Was that a body double of him on that broadcast last night? If it was Saddam he looked like hammered crap. Not trying to incite a troll post but did that really look like Sadaam last night? He just didn't seem to have the charisma and stance.
Don't forget that the French were the only schmucks that recognized the military coup in Moscow. Oppps! Or should I have stated the failed military coup.
So what do we see in this movie? Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn) gets separated from his nemesis, Darth Maul, by a force field. The adversaries pause and glare at each other before resuming the fight. What a great time for Maul to give his side of the story -- his seething need for revenge against the Jedi! Maybe some riveting mumbledy-jumble about the Jedi having crushed and suppressed one whole side of the Force for a thousand years, thus creating awful imbalance in the universe! (Maybe Neeson even half agrees! After all, he's the one wanting to restore "balance,"
I know exactly where you are coming from, but I must admit that it was pretty cool that Lucas didn't follow the typical villian cliche of "...since you're going to die anyway, let me reveal all my Masters plans on taking over the Universe." I was kinda surprised that there wasn't a villian rant when our hero was up against the ropes and was about to die.
Hey! Remember the arcade size Tron Joystick that they were selling with the four Tron game cartridges? It was pretty cool but my fire button kept breaking. I gave up returning the poor controller after it broke for the third time.
Back at a Science Fiction Convention I-CONX, I think it was 1990, I was assigned to drive Gary Gygax from his hotel and the con site. He was a real blast to talk to. On the second day of driving, he bought me a few pints of beer at the hotel bar and chatted for awhile. It was incredible to talk gaming stuff with him for an hour.
Gary always seems to have some game that he's beta testing. So the few times that I saw him at other conventions, I would participate in some of them. We all laughed pretty hard when he took out a large stack of business cards. He must get a ton from people because he converts them into his new game cards. Real rough beta I guess.
In science museums you'll find exercise
bikes hooked up to lightbulbs to show exactly
that.
Didn't they have a similar rig in Gilligan's Island? I remember they would run their washing machine and recharge the radio's batteries with an exercise bike.
I even dug it out and tried it a few months ago, on a fast Windows 2000 machine.
Hey, I remember trying that beta out years ago under OS/2 Warp. It was a bit on the slow side, but it was usable. Too bad they stopped development work on it.
Didn't Intel go off and try to expand their business into other areas like Video chips? They invested a lot of capital into it only to find themselves outclassed by other video chip makers? Now Intel finds their CPU threatened because they were screwing around in other areas.
The sad fact is 99% of the employers out there will screw over the employee at the drop of a hat
I let myself become a victim of this with my first job out of college. I was promised a large raise of $15,000 but when it came time for the promotion, I only received a mere $3000. Their so called explanation was suddenly the product wasn't doing so well but if I can make it grow, they increase my salary.
I wasn't about to be screwed over again. So I started to look for another job after that. It took awhile but I had the satisifaction of doing close to no work for a several months. My advice to the recent graduated is never trust employers unless it's in writing and it's been looked over by a lawyer.
The entry level iMac for $799 doesn't come with the FireWire ports. Only the iMac-DV and iMac-DV+ have those ports. Those new G4s look pretty cool. They come with 10/100/1000base-T gigabit ethernet cards.
One of my all time favorite text adventures first came out on the TRS-80. It was called Asylum. You wake up and find yourself inside of an asylum and you're being dragged to a padded room. The nurses set you on fire, throw you in the the room and lock the door. What do you do now?
The game was a lot of fun. You can find it at this URL; Asylum History
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Was that a body double of him on that broadcast last night? If it was Saddam he looked like hammered crap. Not trying to incite a troll post but did that really look like Sadaam last night? He just didn't seem to have the charisma and stance.
Screw Tipper's pro-censorship of music. I'm glad she's not in the White House now.
By that logic, shouldn't Rambus have taken over the world years ago?
:P
Nope. It's more like that millions have dumped Rambus.
