The GP poster mentioned the fact that the body is filled with a salt water solution. An excelent conductor. Chances are that if there is lighting, there is rain (there are plenty of cases contrary to this, like volcanic eruptions, but lightning is on a long list of problems there). The rain gets you and your clothes wet. Perhaps the lightning "flashes over" your clothes somewhat like a wick on a candle doesn't burn, but the wax does. So the lightning doesn't actaully touch you... Just a thought. I'm not a doctor or an EE or a physisist (or a great speller).
Plus I never even get offered any viruses (and no open ports by default). I don't get why anyone still uses the Micro$oft virus trap anymore.
For me, It's because I don't have any reason to use a different OS. I play some games and I type stuff up. I use adobe a lot. Windows makes sense. I don't have countless hours to teach myself how to use a different OS (although I'm comfortable in OSX), although I do have the ability to learn it. It requires a time investment on my part to figure out how to install/use a new system. And on top of that I have to find out if I will even get any use out of it. I don't have a high-speed connection at home or even a phone line so I can't very well read up on it.
This coming from someone who could easily pick up a new OS given time. So, I'm what? Part of 2% of Windows users with the ability to learn a *nix system or otherwise. Just my 2 cents.
I've been in a few places with signs up saying minumum to spend and max stay time. Typically $5 min, 2hr max. But these are high school hang out Perkins and the like. I've spent hours in a perkins just talking and sipping on free refils, and usually they're fine with it if no one is around. We've gotten our check and paid it long before, but we still drink the bottomless cup. Heck, I went to Baker's Square with a good friend and we both brought brand new 200+ piece Lego sets to put together. We spend 10 bucks between the two of us and sit there for three hours. If they ask us to leave, no problem, but at least we spent some money, and tipped the server. (there was a sign prohibiting board games and other activities the next time we went in, it was in the front for about a year)
You'd never get away with just sitting down, reading the paper, typing a report, but not ordering in a restuarant/coffee shop. They'd throw you out. I'd throw you out.
Maybe it's just the Minnesota Nice in me, but there's a pretty easy way to see if you're imposing. Look around. It is busy? Is the waitstaff giving you dirty looks? Does you butt hurt because you've been sitting on that bench for hours? I'd say no more than half an hour in a busy bistro, but two or three hours if you're obviously not in the way... or the third time the server asks, "Can I get you anything else?"
I like all the people who are asking what he did wrong. Well, for one let's just drop the fact that he's a sex offender. The guy had been sitting in their parking lot for hours. I don't know how busy this place got, but the parking lot is for customers, and if he wasn't sitting in his car for hours at a time, he would have been towed. Then there's the fact that this is obviously his primary use of the internet and he's not even supporting the company. So he may not have affected anyone elses surfing or parking, but he's in the way regaurdless. It's just indescent. I know I use coffee shop wifi all the time. But I'll always have coffee or something when I'm there.
Now I am going to say they should have kicked him out after a few days of parking in the lot for hours and not buying anything. Not three months.
I bought a Dell laptop through my work discount and saved a ton of money. The first thing I did when I got it was wiped the HDD. The second thing was re-install windows, the third thing was prevent Dell's automatic installation of their crapware and now I have spybot S&D running in the background on my machine. The XP firewall is off and I've told XP that I have my own anti-virus so it will shut up. The only reason I've got spybot running is I don't like spyware, and it isn't filled with code-bloated uselessness like McAfee or Norton. No, sirs and madams of the antivirus community, I like my processors doing what I tell them to all the time. The only virus I ever got was Blaster a few years back, and I'm not sure how that got there, but I found a utility that removed it and that was that.
But it's like in NASCAR. For a long time teams would use separate engines for the qualifying runs and the actual race. The first engine would burn out after a few laps, but get them close to the pole position and the second would last the whole race. NASCAR stopped them because teams that had a lot of money (IE big sponsors) could afford these "super-duper" engines and the other teams were stuck with their pace engines for the qualifying.
Simply stated, it would be unfair on the grounds of competition to allow richer schools to buy the super engines. Perhaps putting a spending limit on the project would achieve the results you spoke of. Either way, these experimenal companies are very likely watching for new brains and talent. Namely Briggs and Stratton.
Just wait until the devices are implanted in your molars. Then people can think you're a skitz again! My girlfriend's dad thought I was nuts because I was talking to my brother with a bluetooth headset. My phone was in my pocket, no wires. Just... talking... to thin air.
A few strange looks later and a warning to his daughter and I finally caught on.
