Taco: Well, I think I have enough money, The wife is already using it to line the cat litter box and I can't seem to find my keyboard underneath the piles of cash. It's overflowing into the backyard and the rain is turning it all into paper mache'.
I am attempting to write an essay on rhetorical theory. I've been attempting this for quite awhile, but I haven't gotten very far at all. Fortunately my girlfriend is in the same class and also writing her essay, so I'm not missing out on much. And it's not like a team I care about is playing (unlike last year, go Patriots..;) ).. however I'm disappointed I'm missing the commercials, I'll have to download them later I guess.
i know, i do that normally. but i'm installing on a new hard drive. was originally going to start with 5.0-rc3, but hadn't gotten around to doing that yet. so now i am starting with 5.0-release instead.
cvsup does rock though, once i get everything installed in the first place.:)
I love the Nethack standard interface, but I've always turned on arrow key movement. k is kick. l is loot. I don't remember offhand what h and j are. J is jump, maybe, but I rarely need that.
Anyway, using h j k and l for movement is ridiculous, when there are keys specifically designed for movement, and in a logical layout (i.e. not in a damn row) two inches away.:P
LOL! Yes, you could wear the necklace. If you looked at it, or read it, or something, it said "Protection from traps", or something along those lines, so then you wear it, and you're protected from traps.
Heh you were almost done, too. If you knew you had to wave the magic wand, and had the necklace, and kept drowning in the flood, there's not too much left.:)
I was very young when I first played that game, my dad and I played through it and we eventually won. Just when I was home over Christmas, I was looking through a box of old old computer-related papers, and I found a small note with a list of all the Castle Adevnture items on it that my dad must have written 15 years ago or whatever. Lots of old memories.:)
The other best part of that game was all the spelling errors. "Rubys". Heh. I found out later that the guy who wrote it was 14 years old at the time. Not too bad for a young kid, eh?
I had found a website dedicated to it once, I'm not sure where the link went though. But anyway, apparently the guy who wrote the game emailed the guy who made the website, and said how he was 14 at the time, and it was cool to see the site dedicated to it, and all that.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, huh? Umm... the Epson computer I played Castle on had a boring beige case. Unlike the one in the article, it was not shaped like a T.;)
I *have* seen one of these in action, and let me say it was one of the most ridiculous sights I've ever seen. I was embarassed to be anywhere near it. As many people have pointed out, *just walk*.
I go to WPI.. and aside from the guy/girl ratio, I like it (well, I ended up beating the ratio and finding a girlfriend anyway, but I was as surprised as anyone.. the ratio is pretty damn bad, heh). A couple bad classes, but nothing horrible. And none of the stuff you seem to be going through. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a school to attend. Especially if you're a girl (I know, it's slashdot, what are the odds of finding one of *those*? probably worse than at WPI.:P )... I still have plenty of single friends who would like to see the ratio move a little more towards balanced.:)
I saw a commercial the other day for some random Internet service, and the tagline was something like "The service that logs onto you!" I cracked up. Looks like we don't even need to go to SOVIET RUSSIA to get that!
I've never actually used Quickbooks, but around 5 or 6 years ago I think, Intuit offered free demos of it. They mailed it to you. On seven 3.5" floppies.
My friend ordered some absurd amount of demos. None of us went without disks ever again.
Even now, on the occasion I need a floppy disk, all mine are still Quickbooks disks. Some are still in their original plastic wrapping. Not only that, but never once has a QB disk failed me, whereas many other disks (old AOL disks, even some I actually bought) have lost their data.
So anyway, they probably lost so much money on disks that they now need to make up for it by screwing their customers.;)
No, it does NOT "beg the question". It may "raise the question", but "begging the question" is something completely different.
Begging the question is "a logical fallacy, of taking for granted or assuming the thing that you are setting out to prove. To take an example, you might say that lying is wrong because we ought always to tell the truth. That's a circular argument and makes no sense. Another instance is to argue that democracy must be the best form of government because the majority is always right. The fallacy was described by Aristotle in his book on logic in about 350BC. His Greek name for it was turned into Latin as petitio principii and then into English in 1581 as beg the question." (http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-be g1.htm)
If you're going to use phrases, at least make sure you're using them correctly.
That's really bad. Not being bored enough to go to a conversion website, I don't know for sure, but I think a hogshead is many gallons, and rods aren't that long, so that's far far less than 1 mile a gallon. Even the worst SUV is better than that.:)
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Taco: Well, I think I have enough money, The wife is already using it to line the cat litter box and I can't seem to find my keyboard underneath the piles of cash. It's overflowing into the backyard and the rain is turning it all into paper mache'.
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lol. reminds me of:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000
In Soviet Russia, YOU belong to all OUR base!
;)
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman pours hot grits down YOUR pants!
In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster imagines YOU!
Are we all set now?
My girlfriend is having her wisdom teeth out on the 13th. So my 14th will be spent giving her slurpees and ice cream.
:)
Combined with painkillers, she should be amusing to be around.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/logic/logic2.h tml
if anyone else uses that phrase wrong i'll have to shoot them. gah.
I am attempting to write an essay on rhetorical theory. I've been attempting this for quite awhile, but I haven't gotten very far at all. Fortunately my girlfriend is in the same class and also writing her essay, so I'm not missing out on much. And it's not like a team I care about is playing (unlike last year, go Patriots.. ;) ).. however I'm disappointed I'm missing the commercials, I'll have to download them later I guess.
I didn't know Dan Quayle worked at Slashdot.
