I don't see any problem wth it running out of electricity. If it is down too deep to collect any light and is low on energy it could just shift boyancy, go into a low power standby mode, and float to surface.
When it charges back up, kick into full gear and go kick some more deepwater-glow-in-the-dark-space-robot-extreme godzilla ass or whatever...
We must harness the power of THE SUN to defeat deepwater-glow-in-the-dark-space-robot-extreme godzilla!!!!!! Uh, shit, I'm a dumbass...
Anyhow, that seems to make sense to me (well, except that godzilla part). I'm a total dumbass, though, so feel free to point and laugh.
I've noticed some people don't seem to like the standardization effort, stating that it brings about less choice and product differentiation. "Linux is about choice" and whatnot.
How the fuck does being able to download and install a program on any linux distro give you less choice?
Linux NEEDS a standard way to install programs. This is a major barrier to getting the average user to use linux.
In windows, you download an installer, double click, a screen pops up, you follow instructions. Linux needs this ease of installation.
There are a lot of great open source apps that have come out for linux that are easily as good or better than closed source software for linux, but if people have no clue how to install and uninstall things they just WON'T use linux.
Linux, right now, can only be manipulated by hardcore geeks. Sure someone who is spoonfed linux can run apps by themselves, but they won't be able to do anything else and will rely on their geek relation to install new things or fix problems.
If users can easily install and uninstall programs from whatever distro, they are free to "play" more with linux. They can test out what programs they like and then use the damn stuff.
If users can't figure out how to install some damn software they will get frustrated, and yell "FUCK OFF, DAMN YOU!!!1!!one" really loud at their monitor and proceed to use windows.
Granted, most people don't want to play with programs. However, the easy of installation will attract a new group of people to linux. It'll attract those how know about computers, like to tinker, but don't code for a living. Those people will, in turn, attract the teeming mass of zombies.
So yeah I guess I could sum it up with: standard installer = good standard installer != lack of choices
Anyhow, the "ubersuperior" geeks can have fun flaming me (and my typos, I don't check these posts for typos....).
The day that linux gets standardized installers that are just "click and install" with some options (like a windows installers) and a standardized install directory (a "program files" directory) is the day that thousands apon thousands flock to linux.
People give up on linux because they don't know how to install apps and games. They download stuff then say, "WTF is this shit? How do I use this?" Then, after realizing 90% of linux apps are like this just give up on linux.
Even when people can learn to install stuff they often don't know where the hell to install it to (people are used to not having to organize programs themselves, just throw em wherever it wants to go). We don't need fancy caching of downloaded apps and shit. We just need some standardization of the installers (shortcuts on the desktop or popup menu couldn't hurt either). That's what your average computer user wants.
Total troll material... Of course some forms of martial arts are just that...... arts..... No one's going to be kicking any ass with Tai Chi any time soon. Kung Fu by itself can be fairly effective in combat and is a good starter in martial arts if one wants to achieve those goals.
Also, just being big doesn't make you able to fight better. I had a friend who was a very good football player and could benchpress 350lbs 15 times. He was ganged up on by 3 guys and he ended up taking self defense classes later that month. That's not the point, though.
The point isn't to get the kid overconfident in his fighting skills. It's to get him to think outside of his little sheltered world. He needs a new perspective on things. Being really smart tends to make one more introverted due to the other 90% of the population being jealous or feeling alienated.
Teaching him some martial arts will force him to work with others (lending to social skills) and will give him somthing to talk about other than "smart things". That can be a big roadblock to social skills. You can't talk to someone if they can't understand what the hell you're talking about. I love philosophy and things more on the metaphysical side of science, but I sure as hell won't be talking about it to most of my friends.
You just need to get him to do somthing radically new and fun. Once he sees that somthing very different can be fun, he'll want to do more. Doing more expands one's knowledge of various different subjects in life, and that gives one quite a bit more to talk about. Doing new things also introduces one to all different kinds of new people. When you get to know other groups of people you can better understand them and break down any strange prejudices of whatever groups (if a certain group in your mind is inferior/stupid/whatever you won't want to talk to them).
