And even after that, what happens when the bomb is surgically implanted? Penetrating x-rays and lots of explaining about medical implants? "Yes, officer, I really do have two artificial hips and a pacemaker. That's not a couple of sticks of dynamite and a trigger."
It might fill up with water. If that happens, then clearly the water was the contaminant.
Now you have considerably purified your water slick, leaving only pure environmentally-friendly petroleum in your bays. Think of how happy* the salmon, the seabirds, and the plankton will be!
*Claim void if it turns out that ocean life live in water, not petroleum. You mileage may vary.
Zuck is saying "Facebooks's craptacular handling of privacy is not a bug, it's a feature. A very progressive, forward-leaning feature, for the inevitable time that the sheeples are appropriately brainwashed."
The sad part is, I can't make myself believe he's wrong.
if the cells remained intact, reviving them would become possible.
Well, no more impossible than reviving them shortly after death, without the complications and damage (subtle or extreme) caused by freezing, or decapitating and freezing, or post-mortem whatnot.
I think the greater obstacle is the entire "reviving them after they're dead" bit.
As an Airman assigned periodically to Army posts, I also came to appreciate the epically near-toxic stuff called Army Coffee. After those assignments fellow Air Force guys called me Rasputin for the kind of stuff I could drink.
I appreciate good coffee.... I really REALLY appreciate good coffee... but if I need caffeine, I can drink anything caffeinated.
And now comes the really hard part: Who would want to PAY for playing a inferior class? If everyone gets to choose an even slightly better class, your game is doomed. you could have skipped designing the other classes and turned your game into a singleplayer.
And that's a good point. The fundamental entertainment value of any RPG is that the player is a hero, not a peasant pikeman who gets paid by pillaging if his side wins, or will just be executed out of hand if they lose.
So a heroic "infantryman" will turn quite quickly into something like the archetypal "fighter" class.
Historical correctness means that the player's opportunities will be seriously constrained: in this case, only a knight would be sufficiently interesting on an individual basis.
Healtanking. I hate fighting that as a DPS class. Very frustrating to see all the progress you've made towards killing the fool wiped out in one big heal. Meanwhile the trivial damage he's been doing to you adds up, and there's almost nothing you can do about it, and all your good burst damage abilities are burned.
And then his dps buddy comes over and obliterates you.
Yeah. The life of a WoW Hunter in PvP.
The real lesson here: solo duelling is a losing proposition against a healtank unless you're extremely skilled and overgeared, or the healer is at some tactical disadvantage (n00b, exhausted or injured from a previous fight, away from the keyboard...).
God knows how much the computer games I played in the 1960s affected me.
I have a minor experiment in gender ongoing in my household right now. I have twin 4-year-olds, a girl and a boy. We've made no overt (that we're aware of) attempts to influence their choices in toys, clothing (mostly), and the like.
At this stage, my daughter seems to sincerely prefer stereotypically "girly" activities. The lad likes to try to take stuff apart.
The singular of "data" is not "anecdote", so take this isolated case study for what it is. But I find it very interesting.
I'm pretty sure characterizing B5 as Hard SF would be a mistake. B5 is IMHO Space Opera. You're allowed a lot of squishy pseudo-fantasy stuff in Space Opera. That's why a lot of HSF nuts don't like it (and didn't like B5), but I've always enjoyed the genre and adored the show. The fact that B5 took a mild HSF take on Human technology was just gravy.
Those gamma and X-rays are bad news when absorbed by stuff like a spacecraft hull. The photon flux is so high that even transparent substances like air absorb ghastly amounts of those. That's the source of the atmospheric shock from a nuke, and the source of the distinctive thermal double-flash: initial infrared pulse, occluded after a few nanoseconds by the atmosphere flashing into opaque plasma, and the resuming after the shockwave begins to dissipate the opacity. Any substance more opaque than air will just immediately flash to plasma and create its own shockwave in the rest of the target.
Yes, the inverse-square law applies to the photon burst from a nuke in space, so a nuke is not the large-area weapon it is in atmosphere. But to write off the huge pulse of ionizing radiation is mistaken. A contact or near-contact nuke would hurt bad.
A perfect x-ray laser would be immune to the inverse-square law, but a perfect laser doesn't exist. Every real-world laser will have a divergence angle; that would give the beam with an inverse-square behavior with a constant coefficient based on the ratio of the divergence angle as a solid angle and the solid angle of a unit sphere (4 pi).
The Gap Series is, indeed, Donaldson, and GPP's description is approximately consistent with what I remember. The space battles weren't the major point, of course; The Ring Cycle was the major point.
I'd imagine the most chilling thing a space warship commander might hear is a loud hull thump followed by damage control declaring "Contact nuke!" A nuclear detonation would be dramatically less damaging at range, but up close and personal it'd still trump nearly everything else.
