Let's face, a real human is pretty easy to kill. If some one starts shooting at you, chances are it is already too late. A single bullet, arrow, what ever, takes you out.
Try telling that to Max Payne. By the end of that game, even if he hadn't been shot several hundred times, he shouldn't have even been able to stand up due to all of the painkillers that he had taken.
Screw TV, I've got fireworks
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Tonight I'm going to be setting off nearly a hundred dollars worth of overpriced fireworks. They may be overpriced, but I consider having fireworks on New Year's Eve and the 4th of July to be just as essential a need as food and shelter. A New Year's Eve without the smell of gun powder in the air is something that I shudder to even contemplate.
Lately I've been recording my favorite shows using my TV tuner card and downloading others from Morpheus. What I would like to do is have some sort of program to select among my different video files with a remote. Ideally I would have a program to provide a unified interface to DVD viewing, TV, and playing video and audio files. What I really need is some sort of conglomeration of Ogle, MPlayer, Zapping, and some sort of file browser with which a snapshot from a video can easily be associated with a file (perhaps some sort of integration with Nautilus). I would like to put this together myself, but I'm not sure I'm up to it.
Some means of scheduling when to record something would be nice too. I think that simply bttvgrab and cron would work, but it would be nice to have the ability to set up the recording from this program.
I'd also need an extra hard drive or two, as my current 45GB one is going to be full before long.
Something like this could offer all of the capabilities of video on demand.
While I'm on the subject, does anyone know of a program I could use to cut the commercials out of my video files? I've got one file with 4 episodes of Samurai Jack, commercials and all, that is rather unwieldly.
I prefer the QT version of Nethack. I use Gnome and QT Nethack is the only QT program I normally run, but it's interface has fewer quirks as compared to the TTY version (which has its own irritations). Gnomehack is a bit more tolerable once you change the background to plain back, and though the big tiles are pretty, I dislike not being able to see the whole screen.
The Gtk+ that Slash'em has is pretty good, but I still like the QT interface better.
On the subject of Slash'em, it's fun at first but it seems like they just threw in everything without considering the impact it would have on the game. Playing as a monk is like riding around the Dungeons of Doom in a wheat thresher, running over everything that dares to oppose you. Adding lots of extra special levels makes things a little more interesting, but eventually I got so powerful that everything became tedious, nothing was a threat to me and so the game just seemed to drag on.
Unlike kinetic energy, which is absolute, and dependent wholly on the velocity of the energetic body, potential energy is relative - to what I'm not too sure.
Potential energy is measured relative to some point which is designated as zero. For gravitational potential zero is likely the floor of whatever frictionless, airless room the physics problem in question is taking place in. For a system of two charged particles, zero potential is generally chosen to be when the two particles are infinitely distant. Of course, what zero is doesn't matter when you're dealing with potential differences.
I belive I got that right, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
That reminds me of when I was in Prague. I watched an episode of Baywatch Nights. In this particular episode, some people found two frozen Vikings. They unfroze one, and he of course went on a rampage, making no attempts to communicate other than grunting. I have no idea why anyone bothered to translate that nonsense.
I also saw a John Wayne movie with Czech subtitles.
I have trouble understanding how someone can like UT better than Quake 3. It's like they threw in every stupid idea they had without bothering to think if it would improve the game or not. Quake 3 was simple-minded, but they made it work. Rather than having a hundred weapons, they used a few good ones.
I tried to explain why I didn't like UT to a UT fan once and for whatever reason he couldn't understand me. All he could say was "But in Unreal Tournament you can shoot a bunch of rockets at once!"
If you'll look at the parent of my post, you'll see that I was correcting some silly anonymous coward who claimed that "d'or" meant "of iron." I never claimed such a thing.
The skins that are available for MPlayer are pretty, but what I really want is an interface using standard GTK+ widgets. Also, for whatever reason Sawfish pitches a fit when I try to run the GUI version of MPlayer. It displays an error and then puts a title bar on the shaped MPlayer window.
I've had that problem before. I can't remember exactly what I did to fix it. I do know that it isn't the end of the world though. Try running oaf-slay and then running Evolution. If that doesn't work, back up your Evolution directory and try to copy the files containing your mail, tasks, calendar, etc. to some place else. Then delete the Evolution directory and start Evolution. Once it has regenerated the Evolution directory, close Evolution and copy the files back into their original places.
I think one of those two things will do it.
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Well, the heat's not "wasted" per se, there just wasn't any way to really use the heat prior to this device coming along (aside from the simple things like interior heat).
I was thinking about something like this the other day. Couldn't you just claim that the heat produced by the engine is an intended effect ("I meant to do that") and declare that you have created an engine with 100% efficiency.
Everyone needs to stop for a moment and reevaluate their thoughts on the issue. I do not "believe" in evolution. Instead, I consider it to be the most plausible explanation, which I have heard, of how humans and other creatures came about.
