Also, looking away for short periods now and then is a good idea, regardless of the quality of the monitor. Stare at the ceiling for a minute, roll your eyes (good for practicing my sarcasm), or just keep them closed. If I have to generate a fairly blah piece of code or write an email to management, I'll do it with my eyes closed and then make a proof-reading sweep afterward to clean up my mistakes. I've already spent quite a bit of my lifetime staring into computer screens; I don't look forward to the possibility of my eyes conking out in my later years.
I received an iPod shuffle as a gift and the device itself is great. I'm listening to it as I type this. It is so much easier at the gym than my old bulky Motorola m500 player, which still serves a purpose.
The Motorola m500, however, just showed up as a drive in Windows and the interface consisted of just copying files (or whole folders) in Windows Explorer. THAT was easy. iTunes, on the other hand, is kind of a pain in the ass. I use it, but it's not at all intuitive (for me).
On the other hand, the gifter of the aforementioned shuffle received a Zune as part of another purchase. Though she had trouble with the Zune software, I thought it was very easy. It showed me hierarchical folders and building a smartlist was a piece of cake.
I haven't actually used the Zune itself, other than helping her populate her music, but I agree that the interface is definitely a positive.
With my actual vocal cords, I still need to open my mouth to stick my foot in it.
Even with the actual work of making sound the old fashioned way, I still manage to say some pretty stupid things, particularly to women. If anything, I need something that will tap into my nervous system and give me a jolt to force a pause for reflection when I'm about to speak.
That's a ridiculous argument. If telepathy is a form of communication, the brain still needs to have an input where it receive the information from the other brain.
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if you insist that the "brain" in you definition is a non-modified human brain then the question is quickly settled: telepathy doesn't exist. Therefore debating whether something is or is not telepathy is pointless.
Since telepathy is as proven as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it would behoove us not to make any assumptions about telepathy before totally casting the idea aside. Maybe it would not necessarily have to be brain-to-brain communication. I don't think the ideas of human consciousness and human thought have been fully explored enough to say that who you are is entirely defined within the organ in your skull. If there exists something beyond the grey matter, could it not too have some sense abilities?
... or maybe it's early, I haven't drank my coffee, and I'm trolling. Discuss.
- Actually, they are talking about interpreting what one is trying to say.
- Actually, they are talking about wiretapping and then interpreting what one is trying to say or are saying.
Seeing as how there's so much dispute over the meaning of a thought when explicitly written out, I don't hold much hope that they'll be able to interpret anything.
I think the Air Force would already have parallels similar to this. Consider the UAVs flown from hundreds of miles away in non-combat zones? Granted, I believe most of them were active pilots who were pulled from flying real planes and who had to be fit. However, As more and more "virtual" combat becomes the norm, their specialization may be such that they'd never be in a situation to carry a fellow soldier out of hot zone.
As someone who just bought an LCD TV and is trying to figure out how the hell he'll get his 250lb 38" Hi-Def Sony CRT to his sister 400 miles away, I find this statement just a little ironic.
Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the TV!
I gifted my Trinitron to my friend's mom about two years ago because I couldn't bring myself to throw out a perfectly good TV. My responsibility for transporting it ended once I loaded it into my friend's car, but even that was enough to hurt me for a few days. (Yeah, I'm kind of a wimp).
What are some of the differences between this and other parts of the military, in terms of application requirements, benefits, pay, etc?
... and possibly as a follow up... Why specifically is the Air Force the branch of the U.S. military to pursue this? Is there something about the USAF that makes it a better fit than the Navy or Army?
I've only had two experiences with Vista. Neither one prolonged.
In the first, my brother was showing me the really cool 3d window chooser and how he could scroll through it with the mouse wheel. Then he tried to show me a game, which he had previously installed and played, but which broke because UAC got turned back on somehow and forbid him from using it. But at least he could choose windows in a stylish manner.
The other was a Microsoft presentation of Powershell. They invited some of us Unix people, presumably to humble us or get us to see the light. "I don't know why this is so slow" was repeated by the presenter a few times.
Definitely too many airstrikes, especially on the larger servers where there is almost constant bombing. There's nothing satisfying about spawning in the middle of an airstrike. I haven't seen much of a respawn invulnerability on most of the servers I frequent.
Though, if you want satisfying deaths, I recently learned about the zombies mod. Apparently it was done in Call of Duty 2, but CoD4 is my first experience with it. Get killed by a zombie and you turn into one. Eventually, nearly everyone is just one of the horde streaming into buildings to get at the remaining few survivors.
The deaths I appreciated in BF2 were when I was sniping. I would turn my focus to a new rooftop only to realize that another sniper was looking directly at me. As soon as I recognize them as a sniper and see them fire, I'm toast.
Writing it all from scratch would be a daunting task, but there are a couple free engines out there, from what I've heard. That would seem, to my unexperienced mind, to be the hard part. I think a small group of those dedicated freaks in the attic could pull off some really cool games. I'm sure there are indie artists out there who would love to have a forum for their work.
