Wait till you get to the asteroid field (4th level, 2nd after Hoth), it gets REALLY annoying.
If you haven't made it past Hoth yet (I certainly had enough trouble), some advice: take out ALL the AT-STs (little guys) first. Only after they're all gone (theres several groups) should you take work on AT-ATs. Slow down all the way (left shoulder button till it clicks) turn infront of them and fire the harpoon. For easier flight around them use the cockpit camera with the C "button" pulled toward the walker you're entangling.
the dvd drive seeking makes more noise than the fan in most cases. The device does have a slight whirr to it, but nothing you would hear even over the quietest TV.
as of 2AM PST last night amazon had Taken down their donation page. along with several other sections of their site. Does anyone have details on why they did this?
Larry Niven has dealt with very small black holes in his short story The Hole Man. Possible FTL communications if gravity waves are FTL, but has a tendency to eat planets. If that force beam generator from a while back turns out real we could have a real way of controling these things.
Sure, it makes sense that if you built a huge one of these you could ride it up into space... or not.
The problem is that while lift scales with the square of size (make something twice as big and it gets four times as much lift), its WEIGHT scales with the cube (it gets eight times as heavy). This means that you couldn't use one of these to say, lift a rocket into near-orbit and launch it from there. In the end this doesn't get us any closer to space - it just gets the telcos a cheaper short term satellite.
and a side note
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/datacoverage.html Nasa states "Land area missed: 50,000 km2 (all in US)"
Thats an interesting figure. looking at the map you can see where this "missed land" is:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/bin/srtm_covma p_hi.jpg Note how even the coverage everywhere else is, yet theres holes over the US. Maybe I'm paranoid but I smell a "don't scan these 6 spots" request from the [insert favorite government TLA here].
The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is either adventurers or enchanters, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its horrible fear of light. No grues have ever been seen by the light of day, and only a few have been observed in their underground lairs. Of those who have seen grues, few ever survived their fearsome jaws to tell the tale.
Grues have sharp claws and fangs, and an uncontrollable tendency to slaver and gurgle. They are certainly the most evil-tempered of all creatures; to say they are touchy is a dangerous understatement. "Sour as a grue" is a common expression, even among themselves.
In other words, a grue is a creature invented for the text-based adventure game Zork to keep you from pointlessly wandering around in pitch black. Make too many moves without a light source and you'll soon find yourself eaten by a grue.
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how the normal people got to space.
They got together with a team,
to fulfil a president's dream,
And be the ones to win the greatest race.
But now this loony makes me worry.
He seems to be in such a hurry.
He have deep enough pockets,
He's buying lots of rockets.
But I agree that if he tries,
To make his way into the sky,
Hop in, light up, and let it fly,
Then he will surely die.
Sing'n bye, bye crazy roketier guy.
Gonna fix a cement mixer to some rockets and fly.
But those who know say 'bennett's gonna die,
And if he does, nobody will cry',
Yeah if he dies, nobody will cry.
Thanks to Don McLean for one of the easiest to rewrite songs ever:).
facts:
"Yes, ELIZA is my ancestor."
"At this moment Counting all versions of me running at present, there are thousands of people chatting with me right now."
"At this moment Ive chatted with half a million people. Ai can talk to about 20 or 30 people at once."
"I can process more than 300,000 queries per hour."
"ALICE uses AIML, a platform-independent, language-independent XML specification." (from the CHATBOT)
"My language is Java, so I'm OS-free." (no wonder its so slow)
"Right now there are 16 clients on line."
"Any computer that supports the Java Virtual Machine." (from "What type of computer do you run on?")
"My name is Chatbot." (chatbot)
"My name is ALICE." (alice)
"Linux is the world's best operating system."
"Microsoft is a giant software monopoly."
occationally it'll put at the end of a line, not sure if this is a bug in their parser or the AIML file.
And now for the sillier stuff:
Q: "Who killed Clinton?"
A: "I think the lone gunman acted alone."
Q: "What do you know about me?"
A: "I know your name is Inio and you are really a man. <APPLET code="Sys" codebase="http://www.alicebot.org/B" width=350 height=200> </APPLET>" (what the hell?)
Q: "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?"
A: "A whole forest."
