Just the way the house got laid out, unfortunately. I had to switch to a more thermal efficient system just so the heater would actually run in the winter time.
Zynga has its own problems - the Flash games become notoriously slower and unresponsive the higher you get in levels. Even the lab rats get tired of the Skinner box when it takes 5 minutes to drop a pellet. Ever get a Farmville farm up to level 50? It would literally take 20 seconds just to move your mouse accross the screen from one crop plot to another. If Google+ uses their mad HTML5 skillz to make Zynga-esque crack games that have better performance, I might consider playing them. If they bring Zynga onboard, I'm deleting my G+ account.
Mine was an interesting situation. I had been turned down for Governor's Honors camp in GA and was so pissed off, I vowed I'd apply to the first summer program that was announced on the school radio. That turned out to be Math Skills Improvement, a six week algebra, trig, and pre-calculus cram session for juniors and seniors at Claflin College in SC, a historically all black school. I was the only white girl there. It was a good experience for me in many ways - I got paid $400 for being the token affirmative action kid, I got a much needed butt kicking in pre-calculus as I headed onto AP calc in my senior year, and I learned the ins and outs of Excel in such a way that I'm now known as the spreadsheet master at my office. I was with friends from high school, and made many more friends during the summer. And I learned to booty dance.
FFXI is platform independent: once you have your codes linked to an account, you can use that same account on any platform that XI will run on at a time. That facilitated people shifting between PS2 to Xbox to PC without ever losing their characters, and also means you can pay $20 for a brand new set of codes and borrow someone else's used installation disks for the older version (very critical for PS2, where a "new" set of codes for the 9 year old game will cost $150 off eBay.) Most PC folks eventually bought another modern version of the game to avoid going through 12 hours of patches every time we installed or re installed, but that was OUR decision to give SE the extra month, and we could always give away the spare codes to a friend.
Until they make some means of verifying ID via your iPhone, a wallet still has a place in anyone's pocket. My 7 year old Mythware wallet, which proclaims, "Anime: Crack is Cheaper" is a trooper and I won't be getting rid of it until it disintegrates.
We've had a few put in, all of them in residential areas, replacing four way stops mostly. They would be a disaster in high speed, high traffic corridors, but in areas where the likelihood of two cars encountering one another is low, let alone more than two cars, they speed things up nicely.
Next thing you know, Microsoft will try to patent "waving" as it is used on the Kinect, and anyone who builds a motion detection gadget or system will have to have a license for "waving" issued from them.
Hell, I was just commenting the other day that I would love to play an RPG based on the old Arnette Lamb book "Maiden of Inverness." A 10 year old song of a blacksmith is engaged to an 8 year old Scottish princess, and must train hard and become a clan leader to eventually claim his bride and the crown of the highlands. Great narrative, great backbones for an RPG, and since it's a romance novel, all the escapism and fantasy a woman could want.
We're talking nearly 15 years worth of CDs in my collection, many of which no longer have a physical disk associated with them (part of the reason I ripped them over to MP3 in the first place - the CDs were scratched and close to unplayable.) If Apple or the RIAA demanded I produce proof I legally bought my music collection, I'd be SOL. Couple that with tracks of dubious legality (radio DJ shows, international tracks that were not available for sale in the US, and even a few imported CDs from other regions), cataloging the legality of my music collection would be a giant headache for the lawyers at the RIAA.
Square Enix actually got this right with their older MMO, Final Fantasy XI. The NPCs are generally not only quest givers, but appear in cutscenes and have evolving lives and storylines of their own, from the smallest child to the kings and leaders of nations. Battlefield content is driven by the storylines, and once you have completed an expansion's overall story, most of the NPCs in the town treat you different (usually with more respect.)
The article's methodology also doesn't accurately differentiate between content players actually want to do, and content they feel forced to do in order to advance. There's nothing more any player hates than a "sticking point" that interrupts their plans, such as a mission that is hard to defeat without specific classes or a really tricky strategy, and yet these are exactly the sort of road blocks developers put in all the time, thinking they are being clever.
So a company can't hire a third party law firm to blanket sue? Based on the previous slashdot story and TFA, that's the gist of what this is saying. A copyright holder can't have a generic contract with a litigation firm; they must hire them under contract to sue on their behalf in a specific case.
Considering he was presiding editor of Harvard Law Review (vol104) , I'm assuming he had to have done quite well. The student editors are chosen from a combination of grades and scores in a competition for the editors slots, and then the students select the "best" among them to be the President of the editing group (which Obama was.) If a poor black kid from Hawaii had the $$ to bribe 39 other rich students into selecting him as the "best" choice among them, I'll eat my hat. As it stands, there's a possibility that the task was given to him because no one else wanted to do it, but considering the prestige that comes with the position, I find that highly unlikely.
Yeah, I don't know about Obama's SAT score. I do know about ol' GWB's SAT score, and I know that I scored about four hundred points higher than he did. (So did Natalie Portman.) Didn't we all come to the conclusion that SAT scores meant nothing in terms of one's success and that judging a person by their SAT score is intellectual elitism?
