As someone who was effectively trained to only sleep in quiet situations like that, I have to say for the love of god, turn a TV on, vaccum while it's sleeping, poke it from time to time! It's HORRIBLE! When the neighbors are playing their TV with the subwoofer on, I toss and turn trying to think up ways to drown it out. If my wife is watching TV in the next room, forget about sleeping. Don't do that to your kid!
No matter how good you are at aiming in front of you, I'd like to see you do a 180 degree turn to check behind you quickly, then go back to where you were looking. Hell, even turning around is a pain in the ass. With a mouse, I just twitch my mouse to the right really quick and then back. With a controller, I have ONE speed that I can turn.
Yeah, it's really not an issue that's big enough for me to spend the money it would require to beef up my PC. I said I don't do much online FPS, so that's even less an issue. Typically when a guy is shooting at me from behind in halo, I'm dead before I realize where he's shooting from. What you're talking about is an issue I would pay about $20 to fix, not buy a new video card. And I'd pay $20 NOT to have to mess with installing a game on my computer.
I know it's hard for some people to understand, but my preference for consoles is not based on ignorance of the advantages the PC has.
If I were at a party with a bunch of spammers, they'd be lucky if I were just talking about embryology instead of, say, breaking their heads open with the punchbowl.
Also, for all the time PC gamers spend talking about how much better the mouse is for gaming, I don't really see much of a difference. I can adapt to both equally well, and for my use they both work equally well. Maybe if I were in serious competition it would be a needed edge, but I only play FPSes online once in a blue moon. When I do it's actual skill that sets me behind the other players, not the control scheme.
You could tell her it's either gears of war, or a dangerous attempt at making your own chainsaw gun. Remind her that gas is expensive if the safety issue isn't a big concern.
Or you could remind her that you are a big boy and know enough not to emulate what you see in games. Note that this and the first option are mutually exclusive.
Last, you could tell her they really cleaned up the violence:
Not to mention they pick one from the WORST bond movie: moonraker. They also honor "the core." Why would you do that? And, it's even more trivial, but the blurb for "Halo" is slightly wrong: there are multiple halos that would destroy the universe, not just one. And then they put a joke one on there, from Matt Groening?
This really seems like just regular delusion, except now there's the internet. Doesn't make it a whole new ballgame. Delusional people are always finding ways of validating their delusions, that it happens on a message board instead of some guy on the subway, or one of those pseudoscience magazines doesn't make it a special new thing. Sounds a lot like someone trying to sell a book or at least make up a new disease that they're an expert in.
Hey, I've got a new disease I'm an expert in: people who think aliens are probing them and who regularly visit the facebook group "Aliens are probing me." It's nearly impossible to cure, because there's a facebook group that supports it. Buy my book and find out how you can treat people with it and prevent yourself from getting this terrible affliction.
If the only thing keeping my penis small is a feedback loop, then it should not be too hard to create a drug that interrupts that feedback loop.
I hate to be "that guy" who talks embryology when discussing the next big breakthrough in spam ads, but pretty much everything in embryonic development seems to be controlled by several different fundamental systems. The same signaling pathways that regulate how many layers of skin you grow in utero are the same signaling pathways used to control development of your intestines and brain, to name a few.
That becomes a more complex problem than even the ethics involved in designer babies: you mess with one thing, it usually has serious consequences elsewhere. So if you were to find the feedback loop and break it, it would likely cause severe developmental problems.
Even if you did manage to not mess up other development, there could still be indirect issues. Brain development is one area that human evolution seems to have pushed of course. An interesting book by Carl Sagan points out that the size of babies' heads seems to be bigger than women's pelvises were designed to handle, but they're already pretty much at their limits as well: any bigger and women would have a hard time walking. It also points out that humans seem to be in the minority when it comes to pain during birth.
In other words, the human brain is already somewhat too big for our own good. Fortunately for the species and men in particular, that's mostly an issue that women have to compensate for at very limited times.