Agreed. And EA hasn't been able to lockup all of the naming/likeness rights for it's FIFA series, thank goodness. Although, it doesn't bother me too much playing Winning Eleven as an alternately named team.
Approximately two weeks till ProEvo 2008 shows up.
I downloaded the demo for the xbox360 and played a match against the national Portuguese team. Ronaldo got a yellow for diving inside the penalty area. Most amazing character modeling I've seen.
I imagine taking out satellites would go hand in hand with a nuclear launch. If you can blind your opponent for a bit, they wouldn't have as much warning of a launch. Reduce their response time and you reduce the chances of them getting off retaliatory launches. You might have destruction, but it's no longer necessarily mutually assured destruction.
Disclaimer: Wargames and Civ4 taught me everything I know about nuclear war.
They should make some sort of data exchange deal with Don't date him, girl or have an e-bay-like seller feedback system. Ripe for abuse, but if page-clicks are what brings in the scratch, I'm sure it'll do.
I think that actually makes the game a bit more fun. If I didn't have to keep one eye out for malicious human players, then mining would just be boring grinding for resources. As it is though, the paranoia of an attack at any second keeps the game full of suspense.
... and that's what I do with Desktops. However, this week I bought my first laptop in 8 years (A Dell with XP). Building a laptop from parts is a little beyond me.
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Also, looking away for short periods now and then is a good idea, regardless of the quality of the monitor. Stare at the ceiling for a minute, roll your eyes (good for practicing my sarcasm), or just keep them closed. If I have to generate a fairly blah piece of code or write an email to management, I'll do it with my eyes closed and then make a proof-reading sweep afterward to clean up my mistakes. I've already spent quite a bit of my lifetime staring into computer screens; I don't look forward to the possibility of my eyes conking out in my later years.
His name is also Chad.
Has Filthy ever steered us wrong?
The Motorola m500, however, just showed up as a drive in Windows and the interface consisted of just copying files (or whole folders) in Windows Explorer. THAT was easy. iTunes, on the other hand, is kind of a pain in the ass. I use it, but it's not at all intuitive (for me).
On the other hand, the gifter of the aforementioned shuffle received a Zune as part of another purchase. Though she had trouble with the Zune software, I thought it was very easy. It showed me hierarchical folders and building a smartlist was a piece of cake.
I haven't actually used the Zune itself, other than helping her populate her music, but I agree that the interface is definitely a positive.
Even with the actual work of making sound the old fashioned way, I still manage to say some pretty stupid things, particularly to women. If anything, I need something that will tap into my nervous system and give me a jolt to force a pause for reflection when I'm about to speak.
Is your name "Death"? I don't remember this at all from 'Black and White'. What was their trick?
Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the TV!
I gifted my Trinitron to my friend's mom about two years ago because I couldn't bring myself to throw out a perfectly good TV. My responsibility for transporting it ended once I loaded it into my friend's car, but even that was enough to hurt me for a few days. (Yeah, I'm kind of a wimp).
The other was a Microsoft presentation of Powershell. They invited some of us Unix people, presumably to humble us or get us to see the light. "I don't know why this is so slow" was repeated by the presenter a few times.
Though, if you want satisfying deaths, I recently learned about the zombies mod. Apparently it was done in Call of Duty 2, but CoD4 is my first experience with it. Get killed by a zombie and you turn into one. Eventually, nearly everyone is just one of the horde streaming into buildings to get at the remaining few survivors.
The deaths I appreciated in BF2 were when I was sniping. I would turn my focus to a new rooftop only to realize that another sniper was looking directly at me. As soon as I recognize them as a sniper and see them fire, I'm toast.
Writing it all from scratch would be a daunting task, but there are a couple free engines out there, from what I've heard. That would seem, to my unexperienced mind, to be the hard part. I think a small group of those dedicated freaks in the attic could pull off some really cool games. I'm sure there are indie artists out there who would love to have a forum for their work.
Approximately two weeks till ProEvo 2008 shows up.
I downloaded the demo for the xbox360 and played a match against the national Portuguese team. Ronaldo got a yellow for diving inside the penalty area. Most amazing character modeling I've seen.
Disclaimer: Wargames and Civ4 taught me everything I know about nuclear war.
They should make some sort of data exchange deal with Don't date him, girl or have an e-bay-like seller feedback system. Ripe for abuse, but if page-clicks are what brings in the scratch, I'm sure it'll do.
Worm food?
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But seriously, what could a home computer be doing that would chew up so much CPU at idle?
Spyware and bots and viruses, oh my.
... and that's what I do with Desktops. However, this week I bought my first laptop in 8 years (A Dell with XP). Building a laptop from parts is a little beyond me.
I'd be happy with a "No Operating System" option.
The same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice.