I think you've been had. I have a 5x5 that I bought at the local game store, and there were more than 5 there on the shelf. It's called a Rubik's Professor. It's actually not that tricky to solve, just time-consuming. I can do a 3x3 in a couple of minutes, a 4x4 in half an hour, and a 5x5 in a couple of hours.
Actually, C3 blocks (made by PlayAlong) and the Minimates are quite different from their Lego counterparts. I know this because I just wasted money on the C3 Batcave (incorporated into the animated movie), hoping they would integrate easily with my other stuff. They don't at all. The plastic feels much cheaper, and the pieces, while harder to connect to each other, tend to pop apart when even slightly disturbed. Building the set was largely an exercise in frustration, and I'm hesitant to move it much as it has a tendency to spontaneously fall apart.
The Minimate figs aren't 'custom made on the generic LEGO character body' at all. They're almost twice as tall and aren't interchangeable at all with Lego minifigs. They're interesting as they have a lot of points of articulation, but they're far more delicate, and are made of soft rubber.
Don't get me wrong, I really wanted to like this set. I've enjoyed Lego sets for years, and have long hoped for a Batman franchise. They even used Bruce Timm's Animated Series stylings for the minifigs. In the end, though, poor construction, misleading packaging, and almost indecipherable instructions all demonstrate that there's a gulf between Lego and the vastly inferior C3/Playalong.
You might also consider Metamagical Themas (Amazon, Alibris), also by Hofstadter. I took Intro to CS I & II at Grinnell College while in high school, and my first professor gave it to me as a high school graduation present.
I would say without a doubt that it has had a profound effect on the way I think about programming and CS as a whole. It's about CS only as much as it is about logic, math, puzzles, reasoning, music, philosophy, and life. It's one of the most well-worn books in my library, and reading it always renews my passion to learn, to explore, to see CS as a road that's worth exploring, not as just a quick way to get from point A to point B.
With a bit of Lex and Yacc, it should be pretty simple to come up with a C++ variant in any given language. When I was in college, some friends of mine and I wrote a compiler in ebonics, called Eubonicode. Granted, I don't know how well lex/yacc cover non-ascii character sets, but it wouldn't be hard to whip up a compiler for a French, Spanish, or German version of C++.
LucasArts's Day of the Tentacle is the sequel to the classic Maniac Mansion, and if you go into Weird Ed's room (in Tentacle) and use his computer, you're presented with a 100% complete version of Maniac Mansion. So, Weird Ed plays Maniac Mansion on his computer.
Warrantee is moot, though. If the iPod were still under warrantee, Apple will fix it for free. If you're in the situation where you're debating shelling out $99 to Apple or $50 for a DIY battery, then there's no warrantee to void.
Yes, I think I would. For starters, they don't actually have to pay $250, as another poster here pointed out, it's actually $99. I'm willing to assume that when he called about getting the battery replaced he got someone new/clueless. Besides, 18 months is hardly 'a few months'. Why are people upset that Apple charges money to replace parts that aren't under warranty?
IIt really sucks that his iPod battery died as quickly as it did, and it's unfortunate he ended up with an unknowledgeable person on his Tech support call, but they both seem to be isolated incidents. A friend of mine has had his iPod for at least that long and he doesn't have any problems with it.
Batteries don't last for ever and it costs money to replace them!
Seriously, what were they expecting? When I bought my iPod, I don't remember Apple ever saying they would replace the batteries for free, and I'm sure I don't recall them saying used magical batteries that never die.
I'm not surprised that the games are Z-Code and the next 10 are all either TADS or Z-Code. I don't understand why anyone would enter a Windows-only (or other proprietary formatted) game. If the home judges can't play the game, they're not going to rate it (highly or otherwise).
Yeah, but for geeks that are living almost hand-to-mouth, that $100 price differential might make all the difference. My roommate has a PS2 and keeps it in the living room, so I wouldn't spend $200 on a redundant system. I would, however, consider paying $99 simply for the fact that he and I aren't planning on living together forever. It would be nice if I could still play the few PS2 games that I own once I no longer have access to his machine.