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I've been trying to keep people educated about the new generation of systems vs. the old. Sometimes it's funny, other times I want to call it pathetic. I was exitedly talking about Red Steel and Warhawk. Both look amazing, but I can only afford one. One guy said to me, "That new Nintendo is supposed to be almost as powerful as the first XBox, it's going to be a piece of junk." I asked if he had a minute or two for a quick demo. We were in a coffee shop and I had my laptop.
I typically keep preview movies on my HDD for way too long. I loaded up something I had used to show the graphical difference between Spiderman 2 as it was made by the same dev house for all three "last-gen" systems. A friend of mine had spliced them together to run simultaneously. The scenes weren't the same, but the effect was there.
This guy isn't a gamer. He's played a lot of Halo, though. I achieved the desired effect, he was unable to distinguish between the XBox and GC versions, but pointed at the PS2 version saying that it was the worst looking. I didn't tell him why there were three screens. But clarified that the other two were the non-PS2 and showed him the XBox was a bit better as there was an increased draw distance. The guy was taken aback. He still isn't a gamer, but someone's gotta clear this stuff up!
In retrospect, I'm sure that you could put a teflon coating on one of those bigger heat-sinks... That would be the best computer ever... provided you could find a chip that didn't mind running around 150-200C with the heat sink. Yeah, probably not.
Nope, I'm an American. We just didn't have a lot of money. So the closest thing to steak we ever had up to age 16 was boiled (or slow cooked in water) rump roast or very cheap sirloin. I'm 25 now and I know the meaning of a real steak. Prefferably grilled (not 360ed), and if you have to put sauce or seasoning on it, you didn't cut it or cook it right.:)
Well, wait a minute then. Physics would demand that if the cooling system is contained in the box as well, then all this heat WILL make it's way out of the box (or worse, be contained in the box). And since were adding imperfect moving parts, it only serves to create more heat spitting out of the box. Pretty redundant, all in all...
You just get a more juicey steak (provided there's a leak in the water line)!
Just because I can't bust out both systems and line them up right now doesn't mean I haven't played each extensively. I have "first hand" experience. I went to college and lived in the dorms. Perfect Dark, Crazy Taxi, House of the Dead, Timesplitters, Halo, Smash Bros., and Mario Kart all did their parts in helping me ruin my GPA.
I still play DC and PS2 depending on whose house I'm at. Mostly GT4 or Katamari on PS2, and DOA2 or Rush:2049 on the DC.
Like I said, PS2 has a lot more polygons, but in general they look like crap. Some games look amazing, but in general, your DC games are crisper and the polygons almost always look better.
That poster has a point. A lot of Dreamcast games look much better than PS2 games. I believe this is mostly due to anti-aliasing. PS2 is a miraid of jaggies. Every game annoys me with jaggies. DC had great AA. Granted the DC had a much lower polygon count, but each one of them looks better. With time PS2 looked better and better, but I'd rather play Soul Calibur on DC than PS2. Same goes with DOA2.
I don't own either system, but I have a few games for each because I know people who have them (GT4, Xenosaga Ep:1, DOA2, Star Wars: Racer). I'd love to own a PS3 but there isn't a chance I'm buying any console for more than 300 bucks. I'll wait.
Hmm... After analyzing your post... I'm going to say that there are a great many gamers out there who could use that cumulative three hours of extra movement. Especially with the whole moving the entertainment center. Walking is cardiovascular excercise, and moving the EC is stregnth resistance training! Plus it saves on those pesky gym memberships.
$30.00/month * 12months = $360.00 That's a lot more than the three hours of minimum wage you're not getting paid!
I still play through this game every other month or so. Excellent game. Worth all the honorable mentions you can throw at it at the very least. Another gem would be the DS version: Dawn of Sorrow. SotN is beautiful, but this game takes it a step farther. I'd have to say mostly because it's on a smaller screen, but there are more animations for every monster and about the same amount for the hero. Excellent game!
What are you talking about?! It sucked every time I fell in a pit! Every time I didn't time my jumps and got slapped by a bat... into a pit!!! Oh, you mean the game itself. Well, then I agree. Almost every Castlevania has been simply amazing. Oh, to grow up with the Belmonts!
The article you mention is reaching too. From the article you mentioned, "It was easy to tell the difference between a 2D side-scrolling game on the SNES and a 3D equivalent on the original Playstation. It was somewhat less easy, but still possible, to pick out the differences (mostly higher poly counts and smoother texture mapping, but also additional special effects) between a PS1 and PS2 game."
Right... anyone who can't tell the difference between a PS1 and PS2 game should be slapped upside the face... twice. Unless the PS2 game is absolut crap (and I've seen a few, EVERGRACE!). But still, I don't think anyone will have difficulty picking a PS1 game from PS2.
