You can do that now. Just create a Family List and and a NY Friends List. That's what I do. Then, when you post an update, you'll see a little icon that lets you pick which lists can see it.
Wow, nice sweeping generalization, that in my experience doesn't even match the truth. All of the people I play D&D with are very social, with girlfriends, except for the one that IS a girl (A cute one, too). We all enjoy mainstream literature on top of our more "geeky" literature such as manga and comics. It's not about escape. It's about fun, and imagination. But even more so, D&D is about hanging out with friends and having a good time, laughing, making jokes... nobody takes themselves too seriously.
Jack strikes me as an extremely fearful man. It could be argued that most of what he does is driven by fear. He's afraid of gamers. He's afraid of the world. So he became a lawyer so that he could feel powerful. And look at his responses to e-mails. He obviously feels threatened by VGCATS and Penny Arcade, and he has a fight/flight reaction (He tends to choose fight). Its obvious to me that these violent, threatening responses that he makes are caused by FEAR. He pictures the gamers of the world as these horrible violent people that might shoot him or his family at any time, and so he wants to stop it. He imagines that we're all violent and that video games made us this way. He's afraid, so he strikes out. Like a cornered dog.
But what he doesnt seem to get is that, yeah, there are violent people, and yeah there are gamers, and yeah there are a few gamers that are also violent, but they are the VAST MINORITY. Most gamers are peaceful! It's like saying "HEY, all these murderers had something in common. They ate sandwiches. Sandwiches make you murder!"
The unit comes with a thumb strap, it is a piece of plastic which straps to your thumb. You use the same motions as you would with your thumb, but without actually touching the screen.
I know because I have a DS. The thumb strap works GREAT, I wouldn't use the thing without it.
What? You think it's just Nintendo? What about Sony? Look at the PSP (PlayStation Portable) list:
* Ape Escape
* Dynasty Warriors
* F1 Racing
* Medieval
* Metal Gear Solid
* NBA Street
* Need for Speed Underground
* NFL Street
* Tiger Woods
* Tony Hawk Pro Skater
* Twisted Metal
* Wipeout
DVD-R has something like 89% compatability - meaning 89% of the DVD players out there will play DVD-R. Almost ALL DVD players made after 1999 will do DVD-R. DVD+R is next with 85% compatability. Note that DVD+R offers a couple more features, but you trade off just a notch of compatability. The +/-RW formats are less compatible... modern DVD players should be able to do it. My friend bought a new DVD player which said in the instructions that it couldn't play DVD+RW, but I burned one anyway and his player was able to play it just fine.
Nintendo is good at original games. Look at games like Wario Ware for the GBA. Its about 200 mini-games thrown at you in rapid succession - completely random games from shaking hands with a Collie to a pretty lady sniffing snot back into her nose. No game even comes close, it's in a genre of it's own. And if you want a game thats not all about guns - look at Nintendo. A plumber washing gook off of an island and fighting weird squishy enemies - thats original. A first person adventure game (Metroid Prime) also pretty unique.
Be careful here. At the school I go to, CIS is actually almost the exact same degree as CS, only we have a minor in business. I wouldn't describe it
as "business with computers" but rather "computer science with a sprinkle of business" This is an important distinction to make. Not all schools are the same. At some schools a CIS is as you said, business with computers. But at others, it is the same material as Computer Science, but with business stuck in, in place of a couple physics classes.
Please, I am a CIS major. Take care not to give people the impression that we take business classes and then a few froofy computer classes, that is NOT the case, at least not at my university.
I worked for Lutris not too long ago, in
their Enhydra side (they also have a service
oriented side to their business - building commercial websites etc)
They were excited about the use of Open Source, but
I could tell then that they didn't fully understand it, and they had troubles figuring out how to keep an open source Enhydra, even though they truly meant to keep it open source. The J2EE issue was the biggest obstacle they faced, but they never thought they would have to give up open source. I worked for a guy there that used to work for Sun, and had even worked on the Java language, so he knew what kind of a company Sun is... and it just turns out that they even if they made a J2EE product thats fully J2EE compliant, they wouldn't
be able to market it as such without an expensive license from Sun, and that was a big difficulty they were having. Now the J2EE problem appears to have "resolved" itself by elliminating the open source side of Enhydra, which is SAD!!!! But, like I said, they seemed to have a mildly slippery grasp of what open source is about.