Anyhow, just force him to do somthing new.... sports helped me a lot..... I got to be friendly with the jocks and the nerds. I'm almost socially adjusted, too:P Still a little essentric, but anyone smarter than average is at least a little odd. Rant mode disabled.
Uh.... When someone is cut off on the road, it is almost always unintentional. When an armed robber comes into your house they intent to steal your belongings.
If one is stealing things from you he or she obviously have a disregard for the law. If he or she has a disregard for the law, is in your house, and is stealing your belongings who's to say he or she won't shoot you if you are home and stumble upon him or her?
In the United States you have every right to defend yourself from armed robbery. However it is NOT actually legal to use lethal force. If someone came into my house I would: 1. Keep a fair disance with a pistol 2. Warn the robber to drop my shit or get fucked up 3. Tell the robber to kindly call 911 and report the robbery. 4. If the robber refuses to do any of the above, I would promtly shoot out both kneecaps.
Again, lethal force is not a legal form of self defense. However this is many times overlooked due to circumstantial....stuff. Ans yes..... that robbery to cutting someone off comparison is rediculous. The differance is intent and impending danger (unless some prick is intentionally cutting you off, in which case you pull off the road at a gas station or whatever.... NOT the side of the road).
I really love electricuting people until they fall over and piss themselves then kicking em until they die. I also enjoy whackin a poor ugly fat midget lady's head clean off with one swing of a shovel. Or just killing at random and get about 50-100 bodies and lighting em all up at once. Head soccer is very fun, especially when you kick em at people and they kick the head right back. Oh and hitting up some catnip and then kicking a body in the air and keeping it up for a minute or two is great fun! Releasing a burning cat into a large crowd can yield incredible results as well. And always remember: beware of rabid pitbulls with aids. LOL
After watching the matrix many times I've come to the conclusion that there is no meaning that was supposed to be put into the movie. There are many little details thrown in to make people think about possible meanings, but there is no intentional meaning in the movie. Read some good literature and you'll find that there is an exact message the writer wants to convey. It seems to me that the matrix just uses some neato big words and a bit of confusion as a ploy. People want to find some meaning (and are too lazy to read a good book) so they obsess over the details of the movie and proclaim that the movie was intellectually deep and had lots of action.
Someone's DEFINATELY gonna flame me.... not to mention a lil off topic:P
I would think most of the H2 would just react with the O2 in the air rather than the H3O(ozone just in case you don't know), but I'm not a chem major... have to take A LOT of chem but not my major:P
2 H3O 2 H2O + H2 Adding H2 to the ozone... wouldn't shift equilibrium to the left?
2 H2 + O2 2 H2O And adding the H2 to O2 makes water and has nothing to do with the ozone:P
Anyhow I think my point is I don't see how it would have all that much effect.... especially compared to pollution from CO and other non-completely reacted products of the combustion engine. I think it would just speed up the water, ozone, O2, H2 cycle. Again, though, I'm not a chem major, nor am I an environmental chemist/biologist.... I'm a pre-med major so this isn't my specialty. Nor is spelling, m'kay.
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Hemp does have quite a few good uses and it can be used to make products other than pot that are generally high quality, but the fact is that if growing it was legal people would be growing it to make drugs and using the leftovers to make bracelets and necklaces as a coverup.
The whole "Hemp makes great products" argument is generally used by those who partake of the plant to justify drug use (via "We have all these leftover leaves, might as well use them"). Legal hemp is one step closer to legal pot use.
I personally hate having my rights violated every time a breathe in cigarette smoke (life, liberty, and persute of happiness sound familiar? Smoke doesn't promote my health, I have no choice but to breathe in smoke in public areas, and having an asthma attack sure as hell doesn't make me any happier). I surely don't want people smoking pot around me saying I have no other choice but to "get high" because they want to.
Smoking would likely be illegal if it wasn't such a nice chunk of the American economy. Legal smoking of marijuana would be the eqivalent of allowing people to run around injecting others with heroine and other non-smoked drugs. That's why marijuana is and will stay illegal; if you want to keep smoking it you can go chill with your friends and smoke illegally in private all you want and I won't care. Don't try to force smoking upon me though (and don't even think about saying "stay away from places where people smoke", because I actually have a life too). You may now flame all you like.
