I did read the fucking article you dip shit. The NPC game controlled character was acting IN CHARACTER for that world, because in that world, women are second class citizens.
Get a clue.
If they, the players, passed laws against that type of behavior, the NPCs couldn't act that way anymore.
If this game is about nation building, and women are currently treated as slaves, should not this incident lead to in-game reforms on the rights of women?
An anti-slavery and sufferage movement?
This disgruntled player sounds ready to be a leader.
These are the types of advances we need to make the space elevator a reality. Either using nanotubes like this in a matrix, or more mind-boggingly, create wires of them.
Tiny SuSE, look. We know you're evil, and we respect that. But have you thought about being good?
[ Tiny SuSE is considering your offer. ]
I can promise you a life of absolute leisure. All we do is sit in the shade drinking peach tea, while we sing songs about how much we love SuSE.
Sing: "We love SuSE, SuSE is the best, SuSE, SuSE, SuSE, Yeah SuSE!"
[ Tiny SuSE has agreed to join your team. ]
Alright! But before we get to the tea, we need you to attack that Red(mond) Dragon over there. Powerful in life, unstoppable in a court room. Now flap over there.
The first thing I heard wasn't an explosion, it was a thud, a shaking. Then two or three seconds later came the explosion. The doors of my office were blown out. It was like when an old building is demolished, with clouds of dust, but combined with lots of steam. It was a very damp, dusty, powerful movement of air. There was a lot of shaking, a lot of things were falling. The lights went off. Our first thought was to find somewhere we could safely hide. We headed towards the transport corridor, where there was a small passage with a low ceiling. We were standing there and everything was falling around us.
Almost the same, but I was in the dorms, and my room mate had Taco Bell.
Though the parent to your post was correct, you are off by just a tad.
The basis for the assertion that there's a problem with the model is based on the current population of known extra solar planets. It's almost completely made up of big planets close their stars.
Well, duh.
We have only detected short period orbits because we need to see multiple passes of a planet in front of its start to confirm it's presence. This technique finds the shortest periods first. We have to keep watching to catch the longer periods.
The bigger the planet, the bigger the wobble, the easier the confirmation of the presence of a planet.
Big planets on short orbits are the first off the assembly line.
We have to wait longer to detect longer orbits (if an orbit takes 10 earth years, and we need three passes of the planet to call it a dedection...)
Smaller planets don't make their stars wobble enough to be detected in the current manner.
The original post is absolutly correct, there's no news here.
I just KNOW somebody's getting a new grant to take a look at this possibility, though.
I have a "Fat Little Bungee Book" I got at Wal-Mart. Best thing since sliced bread! The spiral binding is large enough to hold a pen, and it does graphics!
I match up pretty well with what you're describing. Except, I didn't get to go to college. Well, not yet. I'm going to be 33 years old next month, just so you know how far ahead I am on the road of life.
Allow me to describe the road I took:
I joined the USAF after high school instead (we were poor) and was selected to attend language school (DLI in Monterey) and learn Russian. After Russian, I had Serbo-Croatian. You basically have to be in the top two percent of the population, in terms of brain power, to make it through. Everyone I knew then, (and all my best friends now) scored a 98 or above on the ASVAB. (IQ 140+) I call us "two-percenters." We're easy to spot. Sounds like you're one, too.
I can do everything but play Scrabble. All of my linguist friends have some natrual language genius. I have NONE! I think in simulations and models. (If you spot any spelling mistakes in this post, don't bother pointing them out.;) )
Anyway, languages I could do, barely, but with a computer, I really shine. Programming languages, EASY. I just... know what they're thinking. So I switched from linguist to computer programmer (my 3rd AFSC) and worked as a system administrator for about 3 years. (I was in for a total of 8 years.)
So, what was that road like?
Well, here's the upside, I've done really really well for myself. I started in poverty and pulled myself out. Anyone who knows me knows I'm really good at what I do. Co-workers love me. Everything's great! Piles of money and challenging work. I couldn't even describe a cooler job than mine.
So what's the problem?
Everything I've gotten so far has been mostly due to luck. My first boss in the commercial world was my supervisor in the Air Force. He knew me and hired me despite the fact the company he worked for generally didn't touch people without a degree. He just wanted my brains.
In that job, I so impressed a different boss that when he split to join a new company, he made me an offer and took me with him. (He was a really great guy.) I shined again.
Where, I met a co-worker who was an Electrical Engineer. He liked my attitude and my smarts, and when he went to a new company, I followed.
