Setting up a TV or projector with DDR also helps to provide some atmosphere, and makes for a fun tournament, too!
Unless by "fun" you mean "odiferous," then you're dead wrong. Think about this. You're going to have a large number of heavy (as in time spent as well as weight, in some cases) gamers. Chances are they're the type that doesn't take showering as seriously as they should, and hence smell a little ripe. Now, you're proposing a game that makes them sweat?
Heck, you're the organizer, but I personally shy away from LAN events that say they'll be playing DDR there. Can't speak for everyone, though.
Of US users post content. I'd venture to say 99% of all that has something to do with the user's pet(s), which nobody really gives a damn about anyway. How many US users actually post content that is worthwhile? Prolly none, from the looks of my post, as well as others...
I wonder what will happen when they start to experiment with gamma-ray reflections for heavily fortified underground bunkers. What will this new technology be called? Gadar... (pronounced the same as gaydar though!)
You'd better be very interested in math.
Here at UCF (Orlando, FL) the engineering program requires you to take math courses all the way through Differential Equations (Calc I, II, and III req'd), IIRC. FYI, that's one math course short of a full math major. However, a lot of the earlier courses they require for us to help us decide what field of engineering we'd like to enter are pretty fun. My freshman year we had a few astronauts come and talk to us in the lectures, we learned about a neat little program called Matlab, and later MathCAD. I must advise, though. It's a tough course to follow. There are a lot of people who drop out of the major because it's a hard pill to swallow. But then again, that's why our engineering college is among the top 5 in the nation, if not the top 3.
Yeah, and when the point is brought up that Democrats weren't doing the same, the retort by you will just be "well they should have, and they're dummies for not doing so"
Since I composed that post, I've come across the discovery of the more subtle attributes of carbon nanotubes. Yes, as we all recall, it is a candidate for a cable material (even though it would be a ribbon IIRC) for a space elevator should we ever build one. However, they also have great compressive strength in addition to tensile strength, I've learned, and would be a wonderful building material in the right applications. Given that carbon is one of the most plentiful elements known to mankind, it would be equivalent to my remark of polymerizing water. Anyway, I'll be expecting your "daah, we alweady knew this... what was it again?" remarks so keep 'em coming.
No, considering that pounds are irrelevant (negative pounds, please go take a physics course at your local secondary school/comm. college/university) they would just factor in density (helium is less dense than air, hence all the floatiness) Just because ice floats in water, does than mean it has negative weight?
If just the US can run on "one space shuttle load" per year of this astrofuel, then what about more densely populated countries, like China or Japan?
What will the petroleum lobby think about this?
What political repercussions would result if a US president pulled crap like OPEC does (threatening embargoes, being real bastards with prices, etc;) today if the US were to follow through with a plan like this?
What will mining the moon do to things like tides here on Earth? (shifting mass like that on the surface/possibly expelling it into space -which I hope won't be the case, that would be really bad-)
Do you honestly think this will remove our dependence on fossil fuel completely? Look at your computer. It's prolly got a lot of plastic in, on, and around it. Same with probably the rest of your room. Multiply that by a couple/few billion and you get the idea. Also, with the demand for plastic products growing ever more insistent, by the time (if) we get to enact a feasible plan for mining the moon, how much oil will be required to make non-energy products?
How greatly do you think this will change civilization as we know it? We'll still have electricity, the only difference would prolly be that we're mining it from the moon, from a consumer standpoint, that is. What humanitarian/technology/quality-of-life improvements do you think we, as people in a social/civilization context will see as a direct result of mining energy from the moon?
Call me a pessimist bastard who says the glass is half empty. I don't necessarily see THIS glass as half empty, but I don't see it as half full either. I'd say I see it as just another damn glass with some damn water in it. If we get our energy from the moon, whoopty-friggin'-do, we'll be getting it from the moon, we'll still pay for it. We'll still have electricity. Just be sure to inform me when they find a way to make something like plastic out of something other than oil (for instance polymerizing something more readily available, say, water. ) THEN will I be more enthusiastic.
Sysadmin for a server that got/.'ed. Once by CowboyNeal and then again by CowboyNeal after he took his midday nap. My users were at each others' throats thinking the next guy was overusing Kazaa.
Community has the freedom to act as they please within the EA TOS/EULA, Muckraker has the freedom to... rake muck, Community has the freedom to complain and get the muckraker expelled from the community, muckraker's RL counterpart has freedom to embarass self by making a first amendment stink about it....
