression and still I have fnd memories of that game. pure epicness.
My first mod must have been rocket arena 2 for quake two. The first hl1 mod was counter strike. Back in the day when it still was new and fresh. ahh good times, yes.
Redemption for HL1 was the first unofficial singleplayer mod I played.
It came in some sort of pack with counter-strike, wanted, ricochet and other multiplayer mods, so at that time I didn't really know what was official and what wasn't.
For a time I thought Valve had made that mod, even though it was very strange at times and the themes were too odd (amusement park, Tibetan monastery etc).
conundrum half life 1 was the first I remember downloading it was not like half life at all but a puzzle game which was very well recieved as a number 2 followed soon after I think and as kasperg said redemption was one of the large files first brought out in the early days 1998 I guess
Oh, yes, I think it was Half-Life: Visitors. It is a very good mod, you all should play it.
Uplink, From VALVe yes XD, funny times
Yeah back in the day it was Counter-Strike 1.5 after that I started going to lan houses to play CS 1.5 in lan alot, every saturday morning from 10am to 14pm, and then I got HL and played it all and it was awesome. Then I came to PlanetPhillip when it wasn't in a blog layout, when it was a full list with many mods and then I downloaded eh … well of course I also played TFC, Ricochet (only twice), etc . But if cs counts, well that was my first HL mod ever.
That all around 2002 or 2003, Planetphillip might remember the website layout I think it has a grey baackground, or blue…
You did say "first game/fps " ?? For me it was the original "Doom" on 3 1/2 floppies, which I still have!
first Mod you played for half-life.Last 2 lines of the topic.
I got a pirate version of Doom 1.666 on 4 3.5 disks. Still have it. Then I bought the game and collected every single wad I could gather on the net. About 15 CDs stored now. Haven't played them in a long time.
I still favor the shotgun in HL2.
Hell yeah. Used to stay up all night playing Doom on a local BBS. I cannot remember the very first mod but one of the most memorable was Boothill for Doom 2.
Mine was Duke Nukem 3D, and later the Platinum Pak.
There were also some good user maps and mods written for the game, but the names I cannot remember now.
I remember playing a few mods for Doom back in the day, including one or two based on Alien / Aliens… later, I went through several mods for Unreal, for about a year after it came out.
My first HL mod was a multiplayer: CounterStrike, of course!
I've started with really good mod. It was Coastline to Atmosphere for HL2.
The first mod I ever played was Union for Ep2.
The coolest thing is that the creator is starting to redux the mod and perhaps release a V.2 of it. I'm really looking forward to it. The next mod I played was Nightmare House, then Minerva.
If I don't count Uplink that I played before full game and training of CS 1.0 (I didn't know I can play over the internet), it was multiplayer of Wanted! with bots and singleplayer Redemption.
South Park mod for Doom
Todesangst for Half-life
But one thing I can't remember is the first map or mod I played for Half-Life.
Can you? (Remember yours, not mine!)
Read the question people.
I remember that Zombie Panic! Source was a great mod when I tried it out.
Many months later, I'm hooked on mods.
It was most likely the Orion Nebula Project.
For Descent.
The first mod I played was Wanted which was a western style modification for HL1. I played it back when I was still playing CS 1.5, however it was before I got my own computer. It was so awesome back then!
The first mod I played on my own computer is probably brainbread. That was fun too though I ran out of things to do after a while.
I know the first custom map I played for HL2 was one called All Your Base, which I was unable to finish.
The first HL2 mod I played was Mistake of Pythagoras, which is undoubtedly a must play mod.
Mistake of Pythagoras for HL2 (I was a late starter). My brain is still recovering…..
My first mods were for HL2 and dl'ed from this site: Das Robot, Boathouse, and one I can't remember the title of, where one part consisted of locating batteries… I think it was called Nuclear Plant or something similar. I thought all three were brilliant! I couldn't believe they were free!
It was some Quake mission pack IIRC. I wish I could find it again. I also remember playing countless Duke Nukem 3D (which were awesome)/Doom addons before Half-Life.
I think my first Half-Life addon was Drug Barons by Maverick Interactive (creators of Redemption), or USS Darkstar by Neil Manke (and his team). Early mods I remember playing are: Deliverance (by Kevin Lockitt), Mission of Mercy (short, nice addon), DAV's levels, Barry Bollinger (this guy released a tons of stuff for Half-Life, including prefabs), Freeman's Revenge.
well the first MOD I played was zombie master, but at the time I didn't know it was a "MOD"… a few weeks later I found this site, after watching a video of another mod on youtube and clicking on the link in the video description.
