Parent was referring to playing on the highest skill levels on the 1st two games, where if you killed anyone you immediately failed the level. Therefore no one dies, and no blood.
Parent made the point that playing on anything but the highest level was too easy. Some players take this further and play "ghost" where the player is not allowed even to be noticed, or cause any AI to notice anything (no torches extinguished etc.)
I had a biology professor who blew the class away by stating that evolution was a fact. Plate tectonics was just a theory, but evolution was fact.
However, the professor did follow this statement with that although evolution was a fact, the origin of man was not settled.
The methodology works with longer wavelengths (lower frequency) photons. Microwaves are in the centimeter range. Visible light has shorter wavelengths (higher frequency). The wires etc. that make up the shield are smaller than the wavelength, and it part of their success. To work with visible light and shorter wavelengths requires much smaller gear. Also, the field effects are not linear, so reducing the desired wavelengths into the visible spectrum means working beyond nanowires. Cosmic radiation, x-rays and even UV rays have much longer wavelengths (by several orders of magnitude), so the problem is almost infinitely worse.
to answer
1) yes
2) we can use better materials to get into the infra red, but not any higher
3) no
The usefulness of this is based on the wavelength. The wavelength for photon radiation (UV and nastier) are shorter than those of microwaves. i.e. This won't work for visible light because the wavelength are too short and UV, X-rays and Cosmic rays all have much shorter wavelengths than visible light.
So no radiation shield for you. Except, perhaps, if you're stuck in a giant microwave oven.
The important thing is to find a protein that latches on the the cancer cells and not normal cells. There are many proteins out there for the different kinds of cancer. For this brain cancer, it appears that they have found such a protein. They will probably 'tag' the protein with radioactive (beta or beta/gamma emitters, not alphas like uranium) iodine (I-131 or I-128) or yittrium (Y-90) or phosphorous (P-32) (depending on the chemistry and the dose required). They will not use heavy metals like Uranium as the half-life is too long. The radioactive package will be released wherever the protein is. If the protein sticks to the cancer cell, then the cancer cell gets most of the dosage. The brain is fairly radiation-safe, as radiation kills cells that are actively reproducing (like cancer cells). Brain cells haven't been reproduced since entering adulthood. Radiation taggin therapy is not new. The fact that they have found a protein to bind to this kind of cancer cell is very new.
Pop paid almost C$3,000 for a wide format (17") dot matrix printer to hook up to our TRS-80 Model III in 1981.
I spent a bunch of time making really freakin' huge banners on that continuous feed computer paper.
Adjusted for inflation, that's C$6,755 for a dot matrix printer! I'm fairly certain I could get a decent printer now for that much . . .
And it had cover art that rocked. . .
I still remember a "Escher-ist" cover showing a transistor crawling off the page, walking around and then back in.
The cause of death reported on death certificates here cannot be "old age". However, nor can it be "cardiac arrest", as something caused the heart to stop.
IANAD, but I am related to one.
The Shalebridge Cradle (from Thief, Deadly Shadows) had an entire article about it in a game mag, as to why this level was so freakin' fearsome.
It wasn't the horror (finding or seeing something terrible) but the dread. Dread being the suspicion that something's not right. The fear you feel when you hear a noise upstairs and find a window open, or the spouse is supposed to have been home hours ago and the storm's getting worse.
The cradle level had this in spades. You know something was bad and you are overwhelmed with the evidence that the place is evil and that the past is filled with terrible things. You dread moving around because you fear what you'll find.
It takes real courage to finally open that door at the top of the stairs with all that pounding on the other side.
Talk to the people who have played this level. You'll find they sweated, they got anxious. They probably had to put the game on hold or walk away for a while to calm down.
If you play this level at night, no one else at home, with the lights off and the sound cranked up, you will feel afraid.
This level is genius.
Umm, Easy?
Being a Christian is a statement of beliefs. It is not a base requirment to take the Bible literally. Taking the Bible literally, makes you a Literalist Christian and potentially a Fundamentalist Christian.
