The Klingon language is something truly unique. While there have been other artificial languages, and other languages crafted for fictional beings, Klingon is one of the rare times when a trained linguist has been called upon to create a language for aliens. Add to this more than a quarter-century of the Star Trek phenomenon, a mythos that has permeated popular culture and spread around the globe. These factors begin to explain the popularity of the warrior's tongue.
Klingon was invented by Marc Okrand, for use in some of the Star Trek movies. He invented not just a few words to make the Klingons sound alien, but a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar, and usage.
The last time I logged on kazaa there were ~3 million computers online. That's ~3 million computers with spyware installed.
Granted, many of the more savvy users could be logging on with hacked clients such as kazaa lite, but I would imagine they number in the thousands, not the millions.
If you die, please make a post letting everyone here know. Err... Heh.
I guess if you just stop posting someday we'll know what happened?
Anyway, it kind of makes sense that if you didn't admit your own ignorance you wouldn't be you. It reminds me how Conan O'Brian always tells Oscar winners things like "If I had one, I'd have it strung up from the ceiling so I could just lower it down during dinner and say OH, what's this!" Heh. Which is probably one of the reasons he is in no danger of getting an Oscar.
But you are in danger if becoming even less ignorant with that mindset, I guess.
A scary thought. I wonder if perhaps one day your head will just explode. Then, in the end, it won't be your "genetic lottery" that has the last laugh, after all.
Yeah, it's only one of the most important human creations of all time.
No big deal or anything. I can see why raising $1.5 mil would be an issue...
Oh wait, that doesn't make sense at all.
Too bad I don't have an extra $1.5M lying around somewhere. Maybe I could talk to Capital One about raising my credit limit?;)
Anyway, it was truly a remarkable construction. Everything about the Saturn V was huge. From the buildings involved in construction to the enormous crawler built to haul the damn thing. We're talking an absolutely massive scale...
In fact, according to the history channel's show Modern Marvels, the only human-produced sound louder than a Saturn V at lift-off is the detonation of an atomic bomb.
It is a historical irony that space exploration takes second place to mass destruction in decibel output, though. Perhaps that says something about human nature?
Could someone put this information into an arbitrary value such as ticket sales? Number of tickets sold would be a far more accurate estimate of the sucess of a movie.
I'm not really sure how old my CRT is... I just checked powerstrip, and it says "1998, ISO week 0" under date of manufacture. It was given to me by someone who couldn't stand the high pitch squeaky sound it makes at low refresh rates.;)
Thankfully, it doesn't really do it at 1280x1024@85, so I kinda lucked out. It has some other issues though, namely, there's a bit of blurring that occurs in a certain part of the screen. I don't know if it is due to the guns wearing out or what. Anyway, for a free 19 inch monitor, I'm not going to complain. I like it.
I submitted this, too. I'm glad it made it here. We all read the story about him planning to announce this, but now that it is official, it's newsworthy again.
Anyway, I know that there are a lot of good reasons against this... People have said that it won't really help with jobs since it would be a "makework" approach. People have said that the millions would be better spent on domestic programs. These are all very valid points, but I think the one thing that justifies the space program more than anything is the fact that planet Earth won't be here for ever.
The Earth has very finite resources. When seen from a billion miles away, the Earth is a tiny blue dot. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, that's it... Everyone you've ever known, everyone that has ever lived and died, all on that tiny blue dot.
In as little as 500 million years and no later than 5 billion years, this planet will no longer support human life. There a few options. Option one: humans die. It's likely we might nuke ourselves to death long before this point, though. Option two: Humans become a truly spacefairing civilization and live among the stars a la Star Trek.
I would prefer option two. Is that possible? Some would say no, but without taking this initial steps, these baby-steps into space, it will be impossible.
So, regardless of all the good reasons not to go to the moon or Mars, one reason that is so good that it's like a sucker-punch to all the drawbacks remains: The survival of the human species.
Not only that, but he refers to Tycho as "an unamed author." It's not that difficult to call him Tycho, or look up his real name which I'm sure is on the site somewhere... both their last names are at the bottom of the page. "1998-2003 Krahulik/ Holkins."
So yeah, looks like this guy didn't do anything more than glance at the site.