I really read up on one of the attempts at the game before.... I was totally stoked about it when I heard about it:P Anyhow the way the PD was planned to work was that most mobs wouldn't actually kill you, they would beat you until you were near dead on the floor unable to fight back and leave you alone. Players would be able to duel until one player was in such a state and then they would be given the option to finish their foe. Doing so, though, would make them an outlaw. Being an outlaw would cause guards to be KoS and they would finish you off. Basically only insane mobs (imagine sleeper from EQ) or players could kill you. Killing mobs that would kill you reaped great rewards and pking would make you insta-fucked. Killing townsfolk npcs would also yeild the insta-fucked status. Basically the game was going to be set up so you could be killed, but the chances were slim unless you were willing to take the risk. Also, I think there was a period where you could be revived and whatnot. I remember playing gemstone III (which had a perma-death setup) and it was fun as all hell. Ah the good ol' days of muds... damn mmorpgs have ruined my imagination.... I can no longer play muds, but that is OT so I'll shut up now;)
This is very true, and one of the major reasons that many medical school courses don't require more than a 1200 on the SAT, they take into consideration your total GPA, even more so your science related GPA, and activities done outside of school. This way they can gauge how much a student can handle at once (a reason premed students have to take more classes than almost any other major and have to take classes unrelated to medicine), not just how well the student can handle one single test that takes half the time alotted to finish and covers simple concepts. You can insert any other intensive course programs here. The bottom line is not how smart you are, it is how well you perform.
You could make the mouth a window, and put some red neons inside too;) lol this is great... I think I've got my idea for a new case mod. Some sheetmetal, a demel, ugly brown carpet, and white felt and I'm gonna have myself a domokun:P
We've had computers around for a while and have some of the smartest people working to make them even better using the latest and greatest technology, but why not just copy nature? Life has been on this planet for a billion or so years. Evolution has had much more time than us to make this run effiecient. Our bodies are far more effiecient than anything we can design even with the obviously "poor" . Things we have just barely now come to understand have been going on in nature for quite some time. Nature has also had a long time to weed out the crap. Despite that our macrodevelopment could be improved, on the molecular level living creatures on this planet are damned effiecient. If we take the effiecient molecules that nature has created and combine them with our much better designing skills (nature does some stupid shit.... like making the trachea and esophagus join at the pharynx which allows us to choke to death) we will get some kickass new technology. What will be a REAL technoevolution is when we figure out how neurons actually store memory. That will allow us to make hard drives, RAM, and processors a single unit which will be 1000x faster and have 1000x the storage capacity at minimum. Not to mention the fact that computers will then be able to learn (put some Actual Intelligence in those games) and the intefacing possiblities would be kickass.... I doubt that'll be in my lifetime, though, with the moral issues and whatnot. Sorry about the mindless rant, I'm a med student...:)
When people hear about these types of things, they almost always assume that whoever is accused is guilty. They believe that those demanding the information have cold, hard evidence of illegal activities. Many people don't think that laws forcing companies to give out information about their subscribers' activities is an infringement on privacy. This is the reason that laws legalizing privacy infringement are being passed without any public outcry. I guarentee you, though, that blood hell would be raised if the gov't. required monitoring all activities inside one's home. The reason these laws go unchecked is because of public ignorance. People see the computer as a whole different world than their "real life". Laws like this and precedents backing them will only lead to the gov't. being able to monitor every action you make online and with the lovely new anti-terrorist laws we are well on the way to the foundation on the Thought Police and the MiniTruth. Speaking out to get rid of these laws is important, but educating the public about computers is far more important. How can you expect people to act against such laws if they don't understand what the law actually does?
Is this redundant as hell? Yes. Do I care? Well I typed it so I guess not. I needed to say it.;)
lol... Just as a note to AC. I'm a med school student not a physics major. All I'm saying is that if designed to be 100% efficient(never will be humanly pssible) a PM machine can be used to power its own movement, but it will never be able to do anything else other than moving itself. I'm not saying I'm going to go out and build one in the parking lot in front of my appartment and use it to power my death ray:P I must admit all of my posts are a bit (at best) rambling and incoherent, though, you do have me there. Unfortunately you did not see fit to enlighten me as you seem to have a better understanding of the subject than me.
