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Heh. Clicked the button? I don't know why Microsoft doesn't use their Agent tech for Clippy. The Agent stuff is actually well done and does voice commands and text to speech with cute animation. (A pig for resources, and you'll still want to shoot them.) Now if only they'd make Clippy so that he starves to death if you don't feed him...
It's too bad that there are rating systems now. I had a bad moment when I went to see Ralph Backshi's Wizards, and the theater was full of kids and parents to see the "cartoon". However...
Price of movie:
Popcorn: $1.50
Expression on parents faces after the two-legged horse dies from an arrow with its eye hanging out and the elf maid "up front and in close": Priceless! (And the kids loved it.)
There are two trains of thought as to where Elron Hubbard got the term wog (1) A nasty term for foreign people who don't look or talk like us (retro-PC'ed to Worthy Oriental Gentleman), (2) A newbe sailor in the navy who hasn't crossed the equator yet. (Pollywog)
Take your pick, either is possible. (My pick is #1, but that's just me.)
A retired bishop says Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings have revealed a need for spiritual experience.
The Right Reverend Jim Thompson says the films show how much fantasies about "another dimension" appeal to the general public.
The former Church of England Bishop of Bath and Wells says people are in search of spiritual experience and vision.
"Part of this perhaps is the re-creation of what has been lost to so many modern minds, namely the eternal dimension central to most religions, especially the Christian faith," he said.
The Bishop was speaking at the presentation ceremony for the Sandford St Martin Trust Awards for excellence in religious broadcasting.
He says he believes broadcasting has an increasingly important role as young people shun organised religion, finding the Church unsatisfactory as a way of "exploring the spirit."
Bishop Thompson's remarks about Harry Potter come after the ecumenical body, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, urged churches to use Harry Potter a means of spreading the Christian message.
The children's bestsellers have been attacked by evangelicals in the past as glamorising the occult.
Of course, he is retired, and doesn't have to worry about being banished to Bishop of Lossiemouth for saying what he thinks. As for the Fallwells and Robertsons, they were born (again) bent of shape. The problem is when they try to bend the world to fit...
Re:Will this work with any fast IP connection?
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Hmm... Couldn't you register with another device (spoofing the MAC) and go ahead and play?
That could be a nice little campus business for for the people with the technical skills to do it.
A US scientist has named an ant after Harrison Ford.
Edward Wilson has called a Central American ant, Peidole harrisonfordi, to honour the actor's conservation work.
Ford is Vice Chairman of the American society Conservation International.
Wilson, a Harvard University scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has also named a shiny brown ant from Mexico, Pheidole mooreorum, after Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.
The Moores are leading environmental philanthropists.
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So you think that ants are big endian?
Re:you obviously don't live in southern CA
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All problems in the universe can be solved with enough Duct Tape and WD-40!
An imaginary scene at an imaginary company (which might be at 216.191.154.26, 216.254.139.78, or even 217.13.224.218):
An HR Person and a Marketeer are doing lunch.
HRP: I don't know what to do about the incessant demands from Software
Development.
M: Oh? What's wrong?
HRP: They keep asking for more people. A year ago, they needed a few
developers, six months ago they needed a few developers, now they need
several developers and a manager. They're driving me crazy!
M: Wow! What do they do with all those developers?
HRP: I don't know. shrug I never hire any.
(Dedicated to those companies that have listed the same jobs on their web site for over a year.)
Except for the switch to liquid hydrogen, most liquid fuel rockets are descendants of the V-2. I mean it's not like it's rocket sci^w^w nuclear physics or anything.
Safe, conventional designs, off the shelf, but that means that you'll still need something the size of an Atlas to actually put something into orbit. Hopefully some of the other teams are trying something new.
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Heh. Clicked the button? I don't know why Microsoft doesn't use their Agent tech for Clippy. The Agent stuff is actually well done and does voice commands and text to speech with cute animation. (A pig for resources, and you'll still want to shoot them.) Now if only they'd make Clippy so that he starves to death if you don't feed him...
