Yeah, Lazerbeak was the first thing that popped into my head before I even finished reading the summary!
This definitely sounds like Lazerbeak, with the reporting to its handlers and all. BUT, in terms of cool ships that perch, there can be only one: Hawk's fighter, from Buck Rogers. That series had easily some of the coolest space tech ever, rivalling White Stars in B5 and BSG's Mk I Vipers (which were designed by the same guy). I loved that series, and BSG and all too, but Hawk's fighter (and that whole Hawk character concept) just blew me away as a kid.
I'm really surprised how hard it is to find example of his ship online. I'm sure the entire episodes are available somewhere, but this is the best page I can find:
Nowadays you'd need a separate transformer to be able to turn into a cassette player to play it back, good luck finding one elsewhere!
Hold on now. When one has to transform to interface with the other, it's just adaptation. When both have to transform to interface in some unusual way, it's called a kink.
Seriously though, you might want to give it a try. I know you want to do ever-more-outrageous things in console games (like shooting people), but that's because the main theme of the game (interaction with the controls, possible results, learning to master it) get boring really quickly. In real life, all of these things are much more varied and interesting; different bows, different strings, your muscles on different days, different wind, different targets, different people to compete with, different arrows, different flights. Even just the pain as a string hits your hand to remind you that you're doing it all wrong. You might even find that (*gasp*) you don't need to kill people to have fun.
Don't forget to add things that aren't immediately obvious. It's one thing saying that MDMA is safer than riding a horse, if you're judging by the number of broken legs. It's another to figure out how many 40 year olds have bad memories due to aging, and how many wouldn't have had bad memories for another 30 years, if they hadn't messed around with drugs.
So now we've established that there IS an effect. What effect do you think that is? Influence, perhaps? Because if that's true, then harm is established, since the medical consequences of marijuana are well acknowledged, except by (current) users and die-hard hippies. If the harm is there, and the influence is there, then the point is well made.
The same principle applies to you. My smoking of marijuana while posting on slashdot does not harm your body, your personal property, nor your rights, therefore you have no justification to stop my activity here in my private home.
If you believe that you can be in a society and not affect other members of your society (especially the young, impressionable ones, and the ones that aren't so happy with their status quo), then you've been doing drugs way too long.
It's funny how people are singling out IE6. As if IE8 doesn't have big problems, or IE4 wasn't a nightmare. I don't think there's been ANY version of IE that didn't have a bad reputation.
Spielberg is working with MS on this, but I think Lucas would be a better fit. I for one would LOVE a Jedi Knight-like game where you could run through forests and ruins and ships, actually running on a treadmill surface, jump using its programmed-resistance semi-trampoline qualities, jumping higher as your force powers increase and the surface resistance is lowered, etc.
But since it's just another tool of microsoft's monopoly, I'll have to wait 'til it becomes commoditised. No worries though, logitech will make a higher-quality version anyway, once the time is right for this to go mainstream. By then, it'll be the year of the linux HUD anyway.
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This definitely sounds like Lazerbeak, with the reporting to its handlers and all. BUT, in terms of cool ships that perch, there can be only one: Hawk's fighter, from Buck Rogers. That series had easily some of the coolest space tech ever, rivalling White Stars in B5 and BSG's Mk I Vipers (which were designed by the same guy). I loved that series, and BSG and all too, but Hawk's fighter (and that whole Hawk character concept) just blew me away as a kid.
I'm really surprised how hard it is to find example of his ship online. I'm sure the entire episodes are available somewhere, but this is the best page I can find:
http://www.tvacres.com/aliens_hawk.htm
http://www.tvacres.com/images/spacecraft_hawk_fighter4.jpg
Hold on now. When one has to transform to interface with the other, it's just adaptation. When both have to transform to interface in some unusual way, it's called a kink.
Whine, whine, whine.
Clearly the real question is, can we combine this brain reading tech with a Reprap v5, to produce monsters from the id? ;)
I liked the other thing you were going to say much better.
I hope you don't twitch under extreme pain. Could end up in some kind of endlessly recursive feedback loop. Which would hurt. Muchly.
And "narrow" as in "a straight line"? ;)
Seriously though, you might want to give it a try. I know you want to do ever-more-outrageous things in console games (like shooting people), but that's because the main theme of the game (interaction with the controls, possible results, learning to master it) get boring really quickly. In real life, all of these things are much more varied and interesting; different bows, different strings, your muscles on different days, different wind, different targets, different people to compete with, different arrows, different flights. Even just the pain as a string hits your hand to remind you that you're doing it all wrong. You might even find that (*gasp*) you don't need to kill people to have fun.
Don't forget to add things that aren't immediately obvious. It's one thing saying that MDMA is safer than riding a horse, if you're judging by the number of broken legs. It's another to figure out how many 40 year olds have bad memories due to aging, and how many wouldn't have had bad memories for another 30 years, if they hadn't messed around with drugs.
So now we've established that there IS an effect. What effect do you think that is? Influence, perhaps? Because if that's true, then harm is established, since the medical consequences of marijuana are well acknowledged, except by (current) users and die-hard hippies. If the harm is there, and the influence is there, then the point is well made.
If you believe that you can be in a society and not affect other members of your society (especially the young, impressionable ones, and the ones that aren't so happy with their status quo), then you've been doing drugs way too long.
No, no... it's the punters who are like a series of tubes.
Ermm.. with all due respect, the US administration started it.
Except that you're here on the net interacting with thousands directly and probably billions indirectly.
Sage advice indeed. Moats and Goats, LLC sounds like a firm I'd like to do business with. I especially like the "moat-bound Kraken" solution.
Then stop playing on consoles, and go join an archery club.
Thanks, but... I'm not in North America, you insensitive clod ;)
I just assumed they were talking about her decision to ignore reality.
Excellent. So then, the formula I need will be:
(num_users * keyboard_price) + (num_users * large_reptile_price * crocodiles_per_moat)
?
It's funny how people are singling out IE6. As if IE8 doesn't have big problems, or IE4 wasn't a nightmare. I don't think there's been ANY version of IE that didn't have a bad reputation.
Hold on a sec. They're...
I'm having a little trouble with imagining how it could be efficient to do that for every lightbulb sold.
Yeah, trying to make music on a RAM chip can do that to you. You should be a pal and buy him an ocarina.
Spielberg is working with MS on this, but I think Lucas would be a better fit. I for one would LOVE a Jedi Knight-like game where you could run through forests and ruins and ships, actually running on a treadmill surface, jump using its programmed-resistance semi-trampoline qualities, jumping higher as your force powers increase and the surface resistance is lowered, etc.
But since it's just another tool of microsoft's monopoly, I'll have to wait 'til it becomes commoditised. No worries though, logitech will make a higher-quality version anyway, once the time is right for this to go mainstream. By then, it'll be the year of the linux HUD anyway.
racist much?
I think the GP was correct. For example, this Objective C code:
is hardly more verbose than:
and that becomes much more of an issue when you accumulate those small extra namespace prefixes over a whole program.
That's gotta be sore on the neck.