"Not only can they live under immense pressures deep in the ocean, tubeworms living around volcanoes and vents can tolerate a wide range of temperatures. An individual tubeworm can often experience a range of tens of degrees over the length of its body (or a change in the same place on its body over the course of just a few seconds): from the background chill of most deep water (a few degrees above freezing), to warm fluids drifting out of vents in the seafloor."
"Unlike most other animals, a tubeworm lacks a mouth, gut and anus. Instead, it gets its food from millions of microbes living inside it (a bit like a plant gets its food from the choloroplasts which give it its green color). The tubeworm's body reflects the symbiotic (living together) relationship it has with its microbes"
Why deceptive? If _I_ could figure it out, then I don't really think that the Creator intended it as a super-secret idea.
Anyhoo, who says that the Creator possesses infinite good and love? How do you know that I don't believe in a religion that says the universe was created by Ultimate Evil, but His Evil Plans went wrong and goodness crept into the hearts of men and thus an eternal struggle was born that can never be resolved...
"I am evil HoMER! I am evil Ho-mer! I am evil HoMER!"
Principle Skinner: Just think--with that lottery money, we could buy history books that know how the Korean War came out, math books without that base-6 crap, and a state-of-the-art detention hall where the children are held in place with magnets.
Raising a child is difficult and annoying. They never seem to stop asking questions! Isn't there some computer program (or, if necessary, television show) that will do it for me?
I just starting playing "The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker" over again. According to my save files the last time I played it was August in 2003.
A couple months ago I played "Eternal Darkness" over again.
I'm playing "Ninja Gaiden" for the XBox over again.
I'm playing "Final Fantasy IV" (II in the US) over again on the Nintendo DS
After I finish Ninja Gaiden or Zelda I'm going to replay "Psychonauts". After that I'm due to venture back into "Resident Evil 4" on hard mode, and to finish the extra missions.
Other games that I'm planning on revisiting?
"Kingdom under Fire"
"Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"
"Indigo Prophecy" -- TONS of replaying in this game. ex: my brother got Lucas to sleep with his ex-gf, twice! I got nothing but a cold shoulder:-/
"Mario 64" on the DS
"Metroid Prime"
"Skies of Arcadia"
"Splinter Cell 1 2 and 3" especially 3 since it's mission structure was the most fluid. I never even used the sniper rifle my first play through
I never get tired of playing "Alien Hominid"
Lots more games that I won't bother to list here. All of these are console so fan created content is automatically excluded. Buy good games and they last for years.
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That's an old one, and a pretty good book:
The Peter Principle is a theory originated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter. It states that successful members of a hierarchical organization are eventually promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to a level at which they are not competent. The term is a pun on Sigmund Freud's theory of the pleasure principle.
The theory was set out in a humorous style in the book The Peter Principle, first published in 1969. Peter describes the theme of his book as hierarchiology. The central principle is stated in the book as follows:
In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.
Although written in a lighthearted manner, the book contains many real-world examples and thought-provoking explanations of human behaviour. Similar observations on incompetence can be found in the Dilbert cartoon series (such as The Dilbert Principle). In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled "The Peter Principle Game.
True, and I almost included it. But the CD-I wasn't intended soley as a videogame platform but more of a computer for the tv.
I did finish "Escape from Cyber City" though...
with the *remote* controller. Agaaahhh!
Though nothing haunts me like the "na na na na" sound that the little enemies made in the hideous "Dark Castle". Reward for finishing the game? Playing it again exactly the same! Woo!
If you like this kind of stuff, try Unix (Linux). Unix (and unix-likes) design philosophy is to use a lot of small, efficient programs in concert to do larger tasks.
Very simple example:
ls - lists directory contents grep - looks for string patterns | - pipe symbol, output from the program on the left goes to the program on the right
ls | grep "some filename" would get you get a list of files matching "some filename"
Obviously that example is command line oriented, but the "make a program small and specific" extends to many programs written for Unix.
But the name of the company IS "Dick's Sporting Goods", not "Dick's". "Dick's sporting goods" and even dick's sporting goods sans quotes both had the correct company at the top of the list.
You woudn't search for University of North Carolina by googling "University" would you?
It's a good thing you are around to tell us all what art is.
At first I thought that this "bad" photographs very effectively captured a lot of emotion and feeling and brought out detail that a "good" photograph would have glossed over. Now I know that if it isn't technically precise, it isn't art.
Thank goodness you're around to tell us when something is art or not.
I used to think I was impressed by Grandmaster Flash, DJ Shadow, DJ Qbert and the like. I used to think that the fact that there is a system of musical notation being developed for turntablism was pretty awesome. I used to think that someone who thinks of a way to combine dozens of sources into one cohesive song had actually accomplished something creatively and musically worthwhile.
By your cursory summation of Tibet and Xinjiang, I can tell you have never been there. You should go sometime.
I highly doubt I would have found smiles if I had been allowed to explore every room in the gulags or concentration camps. Of course, I have been allowed to explore anywhere I wanted to go in Tibet or Xinjiang. Generally, the further from Beijing and urban areas you get, the less oppressive things are. The proverb for the modern day is "Bejing is far away and the mountains are very high."