Insurgency. I still kinda play it today lol.
Hell yes! It was Counter-Strike 1.5! I did not even know that it was a mod. The only thing I knew was that you have to start Half-Life first. I hadn't even played Half-Life when I played Counter-Strike!
Few of the first fps games I played were
Duke Nukem 3D
The first mods were for Unreal & Half-Life1 in good old modem and ISDN days but don't ask me for the titles of those mods I don't remember.
First FPS game: Wolfenstein 3D
First mod: Action Quake 2 (Quake 2 mod)
First MP mod for HL: Team Fortress Classic
First SP mod for HL: They Hunger
First custom map for HL: Manhunt by Scary One
Doom 1 & 2 would have been the first SP FPS I played, although I never bought either, followed by Quake 1. I believe Quake 2 was the first I purchased along with the sequel retail releases until Unreal came along.
Unreal I thought was a big stepping stone in the development of SP FPS games, given us the big outdoors and one, if not the first, to break away from the confinements of enclosed combat and encounters.
For me it was a big disappointment when both Quake and Unreal went MP, although both included what was then known as BOT options, however the story line had gone alone with the adventure.
I never originally bought HL1 having been off work and recovering after a major operation, a friend purchased the game for me, and I have never looked back since.
As for custom mods, it was the pursuit of more HL experiences that drove me to search for more of the same, in those days there was no PlanetPhillip and a much lower lever of releases.
It was the gaming magazines that were the chief source of information, such mags has PC Gamer included articles on custom mods and links to online sites that covered HL1 and offered downloads. The magazines were one of the biggest sources of custom mods and included cds most months with both demos and custom games.
The first time I came aware of custom mods was when looking through a bin fall of cheap cds in a retail stationery and book chain store called The Works, to my surprise I found cds containing Quake, Unreal and HL custom mods, most of which in those days were small and basic.
My next line of source became the online sites these included, and here only abbreviations of their names remain in my records, F-Eden, H-King, EH/10, Pixel, H16, and LM, with H16 i.e. Hanger 16 being the most popular at the time and I can recall downloading many a mod from this site. Often starting the download late at night then going to bed and hoping by the morning all had worked ok, so long were the download times in those days.
This of course was the beauty of the give away magazine cds, longer mods were now easy to load as author got more ambitious, also the online site begin to dry up as site owners found the task of updating too time consuming, also MP was taking over online, we are lucky to have Phillip.
For a time TenFour became my only source of HL1 downloads and while this site still exists, least it did last I looked, its updates became few and far between.
I am not sure how I find PlanetPhillip, think it was a response to browsing and the joy of finding a site that had not been over taken with MP.
The hardest part of all this is trying to remember the first custom mods I played, after 10 or 11 years the mind is rusty and with 420 plus HL1 mods under the belt I just don't remember, I do remember finding the work of Barry Bollinger in the early days who gave us the Resistance series and Dark Operations, it would be nice to find out what became of these early authors, maybe a project for Phillip, not that he has much else to do, joking.
the first mod? opposing force, but we could really call that a game. real mod was case closed for half life 1.
I'm pretty sure the first Half-Life mod I played was Absolute Redemption. Remains one of my all-time favorites to this day.
Challenger Deep (HL1) at least I think it was called that….might have to go back and look for it in the PP archives, as if I remember little else. it was fun!
It's been a long road since then, and I hardly play any HL1 Mods nowadays, unless they get a good recommendation on here. It's at times like this that I think we all should be reminded just what a gold mine Phillip maintains here!
Simply the only place to check when trying to find a HL 1 or 2 Map or Mod….definitely the best!
I'll have to second Olrick on that.
Azure Sheep was probably the first, or if not then close to it. I think I discovered mods by reading about Blue Shift that Azure Sheep was what it should have been.
First FPS Game: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
Even though it probably hasn't aged too well, for the time it was released (only a year after Quake) and taking into account that it was a console FPS, it had excellent controls and surprisingly decent graphics. I still take it out to mess around for a bit, but I don't think I've ever gotten further than beating the 3rd level without at least having the Unlimited Ammo cheat activated. I forget where I found out about RBNSMTH, but it pretty much became a staple of playing that game.
