For nothing other than the cool-looking factor, that is my 'mech of choice, too. My gf and I had taken her youngest to the mall, and in one of the game stores they had some 'mech toys. I spotted the MadCat version and pointed it out.
"That's what I want."
"The toy?" she asked.
"No, the 75-ton version with jump jets and missile racks."
Maybe you'll have to verify your humanity any time you want to search for something.
Or maybe advertisers will quit trying to quantify per-view or per-link and just pay (or be charged) a flat fee for a time-period run, something more similar to how things work on TV and radio. Rather than making an ad on the web accountable in ways that no other media is required, why not just assume it's getting you market-awareness and presence?
My gawd - I'd nearly forgotten about chewing through the stacks of Doc Savage rags I'd found in family storage when I was a kid. Entertaining, until I burned out on them; that era's pulp fiction was incredibly formulaic, although in all fairness I doubt that's changed much over the years. Great mindless stuff, lots of melodrama and action, good guys were really good and bad guys were just awful.
To attempt to get back on topic, I thought the same thing when I saw the "Sky Captain" trailer - revitalizing the old pulp fiction stories.
Now, many people will start rattling off the plethora of spyware detectors and adware look alikes...
It was my understanding that a lot of the various newer knock-offs were, in fact, spyware themselves. I trust exactly two spyware detection/removal programs, thanks to community opinion. If smarter people than me haven't given something a good, thorough going-over, then I'm pretty hesitant to give such a thing a try.
What the online world needs is more people who understand that defensive and maintenance utilities are good things to be updated and used often, and to "observe" their computer's behavior (checking for processes, suddenly-appearing directories and files, sniffing packets leaving their machine to see if some app is trying to pull a fast one, etc.), but that would require that people actually understand these funny little boxes that run Windows.
I think the player with the highest score should glow in some eye-popping color and have access to only the lowest hit weapons.
Not that this addresses the issue, but I remember introducing my office mates (at my previous job) to Quake, and setting up lunchtime deathmatches. By this time, I'd been playing FPS for years (since Quake was more than a bit aged when we played) and everyone else was new to the concept (much less the game.
To level the playing field, I set everyone up with drab skins, hard to see on most of the brown Q1 maps, and gave myself a bright stop-sign red skin. To boot, for quite a while (until people learned the maps, the moves, and the weapons), I used only shotgun. Everyone appreciated the equalizing.
The funny part, to me, was the different verbal reactions: with some, it was "when I see red, I know where to aim," while others said "when I see red, I run away!"
When Mario is bored -- and out here in the countryside, surrounded by soaring snowcapped mountains and little else, he's bored a lot...
Is it me, or does it sound like he's got plenty of outdoors-fun potential? Hiking, camping, skiing, etc. Maybe if mom had booted him out the door more often to go and play...
In many instances, I'm as concerned with how things feel and move on me (say, a nice suit, or a jacket, or a different cut of pants than I usually buy) as I am with how they look. I see a shortcoming.
I have no idea why this was modded flamebait, unless someone has a personal vendetta against those with poor circulation...
You know, I was wondering that myself - first flamebait mod ever for me.:P
That said, I think I fall into the "just because" category. Don't smoke (never did), not overweight in the least, etc. Staying warm doesn't seem to be a problem, but once my hands or feet are cold, they stay that way. Sitting over at my gf's house, my feet tend to go numb - and she doesn't keep the place any colder than 65F.
I'm familiar with warm-water treatments, but as often as not, they're not the most convenient thing, particularly when I'm nowhere near frostbite and feel silly for being such a "wuss."
There are those with poor circulation in the extremities whose bodies have some trouble warming hands and feet back up once they've gotten cold. Speaking as one of them, once my feet have gone cold, they stay that way for ages, even after getting into a warm (or even hot) envinronment, changing shoes/socks for warmer/dryer pairs, etc.
...at an ASC conference a year or so ago. Very well put-together presentation - I didn't read the article (yay typical/. behavior), so I'm going by my memory of the talk and slides
As I recall, the fella from Purdue had mentioned that the primary interest they were pursuing was to try and exploit the technology for a medical/surgical adhesive, but that a firm understanding of the chemical mechanism could be worth quite a bit to the US Navy, since estimates put fuel waste and inefficiency (due to increased drag on ships because of the molluscs attached to the hull) runs into the billions...
