Tetsuo Time

I noticed this article for a few days but only just now got around to reading the comments. The story itself is funny but the comments make it even funnier. There was a man who is a part of the Jedi "religion" who got kicked out of a tesco supermarket for refusing to remove his Jedi robe hood.

To start off with the official response is very funny:

'He hasn't been banned. Jedis are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods.

'Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all appeared hoodless without ever going over to the Dark Side and we are only aware of the Emperor as one who never removed his hood.

'If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they'll miss lots of special offers.'

Funny thing is they are absolutely right! Most Jedi wore hoods for maybe under a combined time of half an hour out of the whole 6 movies. Luke wore his for all of two minutes practically.

These comments also amused me\made me laugh:

"Taking legal action against a chainstore for being "emotionally humiliated" does not sound like the Jedi way.
Aren't they supposed to control their emotions or be led down the path or the darkside?"

"Fluffernutter, biscuits... a Jedi craves not these things."

"How about Stormtroopers? Can they wear their suits into the grocery store? The helmets have eye amplicication stuff built in, so they won't miss any of the sales. Plus, they can communicate with each other, via their helmet comlinks, so they can alert fellow troopers to the awesome sales!"


Anyway at the end someone said, "humerously according to one source he wasn't wearing jedi robes but just a hoodie. If that's the case He may as well have lit up a joint and claimed to be a rastafarian, just sad really." I agree.

I also don't think I'll ever like anything enough to want to make it my religion. Especially not some fictional property such as Star Wars. Even if I did the prequels would be enough for me to lose my faith.

Someone else did make a good point though saying what if it was some other established religion that has funky head gear. But with only five years under the belt the "Jedi Religion" is basically a cult at this point if anything. I myself don't begrudge them doing what they want to do. But it needs to be tempered with reason in my opinion. OH and check the source material...

I was looking at digg when I came across this article. One of my favorite things on computers are emulators because they let you play games that you otherwise can not play for one reason or another. For example they never made a home version of certain arcade games and other games that they did make home versions of weren't nearly as good as the arcade. Emulation fixes that and the games are preserved as well.

Apparently a university in the UK wants to work on a UGE (universal games emulator). I'm wondering just how big the scope of this project will be, if they will be able to do it and if it'll ever be made available to the public. I almost imagine it may work sort of like MAME however I hope they put a focus more towards optimization as well as accuracy as MAME doesn't care about speed and being able to actually play the games it emulates is said to be just a side effect.

Anyway, I imagine this UGE to be an abstracted front end with modules for the different systems it emulates. The only thing is some of the work is already done by other people such as the aforementioned MAME, DOSbox, Wine\Cider, and the various console emulators.... a lot of them especially for the newer systems are huge projects in and of themselves so is it possible that these researchers may have bitten off more than they can chew? Although most of the people working on emulators are doing it in their spare time with limited funds so they may have an advantage there.

Some people in comments wondered about legality but the thing is that emulators themselves are legal. You just can't distribute copyright material with them. Transgaming has two things that they also do... Cedega for linux typically is for when you own the game and you install and run it through it and with Cider on OS X they work with the publisher licensing the product to them and they wrap their game with cider and sell it in a box. It seems to work OK but compatibility is kind of dodgy and has to be especially tailored to the game it wraps.

In the end this UGE may end up being designed for a computer that is produced in the future such as a 10Ghz 128 core computer that far outstrips the power needed to play any of the games it'd emulate all while doing it all in software. =P

I was looking at digg when I came across this article. One of my favorite things on computers are emulators because they let you play games that you otherwise can not play for one reason or another. For example they never made a home version of certain arcade games and other games that they did make home versions of weren't nearly as good as the arcade. Emulation fixes that and the games are preserved as well.

Apparently a university in the UK wants to work on a UGE (universal games emulator). I'm wondering just how big the scope of this project will be, if they will be able to do it and if it'll ever be made available to the public. I almost imagine it may work sort of like MAME however I hope they put a focus more towards optimization as well as accuracy as MAME doesn't care about speed and being able to actually play the games it emulates is said to be just a side effect.

Anyway, I imagine this UGE to be an abstracted front end with modules for the different systems it emulates. The only thing is some of the work is already done by other people such as the aforementioned MAME, DOSbox, Wine\Cider, and the various console emulators.... a lot of them especially for the newer systems are huge projects in and of themselves so is it possible that these researchers may have bitten off more than they can chew? Although most of the people working on emulators are doing it in their spare time with limited funds so they may have an advantage there.

Some people in comments wondered about legality but the thing is that emulators themselves are legal. You just can't distribute copyright material with them. Transgaming has two things that they also do... Cedega for linux typically is for when you own the game and you install and run it through it and with Cider on OS X they work with the publisher licensing the product to them and they wrap their game with cider and sell it in a box. It seems to work OK but compatibility is kind of dodgy and has to be especially tailored to the game it wraps.

In the end this UGE may end up being designed for a computer that is produced in the future such as a 10Ghz 128 core computer that far outstrips the power needed to play any of the games it'd emulate all while doing it all in software. =P

This was pretty interesting...

"Can't wait to clock in for supper!"