We must not mine the Moon. It will destroy the fragile MoonEcosystem and MoonBabes won't be able to play MoonVolleyBall in the MoonNude AnyMoonMore! That will make my valued Moonvestment in a MoonTeleScope a Moonwaste!:D
We never bombed them for the U2 incident all those years ago, so it's time we showed them what for. That's what distinguishes the men from the Canadians.
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No, your small, uh, important body parts are what distinguish you from Canadians. OTOH, we, Canuckistanis, are all hung like a wooly mammoth (and with good reason;).
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Despite the release of the craptastic Civ3, the Civ2 scenario-making community is still going strong. Spanish Civ2 Site has an excellent scenario collection; many of the more recent scenario can be found at Civilization Fanatics Centre; myself, I run the Scenario League resource for designers and can be often spotted in the Apolyton Forums.
In "Antibiotic Resistant Staph Antibiotic Discovered", "Antibiotic Resistant" should definetly be "Antibiotic-Resistant" in order to minimize confusion. I know it's cool to drop dashes in stuff, b u t h o w w o u l d y o u l i k e i t i f I w r o t e l i k e this?
Exactly. Needless ambiguity needs to be avoided at all costs.
How do you close a Function in VB? I don't remember How do you close a Subroutine in VB? I don't remember. How do close a Do Loop in VB? I don't remember. How do you close an If statement in VB? I don't remember.
OTOH, a simple curly bracket ends all of them in C/C++/Java. I'd like Visual Basic a lot more if it adopted the bracket syntax convention. I can't stand VB syntax, but I like the ease of creating pretty forms in VB. Meh.:)
Re:I never said they had to like it
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They may have dealt with it, but the original post specified that they weren't big on it. No issue.:)
Couldnt you leave that story line alone and let your masterpiece be a monument by itself? Sometimes, the Washington monument is what one needs rather than a Stonehenge.
If you were a true geek, you'd know that the Washington monument is going to have the bigger, thicker, and more massive Clinton monument built right next to it according to Futurama.:)
You Are Both Nuts[Insert Exclamation Marks Here]
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Rainbow Mars is, IMHO, Larry's second best novel after Ringworld. It is based on a brilliant and whimsical concept. Yes, the amazing parts are after the first fifty pages.
If you are really having problems getting into it, try reading the short stories at the end of the book first.
In case you didn't know, there already is a sequel to Integral Trees called Smoke Ring. The very different Destiny Road and A World out of Time are also presumably set in the same universe.
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What is the status of Ringworld Child, the third sequel to your sublime Ringworld? If it hasn't been abandoned, could you give us a few hints about its plot?
Colour of Magic is a Definite Homage
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Taken from Terry Pratchett's Colour of Magic:
The shape and cosmology of the disc system are perhaps worthy of note at this point.
There are, of course, two major directions on the disc: Hubward and Rimward. But since the disc itself revolves at the rate of once every eight hundred days (in order to distribute the weight fairly upon its supportive pachyderms, according to Reforgule of Krull) there are two lesser directions, which are Turnwise and Widdershins.
Taken from Larry Niven's Ringworld:
They made him describe everything he'd seen. They established directions. Spinward was back along the meteoric furrow dug by the Liar's landing. Antispinward was the opposite direction, toward the mountain. Port and starboard were to the left and right of a man facing spinward.
I think there's a better definition in there, but it's not in a convenient location. The point is that Pratchett's Discworld is partly a tribute to Niven's Ringworld. For a while, I thought that the Luggage was a parody on the Hindmost.:)
No, Footfall and every other abomination that bears the name of Jerry Pournelle should never be mentioned in polite company. Larry == Good. Jerry == Bad.:)
Just because SF writers deal with religion in their stories doesn't mean that the like it. Quite a few of the greats, such as Asimov, Clarke, Sagan, and Adams, are well-known atheists and agnostics.
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you're not going to get a lot of advertising from companies that like intelligent customers.
