I agree, and what I believe (and what I think Gemometry Wars demonstrates very well) is that the 2D perspective can offer a different gaming experience, which is much faster paced and frenetic than any 3D game, but which you are somehow able to deal with by entering a weird trance-like state. That's what many older games had that most newer ones often lack - the ability to get in such a zone that you are able to perform feats you didn't know you could. Newer games are mostly much slower paced and contemplative.
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all friends, and had all three decided to go together to an interesting-sounding symposium. Since the event was in another city, they all three booked rooms in the same nearby hotel so they could arrive a day early. They arrived, had some dinner and some drinks, and retired to their respective rooms, eventually falling asleep.
Later that night, the engineer awoke to find that a small fire had started in his room. Judging the size of the fire and estimating how much water would be needed to definitely put it out, he filled an ice bucket with water and threw it on the fire. The fire was doused immediately and the engineer went back to sleep.
A little while later, the physicist awoke to find a small fire in his room as well. He fashioned some crude instruments to measure the thermal output and combustion zone of the fire, and, making some quick calculations, determined precisely how much water would be needed to stop the reaction. He carefully measure out the needed amount into a drinking glass, applied it carefully to the fire, and eventually the fire died out. The physicist, satisfied, went back to sleep.
Later still, a small fire started in the mathematician's room as well. He eventually woke, saw the fire, and immediately reached for the pencil and paper sitting on his nightstand. He scrawled furiously for several minutes, then, satisified, went back to sleep.
About an hour later the three friends were standing outside the smoking remains of the hotel, it having burned down. "You know," said the mathematician, "I believe that fire started in my very room."
"It did?" said the engineer. "Why on Earth didn't you put it out?"
The mathematician considered this for a moment. "But I proved it could be done! The rest is trivial."
It amuses that there are two competing and mutually exclusive anti-Palin memes going on simultaneously:
(1) She was using insecure free email for Important State Business! That information needs to be kept secure so that not just anyone can hack in and see it!
(2) She was using private free email for Important State Business! That information needs to be made available so that anyone can file a request and see it!
What are you talking about? You're all backwards. Please read this slowly:
This story is about TOYOTA dissing PLUG-IN HYBRIDS - PLUG-IN HYBRIDS that *GM* is PUSHING. GM is pushing PLUG-IN HYBRIDS. PLUG-IN HYBRIDS are being pushed by GM. PLUG-IN HYBRIDS are being dismissed by TOYOTA. TOYOTA is dismissing PLUG-IN HYBRIDS.
But more water vapor = more clouds (clouds block the sun, thus decreasing warming.) Water vapor does trap heat but it has a self-regulating feedback loop via clouds and rain.
Another question that bugs me, and maybe the boffins here on board have an answer:
If information cannot travel faster than light, and the universe we live in is 13.7 billion years old, how can the universe be larger than a radius of 13.7 light years if it indeed did begin as a singularity?
It's because while nothing inside of our spacetime can move through spacetime at greater than c, spacetime *itself* can expand, and apparently is expanding, at greater than c.
It's not, I RTFA. It's about the fact that the Microsoft Core Web fonts - which they gave away for free and conseuently don't need DRM - dominate the www.
[S]hould they bless Microsoft's EOT for use on the web? Or, should they encourage normal font files on the web and help break Microsoft's forgotten monopoly?"
Am I missing something? It seems to me that the very thing Microsoft is proposing - a standard for enforcing font file copy rights - is the thing the linked article suggests is necessary to break Microsoft's "monopoly" on web fonts. After all, high quality fonts are not something that can be cranked out in a couple of nights of coding. Non-MS font labs are probably not inclined to give them away for free if they have no protection from people ripping them off.
The fonts that the supposed "monopoly" centers around don't need this standard.
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Why continue to send probes there (unless they are the terraforming type)
Agreed, send men instead.
Why I hope there's no life on Mars
Can someone explain why "masturbation" is a tag for this story? Is this an inside joke or something?
TLD's are the new Usenet prefixes. Coming soon: .alt! .rec! .talk!
I agree, and what I believe (and what I think Gemometry Wars demonstrates very well) is that the 2D perspective can offer a different gaming experience, which is much faster paced and frenetic than any 3D game, but which you are somehow able to deal with by entering a weird trance-like state. That's what many older games had that most newer ones often lack - the ability to get in such a zone that you are able to perform feats you didn't know you could. Newer games are mostly much slower paced and contemplative.
