The researchers are this week working on a camo version for use by the Russian military. The national army has already expressed interest in the bot, attracted by its ability to carry up to 10g – a potential option for carrying portable cameras into enclosed areas and tight spaces.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, stop with the "the protagonists are from Earth" framing nonsense. If it's a D&D fantasy story then set it in the fantasy world, period.
The story begins with Tom Boyman, a 23-year-old Californian who has finally saved up enough money to begin his studies at Yale.
I guess the name "Tom Manchild" was taken?
On his way to catch the bus east, he meets Milton "Fearless" Gilroy, a car racer who convinces him to go to a county fair before leaving.
If you race cars, it's important to have a nickname which tells people that you are brave, because otherwise they would have no way of knowing that.
At the fair, Tom chances upon Margot Champion, a senior at Wellesley who is summering in California at an archaeological dig
She was accompanied by her brother Victor Champion, her sister Hero Champion. and her cousin Winnie McWinsalot. But they don't do much in this movie.
The three of them strike up a friendship and visit the dig site that night, where, among howling winds, a mysterious power brings them all to another world.
It's called "peyote".
They awake near a strange body of water, where an oared galley awaits them. From this ship emerges Odo, a water-walking cleric, who bids them to come along. He then transfers the water-walking ability to the party, who join him on board--
Why does he need to walk on water if he has a ship? Is it that he's clumsy and falls overboard a lot, and can't swim? And why do Baby Manboy and his two friends need to walk on water to get to a ship that's supposedly been waiting for them? Don't they have docks, or gangplanks, or launches? How did all the oarsmen get on board? Do they need to walk on water too?
--to travel to the island of the Master. The Master explains that he, and this world, were created by the Onelord. Every seven hundred years, the power of the Master fades, and a Child will be found who is destined to replace the Master. However, because "nothing can exist without its opposite," the Onelord also created the Nightking, who is "dark beyond your powers to imagine," and whose strength grows as that of the Master fades. So a Chosen One is summoned from our world to help maintain the balance. The Master reveals that Tom is this Chosen One, and charges him with an urgent quest: the Child has been discovered, but has already been kidnapped by the Nightking, and can be saved only by Tom.
There's a lot of love for Amiga, but they never quite got a firm foothold. Sometimes good things don't make it, when other things already have public mindshare.
I certainly never had to do any of those things during years of using Macs. No, I'm talking about software like MacPaint, MacWrite, etc. If you put a 10-year-old in front of those, they would figure out the menus and toolbars pretty much immediately. There was nothing nearly as good in PC land at the time.
We still live in the world Windows 95 made. When I asked people on Twitter their thoughts about what aspects of Windows 95 have persisted, I think Aaron Webb said it best: 'All of it? Put a 15 year old in front of 3.1 and they would be lost. In front of Windows 95 they would be able to do any task quickly.
But this was also true if you put a 15 year old -- or a 10 year old -- in front of a 1987 Macintosh. The true revolution in mainstream computing was the Mac OS user interface, coupled with the Human Interface Guidelines which made all Mac software intuitive.
Actually, numerous studies have shown that social interaction is extremely important in determining successful outcomes in higher education. Here's a concise (and heavily footnoted) summary of why that is:
The point is that no one will be able to tell which is which. It's the same idea as destabilizing an economy by flooding the market with high-quality counterfeit bills.
The GP said: "The reality is that for thousands of years and across all known cultures marriage has been defined as a relationship between different sexes". I pointed out one simple example which shows that the assertion is false -- ironically, an American example.:-)
No one is proposing using primitive cultures as a model for American society, except the GP, who brought up the subject in the first place.
All known cultures? No. For example, right here in America, the original Americans -- specifically, the Native Americans of the Great Plains -- had what you would define as homosexual marriage. From http://plainshumanities.unl.ed...:
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French explorers, traders, and missionaries in the Mississippi Valley occasionally encountered Native Americans who could be classified neither as men nor women. They called such individuals berdaches, a French term for younger partners in male homosexual relationships. In fact, Plains Indian berdaches are best described as occupying an alternative or third gender role, in which traits of men and women are combined with those unique to berdache status. Male berdaches did women's work, cross-dressed or combined male and female clothing, and formed relationships with non-berdache men.
