Your sig is the same as the last line of your post... only your sig gets truncated. I'll bet there's some way to make that relevent to your point, but I've got to go call someone a dumbass.
I really enjoyed this movie, but it had a weird streak of Ayn Randism running through it. I actually rather liked that, but each time it caused to step back from the movie a little bit. There were a couple of lines thrown in like "And when everybody's super, then no one is," announced by the bad guy. Or when Dash is told by his parents that everyone is special, he retorts with "that's just a way of saying that nobody is."
This movie encouraged exceptionalism in a way that was striking for a kid's movie. It actively lobbied against the idea of everybody being unique in their own way, it argued in favor of there being Nietzchi-esque supermen among us who should be lifted up above the masses for the betterment of society.
Whether or not you like the message, it was kind of fun to see what I was expecting to be a kid's film making an arguement about philosophy. Fun stuff. Good movie.
Sierra games always often had witty responses if you tried to swear at the game itself. Offhand I can't recall any. Too bad.
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Space Quest by Sierra was a funny game. You're travelling around in the crazy future universe that's kind of an odd combination of every future universe you've seen in movies and films. You'll occasionally see a Star Wars ship thrown on a trash dump or a reference to a Star Trek charachter.
The games were also very self referential. In one game (SP3) you had to save thinly veiled versions of the two guys who wrote the game. In another (SQ4) you travelled back in forth in time within the Space Quest series jumping from the original game into a game that hasn't yet been made like Space Quest 14).
My favorite line came from a moment when you asked to "get" a ladder and the game responded. "You get the ladder and put it in your pocket... Ouch."
Your question is an extremely valid one. The issue is that according to our Constitution, the voting process is governed not by the federal government, but by the states. And the states often farm out decisions on equipment and small decisions to counties and towns. The only way to have a unified voting system with one set of equipment, rules and staff would be to amend the Constitution to give the federal government control over the election process.
This is an amendment that I would support, but changing the Constitution is a difficult process and I wouldn't hold my breath on it coming through any day soon.
But yeah, basically, it happens the way it does because it's illegal for it to happen any other way.
I'm sorry, can we not discuss anything seriously if it's based on a story from Ananova? I don't care how many additional sources you can come up with, anything based on an Ananova story is a waste of time.
Do you remember when they had that virtual news anchor though? That was kind of fun.
I'm using Windows ME and Google Desktop only works on XP and above. Comon, I'm not so far behind the curve, am I? I suppoe that's what you get for buying a new machine right before Windows puts out a new OS.
Google, I wanted to try this out. I'll even make you a deal, I'll stop using the Google Drive thing if you put out the Desktop for Windows 98 machines.
it appeared to be a guy (girl?) with crap on his (her?) face, but the screen kept moving too fast for me to really see it. Also, I didn't get the whole thing becuase my window wasn't big enough. Also, it started talking, but as it's somewhat late I turned it down right away. What did it say? And what horrible thing was I supposed to see?
I'm trying to find a site to play the game today online. It seems like it would be a simple game to recreate in a multiplayer form online. If I can play Joust online with shockwave, why not Maze War?
The best I could find was this Palm Pilot version available for download. Good, but not multiplayer like I want. Also, as I have a pocket pc it's not much use for me.
Paypal is a hell of lot faster and easier than using credit cards. Also, as someone who sells things on eBay on a regular basis, it allows me to accept payments both from paypal people and from people with credit cards, which I wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. Also, I can dump money directly from paypal into my bank account, which I cannot do with my credit card.
I was in London over a winter and it never got THAT cold. We had electric heaters, but we left them off most of the time. It wouldn't be a lot of fun to go a few hours without the heaters, but it certainly wouldn't have killed us.
My guess, though, is that they want to remain a little bit comfortable during a power outage... not simply remain alive.
The article seems to mention that the program attemps to share a file called.info including all of a users passwords and whatnot. I just went on and gave it a quick search and couldn't find a single file being shared with that name. If this thing is real, it eitehr isn't out in the wild yet, or it isn't actually sharing the file as it intended. Take from that what you will.
I've always wanted to write the world's tiniest novel. Now all I need is a monoatomic pencil and a monoatomic eraser. Or maybe just a monoatomic word processor.
When will science catch up with my worthwhile ideas? When?
