$60 games are here to stay New. If you need your fix RFN, go for it. Me, I'll wait until I can pick 'em up at my local used game store on the cheap, though that's assuming I ever get a next-gen console in the first place - the best part about the PS3 coming out was the way the prices of PS2 games sunk through the floor. I'm gettin' a lot of milage out of that.
I recall reading somewhere (though the source escapes me at the moment) that modern conceptions of privacy had their roots in, of all things, masonry and architecture: when the only source of heat in the winter was a single fire in a large room, everybody slept communally to be as close to the warmth as possible. But as building techniques improved and stone chimneys came into prominence, it became possible for individual rooms to be heated by comparably smaller fires in the second stories the chimneys served as the backbone to support. This happened in, what, the 16th century or so?
You guys were podcasting back in the day with Geeks in Space. Those recordings viewed from now, almost a decade later, would be an awesome peek back into a different kind of internet, but I can't find the mp3's archived anywhere - I used to have 'em on a ZiP disk (heh) but even if I knew where it was, I'd have no way to read it.
Anyone have a copy of 'em lying around that they'd like to make available for research's/nostalgia's sake?
Good for me, anyway - adwords on google searches for anything even remotely purchasable almost always included a generic, keyword-added eBay ad that was ignorable by default; it was approaching crapflood levels.
Let's hope that eBay pulling back will result in searches that're actually relevant. (Searching for Anime and being told that an anime sale is going on at foo.com makes sense; being told that I can buy anime on eBay is unnecessary.)
Voter: Sir, does the right to free speech mean I can burn a flag?
I don't know about you, but the candidate who answers yes. to that and says nothing else, gets my vote. Or at least gets my respect. I'm sick of the equivocation.
This has been covered rather thoroughly on Deep Space Nine - the upshot was something like, 'there might be a 99% chance we're gonna get our asses kicked, but we're human (ie special) so to hell with statistics; bring on the Breen!'
...and the federation ultimately won the war, so...
(if the researcher is allowed to compile averages and call it research, I can quote fictional sources and call them precedent. pbbbt.)
But the second point you brought up is nothing new. Have you ever tried writing an english paper using words like 'aint' or 'brung'?
Actually, yes. In high school (this was, what? the mid-nineties or so) and I aced 'em. There were a number of reasons for this:
My analysis of the literature was backed up from textual sources and properly cited.
My teacher appreciated my teenage attempt to craft my own literary style and cut me some slack.
I had a firm grasp of how to use meter, tone, timbre and rhythm to affect the weight of my argument.
There's a difference between "ain't" and "lol". Ain't as a construction exists as a word because people speak that way, and I firmly believe that learning how to write persuasively means writing the way you speak - fluidly, rhythmically and emphatically. lol is just lazy, doesn't serve any literary purpose and perverts the language in a different way than colloquial contractions like "ain't" do.
I mean, if it were up to me I'd take five points off for every txtspeak on a student's paper on the spot. But there's a line between affect and laziness.
I grabbed a torrent of Casino Royale a few days ago because it came up in conversation with some friends, and really liked it, liked it enough for me to buy it the next time I was near a video store - I wanted the better picture quality, and the extra features, and to free up the space on my drive. Now that I know it's copyright protected to the point of being unplayable? Sorry Sony; you just lost my twenty bucks. Sucks to be you.
That is all the Viacom/YouTube issue about - who makes the ad revenue.
It's also about the statistics - people from what geographical areas visit when, numbers on multiple viewers, timeframe between broadcast and peak online viewership. The ad revenue's nice, but the numbers are gold.
It's possible sure, but time-consuming and requiring far more forethought than grabbing something off of a shelf. I'd have problems with that the same way I have problems with netflix - I'm far too impulsive to wait for the deliveries or, in this case, the ripping.
The thing is, optical drives add weight and suck down battery life and, for an ultralight with a flash drive, the dvd drive would be he first thing to go.
If they're targeting it as a secondary computer for desktop users, an optical drive is unnecessary - all updates can be done through firewire or wireless. If they're just selling it as a primary, small form factor laptop, my guess would be the optical drive would be an external cabled accessory. Possibly internal, but I really doubt it.
all this is assuming the thing actually exists. We'll see.
--Triv
My workday comes in waves - I have tons of downtime between the things I need to do when I'm sitting at my desk, and I generally burn that time by watching DVDs on my MacBook - if Apple came out with a small, light, feature reduced laptop with an optical drive, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Without the drive, it'll probably take a couple extra heartbeats.
