I do believe the World Series is named for the newspaper that sponsored the first one. It was named the The World (or the World Something) and they had the nerve to name their competition after the newspaper. The newspaper is gone but competition remains. Just because you think World means "the whole world" in World Series doesn't mean it does.
Isn't there an alternate version of this story by Richard Mattheson* (sp?) where the woman is home alone when the macguffin carrier comes to her door saying by pressing the button someone she doesn't know will die and she would get $50,000. Knowing they are strapped for money she presses it. The doorbell rings. A policeman informs her that her husband died in a car accident today. Her insurance agent calls and says that because it was an accident the double indemnity clause of his $25,000 life insurrance policy is invoked.
She grabs the box, breaks it open and finds that it is empty inside. Finally the guy shows up and she screams "you said it would someone I didn't know." He replies, "Mrs. x, how well did you really know your husband? How well do any of us know anybody else, really?"
*Mattheson wrote quite a view of TV's Twilight Zone episodes, IIRC.
Only if you're goal is to enter NYC in the morning and leave NYC in the evening. If I want to go from central Jersey, say Edison, to north Jersey, say Morristown, I'm driving myself. All of that mass transit system does squat for me. I suppose I could take a train to Newark and hope to catch one of the few outbound trains to Morristown but that would probably take 2 hours instead of the 1 hour by car.
Personally, the technote (I forget the number) on how to catch a penguin is funnier since it is far less appropriate to a computer manual. (I do believe it was written before Linux acquired Tux.) The dogcow actually exists on them old Macs.
Why bother with international treaties at all? I hope some Afghan warlords start taking hostages of U.S. Marines.
Is this really what you wanted to say? You want a random group of men captured by their enemies? That is what you wish upon real living breathing people? I think you were trying to make some other point. But what you typed is just outrageous. Is it really your hope that hostages be taken? A pity.
You forget. Leia's name is Leia Organa. She ends believing Bail Organa's (Jimmy Smits) is a relation at some point. He of course gets blown up on Aldaraan in Episode IV. So Amidala doesn't stay on Tattoine. She joins the "rebellion" with Organa.
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George has a far better reason to avoid fan fiction. If someone writes a fan fic called "episode 3: they came from outer space" and it follows the movie george eventually releases, the fanfic author can attempt to sue George for copyright violation. This is why George MUST avoid fanfics. I'm sure he would love to see what other people would do in his universe. I know if I created a world that other people were writing stories in I would be flattered. But if I intended to use the world again, I'd have to avoid them. More reasons why copyright stiffles innovation.
People have been complaining about lack of CMYK support in Gimp for at least three years. This is not new. The Gimp developers know that people want it. It just isn't that simple.
You can't use RGB under the hood and convert back to CMYK on the fly. CMYK supports MORE colors than RGB can handle. They just aren't compatible.
Urban legend or not you are forgetting two things.
1) How often did the bank check the fingerprint against an on-record fingerprint that was probably taken 80 years ago when the guy first started working there?
2) As the presumed mummified finger degenerated slowly over 30 years anyone who casually compared the fingerprint over time who see it gradually change and just figure the man was getting older.
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You say nanobots will do all things for all people and then complain the other guy is thinking to small? LOL
I will state here for all to know that you are wrong in the time-frame you state. If, 50 years from now even one of those things you propose is true I'll pat you on the back then. But I believe you will be as disappointed as the children 100 years ago who were told there'd be flying cars were.
Goto to the message boards at http://www.enworld.org/messageboards/index.php and in the general discussion board ask for Col. Pladoh. That's Gary. No, really, it is. Put Col. Pladoh in the message subject and he may see it and respond to it.
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Remember, don't think it's a computer...it's an upgrade to paper.
If I can't fold it and stick it in my back pocket, it's not an upgrade.
Something besides the "group of overpowered heroes slaughter orcs and save the world" kind of stuff?
But DND is structured like that because of LOTR. Without LOTR, there would not be Fantasy Role-Playing. And without DND, there might not be any RPGs.
Not that I've enjoyed LOTR myself. I'm going to try again before the movie comes out, but 18 years ago when I tried I just stopped reading it around chapter 10 of Two Towers. I could not go on.
