I've been wondering why they operate from there. If operational cost is proportional to time, and effectiveness is proportional to bombs dropped, why weren't they based out of guam, kuwait, or israel? 8x more missions for the same fuel and wear on the planes.
I work for the McDonalds Corporation Advanced Modelling and Simulations Department, where we constantly plan and game against foodstuff revolt by playing BurgerTime. It's been a great success, I'm proud to report we haven't lost a single team member to eggs or sausage in 2004.
I don't understand why they're developing an anti-piracy seal. I mean MacGruff the crime dog made sense, but when I think of anti-pirate animals, I mostly think of that alligator from Peter Pan.
What I don't see is how Phase 3 players, no matter how devious, can survive when randomly matched with Phase 1 players, who tend to bring the whole group down to their level pretty fast...But I'll take your word for it.
It seems all the paranoia games I've played in have lead to charges of treason even before getting to the mission briefing. Its a gag game, and as long as you take down your fellow citizen, who cares if you get vaporized as well? Is there going to be an attempt to address this problem, or are the people we play with just curs?
I met a cop in Oaklahoma, who'd seen duty in Vietnam. He said the carnage he saw there didn't compare to what was common on our highways. And we were doing it to ourselves.
At the rate we're munching fossil fuels, even taking into account rising prices making it economical to exploit marginal fields, in our lifetime the gas powered car will be gone. I too believe they will eventually find an alterernative fuel, but obviously not this decade.
I was one of the few drivers that did actually try to drive safely, however, I often desired to go faster and circumvent delays. I just stopped driving because I didn't need the pressure. I admit a large minority, or possibly even a majority, of our citizens don't do this, but when they fuck up, I'm going to make them wish they had.
Pedestrians have right of way over cars, period. Its the brain-dead drivers fault for not knowing the rules, and a general attitude that "just because I'm driving something that can go fast, it means I have a right to go fast". If a car ever hits me in a crosswalk, that driver is going to be in a world of liability lawsuit pain.
It seems to me that impinging upon the liberty of an entire state is a little bit too extreme...
Wrong. First of all, its not the state, its people. Second, its not all people, its the people who actually drive, which IMO is probably about 50% of people. We must not forget the elderly, children, and people who use public transit and bikes. And as a member of this non-driving half of the population, I have a message for all you drivers: WAKE UP! I'm fed up with your drunk driving, reckless, cell phone chatting, falling-asleep-at-the-wheel, exhaust-fume-producing, stereo-blasting, drag-racing, ped-running-over-on-a-yellow bullshit!
I think a device that takes 30 seconds to remind a driver that safety is their #1 goal before every drive is a great idea. Lord knows y'all aren't thinking about it unaided.
Its actually moderately smexy in action. Not as nice as gnome 2.2 imnsho.
What's not clear from reading the article is exactly what prior relationship with sgi this guy has. It sounds like he has the source to all their code, including inventor and all that. Did he find a print-out in a dumpster and decide to start this project, then hope they'd climb on board? If so, he's lucky he's not a smoking boot right about now.
Yeah. Um, "Wipeout" for original playstation was rated "Mature". I just don't think kids should have to look at cars going around an oval track. It could warp their fragile little minds.
(Ok, there technically were weapons, but they only slowed, they didn't kill).
Oh, and the color pallette was grey and edgy. Definately don't want your kids to see that.
Heh, you're talking to a guy that read Common Lisp The Language from cover to almost-cover. Yes, for a good 1.5 years I had no problem going to sleep, I'd just read about three pages and then fall asleep with the book on my chest. And after the 1.5 years, damn if I didn't know Common Lisp well. Every 300 pages or so he'd throw in a joke, usually about teenage mutant ninja turtles, just to see if you were still with him.
The C++ Programming Language
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· Score: 2, Informative
I am in the market for this type of book, however, the one I have my eye on is:
A reference is too hard too read, but this looks like it might be the right level - hopefully pretty steep, but with some language design chit-chat thrown in. What do others think of this book? (And what languages have you learned, a VB for dummies alum isn't going to give the same advice as Guy Steele)
This isn't going to affect the price of AGP much at all. Look at vanilla PCI video cards these days (remember them?): all within $10 of their AGP cousins.
I tried this approach for a while, but gave up when I coudln't figure out how to tell which email address they were sending it TO. I dug through all the headers and couldn't find any of my names. How do you deal with that?
But we obviously can't trust that. Windows 95 usage 1%, just like Linux? Frankly, I doubt it. For every nerd that installs linux, there's got to be at least three times as many shloibs like my former boss running unprotected win95 on all his boxen.
I love super mario 3 as much as the next guy. They added some network play goodies, and I shelled for it. No complaints there!
But with Lost Vikings, they subtracted network play. That was the best thing about it on the SNES, for crying out loud! So, no, I won't be buying this particular game.
Granted, on SNES it was not so much "network play" as "having two controllers", but on the uni-controller GBA that translates as network play. They were just too lazy to do any original coding on the project. Cheapskates.
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the average human is only 99.84% accurate. Both filters are reporting to have reached accuracy levels between 99.983% and 99.984%
So to be ten times more accurate, the filters would have to be 998.4% accurate.
"My spam filter gives 110%"
Incremental changes in weaponry tend to have better long term pay-off than super-weapon development.
Tell that to the Japanese... =(
I've been wondering why they operate from there. If operational cost is proportional to time, and effectiveness is proportional to bombs dropped, why weren't they based out of guam, kuwait, or israel? 8x more missions for the same fuel and wear on the planes.
