Unfortunately, too many cases require immunity from prosecution in order to make even one stick.
While I would agree wholeheartedly that Megan Meier should also be punished to the fullest extent of the law, without her testimony it is possible that both women would have walked away scott-free from this atrocious act.
Ideally, I would like to see both women in prison, for a lot longer than 3 years. As a parent, I was horrified at this entire story...how another parent could do this just blows my mind.
We make people take tests to drive, to graduate schools, to get stupid worthless IT certificates...
I have heard people complain about Eve, and how hard it is for a new player to get into and enjoy.
And its true. After 5 years, I have a few lessons to pass on.
For anyone who is used to simple smash-n-spell MMO's, Eve can simply be overwhelming. The sheer number of fittings that can be put on even a Tech 1 frigate is huge, although after you learn to fit a ship properly the pool shrinks considerably as you stop fitting shotgun-style and start fitting purpose-specific.
Google is your friend, as is EveMon (a charater skill planner) and Eve Fitting Tool (a ship fitting program). New pilots should also do the tutorials, this isnt like most games where you can just jump right in, the tutorials have a lot of very important information.
Eve is a very dark universe, which may be part of the hurdle to overcome for people used to kindness and caring in a game community.
Paranoia is a good thing. People ARE out to get you.
Not to be a party pooper, but a Dyson sphere would surround the star, not orbit it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Could this not be a binary star system that the primary pulled enough mass off the secondary to take it below the mass required to fuse? It seems unlikely, but the universe is a rather large place, and we have seen so very little of it. Or possibly an ancient stellar core remnant that was captured? Maybe we are just seeing the last 100k years of the process. With an orbital period of less than 5 days, that planet is humming along, maybe it is a decaying orbit that will result in a collision and an even more spectacular event to be witnessed by some future generation. Heck, just for sheer scifi speculation, maybe its a neutron star that burned itself out 5 billion years ago and accreted enough new material to appear planet sized, those are certainly dense enough, something on the order of a teaspoon worth of neutron star is near the weight of the Earth.
Or more likely, its a observational error that will be corrected with further study.
After many years of research, we have re-discovered a primitive device that can provide as much as a 23% increase in fuel savings. There is some prior art, but surely after 50 million years the statute of limitations has run out?
The books started with such promise, action and just the right hint of risque possibilities. But by the 6th book it had taken on this horrific endless Days of Our Lives persona that you just knew would not end well. By the 9th book I was so sick of waiting for something, anything to happen that I was just about unplugged. My wife bought me the 10th book, and I did something I almost never do...I flipped to the end to see if he finally wrapped it up.
I put the book on a shelf and never read it.
Maybe wikipedia will post the ending someday, and I will chance across it.
are you kidding me? The 80's was a seminal decade for guitar. GIT anyone? Didnt anyone here have a Lita Ford poster?
Eric Johnson - Tones Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien Stevie Ray Vaughn - nuff said.
And as for hair bands sucking, yes there were a few that were obscene and ridiculed...funny how some of them are considered the 'classics' now...Twisted Sister? AYFKM? Quiet Riot I could at least understand because Randy played with them for a while... What about Dokken, or Crue? Paul Gilbert and RacerX? Yngwie? Dire Straits? Holy crap the list goes on of killer guitar from the 80's...even The Smiths as someone else pointed out...
Seems to me some of these posters are actually quite clueless when it comes to 80'S guitar rock. Or are you really that impressed by 3 chord wonders like Nirvana and Pearl Jam?
Since the early days of the space program, lives have been wasted and money shoveled down the gaping maw of the 'status-quo' machine.
We should/could have been out there by now. There are overwhelming reasons, political and economic, to get this freaking horse to run already.
So now they give us a 'new and improved' assbox that has limited mission goals, is incapable of leaving orbit, and cant get itself to space. Whats new in that?
[quote]"It's not a game of winners and losers...but rather an entry into another world with stories and plot changes"[/quote]
Sounds suspiciously like the Bush administration.
SLI-who needs it?
