A lot of it depends on the local demographic. I live in a college town, and the (very) local EB had 36 preorders today. BTW, I called them at 9:30am and all of the preorders were gone...:\...guess I'm camping launch eve...
I agreed with your comment for a second before realizing that creating 'better suited' condors, for instance, is really avoiding the issue. Are they endangered because they're not fit for the environment anymore, or because of catastrophic changes in that environment caused by human interference?
It's sort of like putting more air in a tire day after day because it keeps going flat. Wouldn't it be better to patch the hole?
We should try to stop crapping on the enviroment before wasting research $$ on creating super-condors that use smog as a fuel source.
how can it possibly take longer to do it again...?
The world is a different place, my friend. We didn't lose the blueprint, we won the Space Race to the moon. The politically-driven R&D that got us to the moon the first time is not enough to get us back there again. It takes money. With NASA having to justify its own existence on a daily basis, funds are hard to come by.
Maybe if the Russians were trying to beat us to Mars, the landscape of American Space Exploration would be different.
Oh, and FYI, the flag placed on the moon by America has long been deteriorated into dust by solar radiation, so everyone can put away their telescopes.:(
...it obviously represents a huge paradigm shift for civilization. We'll be able to stop destroying our climate with green-house gases and keep our air clean (or rather, as clean as it is now, assuming the new process has no destructive by-products). Feeding the poor, curing cancer, and world peace are sure to follow. Excess power is a great thing, of course.
None of this, however, will ever stop my horrible Game Gear flashbacks...
Patents for video game concepts might be a good thing. IMHO, fat plumbers and bullet-time should never meet.
The problem lies in developers trying to "blanket patent" a concept that is great for gaming as a whole. Imagine an internet geek trying to patent/trademark "use of acronyms to condense common phrases"...LOL(tm)
PS - "blanket patent" is a trademark.
You'll have to find another way to compensate for your tiny penis.
This model fan is apparently just that... a model. This guy says that the ginormous fan was just a model of the _real_ fans.
"Has anyone created a worm (of the malicious network variety) that can survive having pieces hacked off?"
It depends on how you define 'heart'. Viruses are written in modules, each having a well defined function/purpose. If by heart you mean a module that contributes to the virus' longevity, then any attribute of the virus can be considered a 'heart'.
The main 'heart' (and most elegant, IMHO) of a virus is the replicator; the part of the code that allows it to spread. It is very possible for a virus to have multiple ways of spreading (email attachment, boot sector, eEye, etc). This means that if one of the hearts is 'cut off' (eg. can't email copy of self due to lost internet connection), it still can 'survive' by using it's other replication techniques, although it is 'injured'.
This same concept can be extended to the payload modules, with different 'drop' scenarios constituting 'hearts'.
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I wish they did this for Amplitude. It's a shame that there won't be any others (according to Harmonix).
"World's Largest Supercooled Magnet Activated"
...that's what she said. ;)
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A lot of it depends on the local demographic. I live in a college town, and the (very) local EB had 36 preorders today. BTW, I called them at 9:30am and all of the preorders were gone... :\ ...guess I'm camping launch eve...
...and you're just missing the point. ;)
maybe it's supposed to be stupid-funny for adults? like the adventure of ....(trumpets) TROJAN-MAN!
;)
...except for virgins
...welcome our disabled rodent overlords.
I agreed with your comment for a second before realizing that creating 'better suited' condors, for instance, is really avoiding the issue. Are they endangered because they're not fit for the environment anymore, or because of catastrophic changes in that environment caused by human interference? It's sort of like putting more air in a tire day after day because it keeps going flat. Wouldn't it be better to patch the hole? We should try to stop crapping on the enviroment before wasting research $$ on creating super-condors that use smog as a fuel source.
...Priceless...
A grammar checker would hurt.. ;) ...did I spell grammar right?
I was just gonna say that...
:)
Seriously though, no matter how much I learn/study/pay tuition, there're always posts that make me realize how little I know about anything.
It's both humbling and inspiring.
Off topic, but someone had to say it...
This is overkill. What about script kiddies? Do we kill them, too? Many of us went through a "hacker" stage, and have become better IT folks for it.
If this doesn't work we should try eating babies.
how can it possibly take longer to do it again...?
:(
The world is a different place, my friend. We didn't lose the blueprint, we won the Space Race to the moon. The politically-driven R&D that got us to the moon the first time is not enough to get us back there again. It takes money. With NASA having to justify its own existence on a daily basis, funds are hard to come by.
Maybe if the Russians were trying to beat us to Mars, the landscape of American Space Exploration would be different.
Oh, and FYI, the flag placed on the moon by America has long been deteriorated into dust by solar radiation, so everyone can put away their telescopes.
...it obviously represents a huge paradigm shift for civilization. We'll be able to stop destroying our climate with green-house gases and keep our air clean (or rather, as clean as it is now, assuming the new process has no destructive by-products). Feeding the poor, curing cancer, and world peace are sure to follow. Excess power is a great thing, of course.
None of this, however, will ever stop my horrible Game Gear flashbacks...
*shudders*
Patents for video game concepts might be a good thing. IMHO, fat plumbers and bullet-time should never meet. The problem lies in developers trying to "blanket patent" a concept that is great for gaming as a whole. Imagine an internet geek trying to patent/trademark "use of acronyms to condense common phrases"...LOL(tm) PS - "blanket patent" is a trademark.
...joints in the right hand.... Sounds like these things could handle a firearm. "There is no spoon."
You'll have to find another way to compensate for your tiny penis. This model fan is apparently just that... a model. This guy says that the ginormous fan was just a model of the _real_ fans.
"Has anyone created a worm (of the malicious network variety) that can survive having pieces hacked off?"
It depends on how you define 'heart'. Viruses are written in modules, each having a well defined function/purpose. If by heart you mean a module that contributes to the virus' longevity, then any attribute of the virus can be considered a 'heart'.
The main 'heart' (and most elegant, IMHO) of a virus is the replicator; the part of the code that allows it to spread. It is very possible for a virus to have multiple ways of spreading (email attachment, boot sector, eEye, etc). This means that if one of the hearts is 'cut off' (eg. can't email copy of self due to lost internet connection), it still can 'survive' by using it's other replication techniques, although it is 'injured'.
This same concept can be extended to the payload modules, with different 'drop' scenarios constituting 'hearts'.
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Hopefully this contains a rider revoking the REAL ID law. I love this country!