AFAIK, E.Gary Gygax has three sons: Ernie, Luke, and Alex. However, I could be wrong about the number of sons. Luke and Alex were at GenCon 2007, and Ernie was at June 2007 Lake Geneva Con . . .
Don't mind me. I'm picking nits at a single word from an otherwise entertaining post.
" . . . the late Ernie Gygax, subbing for his dad . .."
Where did you hear that Ernie had died? Ernie Gygax was alive in June 2007 for Lake Geneva Con III.
The 4e announcement may have been quiet at GenCon, but it was news everywhere else. The Wizards web page went down when the 4e announcement was supposed to come online. Naysayers have been bemoaning 4e ever since.
Other pen-and-paper RPGs can benefit from 4e's announcment. Castles & Crusades (Troll Lord Games) may become more popular with the disillusioned; C&C is old-school roleplaying. Basic Fantasy, OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, and a host of new RPGs in the old-school vein are on the market.
Beyond those games, Gygax's own Lejendary Adventures has been out for a few years as well.
UTD team's chemical ribbons could assist many high-tech dreams
09:01 PM CDT on Thursday, August 18, 2005
By SUE GOETINCK AMBROSE / The Dallas Morning News
Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have spun yards of chemical ribbons that are lighter than a feather but stronger than steel a significant advance in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology.
(Picture: LOUIS DeLUCA/DMN
University of Texas at Dallas scientists (from left) Mei Zhang, Sergey Lee, Ali Aliev, Anvar Zakhidov, Shaoli Fang and leader Ray Baughman took part in the research.)
The development could lead to a host of high-tech applications that scientists have dreamed of but haven't had an easy way to create: futuristic clothes that light up, store energy or blunt bullets; car doors that are ultra light, extra strong and double as batteries to store solar energy; flexible, filmy light bulbs that are thinner than a human hair; artificial muscles for robots; and solar sails to propel space vehicles.
A report describing the chemical ribbons, created from tiny carbon tubes barely visible to the human eye, appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"This is a big deal, a real big deal," said James Tour, a chemist at Rice University in Houston, of the new study. "Every paragraph is a gold mine."
The ribbons are created from carbon nanotubes, filaments about one-five-thousandth the width of a human hair. At the atomic level, the nanotubes look like cylinders of chicken wire. Because the nanotubes, like diamonds, are made entirely of carbon, they are extraordinarily strong. They also conduct electricity.
Scientists had known of carbon nanotubes' exceptional properties but had struggled to easily convert them into convenient forms. Last year, the UTD scientists, led by chemist Ray Baughman, had spun the nanotubes into yarn. Other scientists had created small sheets of nanotubes, but their process was cumbersome.
DallasNews.com/extra
"The value of this invention is to make it into sheets," said Ned Thomas, a materials scientist at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Clever people will take those sheets and put them into technologies that have yet to be invented."
THE PROCEDURE
Making the ribbons is quite simple, Dr. Baughman said. The UTD scientists started with a "forest" of nanotube trees, about one-third of a millimeter high. Then they stuck a Post-It note to one edge of the forest and gently pulled away. The nanotube trees were drawn out, and as the researchers kept pulling, the trees stuck to each other side by side, forming a long, wispy and transparent sheet.
Sheets more than a meter long, about two inches wide, and less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair thick can be pulled in less than a minute, by hand in the lab, Dr. Baughman said. The process easily could be industrialized, he said.
"There is no limit on how wide they can be," Dr. Baughman said.
The ability to convert carbon nanotubes into such a useful form will be a boon to many small companies trying to use them to create newer or better devices, Dr. Thomas said.
"Nanotechnology needs this," he said. "It's been hyped, and there's been a lot of expectations."
Dr. Baughman, who said the university and a collaborating Australian national lab have
Before using registry cleaners, be sure you make one of those XP save points. Or at least make a note of unfamiliar registry entries that you choose to delete. One registry entry that I deleted in the past was for a Kinko's File Preparation tool. Reinstalling the Kinko's program fixed the problem, and I made sure to not delete it the next time around.
I have not experienced any problems with Ad-Aware SE. *knocks on wood* Spybot seemed to stall out for a while a few weeks ago, but it has returned to its normal speed.
FYI, I am using Ad-Aware SE on two 98SE boxes, one XP-SP2 box, and one Windows 2000 box.
Since rebooting does not solve your problem, have you tried different registry cleaners (RegClean, RegCleaner, Regseeker, etc.) to fix up your registry before running Ad-Aware?
While you're at it, have you tried CCleaner (formerly CrapCleaner)? It deletes many temporary files (and the files in your TEMP directory) and does some registry cleaning as well. It doesn't do as much prompting/verification as other programs, so be aware when using it.
Tiger (maker of cheapo LCD games) put out the R-zone game machine in the '90s. One form of the R-Zone was a headset with a controller attached. A clear piece of plastic flipped out over the player's left eye.
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AFAIK, E.Gary Gygax has three sons: Ernie, Luke, and Alex. However, I could be wrong about the number of sons. Luke and Alex were at GenCon 2007, and Ernie was at June 2007 Lake Geneva Con . . .