Who said that he didn't? He wasn't above telling a complete lie (from a certain point of view), and he said that he didn't recall owning any droids.
I've never read Neverwinter Nights. What's it about?
Chris Columbus says he wishes he could have included the Deathday scene in the film version of Chamber Of Secrets.
"It was one of my favourite scenes in the book. But we just felt we would push it in terms of structure".
I'm not going to quote the whole thing. Getting votes by proxy is just kind of embarrassing, and I won't want to be a copyright terrorist.
Price of movie: Popcorn: $1.50
Expression on parents faces after the two-legged horse dies from an arrow with its eye hanging out and the elf maid "up front and in close": Priceless! (And the kids loved it.)
Take your pick, either is possible. (My pick is #1, but that's just me.)
(Chorus) Hi TerryAtWork!
(I can't say definitively if Conan ever killed a basilisk, but he certainly killed just about everything else.)
Or "wogs" like a certain Cthurch does.
A retired bishop says Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings have revealed a need for spiritual experience.
The Right Reverend Jim Thompson says the films show how much fantasies about "another dimension" appeal to the general public.
The former Church of England Bishop of Bath and Wells says people are in search of spiritual experience and vision.
"Part of this perhaps is the re-creation of what has been lost to so many modern minds, namely the eternal dimension central to most religions, especially the Christian faith," he said.
The Bishop was speaking at the presentation ceremony for the Sandford St Martin Trust Awards for excellence in religious broadcasting.
He says he believes broadcasting has an increasingly important role as young people shun organised religion, finding the Church unsatisfactory as a way of "exploring the spirit."
Bishop Thompson's remarks about Harry Potter come after the ecumenical body, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, urged churches to use Harry Potter a means of spreading the Christian message.
The children's bestsellers have been attacked by evangelicals in the past as glamorising the occult.
Of course, he is retired, and doesn't have to worry about being banished to Bishop of Lossiemouth for saying what he thinks. As for the Fallwells and Robertsons, they were born (again) bent of shape. The problem is when they try to bend the world to fit...
That could be a nice little campus business for for the people with the technical skills to do it.
Maybe, if it's reliable and handles voices under stress. And if Microsoft doesn't give Clippy the job: "I see that you're trying to kill the Zerg..."
A US scientist has named an ant after Harrison Ford.
Edward Wilson has called a Central American ant, Peidole harrisonfordi, to honour the actor's conservation work.
Ford is Vice Chairman of the American society Conservation International.
Wilson, a Harvard University scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has also named a shiny brown ant from Mexico, Pheidole mooreorum, after Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.
The Moores are leading environmental philanthropists.
So you think that ants are big endian?
All problems in the universe can be solved with enough Duct Tape and WD-40!
But what about wooden operating systems that want to become real operating systems?
The ants go marching two by two... hooray! hooray!
Hopefully he realizes that his vacuum cleaner is now infected and disposes of the bag ASAP.
This reminds me of Rudy Rucker's SF book, The Hacker and the Ants. Go SquidBoy!
I wonder what they were doing in Hudson's Bay. Checking for empty vodka bottles?
I guess the pilot is rarely allowed to do donuts on the bottom with the wheels... :^)
An HR Person and a Marketeer are doing lunch.
HRP: I don't know what to do about the incessant demands from Software Development.
M: Oh? What's wrong?
HRP: They keep asking for more people. A year ago, they needed a few developers, six months ago they needed a few developers, now they need several developers and a manager. They're driving me crazy!
M: Wow! What do they do with all those developers?
HRP: I don't know. shrug I never hire any.
(Dedicated to those companies that have listed the same jobs on their web site for over a year.)
Nar, you're far far too late for that! :^)
And the first Dirk Gently book is basically a relabeled Dr. Who story.
Since when has that ever been a handicap for playing The Doctor?
2002-11-14 10:42:33 Shooting for the X Prize (articles,space) (rejected)
Figure that space stories have to be submitted first thing in the morning?
Safe, conventional designs, off the shelf, but that means that you'll still need something the size of an Atlas to actually put something into orbit. Hopefully some of the other teams are trying something new.