Sorry, Bub, Christianity comes in many forms and you narrow view does not apply to the whole.
Remember, its the meaning behind the stories that are important.
Can we all agree that the current government is also comprised of some very not nice people?
Without attempting to troll, but this is the classic pot calling the kettle black.
The goverment of China does things that I do not agree with. The government of the US does things that I do not agree with. Both throw their weight around internationally, and believe that their laws are the only ones that matter and have no desire to understand international opinion. It is a comparison of Orwell vs. Huxley: Big Brother vs. the Brave New World. Neither one presents a bright future for mankind.
The border is worthless, its just a line some idiot drew on a map.
But all the same, anyone who thinks the border is unguarded should just try and drive across one day.
I am afraid that I still cannot agree with your position. Any person acts based on their own moral compass. If their potential actions fit within their moral standards, then they will do it. If they feel the actions are outside their moral standards, they will not. We make thousands of these decisions each day, the vast majority of them are not enourmous moral decisions, but our morals will dictate how we respond when someone says "good morning". At no time in any of those decisions would I make a decision based on "ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCES (TM)". If that were the case, there could be a conflict between my moral compass and those that have stated what those ultimate consequences would be. I know what I would do if there was such a conflict. My moral compass is much more important to me, that an imposed system of behaviour.
Again, I could never trust someone who's behaviour was only governed by religious dogma, in particular the concept of "ultimate consequences".
And the statement "if God is dead, everything is permissible" is utterly offensive to all human beings, as it claims that our behaviour is controlled externally. The modes of behaviour that are acceptable to society are shaped by that society, whether derrived from dogma or not. The concept that people would do anything they wanted if there were no gods, is abhorrent. If the only reason you don't kill someone is that you belive in a god holds you to "ultimate consequences" then you are an evil person (because you want to kill, but can't) with an external leash. Watch "A Clockwork Orange" and decide if the main character has been "cured of evil behaviour" through the application of an invisible external leash.
My leash, that keeps those impulses in check, is internal, and derrived from my moral compass. I decide based on my morality. I don't absove myself of those decisions and defer to another entities judgement. I will decide and I will live by my decisions.
To state things clearly on my position, I am a mature enough person to accept all decisions I make based on my morality. I will not accept that some of my decisions are based on the threat of ultimate consequences.
I can't see the arguement that atheism gets you out from consequences of actions. If you believe that the only thing that stops someone from hitting someone else is that they believe that their god said "don't do that", then I worry. Our decisions are NOT driven by "ultimate consequences" , they are more short-term. I do not kill, not because I was told that someone found stones with that instruction on it, but because I am aware of the nature of life, and its irreplaceability.
Your last statement do atheists have a "God-given" conscience is arguable. I have a conscience. I do not believe it was "god-given". A conscience is derrived from the human ability to empathize. Our conscience is not bothered by trimming the lawn, because we don't empathize with the grass. Our conscience is activated to prevent us from driving over the curb, through people, just to get home from work early. The ability to tell right from wrong does not require a belief in a god. And, as a note, what you and I believe as right and wrong are not universal, even for those of the same religion.
I am not an atheist, but I do believe that theism is a crutch for many.
That's not what I said. What I said was the following: Atheism is a way of getting out from under guilt.
No, Atheism is a belief that there are no Gods.
Believing that your actions are influenced by higher beings is a way of getting out from responsibility. You can obviously remember how many people have declared "God made be do it" "The devil made me do it" "I was possessed at the time" sorry, but no dice. The actions of your body (including speech and thought) are under the direct control of your brain. You can't escape responsibility.
While I certainly like doing what I'm doing, I sure as heck would not be doing it if I wasn't being paid.
I do not carry a cell phone or pager and I don't even wear a watch. When I leave this building, the office will have to try me at home if they really need me after hours. I am a Consultant, and I frequently need to be in contact while on the road. However, I do it from land based phones and never from the car. Contact with the office and clients is on my term, and my terms ONLY.
Atta boy!
