2) Never hire anyone who has previously worked as a Microsoft executive. They *will* fuck you over.
Remember all those workstation companies like DEC, SGI and Sun, who all had great machines running under their own *NIX systems, and then all bought into going x86 and Itanium and Windows NT? Yeah.
I did something similar with the original Civ for DOS. I was playing Prince level on the world map, and managed to wipe out every other country of the planet, except for the Aztecs, who had replaced the Egyptians when I wiped them out early on.
The Aztecs had one city going *somewhere*, but I hadn't come across them yet. So I kept on my merry expansionist/scientific ways, railroading everywhere I could and making super caravan cities and parking the caravans off on railroad sidings until I needed them. I eventually ran out of units! So each city was reduced to 1 settler and 1 mechanized infantry for defense, but even then I stopped being able to build more units.
I finally discovered whatever it was that allowed the Apollo Program, and built it in 2 turns in a city out near Kamchatka that I'd created to do nothing but house that Wonder. After I'd built the Program wonder, I finally discovered where the Aztecs were: they'd been plopped down in the middle of Siberia (essentially all woods), and had a city of 1 population and 1 Militia defending it. With not enough food or productions shields to get bigger, it had been in practical stasis since 3000BC-ish.
I decided to be a bastard and put a diplomat in every square until the city's control to ensure that they couldn't grow and/or attack me. I eventually built a full spaceship and launched it. Final population was around a billion, and final Civ Score was around 240 (I think?). I pretty much gave up playing after that.:)
The designers of ATSC chose a 16:9 aspect ratio because it matches many theatrical films and offers a better viewing experience than 4:3 on movies and TV shows. It wasn't their intent to create a de facto standard for computer monitors; that is due to cost-cutting on the part of the consumer electronics industry.
16:9 (aka 1.78) doesn't match any film aspect ratio, standard 35mm is 1.85, which is why properly-made movies will still have some slight letterboxing on widescreen displays. Otherwise the studio's fucked up and zoomed in to get rid of them.
On the flip side, if you don't reuse your passwords, you're never going to remember how to access all 200 sites that require it. Most people barely remember their username, nevermind their password.
Funny how smoking increased dramatically in Ontario when the price of a pack dropped significantly in the early 2000s due to a drop in the combined federal and provincial excise taxes, after years of increases and high retail costs.
Indeed, I too cut my teeth on Ray Bradbury's works for fantasy and science fiction. Recently I discovered an edition of 100 of his collected short stories (chosen by the man himself) that appeared to include most if not all of my favorites. For anyone looking to discover/rediscover, this is an inexpensive and fairly comprehensive route to take. These stories are written for a younger mind but are still enjoyable to me.
I picked up a large collection of his a few months ago, that may even be the same one. Think I'll crack it open tonight since I've recently finished my current book.
He was a true master, I remember being blown away by "The Martian Chronicles" as a young teen. Even the TV show, "The Ray Bradbury Theater", had its moments.
From Wikipedia: "The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)[1][2] is a United States Act of Congress that came about as wide public concern about the state of education. First proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office,[3] the bill passed in the U.S. Congress with bipartisan support."
Pfft. There you go again, using facts to prove something wrong.
Mandarin has 4 tones, which is what he said. Cantonese has 7. A Chinese friend in Beijing said the "ma, ma, ma, ma" joke to me, and it was pretty clear which tone was which. Note: I don't know how to write the tonal markers in ASCII
Sometimes I talk to girls who are good at maths and encourage them towards IT. They smile and shrug and say they just can't see themselves doing it. I guess when I started the boy geek image was not so entrenched as now.
Since when does being good at math = go into IT? There are a whole range of careers for people who are into math, why are you pushing them into something they're not interested in?
It's no different than how the price of crude oil makes gasoline prices spike: the oil being sold on the market is 6 months away from being turned into gasoline, yet one always follows the other. It's profiteering, plain and simple. No price-fixing conspiracy needed!
Either way, those dirty fucks at Ticketmaster need to be next.
Why Ticketmaster? They're not the ones charging $80 a ticket to start with, then adding a venue fee, parking fee, etc.
Sure, I prefer going to my indie record store, where the service charge per ticket is clearly laid out and never randomly changes.
Blame the bands that want a guaranteed payout for every gig. Hell, the top floor tickets for Rush at the ACC are $140. That's pretty ridiculous. But they're the ones choosing to play hockey arenas for a very large guaranteed payout per show.
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2) Never hire anyone who has previously worked as a Microsoft executive. They *will* fuck you over.
Remember all those workstation companies like DEC, SGI and Sun, who all had great machines running under their own *NIX systems, and then all bought into going x86 and Itanium and Windows NT?
Yeah.
I did something similar with the original Civ for DOS. I was playing Prince level on the world map, and managed to wipe out every other country of the planet, except for the Aztecs, who had replaced the Egyptians when I wiped them out early on.
The Aztecs had one city going *somewhere*, but I hadn't come across them yet. So I kept on my merry expansionist/scientific ways, railroading everywhere I could and making super caravan cities and parking the caravans off on railroad sidings until I needed them. I eventually ran out of units! So each city was reduced to 1 settler and 1 mechanized infantry for defense, but even then I stopped being able to build more units.
