And another thing, what would reducing sunlight do to crops, birds, animals etc. I think crops would be the most affected. Maybe they should learn about the cane toads in Australia (Introduced to eat a beetle that ate sugar cane crops). The solution ended up being insanely worse than the problem they were supposed to fix. This would be similar, lets fix the earth by expermenting on it, if something goes wrong we'll just restore it from the back up copy... oh, that's right, we don't have one.
As someone who likes dinner parties with board games finding a new game to play is impossible
Why not try to design and build your own games? We did it a lot when my friends and I played RPGs etc. Each of us had built our own RPG system (One had two: fantasy and cyber) which we GMed and played.
At the risk of sounding like an old fart (i'm 29) we made our own (board) games, that the others tried to find gaps in the rules as we played. We even hacked the rules of chess and checkers, including rubber/mirror sides, multiple boards, new pieces (walls, bombs etc), poision/cursed/mystery squares, even giving pieces attack/defence/health numbers.
Give it a try on rainy day, if you have a hacker spirit this should be easy... why pay for something when yau can make it for free* to cheap? You could even make a professional looking game with a colour printer and some half decent software. Paint minatures or use lego as board pieces if you need them. (My sister and I have used all sorts of things for monopoly: stuffed toys, lego men and hotel/houses etc.)
* Assuming your time = $0, of course, but if you like games a lot, this should be relativly enjoyable.
No, that's exactly what I want too. Maybe if they used the same tech that they used in that paper thin clock, that only uses power when the display changes we'd get good b+w thin displays that run on an aa battery or two. I don't need high refresh rates.
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Ok, I've not tried Dvorak so I can't comment one way or another on whether it's any good or not, but I don't understand everyones obessions with WPM
That's right, dvorak is (now-days) about less finger movement rather reaching than faster speeds. The basic fact is that it places higher frequency-of-use letters in more sensible places, and it shares the load across all the fingers and hands better.
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alias is your friend:)
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Do you use the ; more than e or t? Look where they are.
I'm just disappointed that obi-wan walked away and left him (Anakin) to suffer and die slowly and painfully like that (I had my leg burned badly when I was 14 and it was one of the most physically painful things that ever happen to me). Obi-wan should have sensed that pain using the force.
I know that anakin had to live to be in ANH, but that was pretty damn cold to stand there and watch him burn. It would have been better to finish him off and end his pain.
I thought at the time that Lucas should not have put obi-wan in that position (having to walk away while anakin suffered)... maybe he should have had a flash vision of padme dying and he raced off to save her or get her to medical assistance.
The X86 OSX is going to be a blow to Linux crap? How does changing the processor for OSX make it more or less of a threat to Linux? It simply doesn't make any sense.
But grrls and geeks of this supposed website, I have one final thing I want you to consider: Grrls and geeks this [points to a picture of Chewbacca] is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself, what does this have to do with this OSX on x86? Nothing. Grrls and geeks, it has nothing to do with changing the processor for Macs! It does not make sense!
I was planning on buying one of the 20" iMacs (even have the $ budgeted for), now I'm going to have to think about it. I don't buy new hardware very often and wanted to get something that would last and be usefull for a long time (4-5 years). I thought this would be a mac as OSX is kind to old hardware.
Does anyone still think it's a good idea to buy current PPC models?
IIt's just like the clock radio in your bedroom, except the up and down arrow buttons only nudge the time by 1 femtosecond per click.
I get annoyed with normal clock-radios that don't have a reverse button and I have to go all the way around again when I miss the correct time... having a one femto-second ajustment would take forver to get back around!
The trick would be to put the computer doing the simulated universe into it's own buble universe and that would take care of those "it would have to be the same as the universe to simulate it" problems...
It was the Death Star, but not right after the previous scene- a flash forward scene to the construction project a few years prior to the Battle of Yavin.
A friend (when we came out of the ciniema) basically said they did the final few scenes in the wrong order and that one should have been the very last one, as it would give no time lines as to when it happened. But the put the luke sunset scene at the end to end on a lighter note, and it changed the feeling walking out.
I'd love to know why film makers have to end on a positive, upbeat note. Why not end when the hero is down? I think AI would have finished perfectly with david in the ice. ahh, one day I'll give my own film-making a try and see what i can do;-)
We had a "geek it up" list for a friends gf/wife. She'd only seen ANH when she was really young. We also included Mad Max, Highlander, a few of the better Star Trek movies (II, IV and VI i think) and a heap more that I can't remember at the moment. Was fun as we got to watch the movies again and she got to see them for the first time and start to get all the in jokes we made and she missed.
I'd love to see snow crash done as a movie... if just for the pizza delivery of the first chapter:)
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Running OSX on apple made/blessed x-86 boxes doesn't really make sense from a consumer point of view. They would use a lot more power and create more heat though they'd still cost just as much to buy for simillar spec'd machines (You don't think apple would insist on the best hardware?). They wouldn't make extra money and I don't think the "native" running of XP apps would be that much of a selling point. Yes, OSX is a really nice OS, but the hardware is damn nice too.
