Reading the first article above really drives home the intellectual differences between Gore and Bush. There were questions he obviously hadn't thought about, but handled with both intelligence and a creativity I admire... and the ones he had thought about... his response with regard to Napster, and his nod to Linux and open source... show a methodical and careful thought process that could serve this nation well. Bush, OTOH, sort of plunges in with all the thought and responsibility of a frat boy. Oh, wait...
He left out every religion mentioned in the question.
He left out every belief system mentioned in the question. Minor distinction. He also left out any examples from the Set Of religions mentioned.
Bush is freightening. If he could, he would ban Islamic, Mormon, and Jewish worship as well. As a Jew, and a descendant of people almost killed (I'm here, so yes, they escaped. Their siblings, cousins, and friends did not) in Russian Pogroms and German Holocaust (No, I'm not invoking the 'N' word without reason), he terrifies me. He would be a theocrat if he could. He would start an Inquisition on many of my friends (Wiccan, Daoist, Buddhist, Humanist, or Other) if he could. And he's a hippocrite.
He mentions renewed push on the "War on Drugs"... which, I've always suspected, was connected to his father's CIA ties. This, in spite of persons who cannot safely testify to the fact noting that he's still using cocaine... fortunately for him, Gore isn't using unsubstantiatable allegations based on tips to attack him (like Bush's allegations about the buddhist (ooh! non-christian!) temple)... and he's playing on Clinton's sordid (and I think disgusting) affair... in spite of his own six-year fling behind his wife's back. And why the hell hasn't that been an issue? There were enough people that found out about it...
I'm a software and algorithm designer, C++ programmer and graphic artist (makes consulting between programming jobs easy... and alleviates burnout) and I Drink Diet Mountain Dew on those 30+ hour marathon coding sessions. At least, until I go into caffine induced shakes...
Why'd you have to tell me that the 'l337 h4x0rz' share my taste in beverages?
Sounds good. From this point forward, you will be required to provide your own roads, and will have to live in this sovereign territory over here with no defenses... oh, yes, and you should be aware that you will recieve no benifits of technology produced under the auspices of government grants...
Idiot. Do some reading on the reasons we formed societies, and the reasons we don't allow selective opt-outs on the benifits and costs. Opt out on the whole, or on nothing. If you opt out on the whole, I'm sorry, but you'll have to be dumped naked on a deserted little atol somewhere. It wouldn't be fair otherwise...
Some libertarians make me sick. Some conservatives make me sicker.
Nanotech isn't going to be Gray Goo material for a long, long time. I'm tempted to refer to the version in Wil McCarthy's "Murder in the Solid State"... biotech, with a handful of pioneers going back into custom fabrication of molecules. I'm also tempted to point to Neil Stephenson's rather more realistic that I expected it to be "The Diamond Age" (Can't be sure I buy the book, or the island, but, given that they were supposed to be the work of a genius in the field...) where household nanotech took the form of assembly - from raw molecule feeds - of molecularly uncomplicated objects with a lot of air/vaccum in them. Both are reasonable scenarios. In the first, Open Source falls back to the older Academic Publication (combined with Patents, which is why I brought this up)... In the second, we have nanotech that bears more resemblance to programming than science. (Bear with me, I'm both programmer and physicist) In the former case, we have (undeniably) open source... with a certain not-unlike-Carnivore "nanotech" device called a Sniffer that had gained its "inventor" a certain unjust-but-politically-backed broad patent being the major exception... but with actual use and distribution limited to industrial cases, and patents being (rightfully, at least for a reasonable period) protected. In the latter, even with laws, we'd be talking about distribution akin to software. I don't have a problem with that, as a programmer, if I get paid for anything beyond a simple matress in some manner. The situation in Diamond Age was closed source software... forcing Open Source paradigms on Nanotech would cripple it, just as making Closed Source software illigal would bring our industry to a screeching halt. Face it, capitalism works, and without either A) some sort of knowledge control, B) some sort of police enforced ownership/revenue rights, C) some means of service charges (A totally user friendly Linux would only leave the server market profitable... and whither consumer-oriented enhancements by non-students/hobbyists?), or D) Some other means (say taxes and government funding, I.E. Socialism) of paying the techs... which is what universities provide, mostly.
