Good comparison, especially since those games are essentially Gauntlet Legends with new skins and RPG-lite elements, and Gauntlet Legends is essentially an arcade version of Diablo.
To make that entire scene awesome, all they would have to do is redub the dialogue with Anakin being enraged by the deaths of some of the other pilots and going postal, with the implication that the Dark Side is guiding his actions. Then the other pilots would react with a mixture of awe and horror as this little kid, screaming bloody murder over the radio, single-handedly saves the day - 'We are thankful, but we are also Very, Very Scared Of This Guy.'
I look forward to the day when the US starts importing yogis from India in order to compete in Olympic Energy Conservation.
"Radhakrishnan's got his heart down to 4 beats per minute... 3... but OH! Gupta has tapped the core of his seventh chakra, and he's coming in with 2.. 1... ZERO BEATS PER MINUTE! This is unbelivable - this is the first time ANYONE has achieved complete body stasis in a competition setting! Now, remember folks, according to IOC rules, he has two minutes to re-awaken and establish the validity of the record, or else paramedics will be deployed to the field with a defibrillator..."
So true. I always wondered what the inhabitants of those buildings did to get around.
Architect: Well your majesty, to reach the third floor, you jump on this springboard, grab that flagpole, spin around it, use your momentum to wall-run to that curtain, which you climb to the le- Sultan: Always with the wall-running! What about installing some fucking stairs? I'd like to try STAIR-running one of these days, like a normal monarch.
Actually, you can just scroll down to the bottom of the page; the answers are there. Google gets pissed if you give different pages to their crawler than to their users. They don't care if the page lies ("You MUST LOG IN to SEE this ANSWER!!!11") as long as it's the same thing a typical user sees when they click the link from Google Search.
I know three people, myself included, who bought a Wii on the launch day or shortly after. All three of us had the 'black dots' problem within weeks of each other. Luckily, we had all registered the Wiis for the three extra months of warranty, so the repairs were free, but it did leave a sour taste in my mouth.
I'd say a better analogy would be that genes are like a recipe, or a piece of software (same thing?). A blueprint is a diagram of what the finished product will be like. A recipe is a set of processes to follow to create the product.
Maybe the bone spur was added to the frog's un-Wolverine-like ancestor by inserting "Simmer the small pan for 3 minutes while stirring in sugar" in between lines 62345 and 62346 of the recipe, but it's not that easy to do in humans. After all, who the hell knows what we have in the small pan after completing line 62345, and what will happen to it if it simmers?
Hopefully the dye will only be visible under UV light, or else I am going to freak the hell out when I see purple veins start to bubble up from the surface of the wing of the plane I am flying in.
James Randi doesn't require that you explain the cause of the effect, just that you demonstrate its existence. If there really is a statistically significant effect, that's enough to get the money, which the claimant could then spend on investigating the causes of the effect.
I am suddenly embarrassed to be a Davis graduate. Well I mean, I've always been embarrassed to be a Davis graduate, but particularly so right now.
I might suggest to Ms. Utts that, if there really are 'ever-increasing and consistent results', she could easily get funding from James Randi, who has a cool million just waiting especially for her!
-1, factually incorrect. People aren't being rounded up and sent to Gitmo because they disagree with American policy. They are being sent there because they were captured as illegal combatants and/or provided support to a terrorist orginization.
Or because the US government paid people a bounty to turn in their neighbors as terrorists, without requiring any proof.
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Who wouldn't celebrate the Polycarbonate Anniversary? There's lots of good ones around there. You know. 24 is Neodymium, and 27 is Jungle Camouflage!
Good comparison, especially since those games are essentially Gauntlet Legends with new skins and RPG-lite elements, and Gauntlet Legends is essentially an arcade version of Diablo.
To make that entire scene awesome, all they would have to do is redub the dialogue with Anakin being enraged by the deaths of some of the other pilots and going postal, with the implication that the Dark Side is guiding his actions. Then the other pilots would react with a mixture of awe and horror as this little kid, screaming bloody murder over the radio, single-handedly saves the day - 'We are thankful, but we are also Very, Very Scared Of This Guy.'
