I assume you are using a computer rather than a game console.
Consider a gamepad that has small joysticks on it. My nephew (6 years old as the subject states) began playing motorcycle racing (Motocross Madness 2) and scrolling games (Disney's Hercules) with the Logitech RumblePad.
It has two small, responsive joysticks on it.
My nephew does well with the controller even though he doesn't really hold it like an adult would. He uses it for Nicktoons Racing (go-kart style racing) and does very well with it.
My nephew has also done very well with my steering wheel controller since he was 4 (if I put the pedals on a box so he can reach them).
I think they still sell that child-torture toy where you squeeze a dab of multicolored rubbery goo out of a toothpaste tube and put it on the end of a short red straw and are supposed to blow it up into a bubble.
Whenever I tried doing that as a kid, I would blow on that straw so hard, I'd get an earache, headache and feel dizzy from breathing in the fumes.
I had DSL a couple years ago and they offered a video on demand service partnered with blockbuster.
I interrogated the DSL installer dude and he said that the picture looked worse the better the TV you had. He noted that people with better equipment tended to be disappointed.
I'm not suprised. My digital cable stations have annoying visual artifacts and isn't the data rate coming off a DVD in the 1 to 10 Mb/s range? It seems like you'd need mighty DSL to compare to a DVD so I am less inclined to bother with such technologies.
Some joyriding alien passing by Sol is going to pick up "All your base are belong to us" sent by some trite geek and thus begins the first interstellar war.
Stupid Americans have been bilked out of thousands of dollars, lured to Africa and (as described in this state department pdf) murdered.
Not saying you're necessarily courting death by jerking a spammer's chain but you might want to consider that some of these Nigerian fraudsters are serious thugs.
One person at the company that hired me out of college shrugged, "Computer Science IS Math." I agreed. There is more to CS than what you typically learn in Math curricula, but if you believe that at a basic level, CS is Math, it says something favorable about your problem solving skills and your ability to think abstractly.
I'm not sure if anyone was impressed with my double at the company that hired me. However, I think a double gives the impression you're willing to do more than the bare minimum.
I sometimes point out that I doubled so I guess I think it was significant.
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Netflix has had its ups and downs as far as availability is concerend but I am happy with them and I put my money where my mouth is (I am a subscriber of their $40/mo option).
I've noticed that movie availablility drops around Xmas time (gift certificates?) but last Xmas, they seemed to beef up their inventory quickly.
I often get newly released movies the week they are released.
Since they opened their distribution center in Tacoma, WA my turnaround times have dropped a couple days (I live in Portland, OR).
What I'd really like to see is one of these guys try and break Joe Kittinger's parachute jump record (102,500 feet). The film of him jumping off that balloon was wild.
I'm picturing this: bridge full of people, I whip out my sound system and lighter and blast out "Stairway" with my lighter held on high.
I start to sway. Everyone else sways.
As the bridge comes down and I fall to my death, I think that must be the most original way to flaunt those suicide hotline signs at the end of the bridge.
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I assume you are using a computer rather than a game console.
Consider a gamepad that has small joysticks on it. My nephew (6 years old as the subject states) began playing motorcycle racing (Motocross Madness 2) and scrolling games (Disney's Hercules) with the Logitech RumblePad.
It has two small, responsive joysticks on it.
My nephew does well with the controller even though he doesn't really hold it like an adult would. He uses it for Nicktoons Racing (go-kart style racing) and does very well with it.
My nephew has also done very well with my steering wheel controller since he was 4 (if I put the pedals on a box so he can reach them).
I think they still sell that child-torture toy where you squeeze a dab of multicolored rubbery goo out of a toothpaste tube and put it on the end of a short red straw and are supposed to blow it up into a bubble.
Whenever I tried doing that as a kid, I would blow on that straw so hard, I'd get an earache, headache and feel dizzy from breathing in the fumes.
I never did get a bubble.
Goddamn, I still hate that friggin' toy.
It says it has a pushbutton remote "feel" but the surface looks flat to me.
The problem I have with these programmable touch-screen remotes is that I can't feel the buttons.
