That involves extending all three columns to ludicrous heights (i.e. higher than any page on your site) so that they always invisibly overlap the bottom of your screen. That's a hack at best.
If you honestly believe that there is an army of Muslims in the Arab world sitting in a dark room mutting "I hate those Americans, they're so damn.... FREE! I'll kill them for being so free!" then you need to take a good hard look inside your head and clear out the thoughts that have been proscribed for you by the media.
Seconded. If this was actually the case, don't you think it would have been the Statue of Liberty which was attacked on 9/11?
Insightful. But what this fails to take into account is that evolution acts over astoundingly long periods of time. In order to evolve into a long-surviving, all-eating creature, a microbe or a bacterium first has to figure out how to survive long enough to evolve. That means it has to safeguard itself, figure out health and defense as you say, before it can start reproducing like mad.
Whereas we humans are intelligent designers. We don't have to consider stuff like that as we design our gray goo nightmare. We can EASILY make a bug FROM SCRATCH that reproduces endlessly at the expense of health, resource allocation, defense and all that. We build a nanobot which doesn't care about protecting its own survival. It'll starve once all the resources are consumed, sure, and it might have any number of other weaknesses. But if it eats fast enough, that's enough to still be a potential problem. It could still eat your house and family before it runs out of steam.
I find Stephen Baxter's gamma ray burster scenario to be a more plausible solution to the Fermi paradox (assuming it NEEDS solving). He suggests that - well, wrote a book in which - periodically, gigantic local GRBs do a very efficient job of sterilising the galaxy (and, by extension, the rest of the universe) naturally. There are serious suggestions that at least one major extinction in Earth's history was caused by a long-period GRB. It could happen again, and we would have absolutely no way of seeing it coming. And we'd be screwed if it did happen.
This would never have happened if humans had their own personal First Law which was "Protect your own existence".
Oh wait. I think we already do have that. Well, I guess this human was just programmed incorrectly.
Consider this from the alien point of view. Anything we wear - even if we're wearing nothing - will look as ridiculous to them as they will inevitably look to us. "Why do your females conceal their lactation ducts?" they'll say, while (perhaps) frantically trying to cover up their exposed slood fronds.
I have been using a very low-tech form of this to allow myself to have the same bookmarks on every computer. Basically - I don't have any bookmarks. I have a web page which I use as my homepage on every computer. This means 1) I can access all my bookmarks from everywhere (although not, to be fair, my browser history or cookies) and 2) I can arrange my bookmarks in a much more potentially sophisticated layout than just a stack of menus, using HTML.
TG is a poor excuse for a videogame scorekeeping authority. Their proof demands are unreasonable, their rankings pages are horrifyingly badly constructed and their response times are appalling. I "won" a $100 bounty from TG in 2005 which was supposed to be awarded on January 30th of this year and am still waiting to receive it, and I believe many other people are in the same boat. (It was the Zelda 64 one, anybody who's interested - I beat the whole game with 100 Skulltulas and the Mask of Truth in under 7 hours.) I would advise against anybody going for any TG bounties offered in the future. I suspect the TG team just uses it as a free supply of videotapes.
I guess I don't see the point of hanging out in chat rooms and social networking sites when there's a ton of people all over the place you could be actually meeting and hanging out with
It depends who you are. I'm on Facebook, because lots of my friends are on Facebook. These are people who I went to university with but are now spread out all over the UK and beyond - I do not have the ability to meet and hang out with them whenever I want. My website is indeed sufficient for my friends and family to follow my goings-on, but I want to know what they think and see what they're doing and tell them what I think about what they're getting up to.
But on the other hand, I do enjoy going out and meeting and "hanging out", as you youngsters say, with friends I DO still leave near. Like all things, social networking sites are part of a balanced diet.
I'd suggest that it's not laziness (or at least, not JUST laziness) on the part of the developer which stops realistic games looking realistic - it's time and effort. Only a very small number of developers have the manpower and budget to actually fully USE all the graphical capability available on the current platforms, and even then, it takes two to three years of development time to get the game looking that good. Smaller developers just can't use that power for its intended purpose and therefore can't meet the expectations of the rabid graphics-hungry gamers. They're getting edged out of business.
I don't think this additional processing power is a curse, though. Developers have TOTAL freedom to make games as detailed or as sketchy as they want now. What I want is for more people to understand that it's not necessary to use EVERY last polygon if your game is to be any good. c.f. Geometry Wars.
alt.destroy-the-earth calculated wrongly. The gravitational binding energy of planet Earth is only about 2.24E32 Joules, six orders of magnitude smaller than the value you quote. Still a pretty large value though.
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That's "llooossee", you illiterate clod!
Interesting that you mention books there. No age ratings on books, are there?
That involves extending all three columns to ludicrous heights (i.e. higher than any page on your site) so that they always invisibly overlap the bottom of your screen. That's a hack at best.
