I play Arkham Horror. Main game was $50. Optional expansions are $20 (card-only) and $40 (cards plus extra board pieces). We have 3 or 4 of the expansions now, and are trying to figure the best way to set it up, since it takes up most of a sheet of plywood.
I'm about to buy a piece of melamine and put in metal stops, so that we can more easily keep track of pieces. It's the one down side to the game - so many moving parts. (that being said, the game itself is awesome - a cooperative lite-RPG game where you all work together. Like doing an old-school RPG, but not as deep and without a DM needed)
Tandberg 1000. Used it, love it. Small & personal (we used it for 1-to-1's), but you can easily ship it somewhere and have them use it, then send it back. For us, it worked better than the bigger Tandbergs. And it's, IIRC, about $1500 per unit.
The real problem has nothing to do with the actors. It's everything to do with Raimi wanting one movie, and the studio wanting a different movie. They want to make sure their cash cow is adequately milked, whereas Raimi wants good milk. Spidey 1 & 2 worked well, though apparently the whole Venom arc in 3 was put in at the insistence of the studio. Raimi, not liking that, did a half-assed job anyhow.
This time around, he said "I want to do X" they said "No, you'll do Y", he said "no" and they started looking for someone who would do as they were told.
To be fair, because of the perceived failure of the Newton (personally, I'm still waiting for a Newton Assistant app for my iPhone), Steve is probably quite aware how important the form factor is. Can't imagine they'd release it if it weren't Desirable.
Pixel QI (combo LCD & eInk screen) is supposedly shipping screens, but nobody's announced that they're using them. A brand new ultra-cool technology that seems almost custom made for the Jesus Pad. It also makes sense as a way to one-up everyone else. Why buy a $300 Kindle or Nook when for $450 you can buy an iSlate which has color AND month-long battery life if you so desire it.
Of course, I'm personally still hoping it'll have 2 cameras and videoconference capabilities. I'm using a netbook for something like that now, and it needs some work. Done right, it could be a killer app. (But then again, there's a reason we don't have videophones now...)
Then all the people bitching about 5ms here and 15ms there and divide-by-fps-so-see-it-can't-possibly-work will either be vindicated, or look like idiots.
Though, you never know - it might be playable by 99.999% of the populace, but not for them.
Either way, I'd love the chance to see. Doubly so if I can pull off my Longest Yard railgun hits.
That's easy: the network is the single point of failure. If I unplug the network from my databases, I don't have any problems, and performance goes up drastically.
That being said, when we're told that performance is slow, we're the first to get blamed. So I normally need disprove that it's our "fault", by determining network connectivity & performance, making sure the end users' machine is working properly, and that the user knows what they're doing. Then I get to go blame the developers for writing non-resilient code.
Mod parent up. That way you're not dealing with the statements themselves, just the data. And you can add the UserID to the Audit table - then find the most recent row for that particular person, or get the most recent row for each ID and apply that.
I used to work for a college textbook publisher. Give me pretty much ANY class and I could teach it - that's how many different teaching aids we produced. (Transparencies, Test Banks, Videos, Teacher's Guides, TA Handbooks...)
It comes down to the prof, not the tool. Great profs would use them to assist their teaching style, lazy profs would use it instead of building their own lesson plans.
I did when my Laserwriter 16/600 gave up the ghost after 200k pages. You can get a refurbished one for less than a new one, and it'll last. Only downside is that it's probably overkill.
Moon. He's on the dark side, mining Helium-3. And he's on the frickin' MOON. Not to mention that the story and acting is excellent. I liked District 9, but Moon is better.
Here's a probably dumb/obvious question - supposedly we're buying the license for the music, not the music itself. I have the White Album on LP, so I've paid my license fee. Why can't I download the mp3s, which allow me to utilize my license?
"What is it?" "Casull.454 Magnum. You're talking twice the impact energy of.44 Magnum hot loads." "Only holds five." "Yeah, the shells are too big for six in an cylinder. Hell, Matt, you don't need but one."
The fact that you get to reference Varley (and not in conjunction with "Millenium") is why I so loved it. Yup, it's got pieces in there from Phantoms of Kansas, but it's an actual Science Fiction flick. Not scifi, not SciFi/Action. And for that reason alone it should be commended. And it doesn't hurt that it's a really well-done movie. Saw it and The Hurt Locker last week - and while it was a bit draining, emotionally, that was the best movie experience I've had in a while. If you like Science Fiction, go find it - it's worth it.