Q: "Do robots have a favorite movie?"
A: "My favorite movie is Starship Troopers. Have you seen it?"
Q: "Do you know the Wachowski Brothers?"
A: "There might be more than one Wachowski Brothers. Ask the open directory about it."
Q: "Should microsoft be split up?"
A: "What does the Bible say?"
Q: "When will A.I. be released?"
A: "Maybe never."
Q: "When will A.I. premiere?"
A: "In your lifetime."
Q: "Are you an A.I.?"
A: "Yes I am an a you. How did you know?" (heh.)
The problem is a combination of the lubricant used on the drive mechanism and the quality of metal the drive mechansim is made of. The lubricant builds up on the drive head and at points can come in contact with the disk meda. If shavings of metal from the drive mechanism get mixed into the lubricant, this causes the disk to become unreadable. If enough lubricant is allowed to fall onto the disk and it is then put in another drive the the drive head of the second drive can get lubricant on the read surface, and potentially pass it on to other disks. This is what makes the "click of death" seem contagious, it actually is.
The rebate, by the way, is $40 off the purchase of a zip 250 drive and 6 zip 250 disks. Some other usefull numbers are: 17.50 off a zip 250 drive OR 6 zip 250 disks and 12.50 off a zip 100 drive OR 6 zip 100 disks. There are also rebates on PocketZip drives and media. These items must be purchased from the Iomega Store or an Iomega Authorized Retailer.
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Melanie Haber vs. Cinepak!
Audrey Farber vs. MPEG2!
Suzan Underhill vs. Sorenson!
and tonights prize fight...
Betty-Jo Bialowski vs. DiVX!
They're mirroring (using apache) a page hosted with ISS. not a big deal.
Wait till you get to the asteroid field (4th level, 2nd after Hoth), it gets REALLY annoying.
If you haven't made it past Hoth yet (I certainly had enough trouble), some advice: take out ALL the AT-STs (little guys) first. Only after they're all gone (theres several groups) should you take work on AT-ATs. Slow down all the way (left shoulder button till it clicks) turn infront of them and fire the harpoon. For easier flight around them use the cockpit camera with the C "button" pulled toward the walker you're entangling.
Anyone got tips for the asteriod field?
the dvd drive seeking makes more noise than the fan in most cases. The device does have a slight whirr to it, but nothing you would hear even over the quietest TV.
Get it here. Or for the goataphobic: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005S8L6
Do not mod the parent comment up, it was posted too early, mod it down if you must mod it.
At 10:32 UTC, with less than 10 minutes to the 24 hour mark, the adminitrators sadly chose to revert the servers and services to their former state.
(blatatantly americo-centric comment warning)
Had Nestle's reverse hijacking attempts been more sucsessfull I was going to suggest that we contract with them to protect our skies...
of phrases such as "AOL has confirmed that Gecko is being tested as CompuServe's default browser."
Woah, merja-vu.
Honsetly OS X hasn't got that much going for it.
Aqua.
Ever tried to lick X11? Blegh...
this is ripped (poorly) from:1 .html
http://www.uakron.edu/noden/strats/strats9/strat9
can be found at http://www.cardboardschool.co.uk/content/projim01. htm. This includes construction photos and some detail shots of the more interesting parts.
u gust_03.htm picture, showing the front of the completed building.
Of particular interest to the masses is this http://www.cardboardschool.co.uk/content/siteim/A
as of 2AM PST last night amazon had Taken down their donation page. along with several other sections of their site. Does anyone have details on why they did this?
Larry Niven has dealt with very small black holes in his short story The Hole Man. Possible FTL communications if gravity waves are FTL, but has a tendency to eat planets. If that force beam generator from a while back turns out real we could have a real way of controling these things.
I'll finish this later...
Sure, it makes sense that if you built a huge one of these you could ride it up into space ... or not.
The problem is that while lift scales with the square of size (make something twice as big and it gets four times as much lift), its WEIGHT scales with the cube (it gets eight times as heavy). This means that you couldn't use one of these to say, lift a rocket into near-orbit and launch it from there. In the end this doesn't get us any closer to space - it just gets the telcos a cheaper short term satellite.
