Weight: Make them the same size. It'll be easier to fake a quarter with a nickel in the vending machine. The arguement about same sized coins is useless simply because having them different sizes makes a vending discriminate coins so well, adding to their convenience.
I work as a tec in an arcade and i'm glad that most coins are different sizes, the mechanisms we use to accept our tokens (while rejecting almost everything else) is a realy simple piece of equipment containing 2 moving parts, mostly to prevent coins crossing the switch area close enough together to keep the switch from re-opening.
We have a mechanized token counter and we have to keep track of the earnings of the games. Unfortunately our counter chokes and makes a racket when it swallows a quarter. Since it's slightly larger than our tokens it goes into the intake just far enough so the machine can't clear it on it's own. Only one game is old and archaic enough to not have any coin return slot and instead puts rejected coins (including 10's of dollars a week in quarters) directly into the token basket. It's totally annoying and once we found it faster to just count those tokens by hand while the machine counted the other games.
'LXG', as they call it, looks *appallingly* bad - from the looks of the trailer, it has none of the style or Victorian charm of the original comic, just a buncha guys in Matrix-style leather trenchcoats driving a big ol' car. A Car fer frick's sake! Where's the steampunk in that?
And then to call it 'LXG'... euuugchhhh....
Yes but the plus side to comic book based movies is that it'll get some people interested in the comics. I never had the chance to read DareDevil before the movie came out so I spent some time at the local book store browsing the graphic novel section. If your store is anything like the 3 I've been in it'll be located on the same aisle as the pencil & paper RPG stuff.
I've started picking up quite a few interesting GNs and compilations including Marvel's Earth X and DC's Kingdom Come (you haven't read a comic until you've read one where the pages were painted by the artist and printed on nice glossy paper) There are all sorts of "Essential" collections from Marvel, Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, X-Men just to name a few. If you think the movie will be crap go buy a book (just not *:the Movie)
Now i'll stop (so I stop parenthesizing (Is that even a word? (No, but it doesn't matter they can't hear me (I'm too many parenthesis deep))))
They should have figured out a way to more efficiently harness that loss of energy, or designed the engine with parts that better transfer kenetic energy
It's not a matter of not being able to reduce the vibration. It is the vibration of the V-twins that make people want to buy them.
Take away the vibration an no one will want to buy them.
Solution:
1- Buy cheap, efficient, quiet motorcycle 2- take motorcycle to local adult store 3- buy the largest vibrator they have, tell them it's for your girlfriend (it's not like they know you're a geek) make up some story about you having to go away for a week and her needs needing to be filled or some junk. 4- Utilize your mad case-modding skillz to make a recess for the vibrator and connect it to the bike's electrics.
Also, if you've ever waited in line at a post office, you know that some aspects of their service are not exactly the model of efficiency.:)
Can't say that I have. Then again the 32220 mail house is about 20' by 23' and the same lady has been behind the counter since I was knee high to a goat. Her hair has gotten progresively more blue and more crazy over the past 20 years.
My only worry with the newer stuff is the electronics durability in warfare. With the mechanical guns you had to worry about jams, the electronic guns only need a few circuits to fry. I didn't see if it had any redundancy (sp?), I would hope it does.
Microsoft Gun-d'ohs 2025 has caused a general protection fault in module k4b00m and will be shut down
170 shots per minute and 3 minutes to reboot between shots. But will it play my.mp3s? If so put me down for 2. I mean kickin tunes and a multi-national killing spree how can you go wrong?
This bill would follow the pattern of many recent bills and make lots of currently law-abiding citizens into criminals.
But a police state can be run so much more efficiently if everyone is already a criminal.
[begin hyperbolistic hypothization] I'm sure at some point they'll manage to slip by some wording in an obscure bill making it illegal to represent someone accused (by a company) of comitting a crime. At that point we're all screwed You can't hire a lawyer and if you represent yourself you've commited another heinous act in a viscous death spiral of legal doomy death... of doom. [end]
If you needed to get right-of-way in order to send a microwave transmission between two spots, why is it that Hughes (Dish Network - or whoever they are called now) somehow has permission to "beam" their transmissions all over the f'in United States? I don't remember giving them "right-of-way" access to the ground my home sits on...
Ahhh the magick 9-ball spekes of 2 reasons 1) The company you refer to is... well a company and probably bought a congress critter or three to make sure they could (and while they're at it, that you can't interpret the signal they're irradiating you with unless you pay for the privalege)
and
b) They're only beaming their transmition into the property your home sits on and not across it.... Either that or your house is obstructing the line-of-sight transmition of data from the satalite to the russians
Or, for that matter, dealt with the general public as part of your job.