Lutris is also having financial problems (who isnt?) which is another sad thing. They are a great company. It's sad that they had to give up the open source Enhydra.
Um, these people arent neccesarily mentally disturbed.
Thats a typical "American" way of thinking,
that anyone who doesnt think the way we do must be disturbed some how. Please. I'm an American, and I don't think that way. Look at what we do to other countries - think of the countries we support and what they do to their enemies (Isreal and Palistine come to mind) I mean there is some vicious stuff going on that we SUPPORT! We Americans support some really hurrendous stuff if you look at our past. It's not hard to imagine being angry at a country that does things like that, so lets not jump to calling people mentally disturbed just because they have another view point.
I played this with my friends in early high school and it took up a lot of my time. We were obsessed with this game. We kept trying to write clones of it with QBasic. Eventually I gave up and wrote a full-fledged LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) clone with QBasic. It was huge. I even
utilized the modem to make an "online" version of it. This game is a true classic. I'm just waiting for NASA to come out with their commercially available Interdictor Cruiser. I mean, come on! 2002 Is next year!!! Hurry up!
I met a lot of people on trade wars too.. It's great for meeting friends.. and enemies:):)
Long Live TradeWars!!!!!!!!
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You can do that now. Just create a Family List and and a NY Friends List. That's what I do. Then, when you post an update, you'll see a little icon that lets you pick which lists can see it.
I came on to say the same thing. You can already do this, at least with Verizon.
I am hoping you're joking. Her favorite toy was the shrinky dinks, the list goes
1) her favorite toy
2) a laser printer
3) etc...
I for one, welcome our (formerly) crippled overlord!
Can I get a copy of your BASIC program? I'm DMing a D&D game and I could use a mapper.
Wow, nice sweeping generalization, that in my experience doesn't even match the truth.
All of the people I play D&D with are very social, with girlfriends, except for the one that IS a girl (A cute one, too). We all enjoy mainstream literature on top of our more "geeky" literature such as manga and comics.
It's not about escape. It's about fun, and imagination. But even more so, D&D is about hanging out with friends and having a good time, laughing, making jokes... nobody takes themselves too seriously.
You're so much better? I hear all the cool guys are the first poster on games.slashdot.org
Jack strikes me as an extremely fearful man. It could be argued that most of what he does is driven by fear. He's afraid of gamers. He's afraid of the world. So he became a lawyer so that he could feel powerful. And look at his responses to e-mails. He obviously feels threatened by VGCATS and Penny Arcade, and he has a fight/flight reaction (He tends to choose fight). Its obvious to me that these violent, threatening responses that he makes are caused by FEAR.
He pictures the gamers of the world as these horrible violent people that might shoot him or his family at any time, and so he wants to stop it. He imagines that we're all violent and that video games made us this way. He's afraid, so he strikes out. Like a cornered dog.
But what he doesnt seem to get is that, yeah, there are violent people, and yeah there are gamers, and yeah there are a few gamers that are also violent, but they are the VAST MINORITY. Most gamers are peaceful! It's like saying "HEY, all these murderers had something in common. They ate sandwiches. Sandwiches make you murder!"
Someone should draw him a venn diagram...
You're trying to tell me that dynamic content didn't exist before January 1999? C'mon. They didn't invent that.
I call shenanigans!
The unit comes with a thumb strap, it is a piece of plastic which straps to your thumb. You use the same motions as you would with your thumb, but without actually touching the screen.
I know because I have a DS. The thumb strap works GREAT, I wouldn't use the thing without it.
Hey- There is a button to silence it, at the bottom, labeled "Audio". Did you look?
If Gates gets anywhere near Nintendo, I will personally throttle the damn dirty bastard.
Nintendo is a name that brings me joy.
Microsoft is a name that makes me want to break stuff.
