"One of his common setups involves a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, at least 512 gigabytes of memory and a specialized operating system based on Linux"
Wow. Where can I get a box like that that fits under my sweater?
Funny, but one of the reasons I have a laptop installed in my front seat is to make me a safer driver. Before I go somewhere I plot the route in Mappoint and use AdvancedGPS to guide me there. Instead of looking around at road signs and trying to figure out where to turn, I focus on the road and other cars and let the computer tell me where to go (in a nice feminine voice BTW). I give the act of driving the car my full attention. I don't have to spend any cycles wondering if I'm going in the right direction.
I think there was one idea presented that, if taken a bit further, would really enhance role playing. Since voice is filtered through the machine, you would now have the ability to implement languages into the game. So to go beyone making a troll's voice gruff, what if you just made it unintelligible alltogether (at least to non-trolls)? Language could be a skill you can learn, and if you don't have a particular language the system garbles the voice of anyone speaking it. Going to a new area that was populated mainly by a different race could be a truly adventerous experience if you couldn't speak to many of the inhabitants. Trying to get your point across or finding a translator could be an adventure in itself.
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"A 1999 Cessna Skyhawk SP cruises at 14,000 feet"
IAAP and FWIW those altitudes are service ceilings. In other words it's the maximum altitude the airplane can effectively achieve. In practice general aviation aircraft almost never go that high (in fact, above 12,500 ft. FAA regulations require the use of supplemental oxygen). Normal cruising altitudes for light aircraft are typically between 2000-9000 ft, putting these balloons right in the airspace GA planes fly.
It doesn't really matter though, since their location will appear on charts so pilots can avoid them. The fact is, at least in the US, there are all sorts of towers, mountains, and whatnot that poke up high enough to be a potential hazard. But since they are stationary and their locations well known, they do not pose an undue threat. I am far more concerend about other airplanes than fixed obstacles. They are small and they move. But the sky is a very big place, and due diligence applied to what's going on outside of the cockpit will help ensure your safety.
If you REALLY want to experience Beowulf as it was meant to be experienced, LISTEN to it, don't read it! Even better, listen to it in the original Old English instead of a translation. The alliterative prose of the original is very powerful.
When I was in college I held a reading of it at night on the beach around a roaring bon fire. I began reading a verse translation, but would slip into Old English at key points to accentuate the action. It worked really well, and people who didn't understand Old English still thought it was fantastic.
There's an unabridged version on CD, however there is an abridged version on tape recorded in 1962 that sounds better, if you can find it.
I am not often critical. Well OK, I am almost always critical. So to criticize this article I will say that the editors need to pick up a basic journalism text. If you did so you would notice that one of the canonical rules of good journalistic prose is to let the reader know what the piece is about in the first sentence. Nowhere in the entire posting does it mention what Moonlight 3D actually IS!!!! Before posting please proof read the content and ask yourself some simple questions; does the article in question clearly state the who, what, where, when, and why of the story? News is meant to inform, not send the reader off on a wild hyperlink-hunt and search engine expedition in order to figure out what the story is about. I read Slashdot because (I hope) it will present information that is of interest to me in a fairly concise, easy to read format, saving me from having to spend a lot of time hunting for the information myself. Please present articles that have the most important point right in the very beginning, and then fill in the expository details later. That way people can get the gist of a story with a quick glance, and those that want more detail can stick around for the juicy details. Pick up any decent newspaper for examples. It's quite simple really.
What, exactly, differentiates a "massive" coronary from an ordinary coronary? Is there a scale someplace? You always hear about people having "massive" coronaries, however you never hear about someone having a "light" or "inconsequential" coronary. Seems to me, a coronary, by definition, is massive. At least it is if it's happening to me is.
Read the book. Your friends did not do Atkins. It's not a diet, it's forever. You don't go on Atkins for awhile to lose some pounds. The whole point is to change the way you eat forever.
If it's so bad, why do I feel so damn good? I've lost 54 lbs since July, and I feel like I'm 20 again (I'm 35). I now exercise 1-2 hours every day, six days a week. I have more energy and more stamina than ever.
I also started Atkins immediately after reading the NYT article. Since I had quite a bit of weight to lose (I was right at 300 lbs.), I decided to stay on induction longer than most, since the book says that's OK, and induction hasn't caused me any problems nor has it been boring.
