Just watch this. iRobot is a "clean" remake of this MadMax robotic maid-whore movie.
They couldn't put some waterproofing on her? She was doing the dishes in soapy water to begin with, no problems there. Man, the 80's rocked. In retrospect.
She's been nominated for countless awards, and has won several here and there. She even wrote a Sci-Fi book called The Handmaid's Tale which won the Arthur C. Clark award in 1987.
Literature basically means anything. Though Scifi/Fantasy is given a bad name these days, most literature from 300+ years ago is basically fantasy anyway. Paradise Lost, The Faery Queene, Beowulf, Gulliver's Travels, etc... There's piles of work about myths and legends, stuff that was science fiction at the time, etc. Does anyone say that H.G. Wells and Jules Verne did not write "literature?".
But as with anything, there's a lot of crap & pulp scifi/fantasy.
The point of this article is to give you guidance on the books that you may have missed during the course of the year, and give you something to add to your list of future reading material.
As far as I can tell, movies are just as flexible as books. There are very few movies that are worth the theater cost, and even fewer of those that are justified in seeing on the big screen. You can go to the library in 10 years and pick up a DVD of a good movie that came out this year. This is the same as going to the library in 10 years and picking out a book that was published this year.
I welcome Slashdot's best/worst polls. There's nothing better than these candid opinions to get an idea about what might be a good book/movie/etc... to add to my list for future reference.
I did. Did you? Here's the text that preceeds the illustration you liked to:
Here is an illustration of how these mantle plumes are *moving* under ourselves (Credit: Jamie Painter, Visualization Scientist, Copyright The Regents of the University of California, Link).
This is not the "images" captured by geoscientists mentioned earlier on that page.
I think you should be calling people who don't make the time or have the inclination to look over their bill closely, "dumb".
Even if you're one of the 5 richest kings of Europe, you (or a hired servant) should still look over all the bills and verify that you're getting what you payed for and paying for only what you got.
You are right. It is difficult. Understanding syntax and semantics without a proper context is impossible for humans, nevermind computers. I looked into these problems for a thesis several years ago and focused most of my attention on this idea:
Link Grammar. (Google Cache since their page isn't responding. )
I don't remember all the details, but it is basically a program which parses sentences and links all the parts, given a dictionary of rules. For instance, it show which noun links to which verb, hence Link Grammar.
After getting involved with this I realized how insanely complicated it is to program a computer to understand text that it reads. Machine learning is about the only way this can happen since it has to learn volumes of context surrounding language that we take for granted.
I was being inconsistent. I didn't actually mean that Everquest actually had this style of randomness, just that it would be ideal in an Everquest-style game that is independant of individual users. True randomness in that environment would try to simulate real creatures doing real things rather than having specific locations where a known monster is going to spawn. That causes enough problems.
I don't actually know of a game offhand that uses this.
What we have is many different types of random which the author doesn't really flush out:
Random Phantom Encounter: Your character is walking on a pre-drawn background when all-of-a-sudden the screen goes black and you're fighting a goblin. This is a random fight for the sake of having something to do. This is the FF series. These fights are why I stopped playing FF-style games.
Random Encounter: Top-down Ultima 6 style game where you randomly encounter packs of wolves in the mountains or forest. They aren't scripted and if you kill them, walk far enough away, and return they will probably re-appear.
True Random: Everquest-style game where monsters are spawned randomly into the world at random (limited) locations and exist until they expire by one method or another.
There are probably more styles, but the author is trying to justify #1. He actually goes far enough to say that:
Without the battle component, without the interaction, you might as well be reading a book or watching a movie.
If that's all he's there for, why not ask for a FF-StreetFighter game and be done with it? Then we can get back to using skills and intelligence in RPGs.
As I understood from the article, they weren't so much concerned with how much energy computers used, but rather how this lost energy is limiting advances in CPU speed.
They mentioned that 10% of the energy used in the US can be attributed to computer usage, but the only reason this was a Bad Thing is that most of that energy is lost as heat. Too fast of a CPU == too much heat == stuff melting.
On the downside, I might have to buy a real whitenoise generator when/if computer fans are no longer needed.
Nonetheless, this is hardly the most intelligent way to go about it.
Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Then don't do that.
They disabled the feature to the point where you are required to find online support to get instructions on adding an obscure key into the registry. My point is only that this is one of the least intelligent ways to approach the problem. This was introduced in a full release of the product, not a patch. There's no reason to knee-jerk like this in a full release.
Ok. No more complaining. At least I can disable the envelope in my taskbar now...
As smart as forcing me to edit the registry so that I can actually see and download an attachment with a ".exe" extension?
My God. Force me to click through a prompt or something, but don't just tease me with an attachment's presence and then say that I can do nothing with it.
Have you actually ever been to Amazon? What you say it lacks is what I like best about it.
1. After a search, it gives you a list of "Customers who bought this also bought:". For instance, see this.
2. They have the concept of "Listmania" which allows every user to create a list of their own recommended products. If your search aligns with their list, Amazon will suggest that you look at it. Search for something you want and keep an eye open for the listmania section.
Doesn't this meet your criteria for "I'd like to find other thinks I might also be interested in.". And on top of that, I suppose the "browse" option is too complicated?