$170 per week is the minimum cap?!? That's under minimum wage!!!
This issue is meaningful to me. The company I work for is pressuring us to up our hours even more because of the hole they got themselves into. They aren't consulting the people who know on their decisions, and they aren't hiring competitively to replace the ones who leave in disgust. There's going to be some sort of bonus attached if we pull this off, they claim. Oh, and we're being "encouraged" to do those extra hours earlier in the morning! Before 7:00!!
Fortunately, if this goes any further, most of the techs are quite employable elsewhere. Shooting themselves in the foot, the company is...
Renquist is on the Supreme Court. Precisely who do you think someone could appeal Renquist's apparent conflict of interest to?
House Judiciary Committee? I vaguely remember something like this coming up before...
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I used to use Painter a lot (back when 2.0 was the cutting edge, and it was still "Fractal Design"), and about three years ago, I started on a project to create a 3D analog of the liquid media tools, using special input devices (paired gloves, using knuckle sensors, which I eventually plan to replace with some sort of positional sensor product) and a 3D "printer" that uses sugar and a seriously canibalized hp inkjet (approx. 300 dpi) to produce a layered approximation of 3D blocks. I've been playing with methods of layering doped silicon for a while, hoping to get a quartz block version of this medium, preferably at much higher resolutions. When I saw this article, that was my first thought. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, I doubt it would be feasible. Does anyone know of any technologies that might? I have a background in solid state physics and materials, but it hasn't ever led me to a solution...
IANAL. Nonetheless, I've dealt with legal conflict of interest. I've been personally affected by it. This qualifies, without question. For Rehnquist to claim otherwise is an invitation for an appeal of the appeal, though he's likely counting on that not happening.
An example of a conflict of interest, as related by an (honest) Judge... who would, incidentally, have been more favorable to the plaintifs than the defendant... she excused herself from the case because her husband had represented the defendant in an IP case some six years earlier.
From her explanation, I gathered that a conflict of interest was constituted by any possibility of a suggestion of impropriety in the judge with relation to the case... down to and including through family members, friends, and associates.
50000 years worth of orbital decay. I wonder if they've taken everything (Solar radiation pressure, changes due to lunar tidal erosion, random debris) into account. Probably the first two, but certainly not the last. If we remain spacefaring, what are the odds that this thing won't have a head-on with some space junk in the next 50K years?
The idea of free text space for all is wonderful. I'm thinking about adding something myself... and this really would be a boon to anthropologists if, say, all electronic historical records were to be wiped sometime in the future.
What is the structural composition of a CD? Would it break down in (presumably) vacuum under the influence of solar and stellar radiation? In less than 50,000 years? That could prove a problem, if it is the case.
Anyone else suddenly think of the gold disks on (I think) Voyager when they read this? Sort of the same idea, except across time instead of space...
What about non text data? Can't we get an allowance for (under 6Kb) graphics in here too? (OK, so that's a little small for photos, but I'd like to try diagrams, math in geometric form, modern physics stuff that might require line drawings...)
George Lucas doesn't get it anymore. The charm of the original movies that made him so successful is
more than special effects. It's the details like the way Artoo and Threepio moved... perfect comedy of motion, even if accidental... and the worn, old
junkheap look of the Falcon. Those Naboo fighters looked like pre-fab toys. No battle-scarred X-wing fighters for these movies, no sir. The bad acting, the good acting, the classic heroic fantasy in a new fantasy world with robots and starships - that was the magic. It's gone now...
It's a new generation, and 20 years later, the new star wars isn't star wars... it's the Matrix trilogy. (Yes, there are two sequels already in the works.)
Transformers was the best of the lot, followed by G.I. Joe. Of all the miserable excuses for cartoons we had in that era, nothing had quite the mystique of Cybertron and its denizens.
