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Well, there's the GENESIS and NEURON packages, and both are apparently capable of very accurate neuronal response prediction even for large groups of neurons. NEURON, particularly, boasts of having an essentially linear speedup from parallel processors. In fact, IBM's attempting to use a Blue...

On what timescale? If you said 10 years, I'd maybe believe you. 90? I will completely disagree. Supercomputers today can already simulate fairly large portions of animal brains. In fact, computational biologists and those working in AI fields are reporting success in emulating ever larger...

I've always liked dark fey; they appeal to my love of mythology. After all, the fey were treated with large helpings of respect and fear by the medievals. Even the most kindly could become incredibly vengeful, carrying a grudge for years, just on the basis of a unknowing slight. And most weren't...

Might I suggest using a few sapient creatures? Possibly ones that could be helpful, but at the same time have problems of their own. Maybe an Awakened rat with clear skin and no fur? It'd be creepy, but at the same time, there's a lot to be said for the utility of a helpful NPC... particularly...

Actually, from what I can tell, mathematically, the old system was slightly less than fair. I have a feeling the new system is actually slightly LESS fair than that. So I'd not object to removing the '1 is always a miss' rule. However, I'm not objecting to removing the '20 is a crit, if you...

I'm a fan of Sigil, A-M, and New Crobuzon, primarily for that 'scummy holes that are vibrant (if in a grimy sort of way) sorta work in most cases, and are getting cosmopolitan to the point that there's a middle class with actual civic power' feel that I like to see in urban fantasy, even that...

I receive this error whenever I try to enter the dev site.

And Europeans have been soaked like that for years... what's the big deal? If Europeans have had to deal with 40-50% markups for years, a measly 2-10% markup won't kill you. Admittedly, more companies should adjust prices to account for long-term currency trends, but there's also a fairly good...

Wayne: I don't think Dragon does. The other magazines pay for "First North American Serial Rights" aka FNASR (Basically, first chance to publish the material, and where the author keeps all other rights, including royalty rights, reprint rights, anthology rights, etc.) what Dragon is paying for...

Glass for booze, soda, water, and in fact just about anything I'm drinking that's liquid. You can tell that it is more representative of the actual drink fairly easily. I still get enough soda in glass that is the same as what I get in cans and plastic bottles that it's pretty obvious to me...

Fifth: He's not flaming them for having a rate of 3-6 cents a word, specifically.. he's flaming them for having that rate for "work-for-hire" submissions. Most of the mags probably had about as much circulation as Dragon. However, the genre-specific lit mags (Asimov's and the like) pay the same...

Nice Bilingual Bonus!

The kung-fu attack name generator linked in the thread already spewed up some impressively near-NSFW gold.. I have seen at least 10 different results that seem more like they should be in a Wuxia-themed case specific type of flick genre than in a ordinary Wuxia swordsman film. Some are pretty...

I'd almost go so far as saying light/no armor is move x4 run speed (with a 'sprint' option which trades maybe another x2-x3 for a round or two for the combination of no charges allowed + fatigue for 2-3 rounds afterwards), medium x3 (with sprint option, fading away in power/length at higher...

Is the research still showing that the average modern infantryman carries more weight on gear into combat than the average medieval knight? I know the average full-plate rig weighs 70 lbs for the average human male (I don't know how the weights compare for women, though I assume they're similar...

I dunno if BrickLink is ran by Lego themselves, but if it's not, there's another option: buy direct. I believe Lego also has a program you can download that can hook into their servers and allow you to buy the exact combo of parts you want out of a large range and for a pretty low price. It's...

Actually, Gary, the bushel's still used a lot in the commodities trade for grain in the US. If I recall correctly, in many cases, it's also used internationally as well, though the kilo's becoming more common for taxation. I think the standard trading unit is 1000 bushels. However the size of a...

The wizard has to fight armor-less or in a mithril chain shirt to keep from losing his primary class ability (with the exception of any crafting feats, all of his abilities hinge on being able to cast a spell right then and there) to a random chance effect. He spends the ability, but gets no...

Well, I don't mind the idea of having some expendable NPCs set up solely to die to deathtraps and other things. It just shouldn't go so far as to allow the PCs to progress solely by sending in expendable minions and letting them die repeatedly. (This is for your average Good/Neutral party. An...

Actually, in the ORIGINAL, the deal was, got legs, but the legs gave her pain as if she was stepping on knives with every step she took. And then, if she wanted to go back to her family, instead of living with the knowledge that she was ignored by person she loved, she would have to kill that...