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Like there's a Smartfetch or whatever feature that notes your program usage and keeps the ones you use most often pre-loaded in the RAM. Which is okay for normal people, but it slows things down after a while, and it's a couple of hoops to jump through to turn it off. This sounds like it could help...

Maxus wrote:Ahhhh. Thank you.

I'm not that good with the squishy parts of science; my mine interest in biology begins about when the critter is covered in sediment and fossilized.

I paraphrased Wikipedia, so I can take no credit for the explanation.

Oh, I agree that it's an oversimplification, but it's not too far off. The first half of adolescence has certain body parts speaking very loudly to the brain. I'm pretty sure it's a result of genetic drift (or flow. I can NEVER keep those two straight...); Back Inna Dawna Time, the people/creatures...

On the subject of Blu-Ray, what do people think the odds are that it'll actually succeed? When DVDs replaced VCR tapes there was an enormous upgrade in terms of what the consumer got - instant scene skip, multiple sound and subtitle tracks, and so on. Blu-Ray doesn't add anything in that respect (t...

Jovian, "All-powerful" and "all-knowing" are not tightly specified enough. They are trying to get you to be very specific so that you cannot use loose definitions to endlessly evade lines of reasoning that you do not like. More to the point, your inability to define the thing you...

What the fuck is a fequentist? A person who believes Probability applies only to repeatable events. I.e. Probability measures the frequency with which event A occurs under a particular set of conditions. There are also Bayesians, who interpret Probability to mean the certainty associated with a fac...

This is besides the fact that trying to apply probability to the existence of God is retarded. Seriously. How the hell do you judge a probability of an omnipotent being's existence? Short answer: you don't. Either He exists or He doesn't, and believing one or the other is ultimately just shooting c...

The bigger problem is that now that Poland has passed this, a number of the wacko fringe Conservatives will be calling for similar laws in the UK and US. The more we blow paedophilia out of proportion with its incidence and damage, the worse things are going to get.

A Hammer wrote:Edit: Okay, trying to put in a link that isn't cut off was less than successful. Is there something wrong with the [ url ] tag, or something?

Yes.

ubernoob wrote:

Utterfail wrote:Lastly, ubernoob, the more I see your avatar, the more it creeps me out.

I'm gunna need an explanation here. Like, stat. You can't be bashing on Rayne's favorite niece.

It's not a particularly human face. The big wattery eyes and the malformed face make it look kinda inhuman.

Kaelik wrote:I think the new forum has different character limits on posts, and removed the section.

I remember someone posting an entire novel in a single post on this forum, so I don't believe that's true.

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1. Is there a surefire way of changing the sleeping pattern? 2. If I just regulate it with sleeping pills at night, caffeine pills/Red Eye in the morning and coke throughout the day, is there really a chance of the chemicals having any lasting effects on me? All they'd be mixing with is Venlafaxine...

Mechanical loom.

Automation has been around for over 2 centuries. Why the fuck are we doom'n'glooming now, of all times?

Despite Ubernoob's experience and your own, I've found the vast majority of players I've spoken to find that the best spells fairly frequently don't end combat on round 1 until very high levels. That's because both of you are talking past each other. When Roy talks about ending combat, he means tha...

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This is beautiful. Were any Denners around for it?

It takes two and a half minutes to fill a 5' cube - the standard battlemat square - at 20th level using Create Water. Yes, that will drown people if it can be kept together in the cube, but it's not sufficient when it spreads out over an entire floor. If there's a drainage system (which a dungeon sh...

So people used Guns in the real world, NO FUCKING SHIT I'm sorry if the first thought going through my head is that this may JUST MAY not be the real world... And yet... Time, Velocity, Distance all exist in Eclipse phase. The range advantage is dependant on these things: I'm too far away for you t...

actually the Garrote Wire is better than both the gun and the knife you can enter combat with any weapon in the book you can win combat with melee weapons (just because guns do a bit more damage doesn't mean you automatically won't win with the knife) and yeah you are forgetting the most important ...

what are you talking about, the melee weapons for the most part of have good AP, deal good damage and wether or not you use them shouldn't be decided on rules anyway it should be based on how you want to make your character for example -cammo cloak -speed enhancing drugs -making good use of cover a...

Still, this whole thing wouldn't be so bad if Republicans weren't such hypocrites. When Bush was in office, they went on and on about how it's unpatriotic to criticize the president in any way while the nation was at war. But now that there's a Democrat in the White House, all rules are null and vo...

tzor wrote:What part of "YOU LIE" don't you understand? The president LIES.

You say that like it's news.

TOZ wrote:When do I get to pretend to be a Living Humanoid Interface?

Every day is Pretend to be a Multipurpose Biological Humanoid Interface Day if you can do flattened vocal affect.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Long deserved recognition of the thoroughly awful treatment that our nation extended to one of its greatest. Should he have been treated differently then perhaps Britain would have Silicon Valley today.