And on the subject of video game violence, their very third comic touched on the issue. Interesting to note how much Gabe's hair has grown. That spike goes down almost to his chin in today's comic. Heh.
It's obvious: copy protection on games only hurts the paying customers. Things like SafeDisc adversely affect system performance, forcing the paying customers to fetch no-CD cracks in an effort to get the best performance. When paying customers get worse performance than the pirates, it tends to make them wonder just why they are paying in the first place.
People are always going to pirate games. It's just too easy to copy 1s and 0s. I think the solution is the opposite of what the game industry is doing: Sell me more than the disc. I want physical items that are worth more to me, such as a big thick manual, maps, posters, maybe even a player's guide, right in the same box with the shiny disc. I would imagine I'm not alone on this and that if gamers received something more tangible than a disc with their $50, perhaps they would be more inclined to purchase.
This post is not meant to advocate piracy. It's meant to advocate customer rights. Remember when the customer was always right? Now the customer is a consumer, and the consumer is a lying dirty pirate who needs his entertainment sufficiently crippled to prevent him from stealing. Well, this attitude is exactly the sort of thing fueling the pirates.
Really, the best way to stop piracy is to actually make the game worth $50. Like I said, give us more tangible items in the box, give us the freedom to copy the disc without special hardware or software hacks, and don't cripple the software we purchase with things like SafeDisc.
I could rant on, but I'm preaching to the converted here anyway, I'm sure.
At first I thought yahoo DSL was on the list and I thought, "Wow, that took some guts to admit!" and then noticed the text "ADVERTISEMENT" above the image.
Yes, you are 100% correct. All of this "Nintendo dying" propaganda must be fueled by Microsoft in an effort to bring the xbox out of the #3 slot in worldwide sales.
Just because Nintendo is the #3 selling in the US does not mean it is dying, especially when other countries are flat out ignoring the xbox. No matter how Microsoft tries to spin the numbers, the truth is Nintendo is owning them in worldwide sales.
I read somewhere that when 3D0 was in their bankrupt state with their console, their numbers were better than X-Box's current situation. So the question remains, how much longer will the Microsoft money machine continue to back the xbox? Won't Microsoft stockholders get a little upset? Or, will Microsoft continue to put enough of a spin on the situation to keep slogging onward?
Not exactly in game, but amusing none-the-less. Blizzard has a couple of MP3s with a Christmas theme. The 12 Days O Xmas features StarCraft units in a parody of the classic song. Nasty Diablo is a parody of Frosty the Snowman. Both are hilarious!
Please learn the difference between "loose" and "lose" before you slam the ignorance of others.
I am sure the person that fell for this scam was your better (and mine) in at least some way. Granted, you and I would never fall for a 419, but perhaps this retired "electronics specialist" would laugh himself silly if he saw you trying to wire your own home, or perform some of the tasks he did daily at his job.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and I can learn from him."
If that was true for Emerson, is it not exponentially more true for you and I?
Halo delivered like Half-life delivered 5 years ago.
Except Half-Life had a much stronger single player experience from the get-go, where as the campaign in Halo is rather redundant and tedious.
But then I should also point out that Half-Life's multiplayer options weren't very robust at its release.
And, while there was a mountain of hype and buzz surronding the first Halo, I recall very little hype for Half-Life. Of course, back then the "hype monster" was still a baby compared to what it is today. It seems companies have to turn out roughly 10 screenshots per second to get noticed.
To make matters worse, the novels say Luke was using the Force to slow his fall, which would require a great deal of concentration. It's hard to concentrate when you're screaming like a bitch.
The film Gattaca did the same sort of stunt. They aired ads offering to genetically enhance children. Thousands of people called the number they provided, which I assume instructed them to go see the movie.;)
Wil Wheaton was up for a role in this, and the casting people seemed to think he was perfect for the part. However, the directory apparently didn't.
I would have loved to have seen him in something new. Star Trek would have you believe all he can do is say, "Yes, sir!" and push buttons, but after reading his site you sort of get to know the guy...
What I don't find fair (to the public) is the indignant way Mr. Ridge handles the press. His responses serve to propagandise and/or scare the public, IMO.
While I agree that propaganda is alive and well here in the US, and they have done things to scare the public such as the whole duct tape thing, the URL you mention actually seems pretty rational. In fact, he says:
"But make no mistake about it; aviation is far more secure than it's ever been in the history of the country."
