due to the migraines I get from the overly loud sound in movie theaters, I am not surprised. Right now, it feels like everyone on the planet has seen in it theaters but me. Even my boss went! And a lot of my friends are going to see it a second time in theaters, because they wanted to see it in 3D or because other friends didn't get to go and they want to go with them.
See, Hollywood? When you don't make crap, people will happily pay you money for multiple viewings.
They searched my back once they saw it on the radar. Poor dude manning the XRays when my bag went through couldn't figure it out, and the chick who searched my bag was like "Ohhhhh!" once she realized what it was. She still had to wipe it down with something (for what, I don't know) and after they reran my bag, they seemed rather embarrassed about the whole thing.
My experience has also been that if your system is under warranty, they'll happily send you the disks for a minor shipping fee (five bucks or whatever) rather than have you file a full fledged warranty claim, if you ask for the them.
I've poked around in XIV a bit lately and the patches in preparation for the "end of the world" and reboot to version 2.0 next fall have actually made the game a lot more bearable and, dare I say, fun than it was when it first came out. My best friend played it much more extensively, and she had a custom built rig from Square Enix she won in a contest a few years ago that choked and sputtered on XIV until we replaced the motherboard, processor, and video card. When even their own house built gaming systems won't run it without extensive upgrades....
- the one they didn't actually have a hand in, in which an amusing Internet meme claims that the older Nokia phones are virtually indestructable ("Even Chuck Norris can't break one! So uses them for nunchucks!") - is probably going to do more for their brand reputation than any involvement with Microsoft ever could.
Correct, the procedure is to shoot all dogs - even small ones or elderly ones - because even a gentle dog will be provoked when his master is attacked. A toy dog's bite might not hurt much but could be distracting during a critical moment and certainly noisy. I'm not a dog person, but while I dislike this procedure on a humanitarian level, I can see the logic being it being a standard procedure.
AFAIK, cats or other small animals are not included in this procedure because they are more likely to hide quietly when strangers invade the home and attack the master.
The difference is that most folks in the US live in gated communities by choice, not by necessity. And the gates themselves are a joke. Half of them are open during the daytime, or all the time because they broke and the neighborhood association hasn't bothered to fix it yet. My father in law has a token gate on his driveway, but it's only to stop 18 wheelers from turning around on his front lawn.
What 16 year old American citizen? I never heard of this. Please elaborate.
In the meantime, the Republicans in my state legislature and executive office gleefully erode the rights to my own medical care and my own body, one law at a time, and people who are afraid of being "disappeared" by Democrats are cheering them on.
"Never attribute to malice what can be blamed on ignorance." It's far more likely that the security on the websites is weak, and they know the visitors to those sites are also likely to have relatively low security as well. I don't know many highly religious folks, but those that I do know? Total Luddites. A computer is a tool for checking Facebook to them.
When I look at the sky from my window, I see a few things. I see glittery balls of fusing hydrogen tens, hundreds, and thousands of light years away when the planet is facing away from our star, and I see scattered blue light through an oxygen atmosphere, or possibly water vapor blocking the light, when the planet is facing toward our star. It's lovely to look at, but it's pretty much the same view from any other oxygenated planet in the habitable zone around a G type star.
I'll grant you that Discordianism is probably the only free religion in the world. Even Pastafarianism recommends purchasing or renting a pirate costume at least once. The main text of Discordianism, the Principia Discordia, is available for free online these days. Even the official game of the religion, Sink, requires nothing more than a recycled object, a lake, and mud to play.
The only game my Radeon couldn't handle at top graphics was FFXIV. And the only person I've ever met that got XIV to benchmark at max graphics was running on a brand new $2000 rig with SLI. 95% of us won't need a card this powerful, but I bet more than 5% of us sort of want one anyway.
I don't know about that. WoW is aging and players are dropping out rapidly because, well, the game is graphically dated and has been copied and improved upon a lot by other games. WoW is the king of MMOs in the same way that Budweiser is the king of beers, and now that all these fancy craft brews are becoming more widely available, people are beginning to realize what relative piss water WoW is. There will always be a core playerbase for WoW so long as the servers are online, same as Everquest and FFXI, but it's already stopped attracting new players because it's just not as shiny any more.
A lot of games have claimed to be WoW killers over the years, but none have really had both the fan base and the development skills to get it right. (Poor, poor FFXIV. So pretty, so utterly broken. I'm crossing my fingers for their 2.0 reboot next spring.) TOR was almost there, but also failed. Tera? Not quite. Maybe, just maybe, Bethesda will manage to strike the proper balance of fun, interaction, storyline, pretty art, and awesome.