Ok, this isn't the right place to ask this question, and I'll definately get moded down, but can someone explain to me the difference between a Pentium M and a Pentium 4. I see laptop companies selling what should be high end laptops, one with a Pentium 4 3GHz and one with a Pentium M 1.7GHz.
Is there something I'm missing about Pentium Ms that make their considerably lower speed not such a big drawback compared to the Pentium 4s? Why, if given the choice, or similar pricing, would anyone choose a Pentium M?
If someone can help me with this one, it'd be very appreciated.
Am I going to need to crary jet fuel around with me, because that could become real inconvenient. Also, is it going to make that jet engine noise? Am I going to have to deal with exhaust? If I were to attach one to a balloon, would it be able to propel the thing around the room?
I have one. I have had one since I was in college a few years ago and found it impossible to keep track of scheduling without one. I find them quite handy.
Uh, young people don't vote. It's not an important demographic. 3 out of 10 generally vote in election (it was 4 out of 10 for Bill Clinton's election in 1992). They're not important.
I mean, the whole point of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that you don't have all the information. You don't know what your partner/opponent is going to do and you have decide based entirely on what little information you have based on your history with your partner/opponent. What these people are doing is creating a pattern to be recognized by another player, and then working as a team. And, it's not like they're people where one person might change their mind and decide to defect unilaterally... they're programs. Once they've locked onto each other as the same program, that's it. They'll play to their advantage until the end.
The real trick is to find a program that can beat other DIFFERENT programs, not beat itself. This seems really stupid, or am I missing something?
Here's the bag that I use. I've had no problems with it. It's really really comfortable, fits a bigger than average laptop and seems to keep it safe. It's got a good number of extra pockets. My only complaint is that it doesn't hold much else besides the laptop. It's not as big as my old Land's End backpack.
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So, you're like, British, right?
Your sig is the same as the last line of your post... only your sig gets truncated. I'll bet there's some way to make that relevent to your point, but I've got to go call someone a dumbass.
I really enjoyed this movie, but it had a weird streak of Ayn Randism running through it. I actually rather liked that, but each time it caused to step back from the movie a little bit. There were a couple of lines thrown in like "And when everybody's super, then no one is," announced by the bad guy. Or when Dash is told by his parents that everyone is special, he retorts with "that's just a way of saying that nobody is."
This movie encouraged exceptionalism in a way that was striking for a kid's movie. It actively lobbied against the idea of everybody being unique in their own way, it argued in favor of there being Nietzchi-esque supermen among us who should be lifted up above the masses for the betterment of society.
Whether or not you like the message, it was kind of fun to see what I was expecting to be a kid's film making an arguement about philosophy. Fun stuff. Good movie.
Sierra games always often had witty responses if you tried to swear at the game itself. Offhand I can't recall any. Too bad.
Space Quest by Sierra was a funny game. You're travelling around in the crazy future universe that's kind of an odd combination of every future universe you've seen in movies and films. You'll occasionally see a Star Wars ship thrown on a trash dump or a reference to a Star Trek charachter.
The games were also very self referential. In one game (SP3) you had to save thinly veiled versions of the two guys who wrote the game. In another (SQ4) you travelled back in forth in time within the Space Quest series jumping from the original game into a game that hasn't yet been made like Space Quest 14).
My favorite line came from a moment when you asked to "get" a ladder and the game responded. "You get the ladder and put it in your pocket... Ouch."
Ah, the memories. That's some good abandonware.
Your question is an extremely valid one. The issue is that according to our Constitution, the voting process is governed not by the federal government, but by the states. And the states often farm out decisions on equipment and small decisions to counties and towns. The only way to have a unified voting system with one set of equipment, rules and staff would be to amend the Constitution to give the federal government control over the election process.
This is an amendment that I would support, but changing the Constitution is a difficult process and I wouldn't hold my breath on it coming through any day soon.
But yeah, basically, it happens the way it does because it's illegal for it to happen any other way.
I'm sorry, can we not discuss anything seriously if it's based on a story from Ananova? I don't care how many additional sources you can come up with, anything based on an Ananova story is a waste of time.
Do you remember when they had that virtual news anchor though? That was kind of fun.
The actual link is badly dead. Are these pictures from this guy's costume, or is this someone else?
