Buy books and rip the binding off. I can usually estimate pretty well how many pages I'm going to read. Just rip a chunk off at a time, the glue binding keeps them all attached.
Remember when push-scooters first started to become fashionable? People looked on at the owners, and thought "What a ridiculous concept".... Switch to today, and there are many businessmen using this mode of transport to get around the city (at least in Paris).
Most of the plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a retread of Shada. When the video release of the filmed bits of Shada plus Tom Baker's linking narration came out. Adams donated his royalties to charity, which stopped any annoying legal turmoil over the fact that he'd used the same plot in Dirk Gently.
Life, The Universe and Everything used large amounts of a rejected Dr. Who plot which was originally put forward as Dr. Who and the Krikkitmen. Once Adams ran out of radio series and old Dr. Who ideas to recycle, he really went downhill...
I think all these Japanese robots like this one, the Aibo, the Asimo etc are all very interesting not so much in terms of what they are now but in terms of what they might lead to.
Put it this way. 25 years ago personal computers were primitve things, you couldn't do a lot with many of them. But now you can go out and buy something thousands of times more powerful, often for less money. And maybe Japanese companies are playing the long term game here - while the machines they are producing now are little more than toys, in time the prices will come down and they will become actually useful. Imagine a robot like this in 20odd years time stronger and faster than any guard dog and able to call the police once the burglar has been taken down. Imagine a robotic servant which can clean your house, make the tea and which you can later plug a joypad into to play GTA12 on the Playstation 19.
Yeah. Now we can scoff. But I think they are playing a long game here, and all this robotic research is going somewhere beyond expensive toys.
A couple of years ago Israel won the Eurovision Song Contest. Their entrant was the transexual Dana International, and her victory really pissed off all the orthodox hard-core who would rather see people like that put to death.
I thought her victory representing her country was A Good Thing, purely because it pissed off the fundies!
The song was shit, of course, but then all Eurovision songs are.
I think the game was called 'Stuntman' - Maybe a 2D top down view conversion based on the 3D PS2 game? Maybe a motorola phone?
I was reading somewhere that a lot of the new generation of mobiles use the same or a similar processor to a GameBoy Advance - so it should be easy to run the same kinds of games on them.
What a lot of you people don't realise is what a cultural revolution the Sex Pistols were part of, and how the authorities tried to stamp it out.
The pop charts were rigged especially to keep God Save The Queen off the number one spot, and the record was banned from airplay.
Retailers were actually threatened with arrest and imprisonment should they have the "Never Mind The Bollocks" album on display in their stores.
So while they may not have been the best punk band, they had a major impact on our culture, as what was banned 25 years ago is now perfectly acceptable.
Of course, a lot of the stuff that passes for punk on MTV these days is just bollocks.
Says it all really. Had they discovered any shoot-em-up computer game at the sniper's home, especially one featuring a sniper rifle, there would have been a massive call to ban games all over America.
Not ban guns, mind you, as that would be UnAmerican...
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Buy books and rip the binding off. I can usually estimate pretty well how many pages I'm going to read. Just rip a chunk off at a time, the glue binding keeps them all attached.
When you finish pages, just throw them away
YOU FUCKING PHILISTINE!
actually the odds of it (loss of an engine) turning into a fatal accident are higher for a twin-engine plane than for a single-engine plane.
True. The saying goes that in a twin engined plane, if one of the engines fail, the other engine will take you to the scene of the crash.
But would you rather be a jellyfish, or a human being?
Or would you like to swing on a star?
Can someone mod this avid_gopher_fan down '-1: Arsehole'?
After looking at this site, all I can say is:-
Bloody hell! Those are very well made models. She obviously puts a lot of effort into each one.
Remember when push-scooters first started to become fashionable? People looked on at the owners, and thought "What a ridiculous concept".... Switch to today, and there are many businessmen using this mode of transport to get around the city (at least in Paris).
Perhaps. But they still look like total wankers!
It's not so much an afterlife, more a sort of apres vie...
