Absolutely. I still read them every few years even though they are very much "Boy's Own Adventure" stuff with teens and tweens saving the world.
Just a note, however, there's also a prequel which explains how the world happened but that ruins half the fun of the series. Do not read it first.
It is an ok book but read it last. Half the fun of reading The White Mountains is figuring out what is going on, what time period it is and other things. Once you read the first three books then read the prequel to learn how the world got that way.
There are a lot of scanned in videogame magazines online. Do a search for the name of the magazine followed by torrent and you might find some of them.
Computer Gaming World put up the first 100 issues in pdf form when they switched to Games For Windows Magazine. I know there is an effort (if they haven't already succeeded) to scan in every issue of Nintendo Power. There is a lot of other stuff out there too.
Look around for them and it might save you the time of scanning them in yourself.
I teach college courses in Indiana and this is news to me too. I would love to use an older copy of a book but you try to order it and the bookstore says, "we can't get that." So you have to use the newer version.
Every time videogame rating laws come up people ask why they shouldn't be legally enforced the way film ratings are. This is an incorrect assumption.
In the USA films are rated by the MPAA which is a trade association of the film industry, not a government agency. The film ratings are enforced by the MPAA themselves not by law. States or the federal government do not enforce the ratings. There is no state or national law preventing the sale of R-rated films to minors.
This is the same situation as videogame ratings. The games are rated by the industry and enforced by the industry.
A simpler solution which I"m sure I've heard about before would be to put some fine wires on the outside of the ball and on the boundaries. When the ball hits the line it completes a circuit thus telling you if it hit the line or not. I"m sure there would be problems with the addition of metal to the ball changing how it reacts but it still seems a lot simpler than a computerized 5 camera system.
Several times in the last few years SecuRom has turned me into a pirate. I buy a game. It won't install. Turns out it has Securom on it. I go online and torrent it. After getting burned several times I have started to skip the "buying the game" step before downloading it.
in the USA we may have fairly strict laws against going on private property but we also have something like 600 million acres (aprox 2million square km) of public land of one sort or another so it isn't as if there aren't lots of other places for people to go without being on private property.
I didn't even have to read any further than the headline to know that Scalia was one of the 4. He is consistently in favor of whatever the current administration wants and in favor of limiting any freedoms or rights that get in the way of the "war on terror."
Do you have any evidence of Jacko's involvement in the "ritual satanic abuse" stuff? I can't find any online and it would be really interesting to read about his involvement in that stuff.
You are entitled to your opinion but I saw it yesterday and about 10 people besides my friends and myself stuck around until the very end. Of those 10 I heard at least 5 of them say something like, "dude!" when the clip at the end started and I heard another 3 people in the parking lot talking about how awesome it was that it had that person show up. Admittedly it was opening day so these are probably the fans anyway but based on that your reaction is not the same as the reaction most people had.
While I don't see Google doing it because of the backlash I'm a bit surprised that no other search engine has touted ignoring "nofollow" and "noindex" as a "feature" of their search engine in the attempt to look like they are better than Google.
There's a big difference between saying that it isn't our fault and saying that it is your fault. They are saying it isn't their fault. Just because it isn't their fault doesn't mean they think it is yours.
I read 4 newspapers on a regular basis because my university has this program where students get free papers. I suppose it is to try to get them in the habit of reading them but none of my students seems to be doing so. I get the school paper, the NY Times, USA Today, and the local newspaper. First off, large percentages of their contend are the same. Same wire stories. Same sports scores, same stock prices. That same content that is already online and available for free.
Then there is all the crap that I personally don't care about. Sports, horoscopes, Dear Abby, comic strips whose creators died decades ago, and other stuff.
So what does that leave? local news, editorials, letters to the editor, original reporting.
It takes me about 20 minutes to go through all of those papers. If they weren't free there is no way I would ever subscribe to a newspaper. It simply isn't worth it.
What is so hard about Maths/Science?Engineering? I was a math minor in undergrad and an english major and I didn't think my math classes were any harder than my english classes. In fact, most of the time they were easier for me.
I was told about someone at the casino who would regularly pocket $5 or so for gas money. I never saw that happen though so I don't know if it was true or not.
Our casino didn't do that. We got a paycheck like regular jobs (well actually, direct deposit). This was in the midwest and not Vegas or Atlantic City. In the cage our tips were in cash but they were very small. The slot people did get their tips in cash once a week but then someone noticed they weren't paying taxes on them so they started turning them into the casino and the casino would take care of taxes and give them a check. The dealers and cocktail would do the same thing since their hourly wage (like most waitresses) was something like $3.00 an hour and the majority of their money was tips.
