There are usually a dozen or so adventures in development at any given time. Just because you don't buy them doesn't mean they don't exist. A few of them suck outright (usually the MYST clones), but there are a lot of great ones. Click through to Adventure Gamers and have a look at games like Dreamfall, Fahrenheit, and The Westerner among others. The adventure genre is not dead by quite a ways. It's just moved to Europe:)
I just remembered, there are also a ton of good vegetarian recipes at vegetariantimes.com. Worth checking out if you're looking for vegetarian stuff or just a good veggie side to go with your steak:)
You can actually buy loggers that record certain engine performance details from the computer (frequently including speed and RPMs). They're normally meant for racers who want to tune engine performance, but I'm sure you could adapt the data to your own uses.
Okay, I will go ahead and heartily recommend the dish. It's more hassle to set up initially, but it's a far better value. It costs just barely more than basic cable, but it comes with about twice as many channels (including some good ones, like TCM, BBCA, etc).
And I honestly have no idea what Comcast's ads are talking about. I installed the hardware myself (since the guy who came out for the 'free' installation was stymied by the fact that my house has sloped facia boards and wanted to charge us $45 to come back out again after we'd bought him the stuff he would need to correct for that). Not including trips to the hardware store to get a couple of tools I needed (drill bits and sockets, mainly) the whole process took about an hour. It was misting lightly when I aimed the dish, and was about to rain, so you know there was good thick cloud cover. Despite that, I was getting signal strengths of 90-100 on many of the satellite's transponders. Even with heavy rain it stayed above 70.
Just remember, a signal strength of 10 will give you just as good a picture as 100 will. I imagine it'd take quite a lot to drive the strength down to 0.
No, it's not. Right now the company has absolutely no known plans to shut down any of the existing Fantasyland attractions. I'm not sure where you get your info from, but it's flat-out wrong.
Yeah, but for one thing, it's pretty crummy to say to someone "For your christmas present I'm going to install some free software I found on the internet on your machine!"
Secondly, squashing bugs aren't that hard when you don't overcomplicate your program. This guy's family doesn't need anything fancy, just a way to get their thanksgiving photos online and to post what Cousin Bob is up to these days. Writing something that can do that is pretty trivial.
This isn't that big a privacy issue. A library needs to identify individual copies of a book, not just title information. If a library system has three branches and each branch has a copy of a book, the library needs to know that the copy from branch A was checked out but that branches B and C still have copies on-shelf. If the RFID returned something like an ISBN, that wouldn't be possible since the ISBN is tied to the title and edition, but not the specific copy.
Right now, there are dozens of major systems for handling book identification (currently via barcode) and circulation. Even if you could grab a book's RFID-encoded ID number, it wouldn't tell you anything unless you knew what library system it came from, what circulation system they use, and had access to that circulation system. Most libraries' public catalogs don't let you search by item number, only by ISBN, title, call number, etc. In other words, the only people who could effectively track your book would be the library system that owns it. And since they already know what you're checking out, who cares?
Download no, but it's available on eBay and in some of the LucasArts Entertainment Packs. As for new versions of windows, check out ScummVM, which should take care of all your worries along those lines. Plus it comes with some nice graphic smoothing filters. And, it's free:)
Plus of course the trailer is awesome, and the original voice cast is back for Sam and Max.
Uselesss trivia: Bill Farmer, the voice of Sam, also does work for Disney as the voice of Goofy. Nick Jameson, the voice of Max, was the voice of Vlada (the restaurant owner) on The Critic:)
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There are usually a dozen or so adventures in development at any given time. Just because you don't buy them doesn't mean they don't exist. A few of them suck outright (usually the MYST clones), but there are a lot of great ones. Click through to Adventure Gamers and have a look at games like Dreamfall, Fahrenheit, and The Westerner among others. The adventure genre is not dead by quite a ways. It's just moved to Europe
Bah... also this one:
Wednesday, September 13, 2000
I refer everyone to the following Nukees strips:
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Friday, August 11, 2000
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
and, my favorite,
Monday, September 4, 2000
Quite possibly the best storyline the strip has ever had
Heh... until you have millions of people worldwide walking around unable to get a 15-digit number they don't recognize out of their heads :)
"Weird, I went to see that Harry Potter movie and now all I can think about is 2917772119442.2"
It doesnt have to be a retail store. It could be a corporate office, distribution center, or just about anything.