Good fantasy: Try L.E.Modesitt Jr's Recluse saga. It has somewhat of a sci-fi feel, but involves fantasy. Starts in The Magic of Recluse.
Also, J.V.Jones "Book of Words" trilogy.
Janny Wurtz Light and Shadow epic, not yet finished. Starts in Curse of the Mistwraith.
None of those feature elves or dwarves (Wurtz almost does but doesn't). All of the participants are human in vaguely mideval worlds.
The functional footnote is one of microsoft's three innovations.
It is? I was printing school reports on a Commodore 64 in 1984 with fully functioning footnotes. I can't remember the name of the c64 program now, but I know that was the only computer I owned in High School and I even still have some print outs to prove it.
I do believe MS WORD FOR DOS Version 3 came out in 1986. That was the version of word that my college bundled with its computers. I know it had footnotes too. But did Word 2 or 1? And were they available prior to the C64 program I can't remember the name of? I doubt it.
I'm thinking that we can use this invasive marketing (which will piss off even Joe 6pack) as an opportunity to sell the average user on Mozilla, the first, and ONLY cross-platform browser designed to give the USER control of his internet.
Was this supposed to be ironic or do you not realize that selling Mozilla to Joe User is advertising? You say your site has no advertising but you are selling something. I assume that you agree with those mass-mailers who say they are not spammers, too.
Has anyone ever thought of saying they didn't get a copy of the EULA in the box? Sometimes they are on separate pieces of paper. Wouldn't the company then have to prove that you did receive it? Obviously this doesn't help with click-through EULA's.
Actually, I believe they compile to a Pentium-II at best, a Pentium-Pro more likely and only a P5, probably. Microsoft's C compiler defaults to "a blend between P5 and P-Pro". And I'm sure the quantity of Intel based programs compiled with Microsoft's compiler dwarves and second comers.
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I do believe the World Series is named for the newspaper that sponsored the first one. It was named the The World (or the World Something) and they had the nerve to name their competition after the newspaper. The newspaper is gone but competition remains. Just because you think World means "the whole world" in World Series doesn't mean it does.
Isn't there an alternate version of this story by Richard Mattheson* (sp?) where the woman is home alone when the macguffin carrier comes to her door saying by pressing the button someone she doesn't know will die and she would get $50,000. Knowing they are strapped for money she presses it. The doorbell rings. A policeman informs her that her husband died in a car accident today. Her insurance agent calls and says that because it was an accident the double indemnity clause of his $25,000 life insurrance policy is invoked.
She grabs the box, breaks it open and finds that it is empty inside. Finally the guy shows up and she screams "you said it would someone I didn't know." He replies, "Mrs. x, how well did you really know your husband? How well do any of us know anybody else, really?"
*Mattheson wrote quite a view of TV's Twilight Zone episodes, IIRC.
They'll find a way to die:
Red Shirt: I'm not hit! (Leaps up and down) I'm not hit! (Lands funny, twists angle, breaks his skull open on a rock.)
Yakov Smirnoff (remember him?) use to tell the same joke about Russia in 80s.
Only if you're goal is to enter NYC in the morning and leave NYC in the evening. If I want to go from central Jersey, say Edison, to north Jersey, say Morristown, I'm driving myself. All of that mass transit system does squat for me. I suppose I could take a train to Newark and hope to catch one of the few outbound trains to Morristown but that would probably take 2 hours instead of the 1 hour by car.
Personally, the technote (I forget the number) on how to catch a penguin is funnier since it is far less appropriate to a computer manual. (I do believe it was written before Linux acquired Tux.) The dogcow actually exists on them old Macs.
Why bother with international treaties at all? I hope some Afghan warlords start taking hostages of U.S. Marines.
Is this really what you wanted to say? You want a random group of men captured by their enemies? That is what you wish upon real living breathing people? I think you were trying to make some other point. But what you typed is just outrageous. Is it really your hope that hostages be taken? A pity.
You forget. Leia's name is Leia Organa. She ends believing Bail Organa's (Jimmy Smits) is a relation at some point. He of course gets blown up on Aldaraan in Episode IV. So Amidala doesn't stay on Tattoine. She joins the "rebellion" with Organa.
