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FYI, there are some fat-loss properties associates with caffeine, especially when "stacked" with other products. Twin Labs (somewhat of a bodybuilding food/supplement company) makes a product called "Ripped Fuel." It contains a certain proportion of both caffeine and ephidrene (sp?) with is supposed to allow you to burn more fat in your workouts rather than muscle tissue. Thus the term "ripped." This "stack" becomes more effective when coupled with a specific dosage of aspirin too and if you go to GNC you will find some "ECA" stack products as well. I have my bottle of ripped fuel with me whenever I go on long car rides. It keeps me WIDE awake:) Also note that the human body's receptiveness to such drugs does diminish with use so that a higher dosage is eventually needed for the same effects.
...at least in OpenGL implementation on Windows. That has been ATI's Achilles heel since way back. I don't think there has ever been a poor review about their hardware and its potential. It's just that their OpenGL drivers for Windows generally blew chucks when compared to those of Nvidia.
I really don't think will work too well in the long run. Napster seems to be somewhat self-regulating anyway where bogus/bad songs tend to get eliminated. I know I've never downloaded something I hadn't intended to. The simple reason is that everyone wants to share songs, not generate hits to their website or any other thinly veiled methods to generate money. There won't be any popup adds for downloading a song, etc. like on warez sites. I think it may fool a few people but the users themselves are all in it to share mp3's so unless there is a serious long-term effort made to contiuously flood the servers w/bogus files, it will eventually die out.
I'm not sure he invented the Wolverine character as his first appearance was in, I believe, The Incredible Hulk #181. That issue is worth big bucks due to his origin and 1st appearance.
With repsect to accuracy problems: You can make assumptions on the measurements and associate some statistical uncertainty and then run several million simulations. This would then necessitate some high level computational power. A study could then be done to determine which bodies need higher accuracy.
Solving that N-body problem once is probably not to intensive as you mention. Throw in some statistical deviations on velocity, mass, etc. and then you would need to run that simulation over and over and over and over.:)
In the US version, they removed the part near the end where we learn that the main character (forget his name at the moment, Harry?) had never escaped the examination chair of the Dr. who was interrogating him. The movie in the theatre shows that the hero's escape from the trappings of the world w/his girlfriend were simply delusions of a broken mind.
Along these lines is probably while the movie Brazil was forced to have 2 different endings to satisfy the viewers in both countries. Terry Gilliam's work takes on new meaning to me given the insights Adams has relayed on England's fascination w/ failure and having no control over one's life.
As someone who works in the Power Generation industry, this year and the next two show that there is a huge schedule of delivery of new units around the country. This so-called "bubble" has been caused by the slow erosion of power margin the utility co.'s saw the last few summers causing brown-outs, etc. Also there is a large plan to de-regulate the industry so the battle will be won on price. You'll soon be able to buy your power from companies all over the country, similar to the concept of long-distance telephone rates.
In fact, the demand for new units is so high, if you put in an order today, you'd have to wait until 2002 or 2003 to get delivery. Some companies are actually paying millions of dollars simply to buy someone else's place in line.
The power consumption trend has been thoroughly analyzed and I don't thing there will be any shortage of output any time soon. So fire up those extra quake servers whenever you can L:)
While I'm unsure of the numbers, I certainly hope this bad word of mouth causes this obviously expensively-made movie to lose millions. I for one am fed up with Hollywood making piss-poor movies and hyping them up to no end just to make some decent first weekend cash before the reviews hit the streets.
Hollywood has become less of an entertainment industry than a money making conglomerate. Quality falls by the wayside just to get product out the door in time for whatever "big" weekend is next.
So, the best thing about BattleField Earth is that it will lose millions and hopefully give some of these studios something to think about before they put out more crapola.
In the past, id has been strictly a one game at a time development house, unlike several other companies out there (but also like several others).
Anyway, if they could just decide to work more than one game at a time I think some of their internal strife would lessen. Because they have to choose one and only one, you get the infighting that has just been witnessed.
Their "clarity of focus" may get watered down, but their talent level wouldn't. Plus, we as consumers would get potentially more great games at the price of potentially longer development times.
As an ex-Northeaster (Peabody, MA), I can tell you that I moved for several cost of living reasons.
I sold a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, no garage house w/1600 sq ft for 240K. I moved to Greenville, SC and bought a 5 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage house w/2400 sq ft for 150K.
Now my wife can easily stay home w/our kids, which is what she wanted to do up North but couldn't. Not only did I get the cost of living benefits, but signing bonuses, a 15% salary increase, etc. The move was sweet.
Granted we do miss friends and family, but the money-related stress is gone.
I haven't read the whole discussion, so I'm not sure if this has been covered.
Is the whole "transmitted information" validation of distance traveled biased by what humans can perceive with their five senses. For example, we use light to see and it is the collision of photons that transmit information to us about objects. However, because the photon collided with the object, it's speed and velocity were changed (Heisenberg Principle). What if there are particles as yet undiscovered by us because we can't perceive them that are able to transmit information about another object without such a collision? Causality wouldn't matter since humans couldn't change information about which they can never perceive.