With the other thing, that might not be the case. The most obvious negative consequence there would be if you were so huge you were no longer physically able to mate.
The supreme court and president say sonar is needed and won't be that bad for the whales, but everytime I try to set up a machine to make "ping" noises in the white house or homes of the justices, they have their secret service details tackle me and arrest me, then the police charge me with trespassing, indecent exposure, or some other mumbo jumbo.
Try to pass high frequency RF through a power conversion transformer and you get scrambled eggs on the other side.
Waitaminute, you're telling me I could have a scrambled-egg making machine with nothing more than that high frequency RF thingy and a transformer!?! Wow! I'll be having omlettes EVERYDAY! Question: can it be any transformer or does it have to be like optimus prime?
On a side note, I'm surprised EA are taking chances with new IP and even gameplay mechanics now. Sure, they have their yearly sports franchises and they have announced that this and Dead Space are going to be trilogies, but it's surprising how EA have brought out some fairly original games instead of generic-army-FPS-2009, forcing Acti-Blizzard to step up to the plate to become the new evil, un-inspired publisher for gamers. As long as you stick to consoles, that is. No DRM here..... This generation.....
You're not the only one to have noticed that Evil Association is doing some things they don't usually do.
It appears this website ITSELF requires a subscription, the "beta" is free, the "pro" is not. Signing up for the beta will get you a registration page, followed by this helpful message:
"Due to the wonderful interest that we have received, we will be sending out your username and password next week. We hope you enjoy using DeepDyve, the research engine for the Deep Web!"
Not impressed so far that they can't let me use the search for a week unless I pay them money. Don't fall for this scam.
This way, they'll still have control over the standard, and if products meet the standard, they get branded with "OLS Compliant!" and consumers know that if they buy "OLS Compliant!" parts, they'll work with their other "OLS Compliant!" parts, which makes consumers very happy, which makes the standard valuable.
Times have really changed. Back when I was buying legos, I was only concerned with whether or not I'd have enough to build a spaceship. Kids these days with their obsession with open source... They should just stick with microsoft legos.
Ummm...funny thing... jobs don't require degrees. Stupid HR people and pointy haired managers do.
To quote myself from the post you were responding to
"...pointing out a job doesn't actually require a college degree doesn't go over well in interviews."
If you can't get the job or an interview because you don't have the "required degree" then it really doesn't matter if the actual job itself requires a degree.
Many people need to get a student loan to get a degree to get into the job they want. Stopping the student loans is a good way to ensure that the doctors, lawyers, and even programmers of tomorrow aren't the best, they're just the ones who had parents who could afford their degrees.
That is actually an interesting idea. I think though the thing to do would be to put that into a different franchise, I really like that EA of all companies took such a gamble, it would be somewhat dissapointing to see them hedge their bets by making it more standard.
Regulations are always supported by insiders as a way to protect themselves from outsiders.
Blanket statements are always wrong.;-P Seriously, that is not the reasoning for these laws, and there aren't "outs" for big corporations. Home labs only get noticed when the fire department comes. Big labs have scheduled inspections.
Uhm, no...you seem to be missing the forest for all these trees.
No, I understood it just fine. Disagreed with all of it, but thought two parts were far enough out there to bother pointing out. The first again was that you seem to think you're the only one doing his job right. The second was that you can't say liberals are all hypocrites, just as I can't say all conservatives are skinheads. Instead of addressing that, you posted more unrelated right-wing propaganda.
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As someone who was effectively trained to only sleep in quiet situations like that, I have to say for the love of god, turn a TV on, vaccum while it's sleeping, poke it from time to time! It's HORRIBLE! When the neighbors are playing their TV with the subwoofer on, I toss and turn trying to think up ways to drown it out. If my wife is watching TV in the next room, forget about sleeping. Don't do that to your kid!
No matter how good you are at aiming in front of you, I'd like to see you do a 180 degree turn to check behind you quickly, then go back to where you were looking. Hell, even turning around is a pain in the ass. With a mouse, I just twitch my mouse to the right really quick and then back. With a controller, I have ONE speed that I can turn.
