I second the PDA vote. I honestly believe my GPA would have been a few points higher if I had had one in university. It doesn't have to be expensive, you can pick up a used Palm III or Handspring Visor (or Agenda VR3) off eBay for a song.
There was never a single round of ammo fired in any GIJoe/Cobra conflict, only many many laser blasts (The joe's shots were blue while cobra's were pink IIRC).
He was called Skyfire on the show and Jetfire on the box when you bought the toy. And for the record, you're not the only one who was jealous he didn't have one when he was a kid:)
I think the route ain't bad except for the glaring mistake they made not running all the way to the airport. I can't figure out why hotels south of the MGM Grand (including Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay - 3 of the biggest hotels in town) aren't covered.
If only it began at the airport there would be no need for any tourist to ever take a cab. As for the unemployment... well, train 'em to drive the monorail:)
It's the stock symbol for Microsoft. Part of an annoying trend of companies being called by their stock call letters instead of their actual name. My bank (the Bank of Montreal, one of Canada's "big 6" banks) is now called BMO by everyone including the employees. it took me a while to find out why they didn't call it BOM (a much more logical acronym). There must already be a BOM stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Trust me, my fellow techies, if you ever move up here, get an apartment or house within two or three minutes walk of a Tim Horton's. You will not regret it.
Are you saying there's apartments and houses in Canada that are more than two or three minutes walk from a Tim Horton's?
I've considered this in the past, and I think it would really help a game like Starcraft where there are many hackers out to spoil everyones fun (most notably using the dreaded 'map hack' which reveals all hidden terrain). Some sort of a system where players who suspect another player can make an 'accusation' which will stay on the opposing players record for X amount of time. Only one accusation per player of course, and perhaps some way of preventing all of a players buddies from making accusations because their friend said to (this is a little more tricky...)
What appeals to me most about this is that it's ultimately the community spirit working against cheaters as opposed to trying to stay ahead of them technologically (we've all seen how well that works)
It's not just boy bands. When Creed, Staind and Incubus were becoming huge I thought "Well at least it's better than Britney". Ever since Wish you were here and It's been a while got stuck in an endless loop on radio and MTV, I contend that that music is even worse. (needless to say it reminded me what was so bad about the Matchbox 20/Tonic/Third Eye Blind days)
Special note for the Warcraft-obsessed only: The last track on the War2 CD is a cool disco song not heard in-game. Some of the game sounds are sampled in (like the footman saying "why do you keep touching me?")
As a long time Starcraft and War2 player, I would LOVE it if they somehow eliminated those $$$$ (BGH) maps and made the fastest speed setting reasonable. I'd say fastest in Starcraft isn't too bad, but in Warcraft 2, the fastest speed setting introduced in Battle.Net Edition eliminates much of the strategy involved. It hurts the quality of the game (not to mention making subtle human strategy even more hopelessly outmatched by the orcs and their bloodlust). I hope they don't do this again.
As for BGH-style maps, from what I understand, in Warcraft 3 you have "heroes" who will lead your troops into battles and provide some bonuses. These heroes can gain experience levels in combat. I'm hoping that to preserve the balance of hero development, you wont be able to mine 1000000 gold quickly and get crazy levels, but rather level up at a reasonable rate (Diablo 2 would be a silly game if you could gain experience at a ridiculous rate).
At the very least, I think it would be great if you could somehow filter out games on certain speed settings or maps.
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I second the PDA vote. I honestly believe my GPA would have been a few points higher if I had had one in university. It doesn't have to be expensive, you can pick up a used Palm III or Handspring Visor (or Agenda VR3) off eBay for a song.
The parent comment is, of course, null and void if you use it for a required differential equations course.
There was never a single round of ammo fired in any GIJoe/Cobra conflict, only many many laser blasts (The joe's shots were blue while cobra's were pink IIRC).
He was called Skyfire on the show and Jetfire on the box when you bought the toy. And for the record, you're not the only one who was jealous he didn't have one when he was a kid :)
I think the route ain't bad except for the glaring mistake they made not running all the way to the airport. I can't figure out why hotels south of the MGM Grand (including Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay - 3 of the biggest hotels in town) aren't covered.