Most of the plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a retread of Shada. When the video release of the filmed bits of Shada plus Tom Baker's linking narration came out. Adams donated his royalties to charity, which stopped any annoying legal turmoil over the fact that he'd used the same plot in Dirk Gently.
Life, The Universe and Everything used large amounts of a rejected Dr. Who plot which was originally put forward as Dr. Who and the Krikkitmen.
Once Adams ran out of radio series and old Dr. Who ideas to recycle, he really went downhill...
Of course there's a face in the sun. Have you never seen 'Teletubbies'?
Seriously though, this is just another example of how the human brain is hot-wired to see faces in everything - even a colon, a dash and a bracket.
I think all these Japanese robots like this one, the Aibo, the Asimo etc are all very interesting not so much in terms of what they are now but in terms of what they might lead to.
Put it this way. 25 years ago personal computers were primitve things, you couldn't do a lot with many of them. But now you can go out and buy something thousands of times more powerful, often for less money.
And maybe Japanese companies are playing the long term game here - while the machines they are producing now are little more than toys, in time the prices will come down and they will become actually useful. Imagine a robot like this in 20odd years time stronger and faster than any guard dog and able to call the police once the burglar has been taken down.
Imagine a robotic servant which can clean your house, make the tea and which you can later plug a joypad into to play GTA12 on the Playstation 19.
Yeah. Now we can scoff. But I think they are playing a long game here, and all this robotic research is going somewhere beyond expensive toys.
A couple of years ago Israel won the Eurovision Song Contest. Their entrant was the transexual Dana International, and her victory really pissed off all the orthodox hard-core who would rather see people like that put to death.
I thought her victory representing her country was A Good Thing, purely because it pissed off the fundies!
The song was shit, of course, but then all Eurovision songs are.
I think the game was called 'Stuntman' - Maybe a 2D top down view conversion based on the 3D PS2 game?
Maybe a motorola phone?
I was reading somewhere that a lot of the new generation of mobiles use the same or a similar processor to a GameBoy Advance - so it should be easy to run the same kinds of games on them.
Don't quote fucking Tim Rice at me!!!
Can someone mark this guy down -1 Irrelevant?
By the way, you do know Murray Head is the older brother of Anthony Head of Buffy fame, right?
Mark me down as irrelevant too, I suppose...!
Phil Collins? He's talking nonce sense...
Bollocks, not bullocks, you fool!!!
Bullocks don't HAVE bollocks!
What a lot of you people don't realise is what a cultural revolution the Sex Pistols were part of, and how the authorities tried to stamp it out.
The pop charts were rigged especially to keep God Save The Queen off the number one spot, and the record was banned from airplay.
Retailers were actually threatened with arrest and imprisonment should they have the "Never Mind The Bollocks" album on display in their stores.
So while they may not have been the best punk band, they had a major impact on our culture, as what was banned 25 years ago is now perfectly acceptable.
Of course, a lot of the stuff that passes for punk on MTV these days is just bollocks.
Yeah, but had he kept going on about how socialism was the same as Stalinism at the Worldcon, China Mieville was going to kick his arse!
Are the poor geeks not getting things all their own way? Diddums...
Stop whinging.
Check out this Dork Tower cartoon.
Says it all really. Had they discovered any shoot-em-up computer game at the sniper's home, especially one featuring a sniper rifle, there would have been a massive call to ban games all over America.
Not ban guns, mind you, as that would be UnAmerican...
I thought the quote was "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there" after Jupiter ignited to melt the ice...
NASA releases a picture of the Intel Inside logo on the surface...
AMD, surely...
You donate to the NRA? Since when are they a charity. What is it, "Guns for Tots"?
If they do have charitable status, it's a travesty. They fucking well shouldn't have...
I don't know, it's not so much nostalgic as horrifying.
"Jesus! Did people really use to play this shit?"
This is why retro gaming is a thoroughly sad bad thing, it reminds us of what incredibly low standards we used to be happy with.
Well, Buzz Aldrin seems quite healthy...
We must not give freedom of speech to those who cannot even spell it...!