I'd have to say that the idea is pretty un-likely.
Think of several factors: how many humans were there? how many animals did they kill on a regular basis? (one per week? month? how much could a 5 ton animal feed?) where were the humans located vs. the animals?
If it's any indication, we seem to find a lot more remains of animals (even of just one type) than human burials. That would seem to suggest that they were a lot smaller in population.
Just my thoughts. .
...was an audiophile of sorts.
He was many things. A carpenter, an electrician, an engineer, and others.
He went so far as to build, completely from scratch, not only his own stereo system, but a room completely separate from the house in order to listen to it.
The room was designed to be acoustically perfect so that if you sat on the stool (single legged bar stool - no chair - that would interfere with the acoustics) in the center of the room, the sound waves would reach your body at as close to the exact instant as possible.
He spent over $90,000 across 10 years to make his audio dream come true, and when he finished, it was amazing. You could stand in that room, and listen and be awestruck. One of the most amazing things I remember, was that talking to him in that room sounded like nothing else - your voice was LOUD. It was clear. You've never heard what you sounded like until you've been in a room designed for perfect acoustics.
It's not just the stereo, the speakers, the amps, pre-amp, tuner, sub, turn table, needle, interconnects that makes the sound, it's the acoustics of the room itself.
It's something else.
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Once again teaching us that taken out of context, ANY quote can sound really really bad.
So if you are, or even if you aren't being quoted, watch what you say folks, because you TOO could be misinterpreted some day, and then where would you be?
Hopefully not Australia. .
http://pixelscapes.com/spatulacity
I believe... that's the one.
The person who did that gets his name from the Discworld series too. Just wondering if you were one in the same.
Excellent series of books, by the way. .
... that the reason stealth was so effective was because it was a complete surprise when they used it. Few knew that a completely stealth airplane existed, much less what its capabilities were. The Russians (at the time of the F117-A's development) were too busy scrambling to beat us to the creation of the first stealth fighter, and it's debated how much they actually knew of our own developments. They couldn't work on counteracting stealth, because they didn't know how it worked in the first place.
Stealth was effective because it was kept so secret. Once it was used (Gulf War, 1990), its capabilities became fully known, and countermeasures have been developed. Even at the time of the F117-A's original deployment such countermeasures were emerging.
Now the nations we might fly a stealth fighter against could easily use a passive 'radar', which detects disturbances and changes caused in regular radio broadcasts by the planes to know exactly when and where the stealth fighters are coming. The only advantage that stealth provides is that its radar cross-section is still below the threshold for most missile-lock guidance systems, so it makes them harder to hit, but not invulnerable, as they nearly were in the Gulf War.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
- W .
I read the first line of this story and thought: This reminds me exactly of the sort of news you'd see on CNN, describing peace efforts between two conflicting nations. Does that frighten the shit out of anyone else? .
Actually it's pretty simple. It's because we here in America pioneered the Internet. Or at least our Government and Higher Learning Institutions spearheaded its development. So we got to pick the names. So neener to all you foreigners.
- W
Oh come on. As if you couldn't have thought of that final pun? Assume that enough different people are posting the same article so that it really doesn't matter which is chosen, or how it works. As long as they're not using d00dsp34k I honestly don't care what it says, because I go read the article myself. I just want to know it exists, and if it's something I'm interested in.
One good space battle, and the Earth will have a junk layer too thick to navigate.
Okay. The Russians are having a hard enough time keeping MIR in a stable orbit. Do you really think junk floating up there lasts for very long before deorbiting either out into the cosmos or into the atmosphere?
There may be *some* junk left over, but space being what it is, once you push an object in any direction except right into a perfect orbit, it will eventually decay. That's what happens in frictionless environments. So assuming a satellite blows up, there will be only a flat disc of debris which has a *chance* of getting into any orbit. Anything which is projected slightly up or slightly down will not maintain orbit, and be disposed of.
So... we can go right ahead and nuke the shit out of them. Wonderful thing this physics.
I think this is a wonderful thing, reguardless of whether it actually accomplishes anything. If the recession hits the IT market hard, and it will, it's large projects like this which will keep people like me employable 4 or 5 years down the line.
I wonder how long it will be before there are men standing on street corners with signs, "Will code for food" or "Will hack for clothing".
The economy is cyclical. It's going to happen. And when people have to tighten their belts, you better believe all these techno-toys are going to be one of the first things to go. So hold on while you can, find a job that isn't going anywhere (government is a great place for that kind of stuff) and hope for more projects like this.
This whole case really has nothing to do with killing Pokemon, or setting a bad precedent. What Imagine Media did was quite illegal. They stole artwork from the Pokemon Manual for use in their own guide.
