I think there is a pretty clear-cut indication of how things stand. No one in the U.K. apparently wants to join with the Euro. The protests are quite large. But, that isn't stopping Blair from going after it hell bent.
That's freaking cool. I just woke up, so have no conception of how it would work (well, maybe I do, but I haven't had my coffee yet). I've got to come up with a way to make that work on win32, or maybe the new FROST browser.
If you insist on sticking to Mac, then about the only real choice is Maya. Of course, it has a cryptic interface and is far from the easiest package in the world to use....But if you are serious, you need a serious software solution; You apparently aren't serious, since you are limiting yourself to Mac, so Maya is the best choice for a system to learn in case you ever do get serious. That was slightly convoluted.
I try to stick with Gigabyte if possible; Tyan or AMD if not. Gigabyte is not usually the fastest, and usually has fewer bells and whistles, but I usually just build server grade machines and every bell and whistle is an additional point of failure.
+1 Insightful (vorpal) I suppose it is possible that someone is paying extortion money; it seems like the hardest way for a hack to generate cash, to me.
..do it a little cheaper? big box on pneumatics, big screen tv on the front, 20" CRT's on the sides, and a few days rendering up something on 3Dstudio? would be a lot more bizarre, and cost a lot less.
Hrm. How would you communicate with a RC sub? aside from cheating and putting a float antenna on...modify the freqs to use ELF? It would be a pain to have to take a backhoe to dig the antenna trench wherever you wanted to play.... I'm really encouraged to do something bizarre by this, BTW.
Most likely, adequate spelling skills would be helpful for a well informed society. However, I would like to request that anyone who insists on perfect spelling, when perfect spelling is not a requirement or even neccesary to communicate the ideas involved, be taken out and shot. Anal Retentive People Suck.
Ahhh.
Got it.
I have to agree with you; they both are Science Fiction.
I think there should be some distinction though, aside from just good SF or bad SF; I've always liked the Space Opera category; StTr the movie would definitely fall in the Space Opera category, while the book of course is pure SF.
That statement confuses the hell out of me. I probably read Starship Troopers 7 or 8 times before most of the folks on/. were even born; The movie was not a bad movie, but only had a passing likeness to the book. They couldn't really do a faithful adaptation of anything from RAH anyway, except perhaps some of the rolling stones stuff; too politically incorrect.
This will only protect against shaped charges which make use of soft, highly conductive metals as the plasma(?) source; In other words, all they have to do is re-design the RPG's and it negates the multi-million dollar protection system. Now, a rotating magentic field with Iron particles suspended in it, charged down to -10,000 volts, that would be interesting....
I hacked the fuck out of the military, mainly the army, but they asked me to. I mean....open fingers which would give you the entire list of users, with SSN, phone #'s, and home address, that sort of thing. servers without automatic lockout. that sort of thing. Scary as hell. They fixed the problems, almost immediately, as soon as they were pointed out; But if it hadn't been for a security type who actually was concerned that problems might exist, instead of doing his best to just do his job & look good, the problems would almost certainly still be existing. That is kind of the problem, though; the only thing that matters in the military, really, is that your boss thinks you are doing a good job; it doesn't matter if you actually are or not.
You know what? I firmly believe we are headed into a police state, with Bush and Ashcroft leading the way, that is just as scary as Nazi germany, if not more so. And I'm STILL glad I voted for Bush instead of Gore. Things could be worse. We could be on the incremental, slow road to tyranny, instead of our current rushing highway.
I'm not really sure exactly what they are talking about here.
I am trying to get a new career started doing animation (wishful thinking,
probably) since I can't find employment in the Uber-geek field anymore.....
Anyway, here is the link
to a tripod page with 2 of my animations on it; the first listed is 3 minutes,
and took me about 3 weeks to do; It takes a AMD XP1700+ about 6 hours to render
180 frames at 704x480 res, and any decent animation is going to be at that level
or better.
I've worked with professional rendering farms, that employ multiple network
linked PC's each doing a little bit of the job...and you get a direct linear
reduction in time for each CPU involved. How is it possible that a single
graphic processor can do all this work?
and if it IS possible, where do I get one?
P.S. if you think the animations are decent, I would love the feedback.
If you think they suck, well, shut the fuck up, ok?