If you leave a bulging paper sack on the floor in the middle of a crowded mall, people will get concerned.
No. If you leave a bulging paper sack on the floor in the middle of a crowded mall, people will complain that the cleaning crews aren't doing there jobs as they step over, around and past it. And that's the way if fucking should be. Guess what? Anything, absolutely anything, could be a bomb. Anything could be dangerous. With those kinds of odds, you're way better off just living your life and trying not to hurt anyone, because you know what the alternative is? being terrorized.
Why even do that? If the pedestrian has the right of way, he has the right to wear headphones.
Hahaha. Right of way? Right of way in New York is for tourists and pansies. This thing happens in New York where we, as New Yorkers, walk out into the middle of traffic in a tourist-friendly area (like Rockefeller Center) and watch the tourists instinctually follow us because if we're doing it, it must be safe. Hilarity ensues.
Talking about right of way in New York is a waste of time.
Seriously, it's just a pyramid scheme that takes advantage of people's unhappiness. The leaders of scientology make bank by brainwashing their followers.
The song's called "Crazy 'Bout Christmas". It was a novelty song produced by a dude named Dale Baglo; apparently he's made quite the career doing things like this.
Google helped - here's the page that I turned up with that info on it (though for all I know, you're the one who started that thread - if so, change your damned sig).:)
Doesn't matter to me. It's still a fantasy world, and given a choice between draining an enemy's mana with a spell or with an Electromagnetic Pulse, the science wins.
I like, you know, spaceships and lasers, not demonic horses and bows and arrows. Starcraft's a more involving world for me, is all.
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$60 games are here to stay New. If you need your fix RFN, go for it. Me, I'll wait until I can pick 'em up at my local used game store on the cheap, though that's assuming I ever get a next-gen console in the first place - the best part about the PS3 coming out was the way the prices of PS2 games sunk through the floor. I'm gettin' a lot of milage out of that.
--Triv
I recall reading somewhere (though the source escapes me at the moment) that modern conceptions of privacy had their roots in, of all things, masonry and architecture: when the only source of heat in the winter was a single fire in a large room, everybody slept communally to be as close to the warmth as possible. But as building techniques improved and stone chimneys came into prominence, it became possible for individual rooms to be heated by comparably smaller fires in the second stories the chimneys served as the backbone to support. This happened in, what, the 16th century or so?
Triv
You guys were podcasting back in the day with Geeks in Space. Those recordings viewed from now, almost a decade later, would be an awesome peek back into a different kind of internet, but I can't find the mp3's archived anywhere - I used to have 'em on a ZiP disk (heh) but even if I knew where it was, I'd have no way to read it.
Anyone have a copy of 'em lying around that they'd like to make available for research's/nostalgia's sake?
-Triv
Good for me, anyway - adwords on google searches for anything even remotely purchasable almost always included a generic, keyword-added eBay ad that was ignorable by default; it was approaching crapflood levels.
Let's hope that eBay pulling back will result in searches that're actually relevant. (Searching for Anime and being told that an anime sale is going on at foo.com makes sense; being told that I can buy anime on eBay is unnecessary.)
Triv
Voter: Sir, does the right to free speech mean I can burn a flag?
I don't know about you, but the candidate who answers yes. to that and says nothing else, gets my vote. Or at least gets my respect. I'm sick of the equivocation.
This has been covered rather thoroughly on Deep Space Nine - the upshot was something like, 'there might be a 99% chance we're gonna get our asses kicked, but we're human (ie special) so to hell with statistics; bring on the Breen!'
(if the researcher is allowed to compile averages and call it research, I can quote fictional sources and call them precedent. pbbbt.)
Triv
I always thought the easiest way to factor large numbers was to drop 'em off a high cliff and see what how it shatters once it hits the bottom.
(And they say a liberal arts degree's good for nothin'.)
Triv
But the second point you brought up is nothing new. Have you ever tried writing an english paper using words like 'aint' or 'brung'?
Actually, yes. In high school (this was, what? the mid-nineties or so) and I aced 'em. There were a number of reasons for this:
There's a difference between "ain't" and "lol". Ain't as a construction exists as a word because people speak that way, and I firmly believe that learning how to write persuasively means writing the way you speak - fluidly, rhythmically and emphatically. lol is just lazy, doesn't serve any literary purpose and perverts the language in a different way than colloquial contractions like "ain't" do.