Which is where I am now, and again, everyone loves me. See the pattern?
I've never been able to land a job with people who don't already know me, because I can't PROVE with a degree what I know. And, what I claim to know would be expensive to hire. I've smarted myself out of marketability. Nobody wants a high school graduate taking care of a multi-million dollar system.
It's something I sometimes wish I could do. Even after all my moving around, I'm still not far from the tree from which I fell. But, with my 33 years of perspective, I know most of those pangs have more to do with The Grass Is Greener Syndrome than anything real.
I like the people I work with, so, I don't mind sticking around, even though the travel component is a strain on my family life (3 boys). I like the job a lot.
I could be making double, if I had a degree. But I'm happy with what I have. (But, I can remember days when we'd count up change to see if we could buy our boys a coke with their McDonald's hamburgers, so, your milage may vary.) But really, a degree is just a ticket to ride. Nobody I've talked to would care much what kind of degree I had, just so long as I had something to put under the "Education" column in their personnel database.
So, that's my story. Cudos on going to college. It's well worth it. But don't sweat it.
Still, I wouldn't change much in my life. My kids will be moving out soon and I'm going to start taking classes. In anything BUT computer science.:) I think you'll find, too, that your varied interests will only expand over time.
And don't listen to the losers who say "get over yourself, you're not special." Everyone is special.
I agree with this article. (I even read it.) I want to give it mod points. Can we do that?
I used to configure the crap out of gnome, making it do all kinds of weird stuff I liked. Then, version by version, my toys were taken away. I don't get it. If the toys made it unstable, why not fix them? What ever happened to the idea of "advanced" vs. "novice" settings for a UI? Every version that comes out has LESS functionality than the one before, railroading me into a certain way of interacting with a desktop.
In Soviet Russia, the desktop clicks on YOU!
Make it easy by default, but don't take away our toys and call it progress.
It's not a "Defense Department gets all the funding" issue.
It's communication. Thanks to the internet, people can now share ideas much farther than they could, even in the 1980s.
The US isn't LOSING dominance, it's gaining partners! Now, a middle class guy in Brazil can read about amazing things being researched in the US (and elsewhere) and it my inspire him to something great!
I love it. It's awesome. It's the type of thing that keeps world wars from breaking out. Everyone wins!
I hold that all human lives are equally valuable. I don't think the life of a US solider is worth more than the life of an Iraqi.
Saddam was killing between 200 and 250 people a day, (it must be true, I heard it on TV) and if that's even HALF true, and we had the power to stop it, then we had an obligation to do so. If it costs 10 lives to save 200, I'm all for it.
I was in the US armed forces, and I would have gladly gone, even if that was the only reason.
But, anyone who says we shouldn't risk US lives to save Iraqi lives, clearly doesn't value those lives the same, and is a racist. We are not more special than anyone else. All humans, everywhere, are the same. We live, we love, we die.
Do you know why a lot of countries hate the US? Because we sit on our asses while they scream in pain.
The only drive in my system is a SATA 250gb, and I installed XP pro on it without any gymnastics... what is this "f8, 3rd party drivers" you speak of in XP?
I think you might be wandering into tin-foil-hat land here.
They're talking about creating a networking standard we could all use to build our own networks. The specs will be open, like AES. (Or, do you believe that AES has some backdoor that lets the US military decrypt your private bits?)
I don't see any similiarity with GPS. That's a military controlled network of hardware, on which, we civilians are allowed to tag along. It's not public or commercial in any way. Nobody had any illusions about that, well, except maybe you.
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2) It's antennea is too small to talk to anything but Cassini, which will promptly be flying off.
This probe is designed to be expendable. That is really the right move for an environment about which you no nothing accept "Mostly orange."
Get a clue.
If they, the players, passed laws against that type of behavior, the NPCs couldn't act that way anymore.
An anti-slavery and sufferage movement?
This disgruntled player sounds ready to be a leader.
These are the types of advances we need to make the space elevator a reality. Either using nanotubes like this in a matrix, or more mind-boggingly, create wires of them.
Going up!
[ Tiny SuSE is considering your offer. ]
I can promise you a life of absolute leisure. All we do is sit in the shade drinking peach tea, while we sing songs about how much we love SuSE.
Sing: "We love SuSE, SuSE is the best, SuSE, SuSE, SuSE, Yeah SuSE!"
[ Tiny SuSE has agreed to join your team. ]
Alright! But before we get to the tea, we need you to attack that Red(mond) Dragon over there. Powerful in life, unstoppable in a court room. Now flap over there.
