But this makes me wonder how much electricity could be produced by a series of parabolic mirrors heating water to turn a turbine, and whether this would be economically worth it in areas with a great deal of sunlight.
(And don't talk to me about google... I'm lazy this evening.)
We didn't get to go personally this year, but our new game is nonetheless being demoed to distributors out there on our behalf. Next year we should be ready in time, though. Something about the game coming to print a mere two weeks prior to the show.
What disturbs me a little bit, being a newly formed independent game design company, is the seemingly increasing reliance on (movie/video game/whatever) property licensing within the traditional game industry. Ever since Monopoly opened the doors to having a million licensors/licensees, it seems to me that there has been more and more rehashes of the exact same games, only with new window dressing.
While I suppose that there is a logical fit with some of them (a Star Wars-themed Trivial Pursuit was a brilliant idea, as was the LotR Risk), others just plain don't make sense. A NASCAR-themed Monopoly? NASCAR, whatever you may think of it, is about speed and there is NOTHING fast-paced about Monopoly - neverminding the whole concept of renting spaces as a racecar.
My point being that it makes it feel a little bit like the time will soon come when a game not created on an established license will have difficulty gaining a foothold in the market. I suppose that just means I have to get in quick on starting my own powerhouse games now so that later it can be ME that's licensing my properties to others. Moohahaha!
Unless I can get Pinky and the Brain in this manner, it's useless to me. And given that there isn't even a hinting at a P&tB DVD set, that means that this won't happen for this show.
Or, in other words, even if they did it, if they don't have [insert your favorite show here] in its entirety, it'll be difficult to get the idea off the ground.
I'd start with salary.com, actually. There's a lot of information on cost of living, expected salary ranges by geographic location for virtually any position, and comparisons between different areas so you can start to guage how expensive it is to live somewhere.
As a personal recommendation, Saint Paul or Minneapolis, MN (or the surrounding area) is probably one of the best places for a tech-minded person to find work right about now. The salaries are still high versus the cost of living, and there are a lot of positive things about Minnesota... just so long as you don't mind the freezing cold in the winters or the massive snowdrifts.;)
First, it has to be a power of 2 in order to be a size-based AC modifier.
Taking the medium size class to max out at 2 meters, microscopic would be about 16 size classes below medium (since each size class has a maximum of one half the height of the one above it; I'm taking ~30 micrometers max to be "microscopic". It is, of course, a DM's call as to what, exactly, would constitute microscopic - adjust accordingly.)
This would give an AC bonus (and bonus to hit) of +32,768. Good luck finding a smith to craft armor or weapons for that size class, though.
For contrast, the parent's "+100" size bonus would roughly correlate to the +128 bonus that's actually possible, and would exist for a creature no bigger than 7.8125mm - hardly subatomic. In fact, this would be the appropriate size class for many normal insects.
Second, Invisibility grants a 50% miss chance due to total concealment, not an increase to AC.
Of course, 2.5% of the time you'll still hit it anyway (what with the whole "a 20 always hits" rule + total concealment). So, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I'm sure your DM would allow you to take 20 on hitting something that poses so little threat to you (assuming you weren't otherwise potentially in peril).
If they restrict the sales of video games to minors, how will us adults purchase our video games?! Soon, we'll have to stand outside of the local game shop, asking 14 year old kids if they'd be willing to buy a game for us, and...
Oh, wait. They mean that sales of video games to minors will be restricted. I suppose that's a little different, then.
I suppose the beauty part of this is that, I would guess, the same holds true for the adult population.
Far too many adults that I've encountered have no idea as to what these rights mean, or what their implications are. And just so you know I'm not simply spouting anecdotal evidence, I'll cite the following article:
To sum it up for the lazy, it basically means that around 44 percent of all Americans surveyed have no idea what the Bill of Rights is for, why it's important, or what the repercussions are for tampering with it. (Yes, I know what some portion of that group are informed dissenters with the Bill of Rights, but I would assert that they are a fringe minority.)
