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Lexx stared at her for a moment, unable to understand the statement. “Selective breeding. Genetic engineering. Blue skin and pointy ears? It’s easy to see.” Lexx attempted to answer the question. “We’re smarter, faster, and stronger than any human. I’m sure you got the same information from the other Rishan.”
“He does not have wings or an amazing healing ability.” Mel laughed.
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I had this one done early, luckily. Due to me sending in my laptop to be repaired, updates will be scattered this week, then return next week on time. I spent the weekend drawing and inking two weeks worth of pages so I could spend this week coloring and not need my tablet. :/ I'll try to get something up. This should cut through the troubles I've been having since March if they can fix it up as good as new and make it stop overheating and losing the wifi connection.
In other news, my daughter, Kim, will be turning 10 in July and I wanted to see about getting her some post cards! For more information, see this post!
She's at Camp Moss this week, a camp for kids with heart conditions. :)
- Tiff
26 thoughts on “Day 26 Part 4 Pg 7”
MadMann135
Wings and the healing are aftermarket add-on abilities that Lexx does not want.
Similar to someone with numerous tattoos, don’t want them and can’t get rid of them for various reasons.
Beckit
Awww, Mel is so going to adopt Lexx. She’ll grin and ignore every dumb and offensive thing he says, and just correct him on it. 🙂
sailoryue
i love how nonchalantly he says that to her xD
Tiff
He’s a little annoyed. 😉
DawnStar
I don’t know Lexx, Soul Echos aren’t exactly something we humans have…. or genetic memories for that matter. O.o but otherwise good job trying to convince Chel’s mom you’re a normal guy. XD
nesu42
Assuming I recall correctly, the Soul Echoes are a result of contact through the relay at the moment of death or shortly before. Thus that would go with a technology discussion and not a biological study.
DawnStar
Oh! Okay. 🙂 I was wondering how genetic editing created soul echos. Answer: it didn’t. So that one’s cleared up, but what about the genetic memory through generations? It sounded very Avatar The Last Airbender-esk. Where male Rishan can draw from parents, grandparents, and other male family member’s memories. (That is a thing right? I thought I remembered reading that somewhere…)
nesu42
I don’t personally recall an occasion of genetic memory coming up in the comic, but it have just been long enough ago that it slipped my mind. However, genetic memory is a theory that has been around a long time amongst humans. If valid, it is reasonable that genetic engineering could enhance it.
DawnStar
Ah! That really is neat! I’ve never heard of the idea of genetic memory as a real theory. Hm…. interesting. lol
I just found it: http://aliendice.com/legacy/2011/07/08/07082011/
“hj”- commented on the page and explains when we learned about genetic memories. I knew it was mentioned in the comic somewhere… but you’re right it has been a LONG time since then.
btw- sorry about this conversation being so long. oops. lol
Mark Linimon
She’s *ten*? Er … have I been reading this since before she was born???
(time to feel old)
Savail
Because those of us born in July are the chosen.
Raynar
Hey Tiff, have you tried turning it off and blowing air backwards through the heatsink? I had a bad overheating problem on my laptop and forcing air backwards through it cleared out all the dust and then it worked fine. as far as the wifi goes that’s usually a router problem, but I don’t know what you have going on with that. It could be as simple as having to move the router, but if you’ve tried having the computer up next to it then that would, of course, mean there’s a different problem. Again my suggestion is probably too late though…
Tiff
That’s the first thing I did. 😀 It’s the only device that was having a problem with the wifi, considering all the other things around here that use wifi.
StrykerFeanix
I hope your computer gets better, and happy birthday to Kim! 🙂
aelfinn
Generally speaking, if you consistently do work on a computer, get a proper desktop tower rather than a laptop. More reliable + easier to repair/maintain = less downtime and less money spent keeping it going
Tiff
We have a desktop. Underline the WE. I had a computer, but we couldn’t afford to upgrade it so went to using one desktop computer. I have an intuous 3, which is almost a whole decade old, and that’s the only input I have into the desktop, whereas my tablet PC is a professional model with a wacom digitizer enabling me to work directly on the screen, making things faster. I’ve been using it primarily for two years to work without a problem. I use the desktop while my husband isn’t using it to do all the hefty work like batch processing files and having a hundred pages open at once. We can’t afford a second desktop. I don’t want to deal with the headache and stress of even trying to get one. 😛 The repairs on my tablet are, btw, free. I have a three year warranty on it. I’ll work on getting a new Yiynova tablet for the desktop this fall. I’ve found I enjoy inking and penciling more on my tablet and doing the gigabyte file coloring on the desktop. Even with the ancient intuous, it’s faster. I just need the intuos pen to last until fall. It’s been rolled over by a chair several times, a dog and a cat have chewed on it and the cover is torn all to pieces… thankfully it still works.