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For some of us, SLI is not a new technology, although the current method is slightly different than the old VooDoo SLI. But after years of gaming, one thing stands out to me. You DON'T need the latest and greatest stuff to run games in most cases. Better to use your hardware budget wisely than to splurge on ultra-swank single components.
I run an AMD 1700, on an ABIT mainboard, with an old ATI9600. Not the pro, but the $79 budget card. I have no exotic cooling, just a nice sink and fan. I added a good copper fan unit to the videocard, which came with passive cooling. I use the features of the Abit MB to run the 1700 at 2.11Ghz, and the video got a 80Mhz bump. I see over 70fps in the CS:Source test, and average around 55-60 online. All for about the cost of one video card.
The iFeel mouse was the best gaming mouse ever, IMHO. UT had a patch for it, and it was/is (as I still use mine to play UT) the best addition to FPS gaming I could think of. Really added to the experience. Very distinctive feedback for each weapon, and also for hits that the player takes, which helps a lot more than you think. I hardly notice when my health goes down, but I always knew to jump away when the mouse started to give warning. Rather amazing range of tactile feedback too.
The biggest problem with adoption by the gaming community was the ass-backwards marketing done by Immersion. They pushed it as a Office and Word tool, rather than its much more obvious market. Real bonehead by the marketing team.
It's real, duplicatable, and apparently gonna be well funded. The idea of a nearly lag-free global Internet, owned and operated by the US Airforce, just makes me all warm and tingly inside.
Any takers on the recent space pictures getting transmitted back real time? Proof of concept works, ask for funding boys!
Until about 5 years ago, the general consensus in science was that Robert Feynmann, and K. Eric Drexler were rather odd ducks. After all, they claimed that atoms could be manipulated like Legos! What self-respecting physicist would listen to such madmen?
Actually we all do now. Nanotech is a serious science with serious intentions.
Antimatter is dangerous. So is taking a shower, just ask a life insurance company which one the pay more claims for.
As with all human endeavor, the goal must be capable of justifying the costs.
Is the ability to seed the galaxy with human curiosity and intelligence worth the risks of damaging or destroying the planet?
Couldnt a big rock we didnt see do the same thing, with no potential for reward?
We have all our eggs in one small, insignificant basket.
but the facts are both disturbing, and exciting. Not one of us caould possibly be truly prepared for the speed at which technology is evolving. What was science fiction 30 years ago became science research frontiers 20 years ago became science fundamentals 10, and now becomes reality. Every day seems to bring some advance, not always "revolutionary, but then we have a pretty good idea where we are going. It really doesn't matter if nanotechnology, or computational biology, or even quantum computing gets there first. Any of them holds the keys to the others, and combined they hold the keys to the universe. If a human mind had control of mature, developed technologies like those, he/she could literally create entire worlds, and more. Talk about your 'God Sim'. Even time itself would have to bow before the energies and technologies brought to heel by humble homo sapiens. Watching Discovery channel a while back, some bright-eyed young scientist eagerly telling Alan Alda about a method she discovered of extending the lifespan of flatworms. And rats. He gets a real somber face, and says... What about humans? She kinda smiles and says, Oh yeah....we could do that, too, easy. She had been tripling the lifespan of these worms, and rats. What would you do with 210 years? Or the ability to modify your appearance, radically? New techniques could offer ways to enhance your mind, and your body. I am for the future. It really gives me a thrill to live in the world I read about 20 years ago as a kid. But, as an adult, I realize now that there are many reasons why some people should not have dangerous toys. And for that justification, the powers-that-be may very well decide who gets to have these new and amazing technologies. But in the case of almost all of these technologies, research can be done anywhere, especially computational biology. That means that Saddam Hussein can do cutting edge research, using $499 desktop DNA machines. Is that the guy you want making new and exciting DNA changes? An effort must be made to discuss and consider the ethics and responsibilities that are going to go with the future we are creating . http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000706/000706-2.html
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ugh, i am an idiot...i had Megan Meier's name in my head writing that...
Unfortunately, too many cases require immunity from prosecution in order to make even one stick.
While I would agree wholeheartedly that Megan Meier should also be punished to the fullest extent of the law, without her testimony it is possible that both women would have walked away scott-free from this atrocious act.
