If we could start getting in the habit of focusing our lights down through the use of hoods and lamp covers we could probably make fast, cheap improvements on this problem. Light is wasted going up, with the exception of cool satellite shots showing the Earth at night. I for one would love to be able to see more than magnitude 1 and brighter stars from my rooftop in Brooklyn.
I don't find much credence to an argument that Europeans tend to have larger or more efficient brains than the rest of the peoples of the world due to interbreeding with Neanderthals, or due to any reason. Neanderthals have gotten a lot of press lately due to the fact that they seem to be "superior" to Homo sapiens in may ways - more muscular, stronger skeletal structure, larger brains.
The fact remains, however, that in the end, they lost the race, and that would point towards some sort of ultimate inferiority. Definitely kinda cool to think that as someone of Northern European decent, I may have ancestors that were not human as we tend to think of it, but these studies have to be done carefully and such claims as pertaining to differences in brain abilities should be made exceedingly hesitantly, especially in such early stages of discovery.
Unfortunately, though I'm sure he's smart and all, it's a little hard for me to take IT Management advice from a guy named McAfee... Ah well, at least it wasn't from Harvard's Peter Norton...
I wonder how many of these are real. Maybe it's that internet-made cynic in me but most of these just appear to be the email equivalent of "drunk dialing". Ah well, guess they're not calling them at home, 4 AM.
OMfg!!1 wwere were you computr guy out?im sod runk. bet night ever wooo!
i've used macs since I was 8 (1991) and i've never had a virus on any of them, or at least never knowingly had a virus as i've never had to buy a virus scanner.
Macro Viruses.... Used to see them by the hundreds with Classic OS.
I went to a preview on Wednesday afternoon in NYC. As our spot in line drew closer to entering the theater, we found out that we would be searched and that no recording or photography equipment would be allowed within the theater. Now this alone wasn't too surprising, but they went so far as to ban cell phones with cameras on them!
Amazing. You mean I have to check in my phone, which has a lowsy, low-res camera on it, just so I can't take a blurry shot that can be then spead over the network and file sharing networks everywhere?! Nice work, guys. We only had to wait for 45 minutes after the movie ended to get our phones back from the pile that they had laid out on a table. I mean, you'd think the 30 guys they had standing along the walls with night vision goggles to spot bootleggers might have been enough. Obviously not. One way or another these things always seems to leak out, and all you need is one bootlegger to make it out of one theater. But they'll keep on trying - I'm already wondering what further inconveniences my phone with the crappy camera will get me into. sigh.
yes, good point - at the time I loved it too out of ignorance and lack of options... Although I had my frustrations at the time, hindsight makes them a whole lot worse.
I went sci-fi after quiting UO. Did some Earth and Beyond (got old really quick) and then Eve Online (amazing game really, but very complicated...). I agree though, WoW is my fave so far. So much fun. and hell, I'm just a sucka for a good fantasy setting. Cheers!
Man, I remember UO when it first came out. Yeah that was scary stuff, stepping away from the town guards to mine ore/kill bunnies/run-like-hell-fom-griefers. Although it added that certain risk factor that delivered some excitement, on the whole I hated it.
My problem is, I'm a Guilty Gamer. I *love* to play MMORPGs but always feel guilty as hell about pouring that time down the sink. And nothing twists that blade in me more than losing all my stuff to a friggin player 'cause I lagged out, or was out-gunned by some power gamer. At least in WoW, even in PvP, I don't step backwards (ie losing everything I had spent a 6+ hour session building up). For me, that's a slap in the face hard enough to make me quit a game.
WoW is so much more insidious. I gladly pour my time down the sink and no matter what happens, I can always pick up right where I left off. As long as I have my little illusion of progress, I'll be happier than a pig in...
One of the more reassuring things about St Helens blowing is that it has already done so. It has a nice crater to keep things fairly contained and no glaciers. Mt Rainier is another story, however. It is also a volcano, has the most permanent glaciers on it of any mountain in the continental US and if it blows, the true danger is what happens to those glaciers at eruption. It's known as a lahar.
I read something similar to this once: To get an idea of a lahar, imagine a 30 ft wall of mud, boiling in temperature with the consistency of wet cement traveling at speeds up to 60 mph or so. If you go driving through the river valleys of Washington State (Carbon Rv, Puyallup Rv) that are fed by the Rainier glaciers, you'll see Lahar evacuation route signs everywhere. Not only that, but I believe recent evacuation simulations have been abysmal. Scary stuff.
