The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book written by Alan Moore. The movie is extremely loosely based upon the first six issues, which comprise the first volume. The movie, due to its rather frightening changes, has a rather high suck-potential, but the trailer gave me hope.
The comic books are very good, however. Alan Moore has read every book ever written. And he really likes the ones written in and about Victorian England. In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality, just about every book and character ever written is real. The level of detail is astounding. Check it out.
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If I may add one to the list, Kingdom Come, by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, is an entertaining and brilliant graphic novel dealing very successfully with Superhuman vs. Superhuman themes.
Highly recommended even to those who don't follow the comic book genre.
Seems like there's not much left to do after something like this. I suppose some nuts will try to set a new record by having sex while they jump from 31 mi. up.
Yes, but then what will they do for the other 63 seconds?
Playing against people across the country in bars and restaurants? Well, if you like trivia, several thousand bars across the US already have
NTN trivia which uses a satellite dish and a
modem dial up to connect tens of thousands of people at a time to compete in a
variety of trivia games. Some of us are hopelessly addicted...
If the scientists need any help writing the code that will drive their randomly bouncing robot scouts, I may be able to help them. I still have the source code to the bouncing ball applet I wrote in a class a couple years ago...
I see too many people speaking of boycotting the election. People don't want to pick the lesser of two evils, so they're choosing not to vote. This is not the best response.
Don't vote for the lesser evil. Find a candidate you do believe in and vote for that one. You're not throwing away your vote. You're showing that you're fed up with the two main parties. That you are no longer represented by them.
This govenment is not going to be changed overnight. Ralph Nader, for instance, has no chance in hell of winning this election. But, if all the people who believe in his ideas vote for him, instead of voting for the big party candidate that they fear the least, a very clear message would be sent to the government. And then in 4 years, maybe Ralph Nader, or another 3rd party candidate, would really have a chance.
Dr. Damian Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where he teaches object-oriented software engineering. He is an effective teacher, an accomplished writer, and the author of several popular Perl modules. He is also a semi-regular contributor to the Perl Journal. In 1998 he was the winner of the Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility for two modules (Getopt::Declare and Lingua::EN::Inflect) and in 1999 he won his second "Larry" for his Coy.pm haiku-generation module. He has just published "Object-Oriented Perl" (Manning, 1999).
Ok. Sony makes this new Aibo with a camera in it's nose (to look at the monitor) and a chin touch sensor (to press buttons on the keyboard and manipulate the mouse). Sony, in conjunction with Verant, also makes EverQuest.
Can this dog level my Monk while I'm at work?!?
I'll take 4 of them! I can have one playing a level 60 cleric that power levels another playing an enchanter. Meanwhile, yet another Aibo can play a high level necromancer that farms platinum and equipment to twink my monk with! Woohoo!
What a typical Slashdot headline. Reading the article, we learn that this is a 'decades' old tax hole that is used by 'many' companies. But, mention that Micro$oft does it and the story gets posted.
Here comes the -1 Flamebait for pointing out the truth again, oh well.
Since being devoured horribly by space fungus is one of my inherent fears, I guess I won't be participating in Destination Mir. Bummer. I was looking forward to winning that one...
A necessary move, but the world isn't ready for it yet. Secure/encrypted email hasn't gone mainstream. The induhviduals of the world aren't savvy enough to deal with electronic signatures. However, a few disasters and incidents of fraud may push this awareness to where it needs to be faster than it would have gotten there otherwise.
I've been collecting all the gunk that I shake out of my keyboard and constructing it into a lifesize model of Jon Katz. With swivel-arm grip. I'll submit the story, complete with pictures, when it's done.
Doesn't it make sense that some instant messenger has to be dominant? Think about it this way...
I don't want to have to use ICQ to talk to Bob, Yahoo Messenger to talk to Frank, and AOL's IM to talk to Sally. It's a pain in the ass. It eats more system resources than necessary and generates too many little icons in my tray.
What happens is this: I tell Bob and Frank that the AOL messenger is way better than ICQ and Yahoo. Plus, it can sneak around corporate firewalls by allowing you to specify a port, unlike Yahoo's IM. They try it out and like it. They start moving their friends over and pretty soon I uninstall ICQ and Yahoo, because I've got everyone I chat with on the superior IM system.
Somebody has to have the dominant IM. The fact that AOL is winning this one has nothing to do with the merger. It's just a better IM.
Imagine that you had never heard of a babel fish, or what it does -- how the hell are you supposed to know that, in order to advance in the game, you have to enter the command 'PUT FISH IN EAR'?
Well, assuming that you haven't read the book, it could be tough. But, only if you've never studied history or Hebrew mythology, either. The City of Babel is famous as being the site of a great tower whose construction was halted because the builders were unable to understand each other's languages.
And frankly, if I have a fish that I don't know what to do with, my ear is pretty much the first place I stick it...
