You should try UFO: Aftermath. I picked it up used at my local EB for $9 half a year ago. It's basically an updated XCOM (which I played through twice), but plays out in real time with the option to pause the game as you go or have the game pause when trigger events happen.
The game starts right after the aliens have wiped out 90% of earth's population. You are the commander of the elite troops who are in charge of fending off their attack.
This game isn't really too much different except for the graphics. You have a squad of team members that grows over time. The more your characters go on missions, the more they develop. Once their basic abilities reach certain levels, you can train them with professions (Sniper, Soldier, Grenader, Medic, Psionicist, Scientist) that increase skills (Marksmanship, riflery, Handguns, Aliens (know where to shoot them after you've done autopsies), speed, capacity).
Meanwhile, the items you capture, you research, and develop new technologies. Unlike XCOM, in this game, you have to capture bases (abandon human military bases or new alien bases). Other missions mostly consist of recon, wiping out the aliens at a given location, capturing a live alien, capturing a base, defending a base from invasion, destroying an installation before the aliens capture it, securing crash zones of shot down UFOs, rescue missions (mostly downed fighter pilots, but I'm stuck on a mission where you have to rescue two greys from the other aliens), and so far as I've found, two recovery missions, one at Area 51 and another at the Russian equivalent.
The only real downside to the game, you can't dump weapons that you never use, unlike in XCOM where you could sell the stuff in your armory (found or manufactured in your labs), so that you don't have to wade through 15 different models of assault weapons to find the ones that you're actually using, and managing your budget plays no part in this game.
Or you can see what the overall ratings its getting at IMDB, Yahoo! or Google from regular shmoes, and compare that with the pros. If the ratings are poor and you still go to see it, at least they will have pulled your expectations down, then you won't have to be disappointed at going in with hype-pumped expectations. Or you might even decide to wait and see it on video when it comes out, in order to punish the movie makers who did a poor job on the film in question (you can always buy it on DVD if you like it, and reward them later).
Given the choice of overspending on movies I can barely afford (considering prices have doubled in 10 years), it takes a sure thing to get me to the theater anymore.
I think the "Can of Worms" he was talking to was lawsuits against his employer and the workplace monitoring that will have to go on after this. That said, I hope they put this guy away for 10 years.
Or http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/, which links to over 2500 comics. I think once you get listed (you're probably best off paying the 5 bucks and submitting a thumbnail), you'll appear on the page of new comics, for a week I think. People that are constantly scrolling the site, looking for new comics. If they like what they see, you might move up by being well rated. If you can get in the top 200, you'll probably see a sustained stream of new visitors.
What happens to choice for your child. If you have selected them to be a world class athlete, scientist, or other ability. You then have expectations of them. What if they don't want to do what you want them to do? What if you had the next Michael Jordan on your hands, and but he doesn't have the desire to do what you planned (and paid) for him to be? Don't you think there might be even more resentment due to parental expectations than we see already today? What if there are 10 MJs, who's going to care, because they're just doing what they were made to do, and well, we made a thousand of them, so 1% of them were likely to turn up great.
Let the children be develop naturally and be who they are, and they'll be much happier that way.
He would not be him. His conciousness, his personality, his learned behaviors would all be different. It would not be him. Its the difference between him and a sibling.
If we now allow it for IVF, what stops couples from resorting to IVF so they can choose the sex and more? For all we know, it Gattica, everybody not having "faith babies" was using IVF. If millions of couples start using IVF, what keeps us from a situation where every OB doctor practices IVF on the side, and once it is available and many want it, we legalize it and have a gradual societial evolution to a Gattica like society? Once you open the box, there is likely no going back, because if future earning potiential starts to be based on genetics, parents that don't will be seen as bad parents, and who wants to make that choice?
Actually, at least here in the middle of the country, a mile is 8 blocks. Major streets in my city are spaced 8 blocks apart, 21st, 29th, and 37th. When you get out in the country, and country roads have street numbers for names, every mile road is numbered plus or minus 8 from the last one. That yields 64 blocks per mile instead of 100, and 640 acres per square mile as well leads to 10 acres per block.
