Shadow Wolf

The point is that what they've done here has absolutely nothing to do with genetics or biology in any way, shape, or form. They just learned how to write really small. The only reason anyone has thought of applying it to DNA is because DNA is really small. Blasting DNA with a particle beam would KILL IT. Which in turn would FUCK YOU UP at a subcellular level. The only way we will ever transmit messages through DNA is if we figure out a way to create a code using naturally occurring GCAT (Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine) recombinance. Thymine always binds with Adenine, and Guanine always binds with Cytosine. DNA is designed that way, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to change that. The GOOD thing there is that in a bonded double helix, you only have TWO possible types of pairs, and TWO is the magic number of computing. Or more accurately, zero and one. But there are only TWO different states any computer is capable of recognizing, and everything a computer does is built off that. Zero means there was no electrical impulse, and one means there was. So then, if you can give a computer data in a format that only has two different options, you can speak its language. So basically, the code you wanted to transmit would have to be contained in a very long helix in which AT and CG pairs were bound in a certain order. If you could get a computer to read through a helix and recognize bonded pairs as ones and zeroes, to see a CG pair and send an electrical impulse through the circuit board, to see an AT pair and withhold that impulse, THEN you could potentially start working on biomechanical storage mediums. The problem that would be presented then is, DNA is constantly 'zipping and unzipping' changing its order dynamically to adapt to cellular needs, etc. You would have to learn to create a static double helix, and I'm not even gonna theorize how you would do that. But the point of all this is that you can't store code on DNA by blasting it with lasers.

Inscribing something physically onto a piece of human DNA would be of little to no value, since your DNA is constantly being replaced by new bits of DNA. Not changed, but refreshed. It's part of the subcellular way we stay alive. Furthermore, cells are constantly dying, billions of them die every day and are replaced by new cells of the same kind. That's a lot of DNA loss. A physical inscription on any DNA would be lost as soon as the cell it was part of died. You could literally wash it off in the shower. As a matter of fact, the only organic tissue we are aware of that is capable of storing anything over a long period of time is the white matter of the brain, and truthfully we know almost nothing about how that works. So we're still a long way from biomechanical storage mediums I'm afraid. It would allow for a hell of a Flash Drive though.

Now that you mention it, Wingless, where did those sigs come from? Because if I've got my timeline right, you had that sig WAY before portal came out.

This was another senseless weakness of the original Starcraft. NO race EVER lacked detectors by the dozens when being played by the computer, and no human being who'd been playing SC for for than 5 minutes would be without them either. And once a covert unit is detected, they have about 50 health unless they're a hero like Zeratul. For example, in 4 years of playing Starcraft, I have successfully completed ONE covert nuke strike because it's so hard to get the Ghosts in undetected to paint targets. I can assemble and execute a 12 tank plant n' pound siege crawl and obliterate the Protoss from one side of the map to the other in 1/10th the time it takes to paint up a base for nuke strikes. So in Starcraft 2, I would like to see covert units with MUCH more health, and I would like to see detector scramblers of some kind, although I'm not sure how that would be implemented.

This was an issue with the project's initial release. There's a bit or two off in the ID3 tags that screws it up somehow. At any rate, it was fixed at some point. I think if you look at the Project Chaos page in the site projects forum, the links for the fixed files are there somewhere. Or maybe I fixed them myself, I can't bloody remember. They're all iTunes compatible anyhow. At any rate, if you can't find them, let me know and I'll zip up whatever you need and send it to you.

I might be setting myself up for a flamewar here, but I think the Zerg might be taking longer because, out of all 3 races in Starcraft, they were arguably the least balanced. Whenever I played Zerg, battle strategy came down to one of two things: A 48 Hydralisk Zergrush with a bunch of Zerglings thrown in, or an extremely expensive 12 Guardian map wipe with Mutalisks on backup. I never felt like I had the options with the Zerg that I had with the Terrans or the 'Toss. The more expensive Zerg units like Ultralisks were basically never used, at least by me, due to time and expense. But granted I'm not amazingly good at Starcraft either. At any rate, Blizzard has already shown that they're making HUGE changes to balancing and units for all the races. I just hope the Zerg get the treatment, because conceptually they were far and away my favorite race, but strategically I didn't like them much at all.