The first time my email program tells me that I'm being too hard on the beaver, I'm going to snap. Throw the computer out of the 7th floor window; Pull the hard drive out of the remains and take a big magnet to it; And then throw the scrambled bits into the Gulf of Mexico.
Whether it is right, wrong, censorship, or what parents have been asking for, it all comes down to one thing. Bad parenting.
We shouldn't need to put ratings on every consumer product. What we need to do is stop doping our kids up on Zoloft and spend some time with them. Explain to them why they can play one game but not another. God forbid, sit down and play one with them.
It's not the government's job to raise our children for us. And it's not K-Mart's, either.
While a respectable attempt at making online purchases more secure, I think this will ultimately be a failure.
Obviously, American Express will have to get the disposable numbers to people in a non-secure manner. The only thing more nerve racking than having a credit card sitting in a mailbox where people can steal it is having several credit card numbers that don't require activation sitting in a mailbox where people can steal them. Of course, that statement makes some assumptions, but I think they are safe ones.
How will they get the numbers to people? The internet? That's self-defeating. Via a phone call? Too many chances for human error. Especially when you consider that number will need to be even longer than they are now to avoid repeating. Snail mail seems to be the obvious answer.
And what about activation? If the single-use numbers require an activation phone call, they'll be too inconvenient to use.
This isn't the right solution, but it does show that the big players are looking for one. And that's a Good Thing(tm).
atheos acording to this story kalisto was given stop options to cease...
What the hell does this mean? Let's see, in half a sentence, we've misspelled 'according', thrown grammar and punctuation out the window, and gotten the story wrong. Stop options? Are those anything like stock options?
This is perhaps the best argument yet for pushing ahead aggressively with manned missions to Mars. It shows that we can learn only so much about an object by looking at it with telescopes. Even when that object is extemely close by, all things considered. Satellites and unmanned landings have clearly not given us the information we desire.
If we want to unlock Mars' secrets, we've got to get there ourselves.
CNN is running a story
about a citizen of Maryland who has put his vote up for auction on E-Bay.
The article includes some insight into the laws surrounding such an act.
I agree 100%. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the direction in which we are heading. However, I don't foresee the transition to mechanisation happening as soon as you do.
I believe our lives will first be prolonged by medical advances. We'll hold onto the sensations and feelings that we can only have as biological entities until we can no longer stand mortality. I believe we have a lot to see and explore before this occurs.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book written by Alan Moore. The movie is extremely loosely based upon the first six issues, which comprise the first volume. The movie, due to its rather frightening changes, has a rather high suck-potential, but the trailer gave me hope.
The comic books are very good, however. Alan Moore has read every book ever written. And he really likes the ones written in and about Victorian England. In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality, just about every book and character ever written is real. The level of detail is astounding. Check it out.
B.
If I may add one to the list, Kingdom Come, by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, is an entertaining and brilliant graphic novel dealing very successfully with Superhuman vs. Superhuman themes.
Highly recommended even to those who don't follow the comic book genre.
B.
Seems like there's not much left to do after something like this. I suppose some nuts will try to set a new record by having sex while they jump from 31 mi. up.
Yes, but then what will they do for the other 63 seconds?
Playing against people across the country in bars and restaurants? Well, if you like trivia, several thousand bars across the US already have NTN trivia which uses a satellite dish and a modem dial up to connect tens of thousands of people at a time to compete in a variety of trivia games. Some of us are hopelessly addicted...
If the scientists need any help writing the code that will drive their randomly bouncing robot scouts, I may be able to help them. I still have the source code to the bouncing ball applet I wrote in a class a couple years ago...
I see too many people speaking of boycotting the election. People don't want to pick the lesser of two evils, so they're choosing not to vote. This is not the best response.
Don't vote for the lesser evil. Find a candidate you do believe in and vote for that one. You're not throwing away your vote. You're showing that you're fed up with the two main parties. That you are no longer represented by them.
This govenment is not going to be changed overnight. Ralph Nader, for instance, has no chance in hell of winning this election. But, if all the people who believe in his ideas vote for him, instead of voting for the big party candidate that they fear the least, a very clear message would be sent to the government. And then in 4 years, maybe Ralph Nader, or another 3rd party candidate, would really have a chance.
Taken from the Perl.com website...
Dr. Damian Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where he teaches object-oriented software engineering. He is an effective teacher, an accomplished writer, and the author of several popular Perl modules. He is also a semi-regular contributor to the Perl Journal. In 1998 he was the winner of the Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility for two modules (Getopt::Declare and Lingua::EN::Inflect) and in 1999 he won his second "Larry" for his Coy.pm haiku-generation module. He has just published "Object-Oriented Perl" (Manning, 1999).
Ok. Sony makes this new Aibo with a camera in it's nose (to look at the monitor) and a chin touch sensor (to press buttons on the keyboard and manipulate the mouse). Sony, in conjunction with Verant, also makes EverQuest.
Can this dog level my Monk while I'm at work?!?