First Intro to Modding: Baldur's Gate 2.
Technically, my first mods were two that I made myself by removing two files from the override folder that the WindowsXP patch for the game included; clck26.itm and contigx.2da. Removing clck26.itm changed the cloak of spell deflection back to the cloak of spell reflection that it originally was. Removing contigX.2da allowed a Wild Mage to put 2 castings of Nahal's Reckless Dweomer into a Spell Sequencer. Casting this sequencer would lock open the spell selection of the wild mage and allow him unlimited access to cast any of the spells in his spellbook as many times as desired until another action type was chosen (making a physical attack, finding traps, moving to a new level, maybe talking)
As far as fully packaged mods, that would most likely be Weimer's Tactic's Mod, though I don't even use it at all anymore. Alternately I might have first used Weimer's Item-upgrade mod which I still use to this day. My favorite mod specifically for BG2 is Revised Hell Trials that is now part of Ding0's Quest Pack. BG1tutu is my favorite mod when considering the entire Baldur's Gate series, since it allows you to play BG1 using the BG2 engine and rules.
First Public Mod I've Made: Grey Acumen's Kit Improvements. (which actually seems to be down now, I'll need check into getting that posted back up)
It's nothing huge, but I had always been bugged by how weak the Beastmaster and Wizard Slayer kits were, not just in terms of power, but in terms of how poor they were at their supposed specialties. I changed the Beastmaster to be a better melee fighter and have better influence over animals, and the Wizard Slayer has abilities that would actually make it worth using in battles with Mages both directly and by assisting team members. This Mod also adds a Mime kit to the Bard class, which silences enemies in place of the bard song. The mime kit also has a number of special spells granted through magically infused pantomime.
First Intro to Valve Games: Portal First Slice – I'm a Valve gamer of less than 2 years yet. I first signed up for Steam for this demo in Jan "08. I later was gifted HL2:e1, which was perhaps the best intro to the Half Life series for me. It wasn't too long, but gave me the gravity gun(AND SUPER GRAVITY GUN) to play around with right off the bat, and then let me take out both a gunship and a stalker. It really wet my appetite for the entire rest of the series.
I later got HL1 during the 10th anniversary deal, and then Opposing Force and Blue shift during the Xmas deal for a total of $3. It was in the middle of all of this that I discovered I could use -dxlevel 81 to improve the bad framerate that Portal:first slice and HL2:e1 were getting. With this knowledge I finally decided it was worth purchasing a physical copy of the Orange Box sometime in or just before Jan "09.
First Source Mod: Uncertain. The Flash Version Map Pack for Portal, Portal: Prelude, Union or Awakening are the earliest mods I can remember. I have over 40 now, probably verging on 50 source and goldsource mods.
At first the only thing I knew about looking for mods was using steam's mod list, and I also only wanted to play mods that passed themselves off as being part of Half Life cannon.
Then once I finished all of these I started hunting down more, browsing through "Best Half Life Mods!" lists and the like. These led to gems like USS Darkstar (which I think was the first mod to really break me out of the need for the mods I played to be connected to the Half Life storyline), They Hunger, Point of View, Sweet Half Life, Redemption, etc.
Finding Source mods was a lot more difficult. There still isn't any really comprehensive search method for Source Games and there are thousands of them out there that aren't worth the time it takes to download them. I still manged to stumble across gems like Minerva, Research and Development, and The Trap based on recommendations by other people. Then I stumbled into Planet Phillip and have only just started finishing off the last of the "Mod of the year" lists.
In the past year I've probably gotten nearly 1000 hours of gameplay(and still counting) from an initial investment of only $33. I don't think I've EVER gotten that quality and amount of content for such a low price before.
The first mod I ever played was an RP mod called "Lugormod" for Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Good times…
My top HL1 mods are;
Azure Sheep
The Xeno Project 1
The Xeno Project 2
They Hunger 3
Time Line II: Iced Earth
USS Darkstar
Counter strike, when it was still a mod ;).
i really can't remember which mod I played first, to be honest don't I play that much mods/mappacks. only those who really look interesting to me I do give a change.
thing is, there are so many good new games out there that even for playing them I don't have time.
i don't lie when I say that on my game shelve I still have at least 7 to 10 games laying around, waiting to be played. I do think that I can remember for which game I played the first mod, this will probebly be soldiers of fortune2, (still a great game, specialy one of THE best one qua sp-missions !!!!)