I don't think that's intended to scare the public, while it might still be propaganda.
Lastly, on the subject of H-Bombs, anyone remember the nuke the moon project? Destroyer of worlds, indeed.
...so that any analysts/reporters will not be distracted.
How can they be distracted? Just look at SCO's case:
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer trying to prove SCO's case and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must find Linux guilty of copyright violation and find the GPL invalid.
I know SCO seems wrong. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a worthless software company's life is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must agree with SCO. Here look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey.
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From kli.org:
The Klingon language is something truly unique. While there have been other artificial languages, and other languages crafted for fictional beings, Klingon is one of the rare times when a trained linguist has been called upon to create a language for aliens. Add to this more than a quarter-century of the Star Trek phenomenon, a mythos that has permeated popular culture and spread around the globe. These factors begin to explain the popularity of the warrior's tongue. Klingon was invented by Marc Okrand, for use in some of the Star Trek movies. He invented not just a few words to make the Klingons sound alien, but a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar, and usage.
Granted, many of the more savvy users could be logging on with hacked clients such as kazaa lite, but I would imagine they number in the thousands, not the millions.
Just helps put a perspective on things...
I guess if you just stop posting someday we'll know what happened?
Anyway, it kind of makes sense that if you didn't admit your own ignorance you wouldn't be you. It reminds me how Conan O'Brian always tells Oscar winners things like "If I had one, I'd have it strung up from the ceiling so I could just lower it down during dinner and say OH, what's this!" Heh. Which is probably one of the reasons he is in no danger of getting an Oscar.
But you are in danger if becoming even less ignorant with that mindset, I guess.
A scary thought. I wonder if perhaps one day your head will just explode. Then, in the end, it won't be your "genetic lottery" that has the last laugh, after all.
Oh wait, that doesn't make sense at all.
Too bad I don't have an extra $1.5M lying around somewhere. Maybe I could talk to Capital One about raising my credit limit? ;)
Anyway, it was truly a remarkable construction. Everything about the Saturn V was huge. From the buildings involved in construction to the enormous crawler built to haul the damn thing. We're talking an absolutely massive scale... In fact, according to the history channel's show Modern Marvels, the only human-produced sound louder than a Saturn V at lift-off is the detonation of an atomic bomb.
It is a historical irony that space exploration takes second place to mass destruction in decibel output, though. Perhaps that says something about human nature?
Yesterday, I noticed google had this banner. I thought it was cute. Heh.
Could someone put this information into an arbitrary value such as ticket sales? Number of tickets sold would be a far more accurate estimate of the sucess of a movie.
Trivia: He also did the voice for Muska in the Dinsey dub of Castle in the Sky (an anime movie).
Thankfully, it doesn't really do it at 1280x1024@85, so I kinda lucked out. It has some other issues though, namely, there's a bit of blurring that occurs in a certain part of the screen. I don't know if it is due to the guns wearing out or what. Anyway, for a free 19 inch monitor, I'm not going to complain. I like it.
Anyway, I know that there are a lot of good reasons against this... People have said that it won't really help with jobs since it would be a "makework" approach. People have said that the millions would be better spent on domestic programs. These are all very valid points, but I think the one thing that justifies the space program more than anything is the fact that planet Earth won't be here for ever.
The Earth has very finite resources. When seen from a billion miles away, the Earth is a tiny blue dot. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, that's it... Everyone you've ever known, everyone that has ever lived and died, all on that tiny blue dot.
In as little as 500 million years and no later than 5 billion years, this planet will no longer support human life. There a few options. Option one: humans die. It's likely we might nuke ourselves to death long before this point, though. Option two: Humans become a truly spacefairing civilization and live among the stars a la Star Trek.
I would prefer option two. Is that possible? Some would say no, but without taking this initial steps, these baby-steps into space, it will be impossible.
So, regardless of all the good reasons not to go to the moon or Mars, one reason that is so good that it's like a sucker-punch to all the drawbacks remains: The survival of the human species.
So yeah, looks like this guy didn't do anything more than glance at the site.
And on the subject of video game violence, their very third comic touched on the issue. Interesting to note how much Gabe's hair has grown. That spike goes down almost to his chin in today's comic. Heh.