Ideally, I would like to see both women in prison, for a lot longer than 3 years. As a parent, I was horrified at this entire story...how another parent could do this just blows my mind.
We make people take tests to drive, to graduate schools, to get stupid worthless IT certificates...
I have heard people complain about Eve, and how hard it is for a new player to get into and enjoy.
And its true. After 5 years, I have a few lessons to pass on.
For anyone who is used to simple smash-n-spell MMO's, Eve can simply be overwhelming. The sheer number of fittings that can be put on even a Tech 1 frigate is huge, although after you learn to fit a ship properly the pool shrinks considerably as you stop fitting shotgun-style and start fitting purpose-specific.
Google is your friend, as is EveMon (a charater skill planner) and Eve Fitting Tool (a ship fitting program). New pilots should also do the tutorials, this isnt like most games where you can just jump right in, the tutorials have a lot of very important information.
Eve is a very dark universe, which may be part of the hurdle to overcome for people used to kindness and caring in a game community.
Paranoia is a good thing. People ARE out to get you.
Not to be a party pooper, but a Dyson sphere would surround the star, not orbit it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Could this not be a binary star system that the primary pulled enough mass off the secondary to take it below the mass required to fuse? It seems unlikely, but the universe is a rather large place, and we have seen so very little of it. Or possibly an ancient stellar core remnant that was captured? Maybe we are just seeing the last 100k years of the process. With an orbital period of less than 5 days, that planet is humming along, maybe it is a decaying orbit that will result in a collision and an even more spectacular event to be witnessed by some future generation. Heck, just for sheer scifi speculation, maybe its a neutron star that burned itself out 5 billion years ago and accreted enough new material to appear planet sized, those are certainly dense enough, something on the order of a teaspoon worth of neutron star is near the weight of the Earth.
Or more likely, its a observational error that will be corrected with further study.
After many years of research, we have re-discovered a primitive device that can provide as much as a 23% increase in fuel savings. There is some prior art, but surely after 50 million years the statute of limitations has run out?
http://www.pipeline.com/~bkyaffe/altfuel/image/fnwincar.jpg
It seems fairly promising at this point, as the beta testers keep telling us its a 'Yabba Dabba Do-time' when using it.
First, let my condolences go out to his family.
The books started with such promise, action and just the right hint of risque possibilities. But by the 6th book it had taken on this horrific endless Days of Our Lives persona that you just knew would not end well. By the 9th book I was so sick of waiting for something, anything to happen that I was just about unplugged. My wife bought me the 10th book, and I did something I almost never do...I flipped to the end to see if he finally wrapped it up.
I put the book on a shelf and never read it.
Maybe wikipedia will post the ending someday, and I will chance across it.
are you kidding me? The 80's was a seminal decade for guitar. GIT anyone? Didnt anyone here have a Lita Ford poster?
Eric Johnson - Tones
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Stevie Ray Vaughn - nuff said.
And as for hair bands sucking, yes there were a few that were obscene and ridiculed...funny how some of them are considered the 'classics' now...Twisted Sister? AYFKM? Quiet Riot I could at least understand because Randy played with them for a while... What about Dokken, or Crue? Paul Gilbert and RacerX? Yngwie? Dire Straits? Holy crap the list goes on of killer guitar from the 80's...even The Smiths as someone else pointed out...
Seems to me some of these posters are actually quite clueless when it comes to 80'S guitar rock. Or are you really that impressed by 3 chord wonders like Nirvana and Pearl Jam?
Since the early days of the space program, lives have been wasted and money shoveled down the gaping maw of the 'status-quo' machine.
We should/could have been out there by now. There are overwhelming reasons, political and economic, to get this freaking horse to run already.
So now they give us a 'new and improved' assbox that has limited mission goals, is incapable of leaving orbit, and cant get itself to space. Whats new in that?
sr71 blackbirds...
and I also thought they were de-commed...although i seem to remember a couple being brought back in the mid-90's...
[quote]"It's not a game of winners and losers...but rather an entry into another world with stories and plot changes"[/quote]
Sounds suspiciously like the Bush administration.
