I'm active in the mod community for Neverwinter Nights and achieved some measure of success (modules on gaming magazine CDs, module of the year, etc.). As a result, I had a number of job offers from various gaming companies.
Fortunately I have a very well paying job as a web application developer working for the healthcare industry. It's stable, my customers love me, and I feel like I'm making a real difference in people's lives. So while it was flattering, I turned them all down.
My father once told me that the secret to happiness was either trying to make money from your hobby or work a real job that lets you support your hobby. I've chosen the latter and I have no regrets.
Actually, they just didn't find the CP4 gene. There's obviously some other gene that confers resistant, but it's just not that one. There's a chance that someone genetically engineered some other gene, though evidence does suggest that it came about naturally.
In science, there are only theories that are strongly supported. There is no proof.
It's been interesting to watch the debate on electric fields and the effect on biologic systems.
There's some evidence that shows there's an association with cancer and some evidence that shows that it's perfectly safe. Long time cell phone users appear to be at risk for benign tumors. Now this study shows there's a possibly beneficial effect.
Personally, the idea that there's any effect at all makes me somewhat nervous. I spend eight hours a day a couple feet away from EMF generators, as do most of the Slashdot crowd. Knowing that my computers might be tweaking my neurons or altering my DNA, however slightly, doesn't exactly fill me with glee.
There was a recent study where a small number of people were able to detect lies with a nearly 100% accuracy. To me, this is far more impressive than a polygraph's results.
I work for a healthcare organization and one of our hospitals is in Bellingham, WA. We get a reasonable amount of business from Canada. Evidently there are people who aren't fond of waiting lists.
I'd recommend looking at the movies
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Half Life 2 Goes Gold
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I tend to disagree. To decide for yourself, you can check out the movies at the Yahoo preview. Personally, I'm amazed at what they've done with Half-Life 2's facial expressions.
For those who haven't heard, Vampire: Bloodlines is a vampire game done by Troika. It also uses the Half-Life 2 engine and looks to be a very interesting game. Reports are that Vampire should ship soon after Half-Life 2.
For the most part, I've found that separate devices for separate functions tend to be cheaper, smaller, and more effective. Imagine if you had to haul along your laptop, camera, and electric toothbrush if all you wanted to do was listen to some music.
It's probably a big waste of money. The efficiencies in creating antimatter are incredibly low. Nuclear power is far cheaper for virtually all applications. From the article:
With present techniques, the price tag for 100-billionths of a gram of antimatter would be $6 billion
The only reason I could see it being useful is if you needed an extremely high energy density. "Bullets" with a magnetically suspended speck of antimatter might be handy. They would be virtually undetectable by radar and pack a huge punch. Perhaps the low weights would be useful for space warfare?
With Bush giving Kerry a hard time for his "Global Test" remark, it seems clear that the US is taking a more aggressive stance militarily. The cold war is over and there really isn't anyone who can threaten us except with terrorism or nuclear missles (China, India, Pakistan, and certain EU states).
What we're seeing is an administration who's willing to do whatever it takes to advance its goals. Personally, I find that chilling. As Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved, but it is worse to be hated. I worry that our current policies are moving America towards a position where it is universally hated by the rest of the world.
When the last one hit, things like pantyhose were used to keep ash from destroying their engines.
I live a couple hours south of Portland and we got only a light dusting after the first eruption. My wife lived further north and was cleaning ash off of cars for days.
As an odd aside, a couple weeks ago NASA announced a more efficient propulsion method for atomic-powered spacecraft. I doubt it would scale to the size they're talking about, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Getting to LOE is hard
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After the X Prize
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Having something go up to the edge of space and back is relatively easy compared to going into orbit then coming back down again.
For the technically minded, here's a short article with the specifics.
For some reason, whenever someone offers to sell their site to the people who might not like it, I start to question their neutrality. It's a good thing that CBS and Fox don't work that way. Er, they don't, do they?
This article may help support my comment. To be fair, that age group tends to be pretty volatile. Earlier this year, I think they were fairly evenly tied. In recent months, the war on Iraq is making a greater difference in that age group, probably due to worries about a potential draft.
While I understand your comment is tongue-in-cheek, there's actually a number of states that make it quite difficult for homeless to vote.
There's been attempts to get them voting, but it's quite a challenge. In Oregon, for example, ballots are all sent in the mail. Now, you can use the election clerk's office as a mailing address, but that means physically picking it up. I suspect most homeless people are more interested in little things like shelter and food than going through the hassle it takes to vote.
The key thing to remember is that people who carry cell phones tend to be younger and more liberal than people with land lines. As such, polls that ignore cell phones tend to have fairly skewed results.
Going door-to-door is probably the best alternative at this point, though there are flaws with that as well.
Slashdot Mirror
For $100 I sure hope I remember to take the lens cap off.
I'm active in the mod community for Neverwinter Nights and achieved some measure of success (modules on gaming magazine CDs, module of the year, etc.). As a result, I had a number of job offers from various gaming companies.
