I vote for an updated version of master of magic. Same spells, same races, same creatures, same heroes (even Mystic X). Turn-base play, perhaps as a massively multiplayer online game. Not sure how to handle that, perhaps having a multitude of planes instead of two?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Magic
Depends on what you want from storytelling. As a good background return to castle wolfenstein's story has spawned a host of world war 2 remakes and can arguably be called the basis for the hellboy scripts. That is most definitely my kinda storytelling. ID's approach to good storytelling and good gameplay is just what I have been looking for for 18 years. Rock on.
One of the easiest ways to learn is by setting up your own gaming server. You can get open - source software for the entire setup. The kid wants it to work and is into if they like the game and can find friends who want to play. Many kids get sucked into the "bot" culture and then start writing their own private bots, or alternately beefing up security on their server to prevent bot use. The whole setup is similar to running a commercial web site, but more fun do to the game being present. Many different aspects of IT are involved, from picking out the right hardware for your servers and workstations, writing cutom apps, customizing your server and applications, efficient networking, security.
That's how I do it, and it has worked in the past.
This has basically already been done with Windows Vista 64-bit. There is a lot of backwards compatibility issues with this version that I don't think have been or will be addressed. The plan for backwards compatibility for Microsoft going forwards is going to be virtualization. I do that now for many of my old office programs on Vista 64. The whole microsoft debate seems to me to be really losing a factual basis. Many people fail to realize the true paradigm shift WITHIN vista as opposed to between vista 32 and xp 32 bit.
Nothing would extinct the cow faster than in-vitro meat. It is not in cow's best interests for this to happen. The only draught horses you see anymore is the clydesdale's because ----tractors---- replaced them. All they will succeed in doing with this is accelerating the conversion of farmland to subdivisions as the cows are killed off in favor of meat factories.
DUH!!!!!
Cows + Humans = symbiotic relationship.
Nature cares not for our pesonal discomfort, only for the suvival of our genetics.
My current group has been playing together for 10 years now. Tomorrow is my turn to be Dungeon Master. There is not enough room here to discuss the impact this man has had on my moral, and intellectual life. It's not just the game that he invented, it's the morals that he suffused into it. We were taught by mister Gygax that it is not enough to work 40 hours a week. That there is more to life, and that we can be leaders, even heroes.
Often, I think to myself "what would I do if I was one of my characters in D&D? What would I take with me? It's those hours of simulations that help us to stay alive in this world of today.
Gygax may have passed on, but Gord's short sword still cuts sharp.
Virtual PC is not configured to run linux. It's possible options are for 16 bit and 36 bit color. Linux defaults to 24 bit color so it is rather a pain to run linux on virtual pc. Just letting everybody now. You have to alter the disp.conf file in your linux distro and then burn your self another cd.
You should bring up present availability of recordings from the early twentieth century as compared to classical music, and how our culture will be lost to history because private companies go out of business and their private collections tend to just disappear.
Get a degree in electrical engineering with minor in computer science. You will get as good an education in programming, but will have an advantage over straight computer science majors because of you knowledge of hardware.
I am going to be following these cars around and pacing them. Those poor rental families are going to think the last person to rent the car was a criminal and a spy or something. I can just see it now, car with 5 shadow cars all with people furiously tapping and napping on laptops in the passenger seat.
1.) Radiation. Burial of a proposed colony underground would make it significantly cheaper to reduce the colonists exposure to radiation. Astronauts took cover this past weekend to avoid solar storms. Depending on the type of rock simple excavation could allow expansion of the base.
2.) Materials. It makes little sense to mine the moon and ship the materials to orbit.
3.) Gravity. It's easier and healthier to work and live in a low-gravity environment than a no-gravity environment
4.) Storage. We can store our waste and extra materials safer on the moon without expending energy to keep them in orbit. Any tinkerer knows the value of having a wide variety of spare parts lying around for emergencies. This could include storing enough oxygen and fuel for several years of life on the moon in case of problems with access to the earth.