...if you call Pizza Hut and Dennys commercials living.
I just remembered, there are also a ton of good vegetarian recipes at vegetariantimes.com. Worth checking out if you're looking for vegetarian stuff or just a good veggie side to go with your steak :)
I'd try Allrecipes.com. I've gotten some good recipes from there.
You can actually buy loggers that record certain engine performance details from the computer (frequently including speed and RPMs). They're normally meant for racers who want to tune engine performance, but I'm sure you could adapt the data to your own uses.
Okay, I will go ahead and heartily recommend the dish. It's more hassle to set up initially, but it's a far better value. It costs just barely more than basic cable, but it comes with about twice as many channels (including some good ones, like TCM, BBCA, etc).
And I honestly have no idea what Comcast's ads are talking about. I installed the hardware myself (since the guy who came out for the 'free' installation was stymied by the fact that my house has sloped facia boards and wanted to charge us $45 to come back out again after we'd bought him the stuff he would need to correct for that). Not including trips to the hardware store to get a couple of tools I needed (drill bits and sockets, mainly) the whole process took about an hour. It was misting lightly when I aimed the dish, and was about to rain, so you know there was good thick cloud cover. Despite that, I was getting signal strengths of 90-100 on many of the satellite's transponders. Even with heavy rain it stayed above 70.
Just remember, a signal strength of 10 will give you just as good a picture as 100 will. I imagine it'd take quite a lot to drive the strength down to 0.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
No, it's not. Right now the company has absolutely no known plans to shut down any of the existing Fantasyland attractions. I'm not sure where you get your info from, but it's flat-out wrong.
Exactly... it's blogging, not rocket science :)
Yeah, but for one thing, it's pretty crummy to say to someone "For your christmas present I'm going to install some free software I found on the internet on your machine!"
Secondly, squashing bugs aren't that hard when you don't overcomplicate your program. This guy's family doesn't need anything fancy, just a way to get their thanksgiving photos online and to post what Cousin Bob is up to these days. Writing something that can do that is pretty trivial.
Why not make your own? that way it's exactly how you want it, and it means more as a gift.
It's not as if this is something new... Ubi was demoing it at E3 this year.
This isn't that big a privacy issue. A library needs to identify individual copies of a book, not just title information. If a library system has three branches and each branch has a copy of a book, the library needs to know that the copy from branch A was checked out but that branches B and C still have copies on-shelf. If the RFID returned something like an ISBN, that wouldn't be possible since the ISBN is tied to the title and edition, but not the specific copy.
Right now, there are dozens of major systems for handling book identification (currently via barcode) and circulation. Even if you could grab a book's RFID-encoded ID number, it wouldn't tell you anything unless you knew what library system it came from, what circulation system they use, and had access to that circulation system. Most libraries' public catalogs don't let you search by item number, only by ISBN, title, call number, etc. In other words, the only people who could effectively track your book would be the library system that owns it. And since they already know what you're checking out, who cares?
Not true. Grim and EMI are both written in LUA, not SCUMM.
Download no, but it's available on eBay and in some of the LucasArts Entertainment Packs. As for new versions of windows, check out ScummVM, which should take care of all your worries along those lines. Plus it comes with some nice graphic smoothing filters. And, it's free :)
Plus of course the trailer is awesome, and the original voice cast is back for Sam and Max.
:)
Uselesss trivia: Bill Farmer, the voice of Sam, also does work for Disney as the voice of Goofy. Nick Jameson, the voice of Max, was the voice of Vlada (the restaurant owner) on The Critic
I think the biggest thing was waiting for Max to catch up with you. The worst part for that that I remember was outside the twine ball.
Guess what? Neither EMI or Grim use the SCUMM engine. Both had fully keyboard-based controls. Play the game before you say stupid stuff.
Yeah, I remember thinking that at the time. I guess it's a symbolic thing to add an actual option, though.
Only when you want to lower them.