The comics based on the same property went from cartoon-clone to inspired to silly to absolutely brilliant. Near the end, there were scenes in the comics that still get me close to tears (Did I do good, Prime?...Yes, old friend...) and the later G2 12 issue run was wonderfully grim, and a worthy exploration of the legacy of their war.
I thoroughly enjoyed Beast Wars/Beast Machines as well. Somehow, in a mire of commercialism, the derivatives of the TF property managed to make art.
When I first saw Thunder Cats on Cartoon Network, one of my childhood memories was dashed. Rather than nostalgia, as I had expected, I encountered severe shock. I had enjoyed something that bad? Sure, I was a kid, but please!
The worst part was the inconsistant writing and plotlines. The episode where Mumm-Ra disguises himself as a member of their species (but with a completely different fusion of cat and human featuers, looking as much like one of them as I look like an orangutan) made me realize just how unsophisticated I must have been to have enjoyed it. For all the bad voice acting and melodrama, the part that shocked me most is that I never balked at the technical oversights.
I'm a little afraid of what maturity will do to my fond memories of Silverhawks. Perhaps the greatest gift of innocence... the ability to watch bad 80s toy-based cartoons... and enjoy them without cracking up.
Mind you, even in retrospect, later episodes of Transformers (and the movie) rock. And I have got to find a channel that airs season 2 of Beast Machines in LA...
The good side to being one of the best in a challenging field is, you can watch cartoons without losing self respect.
Terry McGinnes is the new Batman. He's a well-off teen with a life beyond the bat, now mostly gone thanks to his "employment" by Bruce. While Paul Dini was on all of the named films, Burnett was not. This is a minor oversight.
Outside of the nits, I'm a little excited to see how this plays out. The Beyond world is great. Best character? Max, Terry's computer geek friend who stumbled onto his secret. When she makes it clear that she has no intention of being called "Robin", Terry responds, "OK... Alfred." Nonetheless, as a sidekick, in many ways, she (and Bruce, and the 60ish Commisioner (Barbara) Gordon) tremendously outshine the basicly-good-but-oh-so-shallow teenaged Terry.
Most of the villains are also more complex than the primary hero, but this is hardly a slight on him. Unlike most hero characters today, Terry is not terribly prone to angst (and a Batman, yet!), even after his father's murder. Me, I find that a little bland. I'm rooting for Maxine in the suit...
Read it. Prepare for a little bit of going too far out... but also prepare for a *really* well thought out what-if on evolution into machine and virtual (software only) sapience. "I'm just an electronic ghost of a long dead man."...
Also in the same vein, Charles Sheffield's earlier "Tomorrow and Tomorrow". I've seen similar themes in a half dozen other books, including Asimov's Empire novels (peripherally... in his world, most humans chose to remain 99% flesh) way back when.
It's a common theme in SF for a reason. It's a very plausible outcome.
Anyone who can read C can tell you that it isn't; one of those paste attempts must have failed, there's a for loop that ends in a close comment about halfway down.
t's not a "little known product." Cobalt has always had a nice booth at Linux World, I've seen many reviews of their products, the Raq* products are in ISPs everywhere... definately not a "little known product."
Yeah, sure. I know what a Cobalt Qube is. You know what a Cobalt Qube is. Joe "MBA" Purchasing Executive doesn't know what it is. Trust me, I watched Joe furrow his brow in puzzlement and ask, "So this Cobalt thing can serve web pages? Is it something we could use?" on Friday, after noticing it because of the ZDNet article, which he saw because he was reading up on the G4 Cube, wanting one for his wood-and-crystal decor desk.
Just because you're clueful, doesn't mean everyone is. I'd call any Linux-only box little known outside of our circles, except where massively promoted by us geeks to our pursestring holders (IE VA Research)...
Look, Cobalt has a little-known product that they've been marketting with little luck for two years, and suddenly the most noticed computer company in the world produces something that remotely resembles it. Some exec at Cobalt thinks, "How can I get some of the spillover publicity?"
Even if he did get slapped with a frivolous lawsuit fine (as if) he'd still make out like a bandit over all the attention this generated. Sort of like a troll-for-profit.
