Looking Glass Studios is gone, although many of the employees did wind up working for Ion Storm Austin on Thief 3.
Big congrats to the the T2X team though, who started all this back when we weren't sure there'd be a T3. I look forward to playing this (and the Circle of Stone and Shadow, if that's ever finished....)
Well, actually, I googled "raptures of the deep," and the summary on the fifth hit is: Beyond this depth a condition known as nitrogen narcosis (popularly called "raptures of the deep"). Thus replacing the nitrogen with helium for deep dives. (the bends, BTW, is caused by all gasses coming out of solution, not just nitrogen). Pressure would be something of an issue for this rig, as it appears to work by reducing pressure to extract the oxygen. Presumably they've thought of that, though.
No cool "Vroom, vroom" sound to show how big your penis is
This is one of the greatest things I'm looking forward to as hybrids and electrics (hopefully) catch on. I *hope* they'll lead to a quieter roadway environment where maybe, just maybe, the types of Neanderthal antisocial behaviour that's tolerated today will become less acceptable. Hey, I can dream!
Had a Prius pull up next to me at a stoplight the other day. Was quiet to start with, then I had a brief "wait, where did that car go?" moment when the gasoline engine shut off. Very cool.
How about jobs for the existing science PhD's? Yes, the state of basic math and science education is abysmal; yes, the average person has a very poor grasp, but it's not the average person who drives these programs, it's the trained scientists and engineers. And right now there aren't enough jobs for us. (Ars article)
Cassini does not have a reactor. Both Cassini and Voyager are powered by radiothermal generators (RTG's). It's a small can of plutonium that produces heat (thus power) through natural radioactive decay processes. It is not a reactor--no fission.
"Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab believe that Voyager entered the termination shock in February 2003."
Still wrong. They started seeing signatures of the termination shock in Feb 2003 and thought they might be encountering it, but weren't sure. It's hard to find something when you don't know what you're looking for. The data from December are VERY clear: DOY 349, inside termination shock. DOY 351, outside. Unfortunately, there was a data gap at the actual shock crossing. All of the figures they showed yesterday had very distinct labels: heliosphere, TS, heliosheath, and the shock crossing was at most a couple of days.
The Grecians were famed for fine art, And buildings and stonework so smart.
They distinguished with poise
The men from the boys, And used crowbars to keep them apart.
I've been synching my Visor via USB for five years now and it wasn't difficult to set up, just required a fairly recent pilot-link tools and the usb-serial emulation module. I imagine on any modern distribution the hotplug support should do most of the work. Try using pilot-link first, see if it finds the device, and look at the logs to see what happens when you press the hotsync button (remember to press it before starting pilot-xfer).
I miss Babylon 5. Wait -- they had the Minbari using melee weapons too.
Well, a strike from orbit isn't all that useful in a barroom brawl; for that a ruddy big stick is handy. Even modern military equipment recognizes the occasional need to get right in the enemy's face.
Given that the Rangers were primarily an infiltration and espionage group, with heavy martial arts/spiritual emphasis, a primitive weapon made a fair bit of sense. When it came down to sheer damage dealing, they had White Stars:)
Hmm... but this is different. The 16 to 32-bit PC transition didn't require you to go out and buy new hardware.
Huh!? Sure it did. You couldn't run 32 bit code on a 286. In practice, by the time 32 bit became effectively mandatory (Win95), the sheer horsepower requirements pushed an upgrade more strongly than word size. It'll likely be the same this time around.
Kaylee: Wants to nail Simon. Annoyed he won't admit he wants her too.
More importantly:
Every male Firefly fan: Wants to nail Kaylee. Thinks Simon is an idiot for not going for it.
Jewel Staite broke my "never attracted to anyone younger than my little sister" rule. Apparently Joss had her put some meat on for Firefly; she looks great.
Um. You're trying to draw inferences based on the similarity between the title of a Beatles song and the name of a character that the actor played nearly two decades ago? Why not just plug lines into the Gematriculator?
Frankly, I don't believe much posted on physorg from 1 Jan to 31 Dec. I've seen a few stories there (both in the news section and blog section) that didn't pass the sniff test and weren't confirmed elsewhere. Grain of salt always recommended.
What we need is a really cheap, really good e-book reader that accepts multiple and non-proprietary formats.
Any PalmOS device, plus Plucker for HTML and Weasel for text. Weasel's screen-wrap autoscroll is hands-down the best way I've ever found to read e-texts. Plucker's autoscroll isn't as pretty IMO.
Then there's of course the proprietary readers for DocBook and MobiPocket and I would guess PDF, although I haven't bothered with that.
I can carry about ten books on my 8MB Visor, which keeps me busy for quite awhile. Only problem is what to do during takeoff/landing--I usually carry a single dead tree while I'm at it. One book+one palm is reading material for a couple of weeks.
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Looking Glass Studios is gone, although many of the employees did wind up working for Ion Storm Austin on Thief 3.
Big congrats to the the T2X team though, who started all this back when we weren't sure there'd be a T3. I look forward to playing this (and the Circle of Stone and Shadow, if that's ever finished....)