I've seen happiness in China. I've seen happiness in Tibet. I've seen happiness in Xinjiang. I've seen happiness in Yunnan.
I've talked to people on the street, I've talked to people in hutongs, I've talked to people in high-rise apartments.
Maybe you should talk to them too.
Things aren't perfect, they aren't even great in many places, but it certainly isn't a cultural revolution type situation over there anymore.
The 20th century was brutal for China, but change doesn't happen overnight. In fact, a great deal of the problems came from change happening overnight.
Would you really want China to go back to the chaos that she saw in the 1910s after the collapse of the Qing dynasty?
What if you want to determine how someone died thousands of years ago and all you have is a bone fragment, eh?
Where's the "highly unethical" come in? Is it also unethical for people to sacrifice pigs and chickens to ward off bad omens? Bear in mind that there are still many tribes in the world that do this practice.
Using e-Dispute, claimants and respondents can put their case before an independent online arbitrator (or "robot agent") who having reviewed the case will then set up a meeting between the two parties via chatrooms and video conferencing, at which possible binding settlements can be reached....
"Robot agents digest all the information and make proposals to the parties. Once the arbitrator is agreed upon, the robot agent finds a suitable meeting date for everybody," said Jacques Gouimenou, managing director of Tiga Technologies, the company behind e-Dispute, speaking with ElectricNews.Net.
The oldest controller the piece looks at is the NES controller, and even that is only given a cursory glance.
Atari joysticks, Atari paddlewheels, the qwerty keyboard, custom arcade controllers (Golden Tee), genre specific controllers (steering wheels, light guns), game specific controllers (Guitar Hero, Steel Battalion), platform specific controllers (the Nintendo DS), any-company-other-than-Sony-or-Nintendo's controllers: all are missing from this piece of fluff article.
You're better off reading the Game Controller article on Wikipedia.
I've also watched the last two keynotes by Steve Jobs. I've also worked in theater and public speaking.
Good actors get into character and ad-lib, you'd be surprised at how much actors will change a script (for good or ill). Good speakers get into their presentation, feel out the audience and ad-lib.
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Ah, much more than fish live near the undersea volcanic vents.
http://venturedeepocean.org/life/index.html
Frex: tubeworms
"Not only can they live under immense pressures deep in the ocean, tubeworms living around volcanoes and vents can tolerate a wide range of temperatures. An individual tubeworm can often experience a range of tens of degrees over the length of its body (or a change in the same place on its body over the course of just a few seconds): from the background chill of most deep water (a few degrees above freezing), to warm fluids drifting out of vents in the seafloor."
"Unlike most other animals, a tubeworm lacks a mouth, gut and anus. Instead, it gets its food from millions of microbes living inside it (a bit like a plant gets its food from the choloroplasts which give it its green color). The tubeworm's body reflects the symbiotic (living together) relationship it has with its microbes"
http://venturedeepocean.org/life/tubeworms.html
How's that for wicked cool?
Not to say that a fish living in acidic water isn't nifty, but it sure isn't high on the list of Extreme Life Conditions.
Why deceptive? If _I_ could figure it out, then I don't really think that the Creator intended it as a super-secret idea.
Anyhoo, who says that the Creator possesses infinite good and love? How do you know that I don't believe in a religion that says the universe was created by Ultimate Evil, but His Evil Plans went wrong and goodness crept into the hearts of men and thus an eternal struggle was born that can never be resolved...
"I am evil HoMER! I am evil Ho-mer! I am evil HoMER!"
Besides, didn't we use to shoot gravitons at that loud squiggly thing in Yar's Revenge?
No! We shot gravitons at the base station. The loud squiggly thing (shot out from the base station) was a spiraling vortex of red death! Flee! Flee!
Duh. Earth has only existed for 5,000 years. But it was Created billions of years old.
Principle Skinner: Just think--with that lottery money, we could buy history books that know how the Korean War came out, math books without that base-6 crap, and a state-of-the-art detention hall where the children are held in place with magnets.
Teacher: Magnets. Always with the magnets.
Dear Slashdot:
Raising a child is difficult and annoying. They never seem to stop asking questions! Isn't there some computer program (or, if necessary, television show) that will do it for me?
I just starting playing "The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker" over again. According to my save files the last time I played it was August in 2003.
:-/
A couple months ago I played "Eternal Darkness" over again.
I'm playing "Ninja Gaiden" for the XBox over again.
I'm playing "Final Fantasy IV" (II in the US) over again on the Nintendo DS
After I finish Ninja Gaiden or Zelda I'm going to replay "Psychonauts". After that I'm due to venture back into "Resident Evil 4" on hard mode, and to finish the extra missions.
Other games that I'm planning on revisiting?
"Kingdom under Fire"
"Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"
"Indigo Prophecy" -- TONS of replaying in this game. ex: my brother got Lucas to sleep with his ex-gf, twice! I got nothing but a cold shoulder
"Mario 64" on the DS
"Metroid Prime"
"Skies of Arcadia"
"Splinter Cell 1 2 and 3" especially 3 since it's mission structure was the most fluid. I never even used the sniper rifle my first play through
I never get tired of playing "Alien Hominid"
Lots more games that I won't bother to list here. All of these are console so fan created content is automatically excluded. Buy good games and they last for years.
