This thing has hinges on its wings! What a gyp! Screw that, that isn't morphing. I want a plane where the wings are made of a single peice of some kind of high-tech polymer that changes shape when electricity is applied to it.
(To the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel)
Harry Potter, Pokemon, Tomb Raider, Digimon Monkey Island, Space Invaders, Super Mario Maniac Mansion, Zero Mission, Mortal Kombat, Pole Position Grand Theft Auto, Ninja Gaiden, Pong and Yu-gi-oh
Megaman, Depth Bomb, Asteroids, Robotron Tetris, and Army Men, River Raid, and Suikoden Castlevania, Kirby, Demolition Derby Dragon Warrior, LEGO Racers, Yoshi's Island, Gauntlet
I really miss Atari. From when I was younger, Now the games are longer So, I still play Nintendo. Like to keep it old-skool, 8-bit's always so cool
South Park Rally, Harvest Moon, Jungle Hunt and Zoo Tycoon Double Dragon, Puyo Puyo, NBA Jam Duck Hunt, Tony Hawk, Chrono Trigger, Chuck Rock Q*Bert, Sonic, Worms, and Serious Sam
Half-life, Max Payne, Zak McKraken, and Bloodrayne Onimusha, Sam and Max, Age of Empires, Golden Axe Home run, Outer Space, Prince of Persia, Death Race Alley Cat, Paperboy, Sinistar, SimCity
I used to love my gameboy First they made it Color, Then they made is smaller My portable companion It has been enhanced now, So it's called "Advance" now
Bomberman, Burning Fight, Killer Instinct, Gyromite Frogger, Basketball, Day of the Tentacle Solitaire, and Sim Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark Ice Climber, and Descent, and Unreal Tournament
There's Street Fighter, Zaxxon, Duke Nukem, Mafia Need for Speed, Halo, Turok: Evolution Rampage, Deus Ex, and that BMXXX Metroid Prime and Fusion, Dance Dance Revolution
Genesis made by Sega. 16 bits of power Made Nintendo cower They made Super Nintendo. Neither one was hated, Neither dominated
Leisure Suit Larry, Project Gotham Racing Punchout, Zork, Doom, Zombies Ate My Neighbors Legend of Kyrandia, DOA Beach Volleyball Dig Dug, Nethack, Contra and Plaque Attack Zelda, Moon Patrol, Battlezone and Star Control Zero Wing, Baldur's Gate, FIFA Soccer 98
The 3D Revolution. First we saw Playstation, Our infatuation N64 and Dreamcast. Came along to fight it, But they couldn't smite it
Splinter Cell, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong is back again Warcraft, Starcraft, Centipede, Xybots Pitfall, Pengo, Burger Time, 3D Castle Wolfenstein Ninja Turtles in Japan, Roger Wilco needs a tan.
Hogan's Alley, Excitebike, Quest For Glory, Counter-strike Ultima, 7th Guest, Quake, Joust, Everquest Klax, Defender, Earthworm Jim, The Incredible Machine Final Fantasy, and Loom, I have no space in my room
New consoles are arriving. GameCube, PS2, We've got Xbox,too New consoles will be coming. But when these are gone We will still play on and on and on and on...
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I think you are missing one very important point. Once the following car has a decent amount of space between itself and the car in front of it, it can go back up to 60 mph, maintaining the buffer space.
There was this great line from the first Red Dwarf novel. I can't find the exact text online, this is how I remember it. It takes place before the 3 million year sleep, right after Lister comes on board and Rimmer is addressing him and the rest of his shift.
Lister: I'd like to be transferred to another shift, sir. Rimmer: Why? Lister: With all due respect, sir, I think you're mentally unbalanced. Rimmer: There's always one in every group, isn't there. One idiot, one loser, one psychpath. Lister: Yes sir, but he isn't usually in charge.
I agree that there are some children with real mental problems that need professional treatment. The problem is that we are getting to the point where ALL children are being treated that way. Drugs are being given to children who don't need them because adults don't want to have to deal with thier naturally overactive personalities instead of teaching them that there is a time and place for different kinds of behavior. Constant counseling given to genuinely 'bad' kids who learn that they can do anything they want and get no punishment at all except having to BS their way through a talk with a boring old guy every few days.
Darwinian selection only works if you have a level playing field. Remember that there is going to be much greasing of palms to influence what technologies get adopted.
Betamax was definately better, but besides the people behind Betamax having the marketing skills of a kumquat, the fact is that no one would have been able to see the difference in quality on the TVs that existed at the time.