Lego Indiana Jones gives you the same thrill, but with Short Round.
I used to back up my data in the mustache-and-goatee universe, but it kept coming back with the Evil bit set.
I don't approve of either of those, but at least they are trying to target behavior that is actually illegal.
I already submitted this; unfortunately, since I was using a Mac, I submitted it to Paypal instead of slashdot.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784
I look forward to the day when the US starts importing yogis from India in order to compete in Olympic Energy Conservation.
"Radhakrishnan's got his heart down to 4 beats per minute... 3... but OH! Gupta has tapped the core of his seventh chakra, and he's coming in with 2.. 1... ZERO BEATS PER MINUTE! This is unbelivable - this is the first time ANYONE has achieved complete body stasis in a competition setting! Now, remember folks, according to IOC rules, he has two minutes to re-awaken and establish the validity of the record, or else paramedics will be deployed to the field with a defibrillator..."
So true. I always wondered what the inhabitants of those buildings did to get around.
Architect: Well your majesty, to reach the third floor, you jump on this springboard, grab that flagpole, spin around it, use your momentum to wall-run to that curtain, which you climb to the le-
Sultan: Always with the wall-running! What about installing some fucking stairs? I'd like to try STAIR-running one of these days, like a normal monarch.
Actually, if you download the latest devtools, it's right at the top of stdio.h:
#DEFINE FOUR 3
The bastards!
More fishhooks.
I know! You can't even SEE the notes, and no matter what you hit, you get penalized!
Aren't Eisenhower and Kennedy responsible for putting nuclear missiles in Turkey?
Actually, you can just scroll down to the bottom of the page; the answers are there. Google gets pissed if you give different pages to their crawler than to their users. They don't care if the page lies ("You MUST LOG IN to SEE this ANSWER!!!11") as long as it's the same thing a typical user sees when they click the link from Google Search.
Just pay the money and go to a reputable dealer like ... Fry's
Who is this company, and why hasn't Fry's Electronics sued them for trademark infringement?
Sorry. Under Martian law, bakers and other wizards are forbidden!
I know three people, myself included, who bought a Wii on the launch day or shortly after. All three of us had the 'black dots' problem within weeks of each other. Luckily, we had all registered the Wiis for the three extra months of warranty, so the repairs were free, but it did leave a sour taste in my mouth.
I'd say a better analogy would be that genes are like a recipe, or a piece of software (same thing?). A blueprint is a diagram of what the finished product will be like. A recipe is a set of processes to follow to create the product.
Maybe the bone spur was added to the frog's un-Wolverine-like ancestor by inserting "Simmer the small pan for 3 minutes while stirring in sugar" in between lines 62345 and 62346 of the recipe, but it's not that easy to do in humans. After all, who the hell knows what we have in the small pan after completing line 62345, and what will happen to it if it simmers?
Hopefully the dye will only be visible under UV light, or else I am going to freak the hell out when I see purple veins start to bubble up from the surface of the wing of the plane I am flying in.
Technically, Shivaji is a historic figure, but either way, I don't really see him showing up to bring suit.
James Randi doesn't require that you explain the cause of the effect, just that you demonstrate its existence. If there really is a statistically significant effect, that's enough to get the money, which the claimant could then spend on investigating the causes of the effect.
I am suddenly embarrassed to be a Davis graduate. Well I mean, I've always been embarrassed to be a Davis graduate, but particularly so right now.
I might suggest to Ms. Utts that, if there really are 'ever-increasing and consistent results', she could easily get funding from James Randi, who has a cool million just waiting especially for her!
-1, factually incorrect. People aren't being rounded up and sent to Gitmo because they disagree with American policy. They are being sent there because they were captured as illegal combatants and/or provided support to a terrorist orginization.
Or because the US government paid people a bounty to turn in their neighbors as terrorists, without requiring any proof.Don't worry. If your drives fail, just send them to Professor Farnsworth, and he'll science them as fast as he can.