The poster I replied to seemed believe that the advantage that good players have is physical - it's not, it's mental, and there is no reason to expect that advantage to disappear when using this brain-machine interface.
The physical does come into it though, for someone with poor co-ordination due to cerebal palsy or parkinsons. A direct brain interface would level the playing field in that respect.
Richard Stallman bitches about people calling the OS linux and not mentioning the gnu contribution, but maybe that wouldn't have happened if they hadn't chosen such a crappy name.
Soft drugs and healthy lifestyles are not mutually exclusive.
I weight train regularly to build muscle, cycle to keep fit and eat an incredibly healthy diet. I like to get stoned but I don't want the health risks of smoking so I add ground up cannabis to my food occasionally. It works for me.
Not for me, I build aluminium radiators for a living. I've been thinking about making one specially for watercooling. I was thinking about getting a tall thin core so that the air rises up thru the rad creating a chimney like effect, so that the hot air rising would pull cool air in the bottom, making a fan unnecessary. It would be silent and I could make it seriously beautiful.
I really like the idea of the flac format. Lossless compression with an open source encoding, but I've been having terrible problems getting it working.
When I tried getting flac123 and xmms-flac running on suse personal 9.1, but they both failed to install due to dependencies that they claimed were missing. I think flac123 needed popt and xmms-flac needed libid3 something. I checked and they were there, so I'm stuck.
True. In the old days of wooden ship firing cannonballs at each other there were boys called "powder monkeys" whos job it was to keep everyone supplied with gunpowder. Taking some aspect of someones job and tacking "monkey" on the end is a very old tradition.
I'm sure I've heard stories about children being tagged by their parents. Now the grandparents get tagged too. Which family members can we tag next, spouses?
I did have a linux only pc for a while, but I missed the huge amount of games that I can play on windows so I set up a dual boot system with XP and Fedora. It's good to be able to have both, it stops me become another of those tiresome linux zealots.
Elrond is incredibly ancient. He would have looked the same in "The Hobbit". I just hope Ian Mckellar is still around to play gandalf when the time comes.
Oooooh, we used to dream of 2k of memory. It would have been a luxury to us. We used to write code in an old water tank on a rubbish heap. We got woken up every morning to having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us. 2k? Huh!
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there was some ugly welding on that cookie cutter. I dont think mig welding is the best choice for thin stuff like that. tig would have been better.
"UKia"? That's a new one on me. I once heard a yank refer to "the united states of kingdom" which I thought was great.
The poster I replied to seemed believe that the advantage that good players have is physical - it's not, it's mental, and there is no reason to expect that advantage to disappear when using this brain-machine interface.
The physical does come into it though, for someone with poor co-ordination due to cerebal palsy or parkinsons. A direct brain interface would level the playing field in that respect.
On the subject of stupid acronyms, how about gnu.
Richard Stallman bitches about people calling the OS linux and not mentioning the gnu contribution, but maybe that wouldn't have happened if they hadn't chosen such a crappy name.
military intelligence is an oxymoron
Soft drugs and healthy lifestyles are not mutually exclusive.
I weight train regularly to build muscle, cycle to keep fit and eat an incredibly healthy diet. I like to get stoned but I don't want the health risks of smoking so I add ground up cannabis to my food occasionally. It works for me.
The tricky part is to make it look good though...
Not for me, I build aluminium radiators for a living. I've been thinking about making one specially for watercooling. I was thinking about getting a tall thin core so that the air rises up thru the rad creating a chimney like effect, so that the hot air rising would pull cool air in the bottom, making a fan unnecessary. It would be silent and I could make it seriously beautiful.
If all the septics* raised there hands towards the sun wouldn't that push the earth away from it for a moment?
(septic tank = yank, a charming bit of rhyming slang)
I've been wanting a 3ft tall hobbit wife with limited brain capacity...
... and no gag reflex.
shit. sincere apologies jmitek, i missed the troll post and took your comment completely out of context.
thanks for pointing out my mistake hesiod
what the fuck has racism got to do with this?
he didn't specify any particular race. in my experienced these kind of names have been given to white and black kids.
the fact that you are crying racism implies that you associate this kind of naming with one ethnic group. wouldn't that make you the racist?
I really like the idea of the flac format. Lossless compression with an open source encoding, but I've been having terrible problems getting it working.
When I tried getting flac123 and xmms-flac running on suse personal 9.1, but they both failed to install due to dependencies that they claimed were missing. I think flac123 needed popt and xmms-flac needed libid3 something. I checked and they were there, so I'm stuck.
Anyone else had similar problems?
My first linuxes were rolled by hand, though.
Pah, you youngsters had it easy. In my day we had to make our linuxes by typing in all the 0s and 1s by hand. In the dark.
True. In the old days of wooden ship firing cannonballs at each other there were boys called "powder monkeys" whos job it was to keep everyone supplied with gunpowder. Taking some aspect of someones job and tacking "monkey" on the end is a very old tradition.
There are some sick bastards around. Using an old woman's mental ill health to con her into sex, surely that counts as rape.
I'm sure I've heard stories about children being tagged by their parents. Now the grandparents get tagged too. Which family members can we tag next, spouses?
The first post was a comment about "open source" software, not software in general.
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I did have a linux only pc for a while, but I missed the huge amount of games that I can play on windows so I set up a dual boot system with XP and Fedora. It's good to be able to have both, it stops me become another of those tiresome linux zealots.
Jesus, am I the only one on earth who never played counter-strike and doesnt even want to? As far as multiplayer FPS games go, CS isnt so crash hot.
I don't want to oppress your freedom of speech, but perhaps you should actually play the game before you start offering your opinions on it.
Elrond is incredibly ancient. He would have looked the same in "The Hobbit". I just hope Ian Mckellar is still around to play gandalf when the time comes.
Oooooh, we used to dream of 2k of memory. It would have been a luxury to us. We used to write code in an old water tank on a rubbish heap. We got woken up every morning to having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us. 2k? Huh!
I love plasma cutters. They are like one inch lightsabers.
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