Didn't make this clear before, the only way to make this work would be using a mass distribution design.... that type of system is 100% effiecient as long as there is enough weight to get the machine moving.... also, when I say built flawlessly I mean a machine that could never be build by human hands. Everything would have to be down to the nanometer and nanogram and even with our technology that isn't possible. If the weight of the machine isn't distributed PERFECTLY one side will spend more time at the bottom due to gravity and eventually stop. It isn't possible to make more energy than you start with though so no matter how perfect the machine is it will never be able to power anything, it'll just sit there moving forever. Not useful at all.... if they made one it'd make a neato paperweight though:)
In theory a PM machine CAN work. Only one itty bitty problem... The machine needs to be perfectly designed and built. Also, no mass can be gained or lost (A perpetual waterfall can't work because water evaporates). PE(potential energy)=KE(kinetic energy) so you use the KE to make more PE. The major problem comes in when someone wants to use this machine to power somthing. Then some of that KE is used for other work than "recharging"(adding PE back to) whatever medium you are using to power your PM machine. This causes the machine to slowly lose its energy and come to a halt. There must also be no interferance at all (no wind, rain, or movement of the machine). Gravity and atmosphere wouldn't cause the machine to stop though. Again... it is possible to make on of these machines but: a) It must be designed and built flawlessly and b) It cannot be used to power anything other than its own movement.
I've known about this and the fourth dimensional theroies for years..... heh no one ever believes/understands what the hell I'm saying. But anyhow slashdot must be REALLY slacking.... this has been out for how many years? I think Einstien was the 1st to theorize this.
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You don't build new muscle. You increase the mass of preexisting muscle. Nervous and muscular tissue do not divide. Steroids will make you stronger without lifting weights, but not to the extent that your brainless jock idiot would want. Increased testosterone causes your muscles to produce more organelles, especially mitochondria, regardless of lifting. Steriods basically magnify the effect of whatever work your mucles do.
I've changed my prescription for my contacts almost every year since I started using computers.... There isn't a single monitor that doesn't kill my eyes. I know for a fact the 2 images used to make a 3d monitor isn't going to help my eyes any. Why don't they focus on making monitors that keep the populous from going blind? In the long run they're just going to lose money.... blind people don't need no stinkin monitors!
Yeah the series did start out slow. I became a bit bored of it after a few episodes, then I started watching it again one night. As the series went on there were more twists in the plot that kept the storyline somewhat complex. The characters evolved and so on. I can see why they are canceling it though. The original set of actors was better. Still a good series in my mind and it's too bad they are canceling it.
So this is what's gonna be replacing Farscape? Farscape kicked ass... I don't want no frickin chrome painted plastic robots with blinky lights..... I want Farspace dammit..... I want Harvey dammit!:P
I am utterly sick of new security features in everything computer related. Every time we get more "security" rammed down our throats there's always somthing tagged along with it, some new way to slowly convice us to give up our rights. I use no antivirus bs and never update windows (God knows I dont wanna read the EULA's) because one of these days they are bound to have some clause in there about MS getting yer soul in return for "security" "updates". I need no security.... Use yer friggin brain and you dont get viruses.... My router + my brain = not one virus ever on any of my computers. People need to learn about computers; they need to realize what personal rights they are blindly giving away for "security" that they don't need.
Yes, it could be fixed potentially but not in this case without some heavy modding. perhaps another case of similar design could be layed out better to solve this. I was strictly commenting about this particular case's air flow. If you added fans to both sides of the rear (one side intake and the other exhaust) you would get ok airflow but then what about the front end? Don't want those drives overheating. slap some intakes on the front and then you are gonna end up with some serious turbulence in the "intersection" at the rear of the case. A straight line is the best way to keep good air flow... Bah I am lousy at explaining myself.
Cases can have bad air flow when they are just a box..... A t-shaped case having good air flow? I doubt it. Plus there is just as much cable clutter. Also your cable will have to be pretty long to plug in while the case is open, so when you close it up the bales will just dangle and I dunno about you, but I don't like cables waving around when I move the case and what if a dangling wire gets near yer processor fan or heatsink... I think that could be a potential problem. This case is marketed for the people who just HAVE to be different. This case will not catch on.