I had a friend who had a cell with voice-activated dialing and was trying to demonstrate it for me one day while we were on a walk. For whatever reason, he had put his friend Tommy into the phone under the name "Mommy". He spoke into the phone very clearly "Mommy", but it just beeped at him. He figured he just needed to vary his tone, so he spent roughly two minutes walking down the street repeating the word "Mommy" with minor variations before he gave up.
The moral is, if you ever use voice dialing, don't use any nickname you wouldn't mind repeating 20 times in a row while in public.
More accurately, microsoft is a subset of evil, and patents is a subset of evil. The most that can be said is "Because some evil is microsoft, and some evil is patents, some microsoft may be patents."
Yeah, it's for the dungeon, but there's another way to get a kid out of the dungeon (but it takes both free kids). Have one of them pull the gargoyle at the base of the first flight of stairs. That opens the door at the bottom of the stairs. Have your other kid go in there. There's a lightswitch somewhere in there somewhere. The door to the dungeon is on the far left of the room.
Actually, the iTrip broadcasts on any standard frequency from 87.7 to 107.9. Check the iTrip Features page:
The iTrip allows you to select from over 100 stations on which to broadcast. That means that you can find an open band, no matter how many radio stations are in your area. Now you can choose to use ANY station - not just the typical '4 stations' you might find on other transmitters.
Actually, according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, they're required to allow you to use a computer. I have a learning disorder, and got to take all my written tests on a computer.
In that context, I wouldn't have been so upset. I'm not an anal retentive bastard, I just enjoy immersing myself, and at the particular venue I attended, most of the people were deathly quiet. Thanks for the measured and intelligent response, although if I were you, I probably wouldn't go around admitting you were far from the first person to laugh, yell, crap, or shout comments.;)
Dude, if you pulled that in the theater I was in, I would have roundly kicked your hind end. The people in the theater shelled out $8 to watch the movie, not to hear you shout stupid things at the screen, and I doubt that the audience appreciated your 'wit' as much as you think they did. Go to Rocky Horror Picture Show where they encourage that sort of infantile behavior.
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It worked pretty well in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The Ingress developers *wrote* it.
From a witness in Strange Brew regarding security tapes: "I'm not sure what a timestamp is... But it's very hard to fake!"
I think you've been had. I have a 5x5 that I bought at the local game store, and there were more than 5 there on the shelf. It's called a Rubik's Professor. It's actually not that tricky to solve, just time-consuming. I can do a 3x3 in a couple of minutes, a 4x4 in half an hour, and a 5x5 in a couple of hours.
Actually, C3 blocks (made by PlayAlong) and the Minimates are quite different from their Lego counterparts. I know this because I just wasted money on the C3 Batcave (incorporated into the animated movie), hoping they would integrate easily with my other stuff. They don't at all. The plastic feels much cheaper, and the pieces, while harder to connect to each other, tend to pop apart when even slightly disturbed. Building the set was largely an exercise in frustration, and I'm hesitant to move it much as it has a tendency to spontaneously fall apart.
The Minimate figs aren't 'custom made on the generic LEGO character body' at all. They're almost twice as tall and aren't interchangeable at all with Lego minifigs. They're interesting as they have a lot of points of articulation, but they're far more delicate, and are made of soft rubber.
Don't get me wrong, I really wanted to like this set. I've enjoyed Lego sets for years, and have long hoped for a Batman franchise. They even used Bruce Timm's Animated Series stylings for the minifigs. In the end, though, poor construction, misleading packaging, and almost indecipherable instructions all demonstrate that there's a gulf between Lego and the vastly inferior C3/Playalong.
I like their varied patterns you can use for the Fill Style. I liked them better back in 1990 when they were included in Hypercard, though.
I would say without a doubt that it has had a profound effect on the way I think about programming and CS as a whole. It's about CS only as much as it is about logic, math, puzzles, reasoning, music, philosophy, and life. It's one of the most well-worn books in my library, and reading it always renews my passion to learn, to explore, to see CS as a road that's worth exploring, not as just a quick way to get from point A to point B.