People are always going to pirate games. It's just too easy to copy 1s and 0s. I think the solution is the opposite of what the game industry is doing: Sell me more than the disc. I want physical items that are worth more to me, such as a big thick manual, maps, posters, maybe even a player's guide, right in the same box with the shiny disc. I would imagine I'm not alone on this and that if gamers received something more tangible than a disc with their $50, perhaps they would be more inclined to purchase.
This post is not meant to advocate piracy. It's meant to advocate customer rights. Remember when the customer was always right? Now the customer is a consumer, and the consumer is a lying dirty pirate who needs his entertainment sufficiently crippled to prevent him from stealing. Well, this attitude is exactly the sort of thing fueling the pirates.
Really, the best way to stop piracy is to actually make the game worth $50. Like I said, give us more tangible items in the box, give us the freedom to copy the disc without special hardware or software hacks, and don't cripple the software we purchase with things like SafeDisc.
I could rant on, but I'm preaching to the converted here anyway, I'm sure.
I think we are a few artist renditions away from a Martian Liberation.
At first I thought yahoo DSL was on the list and I thought, "Wow, that took some guts to admit!" and then noticed the text "ADVERTISEMENT" above the image.
Here's the snopes page on the fake images.
Just because Nintendo is the #3 selling in the US does not mean it is dying, especially when other countries are flat out ignoring the xbox. No matter how Microsoft tries to spin the numbers, the truth is Nintendo is owning them in worldwide sales.
I read somewhere that when 3D0 was in their bankrupt state with their console, their numbers were better than X-Box's current situation. So the question remains, how much longer will the Microsoft money machine continue to back the xbox? Won't Microsoft stockholders get a little upset? Or, will Microsoft continue to put enough of a spin on the situation to keep slogging onward?
I got sued by SCO for Christmas, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!
Not exactly in game, but amusing none-the-less. Blizzard has a couple of MP3s with a Christmas theme. The 12 Days O Xmas features StarCraft units in a parody of the classic song. Nasty Diablo is a parody of Frosty the Snowman. Both are hilarious!
Lucky! I get about 10 seconds per frame. Elite Force 2 was like watching a PowerPoint on Elite Force 2.
Thankfully, GTA Vice City runs at playable speeds. Gets kinda yucky at some parts, but certainly playable.
I am sure the person that fell for this scam was your better (and mine) in at least some way. Granted, you and I would never fall for a 419, but perhaps this retired "electronics specialist" would laugh himself silly if he saw you trying to wire your own home, or perform some of the tasks he did daily at his job.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and I can learn from him."
If that was true for Emerson, is it not exponentially more true for you and I?
Except Half-Life had a much stronger single player experience from the get-go, where as the campaign in Halo is rather redundant and tedious.
But then I should also point out that Half-Life's multiplayer options weren't very robust at its release.
And, while there was a mountain of hype and buzz surronding the first Halo, I recall very little hype for Half-Life. Of course, back then the "hype monster" was still a baby compared to what it is today. It seems companies have to turn out roughly 10 screenshots per second to get noticed.
To make matters worse, the novels say Luke was using the Force to slow his fall, which would require a great deal of concentration. It's hard to concentrate when you're screaming like a bitch.
The film Gattaca did the same sort of stunt. They aired ads offering to genetically enhance children. Thousands of people called the number they provided, which I assume instructed them to go see the movie. ;)
I would have loved to have seen him in something new. Star Trek would have you believe all he can do is say, "Yes, sir!" and push buttons, but after reading his site you sort of get to know the guy...
And the URL slash mangled is here.
While I agree that propaganda is alive and well here in the US, and they have done things to scare the public such as the whole duct tape thing, the URL you mention actually seems pretty rational. In fact, he says:
"But make no mistake about it; aviation is far more secure than it's ever been in the history of the country."
I don't think that's intended to scare the public, while it might still be propaganda.
Lastly, on the subject of H-Bombs, anyone remember the nuke the moon project? Destroyer of worlds, indeed.
How can they be distracted? Just look at SCO's case:
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer trying to prove SCO's case and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must find Linux guilty of copyright violation and find the GPL invalid.
I know SCO seems wrong. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a worthless software company's life is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must agree with SCO. Here look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey.