No Farscape, No Sci-Fi Channel - AMEN
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There was precious little on cable my wife and I wanted to watch, and Farscape was the last straw. Now a peice speaker wire brings us Buffy over some kind of invisible "airwaves."
Screw me Sci Fi? No...screw you, and the AT&T you rode in on.
Now it's $20 a month for Net Flix, and I still save $30 over the cost of cable.
Persistence of Vision is a short story collection well worth tracking down.
The story "Phantom of Kansas," is one of my favorites. You wake up in the cloning facility, only to find that you've been killed, once again, by a very determined serial killer. Fun stuff.
Think of it as cryptology. You have a PGP encoded message (drug) that can only be unlocked by the appropriate key (rna trigger).
Your cosmic ray scrambles the code, and the odds of it binding to some random spot is low. How low? That would be good to know.
But the whole dru/key pairing is artificial, it does not reproduce, so even if the one molecule of the batch they give you for disease X gets scrambled, you are the only one who has to worry, and in fact, it is only one healthy cell that has to worry, because once that molecule delivers its payload, no more payload.
So, in this case, sleep well, for humaity is safe.
You may want to avoid Porktatos, the latest GMO snack, however...};^)
The active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, is a nerve toxin. Large doses (as in a lot of hot food) damage the nerves in the tounge and throat. The net result is that you are less sensitive to hot food, and need more "hot" to produce the same sensation as that first jalapeno on your virgin tounge.
This assumes that you are choosing to download instead of buy:
1. You'll hurt the publisher, but hey, nobody worries about hurting a big bad publishing company, right?
2. You'll hurt the start up that made the game. But hey, to hell with the small business guy who started the studio (two cofounders, actually, both with wives & children).
3. You'll hurt me and the other 5 folks that busted our asses for 8 months (short schedule) to make the game. We get a royalty based directly on number of units sold. And the more units that are sold, the bigger percentage of royalties we get for the whole game. So enough downloads instead of buys can have a rather dramatic effect on how much money I take home in any given year.
So, in a nutshell, that's what happens when you download instead of buy. Kinda sucks for me and my friends. Just FYI.
Well, I may be a little biased, but I think it's a damn fine game. Doing the charaters in 3D gave us room for lots of characters and lots of animations. Time (and sales) will tell the tale.
My team just released our second game for GBA, an action RPG, third person isometric perspective. The characters were all rendered in 3D (all part of the challenge of fitting a game into a 4 meg cart), and we had a rudimentary partcle system.
It's a small box, but you can do some pretty crazy things with it.
(The game is for a movie that comes out this month, staring a CG dog. 'Nuff said.)
All this hydrogen has to come from somewhere. You can't find it in big pools under Texas, you have to make it. You can either extract it from petrochemicals (which won't scare the oil companies too very much), or you can breakdown water in to H2 + O. Be using electricity. Which is generated in large part by, say it with me, petrochemicals.
So missing the whole whole Big Oil fighting fuel cells angle here.
When we can switch over to fusion, then we'll talk.
Re:My wedding ring too, and just to be extra geeky
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What can I say, some tiny hippity-hop strap on bunny feet, some eggs and a bottle of Jack Daniel. Seemed like a funny idea at the time. My bad...
"At DigiPen, you go from nothing to competant game developer in four years..."
Well, I'm sure that's what it says on the brochures.
There's an old industry saying that goes, "People generally call themselve game developers 10 years before they deserve the title."
In the spirit of proper disclosure, I've been a game developer for 3 years...};^)
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
I spent friday in a lovely little town in Canada, sitting by a roaring fire with friends and family, eating a modest homecooked meal.
I read a book (Stanislaw Lem's, "The Futurological Congress), went out for a walk in the snow with my wife.
Did you enjoy your shopping?
I wear nikes because I love that fact that they're made with care by young indonesian girls.
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Anyone can make a shoe because they're making a living wage, it takes real devotion to make shoes all day long for $1.80.
http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/CNMS/archivio
True words. The only way to fix it is to piss off the herd enough for them to moo.
Or, let the system work the way it usually works:
Bad Law gets made
Courts rule on Bad Law
If Bad Law survives court challenge, wait until Citizen-Consumers realize how big an inconvenience Bad Law is.
Citizen-Consumers vote the Bums out (to be replaced with new Bums).
Shampoo, rinse, repeat.
My little Toaster can make toast in 1 minute. Show me a Cuisinart that can do that, or...oh, never mind.
Circumvention is against the law (DMCA).
Thanks for playing!
There was precious little on cable my wife and I wanted to watch, and Farscape was the last straw. Now a peice speaker wire brings us Buffy over some kind of invisible "airwaves."
Screw me Sci Fi? No...screw you, and the AT&T you rode in on.
Now it's $20 a month for Net Flix, and I still save $30 over the cost of cable.