I have yet to check the precise speed, but I can hit up MS update with some decent speed, topping out at just under 4 Megabytes per second. However, most servers don't have that good of a connection, Fileplanet "only" gives me 500kbytes if I'm lucky.
Cost?
$80/credit Hour, ~$150 fees, $2100+ for housing...
Ah, negative. Verizon DSL is $50 a month here in Orlando (where I attend UCF) as opposed to $40 (and used to be $35 with IJ until they were bought out) where my home is in New Port Richey (South of here, N of Tampa, on the Gulf) and even more expensive in Tampa. (reaching nearly $60/mo in urban areas) I don't know about your neck of the woods, but it seems to be more expensive the denser the population.
I thought a good way to add in a testament to the immortality of the Elves, but not put the audience to sleep with utter length was the scene pointing out that (I think his name is Eldar... Agent Smith?) was there when Sauron actually lost the ring. I was told it was something like 9000 years before the story or something ridiculous-yet-very-fitting like that.
How all the people I've ever come across that think the French people aren't on the level have never been to France. I mean, it's one thing to say "Well, All the French people I've met have been arrogant pricks, but I've never been to France," but quite another to generalize a country based on the actions of a: it's leaders or b: the damn few transplants you've seen in your hometown/area. I apologize to all the armchair bigots for going to France a few years ago, but When I asked for directions to, say La Defense (pardon the spelling if it's wrong) or the Champs-Elysees, or the palace of Versailles, (heck, even the nearest place to eat) I was given them, and given them very cordially and they even asked for my map and traced out the route. Shame I can't get the same service here in America.
I live in Florida and there are a lot of New Yorkers in my area. All the ones I've come across have been arrogant pricks, but last time I visited NYC, even the Brooklynites were happy to tell me which lines went back to my hotel (Manhattan) and even recommended ones for cleanliness/safety/speed. I recommend actually visiting before making your umbrella statements about a given society.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh.
Who would even /want/ to sit more than 36 inches from their monitor?
and in the Worse Joke Broom Closet, inside the Bad Joke Bunker... "main screen turn on."
1: Both are in space (HAL from 2001 and the ISS, or both are from the year 2001, IIRC)
2: That is an IMI Galil, the Jewish makeover of the AK-47 (No, really, Jewish... as in Israel)
3: One of the Daimler/Benz guys' daughter, Mercedes, I think.
4: ??? Dunno.
Woot.
Setting up a TV or projector with DDR also helps to provide some atmosphere, and makes for a fun tournament, too!
Unless by "fun" you mean "odiferous," then you're dead wrong. Think about this. You're going to have a large number of heavy (as in time spent as well as weight, in some cases) gamers. Chances are they're the type that doesn't take showering as seriously as they should, and hence smell a little ripe. Now, you're proposing a game that makes them sweat?
Heck, you're the organizer, but I personally shy away from LAN events that say they'll be playing DDR there. Can't speak for everyone, though.
Only the goatse guy knows...
Of US users post content. I'd venture to say 99% of all that has something to do with the user's pet(s), which nobody really gives a damn about anyway. How many US users actually post content that is worthwhile? Prolly none, from the looks of my post, as well as others...
Between the apple-throwing tree and the flying monkey, I don't know who to trust!
I wonder what will happen when they start to experiment with gamma-ray reflections for heavily fortified underground bunkers. What will this new technology be called? Gadar... (pronounced the same as gaydar though!)
You'd better be very interested in math. Here at UCF (Orlando, FL) the engineering program requires you to take math courses all the way through Differential Equations (Calc I, II, and III req'd), IIRC. FYI, that's one math course short of a full math major. However, a lot of the earlier courses they require for us to help us decide what field of engineering we'd like to enter are pretty fun. My freshman year we had a few astronauts come and talk to us in the lectures, we learned about a neat little program called Matlab, and later MathCAD. I must advise, though. It's a tough course to follow. There are a lot of people who drop out of the major because it's a hard pill to swallow. But then again, that's why our engineering college is among the top 5 in the nation, if not the top 3.
East Asia or Eurasia?
Yeah, and when the point is brought up that Democrats weren't doing the same, the retort by you will just be "well they should have, and they're dummies for not doing so"
Proof is right here.
Since I composed that post, I've come across the discovery of the more subtle attributes of carbon nanotubes. Yes, as we all recall, it is a candidate for a cable material (even though it would be a ribbon IIRC) for a space elevator should we ever build one. However, they also have great compressive strength in addition to tensile strength, I've learned, and would be a wonderful building material in the right applications. Given that carbon is one of the most plentiful elements known to mankind, it would be equivalent to my remark of polymerizing water. Anyway, I'll be expecting your "daah, we alweady knew this... what was it again?" remarks so keep 'em coming.