If you're an American citizen, and haven't done this already (or recently!), be sure to read the following:
Just reading through the first couple on the amendments list should give you a better grasp on what the whole "Bill of Rights" thing is about.
Oh, and you'll learn all sorts of crazy trivia you probably weren't aware of - like the fact that a right to a jury trial for civil cases requires the damages to be worth at least $20 (which has never been adjusted for inflation, and probably shouldn't.)
"Biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin is opposed to crossing species boundaries, because he believes animals have the right to exist without being tampered with or crossed with another species."
"Not that there is any use for this whatsoever..."
I'm not so sure. Given that there are all sorts of interesting things about the number (a quick google search turned up this as an example), having a CD with the first couple billion digits could be useful for anyone playing around with statistical analysis of it.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hi! I'm Gary Gygax, and I'm..."
...who knows? Maybe the guy just crit-failed on his encounter disposition roll.
rolls dice
"glad to meet you!"
But this makes me wonder how much electricity could be produced by a series of parabolic mirrors heating water to turn a turbine, and whether this would be economically worth it in areas with a great deal of sunlight.
(And don't talk to me about google... I'm lazy this evening.)
We didn't get to go personally this year, but our new game is nonetheless being demoed to distributors out there on our behalf. Next year we should be ready in time, though. Something about the game coming to print a mere two weeks prior to the show.
What disturbs me a little bit, being a newly formed independent game design company, is the seemingly increasing reliance on (movie/video game/whatever) property licensing within the traditional game industry. Ever since Monopoly opened the doors to having a million licensors/licensees, it seems to me that there has been more and more rehashes of the exact same games, only with new window dressing.
While I suppose that there is a logical fit with some of them (a Star Wars-themed Trivial Pursuit was a brilliant idea, as was the LotR Risk), others just plain don't make sense. A NASCAR-themed Monopoly? NASCAR, whatever you may think of it, is about speed and there is NOTHING fast-paced about Monopoly - neverminding the whole concept of renting spaces as a racecar.
My point being that it makes it feel a little bit like the time will soon come when a game not created on an established license will have difficulty gaining a foothold in the market. I suppose that just means I have to get in quick on starting my own powerhouse games now so that later it can be ME that's licensing my properties to others. Moohahaha!
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I don't want to be in the Army any more! I want to be Debbie!
(Attn: Read the Jack Chick tract before modding this offtopic.)
...this seems like it'd be a great way to try to take down your friend's (or enemy's) computer.
"Oh, we're putting up a box for the hacking at such and such time. We swear it's ours. No, really! Trust us. "
Few would be the wiser until it was too late.
maybe they should just enter this!
In 5....4....3....2....1....
Unless I can get Pinky and the Brain in this manner, it's useless to me. And given that there isn't even a hinting at a P&tB DVD set, that means that this won't happen for this show.
Or, in other words, even if they did it, if they don't have [insert your favorite show here] in its entirety, it'll be difficult to get the idea off the ground.
I'd start with salary.com, actually. There's a lot of information on cost of living, expected salary ranges by geographic location for virtually any position, and comparisons between different areas so you can start to guage how expensive it is to live somewhere.
;)
As a personal recommendation, Saint Paul or Minneapolis, MN (or the surrounding area) is probably one of the best places for a tech-minded person to find work right about now. The salaries are still high versus the cost of living, and there are a lot of positive things about Minnesota... just so long as you don't mind the freezing cold in the winters or the massive snowdrifts.
First, it has to be a power of 2 in order to be a size-based AC modifier.
Taking the medium size class to max out at 2 meters, microscopic would be about 16 size classes below medium (since each size class has a maximum of one half the height of the one above it; I'm taking ~30 micrometers max to be "microscopic". It is, of course, a DM's call as to what, exactly, would constitute microscopic - adjust accordingly.)
This would give an AC bonus (and bonus to hit) of +32,768. Good luck finding a smith to craft armor or weapons for that size class, though.
