$800 is great for the machine that will be built from those parts, but $800 won't get you that machine. It will get you the parts with which you can construct that machine. The article mentions how much has changed in 15 months--that's about how much time it would take me to gather the minutes and hours to put together one of these homebuilt beauties. I want that computer and I want it for $800, not $800 + $1000 worth of my time.
The best "Holy crap I need to manage nerds!" book I've seen is Managing Humans by Michael Lopp* of Rands in Repose fame. He's been on both sides of the equations and knows where the problems are.
I'm with this guy. I worked in the heavy element chemistry group at LBNL and this paper reeks of bullshit. TRUST ME, WE KNOW BULLSHIT. It would be really great if it were true, but the null hypothesis is potent here. There are a lot of problems with measuring things at the 10^-12 level, so a hefty dose of skepticism is in order.
I'm also a bit non-plussed that the Z is ~122. That's not exactly closed shell range.
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Honestly, that is the advice you need. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Don't talk. Don't answer questions.
If you must talk, please state the following:
1) "Am I under arrest?" If YES, then say, "I want a lawyer." If NO, get up and leave.
If you co-operate and help them out and do them a favor, whatever--they will talk you into taking the blame. They'll have you convinced you did it even if you didn't.
PLEASE, SHUT UP.
...hence the lopsided vote. EFF has the insights no the rest of this bill. This is a "poison pill" amendment to the Ron Paul's of the world, but it's a small price to pay for passing the rest of this legislation.
Even better than that, the computers being sold as 'green PC' meaning thats the mfr's product name, and has nothing to do with being enviromentally conscious.
Not only that, I heard that Alienware PC's are in fact, not made by aliens at all.
Scratch from the MIT Media Lab is everything I got out of Logo when I was kid except more fun. Kids can still learn recursion, sprite manipulation, even some coler stuff I don't remember from Mr. Keating's 6th grade symposia on the wonders of "mt". I have sent this link on to anyone that haskids and a computer. Awesome fun, and what the hell--some learning to boot.
Ascribing the feeling "caring" to God smacks of anthrocentrism; I'm a little uncomfortable assigning one feeling or another to Him. The other universes are just as real, aren't they? I thought that was how Many Worlds worked. I imagine God cares for all of them--they are all His creation. I'm not sure I understand your other question. How does God answer prayers if all the outcomes happen? How are those related?
I've always appreciated the Many Worlds hypothesis because it jibes with my religious views. I am an Orthodox Jew and I believe in God as One and all the other strangely capitalized tenets of faith. The Many Worlds hypothesis lets me easily mesh an omniscient creator with a universe that has free will. God knows every outcome of every "decision" at the quantum level. Whichever "path" is chosen is a function of free will and randomness, but God knows all the endings.
Take your game to GenCon Indy. It's the biggest gaming convention in the world.
I cannot believe that is true when Spiel is still extant. This is your Mecca. The Germans are a game playing people, and this is where they hear about them all. You can see that other posters have mentioned "their games have cult followings in Germany", etc. There's a reason for this---the Spiel.
This is good science-y stuff. It sounds like something that could actually happen, so I want to jam it into my next script for CSI:Redmond. Here's what I need from you nerds:
Some dialogue explaining the process* in a step by step manner that can be spoken over stylized computer screenshots and typing noises.
Some Photoshopped computer screens with GIGANTIC FONTS that look like the process is happening. Progress bars please.
Some kind of hip crime that computer nerds are doing now. Pedophilia is old news--Dateline has that wrapped up. Something with barely concealed titties would be nice, but I may be asking too much.
Thanks for your help, please send said help with a waiver.
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FYI: Monkeys were made in a batch job on FRIDAY. Not Tuesday. As were all the other land animals. Whales? Manatees? Thursday, go figure.
Tuesday, hmm. Sunday was light and darkness, Monday was heavens and the earth, Tuesday was land and sea--not monkeys. Sheesh--this museum needs new docents.
