I find it convien ient that the previous tennant can't come into my room and steal all my stuff.
if physical keys were used they could. This is part of why I avoid motels (all doors open to the outside, anyb ody who has stayed there can get in my room).
Of course I erroniously assumed that each card had a serial number and when they "programmed" it they were updating info on the computer and the number on the card never changed.
makes no sense. Whore houses had red lights before electric lights, that is just an assinine assumption.
Cotton gin to more time for sex is also stupid. The cotton gin was about feeding less slaves and saving money, the people using it worked just as long as the people doing it by hand, they just got a lot more done, still for no money.
You could argue that money is all about sex, but I think that is wrong.
It would probably be safe to say that the vast majority of advancements in media were accelerated into acceptance by pornography, saying that they were invented because of and then applying the principal to everything is just assinine.
I just hope they come with (probably won't), or at least have ready at launch (hopefullt) the anolog stick attachement so that games are designed with them. Otherwise with "shells" and "Nunchakas" and basic controlers all games are going to be designed for the Lowest common demoniator.
If the SuperMarket down the street tried to take more of my money (by stocking things I wanted) I would save an hour of my time a week.
Hell, I would give them the info for free in exchange for them seeing what I want.
Things like gee this preson buys green chiles, celantro, and garlic all at once, lets stock some cumin, tumeric and cardomon so they can complete there dishes, and they live 1.5 blocks away. If they like enthnic food maybe getting some other stuff will work too.
But instead for spices and middle eastern ingredients I must drive 15 minutes each way.
I have not filled out one of the applications (my SO does), but I would think that if they were to ask people their address, race, country of origin, time in the US, and favorites foods they could better stock things for their customers (including you).
Of course my store probably accuratly serves the demographic in the area so I shoudn't complain, I am just pointing out that getting represented at the place closest to your house lets everyone win.
Everyone can win from good marketing too. Learning about new products and getting a discount for them can be great. Getting a discount as they try to woo you with better more expensive products at the lower prive is not too bad either.
it gives feed back on the movement (clicked or shaking or something, very subtle) so that you know you are moving it. I have heard no reviews about this, but it could be used (there is a rumble) and would stop if you left the bounds.
I persoanlly am horrified it is going to be a sucky gimmick though, of course I thought meh touch screen will be teh suk, but apperently the two screens and the touch screen add a lot of possibilities that do indded work (kirby for example), so Nintendo has earned the benifit of the doubt sort of.
bottun under control pad = z trigger (not quite as nice
Tilt = C stick (not quite as easy to not touch)
It maps very easily to a standard controller (with the exception of C stick). If the C stick function is camera and not 4 extra buttons it will be real cool even. Also games that use the left control pad as 4 buttons will be lacking too.
probably because it wants to do filmstrip view, or maybe thumbnail. The filmstrip sucks royally and thumbnail is only usefull sometimes, but I have everything open as detail view and never had that problem.
The thing that is cool is in the top of the sidebar it has a link to print or order the photos online, it is very convienient and the easiest way to print standard size photos I have found (used to drop them in quark templates, though I am told a photoshop mcro can be convenient too).
It is a unified history grabbing other tabs and maybe other windows (don't use them).
It is different from teh button because it captures all tabs and old sessions, it matches the history and the button matches the history for that tab.
And I hated, even when it was all I knew, (because Netscape had sucked for so long I had foratten,it and my screen was too small for Opera adds) the new pages coming up where I was. I open a new window to do something new, usually check my mail or seach for something, not to have 2 of the exact thing. This is mostly a problem on old systems where it can add a delay of 5+ seconds to get home as your browser copes with opening random too much flash page when you hit CTR+N.
So I guess I am just saying, it is all preference stuff and not flaws, especially the go menu, 2 letters on the menu bar are hardly a problem.
My only problem with teh GC controller is that the shoulder button is in a recess (may only be the wave bird). this causes my finger to hook funny to push it and Viewtiful joe (where it is held down during intensity) to hurt. When I play it too long the pain extends to my elbow.
I actually am thinks about reshaping the controller with a dremmel because it looks void of electronics in the part sticking out causin problems.
