If I were a rat with cancer, I'd probably be drunk all the time too. Then when another rat sneezed on me and transmitted the cure like it was a cold, I imagine I wouldn't be motivated to drink so much. In fact, I'd really clean up my act trying to woo that other rat who sneezed and saved my life.
That's one thing -- they shouldn't have named the show after the least popular character in it. What did she do besides yell at everyone? Heck, the young AI John Henry was a better character than she was. I liked watching that robot paint models and d&d, I would hang with him.:)
You probably would have disagreed with the rest of it too. I have more than half the tech listed. Quite a poor article. They didn't even say that "DRM claimed it would stop piracy..." which was the first thing to pop into my mind.
You probably meant that as a joke, but I think such an idea would actually improve the moral views of the population. Well done. Before we write to Obama though, let me buy some soybean stocks real quick...
I thought the whole Arefu situation in Fallout 3 had some pretty grey area moral choices, very Witcher worthy.
*minor quest Spoilers*
A group of cannibals eat some folks in town, so you go in guns blazing to kill the cannibals so it won't happen again. Pretty simple. But then you find out that they are a group of reformed cannibals, swearing to in the future only drink donated blood. So if you leave them be, they may attract more cannibals to their views, and overall fewer people would be killed. It's a tough call.
This scene really bothered me, but I feel like I learned to be more tolerant for it. The idea of eating dog meat in the game didn't bother me at all, but probably got to a lot of kids. I'd love to see a public service announcement on tv sometime that shows how to kill a chicken totally uncensored and see what parents do. They'll probably start a class action suit against the tv station, but then go home and serve chicken for dinner.
I was working on a neutrino detector last year. It had a very simple linux kernel running on chips to process each small group of mini-detectors. Meanwhile, the analysis software was running Red Hat Enterprise. Scientific Linux never caught on for us, but most detectors are using it now I believe.
Blood of Elves is what I'm referring to. The "USA" edition just came out yesterday, and I bet you got the "UK" edition. Whatever difference that makes. Maybe they censored the sex scenes or something.;)
Usually I'd join you on the Fox News bashing, but all the news companies are doing it. Heck, I couldn't even watch CNBC yesterday at lunch without seeing reports about it.
Obsidian Pros:
Good NPCs (with background more than "I'll pay you to follow me") who follow the PC around... something Bethesda has always lacked.
Lots of side quests.
Obsidian Cons:
"Oh look, a random broom closet! Surely no monsters are inside here!" Followed by 300 super mutants coming out of said broom closet....
Another annoyance is that their side quests tend to glitch or never end. If Obsidian made FO3, and you were planting the camera to watch the mirelurk activity for Moira, you'd probably find out that the game was released before the mirelurks were implemented.
Another thing I've run into in the past that was a problem: sometimes when people are talking about solar cell efficiency, they switch sensitive wavelengths on you.
There was a young boy who received high praise for making a solar cell that was "20 times as efficient as comparative cells"... Well, since the other cells were already getting 10% of the output from the sun, and since there was no way the boy could be getting 200% from the sun, it means he just expanded the wavelengths of light the cell was sensitive to. Yippee. So instead of a "Solar PV cell", he ended up with a "Vega PV cell" (or whatever star or light source you want). He made something entirely useless, but still could say it was 20 times more efficient.
I'm not saying they did that in this case, but it's something to watch for if you're paranoid.
It's the naked 10ish year old girls getting randomly chopped into pieces that bothers me. There was no need for that. I can watch things like Hellsing and enjoy it fine.
about people with psychic arms called Elfen Lied. Never watch it. It's horrible. People who say it's good are the same kind of people who say "smell my fart". The music is nice though.
Yeah, I agree, it reads like they got the money by saying "this makes people feel better", not by saying "we're genuine psychics".
I must admit, if the girl doing the reading looked like the girl in the picture, I'd go for it. I'd ask her a few questions about my future love life while winking at her.
This is awful. I've heard him pronounce his *own* name different ways on his show. Oh well, maybe the astronauts will cut off the beginning and just call it the Bert module. I mean, if they scrape some paint off, what can we do?
I liked it more in the beginning also. I think they ran out of stuff to write as soon as they landed on New Caprica. There is a shortage of good scifi these days. Oops, I meant syfy. No, I meant syphilis.