Way to spoil things for a lot of people.
If I hadn't already finished the book, I'd be mighty pissed with you.
Remember, they outnumber you by a LOT
I'm playing it now, too! In a way, I do miss the guards not casting their own shadows (T:DS), but I'll take the expansive levels anyday.
I'm also really looking forward to what the Thief community can do with the editor for Deadly Shadows as well as the darkmod project http://www.thedarkmod.com/ for Doom 3 (using the Doom 3 engine to make a thief-like game engine).
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Don't buy a console for anything other than mindless FPS, side scrolling Mario gams, and racing games.
Stop the developers from lowering the standards of gameplay to suit consoles. Thief: Deadly Shadows was a middling-quality game utterly ruined by the limits imposed so the publishers could sell it to xbox owners. They had to dumb the game down, and sever the levels into small pieces to suit the xbox. This ruined the immersive environment totally.
The French use a different legal system that the English Common Law used in North America. It is based less on precedence (previous legal decisions). The ability of the impartial judiciary to "go with the times" is an important feature in their legal system. This system changes faster to suit the times than a precedence-based one. Of course, this is a two-edged sword, especially if the public mood has taken a dramatic draconian turn.
However, its much better than the US legal sytem which still hasn't got its head out of the Victorian era's butt.
Hmmm with 850 GB if data per disc, at 4 mb per song, I guesstimate that the music & video boys are gonna want some serious cash. If approximately 212,500 songs fit on a single disc, and they want a blank disc tax of $0.01 per song, or $2,125 per disc.
Kinda silly when the media will worth only pennies per disc.
Ummm,the US has lost to the Fundamentalists.
The right-wing Christian Fundamentalists.
Oh, they don't call themselves that, but given the money and power the wield in the US, they are the most dangerous sponsors of terrorism in the whole world.
The mirror ain't broke, use it.
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You missed the point.
Parent was referring to playing on the highest skill levels on the 1st two games, where if you killed anyone you immediately failed the level. Therefore no one dies, and no blood.
Parent made the point that playing on anything but the highest level was too easy. Some players take this further and play "ghost" where the player is not allowed even to be noticed, or cause any AI to notice anything (no torches extinguished etc.)
very tough.
I had a biology professor who blew the class away by stating that evolution was a fact. Plate tectonics was just a theory, but evolution was fact. However, the professor did follow this statement with that although evolution was a fact, the origin of man was not settled.
The methodology works with longer wavelengths (lower frequency) photons. Microwaves are in the centimeter range. Visible light has shorter wavelengths (higher frequency). The wires etc. that make up the shield are smaller than the wavelength, and it part of their success. To work with visible light and shorter wavelengths requires much smaller gear. Also, the field effects are not linear, so reducing the desired wavelengths into the visible spectrum means working beyond nanowires. Cosmic radiation, x-rays and even UV rays have much longer wavelengths (by several orders of magnitude), so the problem is almost infinitely worse.
to answer
1) yes
2) we can use better materials to get into the infra red, but not any higher
3) no
The usefulness of this is based on the wavelength. The wavelength for photon radiation (UV and nastier) are shorter than those of microwaves. i.e. This won't work for visible light because the wavelength are too short and UV, X-rays and Cosmic rays all have much shorter wavelengths than visible light. So no radiation shield for you. Except, perhaps, if you're stuck in a giant microwave oven.
The important thing is to find a protein that latches on the the cancer cells and not normal cells. There are many proteins out there for the different kinds of cancer. For this brain cancer, it appears that they have found such a protein. They will probably 'tag' the protein with radioactive (beta or beta/gamma emitters, not alphas like uranium) iodine (I-131 or I-128) or yittrium (Y-90) or phosphorous (P-32) (depending on the chemistry and the dose required). They will not use heavy metals like Uranium as the half-life is too long. The radioactive package will be released wherever the protein is. If the protein sticks to the cancer cell, then the cancer cell gets most of the dosage. The brain is fairly radiation-safe, as radiation kills cells that are actively reproducing (like cancer cells). Brain cells haven't been reproduced since entering adulthood. Radiation taggin therapy is not new. The fact that they have found a protein to bind to this kind of cancer cell is very new.