(As a funny aside, this guy was probably the only talk at the conference that really got people interested. There's only so much excitement to be had in glue.:P )
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All in all, I thought Shrek had more "real" looking characters than FF. In fact, I remember a comment from the animators saying they had to conciously work to make sure their characters didn't look too real - this being a fairy tale and all.
According to what I remember from the "making-of" snippets, it was Princess Fiona who caused them the most trouble with that issue - their first version was apparently too realistic for believable placement and interaction within the film's world. They couldn't have a "real" looking character interacting with obviously "cartoonish" characters without making the disparity noticeable and interrupting the flow of the movie and setting.
...removing the atrocious instrumental backup on a Christina Aguilera song... It was really nice. She can actually sing.
I recall being told once that she performed with Dave Matthews, doing some blues-y/jazzy type thing, and that everyone was wowed by it. Truth? Anyone know?
FWIW, Methanol does have a lower flashpoint (12C) than ethanol (16.6C). Having them in solutions does help to mitigate the flammability hazards, granted.
I haven't tested out a karma yet but I definitely love my empeg and if it's half as good it's much better than anything else.
I bought the first 20GB Karma that appeared in the local Best Buy - I had promised myself a Neuros, but on hearing that there were problems with skipping on higher-bitrate oggs, I decided to wait until the firmware was improved. In the meantime, the Karma was announced, and I loved the size of it, and so it goes...
Anyway, same thing with the Karma, initially: skipping on high-bitrate tracks. About two weeks after I bought it, firmware 1.1.1 was released, and the skips disappeared completely. The unit is nicely compact, and sits nicely in the front pocket of my jeans. Battery life isn't bad at all - I commute an hour to work, and depending on how much I use it outside of the car, I can usually make it to the weekend before having to recharge. (No, I didn't buy the car DC adaptor.)
I do have a few issues - and these are minor - one being the transfer speeds (USB, dunno if it supports USB 2.0 as my machine doesn't have it and I'm too lazy to check the Karma's documentation). It took about six to seven hours to transfer about 14GB, which isn't terrible, since i just left it go overnight. The second issue I had was on the usability of the interface. Playback is a no-brainer, easy and fairly intuitive. Playlist building and sorting, on the other hand, didn't come quite as quickly to me. I have yet to thoroughly investigate that avenue, though, since I haven't fully checked out the Music Manager software and since I just tend to put "All" on shuffle.
How much does it cost to encode 1 CDs worth of music? Uh...you need a PC, the CD to encode, and..what? 5 mins? 30? 2 hours? Just once per CD. How many CDs do EMI, for instance, release a day?
Methinks you might have forgotten about things like licensing costs. I can assure you EMI would likely be paying a non-insignificant license fee to whomever developed the DRM method they choose to implement; said fee may be imposed per title, per time unit (week/month/annum), or per individual unit (CD) produced.
When you manufacture several hundred thousand CDs per week, year-'round, licensing becomes another operating cost subtracting from the chunk left over at the bottom line. Meaning they either accept lower profits (ha!), or raise prices to compensate. Hmm...
That nit needed to be picked, since I didn't see the second film - only the trailer, which gave the very distinct impression that Janni Gogolak was still alive (and being played by Kevin Pollack). Thanks!:)
Is he going to be the antagonist? How, as a steaming pile of dragon-shit?
What, you were expecting continuity? How 'bout The Whole Nine Yards, where Kevin Pollack's character was shot, the body dragged around a while, and then said body left in a car that got torched - only to reappear as the bad guy in the sequel?
I guessed by familiarity - size, description, timing of the laptops becoming mandatory (I started there when the NeXTs were still relatively useful). There are only so many small, acclaimed engineering schools of about 1500 students.
Napster arrived during my second year of college (a small highly-acclaimed private engineering school). Bandwidth didn't suffer too badly, we had 1500 students on the network with mandatory laptops...
Out of curiousity, that didn't happen to be this school, per chance?
are about to be pounced upon by a man-eating tiger. One man starts to properly lace up and tighten his running shoes. The second one looks at him and says, "Do you think you can outrun a tiger?"
The first man replies, "I don't have to outrun the tiger - I just have to outrun you."