This new feature of searching the full text only allows you to find related items in a different way. If you have a better idea on how to search their site that they don't provide, send them a suggestion. It is in their best interest to let you find things you want.
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My first thought was Jared, but who's counting?
They couldn't put some waterproofing on her? She was doing the dishes in soapy water to begin with, no problems there. Man, the 80's rocked. In retrospect.
Margaret Atwood
But as with anything, there's a lot of crap & pulp scifi/fantasy.
As far as I can tell, movies are just as flexible as books. There are very few movies that are worth the theater cost, and even fewer of those that are justified in seeing on the big screen. You can go to the library in 10 years and pick up a DVD of a good movie that came out this year. This is the same as going to the library in 10 years and picking out a book that was published this year.
I welcome Slashdot's best/worst polls. There's nothing better than these candid opinions to get an idea about what might be a good book/movie/etc... to add to my list for future reference.
Here's what he means:
1. Kids want to play Warcraft, so they click shortcut.
2. Shortcut has "run with different credentials" checked.
3. Prompt asks for user information.
4. Kids shout" "Daddy!".
5. Dad comes over to computer, works his administrator magic.
6. Game runs with administrator credentials, but the kids don't have it.
The biggest problem is that there's bound to be a lot of shouting for "Daddy!" in that household if they really like the game.
See here.
(taken from memory--the "cry cry again" Seinfeld episode)
Here is an illustration of how these mantle plumes are *moving* under ourselves (Credit: Jamie Painter, Visualization Scientist, Copyright The Regents of the University of California, Link).
This is not the "images" captured by geoscientists mentioned earlier on that page.
Wasn't this a Family Guy clip? Maybe not originally, but I remember seeing a cartoon of a chicken in bed with an egg.
Go figure. An ignorant AC.
Even if you're one of the 5 richest kings of Europe, you (or a hired servant) should still look over all the bills and verify that you're getting what you payed for and paying for only what you got.
Link Grammar. (Google Cache since their page isn't responding. )
I don't remember all the details, but it is basically a program which parses sentences and links all the parts, given a dictionary of rules. For instance, it show which noun links to which verb, hence Link Grammar.
After getting involved with this I realized how insanely complicated it is to program a computer to understand text that it reads. Machine learning is about the only way this can happen since it has to learn volumes of context surrounding language that we take for granted.
I was being inconsistent. I didn't actually mean that Everquest actually had this style of randomness, just that it would be ideal in an Everquest-style game that is independant of individual users. True randomness in that environment would try to simulate real creatures doing real things rather than having specific locations where a known monster is going to spawn. That causes enough problems.
I don't actually know of a game offhand that uses this.
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Random Phantom Encounter: Your character is walking on a pre-drawn background when all-of-a-sudden the screen goes black and you're fighting a goblin. This is a random fight for the sake of having something to do. This is the FF series. These fights are why I stopped playing FF-style games.
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Random Encounter: Top-down Ultima 6 style game where you randomly encounter packs of wolves in the mountains or forest. They aren't scripted and if you kill them, walk far enough away, and return they will probably re-appear.
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True Random: Everquest-style game where monsters are spawned randomly into the world at random (limited) locations and exist until they expire by one method or another.
There are probably more styles, but the author is trying to justify #1. He actually goes far enough to say that: If that's all he's there for, why not ask for a FF-StreetFighter game and be done with it? Then we can get back to using skills and intelligence in RPGs.How do we test whether man or machine is superior?
1. Does it matter who is surperior? These tests are just benchmarks for progress anyway.
2. Once you become a battery for robots.
3. Once a computer creates a beowulf cluster of you (in Soviet Russia).
Not the same, but you can't ignore the price.
They mentioned that 10% of the energy used in the US can be attributed to computer usage, but the only reason this was a Bad Thing is that most of that energy is lost as heat. Too fast of a CPU == too much heat == stuff melting.
On the downside, I might have to buy a real whitenoise generator when/if computer fans are no longer needed.
If they take the bait and dupe it a third time, does it become tripe?
Legend of the Red Dragon
I'm sure others can suggest more.
Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Then don't do that.
They disabled the feature to the point where you are required to find online support to get instructions on adding an obscure key into the registry. My point is only that this is one of the least intelligent ways to approach the problem. This was introduced in a full release of the product, not a patch. There's no reason to knee-jerk like this in a full release.
Ok. No more complaining. At least I can disable the envelope in my taskbar now...
My God. Force me to click through a prompt or something, but don't just tease me with an attachment's presence and then say that I can do nothing with it.
See this post.
1. After a search, it gives you a list of "Customers who bought this also bought:". For instance, see this.
2. They have the concept of "Listmania" which allows every user to create a list of their own recommended products. If your search aligns with their list, Amazon will suggest that you look at it. Search for something you want and keep an eye open for the listmania section.
Doesn't this meet your criteria for "I'd like to find other thinks I might also be interested in.". And on top of that, I suppose the "browse" option is too complicated?
This new feature of searching the full text only allows you to find related items in a different way. If you have a better idea on how to search their site that they don't provide, send them a suggestion. It is in their best interest to let you find things you want.
There actually is another piece of land on the Eastern side of Quebec, and they aren't all fishermen (or fisherwomen etc.).
The maritimes probably had the most to lose if Quebec became their own country.