You don't need the rights to make a guide, or to take screenshots. That falls within fair use. But that has nothing to do with the complaints filed by Nintendo. And Nintendo is well within the law with its complaints.
Lastly, this will not kill Pokemon. It will just kill a Pokemon guide that costs $2.00 less than the Officially Licensed Pokemon guide.
I loved that series. And I'd love to see it translated into a more modern setting (rather, more modern stylish tech... though not the crap Hollywood normally pushes, but stuff us geeks would appreciate.)
I'd love to see the scene where the Mayor pulls the plug on all the power in his enemy's empire. So funny.
...wasn't there a game similar to scorched earth released a long time ago. It was 3d. DOS based if I remember right. I think it was called Genocide or something to that effect. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
I've been looking for MONTHS for this game. If you do, I'd love to know where I can find it.
WHY!#?!!? Why must they re-dub it!? Why must they dub it at all!? It's fucking sacreligious. The voices in the original dub were bad enough, but it can only get worse (think of Pioneer's voice actors in Tenchi-Muyo... shudder...).
Is the American public - no the American anime scene really so stupid that they can't read a line of text and appreciate how well the real voice actors and actresses do their job?
Sometimes a voice actor is what makes a character, and to bastardize a character by replacing that voice simply because people are either too stupid or too lazy to read subtitles is rediculous. It's selling out.
Commercialization is always bad. Look what it did to the internet.
A furious Wedg
Support your fansubbers! Buy only from real distributors! (Not those who sell copies of copies of copies of copies of a friend's tape...)
...Hasn't the purpose of war always been to pretty much exclusively kill other people (human beings) or destroy such targets which would facilitate your enemy killing you?
When I read this story, I got a vision of hordes of these unmanned drones, flying past each other, not giving a care to their robotic enemy counterparts, and going straight to the hearts of our cities and bombing the sh*t out of them.
Robots controlled by humans destroying other robots controlled by humans seems pretty fruitless to me, in the general war picture. There will always be more robots. You can only destroy them as fast as the enemy deploys them (unless you destroy the factory, in which case you win, until the enemy builds another.) And even if you kill all the robots, you'll never actually harm the enemy. Seems silly. Just my thoughts.BR.
- W
The EverQuest letter posted there is SEVEN MONTHS OLD. The license agreement *was* changed. The Kunark expansion pack *was* released. Note how in the actual text of the letter it said that "Kunark will be released on April 24th..." That is April 24th, 2000. How far are you exactly "slashing back" here?
Slashdot Mirror
One comment from the article about filling your computer with cement:
Not to break our sense of humor but... let's consider some REAL ides:
hidden background scripts that run at random times and "phone home", so you get the theif's IP address. ...
Now *that's* some irony!
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Imagine NSI's new site:
www.all.your.domains.are.belong.to.us
And they aren't giving them up!
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Someone bring Macrovision to trial for criminally describing how to circumvent CD-Protection under the DMCA! We've got 'em now!
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Orbital. FFRR records. Few other labels. Best group. Or my favorite at least.
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I'd have to say that the idea is pretty un-likely.
Think of several factors: how many humans were there? how many animals did they kill on a regular basis? (one per week? month? how much could a 5 ton animal feed?) where were the humans located vs. the animals?
If it's any indication, we seem to find a lot more remains of animals (even of just one type) than human burials. That would seem to suggest that they were a lot smaller in population.
Just my thoughts.
.
...was an audiophile of sorts. He was many things. A carpenter, an electrician, an engineer, and others. He went so far as to build, completely from scratch, not only his own stereo system, but a room completely separate from the house in order to listen to it. The room was designed to be acoustically perfect so that if you sat on the stool (single legged bar stool - no chair - that would interfere with the acoustics) in the center of the room, the sound waves would reach your body at as close to the exact instant as possible. He spent over $90,000 across 10 years to make his audio dream come true, and when he finished, it was amazing. You could stand in that room, and listen and be awestruck. One of the most amazing things I remember, was that talking to him in that room sounded like nothing else - your voice was LOUD. It was clear. You've never heard what you sounded like until you've been in a room designed for perfect acoustics. It's not just the stereo, the speakers, the amps, pre-amp, tuner, sub, turn table, needle, interconnects that makes the sound, it's the acoustics of the room itself. It's something else.
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http://slashdot.org/yro/01/05/17/0238223.shtml
Enjoy.
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Once again teaching us that taken out of context, ANY quote can sound really really bad. So if you are, or even if you aren't being quoted, watch what you say folks, because you TOO could be misinterpreted some day, and then where would you be? Hopefully not Australia.
.
http://pixelscapes.com/spatulacity I believe... that's the one. The person who did that gets his name from the Discworld series too. Just wondering if you were one in the same. Excellent series of books, by the way.
