Psionics. No, not that psionics which DMs never let me play. But rather elections that interface with the mind. Avionics is electronics for aviation, so psi-onics works well and sounds cool.
That or we need to find an Invid Flower of Life....
All of his material is available at whatever price you see fit to pay, including 0. He encourages file sharing. He makes most of this money touring. There's a tradition at his shows of people throwing little stuffed animals with 1$, 5$ and other bills safety pinned to them, onto the stage. It's sort of like Courtney Love's idea of the tip jar. JoCo won't be moving into a mansion anytime soon, but he's making a living for himself and his family while not criminalizing his fans.
Oh, and he's a damn good song writer. Do a video search on his name and you'll be quite entertained.
Not until Mac becomes a tall enough poppy to warrant the attention of virus writers. OSX isn't more secure, its just that no one cares enough to bother to find the holes in an OX used by girls.
Wonder why they modded your insightful post as funny. It's funny, but mostly insightful. This is ventriloquism. If it could send the data into someone else's head, THAT would be mind reading.
Price is a function of supply and demand. Anything that can be digitized is effectively infinite in supply. A finite demand divided by infinite supply makes for a price/value of as close to zero as makes no odds.
What if someone in the left lane is going slow? You'd have to pass them on the right. How do you determine if someone is passing on the right or just going faster than someone on the left? Those rules would mean the right lane would get vastly more traffic, and the left lane would be empty and useless during rush hour.
i remember that the highways in Germany had 3 lanes. The right lane was for trucks, the middle lane for sedans/family cars and the left lane was for Porsches and BWMs. It was common to see a Porsche in the rear view mirror *blink* out your left window *blink* shrinking on the horizon.
This kind of big picture, level headed thinking does NOT belong on/. while Bush is president. How many times do we have to tell you: While Bush is president, all bad things are his fault! Terrorists are freedom fighters, tyrants are heroes and so on.
This isn't particularly insightful. We could say the same of _any_ creation myth. Maybe the Turtles exist in a dimension we can't see. Maybe Ra really is driving the Sun across the sky and the Sun appears stationary because $THEOBABBLE* HERE. You're redefining the dogma in a way that makes it fit observation better than say, the geocentric model of the universe of olde.
i wish more Xians thought the way you do, if only so there would be less resistance to teaching kids science and so religion would be less of a factor in policy making. It's a step in the right direction, even if it still clings to a silly idea.
* (c) 2008, Apeiron. Theobabble is the religious equivalent to technobabble, where believers try to explain something with reasonable sounding nonsense.
Sure the power comes from coal, but the pollution from that coal is produced in one place and can be captured easily. It is easier to collect pollution in one big place than in thousand of little places (cars). Whether we bother to capture and recycle that carbon is another matter (so to speak). Nuclear power is an option, as are other cleaner means of generating electricity.
This lamp appears to be powered by food, which is in effect powered by mostly solar energy. Humans eat plants and animals, the animals we eat feed on plants... so, plants. Plants are powered by the sun and chemicals from the ground. There would be some fossil fuel involved in getting the plants and animals to the humans, but the bulk is still solar. i spose we could say that fossil fuel is also composed of plants and therefore again say... solar. But anywho, the energy is not coming from gravity, but from people. Energy coming from a waterfall/dam is also solar. The sun lifts the water, imparting potential energy, water falls as rain above the turbine, water falls down and turns the wheel. Without the solar input the dam would stop producing energy when the water level goes below the turbines. Gravity is just the catalyst turning the potential energy into kinetic.
A gravity powered light could be some sort of piezoelectric system, where the weight of the house smooshes a crystal causing it to pulse, then using that pulse to generate light./iana science type//haven't had enough caffeine
People are doing this already and they are making lots and lots and lots of content. And i'm not just talking about OGL stuff, there are quite a few forums you can check out that will lead you to these games (much of it is free).
The folks at this forum are doing some really interesting stuff, much of which is nothing like D&D: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/
Isolationism didn't work so well for us. Events within other nations, and between other nations can affect us. So what's the point in staying out of something that's going to affect and require our involvement. Your post isn't insightful, it's willfully ignorant. i going to go out on a limb and think it has something to with partisanship. i bet 8 years ago your tune would have been different on the same issue.