Erase the flash, write random data on the first MB of each HD (luckily it didn't use the hardware and only hit drives Win recognized, so my Linux partition was in tact).
The was the first time I used Linux exclusivly (I had an old computer at the time that I could run BBox on or the CL. I learned all about splitting windows in Emacs (to use an AIM client) and eventually I learned about ALT+Fkey so I didn't need to CTRL+Z emacs and than bg it so that I could run lynx and converse at the same time.
Before getting Linux on the old computer, I remember struggling to find TSR programs to do things, I eventually found a great CD player. It was also a great oppurtunity to play Arena again since I had forgotten teh mojo of making boot disks and could never get DOS mode to have enough memmory for Arena (witch needed something like 618K of that 640.
I say thank you half facitiously because I learned a lot on the cammand line and desktop Linux in general saving up money for a new motherboard to replace the chip. I also used windows for very little over the next year, but eventually the need to reboot to print overcame the conviniance of any software I needed for free (oh yeah, $10.00 old games vs $40.00 ones helped too).
I can't be the only/.er that got hit by this (though maybe the only to admit it).
The ones I see are usually a movie woth $10 and one worth $0.50 for $15.00. I always figured they were trying to eack $2.00 out of shit.
usually the decent movie is sold seperatly for $12.99 and the crap one for $8.99, so you may get overwhelmed by the value of an $8.99 movie for $2.00 extra, of coure the value is terrible.
In FF1 I thought the 'G' after the price was another zero (really old TV) so I kept saving and saving to buy Nuke and was ready to do the same for asskick white magic spell too, but when I purchases nuke my gold barly went down. I figured out I was a dumbass and then baught everything I could and went to fight Chaos. My level 40 something characters (max was 50) beat him in 3.5 rounds.
I remember thinking the hardest part was the air tower where I was continually ganked by 5 air elements in a maze (before massive gold/leveling too).
The principals of LZW will not be lost. We will still use data compression of some type (more spae will always be better) and LZW will be part of it at least as a background, a here is something anyone can understand and visualize, even if it is useless (or almost useless). We still teach the bouble sort, it was one of the first non hello world programs at class, I know technically it is fast when data is expected to be sorted already, but it wasn't taught as such, it was the first looping algorythm taught in stractured programming, and I think it was the first one taught in object oriented programming too (didn't take it).
The only way I see somethign like LZW as a probkem is if binary computing is completly eliminated and there is confusion as to what to do wiht all these ones and zeroes. I personally think media will be a far harder problem to cope with than formatting. Look at the alphabet from 200 years ago, it is a lot alike, ASCII will remain intact too, as will conventions for deviding things, numbers too will be the same (endianess may change, but it is not too hard to figure out).
Texture of the data will show when the header ends and the data begins, and ASCII would take less than a half hour to decode from a single text document (hell I can do a cryptic byword in that amount of time, and it is a 2 sentance sample).
I bet a smart computer archiologist could decode the format in under a week worse case positive future (obviously if thee is a nuclear war and he is trying to read a floppy with a microscope it aint gonna work).
While I agree with the sentamint of your post a couple nits.
I can't prve it, but I think it is foolish to say that noody doed in Guantanamo Bay, there are a lot of people there and it's been a while. That does not make it forced labor of a type that would of been frowned upon by the worse of the slave owners in our nations past, but only a fool deals in absolutes.
Also I doubt that we are anymore the beacon of freedom, I don't think the world currently has a beacon for all others to look to. I see the freedom in our country as good as pretty much any others, but due to recent changes I think one would have to look into history now for an example to follow.
Any nation that declares an area immune to all forms of law due to a technicality (Cuban Base) and a class of people having zero rights what so ever (enemy combatants) has put itself in a position tenuously close to Germany late 30's. Wha is to stop the Administration from masacuring these people, they claim it is within their rights.
Also people refering to Abu Ghraib as torture really piss me off (GP). Torture is being forced to butcher your neighbors, having your finger nails riped out, salt into fresh wounds, lashings ect. Being lead on a leash and humiliated is abuse and not torture, and the people complaining about that should be happy.