You didn't take the MacOSochists into account... the ones who hack the mac... I've successfully installed and run 9.0.1 on a 7100 (PPC 601 80; SCSI, ADB, 2x CD; 1 MB vram (after upgrade, IIRC); 1 NuBus filled with a second monitor) with 128 MB ram. Not zippy, but doable. I know someone who installed 9.0 on a stock (with 56 MB total ram) 7100 as well.
MUD-Dev is a professional and advanced amatuer discussion and design sharing forum, based around a mailing list and the kanga.nu domain. These topics are a regular subject of discussion there.
Follow this for a philosophical/technical discussion about trusting the client; includes significant amounts of contribution by Raph Koster (OU's Designer Dragon) This is a currently running discussion about controlling "grief players"...
I took my senior particle physics course from one of the physicists working on Super-K. Dr. Learned spent more time going into neutrino oscillation than focusing on the course material, which was fine by me, as I was the only registered student in the class, and quite enjoyed the tap-in-the-fountain course. So here goes...
One of the models that fits the Super-K results (mind you, we're talking huge margins of error... in some data, 2-3 SDs) involves one sterile (non-interacting) neutrino; another involves three sterile neutrinos, at energy (mass) levels significantly larger than their corresponding interacting neutrinos. All of these possibilities are modeled against several sources; Blackbody spectral distribution, solar neutrino density (also mapped wrt time of year and day, etc) known decay densities (which come out of particle physics, which is hardly elegant and superstring theory models, which are hardly verifiable) and cosmic neutrino burst speeds (so far, we haven't had a huge neutrino producing cosmic event occur that caused neutrino detection to spike a measurable time interval after the photon detection... shame, that, and it really forces the upper limit on electron neutrino mass down, which is ugly if you assume those are massless neutrinos... but oscillation models require mass on "heavier" neutrinos, which means... aw, the hell with it... this is why I ended up liking solid state so much.
noticed someone in another post said that Human Torch was at the Xavier School...Unless I'm mistaken Fantastic 4 never really crossed over with X-Men???
Not an X-Fan. Just a casual once-in-a-blue-moon reader, but I remember everything I ever see/read/hear, so here goes...
First off, I doubt that was Johnnie. Reed's little brother-in-law wasn't considered a mutant, per se, because his changes came later in life (like the hulk), with the others in FF, after some experiment (was it in space? Can't recall. I think Reed Richards was running some sort of experiment with his fiance, her brother, and their best friend Ben Grimm... anyhow, though there was much more crossover between Spider Man and FF, there were a few rare instances... and one huge significant one. The grown son of Reed (Mr. Fantastic) and Sue (Invisable Girl) Richards marries the grown daughter of Scott and Jean Grey-Summers... Rachel Summers, AKA Phoenix II, IIRC, and his name I'm blanking on. Something commonplace and boring, ending in Richards.
The suggested identity for the fire kid is Pyro (I doubt it, but hey, the powers were right), but I'm wondering if anyone else noticed the other firebug in the class? There was a Japanese kid who had to be Sunfire, or whatever his name is... anyone remember Logan's Japanese love interests?
I watched the movie, and was watching for exactly that flaw (a favorite from the Mutants GURP when I was a young adolescent... so sue me, I used to be that kind of geek... didn't most of us?) but managed to miss it. When wolvie started bleeding while touching her, it wasn't from her... it was from the battle, which he hadn't yet healed from, and which had wounded him far worse than his healing factor made obvious. I think.
But just to pedant your pedant, even if you're right, the comics have established that the claws are natural. They weren't blades made of adamantium, but he does have bone claws under those... see the series before Marvel lost all control of continuity, when Magneto tore the adamantium out of Wolverine.
One thing I liked was the ellimination of the old ludicrosity from the comics. Adamantium was an aloy, not an elemental metal.
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Reading the first article above really drives home the intellectual differences between Gore and Bush. There were questions he obviously hadn't thought about, but handled with both intelligence and a creativity I admire... and the ones he had thought about... his response with regard to Napster, and his nod to Linux and open source... show a methodical and careful thought process that could serve this nation well. Bush, OTOH, sort of plunges in with all the thought and responsibility of a frat boy. Oh, wait...
