Hmm, let's just assume he has all the US-released consoles of each generation, even the more obscure ones, counting expander systems:
Channel F, Studio II, 2600, Intellivision, Bally Astrocade, 5200, Colecovision, Vectrex, 7800, NES, Sega Master System, TG-16, Arcadia 2000, Sega Genesis, SNES, Jaguar, Sega CD, 32X, Jaguar CD, TG CD, CDI, Neo Geo, Playstation, Saturn, N64, PS2, 3DO, Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U
That's 34 right there, and I'm sure I missed a few. I know I didn't count 32X CD (like 2 or 3 games released), Laseractive (both Sega and TG games), computer systems (like Atari 400/800), simple hardware expansions like voice modules, or any pongs or handhelds. So it's not like he can't have 35 different consoles, though he'd have to have a pretty big room to have them all connected at one time. FWIW, I have 30ish of this list, most stowed away.
By the way, I have 5000 Intellivision games.
And 4990 of them are Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack. (I have 125-ish out of 135-ish distinct intv games, and I don't even like the system. I was just collecting at the right time in the late '90s.)
I assume that it's inspired (officially or otherwise) by the success of the BBC show
What I've heard (without bothering to look it up) is that it is unofficially inspired, and one side or the other couldn't agree on making it official. So the only things it really has in common with ACD's Holmes are the words "Sherlock Holmes", "Watson", and "consulting detective", and also some behaviors like his fight with drug abuse. Just enough to not run afoul of copyright/trademark issues, I'm sure.
The thing is, the CBS show ("Elementary") feels a lot more Who-ish than the BBC show. I think it's funny that it's inspired by a show from a DW writer, but one that doesn't have that much of a DW feel itself.
"We became friends."
H: "Sherlock doesn't have friends."
"Not in the traditional sense. He drops in and out, appears at odd moments to make outrageous and highly specific requests."
That sure sounds a bit like our Galloping Gallifreyan. Also, he Has A Past, and (as in New DW), the companion finds out that she's "not his first" and gets obsessed with finding out more. No Moriarty (The Master) so far, though. It looks like finding out about Irene (Rose?) is going to be the back story plot, rather than a scheming rival.
Lately I've been enjoying CBS's take on the BBC's take on Sherlock Holmes as someone in the 21st century. But I wasn't sure why.
Then I realized they were basically writing it as Doctor Who episodes. Episodic with developing back-story (New DW), and with none of the standard DW tropes like time travel (Pertwee didn't), the TARDIS, a magic wand sonic screwdriver (and fortunately no magic-wand story endings so far either), and wobbly monsters. But he does like his dusty old jacket.
But it was when I realized that Lucy Liu as a female Watson is really filling the role of a Companion (he drags her around, she chases him to keep up) that it clicked. He seems to have a lot of the personality traits of a Doctor, in particular being rather barmy. I think Holmes in this show is rather an Eccleston-style Doctor, very bold about sticking his nose into things and pontificating. (not that the other Doctors don't, but which one kept saying "Stuuuupid humans"?)
Or maybe it just shows that Sherlock Holmes was one of the many influences on DW.
I think it's supposed to be one of those "timey-wimey" things. You know, when the Doctor says "I'm sorry" because it's a fixed point in time or something like that. Until it isn't, of course. They still managed to get access to Rose after shutting her off in a parallel dimension, right?
How did submitter measure his bandwidth? Did it include the "background radiation" noise of all the crap trying to poke its way into every vulnerability known to man trying to pwn him? And as far as basic overhead goes, it's not just TCP headers, there's also PPPoE overhead too, since AT&T makes most of their customers use that.
so the stored fuel temperature stays at a relatively constant 50 or 60-something degrees even on the hottest summer days
Which is why this affects the station selling the fuel more than the person buying it. When it comes in from the tanker truck at 80F or warmer, it will literally shrink from cooling off in the UST. But the station pays by the truck gallon. This is one of the reasons why gas prices are higher in the summer and lower in the winter. (the other main reason is summer blends, especially "boutique blends")
Um, Venice's problems aren't from ocean level rising, they're from Venice sinking because it's built on mud. Their current problems right now are due to winds blowing in the pessimal direction to cause a surge, which still isn't as high as a surge in the mid 20th century. They're building surge control walls, but those are still about three years away.
That's because the PS2 has a rather complicated graphics subsystem, which is the hard part to emulate. All of the options you can tweak in PCSX2 are because of this.
