and on the tabletop (for you youngsters, we used to play games using playing surfaces made from compressed paper products that involved actually having people in the same room):
"The pair belongs to what some astronomers believe is a new class of planet-like objects floating through space; so-called planetary mass objects, or "planemos", which are not bound to stars.'"
Once again proving that astronomers should not be naming things while drunk. Here's a handy reminder: "Remember the Planemos!"
I hear the Apple Store will start selling "Apple Trackpad Origami Paper" soon so that we can all have an Apple Origami folding experience. You'll be able to choose either a plain white piece of paper or pay $30 more for the black paper. Either way, you'll be able to customize the paper with your choice of engravings (up to three lines, 160 characters)*.
* Price/availability of engravings dependent on what printer the store has.
On Opera 8.5, Jason's design appears to be recursively putting borders and padding around the stories, making them shrink and shrink and shrink continuously. It's somewhat amusing and annoying, so I like it.
Yes, but will the synthehol be able to replicate the taste of Tranya, so that I can get drunk with Clint Howard? I really want to get in on that "scaring the crap out of the Federation with a big honking ship and a puppet" action.
I've worked in an art and media-ish department in a telecommunications company for a long time, and even 5-6 years ago, we had people who could only work on computers. I recall a power failure we had and about half the artists were just milling about, doing nothing, while the others just pulled out some drawing paper and their pens and pencils and just kept on going.
Those who could draw also had other talents. One of them used to be able to mimic another artist's style (if you could call it that) almost exactly, in a fraction of the time. It was funny: he'd narrate while he was doing it, too: "Multi-color gradient, Alien Skin-dropshadow, Arial 36 point, done!"
"Hearing senior executives say things like: 'I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week; I want to get to the bottom of this' was at least one measure of success from my point of view"
Ah, good to know the culture of blame is still a backbone of American industry. Likely that those senior executives are the ones that requested said features originally. But that's okay, I'm sure they'll find some scapegoats.
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Guild Wars is NOT an MMOG. Or, rather, if you call GW a MMOG, then all games that consist of a lobby area and instanced versions of the game are also MMOG: Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, etc. There's a big difference between playing with a group of people in an instance and with a large number of players in a large zone.
Guild Wars is an evolution of Diablo 2 and it is a fun game, but it isn't a MMOG comparable to WoW, Everquest, etc. In fact, Battlefield 2 is more of a MMOG than Guild Wars, I'd argue.
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"Nothing like learning about the real world between a hot cooking area and a cold walk-in cooler."
Hmm, seems like you could have tapped a couple of plains and given yourself Glacial Plating when walking by the cooking area.
See, Magic CAN help you in real life.
Spending 200 million on an untried director with a video-game property. Yep, I'd pull out quicker than you could say "Uwe Boll."
Dammit, I'm an unemployed, homeless, childless atheist, you insensitive clod.
Really, though, faith second? Really?
"McAfee announced Wednesday that it has terminated the employment of its president, Kevin Weiss."
Not only that, but I hear he was also running Norton Antivirus on his company PC.
On the Amiga: http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/nucl earw.htm
and on the tabletop (for you youngsters, we used to play games using playing surfaces made from compressed paper products that involved actually having people in the same room):
http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/nucwar.htm
"deliver a mild electric shock"
That should be "giving a bzzzzt!" or "live-wiring their butts" I think.
'The basic "problem" in Eve is that there are no enforced laws on corporate behavior. No SEC or FTC.'
Is the game robust enough for players to create such laws and enforcement/oversight groups?
"Star Trek would have its own cable channel. Or two."
Considering the sheer number of times both G4 and Spike TV show Star Trek, I think you can take this off your list.
And WoW's gameplay is awfully close to Everquest's. I mean, how many "run up to monster, press attack buttons repeatedly" variants can there be?
"The pair belongs to what some astronomers believe is a new class of planet-like objects floating through space; so-called planetary mass objects, or "planemos", which are not bound to stars.'"
Once again proving that astronomers should not be naming things while drunk. Here's a handy reminder: "Remember the Planemos!"
But then it isn't as funny. :)
"It looks like automated topic analysis has truly arrived."
+ topic+analysis%22&btnG=Google+Search
Not according to my in-depth research. Looks like "automated topic analysis" isn't arriving at all.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22automated
By making sure people are too busy answering silly questions on Yahoo, thus preventing them from procreating. Or getting them hooked on Warcraft.
I hear the Apple Store will start selling "Apple Trackpad Origami Paper" soon so that we can all have an Apple Origami folding experience. You'll be able to choose either a plain white piece of paper or pay $30 more for the black paper. Either way, you'll be able to customize the paper with your choice of engravings (up to three lines, 160 characters)*.
* Price/availability of engravings dependent on what printer the store has.
Yes, but can your esteemed laptop allow posts of more than 45 characters per line? Hah! My desktop has no such limitations.
So, I guess that extra $150 for the black version seems like a good deal now.
On Opera 8.5, Jason's design appears to be recursively putting borders and padding around the stories, making them shrink and shrink and shrink continuously. It's somewhat amusing and annoying, so I like it.
Where do
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- Profit
Fit in? Hmm, or are they a team, like Batman and Robin: ??? and Profit!
Dell has very nice desktop 20" LCDs with 1600x1200 resolution. They are quite spiffy. The 2001FP, I do think.
Yes, but will the synthehol be able to replicate the taste of Tranya, so that I can get drunk with Clint Howard? I really want to get in on that "scaring the crap out of the Federation with a big honking ship and a puppet" action.
I've worked in an art and media-ish department in a telecommunications company for a long time, and even 5-6 years ago, we had people who could only work on computers. I recall a power failure we had and about half the artists were just milling about, doing nothing, while the others just pulled out some drawing paper and their pens and pencils and just kept on going.
Those who could draw also had other talents. One of them used to be able to mimic another artist's style (if you could call it that) almost exactly, in a fraction of the time. It was funny: he'd narrate while he was doing it, too: "Multi-color gradient, Alien Skin-dropshadow, Arial 36 point, done!"
"Hearing senior executives say things like: 'I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week; I want to get to the bottom of this' was at least one measure of success from my point of view"
Ah, good to know the culture of blame is still a backbone of American industry. Likely that those senior executives are the ones that requested said features originally. But that's okay, I'm sure they'll find some scapegoats.
I need virus protection from my virus protection!
Guild Wars is NOT an MMOG. Or, rather, if you call GW a MMOG, then all games that consist of a lobby area and instanced versions of the game are also MMOG: Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, etc. There's a big difference between playing with a group of people in an instance and with a large number of players in a large zone.
Guild Wars is an evolution of Diablo 2 and it is a fun game, but it isn't a MMOG comparable to WoW, Everquest, etc. In fact, Battlefield 2 is more of a MMOG than Guild Wars, I'd argue.
Not only will it be able to play games, music and movies, but like its larger sibling, it will also be a portable heater.