I don't want to trivialize Aby Ghraib either, incedents like that must be thoutoughly investigated, if there was a policy of abuse then there is a huge problem, but if a small handful of people acted on there own it is not the end of the world and things should be handled as they were (except I don't feel things were investigated properly).
I think they (the studio) knew it sucked. It was not very promoted for a big budget movie (at least in my area). I saw a very few adds for it and one billboard. I hadn't even heard of it until the month it came out and I watch a lot of TV.
I guess my point is that we must hold our applause for the public because it probably was truly under the radar of many people.
Of course I just might not watch the right TV, but I would bet the studio just knew it sucked. It seamed to have less promotion that House of the Dead or Alone in the Dark even.
I work at a place that does this kind of stuff. I can say though that storage space is cheaper than you would think and in even the medium term a better idea.
If you really need to be able to access it though something like that should cost between 10 and 20 cents a page (in that quantity) depenind on the standards for the accuracy and the feedability. (if it is 100 page documents in 3 ring biders with no staples and clean edges and no post its expect it to cost a lot less than 2 page documents covered with stickies and stapled.
I am not plugging my place of employement, it should be easy to find somewhere local.
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I find it convien ient that the previous tennant can't come into my room and steal all my stuff.
if physical keys were used they could. This is part of why I avoid motels (all doors open to the outside, anyb ody who has stayed there can get in my room).
Of course I erroniously assumed that each card had a serial number and when they "programmed" it they were updating info on the computer and the number on the card never changed.
Electric lligth to first red ligth?????
makes no sense. Whore houses had red lights before electric lights, that is just an assinine assumption.
Cotton gin to more time for sex is also stupid. The cotton gin was about feeding less slaves and saving money, the people using it worked just as long as the people doing it by hand, they just got a lot more done, still for no money.
You could argue that money is all about sex, but I think that is wrong.
It would probably be safe to say that the vast majority of advancements in media were accelerated into acceptance by pornography, saying that they were invented because of and then applying the principal to everything is just assinine.
D-PAD = 4 buttons.
I just hope they come with (probably won't), or at least have ready at launch (hopefullt) the anolog stick attachement so that games are designed with them. Otherwise with "shells" and "Nunchakas" and basic controlers all games are going to be designed for the Lowest common demoniator.
If the SuperMarket down the street tried to take more of my money (by stocking things I wanted) I would save an hour of my time a week.
Hell, I would give them the info for free in exchange for them seeing what I want.
Things like gee this preson buys green chiles, celantro, and garlic all at once, lets stock some cumin, tumeric and cardomon so they can complete there dishes, and they live 1.5 blocks away. If they like enthnic food maybe getting some other stuff will work too.
But instead for spices and middle eastern ingredients I must drive 15 minutes each way.
I have not filled out one of the applications (my SO does), but I would think that if they were to ask people their address, race, country of origin, time in the US, and favorites foods they could better stock things for their customers (including you).
Of course my store probably accuratly serves the demographic in the area so I shoudn't complain, I am just pointing out that getting represented at the place closest to your house lets everyone win.
Everyone can win from good marketing too. Learning about new products and getting a discount for them can be great. Getting a discount as they try to woo you with better more expensive products at the lower prive is not too bad either.
Wario Ware:twisted works real well.
it gives feed back on the movement (clicked or shaking or something, very subtle) so that you know you are moving it. I have heard no reviews about this, but it could be used (there is a rumble) and would stop if you left the bounds.
I persoanlly am horrified it is going to be a sucky gimmick though, of course I thought meh touch screen will be teh suk, but apperently the two screens and the touch screen add a lot of possibilities that do indded work (kirby for example), so Nintendo has earned the benifit of the doubt sort of.
They make my favorite beer on the planet
"Hennipen"
Props to brewery Ommegang and anyone who gives there stuff out.
use attachable second stick.
left stick=control.
left trigger = left trigger
right control pad = A,B,X,Y
right trigger = right trigger
bottun under control pad = z trigger (not quite as nice
Tilt = C stick (not quite as easy to not touch)
It maps very easily to a standard controller (with the exception of C stick). If the C stick function is camera and not 4 extra buttons it will be real cool even. Also games that use the left control pad as 4 buttons will be lacking too.
probably because it wants to do filmstrip view, or maybe thumbnail. The filmstrip sucks royally and thumbnail is only usefull sometimes, but I have everything open as detail view and never had that problem.