Heh, you think a simple uk.co backwardnocity is bad, at I'll explain very slowly and clearly that "It is very important to make sure the long end of your gun is pointed toward you at all times. If you have the short end, the only one with the hole in it pointed toward you you will be shooting yourself and i will point and laugh." Then I get to watch as the people don't notice that they are shooting themself in the face with their laser the entire 7 minutes of the game.
Some times I wish we had paintball instead of laser tag.
The only effective means to block Spam is through economic means brought about through re-education of the ignorant individuals that purchase products as a result of spam and the entities that purchase these services from spammers.
Indeed, the people that fall for the obvious scams should be sent to the re-education clamps
The keyboard layout would be much less confusing if Milton Crane would stop whining about his intellectual property, and let manufacturers mark the "Any" Key.
My klunky keyboard has been recently taken apart and painted to better match the decor of it's new room, but one of the first mods i ever did (this was the kb for the "family computer" back in the day) was to remove the Scroll Lock key, match the color of the keys with model paint to cover up the original words and then I neatly painted "ANY" on the key before replacing it.
On a side note, does anyone with one of the newer keyboards, the type with letters that seem to be printed on the keys, where the letters are wearing off the keys. I have a blank key where my A sould be
There may not have been more than one (Gwaihir) at this time in Middle Earth in the third age.
What about the squadron of at least 13 giant eagles that appears in The Hobbit?
Not to nitpick or anything, but weren't there enough eagles to be counted as an entire army in the "Battle of 5 Armies"? (Dwarves, Men of lake town, Elves of Mirkwood, Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and the Eagles)
I am only fluent in English. I have studied a few years of other languages, but no where near fluent.
consider yourself lucky. a native USian I still have quite the muddle trying to think in english. My twin sibling and I were allowed to use twinnish until kindergarten and i still get odd looks from cow-orkers when i lack the english to describe something and manage to not realise I'm going on with words they probably couldn't pronounce (the 'gsth' and 'ruuml' sounds seem to come up a lot.)
Everyone sees roads continually being torn up to lay cable. Why don't the municipalities lay a "data pipe" to go along with the gas and sewer lines.
Feh, i think they stuck that under "The Better Jacksonville Plan" here or something because the city (largest in land area in the lower 48, back when i was in 4th grade at least not sure 'bout now) is building out a fibre network to every street, I'll beleive that when it gets to my curb(32 miles from downtown and still well within city limits). TBJP also involved repaving many of the roads and quite a few road widenings... </on-topic> <rant> needless to say they seem to have it scheduled back-assward. They repave miles of a road, come back a week after they finish, widen it. and a couple of week after thet they've had to cut the pavement in 9 places over the same 6 miles they've been working on. I'm tired of having to take detours every time i go to work, and the detours change every couple of weeks </rant>
I'm thinking of moving to Europe and giving up my United States citizenship.
That's rather un-"american" of you. I'm sure you could make a decent (step 3) profit selling your citizenship on Ebay to someone out there who can't get one of their own.
Unfortunantly you'd probably get in trouble for helping "the terrorists win", and then the RIAA would perform DDOS attacks on your brain for attempting to take their copyrighted works to a place where they might be fairly used on non-crippled devices they never approved of.
No. I have no right to be assumed a criminal when I purchase something. This is like those illegal bag searches that seem to happen whenever I enter or leave a box store in the US. Wal-Mart gave those up in Canada -- we don't like being treated like criminals.
Heh, i have fun at the super-walmart every saturday night setting of the theft detection device as i enter the store after getting out of the arcade (around 3 am) i'm not even sure what does it my work pants don't have pockets and the only thing i have is my check card and car keys, heck the Suncoast and EB theft detectors do it too
The first episode, I believe, Misato, What's Her Face, and Shinji are on a lift, talking of an Eva activation test:
English: "It's Oni, a Japanese devil." This makes absolutely no sense.
Japanese, with Subbing: "It's 0.9, not zero." Hey, a percentage of success - now that makes sense.
i think the reference was to the word "onine", which can be both read as a number (0.9) or as a overgeneralization of the -nine (assanine: of/like an ass, porcinie: of/like a pig, murine: of/like a mouse, ursine: of/like a bear) to describe unit 01 as being devilishly hard to get to sync with a pilot... or maybe it's demonic "he i have free will so i'm gonna go eat something and make the control-room chick sick" mode. but i could just be defending their pick of words in what was a confusing enough series
You should join an anime club there should be one in your city. Lots of university/college's have them also.