Well, as of this morning I weigh 246 lbs. I've lost 54 lbs in about two months. Now that's a lot of weight, some would say maybe too much too fast, however I should point out that I also started biking ~20 miles a day, six days a week. I feel better than I have in 15 years. I'm pretty much bursting with energy. Ever since I was in the Army I've hated physical exercise. But now I look forward every morning to my ride.
Atkins is probably the best thing that ever happened to me.
"...lets drill it all, suck it out and burn it as fast as possible so we can finally have a decent crisis that will force us to look at better energy systems!"
That's the excuse I always give for driving my huge gas-guzzling SUV. We will NEVER work to develop alternative energy sources until gas costs at least $5.00 or more a gallon. By using up fuel as fast as I possibly can, I am HELPING the environment by HASTENING the onset of an energy crisis, thereby precipitating the need for other forms of energy.
After reading the recent article in the NYT about the Atkins diet, I decided to give it a try. I was a 6'2" almost 300 lb. smoker. In one month I've lost 30 lbs., quit smoking, started bicycling every morning before work, and I feel great. Better than I have in over 10 years. The diet has been trivially easy to follow, and I don't feel starved or deprived. I think the most helpful thing I did, besides quitting smoking, was eliminating the soda. I used to drink 5-6 cans or more of Mountain Dew every day. Eliminating that took out 1000 calories a day right off the bat.
Wasn't April a few months ago? You expect me to believe a high-placed government official has expressed an opinion that hacking could be something other than evil terrorism which threatens the foundations of our society and the American Way(TM)?
"I have no criminal record. I've only had 1 speeding ticket in my life, and that was shortly after I got my car heh. Ive never had a parking ticket. Never done drugs. Never punched anybody. I don't even raise my voice."
Well there you go. You're obviously a serial killer. You fit the profile perfectly. "Gee, he was always such a nice, quiet guy. Didn't bother anybody."
I guess I find it scary that you learn *any* moral lessons from a game. That you would come to the conclusion that you shouldn't get into a car chase with cops based on the outcome of a game is, well, disturbing. I would hope that you wouldn't engage in criminal activities because such activities are wrong, rather than because a game led you to believe that it's hard to outrun the cops. let me ask you this; if it had been easy to outrun the cops in GTA, would you have had a different opinion on ramming cop cars? God I hope not. Games aren't reality. I always assumed that people who played games realized this intrinsically, and could easily seperate fantasy from reality. Based on your post however, maybe I'm wrong. You seem to be applying information gleaned from a game to real-life situations. Please tell me I'm wrong.
There's a really interesting article in last week's "Time" magazine about the diet of Lewis & Clark. It's amazing how much fat they ate. Bear grease was the staple in just about everything.
I spent a lot of time on my grandparent's farm when I was a kid, and I recall that we ate HUGE amounts of fat. Everything was cooked in fat. Meat, cheese, and eggs were the staples. An after-breakfast treat was a slice of homemade bread soaked in bacon drippings. Interestingly, I was skinny back then, but since I stopped spending time there and started eating the "recommended" foods, I've ballooned like a whale. Also, my grandparents, in there late 90's, are still alive and kicking and quite healthy. No trace of heart disease or any other problems, despite the fact that they still eat like that.
It would appear you didn't read the article. The problem is that a "balanced diet" as described in just about every piece of nutritional literature written in the last thirty years just might be not so balanced after all. There is beginning to appear some evidence that those complex carbs are the real culprit in America's obesity epidemic. What we may come to discover is that a balanced diet really consists of much more fat and far fewer carbs than has been previously thought.
Oh, I dunno, maybe 'cause some of us have children who will probably have children, who will have children, ad infinitum, and at some point life on Earth may no longer be viable. It would be nice to have someplace else to go.
Or it might be interesting to find out whether or not life ever got started someplace else besides here, and if so, how it relates to life on this planet so that we have more information on which to base our decisions on how we manage Earth.
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ladybee777@hotmail.com is a legit hotmail address with a messenger account.
Anyone remember Whiz kids? It lasted only one season but was the first television show to present geeks as a role model.
It's the 24th Century and battery life is only up to 18 hours?!?!?
