Maintenance could be done in a pressurized dome, sure; but maintaining pressure for an equipment shed seems a waste. It's true moon certified equipment it shouldn't care if it's in a vacuum. In fact a vacuum would preserve it very nicely with no tarnishing, no oxidation, etc.
I thought part of the reason we want to go to the moon is to get away from the damage we've done to our own planet.
Um. No. That's exactly no part of the reason we want to go to the moon. Now if the moon were an ecological paradise you might have something; but the moon is a rock in space. Maybe we could use it in some kind of massive zen garden on the wall of our Dyson sphere or ringworld someday, but I don't think charged moon dirt will make a difference in that case.
Fun fact about iTunes is that it can store PDF files alongside tracks. Perfect for liner notes, tabs, etc. Also any quicktime file such as a music video. Both filetypes can be given the same metadata (artist, album, etc) that you give to the music files so everything stays very nicely organized and (and this is key for me) is easily re-organizable.
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Yes, they had larger brains.
It's a funny quirk of anthropology that in all other cases, Homo Sapiens larger brain mass is used to explain its dominance over other animals. When comparing Homo Sapiens with Neandertals they say that our brains work more "efficiently".
But my G3 really and truly doesn't feel hindered or slow at all. I do have the maximum amount of memory (640 megs), so perhaps that's the big difference?
Okkaay. Nintendo 64 launched with Mario 64 and a new Pilotwings. That's it! Two games, both sequels.
Dreamcast's BIG launch title was Soul Calibur, the sequel to Soul Edge.
XBox's BIG launch title: Halo. You can't get more rehashy than a new FPS.
NES: Super Mario Brothers. Who hadn't already been playing Mario in the Donkey Kong game. The only thing this added was length and ability to sidescroll the screen.
SNES: Super Mario World. Super Mario Brothers with fancier graphics.
Gameboy: Tetris. The game that had already been played by millions.
New systems want to make money *fast* so they make games that will appeal to the existing demographic: i.e. the chance to see your favorite games turned up to eleven.
OSX barely runs at all on a G3 these days (you can coerce it, but it's awful).
WTF, mate? My 800Mhz G3 iBook runs Tiger very snappily. I don't even do the weird hacks that disable spotlight or dashboard. I did have to install it under target disk mode because it doesn't have a DVD drive and I didn't care to wait for some CDs to ship out.
Not to say that I don't love my dual 1.8Ghz G5 tower, but the speed of the OS and normal apps (Mail, Safari, Office, etc) are pretty indistinguishable between them. Although I do miss the pretty ripple effect in dashboard that the G5 can handle:-)
I think some modern science and mass distributed knowledge to the rural poor of most of the world might help their situation.
Sort of a "let them eat cake" kind of deal?
Don't believe the insect myth, that's largely a joke played on foreign tourists. (I.e. if you eat scorpion or whatever in China, you are being laughed at.)
I've worked in retail for most of my life. The only time I've ever seen or heard of employees stealing is when a cashier took $40 from the register. But I guess my experience is the exception.
The mini is still an Apple product and gets the same costs of development and QC. It's also marketed to PC users that are interested in Macs, who hopefully already have a monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Computers my man, we're talking about computers. If you are worried about your desktop getting scratched maybe you should stop carrying it in your pocket.
As for cracking it in half...Jeebus, what are you doing?!
Since switching to Macs three years ago every single one of my systems has had no upgrades (save for memory) and still runs the latest and greatest software very nicely. I guess this is a pretty slow rat race? I'm fine with that:-)
Yeah, back when games actually came with loot. Tiny tools in Autoduel. Maps, coins, trinkets and multiple non-game-related manuals (the spellcasting books are still works of art) with Ultima. Infocom games gave you a veritible cornucopia of coolness (a 'Don't Panic' button, fluff, danger hiding shades, a microscopic space fleet, and other stuff I'm forgetting all came with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).
We have several of the cloth Ultima maps mounted and framed and they look quite awesome. Hmm, I should dig around for those at my parents house during Thanksgiving. Gaming nostalgia, here I come!
(Yes, next year it could be fairly more powerful, but I don't think that even that would go over well).
With who? Nintendo has said that they are completely pulling back from the graphics masturbation contest and going for unique games. The gamecube's graphics are just fine, Nintendo has said that the revolution won't support HDTV so what improvements do they really need to make?
I think the revolution will essentially be a Gamecube 2.0, new controller, new interface, new kind of gaming.
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Maintenance could be done in a pressurized dome, sure; but maintaining pressure for an equipment shed seems a waste. It's true moon certified equipment it shouldn't care if it's in a vacuum. In fact a vacuum would preserve it very nicely with no tarnishing, no oxidation, etc.
Why is the moon mower stored in a pressurized environment?
I thought part of the reason we want to go to the moon is to get away from the damage we've done to our own planet.
Um. No. That's exactly no part of the reason we want to go to the moon. Now if the moon were an ecological paradise you might have something; but the moon is a rock in space. Maybe we could use it in some kind of massive zen garden on the wall of our Dyson sphere or ringworld someday, but I don't think charged moon dirt will make a difference in that case.
