"So I can see why FedEx would take umbrage at his using the boxes they're paying for to make furniture, and then turning around and showing everyone in the world how what a bunch of suckers FedEx is for giving boxes away for free."
Maybe FedEx could, I don't know, stop giving him boxes?
"Zero-emission as long as you don't count the power plant that burned (coal|oil|gas|atomic nuclei) and polluted somone else's back yard."
But by creating the waste at the power plant, society can decide where the best place is to store/release it. When cars are generating the waste, the pollution gets released (by definition) where everyone wants to go.
Say what you want about Black and White, but I got freaked the hell out when the game starting SAYING MY NAME if I played too late at night. Not my character's name, either. My real name.
Thanks. The bugs are moving around and trying to get food. They die if their energy goes to zero and each species has different settings for how they reproduce and such.
Feel free to email me with any questions or make modifications to it.
Oh you mean the guy who thinks posts gems like this about Civilization?
Perhaps more insulting is the cynical use of religion in developing a civilization. Instead of forming the moral bedrock on which a government and its laws are founded, religion is portrayed as a lever of power which can be adjusted to sate an unhappy populace. I doubt that our Founding Fathers would ever have taken such a dim view of the faith that guided them as they wrote the documents which still guide our nation today.
James Madison, a sure advocate for freedom of religion said in 1774, "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect." That doesn't sound like a man whose faith guided him to write the Constitution.
Shameless plug for my version of Tetris: Spew. The board spins around and zooms in and out. Written in Perk/Tk, but there's a compiled version for windows.
"I'm not sure how you could objectively measure something like this"
I did the competition in 2001 when I was in college. It may be slightly different now, but back then each team of 3 students got 9 problems and an hour to code solutions on one machine. You submitted your code to a server and it compiled it and ran it against unknown input and output (we knew the parameters, but not the actual input). Success/failure notices, or compilation errors were quickly IM'd back to you.
The team is scored using this criteria 1. Number of problems solved 2. The total time taken before submitting correct answers + any penalty minutes for submitting incorrect or incompilable code.
So a team who got 9 questions right in a half hour would score better than a team who got 9 right in 45 minutes.
(As for how we did, we were able to solve 4/9 questions and tied for 17th place. Results here. I was on the American University team, AU One)
"You know what? he should have gotten the tag implanted in his p*nis: can you imagine the look on his neighbours' face when he sticks his peepee in the keyhole to open your door? That'd be priceless..."
If it's his neighbors' reaction he's after, he doesn't need the RFID.
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If you watch the documentary, Devil's Playground they answer this question specifically. It's not technology they are against, it's the way technology affects their culture. For example, a telephone isn't bad in itself but it takes away from time spent with the family or working. In an emergency, they use them.
The documentary is mostly about Amish kids when they go on their "rumspringa," but I learned a ton about the Amish in general.
It's simple......you......should.....NOT......be.....al lowed.....to......keep.......records on vast numbers of human beings with lives and financial histories to protect.
I'm sorry, your dramatic punctuation license has been revoked for abuse.
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"So I can see why FedEx would take umbrage at his using the boxes they're paying for to make furniture, and then turning around and showing everyone in the world how what a bunch of suckers FedEx is for giving boxes away for free."
Maybe FedEx could, I don't know, stop giving him boxes?
"What in the heck is the Read/Write Web?"
You're posting on it.
"Zero-emission as long as you don't count the power plant that burned (coal|oil|gas|atomic nuclei) and polluted somone else's back yard."
But by creating the waste at the power plant, society can decide where the best place is to store/release it. When cars are generating the waste, the pollution gets released (by definition) where everyone wants to go.
The day killing someone in a game becomes illegal will be the day developers introduce the ability to teleport another player's soul to hell.
I paid $55 for Super Mario Bros. 3 when it came out.
"foax, i'm gonna hafta call shenanigans here"
Sorry, I'm going to have to call shenanigans on the word "foax."
Say what you want about Black and White, but I got freaked the hell out when the game starting SAYING MY NAME if I played too late at night. Not my character's name, either. My real name.
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B&W looks up your name via an Outlook API call.
What you you rather carry in your pocket, a SQUARE, or a FLAT RECTANGLE (IE: shuffle, sony thing, etc.)
You'd be able to fit an infinite number of two dimensional squares and rectangles in your pocket, so it's hardly an issue.
Thanks. The bugs are moving around and trying to get food. They die if their energy goes to zero and each species has different settings for how they reproduce and such.
Feel free to email me with any questions or make modifications to it.
Here's a shamless plug for my similar ecology simulator with food and bugs that duke it out for survival. They occasionally mutate, too.
bugfight (Windows exe and perl sources included for other platforms)
James Madison, a sure advocate for freedom of religion said in 1774, "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect." That doesn't sound like a man whose faith guided him to write the Constitution.
Source: The Heritage Foundation
The story would be more believable if it had been between two actual Jedi knights.
I wasn't able to do CSS layouts properly until I came across this site.
CSS layout techniques
Shameless plug for my version of Tetris: Spew. The board spins around and zooms in and out. Written in Perk/Tk, but there's a compiled version for windows.
Screenshots here
Time I spend listening to music per week: 0 Seconds
Are you trying to tell me you didn't buy food in the past week? Most grocery stores have some sort of music playing over the speaker system.
He's deaf and blind you asshole.
Yeah, I looked it up and you are right about the hour thing. My memory must be failing me.
"I'm not sure how you could objectively measure something like this"
I did the competition in 2001 when I was in college. It may be slightly different now, but back then each team of 3 students got 9 problems and an hour to code solutions on one machine. You submitted your code to a server and it compiled it and ran it against unknown input and output (we knew the parameters, but not the actual input). Success/failure notices, or compilation errors were quickly IM'd back to you.
The team is scored using this criteria
1. Number of problems solved
2. The total time taken before submitting correct answers + any penalty minutes for submitting incorrect or incompilable code.
So a team who got 9 questions right in a half hour would score better than a team who got 9 right in 45 minutes.
(As for how we did, we were able to solve 4/9 questions and tied for 17th place. Results here. I was on the American University team, AU One)
*Starts Derek Pomery Fan Club*
"You know what? he should have gotten the tag implanted in his p*nis: can you imagine the look on his neighbours' face when he sticks his peepee in the keyhole to open your door? That'd be priceless..."
If it's his neighbors' reaction he's after, he doesn't need the RFID.
If you watch the documentary, Devil's Playground they answer this question specifically. It's not technology they are against, it's the way technology affects their culture. For example, a telephone isn't bad in itself but it takes away from time spent with the family or working. In an emergency, they use them.
The documentary is mostly about Amish kids when they go on their "rumspringa," but I learned a ton about the Amish in general.
"while talking to our customers, we get asked if things even stranger then video games can be cataloged."
Don't leave us hanging! What are some of the stranger things? Hub caps? Beaver pelts? Shrunken heads?
Just curious.
It's simple......you......should.....NOT......be.....al lowed.....to......keep.......records on vast numbers of human beings with lives and financial histories to protect.
I'm sorry, your dramatic punctuation license has been revoked for abuse.
"WTF? The norm for a new game is 50 bucks."
I paid $55 for Super Mario Bros 3 when it came out.
"The cable companies can more efficiently provide the same services that TiVo can provide."
Comcast charges about $10/month for their DVR in my area.
The firefox extension lets me click right on the flash to play that particular piece.