Wind! Lots of wind!... Something's coming towards me. I wonder if it'll be my friend?... Ack! I've crashed into something! Oooooh! It's really icky in here. There's all sorts of red stuff going past me. I think I'm tumbling, too. Urp! I think I'm going to be sick.... Some kind of hard, white tree or something just shattered on my face.... Well, it looks like the ride has stopped.... Hello? Hello? Anyone out there?... Isn't anyone going to come and get me? It's really noisy here. Sounds like someone's screaming or something. And it really stinks here too. Looks like someone's mixed a septic tank and cow in a wood chipper. What a mess. Who the hell would do this? This sucks! Game over, man, game over!
This one was first noticed back in February and duly reported to Apple. Three-four months isn't bad response time, to craft a script that would go in, turn off a couple of options in URL handling, right?
We have a fairly locked down network and we still get viruses in the dorms. Our little darlings take their laptops (about 70% of our users) off campus and then come back home and plug them in. No matter how many times their network has gone down this year, and no matter how many times we let them know to keep their patches up to date, and to run virus softwear or linux or MacOS, each new virus knocks out a dorm or two.
Seeing as how this is our last week and students are already leaving, even I, the Mac Guy, was pressed into service, running a huge list of various virus killers, pop up blockers, and ad-ware destroyers. What a sand coated, dp pain-in-the-ass. If this is what 95% of the computer using public has to put up with, it's amazing there's even an internet. I suppose porn is the only thing keeping the average Windows user online.
They're slowly decommisioning these things, as they bring in more KC-10s. As I recall, the 135 carries 181,000 lbs of fuel (lighter than water). You could keep the wing takes for flying and the belly tank for fire suppresion. That'd still give you around 60,000-80,000 gallons. Sweeeet!
First of all, 50 open tabs for days is so unbelievably illogical that I can't even begin to imagine what you're doing.
i do around 40 tabs every day. I have a folder full webcomic links that is set to open in tabs with a single click on the folder. On my 350MHz G3 at home, it takes a couple of minutes to open and render all the comics. At work, on my 1.8GHz G5, it takes less than a minute. In both cases, this is using the latest versions of OSX and Safari. I'll have to try this with Mozilla.
Do you mean, how do the players know when they're done? Probably like most games, too many people will end up having something else to do and the game will fall apart.
Totally forgot about Gamma World. Played that in high school (1980). Our GM had mapped out our high school, near by Mall and fire station. Took us three or four sessions to realize we were sitting in the building we were exploring. Pretty slick stuff. Last I heard, our GM had gone on to get a degree in Marine Biology.
Am just getting ready to do an IRC RPG based off of Space Viking (H. Beam Piper novel). It's not really any game system, more a guided story creation. Should be fun.
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I still have my white box set as well. I've passed on all the rest of my stuff but am now making up for it with GURPS and Heros. Since having a kid, no more going out to bars and such. Might as well do something on a Saturday night.
Mine was a basic program on my TI-994A w/16RAM baby. Straight from the factory. Still have it and it still fires up. Wonder if any of my tape cassettes are any good?
Stay out of theaters...don't buy CD's...don't listen to corporate radio...don't eat fast food...don't drive SUVs...don't wear Nike...don't eat Martha Stewart...don't drink StarBucks...don't use Windows...don't use Macs...don't use Sony...don't drink Budwieser...don't watch The Simpsons...
I do this about once a week. I work at a poor college and we have to streatch our printing resources as far as they'll go. Used to be undoable with Macs, but thanks to CUPS, no problem.
I don't think it's so much depreciation as the fact that diamonds (and diamond jewelry) cost one thing 'new' and a hell of a lot less than that used. It's kinda' like the price drop on a car when you drive it off the lot. Even if you try to resell it an hour later, it's worth less. DeBeers has a great interest in people buying new diamonds and has done a lot of marketing work to ensure that there is limited secondary trade in used diamonds. The only jewelery that holds it's value is stuff that was done by a particular designer or is built around a one-of-a-kind gem (Hope Diamond, etc.). You won't even find any kind of blue book value on diamonds or jewelery. Your best bet, if you want to get maximum cash for a gemstone is to try and sell it to a private individual.
Naw, the Cube kept slipping around under her finger. Would have had to balance it with another cube.
The cube was my 4 year anniversary gift to her.
Wife's aunt ran a pawn shop and she knows how fast jewelery depreciates (almost as fast as computers). She prefers something that is actually useful (and plays solitare) to a rock.
I got my wife a Mac Cube and flat screen. Nothing like being married to a computer geek (she's a telecom analyst and loves having Mac DTP and command line tools all together).
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Wind! Lots of wind! ... ... ... ... ... ...
Something's coming towards me. I wonder if it'll be my friend?
Ack! I've crashed into something! Oooooh! It's really icky in here. There's all sorts of red stuff going past me. I think I'm tumbling, too. Urp! I think I'm going to be sick.
Some kind of hard, white tree or something just shattered on my face.
Well, it looks like the ride has stopped.
