I'd like to take this moment to bring to your attention a delightful piece of science fiction - "The Lotus Caves" by John Christopher. It's set on the moon, where two boys go for an illegal trip in a moon buggy and crash into some caves where a massive intelligent plant lives.
It is mentioned once by one of the main characters that they might have the technology to bring smells to teleconferencing. His father instantly dismisses the idea, because he regards the sense of smell as being the strongest of the senses (and possibly too overwhelming). The bastard author never mentions this again, and I hate him for it. It seems like an important hanging thread in an otherwise satisfying story of lunar flora.
My sense of smell changes a lot - if I have a headache, it seems I can smell everything, and everything smells like pain. But mostly it's poor, thank goodness.
Come on - that's when you start staring.
Hard stare = cut hard.
Deep and meaningful stare = cut deep, or kiss the surgeon.
1000-yard stare = sever an artery and go to sleep with the sweet sweet sounds of 'Nam ringing in your ears.
Although, really, it's a robot. How softly can it move a scalpel?
Well, the only drivers I installed were the video drivers. I suspect it may have something to do with Vista 64-bit, since I haven't had any trouble with XP or Ubuntu. I switched up so I could use the extra RAM and get DX10 effects, but it's been such a tiring experience that I'm sick of trying to fix it.
Actual poor performance on systems that actually meet the minimum requirements?
I don't know about the minimum requirements, but my Intel Q6600 (2.4GHz quad-core) machine with a nice new hard drive and motherboard, all drivers carefully installed and running on 2GB of RAM (because >3GB makes Vista 64-bit bluescreen, even during the install, and the patch isn't installing) takes a long time to start doing anything.
Let's say you're copying some files. The actual copying isn't that bad, but waiting for the copy window to appear might take a full minute. Starting an application is my cue to sit back and maybe make myself a drink. I'm going back to XP because a friend with an 8800GT and similar specs gets 700+FPS in a Q3 timedemo, whereas the overhead of Vista drops my two 8800GTs in SLI to ~400 FPS. DirectX 10 in Crysis isn't worth the waiting (and the shame).
I heard that before parades in the Soviet Union, jets would pass overhead if it were cloudy, to disperse the clouds. An incredible waste of fuel, if true, but a clear sky IS nice for a good parade.
That seems expensive and prone to errors. Better, I say, to have the room as a section of a corridor, with walls that can be pushed up and down the corridor whilst still keeping a perfect seal. Then if you want less pressure, you just push the walls back:)
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There was an interesting experiment mentioned in The Economist, years ago. If you glance at a clock with a second hand, there's a good chance you'll think that the second hand has stopped, before it moves on to the next tick. This happens if you catch the second hand at the start of a second. The reasoning behind this illusion was that when you see something suddenly, your brain extends the experience back into the past (I can't remember why, perhaps something to do with fixing the lag), so it can appear that the second hand is spending more than one second on the first position you see it.
This certainly does happen, not even just with clocks - try watching the graphs in your task manager - and I hate it:)
Is this true? Because I would be of the opinion you'd just need a lot more launch power, launch from east to west, then point directly back along earth's orbit until you're basically standing still relative to the sun. Then you play the waiting game, and place your bets on whether the shot hits Venus or Mercury on the way in:)
Mario generally goes in feet-first, for some reason I don't fully understand. Unless the pipe is above him, in which case he floats into it. He keeps his hands by his sides, which may not be advisable - he could take up less space, width-wise, if he put them above his head.
I play the violin in my spare time. I don't play more than a couple of hours at a time, but I certainly don't feel much worse for it. Build up some muscles, it's not hard and won't kill you.
scruffylookingbotherder is the hardest sequence of words I've had to read all week. I may have to make it a password. First I thought it was a reference to Scruffy from Futurama. Then I thought something was a bother. Then I saw both erders, bothered ers, butchers, looking over the border, etc.
My apologies, that's awesome. You'd never be allowed to use it as a passenger craft, though, if it can't glide in case of engine failure. Looks like an inverted flying lawnmower!
Which one of the Wright brothers are you? I mean, try to imagine what you're describing, but instead of a longitudinally mounted turbine, let's have a... propeller...
I'm with you 100% on all this. I don't understand why people whine so fucking much about how speeding cameras are set up to catch them and raise revenue, when all they're doing is catching people breaking the law.
I got my first speeding fine two days ago - I've only been driving for 8 years. 68 in a 60 zone, near a school in the Melbourne suburbs. Oh well, look, they got me, I'll have to be more careful. Shouldn't that be everyone's attitude, more than this "bah, they lowered the limit to catch me" bullshit? It reminds me of soccer players raising their arms to contest every little thing.
Given the incredible price drop for HDD space this year, I think sacrificing 10GB for a new OS, especially if it's going to self-heal, is a no-brainer.
Monitors for women! No need to go anywhere to check up on your hair, just switch on "mirror" mode.
Of course, I don't think the cameras will be that good, but I am excited about being able to hold paper up to the screen and then throwing it in the recycle bin.