I work at a US Postal facility. The access to users icons for the Games were deleted through a Group Policy in Active Directory about a month ago. I've yet to get any calls asking where the shortcuts went. I haven't gone into Windows to see if the executables are still there.
I wonder if they could be planning a later release with a faster processor and video card that would come out later. Release an XBox every year, and with some games, the game maker could say Required, XBox 2005, recommended XBox 2007.
If the Processor and video chips ramp up, the only real issue is if the games are set to run on a specific processor speed (like old PC games).
Of course, having a splintered console base could be a very bad thing, but since I've heard that there will be 4 editions of the XBox2, maybe MS doesn't care.
Unless you were making a return trip. You could use all of your carry on fuel to accelerate on your return trip, then use the microwaves to slow down on your approach to earth.
You could then set up a similar system where both earth and the moon have stations, and they could shoot passengers back and forth in hours as opposed to days.
Eventually, you could setup stations in the asteroid belts, and have people manning the asteroids and they could send unattended ships of mineral cargos back in to the inhabitted planets.
If you are going to do this off of spacestations, you'd probably need a propulsion unit on the other side of the station to counter the effects of the third law of motion.
Sounds like somebody needs to sue the movie companies after they've been a victim of a crime similar to one depicted in a movie. While the movie might be entertainment, it can enable bad behavior just as easily as software.
Check out the seller bigcat_iso at eBay, or email him at @verizon.net (same user ID as eBay). I got an email from him this morning with about 50 distros and the price was $1 a CD, plus.99 cents shipping per order.
Are you sure you weren't refering to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) income limits? I've filed in the past, and filed for free for making less than 30-35k a year for my federal. Now, being married, my wife and I made nearly 70k last year, so I'll be filing with paper forms to save my $20. Performing a civic duty shouldn't cost a darn penny.
Good to know. I figured something like this was the case after I saw this: "NOTE: IRS cannot compete with private enterprise and does not offer free e-file software or direct" from this page: filing.http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=9829 4,00.html
It's too bad that we can't fulfill our civic duty without paying for efile (it should be free, just like voting!!!), or sending the forms in by mail. The postal method is cheaper, so I'll go that route. It might cost the IRS $.50 or a dollar to enter the form in, but that's a whole lot cheaper than paying to file both state and federal, which would total $15 at the cheapest website. No thanks, I'll do them myself.
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Actually, a few years back, I recall another item on alternative calendars, long before I was aware of slashdot. Anyway, this particular calendar recommended the use of one day a year that would not be a part of any week (would fit nicely on New Years). This would leave us with 52 7-day weeks, and every year would look like every other year as far as the calendar except for the weekend on which Easter would fall, since that date is based on the moon.
The Catholic Church, the keeper of the Gregorian calendar was asked about this proposal, and the Church's statement was that every Lord's Day (Sunday) had to be 7 days after the one prior. No skipping days allowed. If the calendar, were restructured, the Church would continue to use the Gregorian calendar for determining days of worship and require Church attendance according to the Gregorian calendar, even if those days would fall in the middle of the work week according to New World Calendar X.
It would be similar to the fact that Eastern Orthodox Christians use the Ceasarian calendar to determine feast days while using Gregorian calendar for business, the same way we do.
I got my S9000 10 months ago for $200 new, but the 9000 probably isn't even being produced anymore. Unfortunately, Canon will not provide any assistance to the Linux crowd.
The next models are the i9100 and i9900. The i9900 is available for under $450 delivered (check pricegrabber.com), and is an 8-tank system, and would probably work really well for a professional. The printer should be able to print an 8x10 in about a minute according to the specs.
Ink for my 9000 is higher than I want to pay, so I'm going to test out some 3rd party ink to see if it holds up, but be careful, as using non Canon consumables can void your warranty and produce inferior quality. Basically, you get what you pay for.
The 13x19 Canon paper is available from New Egg at $14 for a lot of 20. The 4x6 Canon Photo Plus paper is pretty good, and can be had at thenerds.net for less than $11 per 50 sheets. I think prints with Canon ink and paper are expected to last about 25 years. We've had a dozen shots in plastic holders hanging on the side of our refrigerator, and I don't notice any problems with the printing fading.
