the words just sort of flow in from the right of the screen and you pick the letter that you want... it makes guesses at what word you want next, and those letters appear bigger making it easier to catch them... it sounds strange but it's really amazingly easy to use.
I've become quite anal about it, and words which most people consider perfectly fine are somehow "dirty" or "bad" to me and I never utter or even think them.
This is where you're problem is... not that you dont curse,
although I consider cursing healthy enough,
I agree that it should be used sparingly but to never ever use them and to think that they're dirty and bad is not healthy esp. if you think other peoples clean words are not clean... unless you ment other people thought fuck, shit, & asshole are clean words...
Try looking with google earth instead of google maps ?
also he could mean the dark patch in the middle of the oval... but I dont think so now that I've looked again. I dont have Earth installed here in work so I cant check with it...
The funny thing about the "island of stability" hypothesis is that the elements just need to be more stable, have slightly longer half lives.
so element 111 has a half life of 3 seconds and element 114 has a half life of about 30 seconds because its one of the supposed "island of stability" or at least one of it's isotopes is.
so any way, those half lives are short enough that if a 1000kg lump of the longest lived isotope of 114 was kicked out of the sun, say 3 billion years ago (94608000000000000 seconds) thats 3.1536E15 halflives I dont think there's going to be much left. After 10 half-lives there is 2^-10 (0.098%) left.
so after 3 billion years our 1000kg would have 3.172e-14% left. or 0.00000003172g,
expect that my maths is probably wrong, and there isn't any left at all...
An example of just how hard it is to shoot down a large balloon can be found Here
as far as I know (which is'nt too far) that balloon was a single large balloon, if it was made up of multiple cells it would last even longer. And you could allways try coating it in kevlar or some other resilient skin as Rei suggested.
It's got gob loads of lifting power, so a little extra weight on armour and countermeasures would be ok.
they fired 1000 rounds in to the thing and it still took days to land...
If I recall correctly, they had a pretty hard time finding it once they lost it in the first place, balloons just dont show up to well on radar with out reflectors added.
Apparently "Deep Blue used a team of grandmasters to help prepare its opening book specifically against Kasparov"... basicaly I'd say it's insane to compair deepblue to my PC playing a RTS game. I want an AI that is not insanely good, because it knows where all my buildings / troops are, I want a good AI, that plays the game fairly, and is able to beat me... with out cheating me... and that I can dumb down so that I can beat it with out it becoming a total retard, for example in a RTS I was playing once I had a choice of settings lets call them easy and hard. on easy the AI built randomly and did stupid things like sent one man at a time in to my defences and never used the massive amount of resources beside its base... on hard it just killed you by rushing you at the start of the game... there was no reall inbetween. I want a challanging AI, not a super smart one or a dumb one. I want to play a FPS with bots that dont just head shot you the moment you come round the corner but also I dont want bots that run in circles and act like idiots...
does he still get the robot wife? If he does why would he care about the fact that he doesn't have to do all his husbandly duties with his old reall wife...
hum it made more sense in my head...
look, he gets new kinky robo wife. wife is old, gets new kinky robo hubby. now he never needs to talk out the trash, or other such things and gets to keep a "young" wife till he dies of heart strain or the robowife malfuntions and turns out to be a killer fembot...
then we're all in trouble.
or he could just by a RealDoll made up to look like his wife, I'm sure she'd be happy about that, she's get more sleep that way.
I hate people who think like this... they just appear when you need one... so you take it... No it hasn't just appeared when you needed it, it's mine I put it there to dry you thieving bastard, now I'm getting wet because someone stole my umbrella...(*)
and as for pens... right, they're cheap, worth almost nothing... then buy your own, there's a word for people who absent mindedly put things that dont belong to them into their pockets and wander off... kleptomaniac
(*)Please not that I dont actualy own an umbrella, in fact I hate them, I think they're next to usless, and little old ladys use them to stab me in the eyes...
Um... you can prove that the earth is not stationery and that the universe is not spinning round that point... I wish I could remember how... perhapps some one more enlightend could drop a few pointers.
off the top of my head... if the earth was stationary and everthing else was moving round it, distant objects would need to be traveling faster than the speed of light. and would have crazy huge angular momentums... um...
or some thing... vaguely recalled from conversation with an astrophysicist
why is a guy whos "hiding" assets in off-shore accounts Mr.GoodGuy?
I'm sorry I dont understand this right now... perhapps there is more to the situation, but It looks like GoodGuy is possibly helping his friend do something illegal, which probably makes him OrganisedCrimeGuy, So he has the info on his machine and the cops think his friend is a terrorist, in this case for some random reason, but chances are they are investigating the friend because he's hiding drug money in an offshore account.