I only got into playing FPSs on the PC fairly recently compared to how long I've played RTSes and I don't think I ever played a Age of Empires mod so the first mod I ever played was for Dawn of War, and it was probably the TTRU mod.
*thinks long and hard about it*
Simpsons Doom.
That or Christmas Doom.
The first Quake One hook / rune mod prior to it's being incorporated into CTF.
Does it count, when I tried to play some bonus maps for an illegal portal version?
The first mods I tried to play on Steam were either:
-Capture the Flag
-Riot Act
-Lost Ravenholm Chapter
I think only Riot Act worked, but even that crashed a specific point. That was because I tried to install these mods on the SteamAppiDs of HL2DM or the episodes… I didnt own hl2 back then. I also only found this answer by finding the website I asked at HOW to install mods for steam. XD
Oh, and besides Source I tried a few GTA: San Andreas Mods…
First mod I ever played was Minerva:METASTASIS and I must say, I was thoroughly impressed.
G mod, that's also the first video game I ever got, that's how I ended up getting HL2, and now I am a developer, crazy how the world works…
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After the introduction of television in 1956, several popular television programs were added to the ABC's rural coverage, including "To Market To Market", "A Big Country", "Countrywide" and "Landline".
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ARNOLD: Economists' biggest fear is that the U.S. would fail to make payments to investors around the world who hold U.S. treasuries. Analysts warn that that could spark another financial crisis: the stock market could crash, the banking system, and the housing market could be in big trouble, but most do not think that that's actually going to happen. David Kotok is the chief economist at Cumberland Advisors.
DAVID KOTOK: In the end, I believe that Congress will resolve legislation and there will be no default by the United States. So, for me, the actual act of failing to make a payment is unthinkable. I do not believe it will happen, but the political theater raises the risk of an accident that markets do not know the outcome and they are scared.
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Nowadays many celebrate these simpler times in the form of chuck wagon cook offs. Competitors are judged on many aspects of being a cowboy, everything from the food they cook to the clothes they wear to the authenticity of their chuck wagon.
"We stay as traditional as we can, yep. Especially, always in competition we stay traditional. A lot of places don't even judge potatoes because there weren't that many potatoes."
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Thanks to some intrepid Android developers, two of the Motorola Moto X's highlight features — Active Notifications and Quick Capture — can now be had on devices not actually made by Motorola. Though the Moto X isn't even on store shelves yet, you can install third-party apps on your existing Android device to replicate some of the coolest features it offers, albeit with some limitations.
Moto's Active Notifications, the system that passively displays notifications on the screen without you having to pick up the device, was one of our favorite features when we reviewed the Moto X. If you have an Android 4.3 device, which is admittedly a small market right now, you can install ActiveNotifications from the Google Play Store to replicate the Moto X's functionality. The app will light up your device's screen when a new notification comes in, and give you the option to jump right to the app that pushed the notification or dismiss it entirely. You can set how long the screen stays awake and which apps will trigger the notification. ActiveNotifications doesn't yet mimic the "breathing" feature of the Moto X, which will periodically light up the screen if you haven't acted on a notification, but the developer says that he is working to add a similar behavior in later versions. Support for older versions of Android is also in the pipeline.
Another cool Moto X feature is Quick Capture — the ability to twist the phone like a screwdriver and quickly launch the camera from wherever you are. The aptly-named TwistyLauncher, also available in the Play Store, gives you the ability to launch the camera with three different gestures: a double chop, a double twist, or flipping the phone over twice in a row. You can even set the app to launch apps other than the camera with the remaining gestures — for example, if you have the double chop set to launch the camera, you can launch a flashlight app with the double twist. Unlike the Moto X's Quick Capture, you do have to turn the screen on before TwistyLauncher will work, and it can be slow to launch apps if you try to use it just after hitting the home key. The gestures can also get confused with each other, especially the twist and double-flip options. Like ActiveNotifications, TwistyLauncher is limited to a handful of devices right now (we tested it on the Nexus 4, but it does not work on the HTC One), but we suspect that more device compatibility will be added in the future.
While you can't quite match the Moto X's hardware customizations with just any Android phone, if you already own an relatively recent device and have been lusting after the X's neat software tricks, these apps will get you some of the way there. We wouldn't be surprised if other developers figure out ways to bring over the Moto X's voice control features and Assist functionality in the future, as well.