He goes on to say that because it's getting hard to tell the difference, it will be harder in the futre. Sounds like he needed a filler article.
I have reported every one that comes by. I know they're from low-level, flak charecters, but I never see them again (I'll throw the advertisers up on the 'friends' list to better see if I'm going to report a real farmer or not). I usually get an automatic 'thanks.' It may not do much, but if it makes items at the AH cheaper, I'm all for it. Now if only I had enough Gold for my mount...
Bottled water, pop, beer, juice. Blame Coke, Pepsi and all the other product bottlers. All the missing water is sitting inside of glass or plastic bottles.
If that isn't the answer, than I'm sure Mayor Adam West's research will not have been in vain... (Family Guy reference for those not in the know)
Good God! I read that comment and started imagining the nerdiest Collectable Card Game ever. Wozniak would be one of the rarest cards (+10 to hacks of any kind), but Jobs' would be everywhere. His power? PR +10.
Not really. See, if I went to Subway and got a foot-long turkey breast sub with onions and mushrooms, and they tried to make me pay a quarter for the mushrooms and 35 cents for the onions... I'd probably quit eating there. Not the greatest analogy.
Let's say I got a gym membership. (online service cost/month+initiation fee) Let's say they have everything I could want. Free weights, machines, and some cario machines. Say they put up a sign that says I have to pay them another 20 bucks for use of every new weight or machine after I join. It would be a one-time fee, but, hey, I can pick and choose what I want to excersice with. They're not much different from the other machines, but say the new eliptical measures heart-rate now. Nope, not worth it.
Now lets say that for 70 bucks they say I can use their all-new expantion with a running track, pool, and a big space for gymnastics, wrestling, or martial arts.
Hmm... In the first senario, there really isn't anything new, just slightly improved. No real reason to pay for it. The second senario includes different, perhaps even improvements on the old. Sure, some people may pay to use the stuff in the first senario, but most would be interested in the second.
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The GP poster mentioned the fact that the body is filled with a salt water solution. An excelent conductor. Chances are that if there is lighting, there is rain (there are plenty of cases contrary to this, like volcanic eruptions, but lightning is on a long list of problems there). The rain gets you and your clothes wet. Perhaps the lightning "flashes over" your clothes somewhat like a wick on a candle doesn't burn, but the wax does. So the lightning doesn't actaully touch you... Just a thought. I'm not a doctor or an EE or a physisist (or a great speller).
For me, It's because I don't have any reason to use a different OS. I play some games and I type stuff up. I use adobe a lot. Windows makes sense. I don't have countless hours to teach myself how to use a different OS (although I'm comfortable in OSX), although I do have the ability to learn it. It requires a time investment on my part to figure out how to install/use a new system. And on top of that I have to find out if I will even get any use out of it. I don't have a high-speed connection at home or even a phone line so I can't very well read up on it.
This coming from someone who could easily pick up a new OS given time. So, I'm what? Part of 2% of Windows users with the ability to learn a *nix system or otherwise. Just my 2 cents.
You'd never get away with just sitting down, reading the paper, typing a report, but not ordering in a restuarant/coffee shop. They'd throw you out. I'd throw you out.
Maybe it's just the Minnesota Nice in me, but there's a pretty easy way to see if you're imposing. Look around. It is busy? Is the waitstaff giving you dirty looks? Does you butt hurt because you've been sitting on that bench for hours? I'd say no more than half an hour in a busy bistro, but two or three hours if you're obviously not in the way... or the third time the server asks, "Can I get you anything else?"
Now I am going to say they should have kicked him out after a few days of parking in the lot for hours and not buying anything. Not three months.
I bought a Dell laptop through my work discount and saved a ton of money. The first thing I did when I got it was wiped the HDD. The second thing was re-install windows, the third thing was prevent Dell's automatic installation of their crapware and now I have spybot S&D running in the background on my machine. The XP firewall is off and I've told XP that I have my own anti-virus so it will shut up. The only reason I've got spybot running is I don't like spyware, and it isn't filled with code-bloated uselessness like McAfee or Norton. No, sirs and madams of the antivirus community, I like my processors doing what I tell them to all the time. The only virus I ever got was Blaster a few years back, and I'm not sure how that got there, but I found a utility that removed it and that was that.
Probably will work out better than snakes...
Simply stated, it would be unfair on the grounds of competition to allow richer schools to buy the super engines. Perhaps putting a spending limit on the project would achieve the results you spoke of. Either way, these experimenal companies are very likely watching for new brains and talent. Namely Briggs and Stratton.
