A great movie for D&D players...
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D&D Is 30
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Pardon the slight off-topicness...
but some friends of mine from college started their own production company, and made a movie called "The Gamers". It certainly ain't no hollywood production, but that's the charm of it.
Do yourself a favor and grab the DVD and watch it with your gaming buddies to celebrate D&D's 30th... I promise it'll be a good time.
I think they have a quicktime trailer and stuff here.
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From their website:
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Wow, I'm inspired. What better way to make a living than to let somebody make a fortune through doing business, and then extract that fortune from them by using lawyers and a piece of paper that says "I thought of it first" that they hand out at the patent office like candy.
I'm going to run to the patent office tomorrow with my new patent idea: A method of extracting capital from another party by patenting a method that the aforementioned other party has already successfully used to earn revenue.
No, wait... I think that's a little too specific for the patent office. Patent plan B: A method by which a party, called the 'seller' receives monetary compensation in exchange for providing goods and/or services to a second party, called the 'buyer'.
The SuperPak team was doing amazing stuff until they got slapped by a cease-and-desist from the new publisher after they bought the rights.
I think I have more faith in the SuperPak team than in the new developer, who thus far has given the community nothing but thus far unfulfilled promises...
That being said, I hope the upcoming games are yet another improvement on the best and most realistic jet combat flight sim out there...
My roomate in college used to have horrible problems sleeping through things.
On extra important occasions, he'd activate the "Super Soaker Protocol"--
Ten minutes before the designated wake-up time, I'd start loading the super-soaker, and every minute on the minute I'd give him a warning. Then he'd get a count-down for the last 30 seconds... and if he wasn't on his feet by the time the countdown hit zero, he knew damn well that he'd get soaked.
He never once failed to get up... but I never gave up hope that one time I'd get to soak his lazy ass.. but alas...
Without mentioning my previous employer by name, I spent most of 2003 working extensively with EFI.
I really don't think it's the terror people are making it out to be, despite MS's involvement.
EFI is essentially taking the higher level driver stuff and pushing it down into the system firmware. I think this could have cool benefits for Linux (and any other operating system, or anybody coding an OS).
For example: If EFI becomes widespread, in theory you may never have to worry about installing a hardware driver again (for Linux or any other OS). EFI has an interpreter for EBC (EFI byte code). EBC drivers can be stored in the firmware of a pci/pcix card. When the system boots EFI interprets the EBC driver on the card, and presto! the new hardware is working on whatever EFI platform you are running it on. And since EFI provides a standard way to interface the hardware, the OS could operate without the need for further device drivers.
By the way, if you want to know more about EFI, you can score the specs here: http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/agree.h tm
Actually, there was no DNA from the "second mother" involved in the process.
The problem was that something wrong with the egg of the first mother that resulted in the zygote failing to continue growing after the first cell division.
Their solution here was to fertalize the egg, then remove it's DNA and transplant it into the donor's egg cell that had it's original DNA removed.
I'd very much hesitate to call the donor of the DNA-less egg cell a "mother". She's more of just an "egg cell donor", as none of her DNA would be passed on to a resulting offspring.
I commute 52 miles to work, which in Seattle traffic takes anywhere from 1 to 2 hours each way (3 if an oil tanker explodes on the interstate or something). I started listening to my local NPR station (KPLU, which I knew about because it is based out of the college I went to) because the other radio stations around here suck, except for KEXP (KEXP, which is out of range for most of my commute (but ironically, I can listen to an uncompressed stream of it, you guessed it, over the Internet!). I'm pretty much addicted to my NPR during the commute now-- so I end up listening to it 2-3 hours per day. I feel that even if I don't get a chance to surf the net that day, that it keeps me pretty well up-to-date on current local and world affairs.
But to respond to the question, yes, other than NPR, the Internet is, in almost all cases, my only source of information.
I would think that if they wanted to recreate CS with the most realism, they'd go with Airsoft guns instead of paintball. Much more realistic, plus, there are Airsoft versions of many of the CS weapons. There's an airsoft group here in the Seattle area called PSAC (www.psac.org) that has games that are very much like what they are talking about-- only they are in no way trying to emulate CS.
If you don't know what I'm talking about. Go someplace like www.redwolfairsoft.com and find out.
I'm a big John Woo fan. I enjoy his american-made action films more than most of the genre, but his true genious is in the films he made in his Hong Kong days. What I love about movies like "The Killer" and "A Better Tomorrow" is that in addition to the unmatched action/gunplay, the movies are extremely thematic and symbolic. His Hong Kong pictures all revolve around themes like loyalty, brotherhood/camaraderie, humanity/compassion, and duty. His films often put two or more of these themes in direct conflict with one another-- and it's this dramatic tension that make the "heroic bloodshed" genre that was basically invented by Woo so much more than Chow Yun Fat sliding down a bannister in slow motion, twin berettas blazing.
I'm skeptical that a video game would succeed in capturing the greatness of John Woos films-- simply because the themes and symbolism that really make Woo's films special would be drowned out by the focus on the "action".
Having said that-- I still love playing "Action Half-Life" now and then:)
It sounds like there is no contractual agreement that prohibits this person from doing OSS work on his/her own time...