That and the fact that if people have more money, maybe they are going some place other than Walmart. My wife and I grocery shop at our local Walmart (on of the 5 Hypermart-pilot stores that became Super Walmart), but when we're buying something for the house, we sometimes prefer a bit better quality than the average Walmart items, unless the budget says no.
Considering the fact that John Paul II has endorsed evolution (http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/whatsaid.htm ), you might realize that he isn't an anti-science fanatic. He's also not one of those guys who would have an anti-Darwin salamander (upside down with x's for eyes) on his rear bumper.
What John Paul (and I) believe is that God created the universe and everything in it. In thousands of years, nobody has demonstrated undeniable evidence (scientifically) that God does or does not exist, nor will we ever. As Catholics (and hopefully this holds true for other Christians as well), we believe that the existance of God can be inferred from creation, but not proven. More importantly, it is our personal experiences that provide the reasons for our faith, and science can only provide support for what we believe. Why? Because God is outside of creation. He is the creator, hense He does not reside in what He created although He is present here. Science cannot touch God, he is beyond the reach of our senses. However God has created things is how He decided to do it. If He chose to use the Great Bang, then that's how he did it, and considering we went from nothing or everything in a small point to a vastly expanding universe sounds an awful lot like God creating to me. When you consider that a priest first formulated the theory of the Big Bang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_theory#Hist ory_of_the_theory), you might realize the Church isn't out it impede reason, it's out to promote it. All science is the effort to understand the things God has made, even if that isn't the specific goal of individual scientists.
Disregarding science because it doesn't vibe with what the Bible says or doesn't say is plain ignorance, and I despise ignoring of common sense with regards to reason and science. As St. Augustine once said, "The Bible was written to show us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." (http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/galileo.ht ml, Note 21) That whole article is on the disagreement between Galileo and the Church, and the Pope has appologized and resinded everything against Galileo's legitimate science.
But for someone to claim that there is no God because they can't find him in creation, or because they think science and religion are at odds is no less a crime against reason. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there, just that you aren't able to see it. You don't claim that a globe is an in accurate view of the Universe because there is no sun and stars, you recognize it for what it is. A limited representation of of creation. Likewise, people who want to use science to disprove religion are as misguided (or closely so) as those who would require us to use the first chapters of the bible in science class. Science is what it is, a study of the universe. It cannot tell us anything about what exists outside of it, although it might be able to hazard a guess at if miracles are real or not, since some (many?) are hoaxes from people who want attention.
Religion takes a different set of senses than science, but it takes some of the same goals, such as a desire for understanding everything we can know and a sense of awe (compare our size against the galaxy, compare our size to God, look at genetics, etc.). Yet, regretably, both science and religion play a remarkably small part of people's everyday lives or shaping their world-view, to the point of being a non-factor.
It seems to me, that John Paul in accepting the work of scientists, and believing in God is a better man than he would be otherwise. I can say the same for myself. Do he and I have shortcomings. Yes. We are human and fail. But like you, we feel a need to spread the truth as we see it, each in our own way. Hopefully, in learning from each other, we can find the truth, and live our lives to the best of our potential.
If the authors would be able to take there books straight to an editor for a fee ($500-1000 dollars for a couple days work), and and then published the books, and sold them through Amazon, and could get listed on Bestsellers lists by virtue of the sales of the electric copies, books could be sold for a couple dollars less than the cost of a paperback. With no printing or transport costs, and a few good literary reviewers to filter the material, which could be run as a blog or a popular reading site.
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Add in a format to have bookmarks associated with a current book. If the file is.html, then have a.book file that records shortcuts to certain passages you think you'll want to be able to find again in the future (for research or a discussion at your book club's weekly meeting). When a book is open, you click on the bookmark icon, and it loads your bookmark file for the current title.
And if someone figures out the accout IDs of all the root or administrator passwords on your network, and start intentionally causing intentional failures to lockout those accounts?
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Find plenty here. Never played any of them though.
