"He died as he lived... with his mouth wide open."
Also, my favorite from that movie
"Are we in movie A or movie B?"
"I think we're in movie D, for dumb"
Whether or not Iran actually caught any squirrels, they really are claiming to have done so. I heard this story on NPR yesterday, so unless at least two news outlets are doing July Fools on the same day...
Also, in the original Civ, this is sort of a non military victory.
I once had a game where I built only my first three cities in the best spots I could find in the near east of the Earth map. I then buffed the heck out of them. Diplomats back then had no support, so you could build as many as you want. I pumped my economy, and got the united nations wonder. I then surrounded enemy cities with diplomats so they couldn't work the land. When the population got sufficiently low, I would send a diplomat in to buy the city for dirt cheap, then open communications so they would offer peace. By the time I started preparing for war, I owned everything but the America's, with still only 3 original cities, and only capitols taken by force. I even had one city, and an enemy tank give a negative number as the asking price for conversion, because their satisfaction or whatever was so low. The tank paid me something like 1500 gold to join my army. Now that is persuasion.
I won my first few games of Civ III by culture, without ever knowing how I managed it at first. I just was very cultural it seemed.
I once won a game of the original Master of Orion in about half an hour with the humans. I just expanded like mad, made friends with everyone, and pumped spending into population. The game quickly reached the threshold for voting for galactic emperor, and I had a relatively large population and was allied with everyone but the Silicoid I believe, so I won.
I dunno, I had the original Civ as a kid and I found it to be much more simple than the ones today. Even on the easiest difficulties the newer ones seem easier to me. Civ was an awesome game though....
I still recall fondly the time when I was so dominant one of my diplomats got an enemy tank to pay me 1000 gold to join my side. So awesome.
Nintendo is actually being innovative in finding new ways to be fun He's simply saying Nintendo is finding new and different avenues for fun. The creation of Cooking Mama does not cause me to cease to feel happy when playing Halo.
I found a book at a local thrift shop called something like, "How to Win at Nintendo" that had guides for like 50 games in it. And sadly enough, it had Super Mario Bros in it, and it did indeed detail when to jump, where to find hidden blocks and warps. So shameful.
Sorry, never heard that expression before. As a speaker of American English the phrase "he came in but-last" implies to me that even though he came in, he came in last.
When I was growing up my parents had a BetaMax player. We had stacks and stacks of Beta tapes that we got for like 10 dollars a box when when the local SoundWarehouse cleared out it's Beta section. Our house got broken into several times, and almost every time, they stole the Beta player. Sometimes it was almost the only thing they had time to steal before the police arrived (or one time we came home while they were in the house.) I can only imagine the frustration as they tried to use or pawn it. Though a savvy pawnshop may have taken it. I still have our most recent Beta player and box of my favorite movies.
Reminds me of a joke from soviet era. A The most famous runner from Poland was to compete against a soviet champion. It was a one on one race. The official message stated the results: "the Russian got the honourable second place, the Pole came in but-last." I think it is supposed to be the Pole came in second to last.
I didn't lose my ability to write because of typing, but I certainly took to typing because my handwriting was already so bad. At least it improved when schools stopped requiring me to use cursive.
Tetris has made a friend of mine amazing at stacking boxes inside a U-haul van (which was extremely useful in my recent move).
One of the only games my dad played to any extent was Tetris. Our church would always get together to help people move using my dad's company's truck, and he would be in charge of packing it, because he was as they called him "The Tetris Man". When he wasn't around to place a box, the called on me "The Son of the Tetris Man" because I too played that game. It is still an invaluable tool for helping visualize just how to orient a box to slide into the odd remaining space.
On a similar note, Puzzle Pirates is another great puzzling game, and one of the people from the crew I was in would play with his whole family. His 4 year old son learned about how colors mixed by playing the alchemy game.
How about those old TLC games? Some of them were pretty cheesy, like Treasure Math Storm, but I played the crap out of Ancient Empires. That game had really fun puzzles. I remember playing some old space based math game on Macs back in elementary school too. Probably lame now, but really fun at the time.
that'll teach me to try and comment on something I only half remember from high school... Somewhere along the lines, the algorithm analysis I learned in data structures and the basic stuff I learned in high school collided and annihilated each other.
If the debt is growing by 5% then it is not exponential, it's geometric. As long as you are multiplying by a constant factor your growth is only geometric. Even doubling the debt every year would not be exponential.
