Mattel made "Frogs & Flies" for the Atari 2600 and I believe the Intellivision. Two frogs on lilypads, catching flies with their tongues. Playable if you were smoking oregano-sprinkled banana peels.
While the gameplay itself wasn't that bad, Karateka meets Slime World, Atari put out "Kung Food" for the Lynx. You're a green guy trying to get out of the refrigerator. The death scenes were hilarious.
You can't forget the promotional perk products for the Atari 2600, "Tooth Protectors" and "Chase The Chuckwagon", themed after Johnson & Johnson toothpaste and Ralston-Purina dogfood respectively. Proof that games patterned after consumer products are slightly dumber than games patterned after movies.
I've never seen a tube fluorescent that lasted more than six months. And I just removed a bank of 4 from my kitchen for that very reason. (Know how friggin' hard it is to offload one of those? Tubes have Hg, ballasts have PCBs, dumps won't take either...)
...they put their good older programs, like 4 On The Floor, out on DVD or make available as a Torrent. The Frantics have been trying to get that out of the CBC's cold dead hands for ages to no avail, and the fans want it.
What I'm saying is, one current program does not a "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" make.
Washington's usual practices are not to destroy materials, but to sell them at GSA Surplus sales. That's where the pointy objects the TSA took from travellers wind up, as well as where monitors and filing cabinets and so forth from government offices get liquidated. I would imagine they'd do secure wipes on the sticks before tossing in the barrel.
I will keep an eye out for USB sticks at the Auburn office near the Supermall. They'd be a welcome change from the elementary school scissors and grubby pocketknives clogging the $1/item bins.
A V-Chip only picks up the rating a broadcaster puts on a show. An awards show is usually rated TV-E (for everyone) because there isn't expected to be violence, language, sexuality, etcetera. It doesn't pick up actual violence, language, sexuality, etcetera as it is broadcast like a human does.
And what more, "decency timeslots" doesn't work here either because an awards show starts in the 8pm range (prime time) so the most people can watch it and, as said, because it's not supposed to have grown-up content in it.
Looks like it is you, anonymous one, who has obviated the responsibility for what the kids watch to technology.
I don't think ZAP was to blame for DCM's failure to get the 2004 Smart (or 2005, 2006, and 2007) onto the American market. Blame the American marketers. The cars existed in countries not afraid of the march of progress.
Seriously, this is good news. Now if only Detroit would take non-petroleum vehicles seriously and make them, rather than giving lip-service saying that's what they want to do.
The ONLY valid reasons I can come up with why anyone would want this site down are the exposing of undercover officers (not good for anyone, especially the undercover cops, except the criminals they're infiltrating) and the usual state of online abuse anyone who posts to a forum is subject to (but maybe the David Brame tragedy could have been better avoided had there been more voicing of his abuses?).
Reasons not valid... oh, those are numerous and probably why the cops freaked and GoDaddy's knees buckled.
Most notebook computers come with WiFi built in, and the hotspots are free or low cost plus operate in places where other forms of connection may not be readily available (except apparently to the hotspots' hub). Not the case with cellular data service, where one needs a modem and a data plan, plus the service will not work everywhere (despite what certain TV ads broadcasting currently say), plus costs $50 a month for service. Free/ish and 'there' verses home broadband cost and extra equipment? Hmm.
Additionally, those coffeehouses (and ferries, and restaurants, and so forth) stand to either do good by doing well -- wouldn't you frequent a business where you can get online free? -- or make enough coin to cover the service and then some. Cellular modeming only profits the telephone company. So WiFi is only a dying breed (wishful thinking) in the cellular providers' eyes, same as vinyl records and cassettes went away only because the industry said they were passe, not the consumers.
Make it illegal to harass, discriminate, terminate, or disqualify for hire someone due to what comes up in Google searches if the things found are NOT illegal or in violation to workplace rules.
So what if you have a blog where you gripe but never mention your employer's name? So what if you've shown some sexy shots somewhere? So what if you were at a party back in college, acting like a college student, ten years ago? How are any of these things relevant to your ability to perform a job you are already doing or have applied to do? We seem to have gone from 'did you inhale?' in government procedings to 'did you have a life before you came to us?' for the average person.
What goes on on the Internet -- and has nothing to do with "you" as the employer -- needs to stay on the Internet.
But my pirated copy of Windows only works on my pirated CPU chip!
Okay, show of hands, who has a pirated processor? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Is this really a huge problem? Doesn't it cost more to produce a pirate CPU than the potential profits from selling it? Methinks the issue is overstated, either that or the chip industry should contact the RIAA & MPAA's media moguls about an advertising deal (which is the same thing, overstatement but loud).
Who needs other people? Hell is other people, according to Sarte. (cue Barbra Streisand: people who need people are the luckiest people in the world...)
The real concern would be, where does the food 'n stuff come from? ("this smells like the same old oxygen...")
Opera and Firefox can go back to the page one was on when the browser crashed -- it's about time IE had that capability.
Since, afterall, it needs it the most. But if one instance of IE blows up (historically, taking all other instances with it), does it open up as many instances were open and reload all the pages that died? Like those other two do?
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If you see anyone who looks like this then the laptops have fallen into the wrong hands.
:)
Sorry, had to do it.
Depending upon where in the world you are, this person is considered one. And yet the State Department doesn't haul him in...
Mattel made "Frogs & Flies" for the Atari 2600 and I believe the Intellivision. Two frogs on lilypads, catching flies with their tongues. Playable if you were smoking oregano-sprinkled banana peels.
While the gameplay itself wasn't that bad, Karateka meets Slime World, Atari put out "Kung Food" for the Lynx. You're a green guy trying to get out of the refrigerator. The death scenes were hilarious.