Well, actually, I googled "raptures of the deep," and the summary on the fifth hit is: Beyond this depth a condition known as nitrogen narcosis (popularly called "raptures of the deep"). Thus replacing the nitrogen with helium for deep dives. (the bends, BTW, is caused by all gasses coming out of solution, not just nitrogen). Pressure would be something of an issue for this rig, as it appears to work by reducing pressure to extract the oxygen. Presumably they've thought of that, though.
Thanks; definitely more appropriate. Always fun to read another Challenger story.
Tools aren't permitted through security--the list specifically states screwdrivers, wrenches, and pliers, but "not limited to."
You mean this has already been done.
This is one of the greatest things I'm looking forward to as hybrids and electrics (hopefully) catch on. I *hope* they'll lead to a quieter roadway environment where maybe, just maybe, the types of Neanderthal antisocial behaviour that's tolerated today will become less acceptable. Hey, I can dream!
Had a Prius pull up next to me at a stoplight the other day. Was quiet to start with, then I had a brief "wait, where did that car go?" moment when the gasoline engine shut off. Very cool.
As the grandparent said, "in perpetuity."
How about jobs for the existing science PhD's? Yes, the state of basic math and science education is abysmal; yes, the average person has a very poor grasp, but it's not the average person who drives these programs, it's the trained scientists and engineers. And right now there aren't enough jobs for us. (Ars article)
Nuclear power, in some form, is the only viable power source for spacecraft beyond Mars orbit. RTG's are very safe--practically huggable.
Cassini does not have a reactor. Both Cassini and Voyager are powered by radiothermal generators (RTG's). It's a small can of plutonium that produces heat (thus power) through natural radioactive decay processes. It is not a reactor--no fission.
Still wrong. They started seeing signatures of the termination shock in Feb 2003 and thought they might be encountering it, but weren't sure. It's hard to find something when you don't know what you're looking for. The data from December are VERY clear: DOY 349, inside termination shock. DOY 351, outside. Unfortunately, there was a data gap at the actual shock crossing. All of the figures they showed yesterday had very distinct labels: heliosphere, TS, heliosheath, and the shock crossing was at most a couple of days.
The Grecians were famed for fine art,
And buildings and stonework so smart.
They distinguished with poise
The men from the boys,
And used crowbars to keep them apart.
It's a toaster with shades. I'll pass...
The exception is that libraries which are normally distributed with the operating system are OK to link against, even if they're closed source.
...does voting affect election outcomes?
(which is how I read that headline the first time)
Yeah, it seems about 10% of posts on slash these days are people kvetching about slash going down the tubes. That never used to hap...
I've been synching my Visor via USB for five years now and it wasn't difficult to set up, just required a fairly recent pilot-link tools and the usb-serial emulation module. I imagine on any modern distribution the hotplug support should do most of the work. Try using pilot-link first, see if it finds the device, and look at the logs to see what happens when you press the hotsync button (remember to press it before starting pilot-xfer).
Well, a strike from orbit isn't all that useful in a barroom brawl; for that a ruddy big stick is handy. Even modern military equipment recognizes the occasional need to get right in the enemy's face.
Given that the Rangers were primarily an infiltration and espionage group, with heavy martial arts/spiritual emphasis, a primitive weapon made a fair bit of sense. When it came down to sheer damage dealing, they had White Stars :)
Huh!? Sure it did. You couldn't run 32 bit code on a 286. In practice, by the time 32 bit became effectively mandatory (Win95), the sheer horsepower requirements pushed an upgrade more strongly than word size. It'll likely be the same this time around.
I doubt being fired from an unpaid volunteer position would do much to mess up anyone's finances.
Yeah, but at the same time, I disagree with him on some of the stuff that "worked"--I loved Rope, thought it was a nifty way to shoot.
More importantly:
Every male Firefly fan: Wants to nail Kaylee. Thinks Simon is an idiot for not going for it.
Jewel Staite broke my "never attracted to anyone younger than my little sister" rule. Apparently Joss had her put some meat on for Firefly; she looks great.
Um. You're trying to draw inferences based on the similarity between the title of a Beatles song and the name of a character that the actor played nearly two decades ago? Why not just plug lines into the Gematriculator?
Frankly, I don't believe much posted on physorg from 1 Jan to 31 Dec. I've seen a few stories there (both in the news section and blog section) that didn't pass the sniff test and weren't confirmed elsewhere. Grain of salt always recommended.
Any PalmOS device, plus Plucker for HTML and Weasel for text. Weasel's screen-wrap autoscroll is hands-down the best way I've ever found to read e-texts. Plucker's autoscroll isn't as pretty IMO.
Then there's of course the proprietary readers for DocBook and MobiPocket and I would guess PDF, although I haven't bothered with that.
I can carry about ten books on my 8MB Visor, which keeps me busy for quite awhile. Only problem is what to do during takeoff/landing--I usually carry a single dead tree while I'm at it. One book+one palm is reading material for a couple of weeks.