He left out every religion mentioned in the question.
... which, I've always suspected, was connected to his father's CIA ties. This, in spite of persons who cannot safely testify to the fact noting that he's still using cocaine... fortunately for him, Gore isn't using unsubstantiatable allegations based on tips to attack him (like Bush's allegations about the buddhist (ooh! non-christian!) temple) ... and he's playing on Clinton's sordid (and I think disgusting) affair... in spite of his own six-year fling behind his wife's back. And why the hell hasn't that been an issue? There were enough people that found out about it...
He left out every belief system mentioned in the question. Minor distinction. He also left out any examples from the Set Of religions mentioned.
Bush is freightening. If he could, he would ban Islamic, Mormon, and Jewish worship as well. As a Jew, and a descendant of people almost killed (I'm here, so yes, they escaped. Their siblings, cousins, and friends did not) in Russian Pogroms and German Holocaust (No, I'm not invoking the 'N' word without reason), he terrifies me. He would be a theocrat if he could. He would start an Inquisition on many of my friends (Wiccan, Daoist, Buddhist, Humanist, or Other) if he could. And he's a hippocrite.
He mentions renewed push on the "War on Drugs"
Damnit, this I didn't want to know!
I'm a software and algorithm designer, C++ programmer and graphic artist (makes consulting between programming jobs easy... and alleviates burnout) and I Drink Diet Mountain Dew on those 30+ hour marathon coding sessions. At least, until I go into caffine induced shakes...
Why'd you have to tell me that the 'l337 h4x0rz' share my taste in beverages?
Sounds good. From this point forward, you will be required to provide your own roads, and will have to live in this sovereign territory over here with no defenses... oh, yes, and you should be aware that you will recieve no benifits of technology produced under the auspices of government grants...
Idiot. Do some reading on the reasons we formed societies, and the reasons we don't allow selective opt-outs on the benifits and costs. Opt out on the whole, or on nothing. If you opt out on the whole, I'm sorry, but you'll have to be dumped naked on a deserted little atol somewhere. It wouldn't be fair otherwise...
Some libertarians make me sick. Some conservatives make me sicker.
Nanotech isn't going to be Gray Goo material for a long, long time. I'm tempted to refer to the version in Wil McCarthy's "Murder in the Solid State"... biotech, with a handful of pioneers going back into custom fabrication of molecules. I'm also tempted to point to Neil Stephenson's rather more realistic that I expected it to be "The Diamond Age" (Can't be sure I buy the book, or the island, but, given that they were supposed to be the work of a genius in the field...) where household nanotech took the form of assembly - from raw molecule feeds - of molecularly uncomplicated objects with a lot of air/vaccum in them. Both are reasonable scenarios. In the first, Open Source falls back to the older Academic Publication (combined with Patents, which is why I brought this up) ... In the second, we have nanotech that bears more resemblance to programming than science. (Bear with me, I'm both programmer and physicist) In the former case, we have (undeniably) open source... with a certain not-unlike-Carnivore "nanotech" device called a Sniffer that had gained its "inventor" a certain unjust-but-politically-backed broad patent being the major exception... but with actual use and distribution limited to industrial cases, and patents being (rightfully, at least for a reasonable period) protected. In the latter, even with laws, we'd be talking about distribution akin to software. I don't have a problem with that, as a programmer, if I get paid for anything beyond a simple matress in some manner. The situation in Diamond Age was closed source software... forcing Open Source paradigms on Nanotech would cripple it, just as making Closed Source software illigal would bring our industry to a screeching halt. Face it, capitalism works, and without either A) some sort of knowledge control, B) some sort of police enforced ownership/revenue rights, C) some means of service charges (A totally user friendly Linux would only leave the server market profitable... and whither consumer-oriented enhancements by non-students/hobbyists?), or D) Some other means (say taxes and government funding, I.E. Socialism) of paying the techs... which is what universities provide, mostly.
$170 per week is the minimum cap?!? That's under minimum wage!!!
