Having an intelligent conversation is hard enough while NOT on a noisy train. Imagine trying to have a conversation that is both intelligent AND intelligible while on the thing!
In fact, it kind of pays homage to them and their culture as a way to remember it as it was - even if you roleplay the destruction. It *is* inconsiderate to just pretend that it never happened and not talk about it just because it might offend one or two oversensitive people who don't understand that their rights don't trump the rights of others.
Is this the first time you've done a diet? I ask because I noticed this last year during my first serious diet, but after about 2 or 3 weeks the effect wore off.
Last year I lost over 30lbs. between October and January-ish using the mathematically proven method of simply eating less. I run with 1100 calories a day while on the diet and it works wonderfully. I just started it again a couple of weeks ago to shave off the remaining lbs. that I didn't get to last year and it's going quite well. It is not nearly so difficult this time. I just woke up one morning and decided I had to finish the job and that was that. No energy problems - and this year I've also cut out caffeine! Since I wake up rather late, I skip breakfast and just wait until lunch before my first meal. I limit my calorie intake to around 200-300 for lunch and then wait until dinner before I eat again. Usually at dinner I'll take in around 400-500 calories (unless I go out someplace) and then snack on small known quantities the rest of the night (most microwave popcorn is surprisingly lo-cal).
The upshot of this diet is that I eat whatever I want as long as I know the exact calories and that I'm under my daily limit. It allows for a huge amount of variety that many other diets eliminate. I can eat a candy bar if I want to, but I always am keeping in mind that it will have to cut out something else later in the day if I do. Pizza is fine, too, but that's about all I can eat all day if I go that route, so I need to be prepared for that. It really makes you think twice before eating anything - and that's important when you go off the diet or otherwise you'll just regain it all. When I went off my diet last year I almost immediately gained 5lbs, and then held that steady the rest of the year up until about August or September of this year. I believe my body was instinctively starting to prepare for winter by putting on weight. Eventually I crossed a small mental line in October and started the diet again - but I was nearly 20lbs. less than that same period last year! When I finish the diet this year I'll finally be solidly within the BMI numbers for my height. Last year I was obese. This year I'm over-weight. By next year I'll be in the normal/healthy range for the first time in almost 10 years.
Where's the "-1 Duh!" rating?:-) No offense, but it's pretty obvious Apple would want to expand their offerings of video - they hardly have any choice as it is right now! That's not what's interesting about this news item. The interesting bit is just how many they sold. This is very good evidence of market demand for new media delivery models!
Personally, I'd suggest learning Javascript since it is quite accessible on your desktop in the form of a browser. All you really need is a text editor and the web, but you could go and buy almost any random beginners Javascript book and just start on page 1.
If you're looking for something more meaty, perhaps check out Python or Ruby. Both have some pretty good tutorials around (linked from their homepages - use Google). Python in particular was designed to be a learning language anyway.
"So, just put on one of them quarantine suites a couple of sizes too large, fill it up with water, and voila: a cheap, mobile, full body armor capable of withstanding a.50 cal round!"
Except of course after the first shot it would immediately start to leak and the second shot would be fatal.
I love to pimp my own casual game whenever this topic comes up: PigShooter! It's free! It sorta runs on Windows! It sorta runs on MacOSX! You can't lose! You can't win! There's no scores and no hurt feelings! Greatest game ever if I do say so myself...:-)
There's something very funky about the javascript you're using to popup the screenshots. I just tried to take a look on Safari on MacOSX (yes I realize your game only works on Windows:-)) and the screenshot window pops up and then closes right away. Looking at the JS code, it appears you have some window.close() calls in there. That doesn't seem right... the window opens and immediately closes. Perhaps some other browsers don't execute.close(), but Safari sure seems to - thus I cannot see your enlarged screenshots. Game looks cute, though, from what little I can see of it.:-)
Dude.. it was a joke. The way it was worded by the parent was as if the alarm was only powered by the solar cell. But anyway, it doesn't matter. The joke wasn't very good anyway.:-)
I'm a casual gamer. Normally I would never go for the MMORPG things, but for a brief time my fiancee and her dad and brother were deep into Guild Wars and I ended up buying a copy so that I could go adventuring with them as something fun to do together now and then. Ironically, this was about the time she was starting to lose interest in the game and she had to go back to school (where she has a Mac and thus cannot play it anyway), so that pretty much never happened. Every now and then late at night I fire up my old Windows PC and login and go killing monsters for a few hours with the CPU characters. I'm not in a guild or anything and I don't go on to play with other humans - it's just a time sink for me once or twice a month. I'm not trying to be the highest possible level, collect the most gold, find the most hidden areas or anything like that.