Are you making the sound that went over your head?
That's what it looks like to me.
If you, you know, browsed around google's site sometime you'd find all this good stuff. The blog, the newsletter, the labs, etc.
It's not like they're hidden or anything.
Fun fact about iTunes is that it can store PDF files alongside tracks. Perfect for liner notes, tabs, etc. Also any quicktime file such as a music video. Both filetypes can be given the same metadata (artist, album, etc) that you give to the music files so everything stays very nicely organized and (and this is key for me) is easily re-organizable.
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Good stuff.
Frotz and the DAT file are where its at.
Yes, they had larger brains.
It's a funny quirk of anthropology that in all other cases, Homo Sapiens larger brain mass is used to explain its dominance over other animals. When comparing Homo Sapiens with Neandertals they say that our brains work more "efficiently".
o_O
But my G3 really and truly doesn't feel hindered or slow at all. I do have the maximum amount of memory (640 megs), so perhaps that's the big difference?
I love the HHGttG game. Take the buffered anagelsic.
I played it when I was seven or eight and didn't have too much trouble with it, except for the holding tea and no tea puzzle.
The one really irritating part was feeding the sandwich to the dog, which you didn't know you needed to do until much later in the game.
When you play a game you don't like, do you always swear off of the entire genre?
Okkaay. Nintendo 64 launched with Mario 64 and a new Pilotwings. That's it! Two games, both sequels.
Dreamcast's BIG launch title was Soul Calibur, the sequel to Soul Edge.
XBox's BIG launch title: Halo. You can't get more rehashy than a new FPS.
NES: Super Mario Brothers. Who hadn't already been playing Mario in the Donkey Kong game. The only thing this added was length and ability to sidescroll the screen.
SNES: Super Mario World. Super Mario Brothers with fancier graphics.
Gameboy: Tetris. The game that had already been played by millions.
New systems want to make money *fast* so they make games that will appeal to the existing demographic: i.e. the chance to see your favorite games turned up to eleven.
OSX barely runs at all on a G3 these days (you can coerce it, but it's awful).
:-)
WTF, mate? My 800Mhz G3 iBook runs Tiger very snappily. I don't even do the weird hacks that disable spotlight or dashboard. I did have to install it under target disk mode because it doesn't have a DVD drive and I didn't care to wait for some CDs to ship out.
Not to say that I don't love my dual 1.8Ghz G5 tower, but the speed of the OS and normal apps (Mail, Safari, Office, etc) are pretty indistinguishable between them. Although I do miss the pretty ripple effect in dashboard that the G5 can handle
So if there were two games you liked and one sports game, that would be ok. But if there are two games you like and ten sports games, that isn't?
What's your case? What system do you think had a stellar launch/lineup?
Remember how many games the SNES opened with? The N64? the Playstation?
I think some modern science and mass distributed knowledge to the rural poor .
of most of the world might help their situation
Sort of a "let them eat cake" kind of deal?
Don't believe the insect myth, that's largely a joke played on foreign tourists. (I.e. if you eat scorpion or whatever in China, you are being laughed at.)
Look up dark matter and dark energy.
I've worked in retail for most of my life. The only time I've ever seen or heard of employees stealing is when a cashier took $40 from the register. But I guess my experience is the exception.
Pretty offtopic but what would it mean for a computer to figuratively catch fire?
You put the projector at the foot of the bed and have it send the image to the far wall.
The mini is still an Apple product and gets the same costs of development and QC. It's also marketed to PC users that are interested in Macs, who hopefully already have a monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Should it be $250? For a desktop computer? Whoa.
Computers my man, we're talking about computers. If you are worried about your desktop getting scratched maybe you should stop carrying it in your pocket.
As for cracking it in half...Jeebus, what are you doing?!
Since switching to Macs three years ago every single one of my systems has had no upgrades (save for memory) and still runs the latest and greatest software very nicely. I guess this is a pretty slow rat race? I'm fine with that :-)
Yeah, back when games actually came with loot. Tiny tools in Autoduel. Maps, coins, trinkets and multiple non-game-related manuals (the spellcasting books are still works of art) with Ultima. Infocom games gave you a veritible cornucopia of coolness (a 'Don't Panic' button, fluff, danger hiding shades, a microscopic space fleet, and other stuff I'm forgetting all came with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).
We have several of the cloth Ultima maps mounted and framed and they look quite awesome. Hmm, I should dig around for those at my parents house during Thanksgiving. Gaming nostalgia, here I come!
(Yes, next year it could be fairly more powerful, but I don't think that even that would go over well).
With who? Nintendo has said that they are completely pulling back from the graphics masturbation contest and going for unique games. The gamecube's graphics are just fine, Nintendo has said that the revolution won't support HDTV so what improvements do they really need to make?
I think the revolution will essentially be a Gamecube 2.0, new controller, new interface, new kind of gaming.