Pop paid almost C$3,000 for a wide format (17") dot matrix printer to hook up to our TRS-80 Model III in 1981. I spent a bunch of time making really freakin' huge banners on that continuous feed computer paper. Adjusted for inflation, that's C$6,755 for a dot matrix printer! I'm fairly certain I could get a decent printer now for that much . . .
And it had cover art that rocked. . . I still remember a "Escher-ist" cover showing a transistor crawling off the page, walking around and then back in.
The cause of death reported on death certificates here cannot be "old age". However, nor can it be "cardiac arrest", as something caused the heart to stop. IANAD, but I am related to one.
The Shalebridge Cradle (from Thief, Deadly Shadows) had an entire article about it in a game mag, as to why this level was so freakin' fearsome. It wasn't the horror (finding or seeing something terrible) but the dread. Dread being the suspicion that something's not right. The fear you feel when you hear a noise upstairs and find a window open, or the spouse is supposed to have been home hours ago and the storm's getting worse. The cradle level had this in spades. You know something was bad and you are overwhelmed with the evidence that the place is evil and that the past is filled with terrible things. You dread moving around because you fear what you'll find. It takes real courage to finally open that door at the top of the stairs with all that pounding on the other side. Talk to the people who have played this level. You'll find they sweated, they got anxious. They probably had to put the game on hold or walk away for a while to calm down. If you play this level at night, no one else at home, with the lights off and the sound cranked up, you will feel afraid. This level is genius.
I read it as "lawyers Ordered to Play RPG to Settle Dispute" I thought finally, lawyers will have to work for their gold
You are correct. But please, don't call me Shirley.
Umm, Easy? Being a Christian is a statement of beliefs. It is not a base requirment to take the Bible literally. Taking the Bible literally, makes you a Literalist Christian and potentially a Fundamentalist Christian. Sorry, Bub, Christianity comes in many forms and you narrow view does not apply to the whole. Remember, its the meaning behind the stories that are important.
Can we all agree that the current government is also comprised of some very not nice people?
Without attempting to troll, but this is the classic pot calling the kettle black.
The goverment of China does things that I do not agree with. The government of the US does things that I do not agree with. Both throw their weight around internationally, and believe that their laws are the only ones that matter and have no desire to understand international opinion. It is a comparison of Orwell vs. Huxley: Big Brother vs. the Brave New World. Neither one presents a bright future for mankind.
The border is worthless, its just a line some idiot drew on a map. But all the same, anyone who thinks the border is unguarded should just try and drive across one day.
I am afraid that I still cannot agree with your position. Any person acts based on their own moral compass. If their potential actions fit within their moral standards, then they will do it. If they feel the actions are outside their moral standards, they will not. We make thousands of these decisions each day, the vast majority of them are not enourmous moral decisions, but our morals will dictate how we respond when someone says "good morning". At no time in any of those decisions would I make a decision based on "ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCES (TM)". If that were the case, there could be a conflict between my moral compass and those that have stated what those ultimate consequences would be. I know what I would do if there was such a conflict. My moral compass is much more important to me, that an imposed system of behaviour.
Again, I could never trust someone who's behaviour was only governed by religious dogma, in particular the concept of "ultimate consequences".
And the statement "if God is dead, everything is permissible" is utterly offensive to all human beings, as it claims that our behaviour is controlled externally. The modes of behaviour that are acceptable to society are shaped by that society, whether derrived from dogma or not. The concept that people would do anything they wanted if there were no gods, is abhorrent. If the only reason you don't kill someone is that you belive in a god holds you to "ultimate consequences" then you are an evil person (because you want to kill, but can't) with an external leash. Watch "A Clockwork Orange" and decide if the main character has been "cured of evil behaviour" through the application of an invisible external leash.