Yeah, it's really not an issue that's big enough for me to spend the money it would require to beef up my PC. I said I don't do much online FPS, so that's even less an issue. Typically when a guy is shooting at me from behind in halo, I'm dead before I realize where he's shooting from. What you're talking about is an issue I would pay about $20 to fix, not buy a new video card. And I'd pay $20 NOT to have to mess with installing a game on my computer.
I know it's hard for some people to understand, but my preference for consoles is not based on ignorance of the advantages the PC has.
If I were at a party with a bunch of spammers, they'd be lucky if I were just talking about embryology instead of, say, breaking their heads open with the punchbowl.
Also, for all the time PC gamers spend talking about how much better the mouse is for gaming, I don't really see much of a difference. I can adapt to both equally well, and for my use they both work equally well. Maybe if I were in serious competition it would be a needed edge, but I only play FPSes online once in a blue moon. When I do it's actual skill that sets me behind the other players, not the control scheme.
Can't somebody do something about the obnoxious split-screen?
Done! Get another TV, another 360, two xbox live accounts, start a game on one and join in on live with the other one!
You could tell her it's either gears of war, or a dangerous attempt at making your own chainsaw gun. Remind her that gas is expensive if the safety issue isn't a big concern.
Or you could remind her that you are a big boy and know enough not to emulate what you see in games. Note that this and the first option are mutually exclusive.
Last, you could tell her they really cleaned up the violence:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/
"Your mom is a classy lady!" I love it.
Not to mention they pick one from the WORST bond movie: moonraker. They also honor "the core." Why would you do that? And, it's even more trivial, but the blurb for "Halo" is slightly wrong: there are multiple halos that would destroy the universe, not just one. And then they put a joke one on there, from Matt Groening?
WORST DOOMSDAY DEVICE LIST EVER.
This really seems like just regular delusion, except now there's the internet. Doesn't make it a whole new ballgame. Delusional people are always finding ways of validating their delusions, that it happens on a message board instead of some guy on the subway, or one of those pseudoscience magazines doesn't make it a special new thing. Sounds a lot like someone trying to sell a book or at least make up a new disease that they're an expert in.
Hey, I've got a new disease I'm an expert in: people who think aliens are probing them and who regularly visit the facebook group "Aliens are probing me." It's nearly impossible to cure, because there's a facebook group that supports it. Buy my book and find out how you can treat people with it and prevent yourself from getting this terrible affliction.
It's true! I just read that on the internet!
If the only thing keeping my penis small is a feedback loop, then it should not be too hard to create a drug that interrupts that feedback loop.
I hate to be "that guy" who talks embryology when discussing the next big breakthrough in spam ads, but pretty much everything in embryonic development seems to be controlled by several different fundamental systems. The same signaling pathways that regulate how many layers of skin you grow in utero are the same signaling pathways used to control development of your intestines and brain, to name a few.
That becomes a more complex problem than even the ethics involved in designer babies: you mess with one thing, it usually has serious consequences elsewhere. So if you were to find the feedback loop and break it, it would likely cause severe developmental problems.
Even if you did manage to not mess up other development, there could still be indirect issues. Brain development is one area that human evolution seems to have pushed of course. An interesting book by Carl Sagan points out that the size of babies' heads seems to be bigger than women's pelvises were designed to handle, but they're already pretty much at their limits as well: any bigger and women would have a hard time walking. It also points out that humans seem to be in the minority when it comes to pain during birth.
In other words, the human brain is already somewhat too big for our own good. Fortunately for the species and men in particular, that's mostly an issue that women have to compensate for at very limited times.
With the other thing, that might not be the case. The most obvious negative consequence there would be if you were so huge you were no longer physically able to mate.
so long as the plasma plant doesn't generate any toxic waste or cause heat pollution it'd be a great way to get energy in practically any environment.