Although I think there are potentially many reasons to go into space (ie all eggs in one earth theory), my most personal reason is not linked to adventure per se or any especially practical reason in an economic sense.
I want to get a greater perspective on things. I find it hard to imagine not having my own completely earthbound perspective blown away by looking with my own eyes down upon Earth in its entirety, or upon another world altogether. I've looked up at the stars countless times wishing I could render it in 3D... but I can't... I don't have the perspective.
I can read about this stuff in books, even look up endless amounts of images on the web, but I don't think anything would compare with seeing something like that for myself.
I'm gonna die eventually anyway and I think it would be worth some risk to see if I can't transcend my earthling bias and conceptual limitations if only just a little bit.
Well, I for one believe that art and its value is solely based upon human interaction with the work (ie. someone goes and makes a painting, I go look at it, and then decide whether or not it means anything to me).
The artist is in control of the creative germination only. After that, the artist has no control over his art.
I'm sorry to say that Lucas will never have the right to go into my brain and alter which version I prefer. I now have the artwork in my head, and it's now just as much mine, in that sense, than it is his.
The artist is human, and very rarely is aware of the full impact or meaning of his/her art. Therefore, for him/her to never reliquish a work to stand on its own, artistically though not necessarily copyright-wise (different debate), the artist *will* mangle it. Where is the end once you start to pick at it? You will pick it to death. And to me that is *exactly* what happened in those Special Editions. Is he legally afforded the right to make those changes? Absolutely. But it's a damn shame he did it.
Its still his creation. Ever think he wanted to change these things twenty years ago but couldn't due to technology constraints?
There is a time when a work of art ceases to belong solely to the artist, and becomes its own independent entity. The movies that he made and released back in the 70s and 80s have passed far beyond his ability to control their destiny, how they are loved/hated, and the what they mean to people. To do so it a completely vain exercise.
Imagine Beethoven going back years later, after his music had been played and circulated widely, and touching up his symphonies - telling people to essentially ignore his previous drafts. It would just degrade the artwork, and it starts to chip away at the work's original integrity and feeling. If Lucas wasn't satisfied with what he had to work with, he shouldn't have made the movies at that time. The Special Edition's shouldn't have been made, but even if he decided to make them he shouldn't try to wipe away signs of the previous work. He needs to show it the respect it deserves.
I remember setting up a 14.4k modem duel back in the day when online fps was mano a mano ('92-'93??). I'll never forget how cool it was getting the connection to finally take and there we were, two guys on the opposite side of town hunting each other down in the hallowed halls of Doom. It blew my dad's mind - he had no idea such a thing was possible with his computer... That game will always have a special place in this geek's heart... Bring on Doom III!
Yeah, I agree... funny because the digital age is about the ever-increasing speed of information but then someone will throw this huge EULA in your face amidst your light-speed web surfing and your average user will click first and ask questions later...
It's like throwing a speed bump in the middle of a freeway, you're gonna get a lot of folks that'll, rather than slam on the breaks, will just hit it at their current speed and destroy their car in the process.
This is absolutely the biggest problem tech support-wise that I have to deal with these days with my clients. It surprises me that they aren't yet seen in the same light as viruses are. They can be just as crippling, just as tricky to remove (even with ad-aware and spybot), and just as sneaky getting in to your system...
I've told people when they've asked me how their infestation happened that they're basically viruses they actively allowed to be installed, though in some cases I'm not even sure you as user have to "ok" to let in there. I advise users to click "x" on the installer windows now - I don't even trust "no" anymore.
the game is lame. Except, of course, my buddy's dancin' maniac pink wookie. They spent more time on the dancing engine than they did on the rest of the game. Believe me, you haven't lived until you've seen an 8' wookie doing the Running Man only to swing into a Moon Walk and finish it off with a jumping mid-air splits.
As a freelancing ITer in NYC, I've found that Wi-Fi demand is indeed growing faster than any other tech trend, particularly with people wanting home networks established. There are schools here in NYC that offer wireless networks to their students and many families want to extend the usefulness of those school laptops into their homes. It's an impressive set of options for an elementary or high school student. Of course, then mom and dad want in on the action.
The obvious effect of this is that now more and more people are wireless capable... and that capability will bring about demand. I know I for one hate having functionality that I can't take full advantage of.
Slashdot Mirror
The Moon is indeed... a harsh mistress.
Harper Collins also wants libraries to self-destruct after being used 26 times.
McAfee for Droid... ugh
If we could start getting in the habit of focusing our lights down through the use of hoods and lamp covers we could probably make fast, cheap improvements on this problem. Light is wasted going up, with the exception of cool satellite shots showing the Earth at night. I for one would love to be able to see more than magnitude 1 and brighter stars from my rooftop in Brooklyn.