You can't forget the promotional perk products for the Atari 2600, "Tooth Protectors" and "Chase The Chuckwagon", themed after Johnson & Johnson toothpaste and Ralston-Purina dogfood respectively. Proof that games patterned after consumer products are slightly dumber than games patterned after movies.
Because he's only one omnipotent man. *pulling off sunglasses*
They sent out the invitations to the party, they get to foot the bill.
Does this mean the entire island runs on Linux?
I've never seen a tube fluorescent that lasted more than six months. And I just removed a bank of 4 from my kitchen for that very reason. (Know how friggin' hard it is to offload one of those? Tubes have Hg, ballasts have PCBs, dumps won't take either...)
...they put their good older programs, like 4 On The Floor, out on DVD or make available as a Torrent. The Frantics have been trying to get that out of the CBC's cold dead hands for ages to no avail, and the fans want it.
What I'm saying is, one current program does not a "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" make.
Washington's usual practices are not to destroy materials, but to sell them at GSA Surplus sales. That's where the pointy objects the TSA took from travellers wind up, as well as where monitors and filing cabinets and so forth from government offices get liquidated. I would imagine they'd do secure wipes on the sticks before tossing in the barrel.
I will keep an eye out for USB sticks at the Auburn office near the Supermall. They'd be a welcome change from the elementary school scissors and grubby pocketknives clogging the $1/item bins.
A V-Chip only picks up the rating a broadcaster puts on a show. An awards show is usually rated TV-E (for everyone) because there isn't expected to be violence, language, sexuality, etcetera. It doesn't pick up actual violence, language, sexuality, etcetera as it is broadcast like a human does.
And what more, "decency timeslots" doesn't work here either because an awards show starts in the 8pm range (prime time) so the most people can watch it and, as said, because it's not supposed to have grown-up content in it.
Looks like it is you, anonymous one, who has obviated the responsibility for what the kids watch to technology.
I don't think ZAP was to blame for DCM's failure to get the 2004 Smart (or 2005, 2006, and 2007) onto the American market. Blame the American marketers. The cars existed in countries not afraid of the march of progress.
Smarts are available stateside. Please name the nonexistant ZAP models you refer to.
It should have only taken 90 years, tops. :)
Seriously, this is good news. Now if only Detroit would take non-petroleum vehicles seriously and make them, rather than giving lip-service saying that's what they want to do.
...and my VHS player (cheap!) and plain DVD player (down to $40 at Walgreens).
Why bleed for bleeding edge?
The ONLY valid reasons I can come up with why anyone would want this site down are the exposing of undercover officers (not good for anyone, especially the undercover cops, except the criminals they're infiltrating) and the usual state of online abuse anyone who posts to a forum is subject to (but maybe the David Brame tragedy could have been better avoided had there been more voicing of his abuses?).
Reasons not valid... oh, those are numerous and probably why the cops freaked and GoDaddy's knees buckled.
"Dreaming of Brazil" works fine on my Win2000 machine. Can't tell you what the issue on yours is. :)
How many of you still own a PMP300?
(I won't ask about that first player... "who?")
Neither does Apple Corp, John, Paul, George, or Ringo. (Yeah, two don't eat anything anymore... one eats too much.)
Most notebook computers come with WiFi built in, and the hotspots are free or low cost plus operate in places where other forms of connection may not be readily available (except apparently to the hotspots' hub). Not the case with cellular data service, where one needs a modem and a data plan, plus the service will not work everywhere (despite what certain TV ads broadcasting currently say), plus costs $50 a month for service. Free/ish and 'there' verses home broadband cost and extra equipment? Hmm.
Additionally, those coffeehouses (and ferries, and restaurants, and so forth) stand to either do good by doing well -- wouldn't you frequent a business where you can get online free? -- or make enough coin to cover the service and then some. Cellular modeming only profits the telephone company. So WiFi is only a dying breed (wishful thinking) in the cellular providers' eyes, same as vinyl records and cassettes went away only because the industry said they were passe, not the consumers.
The system of putting cameras everywhere so people will know they're being watched is working so well in England.
...and it will get your zwinki firm.
Make it illegal to harass, discriminate, terminate, or disqualify for hire someone due to what comes up in Google searches if the things found are NOT illegal or in violation to workplace rules.
So what if you have a blog where you gripe but never mention your employer's name? So what if you've shown some sexy shots somewhere? So what if you were at a party back in college, acting like a college student, ten years ago? How are any of these things relevant to your ability to perform a job you are already doing or have applied to do? We seem to have gone from 'did you inhale?' in government procedings to 'did you have a life before you came to us?' for the average person.
What goes on on the Internet -- and has nothing to do with "you" as the employer -- needs to stay on the Internet.
But my pirated copy of Windows only works on my pirated CPU chip!
Okay, show of hands, who has a pirated processor? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Is this really a huge problem? Doesn't it cost more to produce a pirate CPU than the potential profits from selling it? Methinks the issue is overstated, either that or the chip industry should contact the RIAA & MPAA's media moguls about an advertising deal (which is the same thing, overstatement but loud).
Who needs other people? Hell is other people, according to Sarte.
(cue Barbra Streisand: people who need people are the luckiest people in the world...)
The real concern would be, where does the food 'n stuff come from? ("this smells like the same old oxygen...")
Opera and Firefox can go back to the page one was on when the browser crashed -- it's about time IE had that capability.
Since, afterall, it needs it the most. But if one instance of IE blows up (historically, taking all other instances with it), does it open up as many instances were open and reload all the pages that died? Like those other two do?