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For my Final Major Project I got an assignment from Taxi Studio. The challenge was to create a fearless brand identity for the first microbrewery by Carlsberg.
After researching the history of Carlsberg and Denmark I decided on using their Viking heritage. Today people associate the Vikings with bloodthirsty barbarians who travelled overseas to plunder and rape, and had horned helmets. However, I wanted to base my concept on the "real viking".
All Vikings were Scandinavians, but not all Scandinavians were Vikings. Most people lived in their villages all their life, but some young and adventurous men travelled on viking raids. "Viking" is a term used to describe the people who travelled overseas to explore the unknown. It is said that the viking era started when the Danes invading England. Now, Carlsberg will send their "Vikings" back to invade England again and conquer the beer market.
The beers have different personalities that reflect each "viking" – the strong, the bold, the brave, the fearless, the courageous, the adventurous, etc. The names I have used on these beers are from the Viking era, and they are still used in Denmark today. It was common to have names with a deeper meaning behind it. They used runes, the old Scandinavian symbol alphabet, to protect the Vikings on their travels and give them good luck.
The advertising is inspired by what the Vikings did then they travelled around – they carved runes on the grounds/walls to let people know "they were here". Now, the Carlsberg Vikings are telling England that "We're Back".
—Hatfield, England. May 2014.
Create an homage to something that's disappearing, lost, forgotten or underappreciated. Then make the perfect homage for that topic. I choose hand shadows, or shadowgraphy, which is the art of performing a story using images made by hand shadows. This is possibly one of the oldest forms of entertainment – to put your hands together in the most curious angels, and with light create something truly beautiful and amazing.
Since shadowgraphy is one of the oldest forms of performing a story, I decided to make a pop-up book where the hands pop up. With light, the shadows will reveal their real shapes. I was really challenged during this process; how do you make a pop-up book? After a while I started to understand the basics of it, and then I experimented.
The whole book is black – paper and ink – this to represent the shadow. The book has a wrap-around with a die-cut hand in the same size as the pop-ups inside. When you remove this white cover you will see the shadow (the book) underneath.
—Hatfield, England. December 2013.
The brief was to design and produce a comprehensive self-promotion package that could be sent to potential employers. This is to get noticed and to get out there.
After some research, I found out that I am a passionate girl that live and breathe graphic design. Love focusing on details in my work. I also have a passion for contemporary typography, crafts and drawings.
—Hatfield, England. May 2014.
A brief for D&AD Newbloods 2014. Create a bilingual exhibition branding for British Councils 'Dressing the Screen'.
The process of making both film and fashion involves cutting and joining. These notions are carried through the brand identity in the form of a customised font and graphic cutting patterns. Print materials are joined together with physical stitching, again referencing how cloth and film are joined. The profile is dark and sexy, with a hint of gold to suggest luxury and exclusivity.
The catalogue is a small and simple hand-stitched booklet. It is divided into two sections – one side is in English, and when you turn the booklet around you get the Russian version. All the headings, and the logo, are gold foilbocked.
The envelope is small and simple, with a machine-stitched border, and is perforated to make it easy to drag open. The paper is transparent to go with the translucent curtains in the exhibition. The Logo and the date are gold foilbocked.
—Hatfield, England. December 2013.
We were tasked to design and art direct a full suite of publicity materials for the 2013 School of Creative Arts Degree Show at the University of Hertfordshire. Items include showcase newspaper, website, mobile guide and directional signage. The team consisted of me, Erik Brattested, Jørgen Sundt and Sondre Brustad, with guidance from Jak Kimsey.
Headlines; fresh news from the students at University of Hertfordshire. Be part of our story!
—Hatfield, England. May 2013.
The brief was to design a new brand identity to attract a younger audience to Digswell Arts. They wanted a modern and contemporary feel & look, where the arts were pushed to the fore. The Digswell Arts is an innovative charity that for over fifty years has focused on artists in the early phase of their careers. Digswell Arts provide studios for to a low cost. They're not just a studio provider; Digswell is an incubation platform for emerging artists.
I wanted to play on the incubation/protection, by protecting the content with a blue border. The blue I use is called 'Klein Blue', which is a colour associated with the arts.
My main focus has been on the website, this is where Digswell will mainly reach their audience. This young and new target audience is not an audience that just sits on computers; therefore I made the web design responsive so it works nicely on tablets and phones.