Raynar
oh wow, after all that, it must be a very well built pen. I also find it interesting that after a few years of the old heatsink design for the slower, cooler running cpus, they don’t do much to improve it for the newer, hotter ones.
Joe Whitehead
Well technically, if you look at the wattage ratings, there are CPU’s from 2003 that use as much power as a high-end 2013 model. You see, every time they shrink the dies, they need less voltage to run and run faster+cooler as a bonus! So they can downclock them when the CPU is not under load or on laptops/Small-form-factor machines and gain even more power efficiency. Any CPU using over 100 watts of power is not in your typical home PC (or even a gaming rig). For a real increase in heat production with new generations, just look at LED’s. Sure-Electronics for example warns you that their 100-watt lights need a driver and heatsink or they’ll burn out in seconds.
Raynar
still, when the cpu receives a load, it will get hotter, and I have worked with cpus that when running at a low frequency they don’t need a heatsink, but the same cpu when frequency is increased produces much more heat, then requiring a heatsink. My old cpu was 135 watts and I maxed it out a few times and it never got as hot as my newer, more efficient 95 watt one, which I had to get liquid cooling for as it was almost constantly over 65° which caused the overtemp alarm to sound.
Joe Whitehead
You might want to look into software like “Remote Desktop/Terminal Server” or “TightVNC”. They let me use my tower without a monitor and in a totally different room! Only catch is that you need a decent network speed to get high framerates. WIFI will generally be slightly slower than a physical cable. It’s essentially like a streaming movie site but with your desktop/applications. You might end up loving it and they come free with Windows or Linux! Not sure, but I think there’s a free Mac version as well. Note: All our machines = Android/Linux/Windows
Tiffany Ross
What about being able to use a plugged in monitor on my account while hubby is playing on his account? 🙂
Joe Whitehead
The server version of Windows does that (yeah, but who wants to pay for just that one feature?) and Linux is natively-designed to allow separate users at once (you just login like normal on a seedbox, for example) but… You might be better off using a Craiglist machine with a decent (<$50) video card if you need compatibility with Windows graphics programs, heh. That's the big catch on programs that use the 3D card. I imagine all of Adobe's stuff gets cranky unless you're running with a real monitor due to the way that 'Remote Desktop' disables a lot of the GPU's functions to maintain compatibility with the machine viewing it. Amazingly, I've seen free machines with decent hardware that people are throwing away, too. Although, that usually means the power supply or something died and they weren't the kind to fix it themselves. Had one system with a dead (overheated) power supply, burned up video card, and questionable CPU fan that needed a lot of TLC. 🙁 At least it had perfectly good HDD and case in the deal. 🙂
In reply to other comment: Well that thing with the 95-watt unit actually getting hotter is probably because it's a laptop or small-form factor desktop? They make them smaller and with better video cards than the old ones. GPU's are the real power hogs on our towers. We're talking twice or more than the CPU. My brother's Radeon 7770 takes as much power when fully loaded, as the rest of the system! Finding a power supply that wouldn't instantly bite the dust without spending a mint was majorly time-consuming. I'm admittedly jealous since I'm on still a machine made over 10 years ago except for the hard drives. Amazing Socket 939 board that is somehow still running. 😉
Hmm, donation idea of hardware? Since it helps with the author's job. Not sure if Tiffany and family know how to put a custom system together, though? Because of depreciation and 'feeBay' issues, a card from even 2 years ago wouldn't be too hard to part with if someone was the type that got a new system every year or 2.
Spikes
Just blame space wizards Lexx. That ALWAYS works!
Joe Whitehead
It’s funny to see that he’s not educated as a scientist. He’s never heard of the bell curve or diminishing returns as a population approaches some goal’s theoretical limits. He’s likely talking to someone with roughly the same intelligence or maybe even smarter than him.
xKiv
He’s likely repeating something he was taught in school (or otherwise).
Joe Whitehead
Well yeah, I noticed that when I was in high school. They teach you a lot of things by rote, and then you find out that it’s either totally wrong/obsolete or glossing over EVERYTHING. In college, the language instructors have to essentially deprogram you. Ask any English instructor!
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