Well, a recurring theme in almost any kind of DRM (and content licensing in general) is the entire issue of knowing and acquiring "the proper licenses."
Did I buy enough Microsoft Client Access Licenses? Did I buy enough Oracle licenses for my upgraded machine with more cores? Did I buy the correct licenses for commercial use of this software? Is this DVD for a zone my player isn't licensed for?
To some extent, the DRM community hasn't completely succeeded yet in shaping all consumer behavior. The Content Provider's fondest dream is that every consumer reflexively asks "Am I licensed to [do|use|listen to|view] this copyrighted content? Should I be giving those nice Content Providers more money?"
So yeah, the problem was that the consumer didn't buy the right licenses. The problem behind the problem was "Why wasn't the consumer properly warned they weren't buying enough licenses for their needs? And why should that be possible?"
Unless you anticipate some kind of chemical reaction, humans don't expel carbon monoxide as waste. Carbon dioxide, sure. But if you try exhaling into the vacuum of the lunar surface, the organic material you're likely to leave behind is lung tissue and blood.
Well, I contend that FOSS is like a natural disaster: it can bring out the best in people, and the worst. I've been on all 4 sides of the issue (giving and receiving the snarky "RTFM", giving and receiving useful help). Yes, I have been both good and evil. Like I said, human nature.
Perhaps it's related to the exact problem set, rather than a general attitude, hmm?
Not in my experience, other than perhaps certain classes of problems attract FOSS contributors with a more intense "nerd focus" (for lack of a better phrase) which seems to work against empathy and helpfulness. (Theo De Raadt, I'm looking at you...)
Yes, that latter bit was a joke.
A variable we haven't explored is the attitude of the petitioner. But that's kind of open-ended, and sometimes counter-intuitive. I've observed that some communities perversely respond worse to polite and non-assertive participants. Rare, but I think not unheard-of. Makes me think of a hierarchical animal group picking on the weak and meek.
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Oh, it's all through SF of various stripes... for instance, it's a critical plot element of Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle novel series.
Several folks are worried it might come to that.
And even after that, what happens when the bomb is surgically implanted? Penetrating x-rays and lots of explaining about medical implants? "Yes, officer, I really do have two artificial hips and a pacemaker. That's not a couple of sticks of dynamite and a trigger."
It might fill up with water. If that happens, then clearly the water was the contaminant.
Now you have considerably purified your water slick, leaving only pure environmentally-friendly petroleum in your bays. Think of how happy* the salmon, the seabirds, and the plankton will be!
*Claim void if it turns out that ocean life live in water, not petroleum. You mileage may vary.
This.
Zuck is saying "Facebooks's craptacular handling of privacy is not a bug, it's a feature. A very progressive, forward-leaning feature, for the inevitable time that the sheeples are appropriately brainwashed."
The sad part is, I can't make myself believe he's wrong.
if the cells remained intact, reviving them would become possible.
Well, no more impossible than reviving them shortly after death, without the complications and damage (subtle or extreme) caused by freezing, or decapitating and freezing, or post-mortem whatnot.
I think the greater obstacle is the entire "reviving them after they're dead" bit.
I'm sorry. That joke had no affect on me.
Not even a Ripple.
At which point you add "Memorial" to everything. Problem solved.
What you've got here is the autonomous intercontinental torpedo.
A slow, stealthy underwater cruise missile, as it were.
Fit 'em out, put them on automatic deterrence patrol, and when they receive war orders they seek out enemy shipping or shore targets.
I have a sick sad mind, but I suspect someone has already though of this.
They're trying to avoid another incident of "Pope, Antipope" by enforcing the non-copying of the Pope with the international equivalent of the DMCA.
No cloning His Holiness! DMCA Takedown for you!
Amen
As an Airman assigned periodically to Army posts, I also came to appreciate the epically near-toxic stuff called Army Coffee. After those assignments fellow Air Force guys called me Rasputin for the kind of stuff I could drink.
I appreciate good coffee.... I really REALLY appreciate good coffee... but if I need caffeine, I can drink anything caffeinated.
And now comes the really hard part: Who would want to PAY for playing a inferior class? If everyone gets to choose an even slightly better class, your game is doomed. you could have skipped designing the other classes and turned your game into a singleplayer.
And that's a good point. The fundamental entertainment value of any RPG is that the player is a hero, not a peasant pikeman who gets paid by pillaging if his side wins, or will just be executed out of hand if they lose.
So a heroic "infantryman" will turn quite quickly into something like the archetypal "fighter" class.
Historical correctness means that the player's opportunities will be seriously constrained: in this case, only a knight would be sufficiently interesting on an individual basis.
Healtanking. I hate fighting that as a DPS class. Very frustrating to see all the progress you've made towards killing the fool wiped out in one big heal. Meanwhile the trivial damage he's been doing to you adds up, and there's almost nothing you can do about it, and all your good burst damage abilities are burned.