I don't find much credence to an argument that Europeans tend to have larger or more efficient brains than the rest of the peoples of the world due to interbreeding with Neanderthals, or due to any reason. Neanderthals have gotten a lot of press lately due to the fact that they seem to be "superior" to Homo sapiens in may ways - more muscular, stronger skeletal structure, larger brains.
The fact remains, however, that in the end, they lost the race, and that would point towards some sort of ultimate inferiority. Definitely kinda cool to think that as someone of Northern European decent, I may have ancestors that were not human as we tend to think of it, but these studies have to be done carefully and such claims as pertaining to differences in brain abilities should be made exceedingly hesitantly, especially in such early stages of discovery.
Unfortunately, though I'm sure he's smart and all, it's a little hard for me to take IT Management advice from a guy named McAfee... Ah well, at least it wasn't from Harvard's Peter Norton...
I wonder how many of these are real. Maybe it's that internet-made cynic in me but most of these just appear to be the email equivalent of "drunk dialing". Ah well, guess they're not calling them at home, 4 AM.
OMfg!!1
wwere were you computr guy out?im sod runk. bet night ever wooo!
Guess you stopped watching before Enterprise. Here you go: Rogue Planet
Wonder if it's going to go down the same road as Karate Kid the Musical. Do I think it'll work? It would take a miracle...
i've used macs since I was 8 (1991) and i've never had a virus on any of them, or at least never knowingly had a virus as i've never had to buy a virus scanner.
Macro Viruses.... Used to see them by the hundreds with Classic OS.
I went to a preview on Wednesday afternoon in NYC. As our spot in line drew closer to entering the theater, we found out that we would be searched and that no recording or photography equipment would be allowed within the theater. Now this alone wasn't too surprising, but they went so far as to ban cell phones with cameras on them!
Amazing. You mean I have to check in my phone, which has a lowsy, low-res camera on it, just so I can't take a blurry shot that can be then spead over the network and file sharing networks everywhere?! Nice work, guys. We only had to wait for 45 minutes after the movie ended to get our phones back from the pile that they had laid out on a table. I mean, you'd think the 30 guys they had standing along the walls with night vision goggles to spot bootleggers might have been enough. Obviously not. One way or another these things always seems to leak out, and all you need is one bootlegger to make it out of one theater. But they'll keep on trying - I'm already wondering what further inconveniences my phone with the crappy camera will get me into. sigh.
yes, good point - at the time I loved it too out of ignorance and lack of options... Although I had my frustrations at the time, hindsight makes them a whole lot worse.
I went sci-fi after quiting UO. Did some Earth and Beyond (got old really quick) and then Eve Online (amazing game really, but very complicated...). I agree though, WoW is my fave so far. So much fun. and hell, I'm just a sucka for a good fantasy setting. Cheers!
Man, I remember UO when it first came out. Yeah that was scary stuff, stepping away from the town guards to mine ore/kill bunnies/run-like-hell-fom-griefers. Although it added that certain risk factor that delivered some excitement, on the whole I hated it.
My problem is, I'm a Guilty Gamer. I *love* to play MMORPGs but always feel guilty as hell about pouring that time down the sink. And nothing twists that blade in me more than losing all my stuff to a friggin player 'cause I lagged out, or was out-gunned by some power gamer. At least in WoW, even in PvP, I don't step backwards (ie losing everything I had spent a 6+ hour session building up). For me, that's a slap in the face hard enough to make me quit a game.
WoW is so much more insidious. I gladly pour my time down the sink and no matter what happens, I can always pick up right where I left off. As long as I have my little illusion of progress, I'll be happier than a pig in...
One of the more reassuring things about St Helens blowing is that it has already done so. It has a nice crater to keep things fairly contained and no glaciers. Mt Rainier is another story, however. It is also a volcano, has the most permanent glaciers on it of any mountain in the continental US and if it blows, the true danger is what happens to those glaciers at eruption. It's known as a lahar.
I read something similar to this once: To get an idea of a lahar, imagine a 30 ft wall of mud, boiling in temperature with the consistency of wet cement traveling at speeds up to 60 mph or so. If you go driving through the river valleys of Washington State (Carbon Rv, Puyallup Rv) that are fed by the Rainier glaciers, you'll see Lahar evacuation route signs everywhere. Not only that, but I believe recent evacuation simulations have been abysmal. Scary stuff.
Ahh, may have found the article that I read.