/cast Resurrection (Level 7) Casting.... 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Shadowolf resurrected the Starcraft 2 thread. So maybe there isn't a lot of new stuff right now. I'm still excited about it.

I created the thread cuz it was highlighted on Penny Arcade today. I checked the last couple pages of the Wii thread to see if anyone had brought it up, and they hadn't. So here it is.

This shit be crazy. It's like 3D glasses on crack. The guy looks, sounds and acts like a total geek, but, the idea works, and it's nucking futs. Discuss.

Yeah, that is just WEIRD.

This is simply the shit. Great creepy intro, loved the ambient sounds in the background. This is seriously epic, and fully deserving of the direct post it got. GREAT work. Wonderful brass work, and I normally hate brass. Equally great use of percussion. There's just an awesome cinematic drive to this.

Happy birthday Suzu!

Filesize also depends on encoding format. When I rip DVD video to AVI, I can usually get about 2 hours into 1.2 gigs or so with very few compression artifacts. Then I can turn around and put 4 feature length movies on one 4.7 gig disc. I don't see why it shouldn't work the same with going from analog to digital like your parents are doing.

Righto... overall a decent mix. I didn't care for the first part, partially because it came in too abruptly, and partially because your lead guitar seemed to be having some slight issues staying on time. Slight, mind you, but noticeable. After the change up, it started sounding pretty good from there on out. It would've been nice to hear some better changeups between the parts though, they were very abrupt. Started to rock pretty hard in the third part, I'd say that was my favorite bit of the mix. My biggest issue would be the overall quality of the instrumentation. This simply could've been played quite a bit better. Decent mix, but definite room for improvement.

I love that the textbyte for the second result mentions "PIRATION AND STOMATAL BEHAVIOUR OF BEANS."

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know I pulled together all the little screenshots that get posted with each remix and put them in one convenient folder. So now you can use them as artwork for your remixes! They're right here: http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/15/1081015/OCRemixImages.rar Have fun!

Speaking from 8 years computer support experience with 2 at a government particle accelerator, the type of OS any person uses largely depends on the level of abstraction you want to work at. In other words, how much do you want to know about what's going on with your computer? They go in this order: Mac OS: This is the highest level of abstraction. Think like a spaceship. Almost no one knows how the fuck those things work, you press the button and they just do. People using Macs usually want some kind of productivity over all else. They don't account for the fact that every computer WILL have issues. Most people I run into use a Mac because it 'just works.' There's two problems with that. 1.) I've found that Macs don't 'just work' any better than a Windows PC does, and 2.) When a Mac just isn't working, it can be an extraordinary pain in the ass to peel away all the layers of graphical happiness and actually analyze what the HELL is wrong. Which is why I go a couple abstraction levels lower and use: Windows: Windows is, despite all the crap people give it, far and away the best operating system available for almost all users, and here's why. Windows is like a CAR, because it works almost all the time, but you can pop the hood and get dirty. Windows is used by almost everyone anyways, just because of its huge market share. BUT the reason it rules the market like it does is that if something goes wrong with Windows, you can put that bitch on a lift and find out what's wrong. 95% of the time, Windows is a beautifully simplistic user experience. Does it crash sometimes? Yes. But, barring hardware going bad, in 9 years, I have never had a Windows crash where I could not at least backdoor into the hard drive via a command line and recover my data. Does it have more viruses? Absolutely. Any black hat worth his salt is going to write viruses that will affect as many people as possible. There's not many viruses for Mac, but you'll notice there's no viruses for the Tamagotchi either. But you can get into Windows and fix things in about a million different ways. The only fly in this ointment is Vista, which is trying to be too much like Mac OS, and it's a bit harder to find those back doors. But if you're really ambitious, you can use: Linux: The operating system universally used by people that don't want to have fun with their computer. If Mac OS is a spaceship and Windows is a car, Linux is an enormous box of off-brand Legos. Linux is for people that like to WATCH their code run and know exactly what's happening, and by God if they don't know what's happening, they write a program to help them find out. I've used a lot of Linux. It's alright for me, but I don't wanna have to tell my computer how to install things from a command line. I value my fingers more than that. Nevertheless, you can get Linux to do some wicked crazy shit if you spend the time with it. I am suspicious that most government employees use Linux solely because it's so easy to make downloading porn look just like you're writing code for your next physics experiment, and I can't blame those scary greasy-haired foreign men for that. EDIT: W00t! I broke 800 posts and it only took me 5.5 years!