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Except for the 3-6 months of monsoon season, when there is no sun light at all.
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... that the reason stealth was so effective was because it was a complete surprise when they used it. Few knew that a completely stealth airplane existed, much less what its capabilities were. The Russians (at the time of the F117-A's development) were too busy scrambling to beat us to the creation of the first stealth fighter, and it's debated how much they actually knew of our own developments. They couldn't work on counteracting stealth, because they didn't know how it worked in the first place. Stealth was effective because it was kept so secret. Once it was used (Gulf War, 1990), its capabilities became fully known, and countermeasures have been developed. Even at the time of the F117-A's original deployment such countermeasures were emerging. Now the nations we might fly a stealth fighter against could easily use a passive 'radar', which detects disturbances and changes caused in regular radio broadcasts by the planes to know exactly when and where the stealth fighters are coming. The only advantage that stealth provides is that its radar cross-section is still below the threshold for most missile-lock guidance systems, so it makes them harder to hit, but not invulnerable, as they nearly were in the Gulf War. Hope that clears things up a bit. - W
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Twoflower? Of Spatula City fame?
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I read the first line of this story and thought: This reminds me exactly of the sort of news you'd see on CNN, describing peace efforts between two conflicting nations. Does that frighten the shit out of anyone else?
.
Actually it's pretty simple. It's because we here in America pioneered the Internet. Or at least our Government and Higher Learning Institutions spearheaded its development. So we got to pick the names. So neener to all you foreigners. - W
- W
Oh come on. As if you couldn't have thought of that final pun? Assume that enough different people are posting the same article so that it really doesn't matter which is chosen, or how it works. As long as they're not using d00dsp34k I honestly don't care what it says, because I go read the article myself. I just want to know it exists, and if it's something I'm interested in.
- W
Okay. The Russians are having a hard enough time keeping MIR in a stable orbit. Do you really think junk floating up there lasts for very long before deorbiting either out into the cosmos or into the atmosphere?
There may be *some* junk left over, but space being what it is, once you push an object in any direction except right into a perfect orbit, it will eventually decay. That's what happens in frictionless environments. So assuming a satellite blows up, there will be only a flat disc of debris which has a *chance* of getting into any orbit. Anything which is projected slightly up or slightly down will not maintain orbit, and be disposed of.
So... we can go right ahead and nuke the shit out of them. Wonderful thing this physics.
- W
I wonder how long it will be before there are men standing on street corners with signs, "Will code for food" or "Will hack for clothing".
The economy is cyclical. It's going to happen. And when people have to tighten their belts, you better believe all these techno-toys are going to be one of the first things to go. So hold on while you can, find a job that isn't going anywhere (government is a great place for that kind of stuff) and hope for more projects like this.
- W
You don't need the rights to make a guide, or to take screenshots. That falls within fair use. But that has nothing to do with the complaints filed by Nintendo. And Nintendo is well within the law with its complaints.
Lastly, this will not kill Pokemon. It will just kill a Pokemon guide that costs $2.00 less than the Officially Licensed Pokemon guide.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
- W
I'd love to see the scene where the Mayor pulls the plug on all the power in his enemy's empire. So funny.
- W
This may be a new land speed record ('net speed record?). Someone should've mirrored that stuff.
- W
I've been looking for MONTHS for this game. If you do, I'd love to know where I can find it.
- Wedg
WHY!#?!!? Why must they re-dub it!? Why must they dub it at all!? It's fucking sacreligious. The voices in the original dub were bad enough, but it can only get worse (think of Pioneer's voice actors in Tenchi-Muyo ... shudder...).
Is the American public - no the American anime scene really so stupid that they can't read a line of text and appreciate how well the real voice actors and actresses do their job?
Sometimes a voice actor is what makes a character, and to bastardize a character by replacing that voice simply because people are either too stupid or too lazy to read subtitles is rediculous. It's selling out.
Commercialization is always bad. Look what it did to the internet.
A furious Wedg
Support your fansubbers! Buy only from real distributors! (Not those who sell copies of copies of copies of copies of a friend's tape...)
...Hasn't the purpose of war always been to pretty much exclusively kill other people (human beings) or destroy such targets which would facilitate your enemy killing you?
When I read this story, I got a vision of hordes of these unmanned drones, flying past each other, not giving a care to their robotic enemy counterparts, and going straight to the hearts of our cities and bombing the sh*t out of them.
Robots controlled by humans destroying other robots controlled by humans seems pretty fruitless to me, in the general war picture. There will always be more robots. You can only destroy them as fast as the enemy deploys them (unless you destroy the factory, in which case you win, until the enemy builds another.) And even if you kill all the robots, you'll never actually harm the enemy. Seems silly. Just my thoughts.BR. - W
- Wedg