A friend once said to me time travel isn't possible, since we would have known about it already.:)
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"Even more importantly, Nigel knows how to bias a 12AX7 into distortion. (Look that up if you're into tube guitar amplifiers.)"
Plus he got all his amps to go to 11. That's 1 more, innit?
It would take some cajones to do this considering the risk, but if someone developed a "killer" Linux only game, it may persuade many people to go out and install Linux just to play the game. I realize this is like the "killer-app" theory, but it may work. There are so many Linux users that have Windows installed primarily for game support (me included). It's not a crime to dual-boot, but if someone somehow pushed Windows users to dual-booting Linux for the express purpose of playing a highly desirable game, more developer support may follow.
You guys should ask yourself what Cliff would have done in this situation. Myself and many other fans believe it was his passing that changed the band for the worse in many ways. I don't think he would choose the path you've chosen.
>That's like saying that, because I listen to a >particular band on the radio, they get money >from it. No, they only get money if I'm inspired >enough by what I hear to actually go out and buy >the album. In a direct sense, yes. But considering the effects of "advertising" your music via radio play, mp3's, etc.; you do get money from mp3's albeit indirectly.
I don't know all the technical details...but would it be possible to add something to the music CD itself that would render the mp3 encoding useless? I'm guessing that 99.9% of all mp3's out there originated from someone's CD somewhere. If an audio signal that doesn't effect normal playback yet totally wrecks the encoding process could be inserted, say every 10-20 seconds, in the music, I think that would stop things for a while until a new encoding mechanism defeats it.
You can. Just download the latest Linux beta point release and copy the pak files from the windows CD to their linux counterpart locations. It's exactly what I've done, and it works quite well.
Don't forget that catering to the tastes of the masses is a valid strategy for maximizing profit. That's why Metallica is so rich now. They watered down their musical style and gained mass market appeal and mass market dollars in the process. But most older fans will say that their pre-Black Album music was by far better. Its just that fewer people were able to appreciate it. Sorry if this is way too off-topic:)
>>The drive is a standard DVD drive with IDE interface and 4 pin power connector. Does this mean you could theoretically take it out of the unit and use it internally in a PC?
I love how when the story broke, Microsoft officials claimed they weren't worried since they've had so few people cancel their ISP service. Talk about clueless.
Microsoft Translation: "I have no idea what you're talking about. You are quoting legal mumbo-jumbo to me and all I hear is cracks and buzzes. Our legal team is working on something else right now, so rather than issue an inteligent comment, I'll just spout off some company rhetoric and everything will be peachy just like it always is."
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FYI, there are some fat-loss properties associates with caffeine, especially when "stacked" with other products. :)
Twin Labs (somewhat of a bodybuilding food/supplement company) makes a product called "Ripped Fuel." It contains a certain proportion of both caffeine and ephidrene (sp?) with is supposed to allow you to burn more fat in your workouts rather than muscle tissue. Thus the term "ripped." This "stack" becomes more effective when coupled with a specific dosage of aspirin too and if you go to GNC you will find some "ECA" stack products as well.
I have my bottle of ripped fuel with me whenever I go on long car rides. It keeps me WIDE awake
Also note that the human body's receptiveness to such drugs does diminish with use so that a higher dosage is eventually needed for the same effects.
...at least in OpenGL implementation on Windows. That has been ATI's Achilles heel since way back. I don't think there has ever been a poor review about their hardware and its potential. It's just that their OpenGL drivers for Windows generally blew chucks when compared to those of Nvidia.
I really don't think will work too well in the long run. Napster seems to be somewhat self-regulating anyway where bogus/bad songs tend to get eliminated. I know I've never downloaded something I hadn't intended to.
The simple reason is that everyone wants to share songs, not generate hits to their website or any other thinly veiled methods to generate money. There won't be any popup adds for downloading a song, etc. like on warez sites.
I think it may fool a few people but the users themselves are all in it to share mp3's so unless there is a serious long-term effort made to contiuously flood the servers w/bogus files, it will eventually die out.
I'm not sure he invented the Wolverine character as his first appearance was in, I believe, The Incredible Hulk #181. That issue is worth big bucks due to his origin and 1st appearance.
What happens when the fish get smarter? :)
With repsect to accuracy problems: You can make assumptions on the measurements and associate some statistical uncertainty and then run several million simulations. This would then necessitate some high level computational power. A study could then be done to determine which bodies need higher accuracy.
:)
Solving that N-body problem once is probably not to intensive as you mention. Throw in some statistical deviations on velocity, mass, etc. and then you would need to run that simulation over and over and over and over.
In the US version, they removed the part near the end where we learn that the main character (forget his name at the moment, Harry?) had never escaped the examination chair of the Dr. who was interrogating him. The movie in the theatre shows that the hero's escape from the trappings of the world w/his girlfriend were simply delusions of a broken mind.
Along these lines is probably while the movie Brazil was forced to have 2 different endings to satisfy the viewers in both countries. Terry Gilliam's work takes on new meaning to me given the insights Adams has relayed on England's fascination w/ failure and having no control over one's life.