Disproving another theory does not prove your theory. The fact that dej vu is not limited to sight does not mean that this prove that it is a dysfunction of the temporal lobe. Richard Feynman won the nobel prize in 1965 for discovering that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time. Many psychologists have an obsession with disproving ESP phenomenon. They believe that the possibility of information moving in different directions in the time dimension is not possible, when in fact there are experiments going on right now at CERN that may prove this is a reproducible phenomenon in the laboratory. Many psychiatrists use PET scaner (Positron Emission Tomography) who do not believe it is possible for matter to move in the opposite time direction. That is laughably ignorant. I live in a constant state of deja - vu. It is hard for me to tell if I have seen a movie before or not. This is probably related to my Asperger's but I am not sure. From what I have discovered in the last 18 years of looking into this phenomenon is that deja-vu is related to the change of our state of mind from wakefulness from sleep. Just as it is hard for us to remember our dreams upon waking, it is hard for us to remember future information remembered from dreams upon waking. It is a well-established fact of memory that recognition is the most powerful way to remember things. Recognition of what we have dreamed abou the future is what drives deja-vu. NOT species-wide temporal lobe spasms. Any access to future information would have real survival benefits. I submit that this is the same process that allows animals to sense natural disasters and is not limited to our species.
In fact, it is not even limited to life. Computers now do this in a clinical reproducible way:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=126649
LOL these people are living with their heads in the sand, you are better off seeing a witch doctor than a psychiatrist.
These nuclear reactors we are building still have the potential to reach critical mass. I am wondering why we are not building alternative nuclear technology such as pebble bed nuclear reactors. I just doesn't seem to make any sense to me in any way. Can anyone give me a sane reason to build traditional reactors in light of this safe technology?
Fill clear containers with a mixture of glow in the dark paints available at spencer's. Cover the container in tape, or paper. Cut out designs, ghosts, whatever. Then remove a good section of the rear of the container, and put a black light behind. I like to hide the blacklight from view. Works best as a display of different designs grouped around a single blaclight.
Why in the world would you rather be called a commie? The communists committed a holocause that killed many more people than the nazi's. They were just as brutal and committed to oppression. You just never hear about it because they stayed around long enough to write the history books.
NSA just human. I taught a bunch of their techs to build their first AM/FM radio in college, and my buddy Harry works for them. I know more about electronics than Harry.
You can achieve all of your goals with the above. You will not save on the licensing fee, but who cares you've got a blade server that can launch virtual windows servers!
1.) Make contacts in a bordering state. Run point to point low power wireless ethernet links across the border and daisy chain them to wireless hotspots . change configuration often, use low-cost equipment, and come up with some novel idears for power.
2.) Buy your own satellite and broadcast information en-masse. Can combine with option 1 above to bring it to the people.
His preference for science fiction is called into doubt by holding up smallville and buffy as examples:
From the article: Through-line series like Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Alfred Gough's and Miles Millar's "Smallville" have raised our expectations of what episodic sci-fi and fantasy ought to be. Whedon's "Firefly" showed us that even 1930s sci-fi can be well acted and tell a compelling long-term story.
Huh? Buffy? Smallville? Have I missed something? Is it me or does clark and what's her name remind anyone of sam and diane from cheers?
I agree in principle, but I think DS9 had a much better and "episodic" plot than Buffy or Smallville. I think that SciFi today needs to move beyong "Assault of the 90 foot killer eel that also can be used as a vibrater" crap that fills scifi channel
When the H*ll am I gonna get my cnet news radio back? Declan Mcmullah or whatever belongs in RADIO.
I will never forget the day he broadcast Metallica showing up to bust pirates. They haven't gotten a dime from me since then...
I spent a year teaching myself VRML and am still pretty good at it. The current version of Engineering software I am using (Microstation v8) is a pretty robust drawing tool with a true ease-of-use factor. What's really nice is that it exports objects and animations directly into VRML. I think Microsoft has discontinued it's VRML browser because VRML is a free protocol. I heard a speech where Gates was pushing to make windows 3-d (longhorn? --doubt it) That would put vrml in direct patent competittion with Microsoft.
That said, the VRML Repository was turned over from the San Diego Supercomputer center and is now hosted by: http://www.web3d.org/ They have made the original website for vrml 2.0 rather deep in their site, but there are some tools available.
I find floppy's VRML tutorial to be the easiest way to learn about vrml:
http://web3d.vapourtech.com/tutorials/vrml97/
and the original pimping vrml browser can be found here:
http://www.karmanaut.com/cosmo/player/
These tools with a lot of time and effort would allow you to build a quake-3 like world, or MMORPG. They have been around for awhile. Why has vrml faded. Open standards don't generate profits for gaming companies that sell their engine, and people in the open-source community have not prioritized this.
One place to look for somewhat open virtual reality standards is Wolfenstein enemy territory. Servers like shit-storm http://users.telenet.be/tdk-clan/Serve r_IP3.html are constantly putting up custom new boards that are made by the community.