This issue is meaningful to me. The company I work for is pressuring us to up our hours even more because of the hole they got themselves into. They aren't consulting the people who know on their decisions, and they aren't hiring competitively to replace the ones who leave in disgust. There's going to be some sort of bonus attached if we pull this off, they claim. Oh, and we're being "encouraged" to do those extra hours earlier in the morning! Before 7:00!!
Fortunately, if this goes any further, most of the techs are quite employable elsewhere. Shooting themselves in the foot, the company is...
Renquist is on the Supreme Court. Precisely who do you think someone could appeal Renquist's apparent conflict of interest to?
House Judiciary Committee? I vaguely remember something like this coming up before...
I used to use Painter a lot (back when 2.0 was the cutting edge, and it was still "Fractal Design"), and about three years ago, I started on a project to create a 3D analog of the liquid media tools, using special input devices (paired gloves, using knuckle sensors, which I eventually plan to replace with some sort of positional sensor product) and a 3D "printer" that uses sugar and a seriously canibalized hp inkjet (approx. 300 dpi) to produce a layered approximation of 3D blocks. I've been playing with methods of layering doped silicon for a while, hoping to get a quartz block version of this medium, preferably at much higher resolutions. When I saw this article, that was my first thought. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, I doubt it would be feasible. Does anyone know of any technologies that might? I have a background in solid state physics and materials, but it hasn't ever led me to a solution...
IANAL.
Nonetheless, I've dealt with legal conflict of interest. I've been personally affected by it. This qualifies, without question. For Rehnquist to claim otherwise is an invitation for an appeal of the appeal, though he's likely counting on that not happening.
An example of a conflict of interest, as related by an (honest) Judge... who would, incidentally, have been more favorable to the plaintifs than the defendant... she excused herself from the case because her husband had represented the defendant in an IP case some six years earlier.
From her explanation, I gathered that a conflict of interest was constituted by any possibility of a suggestion of impropriety in the judge with relation to the case... down to and including through family members, friends, and associates.
50000 years worth of orbital decay. I wonder if they've taken everything (Solar radiation pressure, changes due to lunar tidal erosion, random debris) into account. Probably the first two, but certainly not the last. If we remain spacefaring, what are the odds that this thing won't have a head-on with some space junk in the next 50K years?
The idea of free text space for all is wonderful. I'm thinking about adding something myself... and this really would be a boon to anthropologists if, say, all electronic historical records were to be wiped sometime in the future.
What is the structural composition of a CD? Would it break down in (presumably) vacuum under the influence of solar and stellar radiation? In less than 50,000 years? That could prove a problem, if it is the case.
Anyone else suddenly think of the gold disks on (I think) Voyager when they read this? Sort of the same idea, except across time instead of space...
What about non text data? Can't we get an allowance for (under 6Kb) graphics in here too? (OK, so that's a little small for photos, but I'd like to try diagrams, math in geometric form, modern physics stuff that might require line drawings...)
George Lucas doesn't get it anymore. The charm of the original movies that made him so successful is more than special effects. It's the details like the way Artoo and Threepio moved... perfect comedy of motion, even if accidental... and the worn, old junkheap look of the Falcon. Those Naboo fighters looked like pre-fab toys. No battle-scarred X-wing fighters for these movies, no sir. The bad acting, the good acting, the classic heroic fantasy in a new fantasy world with robots and starships - that was the magic. It's gone now...
It's a new generation, and 20 years later, the new star wars isn't star wars... it's the Matrix trilogy. (Yes, there are two sequels already in the works.)
Transformers was the best of the lot, followed by G.I. Joe. Of all the miserable excuses for cartoons we had in that era, nothing had quite the mystique of Cybertron and its denizens.
...Yes, old friend...) and the later G2 12 issue run was wonderfully grim, and a worthy exploration of the legacy of their war.
The comics based on the same property went from cartoon-clone to inspired to silly to absolutely brilliant. Near the end, there were scenes in the comics that still get me close to tears (Did I do good, Prime?
I thoroughly enjoyed Beast Wars/Beast Machines as well. Somehow, in a mire of commercialism, the derivatives of the TF property managed to make art.