Potatoes. With an e.
One potato, two potatoes.
i know, i do that normally. but i'm installing on a new hard drive. was originally going to start with 5.0-rc3, but hadn't gotten around to doing that yet. so now i am starting with 5.0-release instead.
:)
cvsup does rock though, once i get everything installed in the first place.
never fails, I just burnt an install cd of 5.0-RC3 yesterday.
;)
fortunately I hadn't gotten around to using it yet.
maybe if I burn a copy of Nethack, we'll get 3.4.1.
Well, the military expenses are about 10x that of space exploration, so I would look there first if I were concerned about it.
But hey! We need all that military power, so we can get Saddam! He tried to kill our president's dad!
I love the Nethack standard interface, but I've always turned on arrow key movement. k is kick. l is loot. I don't remember offhand what h and j are. J is jump, maybe, but I rarely need that.
:P
Anyway, using h j k and l for movement is ridiculous, when there are keys specifically designed for movement, and in a logical layout (i.e. not in a damn row) two inches away.
1. Hack BMW to run BSD or Linux.
2. Imagine a beowulf cluster of BMWs!
3. ????
4. Profit!
...and yet teenagers are charged taxes before they can vote. So I don't think 'taxation without representation' is much of an arguement anymore.
LOL! Yes, you could wear the necklace. If you looked at it, or read it, or something, it said "Protection from traps", or something along those lines, so then you wear it, and you're protected from traps.
:)
:)
;)
Heh you were almost done, too. If you knew you had to wave the magic wand, and had the necklace, and kept drowning in the flood, there's not too much left.
I was very young when I first played that game, my dad and I played through it and we eventually won. Just when I was home over Christmas, I was looking through a box of old old computer-related papers, and I found a small note with a list of all the Castle Adevnture items on it that my dad must have written 15 years ago or whatever. Lots of old memories.
The other best part of that game was all the spelling errors. "Rubys". Heh. I found out later that the guy who wrote it was 14 years old at the time. Not too bad for a young kid, eh?
I had found a website dedicated to it once, I'm not sure where the link went though. But anyway, apparently the guy who wrote the game emailed the guy who made the website, and said how he was 14 at the time, and it was cool to see the site dedicated to it, and all that.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, huh? Umm... the Epson computer I played Castle on had a boring beige case. Unlike the one in the article, it was not shaped like a T.
You're talking about Castle Adventure, I'm pretty sure. That game rocked.
:P
You needed to wear the magic necklace to get past the flood. After you get past the flood, *then* you wave the magic wand.
I *have* seen one of these in action, and let me say it was one of the most ridiculous sights I've ever seen. I was embarassed to be anywhere near it. As many people have pointed out, *just walk*.
heh, the mooninites.
"You and your 'third dimension'"
"What about it?"
"It's cute. We have five."
"...thousand."
"Yes, five thousand."
"Don't question it!"
I go to WPI.. and aside from the guy/girl ratio, I like it (well, I ended up beating the ratio and finding a girlfriend anyway, but I was as surprised as anyone.. the ratio is pretty damn bad, heh). A couple bad classes, but nothing horrible. And none of the stuff you seem to be going through. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a school to attend. Especially if you're a girl (I know, it's slashdot, what are the odds of finding one of *those*? probably worse than at WPI. :P )... I still have plenty of single friends who would like to see the ratio move a little more towards balanced. :)
I saw a commercial the other day for some random Internet service, and the tagline was something like "The service that logs onto you!" I cracked up. Looks like we don't even need to go to SOVIET RUSSIA to get that!
So MP3 players go up $112 Canadian... that's, what, $5 US?
I've never actually used Quickbooks, but around 5 or 6 years ago I think, Intuit offered free demos of it. They mailed it to you. On seven 3.5" floppies.
;)
My friend ordered some absurd amount of demos. None of us went without disks ever again.
Even now, on the occasion I need a floppy disk, all mine are still Quickbooks disks. Some are still in their original plastic wrapping. Not only that, but never once has a QB disk failed me, whereas many other disks (old AOL disks, even some I actually bought) have lost their data.
So anyway, they probably lost so much money on disks that they now need to make up for it by screwing their customers.
I like how you bring up republicans as the ones who will censor.
Can we say "Tipper Gore"? How about "Hilary Clinton"? "Joe Lieberman"? Need I go on?
(not that the republicans are any better, but there are plenty of pro-censorship people on *both* sides, singling one side out isn't necessary)
I suppose you could have the equivalent of stellar system "camping"
Silly *campers*! Don't forget to *enjoy the sauce*!
No, it does NOT "beg the question". It may "raise the question", but "begging the question" is something completely different.
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Begging the question is "a logical fallacy, of taking for granted or assuming the thing that you are setting out to prove. To take an example, you might say that lying is wrong because we ought always to tell the truth. That's a circular argument and makes no sense. Another instance is to argue that democracy must be the best form of government because the majority is always right. The fallacy was described by Aristotle in his book on logic in about 350BC. His Greek name for it was turned into Latin as petitio principii and then into English in 1581 as beg the question."
(http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-b
If you're going to use phrases, at least make sure you're using them correctly.
lol, that is great. if i could mod you up to +6 i would. :)
My car gets 15 rods to the hog's head
:)
That's really bad. Not being bored enough to go to a conversion website, I don't know for sure, but I think a hogshead is many gallons, and rods aren't that long, so that's far far less than 1 mile a gallon. Even the worst SUV is better than that.