I'll make several comments here. I worked 5 years for a college textbook publisher.
First, I hate to say this, but that's not the publishers fault. That's the Profs/College's fault for doing it, and your fault for allowing them. Even if you didn't realize they did this at your college, was that the only option? Did nobody warn you the prof charged $250 for his book, or forced you to give the back cover? I would've gone to the pavilion and gotten a course change. These days it's much easier - ebay, etc, for the books. But even several years ago when I was in the biz, price pressure existed. Students would drop the prof and sign up for a different course with a cheaper book, or would complain to the administration, or both. If enough students did it, and they were, the college would either force a book change by the prof, or would cut down his number of courses.
Second - yes, there are new editions every 2 years, and it's deliberate, and mostly it is the same as the prior ed. Why? Well, for some subjects the topic just doesn't change over time. And you have to pay salaries. Think of it as part of an investment in your future.
Finally, blame the bookstore - they get up to a 50% markup just for carrying the books.
If you like the book for its art, check out "Kingdom Come". Hands down, the best artwork I've ever seen in a comic book/graphic novel. Every frame looks like a painting. Good story, too, but the art.... wow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(comics)
Really? The extended slicing-the-arms-off, replete with blood spray, and Rorschach cleaving a guy's head in half, 3+ times - that wasn't the issue, but a penis was? Wow. Yeah, pretty screwed up world.
"I heard a local comment about how great it was that the shanzhai could not only make an iPhone clone, they could improve it by giving the clone a user-replaceable battery[...]I can't help but wonder out loud if mashup in hardware is all that bad."
Adding a user-replaceable battery does not make it a mashup. The combination cell-phone/racecar, sure. But that? That's just a knock-off.
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I play Arkham Horror. Main game was $50. Optional expansions are $20 (card-only) and $40 (cards plus extra board pieces). We have 3 or 4 of the expansions now, and are trying to figure the best way to set it up, since it takes up most of a sheet of plywood.
I'm about to buy a piece of melamine and put in metal stops, so that we can more easily keep track of pieces. It's the one down side to the game - so many moving parts. (that being said, the game itself is awesome - a cooperative lite-RPG game where you all work together. Like doing an old-school RPG, but not as deep and without a DM needed)
Tandberg 1000. Used it, love it. Small & personal (we used it for 1-to-1's), but you can easily ship it somewhere and have them use it, then send it back. For us, it worked better than the bigger Tandbergs. And it's, IIRC, about $1500 per unit.
So what you're saying is: The internet is not a dump truck?
The real problem has nothing to do with the actors. It's everything to do with Raimi wanting one movie, and the studio wanting a different movie. They want to make sure their cash cow is adequately milked, whereas Raimi wants good milk. Spidey 1 & 2 worked well, though apparently the whole Venom arc in 3 was put in at the insistence of the studio. Raimi, not liking that, did a half-assed job anyhow.
This time around, he said "I want to do X" they said "No, you'll do Y", he said "no" and they started looking for someone who would do as they were told.
And it wasn't 100%. I think that either way, effective or not, you'd want to say "Ow! That hurts!"
To be fair, because of the perceived failure of the Newton (personally, I'm still waiting for a Newton Assistant app for my iPhone), Steve is probably quite aware how important the form factor is. Can't imagine they'd release it if it weren't Desirable.
Pixel QI (combo LCD & eInk screen) is supposedly shipping screens, but nobody's announced that they're using them. A brand new ultra-cool technology that seems almost custom made for the Jesus Pad. It also makes sense as a way to one-up everyone else. Why buy a $300 Kindle or Nook when for $450 you can buy an iSlate which has color AND month-long battery life if you so desire it.
Of course, I'm personally still hoping it'll have 2 cameras and videoconference capabilities. I'm using a netbook for something like that now, and it needs some work. Done right, it could be a killer app. (But then again, there's a reason we don't have videophones now...)
Then all the people bitching about 5ms here and 15ms there and divide-by-fps-so-see-it-can't-possibly-work will either be vindicated, or look like idiots.