...although I have no contractual commitment to abstain from such work...
I think the concern is getting burned by the employer despite there being no moral or legal obligation to not participate in outside projects.
I personally find it rather upsetting that employers have the attitude that because you work for them, they own your ass-- thus forcing people like the poster to resort to anonymity in order to donate their time for the benefit of society. What a chilling effect it would have on the world if every employer cracked down on their employees from lending their professional expertise to causes on their own time. I imagine that would be the end of many charitable organizations...
The problem here is the winner-take-all voting system in which essentially your vote doesn't count if you don't vote for a "winner".
The U.S. needs to change to something like an instant runoff system in which a voter doesn't have to choose between voting their heart vs. picking the lesser of two evils.
props ( propz ) (n) Compliments; kudos; statements of thanks; respect; esteem. An abbreviation of "propers" or proper respects. At an award ceremony the winner gives props: "And I would like to thank...".
"Every now and then, I turn it on again, but its plain to see that the radio still sucks..." ~The Ataris
Tech savvy fans who have tastes that range beyond the homogenous crap they play on the radio (with the exception of your occasional good college or independent station, which unfortunately usually have a limited broadcasting range) turn elsewhere. Like internet radio stations, for example...
WARNING: US-CENTRIC POST (though may be relevant to laws in other countries) I agree entirely. I think that the practice of extending personal rights to corporations is a Bad Thing(tm). Corporations are NOT human beings. They are abstract entities whose sole purpose is to make money. I think corps should be given their own set of "rights"-- but should not be equal to individuals in the eyes of the law.
Of course, this is not likely to happen due to the fact that corporations do have a great deal of money at their disposal-- and they are free to use it to buy their very own lawmakers. Perhaps that is one right that a corporation shouldn't have: what if only individuals were allowed to use money towards politics.
And I can't help but think that it would be nice if 1st Amendment rights didn't extend to corporations for purposes of advertising and whatnot. Of course, you'd still need to ensure a free press-- it would all have to be carefully thought out by somebody not corrupted by corporate money...
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...to put that Willie Nelson doll from Super Bowl XXXVIII you've been hiding away up on eBay...
Yes, it happened, but not at UC. That is one of the famous MIT "hacks".
Pardon the slight off-topicness... but some friends of mine from college started their own production company, and made a movie called "The Gamers". It certainly ain't no hollywood production, but that's the charm of it. Do yourself a favor and grab the DVD and watch it with your gaming buddies to celebrate D&D's 30th... I promise it'll be a good time. I think they have a quicktime trailer and stuff here.
May or may not be the best solution for your situation, but I use Greymatter for the news updates on my personal site.
From their website:Greymatter is the original opensource weblogging and journal software. With fully-integrated comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customisable output through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many other features--while having perhaps the simplest installation process and easiest-to-use interface of any program offering this level of functionality--Greymatter permanently raised the bar for weblogging and journaling, and it remains the program of choice for tens of thousands of people around the world.
Good luck!Wow, I'm inspired. What better way to make a living than to let somebody make a fortune through doing business, and then extract that fortune from them by using lawyers and a piece of paper that says "I thought of it first" that they hand out at the patent office like candy.
I'm going to run to the patent office tomorrow with my new patent idea:
A method of extracting capital from another party by patenting a method that the aforementioned other party has already successfully used to earn revenue.
No, wait... I think that's a little too specific for the patent office. Patent plan B:
I'm rich!A method by which a party, called the 'seller' receives monetary compensation in exchange for providing goods and/or services to a second party, called the 'buyer'.
The SuperPak team was doing amazing stuff until they got slapped by a cease-and-desist from the new publisher after they bought the rights.
I think I have more faith in the SuperPak team than in the new developer, who thus far has given the community nothing but thus far unfulfilled promises...
That being said, I hope the upcoming games are yet another improvement on the best and most realistic jet combat flight sim out there...
Long live Falcon.
My roomate in college used to have horrible problems sleeping through things.
On extra important occasions, he'd activate the "Super Soaker Protocol"--
Ten minutes before the designated wake-up time, I'd start loading the super-soaker, and every minute on the minute I'd give him a warning. Then he'd get a count-down for the last 30 seconds... and if he wasn't on his feet by the time the countdown hit zero, he knew damn well that he'd get soaked.
He never once failed to get up... but I never gave up hope that one time I'd get to soak his lazy ass..
but alas...
Without mentioning my previous employer by name, I spent most of 2003 working extensively with EFI.
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I really don't think it's the terror people are making it out to be, despite MS's involvement.
EFI is essentially taking the higher level driver stuff and pushing it down into the system firmware. I think this could have cool benefits for Linux (and any other operating system, or anybody coding an OS).
For example:
If EFI becomes widespread, in theory you may never have to worry about installing a hardware driver again (for Linux or any other OS). EFI has an interpreter for EBC (EFI byte code). EBC drivers can be stored in the firmware of a pci/pcix card. When the system boots EFI interprets the EBC driver on the card, and presto! the new hardware is working on whatever EFI platform you are running it on. And since EFI provides a standard way to interface the hardware, the OS could operate without the need for further device drivers.