Personaly I think that the use of the word piracy does'nt make it sound evil, because it's so common and people dont think of it as a crime... if anything it lessens the word piracy, which once was a scary word.
Now when you say pirate I think of that guy in work who spends all day downloading movies, he's a harmless chap who every one likes, plus he's got that cool projector we can watch them on. Instead of a murderous dog, who'd slit your gizzard soon as look at you, take your booty and plunder your Family jewels. ARRRRH
in short, Copyright Pirate: guy down hall. old type Pitate: Death on the high seas.
it takes about 5 mins to get the first two warp wistles and get to the last zone. which can take a while to get through, but does'nt take five hours. all those other levels are just for messing round on.
It was supposed to take 8 days with the 7th day being a day that you had to wait for the mix to settle before you added all the iceing (magic, decorations, etc.) and also cleaned up the mess on the 8th day, sadly it appears that that page was missing from the instructions that the big man used, and we get stuck with this second rate rush job of a world. We dont even have any snood, which aparently is only slightly harder to discover than fire!
um it's like 5am here... I did'nt read the post I replied to very well... Personaly I dont know what got the jews through their terrable ordeals, maybe it was religion, maybe it was the fact that they are a people with strong famaly ties... the fact I dont agrea with many things to do with Israel has nothing to do with the general plight of the jewish people, and also nothing to do with the thread in general.
Damn straight... thats why they get to come back from their 2000 year exile and get a free country in the middle east! screw the people who've been living there in the meen time, they were there first, so they get it back now cause of all the mean things that happened to them, yes horrible things happened in germany and russia and in other places too, but horrible things happened to many other groups and they get sweet fuck all.
he was a bastard to not appreciate a hot girlfriend.
just cause they filmed some pron you think he did'nt appreciate her?
long story short, some guy and girl have some fun. video it, store it insecurly, you steal it and mail it back to the girl, thus killing their relationship. Why did you do this? my guess is that you where sitting at home watching DS9 and pawing through other peoples stuff because you did'nt have a hot girlfriend like he did. Way to go...
Unless of course there is more to the story like the guy was a total jerk... and really did'nt appreciate her, mistreated her, lied to her, sent her pictures to people on the internet... and not just faild to secure them correctly.
Just like people from Scotland are Scots, not Scotch
People from scotland have been in the past called Scotch. Scotch (the drink) is shot for Scotch Whisky as in whisky from Scotland. Things from scotland are now called Scottish. but were once called scotch whatever.
at least that what i've been led to believe, I could of course be wrong also whiskey/whisky. which ones wihch? all in all I dont care.
If you're going to nitpick, you should add "according to current theory"!
Or better yet "according to the currently available evidence, the world appears to be approximately 4.54 billion years old, however it could be even older or possibly as young as 4.3 billion years old."
on that note... Was'nt there a few small robots that demanded rights (in TNG)... I think they where working in hazardous areas and kept comming back early because it was too dangerous... and when they where forced to go they fought back, they could design and replicate tools for new jobs, by desiding what was needed themselves... In the end the people had to give them rights to get any work out of them.
also let us not forget the nanites that got left on some planet, to fend for themselves after they became intelligent, no mention of that ever again... "yes yes we respect you now get the hell out of our computer core, we'll give you a nice world to explore " but those nanites reproduced exponentially, so they'd have filled that world fast... and then starved to death. sure they could have built solar power plants and other sources of power but if they could do that then whats to stop them making ships? and becoming a new threat... I'm thinking that once they were off the ship, the site was nuked from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
fool the spareparts appear of if thin air... dont you remember that time in startrek when the nanites are replicating... or in stargate... there's a flash and then there are more of them... thats just the way it works. same thing is going on here... watch the video... and watch more tv.
except that there is a difference between subvocalising and mumbling under you breath... I feel my self doing this all the time. mostly when i'm cursing customers or planing out what i'm going to say in an email.
No I would'nt call "Boggle" "Scrabble" as they are very different games, if "Boggle" is the game i think it is... However any "Scrabble" clones are called scrabble. much like I happly call "4 in a row", "Connect 4" its the exact same game but the name cant be used.
Why have we got all the product names in "inverted commas"?
on a side note... what I'd really like to see this guy do is put up some thing on e-scrabble that has nothing to do with word games... like a game were you're climbing a hill "Scrabbling" if you will... while famous people throw C&D letters at you... there you go... now you have a use of the name that does'nt not have anything to do with Scrabble the board game, and also is some sort of weak satire... then link to youre not scrabble game, CrazyWords.
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Take a look at Dasher
the words just sort of flow in from the right of the screen and you pick the letter that you want... it makes guesses at what word you want next, and those letters appear bigger making it easier to catch them...
it sounds strange but it's really amazingly easy to use.