Having worked as a cashier in a riverboat casino I've seen a lot of this stuff. However, I've also seen and heard a lot more about employees ripping off the casino than I did about players. You don't hear about the employees ripping off the casinos though because most of the time they just fire the person and tell them never to come back. I know this happened to at least three people who worked in my department. Two were fairly minor but one was several thousand dollars over a few months (that's how long it too the auditing department to pick up on his pattern and how he hid it). There are lots of ways employees can rip off the casino because they have a lot more access and know how the system works a lot better than most customers.
There were occasional customers passing counterfeit bills and people screwing with the machines or trying to bend cards but there was a lot more people soiling themselves because they didn't want to get up from their slot machine and people losing their homes because they were addicted (happened to a cousin of mine) or getting kicked off because they started yelling at us when their credit card was maxed out.
You are lucky if it turns up "news for nerds" when you type "ne." Half the time it seems to pick the letters that are within a word. For example I've had situations where if I typed, "ne" it would turn up something like "review of a videocard page one" as the first hit because "one" has "ne" in it.
Now why on earth would someone who was looking for the first page of a review type in "ne?"
I simply don't understand why it doesn't look for the start of words first rather than simple combinations of letters.
I suppose it could be worse though. I once worked at a school that had a profanity filter so bad that it would censor the words whenever it found a combination of letters even if they were separated by a space. So if you were to write an email with something like, "as some have said" it would delete "as s" because it thought that was "ass"
What field are you in? They psychological papers I've read aren't "independently verified." The whole point in getting them published is to get the word out so that people can then go and verify them on their own. Also what job do you have where they call it an "industry?" No one at my university calls themselves part of an "industry."
I'm also highly skeptical of the post. I've read a lot of videogame violence studies and to the best of my recollection none of them have used the term "violent behavior" and all of them have used the term "aggression." If the original poster isn't using the same terms as all the other papers out there it makes it very suspicious in my mind.
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Absolutely. I still read them every few years even though they are very much "Boy's Own Adventure" stuff with teens and tweens saving the world.
Just a note, however, there's also a prequel which explains how the world happened but that ruins half the fun of the series. Do not read it first.
It is an ok book but read it last. Half the fun of reading The White Mountains is figuring out what is going on, what time period it is and other things. Once you read the first three books then read the prequel to learn how the world got that way.
There are a lot of scanned in videogame magazines online. Do a search for the name of the magazine followed by torrent and you might find some of them.
Computer Gaming World put up the first 100 issues in pdf form when they switched to Games For Windows Magazine. I know there is an effort (if they haven't already succeeded) to scan in every issue of Nintendo Power. There is a lot of other stuff out there too.
Look around for them and it might save you the time of scanning them in yourself.
I went to take a look and see if there was anything interesting and the site has already gotten a cease and desist from Pearson Education.
I teach college courses in Indiana and this is news to me too. I would love to use an older copy of a book but you try to order it and the bookstore says, "we can't get that." So you have to use the newer version.
Every time videogame rating laws come up people ask why they shouldn't be legally enforced the way film ratings are. This is an incorrect assumption.
In the USA films are rated by the MPAA which is a trade association of the film industry, not a government agency. The film ratings are enforced by the MPAA themselves not by law. States or the federal government do not enforce the ratings. There is no state or national law preventing the sale of R-rated films to minors.
This is the same situation as videogame ratings. The games are rated by the industry and enforced by the industry.
A simpler solution which I"m sure I've heard about before would be to put some fine wires on the outside of the ball and on the boundaries. When the ball hits the line it completes a circuit thus telling you if it hit the line or not. I"m sure there would be problems with the addition of metal to the ball changing how it reacts but it still seems a lot simpler than a computerized 5 camera system.
A couple of weeks ago one of the developers of 280 slides was interviewed by Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur on their net@night podcast.
Several times in the last few years SecuRom has turned me into a pirate. I buy a game. It won't install. Turns out it has Securom on it. I go online and torrent it. After getting burned several times I have started to skip the "buying the game" step before downloading it.
in the USA we may have fairly strict laws against going on private property but we also have something like 600 million acres (aprox 2million square km) of public land of one sort or another so it isn't as if there aren't lots of other places for people to go without being on private property.
I didn't even have to read any further than the headline to know that Scalia was one of the 4. He is consistently in favor of whatever the current administration wants and in favor of limiting any freedoms or rights that get in the way of the "war on terror."
Do you have any evidence of Jacko's involvement in the "ritual satanic abuse" stuff? I can't find any online and it would be really interesting to read about his involvement in that stuff.