1) There's no such *thing* as Linux. Linux is a hundred or so things, that come and go as the developers work through their programming ADD. Pair down to just ONE version of Linux so that someone can go to Best Buy and ask for it. "Hi, I'm here to buy Linux", "Aisle 9, third shelf". Make that happen and Linux will be competitive. Or just go on doing what ISN'T working; 3 dozen pet projects that take turns being the next W1nBL0Z'S killer (for the next month or two).
2) There's bugger all games for it. When Linux can run Half-Life 2, NWN, PlanetSide, BioShock and so on, let me know and i'll switch immediately. It also needs to run MS Office. OO.o is NOT an acceptable alternative yet. i use it at work as much as i can, but can only do so for things i have no intention of sharing. Sure i can convert from odt to doc, but it will be a mess and i'll have to fix it. i might as well have used word from the start
3) Hardware and up to date drivers.
4) Interoperability with the rest of the world is still a major problem, this is also one of the reason's i find macs loathsome. Great you've got your status symbol... so who are you going to talk to? Other pretentious snobs who over paid for a shiny white box that looks like everyone else's is about all you've got. It's like learning Lojban, sure, it's cool or something, but you can only use it with other losers.
i want to make the switch. i want to throw my XP install disc into a fire. But Linux is still just a novelty for nerds.
What the fuck is a dynamicAL systems? When did people go so stupid with making up words? "Hey Jeff, how do I make this boring thing sound more interesting?" "Oh, um, make up some words, use a noun as a verb, or add inappropriate suffixes to a perfectly good word!"
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Would they still be circular? My thumb drive is decidedly rectangular.
and have it on whatever day Astara is? Since Easter is yet another holiday stolen from the pagans they hate so much.
Psionics. No, not that psionics which DMs never let me play. But rather elections that interface with the mind. Avionics is electronics for aviation, so psi-onics works well and sounds cool.
That or we need to find an Invid Flower of Life....
So they pay all this money, where does it go? Who gets it and what do they do with it?
Not being rhetorical, just curious.
My Jonathon Coulton, let me show you him:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/
All of his material is available at whatever price you see fit to pay, including 0. He encourages file sharing. He makes most of this money touring. There's a tradition at his shows of people throwing little stuffed animals with 1$, 5$ and other bills safety pinned to them, onto the stage. It's sort of like Courtney Love's idea of the tip jar. JoCo won't be moving into a mansion anytime soon, but he's making a living for himself and his family while not criminalizing his fans.
Oh, and he's a damn good song writer. Do a video search on his name and you'll be quite entertained.
Not until Mac becomes a tall enough poppy to warrant the attention of virus writers. OSX isn't more secure, its just that no one cares enough to bother to find the holes in an OX used by girls.
So, tone it down a little. OK, then I want to be shoe salesman. /better not be obscure
C'mon, am i the only one here who played with G.I. Joes?
Wonder why they modded your insightful post as funny. It's funny, but mostly insightful. This is ventriloquism. If it could send the data into someone else's head, THAT would be mind reading.
Also, they aren't robots, they're remote controlled cars with weapons. Give me a show with AIs duking it out and i'm there. /Razor pwns all
Price is a function of supply and demand. Anything that can be digitized is effectively infinite in supply. A finite demand divided by infinite supply makes for a price/value of as close to zero as makes no odds.
How is the copyright scarce, exactly?
or is it remote controlled? The wires suggest that it isn't.
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Can we have a device to correct poor grammar in headlines?
"Brain Scanner Can Tell Where You're Looking"
NIN is not so much a they as a he, Trent Reznor. The other guys just show up for the tour, iirc.
What if someone in the left lane is going slow? You'd have to pass them on the right. How do you determine if someone is passing on the right or just going faster than someone on the left? Those rules would mean the right lane would get vastly more traffic, and the left lane would be empty and useless during rush hour.
i remember that the highways in Germany had 3 lanes. The right lane was for trucks, the middle lane for sedans/family cars and the left lane was for Porsches and BWMs. It was common to see a Porsche in the rear view mirror *blink* out your left window *blink* shrinking on the horizon.
This kind of big picture, level headed thinking does NOT belong on /. while Bush is president. How many times do we have to tell you: While Bush is president, all bad things are his fault! Terrorists are freedom fighters, tyrants are heroes and so on.