Pharmacology II and Medical/Surgical. Nursing major, actually. My teachers insist on giving us EVERYTHING via a word document on Blackboard. I could start a whole thread about how that's the worst piece software ever written, and not even AD could argue with me. But I'd have to post it in PPR, so I'll leave it alone.

I know this is gonna sound like shameless ass kissing, but dammit Dave, thank you for consistently busting your balls to make this site continually more awesome than it already is. The fact that you've even kept this site running for 8 years is crazy enough, but if you add in the fact that it still kicks ass, it's almost inconceivable. So thanks.

Hey guys! I was searching around the interweb for a solution to a slight preference issue I was having when I downloaded files. Basically, I have wanted for YEARS to be able to right click a file and instantly decide what folder I want it to save to, without having to browse through all of my folders to find it. Because my documents is hidden 75 folders down in your actual file structure, which makes it a pain in the ass to get to over a network. Well, I found two addons for Firefox that are so damn useful, I had to share them. First is 'Save Link in Folder.' What this does is let you right click a file, like an OC Remix for instance, and it will give you a menu right there of folders that you might want to save it to, except YOU get to decide what's in the menu. For example: The second one is the exact same thing, except specifically for images. It's aptly named 'Save Image in Folder.' It works just like the other, except a little further down the menu, like so: With all the folders you put in the menu, you can decide whether you want it to save the file with whatever name it already has, or pop up a quick 'Save As' box so you can rename it. Either way, for people who download a TON of crap, like ME, and want to decide where THEY would like to save it, like ME, this will make your life a whole lot easier. Enjoy!

Awww HELL yeah!

Great conceptual mix. I love it. The vocal pitch bending worked beautifully, and your girlfriend has an awesome intercom voice. (Add that one to the resume.) The Barenaked Ladies white guy rap was wicked awesome as well. Overall a really chill mix, great work all 'round. Win. Black power! I'm as white as rice on a paper plate with a glass of milk in a snowstorm. Stupid peer pressure.

So, can I ask what exactly happened?

Oh wow. So many ways. I've visited OCR at least once daily since around October 2002. The first mix to really make me stay here was Sunken Suite, but from there I've moved on and downloaded over 710 remixes. The people and musicians of OCR have helped cultivate my passion for music, and without it I really don't think I would be the same person I am today. The beauty and creativity of every person haere has really inspired me to become a better person myself. Just recently, after 6 years of listening to you all, I finally decided to play piano, and I'm currently working towards that. Even during all the frustration of being a (currently) sucky pianist, the mixers and mixes on this site continue to inspire me on a daily basis. So... Thank you, Dave, for one of the greatest ideas in the history of the internet. Thank you, mixers, for continuing to share your music, and hence your feelings with us. Thank you, listeners, for continuing to keep this site alive. Viva Le Pretzel! Also: I love you so much I'm crying little crystal tears, and we should make babies together.

OK cool. I thought that was probably the case, but I wanted to submit it before I forgot just in case it wasn't.