An very long lived female that can hang around until a male does show up, from a genetic point of view the offspring would just be a continuation of the mother. The ocean is a very large place and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a very small probability that the female could produce a male clone that was genetically identical to the mother - since you really on need about 1 male to every 300-400 females to get all the females 'knocked-up' (in most species). A new sexually reproducing population could emerge if the 'budding' produced a male 1 time out of a few hundred; in the evident all they males were killed off.
How can I explain any more clearly, in a straight forward manner - GAMES!!!
The corporate desktop market will go the way of the home market, primarily because that is what everyone will be familiar with. The home market goes the way of the power user, because home users form a circle around a power user/early adopter in the same way that everyone knows an auto mechanic. Power Users go for GAMES. Their is a limit on what people will pay for necessities, but they will spend a lot more on entertainment and luxuries.
I am forgoing the use of my moderator points on this topic because I want to express again that the dominant factor driving home desktop adoption are GAMES!!! A spreadsheet is a spreadsheet; a word processor is a word processor - if you can get passionate about excel or word - you are fucking pathetic. Getting passionate about golf, football or wow (and of course music) - that is something real people do.
Because there is a high cost to the public associated with allowing copyright: court costs, use of public airways, use of public lands for transit of broadcast fiber, excise of valuable shared resources to generate paper or electricity, etc.
If you ever run the galaxy collision simulation screen saver that comes with most linux distros you will notice that 'collisions' involving more than two galaxies often result in the core of one of the galaxies being ejected at high speed at a right angle to the plane of the host spiral.
I have looked at the code for the simulation and looks like it uses the viral theorem to simulate the motion of the spiral galaxies, but I am not an expert on orbital dynamics. Any astronomers on/. know if that behavior happens in more realistic simulations of 3+ spiral interactions?
The star is a variable, so it may periodically hammer planets in a close orbit with massive flares. If the planet was covered in a sea that might offer enough protection from the hard radiation of the flares to let life develop. It's surprising that a planet in this new orbit wasn't disrupted by the Neptune size giant closer to the star.
This implies that China's culture still has the strong strain of technophobia and fear of the new that has plagued it for the last 500 years. Chinese culture, with the full support of the government, is actively discouraging the development of a tinkerer culture. Anyone with the level of interest and inclination to innovate is likely to spend much of their life in a re-education camp.
and we had to walk eight miles to school, in the snow, uphills both ways... and you know what? We like it! Best of all that one bit doubled as a light switch.
The link is to a 'Timbaland' ring tone called 'Block Party'. It obvious from this one that it is a rip of Finnish guys song.
By the way, if that song 'Do It' is an example of Furtado's music... I still can't believe the kind of crap music that most people will buy. The Finnish guys melody is the only part of that song that isn't totally generic and pitiful.
I agree that D&D had a huge influence on CRPG and miniature wargaming had a huge impact on D&D. The first pnp rpgs grew out of existing miniatures rules.
Every 5 years one of these stories about a male pill that is going to be available shortly hits the various media outlets. They have all failed human trials for the last 20 years.
One advantage to skill-based systems is that the game designer does not have to worry about balancing classes against each other for PvP. If one skill or a combination of skills give a clear advantage in PvP every player is free to train those skills. This is also true for most types of PvE play.
A class-based system allows the designers to easily control how long it takes player to finish the PvE content. Unfortunatly, many recent games only offer large group team-based combat against scripted opponents for PvE content after a certain point. In a class based system like EQ or WoW the designers can control which of these battles the players can win by controlling the quality and rate of equipment drops for single class.
In a skill based system the players can develop skills that compensate for a lack of equipment or make the quality of their equipment much less important. This makes it likely that hard-core players will find a way to beat the top level content in the game before the designer can get new content ready for them.
I have no interesting in raiding. I like playing the 5 man instances with a group of friends. I have played a toon to 60 on alliance and horde. I enjoy the PvP when playing a warrior - the server I play horde on is PvE, but very PvP oriented so I never had much difficulty getting a bg, even before the crossworlds bg.
Playing threat management or a healer is more difficult and interesting than playing a dps class; that has kept me interesting in the game.
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I had mutliple routers and modems get burned by lightning coming in the data lines recently. The strange thing was that individual routers and modems would not work with new equipment, but each router was left with one working port that would talk to any of the modems, as long as that modem was online when the strike occurred. All the modems came from different manufacturers.
Serfs in Europe during the middle ages were required to work less hours per week. Even plantations in the Southern U.S. would have been hard pressed to get 60 hours of work per week out of their slaves.
