OrbWeaver
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Maximius has put me off the planet earth. I think I'll go to space instead.
...where you can enjoy a nice dose of ionising radiation to mask the effects of all those Earthly toxins.
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I don't do travelling at all, because I can't be bothered with the hassle and risk. I was mentioning this to a colleague, and saying how I did not want to go to some country and find myself arrested for some ridiculous law that I did not even know about and held without trial with no legal rights - thinking of places like Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Her response: "You don't have to go to America."
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I know, how about a semitransparent pop-up menu with a series of text options that appears whenever you approach an interactive object.
Even better, let's devote the rightmost quarter of the screen to a permanently-visible inventory window with animated icons that could be dragged-and-dropped onto world objects in order to interact with them.
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Actually I bought an SLI board so that I can extend the life of my board. I put just one card in it, and when the graphics start getting choppy, maybe 2 years down the road, the price of the exact same card will have dropped (it's already dropped by $90 in 6 months)
Are you sure that you get a better price/performance ratio by doing this, rather than just upgrading to a newer single graphics card?
Two years down the road, the midrange single cards will probably be faster than your two-year-old SLI setup.
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You know that there are certain areas of the brain which focus on certain behaviours, so it's obvious that if someone had a ridiculosly high number of synapses or neurons in an area of the brain dealing with being good at maths, or languages or music (Mozart was also good at all of these things) then you're goign to be able to do it better than the average person.
That is only partially true. There are areas of the brain that tend to deal with certain abilities in a developed person, but this is not as fixed as you might think.
For example, in most people the left hemisphere deals with rational and deductive thought, as well as language. If you sustain an injury to the left hemisphere then you will almost certainly suffer a partial loss of these abilities. However, a hemiplegic who is born with only a functioning right hemisphere is still capable of developing language skills, as the right hemisphere takes over the duties that would normally arise in the left.
Similarly, the part of the brain that processes auditory information can learn to deal with visual information if it is reconnected so as to receive data from the eyes instead of the ears. It seems likely that instead of being a compartmentalised set of discrete processing units, the brain is in fact a giant network that can adapt its function on the basis of the information that is fed to it (although this ability does deteriorate with age).
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I could probably get used to it, but I also find that staring at the monitor, even for short amounts of time, makes me feel a slight sense of vertigo and nausea.
Check the refresh rate. On a CRT I can't stand anything less than 85 Hz, although some people don't even notice when it's 60 Hz.
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Now if any of you have read it, the guy never claims to be a creationist or argues that all structures in a cell look like they have been designed, he just points to a group of examples and demonstrates that there is no way under current theroy that they could have evolved.
He doesn't demonstrate that, because it is not true. There is nothing that couldn't have evolved, and that is a fact. Anybody claiming otherwise doesn't understand evolutionary theory.
That is not to say that evolution itself is a fact, obviously it is a theory and I.D. could be true. However the common assertion that evolution cannot account for certain things is just propaganda and is not supported by science.
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Also, the idea that people who beleive in creationism are idiots is going too far.
Issac Newton, who is arguably the greatest scientific, analytical and dediuctive genius of all time was devoutly religious, and spent more of his time devoted to theology than to science.
I agree, there are plenty of very intelligent people who hold religious beliefs, including Creationism. They don't become idiots until they start ramming their beliefs down other people's throats, through legislation, war or other efforts.
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Perhaps God was having fun trying different designs?
Perhaps. Perhaps we are all in the Matrix and nothing really exists anyway.
As for human eyes, they seem to work well enough for most people-using apparent 'flaws' in their design to throw out the idea that they were designed doesnt quite hold water.It throws out the idea that they were designed by a "perfect" designer, which is what God is assumed to be. It is possible that they could have been designed by a less-than-perfect designer, such as a junior member of an alien master race, but there is no reason to believe such without any evidence.
The Dromed Editor is a horribly constructed piece of crap but it was made by 'I.D.' by people who made some of the greatest FPS games of all time.Irrelevant, the designers of Dromed were never held to be perfect or omnipotent.
Perhaps if humans were created by God, it's possible that we've degenerated over time, looking at our technology that pollutes as much as it gives us in material things and the diet most of us eat no wonder why our minds and bodies look like crap.If humans can devolve over time, why can they not evolve overtime? Creationism maintains that humans have not changed since they were created, not that they can change but only in one direction.