What? You think it's just Nintendo?
What about Sony? Look at the PSP (PlayStation Portable) list:
* Ape Escape
* Dynasty Warriors
* F1 Racing
* Medieval
* Metal Gear Solid
* NBA Street
* Need for Speed Underground
* NFL Street
* Tiger Woods
* Tony Hawk Pro Skater
* Twisted Metal
* Wipeout
What we need is fire that doesn't burn stuff.
Yeah!!! We cold call it 'Ruby'
DVD-R has something like 89% compatability - meaning 89% of the DVD players out there will play DVD-R. Almost ALL DVD players made after 1999 will do DVD-R. DVD+R is next with 85% compatability. Note that DVD+R offers a couple more features, but you trade off just a notch of compatability. The +/-RW formats are less compatible... modern DVD players should be able to do it. My friend bought a new DVD player which said in the instructions that it couldn't play DVD+RW, but I burned one anyway and his player was able to play it just fine.
Nintendo is good at original games. Look at games like Wario Ware for the GBA. Its about 200 mini-games thrown at you in rapid succession - completely random games from shaking hands with a Collie to a pretty lady sniffing snot back into her nose. No game even comes close, it's in a genre of it's own. And if you want a game thats not all about guns - look at Nintendo. A plumber washing gook off of an island and fighting weird squishy enemies - thats original. A first person adventure game (Metroid Prime) also pretty unique.
Be careful here. At the school I go to, CIS is actually almost the exact same degree as CS, only we have a minor in business. I wouldn't describe it
as "business with computers" but rather "computer science with a sprinkle of business" This is an important distinction to make. Not all schools are the same. At some schools a CIS is as you said, business with computers. But at others, it is the same material as Computer Science, but with business stuck in, in place of a couple physics classes.
Please, I am a CIS major. Take care not to give people the impression that we take business classes and then a few froofy computer classes, that is NOT the case, at least not at my university.
-Dan
Actually wouldn't someone from Brazil be American also? South America is America too.
I worked for Lutris not too long ago, in
their Enhydra side (they also have a service
oriented side to their business - building commercial websites etc)
They were excited about the use of Open Source, but
I could tell then that they didn't fully understand it, and they had troubles figuring out how to keep an open source Enhydra, even though they truly meant to keep it open source. The J2EE issue was the biggest obstacle they faced, but they never thought they would have to give up open source. I worked for a guy there that used to work for Sun, and had even worked on the Java language, so he knew what kind of a company Sun is... and it just turns out that they even if they made a J2EE product thats fully J2EE compliant, they wouldn't
be able to market it as such without an expensive license from Sun, and that was a big difficulty they were having. Now the J2EE problem appears to have "resolved" itself by elliminating the open source side of Enhydra, which is SAD!!!! But, like I said, they seemed to have a mildly slippery grasp of what open source is about.
Lutris is also having financial problems (who isnt?) which is another sad thing. They are a great company. It's sad that they had to give up the open source Enhydra.
Um, these people arent neccesarily mentally disturbed.
Thats a typical "American" way of thinking,
that anyone who doesnt think the way we do must be disturbed some how. Please. I'm an American, and I don't think that way. Look at what we do to other countries - think of the countries we support and what they do to their enemies (Isreal and Palistine come to mind) I mean there is some vicious stuff going on that we SUPPORT! We Americans support some really hurrendous stuff if you look at our past. It's not hard to imagine being angry at a country that does things like that, so lets not jump to calling people mentally disturbed just because they have another view point.
I played this with my friends in early high school and it took up a lot of my time. We were obsessed with this game. We kept trying to write clones of it with QBasic. Eventually I gave up and wrote a full-fledged LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) clone with QBasic. It was huge. I even utilized the modem to make an "online" version of it. This game is a true classic. I'm just waiting for NASA to come out with their commercially available Interdictor Cruiser. I mean, come on! 2002 Is next year!!! Hurry up! I met a lot of people on trade wars too.. It's great for meeting friends.. and enemies :) :)
Long Live TradeWars!!!!!!!!
Well, it all started with Xerox's GUI, which was called Star.