A few strange looks later and a warning to his daughter and I finally caught on.
I typically keep preview movies on my HDD for way too long. I loaded up something I had used to show the graphical difference between Spiderman 2 as it was made by the same dev house for all three "last-gen" systems. A friend of mine had spliced them together to run simultaneously. The scenes weren't the same, but the effect was there.
This guy isn't a gamer. He's played a lot of Halo, though. I achieved the desired effect, he was unable to distinguish between the XBox and GC versions, but pointed at the PS2 version saying that it was the worst looking. I didn't tell him why there were three screens. But clarified that the other two were the non-PS2 and showed him the XBox was a bit better as there was an increased draw distance. The guy was taken aback. He still isn't a gamer, but someone's gotta clear this stuff up!
In retrospect, I'm sure that you could put a teflon coating on one of those bigger heat-sinks... That would be the best computer ever... provided you could find a chip that didn't mind running around 150-200C with the heat sink. Yeah, probably not.
Nope, I'm an American. We just didn't have a lot of money. So the closest thing to steak we ever had up to age 16 was boiled (or slow cooked in water) rump roast or very cheap sirloin. I'm 25 now and I know the meaning of a real steak. Prefferably grilled (not 360ed), and if you have to put sauce or seasoning on it, you didn't cut it or cook it right. :)
You just get a more juicey steak (provided there's a leak in the water line)!
Shouldn't someone be cooling the power supply? That's the real problem.
I still play DC and PS2 depending on whose house I'm at. Mostly GT4 or Katamari on PS2, and DOA2 or Rush:2049 on the DC.
Like I said, PS2 has a lot more polygons, but in general they look like crap. Some games look amazing, but in general, your DC games are crisper and the polygons almost always look better.
I don't own either system, but I have a few games for each because I know people who have them (GT4, Xenosaga Ep:1, DOA2, Star Wars: Racer). I'd love to own a PS3 but there isn't a chance I'm buying any console for more than 300 bucks. I'll wait.
$30.00/month * 12months = $360.00
That's a lot more than the three hours of minimum wage you're not getting paid!
I still play through this game every other month or so. Excellent game. Worth all the honorable mentions you can throw at it at the very least. Another gem would be the DS version: Dawn of Sorrow. SotN is beautiful, but this game takes it a step farther. I'd have to say mostly because it's on a smaller screen, but there are more animations for every monster and about the same amount for the hero. Excellent game!
What are you talking about?! It sucked every time I fell in a pit! Every time I didn't time my jumps and got slapped by a bat... into a pit!!! Oh, you mean the game itself. Well, then I agree. Almost every Castlevania has been simply amazing. Oh, to grow up with the Belmonts!
Right... anyone who can't tell the difference between a PS1 and PS2 game should be slapped upside the face... twice. Unless the PS2 game is absolut crap (and I've seen a few, EVERGRACE!). But still, I don't think anyone will have difficulty picking a PS1 game from PS2.
He goes on to say that because it's getting hard to tell the difference, it will be harder in the futre. Sounds like he needed a filler article.
Only if there's time enough for the newer, solar-flare powered iPod before the sun explodes. Otherwise, research wasted...
I have reported every one that comes by. I know they're from low-level, flak charecters, but I never see them again (I'll throw the advertisers up on the 'friends' list to better see if I'm going to report a real farmer or not). I usually get an automatic 'thanks.' It may not do much, but if it makes items at the AH cheaper, I'm all for it. Now if only I had enough Gold for my mount...
If that isn't the answer, than I'm sure Mayor Adam West's research will not have been in vain... (Family Guy reference for those not in the know)
Well, if you go by Back to the Future Canon, that is...
Good God! I read that comment and started imagining the nerdiest Collectable Card Game ever. Wozniak would be one of the rarest cards (+10 to hacks of any kind), but Jobs' would be everywhere. His power? PR +10.
Let's say I got a gym membership. (online service cost/month+initiation fee) Let's say they have everything I could want. Free weights, machines, and some cario machines. Say they put up a sign that says I have to pay them another 20 bucks for use of every new weight or machine after I join. It would be a one-time fee, but, hey, I can pick and choose what I want to excersice with. They're not much different from the other machines, but say the new eliptical measures heart-rate now. Nope, not worth it.
Now lets say that for 70 bucks they say I can use their all-new expantion with a running track, pool, and a big space for gymnastics, wrestling, or martial arts.
Hmm... In the first senario, there really isn't anything new, just slightly improved. No real reason to pay for it. The second senario includes different, perhaps even improvements on the old. Sure, some people may pay to use the stuff in the first senario, but most would be interested in the second.