"Why the hell doesn't the US build more roundabouts?"
Over the last 15 years, New Jersey has been eliminating their "roundabouts" (we just call them circles). I still drive through one every day on the way to work and it's really bad in the 5:00PM traffic. Could driving on the other side of the road make a difference in the effectiveness of the roundabout? In my experience, a bad traffic light is preferable to a bad traffic circle, because I'm at least guaranteed to eventually get through the traffic light. On most traffic circles, one feeding street dominates the traffic flow and the other streets have to hope for a gap that may never come.
You can see the new style pop up ads already. They've been around for a while now, but aren't as common as pop up ads because they don't work right in old browsers.
div tags can be placed anywhere on the screen using CSS and JavaScript and can be hidden from view. Many sites overlay a div on top of the content, forcing you to wait a period of time or click off the overlaid div with an onClick event button.
Is there a way to detect these ads without disrupting content? Probably not as easily as pop ups were to block, but I'm sure someone will find a way, although no one has really solved the spam problem yet either.
"Then again the very western game Planescape Torment had a small number of party members wich you interacted with strongly and strong story with relativly few subquests. It is widely thought by pc users to be the best rpg ever. Perhaps a happy hybrid could emerge."
In Torment there were a lot of choices you could make for your character, including his class (fighter, mage, theif), which you could change during the course of the game. You could also join one of the many factions which brought along its advantages and disadvantages.
Although the core of your party is primarily the same, there are a few characters that if brought in (or not brought it) can greatly affect the outcome near the end of the game.
It's not as open ended as Baldur's Gate, but I really think it's the hybrid you're looking for.
I probably would rate it as the best PC RPG I've ever played, followed by Baldur's Gate (I and II) and Darklands.
"Now, craploads of them have gone out of business"
They're building craploads of new Walgreens around me, along with 3 or 4 other drugstores thanks to the fogey boom coming with their prescription drugs.
The new Walgreens are not as big as the old ones. They fallow the large convenience store/drug store format.
I recently wrote a game using Perl and the Tk module. It's a tetrisesque game with an awesome variant (I don't want to spoil the surprise), and it has been known to induce motion sickness.
I included the source code and a windows binary (compiled using perl2exe).
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"why would anyone use these techniques other than to harvest email like a spammer"
1. Archiving data on the web 2. Getting your files back when you forget your FTP password 3. Researching the link structure of the Internet and how it changes over time 4. Playing a joke on a friend by scraping his site and reposting the content, filtered in your favorite dialect 5. Reading your favorite site in an RSS reader, even if they don't provide an RSS feed 6. Counting how often certain words on used on the net 7. Checking to see if you have any broken links on your site 8. Testing to make sure every link is reachable on your site, and finding out how deep the deepest link is 9. Taking data from a public website and compiling useful statistics, such as GPA calculations, average completion times for cross country races, or the total number of points scored last night in the NHL. 10. Showing people that the Internet can be more than just a web browser
I come from a huge extended family and one of my cousins set up a site on MyFamily.com. It's not perfect and you won't have a lot of control, but it has a ton of features and is pretty easy to use.
"(4)Voters could optionally tear off a bar coded tag from their ballot. They could then go to a specially set up election facility, present their tag and positive ID, then see how their vote was tallied on a secure, private terminal."
I don't agree with #4, because it allows someone to verify they voted a certain way. This would allow the mob or some other coercive organization to pay for your vote, you give them your slip, and then they check the result. Currently, it's pointless to try and influence voters this way since you can't proove you voted with the mob.
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"No officer, she wasn't taking my breathalyzer for me. She was just giving me road head."
"Jupiter's moon Europa may be highly acid with a pH of near zero"
Now we know why we shouldn't set up a base there.
"Would you want 7 year olds being able to buy movie tickets to NC-17 movies?"
What NC-17 movies? There have only ever been 129 of them. The NC-17 rating is useless because it kills the box office potential.
"Why the hell doesn't the US build more roundabouts?"
Over the last 15 years, New Jersey has been eliminating their "roundabouts" (we just call them circles). I still drive through one every day on the way to work and it's really bad in the 5:00PM traffic. Could driving on the other side of the road make a difference in the effectiveness of the roundabout? In my experience, a bad traffic light is preferable to a bad traffic circle, because I'm at least guaranteed to eventually get through the traffic light. On most traffic circles, one feeding street dominates the traffic flow and the other streets have to hope for a gap that may never come.
You can see the new style pop up ads already. They've been around for a while now, but aren't as common as pop up ads because they don't work right in old browsers.
div tags can be placed anywhere on the screen using CSS and JavaScript and can be hidden from view. Many sites overlay a div on top of the content, forcing you to wait a period of time or click off the overlaid div with an onClick event button.