The thing that is cool is in the top of the sidebar it has a link to print or order the photos online, it is very convienient and the easiest way to print standard size photos I have found (used to drop them in quark templates, though I am told a photoshop mcro can be convenient too).
Isn't inconvenience a PITA?
It if pretty assinine to be say <i>And hardwired isn't a PITA. It's just inconvenient in some locations</i> since they kind of mean the same thing.
and it was mentioned as inconvenient for laptops, which it is.
In my house it is inconvienient for desktops too because running wires attractivly through 75+ wood/plasterwork is a PITA.
how many years ago?
has he retired?
I like the "Go Menu"
,it and my screen was too small for Opera adds) the new pages coming up where I was. I open a new window to do something new, usually check my mail or seach for something, not to have 2 of the exact thing. This is mostly a problem on old systems where it can add a delay of 5+ seconds to get home as your browser copes with opening random too much flash page when you hit CTR+N.
It is a unified history grabbing other tabs and maybe other windows (don't use them).
It is different from teh button because it captures all tabs and old sessions, it matches the history and the button matches the history for that tab.
And I hated, even when it was all I knew, (because Netscape had sucked for so long I had foratten
So I guess I am just saying, it is all preference stuff and not flaws, especially the go menu, 2 letters on the menu bar are hardly a problem.
Can you uprade from XP to 2003?
I thought 2003 was server caching n on 2000's good name, and XP was 2000 Xtra Powerful (sucky).
Except I love how XP handles folders full of photos (with built in print and order online).
I bet most dealers will give you a choice of buying it or not.
Actually I can't imagine there is a single dealer in the country that will require you to buy and Xbox360.
My only problem with teh GC controller is that the shoulder button is in a recess (may only be the wave bird). this causes my finger to hook funny to push it and Viewtiful joe (where it is held down during intensity) to hurt. When I play it too long the pain extends to my elbow.
I actually am thinks about reshaping the controller with a dremmel because it looks void of electronics in the part sticking out causin problems.
so 2^7 = 128
sould I expect 128 versions of Office to make sure I have the choice of any combination?
sounds about right to me.
PS I thought Visio was part of Office too.
Thank you CotDC for the Churnoble virus.
/.er that got hit by this (though maybe the only to admit it).
Erase the flash, write random data on the first MB of each HD (luckily it didn't use the hardware and only hit drives Win recognized, so my Linux partition was in tact).
The was the first time I used Linux exclusivly (I had an old computer at the time that I could run BBox on or the CL. I learned all about splitting windows in Emacs (to use an AIM client) and eventually I learned about ALT+Fkey so I didn't need to CTRL+Z emacs and than bg it so that I could run lynx and converse at the same time.
Before getting Linux on the old computer, I remember struggling to find TSR programs to do things, I eventually found a great CD player. It was also a great oppurtunity to play Arena again since I had forgotten teh mojo of making boot disks and could never get DOS mode to have enough memmory for Arena (witch needed something like 618K of that 640.
I say thank you half facitiously because I learned a lot on the cammand line and desktop Linux in general saving up money for a new motherboard to replace the chip. I also used windows for very little over the next year, but eventually the need to reboot to print overcame the conviniance of any software I needed for free (oh yeah, $10.00 old games vs $40.00 ones helped too).
I can't be the only
where is the -1 Liar! mod?
The ones I see are usually a movie woth $10 and one worth $0.50 for $15.00. I always figured they were trying to eack $2.00 out of shit.
usually the decent movie is sold seperatly for $12.99 and the crap one for $8.99, so you may get overwhelmed by the value of an $8.99 movie for $2.00 extra, of coure the value is terrible.