Slashdot Mirror
i do still play
I vote for an updated version of master of magic. Same spells, same races, same creatures, same heroes (even Mystic X). Turn-base play, perhaps as a massively multiplayer online game. Not sure how to handle that, perhaps having a multitude of planes instead of two? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Magic
Depends on what you want from storytelling. As a good background return to castle wolfenstein's story has spawned a host of world war 2 remakes and can arguably be called the basis for the hellboy scripts. That is most definitely my kinda storytelling. ID's approach to good storytelling and good gameplay is just what I have been looking for for 18 years. Rock on.
One of the easiest ways to learn is by setting up your own gaming server. You can get open - source software for the entire setup. The kid wants it to work and is into if they like the game and can find friends who want to play. Many kids get sucked into the "bot" culture and then start writing their own private bots, or alternately beefing up security on their server to prevent bot use. The whole setup is similar to running a commercial web site, but more fun do to the game being present. Many different aspects of IT are involved, from picking out the right hardware for your servers and workstations, writing cutom apps, customizing your server and applications, efficient networking, security. That's how I do it, and it has worked in the past.
This has basically already been done with Windows Vista 64-bit. There is a lot of backwards compatibility issues with this version that I don't think have been or will be addressed. The plan for backwards compatibility for Microsoft going forwards is going to be virtualization. I do that now for many of my old office programs on Vista 64. The whole microsoft debate seems to me to be really losing a factual basis. Many people fail to realize the true paradigm shift WITHIN vista as opposed to between vista 32 and xp 32 bit.
Nothing would extinct the cow faster than in-vitro meat. It is not in cow's best interests for this to happen. The only draught horses you see anymore is the clydesdale's because ----tractors---- replaced them. All they will succeed in doing with this is accelerating the conversion of farmland to subdivisions as the cows are killed off in favor of meat factories. DUH!!!!! Cows + Humans = symbiotic relationship. Nature cares not for our pesonal discomfort, only for the suvival of our genetics.
My current group has been playing together for 10 years now. Tomorrow is my turn to be Dungeon Master. There is not enough room here to discuss the impact this man has had on my moral, and intellectual life. It's not just the game that he invented, it's the morals that he suffused into it. We were taught by mister Gygax that it is not enough to work 40 hours a week. That there is more to life, and that we can be leaders, even heroes. Often, I think to myself "what would I do if I was one of my characters in D&D? What would I take with me? It's those hours of simulations that help us to stay alive in this world of today. Gygax may have passed on, but Gord's short sword still cuts sharp.
Virtual PC is not configured to run linux. It's possible options are for 16 bit and 36 bit color. Linux defaults to 24 bit color so it is rather a pain to run linux on virtual pc. Just letting everybody now. You have to alter the disp.conf file in your linux distro and then burn your self another cd.
You should bring up present availability of recordings from the early twentieth century as compared to classical music, and how our culture will be lost to history because private companies go out of business and their private collections tend to just disappear.
Get a degree in electrical engineering with minor in computer science. You will get as good an education in programming, but will have an advantage over straight computer science majors because of you knowledge of hardware.
I am going to be following these cars around and pacing them. Those poor rental families are going to think the last person to rent the car was a criminal and a spy or something. I can just see it now, car with 5 shadow cars all with people furiously tapping and napping on laptops in the passenger seat.
1.) Radiation. Burial of a proposed colony underground would make it significantly cheaper to reduce the colonists exposure to radiation. Astronauts took cover this past weekend to avoid solar storms. Depending on the type of rock simple excavation could allow expansion of the base.
2.) Materials. It makes little sense to mine the moon and ship the materials to orbit.
3.) Gravity. It's easier and healthier to work and live in a low-gravity environment than a no-gravity environment
4.) Storage. We can store our waste and extra materials safer on the moon without expending energy to keep them in orbit. Any tinkerer knows the value of having a wide variety of spare parts lying around for emergencies. This could include storing enough oxygen and fuel for several years of life on the moon in case of problems with access to the earth.
Disproving another theory does not prove your theory. The fact that dej vu is not limited to sight does not mean that this prove that it is a dysfunction of the temporal lobe. Richard Feynman won the nobel prize in 1965 for discovering that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time. Many psychologists have an obsession with disproving ESP phenomenon. They believe that the possibility of information moving in different directions in the time dimension is not possible, when in fact there are experiments going on right now at CERN that may prove this is a reproducible phenomenon in the laboratory. Many psychiatrists use PET scaner (Positron Emission Tomography) who do not believe it is possible for matter to move in the opposite time direction. That is laughably ignorant. I live in a constant state of deja - vu. It is hard for me to tell if I have seen a movie before or not. This is probably related to my Asperger's but I am not sure. From what I have discovered in the last 18 years of looking into this phenomenon is that deja-vu is related to the change of our state of mind from wakefulness from sleep. Just as it is hard for us to remember our dreams upon waking, it is hard for us to remember future information remembered from dreams upon waking. It is a well-established fact of memory that recognition is the most powerful way to remember things. Recognition of what we have dreamed abou the future is what drives deja-vu. NOT species-wide temporal lobe spasms. Any access to future information would have real survival benefits. I submit that this is the same process that allows animals to sense natural disasters and is not limited to our species. In fact, it is not even limited to life. Computers now do this in a clinical reproducible way: http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=126649 LOL these people are living with their heads in the sand, you are better off seeing a witch doctor than a psychiatrist.
