From one of the thinkgeek demotivator posters:
Pessimism: Every Dark Cloud Has a Silver Lining, but Lightning Kills Hundreds of People Each Year Who Are Trying to Find It.
The whole thing is sort of like the Magic card game in my mind; rather than give everyone an equal playing field, they let those with more money buy their way to success.
Which is why there were sealed deck tournaments. After paying the signup fee(same for all players regardless of skill obviously), all players would recieve a starter deck and some booster packs. They would open them, then pass those to another person(so no one could cheat by replacing the booster pack with their own cards). Then they would design a deck with the cards given to them and play in the tournament with that deck(a certain number of lands would be given to those people who needed them).
People are buying the movie for the movie. The game part is usualy just an extra, but few will ever buy a movie dvd just for a game it includes. (They usualy have crappy graphics anyway... most shockwave games look better)
The view isn't top down, according to the review:
Farscape is a fully 3D game - unlike Diablo, where the viewpoint is fixed, the player is allowed to zoom the screen in and out, and rotate around the center axis as he wishes. Character and creature models are in full 3D as well, and they animate fluidly as they move about the screen.
Winamp does that too with aol links. On the desktop, in the favorites folder, and in the start menu(not in the programs group, just in the main start menu folder)
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Its tech related. Look here:
He nearly steals the movie, especially playing against the steady-as-she-goes nice guy Colin Hanks who, like his Dad, has a Jimmy Stewart quality that makes you root for him, even when he's behaving badly.
Creative and interesting people should stay at home where their roots are, all the better to be inspired and keep their needy parents and girlfriends happy.
Root is a *nix term, therefore its tech related...and he says it twice!
How did warcraft 3 make the list of vaporware? It's coming out soon, the beta is tonight... Just because something is delayed doesn't make it vaporware.
What kind of cuisine at the cafeterias? How many employees use the gym on an average day?
Well, if they want to get a programming edge, all they need to do is have lots of coffee... so why do they need to know how many employees use the gym?
Why should we need to go through a middleman(napster) to get to paid music? If you want the mp3 just to listen, you shouldn't need to pay for it(you don't pay for the radio). If you want to support the artist, then you should buy the cd, instead of going through another layer to "borrow" some of the profits.
I'd have to say red hat is easy. I installed it and it automaticly detected all my hardware. The only thing I had to do was tell it my cable modem settings.
P.S. - Suse costs money so it might not be an option for some people. (as opposed to red hat)
Now for a question: I don't fully understand how the electrical grid outside my house works, but what is to prevent my next-door neighbor from buying one of these powergrid devices and "borrowing" my bandwidth?
This product currently uses 56 bit DES encryption and would be excellent for networking in the home enviroment
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From one of the thinkgeek demotivator posters:
Pessimism: Every Dark Cloud Has a Silver Lining, but Lightning Kills Hundreds of People Each Year Who Are Trying to Find It.
The whole thing is sort of like the Magic card game in my mind; rather than give everyone an equal playing field, they let those with more money buy their way to success.
Which is why there were sealed deck tournaments. After paying the signup fee(same for all players regardless of skill obviously), all players would recieve a starter deck and some booster packs. They would open them, then pass those to another person(so no one could cheat by replacing the booster pack with their own cards). Then they would design a deck with the cards given to them and play in the tournament with that deck(a certain number of lands would be given to those people who needed them).
People are buying the movie for the movie. The game part is usualy just an extra, but few will ever buy a movie dvd just for a game it includes. (They usualy have crappy graphics anyway... most shockwave games look better)
Even though it may not be that great now, its better than vaporware that never gets released...
The view isn't top down, according to the review:
Farscape is a fully 3D game - unlike Diablo, where the viewpoint is fixed, the player is allowed to zoom the screen in and out, and rotate around the center axis as he wishes. Character and creature models are in full 3D as well, and they animate fluidly as they move about the screen.
Winamp does that too with aol links. On the desktop, in the favorites folder, and in the start menu(not in the programs group, just in the main start menu folder)
Its tech related. Look here:
He nearly steals the movie, especially playing against the steady-as-she-goes nice guy Colin Hanks who, like his Dad, has a Jimmy Stewart quality that makes you root for him, even when he's behaving badly.
Creative and interesting people should stay at home where their roots are, all the better to be inspired and keep their needy parents and girlfriends happy.
Root is a *nix term, therefore its tech related...and he says it twice!
Will I need glasses to read quake if its all text?
Yeah, but can they do a select statement?
You forgot DolphinCE! We need portable dolphins!
Maybe there will be a new type of sql column -- the dolphin sound character array(which could really just be a bunch of bools representing E or e)
And I thought the audigy had a weird name!
How did warcraft 3 make the list of vaporware? It's coming out soon, the beta is tonight... Just because something is delayed doesn't make it vaporware.
Here is the first post in alt.hypertext.
What kind of cuisine at the cafeterias? How many employees use the gym on an average day?
Well, if they want to get a programming edge, all they need to do is have lots of coffee... so why do they need to know how many employees use the gym?
A movie review thats not JonKatz!
(doesn't Slashdot use RDF?)
Here it is.
Why should we need to go through a middleman(napster) to get to paid music? If you want the mp3 just to listen, you shouldn't need to pay for it(you don't pay for the radio). If you want to support the artist, then you should buy the cd, instead of going through another layer to "borrow" some of the profits.
I want my text quake secure(so other players can't see my screen!)... SSH anyone?
I always thought it was 4 for each color, then 4 for alpha.(4+4+4+4=16)
They'd run better without windows?
MMMMM........ Unification of built-in types and classes. You can now inherit ints and lists and dicts etc as classes.
I'd have to say red hat is easy. I installed it and it automaticly detected all my hardware. The only thing I had to do was tell it my cable modem settings.
P.S. - Suse costs money so it might not be an option for some people. (as opposed to red hat)
Now for a question: I don't fully understand how the electrical grid outside my house works, but what is to prevent my next-door neighbor from buying one of these powergrid devices and "borrowing" my bandwidth?
This product currently uses 56 bit DES encryption and would be excellent for networking in the home enviroment
That should answer your question.
I guess its easier for the game shark people to swim through the game code than the game genie people, who have to fly through it!