In ancient Rome, the people were kept passive by giving them gladatorial combat to watch and get their 'violence fix'. I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that violent video games might be serving the same purpose, however unintentional?
Exactly where did I mention appearence? Even though we do look a lot like apes, the similarities are even greater beneath the surface. When you look at their behavior and social structure, the similarities are even more apparent.
By the way, dogs and rats ARE related. Every form of life on the planet is related to every other form of life.
"All life on Earth is directly related by descent. You are a cousin not just of apes, but of the sequoia and the amoeba, of mosses and butterflies and blue whales. - Dale McGowan
I respect Rockstar's right to make any game they want. After all, this is America and everyone has the right to say what they want or create any work they want, regardless of how I or anyone else feels about its content.
I also have to say that I am completly disgusted with Rockstar for making a game that glorifies bullying regardless of whether it causes anyone who plays it to start bullying. I don't believe that GTA had much of an effect on people who played it, but lets face it, bullying is a far more accessable activity to the average grade-schooler than carjacking and cop-killing. I would very much like to see somebody, preferably Rockstar, make a game where you fight against bullies.
Slashdot Mirror
This thing has hinges on its wings! What a gyp! Screw that, that isn't morphing. I want a plane where the wings are made of a single peice of some kind of high-tech polymer that changes shape when electricity is applied to it.
Well I bought it up
...
...
.... (ring it up)
.... you got me, you got me
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... I 'm making software buys. ... It's making Bill Gates come... ... your making a rich man come....
Brought Windows home and tried to boot it up
But when I load it up
It says my memory is not enough
I've been running out
I need Some Extra RAM to fix me up
I have to cough it up
Open my wallet up, it never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops
Its Windows 95
It's sucking up my drive
It makes a Pentium fly
But my PC is obsolete
I'll have to buy myself a brand new machine
Just stick me up
You suck me in then you got me hooked
There's so much stuff to buy
I need a new hard drive
I'ts gonna suck me dry
My 386, Don't have the speed
It takes an hour just to bring up the screen
Oh no
Woow
Yo Yo
Did you notice the link at the bottom of the post?
"We Didn't Stop Atari" By Francisco Rangel
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(To the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel)
Harry Potter, Pokemon, Tomb Raider, Digimon
Monkey Island, Space Invaders, Super Mario
Maniac Mansion, Zero Mission, Mortal Kombat, Pole Position
Grand Theft Auto, Ninja Gaiden, Pong and Yu-gi-oh
Megaman, Depth Bomb, Asteroids, Robotron
Tetris, and Army Men, River Raid, and Suikoden
Castlevania, Kirby, Demolition Derby
Dragon Warrior, LEGO Racers, Yoshi's Island, Gauntlet
I really miss Atari. From when I was younger, Now the games are longer
So, I still play Nintendo. Like to keep it old-skool, 8-bit's always so cool
South Park Rally, Harvest Moon, Jungle Hunt and Zoo Tycoon
Double Dragon, Puyo Puyo, NBA Jam
Duck Hunt, Tony Hawk, Chrono Trigger, Chuck Rock
Q*Bert, Sonic, Worms, and Serious Sam
Half-life, Max Payne, Zak McKraken, and Bloodrayne
Onimusha, Sam and Max, Age of Empires, Golden Axe
Home run, Outer Space, Prince of Persia, Death Race
Alley Cat, Paperboy, Sinistar, SimCity
I used to love my gameboy
First they made it Color, Then they made is smaller
My portable companion
It has been enhanced now, So it's called "Advance" now
Bomberman, Burning Fight, Killer Instinct, Gyromite
Frogger, Basketball, Day of the Tentacle
Solitaire, and Sim Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ice Climber, and Descent, and Unreal Tournament
There's Street Fighter, Zaxxon, Duke Nukem, Mafia
Need for Speed, Halo, Turok: Evolution
Rampage, Deus Ex, and that BMXXX
Metroid Prime and Fusion, Dance Dance Revolution
Genesis made by Sega. 16 bits of power Made Nintendo cower
They made Super Nintendo. Neither one was hated, Neither dominated
Leisure Suit Larry, Project Gotham Racing
Punchout, Zork, Doom, Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Legend of Kyrandia, DOA Beach Volleyball
Dig Dug, Nethack, Contra and Plaque Attack
Zelda, Moon Patrol, Battlezone and Star Control
Zero Wing, Baldur's Gate, FIFA Soccer 98
The 3D Revolution. First we saw Playstation, Our infatuation
N64 and Dreamcast. Came along to fight it, But they couldn't smite it
Splinter Cell, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong is back again
Warcraft, Starcraft, Centipede, Xybots
Pitfall, Pengo, Burger Time, 3D Castle Wolfenstein
Ninja Turtles in Japan, Roger Wilco needs a tan.