Scott Christian Sava has deliberately kept the content of his sprawling CG comic kid friendly. It's free online, or you can buy the books. He also has an iPhone app called iKids Comics that contains other works that are kid friendly. Basically, his motto is that if he can't show it to his seven year old son, it can't go in the comic.
I believe they'll still be in a Google colo data center with Google admins doing the grunt server maintenance work, but yes, the actual ownership of the machines should be with the government under this model.
Sometimes all you need is a high level, low information density background to the actual speaker who will go into more detail on the subject. Some of the best presentations I've seen had the speaker clicking through slides with a single word over a picture, absolutely in time and in tune with the actual speech or discussing they were holding. It was glossy, well rehearsed, and worked perfectly. The only real issue that comes is when people try to use Power point in place of the high density, detailed information, instead of as a supplement.
If the judge rules in Google's favor, that means Oracle doesn't have to pay a lot of other people money (for non-Java codes and APIs that they use.) If the judge rules in Oracle's favor, other people have to pay a lot of money to Oracle. Either way Oracle wins, either by protecting their own properties or getting free reign to use everybody else's properties.
A friend of mine has a son with this level of autism. He is 15 years old, cannot speak, and can only communicate via words typed on a laptop. She cried when he "said" his first words at the age of 11 after months of type therapy, which was "want ice cream"... cried not only in happiness, because due to the expense of his care, she did not have any ice cream to give him as a reward. High functioning autism may be quirky, but low functioning autism is devastating AND horrifically expensive to deal with.
Any time Japan tackles anything related to Christianity in an anime the results tend to be quite awesome. Wolfwood from Trigun is probably still my favorite. (Not Catholic, but still awesome-funny.)
The rest of the books in the Ender's Game series, to start. I read the first one but never bothered with the rest. I might try one of the Halo books to see how terrible they are. Also, After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn looks quite interesting.
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I know of at least one that watched five minutes of it and then gave up and paid the money to see it in the theater in decent quality.
due to the migraines I get from the overly loud sound in movie theaters, I am not surprised. Right now, it feels like everyone on the planet has seen in it theaters but me. Even my boss went! And a lot of my friends are going to see it a second time in theaters, because they wanted to see it in 3D or because other friends didn't get to go and they want to go with them.
See, Hollywood? When you don't make crap, people will happily pay you money for multiple viewings.
Searched my bag, rather. My back held no raffle tickets.
They searched my back once they saw it on the radar. Poor dude manning the XRays when my bag went through couldn't figure it out, and the chick who searched my bag was like "Ohhhhh!" once she realized what it was. She still had to wipe it down with something (for what, I don't know) and after they reran my bag, they seemed rather embarrassed about the whole thing.
My experience has also been that if your system is under warranty, they'll happily send you the disks for a minor shipping fee (five bucks or whatever) rather than have you file a full fledged warranty claim, if you ask for the them.
Yup. CCCP is by far the best video codec pack I've ever used. Install it once and forget about it. Everything just works.
I've poked around in XIV a bit lately and the patches in preparation for the "end of the world" and reboot to version 2.0 next fall have actually made the game a lot more bearable and, dare I say, fun than it was when it first came out. My best friend played it much more extensively, and she had a custom built rig from Square Enix she won in a contest a few years ago that choked and sputtered on XIV until we replaced the motherboard, processor, and video card. When even their own house built gaming systems won't run it without extensive upgrades....
- the one they didn't actually have a hand in, in which an amusing Internet meme claims that the older Nokia phones are virtually indestructable ("Even Chuck Norris can't break one! So uses them for nunchucks!") - is probably going to do more for their brand reputation than any involvement with Microsoft ever could.
Correct, the procedure is to shoot all dogs - even small ones or elderly ones - because even a gentle dog will be provoked when his master is attacked. A toy dog's bite might not hurt much but could be distracting during a critical moment and certainly noisy. I'm not a dog person, but while I dislike this procedure on a humanitarian level, I can see the logic being it being a standard procedure.
AFAIK, cats or other small animals are not included in this procedure because they are more likely to hide quietly when strangers invade the home and attack the master.