You should try UFO: Aftermath. I picked it up used at my local EB for $9 half a year ago. It's basically an updated XCOM (which I played through twice), but plays out in real time with the option to pause the game as you go or have the game pause when trigger events happen.
The game starts right after the aliens have wiped out 90% of earth's population. You are the commander of the elite troops who are in charge of fending off their attack.
This game isn't really too much different except for the graphics. You have a squad of team members that grows over time. The more your characters go on missions, the more they develop. Once their basic abilities reach certain levels, you can train them with professions (Sniper, Soldier, Grenader, Medic, Psionicist, Scientist) that increase skills (Marksmanship, riflery, Handguns, Aliens (know where to shoot them after you've done autopsies), speed, capacity).
Meanwhile, the items you capture, you research, and develop new technologies. Unlike XCOM, in this game, you have to capture bases (abandon human military bases or new alien bases). Other missions mostly consist of recon, wiping out the aliens at a given location, capturing a live alien, capturing a base, defending a base from invasion, destroying an installation before the aliens capture it, securing crash zones of shot down UFOs, rescue missions (mostly downed fighter pilots, but I'm stuck on a mission where you have to rescue two greys from the other aliens), and so far as I've found, two recovery missions, one at Area 51 and another at the Russian equivalent.
The only real downside to the game, you can't dump weapons that you never use, unlike in XCOM where you could sell the stuff in your armory (found or manufactured in your labs), so that you don't have to wade through 15 different models of assault weapons to find the ones that you're actually using, and managing your budget plays no part in this game.
Or you can see what the overall ratings its getting at IMDB, Yahoo! or Google from regular shmoes, and compare that with the pros. If the ratings are poor and you still go to see it, at least they will have pulled your expectations down, then you won't have to be disappointed at going in with hype-pumped expectations. Or you might even decide to wait and see it on video when it comes out, in order to punish the movie makers who did a poor job on the film in question (you can always buy it on DVD if you like it, and reward them later). Given the choice of overspending on movies I can barely afford (considering prices have doubled in 10 years), it takes a sure thing to get me to the theater anymore.
I think the "Can of Worms" he was talking to was lawsuits against his employer and the workplace monitoring that will have to go on after this. That said, I hope they put this guy away for 10 years.
Or http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/, which links to over 2500 comics. I think once you get listed (you're probably best off paying the 5 bucks and submitting a thumbnail), you'll appear on the page of new comics, for a week I think. People that are constantly scrolling the site, looking for new comics. If they like what they see, you might move up by being well rated. If you can get in the top 200, you'll probably see a sustained stream of new visitors.
To be even more pedantic, nobody is born Catholic. Becoming Catholic happens at baptism, always.
What happens to choice for your child. If you have selected them to be a world class athlete, scientist, or other ability. You then have expectations of them. What if they don't want to do what you want them to do? What if you had the next Michael Jordan on your hands, and but he doesn't have the desire to do what you planned (and paid) for him to be? Don't you think there might be even more resentment due to parental expectations than we see already today? What if there are 10 MJs, who's going to care, because they're just doing what they were made to do, and well, we made a thousand of them, so 1% of them were likely to turn up great. Let the children be develop naturally and be who they are, and they'll be much happier that way.
He would not be him. His conciousness, his personality, his learned behaviors would all be different. It would not be him. Its the difference between him and a sibling.
If we now allow it for IVF, what stops couples from resorting to IVF so they can choose the sex and more? For all we know, it Gattica, everybody not having "faith babies" was using IVF. If millions of couples start using IVF, what keeps us from a situation where every OB doctor practices IVF on the side, and once it is available and many want it, we legalize it and have a gradual societial evolution to a Gattica like society? Once you open the box, there is likely no going back, because if future earning potiential starts to be based on genetics, parents that don't will be seen as bad parents, and who wants to make that choice?
Actually, at least here in the middle of the country, a mile is 8 blocks. Major streets in my city are spaced 8 blocks apart, 21st, 29th, and 37th. When you get out in the country, and country roads have street numbers for names, every mile road is numbered plus or minus 8 from the last one. That yields 64 blocks per mile instead of 100, and 640 acres per square mile as well leads to 10 acres per block.