Hello? Hello? Anyone out there?
Isn't anyone going to come and get me? It's really noisy here. Sounds like someone's screaming or something. And it really stinks here too. Looks like someone's mixed a septic tank and cow in a wood chipper. What a mess. Who the hell would do this? This sucks! Game over, man, game over!
"Rue the day"?
/Tom Hanks
Who the hell speaks like this?
This one was first noticed back in February and duly reported to Apple. Three-four months isn't bad response time, to craft a script that would go in, turn off a couple of options in URL handling, right?
We have a fairly locked down network and we still get viruses in the dorms. Our little darlings take their laptops (about 70% of our users) off campus and then come back home and plug them in. No matter how many times their network has gone down this year, and no matter how many times we let them know to keep their patches up to date, and to run virus softwear or linux or MacOS, each new virus knocks out a dorm or two.
Seeing as how this is our last week and students are already leaving, even I, the Mac Guy, was pressed into service, running a huge list of various virus killers, pop up blockers, and ad-ware destroyers. What a sand coated, dp pain-in-the-ass. If this is what 95% of the computer using public has to put up with, it's amazing there's even an internet. I suppose porn is the only thing keeping the average Windows user online.
They're slowly decommisioning these things, as they bring in more KC-10s. As I recall, the 135 carries 181,000 lbs of fuel (lighter than water). You could keep the wing takes for flying and the belly tank for fire suppresion. That'd still give you around 60,000-80,000 gallons. Sweeeet!
First of all, 50 open tabs for days is so unbelievably illogical that I can't even begin to imagine what you're doing.
i do around 40 tabs every day. I have a folder full webcomic links that is set to open in tabs with a single click on the folder. On my 350MHz G3 at home, it takes a couple of minutes to open and render all the comics. At work, on my 1.8GHz G5, it takes less than a minute. In both cases, this is using the latest versions of OSX and Safari. I'll have to try this with Mozilla.
I submitted a poll a couple of weeks ago asking who should purchase SUN. Apple, Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco, DoD, Palm, etc.?
Or Ghastly. Cool stuff!
Do you mean, how do the players know when they're done? Probably like most games, too many people will end up having something else to do and the game will fall apart.
Totally forgot about Gamma World. Played that in high school (1980). Our GM had mapped out our high school, near by Mall and fire station. Took us three or four sessions to realize we were sitting in the building we were exploring. Pretty slick stuff. Last I heard, our GM had gone on to get a degree in Marine Biology.
Am just getting ready to do an IRC RPG based off of Space Viking (H. Beam Piper novel). It's not really any game system, more a guided story creation. Should be fun.
I still have my white box set as well. I've passed on all the rest of my stuff but am now making up for it with GURPS and Heros. Since having a kid, no more going out to bars and such. Might as well do something on a Saturday night.
Mine was a basic program on my TI-994A w/16RAM baby. Straight from the factory. Still have it and it still fires up. Wonder if any of my tape cassettes are any good?
Why do people buy 140 HP cars when they can get/build a 450 HP car?
Stay out of theaters...don't buy CD's...don't listen to corporate radio...don't eat fast food...don't drive SUVs...don't wear Nike...don't eat Martha Stewart...don't drink StarBucks...don't use Windows...don't use Macs...don't use Sony...don't drink Budwieser...don't watch The Simpsons...
We have them in the Tampabay area (Zebra mussles?) and they're responsible for clogging the filters of our desalination plant.
Yeah! And those Linux wieners are even worse! At least you can still spit on the Windows users.
I do this about once a week. I work at a poor college and we have to streatch our printing resources as far as they'll go. Used to be undoable with Macs, but thanks to CUPS, no problem.
I don't think it's so much depreciation as the fact that diamonds (and diamond jewelry) cost one thing 'new' and a hell of a lot less than that used. It's kinda' like the price drop on a car when you drive it off the lot. Even if you try to resell it an hour later, it's worth less. DeBeers has a great interest in people buying new diamonds and has done a lot of marketing work to ensure that there is limited secondary trade in used diamonds. The only jewelery that holds it's value is stuff that was done by a particular designer or is built around a one-of-a-kind gem (Hope Diamond, etc.). You won't even find any kind of blue book value on diamonds or jewelery. Your best bet, if you want to get maximum cash for a gemstone is to try and sell it to a private individual.
Naw, the Cube kept slipping around under her finger. Would have had to balance it with another cube.
The cube was my 4 year anniversary gift to her.
Wife's aunt ran a pawn shop and she knows how fast jewelery depreciates (almost as fast as computers). She prefers something that is actually useful (and plays solitare) to a rock.
I got my wife a Mac Cube and flat screen. Nothing like being married to a computer geek (she's a telecom analyst and loves having Mac DTP and command line tools all together).
My underware is tight and binding.
Naw, the pro gunners would just eat them.
They could interweave each episode with one from Terry Goodkind's ballast collection. Would anyone notice?
Maybe they could do some Robert L. Forward, Larry Niven, or Hal Clement? All would be interesting.
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