Fortunately I have a very well paying job as a web application developer working for the healthcare industry. It's stable, my customers love me, and I feel like I'm making a real difference in people's lives. So while it was flattering, I turned them all down.
My father once told me that the secret to happiness was either trying to make money from your hobby or work a real job that lets you support your hobby. I've chosen the latter and I have no regrets.
Actually, they just didn't find the CP4 gene. There's obviously some other gene that confers resistant, but it's just not that one. There's a chance that someone genetically engineered some other gene, though evidence does suggest that it came about naturally.
In science, there are only theories that are strongly supported. There is no proof.
Gee, that link isn't clickable. What? Didn't want hundreds of thousands of people getting to your server? Here, let me help.
But it's a bit lossy.
Actually, this is a well documented issue if the display uses IPv4. (Scroll down to item #3).
It's been interesting to watch the debate on electric fields and the effect on biologic systems.
There's some evidence that shows there's an association with cancer and some evidence that shows that it's perfectly safe. Long time cell phone users appear to be at risk for benign tumors. Now this study shows there's a possibly beneficial effect.
Personally, the idea that there's any effect at all makes me somewhat nervous. I spend eight hours a day a couple feet away from EMF generators, as do most of the Slashdot crowd. Knowing that my computers might be tweaking my neurons or altering my DNA, however slightly, doesn't exactly fill me with glee.
There was a recent study where a small number of people were able to detect lies with a nearly 100% accuracy. To me, this is far more impressive than a polygraph's results.
I work for a healthcare organization and one of our hospitals is in Bellingham, WA. We get a reasonable amount of business from Canada. Evidently there are people who aren't fond of waiting lists.
Yes, but is it None More Black?
I tend to disagree. To decide for yourself, you can check out the movies at the Yahoo preview. Personally, I'm amazed at what they've done with Half-Life 2's facial expressions.
For those who haven't heard, Vampire: Bloodlines is a vampire game done by Troika. It also uses the Half-Life 2 engine and looks to be a very interesting game. Reports are that Vampire should ship soon after Half-Life 2.
For the most part, I've found that separate devices for separate functions tend to be cheaper, smaller, and more effective. Imagine if you had to haul along your laptop, camera, and electric toothbrush if all you wanted to do was listen to some music.
It's probably a big waste of money. The efficiencies in creating antimatter are incredibly low. Nuclear power is far cheaper for virtually all applications. From the article:
With present techniques, the price tag for 100-billionths of a gram of antimatter would be $6 billion
The only reason I could see it being useful is if you needed an extremely high energy density. "Bullets" with a magnetically suspended speck of antimatter might be handy. They would be virtually undetectable by radar and pack a huge punch. Perhaps the low weights would be useful for space warfare?
With Bush giving Kerry a hard time for his "Global Test" remark, it seems clear that the US is taking a more aggressive stance militarily. The cold war is over and there really isn't anyone who can threaten us except with terrorism or nuclear missles (China, India, Pakistan, and certain EU states).
What we're seeing is an administration who's willing to do whatever it takes to advance its goals. Personally, I find that chilling. As Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved, but it is worse to be hated. I worry that our current policies are moving America towards a position where it is universally hated by the rest of the world.
When the last one hit, things like pantyhose were used to keep ash from destroying their engines.
I live a couple hours south of Portland and we got only a light dusting after the first eruption. My wife lived further north and was cleaning ash off of cars for days.
Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed!
As an odd aside, a couple weeks ago NASA announced a more efficient propulsion method for atomic-powered spacecraft. I doubt it would scale to the size they're talking about, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Having something go up to the edge of space and back is relatively easy compared to going into orbit then coming back down again.
For the technically minded, here's a short article with the specifics.
Do you feel it is important to reduce the deficit? If so, what are your plans to do so? If not, why?
For some reason, whenever someone offers to sell their site to the people who might not like it, I start to question their neutrality. It's a good thing that CBS and Fox don't work that way. Er, they don't, do they?
And before anyone asks about evidence for young people's concern over the Iraq war, here's a recent survey
This article may help support my comment. To be fair, that age group tends to be pretty volatile. Earlier this year, I think they were fairly evenly tied. In recent months, the war on Iraq is making a greater difference in that age group, probably due to worries about a potential draft.
While I understand your comment is tongue-in-cheek, there's actually a number of states that make it quite difficult for homeless to vote.
There's been attempts to get them voting, but it's quite a challenge. In Oregon, for example, ballots are all sent in the mail. Now, you can use the election clerk's office as a mailing address, but that means physically picking it up. I suspect most homeless people are more interested in little things like shelter and food than going through the hassle it takes to vote.
The key thing to remember is that people who carry cell phones tend to be younger and more liberal than people with land lines. As such, polls that ignore cell phones tend to have fairly skewed results.
Going door-to-door is probably the best alternative at this point, though there are flaws with that as well.