Take a look at Dasher
I've become quite anal about it, and words which most people consider perfectly fine are somehow "dirty" or "bad" to me and I never utter or even think them.
... not that you dont curse,
This is where you're problem is
although I consider cursing healthy enough,
I agree that it should be used sparingly
but to never ever use them and to think that they're dirty and bad is not healthy
esp. if you think other peoples clean words are not clean...
unless you ment other people thought fuck, shit, & asshole are clean words...
Try looking with google earth instead of google maps ?
also he could mean the dark patch in the middle of the oval... but I dont think so now that I've looked again. I dont have Earth installed here in work so I cant check with it...
The funny thing about the "island of stability" hypothesis is that the elements just need to be more stable, have slightly longer half lives.
so element 111 has a half life of 3 seconds and element 114 has a half life of about 30 seconds because its one of the supposed "island of stability" or at least one of it's isotopes is.
so any way, those half lives are short enough that if a 1000kg lump of the longest lived isotope of 114 was kicked out of the sun, say 3 billion years ago (94608000000000000 seconds)
thats 3.1536E15 halflives
I dont think there's going to be much left.
After 10 half-lives there is 2^-10 (0.098%) left.
so after 3 billion years our 1000kg would have 3.172e-14% left. or 0.00000003172g,
expect that my maths is probably wrong,
and there isn't any left at all...
An example of just how hard it is to shoot down a large balloon can be found Here
as far as I know (which is'nt too far) that balloon was a single large balloon, if it was made up of multiple cells it would last even longer. And you could allways try coating it in kevlar or some other resilient skin as Rei suggested.
It's got gob loads of lifting power, so a little extra weight on armour and countermeasures would be ok.
Balloons tend not to bounce back radar unless they have radar reflectors added to make them easier to find...
...
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take a look at this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/163652.
they fired 1000 rounds in to the thing and it still took days to land...
If I recall correctly, they had a pretty hard time finding it once they lost it in the first place, balloons just dont show up to well on radar with out reflectors added.
http://www.eoss.org/pubs/faqloon.htm
Yeah, just wait till the screensaver kicks in.
My God! It's full of stars!
Apparently "Deep Blue used a team of grandmasters to help prepare its opening book specifically against Kasparov" ... ... on hard it just killed you by rushing you at the start of the game... there was no reall inbetween. I want a challanging AI, not a super smart one or a dumb one. ...
basicaly I'd say it's insane to compair deepblue to my PC playing a RTS game.
I want an AI that is not insanely good, because it knows where all my buildings / troops are, I want a good AI, that plays the game fairly, and is able to beat me... with out cheating me... and that I can dumb down so that I can beat it with out it becoming a total retard,
for example in a RTS I was playing once I had a choice of settings lets call them easy and hard.
on easy the AI built randomly and did stupid things like sent one man at a time in to my defences and never used the massive amount of resources beside its base
I want to play a FPS with bots that dont just head shot you the moment you come round the corner but also I dont want bots that run in circles and act like idiots
does he still get the robot wife?
If he does why would he care about the fact that he doesn't have to do all his husbandly duties with his old reall wife...
hum it made more sense in my head...
look, he gets new kinky robo wife.
wife is old, gets new kinky robo hubby.
now he never needs to talk out the trash, or other such things and gets to keep a "young" wife till he dies of heart strain or the robowife malfuntions and turns out to be a killer fembot...
then we're all in trouble.
or he could just by a RealDoll made up to look like his wife, I'm sure she'd be happy about that, she's get more sleep that way.
I hate people who think like this ... they just appear when you need one... so you take it...
No it hasn't just appeared when you needed it, it's mine I put it there to dry you thieving bastard, now I'm getting wet because someone stole my umbrella...(*)
and as for pens... right, they're cheap, worth almost nothing... then buy your own, there's a word for people who absent mindedly put things that dont belong to them into their pockets and wander off... kleptomaniac
(*)Please not that I dont actualy own an umbrella, in fact I hate them, I think they're next to usless, and little old ladys use them to stab me in the eyes...
Um... you can prove that the earth is not stationery and that the universe is not spinning round that point...
... if the earth was stationary and everthing else was moving round it, distant objects would need to be traveling faster than the speed of light. and would have crazy huge angular momentums... um...
I wish I could remember how... perhapps some one more enlightend could drop a few pointers.
off the top of my head
or some thing... vaguely recalled from conversation with an astrophysicist
why is a guy whos "hiding" assets in off-shore accounts Mr.GoodGuy?
I'm sorry I dont understand this right now... perhapps there is more to the situation, but It looks like GoodGuy is possibly helping his friend do something illegal, which probably makes him OrganisedCrimeGuy,
So he has the info on his machine and the cops think his friend is a terrorist, in this case for some random reason, but chances are they are investigating the friend because he's hiding drug money in an offshore account.