TankWars/Bomb.exe, Warlords II, Jones in the Fast Lane
My favorite:
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all friends, and had all three decided to go together to an interesting-sounding symposium. Since the event was in another city, they all three booked rooms in the same nearby hotel so they could arrive a day early. They arrived, had some dinner and some drinks, and retired to their respective rooms, eventually falling asleep.
Later that night, the engineer awoke to find that a small fire had started in his room. Judging the size of the fire and estimating how much water would be needed to definitely put it out, he filled an ice bucket with water and threw it on the fire. The fire was doused immediately and the engineer went back to sleep.
A little while later, the physicist awoke to find a small fire in his room as well. He fashioned some crude instruments to measure the thermal output and combustion zone of the fire, and, making some quick calculations, determined precisely how much water would be needed to stop the reaction. He carefully measure out the needed amount into a drinking glass, applied it carefully to the fire, and eventually the fire died out. The physicist, satisfied, went back to sleep.
Later still, a small fire started in the mathematician's room as well. He eventually woke, saw the fire, and immediately reached for the pencil and paper sitting on his nightstand. He scrawled furiously for several minutes, then, satisified, went back to sleep.
About an hour later the three friends were standing outside the smoking remains of the hotel, it having burned down. "You know," said the mathematician, "I believe that fire started in my very room."
"It did?" said the engineer. "Why on Earth didn't you put it out?"
The mathematician considered this for a moment. "But I proved it could be done! The rest is trivial."
It amuses that there are two competing and mutually exclusive anti-Palin memes going on simultaneously:
(1) She was using insecure free email for Important State Business! That information needs to be kept secure so that not just anyone can hack in and see it!
(2) She was using private free email for Important State Business! That information needs to be made available so that anyone can file a request and see it!
What are you talking about? You're all backwards. Please read this slowly: This story is about TOYOTA dissing PLUG-IN HYBRIDS - PLUG-IN HYBRIDS that *GM* is PUSHING. GM is pushing PLUG-IN HYBRIDS. PLUG-IN HYBRIDS are being pushed by GM. PLUG-IN HYBRIDS are being dismissed by TOYOTA. TOYOTA is dismissing PLUG-IN HYBRIDS.
But more water vapor = more clouds (clouds block the sun, thus decreasing warming.) Water vapor does trap heat but it has a self-regulating feedback loop via clouds and rain.
A "plug-in hybrid" does have a gas engine for charging the batteries and energizing the motors, by definition. That's what makes it a "hybrid."
Perhaps the fact that you're wasting much less than 80%-90% of the fuel's stored energy?
It was a Honda Civic Hybrid that looked like every other Civic, but cost more and was a hybrid. It didn't sell.
But...it's GM that's saying Toyota is wrong and pushing the plug-in hybrid to market. I do not understand what your point is.
That would have to be some kind of solar panel to be able to charge your car at night.
Maybe, say for example the way R.E. Lee betrayed the U.S. Army?
They definately are.
"It is not the size of Mail application (Lotus notes is 400 MB or something), it is something else."
Specifically, it's something called the European Union.
Another question that bugs me, and maybe the boffins here on board have an answer: If information cannot travel faster than light, and the universe we live in is 13.7 billion years old, how can the universe be larger than a radius of 13.7 light years if it indeed did begin as a singularity?
It's because while nothing inside of our spacetime can move through spacetime at greater than c, spacetime *itself* can expand, and apparently is expanding, at greater than c.
It's not, I RTFA. It's about the fact that the Microsoft Core Web fonts - which they gave away for free and conseuently don't need DRM - dominate the www.
[S]hould they bless Microsoft's EOT for use on the web? Or, should they encourage normal font files on the web and help break Microsoft's forgotten monopoly?"
Am I missing something? It seems to me that the very thing Microsoft is proposing - a standard for enforcing font file copy rights - is the thing the linked article suggests is necessary to break Microsoft's "monopoly" on web fonts. After all, high quality fonts are not something that can be cranked out in a couple of nights of coding. Non-MS font labs are probably not inclined to give them away for free if they have no protection from people ripping them off.
The fonts that the supposed "monopoly" centers around don't need this standard.
It would also have a maximum speed of .1 mph.
Well, it'll sure come in handy when Captain Freedom needs to finish off "Ben Richards" in a final showcase showdown.
The presidential briefing was not about the perchlorate they found. That's just a red herring. It was about the turbinium veins they discovered.
So, you're saying that all we'd have to do is...start...the reactor?
That's not beer, it's Martian Jabra water.