The lack of a monthly fee is the ONLY reason I even considered buying the game. Period. I would never pay for a subscription to a game like this as I would never play it enough and, frankly, after a few hours it gets pretty boring. But for that odd time when I don't feel like thinking with a puzzle game or have no side projects I want to do, Guild Wars is a great time waster.
Just to add some support to this: I've read about several small shareware developers who work their butts off, release a product, make it cheaper than their competitors, and then watch it not sell at all. After researching it a bit, they finally run across someone telling them this exact thing: raise your prices! So, figuring they have nothing to lose, they go ahead and do that - bingo! Almost instantly they start selling more units - and at a higher profit, too! It's kind of a win-win situation, really. It's reasonably illogical on the surface, but once you dig in and realize how your customers are thinking and perceiving your product it makes perfect sense.
Who is actually the weaker individual, the person who pretends they have no weaknesses, or the person who is strong enough to accept that they have some weaknesses and maybe as a result is able to do something about them?
The person who can admit it is stronger, I think. It takes strength to admit failures or weaknesses honestly - but those admissions allow for growth and wisdom. For some reason it is pretty clear that, as a whole, it is not good to admit failure. Politicians, for example, go very far out of their way to make it appear that they had no choice in a bad decision rather than own up to it having just been a lousy idea in the first place.
I've been watching a show on Discovery channel called Going Tribal. I highly encourage everyone to check it out. The host of the show seeks out a different tribe or other more "primitive" people to spend a month or two with living as they do and undergoing some kind of ritual or cultural thing. It is very interesting to see the kinds of bonds those people have with each other vs. how even close families out here in "modern" society tend to operate.
An episode I saw recently had the host undergoing a ritual that essentially made him a man in the eyes of the tribe. It involved taking a drug and having many ceremonies and dances designed to promote hallucinations in a controller manner. There were at least five very important aspects to this ritual. 1) the entire village was in on it and had a role to play in the process of welcoming this new man into the world which included dances and moral support. 2) the drug was a hallucinogen which often results in introspective trips rather than paranoid ones. 3) the elder men who had done this all before were always with him to guide him through and slowly mold the hallucinations into a specific format. 4) there was a rebirth ceremony while he was still high on the drug which involved being born again in a small river - I'm sure this had a pretty profound effect on him given his state of mind at the time. 5) and perhaps the single best symbolic gesture of this whole thing was, while coming down off the high, the villagers erected a tree in the middle of camp surrounded by bushes. The bushes, he was told, were his problems in life of the past and the future. He was then instructed to break some of the branches of the bush. As he did so, half the village men swarmed out from behind the bushes and violently tore up the remaining leaves and branches as a show of support - the entire village was here to help solve his problems of the past as well as the future.
I just don't see that kind of commitment to each other in our society as a whole. There's the occasional appearance of someone who's so selfless and genuinely caring that it's hard to ignore, but in general I think even close modern families are far more disconnected than this tribe of "primitives." I think with all of our rules of society, big cities, and technology most of us have forgotten what it's really all about and why we're all here. And the saddest thing of all is that, in my case, I can see the benefits of a simpler life with a closer bond with my fellow human - and yet I'm very uncomfortable with the idea. I tend to avoid social gatherings and keep to myself. When I go out with my fiancee, I'd rather it just be the two of us and am not at all a fan of hanging out with a group. Somehow I've come to not trust groups. That's a sad thing because I can sit here, by myself, and very much see the benefit and potential joys of being involved in a truly connected society.
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Having an intelligent conversation is hard enough while NOT on a noisy train. Imagine trying to have a conversation that is both intelligent AND intelligible while on the thing!
How many blogs die each day? I'm guessing the number is also quite large...
In fact, it kind of pays homage to them and their culture as a way to remember it as it was - even if you roleplay the destruction. It *is* inconsiderate to just pretend that it never happened and not talk about it just because it might offend one or two oversensitive people who don't understand that their rights don't trump the rights of others.
I love that one. It's actually hanging on my fridge at home. :-)
Is this the first time you've done a diet? I ask because I noticed this last year during my first serious diet, but after about 2 or 3 weeks the effect wore off.