Crap, someone beat me to theobabble. :(
This isn't particularly insightful. We could say the same of _any_ creation myth. Maybe the Turtles exist in a dimension we can't see. Maybe Ra really is driving the Sun across the sky and the Sun appears stationary because $THEOBABBLE* HERE. You're redefining the dogma in a way that makes it fit observation better than say, the geocentric model of the universe of olde.
Pay particular attention to how the leaders change their interpretation of the "sign" to fit what they want:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0533.html
i wish more Xians thought the way you do, if only so there would be less resistance to teaching kids science and so religion would be less of a factor in policy making. It's a step in the right direction, even if it still clings to a silly idea.
* (c) 2008, Apeiron. Theobabble is the religious equivalent to technobabble, where believers try to explain something with reasonable sounding nonsense.
Sure the power comes from coal, but the pollution from that coal is produced in one place and can be captured easily. It is easier to collect pollution in one big place than in thousand of little places (cars). Whether we bother to capture and recycle that carbon is another matter (so to speak). Nuclear power is an option, as are other cleaner means of generating electricity.
This lamp appears to be powered by food, which is in effect powered by mostly solar energy. Humans eat plants and animals, the animals we eat feed on plants... so, plants. Plants are powered by the sun and chemicals from the ground. There would be some fossil fuel involved in getting the plants and animals to the humans, but the bulk is still solar. i spose we could say that fossil fuel is also composed of plants and therefore again say... solar. But anywho, the energy is not coming from gravity, but from people. Energy coming from a waterfall/dam is also solar. The sun lifts the water, imparting potential energy, water falls as rain above the turbine, water falls down and turns the wheel. Without the solar input the dam would stop producing energy when the water level goes below the turbines. Gravity is just the catalyst turning the potential energy into kinetic.
/iana science type //haven't had enough caffeine
A gravity powered light could be some sort of piezoelectric system, where the weight of the house smooshes a crystal causing it to pulse, then using that pulse to generate light.
People are doing this already and they are making lots and lots and lots of content. And i'm not just talking about OGL stuff, there are quite a few forums you can check out that will lead you to these games (much of it is free).
The folks at this forum are doing some really interesting stuff, much of which is nothing like D&D:
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/
This forum is more D&D oriented:
http://www.rpg.net/
This forum is D&D centric:
http://www.enworld.org/
Isolationism didn't work so well for us. Events within other nations, and between other nations can affect us. So what's the point in staying out of something that's going to affect and require our involvement. Your post isn't insightful, it's willfully ignorant. i going to go out on a limb and think it has something to with partisanship. i bet 8 years ago your tune would have been different on the same issue.
[bitter rant]
1) There's no such *thing* as Linux. Linux is a hundred or so things, that come and go as the developers work through their programming ADD. Pair down to just ONE version of Linux so that someone can go to Best Buy and ask for it. "Hi, I'm here to buy Linux", "Aisle 9, third shelf". Make that happen and Linux will be competitive. Or just go on doing what ISN'T working; 3 dozen pet projects that take turns being the next W1nBL0Z'S killer (for the next month or two).
2) There's bugger all games for it. When Linux can run Half-Life 2, NWN, PlanetSide, BioShock and so on, let me know and i'll switch immediately. It also needs to run MS Office. OO.o is NOT an acceptable alternative yet. i use it at work as much as i can, but can only do so for things i have no intention of sharing. Sure i can convert from odt to doc, but it will be a mess and i'll have to fix it. i might as well have used word from the start
3) Hardware and up to date drivers.
4) Interoperability with the rest of the world is still a major problem, this is also one of the reason's i find macs loathsome. Great you've got your status symbol... so who are you going to talk to? Other pretentious snobs who over paid for a shiny white box that looks like everyone else's is about all you've got. It's like learning Lojban, sure, it's cool or something, but you can only use it with other losers.
i want to make the switch. i want to throw my XP install disc into a fire. But Linux is still just a novelty for nerds.
[offtopic pedantry]
What the fuck is a dynamicAL systems? When did people go so stupid with making up words? "Hey Jeff, how do I make this boring thing sound more interesting?" "Oh, um, make up some words, use a noun as a verb, or add inappropriate suffixes to a perfectly good word!"
This quarter got here the same way I did.