While I don't assume to know the answers to your statements, I've heard that the story as seen in Genesis could be explained as what you might observe if you would be floating over the surface of the Earth while all of the creation things were happening around you (like you could see in a vision, as God was showing a bewildered Moses who probably was overwhelmed what had already happened)
Roughly: as the earth cooled and the light of the young sun lit up the new earth that was merrily spinning around the sun, when the skies cleared you might notice that there was a surface (probably molten) and sky, eventually the seas formed and the ground hardened, the skies were overcast so you couldn't see out just yet, Plants would slowly come to cover this young earth, with different types appearing over the years. and as the sky cleared (due to changing atmosphere from all the plants) and you would see the sun, moon and stars clearly then as well. Gradually fish-like creatures would emerge, some slowly pull themselves out of the waters. Some would fly some would creep upon the earth, and a few of them would eventually walk upright and slowly make the long ascent to mankind.
This is the method that I personally use to explain old-earth creation and even evolution, and still it leave room for there to be a God that has taken a special interest in this planet and nurtured and encouraged it's peoples along the way.
I met another guy who got his degree from one of these supposed technical schools and didn't know how to navigate any of the basic tools in win (traceroute, ping, nbtstat, etc) let alone *nix, but thinks he's the king of networking.
...
We had one guy start with us to do some industry volunteer work - just troubleshooting simple problems.
He was studying a computer networks course and was 6 months into that.
I had to show him how to get to a DOS prompt in Windows XP... Then he asked me what ping did?
He apparently later decided that computers weren't for him.
Why are these "x day" stories only widely reported on the day itself, when it's too late to take part?
For once there's a day dedicated to doing something so easy that even I might have bothered making the effort, yet now I'm denied that opportunity for another 364 days.
Why are these stories published the day after it has actually happened for us who live near the date line?
It's already tomorrow for us over here.
Maybe we could have an events section to give us a heads-up on what's coming soon.
Thing is, a lot of folks probably felt like they were donating to a good cause when they paid for this bundle, and upped their payments accordingly, whereas there would be no positive karma from giving more than a penny to EA.
My thoughts too.
I just purchased the bundle, though I've bought World of Goo previously.
I paid more than the current average for these games. Though that amount is still more money then I have ever given to EA.
I agree, but I'd also like to point out that the technology is ready to give players the separation of vision and aim.
I want to be able to watch in a direction, run in another and shoot in another one. As running is going to be linked to a hand (as foot controls are cumbersome) and shooting to the other, vision should be linked to head movement.
What I'm suggesting is: Don't "evolve" to mouse control if you can truly evolve.
Like Mechwarrior had many years ago. I had a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick for this game. The three parts of your mech could all be facing different directions. Head, torso with weapons, and legs. Battles could get very difficult if you forgot that the guns were pointing in a different direction to your head (and legs)
I don't think that a mouse with it's limited movement options is up to this challenge.
Perhaps an iPhone could be used as a controller seeing as if can deal with rotation, and direction. Or you might be able to use it as a remote camera/display for games. If you put it in your pocket then a linked game could detect if you are leaning to get a better view around an obstacle.
Having just re-watched the episode, I noticed that the monitor in the remodeled tardis that the doctor turns off is showing the crack on the display - perhaps the doctor (or the tardis) is already onto it.
So nothing has really changed with technology then.
Current historians would absolutatly love it if we had better coverage of many periods of human history - much of it (even the written records) has been lost, blown up, burnt, flooded, lost in the deserts, built over, eroded, probably even eaten,... over the years.
Historians are able to get lots of information from the little that remains - piecing together partial fragments, cross-references, stories, even boxes in attics can hold wealth of information.
Oh good, you're safe then, because none of those friends, relatives, etc will tag pictures with your real name or location.
Facebook is a special kind of evil, kind of like Google. Too much personal information in one place.
If a friend of yours tags you in a photo on facebook, you can remove the tag. Afterwards I'm fairly sure that only you can re-add yourself to that picture again.
Linux option: You can use the yahoo links listed above and paste them directly into VLC under the File / Open Network Stream option - works wherever VLC is supported I suppose.
Allows for higher resolution then I could find on the site.
vegimite..... just smelling that is good enough to go to the hospital. just smelling it killed my apetite for a month. new Zealanders eat it like as if it were creamcheese
Vegemite should be nice and thick on the bread, even better is to eat it with a spoon.