—Hatfield, England. May 2014.
A little drawing with this dot technique I've seen so much lately.
—Hatfield, England. May 2013.
The future of the high streets in UK is uncertain; as consumers turn their backs on traditional stores in favour of online shopping, thousands of shops including familiar brands are likely to face closure in coming years. We got a live brief from FITCH design studio: create a unique space that will bring people to the high streets. This project was a team project by Joanna Hobbs, Tomoko Monno and Caroline Solheim.
We created a tea shop with a twist – this isn't just another tea shop, it's an experience. 'TEA' offers ready-blended teas for every personaliTEA, or you can use you creativiTEA to infuse your own individual blend. We captured the 'British' culture of tea through word play, nostalgia and a slight eccentricity. All the products are fair-trade making sure some money goes back to the tea farmers: 'community to community'.
—Hatfield, England. April 2013.
ICOGRADA has decided to re-address the issue of design ethics and sustainability by publishing a printed magazine. They want a magazine that talks to graphic designer about ethics of Graphic Design.
My magazine is called 'Mule', which is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. This name was chosen to show that by combining two different things you could achieve a stronger result. In this magazine I have combined a good designer and the natural part of a person that cares and has sympathy and heart to produce a stronger, better and possibly life changing graphic designer.
Throughout the magazine I use a zigzag to show that this ethical road is not going to be straight, quick or easy, and that there will be challenges along the way. It is starts at the beginning of the magazine to symbolize the beginning of a journey, and never stops to signify that changing for the better is an endless feat throughout life.
Yellow is the colour throughout the magazine, and even the zigzag lines are also yellow sometimes. This is to symbolize the 'yellow brick road' from the Wizard of Oz; Dorthy (the reader) has found herself in an unfamiliar world (today's world) and feels lost. In order to find her way, she follows the yellow brick road.
The punch line; a good designer is not a designer who can design good stuff, but a designer with meaning and soul.
—Hatfield, England. November 2012.
The brief was to come up with a concept for a magazine, and afterwards make the whole magazine with a minimum of 48 pages. We had about two months to make a name, graphic profile and layout, find content and to produce the magazine.
I decided to make a fashion magazine with a distinctive style: Vintage, Bohemian and Glam Rock. I had to contact two persons to interview to get text and images. I also made the font for the Feather logo. The magazine is hand stitched together.
—Oslo, Norway. March 2012.
The brief was to develop a "self-help" concept. We were going to select a country/continent and pick a homemade product. The final product were going to be launched on the Norwegian marked and sold in special concept stores, where a certain % went back to the artisans / producers / small business / small farmers in the respective countries.
I picked "Sole Rebels" from Ethiopia. They make handmade shoes; where all the materials are organic and recycled from their own community. The final solution is 100% recycled materials from their community and 100% ECO friendly. The name of this series of shoes is "African Colors", where these are the colours that shines 'Africa'. The font and pattern is homemade by me — this is to get the african feel by looking at the box.
—Oslo, Norway. May 2012.
This idea came to me when my mom had many girls over for tea. Girls sometimes sound like a large herd of birds. Therefore, I decided to manipulate a woman and a bird together: "The women's true identity".
I had taken a photo of a gull that screamed earlier that year, and thought this was a good manipulation challenge. I borrowed a friend to model for me, and started working.
—Oslo, Norway. March 2011.
This picture really has no deeper meaning behind it. Quite simply, it is an attempt to manipulate two images together. I decided to mix an eagle and a cheetah to make one freakish animal.
The Eagle photo is taken by me, but the Cheetah was from Google.
—Oslo, Norway. February 2011.


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College football: Notre Dame takes care of Oklahoma, 30-13
Everett Golson threw for 177 yards and plunged in for the decisive 1-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, Manti Te'o bolstered his Heisman Trophy candidacy with a late interception and No. 5 Notre Dame beat No. 8 Oklahoma, 30-13, on Saturday night in Norman, Okla., to remain undefeated.
Te'o, the standout linebacker who has a penchant for causing turnovers, dove when Landry Jones' pass ricocheted off of Jalen Saunders and got his gloved hands under it. Kyle Brindza tacked on his third field goal soon after, and Theo Riddick added a late touchdown run as the Fighting Irish (8-0) put it away with 20 fourth-quarter points.