As someone who works in the Power Generation industry, this year and the next two show that there is a huge schedule of delivery of new units around the country. This so-called "bubble" has been caused by the slow erosion of power margin the utility co.'s saw the last few summers causing brown-outs, etc. Also there is a large plan to de-regulate the industry so the battle will be won on price. You'll soon be able to buy your power from companies all over the country, similar to the concept of long-distance telephone rates.
In fact, the demand for new units is so high, if you put in an order today, you'd have to wait until 2002 or 2003 to get delivery. Some companies are actually paying millions of dollars simply to buy someone else's place in line.
The power consumption trend has been thoroughly analyzed and I don't thing there will be any shortage of output any time soon. So fire up those extra quake servers whenever you can L:)
While I'm unsure of the numbers, I certainly hope this bad word of mouth causes this obviously expensively-made movie to lose millions. I for one am fed up with Hollywood making piss-poor movies and hyping them up to no end just to make some decent first weekend cash before the reviews hit the streets.
Hollywood has become less of an entertainment industry than a money making conglomerate. Quality falls by the wayside just to get product out the door in time for whatever "big" weekend is next.
So, the best thing about BattleField Earth is that it will lose millions and hopefully give some of these studios something to think about before they put out more crapola.
In the past, id has been strictly a one game at a time development house, unlike several other companies out there (but also like several others).
Anyway, if they could just decide to work more than one game at a time I think some of their internal strife would lessen. Because they have to choose one and only one, you get the infighting that has just been witnessed.
Their "clarity of focus" may get watered down, but their talent level wouldn't. Plus, we as consumers would get potentially more great games at the price of potentially longer development times.
As an ex-Northeaster (Peabody, MA), I can tell you that I moved for several cost of living reasons.
I sold a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, no garage house w/1600 sq ft for 240K. I moved to Greenville, SC and bought a 5 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage house w/2400 sq ft for 150K.
Now my wife can easily stay home w/our kids, which is what she wanted to do up North but couldn't. Not only did I get the cost of living benefits, but signing bonuses, a 15% salary increase, etc. The move was sweet.
Granted we do miss friends and family, but the money-related stress is gone.
I haven't read the whole discussion, so I'm not sure if this has been covered.
:)
Is the whole "transmitted information" validation of distance traveled biased by what humans can perceive with their five senses. For example, we use light to see and it is the collision of photons that transmit information to us about objects. However, because the photon collided with the object, it's speed and velocity were changed (Heisenberg Principle). What if there are particles as yet undiscovered by us because we can't perceive them that are able to transmit information about another object without such a collision? Causality wouldn't matter since humans couldn't change information about which they can never perceive.
A friend once said to me time travel isn't possible, since we would have known about it already.
"Even more importantly, Nigel knows how to bias a 12AX7 into distortion. (Look that up if you're into tube guitar amplifiers.)"
Plus he got all his amps to go to 11. That's 1 more, innit?
It would take some cajones to do this considering the risk, but if someone developed a "killer" Linux only game, it may persuade many people to go out and install Linux just to play the game. I realize this is like the "killer-app" theory, but it may work. There are so many Linux users that have Windows installed primarily for game support (me included). It's not a crime to dual-boot, but if someone somehow pushed Windows users to dual-booting Linux for the express purpose of playing a highly desirable game, more developer support may follow.
You guys should ask yourself what Cliff would have done in this situation. Myself and many other fans believe it was his passing that changed the band for the worse in many ways. I don't think he would choose the path you've chosen.
>That's like saying that, because I listen to a >particular band on the radio, they get money >from it. No, they only get money if I'm inspired >enough by what I hear to actually go out and buy >the album. In a direct sense, yes. But considering the effects of "advertising" your music via radio play, mp3's, etc.; you do get money from mp3's albeit indirectly.
I don't know all the technical details...but would it be possible to add something to the music CD itself that would render the mp3 encoding useless? I'm guessing that 99.9% of all mp3's out there originated from someone's CD somewhere. If an audio signal that doesn't effect normal playback yet totally wrecks the encoding process could be inserted, say every 10-20 seconds, in the music, I think that would stop things for a while until a new encoding mechanism defeats it.
You can. Just download the latest Linux beta point release and copy the pak files from the windows CD to their linux counterpart locations. It's exactly what I've done, and it works quite well.
Don't forget that catering to the tastes of the masses is a valid strategy for maximizing profit. That's why Metallica is so rich now. They watered down their musical style and gained mass market appeal and mass market dollars in the process. But most older fans will say that their pre-Black Album music was by far better. Its just that fewer people were able to appreciate it. Sorry if this is way too off-topic :)
>>The drive is a standard DVD drive with IDE interface and 4 pin power connector. Does this mean you could theoretically take it out of the unit and use it internally in a PC?
I love how when the story broke, Microsoft officials claimed they weren't worried since they've had so few people cancel their ISP service. Talk about clueless.
Microsoft Translation: "I have no idea what you're talking about. You are quoting legal mumbo-jumbo to me and all I hear is cracks and buzzes. Our legal team is working on something else right now, so rather than issue an inteligent comment, I'll just spout off some company rhetoric and everything will be peachy just like it always is."