In an astounding accomplishment this week, scientists from China have printed the fossilized remains of a 4-winged dinosaur on a standard desktop printer. This achievement could go a long way in providing more evidence that, in fact, Creation was done on an old 24-pin matrix printer, which could explain away the various inconsistencies in the end result we see today.
"There may have been driver problems in the first test-prints of Creation, bugs in the software that make the printer work, that God may have overlooked," says evolutionary theorist Dr. Winston Guystone. "Of course this is met with a lot of opposition, prominently from the religious quarters, who strongly believe God is omnipotent."
Rev. Dr. Edward Martins of the Baptist Church of Redemption, responds, "It is absolutely ludicrous to think that the universe was printed from some divine desktop printer. And even so, where does the paper come from?" Lately the Protestant and Catholic church have been in an uproar when it came out that the Holy Bible was, in fact, based on an ancient Roman website that was run from a recently discovered modified Commodore 64 server with a custom network device.
I agree, he's an idiot. Regardless of what this other replyer says, what this Gobbles guy says is moronic, stupid and uninteresting babble. A mere hacker-wannabe that drools on the word "underground." Shoot on sight.
Yes, but isn't it a little wrong to accept even a strong theory as truth in everyday life? Science is prepared to take the blow if a theory is crushed, because that's basically what science does, trying to disprove theories and adjust them accordingly. Myself, I try to assume nothing I cannot know for sure. Of course, you have to assume some things if you want to be able to live. But big questions like: where does life come from? And: what happens when we die? I feel I don't need those answers, since I probably won't get them anyway. I don't want to assume something of which I cannot reasonably be sure it is the objective truth. That's a hard thing, I realize. But still.
I used to hate it when these things required a GUS. It seemed like a very cool card, but I didn't have one. I always stuck to Creative's cards. Heh, I remember having to put down the equivalent of like, 400-500 bucks for an 8-bit SoundBlaster.
I wonder if Panic and Crystal Dreams (?) are on that DVD... What was it... Future Crew? Weren't they called Triton later on? Or is my mind just too warped? Oh man, that chessboard scene at the end of one of those demos... Must've been the very first dynamic lighting I ever saw.
At one point I was a composer for some lame unknown group. Of course, I couldn't compose for shit and never contributed anything. Did get a mention one time in a BBS intro scroller...
Ahhh, and then we go even further back. The Commodore 64! The stuff I ripped from others...:) Never got to be any good at assembly on that thing. How can you, at that age... Probably never heard of math or anything like it before. Still had loads of fun, though.
Sometimes I regret never having really been part of the scene...
You know, when someone dies on television, they're not really dead; they're just actors. They get up and go home to their wives and children after the camera stops rolling. I'm not kidding you.
What would make it really interesting, is to have a shocker installed that shocks the opponent with an adequate amount of Volts whenever you score a goal. Maybe the voltage could be increased based on the difference in score or how fast the ball hits the goal. It's just very important that the table does not malfunction if it has such a feature.
That's exactly what an open source community can and *will* produce. Once an application or technique is in the public, someone will find out how it works and publish documentation about it. I have to believe that.
Maybe it's because I'm not subscribed to twenty different mailinglists and don't post my email address everywhere I can, but I'm not that much bothered by spam. I get a handful of unwanted mail a day at most. Why is it that others are so much worse off?
What's wrong with dark, depressing and dystopian? I like dark, depressing and dystopian!
It is true that many mind-less first person shooters have spawned into existence since the release of Doom, but certainly this is not the only sort of game that is unleashed upon humanity today.
As for 3D adventure games, I liked Under A Killing Moon a lot. It has a compelling storyline, great graphics and yes, a dark, depressing and dystopian 3D environment. It's awesome!
More recently, I finished Sierra's Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. It too has beautiful 3D graphics (for its time) and a great in-depth plot. Lots of things to explore and figure out, and I think it does justice to the old adventure genre in that respect.
As for RPG's since Doom, you may have forgotten about Baldur's Gate, which is-- God forbid-- a 2D game, as is it's successor Baldur's Gate II, but if you want 3D exploration, let's have a look at Neverwinter Nights or maybe you've got more interest in mindless hack & slack ala Dungeon Siege. Let's not forget the more recent hits in mindlessness; I think good fun can be had with Grand Theft Auto 3, despite it being mindless, but if you want something more intelligent in that vein, have a look at Mafia.
So, no. I don't think the gaming industry is totally down the drain. It could be better, it always can be. There's no such thing as the perfect game for everybody.