See, I would rather think about the story and characters while watching a story unfold than marvel at how much the CG team could accomplish with $2500 and Video Toaster. Babylon 5 looks fake. Why didn't ST:TNG use CG for the ships in flight? Because the models look better. Even with the big budgets of movies they used models. The first movie to jump whole hog into animation over models? The Phantom Menace-and it looked fake. (I distinctly recall the Gungans vs the Droids scene on that big grassy field--it looked like a cutscene from StarCraft). Firefly, admittedly better than Babylon 5, still doesn't look real enough to me. There's no sense of mass with the digital creations. Maybe I'm too exposed to video and computer games, but it ruins my sense of disbelief to see effects on par with the The Last Starfighter. I'm underwhelmed.
Oh great. Now it look as "real" as Babylon 5. The models always looked a zillion times better than anything but the most EXPENSIVE digital images. Even the expensive ones can look crappy--see Star Wars Episode 1. Just because some guy uses Bryce instead of painting on glass doesn't make the planets look more real.
Only altavista can solve this! Robin! To the babelfish!
Dutch to English on "kil" gives us "chilly"! Fascinating! "Fresh Water Channel" English to Dutch is "zoet waterkanaal"! Interesting! Wait, what were we talking about?
I'd also like to point out that if the grandparent is correct and there's a Fresh Kills Channel in NY, then it would translate to "Fresh Fresh Water Channel Channel". Dutch is awesome. If grandparent is a liar, then he should die in a fire. His pants will start one soon.
No Marathon? (I'm not counting that "honorable mentions" BS). Did they have a poll or did someone actually think about this for ten seconds in a row?
It was released on December 21, 1994. That's 18 months before Quake. It's barely a year after Doom came out and three months fater Doom 2. What's it got? Deathmatches. Easy deathmatches. No hacks, tweaks, or anything. If the Macs were on an Appletalk network you could deathmatch. It was awesome. It had specials maps for deathmatches, even. What else? Rocket-jumping. Yeah, that it actually had up and down was an improvement over pretty much every other FPS at the time. And the story was amazing! There's still people arguing about it!
I imagine Carmack had all this thought out at the time, but the Bungie guys actually shipped product.
ARRRRRGGGGHHHH! I can't stand these. I hate them times a million. I have one vendor that wants a receipt sent when I DELETE their message. (I'm CC'd only, I'd yell if I could). I, as a rule, never send receipts back. Never. Not to my boss, no one. If you want to know that I got your message, call me and speak to me. That's a pretty good way to verify, and say, while you're at it; maybe you could just tell me what's up. If you want the aloofness and lack of immediacy of email, then I'm sorry, you don't get to immediately know when I've read your message.
at any sufficiently large office there is bound to be at least one complete f'ing idiot who clicks on all email attachments and thinks "browsing the net commando style" is top shit.
(Idiot's yearly salary) - (Hours IT works to correct problem) × (Avg IT hourly salary) - (Productive hours lost) × (Avg hourly production in dollars) < 0? ==> Fire that asshole.
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Yep. Been done. Mr. Mosquito is actually very good.
$800 is great for the machine that will be built from those parts, but $800 won't get you that machine. It will get you the parts with which you can construct that machine. The article mentions how much has changed in 15 months--that's about how much time it would take me to gather the minutes and hours to put together one of these homebuilt beauties. I want that computer and I want it for $800, not $800 + $1000 worth of my time.
Here's a good start, the Nerd Handbook.
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*An associate's link! I stand to make hundreds of microcents if you use it!
It includes a link to the awesome notebook page and it's timeless classic, "Memory layout is a bitch."
I'm also a bit non-plussed that the Z is ~122. That's not exactly closed shell range.
SHUT THE FUCK UP. Honestly, that is the advice you need. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Don't talk. Don't answer questions. If you must talk, please state the following: 1) "Am I under arrest?" If YES, then say, "I want a lawyer." If NO, get up and leave. If you co-operate and help them out and do them a favor, whatever--they will talk you into taking the blame. They'll have you convinced you did it even if you didn't. PLEASE, SHUT UP.
...hence the lopsided vote. EFF has the insights no the rest of this bill. This is a "poison pill" amendment to the Ron Paul's of the world, but it's a small price to pay for passing the rest of this legislation.
Scratch from the MIT Media Lab is everything I got out of Logo when I was kid except more fun. Kids can still learn recursion, sprite manipulation, even some coler stuff I don't remember from Mr. Keating's 6th grade symposia on the wonders of "mt". I have sent this link on to anyone that haskids and a computer. Awesome fun, and what the hell--some learning to boot.
Ascribing the feeling "caring" to God smacks of anthrocentrism; I'm a little uncomfortable assigning one feeling or another to Him. The other universes are just as real, aren't they? I thought that was how Many Worlds worked. I imagine God cares for all of them--they are all His creation. I'm not sure I understand your other question. How does God answer prayers if all the outcomes happen? How are those related?
I've always appreciated the Many Worlds hypothesis because it jibes with my religious views. I am an Orthodox Jew and I believe in God as One and all the other strangely capitalized tenets of faith. The Many Worlds hypothesis lets me easily mesh an omniscient creator with a universe that has free will. God knows every outcome of every "decision" at the quantum level. Whichever "path" is chosen is a function of free will and randomness, but God knows all the endings.
No good DVDeed goes unpublished.
- Some dialogue explaining the process* in a step by step manner that can be spoken over stylized computer screenshots and typing noises.
- Some Photoshopped computer screens with GIGANTIC FONTS that look like the process is happening. Progress bars please.
- Some kind of hip crime that computer nerds are doing now. Pedophilia is old news--Dateline has that wrapped up. Something with barely concealed titties would be nice, but I may be asking too much.
Thanks for your help, please send said help with a waiver.* Accuracy NOT required.
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Tuesday, hmm. Sunday was light and darkness, Monday was heavens and the earth, Tuesday was land and sea--not monkeys. Sheesh--this museum needs new docents.
See, I would rather think about the story and characters while watching a story unfold than marvel at how much the CG team could accomplish with $2500 and Video Toaster. Babylon 5 looks fake. Why didn't ST:TNG use CG for the ships in flight? Because the models look better. Even with the big budgets of movies they used models. The first movie to jump whole hog into animation over models? The Phantom Menace-and it looked fake. (I distinctly recall the Gungans vs the Droids scene on that big grassy field--it looked like a cutscene from StarCraft). Firefly, admittedly better than Babylon 5, still doesn't look real enough to me. There's no sense of mass with the digital creations. Maybe I'm too exposed to video and computer games, but it ruins my sense of disbelief to see effects on par with the The Last Starfighter. I'm underwhelmed.
Oh great. Now it look as "real" as Babylon 5. The models always looked a zillion times better than anything but the most EXPENSIVE digital images. Even the expensive ones can look crappy--see Star Wars Episode 1. Just because some guy uses Bryce instead of painting on glass doesn't make the planets look more real.
Dutch to English on "kil" gives us "chilly"! Fascinating! "Fresh Water Channel" English to Dutch is "zoet waterkanaal"! Interesting! Wait, what were we talking about?
I'd also like to point out that if the grandparent is correct and there's a Fresh Kills Channel in NY, then it would translate to "Fresh Fresh Water Channel Channel". Dutch is awesome. If grandparent is a liar, then he should die in a fire. His pants will start one soon.
It was released on December 21, 1994. That's 18 months before Quake. It's barely a year after Doom came out and three months fater Doom 2. What's it got? Deathmatches. Easy deathmatches. No hacks, tweaks, or anything. If the Macs were on an Appletalk network you could deathmatch. It was awesome. It had specials maps for deathmatches, even. What else? Rocket-jumping. Yeah, that it actually had up and down was an improvement over pretty much every other FPS at the time. And the story was amazing! There's still people arguing about it!
I imagine Carmack had all this thought out at the time, but the Bungie guys actually shipped product.
ARRRRRGGGGHHHH! I can't stand these. I hate them times a million. I have one vendor that wants a receipt sent when I DELETE their message. (I'm CC'd only, I'd yell if I could). I, as a rule, never send receipts back. Never. Not to my boss, no one. If you want to know that I got your message, call me and speak to me. That's a pretty good way to verify, and say, while you're at it; maybe you could just tell me what's up. If you want the aloofness and lack of immediacy of email, then I'm sorry, you don't get to immediately know when I've read your message.
Ok, folks, we're done here, this is the best comment ever. Let's pack it up.
(Idiot's yearly salary) - (Hours IT works to correct problem) × (Avg IT hourly salary) - (Productive hours lost) × (Avg hourly production in dollars) < 0? ==> Fire that asshole.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.