And Ultima did have first-person combat, including ranged weapons, spells, and melee. Again, better than Wolf3D. Overall it is a MUCH better game that shipped first with a larger set of game features, but everyone said Wolf3D was the big innovator.
I played both when I was much younger.
Wolf3D was much faster on the same hardware, not to mention more colourful, smoother. It was just a more fun game.
I remember Ultima Underworld like I remember Doom3: slow and dark.
But Dr. Who only gets exactly where he pleases when it satisfies the writers. Most of the time it seems that some sort of space-time vortex sucks him off-course, or the Tardis misbehaves, or other such circumstance landing him in the wrong space/time.
Just once they should go somewhere and nothing happens - maybe only a 5min episode to keep us hooked.
Speaking of near misses. Don't forget that many many years ago the Doctor (and Adric) accidently set off life on this planet. Though only one of them lived to tell about it I guess.
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While I don't assume to know the answers to your statements, I've heard that the story as seen in Genesis could be explained as what you might observe if you would be floating over the surface of the Earth while all of the creation things were happening around you (like you could see in a vision, as God was showing a bewildered Moses who probably was overwhelmed what had already happened)
Roughly: as the earth cooled and the light of the young sun lit up the new earth that was merrily spinning around the sun, when the skies cleared you might notice that there was a surface (probably molten) and sky, eventually the seas formed and the ground hardened, the skies were overcast so you couldn't see out just yet, Plants would slowly come to cover this young earth, with different types appearing over the years. and as the sky cleared (due to changing atmosphere from all the plants) and you would see the sun, moon and stars clearly then as well.
Gradually fish-like creatures would emerge, some slowly pull themselves out of the waters. Some would fly some would creep upon the earth, and a few of them would eventually walk upright and slowly make the long ascent to mankind.
This is the method that I personally use to explain old-earth creation and even evolution, and still it leave room for there to be a God that has taken a special interest in this planet and nurtured and encouraged it's peoples along the way.
...
I met another guy who got his degree from one of these supposed technical schools and didn't know how to navigate any of the basic tools in win (traceroute, ping, nbtstat, etc) let alone *nix, but thinks he's the king of networking.
...
We had one guy start with us to do some industry volunteer work - just troubleshooting simple problems.
He was studying a computer networks course and was 6 months into that.
I had to show him how to get to a DOS prompt in Windows XP... Then he asked me what ping did?
He apparently later decided that computers weren't for him.
Fine, then remove $#*! and put back the word "Shit". If they're going to be offended anyway, might as well make it count.
"Belgium, man, belgium"
Seems appropriate for Towel Day.
Why are these "x day" stories only widely reported on the day itself, when it's too late to take part?
For once there's a day dedicated to doing something so easy that even I might have bothered making the effort, yet now I'm denied that opportunity for another 364 days.
Why are these stories published the day after it has actually happened for us who live near the date line?
It's already tomorrow for us over here.
Maybe we could have an events section to give us a heads-up on what's coming soon.
Thing is, a lot of folks probably felt like they were donating to a good cause when they paid for this bundle, and upped their payments accordingly, whereas there would be no positive karma from giving more than a penny to EA.
My thoughts too.
I just purchased the bundle, though I've bought World of Goo previously.
I paid more than the current average for these games. Though that amount is still more money then I have ever given to EA.
I wonder how this compares to the total sales all 5 (now 6) games had prior to being included in the bundle?
Oh, and awesome job, guys. Goo is a great game. Haven't had time to get to the rest yet.
I am wondering the same: re previous sales.
I've previously purchased World of Goo, and play it every so often, not seriously but it fills in time.
Having just purchased them, I'll play the rest over time as well - hopefully after my assignments are out of the way.
But are these "serious games" fun to play? That seems to be the most overlooked part of educational games.
'Serious Sam' is seriously fun to play, though perhaps that is not the type of game the article is about.
One thing that should come out of this is that McAfee are (likely) going to be fairly good at checking things like this in the future.
So are the other anti-virus companies too I suppose.
I agree, but I'd also like to point out that the technology is ready to give players the separation of vision and aim.