I mean, if it were up to me I'd take five points off for every txtspeak on a student's paper on the spot. But there's a line between affect and laziness.
--Triv
My name is Harmonious Botch and I'm a chocoholic.
"Hi Harmonious Botch!"
(eleven replies to this comment and we skip out on the obvious? We must be getting old.)
(Oh, and get off my lawn.)
--Triv
I grabbed a torrent of Casino Royale a few days ago because it came up in conversation with some friends, and really liked it, liked it enough for me to buy it the next time I was near a video store - I wanted the better picture quality, and the extra features, and to free up the space on my drive. Now that I know it's copyright protected to the point of being unplayable? Sorry Sony; you just lost my twenty bucks. Sucks to be you.
Triv
That is all the Viacom/YouTube issue about - who makes the ad revenue.
It's also about the statistics - people from what geographical areas visit when, numbers on multiple viewers, timeframe between broadcast and peak online viewership. The ad revenue's nice, but the numbers are gold.
triv
I've known about this since Sunday.
Triv
Bullshit artists preying on the terminally ill, peddling eye-of-newt potions and magical crystals, are the lowest form of life on the planet.
Oh yeah? I work in Marketing.
Your move, Trebek!
Triv
It hurts more if you leave it in the can.
Triv
It's possible sure, but time-consuming and requiring far more forethought than grabbing something off of a shelf. I'd have problems with that the same way I have problems with netflix - I'm far too impulsive to wait for the deliveries or, in this case, the ripping.
--Triv
The thing is, optical drives add weight and suck down battery life and, for an ultralight with a flash drive, the dvd drive would be he first thing to go. If they're targeting it as a secondary computer for desktop users, an optical drive is unnecessary - all updates can be done through firewire or wireless. If they're just selling it as a primary, small form factor laptop, my guess would be the optical drive would be an external cabled accessory. Possibly internal, but I really doubt it. all this is assuming the thing actually exists. We'll see. --Triv
I'd buy one, with one caveat.
My workday comes in waves - I have tons of downtime between the things I need to do when I'm sitting at my desk, and I generally burn that time by watching DVDs on my MacBook - if Apple came out with a small, light, feature reduced laptop with an optical drive, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Without the drive, it'll probably take a couple extra heartbeats.
...somebody set the Evil Bit.
--Triv
I guess I could be wrong, but doesn't 'spacecraft' carry the connotation that the vehicle carries a human cargo, or at least is piloted by one?
Triv
If you leave a bulging paper sack on the floor in the middle of a crowded mall, people will get concerned.
No. If you leave a bulging paper sack on the floor in the middle of a crowded mall, people will complain that the cleaning crews aren't doing there jobs as they step over, around and past it. And that's the way if fucking should be. Guess what? Anything, absolutely anything, could be a bomb. Anything could be dangerous. With those kinds of odds, you're way better off just living your life and trying not to hurt anyone, because you know what the alternative is? being terrorized.
Triv
Why even do that? If the pedestrian has the right of way, he has the right to wear headphones.
Hahaha. Right of way? Right of way in New York is for tourists and pansies. This thing happens in New York where we, as New Yorkers, walk out into the middle of traffic in a tourist-friendly area (like Rockefeller Center) and watch the tourists instinctually follow us because if we're doing it, it must be safe. Hilarity ensues.
Talking about right of way in New York is a waste of time.
--Triv
Seriously, it's just a pyramid scheme that takes advantage of people's unhappiness. The leaders of scientology make bank by brainwashing their followers.
Not like 'REAL' religions don't do that or anything...
This is insanely OT, but in re: your sig:
The song's called "Crazy 'Bout Christmas". It was a novelty song produced by a dude named Dale Baglo; apparently he's made quite the career doing things like this.
Google helped - here's the page that I turned up with that info on it (though for all I know, you're the one who started that thread - if so, change your damned sig). :)
Hope that helps.
--Triv
Not quite, but thanks for playing.
--Triv
Doesn't matter to me. It's still a fantasy world, and given a choice between draining an enemy's mana with a spell or with an Electromagnetic Pulse, the science wins.
I like, you know, spaceships and lasers, not demonic horses and bows and arrows. Starcraft's a more involving world for me, is all.
Triv