When I first saw Thunder Cats on Cartoon Network, one of my childhood memories was dashed. Rather than nostalgia, as I had expected, I encountered severe shock. I had enjoyed something that bad? Sure, I was a kid, but please!
The worst part was the inconsistant writing and plotlines. The episode where Mumm-Ra disguises himself as a member of their species (but with a completely different fusion of cat and human featuers, looking as much like one of them as I look like an orangutan) made me realize just how unsophisticated I must have been to have enjoyed it. For all the bad voice acting and melodrama, the part that shocked me most is that I never balked at the technical oversights.
I'm a little afraid of what maturity will do to my fond memories of Silverhawks. Perhaps the greatest gift of innocence... the ability to watch bad 80s toy-based cartoons... and enjoy them without cracking up.
Mind you, even in retrospect, later episodes of Transformers (and the movie) rock. And I have got to find a channel that airs season 2 of Beast Machines in LA...
The good side to being one of the best in a challenging field is, you can watch cartoons without losing self respect.
Terry McGinnes is the new Batman. He's a well-off teen with a life beyond the bat, now mostly gone thanks to his "employment" by Bruce.
While Paul Dini was on all of the named films, Burnett was not. This is a minor oversight.
Outside of the nits, I'm a little excited to see how this plays out. The Beyond world is great. Best character? Max, Terry's computer geek friend who stumbled onto his secret. When she makes it clear that she has no intention of being called "Robin", Terry responds, "OK... Alfred." Nonetheless, as a sidekick, in many ways, she (and Bruce, and the 60ish Commisioner (Barbara) Gordon) tremendously outshine the basicly-good-but-oh-so-shallow teenaged Terry.
Most of the villains are also more complex than the primary hero, but this is hardly a slight on him. Unlike most hero characters today, Terry is not terribly prone to angst (and a Batman, yet!), even after his father's murder. Me, I find that a little bland. I'm rooting for Maxine in the suit...
Ah, the irony:
The rights to Paranoia were recently licenced by one of the more innovative (text based) commercial mud companies around...
Skotos has the info in this press release.
Also of interest is the text mud The Eternal City www.eternal-city.com, as well as others listed in the MUD-Dev FAQ
Text muds may not be the same, but they're hardly dead... and the best ones are emerging as hybrid graphical/text muds.
Read it. Prepare for a little bit of going too far out... but also prepare for a *really* well thought out what-if on evolution into machine and virtual (software only) sapience. "I'm just an electronic ghost of a long dead man." ...
Also in the same vein, Charles Sheffield's earlier "Tomorrow and Tomorrow". I've seen similar themes in a half dozen other books, including Asimov's Empire novels (peripherally... in his world, most humans chose to remain 99% flesh) way back when.
It's a common theme in SF for a reason. It's a very plausible outcome.
If that is valid code
Anyone who can read C can tell you that it isn't; one of those paste attempts must have failed, there's a for loop that ends in a close comment about halfway down.
t's not a "little known product." Cobalt has always had a nice booth at Linux World, I've seen many reviews of their products, the Raq* products are in ISPs everywhere... definately not a "little known product."
Yeah, sure. I know what a Cobalt Qube is. You know what a Cobalt Qube is. Joe "MBA" Purchasing Executive doesn't know what it is. Trust me, I watched Joe furrow his brow in puzzlement and ask, "So this Cobalt thing can serve web pages? Is it something we could use?" on Friday, after noticing it because of the ZDNet article, which he saw because he was reading up on the G4 Cube, wanting one for his wood-and-crystal decor desk.
Just because you're clueful, doesn't mean everyone is. I'd call any Linux-only box little known outside of our circles, except where massively promoted by us geeks to our pursestring holders (IE VA Research)...
Look, Cobalt has a little-known product that they've been marketting with little luck for two years, and suddenly the most noticed computer company in the world produces something that remotely resembles it. Some exec at Cobalt thinks, "How can I get some of the spillover publicity?"
Even if he did get slapped with a frivolous lawsuit fine (as if) he'd still make out like a bandit over all the attention this generated. Sort of like a troll-for-profit.