My mistake. I just got my old, yellowed 1st run, 1st ed of Deities & Demigods out. On page 75, it says: "probably the most difficult concept this mythos presents, at least in AD&D terms, is that of the "avatar". " I was wrong. that is apparently the only mention of avatars in the book, and it's limited to the mythos of India. I think i must have either been thinking of a Dragon article, or maybe something Gary said. Sorry about that.
Umm, pardon me, but it CLEARLY states in the back of Deities & Demigods that any gods the characters encounter are "mere" avatars of the REAL deity. That coupled with the "these are just guidelines, you are supposed to use your own imagination" statement in the back of the DMG pretty much covers any lapses. Gary Gygax's new game system is called Lejendary Adventure, reminds me of the original pamphlet version of D&D.
Where do we send the money for the "51" prize? I figure it's got to be organized, the competition to send a unmanned R/C plane with a wireless webcam over Area-51 is just too geeky to pass up.
The newer "blade" series of trident cards support OpenGL, have Linux drivers, are relatively responsive, and CHEAP. I've always liked Tridents, especially in comparison to S3; they work. Not the power gaming card, but good for general performance on a budget.
I really, really can't believe that no one else knows this. In 2242, the federation whipped klingon butt at the battle of Donatu; this caused the klingon empire to reach out for allies, the best choice was the romulans. in 2268, the Klingon Empire had been, in effect, subjugated by the Romulan Empire; most of the higher class Klingons were Romulan / Klingon hybrids. This state of affairs is reflected on screen by the romulans adopting the warbird ship configuration. The ethnic pure Klingons were 2nd class citizens, and didn't travel in space during this period. The alliance ended in 2271 following a property dispute. The entire Romulan episode, aside from a highly sanitized version, was expunged from Klingon history. It is VERY sad that I know this.
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I think there is a pretty clear-cut indication of how things stand.
No one in the U.K. apparently wants to join with the Euro. The protests are quite large.
But, that isn't stopping Blair from going after it hell bent.
Considering our current government, I'd think the U.S. would be much more likely to cover up astronaut deaths than freedom loving russians.
Oddly enough, I was just going to make the exact same post. Thank you for sparing me. Freenet IS the hope of the future
That's freaking cool.
I just woke up, so have no conception of how it would work (well, maybe I do, but I haven't had my coffee yet).
I've got to come up with a way to make that work on win32, or maybe the new FROST browser.
If you insist on sticking to Mac, then about the only real choice is Maya.
Of course, it has a cryptic interface and is far from the easiest package in the world to use....But if you are serious, you need a serious software solution; You apparently aren't serious, since you are limiting yourself to Mac, so Maya is the best choice for a system to learn in case you ever do get serious.
That was slightly convoluted.
I try to stick with Gigabyte if possible; Tyan or AMD if not.
Gigabyte is not usually the fastest, and usually has fewer bells and whistles, but I usually just build server grade machines and every bell and whistle is an additional point of failure.
+1 Insightful (vorpal)
I suppose it is possible that someone is paying extortion money; it seems like the hardest way for a hack to generate cash, to me.
Hmm. didn't see that. RTFA next time, huh? I respectfully withdraw my suggestion.
..do it a little cheaper?
big box on pneumatics, big screen tv on the front, 20" CRT's on the sides, and a few days rendering up something on 3Dstudio?
would be a lot more bizarre, and cost a lot less.
See my Stuff! web.changestorm.com
Hrm.
How would you communicate with a RC sub? aside from cheating and putting a float antenna on...modify the freqs to use ELF? It would be a pain to have to take a backhoe to dig the antenna trench wherever you wanted to play....
I'm really encouraged to do something bizarre by this, BTW.
Most likely, adequate spelling skills would be helpful for a well informed society.
However, I would like to request that anyone who insists on perfect spelling, when perfect spelling is not a requirement or even neccesary to communicate the ideas involved, be taken out and shot.
Anal Retentive People Suck.
Ahhh. Got it. I have to agree with you; they both are Science Fiction. I think there should be some distinction though, aside from just good SF or bad SF; I've always liked the Space Opera category; StTr the movie would definitely fall in the Space Opera category, while the book of course is pure SF.
That statement confuses the hell out of me. /. were even born; The movie was not a bad movie, but only had a passing likeness to the book.