See also http://www.sinclair.edu/academ... , which notes that those relationships ranged from promiscuity to stable marriages, depending on the tribe. Among the Crow, for example, physiologically-female berdaches generally married women.
So you see, both acceptance of transgendered individuals and homosexual marriage is a long-standing American tradition.
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Is it still a Fresnel lens, or is it more like the diffraction pattern you get on an exposed holographic plate?
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Remember: the first rule of Roko's Basilisk is you must never tell anyone about... oops, my bad.
...then "EMET" becomes "MET".
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...but they STILL won't fly Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom. Damn you, Eagles!
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The ideal work/life ratio is 0.
Unless you're a zombie, in which case it's NaN.
I have nothing to hide, and neither should you. Anything to make this dangerous world a bit safer.
Either you're trolling, or the irony of you posting this as "Anonymous Coward" is completely lost on you. :-)
That, and this:
The researchers are this week working on a camo version for use by the Russian military. The national army has already expressed interest in the bot, attracted by its ability to carry up to 10g – a potential option for carrying portable cameras into enclosed areas and tight spaces.
Exactly my thoughts. Also, stop with the "the protagonists are from Earth" framing nonsense. If it's a D&D fantasy story then set it in the fantasy world, period.
I guess the name "Tom Manchild" was taken?
If you race cars, it's important to have a nickname which tells people that you are brave, because otherwise they would have no way of knowing that.
She was accompanied by her brother Victor Champion, her sister Hero Champion. and her cousin Winnie McWinsalot. But they don't do much in this movie.
It's called "peyote".
Why does he need to walk on water if he has a ship? Is it that he's clumsy and falls overboard a lot, and can't swim? And why do Baby Manboy and his two friends need to walk on water to get to a ship that's supposedly been waiting for them? Don't they have docks, or gangplanks, or launches? How did all the oarsmen get on board? Do they need to walk on water too?
Ok, I totally want to watch this movie now.
Rocket Kitten, a cyber espionage group that mostly targets individuals in the Middle East...
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1573/
Well, that escalated quickly. :-)
There's a lot of love for Amiga, but they never quite got a firm foothold. Sometimes good things don't make it, when other things already have public mindshare.
True. The Amiga "Boing" demo made heads turn even after the Mac had become established.
I certainly never had to do any of those things during years of using Macs. No, I'm talking about software like MacPaint, MacWrite, etc. If you put a 10-year-old in front of those, they would figure out the menus and toolbars pretty much immediately. There was nothing nearly as good in PC land at the time.
Agreed. Xerox PARC did amazing work... too bad they were designing a paperless office for a paper-centered company. :-)
But this was also true if you put a 15 year old -- or a 10 year old -- in front of a 1987 Macintosh. The true revolution in mainstream computing was the Mac OS user interface, coupled with the Human Interface Guidelines which made all Mac software intuitive.
You could have just said "tl;dr" and saved yourself a lot of typing.
What part of "heavily footnoted" did you not comprehend, AC?
Actually, numerous studies have shown that social interaction is extremely important in determining successful outcomes in higher education. Here's a concise (and heavily footnoted) summary of why that is:
College Is Not A Content Delivery System: Interpersonal Interactions and Student Success
Technically, caffeine is not a drug: it's a major food group.
There are not enough +1s for this.
The point is that no one will be able to tell which is which. It's the same idea as destabilizing an economy by flooding the market with high-quality counterfeit bills.
The GP said: "The reality is that for thousands of years and across all known cultures marriage has been defined as a relationship between different sexes". I pointed out one simple example which shows that the assertion is false -- ironically, an American example. :-)
No one is proposing using primitive cultures as a model for American society, except the GP, who brought up the subject in the first place.
All known cultures? No. For example, right here in America, the original Americans -- specifically, the Native Americans of the Great Plains -- had what you would define as homosexual marriage. From http://plainshumanities.unl.ed...:
See also http://www.sinclair.edu/academ... , which notes that those relationships ranged from promiscuity to stable marriages, depending on the tribe. Among the Crow, for example, physiologically-female berdaches generally married women.
So you see, both acceptance of transgendered individuals and homosexual marriage is a long-standing American tradition.