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I don't see any problem wth it running out of electricity. If it is down too deep to collect any light and is low on energy it could just shift boyancy, go into a low power standby mode, and float to surface.
When it charges back up, kick into full gear and go kick some more deepwater-glow-in-the-dark-space-robot-extreme godzilla ass or whatever...
We must harness the power of THE SUN to defeat deepwater-glow-in-the-dark-space-robot-extreme godzilla!!!!!! Uh, shit, I'm a dumbass...
Anyhow, that seems to make sense to me (well, except that godzilla part). I'm a total dumbass, though, so feel free to point and laugh.
I've noticed some people don't seem to like the standardization effort, stating that it brings about less choice and product differentiation. "Linux is about choice" and whatnot.
How the fuck does being able to download and install a program on any linux distro give you less choice?
Linux NEEDS a standard way to install programs. This is a major barrier to getting the average user to use linux.
In windows, you download an installer, double click, a screen pops up, you follow instructions. Linux needs this ease of installation.
There are a lot of great open source apps that have come out for linux that are easily as good or better than closed source software for linux, but if people have no clue how to install and uninstall things they just WON'T use linux.
Linux, right now, can only be manipulated by hardcore geeks. Sure someone who is spoonfed linux can run apps by themselves, but they won't be able to do anything else and will rely on their geek relation to install new things or fix problems.
If users can easily install and uninstall programs from whatever distro, they are free to "play" more with linux. They can test out what programs they like and then use the damn stuff.
If users can't figure out how to install some damn software they will get frustrated, and yell "FUCK OFF, DAMN YOU!!!1!!one" really loud at their monitor and proceed to use windows.
Granted, most people don't want to play with programs. However, the easy of installation will attract a new group of people to linux. It'll attract those how know about computers, like to tinker, but don't code for a living. Those people will, in turn, attract the teeming mass of zombies.
So yeah I guess I could sum it up with:
standard installer = good
standard installer != lack of choices
Anyhow, the "ubersuperior" geeks can have fun flaming me (and my typos, I don't check these posts for typos....).
The day that linux gets standardized installers that are just "click and install" with some options (like a windows installers) and a standardized install directory (a "program files" directory) is the day that thousands apon thousands flock to linux.
People give up on linux because they don't know how to install apps and games. They download stuff then say, "WTF is this shit? How do I use this?" Then, after realizing 90% of linux apps are like this just give up on linux.
Even when people can learn to install stuff they often don't know where the hell to install it to (people are used to not having to organize programs themselves, just throw em wherever it wants to go). We don't need fancy caching of downloaded apps and shit. We just need some standardization of the installers (shortcuts on the desktop or popup menu couldn't hurt either). That's what your average computer user wants.
Total troll material... Of course some forms of martial arts are just that...... arts..... No one's going to be kicking any ass with Tai Chi any time soon. Kung Fu by itself can be fairly effective in combat and is a good starter in martial arts if one wants to achieve those goals.
:P Still a little essentric, but anyone smarter than average is at least a little odd. Rant mode disabled.
Also, just being big doesn't make you able to fight better. I had a friend who was a very good football player and could benchpress 350lbs 15 times. He was ganged up on by 3 guys and he ended up taking self defense classes later that month. That's not the point, though.
The point isn't to get the kid overconfident in his fighting skills. It's to get him to think outside of his little sheltered world. He needs a new perspective on things. Being really smart tends to make one more introverted due to the other 90% of the population being jealous or feeling alienated.
Teaching him some martial arts will force him to work with others (lending to social skills) and will give him somthing to talk about other than "smart things". That can be a big roadblock to social skills. You can't talk to someone if they can't understand what the hell you're talking about. I love philosophy and things more on the metaphysical side of science, but I sure as hell won't be talking about it to most of my friends.
You just need to get him to do somthing radically new and fun. Once he sees that somthing very different can be fun, he'll want to do more. Doing more expands one's knowledge of various different subjects in life, and that gives one quite a bit more to talk about. Doing new things also introduces one to all different kinds of new people. When you get to know other groups of people you can better understand them and break down any strange prejudices of whatever groups (if a certain group in your mind is inferior/stupid/whatever you won't want to talk to them).