Really? So if I'm a person that believes in Creation I'm an idiot by default? Do most of you agree with that assumption? If so perhaps I should reconsider my participation in your project, after all you wouldnt want stupid people on the team right?
That is a very emotional reaction. If your beliefs are sound it does not matter whether other people agree with them or not. If you refuse to work with people who don't share your beliefs, then that suggests that the beliefs are not all that secure in the first place.
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However, recording full DVDs is going too far if you're intending to sell them, which a lot of people do, especially porn movies.
Commercial infringement tends to be slapped down hard, and so it should be.
Also, there's no way you can pretend you're going to buy it, obviously if you've rented it, watched it, and now have recorded a copy, you haven't the slightest intention of buying it.True, but renting is not free. I don't feel bad about ripping rented movies (for personal use, I never share anything) because I have already paid for the rental which I think is an appropriate price for a personal copy of a movie, rather than the retail price which is artificially inflated.
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Technically I think it is illegal just about everywhere, but nobody has ever been successfully convicted because of it.
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In the alpha 0.002 build the rope arrows seem to be of fixed length. Is this a temporary thing or are they going to be like this in the real game?
I actually quite like the fixed length idea, as it makes it more challenging to position the arrow correctly and is more realistic since there is no magic rope extension involved.
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Schools have never been intended to produce "intelligent" people. They are there to get people into employment and therefore paying taxes to the government. Whether this is best achieved through manual labour, academic subjects or "vocational skills" depends on the economy at the time.
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I always like it when they say "we do not accept return or refund".
No, but the shop has to by law, and once they start losing money this way they will stop stocking your broken CDs.
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You can already travel to Mars using existing rocket technology in a matter of 2 weeks if you go in a straight line.
I think the problem with such travel is not the actual distance, but the amount of fuel needed to accelerate to that sort of speed (which increases the mass of the craft, therefore requiring even more fuel, and so on).
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I'm awfully sorry, but my reply to this is RTFM. Frankly I am appalled that someone not reading the instructions properly can ever, ever, EVER, be given as a reason for not implementing a sensible feature that is gameplay enhancing.
It's a goddamn computer game, not a professional engineering simulation. If it requires a manual to understand the interface there is something seriously wrong with the design.
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Normally frobbing something does not involve the loss of resources or equipment, unless the resource was selected in the inventory first. Changing this dynamic is likely to cause considerable confusion to users.
"Oh look, I can put out all these torces by frobbing them. Hey, where did my water arrows go?".
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It's only the speed that's relative.
Thats' why sci-fi shows like star wars and star trek are nonsense.
Not to mention the noisy explosions and constant whooshing of spacecraft.
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The moon, BTW, does not really 'circle' the earth, it's more a case of zig-zag's back and forth as the earth goes around the sun, which from our point of view makes it look like the moon is circling the earth.
All motion is relative, there is no such thing as absolute motion. Therefore the "path" taken by any object will be different depending on your frame of reference.
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Hahahha - I can't believe you fell for that.
THat's what you get for trying to be a smartass, there's always someone who knows more than you...
Don't assume that because I didn't mention it, I wasn't aware of it.
THe Earth does not orbit around the sun, the Earth orbits around a common center of gravity it shares with the sun (which granted,is quite close to the center of the sun, becasue of the huge differential in mass, but Jupiter's comon center of gravity is right out side the Sun)Indeed. Although if you want to be picky, the Earth still does orbit "around the Sun", just not around the Sun's centre of mass.
Anyway, if you're going to celebrate that orbit, then there's equal reason to celebrate the Moon's orbit around the common center of gravity it shares with the Earth every month, becasue technically speaking, the Earth also orbits that center of gravity as well.Which is why I don't celebrate any such event. I don't see the point in celebrating something which happens regularly and affects everyone, the only things worth celebrating in my view are significant one-off achievements (getting promoted, graduation, releasing the Dark Mod, whatever is of value to the individual concerned).
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The time it takes for the Earth to complete a single orbit around the Sun.
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Centuries and milleniums are just artefacts of the human calendar and counting system. At least years have an actual astronomical basis.
Not that I celebrate any of them.
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Miami Holiday
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There was an article on Slashdot about that recently. I think the idea is that you would be able to sue people who post hundreds of spam comments on your blog, rather than just one or two comments that you didn't like (which would be protected by the First Amendment anyway unless they were libellous).
The whole "rider" thing in America though is crap - it makes a mockery of democracy when you can pass any law you want by tacking it onto something else which is going to pass no matter what.