George has a far better reason to avoid fan fiction. If someone writes a fan fic called "episode 3: they came from outer space" and it follows the movie george eventually releases, the fanfic author can attempt to sue George for copyright violation. This is why George MUST avoid fanfics. I'm sure he would love to see what other people would do in his universe. I know if I created a world that other people were writing stories in I would be flattered. But if I intended to use the world again, I'd have to avoid them. More reasons why copyright stiffles innovation.
"Yippie"
(ducks for cover)
"There's always a bigger fish."
People have been complaining about lack of CMYK support in Gimp for at least three years. This is not new. The Gimp developers know that people want it. It just isn't that simple.
You can't use RGB under the hood and convert back to CMYK on the fly. CMYK supports MORE colors than RGB can handle. They just aren't compatible.
That's not how you market stuff. You do it like this:
ATA100: o//o
ATA133: o//oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
o = 1
See that. It's vastly improved.
(Converted to o's to avoid the lameness filter)
Urban legend or not you are forgetting two things.
1) How often did the bank check the fingerprint against an on-record fingerprint that was probably taken 80 years ago when the guy first started working there?
2) As the presumed mummified finger degenerated slowly over 30 years anyone who casually compared the fingerprint over time who see it gradually change and just figure the man was getting older.
You say nanobots will do all things for all people and then complain the other guy is thinking to small? LOL
I will state here for all to know that you are wrong in the time-frame you state. If, 50 years from now even one of those things you propose is true I'll pat you on the back then. But I believe you will be as disappointed as the children 100 years ago who were told there'd be flying cars were.
Go for it. You must know what you want. Write it.
Goto to the message boards at http://www.enworld.org/messageboards/index.php and in the general discussion board ask for Col. Pladoh. That's Gary. No, really, it is. Put Col. Pladoh in the message subject and he may see it and respond to it.
Remember, don't think it's a computer...it's an upgrade to paper.
If I can't fold it and stick it in my back pocket, it's not an upgrade.
Some people don't appreciate shaggy dog jokes.
Something besides the "group of overpowered heroes slaughter orcs and save the world" kind of stuff?
But DND is structured like that because of LOTR. Without LOTR, there would not be Fantasy Role-Playing. And without DND, there might not be any RPGs.
Not that I've enjoyed LOTR myself. I'm going to try again before the movie comes out, but 18 years ago when I tried I just stopped reading it around chapter 10 of Two Towers. I could not go on.
Good fantasy: Try L.E.Modesitt Jr's Recluse saga. It has somewhat of a sci-fi feel, but involves fantasy. Starts in The Magic of Recluse.
Also, J.V.Jones "Book of Words" trilogy.
Janny Wurtz Light and Shadow epic, not yet finished. Starts in Curse of the Mistwraith.
None of those feature elves or dwarves (Wurtz almost does but doesn't). All of the participants are human in vaguely mideval worlds.
The functional footnote is one of microsoft's three innovations.
It is? I was printing school reports on a Commodore 64 in 1984 with fully functioning footnotes. I can't remember the name of the c64 program now, but I know that was the only computer I owned in High School and I even still have some print outs to prove it.
I do believe MS WORD FOR DOS Version 3 came out in 1986. That was the version of word that my college bundled with its computers. I know it had footnotes too. But did Word 2 or 1? And were they available prior to the C64 program I can't remember the name of? I doubt it.
I'm thinking that we can use this invasive marketing (which will piss off even Joe 6pack) as an opportunity to sell the average user on Mozilla, the first, and ONLY cross-platform browser designed to give the USER control of his internet.
Was this supposed to be ironic or do you not realize that selling Mozilla to Joe User is advertising? You say your site has no advertising but you are selling something. I assume that you agree with those mass-mailers who say they are not spammers, too.
Now a shoe phone... thats a useful thing that I've yet to be able to buy.
Shouldn't that be second most useful thing?
Has anyone ever thought of saying they didn't get a copy of the EULA in the box? Sometimes they are on separate pieces of paper. Wouldn't the company then have to prove that you did receive it? Obviously this doesn't help with click-through EULA's.
Actually, I believe they compile to a Pentium-II at best, a Pentium-Pro more likely and only a P5, probably. Microsoft's C compiler defaults to "a blend between P5 and P-Pro". And I'm sure the quantity of Intel based programs compiled with Microsoft's compiler dwarves and second comers.