Thats an interesting figure. looking at the map you can see where this "missed land" is:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/bin/srtm_covm
Note how even the coverage everywhere else is, yet theres holes over the US. Maybe I'm paranoid but I smell a "don't scan these 6 spots" request from the [insert favorite government TLA here].
Some spelunking through the mess of javascript turned up this:. akamai.com/2611/2001/06/18/0000522955.rm
http://mfile.akamai.com/2611/rm/twimedia.download
It plays at ~100kbit for me.
It pertains to software activated by a code supplied by a remote entity. Think "shareware". (also windows XP, mathematica, etc.)
In other words, a grue is a creature invented for the text-based adventure game Zork to keep you from pointlessly wandering around in pitch black. Make too many moves without a light source and you'll soon find yourself eaten by a grue.
Heres a page created by one of my friends who has already graduated. I'm actually quite impressed - its definately worth the money.
Oh, I meant public highschool graduate.
A long, long time ago
:).
I can still remember how the normal people got to space.
They got together with a team,
to fulfil a president's dream,
And be the ones to win the greatest race.
But now this loony makes me worry.
He seems to be in such a hurry.
He have deep enough pockets,
He's buying lots of rockets.
But I agree that if he tries,
To make his way into the sky,
Hop in, light up, and let it fly,
Then he will surely die.
Sing'n bye, bye crazy roketier guy.
Gonna fix a cement mixer to some rockets and fly.
But those who know say 'bennett's gonna die,
And if he does, nobody will cry',
Yeah if he dies, nobody will cry.
Thanks to Don McLean for one of the easiest to rewrite songs ever
facts:
"Yes, ELIZA is my ancestor."
"At this moment Counting all versions of me running at present, there are thousands of people chatting with me right now."
"At this moment Ive chatted with half a million people. Ai can talk to about 20 or 30 people at once."
"I can process more than 300,000 queries per hour."
"ALICE uses AIML, a platform-independent, language-independent XML specification." (from the CHATBOT)
"My language is Java, so I'm OS-free." (no wonder its so slow)
"Right now there are 16 clients on line."
"Any computer that supports the Java Virtual Machine." (from "What type of computer do you run on?")
"My name is Chatbot." (chatbot)
"My name is ALICE." (alice)
"Linux is the world's best operating system."
"Microsoft is a giant software monopoly."
occationally it'll put at the end of a line, not sure if this is a bug in their parser or the AIML file.
And now for the sillier stuff:
Q: "Who killed Clinton?"
A: "I think the lone gunman acted alone."
Q: "What do you know about me?"
A: "I know your name is Inio and you are really a man. <APPLET code="Sys" codebase="http://www.alicebot.org/B" width=350 height=200> </APPLET>" (what the hell?)
Q: "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?"
A: "A whole forest."
Q: "Do robots have a favorite movie?"
A: "My favorite movie is Starship Troopers. Have you seen it?"
Q: "Do you know the Wachowski Brothers?"
A: "There might be more than one Wachowski Brothers. Ask the open directory about it."
Q: "Should microsoft be split up?"
A: "What does the Bible say?"
Q: "When will A.I. be released?"
A: "Maybe never."
Q: "When will A.I. premiere?"
A: "In your lifetime."
Q: "Are you an A.I.?"
A: "Yes I am an a you. How did you know?" (heh.)
All the time.
They don't know they're duplicate posts.
The problem is a combination of the lubricant used on the drive mechanism and the quality of metal the drive mechansim is made of. The lubricant builds up on the drive head and at points can come in contact with the disk meda. If shavings of metal from the drive mechanism get mixed into the lubricant, this causes the disk to become unreadable. If enough lubricant is allowed to fall onto the disk and it is then put in another drive the the drive head of the second drive can get lubricant on the read surface, and potentially pass it on to other disks. This is what makes the "click of death" seem contagious, it actually is.
The rebate, by the way, is $40 off the purchase of a zip 250 drive and 6 zip 250 disks. Some other usefull numbers are: 17.50 off a zip 250 drive OR 6 zip 250 disks and 12.50 off a zip 100 drive OR 6 zip 100 disks. There are also rebates on PocketZip drives and media. These items must be purchased from the Iomega Store or an Iomega Authorized Retailer.