That is absolutely terrifying. I knew that the guy wasn't the most intelligent politician around, but you would think that when he was first elected governor that one of his aides would leave a copy of American Government for Dummies on his desk or something.
I'm not sure if I have all of this exactly right, but I'll give it a shot.
Cancerous cells are mutant cells which divide at a higher rate than is normal. Normal cells have mechanisms that control the rate at which they divide. Normal cells also have genes that cause them to kill themselves if they become cancerous. Cancer happens when through mutations a cell has faulty copies of the anti-cancer genes. People can be genetically predisposed to get cancer if they inherit some faulty anti-cancer genes (but still have some working ones).
Actually I thought that humans' "farts" didn't contain methane at all. Or at least, I remember hearing that. Cows do produce methane, and since methane is a greenhouse gas, cows contribute to global warming. Does anyone have confirmation of the above or am I mistaken?
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Try telling that to Max Payne. By the end of that game, even if he hadn't been shot several hundred times, he shouldn't have even been able to stand up due to all of the painkillers that he had taken.
Tonight I'm going to be setting off nearly a hundred dollars worth of overpriced fireworks. They may be overpriced, but I consider having fireworks on New Year's Eve and the 4th of July to be just as essential a need as food and shelter. A New Year's Eve without the smell of gun powder in the air is something that I shudder to even contemplate.
Some means of scheduling when to record something would be nice too. I think that simply bttvgrab and cron would work, but it would be nice to have the ability to set up the recording from this program.
I'd also need an extra hard drive or two, as my current 45GB one is going to be full before long.
Something like this could offer all of the capabilities of video on demand.
While I'm on the subject, does anyone know of a program I could use to cut the commercials out of my video files? I've got one file with 4 episodes of Samurai Jack, commercials and all, that is rather unwieldly.
You mean like this.
The Gtk+ that Slash'em has is pretty good, but I still like the QT interface better.
On the subject of Slash'em, it's fun at first but it seems like they just threw in everything without considering the impact it would have on the game. Playing as a monk is like riding around the Dungeons of Doom in a wheat thresher, running over everything that dares to oppose you. Adding lots of extra special levels makes things a little more interesting, but eventually I got so powerful that everything became tedious, nothing was a threat to me and so the game just seemed to drag on.
Potential energy is measured relative to some point which is designated as zero. For gravitational potential zero is likely the floor of whatever frictionless, airless room the physics problem in question is taking place in. For a system of two charged particles, zero potential is generally chosen to be when the two particles are infinitely distant. Of course, what zero is doesn't matter when you're dealing with potential differences.
I belive I got that right, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I also saw a John Wayne movie with Czech subtitles.
I tried to explain why I didn't like UT to a UT fan once and for whatever reason he couldn't understand me. All he could say was "But in Unreal Tournament you can shoot a bunch of rockets at once!"
Computers already are user fiendly.
If you'll look at the parent of my post, you'll see that I was correcting some silly anonymous coward who claimed that "d'or" meant "of iron." I never claimed such a thing.
Nope. Or means gold. It comes from the Latin word aurum. Fer means iron. It comes from the Latin word ferrum. Pretty simple really.
Ouch! That hurt!
The skins that are available for MPlayer are pretty, but what I really want is an interface using standard GTK+ widgets. Also, for whatever reason Sawfish pitches a fit when I try to run the GUI version of MPlayer. It displays an error and then puts a title bar on the shaped MPlayer window.
I think one of those two things will do it.
Apparently this uses less power than that would.
I was thinking about something like this the other day. Couldn't you just claim that the heat produced by the engine is an intended effect ("I meant to do that") and declare that you have created an engine with 100% efficiency.
It's been overused for a lot longer than the last two months.
Everyone needs to stop for a moment and reevaluate their thoughts on the issue. I do not "believe" in evolution. Instead, I consider it to be the most plausible explanation, which I have heard, of how humans and other creatures came about.
That is absolutely terrifying. I knew that the guy wasn't the most intelligent politician around, but you would think that when he was first elected governor that one of his aides would leave a copy of American Government for Dummies on his desk or something.
Cancerous cells are mutant cells which divide at a higher rate than is normal. Normal cells have mechanisms that control the rate at which they divide. Normal cells also have genes that cause them to kill themselves if they become cancerous. Cancer happens when through mutations a cell has faulty copies of the anti-cancer genes. People can be genetically predisposed to get cancer if they inherit some faulty anti-cancer genes (but still have some working ones).
There are gases other than methane that are flammable.
An athame is the preferable thing to use, it won't dull.
Actually I thought that humans' "farts" didn't contain methane at all. Or at least, I remember hearing that. Cows do produce methane, and since methane is a greenhouse gas, cows contribute to global warming. Does anyone have confirmation of the above or am I mistaken?
So basically you're saying that you want them to stop with the web-enabled crap and start with the web-enabled crapper.
GNU Emacs or XEmacs?