Anyhow, just force him to do somthing new.... sports helped me a lot..... I got to be friendly with the jocks and the nerds. I'm almost socially adjusted, too
Uh.... When someone is cut off on the road, it is almost always unintentional. When an armed robber comes into your house they intent to steal your belongings.
If one is stealing things from you he or she obviously have a disregard for the law. If he or she has a disregard for the law, is in your house, and is stealing your belongings who's to say he or she won't shoot you if you are home and stumble upon him or her?
In the United States you have every right to defend yourself from armed robbery. However it is NOT actually legal to use lethal force. If someone came into my house I would:
1. Keep a fair disance with a pistol
2. Warn the robber to drop my shit or get fucked up
3. Tell the robber to kindly call 911 and report the robbery.
4. If the robber refuses to do any of the above, I would promtly shoot out both kneecaps.
Again, lethal force is not a legal form of self defense. However this is many times overlooked due to circumstantial....stuff. Ans yes..... that robbery to cutting someone off comparison is rediculous. The differance is intent and impending danger (unless some prick is intentionally cutting you off, in which case you pull off the road at a gas station or whatever.... NOT the side of the road).
I really love electricuting people until they fall over and piss themselves then kicking em until they die. I also enjoy whackin a poor ugly fat midget lady's head clean off with one swing of a shovel. Or just killing at random and get about 50-100 bodies and lighting em all up at once. Head soccer is very fun, especially when you kick em at people and they kick the head right back. Oh and hitting up some catnip and then kicking a body in the air and keeping it up for a minute or two is great fun! Releasing a burning cat into a large crowd can yield incredible results as well. And always remember: beware of rabid pitbulls with aids. LOL
After watching the matrix many times I've come to the conclusion that there is no meaning that was supposed to be put into the movie. There are many little details thrown in to make people think about possible meanings, but there is no intentional meaning in the movie. Read some good literature and you'll find that there is an exact message the writer wants to convey. It seems to me that the matrix just uses some neato big words and a bit of confusion as a ploy. People want to find some meaning (and are too lazy to read a good book) so they obsess over the details of the movie and proclaim that the movie was intellectually deep and had lots of action.
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Someone's DEFINATELY gonna flame me.... not to mention a lil off topic
I would think most of the H2 would just react with the O2 in the air rather than the H3O(ozone just in case you don't know), but I'm not a chem major... have to take A LOT of chem but not my major :P
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2 H3O 2 H2O + H2
Adding H2 to the ozone... wouldn't shift equilibrium to the left?
2 H2 + O2 2 H2O
And adding the H2 to O2 makes water and has nothing to do with the ozone
Anyhow I think my point is I don't see how it would have all that much effect.... especially compared to pollution from CO and other non-completely reacted products of the combustion engine. I think it would just speed up the water, ozone, O2, H2 cycle. Again, though, I'm not a chem major, nor am I an environmental chemist/biologist.... I'm a pre-med major so this isn't my specialty. Nor is spelling, m'kay.
Hemp does have quite a few good uses and it can be used to make products other than pot that are generally high quality, but the fact is that if growing it was legal people would be growing it to make drugs and using the leftovers to make bracelets and necklaces as a coverup.
The whole "Hemp makes great products" argument is generally used by those who partake of the plant to justify drug use (via "We have all these leftover leaves, might as well use them"). Legal hemp is one step closer to legal pot use.
I personally hate having my rights violated every time a breathe in cigarette smoke (life, liberty, and persute of happiness sound familiar? Smoke doesn't promote my health, I have no choice but to breathe in smoke in public areas, and having an asthma attack sure as hell doesn't make me any happier). I surely don't want people smoking pot around me saying I have no other choice but to "get high" because they want to.
Smoking would likely be illegal if it wasn't such a nice chunk of the American economy. Legal smoking of marijuana would be the eqivalent of allowing people to run around injecting others with heroine and other non-smoked drugs. That's why marijuana is and will stay illegal; if you want to keep smoking it you can go chill with your friends and smoke illegally in private all you want and I won't care. Don't try to force smoking upon me though (and don't even think about saying "stay away from places where people smoke", because I actually have a life too). You may now flame all you like.