I've gotten a small group of people at work who enjoy anime, but we're the more skilled/dedicated/have-no-social-life-so-we-work-w eekend-nights people so we're always still at the arcade during adult swim. Anytime we get to discussing any anime that's been around long enough to have been dubbed and put on dvd one of our co-workers tell us to move on because he spends summers in japan (and grew up there) and has seen it all but we ignore him and hang out after work sundays where our game technician has patched a region-freed DVDplayer into the arena monitor system and watch anime on a nice big projector we use during game tournies.
I will be much happier when the U.S. TV network censors would let something like Neon Genesis through their filters.
heck they ran NGE on CN last week, unfortunately due to their editing techniques (removal of blood, nudity, sexualy reference, religion, intelegence and entertainment) most people thought it was just a realy short comercial that made no sense
but i can't rag on CN too much, it's the only way i got to watch Daemon Rising and My Two Bobs
with the vigilAnce and alerTness of The averAge/. user, this Could never happen. i Know these hallowed boards shall Never be used as a platfOrm for dissemination of communications With evil intent!
errr... I'd do that but I'm too busy reading slashdot right now...
Ever get the feeling most/.ers would be terrorists except that we're to caught up flaming microsloth instead?
Society as a whole, however, has become increasingly less moral as it has become increasingly less theistic.
unfortunately Society has, as a whole, also become less capable of riding horses and less supersticious and less skilled at using a slide rule and less capable of looking up and correctly guessing what tommorows weather will be like and much less able-to-shoot-beams-of-heat-from-their-eyes.
Correlation != cause & effect
So come join us, here in the lovely hills of florida where men are men, women are women, and small blue hairballs from alpha centauri are small blue hairballs from alpha centauri.
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I work as a tec in an arcade and i'm glad that most coins are different sizes, the mechanisms we use to accept our tokens (while rejecting almost everything else) is a realy simple piece of equipment containing 2 moving parts, mostly to prevent coins crossing the switch area close enough together to keep the switch from re-opening.
We have a mechanized token counter and we have to keep track of the earnings of the games. Unfortunately our counter chokes and makes a racket when it swallows a quarter. Since it's slightly larger than our tokens it goes into the intake just far enough so the machine can't clear it on it's own. Only one game is old and archaic enough to not have any coin return slot and instead puts rejected coins (including 10's of dollars a week in quarters) directly into the token basket. It's totally annoying and once we found it faster to just count those tokens by hand while the machine counted the other games.
Yes but the plus side to comic book based movies is that it'll get some people interested in the comics. I never had the chance to read DareDevil before the movie came out so I spent some time at the local book store browsing the graphic novel section. If your store is anything like the 3 I've been in it'll be located on the same aisle as the pencil & paper RPG stuff.
I've started picking up quite a few interesting GNs and compilations including Marvel's Earth X and DC's Kingdom Come (you haven't read a comic until you've read one where the pages were painted by the artist and printed on nice glossy paper)
There are all sorts of "Essential" collections from Marvel, Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, X-Men just to name a few. If you think the movie will be crap go buy a book (just not *:the Movie)
Now i'll stop (so I stop parenthesizing (Is that even a word? (No, but it doesn't matter they can't hear me (I'm too many parenthesis deep))))
Solution:
1- Buy cheap, efficient, quiet motorcycle
2- take motorcycle to local adult store
3- buy the largest vibrator they have, tell them it's for your girlfriend (it's not like they know you're a geek) make up some story about you having to go away for a week and her needs needing to be filled or some junk.
4- Utilize your mad case-modding skillz to make a recess for the vibrator and connect it to the bike's electrics.
5- Profit
6- ???
Errr, I'd rather have as little to to with wind coming out of a duck's end as possible.
Can't say that I have. Then again the 32220 mail house is about 20' by 23' and the same lady has been behind the counter since I was knee high to a goat. Her hair has gotten progresively more blue and more crazy over the past 20 years.
Well, i don't think the fact that i'm wearing women's panties is the business of anyone in range with a scanner
Microsoft Gun-d'ohs 2025 has caused a general protection fault in module k4b00m and will be shut down
170 shots per minute and 3 minutes to reboot between shots. But will it play my
But a police state can be run so much more efficiently if everyone is already a criminal.
[begin hyperbolistic hypothization]
I'm sure at some point they'll manage to slip by some wording in an obscure bill making it illegal to represent someone accused (by a company) of comitting a crime. At that point we're all screwed You can't hire a lawyer and if you represent yourself you've commited another heinous act in a viscous death spiral of legal doomy death... of doom.