"One of his common setups involves a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, at least 512 gigabytes of memory and a specialized operating system based on Linux"
Wow. Where can I get a box like that that fits under my sweater?
Funny, but one of the reasons I have a laptop installed in my front seat is to make me a safer driver. Before I go somewhere I plot the route in Mappoint and use AdvancedGPS to guide me there. Instead of looking around at road signs and trying to figure out where to turn, I focus on the road and other cars and let the computer tell me where to go (in a nice feminine voice BTW). I give the act of driving the car my full attention. I don't have to spend any cycles wondering if I'm going in the right direction.
Didn't download the patch huh?
I think there was one idea presented that, if taken a bit further, would really enhance role playing. Since voice is filtered through the machine, you would now have the ability to implement languages into the game. So to go beyone making a troll's voice gruff, what if you just made it unintelligible alltogether (at least to non-trolls)? Language could be a skill you can learn, and if you don't have a particular language the system garbles the voice of anyone speaking it. Going to a new area that was populated mainly by a different race could be a truly adventerous experience if you couldn't speak to many of the inhabitants. Trying to get your point across or finding a translator could be an adventure in itself.
"A 1999 Cessna Skyhawk SP cruises at 14,000 feet"
IAAP and FWIW those altitudes are service ceilings. In other words it's the maximum altitude the airplane can effectively achieve. In practice general aviation aircraft almost never go that high (in fact, above 12,500 ft. FAA regulations require the use of supplemental oxygen). Normal cruising altitudes for light aircraft are typically between 2000-9000 ft, putting these balloons right in the airspace GA planes fly.
It doesn't really matter though, since their location will appear on charts so pilots can avoid them. The fact is, at least in the US, there are all sorts of towers, mountains, and whatnot that poke up high enough to be a potential hazard. But since they are stationary and their locations well known, they do not pose an undue threat. I am far more concerend about other airplanes than fixed obstacles. They are small and they move. But the sky is a very big place, and due diligence applied to what's going on outside of the cockpit will help ensure your safety.
"Copyright law requires the holder to actively defend the copyright"
No. That's trademark. Copyright is automatically granted and is always enforceable. You need not defend your copyright to keep it.
If you REALLY want to experience Beowulf as it was meant to be experienced, LISTEN to it, don't read it! Even better, listen to it in the original Old English instead of a translation. The alliterative prose of the original is very powerful.
When I was in college I held a reading of it at night on the beach around a roaring bon fire. I began reading a verse translation, but would slip into Old English at key points to accentuate the action. It worked really well, and people who didn't understand Old English still thought it was fantastic.
There's an unabridged version on CD, however there is an abridged version on tape recorded in 1962 that sounds better, if you can find it.
Join the Army. I'm sure you'll get an opportunity to visit the Middle East.
Soon.
I am not often critical. Well OK, I am almost always critical. So to criticize this article I will say that the editors need to pick up a basic journalism text. If you did so you would notice that one of the canonical rules of good journalistic prose is to let the reader know what the piece is about in the first sentence. Nowhere in the entire posting does it mention what Moonlight 3D actually IS!!!! Before posting please proof read the content and ask yourself some simple questions; does the article in question clearly state the who, what, where, when, and why of the story? News is meant to inform, not send the reader off on a wild hyperlink-hunt and search engine expedition in order to figure out what the story is about. I read Slashdot because (I hope) it will present information that is of interest to me in a fairly concise, easy to read format, saving me from having to spend a lot of time hunting for the information myself. Please present articles that have the most important point right in the very beginning, and then fill in the expository details later. That way people can get the gist of a story with a quick glance, and those that want more detail can stick around for the juicy details. Pick up any decent newspaper for examples. It's quite simple really.
What, exactly, differentiates a "massive" coronary from an ordinary coronary? Is there a scale someplace? You always hear about people having "massive" coronaries, however you never hear about someone having a "light" or "inconsequential" coronary. Seems to me, a coronary, by definition, is massive. At least it is if it's happening to me is.
Read the book. Your friends did not do Atkins. It's not a diet, it's forever. You don't go on Atkins for awhile to lose some pounds. The whole point is to change the way you eat forever.
If it's so bad, why do I feel so damn good? I've lost 54 lbs since July, and I feel like I'm 20 again (I'm 35). I now exercise 1-2 hours every day, six days a week. I have more energy and more stamina than ever.