When the light is moving, it moves at the speed of light. Materials which slow light down (pretty much anything light passes through to some degree) do so by absorbing the light then re-emitting it in the direction (approximately) it was going. The time it takes to do so is what changes the lights apparent speed, and is why denser materials slow light down more. It has to stop and restart more times. At least, that is the high school physics explanation I remember.
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Unlike much of WoW, the exploding sheep is not that hard to emulate in real life...
"He died as he lived... with his mouth wide open." Also, my favorite from that movie "Are we in movie A or movie B?" "I think we're in movie D, for dumb"
Whether or not Iran actually caught any squirrels, they really are claiming to have done so. I heard this story on NPR yesterday, so unless at least two news outlets are doing July Fools on the same day...
Also, in the original Civ, this is sort of a non military victory. I once had a game where I built only my first three cities in the best spots I could find in the near east of the Earth map. I then buffed the heck out of them. Diplomats back then had no support, so you could build as many as you want. I pumped my economy, and got the united nations wonder. I then surrounded enemy cities with diplomats so they couldn't work the land. When the population got sufficiently low, I would send a diplomat in to buy the city for dirt cheap, then open communications so they would offer peace. By the time I started preparing for war, I owned everything but the America's, with still only 3 original cities, and only capitols taken by force. I even had one city, and an enemy tank give a negative number as the asking price for conversion, because their satisfaction or whatever was so low. The tank paid me something like 1500 gold to join my army. Now that is persuasion.
I won my first few games of Civ III by culture, without ever knowing how I managed it at first. I just was very cultural it seemed. I once won a game of the original Master of Orion in about half an hour with the humans. I just expanded like mad, made friends with everyone, and pumped spending into population. The game quickly reached the threshold for voting for galactic emperor, and I had a relatively large population and was allied with everyone but the Silicoid I believe, so I won.
That's the most depressing thing I've heard in years. Here I thought I'd accomplished something monumental...
I dunno, I had the original Civ as a kid and I found it to be much more simple than the ones today. Even on the easiest difficulties the newer ones seem easier to me. Civ was an awesome game though.... I still recall fondly the time when I was so dominant one of my diplomats got an enemy tank to pay me 1000 gold to join my side. So awesome.
I found a book at a local thrift shop called something like, "How to Win at Nintendo" that had guides for like 50 games in it. And sadly enough, it had Super Mario Bros in it, and it did indeed detail when to jump, where to find hidden blocks and warps. So shameful.
Sorry, never heard that expression before. As a speaker of American English the phrase "he came in but-last" implies to me that even though he came in, he came in last.
When I was growing up my parents had a BetaMax player. We had stacks and stacks of Beta tapes that we got for like 10 dollars a box when when the local SoundWarehouse cleared out it's Beta section. Our house got broken into several times, and almost every time, they stole the Beta player. Sometimes it was almost the only thing they had time to steal before the police arrived (or one time we came home while they were in the house.) I can only imagine the frustration as they tried to use or pawn it. Though a savvy pawnshop may have taken it. I still have our most recent Beta player and box of my favorite movies.
He lied to us through song! I hate it when people do that.
I didn't lose my ability to write because of typing, but I certainly took to typing because my handwriting was already so bad. At least it improved when schools stopped requiring me to use cursive.
Next someone should make a game that teaches me to use "/quote" instead of "quote"
How about those old TLC games? Some of them were pretty cheesy, like Treasure Math Storm, but I played the crap out of Ancient Empires. That game had really fun puzzles. I remember playing some old space based math game on Macs back in elementary school too. Probably lame now, but really fun at the time.
that'll teach me to try and comment on something I only half remember from high school...
Somewhere along the lines, the algorithm analysis I learned in data structures and the basic stuff I
learned in high school collided and annihilated each other.
If the debt is growing by 5% then it is not exponential, it's geometric. As long as you are multiplying by a constant factor your growth is only geometric. Even doubling the debt every year would not be exponential.
What about a really really long gun? To allow for slower acceleration?
Handwavium? Not strong enough. We need Unobtainium.
Man, those vikings, they rocked. NObody understood why I burst out laughing when I first reached that part of Uldaman.
When the light is moving, it moves at the speed of light. Materials which slow light down (pretty much anything light passes through to some degree) do so by absorbing the light then re-emitting it in the direction (approximately) it was going. The time it takes to do so is what changes the lights apparent speed, and is why denser materials slow light down more. It has to stop and restart more times. At least, that is the high school physics explanation I remember.
Damnit. My apologies. It had hidden the post you replied to. Sorry to gripe at you for nothing.
It would seem that /. ate my less than sign, which was supposed to live between 4500 and 299,792,458.