Personaly I think that the use of the word piracy does'nt make it sound evil, because it's so common and people dont think of it as a crime... if anything it lessens the word piracy, which once was a scary word.
Now when you say pirate I think of that guy in work who spends all day downloading movies, he's a harmless chap who every one likes, plus he's got that cool projector we can watch them on.
Instead of a murderous dog, who'd slit your gizzard soon as look at you, take your booty and plunder your Family jewels. ARRRRH
in short,
Copyright Pirate: guy down hall.
old type Pitate: Death on the high seas.
Dude ... super mario 3 was not a five hour game,
it takes about 5 mins to get the first two warp wistles and get to the last zone. which can take a while to get through, but does'nt take five hours.
all those other levels are just for messing round on.
It was supposed to take 8 days with the 7th day being a day that you had to wait for the mix to settle before you added all the iceing (magic, decorations, etc.) and also cleaned up the mess on the 8th day, sadly it appears that that page was missing from the instructions that the big man used, and we get stuck with this second rate rush job of a world. We dont even have any snood, which aparently is only slightly harder to discover than fire!
um it's like 5am here... I did'nt read the post I replied to very well... ... the fact I dont agrea with many things to do with Israel has nothing to do with the general plight of the jewish people, and also nothing to do with the thread in general.
Personaly I dont know what got the jews through their terrable ordeals, maybe it was religion, maybe it was the fact that they are a people with strong famaly ties
I'm going to bed now.
Damn straight... thats why they get to come back from their 2000 year exile and get a free country in the middle east! screw the people who've been living there in the meen time, they were there first, so they get it back now cause of all the mean things that happened to them, yes horrible things happened in germany and russia and in other places too, but horrible things happened to many other groups and they get sweet fuck all.
just cause they filmed some pron you think he did'nt appreciate her?
long story short, some guy and girl have some fun. video it, store it insecurly, you steal it and mail it back to the girl, thus killing their relationship.
Why did you do this? my guess is that you where sitting at home watching DS9 and pawing through other peoples stuff because you did'nt have a hot girlfriend like he did.
Way to go...
Unless of course there is more to the story like the guy was a total jerk... and really did'nt appreciate her, mistreated her, lied to her, sent her pictures to people on the internet... and not just faild to secure them correctly.
People from scotland have been in the past called Scotch. Scotch (the drink) is shot for Scotch Whisky as in whisky from Scotland.
Things from scotland are now called Scottish. but were once called scotch whatever.
at least that what i've been led to believe, I could of course be wrong
also whiskey/whisky. which ones wihch?
all in all I dont care.
Or better yet "according to the currently available evidence, the world appears to be approximately 4.54 billion years old, however it could be even older or possibly as young as 4.3 billion years old."
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html
oldest rock = 4.03 Ga
oldest crystals = 4.3 Ga (4.4 also reported.
on that note... ... I think they where working in hazardous areas and kept comming back early because it was too dangerous ... and when they where forced to go they fought back, they could design and replicate tools for new jobs, by desiding what was needed themselves ...
... and then starved to death. sure they could have built solar power plants and other sources of power but if they could do that then whats to stop them making ships? and becoming a new threat ... I'm thinking that once they were off the ship, the site was nuked from orbit ... it's the only way to be sure.
Was'nt there a few small robots that demanded rights (in TNG)
In the end the people had to give them rights to get any work out of them.
also let us not forget the nanites that got left on some planet, to fend for themselves after they became intelligent, no mention of that ever again...
"yes yes we respect you now get the hell out of our computer core, we'll give you a nice world to explore "
but those nanites reproduced exponentially, so they'd have filled that world fast
fool the spareparts appear of if thin air... dont you remember that time in startrek when the nanites are replicating ... or in stargate ... there's a flash and then there are more of them... thats just the way it works. ... watch the video... and watch more tv.
same thing is going on here
except that there is a difference between subvocalising and mumbling under you breath...
I feel my self doing this all the time.
mostly when i'm cursing customers or planing out what i'm going to say in an email.
No I would'nt call "Boggle" "Scrabble" as they are very different games, if "Boggle" is the game i think it is...
... like a game were you're climbing a hill "Scrabbling" if you will ... while famous people throw C&D letters at you... there you go ... now you have a use of the name that does'nt not have anything to do with Scrabble the board game, and also is some sort of weak satire...
However any "Scrabble" clones are called scrabble.
much like I happly call "4 in a row", "Connect 4"
its the exact same game but the name cant be used.
Why have we got all the product names in "inverted commas"?
on a side note... what I'd really like to see this guy do is put up some thing on e-scrabble that has nothing to do with word games
then link to youre not scrabble game, CrazyWords.