Last year I lost over 30lbs. between October and January-ish using the mathematically proven method of simply eating less. I run with 1100 calories a day while on the diet and it works wonderfully. I just started it again a couple of weeks ago to shave off the remaining lbs. that I didn't get to last year and it's going quite well. It is not nearly so difficult this time. I just woke up one morning and decided I had to finish the job and that was that. No energy problems - and this year I've also cut out caffeine! Since I wake up rather late, I skip breakfast and just wait until lunch before my first meal. I limit my calorie intake to around 200-300 for lunch and then wait until dinner before I eat again. Usually at dinner I'll take in around 400-500 calories (unless I go out someplace) and then snack on small known quantities the rest of the night (most microwave popcorn is surprisingly lo-cal).
The upshot of this diet is that I eat whatever I want as long as I know the exact calories and that I'm under my daily limit. It allows for a huge amount of variety that many other diets eliminate. I can eat a candy bar if I want to, but I always am keeping in mind that it will have to cut out something else later in the day if I do. Pizza is fine, too, but that's about all I can eat all day if I go that route, so I need to be prepared for that. It really makes you think twice before eating anything - and that's important when you go off the diet or otherwise you'll just regain it all. When I went off my diet last year I almost immediately gained 5lbs, and then held that steady the rest of the year up until about August or September of this year. I believe my body was instinctively starting to prepare for winter by putting on weight. Eventually I crossed a small mental line in October and started the diet again - but I was nearly 20lbs. less than that same period last year! When I finish the diet this year I'll finally be solidly within the BMI numbers for my height. Last year I was obese. This year I'm over-weight. By next year I'll be in the normal/healthy range for the first time in almost 10 years.
Where's the "-1 Duh!" rating? :-) No offense, but it's pretty obvious Apple would want to expand their offerings of video - they hardly have any choice as it is right now! That's not what's interesting about this news item. The interesting bit is just how many they sold. This is very good evidence of market demand for new media delivery models!
Personally, I'd suggest learning Javascript since it is quite accessible on your desktop in the form of a browser. All you really need is a text editor and the web, but you could go and buy almost any random beginners Javascript book and just start on page 1.
If you're looking for something more meaty, perhaps check out Python or Ruby. Both have some pretty good tutorials around (linked from their homepages - use Google). Python in particular was designed to be a learning language anyway.
Hmm.. My fiancee would probably get a huge kick out of me saying this, actually. She's sort of a biology geek... I should try it.. :-)
"So, just put on one of them quarantine suites a couple of sizes too large, fill it up with water, and voila: a cheap, mobile, full body armor capable of withstanding a .50 cal round!"
Except of course after the first shot it would immediately start to leak and the second shot would be fatal.
I love to pimp my own casual game whenever this topic comes up: PigShooter! It's free! It sorta runs on Windows! It sorta runs on MacOSX! You can't lose! You can't win! There's no scores and no hurt feelings! Greatest game ever if I do say so myself... :-)
There's something very funky about the javascript you're using to popup the screenshots. I just tried to take a look on Safari on MacOSX (yes I realize your game only works on Windows :-)) and the screenshot window pops up and then closes right away. Looking at the JS code, it appears you have some window.close() calls in there. That doesn't seem right... the window opens and immediately closes. Perhaps some other browsers don't execute .close(), but Safari sure seems to - thus I cannot see your enlarged screenshots. Game looks cute, though, from what little I can see of it. :-)
I find that a very interesting idea... It's pretty clean and more or less solves this whole argument (as I understand it, anyway).
Someone get this guy to those meetings!!
I'm sure the devs are... why do you think it isn't out yet? :-)
You haven't played it, have you? It isn't just PvP, the non-PvP is quite good, and there aren't any paid expansions as of yet.
Quick, someone call Hillary! The coffee is spilling over the keyboard! HURRY!! BzzzzzZZzzztt! ArrghahahhH!!! *NO CARRIER*
Heh. Wow. They fixed it. The link works now! /me wonders if perhaps my comment had something to do with it. /me ponders.
Naaah..
That's true. I feared the worst for King Kong until I realized it wasn't based on Donkey Kong...
Looks like they have a lot of work to do yet to get ready...