No, considering that pounds are irrelevant (negative pounds, please go take a physics course at your local secondary school/comm. college/university) they would just factor in density (helium is less dense than air, hence all the floatiness) Just because ice floats in water, does than mean it has negative weight?
If just the US can run on "one space shuttle load" per year of this astrofuel, then what about more densely populated countries, like China or Japan?
What will the petroleum lobby think about this?What political repercussions would result if a US president pulled crap like OPEC does (threatening embargoes, being real bastards with prices, etc;) today if the US were to follow through with a plan like this?
What will mining the moon do to things like tides here on Earth? (shifting mass like that on the surface/possibly expelling it into space -which I hope won't be the case, that would be really bad-)
Do you honestly think this will remove our dependence on fossil fuel completely? Look at your computer. It's prolly got a lot of plastic in, on, and around it. Same with probably the rest of your room. Multiply that by a couple/few billion and you get the idea. Also, with the demand for plastic products growing ever more insistent, by the time (if) we get to enact a feasible plan for mining the moon, how much oil will be required to make non-energy products?
How greatly do you think this will change civilization as we know it? We'll still have electricity, the only difference would prolly be that we're mining it from the moon, from a consumer standpoint, that is. What humanitarian /technology/quality-of-life improvements do you think we, as people in a social/civilization context will see as a direct result of mining energy from the moon?
Call me a pessimist bastard who says the glass is half empty. I don't necessarily see THIS glass as half empty, but I don't see it as half full either. I'd say I see it as just another damn glass with some damn water in it. If we get our energy from the moon, whoopty-friggin'-do, we'll be getting it from the moon, we'll still pay for it. We'll still have electricity. Just be sure to inform me when they find a way to make something like plastic out of something other than oil (for instance polymerizing something more readily available, say, water. ) THEN will I be more enthusiastic.
Sysadmin for a server that got /.'ed. Once by CowboyNeal and then again by CowboyNeal after he took his midday nap. My users were at each others' throats thinking the next guy was overusing Kazaa.
Community has the freedom to act as they please within the EA TOS/EULA, Muckraker has the freedom to... rake muck, Community has the freedom to complain and get the muckraker expelled from the community, muckraker's RL counterpart has freedom to embarass self by making a first amendment stink about it....
Yes, and them people would just flip you the bird because you can't keep your synonyms straight. At least, I would.
I have yet to check the precise speed, but I can hit up MS update with some decent speed, topping out at just under 4 Megabytes per second. However, most servers don't have that good of a connection, Fileplanet "only" gives me 500kbytes if I'm lucky.
Cost?
$80/credit Hour, ~$150 fees, $2100+ for housing...
Ah, negative. Verizon DSL is $50 a month here in Orlando (where I attend UCF) as opposed to $40 (and used to be $35 with IJ until they were bought out) where my home is in New Port Richey (South of here, N of Tampa, on the Gulf) and even more expensive in Tampa. (reaching nearly $60/mo in urban areas) I don't know about your neck of the woods, but it seems to be more expensive the denser the population.
I thought a good way to add in a testament to the immortality of the Elves, but not put the audience to sleep with utter length was the scene pointing out that (I think his name is Eldar... Agent Smith?) was there when Sauron actually lost the ring. I was told it was something like 9000 years before the story or something ridiculous-yet-very-fitting like that.
How all the people I've ever come across that think the French people aren't on the level have never been to France. I mean, it's one thing to say "Well, All the French people I've met have been arrogant pricks, but I've never been to France," but quite another to generalize a country based on the actions of a: it's leaders or b: the damn few transplants you've seen in your hometown/area. I apologize to all the armchair bigots for going to France a few years ago, but When I asked for directions to, say La Defense (pardon the spelling if it's wrong) or the Champs-Elysees, or the palace of Versailles, (heck, even the nearest place to eat) I was given them, and given them very cordially and they even asked for my map and traced out the route. Shame I can't get the same service here in America. I live in Florida and there are a lot of New Yorkers in my area. All the ones I've come across have been arrogant pricks, but last time I visited NYC, even the Brooklynites were happy to tell me which lines went back to my hotel (Manhattan) and even recommended ones for cleanliness/safety/speed. I recommend actually visiting before making your umbrella statements about a given society.
And the rest is history
Pay tuition.