Working voluntary overtime is one thing, but being forced to work 60 hours per week for $0.20 an hour because the Master wants to stuff more cash in his pocket is a totally different matter. That's called slavery.
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It has a little CG in it; but a classic - it 'tis not.
An very long lived female that can hang around until a male does show up, from a genetic point of view the offspring would just be a continuation of the mother. The ocean is a very large place and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a very small probability that the female could produce a male clone that was genetically identical to the mother - since you really on need about 1 male to every 300-400 females to get all the females 'knocked-up' (in most species). A new sexually reproducing population could emerge if the 'budding' produced a male 1 time out of a few hundred; in the evident all they males were killed off.
The corporate desktop market will go the way of the home market, primarily because that is what everyone will be familiar with. The home market goes the way of the power user, because home users form a circle around a power user/early adopter in the same way that everyone knows an auto mechanic. Power Users go for GAMES. Their is a limit on what people will pay for necessities, but they will spend a lot more on entertainment and luxuries.
I am forgoing the use of my moderator points on this topic because I want to express again that the dominant factor driving home desktop adoption are GAMES!!! A spreadsheet is a spreadsheet; a word processor is a word processor - if you can get passionate about excel or word - you are fucking pathetic. Getting passionate about golf, football or wow (and of course music) - that is something real people do.
Because there is a high cost to the public associated with allowing copyright: court costs, use of public airways, use of public lands for transit of broadcast fiber, excise of valuable shared resources to generate paper or electricity, etc.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999 /09/21577
I love how these articles about Human vs Great Ape DNA always ignore the fact that Humans have 46 chromosome and Great Apes have 48.
I have looked at the code for the simulation and looks like it uses the viral theorem to simulate the motion of the spiral galaxies, but I am not an expert on orbital dynamics. Any astronomers on /. know if that behavior happens in more realistic simulations of 3+ spiral interactions?
It's good to see that somebody is still finding a use for those old foxfire catalogs.
The star is a variable, so it may periodically hammer planets in a close orbit with massive flares. If the planet was covered in a sea that might offer enough protection from the hard radiation of the flares to let life develop. It's surprising that a planet in this new orbit wasn't disrupted by the Neptune size giant closer to the star.
Very well stated.
Inform Al and Madonna and the Police! We need a Solar Aid Concert!
This implies that China's culture still has the strong strain of technophobia and fear of the new that has plagued it for the last 500 years. Chinese culture, with the full support of the government, is actively discouraging the development of a tinkerer culture. Anyone with the level of interest and inclination to innovate is likely to spend much of their life in a re-education camp.
and we had to walk eight miles to school, in the snow, uphills both ways ... and you know what? We like it! Best of all that one bit doubled as a light switch.
and my threshing machine also.
The link is to a 'Timbaland' ring tone called 'Block Party'. It obvious from this one that it is a rip of Finnish guys song. By the way, if that song 'Do It' is an example of Furtado's music... I still can't believe the kind of crap music that most people will buy. The Finnish guys melody is the only part of that song that isn't totally generic and pitiful.
I agree that D&D had a huge influence on CRPG and miniature wargaming had a huge impact on D&D. The first pnp rpgs grew out of existing miniatures rules.
Every 5 years one of these stories about a male pill that is going to be available shortly hits the various media outlets. They have all failed human trials for the last 20 years.
ahhh, now I can relax.
Anyone else have another estimate?
Sounds like he went out doing what he loved. That's as good a way to go as there is. I never would have figured a stingray though.
A class-based system allows the designers to easily control how long it takes player to finish the PvE content. Unfortunatly, many recent games only offer large group team-based combat against scripted opponents for PvE content after a certain point. In a class based system like EQ or WoW the designers can control which of these battles the players can win by controlling the quality and rate of equipment drops for single class.
In a skill based system the players can develop skills that compensate for a lack of equipment or make the quality of their equipment much less important. This makes it likely that hard-core players will find a way to beat the top level content in the game before the designer can get new content ready for them.
Playing threat management or a healer is more difficult and interesting than playing a dps class; that has kept me interesting in the game.
I had mutliple routers and modems get burned by lightning coming in the data lines recently. The strange thing was that individual routers and modems would not work with new equipment, but each router was left with one working port that would talk to any of the modems, as long as that modem was online when the strike occurred. All the modems came from different manufacturers.
Working voluntary overtime is one thing, but being forced to work 60 hours per week for $0.20 an hour because the Master wants to stuff more cash in his pocket is a totally different matter. That's called slavery.
This is the typical argument made by slave owners throughout history when the immorality and evil of the system is pointed out.