But the PSP is more like a souped-up original Playstation, with 10x CPU speed, 16x RAM, 100x GPU speed, and an MPEG-4 decoder. I'm going to guess that the GPU is more like modern GPUs than the PS2 was, which would mean that the GPU in the host Android device can be used to do the 3D stuff. This would be like how N64 emulators can use the host's GPU for 3D, and even produce better graphics than the original.
It's a Nerval's Lobster post. It's apparently his purpose in life to cross-post SlashBI crap over here to the real Slashdot. If you checked the firehose regularly, you would be familiar with his submissions. About one in ten of his submissions actually get posted, which shows you just how relevant SlashBI is to the world of "News for Nerds".
As much as we should be doing more unmanned missions, there is one thing that unmanned missions have been very bad at: sample return. The reason is simple. Robotic probes are expendable, humans aren't. Also, landing safely on the Earth is harder than launching safely from the Earth. Samples return with the humans, in missions that are already required to land safely. Harrison Schmitt wasn't just able to do "scientific analysis on the spot", he was a geologist who could quickly identify the best samples to return for scientific analysis back on Earth.
Sure, we've had a few unmanned sample return missions, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
Tampering detected, TV shuts off and you're fucked.
Fuck that, I've heard of this new show called "Outside", and you don't even need a TV to watch it. It's in super HD and it even has some sort of temperature generators, so hot stuff feels hot and cold stuff feels cold. Take that Hollywood 3-D!
They constantly need recalibration, and can even break internally to the point where it's impossible to calibrate them properly. And they don't do multi-touch, though that's not really important for voting machines.
Why are they used? Because they're cheap and the voting machines are already designed and built, and because capacitive touch screens are too new to have gone through the certification process in significant numbers so far.
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Screw that. Require them to beat Impossible Mission. On an Atari 7800.
Fixed. I'm not sure that the C64 had the bug, but I know for certain the 7800 did.
Hmm, let's just assume he has all the US-released consoles of each generation, even the more obscure ones, counting expander systems:
Channel F, Studio II, 2600, Intellivision, Bally Astrocade, 5200, Colecovision, Vectrex, 7800, NES, Sega Master System, TG-16, Arcadia 2000, Sega Genesis, SNES, Jaguar, Sega CD, 32X, Jaguar CD, TG CD, CDI, Neo Geo, Playstation, Saturn, N64, PS2, 3DO, Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U
That's 34 right there, and I'm sure I missed a few. I know I didn't count 32X CD (like 2 or 3 games released), Laseractive (both Sega and TG games), computer systems (like Atari 400/800), simple hardware expansions like voice modules, or any pongs or handhelds. So it's not like he can't have 35 different consoles, though he'd have to have a pretty big room to have them all connected at one time. FWIW, I have 30ish of this list, most stowed away.
By the way, I have 5000 Intellivision games.
And 4990 of them are Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack. (I have 125-ish out of 135-ish distinct intv games, and I don't even like the system. I was just collecting at the right time in the late '90s.)
tl;dr: Because it's "hacking" the sport by trying unusual things.
And the ever popular jimmy.crack.corn! (But I really don't care.)
Forget all the partisan politics stuff, I think the best reason for Texas to secede is the cool ".tx" domain name they would get.
The entire domain system should be scrapped in favor of a similar system like newsgroup organization
I'm looking forward to the new alt domain.
You order from Amazon.de if you're in Switzerland
Why not amazon.ch?
Pronounced "Shitty". Glad to hear they're living up to their name. And still no reason for me to pay for TV.
I assume that it's inspired (officially or otherwise) by the success of the BBC show
What I've heard (without bothering to look it up) is that it is unofficially inspired, and one side or the other couldn't agree on making it official. So the only things it really has in common with ACD's Holmes are the words "Sherlock Holmes", "Watson", and "consulting detective", and also some behaviors like his fight with drug abuse. Just enough to not run afoul of copyright/trademark issues, I'm sure.
The thing is, the CBS show ("Elementary") feels a lot more Who-ish than the BBC show. I think it's funny that it's inspired by a show from a DW writer, but one that doesn't have that much of a DW feel itself.
"We became friends."
H: "Sherlock doesn't have friends."
"Not in the traditional sense. He drops in and out, appears at odd moments to make outrageous and highly specific requests."
That sure sounds a bit like our Galloping Gallifreyan. Also, he Has A Past, and (as in New DW), the companion finds out that she's "not his first" and gets obsessed with finding out more. No Moriarty (The Master) so far, though. It looks like finding out about Irene (Rose?) is going to be the back story plot, rather than a scheming rival.