How do you do a three-column layout, with the central column coming first in the markup, and all three columns the same height, without using tables?
I think what I've learned from your post is that continually evolving marketing strategies is probably a much safer bet.
*sigh* That was a real nice secret society we had, once.
Seconded. If this was actually the case, don't you think it would have been the Statue of Liberty which was attacked on 9/11?
Insightful. But what this fails to take into account is that evolution acts over astoundingly long periods of time. In order to evolve into a long-surviving, all-eating creature, a microbe or a bacterium first has to figure out how to survive long enough to evolve. That means it has to safeguard itself, figure out health and defense as you say, before it can start reproducing like mad.
Whereas we humans are intelligent designers. We don't have to consider stuff like that as we design our gray goo nightmare. We can EASILY make a bug FROM SCRATCH that reproduces endlessly at the expense of health, resource allocation, defense and all that. We build a nanobot which doesn't care about protecting its own survival. It'll starve once all the resources are consumed, sure, and it might have any number of other weaknesses. But if it eats fast enough, that's enough to still be a potential problem. It could still eat your house and family before it runs out of steam.
Yeah, about that...
I find Stephen Baxter's gamma ray burster scenario to be a more plausible solution to the Fermi paradox (assuming it NEEDS solving). He suggests that - well, wrote a book in which - periodically, gigantic local GRBs do a very efficient job of sterilising the galaxy (and, by extension, the rest of the universe) naturally. There are serious suggestions that at least one major extinction in Earth's history was caused by a long-period GRB. It could happen again, and we would have absolutely no way of seeing it coming. And we'd be screwed if it did happen.
That's strange, I'd heard nothing but good things about acid.
This would never have happened if humans had their own personal First Law which was "Protect your own existence". Oh wait. I think we already do have that. Well, I guess this human was just programmed incorrectly.
Girlfriend? Sir, you presume too much.
It's like I always say - you can't be wearing the wrong thing if you're wearing nothing!
I was going to take yellow, myself. You can have red. That's an order, by the way.
Consider this from the alien point of view. Anything we wear - even if we're wearing nothing - will look as ridiculous to them as they will inevitably look to us. "Why do your females conceal their lactation ducts?" they'll say, while (perhaps) frantically trying to cover up their exposed slood fronds.
The people responsible for the parent post have been sacked.
If "google" isn't clearly visible in the packets, how do you expect them to get to and from google.com?
As free as the wind blows!
I have been using a very low-tech form of this to allow myself to have the same bookmarks on every computer. Basically - I don't have any bookmarks. I have a web page which I use as my homepage on every computer. This means 1) I can access all my bookmarks from everywhere (although not, to be fair, my browser history or cookies) and 2) I can arrange my bookmarks in a much more potentially sophisticated layout than just a stack of menus, using HTML.
I suggest y'all try it!
TG is a poor excuse for a videogame scorekeeping authority. Their proof demands are unreasonable, their rankings pages are horrifyingly badly constructed and their response times are appalling. I "won" a $100 bounty from TG in 2005 which was supposed to be awarded on January 30th of this year and am still waiting to receive it, and I believe many other people are in the same boat. (It was the Zelda 64 one, anybody who's interested - I beat the whole game with 100 Skulltulas and the Mask of Truth in under 7 hours.) I would advise against anybody going for any TG bounties offered in the future. I suspect the TG team just uses it as a free supply of videotapes.
I'd suggest that anybody from the 1960s would be pretty "weirded out" to begin with...
It depends who you are. I'm on Facebook, because lots of my friends are on Facebook. These are people who I went to university with but are now spread out all over the UK and beyond - I do not have the ability to meet and hang out with them whenever I want. My website is indeed sufficient for my friends and family to follow my goings-on, but I want to know what they think and see what they're doing and tell them what I think about what they're getting up to.
But on the other hand, I do enjoy going out and meeting and "hanging out", as you youngsters say, with friends I DO still leave near. Like all things, social networking sites are part of a balanced diet.
I'd suggest that it's not laziness (or at least, not JUST laziness) on the part of the developer which stops realistic games looking realistic - it's time and effort. Only a very small number of developers have the manpower and budget to actually fully USE all the graphical capability available on the current platforms, and even then, it takes two to three years of development time to get the game looking that good. Smaller developers just can't use that power for its intended purpose and therefore can't meet the expectations of the rabid graphics-hungry gamers. They're getting edged out of business.
I don't think this additional processing power is a curse, though. Developers have TOTAL freedom to make games as detailed or as sketchy as they want now. What I want is for more people to understand that it's not necessary to use EVERY last polygon if your game is to be any good. c.f. Geometry Wars.
alt.destroy-the-earth calculated wrongly. The gravitational binding energy of planet Earth is only about 2.24E32 Joules, six orders of magnitude smaller than the value you quote. Still a pretty large value though.