Though, you never know - it might be playable by 99.999% of the populace, but not for them.
Either way, I'd love the chance to see. Doubly so if I can pull off my Longest Yard railgun hits.
That's easy: the network is the single point of failure. If I unplug the network from my databases, I don't have any problems, and performance goes up drastically.
That being said, when we're told that performance is slow, we're the first to get blamed. So I normally need disprove that it's our "fault", by determining network connectivity & performance, making sure the end users' machine is working properly, and that the user knows what they're doing. Then I get to go blame the developers for writing non-resilient code.
Mod parent up. That way you're not dealing with the statements themselves, just the data. And you can add the UserID to the Audit table - then find the most recent row for that particular person, or get the most recent row for each ID and apply that.
I used to work for a college textbook publisher. Give me pretty much ANY class and I could teach it - that's how many different teaching aids we produced. (Transparencies, Test Banks, Videos, Teacher's Guides, TA Handbooks...)
It comes down to the prof, not the tool. Great profs would use them to assist their teaching style, lazy profs would use it instead of building their own lesson plans.
Nobody tell Ray Kurzweil!
I did when my Laserwriter 16/600 gave up the ghost after 200k pages. You can get a refurbished one for less than a new one, and it'll last. Only downside is that it's probably overkill.
A++++. Please post if you make any progress on it.
Moon. He's on the dark side, mining Helium-3. And he's on the frickin' MOON. Not to mention that the story and acting is excellent. I liked District 9, but Moon is better.
Here's a probably dumb/obvious question - supposedly we're buying the license for the music, not the music itself. I have the White Album on LP, so I've paid my license fee. Why can't I download the mp3s, which allow me to utilize my license?
"What is it?" .454 Magnum. You're talking twice the impact energy of .44 Magnum hot loads."
"Casull
"Only holds five."
"Yeah, the shells are too big for six in an cylinder. Hell, Matt, you don't need but one."
The fact that you get to reference Varley (and not in conjunction with "Millenium") is why I so loved it. Yup, it's got pieces in there from Phantoms of Kansas, but it's an actual Science Fiction flick. Not scifi, not SciFi/Action. And for that reason alone it should be commended. And it doesn't hurt that it's a really well-done movie. Saw it and The Hurt Locker last week - and while it was a bit draining, emotionally, that was the best movie experience I've had in a while. If you like Science Fiction, go find it - it's worth it.
Didn't realize Joe Celko was a Slashdotter.
I'll make several comments here. I worked 5 years for a college textbook publisher.
First, I hate to say this, but that's not the publishers fault. That's the Profs/College's fault for doing it, and your fault for allowing them. Even if you didn't realize they did this at your college, was that the only option? Did nobody warn you the prof charged $250 for his book, or forced you to give the back cover? I would've gone to the pavilion and gotten a course change. These days it's much easier - ebay, etc, for the books. But even several years ago when I was in the biz, price pressure existed. Students would drop the prof and sign up for a different course with a cheaper book, or would complain to the administration, or both. If enough students did it, and they were, the college would either force a book change by the prof, or would cut down his number of courses.
Second - yes, there are new editions every 2 years, and it's deliberate, and mostly it is the same as the prior ed. Why? Well, for some subjects the topic just doesn't change over time. And you have to pay salaries. Think of it as part of an investment in your future.
Finally, blame the bookstore - they get up to a 50% markup just for carrying the books.
What database engine is it using, and can we access it via SQL?
If you like the book for its art, check out "Kingdom Come". Hands down, the best artwork I've ever seen in a comic book/graphic novel. Every frame looks like a painting. Good story, too, but the art.... wow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(comics)
Really? The extended slicing-the-arms-off, replete with blood spray, and Rorschach cleaving a guy's head in half, 3+ times - that wasn't the issue, but a penis was? Wow. Yeah, pretty screwed up world.
That's a different band. Probably Alestorm
"I heard a local comment about how great it was that the shanzhai could not only make an iPhone clone, they could improve it by giving the clone a user-replaceable battery[...]I can't help but wonder out loud if mashup in hardware is all that bad."
Adding a user-replaceable battery does not make it a mashup. The combination cell-phone/racecar, sure. But that? That's just a knock-off.