Is there a way to detect these ads without disrupting content? Probably not as easily as pop ups were to block, but I'm sure someone will find a way, although no one has really solved the spam problem yet either.
"And Super Size it."
Oh yeah, and don't top off my tank.
"you can not only use the watch to buy gas, but at some locations in Chicago you can also use it at McDonald's"
Hello, I'll take premium fuel for my car and sub-standard fuel for my body.
And Super Size it.
" I also think that it was the focus not on combat and leveling that made the game so different."
Exactly. There were times I was actually itching to fight in Torment. In Baldur's Gate it's more annoying than anything.
"Then again the very western game Planescape Torment had a small number of party members wich you interacted with strongly and strong story with relativly few subquests. It is widely thought by pc users to be the best rpg ever. Perhaps a happy hybrid could emerge."
In Torment there were a lot of choices you could make for your character, including his class (fighter, mage, theif), which you could change during the course of the game. You could also join one of the many factions which brought along its advantages and disadvantages.
Although the core of your party is primarily the same, there are a few characters that if brought in (or not brought it) can greatly affect the outcome near the end of the game.
It's not as open ended as Baldur's Gate, but I really think it's the hybrid you're looking for.
I probably would rate it as the best PC RPG I've ever played, followed by Baldur's Gate (I and II) and Darklands.
"Now, craploads of them have gone out of business"
They're building craploads of new Walgreens around me, along with 3 or 4 other drugstores thanks to the fogey boom coming with their prescription drugs.
The new Walgreens are not as big as the old ones. They fallow the large convenience store/drug store format.
"Don't sell yourself short."
Plus, they might be out of your league for now, but what about when you're spending 50 hours a week building the damn things?
"This plan will be called "No Planet Left Behind."
Hah. Too bad something this funny will get beaten to death in 2004.
"Well, isn't that kind of a fundamentally flawed problem?"
Scott Kirwin said that, not Carly Fiorina, and he meant it as an argument against offshoring.
"but i do believe any Tetris variant that ends with "tris" has been ruled as a violation of the original programmer's trademark in a civil suit."
Even if the game is free?
I recently wrote a game using Perl and the Tk module. It's a tetrisesque game with an awesome variant (I don't want to spoil the surprise), and it has been known to induce motion sickness.
I included the source code and a windows binary (compiled using perl2exe).
Give Spewtris a try!
Don't mind my redundant sig...
"Why not put big metal grid around each turbine?"
Ever see a flock of birds stuck to a giant fan?
"why would anyone use these techniques other than to harvest email like a spammer"
1. Archiving data on the web
2. Getting your files back when you forget your FTP password
3. Researching the link structure of the Internet and how it changes over time
4. Playing a joke on a friend by scraping his site and reposting the content, filtered in your favorite dialect
5. Reading your favorite site in an RSS reader, even if they don't provide an RSS feed
6. Counting how often certain words on used on the net
7. Checking to see if you have any broken links on your site
8. Testing to make sure every link is reachable on your site, and finding out how deep the deepest link is
9. Taking data from a public website and compiling useful statistics, such as GPA calculations, average completion times for cross country races, or the total number of points scored last night in the NHL.
10. Showing people that the Internet can be more than just a web browser
"What is the default level on the geek hierarchy that the new trendy nerds enter at?"
Even furries made it on to CSI...
I come from a huge extended family and one of my cousins set up a site on MyFamily.com. It's not perfect and you won't have a lot of control, but it has a ton of features and is pretty easy to use.
Very few elections are determined by the number of absentee ballots. A high number of absentee ballots would definitely trigger an investigation.
"(4)Voters could optionally tear off a bar coded tag from their ballot. They could then go to a specially set up election facility, present their tag and positive ID, then see how their vote was tallied on a secure, private terminal."
I don't agree with #4, because it allows someone to verify they voted a certain way. This would allow the mob or some other coercive organization to pay for your vote, you give them your slip, and then they check the result. Currently, it's pointless to try and influence voters this way since you can't proove you voted with the mob.
Your browser should decide what to do if it encounters a 404 error, not the DNS server.
"Rather than name all the ones that have disappointed (Super Mario, Tekken, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, etc.), which ones have really succeeded?"
You were excited about the Super Mario movie?
Friday, October 17 8:00 AM
Monday, October 20 8:00 AM
Friday, November 14 4:00 PM
Who with a job could participate?
" The right researcher can probably come up with statistics showing that 57 million Americans have shoplifted at least once in their life."
I doubt it.