We don't have all f-ing day.
[ totally ripped off from: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-05 -10 ]
It's okay, there's an ambulance at the end of the track with it's doors open.
From the article:
What happened?
The first thing I heard wasn't an explosion, it was a thud, a shaking. Then two or three seconds later came the explosion. The doors of my office were blown out. It was like when an old building is demolished, with clouds of dust, but combined with lots of steam. It was a very damp, dusty, powerful movement of air. There was a lot of shaking, a lot of things were falling. The lights went off. Our first thought was to find somewhere we could safely hide. We headed towards the transport corridor, where there was a small passage with a low ceiling. We were standing there and everything was falling around us.
Almost the same, but I was in the dorms, and my room mate had Taco Bell.
-ave
And, since Jupiter orbits in about 12 years, we'd have to wait 36 or more before even detecting it!
You mean to day, we would be able to detect Jupiter EVENTUALLY. Jupiter orbits in 12 years. We'd need about 3 passes to start considering a detection.
We won't have detected Jupiter type planets until at least 2025 or so.
-ave
It's the popcorn. Only place you can get it.
-ave
Though the parent to your post was correct, you are off by just a tad.
The basis for the assertion that there's a problem with the model is based on the current population of known extra solar planets. It's almost completely made up of big planets close their stars.
Well, duh.
We have only detected short period orbits because we need to see multiple passes of a planet in front of its start to confirm it's presence. This technique finds the shortest periods first. We have to keep watching to catch the longer periods.
The bigger the planet, the bigger the wobble, the easier the confirmation of the presence of a planet.
Big planets on short orbits are the first off the assembly line.
We have to wait longer to detect longer orbits (if an orbit takes 10 earth years, and we need three passes of the planet to call it a dedection...)
Smaller planets don't make their stars wobble enough to be detected in the current manner.
The original post is absolutly correct, there's no news here.
I just KNOW somebody's getting a new grant to take a look at this possibility, though.
-ave
Did you see him as the erotic baker in that Saturday Night Live show?
"But... this is a cake of a woman peeing!"
Stewart, in the full on Picard voice: "YES! EROTIC ISN'T IT!!!"
That, and the Love Boat: The Next Generation skit.
"Set a course for... ADVENTURE!"
-ave
To me, you are describing Stargate-SG1. That show is a comedy/drama/scifi with a crew you just gotta love.
Rick Anderson is fantastic in that show. Amanda Tapping is damn cute. Sometimes they smooch!
B5 needed better comedic timing, SG1 has it. Anderson brings that, but the writers are actually good, too. See "The Other Guys." Hilarious!
It was the first series in a long time that I actually looked forward to seeing.
(there goes my karma!)
I have a "Fat Little Bungee Book" I got at Wal-Mart. Best thing since sliced bread! The spiral binding is large enough to hold a pen, and it does graphics!
(you have to draw them yourself.)
-ave
I match up pretty well with what you're describing. Except, I didn't get to go to college. Well, not yet. I'm going to be 33 years old next month, just so you know how far ahead I am on the road of life.
;) )
:) I think you'll find, too, that your varied interests will only expand over time.
Allow me to describe the road I took:
I joined the USAF after high school instead (we were poor) and was selected to attend language school (DLI in Monterey) and learn Russian. After Russian, I had Serbo-Croatian. You basically have to be in the top two percent of the population, in terms of brain power, to make it through. Everyone I knew then, (and all my best friends now) scored a 98 or above on the ASVAB. (IQ 140+) I call us "two-percenters." We're easy to spot. Sounds like you're one, too.
I can do everything but play Scrabble. All of my linguist friends have some natrual language genius. I have NONE! I think in simulations and models. (If you spot any spelling mistakes in this post, don't bother pointing them out.
Anyway, languages I could do, barely, but with a computer, I really shine. Programming languages, EASY. I just... know what they're thinking. So I switched from linguist to computer programmer (my 3rd AFSC) and worked as a system administrator for about 3 years. (I was in for a total of 8 years.)
So, what was that road like?
Well, here's the upside, I've done really really well for myself. I started in poverty and pulled myself out. Anyone who knows me knows I'm really good at what I do. Co-workers love me. Everything's great! Piles of money and challenging work. I couldn't even describe a cooler job than mine.
So what's the problem?
Everything I've gotten so far has been mostly due to luck. My first boss in the commercial world was my supervisor in the Air Force. He knew me and hired me despite the fact the company he worked for generally didn't touch people without a degree. He just wanted my brains.