I do, I do! Ooh! Ooh! Pick me!
One of the other guys hosts it, so I can't change anything, but all the appropriate files are here.
With a bit of Lex and Yacc, it should be pretty simple to come up with a C++ variant in any given language. When I was in college, some friends of mine and I wrote a compiler in ebonics, called Eubonicode. Granted, I don't know how well lex/yacc cover non-ascii character sets, but it wouldn't be hard to whip up a compiler for a French, Spanish, or German version of C++.
LucasArts's Day of the Tentacle is the sequel to the classic Maniac Mansion, and if you go into Weird Ed's room (in Tentacle) and use his computer, you're presented with a 100% complete version of Maniac Mansion. So, Weird Ed plays Maniac Mansion on his computer.
Warrantee is moot, though. If the iPod were still under warrantee, Apple will fix it for free. If you're in the situation where you're debating shelling out $99 to Apple or $50 for a DIY battery, then there's no warrantee to void.
Yes, I think I would. For starters, they don't actually have to pay $250, as another poster here pointed out, it's actually $99. I'm willing to assume that when he called about getting the battery replaced he got someone new/clueless. Besides, 18 months is hardly 'a few months'. Why are people upset that Apple charges money to replace parts that aren't under warranty?
IIt really sucks that his iPod battery died as quickly as it did, and it's unfortunate he ended up with an unknowledgeable person on his Tech support call, but they both seem to be isolated incidents. A friend of mine has had his iPod for at least that long and he doesn't have any problems with it.
Batteries don't last for ever and it costs money to replace them!
Seriously, what were they expecting? When I bought my iPod, I don't remember Apple ever saying they would replace the batteries for free, and I'm sure I don't recall them saying used magical batteries that never die.
I'm not surprised that the games are Z-Code and the next 10 are all either TADS or Z-Code. I don't understand why anyone would enter a Windows-only (or other proprietary formatted) game. If the home judges can't play the game, they're not going to rate it (highly or otherwise).
Um, I think you mean The Empire Strikes Back. Yoda confirms it in Jedi, but Vader breaks the news to Luke in Empire.
Yeah, but for geeks that are living almost hand-to-mouth, that $100 price differential might make all the difference.
My roommate has a PS2 and keeps it in the living room, so I wouldn't spend $200 on a redundant system. I would, however, consider paying $99 simply for the fact that he and I aren't planning on living together forever. It would be nice if I could still play the few PS2 games that I own once I no longer have access to his machine.
The moral is, if you ever use voice dialing, don't use any nickname you wouldn't mind repeating 20 times in a row while in public.
More accurately, microsoft is a subset of evil, and patents is a subset of evil. The most that can be said is "Because some evil is microsoft, and some evil is patents, some microsoft may be patents."
Yeah, it's for the dungeon, but there's another way to get a kid out of the dungeon (but it takes both free kids). Have one of them pull the gargoyle at the base of the first flight of stairs. That opens the door at the bottom of the stairs. Have your other kid go in there. There's a lightswitch somewhere in there somewhere. The door to the dungeon is on the far left of the room.
Actually, according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, they're required to allow you to use a computer. I have a learning disorder, and got to take all my written tests on a computer.
In that context, I wouldn't have been so upset. I'm not an anal retentive bastard, I just enjoy immersing myself, and at the particular venue I attended, most of the people were deathly quiet. Thanks for the measured and intelligent response, although if I were you, I probably wouldn't go around admitting you were far from the first person to laugh, yell, crap, or shout comments. ;)
Dude, if you pulled that in the theater I was in, I would have roundly kicked your hind end. The people in the theater shelled out $8 to watch the movie, not to hear you shout stupid things at the screen, and I doubt that the audience appreciated your 'wit' as much as you think they did. Go to Rocky Horror Picture Show where they encourage that sort of infantile behavior.
Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.