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The comment is rapidly disappearing off the main video page due to a debate over the dancer's sexuality...
StaceyLovesHimxx: lmao
good song (ed: this is a blatant lie)
shame about the guy whos obviously had too much e
I hear the next big thing is powdered Tibetan penis.
It is mentioned once by one of the main characters that they might have the technology to bring smells to teleconferencing. His father instantly dismisses the idea, because he regards the sense of smell as being the strongest of the senses (and possibly too overwhelming). The bastard author never mentions this again, and I hate him for it. It seems like an important hanging thread in an otherwise satisfying story of lunar flora.
My sense of smell changes a lot - if I have a headache, it seems I can smell everything, and everything smells like pain. But mostly it's poor, thank goodness.
Hey. I rain-dance. Fuck you!
Hard stare = cut hard.
Deep and meaningful stare = cut deep, or kiss the surgeon.
1000-yard stare = sever an artery and go to sleep with the sweet sweet sounds of 'Nam ringing in your ears.
Although, really, it's a robot. How softly can it move a scalpel?
Well, the only drivers I installed were the video drivers. I suspect it may have something to do with Vista 64-bit, since I haven't had any trouble with XP or Ubuntu. I switched up so I could use the extra RAM and get DX10 effects, but it's been such a tiring experience that I'm sick of trying to fix it.
Let's say you're copying some files. The actual copying isn't that bad, but waiting for the copy window to appear might take a full minute. Starting an application is my cue to sit back and maybe make myself a drink. I'm going back to XP because a friend with an 8800GT and similar specs gets 700+FPS in a Q3 timedemo, whereas the overhead of Vista drops my two 8800GTs in SLI to ~400 FPS. DirectX 10 in Crysis isn't worth the waiting (and the shame).
I heard that before parades in the Soviet Union, jets would pass overhead if it were cloudy, to disperse the clouds. An incredible waste of fuel, if true, but a clear sky IS nice for a good parade.
That seems expensive and prone to errors. Better, I say, to have the room as a section of a corridor, with walls that can be pushed up and down the corridor whilst still keeping a perfect seal. Then if you want less pressure, you just push the walls back :)
One (1) metric fucktonne.
There was an interesting experiment mentioned in The Economist, years ago. If you glance at a clock with a second hand, there's a good chance you'll think that the second hand has stopped, before it moves on to the next tick. This happens if you catch the second hand at the start of a second. The reasoning behind this illusion was that when you see something suddenly, your brain extends the experience back into the past (I can't remember why, perhaps something to do with fixing the lag), so it can appear that the second hand is spending more than one second on the first position you see it.
:)
This certainly does happen, not even just with clocks - try watching the graphs in your task manager - and I hate it
Is this true? Because I would be of the opinion you'd just need a lot more launch power, launch from east to west, then point directly back along earth's orbit until you're basically standing still relative to the sun. Then you play the waiting game, and place your bets on whether the shot hits Venus or Mercury on the way in :)
Mario generally goes in feet-first, for some reason I don't fully understand. Unless the pipe is above him, in which case he floats into it. He keeps his hands by his sides, which may not be advisable - he could take up less space, width-wise, if he put them above his head.
I play the violin in my spare time. I don't play more than a couple of hours at a time, but I certainly don't feel much worse for it. Build up some muscles, it's not hard and won't kill you.
scruffylookingbotherder is the hardest sequence of words I've had to read all week. I may have to make it a password. First I thought it was a reference to Scruffy from Futurama. Then I thought something was a bother. Then I saw both erders, bothered ers, butchers, looking over the border, etc.
My apologies, that's awesome. You'd never be allowed to use it as a passenger craft, though, if it can't glide in case of engine failure. Looks like an inverted flying lawnmower!
Which one of the Wright brothers are you? I mean, try to imagine what you're describing, but instead of a longitudinally mounted turbine, let's have a... propeller...
I'm with you 100% on all this. I don't understand why people whine so fucking much about how speeding cameras are set up to catch them and raise revenue, when all they're doing is catching people breaking the law.
I got my first speeding fine two days ago - I've only been driving for 8 years. 68 in a 60 zone, near a school in the Melbourne suburbs. Oh well, look, they got me, I'll have to be more careful. Shouldn't that be everyone's attitude, more than this "bah, they lowered the limit to catch me" bullshit? It reminds me of soccer players raising their arms to contest every little thing.
Given the incredible price drop for HDD space this year, I think sacrificing 10GB for a new OS, especially if it's going to self-heal, is a no-brainer.
For Street Fighter, I believe 8 directions would cover 100% of the directions you could possibly get hit from.
Monitors for women! No need to go anywhere to check up on your hair, just switch on "mirror" mode. Of course, I don't think the cameras will be that good, but I am excited about being able to hold paper up to the screen and then throwing it in the recycle bin.
Whoever they are, you may sleep safely in your beds. Terrorists are not in charge of Gundam.
I am somewhat concerned that they may be in charge of Gundam.
And if not, why not?