And then his dps buddy comes over and obliterates you.
Yeah. The life of a WoW Hunter in PvP.
The real lesson here: solo duelling is a losing proposition against a healtank unless you're extremely skilled and overgeared, or the healer is at some tactical disadvantage (n00b, exhausted or injured from a previous fight, away from the keyboard...).
FTFY.
God knows how much the computer games I played in the 1960s affected me.
I have a minor experiment in gender ongoing in my household right now. I have twin 4-year-olds, a girl and a boy. We've made no overt (that we're aware of) attempts to influence their choices in toys, clothing (mostly), and the like.
At this stage, my daughter seems to sincerely prefer stereotypically "girly" activities. The lad likes to try to take stuff apart.
The singular of "data" is not "anecdote", so take this isolated case study for what it is. But I find it very interesting.
I'm pretty sure characterizing B5 as Hard SF would be a mistake. B5 is IMHO Space Opera. You're allowed a lot of squishy pseudo-fantasy stuff in Space Opera. That's why a lot of HSF nuts don't like it (and didn't like B5), but I've always enjoyed the genre and adored the show. The fact that B5 took a mild HSF take on Human technology was just gravy.
Dang, yo, a nuclear fragmentation warhead. That's just nasty. I wonder if it would work?
Those gamma and X-rays are bad news when absorbed by stuff like a spacecraft hull. The photon flux is so high that even transparent substances like air absorb ghastly amounts of those. That's the source of the atmospheric shock from a nuke, and the source of the distinctive thermal double-flash: initial infrared pulse, occluded after a few nanoseconds by the atmosphere flashing into opaque plasma, and the resuming after the shockwave begins to dissipate the opacity. Any substance more opaque than air will just immediately flash to plasma and create its own shockwave in the rest of the target.
Yes, the inverse-square law applies to the photon burst from a nuke in space, so a nuke is not the large-area weapon it is in atmosphere. But to write off the huge pulse of ionizing radiation is mistaken. A contact or near-contact nuke would hurt bad.
A perfect x-ray laser would be immune to the inverse-square law, but a perfect laser doesn't exist. Every real-world laser will have a divergence angle; that would give the beam with an inverse-square behavior with a constant coefficient based on the ratio of the divergence angle as a solid angle and the solid angle of a unit sphere (4 pi).
The Gap Series is, indeed, Donaldson, and GPP's description is approximately consistent with what I remember. The space battles weren't the major point, of course; The Ring Cycle was the major point.
I'd imagine the most chilling thing a space warship commander might hear is a loud hull thump followed by damage control declaring "Contact nuke!" A nuclear detonation would be dramatically less damaging at range, but up close and personal it'd still trump nearly everything else.
How is Avvatar formed? How movie not get prjcted?
Well, a recurring theme in almost any kind of DRM (and content licensing in general) is the entire issue of knowing and acquiring "the proper licenses."
Did I buy enough Microsoft Client Access Licenses? Did I buy enough Oracle licenses for my upgraded machine with more cores? Did I buy the correct licenses for commercial use of this software? Is this DVD for a zone my player isn't licensed for?
To some extent, the DRM community hasn't completely succeeded yet in shaping all consumer behavior. The Content Provider's fondest dream is that every consumer reflexively asks "Am I licensed to [do|use|listen to|view] this copyrighted content? Should I be giving those nice Content Providers more money?"
So yeah, the problem was that the consumer didn't buy the right licenses. The problem behind the problem was "Why wasn't the consumer properly warned they weren't buying enough licenses for their needs? And why should that be possible?"
actual organic compounds of some sort might have been deposited by meteors
One of these?
Unless you anticipate some kind of chemical reaction, humans don't expel carbon monoxide as waste. Carbon dioxide, sure. But if you try exhaling into the vacuum of the lunar surface, the organic material you're likely to leave behind is lung tissue and blood.
No, they set the launch code to "1,2,3,4,5". Just like my luggage.
Well, I contend that FOSS is like a natural disaster: it can bring out the best in people, and the worst. I've been on all 4 sides of the issue (giving and receiving the snarky "RTFM", giving and receiving useful help). Yes, I have been both good and evil. Like I said, human nature.
Perhaps it's related to the exact problem set, rather than a general attitude, hmm?
Not in my experience, other than perhaps certain classes of problems attract FOSS contributors with a more intense "nerd focus" (for lack of a better phrase) which seems to work against empathy and helpfulness. (Theo De Raadt, I'm looking at you...)
Yes, that latter bit was a joke.
A variable we haven't explored is the attitude of the petitioner. But that's kind of open-ended, and sometimes counter-intuitive. I've observed that some communities perversely respond worse to polite and non-assertive participants. Rare, but I think not unheard-of. Makes me think of a hierarchical animal group picking on the weak and meek.