What does Linux (or Linux, for that matter) have to do with any of this? I don't recall this being the http://I-boink-Linux-in-the-backside.org website.
No, see? You got it all wrong. These mice only make it seem to us they are especially prone to cancer. We make think we're the ones performing experiments on these clever little rodents, but that's the whole thing. It's all part of their experiment.
Just ask Douglas Adams. Oh, wait. You can't. He's dead. Damn.
I've always thought about starting a death metal band with all-Klingon lyrics, growling them angrily on stage dressed up as Klingon warriors and wielding those weird two-handed Klingon blades, what-summah-callit. Half-way through the show, we would somehow get offended by someone in the audience, upon which subsequently everyone gets slaughtered. That would be so damn cool.
I can sort of understand both sides of the story. He says he used the same sources as Tolkien for inspiration, but he obviously also used Tolkien himself for inspiration. After all, he openly paid homage to the man and perhaps he took it a bit too far. No man, except the obsessed fool, can match Tolkien's work, which has such depth that it provides for a rich pool of inspiration for many authors. Just look at the countless modern fantasy writers.
I must agree that there exists a tone of arrogance in JMS's statements, though. This is *always* a bad thing. (Take an example from the true philospher)
I think you overreact, but nonetheless Babylon 5 wasn't always as fantastic as is told above. There were actually some brilliant plottwists and indeed some very disappointing endings to plotlines, but overall I think Babylon 5 deserves the credits. It does rank up there with the greats and most definately leaves many of today's "sci-fi" crap far behind it. I'm not gonna call names.
I'm curious how you see Babylon 5 as being a rip-off from Lord of the Rings, though.
I have to agree with jejones. The Dune movie was horrible and did not do the book justice. I thought the Dune miniseries that was aired by Sci-Fi channel was so much better... and 3 * 1.5 hours long!
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4-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Printed
In an astounding accomplishment this week, scientists from China have printed the fossilized remains of a 4-winged dinosaur on a standard desktop printer. This achievement could go a long way in providing more evidence that, in fact, Creation was done on an old 24-pin matrix printer, which could explain away the various inconsistencies in the end result we see today.
"There may have been driver problems in the first test-prints of Creation, bugs in the software that make the printer work, that God may have overlooked," says evolutionary theorist Dr. Winston Guystone. "Of course this is met with a lot of opposition, prominently from the religious quarters, who strongly believe God is omnipotent."
Rev. Dr. Edward Martins of the Baptist Church of Redemption, responds, "It is absolutely ludicrous to think that the universe was printed from some divine desktop printer. And even so, where does the paper come from?" Lately the Protestant and Catholic church have been in an uproar when it came out that the Holy Bible was, in fact, based on an ancient Roman website that was run from a recently discovered modified Commodore 64 server with a custom network device.
I agree, he's an idiot. Regardless of what this other replyer says, what this Gobbles guy says is moronic, stupid and uninteresting babble. A mere hacker-wannabe that drools on the word "underground." Shoot on sight.
Heh, everytime I see that name, I think Metalcafe and start banging my head.
Yes, but isn't it a little wrong to accept even a strong theory as truth in everyday life? Science is prepared to take the blow if a theory is crushed, because that's basically what science does, trying to disprove theories and adjust them accordingly. Myself, I try to assume nothing I cannot know for sure. Of course, you have to assume some things if you want to be able to live. But big questions like: where does life come from? And: what happens when we die? I feel I don't need those answers, since I probably won't get them anyway. I don't want to assume something of which I cannot reasonably be sure it is the objective truth. That's a hard thing, I realize. But still.
Do tell me why this is modded down as a troll. Just stating facts. I'm not a creationist.
Didn't they tell you evolution is just a really cool theory? Why do people (non-scientists) assume evolution is The Real Thing?
Ah, thanks for refreshing my memory. :) Those good old times I'll never quite relive the way it felt back then.
You're kidding me. No way. Kids these days...
I used to hate it when these things required a GUS. It seemed like a very cool card, but I didn't have one. I always stuck to Creative's cards. Heh, I remember having to put down the equivalent of like, 400-500 bucks for an 8-bit SoundBlaster.
:) Never got to be any good at assembly on that thing. How can you, at that age... Probably never heard of math or anything like it before. Still had loads of fun, though.
I wonder if Panic and Crystal Dreams (?) are on that DVD... What was it... Future Crew? Weren't they called Triton later on? Or is my mind just too warped? Oh man, that chessboard scene at the end of one of those demos... Must've been the very first dynamic lighting I ever saw.
