I've played Planescape about 80% of the way through twice. Then something happens to distract me, and I end up putting it aside, robbing myself of the satisfaction of completing it.
The storyline is long, deep, and very twisted. And there are enough side missions and backstory to make your head spin.
Being able to monkey with your stats, change classes, and die, all as parts of the ongoing story, made it a hell of a game to play.
Windows boxes: Like your friends big brother, who invites the younger kids into their exclusive clubhouse, only to find out that it's "Wedgie day" and you're the entertainment.
Linux boxes: The computer equivalent of the guy on the streetcorner offering you the wonders of the world, if only you'll step into that alley with him. Sure, there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel, but you trip over a lot of shit getting there.
Macs: Like the friendly, artsy folks who invite you into their cozy little cafe downtown and make you one of the gang, it's only later, when you're naked and broke and surrounded by other MacHeads do you realize you've joined a cult.:)
A bunch of us used to play Q3 Rocket Arena religiously after work each night.
After endless practice sessions on the LAN and lots of low-ping server action, changes as small as 5 to 20 milliseconds could be "felt". But it might have been all in our minds.
I would think that once the brain adapted to a 6 or 7 millisecond ping on the LAN, that there is a possibility that it can really notice the difference, rather than imagine it.
Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics! Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics! (Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.) Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented. What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic, No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic. Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles. If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance! No sweat, though--my theory permits us to judge Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was." Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck The comforting linkage of cause and effect. E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried To tell him what quantum mechanics implied. Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat, And inside a tube we have put that cat at-- Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos, A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes (Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em, One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom Or atom--whatever--but when it emits, A trigger device blasts the vial into bits Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime Are 50 to 50 per hour each time. The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is Our pussy still purring--or pushing up daisies? Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't. Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke), Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked. To some this may seem a ridiculous split, But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough @#&! We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho': There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know. Shine light on electrons--you'll cause them to swerve. The act of observing disturbs the observed-- Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing To see if a particle's moving or resting Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor! We know probability--certainty, never.' The effect of this notion? I very much fear 'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear. Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports, "We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."' So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts. God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz. I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried-- In vain--until fin'ly he more or less died. Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends, Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends. Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint: Ten-to-one he's in heaven--but five bucks says he ain't."
If anyone is intent on trying out cyanoacrylate fuming at home, do it in a sealed container. And don't open the container unless you have more than adequate ventilation.
You can kill yourself with the fumes if you're not careful.
Geez, I hope you're not the customer service rep.:)
He was making a joke. We all know people will abuse it. He pointed that out, with humor. Maybe he's one of the abusers, maybe he's just playing devil's advocate, or maybe he wants some +funny karma.
If your work is making you stressed enough to respond like that to a silly comment, find another line of work and let off some steam.
It may not be useful for anonymous distribution systems, but for groups of people known to each other it would be quite handy indeed.
When you use your hotmail account to send email to another hotmail user, you're getting near instantaneous transfers. So what's to stop someone from forwarding the latest CD or movie screener to his friends.
Once it's in your account, you only need to send it to the target, then delete it from your account. They can then retrieve it from their own at their leisure.
As friend/group oriented message systems grow in popularity piracy trends will follow and adapt.
Drunken Student: "...and so we all ended up in the lake. Hey, you want to get out of here? I've got a great view of the quad from my balcony."
Bar Girl: (smiling) Sure, I'd love ---
ULL Device: *beep* *beep* *beep*
Drunken Student: "Hmm? Just a sec."
ULL Device: Danger Will Robinson, Danger! Target female possesses adam's apple and male genitalia! High probability you've wandered into a tranny bar. This is not within acceptable parameters.
Drunken Student: "Umm, I forgot I have to write an important she-male, er e-mail, when I get home. Sorry, gotta run.
Suddenly people across the room are hanging on your every word, until they realize you didn't say "panty sniffing" and they can't get vicarious thrills/outrage from the perverted geeks in the corner.
And as long as you have convection/flow it shouldn't stay in one place long enough reach boiling point, right? Provided you have enough volume relative to the size of the heat source.
Combining the liquid with a heat-pipe system like Shuttle uses might work well in a system too. The fluid draws more heat away from the CPU than air would, but also conducts more heat to the pipes, and therefore increases the speed at which heat is conducted out of the case. Would it be effective enough at conducting the heat outward to maintain the liquid state?
Pardon me if I'm stating the glaringly obvious, or making an uninformed assumption. My physics education ended at high school.
I agree, they've done the airplane thing. The next target is likely to be a mall, subway, or sporting event. Major sporting events, for example, would have security coverage. But what about an NCAA game? A large audience in a small space. Plays could be a target as well, as we saw in Russia. Especially if they target the "well-to-do" or culturally representative events.
Terrorists leaders aren't stupid, just fanatical. They'll use their men and their weapons where they're most effective. And right now that isn't the airlines.
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I've played Planescape about 80% of the way through twice. Then something happens to distract me, and I end up putting it aside, robbing myself of the satisfaction of completing it.
The storyline is long, deep, and very twisted. And there are enough side missions and backstory to make your head spin.
Being able to monkey with your stats, change classes, and die, all as parts of the ongoing story, made it a hell of a game to play.
Dungeons and Dragons - 30 years old and still living in the parents basement.
Windows boxes: Like your friends big brother, who invites the younger kids into their exclusive clubhouse, only to find out that it's "Wedgie day" and you're the entertainment.
:)
Linux boxes: The computer equivalent of the guy on the streetcorner offering you the wonders of the world, if only you'll step into that alley with him. Sure, there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel, but you trip over a lot of shit getting there.