You didn't take the MacOSochists into account...
the ones who hack the mac...
I've successfully installed and run 9.0.1 on a 7100 (PPC 601 80; SCSI, ADB, 2x CD; 1 MB vram (after upgrade, IIRC); 1 NuBus filled with a second monitor) with 128 MB ram. Not zippy, but doable. I know someone who installed 9.0 on a stock (with 56 MB total ram) 7100 as well.
Remember: Supported != Exclusive to.
Out there on the web, we've got this site...
MUD-Dev is a professional and advanced amatuer discussion and design sharing forum, based around a mailing list and the kanga.nu domain. These topics are a regular subject of discussion there.
Follow this for a philosophical/technical discussion about trusting the client; includes significant amounts of contribution by Raph Koster (OU's Designer Dragon)
This is a currently running discussion about controlling "grief players"...
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I took my senior particle physics course from one of the physicists working on Super-K. Dr. Learned spent more time going into neutrino oscillation than focusing on the course material, which was fine by me, as I was the only registered student in the class, and quite enjoyed the tap-in-the-fountain course. So here goes...
One of the models that fits the Super-K results (mind you, we're talking huge margins of error... in some data, 2-3 SDs) involves one sterile (non-interacting) neutrino; another involves three sterile neutrinos, at energy (mass) levels significantly larger than their corresponding interacting neutrinos. All of these possibilities are modeled against several sources; Blackbody spectral distribution, solar neutrino density (also mapped wrt time of year and day, etc) known decay densities (which come out of particle physics, which is hardly elegant and superstring theory models, which are hardly verifiable) and cosmic neutrino burst speeds (so far, we haven't had a huge neutrino producing cosmic event occur that caused neutrino detection to spike a measurable time interval after the photon detection... shame, that, and it really forces the upper limit on electron neutrino mass down, which is ugly if you assume those are massless neutrinos... but oscillation models require mass on "heavier" neutrinos, which means... aw, the hell with it... this is why I ended up liking solid state so much.
noticed someone in another post said that Human Torch was at the Xavier School...Unless I'm mistaken Fantastic 4 never really crossed over with X-Men???
Not an X-Fan. Just a casual once-in-a-blue-moon reader, but I remember everything I ever see/read/hear, so here goes...
First off, I doubt that was Johnnie. Reed's little brother-in-law wasn't considered a mutant, per se, because his changes came later in life (like the hulk), with the others in FF, after some experiment (was it in space? Can't recall. I think Reed Richards was running some sort of experiment with his fiance, her brother, and their best friend Ben Grimm... anyhow, though there was much more crossover between Spider Man and FF, there were a few rare instances... and one huge significant one. The grown son of Reed (Mr. Fantastic) and Sue (Invisable Girl) Richards marries the grown daughter of Scott and Jean Grey-Summers... Rachel Summers, AKA Phoenix II, IIRC, and his name I'm blanking on. Something commonplace and boring, ending in Richards.
The suggested identity for the fire kid is Pyro (I doubt it, but hey, the powers were right), but I'm wondering if anyone else noticed the other firebug in the class? There was a Japanese kid who had to be Sunfire, or whatever his name is... anyone remember Logan's Japanese love interests?
. The kid with the lighter had the same powers as the villain Pyro (who never, ever, attended the Xavier School).
If you're talking about the Japanese kid, I'm betting on him having been SunFire...
I watched the movie, and was watching for exactly that flaw (a favorite from the Mutants GURP when I was a young adolescent... so sue me, I used to be that kind of geek... didn't most of us?) but managed to miss it. When wolvie started bleeding while touching her, it wasn't from her... it was from the battle, which he hadn't yet healed from, and which had wounded him far worse than his healing factor made obvious. I think.
But just to pedant your pedant, even if you're right, the comics have established that the claws are natural. They weren't blades made of adamantium, but he does have bone claws under those... see the series before Marvel lost all control of continuity, when Magneto tore the adamantium out of Wolverine.
One thing I liked was the ellimination of the old ludicrosity from the comics. Adamantium was an aloy, not an elemental metal.