A beowulf clus.. oh wait,, uhm.. yeah 8)
These nuclear reactors we are building still have the potential to reach critical mass. I am wondering why we are not building alternative nuclear technology such as pebble bed nuclear reactors. I just doesn't seem to make any sense to me in any way. Can anyone give me a sane reason to build traditional reactors in light of this safe technology?
Not according to these articles:
f cv/dc_demo_050703.html
http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000143060629/
http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/adv_tech/400_
And they are not in sunny california, too bad for them.
Fill clear containers with a mixture of glow in the dark paints available at spencer's. Cover the container in tape, or paper. Cut out designs, ghosts, whatever. Then remove a good section of the rear of the container, and put a black light behind. I like to hide the blacklight from view. Works best as a display of different designs grouped around a single blaclight.
Deltron 3030:
"Crises Precipitate Change"
Why in the world would you rather be called a commie? The communists committed a holocause that killed many more people than the nazi's. They were just as brutal and committed to oppression. You just never hear about it because they stayed around long enough to write the history books.
NSA just human. I taught a bunch of their techs to build their first AM/FM radio in college, and my buddy Harry works for them. I know more about electronics than Harry.
You can achieve all of your goals with the above. You will not save on the licensing fee, but who cares you've got a blade server that can launch virtual windows servers!
1.)
Make contacts in a bordering state. Run point to point low power wireless ethernet links across the border and daisy chain them to wireless hotspots . change configuration often, use low-cost equipment, and come up with some novel idears for power.
2.)
Buy your own satellite and broadcast information en-masse. Can combine with option 1 above to bring it to the people.
His preference for science fiction is called into doubt by holding up smallville and buffy as examples:
From the article:
Through-line series like Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Alfred Gough's and Miles Millar's "Smallville" have raised our expectations of what episodic sci-fi and fantasy ought to be. Whedon's "Firefly" showed us that even 1930s sci-fi can be well acted and tell a compelling long-term story.
Huh? Buffy? Smallville? Have I missed something? Is it me or does clark and what's her name remind anyone of sam and diane from cheers?
I agree in principle, but I think DS9 had a much better and "episodic" plot than Buffy or Smallville. I think that SciFi today needs to move beyong "Assault of the 90 foot killer eel that also can be used as a vibrater" crap that fills scifi channel
How about a Hyperion Miniseries?
Now that's what I'm talkin' about
When the H*ll am I gonna get my cnet news radio back? Declan Mcmullah or whatever belongs in RADIO. I will never forget the day he broadcast Metallica showing up to bust pirates. They haven't gotten a dime from me since then...
I spent a year teaching myself VRML and am still pretty good at it. The current version of Engineering software I am using (Microstation v8) is a pretty robust drawing tool with a true ease-of-use factor. What's really nice is that it exports objects and animations directly into VRML. I think Microsoft has discontinued it's VRML browser because VRML is a free protocol. I heard a speech where Gates was pushing to make windows 3-d (longhorn? --doubt it) That would put vrml in direct patent competittion with Microsoft.
e r_IP3.html
That said, the VRML Repository was turned over from the San Diego Supercomputer center and is now hosted by: http://www.web3d.org/ They have made the original website for vrml 2.0 rather deep in their site, but there are some tools available.
I find floppy's VRML tutorial to be the easiest way to learn about vrml:
http://web3d.vapourtech.com/tutorials/vrml97/
and the original pimping vrml browser can be found here:
http://www.karmanaut.com/cosmo/player/
These tools with a lot of time and effort would allow you to build a quake-3 like world, or MMORPG. They have been around for awhile. Why has vrml faded. Open standards don't generate profits for gaming companies that sell their engine, and people in the open-source community have not prioritized this.
One place to look for somewhat open virtual reality standards is Wolfenstein enemy territory. Servers like shit-storm
http://users.telenet.be/tdk-clan/Serv
are constantly putting up custom new boards that are made by the community.
Good Luck!!!
Make me some dragons please...