What is the RFC for Jupiter?
I don't believe that they're suing IBM over that. I think that they're being sued for "enhancing" linux with unix technology.
Show me the antarctic rats and cockroaches. I think the giant blind albino penguins ate them all to extinction. :D
First post! Had to do it. It's funny seeing what desperate businesses will do to draw attention to themselves. Bastards.
It's "wanton", not "wonton."
:(
Off topic but I truly miss east coast Chinese Wonton soup. Chinese food is *terrible* out west. I miss going to WoHops in China Town in NYC.
7 days to create the universe? 7 days may not mean 7 mankind days.
[Insert Whistle Soundclip] You! Out of the Gene Pool!
Don't forget that the French were the only schmucks that recognized the military coup in Moscow. Oppps! Or should I have stated the failed military coup.
So what do we see in this movie? Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn) gets separated from his nemesis, Darth Maul, by a force field. The adversaries pause and glare at each other before resuming the fight. What a great time for Maul to give his side of the story -- his seething need for revenge against the Jedi! Maybe some riveting mumbledy-jumble about the Jedi having crushed and suppressed one whole side of the Force for a thousand years, thus creating awful imbalance in the universe! (Maybe Neeson even half agrees! After all, he's the one wanting to restore "balance,"
I know exactly where you are coming from, but I must admit that it was pretty cool that Lucas didn't follow the typical villian cliche of "...since you're going to die anyway, let me reveal all my Masters plans on taking over the Universe." I was kinda surprised that there wasn't a villian rant when our hero was up against the ropes and was about to die.
Hey! Remember the arcade size Tron Joystick that they were selling with the four Tron game cartridges? It was pretty cool but my fire button kept breaking. I gave up returning the poor controller after it broke for the third time.
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EAT AT JOES
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Cold Fusion?
Back at a Science Fiction Convention I-CONX, I think it was 1990, I was assigned to drive Gary Gygax from his hotel and the con site. He was a real blast to talk to. On the second day of driving, he bought me a few pints of beer at the hotel bar and chatted for awhile. It was incredible to talk gaming stuff with him for an hour.
Gary always seems to have some game that he's beta testing. So the few times that I saw him at other conventions, I would participate in some of them. We all laughed pretty hard when he took out a large stack of business cards. He must get a ton from people because he converts them into his new game cards. Real rough beta I guess.
Hopefully by the time USB2 is in the PC mainstream, all the Macs will have FireWire2.
Didn't they have a similar rig in Gilligan's Island? I remember they would run their washing machine and recharge the radio's batteries with an exercise bike.
Hey, I remember trying that beta out years ago under OS/2 Warp. It was a bit on the slow side, but it was usable. Too bad they stopped development work on it.
--Glen
If they weren't willing to fight for their rights, then they should have just taken the money and donated it to EFF.
Didn't Intel go off and try to expand their business into other areas like Video chips? They invested a lot of capital into it only to find themselves outclassed by other video chip makers? Now Intel finds their CPU threatened because they were screwing around in other areas.
I let myself become a victim of this with my first job out of college. I was promised a large raise of $15,000 but when it came time for the promotion, I only received a mere $3000. Their so called explanation was suddenly the product wasn't doing so well but if I can make it grow, they increase my salary.
I wasn't about to be screwed over again. So I started to look for another job after that. It took awhile but I had the satisifaction of doing close to no work for a several months. My advice to the recent graduated is never trust employers unless it's in writing and it's been looked over by a lawyer.
...and to be relief of Microsoft. Corel is now humming to the right MS tune and is only developing for the Windows platform? Sounds like a win for MS.
The entry level iMac for $799 doesn't come with the FireWire ports. Only the iMac-DV and iMac-DV+ have those ports. Those new G4s look pretty cool. They come with 10/100/1000base-T gigabit ethernet cards.
The game was a lot of fun. You can find it at this URL; Asylum History
So where are all the good things? When is Slashdot going to offer some converted door games?