In that job, I so impressed a different boss that when he split to join a new company, he made me an offer and took me with him. (He was a really great guy.) I shined again.
Where, I met a co-worker who was an Electrical Engineer. He liked my attitude and my smarts, and when he went to a new company, I followed.
Which is where I am now, and again, everyone loves me. See the pattern?
I've never been able to land a job with people who don't already know me, because I can't PROVE with a degree what I know. And, what I claim to know would be expensive to hire. I've smarted myself out of marketability. Nobody wants a high school graduate taking care of a multi-million dollar system.
It's something I sometimes wish I could do. Even after all my moving around, I'm still not far from the tree from which I fell. But, with my 33 years of perspective, I know most of those pangs have more to do with The Grass Is Greener Syndrome than anything real.
I like the people I work with, so, I don't mind sticking around, even though the travel component is a strain on my family life (3 boys). I like the job a lot.
I could be making double, if I had a degree. But I'm happy with what I have. (But, I can remember days when we'd count up change to see if we could buy our boys a coke with their McDonald's hamburgers, so, your milage may vary.) But really, a degree is just a ticket to ride. Nobody I've talked to would care much what kind of degree I had, just so long as I had something to put under the "Education" column in their personnel database.
So, that's my story. Cudos on going to college. It's well worth it. But don't sweat it.
Still, I wouldn't change much in my life. My kids will be moving out soon and I'm going to start taking classes. In anything BUT computer science.
And don't listen to the losers who say "get over yourself, you're not special." Everyone is special.
(BTW, you won't like everyone you m
I can see why you posted as AC.
I agree with this article. (I even read it.) I want to give it mod points. Can we do that?
I used to configure the crap out of gnome, making it do all kinds of weird stuff I liked. Then, version by version, my toys were taken away. I don't get it. If the toys made it unstable, why not fix them? What ever happened to the idea of "advanced" vs. "novice" settings for a UI? Every version that comes out has LESS functionality than the one before, railroading me into a certain way of interacting with a desktop.
In Soviet Russia, the desktop clicks on YOU!
Make it easy by default, but don't take away our toys and call it progress.
-ave
It's not our education system.
It's not a "Defense Department gets all the funding" issue.
It's communication. Thanks to the internet, people can now share ideas much farther than they could, even in the 1980s.
The US isn't LOSING dominance, it's gaining partners! Now, a middle class guy in Brazil can read about amazing things being researched in the US (and elsewhere) and it my inspire him to something great!
I love it. It's awesome. It's the type of thing that keeps world wars from breaking out. Everyone wins!
-ave
I did read the article. His position comes across loud and clear. He doesn't want the US to waste it's own lives saving other peoples.
-ave
I hold that all human lives are equally valuable. I don't think the life of a US solider is worth more than the life of an Iraqi.
Saddam was killing between 200 and 250 people a day, (it must be true, I heard it on TV) and if that's even HALF true, and we had the power to stop it, then we had an obligation to do so. If it costs 10 lives to save 200, I'm all for it.
I was in the US armed forces, and I would have gladly gone, even if that was the only reason.
But, anyone who says we shouldn't risk US lives to save Iraqi lives, clearly doesn't value those lives the same, and is a racist. We are not more special than anyone else. All humans, everywhere, are the same. We live, we love, we die.
Do you know why a lot of countries hate the US? Because we sit on our asses while they scream in pain.
That's, of course, my just humble opionion.
"REAL PEOPLE"... I remember that show! It was hilarious!
I wish I had a mod point for you bud, that was hilarious!
Money buys the engine, sure I think we all agree with that, but our dreams are the fuel that make it go.
In the US, you're free to dream, and there's money to make your dreams go.
But, we'll not keep a monopoly on that for long, which is a good thing.
-ave
The only drive in my system is a SATA 250gb, and I installed XP pro on it without any gymnastics... what is this "f8, 3rd party drivers" you speak of in XP?
(Asus P4P800 Deluxe MB)
-ave
I think you might be wandering into tin-foil-hat land here.
They're talking about creating a networking standard we could all use to build our own networks. The specs will be open, like AES. (Or, do you believe that AES has some backdoor that lets the US military decrypt your private bits?)
I don't see any similiarity with GPS. That's a military controlled network of hardware, on which, we civilians are allowed to tag along. It's not public or commercial in any way. Nobody had any illusions about that, well, except maybe you.
-ave