By the way, if you want to know more about EFI, you can score the specs here:
http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/agree.
...stocks in Beano have jumped 225% on reports of record sales last quarter...
(no, not really)
Actually, there was no DNA from the "second mother" involved in the process.
The problem was that something wrong with the egg of the first mother that resulted in the zygote failing to continue growing after the first cell division.
Their solution here was to fertalize the egg, then remove it's DNA and transplant it into the donor's egg cell that had it's original DNA removed.
I'd very much hesitate to call the donor of the DNA-less egg cell a "mother". She's more of just an "egg cell donor", as none of her DNA would be passed on to a resulting offspring.
...but you are not a Jedi yet...
I commute 52 miles to work, which in Seattle traffic takes anywhere from 1 to 2 hours each way (3 if an oil tanker explodes on the interstate or something). I started listening to my local NPR station (KPLU, which I knew about because it is based out of the college I went to) because the other radio stations around here suck, except for KEXP (KEXP, which is out of range for most of my commute (but ironically, I can listen to an uncompressed stream of it, you guessed it, over the Internet!). I'm pretty much addicted to my NPR during the commute now-- so I end up listening to it 2-3 hours per day. I feel that even if I don't get a chance to surf the net that day, that it keeps me pretty well up-to-date on current local and world affairs. But to respond to the question, yes, other than NPR, the Internet is, in almost all cases, my only source of information.
I would think that if they wanted to recreate CS with the most realism, they'd go with Airsoft guns instead of paintball. Much more realistic, plus, there are Airsoft versions of many of the CS weapons. There's an airsoft group here in the Seattle area called PSAC (www.psac.org) that has games that are very much like what they are talking about-- only they are in no way trying to emulate CS.
If you don't know what I'm talking about. Go someplace like www.redwolfairsoft.com and find out.
I'm a big John Woo fan. I enjoy his american-made action films more than most of the genre, but his true genious is in the films he made in his Hong Kong days. What I love about movies like "The Killer" and "A Better Tomorrow" is that in addition to the unmatched action/gunplay, the movies are extremely thematic and symbolic. His Hong Kong pictures all revolve around themes like loyalty, brotherhood/camaraderie, humanity/compassion, and duty. His films often put two or more of these themes in direct conflict with one another-- and it's this dramatic tension that make the "heroic bloodshed" genre that was basically invented by Woo so much more than Chow Yun Fat sliding down a bannister in slow motion, twin berettas blazing.
:)
I'm skeptical that a video game would succeed in capturing the greatness of John Woos films-- simply because the themes and symbolism that really make Woo's films special would be drowned out by the focus on the "action".
Having said that-- I still love playing "Action Half-Life" now and then
That's easy! It's available at Amazon for $17.95 + Free Shipping.
Now try to find a Six String Samurai movie POSTER and you'll have a little bit more trouble (and have to spend quite a bit more...)
"Only one man could kill so many Russians..."
I think the concern is getting burned by the employer despite there being no moral or legal obligation to not participate in outside projects.
I personally find it rather upsetting that employers have the attitude that because you work for them, they own your ass-- thus forcing people like the poster to resort to anonymity in order to donate their time for the benefit of society. What a chilling effect it would have on the world if every employer cracked down on their employees from lending their professional expertise to causes on their own time. I imagine that would be the end of many charitable organizations...
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I'll look just like Buddy Holly...
Now if I can find myself a Mary Tyler Moore, I'll be set!
Sounds like it's time to bust out your favorite compiler...
:)
The start of any great open source project is a useful idea.
anybody up for the challenge?
The problem here is the winner-take-all voting system in which essentially your vote doesn't count if you don't vote for a "winner". The U.S. needs to change to something like an instant runoff system in which a voter doesn't have to choose between voting their heart vs. picking the lesser of two evils.
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It didn't get modded up, that's the one that he picked out to answer.
"Every now and then, I turn it on again, but its plain to see that the radio still sucks..."
~The Ataris
Tech savvy fans who have tastes that range beyond the homogenous crap they play on the radio (with the exception of your occasional good college or independent station, which unfortunately usually have a limited broadcasting range) turn elsewhere.
Like internet radio stations, for example...
Well, shit.
Random off-topic comment:
:)
I love your Sig. Planets rules
WARNING: US-CENTRIC POST (though may be relevant to laws in other countries)
I agree entirely. I think that the practice of extending personal rights to corporations is a Bad Thing(tm). Corporations are NOT human beings. They are abstract entities whose sole purpose is to make money. I think corps should be given their own set of "rights"-- but should not be equal to individuals in the eyes of the law.
Of course, this is not likely to happen due to the fact that corporations do have a great deal of money at their disposal-- and they are free to use it to buy their very own lawmakers. Perhaps that is one right that a corporation shouldn't have: what if only individuals were allowed to use money towards politics.
And I can't help but think that it would be nice if 1st Amendment rights didn't extend to corporations for purposes of advertising and whatnot. Of course, you'd still need to ensure a free press-- it would all have to be carefully thought out by somebody not corrupted by corporate money...
Well, I'm allowed to dream, aren't I?
~Abraxis