On the first episode of the This American Life tv show they covered the story of what happened when people tried to clone a very docile bull. Let's just say that one of the owners ended up in the hospital after the cloned bull gored him. (This story originally aired on the radio show)
I'm willing to bet that the people who get these cloned pets won't get what they bargained for.
You are entitled to your opinion but I saw it yesterday and about 10 people besides my friends and myself stuck around until the very end. Of those 10 I heard at least 5 of them say something like, "dude!" when the clip at the end started and I heard another 3 people in the parking lot talking about how awesome it was that it had that person show up.
Admittedly it was opening day so these are probably the fans anyway but based on that your reaction is not the same as the reaction most people had.
Apple was one of the companies that was behind the founding of ARM. Do they still have shares of them?
While I don't see Google doing it because of the backlash I'm a bit surprised that no other search engine has touted ignoring "nofollow" and "noindex" as a "feature" of their search engine in the attempt to look like they are better than Google.
There's a big difference between saying that it isn't our fault and saying that it is your fault. They are saying it isn't their fault. Just because it isn't their fault doesn't mean they think it is yours.
I read 4 newspapers on a regular basis because my university has this program where students get free papers. I suppose it is to try to get them in the habit of reading them but none of my students seems to be doing so. I get the school paper, the NY Times, USA Today, and the local newspaper. First off, large percentages of their contend are the same. Same wire stories. Same sports scores, same stock prices. That same content that is already online and available for free.
Then there is all the crap that I personally don't care about. Sports, horoscopes, Dear Abby, comic strips whose creators died decades ago, and other stuff.
So what does that leave? local news, editorials, letters to the editor, original reporting.
It takes me about 20 minutes to go through all of those papers. If they weren't free there is no way I would ever subscribe to a newspaper. It simply isn't worth it.
What is so hard about Maths/Science?Engineering? I was a math minor in undergrad and an english major and I didn't think my math classes were any harder than my english classes. In fact, most of the time they were easier for me.
I was told about someone at the casino who would regularly pocket $5 or so for gas money. I never saw that happen though so I don't know if it was true or not.
Our casino didn't do that. We got a paycheck like regular jobs (well actually, direct deposit). This was in the midwest and not Vegas or Atlantic City.
In the cage our tips were in cash but they were very small.
The slot people did get their tips in cash once a week but then someone noticed they weren't paying taxes on them so they started turning them into the casino and the casino would take care of taxes and give them a check. The dealers and cocktail would do the same thing since their hourly wage (like most waitresses) was something like $3.00 an hour and the majority of their money was tips.
Having worked as a cashier in a riverboat casino I've seen a lot of this stuff. However, I've also seen and heard a lot more about employees ripping off the casino than I did about players. You don't hear about the employees ripping off the casinos though because most of the time they just fire the person and tell them never to come back. I know this happened to at least three people who worked in my department. Two were fairly minor but one was several thousand dollars over a few months (that's how long it too the auditing department to pick up on his pattern and how he hid it). There are lots of ways employees can rip off the casino because they have a lot more access and know how the system works a lot better than most customers.
There were occasional customers passing counterfeit bills and people screwing with the machines or trying to bend cards but there was a lot more people soiling themselves because they didn't want to get up from their slot machine and people losing their homes because they were addicted (happened to a cousin of mine) or getting kicked off because they started yelling at us when their credit card was maxed out.
You are lucky if it turns up "news for nerds" when you type "ne." Half the time it seems to pick the letters that are within a word. For example I've had situations where if I typed, "ne" it would turn up something like "review of a videocard page one" as the first hit because "one" has "ne" in it.
Now why on earth would someone who was looking for the first page of a review type in "ne?"
I simply don't understand why it doesn't look for the start of words first rather than simple combinations of letters.
I suppose it could be worse though. I once worked at a school that had a profanity filter so bad that it would censor the words whenever it found a combination of letters even if they were separated by a space. So if you were to write an email with something like, "as some have said" it would delete "as s" because it thought that was "ass"
What field are you in? They psychological papers I've read aren't "independently verified." The whole point in getting them published is to get the word out so that people can then go and verify them on their own. Also what job do you have where they call it an "industry?" No one at my university calls themselves part of an "industry."
I'm also highly skeptical of the post. I've read a lot of videogame violence studies and to the best of my recollection none of them have used the term "violent behavior" and all of them have used the term "aggression." If the original poster isn't using the same terms as all the other papers out there it makes it very suspicious in my mind.
Does being desensitized to violence = more likely to commit violence?