I probably read Starship Troopers 7 or 8 times before most of the folks on
They couldn't really do a faithful adaptation of anything from RAH anyway, except perhaps some of the rolling stones stuff; too politically incorrect.
This will only protect against shaped charges which make use of soft, highly conductive metals as the plasma(?) source; In other words, all they have to do is re-design the RPG's and it negates the multi-million dollar protection system.
Now, a rotating magentic field with Iron particles suspended in it, charged down to -10,000 volts, that would be interesting....
I hacked the fuck out of the military, mainly the army, but they asked me to.
I mean....open fingers which would give you the entire list of users, with SSN, phone #'s, and home address, that sort of thing. servers without automatic lockout. that sort of thing.
Scary as hell.
They fixed the problems, almost immediately, as soon as they were pointed out; But if it hadn't been for a security type who actually was concerned that problems might exist, instead of doing his best to just do his job & look good, the problems would almost certainly still be existing.
That is kind of the problem, though; the only thing that matters in the military, really, is that your boss thinks you are doing a good job; it doesn't matter if you actually are or not.
You know what?
I firmly believe we are headed into a police state, with Bush and Ashcroft leading the way, that is just as scary as Nazi germany, if not more so.
And I'm STILL glad I voted for Bush instead of Gore.
Things could be worse. We could be on the incremental, slow road to tyranny, instead of our current rushing highway.
if FreeDos works with Geoworks?
Which brings up the further question, can you still get geoworks, outside of abandonware copies?
It USED to give bill nightmares....
I'm not really sure exactly what they are talking about here.
I am trying to get a new career started doing animation (wishful thinking, probably) since I can't find employment in the Uber-geek field anymore.....
Anyway, here is the link to a tripod page with 2 of my animations on it; the first listed is 3 minutes, and took me about 3 weeks to do; It takes a AMD XP1700+ about 6 hours to render 180 frames at 704x480 res, and any decent animation is going to be at that level or better.
I've worked with professional rendering farms, that employ multiple network linked PC's each doing a little bit of the job...and you get a direct linear reduction in time for each CPU involved. How is it possible that a single graphic processor can do all this work?
and if it IS possible, where do I get one?
P.S. if you think the animations are decent, I would love the feedback. If you think they suck, well, shut the fuck up, ok?
Enjoy Freenet & Frost while you can.
My mistake.
I just got my old, yellowed 1st run, 1st ed of Deities & Demigods out.
On page 75, it says:
"probably the most difficult concept this mythos presents, at least in AD&D terms, is that of the "avatar". "
I was wrong. that is apparently the only mention of avatars in the book, and it's limited to the mythos of India. I think i must have either been thinking of a Dragon article, or maybe something Gary said.
Sorry about that.
Umm, pardon me, but it CLEARLY states in the back of Deities & Demigods that any gods the characters encounter are "mere" avatars of the REAL deity.
That coupled with the "these are just guidelines, you are supposed to use your own imagination" statement in the back of the DMG pretty much covers any lapses.
Gary Gygax's new game system is called Lejendary Adventure, reminds me of the original pamphlet version of D&D.
Would someone please Mod this up? This is hilarious!
Where do we send the money for the "51" prize?
I figure it's got to be organized, the competition to send a unmanned R/C plane with a wireless webcam over Area-51 is just too geeky to pass up.
The newer "blade" series of trident cards support OpenGL, have Linux drivers, are relatively responsive, and CHEAP.
I've always liked Tridents, especially in comparison to S3; they work.
Not the power gaming card, but good for general performance on a budget.
You went to all that trouble and didn't install Master of Magic?
Enjoy Freenet & Frost while you can.
I really, really can't believe that no one else knows this.
In 2242, the federation whipped klingon butt at the battle of Donatu; this caused the klingon empire to reach out for allies, the best choice was the romulans.
in 2268, the Klingon Empire had been, in effect, subjugated by the Romulan Empire; most of the higher class Klingons were Romulan / Klingon hybrids. This state of affairs is reflected on screen by the romulans adopting the warbird ship configuration.
The ethnic pure Klingons were 2nd class citizens, and didn't travel in space during this period.
The alliance ended in 2271 following a property dispute.
The entire Romulan episode, aside from a highly sanitized version, was expunged from Klingon history.
It is VERY sad that I know this.