What companies would these be? Does my warranty cower exchanging the Microsofts that do business in my parts for one of those companies?:)
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We must not mine the Moon. It will destroy the fragile MoonEcosystem and MoonBabes won't be able to play MoonVolleyBall in the MoonNude AnyMoonMore! That will make my valued Moonvestment in a MoonTeleScope a Moonwaste!:D
We never bombed them for the U2 incident all those years ago, so it's time we showed them what for. That's what distinguishes the men from the Canadians.
<asbestos pants mode>
No, your small, uh, important body parts are what distinguish you from Canadians. OTOH, we, Canuckistanis, are all hung like a wooly mammoth (and with good reason;).
</asbestos pants mode>
That it does. I will go back to it eventually and either finishing a second campaign with my Fey Bard or make a new hero.:)
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Kohan: Ahriman's Gift
Warlords Battlecry II
Total Annihilation
Favoured Flight (Interview) has recently made some really good LotR scenarios for Civ2.
Despite the release of the craptastic Civ3, the Civ2 scenario-making community is still going strong. Spanish Civ2 Site has an excellent scenario collection; many of the more recent scenario can be found at Civilization Fanatics Centre; myself, I run the Scenario League resource for designers and can be often spotted in the Apolyton Forums.
Just FYI, of course.:)
No, it won't. Total Annihilation was and always will be.:D
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Warlords Battlecry II and Kohan are also quite good.:)
I think in SVG. Lossless zooming is very important to me.:)
In "Antibiotic Resistant Staph Antibiotic Discovered", "Antibiotic Resistant" should definetly be "Antibiotic-Resistant" in order to minimize confusion. I know it's cool to drop dashes in stuff, b u t h o w w o u l d y o u l i k e i t i f I w r o t e l i k e this?
Exactly. Needless ambiguity needs to be avoided at all costs.
The Grammar Nazi will shut up now.
The other 25% of Macintosh Users dress up as Buffy on weekdays.:)
How do you close a Function in VB? I don't remember How do you close a Subroutine in VB? I don't remember. How do close a Do Loop in VB? I don't remember. How do you close an If statement in VB? I don't remember.
OTOH, a simple curly bracket ends all of them in C/C++/Java. I'd like Visual Basic a lot more if it adopted the bracket syntax convention. I can't stand VB syntax, but I like the ease of creating pretty forms in VB. Meh.:)
They may have dealt with it, but the original post specified that they weren't big on it. No issue.:)
Couldnt you leave that story line alone and let your masterpiece be a monument by itself? Sometimes, the Washington monument is what one needs rather than a Stonehenge.
If you were a true geek, you'd know that the Washington monument is going to have the bigger, thicker, and more massive Clinton monument built right next to it according to Futurama.:)
Rainbow Mars is, IMHO, Larry's second best novel after Ringworld. It is based on a brilliant and whimsical concept. Yes, the amazing parts are after the first fifty pages.
If you are really having problems getting into it, try reading the short stories at the end of the book first.
In case you didn't know, there already is a sequel to Integral Trees called Smoke Ring. The very different Destiny Road and A World out of Time are also presumably set in the same universe.
What is the status of Ringworld Child, the third sequel to your sublime Ringworld? If it hasn't been abandoned, could you give us a few hints about its plot?
Footfall is good...
No, Footfall and every other abomination that bears the name of Jerry Pournelle should never be mentioned in polite company. Larry == Good. Jerry == Bad.:)
big on Enthusiastic about; partial to
Just because SF writers deal with religion in their stories doesn't mean that the like it. Quite a few of the greats, such as Asimov, Clarke, Sagan, and Adams, are well-known atheists and agnostics.
IMHO, this is a better joke than the Gandalf one.:)
Script kiddies, by definition, do not write their own scripts.:)
It didn't. Its actual score is 0.
you're not going to get a lot of advertising from companies that like intelligent customers.
What companies would these be? Does my warranty cower exchanging the Microsofts that do business in my parts for one of those companies?:)
Would the university selling tapes of showerrooms be a privacy issue? There is no reasonable expectation of privacy using someone else's showerroom.:)
Which smilie design allows one to draw it using just one curve?:)
Where are you going to get the said money? Magical Fairy Land? Space is the only potential new source of money in existence.:)
LOL. I know it's lame, but still...:)