-- The Peter Principle
You speak of MIDI like it's automatically a bad thing.
Not a sound engineer, eh? ^_^
True, and I almost included it. But the CD-I wasn't intended soley as a videogame platform but more of a computer for the tv.
...
I did finish "Escape from Cyber City" though
with the *remote* controller. Agaaahhh!
Though nothing haunts me like the "na na na na" sound that the little enemies made in the hideous "Dark Castle". Reward for finishing the game? Playing it again exactly the same! Woo!
That makes no sense to me. Are you saying that you'd have an emotional reaction to a photograph of a sunset, but not to an actual sunset?
o_O
If you like this kind of stuff, try Unix (Linux). Unix (and unix-likes) design philosophy is to use a lot of small, efficient programs in concert to do larger tasks.
Very simple example:
ls - lists directory contents
grep - looks for string patterns
| - pipe symbol, output from the program on the left goes to the program on the right
ls | grep "some filename" would get you get a list of files matching "some filename"
Obviously that example is command line oriented, but the "make a program small and specific" extends to many programs written for Unix.
Greater disasters? 3D0. Jaguar.
But the name of the company IS "Dick's Sporting Goods", not "Dick's". "Dick's sporting goods" and even dick's sporting goods sans quotes both had the correct company at the top of the list.
You woudn't search for University of North Carolina by googling "University" would you?
As a joke: lame. As a serious comment: sad.
It's a good thing you are around to tell us all what art is.
At first I thought that this "bad" photographs very effectively captured a lot of emotion and feeling and brought out detail that a "good" photograph would have glossed over. Now I know that if it isn't technically precise, it isn't art.
Ha! A post which is both funny and insightful, too bad I don't have mod points.
It's not comparable, GT is a simulator where PGR is an arcade racer.
Thank goodness you're around to tell us when something is art or not.
I used to think I was impressed by Grandmaster Flash, DJ Shadow, DJ Qbert and the like. I used to think that the fact that there is a system of musical notation being developed for turntablism was pretty awesome. I used to think that someone who thinks of a way to combine dozens of sources into one cohesive song had actually accomplished something creatively and musically worthwhile.
By your cursory summation of Tibet and Xinjiang, I can tell you have never been there. You should go sometime.
I highly doubt I would have found smiles if I had been allowed to explore every room in the gulags or concentration camps. Of course, I have been allowed to explore anywhere I wanted to go in Tibet or Xinjiang. Generally, the further from Beijing and urban areas you get, the less oppressive things are. The proverb for the modern day is "Bejing is far away and the mountains are very high."
Indeed. Even my wife finds the boob physics in DOA highly entertaining.
Although we do prefer the Soul Calibur series when we want to get our fight on.
Her favorite character: Voldo. Wacky.
I've seen happiness in China. I've seen happiness in Tibet. I've seen happiness in Xinjiang. I've seen happiness in Yunnan.
I've talked to people on the street, I've talked to people in hutongs, I've talked to people in high-rise apartments.
Maybe you should talk to them too.
Things aren't perfect, they aren't even great in many places, but it certainly isn't a cultural revolution type situation over there anymore.
The 20th century was brutal for China, but change doesn't happen overnight. In fact, a great deal of the problems came from change happening overnight.
Would you really want China to go back to the chaos that she saw in the 1910s after the collapse of the Qing dynasty?
What if you want to determine how someone died thousands of years ago and all you have is a bone fragment, eh?
Where's the "highly unethical" come in? Is it also unethical for people to sacrifice pigs and chickens to ward off bad omens? Bear in mind that there are still many tribes in the world that do this practice.
From the article:
...
Using e-Dispute, claimants and respondents can put their case before an independent online arbitrator (or "robot agent") who having reviewed the case will then set up a meeting between the two parties via chatrooms and video conferencing, at which possible binding settlements can be reached.
"Robot agents digest all the information and make proposals to the parties. Once the arbitrator is agreed upon, the robot agent finds a suitable meeting date for everybody," said Jacques Gouimenou, managing director of Tiga Technologies, the company behind e-Dispute, speaking with ElectricNews.Net.
Looks to me like it does more than you imply, eh?
The oldest controller the piece looks at is the NES controller, and even that is only given a cursory glance.
Atari joysticks, Atari paddlewheels, the qwerty keyboard, custom arcade controllers (Golden Tee), genre specific controllers (steering wheels, light guns), game specific controllers (Guitar Hero, Steel Battalion), platform specific controllers (the Nintendo DS), any-company-other-than-Sony-or-Nintendo's controllers: all are missing from this piece of fluff article.
You're better off reading the Game Controller article on Wikipedia.
I've also watched the last two keynotes by Steve Jobs. I've also worked in theater and public speaking.
Good actors get into character and ad-lib, you'd be surprised at how much actors will change a script (for good or ill). Good speakers get into their presentation, feel out the audience and ad-lib.