[end]
Ahhh the magick 9-ball spekes of 2 reasons
1) The company you refer to is... well a company and probably bought a congress critter or three to make sure they could (and while they're at it, that you can't interpret the signal they're irradiating you with unless you pay for the privalege)
and
b) They're only beaming their transmition into the property your home sits on and not across it....
Either that or your house is obstructing the line-of-sight transmition of data from the satalite to the russians
Heh, you think a simple uk.co backwardnocity is bad, at I'll explain very slowly and clearly that "It is very important to make sure the long end of your gun is pointed toward you at all times. If you have the short end, the only one with the hole in it pointed toward you you will be shooting yourself and i will point and laugh." Then I get to watch as the people don't notice that they are shooting themself in the face with their laser the entire 7 minutes of the game.
Some times I wish we had paintball instead of laser tag.
Off-topic?!? ummm what was the topic again?
Indeed, the people that fall for the obvious scams should be sent to the re-education clamps
My klunky keyboard has been recently taken apart and painted to better match the decor of it's new room, but one of the first mods i ever did (this was the kb for the "family computer" back in the day) was to remove the Scroll Lock key, match the color of the keys with model paint to cover up the original words and then I neatly painted "ANY" on the key before replacing it.
On a side note, does anyone with one of the newer keyboards, the type with letters that seem to be printed on the keys, where the letters are wearing off the keys. I have a blank key where my A sould be
Space tourism cans you?
Not to nitpick or anything, but weren't there enough eagles to be counted as an entire army in the "Battle of 5 Armies"? (Dwarves, Men of lake town, Elves of Mirkwood, Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and the Eagles)
consider yourself lucky. a native USian I still have quite the muddle trying to think in english. My twin sibling and I were allowed to use twinnish until kindergarten and i still get odd looks from cow-orkers when i lack the english to describe something and manage to not realise I'm going on with words they probably couldn't pronounce (the 'gsth' and 'ruuml' sounds seem to come up a lot.)
So long as you weren't writing your name or eating the snow
who went and gave the jellyfish hearts again?
Feh, i think they stuck that under "The Better Jacksonville Plan" here or something because the city (largest in land area in the lower 48, back when i was in 4th grade at least not sure 'bout now) is building out a fibre network to every street, I'll beleive that when it gets to my curb(32 miles from downtown and still well within city limits). TBJP also involved repaving many of the roads and quite a few road widenings...
</on-topic>
<rant>
needless to say they seem to have it scheduled back-assward. They repave miles of a road, come back a week after they finish, widen it. and a couple of week after thet they've had to cut the pavement in 9 places over the same 6 miles they've been working on. I'm tired of having to take detours every time i go to work, and the detours change every couple of weeks
</rant>
That's rather un-"american" of you. I'm sure you could make a decent (step 3) profit selling your citizenship on Ebay to someone out there who can't get one of their own.
Unfortunantly you'd probably get in trouble for helping "the terrorists win", and then the RIAA would perform DDOS attacks on your brain for attempting to take their copyrighted works to a place where they might be fairly used on non-crippled devices they never approved of.
Heh, i have fun at the super-walmart every saturday night setting of the theft detection device as i enter the store after getting out of the arcade (around 3 am) i'm not even sure what does it my work pants don't have pockets and the only thing i have is my check card and car keys, heck the Suncoast and EB theft detectors do it too
i think the reference was to the word "onine", which can be both read as a number (0.9) or as a overgeneralization of the -nine (assanine: of/like an ass, porcinie: of/like a pig, murine: of/like a mouse, ursine: of/like a bear) to describe unit 01 as being devilishly hard to get to sync with a pilot... or maybe it's demonic "he i have free will so i'm gonna go eat something and make the control-room chick sick" mode.
but i could just be defending their pick of words in what was a confusing enough series
I've gotten a small group of people at work who enjoy anime, but we're the more skilled/dedicated/have-no-social-life-so-we-work-
heck they ran NGE on CN last week, unfortunately due to their editing techniques (removal of blood, nudity, sexualy reference, religion, intelegence and entertainment) most people thought it was just a realy short comercial that made no sense
but i can't rag on CN too much, it's the only way i got to watch Daemon Rising and My Two Bobs
errr... I'd do that but I'm too busy reading slashdot right now...
Ever get the feeling most
unfortunately Society has, as a whole, also become less capable of riding horses
and less supersticious
and less skilled at using a slide rule
and less capable of looking up and correctly guessing what tommorows weather will be like
and much less able-to-shoot-beams-of-heat-from-their-eyes.
Correlation != cause & effect
So come join us, here in the lovely hills of florida where men are men, women are women, and small blue hairballs from alpha centauri are small blue hairballs from alpha centauri.