Don't mind me. I'm picking nits at a single word from an otherwise entertaining post.
" . . . the late Ernie Gygax, subbing for his dad . . ."
Where did you hear that Ernie had died? Ernie Gygax was alive in June 2007 for Lake Geneva Con III.
The 4e announcement may have been quiet at GenCon, but it was news everywhere else. The Wizards web page went down when the 4e announcement was supposed to come online. Naysayers have been bemoaning 4e ever since.
Other pen-and-paper RPGs can benefit from 4e's announcment. Castles & Crusades (Troll Lord Games) may become more popular with the disillusioned; C&C is old-school roleplaying. Basic Fantasy, OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, and a host of new RPGs in the old-school vein are on the market.
Beyond those games, Gygax's own Lejendary Adventures has been out for a few years as well.
The Dallas Morning News (19-AUG) has a story on this. Registration is usually required, so text follows . . .
Article URL: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/lat estnews/stories/081905dnmetnanosheet.1c9439ac.html
Video URL: http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2005/nanotech/
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LITTLE CREATION, BIG STEP
UTD team's chemical ribbons could assist many high-tech dreams
09:01 PM CDT on Thursday, August 18, 2005
By SUE GOETINCK AMBROSE / The Dallas Morning News
Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have spun yards of chemical ribbons that are lighter than a feather but stronger than steel a significant advance in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology.
(Picture: LOUIS DeLUCA/DMN University of Texas at Dallas scientists (from left) Mei Zhang, Sergey Lee, Ali Aliev, Anvar Zakhidov, Shaoli Fang and leader Ray Baughman took part in the research.)
The development could lead to a host of high-tech applications that scientists have dreamed of but haven't had an easy way to create: futuristic clothes that light up, store energy or blunt bullets; car doors that are ultra light, extra strong and double as batteries to store solar energy; flexible, filmy light bulbs that are thinner than a human hair; artificial muscles for robots; and solar sails to propel space vehicles.
A report describing the chemical ribbons, created from tiny carbon tubes barely visible to the human eye, appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"This is a big deal, a real big deal," said James Tour, a chemist at Rice University in Houston, of the new study. "Every paragraph is a gold mine."
The ribbons are created from carbon nanotubes, filaments about one-five-thousandth the width of a human hair. At the atomic level, the nanotubes look like cylinders of chicken wire. Because the nanotubes, like diamonds, are made entirely of carbon, they are extraordinarily strong. They also conduct electricity.
Scientists had known of carbon nanotubes' exceptional properties but had struggled to easily convert them into convenient forms. Last year, the UTD scientists, led by chemist Ray Baughman, had spun the nanotubes into yarn. Other scientists had created small sheets of nanotubes, but their process was cumbersome. DallasNews.com/extra
"The value of this invention is to make it into sheets," said Ned Thomas, a materials scientist at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Clever people will take those sheets and put them into technologies that have yet to be invented."
THE PROCEDURE
Making the ribbons is quite simple, Dr. Baughman said. The UTD scientists started with a "forest" of nanotube trees, about one-third of a millimeter high. Then they stuck a Post-It note to one edge of the forest and gently pulled away. The nanotube trees were drawn out, and as the researchers kept pulling, the trees stuck to each other side by side, forming a long, wispy and transparent sheet.
Sheets more than a meter long, about two inches wide, and less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair thick can be pulled in less than a minute, by hand in the lab, Dr. Baughman said. The process easily could be industrialized, he said.
"There is no limit on how wide they can be," Dr. Baughman said.
The ability to convert carbon nanotubes into such a useful form will be a boon to many small companies trying to use them to create newer or better devices, Dr. Thomas said.
"Nanotechnology needs this," he said. "It's been hyped, and there's been a lot of expectations."
Dr. Baughman, who said the university and a collaborating Australian national lab have
Who/what is the Slashdot mascot? Cowboy Neal?
Before using registry cleaners, be sure you make one of those XP save points. Or at least make a note of unfamiliar registry entries that you choose to delete. One registry entry that I deleted in the past was for a Kinko's File Preparation tool. Reinstalling the Kinko's program fixed the problem, and I made sure to not delete it the next time around.
I have not experienced any problems with Ad-Aware SE. *knocks on wood* Spybot seemed to stall out for a while a few weeks ago, but it has returned to its normal speed.
FYI, I am using Ad-Aware SE on two 98SE boxes, one XP-SP2 box, and one Windows 2000 box.
Since rebooting does not solve your problem, have you tried different registry cleaners (RegClean, RegCleaner, Regseeker, etc.) to fix up your registry before running Ad-Aware?
While you're at it, have you tried CCleaner (formerly CrapCleaner)? It deletes many temporary files (and the files in your TEMP directory) and does some registry cleaning as well. It doesn't do as much prompting/verification as other programs, so be aware when using it.
Gay is slang, at least with teens nowadays. *shrug*
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertai nment/2002083375_halo08.html
Do you mean "emotionally labial"? :)
Tiger (maker of cheapo LCD games) put out the R-zone game machine in the '90s. One form of the R-Zone was a headset with a controller attached. A clear piece of plastic flipped out over the player's left eye.