The difference is that most folks in the US live in gated communities by choice, not by necessity. And the gates themselves are a joke. Half of them are open during the daytime, or all the time because they broke and the neighborhood association hasn't bothered to fix it yet. My father in law has a token gate on his driveway, but it's only to stop 18 wheelers from turning around on his front lawn.
What 16 year old American citizen? I never heard of this. Please elaborate.
In the meantime, the Republicans in my state legislature and executive office gleefully erode the rights to my own medical care and my own body, one law at a time, and people who are afraid of being "disappeared" by Democrats are cheering them on.
"Never attribute to malice what can be blamed on ignorance." It's far more likely that the security on the websites is weak, and they know the visitors to those sites are also likely to have relatively low security as well. I don't know many highly religious folks, but those that I do know? Total Luddites. A computer is a tool for checking Facebook to them.
When I look at the sky from my window, I see a few things. I see glittery balls of fusing hydrogen tens, hundreds, and thousands of light years away when the planet is facing away from our star, and I see scattered blue light through an oxygen atmosphere, or possibly water vapor blocking the light, when the planet is facing toward our star. It's lovely to look at, but it's pretty much the same view from any other oxygenated planet in the habitable zone around a G type star.
I'll grant you that Discordianism is probably the only free religion in the world. Even Pastafarianism recommends purchasing or renting a pirate costume at least once. The main text of Discordianism, the Principia Discordia, is available for free online these days. Even the official game of the religion, Sink, requires nothing more than a recycled object, a lake, and mud to play.
The only game my Radeon couldn't handle at top graphics was FFXIV. And the only person I've ever met that got XIV to benchmark at max graphics was running on a brand new $2000 rig with SLI. 95% of us won't need a card this powerful, but I bet more than 5% of us sort of want one anyway.
I don't know about that. WoW is aging and players are dropping out rapidly because, well, the game is graphically dated and has been copied and improved upon a lot by other games. WoW is the king of MMOs in the same way that Budweiser is the king of beers, and now that all these fancy craft brews are becoming more widely available, people are beginning to realize what relative piss water WoW is. There will always be a core playerbase for WoW so long as the servers are online, same as Everquest and FFXI, but it's already stopped attracting new players because it's just not as shiny any more.
A lot of games have claimed to be WoW killers over the years, but none have really had both the fan base and the development skills to get it right. (Poor, poor FFXIV. So pretty, so utterly broken. I'm crossing my fingers for their 2.0 reboot next spring.) TOR was almost there, but also failed. Tera? Not quite. Maybe, just maybe, Bethesda will manage to strike the proper balance of fun, interaction, storyline, pretty art, and awesome.
Scott Christian Sava has deliberately kept the content of his sprawling CG comic kid friendly. It's free online, or you can buy the books. He also has an iPhone app called iKids Comics that contains other works that are kid friendly. Basically, his motto is that if he can't show it to his seven year old son, it can't go in the comic.
I believe they'll still be in a Google colo data center with Google admins doing the grunt server maintenance work, but yes, the actual ownership of the machines should be with the government under this model.
Sometimes all you need is a high level, low information density background to the actual speaker who will go into more detail on the subject. Some of the best presentations I've seen had the speaker clicking through slides with a single word over a picture, absolutely in time and in tune with the actual speech or discussing they were holding. It was glossy, well rehearsed, and worked perfectly. The only real issue that comes is when people try to use Power point in place of the high density, detailed information, instead of as a supplement.
If the judge rules in Google's favor, that means Oracle doesn't have to pay a lot of other people money (for non-Java codes and APIs that they use.) If the judge rules in Oracle's favor, other people have to pay a lot of money to Oracle. Either way Oracle wins, either by protecting their own properties or getting free reign to use everybody else's properties.
A friend of mine has a son with this level of autism. He is 15 years old, cannot speak, and can only communicate via words typed on a laptop. She cried when he "said" his first words at the age of 11 after months of type therapy, which was "want ice cream" ... cried not only in happiness, because due to the expense of his care, she did not have any ice cream to give him as a reward. High functioning autism may be quirky, but low functioning autism is devastating AND horrifically expensive to deal with.
Any time Japan tackles anything related to Christianity in an anime the results tend to be quite awesome. Wolfwood from Trigun is probably still my favorite. (Not Catholic, but still awesome-funny.)
No, that's the reason that CS departments are incorporated into larger universities instead of being stand alone institutions.
The rest of the books in the Ender's Game series, to start. I read the first one but never bothered with the rest. I might try one of the Halo books to see how terrible they are. Also, After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn looks quite interesting.