In FF1 I thought the 'G' after the price was another zero (really old TV) so I kept saving and saving to buy Nuke and was ready to do the same for asskick white magic spell too, but when I purchases nuke my gold barly went down. I figured out I was a dumbass and then baught everything I could and went to fight Chaos. My level 40 something characters (max was 50) beat him in 3.5 rounds.
I remember thinking the hardest part was the air tower where I was continually ganked by 5 air elements in a maze (before massive gold/leveling too).
Anyway, high level makes it very easy.
thanks, my own intuition lead me to believe that from the reading, but I didn't want to sound dumb so I didn't include it.
what is the "unit" bastardization?
I looked up cp/m unit filesystem and have no idea how it differs for file/director, inquiring minds want to know.
I am happy for an explanation or links (not too long though). please reeply, as I am wasting my mod points posting this.
The principals of LZW will not be lost. We will still use data compression of some type (more spae will always be better) and LZW will be part of it at least as a background, a here is something anyone can understand and visualize, even if it is useless (or almost useless). We still teach the bouble sort, it was one of the first non hello world programs at class, I know technically it is fast when data is expected to be sorted already, but it wasn't taught as such, it was the first looping algorythm taught in stractured programming, and I think it was the first one taught in object oriented programming too (didn't take it).
The only way I see somethign like LZW as a probkem is if binary computing is completly eliminated and there is confusion as to what to do wiht all these ones and zeroes. I personally think media will be a far harder problem to cope with than formatting. Look at the alphabet from 200 years ago, it is a lot alike, ASCII will remain intact too, as will conventions for deviding things, numbers too will be the same (endianess may change, but it is not too hard to figure out).
Texture of the data will show when the header ends and the data begins, and ASCII would take less than a half hour to decode from a single text document (hell I can do a cryptic byword in that amount of time, and it is a 2 sentance sample).
I bet a smart computer archiologist could decode the format in under a week worse case positive future (obviously if thee is a nuclear war and he is trying to read a floppy with a microscope it aint gonna work).
While I agree with the sentamint of your post a couple nits.
I can't prve it, but I think it is foolish to say that noody doed in Guantanamo Bay, there are a lot of people there and it's been a while. That does not make it forced labor of a type that would of been frowned upon by the worse of the slave owners in our nations past, but only a fool deals in absolutes.
Also I doubt that we are anymore the beacon of freedom, I don't think the world currently has a beacon for all others to look to. I see the freedom in our country as good as pretty much any others, but due to recent changes I think one would have to look into history now for an example to follow.
Any nation that declares an area immune to all forms of law due to a technicality (Cuban Base) and a class of people having zero rights what so ever (enemy combatants) has put itself in a position tenuously close to Germany late 30's. Wha is to stop the Administration from masacuring these people, they claim it is within their rights.
Also people refering to Abu Ghraib as torture really piss me off (GP). Torture is being forced to butcher your neighbors, having your finger nails riped out, salt into fresh wounds, lashings ect. Being lead on a leash and humiliated is abuse and not torture, and the people complaining about that should be happy.
I don't want to trivialize Aby Ghraib either, incedents like that must be thoutoughly investigated, if there was a policy of abuse then there is a huge problem, but if a small handful of people acted on there own it is not the end of the world and things should be handled as they were (except I don't feel things were investigated properly).
I think they (the studio) knew it sucked. It was not very promoted for a big budget movie (at least in my area). I saw a very few adds for it and one billboard. I hadn't even heard of it until the month it came out and I watch a lot of TV.
I guess my point is that we must hold our applause for the public because it probably was truly under the radar of many people.
Of course I just might not watch the right TV, but I would bet the studio just knew it sucked. It seamed to have less promotion that House of the Dead or Alone in the Dark even.
I work at a place that does this kind of stuff. I can say though that storage space is cheaper than you would think and in even the medium term a better idea.
If you really need to be able to access it though something like that should cost between 10 and 20 cents a page (in that quantity) depenind on the standards for the accuracy and the feedability. (if it is 100 page documents in 3 ring biders with no staples and clean edges and no post its expect it to cost a lot less than 2 page documents covered with stickies and stapled.
I am not plugging my place of employement, it should be easy to find somewhere local.