I really read up on one of the attempts at the game before.... I was totally stoked about it when I heard about it :P Anyhow the way the PD was planned to work was that most mobs wouldn't actually kill you, they would beat you until you were near dead on the floor unable to fight back and leave you alone. Players would be able to duel until one player was in such a state and then they would be given the option to finish their foe. Doing so, though, would make them an outlaw. Being an outlaw would cause guards to be KoS and they would finish you off. Basically only insane mobs (imagine sleeper from EQ) or players could kill you. Killing mobs that would kill you reaped great rewards and pking would make you insta-fucked. Killing townsfolk npcs would also yeild the insta-fucked status. Basically the game was going to be set up so you could be killed, but the chances were slim unless you were willing to take the risk. Also, I think there was a period where you could be revived and whatnot. I remember playing gemstone III (which had a perma-death setup) and it was fun as all hell. Ah the good ol' days of muds... damn mmorpgs have ruined my imagination.... I can no longer play muds, but that is OT so I'll shut up now ;)
This is very true, and one of the major reasons that many medical school courses don't require more than a 1200 on the SAT, they take into consideration your total GPA, even more so your science related GPA, and activities done outside of school. This way they can gauge how much a student can handle at once (a reason premed students have to take more classes than almost any other major and have to take classes unrelated to medicine), not just how well the student can handle one single test that takes half the time alotted to finish and covers simple concepts. You can insert any other intensive course programs here. The bottom line is not how smart you are, it is how well you perform.
You could make the mouth a window, and put some red neons inside too ;) lol this is great... I think I've got my idea for a new case mod. Some sheetmetal, a demel, ugly brown carpet, and white felt and I'm gonna have myself a domokun :P
We've had computers around for a while and have some of the smartest people working to make them even better using the latest and greatest technology, but why not just copy nature? Life has been on this planet for a billion or so years. Evolution has had much more time than us to make this run effiecient. Our bodies are far more effiecient than anything we can design even with the obviously "poor" . Things we have just barely now come to understand have been going on in nature for quite some time. Nature has also had a long time to weed out the crap. Despite that our macrodevelopment could be improved, on the molecular level living creatures on this planet are damned effiecient. If we take the effiecient molecules that nature has created and combine them with our much better designing skills (nature does some stupid shit.... like making the trachea and esophagus join at the pharynx which allows us to choke to death) we will get some kickass new technology. What will be a REAL technoevolution is when we figure out how neurons actually store memory. That will allow us to make hard drives, RAM, and processors a single unit which will be 1000x faster and have 1000x the storage capacity at minimum. Not to mention the fact that computers will then be able to learn (put some Actual Intelligence in those games) and the intefacing possiblities would be kickass.... I doubt that'll be in my lifetime, though, with the moral issues and whatnot. Sorry about the mindless rant, I'm a med student... :)
When people hear about these types of things, they almost always assume that whoever is accused is guilty. They believe that those demanding the information have cold, hard evidence of illegal activities. Many people don't think that laws forcing companies to give out information about their subscribers' activities is an infringement on privacy. This is the reason that laws legalizing privacy infringement are being passed without any public outcry. I guarentee you, though, that blood hell would be raised if the gov't. required monitoring all activities inside one's home. The reason these laws go unchecked is because of public ignorance. People see the computer as a whole different world than their "real life". Laws like this and precedents backing them will only lead to the gov't. being able to monitor every action you make online and with the lovely new anti-terrorist laws we are well on the way to the foundation on the Thought Police and the MiniTruth. Speaking out to get rid of these laws is important, but educating the public about computers is far more important. How can you expect people to act against such laws if they don't understand what the law actually does?
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Is this redundant as hell? Yes. Do I care? Well I typed it so I guess not. I needed to say it.
lol... Just as a note to AC. I'm a med school student not a physics major. All I'm saying is that if designed to be 100% efficient(never will be humanly pssible) a PM machine can be used to power its own movement, but it will never be able to do anything else other than moving itself. I'm not saying I'm going to go out and build one in the parking lot in front of my appartment and use it to power my death ray :P I must admit all of my posts are a bit (at best) rambling and incoherent, though, you do have me there. Unfortunately you did not see fit to enlighten me as you seem to have a better understanding of the subject than me.