:)
If only it began at the airport there would be no need for any tourist to ever take a cab. As for the unemployment... well, train 'em to drive the monorail
It's the stock symbol for Microsoft. Part of an annoying trend of companies being called by their stock call letters instead of their actual name. My bank (the Bank of Montreal, one of Canada's "big 6" banks) is now called BMO by everyone including the employees. it took me a while to find out why they didn't call it BOM (a much more logical acronym). There must already be a BOM stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Now who's Wince-ing? :)
They don't have to kill us Linux enthusiasts, we already have cancer.
Trust me, my fellow techies, if you ever move up here, get an apartment or house within two or three minutes walk of a Tim Horton's. You will not regret it.
Are you saying there's apartments and houses in Canada that are more than two or three minutes walk from a Tim Horton's?
I've considered this in the past, and I think it would really help a game like Starcraft where there are many hackers out to spoil everyones fun (most notably using the dreaded 'map hack' which reveals all hidden terrain). Some sort of a system where players who suspect another player can make an 'accusation' which will stay on the opposing players record for X amount of time. Only one accusation per player of course, and perhaps some way of preventing all of a players buddies from making accusations because their friend said to (this is a little more tricky...)
What appeals to me most about this is that it's ultimately the community spirit working against cheaters as opposed to trying to stay ahead of them technologically (we've all seen how well that works)
Fent.net slashdotted... Google cache to the rescue!
this guy's a copyright violator!
Ah, NOW is see why they needed the SWAT team.
It's not just boy bands. When Creed, Staind and Incubus were becoming huge I thought "Well at least it's better than Britney". Ever since Wish you were here and It's been a while got stuck in an endless loop on radio and MTV, I contend that that music is even worse. (needless to say it reminded me what was so bad about the Matchbox 20/Tonic/Third Eye Blind days)
Special note for the Warcraft-obsessed only: The last track on the War2 CD is a cool disco song not heard in-game. Some of the game sounds are sampled in (like the footman saying "why do you keep touching me?")
As a long time Starcraft and War2 player, I would LOVE it if they somehow eliminated those $$$$ (BGH) maps and made the fastest speed setting reasonable. I'd say fastest in Starcraft isn't too bad, but in Warcraft 2, the fastest speed setting introduced in Battle.Net Edition eliminates much of the strategy involved. It hurts the quality of the game (not to mention making subtle human strategy even more hopelessly outmatched by the orcs and their bloodlust). I hope they don't do this again.
As for BGH-style maps, from what I understand, in Warcraft 3 you have "heroes" who will lead your troops into battles and provide some bonuses. These heroes can gain experience levels in combat. I'm hoping that to preserve the balance of hero development, you wont be able to mine 1000000 gold quickly and get crazy levels, but rather level up at a reasonable rate (Diablo 2 would be a silly game if you could gain experience at a ridiculous rate).
At the very least, I think it would be great if you could somehow filter out games on certain speed settings or maps.
Waiting patiently.....
All I can say is that professor better not drop his notes or the class will laugh him right out of the lecture hall.
But I then wonder how Linux could get around this patent issue?
Easy, all Linux distributions would have to license the DRM Intellectual Property from Microsoft (for a nominal fee of course).
You'd think with all that alcohol in their systems their bodies would tend to burn up. Funny, that.
hmmm.... I am reminded of netscape... hell it had at least a 2/1 ratio... what browser are you using now?
That line would have worked on any site's forum EXCEPT Slashdot. What were you thinking?!
Suddenly the guy with sucker@home.com is going to consider getting a Hotmail address!
That would be a nice reversal of fortune, usually Bill Gates has his hand in MY wallet.
Man, this is the feel-good story of the day. Rock on dude, I only hope you can attend his trial ;-)
Show me another industry that has that high a fraud rate
How about "loan companies" that cold-call and advertise in the newspaper classifieds (or email spam for that matter...)
Expect to be served a notice from Wayne Gretzky's lawyers any day now.
An even scarier variant of #5:
"...some of his code has a bug. Go Forth and fix it."