-Jeff
Word to your mother! :)
I also started Atkins immediately after reading the NYT article. Since I had quite a bit of weight to lose (I was right at 300 lbs.), I decided to stay on induction longer than most, since the book says that's OK, and induction hasn't caused me any problems nor has it been boring.
Well, as of this morning I weigh 246 lbs. I've lost 54 lbs in about two months. Now that's a lot of weight, some would say maybe too much too fast, however I should point out that I also started biking ~20 miles a day, six days a week. I feel better than I have in 15 years. I'm pretty much bursting with energy. Ever since I was in the Army I've hated physical exercise. But now I look forward every morning to my ride.
Atkins is probably the best thing that ever happened to me.
-Jeff
That's the excuse I always give for driving my huge gas-guzzling SUV. We will NEVER work to develop alternative energy sources until gas costs at least $5.00 or more a gallon. By using up fuel as fast as I possibly can, I am HELPING the environment by HASTENING the onset of an energy crisis, thereby precipitating the need for other forms of energy.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
After reading the recent article in the NYT about the Atkins diet, I decided to give it a try. I was a 6'2" almost 300 lb. smoker. In one month I've lost 30 lbs., quit smoking, started bicycling every morning before work, and I feel great. Better than I have in over 10 years. The diet has been trivially easy to follow, and I don't feel starved or deprived. I think the most helpful thing I did, besides quitting smoking, was eliminating the soda. I used to drink 5-6 cans or more of Mountain Dew every day. Eliminating that took out 1000 calories a day right off the bat.
Wasn't April a few months ago? You expect me to believe a high-placed government official has expressed an opinion that hacking could be something other than evil terrorism which threatens the foundations of our society and the American Way(TM)?
I wonder when he'll be replaced.
Going to Tag's redirects you to the RIAA site.
Hijacked?
"I have no criminal record. I've only had 1 speeding ticket in my life, and that was shortly after I got my car heh. Ive never had a parking ticket. Never done drugs. Never punched anybody. I don't even raise my voice."
:)
Well there you go. You're obviously a serial killer. You fit the profile perfectly. "Gee, he was always such a nice, quiet guy. Didn't bother anybody."
Just kidding of course
I guess I find it scary that you learn *any* moral lessons from a game. That you would come to the conclusion that you shouldn't get into a car chase with cops based on the outcome of a game is, well, disturbing. I would hope that you wouldn't engage in criminal activities because such activities are wrong, rather than because a game led you to believe that it's hard to outrun the cops. let me ask you this; if it had been easy to outrun the cops in GTA, would you have had a different opinion on ramming cop cars? God I hope not. Games aren't reality. I always assumed that people who played games realized this intrinsically, and could easily seperate fantasy from reality. Based on your post however, maybe I'm wrong. You seem to be applying information gleaned from a game to real-life situations. Please tell me I'm wrong.
There's a really interesting article in last week's "Time" magazine about the diet of Lewis & Clark. It's amazing how much fat they ate. Bear grease was the staple in just about everything.
I spent a lot of time on my grandparent's farm when I was a kid, and I recall that we ate HUGE amounts of fat. Everything was cooked in fat. Meat, cheese, and eggs were the staples. An after-breakfast treat was a slice of homemade bread soaked in bacon drippings. Interestingly, I was skinny back then, but since I stopped spending time there and started eating the "recommended" foods, I've ballooned like a whale. Also, my grandparents, in there late 90's, are still alive and kicking and quite healthy. No trace of heart disease or any other problems, despite the fact that they still eat like that.
It would appear you didn't read the article. The problem is that a "balanced diet" as described in just about every piece of nutritional literature written in the last thirty years just might be not so balanced after all. There is beginning to appear some evidence that those complex carbs are the real culprit in America's obesity epidemic. What we may come to discover is that a balanced diet really consists of much more fat and far fewer carbs than has been previously thought.
Oh, I dunno, maybe 'cause some of us have children who will probably have children, who will have children, ad infinitum, and at some point life on Earth may no longer be viable. It would be nice to have someplace else to go.
Or it might be interesting to find out whether or not life ever got started someplace else besides here, and if so, how it relates to life on this planet so that we have more information on which to base our decisions on how we manage Earth.
There is more to life than the here and now.