I heard a story once about a dog that liked collard greens. The owner was asked how he got the dog to eat them. His reply: "Well, they're all I ever fed him. He didn't eat them at all for the first week. By the end of the month, he finally took to them." My thought is that if there were *any* other decent space-based show, Battlestar would have been canceled some time ago.
The final episode was okay though. I think the series would have been better if every episode had been more like it instead of the pointless drama that it turned into.
Yeah, I think at this point a hacker going into it is doing a service. Showing the vulnerabilities of a system before it becomes critical to the country in a few years is a good thing.
I got a roomba for a family present at xmas. It gets stuck after 5 minutes on anything. Last week it managed to get one of its brushes wedged into a central air duct. I'd be surprised if these fish managed a day without all getting stuck under rocks or somesuch.
Luckily though, the roomba makes whimpering sounds when it's stuck to help you find it. It lets out a different toned whimper when the batteries are low. I don't think that would work so well underwater. Maybe it could activate a GPS signal and some alert code? The alerts can include:
I'm stuck under a rock.
I found pirate treasure!
I am out of the water!
I'm being digested!
I just tazed a fisherman! Then shattered his eardrum with a sonic pulse! Booyah!
Yeah, just wait though until the VR goggles make every girl you see look totally hot. Every guy in the world would want them then. It could do subtle things, like trim that unibrow on that one girl at D&D night. Or it could just make them all naked if you want to get straight to the point, but that'd probably be a hack.
Scientific notation is taught in late high school and early college now. That takes care of most of the "pi to 20 digits" problems.
I always just think of the old song my calculus teacher used to sing to remember pi:
"Good olllleee American Pi -- 3.1415926535."
There is no need to know the number any further.
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If I were a rat with cancer, I'd probably be drunk all the time too. Then when another rat sneezed on me and transmitted the cure like it was a cold, I imagine I wouldn't be motivated to drink so much. In fact, I'd really clean up my act trying to woo that other rat who sneezed and saved my life.
It's time to send in Liberty Prime! Just need to reprogram him to yell about North Koreans and their "Juche" government, whatever that means.
It might be a good time to invest in all those radiation toys you've been thinking about.
http://ki4u.com/
That's one thing -- they shouldn't have named the show after the least popular character in it. What did she do besides yell at everyone? Heck, the young AI John Henry was a better character than she was. I liked watching that robot paint models and d&d, I would hang with him. :)
You probably would have disagreed with the rest of it too. I have more than half the tech listed. Quite a poor article. They didn't even say that "DRM claimed it would stop piracy..." which was the first thing to pop into my mind.
You probably meant that as a joke, but I think such an idea would actually improve the moral views of the population. Well done. Before we write to Obama though, let me buy some soybean stocks real quick...
I thought the whole Arefu situation in Fallout 3 had some pretty grey area moral choices, very Witcher worthy.
*minor quest Spoilers*
A group of cannibals eat some folks in town, so you go in guns blazing to kill the cannibals so it won't happen again. Pretty simple. But then you find out that they are a group of reformed cannibals, swearing to in the future only drink donated blood. So if you leave them be, they may attract more cannibals to their views, and overall fewer people would be killed. It's a tough call.
This scene really bothered me, but I feel like I learned to be more tolerant for it. The idea of eating dog meat in the game didn't bother me at all, but probably got to a lot of kids. I'd love to see a public service announcement on tv sometime that shows how to kill a chicken totally uncensored and see what parents do. They'll probably start a class action suit against the tv station, but then go home and serve chicken for dinner.
I was working on a neutrino detector last year. It had a very simple linux kernel running on chips to process each small group of mini-detectors. Meanwhile, the analysis software was running Red Hat Enterprise. Scientific Linux never caught on for us, but most detectors are using it now I believe.
Blood of Elves is what I'm referring to. The "USA" edition just came out yesterday, and I bet you got the "UK" edition. Whatever difference that makes. Maybe they censored the sex scenes or something. ;)
A new Witcher book just came out though. The recently translated US version was released yesterday, first written in Polish in `94.
Usually I'd join you on the Fox News bashing, but all the news companies are doing it. Heck, I couldn't even watch CNBC yesterday at lunch without seeing reports about it.