I'll take 4 of them! I can have one playing a level 60 cleric that power levels another playing an enchanter. Meanwhile, yet another Aibo can play a high level necromancer that farms platinum and equipment to twink my monk with! Woohoo!
What a typical Slashdot headline. Reading the article, we learn that this is a 'decades' old tax hole that is used by 'many' companies. But, mention that Micro$oft does it and the story gets posted.
Here comes the -1 Flamebait for pointing out the truth again, oh well.
Since being devoured horribly by space fungus is one of my inherent fears, I guess I won't be participating in Destination Mir. Bummer. I was looking forward to winning that one...
A necessary move, but the world isn't ready for it yet. Secure/encrypted email hasn't gone mainstream. The induhviduals of the world aren't savvy enough to deal with electronic signatures. However, a few disasters and incidents of fraud may push this awareness to where it needs to be faster than it would have gotten there otherwise.
I've been collecting all the gunk that I shake out of my keyboard and constructing it into a lifesize model of Jon Katz. With swivel-arm grip. I'll submit the story, complete with pictures, when it's done.
Doesn't it make sense that some instant messenger has to be dominant? Think about it this way...
I don't want to have to use ICQ to talk to Bob, Yahoo Messenger to talk to Frank, and AOL's IM to talk to Sally. It's a pain in the ass. It eats more system resources than necessary and generates too many little icons in my tray.
What happens is this: I tell Bob and Frank that the AOL messenger is way better than ICQ and Yahoo. Plus, it can sneak around corporate firewalls by allowing you to specify a port, unlike Yahoo's IM. They try it out and like it. They start moving their friends over and pretty soon I uninstall ICQ and Yahoo, because I've got everyone I chat with on the superior IM system.
Somebody has to have the dominant IM. The fact that AOL is winning this one has nothing to do with the merger. It's just a better IM.
I thought it was a great breakthrough in technology, but my girlfriend didn't see it that way.
Imagine that you had never heard of a babel fish, or what it does -- how the hell are you supposed to know that, in order to advance in the game, you have to enter the command 'PUT FISH IN EAR'?
Well, assuming that you haven't read the book, it could be tough. But, only if you've never studied history or Hebrew mythology, either. The City of Babel is famous as being the site of a great tower whose construction was halted because the builders were unable to understand each other's languages.
And frankly, if I have a fish that I don't know what to do with, my ear is pretty much the first place I stick it...
The first time my email program tells me that I'm being too hard on the beaver, I'm going to snap. Throw the computer out of the 7th floor window; Pull the hard drive out of the remains and take a big magnet to it; And then throw the scrambled bits into the Gulf of Mexico.
But I'll bloody well send the email first!
Whether it is right, wrong, censorship, or what parents have been asking for, it all comes down to one thing. Bad parenting.
We shouldn't need to put ratings on every consumer product. What we need to do is stop doping our kids up on Zoloft and spend some time with them. Explain to them why they can play one game but not another. God forbid, sit down and play one with them.
It's not the government's job to raise our children for us. And it's not K-Mart's, either.
While a respectable attempt at making online purchases more secure, I think this will ultimately be a failure.
Obviously, American Express will have to get the disposable numbers to people in a non-secure manner. The only thing more nerve racking than having a credit card sitting in a mailbox where people can steal it is having several credit card numbers that don't require activation sitting in a mailbox where people can steal them. Of course, that statement makes some assumptions, but I think they are safe ones.
How will they get the numbers to people? The internet? That's self-defeating. Via a phone call? Too many chances for human error. Especially when you consider that number will need to be even longer than they are now to avoid repeating. Snail mail seems to be the obvious answer.
And what about activation? If the single-use numbers require an activation phone call, they'll be too inconvenient to use.
This isn't the right solution, but it does show that the big players are looking for one. And that's a Good Thing(tm).
atheos acording to this story kalisto was given stop options to cease...
What the hell does this mean? Let's see, in half a sentence, we've misspelled 'according', thrown grammar and punctuation out the window, and gotten the story wrong. Stop options? Are those anything like stock options?
I preview my comments, why can't you do the same?
Until the robots can rip of their shirts and run around in their sports bras, color me unimpressed.
This is perhaps the best argument yet for pushing ahead aggressively with manned missions to Mars. It shows that we can learn only so much about an object by looking at it with telescopes. Even when that object is extemely close by, all things considered. Satellites and unmanned landings have clearly not given us the information we desire.
If we want to unlock Mars' secrets, we've got to get there ourselves.
C-a-f-f-e-i-n-e
Um...the events you are describing take place in 2061, not 2010. Drop the bong and back away slowly...
CNN is running a story about a citizen of Maryland who has put his vote up for auction on E-Bay. The article includes some insight into the laws surrounding such an act.
I agree 100%. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the direction in which we are heading. However, I don't foresee the transition to mechanisation happening as soon as you do.
I believe our lives will first be prolonged by medical advances. We'll hold onto the sensations and feelings that we can only have as biological entities until we can no longer stand mortality. I believe we have a lot to see and explore before this occurs.