Jones threw for 356 yards with no touchdowns for the Sooners (5-2), who were still clinging to hope to get back in the national title race before the loss. Saunders caught 15 passes for 181 yards.
Notre Dame is off to its best start in a decade.
No. 1 ALABAMA 38, MISSISSIPPI STATE 7 (at Tuscaloosa, Ala.) — AJ McCarron passed for 208 yards and two touchdowns as the Crimson Tide (8-0, 5-0 SEC) reached the end zone on their first three possessions.
No. 12 GEORGIA 17, No. 3 FLORIDA 9 (at Jacksonville, Fla.) — The Bulldogs forced six Gators turnovers to move closer to clinching a spot in the Southeastern Conference title game.
The victory gave Georgia (7-1, 5-1 SEC) consecutive wins in this series against Florida (7-1, 6-1) for the first time since 1989.
No. 4 KANSAS STATE 55, No. 15 TEXAS TECH 24 (at Manhattan, Kan.) — Heisman hopeful Collin Klein accounted for four touchdowns.
ARIZONA 39, No. 10 SOUTHERN CAL 36 (at Tucson, Ariz.) — Matt Scott had 469 total yards and accounted for four touchdowns, helping Arizona overcome a huge day by USC's Marqise Lee.
Lee caught 16 passes for a Pac-12-record 345 yards and two touchdowns to help USC (6-2, 4-2 Pac-12) build a 15-point lead midway through the third quarter.
But Scott led Arizona (5-3, 2-3) back, throwing for 369 yards and three touchdowns, including a 7-yarder to David Richards that put the Wildcats up 39-28 with just over 5 minutes left.
No. 17 SOUTH CAROLINA 38, TENNESSEE 35 (at Columbia, S.C.) — Connor Shaw threw three touchdowns and ran for another score as the Gamecocks (7-2, 5-2 SEC) overcame the loss of tailback Marcus Lattimore, who was taken to a hospital after hurting his right knee in the second quarter.
No. 2 OREGON 70, COLORADO 14 (at Eugene, Ore.) — Kenjon Barner rushed for 104 yards and two touchdowns and the Ducks (8-0, 5-0, Pac-12) took care of the Buffaloes.


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Ebola deaths in West Africa rise to 467
The World Health Organization says West Africa's Ebola outbreak has claimed 467 lives as the death toll continues to climb in all three countries reporting cases.
The World Health Organization says West Africa's Ebola outbreak has claimed 467 lives as the death toll continues to climb in all three countries reporting cases.
In a statement Tuesday it said 759 people have been infected in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The new numbers include suspected, probable and laboratory-confirmed cases. Their release comes on the eve of a two-day regional meeting in Ghana to improve efforts to combat the disease.
An update last week said there had been 367 deaths, already far higher than the previous most lethal outbreak which killed 254 people in Congo in 1995.
Transmission has been facilitated by widespread distrust of health workers, heavy traffic near the countries' porous borders and the spread of the disease to capital cities in both Liberia and Guinea.
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Dakota County District Judge Joseph Carter sentenced Michael Frederick Schmidt, 41, Hastings, to a sentence of 27 years, 18 of which must be served in prison.
Another holiday tradition will return to Hastings at about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, when the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train stops at the depot on East Second Street. As in previous years, the stop offers entertainment and an opportunity to raise food and funds for the food shelf at Hastings Family Service. Before the brightly-decorated train arrives, there will be some other activities at the depot. All are invited. A sing-along with Kelly Casey-Spavin from Entertainment Shows starts at 3:30 p.m.
After two and one-half days of deliberations a Dakota County jury on Thanksgiving morning convicted Tylar James Hokanson, 24, formerly of Northfield, of two counts of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree in the death of his stepson, Nicholas Arthur Miller, 17 months old. Nicholas died June 23, 2009, in Wisconsin. The trial began Nov.
Spiral Foods Co-op, 307 E. Second St., downtown Hastings, has announced the selection of Baard Webster as its new general manager. He brings a wealth of experiences sin management and small business operation, including more than 30 years of retail experience. In 1995, he and his wife, Diane, started Funkie Gardens a very successful specialty nursery in Prescott, Wis.