Macs: Like the friendly, artsy folks who invite you into their cozy little cafe downtown and make you one of the gang, it's only later, when you're naked and broke and surrounded by other MacHeads do you realize you've joined a cult.
Speed is probably a factor as well.
There's an old trick with a paper towel tube, some salt, and wax paper.
If you put a stick through the salt slowly enough it pierces the paper. But if you ram it quickly the particles of salt bind and resist the force.
A bunch of us used to play Q3 Rocket Arena religiously after work each night.
:)
After endless practice sessions on the LAN and lots of low-ping server action, changes as small as 5 to 20 milliseconds could be "felt". But it might have been all in our minds.
I would think that once the brain adapted to a 6 or 7 millisecond ping on the LAN, that there is a possibility that it can really notice the difference, rather than imagine it.
Any neurologists reading?
You forgot:
3. Popping large quantities of popcorn with Val Kilmer.
What are the Klingon's going to look like? Hmm?
- should thread too. :)
Maybe they'll tie up the whole Borg-knowing-about-Humanity-200-years-before-they
How many Therebucks for a Weapon of Mass Destruction?
Jeez, do the mods even read?
From The Straight Dope
Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
(Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse
Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented
By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented.
What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic,
No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance
Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
No sweat, though--my theory permits us to judge
Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was."
Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried
To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat,
And inside a tube we have put that cat at--
Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
(Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em,
One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
Or atom--whatever--but when it emits,
A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is
Our pussy still purring--or pushing up daisies?
Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't
But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't.
Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough @#&!
We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho':
There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons--you'll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed--
Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing
To see if a particle's moving or resting
Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
We know probability--certainty, never.'
The effect of this notion? I very much fear
'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
"We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."'
So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts.
God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz.
I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried--
In vain--until fin'ly he more or less died.
Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends,
Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint:
Ten-to-one he's in heaven--but five bucks says he ain't."
--CECIL ADAMS
If anyone is intent on trying out cyanoacrylate fuming at home, do it in a sealed container.
And don't open the container unless you have more than adequate ventilation.
You can kill yourself with the fumes if you're not careful.
Geez, I hope you're not the customer service rep. :)
He was making a joke. We all know people will abuse it. He pointed that out, with humor. Maybe he's one of the abusers, maybe he's just playing devil's advocate, or maybe he wants some +funny karma.
If your work is making you stressed enough to respond like that to a silly comment, find another line of work and let off some steam.
It may not be useful for anonymous distribution systems, but for groups of people known to each other it would be quite handy indeed.
When you use your hotmail account to send email to another hotmail user, you're getting near instantaneous transfers. So what's to stop someone from forwarding the latest CD or movie screener to his friends.
Once it's in your account, you only need to send it to the target, then delete it from your account. They can then retrieve it from their own at their leisure.
As friend/group oriented message systems grow in popularity piracy trends will follow and adapt.
Some moderators are just in a dire need of a blow job.
:)
Nice of you to volunteer, looks like their outlook has improved already
You were sharing Chicago?
You're lucky you didn't get nailed for terrrorism.
Hey, if you can save $500,000 by taking one olive out of each jar, imagine how much you could save by taking the 'u' out of all those -ou- words. :)
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:)
If Slashdot has 'leet spelling nazis' then you're in trouble Mister!
Homer voice: "Mmmmm, Nigerian space jelly!"
Drunken Student: "...and so we all ended up in the lake. Hey, you want to get out of here? I've got a great view of the quad from my balcony."
Bar Girl: (smiling) Sure, I'd love ---
ULL Device: *beep* *beep* *beep*
Drunken Student: "Hmm? Just a sec."
ULL Device: Danger Will Robinson, Danger! Target female possesses adam's apple and male genitalia! High probability you've wandered into a tranny bar. This is not within acceptable parameters.
Drunken Student: "Umm, I forgot I have to write an important she-male, er e-mail, when I get home. Sorry, gotta run.
Bar Girl: (waving from the bar) "Call me?"
Assuming the album isn't 2 or 3 good songs and a bunch of filler?
Ever mention 'packet sniffing' in a public place?
Suddenly people across the room are hanging on your every word, until they realize you didn't say "panty sniffing" and they can't get vicarious thrills/outrage from the perverted geeks in the corner.
And as long as you have convection/flow it shouldn't stay in one place long enough reach boiling point, right? Provided you have enough volume relative to the size of the heat source.
Combining the liquid with a heat-pipe system like Shuttle uses might work well in a system too. The fluid draws more heat away from the CPU than air would, but also conducts more heat to the pipes, and therefore increases the speed at which heat is conducted out of the case. Would it be effective enough at conducting the heat outward to maintain the liquid state?
Pardon me if I'm stating the glaringly obvious, or making an uninformed assumption. My physics education ended at high school.
ah, that's a shame. at least their site is completely buggered for the time being though :)
Do they have a way to verify that the spam you send out actually gets where it was intended?
/dev/null?
Could you trick their system into thinking that you were pumping out spam while your firewall routes everything coming out of that box to
Imagine what a few thousand Slashdotters could do to skew their statistics and devalue their advertising packages.
I agree, they've done the airplane thing. The next target is likely to be a mall, subway, or sporting event. Major sporting events, for example, would have security coverage. But what about an NCAA game? A large audience in a small space. Plays could be a target as well, as we saw in Russia. Especially if they target the "well-to-do" or culturally representative events.
Terrorists leaders aren't stupid, just fanatical. They'll use their men and their weapons where they're most effective. And right now that isn't the airlines.