At one point I was a composer for some lame unknown group. Of course, I couldn't compose for shit and never contributed anything. Did get a mention one time in a BBS intro scroller...
Ahhh, and then we go even further back. The Commodore 64! The stuff I ripped from others...
Sometimes I regret never having really been part of the scene...
I think you got a couple of songs mixed up. It's Master of Puppets and Orion is another song from that album altogether.
You know, when someone dies on television, they're not really dead; they're just actors. They get up and go home to their wives and children after the camera stops rolling. I'm not kidding you.
What would make it really interesting, is to have a shocker installed that shocks the opponent with an adequate amount of Volts whenever you score a goal. Maybe the voltage could be increased based on the difference in score or how fast the ball hits the goal. It's just very important that the table does not malfunction if it has such a feature.
That's exactly what an open source community can and *will* produce. Once an application or technique is in the public, someone will find out how it works and publish documentation about it. I have to believe that.
Maybe it's because I'm not subscribed to twenty different mailinglists and don't post my email address everywhere I can, but I'm not that much bothered by spam. I get a handful of unwanted mail a day at most. Why is it that others are so much worse off?
What's wrong with dark, depressing and dystopian? I like dark, depressing and dystopian!
It is true that many mind-less first person shooters have spawned into existence since the release of Doom, but certainly this is not the only sort of game that is unleashed upon humanity today.
As for 3D adventure games, I liked Under A Killing Moon a lot. It has a compelling storyline, great graphics and yes, a dark, depressing and dystopian 3D environment. It's awesome!
More recently, I finished Sierra's Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. It too has beautiful 3D graphics (for its time) and a great in-depth plot. Lots of things to explore and figure out, and I think it does justice to the old adventure genre in that respect.
As for RPG's since Doom, you may have forgotten about Baldur's Gate, which is-- God forbid-- a 2D game, as is it's successor Baldur's Gate II, but if you want 3D exploration, let's have a look at Neverwinter Nights or maybe you've got more interest in mindless hack & slack ala Dungeon Siege. Let's not forget the more recent hits in mindlessness; I think good fun can be had with Grand Theft Auto 3, despite it being mindless, but if you want something more intelligent in that vein, have a look at Mafia.
So, no. I don't think the gaming industry is totally down the drain. It could be better, it always can be. There's no such thing as the perfect game for everybody.
Seriously, I would severely mutilate any who would dare to speak in such a manner that I would know during the film.
I'm still waiting for the day Planeshift, a free, open source MMORPG, is gonna be released...
What does Linux (or Linux, for that matter) have to do with any of this? I don't recall this being the http://I-boink-Linux-in-the-backside.org website.
Settle down, Beavis!
No, see? You got it all wrong. These mice only make it seem to us they are especially prone to cancer. We make think we're the ones performing experiments on these clever little rodents, but that's the whole thing. It's all part of their experiment.
Just ask Douglas Adams. Oh, wait. You can't. He's dead. Damn.
I've always thought about starting a death metal band with all-Klingon lyrics, growling them angrily on stage dressed up as Klingon warriors and wielding those weird two-handed Klingon blades, what-summah-callit. Half-way through the show, we would somehow get offended by someone in the audience, upon which subsequently everyone gets slaughtered. That would be so damn cool.
Thanks for the information.
I can sort of understand both sides of the story. He says he used the same sources as Tolkien for inspiration, but he obviously also used Tolkien himself for inspiration. After all, he openly paid homage to the man and perhaps he took it a bit too far. No man, except the obsessed fool, can match Tolkien's work, which has such depth that it provides for a rich pool of inspiration for many authors. Just look at the countless modern fantasy writers.
I must agree that there exists a tone of arrogance in JMS's statements, though. This is *always* a bad thing. (Take an example from the true philospher)
I think you overreact, but nonetheless Babylon 5 wasn't always as fantastic as is told above. There were actually some brilliant plottwists and indeed some very disappointing endings to plotlines, but overall I think Babylon 5 deserves the credits. It does rank up there with the greats and most definately leaves many of today's "sci-fi" crap far behind it. I'm not gonna call names. I'm curious how you see Babylon 5 as being a rip-off from Lord of the Rings, though.
I have to agree with jejones. The Dune movie was horrible and did not do the book justice. I thought the Dune miniseries that was aired by Sci-Fi channel was so much better... and 3 * 1.5 hours long!