I work at a US Postal facility. The access to users icons for the Games were deleted through a Group Policy in Active Directory about a month ago. I've yet to get any calls asking where the shortcuts went. I haven't gone into Windows to see if the executables are still there.
The location of nightlies are here.
I wonder if they could be planning a later release with a faster processor and video card that would come out later. Release an XBox every year, and with some games, the game maker could say Required, XBox 2005, recommended XBox 2007. If the Processor and video chips ramp up, the only real issue is if the games are set to run on a specific processor speed (like old PC games). Of course, having a splintered console base could be a very bad thing, but since I've heard that there will be 4 editions of the XBox2, maybe MS doesn't care.
Unless you were making a return trip. You could use all of your carry on fuel to accelerate on your return trip, then use the microwaves to slow down on your approach to earth.
You could then set up a similar system where both earth and the moon have stations, and they could shoot passengers back and forth in hours as opposed to days.
Eventually, you could setup stations in the asteroid belts, and have people manning the asteroids and they could send unattended ships of mineral cargos back in to the inhabitted planets.
If you are going to do this off of spacestations, you'd probably need a propulsion unit on the other side of the station to counter the effects of the third law of motion.
Sounds like somebody needs to sue the movie companies after they've been a victim of a crime similar to one depicted in a movie. While the movie might be entertainment, it can enable bad behavior just as easily as software.
Check out the seller bigcat_iso at eBay, or email him at @verizon.net (same user ID as eBay). I got an email from him this morning with about 50 distros and the price was $1 a CD, plus .99 cents shipping per order.
Are you sure you weren't refering to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) income limits? I've filed in the past, and filed for free for making less than 30-35k a year for my federal. Now, being married, my wife and I made nearly 70k last year, so I'll be filing with paper forms to save my $20. Performing a civic duty shouldn't cost a darn penny.
Good to know. I figured something like this was the case after I saw this: "NOTE: IRS cannot compete with private enterprise and does not offer free e-file software or direct" from this page: filing.http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=9829 4,00.html
It's too bad that we can't fulfill our civic duty without paying for efile (it should be free, just like voting!!!), or sending the forms in by mail. The postal method is cheaper, so I'll go that route. It might cost the IRS $.50 or a dollar to enter the form in, but that's a whole lot cheaper than paying to file both state and federal, which would total $15 at the cheapest website. No thanks, I'll do them myself.
Actually, a few years back, I recall another item on alternative calendars, long before I was aware of slashdot. Anyway, this particular calendar recommended the use of one day a year that would not be a part of any week (would fit nicely on New Years). This would leave us with 52 7-day weeks, and every year would look like every other year as far as the calendar except for the weekend on which Easter would fall, since that date is based on the moon. The Catholic Church, the keeper of the Gregorian calendar was asked about this proposal, and the Church's statement was that every Lord's Day (Sunday) had to be 7 days after the one prior. No skipping days allowed. If the calendar, were restructured, the Church would continue to use the Gregorian calendar for determining days of worship and require Church attendance according to the Gregorian calendar, even if those days would fall in the middle of the work week according to New World Calendar X. It would be similar to the fact that Eastern Orthodox Christians use the Ceasarian calendar to determine feast days while using Gregorian calendar for business, the same way we do.
I got my S9000 10 months ago for $200 new, but the 9000 probably isn't even being produced anymore. Unfortunately, Canon will not provide any assistance to the Linux crowd. The next models are the i9100 and i9900. The i9900 is available for under $450 delivered (check pricegrabber.com), and is an 8-tank system, and would probably work really well for a professional. The printer should be able to print an 8x10 in about a minute according to the specs. Ink for my 9000 is higher than I want to pay, so I'm going to test out some 3rd party ink to see if it holds up, but be careful, as using non Canon consumables can void your warranty and produce inferior quality. Basically, you get what you pay for. The 13x19 Canon paper is available from New Egg at $14 for a lot of 20. The 4x6 Canon Photo Plus paper is pretty good, and can be had at thenerds.net for less than $11 per 50 sheets. I think prints with Canon ink and paper are expected to last about 25 years. We've had a dozen shots in plastic holders hanging on the side of our refrigerator, and I don't notice any problems with the printing fading.
That and the fact that if people have more money, maybe they are going some place other than Walmart. My wife and I grocery shop at our local Walmart (on of the 5 Hypermart-pilot stores that became Super Walmart), but when we're buying something for the house, we sometimes prefer a bit better quality than the average Walmart items, unless the budget says no.
Considering the fact that John Paul II has endorsed evolution (http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/whatsaid.htm ), you might realize that he isn't an anti-science fanatic. He's also not one of those guys who would have an anti-Darwin salamander (upside down with x's for eyes) on his rear bumper.
t ory_of_the_theory), you might realize the Church isn't out it impede reason, it's out to promote it. All science is the effort to understand the things God has made, even if that isn't the specific goal of individual scientists.
t ml, Note 21) That whole article is on the disagreement between Galileo and the Church, and the Pope has appologized and resinded everything against Galileo's legitimate science.
What John Paul (and I) believe is that God created the universe and everything in it. In thousands of years, nobody has demonstrated undeniable evidence (scientifically) that God does or does not exist, nor will we ever. As Catholics (and hopefully this holds true for other Christians as well), we believe that the existance of God can be inferred from creation, but not proven. More importantly, it is our personal experiences that provide the reasons for our faith, and science can only provide support for what we believe. Why? Because God is outside of creation. He is the creator, hense He does not reside in what He created although He is present here. Science cannot touch God, he is beyond the reach of our senses. However God has created things is how He decided to do it. If He chose to use the Great Bang, then that's how he did it, and considering we went from nothing or everything in a small point to a vastly expanding universe sounds an awful lot like God creating to me. When you consider that a priest first formulated the theory of the Big Bang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_theory#His
Disregarding science because it doesn't vibe with what the Bible says or doesn't say is plain ignorance, and I despise ignoring of common sense with regards to reason and science. As St. Augustine once said, "The Bible was written to show us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." (http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/galileo.h
But for someone to claim that there is no God because they can't find him in creation, or because they think science and religion are at odds is no less a crime against reason. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there, just that you aren't able to see it. You don't claim that a globe is an in accurate view of the Universe because there is no sun and stars, you recognize it for what it is. A limited representation of of creation. Likewise, people who want to use science to disprove religion are as misguided (or closely so) as those who would require us to use the first chapters of the bible in science class. Science is what it is, a study of the universe. It cannot tell us anything about what exists outside of it, although it might be able to hazard a guess at if miracles are real or not, since some (many?) are hoaxes from people who want attention.
Religion takes a different set of senses than science, but it takes some of the same goals, such as a desire for understanding everything we can know and a sense of awe (compare our size against the galaxy, compare our size to God, look at genetics, etc.). Yet, regretably, both science and religion play a remarkably small part of people's everyday lives or shaping their world-view, to the point of being a non-factor.
It seems to me, that John Paul in accepting the work of scientists, and believing in God is a better man than he would be otherwise. I can say the same for myself. Do he and I have shortcomings. Yes. We are human and fail. But like you, we feel a need to spread the truth as we see it, each in our own way. Hopefully, in learning from each other, we can find the truth, and live our lives to the best of our potential.
If the authors would be able to take there books straight to an editor for a fee ($500-1000 dollars for a couple days work), and and then published the books, and sold them through Amazon, and could get listed on Bestsellers lists by virtue of the sales of the electric copies, books could be sold for a couple dollars less than the cost of a paperback. With no printing or transport costs, and a few good literary reviewers to filter the material, which could be run as a blog or a popular reading site.
Add in a format to have bookmarks associated with a current book. If the file is .html, then have a .book file that records shortcuts to certain passages you think you'll want to be able to find again in the future (for research or a discussion at your book club's weekly meeting). When a book is open, you click on the bookmark icon, and it loads your bookmark file for the current title.
And if someone figures out the accout IDs of all the root or administrator passwords on your network, and start intentionally causing intentional failures to lockout those accounts?