You're taking all the right steps to protect yourself - short of becoming an unperson, you can't become totally secure. People who resort to breaking the law to get what they want, as a general rule, are not interested in working any harder than necessary. Make sure that stealing your identity is quite a bit tougher than that of the guy next door, and let diminishing returns work for you.
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For nothing other than the cool-looking factor, that is my 'mech of choice, too. My gf and I had taken her youngest to the mall, and in one of the game stores they had some 'mech toys. I spotted the MadCat version and pointed it out.
"That's what I want."
"The toy?" she asked.
"No, the 75-ton version with jump jets and missile racks."
"What would you do with it?"
"I'd stomp stuff."
Maybe you'll have to verify your humanity any time you want to search for something.
Or maybe advertisers will quit trying to quantify per-view or per-link and just pay (or be charged) a flat fee for a time-period run, something more similar to how things work on TV and radio. Rather than making an ad on the web accountable in ways that no other media is required, why not just assume it's getting you market-awareness and presence?
I'll bet you've never even heard of Doc Savage.
My gawd - I'd nearly forgotten about chewing through the stacks of Doc Savage rags I'd found in family storage when I was a kid. Entertaining, until I burned out on them; that era's pulp fiction was incredibly formulaic, although in all fairness I doubt that's changed much over the years. Great mindless stuff, lots of melodrama and action, good guys were really good and bad guys were just awful.
To attempt to get back on topic, I thought the same thing when I saw the "Sky Captain" trailer - revitalizing the old pulp fiction stories.
...because an action once taken cannot be undone.
Sure it can! That's why there's ctrl-Z!
Now, many people will start rattling off the plethora of spyware detectors and adware look alikes...
It was my understanding that a lot of the various newer knock-offs were, in fact, spyware themselves. I trust exactly two spyware detection/removal programs, thanks to community opinion. If smarter people than me haven't given something a good, thorough going-over, then I'm pretty hesitant to give such a thing a try.
What the online world needs is more people who understand that defensive and maintenance utilities are good things to be updated and used often, and to "observe" their computer's behavior (checking for processes, suddenly-appearing directories and files, sniffing packets leaving their machine to see if some app is trying to pull a fast one, etc.), but that would require that people actually understand these funny little boxes that run Windows.
First ST reference I'd seen here - cool. :)
Not that this addresses the issue, but I remember introducing my office mates (at my previous job) to Quake, and setting up lunchtime deathmatches. By this time, I'd been playing FPS for years (since Quake was more than a bit aged when we played) and everyone else was new to the concept (much less the game.
To level the playing field, I set everyone up with drab skins, hard to see on most of the brown Q1 maps, and gave myself a bright stop-sign red skin. To boot, for quite a while (until people learned the maps, the moves, and the weapons), I used only shotgun. Everyone appreciated the equalizing.
The funny part, to me, was the different verbal reactions: with some, it was "when I see red, I know where to aim," while others said "when I see red, I run away!"
My pointless two cents. :P
Is it me, or does it sound like he's got plenty of outdoors-fun potential? Hiking, camping, skiing, etc. Maybe if mom had booted him out the door more often to go and play...
In many instances, I'm as concerned with how things feel and move on me (say, a nice suit, or a jacket, or a different cut of pants than I usually buy) as I am with how they look. I see a shortcoming.
Gotta ask - what's this from? Sounds vaguely familiar, but my brain can't place it.
You know, I was wondering that myself - first flamebait mod ever for me. :P
That said, I think I fall into the "just because" category. Don't smoke (never did), not overweight in the least, etc. Staying warm doesn't seem to be a problem, but once my hands or feet are cold, they stay that way. Sitting over at my gf's house, my feet tend to go numb - and she doesn't keep the place any colder than 65F.
I'm familiar with warm-water treatments, but as often as not, they're not the most convenient thing, particularly when I'm nowhere near frostbite and feel silly for being such a "wuss."
There are those with poor circulation in the extremities whose bodies have some trouble warming hands and feet back up once they've gotten cold. Speaking as one of them, once my feet have gone cold, they stay that way for ages, even after getting into a warm (or even hot) envinronment, changing shoes/socks for warmer/dryer pairs, etc.
Problem the first: the tensile strength of any joystick/analog stick required is going to be much higher than in the regular el-cheapo controllers.