I finally discovered whatever it was that allowed the Apollo Program, and built it in 2 turns in a city out near Kamchatka that I'd created to do nothing but house that Wonder. After I'd built the Program wonder, I finally discovered where the Aztecs were: they'd been plopped down in the middle of Siberia (essentially all woods), and had a city of 1 population and 1 Militia defending it. With not enough food or productions shields to get bigger, it had been in practical stasis since 3000BC-ish.
I decided to be a bastard and put a diplomat in every square until the city's control to ensure that they couldn't grow and/or attack me. I eventually built a full spaceship and launched it. Final population was around a billion, and final Civ Score was around 240 (I think?). I pretty much gave up playing after that. :)
It's a Unix system. I know this!
The designers of ATSC chose a 16:9 aspect ratio because it matches many theatrical films and offers a better viewing experience than 4:3 on movies and TV shows. It wasn't their intent to create a de facto standard for computer monitors; that is due to cost-cutting on the part of the consumer electronics industry.
16:9 (aka 1.78) doesn't match any film aspect ratio, standard 35mm is 1.85, which is why properly-made movies will still have some slight letterboxing on widescreen displays. Otherwise the studio's fucked up and zoomed in to get rid of them.
On the flip side, if you don't reuse your passwords, you're never going to remember how to access all 200 sites that require it. Most people barely remember their username, nevermind their password.
That's what Keepass and 1Password are for.
Funny how smoking increased dramatically in Ontario when the price of a pack dropped significantly in the early 2000s due to a drop in the combined federal and provincial excise taxes, after years of increases and high retail costs.
Whoa! They'd have enough salt to last forever!
Ew. Neal's too much of a hack, in love with his own cleverness, to be at the same level as Bradbury and Lovecraft.
Indeed, I too cut my teeth on Ray Bradbury's works for fantasy and science fiction. Recently I discovered an edition of 100 of his collected short stories (chosen by the man himself) that appeared to include most if not all of my favorites. For anyone looking to discover/rediscover, this is an inexpensive and fairly comprehensive route to take. These stories are written for a younger mind but are still enjoyable to me.
I picked up a large collection of his a few months ago, that may even be the same one. Think I'll crack it open tonight since I've recently finished my current book.
He was a true master, I remember being blown away by "The Martian Chronicles" as a young teen. Even the TV show, "The Ray Bradbury Theater", had its moments.
Damnit, now I have tickets to Boston at the Vanhalen arena.
Or they could have used delicious.com (or similar) without having to play the oh-so-clever-the-first-time "domain as part of business name" BS.
From Wikipedia: "The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)[1][2] is a United States Act of Congress that came about as wide public concern about the state of education. First proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office,[3] the bill passed in the U.S. Congress with bipartisan support."
Pfft. There you go again, using facts to prove something wrong.
And you're too stupid to copy and paste something you don't know into your favourite search engine? Geez.
If the translation is done with care, it will follow the author's intentions very closely. That is the hallmark of good translations.
Sounds to me like this will end up like the internet version of the "Do Not Call" list.
Ask my family on how that one worked out.
OK. What time are they usually home?
[citation needed]
I think most "films" are shot digitally these days.
[citation needed] yourself. The new Batman was shot on film. All-Digital releases are still under 50%.
Well, they should team up with Bell & Howell, then.
Cool! I can finally get that black Apple II that I always wanted!
Mandarin has 4 tones, which is what he said. Cantonese has 7. A Chinese friend in Beijing said the "ma, ma, ma, ma" joke to me, and it was pretty clear which tone was which. Note: I don't know how to write the tonal markers in ASCII
I went a few years ago on a tourist visa. It was stamped into my passport, which is proof of citizenship. Where else would they put it?
Sometimes I talk to girls who are good at maths and encourage them towards IT. They smile and shrug and say they just can't see themselves doing it. I guess when I started the boy geek image was not so entrenched as now.
Since when does being good at math = go into IT? There are a whole range of careers for people who are into math, why are you pushing them into something they're not interested in?
Toilet paper?
Not collusion, simple profiteering. One starts, the others follow.
It's no different than how the price of crude oil makes gasoline prices spike: the oil being sold on the market is 6 months away from being turned into gasoline, yet one always follows the other. It's profiteering, plain and simple. No price-fixing conspiracy needed!
Either way, those dirty fucks at Ticketmaster need to be next.
Why Ticketmaster? They're not the ones charging $80 a ticket to start with, then adding a venue fee, parking fee, etc.
Sure, I prefer going to my indie record store, where the service charge per ticket is clearly laid out and never randomly changes.
Blame the bands that want a guaranteed payout for every gig. Hell, the top floor tickets for Rush at the ACC are $140. That's pretty ridiculous. But they're the ones choosing to play hockey arenas for a very large guaranteed payout per show.
But it's always bad when someone gets hurt.
. . . it depends on who is in the car . . .
Bear is driving car! How can this be?!