My leash, that keeps those impulses in check, is internal, and derrived from my moral compass. I decide based on my morality. I don't absove myself of those decisions and defer to another entities judgement. I will decide and I will live by my decisions.
To state things clearly on my position, I am a mature enough person to accept all decisions I make based on my morality. I will not accept that some of my decisions are based on the threat of ultimate consequences.
Sigh
I can't see the arguement that atheism gets you out from consequences of actions. If you believe that the only thing that stops someone from hitting someone else is that they believe that their god said "don't do that", then I worry. Our decisions are NOT driven by "ultimate consequences" , they are more short-term. I do not kill, not because I was told that someone found stones with that instruction on it, but because I am aware of the nature of life, and its irreplaceability.
Your last statement do atheists have a "God-given" conscience is arguable. I have a conscience. I do not believe it was "god-given". A conscience is derrived from the human ability to empathize. Our conscience is not bothered by trimming the lawn, because we don't empathize with the grass. Our conscience is activated to prevent us from driving over the curb, through people, just to get home from work early. The ability to tell right from wrong does not require a belief in a god. And, as a note, what you and I believe as right and wrong are not universal, even for those of the same religion.
I am not an atheist, but I do believe that theism is a crutch for many.
That's not what I said. What I said was the following: Atheism is a way of getting out from under guilt.
No, Atheism is a belief that there are no Gods.
Believing that your actions are influenced by higher beings is a way of getting out from responsibility. You can obviously remember how many people have declared "God made be do it" "The devil made me do it" "I was possessed at the time" sorry, but no dice. The actions of your body (including speech and thought) are under the direct control of your brain. You can't escape responsibility.
Let's just make this simple:
I work to live; I do not live to work.
While I certainly like doing what I'm doing, I sure as heck would not be doing it if I wasn't being paid.
I do not carry a cell phone or pager and I don't even wear a watch. When I leave this building, the office will have to try me at home if they really need me after hours. I am a Consultant, and I frequently need to be in contact while on the road. However, I do it from land based phones and never from the car. Contact with the office and clients is on my term, and my terms ONLY.
Atta boy! Way to spoil things for a lot of people. If I hadn't already finished the book, I'd be mighty pissed with you. Remember, they outnumber you by a LOT
state of the art mice have scroll wheels that tilt left and right.
The poster is correct.
I'm playing it now, too! In a way, I do miss the guards not casting their own shadows (T:DS), but I'll take the expansive levels anyday.
I'm also really looking forward to what the Thief community can do with the editor for Deadly Shadows as well as the darkmod project http://www.thedarkmod.com/ for Doom 3 (using the Doom 3 engine to make a thief-like game engine).
2 comments on this:
Don't buy a console for anything other than mindless FPS, side scrolling Mario gams, and racing games.
Stop the developers from lowering the standards of gameplay to suit consoles. Thief: Deadly Shadows was a middling-quality game utterly ruined by the limits imposed so the publishers could sell it to xbox owners. They had to dumb the game down, and sever the levels into small pieces to suit the xbox. This ruined the immersive environment totally.
The French use a different legal system that the English Common Law used in North America. It is based less on precedence (previous legal decisions). The ability of the impartial judiciary to "go with the times" is an important feature in their legal system. This system changes faster to suit the times than a precedence-based one. Of course, this is a two-edged sword, especially if the public mood has taken a dramatic draconian turn.
However, its much better than the US legal sytem which still hasn't got its head out of the Victorian era's butt.
Hmmm with 850 GB if data per disc, at 4 mb per song, I guesstimate that the music & video boys are gonna want some serious cash. If approximately 212,500 songs fit on a single disc, and they want a blank disc tax of $0.01 per song, or $2,125 per disc.
Kinda silly when the media will worth only pennies per disc.
Ummm,the US has lost to the Fundamentalists. The right-wing Christian Fundamentalists. Oh, they don't call themselves that, but given the money and power the wield in the US, they are the most dangerous sponsors of terrorism in the whole world. The mirror ain't broke, use it.