I hate looking at a remote when I want to use it.
I had DSL a couple years ago and they offered a video on demand service partnered with blockbuster.
I interrogated the DSL installer dude and he said that the picture looked worse the better the TV you had. He noted that people with better equipment tended to be disappointed.
I'm not suprised. My digital cable stations have annoying visual artifacts and isn't the data rate coming off a DVD in the 1 to 10 Mb/s range? It seems like you'd need mighty DSL to compare to a DVD so I am less inclined to bother with such technologies.
Ginny's joystick is a different style (not classic).
However, they are not shippable for a few weeks.
gamestop classic style
Ginny's kiddie style
When you are getting "good signs" from a female that you are interested in, remember that there is only ONE good sign: full frontal nudity.
When I laugh, I often release F-Cells (anti-fragrant bodies). I don't see how this medicine is so good because friends become less friendly.
Sometimes the release of F-Cells generates more laughter which results in yet more F-Cells--a brutal escalation of anti-fragrant activity.
The cycle is at its worst when the initial laughter is provoked by the release of SBD-cells.
Gee, if the students themselves get the $11K, they could pay for, like, 2 weeks of classes nowadays.
I would like to use a laser on my cube neighbors that pound their keys like they're attempting to push them through the desk.
The top news link at google news is this slashdot article.
Embarrassment over an archived draft version of Battlfield Earth.
Some joyriding alien passing by Sol is going to pick up "All your base are belong to us" sent by some trite geek and thus begins the first interstellar war.
Since the shark is obviously cloning itself, I predict that it takes about 5 minutes for the Bush administration to declare war on the species.
There actually could be some very interesting spinoffs to shark-targeting torpedos.
I wonder how long it will take the Bush administration to try and outlaw such experiments.
Call me when they find the hidden gene that separates homo sapiens from homo billybobiens.
Whether you choose Linux or Windows is rather OT to physics.
However, you could use the inertia metaphor to describe why Windows dominates.
I wonder if training an animal to go into such claustrophobic places would be cheaper and easier (disregarding any PETA complaints).
Stupid Americans have been bilked out of thousands of dollars,
lured to Africa and (as described in this state department pdf) murdered.
Not saying you're necessarily courting death by jerking a spammer's chain but you might want to consider that some of these Nigerian fraudsters are serious thugs.
Would you make prank calls to Furio?
One person at the company that hired me out of college shrugged, "Computer Science IS Math." I agreed. There is more to CS than what you typically learn in Math curricula, but if you believe that at a basic level, CS is Math, it says something favorable about your problem solving skills and your ability to think abstractly.
I'm not sure if anyone was impressed with my double at the company that hired me. However, I think a double gives the impression you're willing to do more than the bare minimum.
I sometimes point out that I doubled so I guess I think it was significant.
Netflix has had its ups and downs as far as availability is concerend but I am happy with them and I put my money where my mouth is (I am a subscriber of their $40/mo option).
I've noticed that movie availablility drops around Xmas time (gift certificates?) but last Xmas, they seemed to beef up their inventory quickly.
I often get newly released movies the week they are released.
Since they opened their distribution center in Tacoma, WA my turnaround times have dropped a couple days (I live in Portland, OR).
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What I'd really like to see is one of these guys try and break Joe Kittinger's parachute jump record (102,500 feet). The film of him jumping off that balloon was wild.
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I don't think I've ever before heard someone denigrate Microsoft by referring to a version of Windows as being "robust and reliable."
I'm picturing this: bridge full of people, I whip out my sound system and lighter and blast out "Stairway" with my lighter held on high.
I start to sway. Everyone else sways.
As the bridge comes down and I fall to my death, I think that must be the most original way to flaunt those suicide hotline signs at the end of the bridge.
Sometimes, when someone is recommending a book to me, I'll ask, "Does it have trees, grass and (egad) flowers on the cover?"
Call it a stupid prejudice but if ever there was cover art that would turn me away, Quantum Rose has it.
When I'm looking at it, I'm thinking Nora Roberts crossed Gone With the Wind and the Lord of the Rings?
My eyes!!! My eyes!!!