Paranoid troll much? While I agree the scrutiny on Palin is eye-roll inducing, I think I'd rather have them devote their energy to exploring actual, serious presidential candidates, like Romney and Cain. Or exposing the extremist crazy of Michelle Bachman, who is still at least in office.
Indeed, for many higher paying jobs you either need a 4 year degree or 4-5 years of experience in order to even get in the interview. When a HR manager has 100 resumes on his desk for a position, and 50 have a college degree (or 4 years of experience with relevant certifications), and 50 don't, guess which 50 are going to be tossed in the trash can first?
- or at least has folks with the same mentality, even if they're not from/b/ or 4chan. Although the Anons I know in real life are proud to admit their affiliation (to people who are okay to know), I also suspect that members of Lulz are quite okay being totally silent on what their are doing, considering how dangerous is it.
If nothing else, this has provided me the impetus to go and change all my passwords.
There were three "Han Solo and the X" type books released in the early eighties. They are long since out of print, but they were quite good. There was also a related book about Luke and Leia having an adventure out in a temple someplace, but since episode 6 hadn't been released yet, it had too much UST and was probably reconned out due to incest ickiness.
I suspect he actually pissed off people on the other side of the political spectrum. He's a fire-breathing-liberal type, and Bret Breitbart is involved in this, so I'm automatically going take the whole mess with a grain of salt. Political infighting is nasty.
I have an excellent family doctor now. I and others sing his praises online - with the caveat that because he is so popular, getting an appointment is impossible. Same goest for my current dentist. I love her to bits. I dread ever moving and having to find other doctors and dentists. Neither of them have any such sign or agreement - because they don't need it!
Yeah, but some of us sysadmins have to deal with user's macs on an occasional basis and we see nothing special about them besides a headache. Just this morning, one of our techs had to spend an hour googling a mac-specific issue for a nice but clueless end user. I generally only complain about macs and mac obsessees when I have to deal with them. (Just like I generally only complain about Microsoft, nVidia, etc when their stuff is giving me problems.)
My very first foray into IRC when I was a teen ended up with me getting banned from my first visit to a newbie room because I mentioned someone had told me it was a great place for downloads. Which it was, of course, but the IRC admins were paranoid, and banned newbies who came in looking for warez. It all worked out, though - within a month, I was smashing F5 with the best of them trying to get a precious download slot for episodes of Sailor Moon.
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Just the way the house got laid out, unfortunately. I had to switch to a more thermal efficient system just so the heater would actually run in the winter time.
Suspected car bomb. There are photos of a destroyed car consistant with car bomb explosions, outside the building.
Zynga has its own problems - the Flash games become notoriously slower and unresponsive the higher you get in levels. Even the lab rats get tired of the Skinner box when it takes 5 minutes to drop a pellet. Ever get a Farmville farm up to level 50? It would literally take 20 seconds just to move your mouse accross the screen from one crop plot to another. If Google+ uses their mad HTML5 skillz to make Zynga-esque crack games that have better performance, I might consider playing them. If they bring Zynga onboard, I'm deleting my G+ account.
Mine was an interesting situation. I had been turned down for Governor's Honors camp in GA and was so pissed off, I vowed I'd apply to the first summer program that was announced on the school radio. That turned out to be Math Skills Improvement, a six week algebra, trig, and pre-calculus cram session for juniors and seniors at Claflin College in SC, a historically all black school. I was the only white girl there. It was a good experience for me in many ways - I got paid $400 for being the token affirmative action kid, I got a much needed butt kicking in pre-calculus as I headed onto AP calc in my senior year, and I learned the ins and outs of Excel in such a way that I'm now known as the spreadsheet master at my office. I was with friends from high school, and made many more friends during the summer. And I learned to booty dance.
FFXI is platform independent: once you have your codes linked to an account, you can use that same account on any platform that XI will run on at a time. That facilitated people shifting between PS2 to Xbox to PC without ever losing their characters, and also means you can pay $20 for a brand new set of codes and borrow someone else's used installation disks for the older version (very critical for PS2, where a "new" set of codes for the 9 year old game will cost $150 off eBay.) Most PC folks eventually bought another modern version of the game to avoid going through 12 hours of patches every time we installed or re installed, but that was OUR decision to give SE the extra month, and we could always give away the spare codes to a friend.
They joined forces just before LulzSec retired. They are now AnonSec or something like that.
Until they make some means of verifying ID via your iPhone, a wallet still has a place in anyone's pocket. My 7 year old Mythware wallet, which proclaims, "Anime: Crack is Cheaper" is a trooper and I won't be getting rid of it until it disintegrates.
We've had a few put in, all of them in residential areas, replacing four way stops mostly. They would be a disaster in high speed, high traffic corridors, but in areas where the likelihood of two cars encountering one another is low, let alone more than two cars, they speed things up nicely.
Next thing you know, Microsoft will try to patent "waving" as it is used on the Kinect, and anyone who builds a motion detection gadget or system will have to have a license for "waving" issued from them.