I'd say those are two big ifs, but you didn't say "if." Therefore I also have no objections to this plan.
The supreme court and president say sonar is needed and won't be that bad for the whales, but everytime I try to set up a machine to make "ping" noises in the white house or homes of the justices, they have their secret service details tackle me and arrest me, then the police charge me with trespassing, indecent exposure, or some other mumbo jumbo.
Government hypocrisy at its finest I tell you!
When would I profit though?
Try to pass high frequency RF through a power conversion transformer and you get scrambled eggs on the other side.
Waitaminute, you're telling me I could have a scrambled-egg making machine with nothing more than that high frequency RF thingy and a transformer!?! Wow! I'll be having omlettes EVERYDAY! Question: can it be any transformer or does it have to be like optimus prime?
On a side note, I'm surprised EA are taking chances with new IP and even gameplay mechanics now. Sure, they have their yearly sports franchises and they have announced that this and Dead Space are going to be trilogies, but it's surprising how EA have brought out some fairly original games instead of generic-army-FPS-2009, forcing Acti-Blizzard to step up to the plate to become the new evil, un-inspired publisher for gamers. As long as you stick to consoles, that is. No DRM here..... This generation.....
You're not the only one to have noticed that Evil Association is doing some things they don't usually do.
Penny-arcade has a likely explanation
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/5/
Consider that at least 75% of the browsing public never gets much deeper than a Google image search for "cute puppies," or some such nonsense.
Yes, but you have to realize that some of that 75% is going to want to see MORE cute puppies they couldn't with just google image search.
It appears this website ITSELF requires a subscription, the "beta" is free, the "pro" is not. Signing up for the beta will get you a registration page, followed by this helpful message:
"Due to the wonderful interest that we have received, we will be sending out your username and password next week.
We hope you enjoy using DeepDyve, the research engine for the Deep Web!"
Not impressed so far that they can't let me use the search for a week unless I pay them money. Don't fall for this scam.
Not only that, but we also have a smug, pedantic douchebag too!
Hey, how did I get involved in this?!?
This way, they'll still have control over the standard, and if products meet the standard, they get branded with "OLS Compliant!" and consumers know that if they buy "OLS Compliant!" parts, they'll work with their other "OLS Compliant!" parts, which makes consumers very happy, which makes the standard valuable.
Times have really changed. Back when I was buying legos, I was only concerned with whether or not I'd have enough to build a spaceship. Kids these days with their obsession with open source... They should just stick with microsoft legos.
Ummm...funny thing ... jobs don't require degrees. Stupid HR people and pointy haired managers do.
To quote myself from the post you were responding to
"...pointing out a job doesn't actually require a college degree doesn't go over well in interviews."
If you can't get the job or an interview because you don't have the "required degree" then it really doesn't matter if the actual job itself requires a degree.
Many people need to get a student loan to get a degree to get into the job they want. Stopping the student loans is a good way to ensure that the doctors, lawyers, and even programmers of tomorrow aren't the best, they're just the ones who had parents who could afford their degrees.
That is actually an interesting idea. I think though the thing to do would be to put that into a different franchise, I really like that EA of all companies took such a gamble, it would be somewhat dissapointing to see them hedge their bets by making it more standard.
I hate Idle, Btw.
Yet you continue to read it... interesting...
You jest, but portal kind of ruins your joke. GLaDOS might still find it funny though.
Regulations are always supported by insiders as a way to protect themselves from outsiders.
Blanket statements are always wrong. ;-P Seriously, that is not the reasoning for these laws, and there aren't "outs" for big corporations. Home labs only get noticed when the fire department comes. Big labs have scheduled inspections.
Uhm, no...you seem to be missing the forest for all these trees.
No, I understood it just fine. Disagreed with all of it, but thought two parts were far enough out there to bother pointing out. The first again was that you seem to think you're the only one doing his job right. The second was that you can't say liberals are all hypocrites, just as I can't say all conservatives are skinheads. Instead of addressing that, you posted more unrelated right-wing propaganda.