Another model m here too;-) I was first impressed about the drainage channels for spills. Once I hearded they had them I had to get one... a few months later guess what I found at work heading for the bin??;-)
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And another thing, what would reducing sunlight do to crops, birds, animals etc. I think crops would be the most affected. Maybe they should learn about the cane toads in Australia (Introduced to eat a beetle that ate sugar cane crops). The solution ended up being insanely worse than the problem they were supposed to fix. This would be similar, lets fix the earth by expermenting on it, if something goes wrong we'll just restore it from the back up copy... oh, that's right, we don't have one.
Beat me too it! That's exactly what I thought.
Why not try to design and build your own games? We did it a lot when my friends and I played RPGs etc. Each of us had built our own RPG system (One had two: fantasy and cyber) which we GMed and played.
At the risk of sounding like an old fart (i'm 29) we made our own (board) games, that the others tried to find gaps in the rules as we played. We even hacked the rules of chess and checkers, including rubber/mirror sides, multiple boards, new pieces (walls, bombs etc), poision/cursed/mystery squares, even giving pieces attack/defence/health numbers.
Give it a try on rainy day, if you have a hacker spirit this should be easy... why pay for something when yau can make it for free* to cheap? You could even make a professional looking game with a colour printer and some half decent software. Paint minatures or use lego as board pieces if you need them. (My sister and I have used all sorts of things for monopoly: stuffed toys, lego men and hotel/houses etc.)
* Assuming your time = $0, of course, but if you like games a lot, this should be relativly enjoyable.
We'd probably do it on something smaller to start with, like rabbits, then monkeys.
No, that's exactly what I want too. Maybe if they used the same tech that they used in that paper thin clock, that only uses power when the display changes we'd get good b+w thin displays that run on an aa battery or two. I don't need high refresh rates.
That's right, dvorak is (now-days) about less finger movement rather reaching than faster speeds. The basic fact is that it places higher frequency-of-use letters in more sensible places, and it shares the load across all the fingers and hands better.
alias is your friend :)
Do you use the ; more than e or t? Look where they are.
Apart from the one we're standing on? :)
I know that anakin had to live to be in ANH, but that was pretty damn cold to stand there and watch him burn. It would have been better to finish him off and end his pain.
I thought at the time that Lucas should not have put obi-wan in that position (having to walk away while anakin suffered) ... maybe he should have had a flash vision of padme dying and he raced off to save her or get her to medical assistance.
But grrls and geeks of this supposed website, I have one final thing I want you to consider: Grrls and geeks this [points to a picture of Chewbacca] is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself, what does this have to do with this OSX on x86? Nothing. Grrls and geeks, it has nothing to do with changing the processor for Macs! It does not make sense!
Does anyone still think it's a good idea to buy current PPC models?
I get annoyed with normal clock-radios that don't have a reverse button and I have to go all the way around again when I miss the correct time ... having a one femto-second ajustment would take forver to get back around!
The trick would be to put the computer doing the simulated universe into it's own buble universe and that would take care of those "it would have to be the same as the universe to simulate it" problems...
It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC they "fucked wildly" too pass on genetic "memes"... or I could be getting it confused with snow crash.
But what if Bill reads slashdot? Ah-ha! That's your logic gone, mister smarty :-)
Actually, it looks like he hasn't been active for a while.
**Spoilers!!!***
It was the Death Star, but not right after the previous scene- a flash forward scene to the construction project a few years prior to the Battle of Yavin.
A friend (when we came out of the ciniema) basically said they did the final few scenes in the wrong order and that one should have been the very last one, as it would give no time lines as to when it happened. But the put the luke sunset scene at the end to end on a lighter note, and it changed the feeling walking out.
I'd love to know why film makers have to end on a positive, upbeat note. Why not end when the hero is down? I think AI would have finished perfectly with david in the ice. ahh, one day I'll give my own film-making a try and see what i can do ;-)
We had a "geek it up" list for a friends gf/wife. She'd only seen ANH when she was really young. We also included Mad Max, Highlander, a few of the better Star Trek movies (II, IV and VI i think) and a heap more that I can't remember at the moment. Was fun as we got to watch the movies again and she got to see them for the first time and start to get all the in jokes we made and she missed.
Why? Is your hand going to be busy....
I kid, I kid ;-)
I thought it was pretty cruel of lucas to put in a fountain scene halfway through with running water noise in surround sound... ;-)
I'd love to see snow crash done as a movie... if just for the pizza delivery of the first chapter :)
Running OSX on apple made/blessed x-86 boxes doesn't really make sense from a consumer point of view. They would use a lot more power and create more heat though they'd still cost just as much to buy for simillar spec'd machines (You don't think apple would insist on the best hardware?). They wouldn't make extra money and I don't think the "native" running of XP apps would be that much of a selling point. Yes, OSX is a really nice OS, but the hardware is damn nice too.
Hey, I'm tired and it's late, cut me some slack :-)
Another model m here too ;-) I was first impressed about the drainage channels for spills. Once I hearded they had them I had to get one... a few months later guess what I found at work heading for the bin?? ;-)
Pacmans map didn't change, that was ms pacman.