Dude.. it was a joke. The way it was worded by the parent was as if the alarm was only powered by the solar cell. But anyway, it doesn't matter. The joke wasn't very good anyway. :-)
in the windows of cars parked in the sun, powering anti-theft alarms
Good plan.. Then all the thief needs is a blanket to block out the sun and the alarm will turn off.
I'm a casual gamer. Normally I would never go for the MMORPG things, but for a brief time my fiancee and her dad and brother were deep into Guild Wars and I ended up buying a copy so that I could go adventuring with them as something fun to do together now and then. Ironically, this was about the time she was starting to lose interest in the game and she had to go back to school (where she has a Mac and thus cannot play it anyway), so that pretty much never happened. Every now and then late at night I fire up my old Windows PC and login and go killing monsters for a few hours with the CPU characters. I'm not in a guild or anything and I don't go on to play with other humans - it's just a time sink for me once or twice a month. I'm not trying to be the highest possible level, collect the most gold, find the most hidden areas or anything like that.
The lack of a monthly fee is the ONLY reason I even considered buying the game. Period. I would never pay for a subscription to a game like this as I would never play it enough and, frankly, after a few hours it gets pretty boring. But for that odd time when I don't feel like thinking with a puzzle game or have no side projects I want to do, Guild Wars is a great time waster.
A lot of "normal" office jargon is far too difficult for many computer workers.
Just to add some support to this: I've read about several small shareware developers who work their butts off, release a product, make it cheaper than their competitors, and then watch it not sell at all. After researching it a bit, they finally run across someone telling them this exact thing: raise your prices! So, figuring they have nothing to lose, they go ahead and do that - bingo! Almost instantly they start selling more units - and at a higher profit, too! It's kind of a win-win situation, really. It's reasonably illogical on the surface, but once you dig in and realize how your customers are thinking and perceiving your product it makes perfect sense.
Who is actually the weaker individual, the person who pretends they have no weaknesses, or the person who is strong enough to accept that they have some weaknesses and maybe as a result is able to do something about them?
The person who can admit it is stronger, I think. It takes strength to admit failures or weaknesses honestly - but those admissions allow for growth and wisdom. For some reason it is pretty clear that, as a whole, it is not good to admit failure. Politicians, for example, go very far out of their way to make it appear that they had no choice in a bad decision rather than own up to it having just been a lousy idea in the first place.
I've been watching a show on Discovery channel called Going Tribal. I highly encourage everyone to check it out. The host of the show seeks out a different tribe or other more "primitive" people to spend a month or two with living as they do and undergoing some kind of ritual or cultural thing. It is very interesting to see the kinds of bonds those people have with each other vs. how even close families out here in "modern" society tend to operate.
An episode I saw recently had the host undergoing a ritual that essentially made him a man in the eyes of the tribe. It involved taking a drug and having many ceremonies and dances designed to promote hallucinations in a controller manner. There were at least five very important aspects to this ritual. 1) the entire village was in on it and had a role to play in the process of welcoming this new man into the world which included dances and moral support. 2) the drug was a hallucinogen which often results in introspective trips rather than paranoid ones. 3) the elder men who had done this all before were always with him to guide him through and slowly mold the hallucinations into a specific format. 4) there was a rebirth ceremony while he was still high on the drug which involved being born again in a small river - I'm sure this had a pretty profound effect on him given his state of mind at the time. 5) and perhaps the single best symbolic gesture of this whole thing was, while coming down off the high, the villagers erected a tree in the middle of camp surrounded by bushes. The bushes, he was told, were his problems in life of the past and the future. He was then instructed to break some of the branches of the bush. As he did so, half the village men swarmed out from behind the bushes and violently tore up the remaining leaves and branches as a show of support - the entire village was here to help solve his problems of the past as well as the future.
I just don't see that kind of commitment to each other in our society as a whole. There's the occasional appearance of someone who's so selfless and genuinely caring that it's hard to ignore, but in general I think even close modern families are far more disconnected than this tribe of "primitives." I think with all of our rules of society, big cities, and technology most of us have forgotten what it's really all about and why we're all here. And the saddest thing of all is that, in my case, I can see the benefits of a simpler life with a closer bond with my fellow human - and yet I'm very uncomfortable with the idea. I tend to avoid social gatherings and keep to myself. When I go out with my fiancee, I'd rather it just be the two of us and am not at all a fan of hanging out with a group. Somehow I've come to not trust groups. That's a sad thing because I can sit here, by myself, and very much see the benefit and potential joys of being involved in a truly connected society.