Obsidian Pros:
Good NPCs (with background more than "I'll pay you to follow me") who follow the PC around... something Bethesda has always lacked.
Lots of side quests.
Obsidian Cons:
"Oh look, a random broom closet! Surely no monsters are inside here!" Followed by 300 super mutants coming out of said broom closet....
Another annoyance is that their side quests tend to glitch or never end. If Obsidian made FO3, and you were planting the camera to watch the mirelurk activity for Moira, you'd probably find out that the game was released before the mirelurks were implemented.
Another thing I've run into in the past that was a problem: sometimes when people are talking about solar cell efficiency, they switch sensitive wavelengths on you.
There was a young boy who received high praise for making a solar cell that was "20 times as efficient as comparative cells"... Well, since the other cells were already getting 10% of the output from the sun, and since there was no way the boy could be getting 200% from the sun, it means he just expanded the wavelengths of light the cell was sensitive to. Yippee. So instead of a "Solar PV cell", he ended up with a "Vega PV cell" (or whatever star or light source you want). He made something entirely useless, but still could say it was 20 times more efficient.
I'm not saying they did that in this case, but it's something to watch for if you're paranoid.
Here here! Get em, Google! I love how those guys buy things out of nowhere -- keeps the world interesting.
Yeah I read that after posting. Shit guys, you're supposed to post news like this faster so we can make the $$moolas$$.
If anyone wants to jump on the bandwagon with me, the ticker symbol is "JAVA".
And don't we all owe them something for keeping openoffice alive and well?
It's the naked 10ish year old girls getting randomly chopped into pieces that bothers me. There was no need for that. I can watch things like Hellsing and enjoy it fine.
about people with psychic arms called Elfen Lied. Never watch it. It's horrible. People who say it's good are the same kind of people who say "smell my fart". The music is nice though.
Yeah, I agree, it reads like they got the money by saying "this makes people feel better", not by saying "we're genuine psychics".
I must admit, if the girl doing the reading looked like the girl in the picture, I'd go for it. I'd ask her a few questions about my future love life while winking at her.
This is awful. I've heard him pronounce his *own* name different ways on his show. Oh well, maybe the astronauts will cut off the beginning and just call it the Bert module. I mean, if they scrape some paint off, what can we do?
I liked it more in the beginning also. I think they ran out of stuff to write as soon as they landed on New Caprica. There is a shortage of good scifi these days. Oops, I meant syfy. No, I meant syphilis.
I heard a story once about a dog that liked collard greens. The owner was asked how he got the dog to eat them. His reply: "Well, they're all I ever fed him. He didn't eat them at all for the first week. By the end of the month, he finally took to them." My thought is that if there were *any* other decent space-based show, Battlestar would have been canceled some time ago.
The final episode was okay though. I think the series would have been better if every episode had been more like it instead of the pointless drama that it turned into.
Yeah, I think at this point a hacker going into it is doing a service. Showing the vulnerabilities of a system before it becomes critical to the country in a few years is a good thing.
I got a roomba for a family present at xmas. It gets stuck after 5 minutes on anything. Last week it managed to get one of its brushes wedged into a central air duct. I'd be surprised if these fish managed a day without all getting stuck under rocks or somesuch.
Luckily though, the roomba makes whimpering sounds when it's stuck to help you find it. It lets out a different toned whimper when the batteries are low. I don't think that would work so well underwater. Maybe it could activate a GPS signal and some alert code? The alerts can include:
I'm stuck under a rock.
I found pirate treasure!
I am out of the water!
I'm being digested!
I just tazed a fisherman! Then shattered his eardrum with a sonic pulse! Booyah!
Yeah, just wait though until the VR goggles make every girl you see look totally hot. Every guy in the world would want them then. It could do subtle things, like trim that unibrow on that one girl at D&D night. Or it could just make them all naked if you want to get straight to the point, but that'd probably be a hack.
Scientific notation is taught in late high school and early college now. That takes care of most of the "pi to 20 digits" problems.
I always just think of the old song my calculus teacher used to sing to remember pi:
"Good olllleee American Pi -- 3.1415926535."
There is no need to know the number any further.
Am I the only one who thought they switched to Geico?