Yeah, it's for the PC, but it is *so* what you want:
http://www.facegen.com/modeller.htm
Real time 3D tweaking of every possible facial parameter.
Persistence of Vision is a short story collection well worth tracking down.
The story "Phantom of Kansas," is one of my favorites. You wake up in the cloning facility, only to find that you've been killed, once again, by a very determined serial killer. Fun stuff.
Awesome book! Also by Stapeldon, The Star Men.
Highly reccomended reading. That fellow had a lot on his mind, and wasn't afraid to share.
Makes you laugh when people describe a SF novel as being of "Grand Scale."
every problem looks like a nail.
Why should DNA act anything like computer code?
Let's look at it objectively, and see what it has to teach us, instead of straight-jacketing it into familiar metaphors.
In reference to adbusters, check out: Food Fight
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In reference to eating well:
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NickFusion's Red Lentil Soup (Damn Tasy, & Healthy, too!)
1.5 Quarts Veg/Free-Range Chicken Broth
5 Cups Organic Red Lentils
2 Cups Organic Split Peas
1 Large Organic Yellow Onion, Diced
(Optional) 1 lb Free-Range Chicken Sausage
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Put Broth, Lentils & Split Peas in large Soup Pot (4 Qt)
Bring to low boil, reduce heat to simmer (lowest heat, no more boiling)
Sautee onions until translucent (30%) & dump into pot
If sausage is in skin, remove from skin. Pan fry, break into bitesize morsels. Dump into pot.
Cook for about an hour, until the split peas are soft & tasty.
Salt & Pepper to taste.
You could also add Cumin, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper.
The measurements are approximate, and some people will want thicker or thinner soup.
Just keep adding water and/or broth until you like it. Soup gets thicker as it cooks.
Approximate cost: $10.00
Approximate # of servings: 18-32
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Make it Sunday night, eat it all week long
(Freeze the extra for later!)
My words were lined up to give the illusion of a joke, when viewed with humor.
Evidently, to no real effect.
"The molecules are lined up to give the illusion of the presence of large atoms," says Hefler."
And hence the illusion of being protected...
Perhaps some smart lad could come up with a way to filter out connection attempts being made from outside a physical perimeter?
Ahhh....imagine the urban legends;
The connection attempt...it's coming from inside the house!!
Think of it as cryptology. You have a PGP encoded message (drug) that can only be unlocked by the appropriate key (rna trigger).
Your cosmic ray scrambles the code, and the odds of it binding to some random spot is low. How low? That would be good to know.
But the whole dru/key pairing is artificial, it does not reproduce, so even if the one molecule of the batch they give you for disease X gets scrambled, you are the only one who has to worry, and in fact, it is only one healthy cell that has to worry, because once that molecule delivers its payload, no more payload.
So, in this case, sleep well, for humaity is safe.
You may want to avoid Porktatos, the latest GMO snack, however...};^)
The active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, is a nerve toxin. Large doses (as in a lot of hot food) damage the nerves in the tounge and throat. The net result is that you are less sensitive to hot food, and need more "hot" to produce the same sensation as that first jalapeno on your virgin tounge.
That's what I used to get playing text adventures on the university mainframe.
Beat that, Quake!
This assumes that you are choosing to download instead of buy:
1. You'll hurt the publisher, but hey, nobody worries about hurting a big bad publishing company, right?
2. You'll hurt the start up that made the game. But hey, to hell with the small business guy who started the studio (two cofounders, actually, both with wives & children).
3. You'll hurt me and the other 5 folks that busted our asses for 8 months (short schedule) to make the game. We get a royalty based directly on number of units sold. And the more units that are sold, the bigger percentage of royalties we get for the whole game. So enough downloads instead of buys can have a rather dramatic effect on how much money I take home in any given year.
So, in a nutshell, that's what happens when you download instead of buy. Kinda sucks for me and my friends.
Just FYI.
Hell no! I want you to buy the game...};^)
Well, I may be a little biased, but I think it's a damn fine game. Doing the charaters in 3D gave us room for lots of characters and lots of animations. Time (and sales) will tell the tale.
My team just released our second game for GBA, an action RPG, third person isometric perspective. The characters were all rendered in 3D (all part of the challenge of fitting a game into a 4 meg cart), and we had a rudimentary partcle system.
It's a small box, but you can do some pretty crazy things with it.
(The game is for a movie that comes out this month, staring a CG dog. 'Nuff said.)
All this hydrogen has to come from somewhere. You can't find it in big pools under Texas, you have to make it. You can either extract it from petrochemicals (which won't scare the oil companies too very much), or you can breakdown water in to H2 + O. Be using electricity. Which is generated in large part by, say it with me, petrochemicals.
So missing the whole whole Big Oil fighting fuel cells angle here.
When we can switch over to fusion, then we'll talk.
Umm, ok...