Hogan's Alley, Excitebike, Quest For Glory, Counter-strike
Ultima, 7th Guest, Quake, Joust, Everquest
Klax, Defender, Earthworm Jim, The Incredible Machine
Final Fantasy, and Loom, I have no space in my room
New consoles are arriving. GameCube, PS2, We've got Xbox,too
New consoles will be coming. But when these are gone
We will still play on and on and on and on...
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/06/stop_atari.htm
Ok kids, who saw that one coming?
I think you are missing one very important point. Once the following car has a decent amount of space between itself and the car in front of it, it can go back up to 60 mph, maintaining the buffer space.
I think you missed the last line of his post.
There was this great line from the first Red Dwarf novel. I can't find the exact text online, this is how I remember it. It takes place before the 3 million year sleep, right after Lister comes on board and Rimmer is addressing him and the rest of his shift.
Lister: I'd like to be transferred to another shift, sir.
Rimmer: Why?
Lister: With all due respect, sir, I think you're mentally unbalanced.
Rimmer: There's always one in every group, isn't there. One idiot, one loser, one psychpath.
Lister: Yes sir, but he isn't usually in charge.
Are you kidding? For those kinds of jobs, being a psychopath is practically a prerequisite.
What exactly is 'positive punishment'?
I agree that there are some children with real mental problems that need professional treatment. The problem is that we are getting to the point where ALL children are being treated that way. Drugs are being given to children who don't need them because adults don't want to have to deal with thier naturally overactive personalities instead of teaching them that there is a time and place for different kinds of behavior. Constant counseling given to genuinely 'bad' kids who learn that they can do anything they want and get no punishment at all except having to BS their way through a talk with a boring old guy every few days.
I hear there is a new development in camera technology that can compensate for poorly lit areas.
It's called a 'flash'
I'll have the soylent green with a slice of soylent orange and some soylent coleslaw.
Spam is meat? Really? I was not aware of that. I thought it was some kind of polymer gel.
Are you saying that the US Patent Office actually rejected a patent application? For any reason, much less prior art?
Holy crap! This is unprecidented!
finding ways to protect ourselves from accidentally finding the bad stuff
What kind of 'bad stuff' is he talking about? Child porn? Regular porn? Photos of mangled dead bodies? Opposing political views? Goatse?
Be specific.
Darwinian selection only works if you have a level playing field. Remember that there is going to be much greasing of palms to influence what technologies get adopted.
Betamax was definately better, but besides the people behind Betamax having the marketing skills of a kumquat, the fact is that no one would have been able to see the difference in quality on the TVs that existed at the time.
Just drop the innards of the computer (minus the hard drive of course) in an aquarium full of oil
In ancient Rome, the people were kept passive by giving them gladatorial combat to watch and get their 'violence fix'. I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that violent video games might be serving the same purpose, however unintentional?
We're talking about being patient, not violent. Loading screens and cinematic scenes should probably have taught you that particular skill.
Yeah, and how does that automatically assume that I am only talking about appearence?
Exactly where did I mention appearence? Even though we do look a lot like apes, the similarities are even greater beneath the surface. When you look at their behavior and social structure, the similarities are even more apparent.
By the way, dogs and rats ARE related. Every form of life on the planet is related to every other form of life.
"All life on Earth is directly related by descent. You are a cousin not just of apes, but of the sequoia and the amoeba, of mosses and butterflies and blue whales. - Dale McGowan
What I am saying is that, as the facts currently exist, a huge leap of faith is required to get from ape to man.
Why, considering how remarkably similar humans and apes are?
I respect Rockstar's right to make any game they want. After all, this is America and everyone has the right to say what they want or create any work they want, regardless of how I or anyone else feels about its content.
I also have to say that I am completly disgusted with Rockstar for making a game that glorifies bullying regardless of whether it causes anyone who plays it to start bullying. I don't believe that GTA had much of an effect on people who played it, but lets face it, bullying is a far more accessable activity to the average grade-schooler than carjacking and cop-killing. I would very much like to see somebody, preferably Rockstar, make a game where you fight against bullies.
Rockstar has its freedom of speech and so do I.