St. Goliath

@J.C.: because the power supply is too weak?

Rice and wine, Mr. Freeman. Rice and wine...

it is now safe to turn off your computer

According to the wiki article, the Fermi pardox states, that if there are so damn many stars out there, there must be a hell lot of civilications and if they are there long enough, (some must be) there must some intelligent enough to have the technology to get here; So where are they? The reason I think they aren't here, are probably because the university is huuuuuuge * 10^(a hell lot). So, lots of intelligent life inhabited planets out there? Plausible, but: (I heard people like lists) To our knowledge, no where near; probably millions of light years away Light travels just as fast for them as for us, so we are unable to "see" them and vice versa, where "see" means, be found by chance via whatever device recieves light or radio transmissions. Even if they have technology to travel those distances, a sphere with a radius of "just" 1 million light years has a surface area of ~12.57*10^12 light years squared. The chances of accidentaly finding us by traveling here (i.e. select a tiny, tiny, TINY random dot on the sphere) are thus very low. The energy of a radio broadcast would be devided over the area of said sphere, thus shrinking exponentially over distance Also a few of the following scenarios might be interessting too: Way more intelligent life forms might have good reasons to avoid us (at the time being) How many planets like ours could be out there, where political leaders gave up on space travel, beacuse they prefere to spend money on wars instead? Maybe life on our planet was brought here by terraforming in the first place (maybe earth was intended to be a wildlife preserve, or the planet was abandoned for whatever reason, for instance, what if the dinosaurs where wiped out by some sort of reactor explosion^^) Sorry, I see my wording is a bit ambiguous here. What I meant wasn't that it's your question in the sense that you made it up, but it belongs to you, in a similar way as to when you refere to, e.g. "your friend", it doesn't mean that you own that person.

Beacause the release rate of FM videos dropped drastically (thank you, machinima.com...). How does one propperly eat a burger (or whatever grilled stuff in bread), without getting the sauce all over ones clothes and looking like a three year old child that can't eat in a normal way?

Maybe because of the vast nothingness around us? How can we come in contact, or even notice, intelligent live around us, if it is billions of light years away? I remember our physics teacher once showing us a video of an austrian cabaretist, trying to put the dimensions you have to deal with in astronomy into perspective, by, for instance trying to express distances as stacks of 1000 Schilling bills and so on. When he tried to express the odds of intelligent life in outer space to reach exactely us, he compared it with the scanario of standing in the Sahara dessert, waiting for someone called Franz, who has a sister who ones a store, to come by at 7 pm, purely by chance, to bring you some water. (The odds of this scenario happening are very low, but not zero) Also, I recalled the video below (you may skip to 4:13 for the part relevant to your question): hYf6av21x5c

"And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the pink side of the moon"

"Also, you can't fight nausea with modern art"

"You can't fight burglars with a cleptomaniac either..." Before somebody feels pissed off, I do not want to call pyromaniacs criminals, this post is intended to be funny

"...now to find that pub where I left my umbrella"

That pretty much describes what I wanted to say with a boring, lengthy post^^. On the one hand, the last episode released was number 44 and I recall watching EP 42 the weekend before I graduated in electronics engineering and I'm in 2nd semester CS now. On the other hand, Ross himself said on Dec 21 that he is done with episode 45 and started with 46, while waiting for a response from Machinima, implying that there are by now probably already two finished episodes, wating for release. Since we have no further news I would not go beyond saying that we have a long delay, caused by the "sympathic minds" working for Machinma. Butt I don't think that they are complete buttheads. Personally, I think that they probably overreduced staff, so that now a few people are responsible for a load of things that they can't keep track of and forget about important things over and over agian. I've seen similar situations at companies were I worked over hollidays (except once when I was in the Austrian civil service where six people in three offices had the same job), butt several weeks is really quite long.

It's certainly an interessting keynote, but at some points I wasn't quite sure whether he is either brilliant at making up both crazy and plausible future predictions or just tripping on acid. Judging from the past of Valve, I guess it will be more of a great success than a failure. One thing that always buggs me tho is that I think that "content" is a both pretty degrading term for artworks (be it 3D models, pictures, sound effects or entire machinima movies^^) and pretty vague as people tend to call practically every of their brain farts "content" and you can't really be sure what somebody is referring to when talking about "content".

Reminds me of when I once fell asleep on my right arm. When I woke up, I could absolutely not feel it, let alone move individual fingers. I had a lot of fun trying to pick something up from the table with my right arm, which I had to hold in position with my left arm. This simulator looks exactly like that. It must be fun if kids start playing that in school. (I've seen them play every other simulator out there, with the only exception of Desert Bus, which is even more boring than the 15th lecture on QAM^^).

Banned for not banning anybody.

Sue him? Depends on what the contract says. Anyways, breaking a contract is always a bad thing. How do you figure? Of course he does, it's an original work and he obviously signed a lot of his rights away to Machinima, what causes the problems right now. Bullshit. They have the rights that were assigned to them by contract. If they didn't, we would not have this situation right now.

There are few things I always notice about early Half Life footage: Everything looks somehow small and deproportional (extremely narrow hallways, comparatively tall doors, weapon rendered ontop of the scene looks small when the user touches a wall etc...). Several level layouts look familiar and I can think of what they eventually became in the final game. Some other level layouts are completely nonsensual and remind me more of Wolfenstein than Half Life Sound: There are a lot of background sounds that were used in the final game, Half Life 2 and the episodes and aparently haven't changed a bit ever since (pun). Aparenty people don't care that much about sound but when looking at footage like this and comparing it to the final game, it is noticable how the sound creates the actual atmosphere of the whole scene.

I somehow got the cookie. I don't remember how or why I did this... F*cking Vodka...

Host Busters It's a horror movie about a sysadmins worst nightmare.

Ear and loathing in Las Vegas. It's about Vincent van Gogh, somehow, ...

hygene

Thinking of a question from scratch requires slightly more creativity than making up an answer for an existing question. Where the heck does the gravity in Xen come from?

I think that thread is called "Vent" around here...

Since we are talking about things like organ donation, it took me a few seconds to figure out what you meant by "tissues". I guess the image that flashed up in my head was not what you intended^^

Barbeque does not require cooking skills. You just get your grill heated (i.e. start a fire), throw some meat onto it and wait until it looks more edible than before. I somehow magically ran out of work to do. It's 8 pm and there's nothing even remotely watchable on TV. What should I do?

He's good at causing extreme, absurd, crazy situations that are very unlikely to happen in the first place. I guess insurance companies must hate him.