For some of us, SLI is not a new technology, although the current method is slightly different than the old VooDoo SLI. But after years of gaming, one thing stands out to me. You DON'T need the latest and greatest stuff to run games in most cases. Better to use your hardware budget wisely than to splurge on ultra-swank single components.
I run an AMD 1700, on an ABIT mainboard, with an old ATI9600. Not the pro, but the $79 budget card. I have no exotic cooling, just a nice sink and fan. I added a good copper fan unit to the videocard, which came with passive cooling. I use the features of the Abit MB to run the 1700 at 2.11Ghz, and the video got a 80Mhz bump. I see over 70fps in the CS:Source test, and average around 55-60 online. All for about the cost of one video card.
The iFeel mouse was the best gaming mouse ever, IMHO. UT had a patch for it, and it was/is (as I still use mine to play UT) the best addition to FPS gaming I could think of. Really added to the experience. Very distinctive feedback for each weapon, and also for hits that the player takes, which helps a lot more than you think. I hardly notice when my health goes down, but I always knew to jump away when the mouse started to give warning. Rather amazing range of tactile feedback too.
The biggest problem with adoption by the gaming community was the ass-backwards marketing done by Immersion. They pushed it as a Office and Word tool, rather than its much more obvious market. Real bonehead by the marketing team.
Quantum Entanglement isn't science fiction.
http://www.setileague.org/editor/darcy.htm
It's real, duplicatable, and apparently gonna be well funded. The idea of a nearly lag-free global Internet, owned and operated by the US Airforce, just makes me all warm and tingly inside.
Any takers on the recent space pictures getting transmitted back real time? Proof of concept works, ask for funding boys!
Try iZotope, a WinAmp plug in. It will take your speakers to places your sound card is not allowed to go.
Until about 5 years ago, the general consensus in science was that Robert Feynmann, and K. Eric Drexler were rather odd ducks. After all, they claimed that atoms could be manipulated like Legos! What self-respecting physicist would listen to such madmen? Actually we all do now. Nanotech is a serious science with serious intentions. Antimatter is dangerous. So is taking a shower, just ask a life insurance company which one the pay more claims for. As with all human endeavor, the goal must be capable of justifying the costs. Is the ability to seed the galaxy with human curiosity and intelligence worth the risks of damaging or destroying the planet? Couldnt a big rock we didnt see do the same thing, with no potential for reward? We have all our eggs in one small, insignificant basket.
but the facts are both disturbing, and exciting. Not one of us caould possibly be truly prepared for the speed at which technology is evolving. What was science fiction 30 years ago became science research frontiers 20 years ago became science fundamentals 10, and now becomes reality. Every day seems to bring some advance, not always "revolutionary, but then we have a pretty good idea where we are going. It really doesn't matter if nanotechnology, or computational biology, or even quantum computing gets there first. Any of them holds the keys to the others, and combined they hold the keys to the universe. If a human mind had control of mature, developed technologies like those, he/she could literally create entire worlds, and more. Talk about your 'God Sim'. Even time itself would have to bow before the energies and technologies brought to heel by humble homo sapiens. Watching Discovery channel a while back, some bright-eyed young scientist eagerly telling Alan Alda about a method she discovered of extending the lifespan of flatworms. And rats. He gets a real somber face, and says... What about humans? She kinda smiles and says, Oh yeah....we could do that, too, easy. She had been tripling the lifespan of these worms, and rats. What would you do with 210 years? Or the ability to modify your appearance, radically? New techniques could offer ways to enhance your mind, and your body. I am for the future. It really gives me a thrill to live in the world I read about 20 years ago as a kid. But, as an adult, I realize now that there are many reasons why some people should not have dangerous toys. And for that justification, the powers-that-be may very well decide who gets to have these new and amazing technologies. But in the case of almost all of these technologies, research can be done anywhere, especially computational biology. That means that Saddam Hussein can do cutting edge research, using $499 desktop DNA machines. Is that the guy you want making new and exciting DNA changes? An effort must be made to discuss and consider the ethics and responsibilities that are going to go with the future we are creating . http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000706/000706-2.html