Problem the second: overdeveloped thumbs and puny everything-else. :P
...at an ASC conference a year or so ago. Very well put-together presentation - I didn't read the article (yay typical /. behavior), so I'm going by my memory of the talk and slides
As I recall, the fella from Purdue had mentioned that the primary interest they were pursuing was to try and exploit the technology for a medical/surgical adhesive, but that a firm understanding of the chemical mechanism could be worth quite a bit to the US Navy, since estimates put fuel waste and inefficiency (due to increased drag on ships because of the molluscs attached to the hull) runs into the billions...
(As a funny aside, this guy was probably the only talk at the conference that really got people interested. There's only so much excitement to be had in glue. :P )
According to what I remember from the "making-of" snippets, it was Princess Fiona who caused them the most trouble with that issue - their first version was apparently too realistic for believable placement and interaction within the film's world. They couldn't have a "real" looking character interacting with obviously "cartoonish" characters without making the disparity noticeable and interrupting the flow of the movie and setting.
I recall being told once that she performed with Dave Matthews, doing some blues-y/jazzy type thing, and that everyone was wowed by it. Truth? Anyone know?
FWIW, Methanol does have a lower flashpoint (12C) than ethanol (16.6C). Having them in solutions does help to mitigate the flammability hazards, granted.
I bought the first 20GB Karma that appeared in the local Best Buy - I had promised myself a Neuros, but on hearing that there were problems with skipping on higher-bitrate oggs, I decided to wait until the firmware was improved. In the meantime, the Karma was announced, and I loved the size of it, and so it goes...
Anyway, same thing with the Karma, initially: skipping on high-bitrate tracks. About two weeks after I bought it, firmware 1.1.1 was released, and the skips disappeared completely. The unit is nicely compact, and sits nicely in the front pocket of my jeans. Battery life isn't bad at all - I commute an hour to work, and depending on how much I use it outside of the car, I can usually make it to the weekend before having to recharge. (No, I didn't buy the car DC adaptor.)
I do have a few issues - and these are minor - one being the transfer speeds (USB, dunno if it supports USB 2.0 as my machine doesn't have it and I'm too lazy to check the Karma's documentation). It took about six to seven hours to transfer about 14GB, which isn't terrible, since i just left it go overnight. The second issue I had was on the usability of the interface. Playback is a no-brainer, easy and fairly intuitive. Playlist building and sorting, on the other hand, didn't come quite as quickly to me. I have yet to thoroughly investigate that avenue, though, since I haven't fully checked out the Music Manager software and since I just tend to put "All" on shuffle.
My two cents, as it were.
Methinks you might have forgotten about things like licensing costs. I can assure you EMI would likely be paying a non-insignificant license fee to whomever developed the DRM method they choose to implement; said fee may be imposed per title, per time unit (week/month/annum), or per individual unit (CD) produced.
When you manufacture several hundred thousand CDs per week, year-'round, licensing becomes another operating cost subtracting from the chunk left over at the bottom line. Meaning they either accept lower profits (ha!), or raise prices to compensate. Hmm...
You say that like it's a bad thing. :P
That nit needed to be picked, since I didn't see the second film - only the trailer, which gave the very distinct impression that Janni Gogolak was still alive (and being played by Kevin Pollack). Thanks! :)
What, you were expecting continuity? How 'bout The Whole Nine Yards, where Kevin Pollack's character was shot, the body dragged around a while, and then said body left in a car that got torched - only to reappear as the bad guy in the sequel?
I guessed by familiarity - size, description, timing of the laptops becoming mandatory (I started there when the NeXTs were still relatively useful). There are only so many small, acclaimed engineering schools of about 1500 students.
:P
Out of curiousity, that didn't happen to be this school, per chance?
:)
are about to be pounced upon by a man-eating tiger. One man starts to properly lace up and tighten his running shoes. The second one looks at him and says, "Do you think you can outrun a tiger?"
The first man replies, "I don't have to outrun the tiger - I just have to outrun you."
You're taking all the right steps to protect yourself - short of becoming an unperson, you can't become totally secure. People who resort to breaking the law to get what they want, as a general rule, are not interested in working any harder than necessary. Make sure that stealing your identity is quite a bit tougher than that of the guy next door, and let diminishing returns work for you.