After two and one-days of deliberations a Dakota County jury on Thanksgiving morning convicted Tylar James Hokanson, 24, formerly of Northfield, of two counts of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree in the death of his stepson Nicholas Arthur Miller, 17 months old. Nicholas died June 23, 2009, in Wisconsin. The trial began Nov. 1. Following the reading of the verdict, Judge Robert King sentenced Hokanson to life in prison. "Nicholas Miller suffered horrific injuries through the actions of his stepfather," said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.
Hastings High School senior Katarina Gapp, Hastings Middle school student Nick McGrath and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School student Mike Tappella are the winners in the annual Hastings Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1210 essay contests. Gapp won the Voice of Democracy contest and McGrath and Tappella won the Patriot's Pen competitions at the other two schools. They will read their essay as next year's Memorial Day observance.
When approximately 350 seventh-grade students heard the theme, "Vision of Peace," they took their image of it and created artwork. Last week, the winners were announced in the annual Rivertown Lions Club Peace Poster contest. The top winners are Ciara Christensen and Dharma LeMoine-Tennant. Second place winners are Erin Smothers and Kalyne Henrichsen. Third place winners are Kaylee Morris and Kallyn Lutz. Helping to judge the contest was Jeanne Mamer, retired Hastings Middle School art teacher. The contest is open to seventh-grade social studies students each year.
Dani Truax, Peter Schultz and Cody Wagner are active Hastings High School students. But they share a bond with about 20 to 30 other students in that members of their families are currently serving in the military. Several have been, or are already, deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Through the Hastings High School Military Support Group, the students find support, friendship and ways to help members and their families. They are currently in the midst of one such project now at the high school - a sock drive which leads to a sock toss next week.
She graduated from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School and Hastings High School, and was previously employed by Hastings School District 200 as psychologist. Then she went into the school administration field. This week, Jill Moes, Ph.D, returned to Hastings, and her education and spiritual roots. On Monday, Nov. 15, she began her new position as principal of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School. She succeeds Rita Humbert as principal of the Catholic School here in Hastings.
The Christmas spirit arrived early for Karissa Rother, 12, and her neighbors and friends Halie and Mikaela Harder, 10 and 12 respectively. Through hard work, time and a desire to help others, the three friends, who live next door to each other on Owen Avenue just south of Hastings, will reach out to children thousands of miles away this holiday season. Their project was to fill as many shoeboxes as possible through the international organization, Operation Christmas Child.


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Geoff Goodfellow (born 1949 in Adelaide) an Australian technologist and writer, associated with early wireless email ventures.
Technology career[edit]
In 1982 he posted a message titled "Electronic Mail for People on the Move" in an arpanet mailing list called Telecom Digest.[1] In the early 1990s Goodfellow attempted to commercialize this concept in a product called RadioMail. In 1992, Radiomail entered into a partnership with Research in Motion, RAM Mobile Data, and Ericsson. Goodfellow left the company in 1996.
Goodfellow, a contributor to the Jargon File and participant in the early days of the Silicon Valley computer culture, did not believe in patenting his idea. He told The New York Times, "You don't patent the obvious...The way you compete is to build something that is faster, better, cheaper. You don't lock your ideas up in a patent and rest on your laurels." [2][3]
The inventor, Thomas J. Campana Jr., was granted several patents covering his inventions related to the practical implementation of wireless e-mail. In 2006, after a protracted legal battle, (See NTP Inc.) Research in Motion had to pay $US 615 million to obtain rights to these patents.
Other work[edit]
Goodfellow started to write poetry in 1983. His three poetry collections "No Collars No Cuffs, Bow Tie & Tails and No Ticket No Start" (Triggers, Turning experiences into Poetry) are used in schools all over Australia.[citation needed] He conducts performances and writing workshops in schools, colleges and universities, correctional institutions, on building sites and in corporate boardrooms.
In 2006 Goodfellow began researching the cause, nature and origin of what he regards as the critical state of disharmony on the planet.[citation needed]
- ^ 1982 message digest
- ^ John Markoff (April 16, 2006). "In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent". The New York Times. p. 1, section 3.
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/16/business/goodfellow.php/
External links[edit]
- Discussion of the arpanet issue on the blog Techdirt
- Wallstreet Journal Law Blog [1] "Goodfellow couldn't come up with much documentation on his initial invention"
- Geoff Goodfellows' blog
- Geoff Goodfellows' website
- John Markoff (January 17, 1999). "Saying Goodbye, and Good Riddance to Silicon Valley". The New York Times. p. 1, section 3.