Didn't make this clear before, the only way to make this work would be using a mass distribution design.... that type of system is 100% effiecient as long as there is enough weight to get the machine moving.... also, when I say built flawlessly I mean a machine that could never be build by human hands. Everything would have to be down to the nanometer and nanogram and even with our technology that isn't possible. If the weight of the machine isn't distributed PERFECTLY one side will spend more time at the bottom due to gravity and eventually stop. It isn't possible to make more energy than you start with though so no matter how perfect the machine is it will never be able to power anything, it'll just sit there moving forever. Not useful at all.... if they made one it'd make a neato paperweight though :)
In theory a PM machine CAN work. Only one itty bitty problem... The machine needs to be perfectly designed and built. Also, no mass can be gained or lost (A perpetual waterfall can't work because water evaporates). PE(potential energy)=KE(kinetic energy) so you use the KE to make more PE. The major problem comes in when someone wants to use this machine to power somthing. Then some of that KE is used for other work than "recharging"(adding PE back to) whatever medium you are using to power your PM machine. This causes the machine to slowly lose its energy and come to a halt. There must also be no interferance at all (no wind, rain, or movement of the machine). Gravity and atmosphere wouldn't cause the machine to stop though. Again... it is possible to make on of these machines but: a) It must be designed and built flawlessly and b) It cannot be used to power anything other than its own movement.
I've known about this and the fourth dimensional theroies for years..... heh no one ever believes/understands what the hell I'm saying. But anyhow slashdot must be REALLY slacking.... this has been out for how many years? I think Einstien was the 1st to theorize this.
You don't build new muscle. You increase the mass of preexisting muscle. Nervous and muscular tissue do not divide. Steroids will make you stronger without lifting weights, but not to the extent that your brainless jock idiot would want.
Increased testosterone causes your muscles to produce more organelles, especially mitochondria, regardless of lifting. Steriods basically magnify the effect of whatever work your mucles do.
I've changed my prescription for my contacts almost every year since I started using computers.... There isn't a single monitor that doesn't kill my eyes. I know for a fact the 2 images used to make a 3d monitor isn't going to help my eyes any. Why don't they focus on making monitors that keep the populous from going blind?
In the long run they're just going to lose money.... blind people don't need no stinkin monitors!
Yeah the series did start out slow. I became a bit bored of it after a few episodes, then I started watching it again one night. As the series went on there were more twists in the plot
that kept the storyline somewhat complex. The characters evolved and so on. I can see why they are canceling it though. The original set of actors was better. Still a good series in my mind and it's too bad they are canceling it.
So this is what's gonna be replacing Farscape? :P
Farscape kicked ass... I don't want no frickin
chrome painted plastic robots with blinky lights..... I want Farspace dammit..... I want Harvey dammit!
I am utterly sick of new security features in everything computer related. Every time we get more "security" rammed down our throats there's always somthing tagged along with it, some new way to slowly convice us to give up our rights.
I use no antivirus bs and never update windows (God knows I dont wanna read the EULA's) because one of these days they are bound to have some clause in there about MS getting yer soul in return for "security" "updates". I need no security.... Use yer friggin brain and you dont get viruses.... My router + my brain = not one virus ever on any of my computers. People need to learn about computers; they need to realize what personal rights they are blindly giving away for "security" that they don't need.
Yes, it could be fixed potentially but not in this case without some heavy modding. perhaps another case of similar design could be layed out better to solve this. I was strictly commenting about this particular case's air flow. If you added fans to both sides of the rear (one side intake and the other exhaust) you would get ok airflow but then what about the front end? Don't want those drives overheating. slap some intakes on the front and then you are gonna end up with some serious turbulence in the "intersection" at the rear of the case. A straight line is the best way to keep good air flow... Bah I am lousy at explaining myself.
Cases can have bad air flow when they are just a box..... A t-shaped case having good air flow? I doubt it. Plus there is just as much cable clutter. Also your cable will have to be pretty long to plug in while the case is open, so when you close it up the bales will just dangle and I dunno about you, but I don't like cables waving around when I move the case and what if a dangling wire gets near yer processor fan or heatsink... I think that could be a potential problem. This case is marketed for the people who just HAVE to be different. This case will not catch on.