For contrast, the parent's "+100" size bonus would roughly correlate to the +128 bonus that's actually possible, and would exist for a creature no bigger than 7.8125mm - hardly subatomic. In fact, this would be the appropriate size class for many normal insects.
Second, Invisibility grants a 50% miss chance due to total concealment, not an increase to AC.
Of course, 2.5% of the time you'll still hit it anyway (what with the whole "a 20 always hits" rule + total concealment). So, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I'm sure your DM would allow you to take 20 on hitting something that poses so little threat to you (assuming you weren't otherwise potentially in peril).
</pedantic>
Oh, and smile. You know it's funny.
The octopus as an optimal robot design? Did none of them see The Matrix?!
Somebody warn them before it's too late!
If they restrict the sales of video games to minors, how will us adults purchase our video games?! Soon, we'll have to stand outside of the local game shop, asking 14 year old kids if they'd be willing to buy a game for us, and...
Oh, wait. They mean that sales of video games to minors will be restricted. I suppose that's a little different, then.
I suppose the beauty part of this is that, I would guess, the same holds true for the adult population.
Far too many adults that I've encountered have no idea as to what these rights mean, or what their implications are. And just so you know I'm not simply spouting anecdotal evidence, I'll cite the following article:
44 Percent Say Restrict Muslims
To sum it up for the lazy, it basically means that around 44 percent of all Americans surveyed have no idea what the Bill of Rights is for, why it's important, or what the repercussions are for tampering with it. (Yes, I know what some portion of that group are informed dissenters with the Bill of Rights, but I would assert that they are a fringe minority.)
If you're an American citizen, and haven't done this already (or recently!), be sure to read the following:
US Constitution
Amendments thereof
Just reading through the first couple on the amendments list should give you a better grasp on what the whole "Bill of Rights" thing is about.
Oh, and you'll learn all sorts of crazy trivia you probably weren't aware of - like the fact that a right to a jury trial for civil cases requires the damages to be worth at least $20 (which has never been adjusted for inflation, and probably shouldn't.)
Personally, I started with LogoWriter (though not in French, as depicted on this page).
;)
Then again, I'm old now, so maybe it's not the best example.
"Biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin is opposed to crossing species boundaries, because he believes animals have the right to exist without being tampered with or crossed with another species."
In your face, mules!
From the article:
Oh sure, I could manually forward these viruses to the folks in my address book, but where's the fun in that?
This reminds me of the old standby text-based, system agnostic viruses, some of which can be seen here.
Cute! 8675309 appears at a 7-digit point, meaning it can be readily translated into another phone number!
Someone ring Tommy TuTone and tell them to make "920-2591" right away!
"Not that there is any use for this whatsoever..."
I'm not so sure. Given that there are all sorts of interesting things about the number (a quick google search turned up this as an example), having a CD with the first couple billion digits could be useful for anyone playing around with statistical analysis of it.
Duke
Nukem
Forever.
Thank you, I'll be here all week. And don't forget to tip your waitrons!
Really, Blunt just kept getting his ass handed to him in Counterstrike by the inmates.
If you're going to be growing anything in a cube, it should definitely be one of these:
Tasty!
I mean, the parallelism alone would be great!
And when you're done, you could probably use the husk to create a diorama of you growing it in your cube for an extra bit of surrealism in your day.
"I'd really like to see some on-line evidence of this. Has Microsoft competition in office suites really cut prices there?"
;)
Oddly enough... the price dropped 100% in the office suites arena.
All my old 72pin and 36 pin RAM gets converted to keychains. Then, when all the little IC's fall off, I just grab another one!
;)
Of course, they're starting to get a little harder to find, so eventually I'll have to change - maybe to old laptop memory.
A SDRAM might make a nice bookmark, though.
I mean, they could just start with the Yamada family and see what makes *them* so tasty!
For those that don't get the reference
Lemme get this straight. You asked Slashdot whether you should use Linux or Windows? Do you never read the comments around here?
;)
Oh, wait.
I suppose this is Slashdot. Nevermind.