I work for the McDonalds Corporation Advanced Modelling and Simulations Department, where we constantly plan and game against foodstuff revolt by playing BurgerTime. It's been a great success, I'm proud to report we haven't lost a single team member to eggs or sausage in 2004.
I don't understand why they're developing an anti-piracy seal. I mean MacGruff the crime dog made sense, but when I think of anti-pirate animals, I mostly think of that alligator from Peter Pan.
Heh, funny.
What I don't see is how Phase 3 players, no matter how devious, can survive when randomly matched with Phase 1 players, who tend to bring the whole group down to their level pretty fast...But I'll take your word for it.
It seems all the paranoia games I've played in have lead to charges of treason even before getting to the mission briefing. Its a gag game, and as long as you take down your fellow citizen, who cares if you get vaporized as well? Is there going to be an attempt to address this problem, or are the people we play with just curs?
This discussion is in the context of a stoplight, where 99% of the time there is a corresponding crosswalk.
Even J-walking, the driver's still in trouble if they're speeding, which they practically always are.
I can't remember the last time I saw a car stop for a ped at the crosswalk on my street.
I met a cop in Oaklahoma, who'd seen duty in Vietnam. He said the carnage he saw there didn't compare to what was common on our highways. And we were doing it to ourselves.
At the rate we're munching fossil fuels, even taking into account rising prices making it economical to exploit marginal fields, in our lifetime the gas powered car will be gone. I too believe they will eventually find an alterernative fuel, but obviously not this decade.
I was one of the few drivers that did actually try to drive safely, however, I often desired to go faster and circumvent delays. I just stopped driving because I didn't need the pressure. I admit a large minority, or possibly even a majority, of our citizens don't do this, but when they fuck up, I'm going to make them wish they had.
Proud member: MADD
I don't like X11, but I'm not sure jumping to a new letter is the solution. I think X12 would be a better compromise. ;)
Pedestrians have right of way over cars, period. Its the brain-dead drivers fault for not knowing the rules, and a general attitude that "just because I'm driving something that can go fast, it means I have a right to go fast". If a car ever hits me in a crosswalk, that driver is going to be in a world of liability lawsuit pain.
It seems to me that impinging upon the liberty of an entire state is a little bit too extreme...
Wrong. First of all, its not the state, its people. Second, its not all people, its the people who actually drive, which IMO is probably about 50% of people. We must not forget the elderly, children, and people who use public transit and bikes. And as a member of this non-driving half of the population, I have a message for all you drivers: WAKE UP! I'm fed up with your drunk driving, reckless, cell phone chatting, falling-asleep-at-the-wheel, exhaust-fume-producing, stereo-blasting, drag-racing, ped-running-over-on-a-yellow bullshit!
I think a device that takes 30 seconds to remind a driver that safety is their #1 goal before every drive is a great idea. Lord knows y'all aren't thinking about it unaided.
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Its actually moderately smexy in action. Not as nice as gnome 2.2 imnsho.
What's not clear from reading the article is exactly what prior relationship with sgi this guy has. It sounds like he has the source to all their code, including inventor and all that. Did he find a print-out in a dumpster and decide to start this project, then hope they'd climb on board? If so, he's lucky he's not a smoking boot right about now.
Yeah.
Um, "Wipeout" for original playstation was rated "Mature". I just don't think kids should have to look at cars going around an oval track. It could warp their fragile little minds.
(Ok, there technically were weapons, but they only slowed, they didn't kill).
Oh, and the color pallette was grey and edgy. Definately don't want your kids to see that.
Heh, you're talking to a guy that read Common Lisp The Language from cover to almost-cover. Yes, for a good 1.5 years I had no problem going to sleep, I'd just read about three pages and then fall asleep with the book on my chest. And after the 1.5 years, damn if I didn't know Common Lisp well. Every 300 pages or so he'd throw in a joke, usually about teenage mutant ninja turtles, just to see if you were still with him.
I am in the market for this type of book, however, the one I have my eye on is:
The C++ Programming Language (Special 3rd Edition)
by Bjarne Stroustrup
A reference is too hard too read, but this looks like it might be the right level - hopefully pretty steep, but with some language design chit-chat thrown in. What do others think of this book? (And what languages have you learned, a VB for dummies alum isn't going to give the same advice as Guy Steele)
Hm, only 8 comments - maybe nobody's interested because its a boring dead bug.
I found a small pile of tan dust with two fly wings on top in my mini-tower the other day, but *I* didn't submit it.
This isn't going to affect the price of AGP much at all. Look at vanilla PCI video cards these days (remember them?): all within $10 of their AGP cousins.
I tried this approach for a while, but gave up when I coudln't figure out how to tell which email address they were sending it TO. I dug through all the headers and couldn't find any of my names. How do you deal with that?
Damn, my mod point expired in the last 3 hours. It woulda been yours.
But we obviously can't trust that. Windows 95 usage 1%, just like Linux? Frankly, I doubt it. For every nerd that installs linux, there's got to be at least three times as many shloibs like my former boss running unprotected win95 on all his boxen.
Defender
This is my nomination for the best video game title of all time. Eugene knows how name his games, too.
Uh, perhaps I could figure this out by reading the fine article, but perhaps other lazies want to know too:
Why would you want to use this instead of the vanilla Mozilla composer that you already happen to have installed?
I love super mario 3 as much as the next guy. They added some network play goodies, and I shelled for it. No complaints there!
But with Lost Vikings, they subtracted network play. That was the best thing about it on the SNES, for crying out loud! So, no, I won't be buying this particular game.
Granted, on SNES it was not so much "network play" as "having two controllers", but on the uni-controller GBA that translates as network play. They were just too lazy to do any original coding on the project. Cheapskates.