My 2.5 year-old loves Gcompris and just about all the flash-based games on pbskids.org. He's got enough coordination that Pingus keeps him quite entertained too. Though not quite games, he also loves Stellarium and Celestia too. Pull that old beater box out of the boneyard & drop a copy of edubuntu on it. Now my kid knows more about navigating a linux desktop than his mom does.:-)
...what's wrong with filling up your bucket? My in-laws were considering going highspeed from dial-up but were on the fence. For $130 in wiring and equipment, I was able to tap off an open line-of sight connection that was amped up to reach 5 or 6 miles (grain elevator to grain elevator). The free wifi love lasted for 9 moths before someone re-adjusted the antennas & took their house out of the signal 'overspray'. The point? The network is still not secure (it's business connection, even). Their bandwidth wasn't used in a gluttonous way (i.e no p2p). No harm, no foul. If anything, it was to the benefit of the ISP because after the antennas were fixed, they acquired a new account.
I find most of what makes a crap-tastic fanfilm is the sub-par acting. Granted, noone's winning any best actor Oscars in any real SW film, but most geeks just can't act. The difference here I think is that Mark's getting real actors for this project. Combined with some fairly decent special effects, this should make for an enjoyable fan film.
Now, for the disclaimer - I'm friends with some of the folks with leading roles in this film. That said, the guy playing Han Solo probably does Solo better than Harrison Ford did. If you've seen "that Han Solo guy" at a con in the last 6 years, it was probably him. Plus he can act. He's been in a few independent films, including the lead role in University Heights; in which he totally stole the show.
The Chewbacca is probably the best fan-created costume out there. The guy playing chewie did almost the whole costume himself & is a super-stickler for detail. Hell, he can even vocalize a pretty decent wookie growl.
Does somebody @ NASA have a sense of humor?
I heard 'Artemis' & the first thing I thought of was Superman II. Far & Away, Terrence Stamp's Finest Performance!
"Unlike Voyager or Hubble, Cassini is in a unique position to study ring spoke phenomena at Saturn."
With Celestia, you can actually follow Cassini's path as it follows Saturn. It really puts the above statement in perspective (plus it makes u feel like an astronaut).
Most Plant genomes are crazy complex. Besides that, polyploidy is often the norm in plant chromosomes. With that much genetic material to work with, i guess you'd be bound to find a 'do-over' someplace.
Wichita, KS has @ least 3 Panera Locations, all relatively new, yet no wifi locations listed. It seems to me they they have no excuse if they're charging $5 for a mocachino:-/
For those who don't watch late-night anime -
Here...and a pictiure
It's funny; that's the 1st thing I thought of; though I imagine cyberbrains are still a ways off.
I kicked this around & noticed that it has problems handling large 2 bit rasters (B&W pixels only). This might cause problems for anyone trying to view a large fax or B&W scanned document.
If you're trying to do this on the cheap, Wolfenstein: Enemey Territory is great. Free to download, & the hardware requirements aren't all that outrageous if your computer is 3yrs old.
Over the last couple of years, the personal LANs i've attended always seem to come back to this old standby.
If ET's not your flavor of carnage, there's a listing of free games that was mentioned on/. that I can't seem to find the URL for...(anyone?)
This is reminisicent of the same philosophy m$ used to push win 3.x out on the business marketplace. The only reason a user would even open the windows shell was for minesweeper or solitaire. After all, most business apps up to that point were still programmed for DOS.
Tablet PCs are being pushed to the business world, but it'll take some play-time to get them broadly accepted.
Connect the dots.
They freeze sperm for storage. Sperm is all protein (& delicate proteins @ that), heat denatures proteins = dead lil' soldiers.
As my wife & I were trying to conceive, I made an effort to keep the laptop off of my lap for @ least the 2 months leading up to when we started trying. It sure didn't hurt; she concieved in the 1st 30 days.
Agreed. They make all these funky 5.1, 6.1 & now even 7.1 sound arrangements for PC's but you have to buy crappy (& overpriced) PC speakers in most cases to take advantage of all the plugs. Last time i built, i made sure my audio had SPDIF in/out. One cable runs neatly to the cheap $60 wal-mart amp/speaker set w/ SPDIF in. It sounds better than any other PC audio arrangment i've had. (Why oh why, did nVidia axe soundstorm?).