Although I think there are potentially many reasons to go into space (ie all eggs in one earth theory), my most personal reason is not linked to adventure per se or any especially practical reason in an economic sense.
I want to get a greater perspective on things. I find it hard to imagine not having my own completely earthbound perspective blown away by looking with my own eyes down upon Earth in its entirety, or upon another world altogether. I've looked up at the stars countless times wishing I could render it in 3D... but I can't... I don't have the perspective.
I can read about this stuff in books, even look up endless amounts of images on the web, but I don't think anything would compare with seeing something like that for myself.
I'm gonna die eventually anyway and I think it would be worth some risk to see if I can't transcend my earthling bias and conceptual limitations if only just a little bit.
The artist *always* controls the art.
Well, I for one believe that art and its value is solely based upon human interaction with the work (ie. someone goes and makes a painting, I go look at it, and then decide whether or not it means anything to me).
The artist is in control of the creative germination only. After that, the artist has no control over his art.
I'm sorry to say that Lucas will never have the right to go into my brain and alter which version I prefer. I now have the artwork in my head, and it's now just as much mine, in that sense, than it is his.
The artist is human, and very rarely is aware of the full impact or meaning of his/her art. Therefore, for him/her to never reliquish a work to stand on its own, artistically though not necessarily copyright-wise (different debate), the artist *will* mangle it. Where is the end once you start to pick at it? You will pick it to death. And to me that is *exactly* what happened in those Special Editions. Is he legally afforded the right to make those changes? Absolutely. But it's a damn shame he did it.
Its still his creation. Ever think he wanted to change these things twenty years ago but couldn't due to technology constraints?
There is a time when a work of art ceases to belong solely to the artist, and becomes its own independent entity. The movies that he made and released back in the 70s and 80s have passed far beyond his ability to control their destiny, how they are loved/hated, and the what they mean to people. To do so it a completely vain exercise.
Imagine Beethoven going back years later, after his music had been played and circulated widely, and touching up his symphonies - telling people to essentially ignore his previous drafts. It would just degrade the artwork, and it starts to chip away at the work's original integrity and feeling. If Lucas wasn't satisfied with what he had to work with, he shouldn't have made the movies at that time. The Special Edition's shouldn't have been made, but even if he decided to make them he shouldn't try to wipe away signs of the previous work. He needs to show it the respect it deserves.
I remember setting up a 14.4k modem duel back in the day when online fps was mano a mano ('92-'93??). I'll never forget how cool it was getting the connection to finally take and there we were, two guys on the opposite side of town hunting each other down in the hallowed halls of Doom. It blew my dad's mind - he had no idea such a thing was possible with his computer... That game will always have a special place in this geek's heart... Bring on Doom III!
And not only was there an American in the group (Gilliam) but as a former British colony, your history is in a way ours as well.
You could just double that crazy antenna as a lightning rod... Here's 1.21 Gigawatts in your eye!
and Mos Def as Ford Prefect? Very interesting indeed...
Yeah, I agree... funny because the digital age is about the ever-increasing speed of information but then someone will throw this huge EULA in your face amidst your light-speed web surfing and your average user will click first and ask questions later...
It's like throwing a speed bump in the middle of a freeway, you're gonna get a lot of folks that'll, rather than slam on the breaks, will just hit it at their current speed and destroy their car in the process.
This is absolutely the biggest problem tech support-wise that I have to deal with these days with my clients. It surprises me that they aren't yet seen in the same light as viruses are. They can be just as crippling, just as tricky to remove (even with ad-aware and spybot), and just as sneaky getting in to your system...
I've told people when they've asked me how their infestation happened that they're basically viruses they actively allowed to be installed, though in some cases I'm not even sure you as user have to "ok" to let in there. I advise users to click "x" on the installer windows now - I don't even trust "no" anymore.
the game is lame. Except, of course, my buddy's dancin' maniac pink wookie. They spent more time on the dancing engine than they did on the rest of the game. Believe me, you haven't lived until you've seen an 8' wookie doing the Running Man only to swing into a Moon Walk and finish it off with a jumping mid-air splits.
As a freelancing ITer in NYC, I've found that Wi-Fi demand is indeed growing faster than any other tech trend, particularly with people wanting home networks established. There are schools here in NYC that offer wireless networks to their students and many families want to extend the usefulness of those school laptops into their homes. It's an impressive set of options for an elementary or high school student. Of course, then mom and dad want in on the action.
The obvious effect of this is that now more and more people are wireless capable... and that capability will bring about demand. I know I for one hate having functionality that I can't take full advantage of.