I want to be able to watch in a direction, run in another and shoot in another one. As running is going to be linked to a hand (as foot controls are cumbersome) and shooting to the other, vision should be linked to head movement.
What I'm suggesting is: Don't "evolve" to mouse control if you can truly evolve.
Like Mechwarrior had many years ago. I had a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick for this game. The three parts of your mech could all be facing different directions. Head, torso with weapons, and legs. Battles could get very difficult if you forgot that the guns were pointing in a different direction to your head (and legs)
I don't think that a mouse with it's limited movement options is up to this challenge.
Perhaps an iPhone could be used as a controller seeing as if can deal with rotation, and direction. /display for games.
Or you might be able to use it as a remote camera
If you put it in your pocket then a linked game could detect if you are leaning to get a better view around an obstacle.
Having just re-watched the episode, I noticed that the monitor in the remodeled tardis that the doctor turns off is showing the crack on the display - perhaps the doctor (or the tardis) is already onto it.
Huh? Pi isn't 14.3 or 14/3.
No, but it's close to 22nd July.
I refer to July 22 as Pi Approximation Day, as 22/7 is approximately Pi - it's close enough for most things
It's also nearly my birthday, so another reason to celebrate. :-)
So nothing has really changed with technology then.
Current historians would absolutatly love it if we had better coverage of many periods of human history - much of it (even the written records) has been lost, blown up, burnt, flooded, lost in the deserts, built over, eroded, probably even eaten, ... over the years.
Historians are able to get lots of information from the little that remains - piecing together partial fragments, cross-references, stories, even boxes in attics can hold wealth of information.
Oh good, you're safe then, because none of those friends, relatives, etc will tag pictures with your real name or location.
Facebook is a special kind of evil, kind of like Google. Too much personal information in one place.
If a friend of yours tags you in a photo on facebook, you can remove the tag.
Afterwards I'm fairly sure that only you can re-add yourself to that picture again.
If the bird has been hitting womp-rats back home there should be no problem.
Most prey birds do this everyday to survive.
Flying in and grabbing the unlucky lunch.
Linux option:
You can use the yahoo links listed above and paste them directly into VLC under the File / Open Network Stream option - works wherever VLC is supported I suppose.
Allows for higher resolution then I could find on the site.
Duke Nukem! 3D
How about giving us the next installment, it's taken like FOREVER!!!!
I remember being at a friends place when I first saw Wing Commander.
He didn't tell me that he also had recently installed a Sound Blaster as well - blew me away almost.
The next day I went out and bought both.
vegimite..... just smelling that is good enough to go to the hospital.
just smelling it killed my apetite for a month.
new Zealanders eat it like as if it were creamcheese
Vegemite should be nice and thick on the bread, even better is to eat it with a spoon.
How would you know? ;-)
(Sorry, nothing personal, I just couldn't resist.)
PFI_Optix must have said something that I liked at some stage, as I've got them marked as a friend.
By now everyone should know it's the rats that are using us (or the Chinese in this case).
Nearly right.
It's the mice that are using us for their own purposes.
If it were the rats then we would have died out long ago.
I'll go you one better - I once had to maintain Perl code.
I had to code while I was being eaten by a grue.
And Ultima did have first-person combat, including ranged weapons, spells, and melee. Again, better than Wolf3D. Overall it is a MUCH better game that shipped first with a larger set of game features, but everyone said Wolf3D was the big innovator.
I played both when I was much younger.
Wolf3D was much faster on the same hardware, not to mention more colourful, smoother. It was just a more fun game.
I remember Ultima Underworld like I remember Doom3: slow and dark.
you don't say "orangs", as it offends some of the more hard-core keepers
That is really funny because "orang" is a Malay (and Indonesian) word for "person."
Just don't call him a monkey, he really hates that.
But Dr. Who only gets exactly where he pleases when it satisfies the writers. Most of the time it seems that some sort of space-time vortex sucks him off-course, or the Tardis misbehaves, or other such circumstance landing him in the wrong space/time.
Just once they should go somewhere and nothing happens - maybe only a 5min episode to keep us hooked.
Speaking of near misses.
Don't forget that many many years ago the Doctor (and Adric) accidently set off life on this planet. Though only one of them lived to tell about it I guess.
Someone should keep a list of memorable quotes in Slashdot. :-)
Well there is always SeenOnSlash