Hell, I was just commenting the other day that I would love to play an RPG based on the old Arnette Lamb book "Maiden of Inverness." A 10 year old song of a blacksmith is engaged to an 8 year old Scottish princess, and must train hard and become a clan leader to eventually claim his bride and the crown of the highlands. Great narrative, great backbones for an RPG, and since it's a romance novel, all the escapism and fantasy a woman could want.
We're talking nearly 15 years worth of CDs in my collection, many of which no longer have a physical disk associated with them (part of the reason I ripped them over to MP3 in the first place - the CDs were scratched and close to unplayable.) If Apple or the RIAA demanded I produce proof I legally bought my music collection, I'd be SOL. Couple that with tracks of dubious legality (radio DJ shows, international tracks that were not available for sale in the US, and even a few imported CDs from other regions), cataloging the legality of my music collection would be a giant headache for the lawyers at the RIAA.
Just hold your thumb over the sensor, that should work.
Square Enix actually got this right with their older MMO, Final Fantasy XI. The NPCs are generally not only quest givers, but appear in cutscenes and have evolving lives and storylines of their own, from the smallest child to the kings and leaders of nations. Battlefield content is driven by the storylines, and once you have completed an expansion's overall story, most of the NPCs in the town treat you different (usually with more respect.)
The article's methodology also doesn't accurately differentiate between content players actually want to do, and content they feel forced to do in order to advance. There's nothing more any player hates than a "sticking point" that interrupts their plans, such as a mission that is hard to defeat without specific classes or a really tricky strategy, and yet these are exactly the sort of road blocks developers put in all the time, thinking they are being clever.
Now I wish I had an iPhone so I could give him an earful that way.
So a company can't hire a third party law firm to blanket sue? Based on the previous slashdot story and TFA, that's the gist of what this is saying. A copyright holder can't have a generic contract with a litigation firm; they must hire them under contract to sue on their behalf in a specific case.
Considering he was presiding editor of Harvard Law Review (vol104) , I'm assuming he had to have done quite well. The student editors are chosen from a combination of grades and scores in a competition for the editors slots, and then the students select the "best" among them to be the President of the editing group (which Obama was.) If a poor black kid from Hawaii had the $$ to bribe 39 other rich students into selecting him as the "best" choice among them, I'll eat my hat. As it stands, there's a possibility that the task was given to him because no one else wanted to do it, but considering the prestige that comes with the position, I find that highly unlikely.
Yeah, I don't know about Obama's SAT score. I do know about ol' GWB's SAT score, and I know that I scored about four hundred points higher than he did. (So did Natalie Portman.) Didn't we all come to the conclusion that SAT scores meant nothing in terms of one's success and that judging a person by their SAT score is intellectual elitism?
Paranoid troll much? While I agree the scrutiny on Palin is eye-roll inducing, I think I'd rather have them devote their energy to exploring actual, serious presidential candidates, like Romney and Cain. Or exposing the extremist crazy of Michelle Bachman, who is still at least in office.
Indeed, for many higher paying jobs you either need a 4 year degree or 4-5 years of experience in order to even get in the interview. When a HR manager has 100 resumes on his desk for a position, and 50 have a college degree (or 4 years of experience with relevant certifications), and 50 don't, guess which 50 are going to be tossed in the trash can first?
- or at least has folks with the same mentality, even if they're not from /b/ or 4chan. Although the Anons I know in real life are proud to admit their affiliation (to people who are okay to know), I also suspect that members of Lulz are quite okay being totally silent on what their are doing, considering how dangerous is it.
If nothing else, this has provided me the impetus to go and change all my passwords.
There were three "Han Solo and the X" type books released in the early eighties. They are long since out of print, but they were quite good. There was also a related book about Luke and Leia having an adventure out in a temple someplace, but since episode 6 hadn't been released yet, it had too much UST and was probably reconned out due to incest ickiness.
I suspect he actually pissed off people on the other side of the political spectrum. He's a fire-breathing-liberal type, and Bret Breitbart is involved in this, so I'm automatically going take the whole mess with a grain of salt. Political infighting is nasty.
I have an excellent family doctor now. I and others sing his praises online - with the caveat that because he is so popular, getting an appointment is impossible. Same goest for my current dentist. I love her to bits. I dread ever moving and having to find other doctors and dentists. Neither of them have any such sign or agreement - because they don't need it!
Yeah, but some of us sysadmins have to deal with user's macs on an occasional basis and we see nothing special about them besides a headache. Just this morning, one of our techs had to spend an hour googling a mac-specific issue for a nice but clueless end user. I generally only complain about macs and mac obsessees when I have to deal with them. (Just like I generally only complain about Microsoft, nVidia, etc when their stuff is giving me problems.)
My very first foray into IRC when I was a teen ended up with me getting banned from my first visit to a newbie room because I mentioned someone had told me it was a great place for downloads. Which it was, of course, but the IRC admins were paranoid, and banned newbies who came in looking for warez. It all worked out, though - within a month, I was smashing F5 with the best of them trying to get a precious download slot for episodes of Sailor Moon.