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My 2.5 year-old loves Gcompris and just about all the flash-based games on pbskids.org. He's got enough coordination that Pingus keeps him quite entertained too. Though not quite games, he also loves Stellarium and Celestia too. Pull that old beater box out of the boneyard & drop a copy of edubuntu on it. Now my kid knows more about navigating a linux desktop than his mom does. :-)
...what's wrong with filling up your bucket? My in-laws were considering going highspeed from dial-up but were on the fence. For $130 in wiring and equipment, I was able to tap off an open line-of sight connection that was amped up to reach 5 or 6 miles (grain elevator to grain elevator). The free wifi love lasted for 9 moths before someone re-adjusted the antennas & took their house out of the signal 'overspray'. The point? The network is still not secure (it's business connection, even). Their bandwidth wasn't used in a gluttonous way (i.e no p2p). No harm, no foul. If anything, it was to the benefit of the ISP because after the antennas were fixed, they acquired a new account.
Apparently, the school is just trying to avoid a time paradox.
Fish Pockets, here I come!
I find most of what makes a crap-tastic fanfilm is the sub-par acting. Granted, noone's winning any best actor Oscars in any real SW film, but most geeks just can't act. The difference here I think is that Mark's getting real actors for this project. Combined with some fairly decent special effects, this should make for an enjoyable fan film.
Now, for the disclaimer - I'm friends with some of the folks with leading roles in this film. That said, the guy playing Han Solo probably does Solo better than Harrison Ford did. If you've seen "that Han Solo guy" at a con in the last 6 years, it was probably him. Plus he can act. He's been in a few independent films, including the lead role in University Heights; in which he totally stole the show.
The Chewbacca is probably the best fan-created costume out there. The guy playing chewie did almost the whole costume himself & is a super-stickler for detail. Hell, he can even vocalize a pretty decent wookie growl.
"from the that's-polar-bear-country dept."
Actually, Polar bears are Arctic critters -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bears
Does somebody @ NASA have a sense of humor? I heard 'Artemis' & the first thing I thought of was Superman II.
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Far & Away, Terrence Stamp's Finest Performance!
Here are a couple of references -
http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum35/HTML/000234.h
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Movies/Superman-II-10
(I had to check myself to make sure I wasn't crazy) You'll have to scroll down a bit in each link.
"Unlike Voyager or Hubble, Cassini is in a unique position to study ring spoke phenomena at Saturn."
With Celestia, you can actually follow Cassini's path as it follows Saturn. It really puts the above statement in perspective (plus it makes u feel like an astronaut).
Anyone else remember Akklaim's marketing scheme a few years back?
Most Plant genomes are crazy complex. Besides that, polyploidy is often the norm in plant chromosomes. With that much genetic material to work with, i guess you'd be bound to find a 'do-over' someplace.
Wichita, KS has @ least 3 Panera Locations, all relatively new, yet no wifi locations listed. It seems to me they they have no excuse if they're charging $5 for a mocachino :-/
For those who don't watch late-night anime - Here ...and a pictiure
It's funny; that's the 1st thing I thought of; though I imagine cyberbrains are still a ways off.
Logitech beat them to the punch it seems; 'special paper' & all. Hell, maybe Logitech's liscensing this to Leapfrog.
I kicked this around & noticed that it has problems handling large 2 bit rasters (B&W pixels only).
This might cause problems for anyone trying to view a large fax or B&W scanned document.
If you're trying to do this on the cheap, Wolfenstein: Enemey Territory is great. Free to download, & the hardware requirements aren't all that outrageous if your computer is 3yrs old. Over the last couple of years, the personal LANs i've attended always seem to come back to this old standby. If ET's not your flavor of carnage, there's a listing of free games that was mentioned on /. that I can't seem to find the URL for...(anyone?)
This is reminisicent of the same philosophy m$ used to push win 3.x out on the business marketplace. The only reason a user would even open the windows shell was for minesweeper or solitaire. After all, most business apps up to that point were still programmed for DOS.
Tablet PCs are being pushed to the business world, but it'll take some play-time to get them broadly accepted.
Connect the dots. They freeze sperm for storage. Sperm is all protein (& delicate proteins @ that), heat denatures proteins = dead lil' soldiers. As my wife & I were trying to conceive, I made an effort to keep the laptop off of my lap for @ least the 2 months leading up to when we started trying. It sure didn't hurt; she concieved in the 1st 30 days.
Agreed. They make all these funky 5.1, 6.1 & now even 7.1 sound arrangements for PC's but you have to buy crappy (& overpriced) PC speakers in most cases to take advantage of all the plugs. Last time i built, i made sure my audio had SPDIF in/out. One cable runs neatly to the cheap $60 wal-mart amp/speaker set w/ SPDIF in. It sounds better than any other PC audio arrangment i've had. (Why oh why, did nVidia axe soundstorm?).