Lately I've been enjoying CBS's take on the BBC's take on Sherlock Holmes as someone in the 21st century. But I wasn't sure why.
Then I realized they were basically writing it as Doctor Who episodes. Episodic with developing back-story (New DW), and with none of the standard DW tropes like time travel (Pertwee didn't), the TARDIS, a magic wand sonic screwdriver (and fortunately no magic-wand story endings so far either), and wobbly monsters. But he does like his dusty old jacket.
But it was when I realized that Lucy Liu as a female Watson is really filling the role of a Companion (he drags her around, she chases him to keep up) that it clicked. He seems to have a lot of the personality traits of a Doctor, in particular being rather barmy. I think Holmes in this show is rather an Eccleston-style Doctor, very bold about sticking his nose into things and pontificating. (not that the other Doctors don't, but which one kept saying "Stuuuupid humans"?)
Or maybe it just shows that Sherlock Holmes was one of the many influences on DW.
I think it's supposed to be one of those "timey-wimey" things. You know, when the Doctor says "I'm sorry" because it's a fixed point in time or something like that. Until it isn't, of course. They still managed to get access to Rose after shutting her off in a parallel dimension, right?
Smells more like blogspam to me. Not gonna click it.
At least "Asylum of the Daleks" had mean Daleks again. Maybe somebody at BBC is getting a clue.
Or maybe it's just a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could find that on Wikipedia?
Can we all agree that it's better than Cici's?
How did submitter measure his bandwidth? Did it include the "background radiation" noise of all the crap trying to poke its way into every vulnerability known to man trying to pwn him? And as far as basic overhead goes, it's not just TCP headers, there's also PPPoE overhead too, since AT&T makes most of their customers use that.
so the stored fuel temperature stays at a relatively constant 50 or 60-something degrees even on the hottest summer days
Which is why this affects the station selling the fuel more than the person buying it. When it comes in from the tanker truck at 80F or warmer, it will literally shrink from cooling off in the UST. But the station pays by the truck gallon. This is one of the reasons why gas prices are higher in the summer and lower in the winter. (the other main reason is summer blends, especially "boutique blends")
Are you sure that FBI is the right place in which to look for such a woman?
You should probably ask General Petraeus about that.
Um, Venice's problems aren't from ocean level rising, they're from Venice sinking because it's built on mud. Their current problems right now are due to winds blowing in the pessimal direction to cause a surge, which still isn't as high as a surge in the mid 20th century. They're building surge control walls, but those are still about three years away.
That's because the PS2 has a rather complicated graphics subsystem, which is the hard part to emulate. All of the options you can tweak in PCSX2 are because of this.
But the PSP is more like a souped-up original Playstation, with 10x CPU speed, 16x RAM, 100x GPU speed, and an MPEG-4 decoder. I'm going to guess that the GPU is more like modern GPUs than the PS2 was, which would mean that the GPU in the host Android device can be used to do the 3D stuff. This would be like how N64 emulators can use the host's GPU for 3D, and even produce better graphics than the original.
It's a Nerval's Lobster post. It's apparently his purpose in life to cross-post SlashBI crap over here to the real Slashdot. If you checked the firehose regularly, you would be familiar with his submissions. About one in ten of his submissions actually get posted, which shows you just how relevant SlashBI is to the world of "News for Nerds".
As much as we should be doing more unmanned missions, there is one thing that unmanned missions have been very bad at: sample return. The reason is simple. Robotic probes are expendable, humans aren't. Also, landing safely on the Earth is harder than launching safely from the Earth. Samples return with the humans, in missions that are already required to land safely. Harrison Schmitt wasn't just able to do "scientific analysis on the spot", he was a geologist who could quickly identify the best samples to return for scientific analysis back on Earth.
Sure, we've had a few unmanned sample return missions, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
The hardware will be built into your Cable decoder box. When you rent the device from your cable provider the "feature" will already be there.
What cable provider? I've been antenna-only since 2001. Well, antenna and AVI/MKV only, that is.
Tampering detected, TV shuts off and you're fucked.
Fuck that, I've heard of this new show called "Outside", and you don't even need a TV to watch it. It's in super HD and it even has some sort of temperature generators, so hot stuff feels hot and cold stuff feels cold. Take that Hollywood 3-D!
They constantly need recalibration, and can even break internally to the point where it's impossible to calibrate them properly. And they don't do multi-touch, though that's not really important for voting machines.
Why are they used? Because they're cheap and the voting machines are already designed and built, and because capacitive touch screens are too new to have gone through the certification process in significant numbers so far.