Well in the rest of America, the Cartoon Network's Toonami consists of "Shadow Raiders", "Beast Wars", "The adventures of Johnny Quest" and "Pokemon". The only other anime I recall seeing lately in Latin CN is Speed Racer.
Barely on Topic: on the other hand, at least here in Mexico we get to see "Pokemon", "Ranma 1/2", "Dragon Ball Z" and "Dragon Ball GT" every day, plus several other shows. Guess what? The kids all over the country go nuts over the anime. I've got 7 and 9 year old cousins which know the names of all 251 Pokemon. I just hope they dont discover Hentai anime until they're 15!
Cant remember the name right now, but it dealt with some new plastic or glass substance which could trap light, which started being used in all kinds of applications, from using windows of the stuff to slow light 12 hours (in effect giving streets daylight during the night), to spying and government control at the end...
Anyone know which book Im talking about? Something like "Other days, other eyes"?
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"Bugs Bunny"? Score one for the Discordians! Null Serviam!
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Only the sick mind of a self-proclaimed "geek" of this decade could conceive of such a thing, paralleled only by Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
I think I read somewhere that Nero wasnt even in Rome when it burned. But I'm no history buff, so I could be wrong.
A couple of days ago, in this very messaging board, somebody proposed a brilliant idea: instead of something useless like SETI or cracking RC5, one could dedicate those cycles to analysing satellite data that could help farmers plan crops. Truly wonderful. Sad thing, though, is that in a tech world like the one we have, "sexy" useless projects like SETI demand all the attention, while worthwhile causes like the latter languish. Truly sickening.
Actually, I'd rather try this collective effort on something really harmless, like the SETI project, until all the bugs and hoaxes and whatever are found and fixed, and only _then_ use it for something as important as crop planning. If something goes wrong with SETI, well whoopsie, you tell the geeks all over the world "guess what, we didn't find Little Green Men as we announced last month". If something goes wrong with the crop planning, would you be the one going to the farmer, and telling him/her/it "guess what, due to a small bug in CropCycles@home, your crop's useless for consumption. Too bad".
I'd say it's a good idea to explore new ways to use the unused CPU cycles, but for the moment, I see no problem in using it for SETI.
El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.-Benito Juarez
Man, I recall my DikuMUD days over at CopperMud... had a friend of mine who did the same thing, made a female character and got tons of help, even from some of the Gods in the game.
We did find a bug someplace, whenever someone in the game drank some weird potion, the game crashed and reloaded itself. So my friends decided to use it to duplicate a few items and some cash. So far, so good. Then one of them got greedy, and proceeded to crash the game about 25 times in a row, managing to gain somewhere around 120 mill gold coins, when 200 thou was more money that you could spend in an afternoon, and of course that pissed the Gods off.
The point is... there's always gonna be someone who finds and exploit the loopholes. ut them ore greedy they are, the faster they're caught and the faster the loophole's fixed.
Oh, those glorious days of Copper Diku... (I'm ready for my 0 score now!)
Actually, regarding the "hopeless adventure" part...
Maybe the whole point of finding intelligent life in the rest of the Universe lies precisely in the hope it would bring humanity. It would be quite a boost for us as a race, I suppose.
It would be a higher goal for ourselves, more than merely surviving in our own little planet. Of course, I agree with feeding the starving, helping the homeless, and such, but there must be a way to balance both issues (and others just as important) when dealing with the resources we need to invest.
Note I said "invest", not "spend". There's a difference there. Regards, Luis
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Well in the rest of America, the Cartoon Network's Toonami consists of "Shadow Raiders", "Beast Wars", "The adventures of Johnny Quest" and "Pokemon". The only other anime I recall seeing lately in Latin CN is Speed Racer.
Barely on Topic: on the other hand, at least here in Mexico we get to see "Pokemon", "Ranma 1/2", "Dragon Ball Z" and "Dragon Ball GT" every day, plus several other shows. Guess what? The kids all over the country go nuts over the anime. I've got 7 and 9 year old cousins which know the names of all 251 Pokemon. I just hope they dont discover Hentai anime until they're 15!
Now, if you would only get a beautiful babe involved in this somehow, you could make a movie and call it "Me, Myself & ... some beautiful babe".
Better yet, make it an anime! Vladinator 1/2!
by visiting the NSA's Museum, will they use their resources to spam you with NSA-related stuff?
"I visited the National Cryptologic Museum and all I got was this lousy Net Trace"
Cant remember the name right now, but it dealt with some new plastic or glass substance which could trap light, which started being used in all kinds of applications, from using windows of the stuff to slow light 12 hours (in effect giving streets daylight during the night), to spying and government control at the end...
Anyone know which book Im talking about? Something like "Other days, other eyes"?
"Bugs Bunny"? Score one for the Discordians!
Null Serviam!
Brainania?
Only the sick mind of a self-proclaimed "geek" of this decade could conceive of such a thing, paralleled only by Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
I think I read somewhere that Nero wasnt even in Rome when it burned. But I'm no history buff, so I could be wrong.
A couple of days ago, in this very messaging board, somebody proposed a brilliant idea: instead of something useless like SETI or cracking RC5, one could dedicate those cycles to analysing satellite data that could help farmers plan crops. Truly wonderful. Sad thing, though, is that in a tech world like the one we have, "sexy" useless projects like SETI demand all the attention, while worthwhile causes like the latter languish. Truly sickening.
Actually, I'd rather try this collective effort on something really harmless, like the SETI project, until all the bugs and hoaxes and whatever are found and fixed, and only _then_ use it for something as important as crop planning. If something goes wrong with SETI, well whoopsie, you tell the geeks all over the world "guess what, we didn't find Little Green Men as we announced last month". If something goes wrong with the crop planning, would you be the one going to the farmer, and telling him/her/it "guess what, due to a small bug in CropCycles@home, your crop's useless for consumption. Too bad".
I'd say it's a good idea to explore new ways to use the unused CPU cycles, but for the moment, I see no problem in using it for SETI.
El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.-Benito Juarez
GameMaster: *Rolling a d20 die, checking the result* Why, you DO sense a disturbance in the Force!
I'd like to GM one of these games, if only to say those lines.
Man, I recall my DikuMUD days over at CopperMud ... had a friend of mine who did the same thing, made a female character and got tons of help, even from some of the Gods in the game.
We did find a bug someplace, whenever someone in the game drank some weird potion, the game crashed and reloaded itself. So my friends decided to use it to duplicate a few items and some cash. So far, so good. Then one of them got greedy, and proceeded to crash the game about 25 times in a row, managing to gain somewhere around 120 mill gold coins, when 200 thou was more money that you could spend in an afternoon, and of course that pissed the Gods off.
The point is... there's always gonna be someone who finds and exploit the loopholes. ut them ore greedy they are, the faster they're caught and the faster the loophole's fixed.
Oh, those glorious days of Copper Diku...
(I'm ready for my 0 score now!)
Are we talking about Roseanne?
Actually, regarding the "hopeless adventure" part...
Maybe the whole point of finding intelligent life in the rest of the Universe lies precisely in the hope it would bring humanity. It would be quite a boost for us as a race, I suppose.
It would be a higher goal for ourselves, more than merely surviving in our own little planet. Of course, I agree with feeding the starving, helping the homeless, and such, but there must be a way to balance both issues (and others just as important) when dealing with the resources we need to invest.
Note I said "invest", not "spend". There's a difference there. Regards, Luis