I'm using Windows ME and Google Desktop only works on XP and above. Comon, I'm not so far behind the curve, am I? I suppoe that's what you get for buying a new machine right before Windows puts out a new OS.
Google, I wanted to try this out. I'll even make you a deal, I'll stop using the Google Drive thing if you put out the Desktop for Windows 98 machines.
Thank you.
Hmmm,
it appeared to be a guy (girl?) with crap on his (her?) face, but the screen kept moving too fast for me to really see it. Also, I didn't get the whole thing becuase my window wasn't big enough. Also, it started talking, but as it's somewhat late I turned it down right away. What did it say? And what horrible thing was I supposed to see?
I'm trying to find a site to play the game today online. It seems like it would be a simple game to recreate in a multiplayer form online. If I can play Joust online with shockwave, why not Maze War?
The best I could find was this Palm Pilot version available for download. Good, but not multiplayer like I want. Also, as I have a pocket pc it's not much use for me.
Paypal is a hell of lot faster and easier than using credit cards. Also, as someone who sells things on eBay on a regular basis, it allows me to accept payments both from paypal people and from people with credit cards, which I wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. Also, I can dump money directly from paypal into my bank account, which I cannot do with my credit card.
So there you go.
I was in London over a winter and it never got THAT cold. We had electric heaters, but we left them off most of the time. It wouldn't be a lot of fun to go a few hours without the heaters, but it certainly wouldn't have killed us.
My guess, though, is that they want to remain a little bit comfortable during a power outage... not simply remain alive.
I thought the article said it placed the file in LimeWire's share folder or some such... oh well, I guess I didn't read closely enough.
The article seems to mention that the program attemps to share a file called .info including all of a users passwords and whatnot. I just went on and gave it a quick search and couldn't find a single file being shared with that name. If this thing is real, it eitehr isn't out in the wild yet, or it isn't actually sharing the file as it intended. Take from that what you will.
I've always wanted to write the world's tiniest novel. Now all I need is a monoatomic pencil and a monoatomic eraser. Or maybe just a monoatomic word processor.
When will science catch up with my worthwhile ideas? When?
Ok, this isn't the right place to ask this question, and I'll definately get moded down, but can someone explain to me the difference between a Pentium M and a Pentium 4. I see laptop companies selling what should be high end laptops, one with a Pentium 4 3GHz and one with a Pentium M 1.7GHz.
Is there something I'm missing about Pentium Ms that make their considerably lower speed not such a big drawback compared to the Pentium 4s? Why, if given the choice, or similar pricing, would anyone choose a Pentium M?
If someone can help me with this one, it'd be very appreciated.
Thanks.
I see a red ipod and I want it painted black...
Am I going to need to crary jet fuel around with me, because that could become real inconvenient. Also, is it going to make that jet engine noise? Am I going to have to deal with exhaust? If I were to attach one to a balloon, would it be able to propel the thing around the room?
Geh, what a weird idea.
I have one. I have had one since I was in college a few years ago and found it impossible to keep track of scheduling without one. I find them quite handy.
"[T]he all-important 'young voter' demographic"
Uh, young people don't vote. It's not an important demographic. 3 out of 10 generally vote in election (it was 4 out of 10 for Bill Clinton's election in 1992). They're not important.
Old people, on the other hand...
I mean, the whole point of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that you don't have all the information. You don't know what your partner/opponent is going to do and you have decide based entirely on what little information you have based on your history with your partner/opponent. What these people are doing is creating a pattern to be recognized by another player, and then working as a team. And, it's not like they're people where one person might change their mind and decide to defect unilaterally... they're programs. Once they've locked onto each other as the same program, that's it. They'll play to their advantage until the end.
The real trick is to find a program that can beat other DIFFERENT programs, not beat itself. This seems really stupid, or am I missing something?
Here's the bag that I use. I've had no problems with it. It's really really comfortable, fits a bigger than average laptop and seems to keep it safe. It's got a good number of extra pockets. My only complaint is that it doesn't hold much else besides the laptop. It's not as big as my old Land's End backpack.
They days of Skynet are finally at hand. You've all seen the movies, we've got to stop these robots from the future before they start damnit.
I would say the most obvious answer is because we don't sprechen deutcshe. Just a geuss.