Supposedly to work in the patent office you have to authorize at least 250 patents per day, if you don't stamp approved on that many you get fired. Thats an exaggeration but I seem to recall a patent examiner posting to/. that is was nearly as bad in reality.
AMD processors have been stable, reliable and good since the K6-III line of chips. Before then yah, everything after the 486 line did suck performance wise, but so did everything else non Intel.
You were fucked by hardware not the processor (well you could have been unlucky and got a bun chip). I bought the 133MHZ FSB Thunderbird 1.33 GHZ chip. hotter then heck, but I also bought a good heatsink & fan. I used an abit KT7A-RAID (still using it with an Athalon 2000 (I think it's 1.5 GHZ). Turns out Abit is one of tha MANY, MANY, MANY companies who used capacitors made with the stolen faulty electrolyte formula. OF the 20 or so main caps on the motherboard I have lost (I can see where the electrolyte ozzed otut he bottom as a burnt smelly mess or where the top has buckled) a total of 8 capacitors. It still runs fine, all motherboard functions work (I think all the ones I lost were in the on-board voltage regulator). and performance is still good. I think your problems were due to the VIA chipset, I have had a couple but I researched the hell out of how to fix them. As for IBM hard drives, once the word was out that 75GXP series drives had issues, IBM came out with the 65GXP line that corrected all the problems, ran quiet and well for a lot of years now, being on 24/7.
I'm pretty early on in the game, bridges are all still closed due to earthquake, just finished drive-by mission. I cant say outside of shops and resturants how many buildings you can enter. There is at least one hotel and it is much larger then the ones in VC as well as having an actual interior.
Do the hotels in VC really cound as enterable? one is just a staircase up to roof access, as I remember, and the other just magicaly pops you up to the roof. Ohh I did forget the apartment in VC where there is the scarface scene.
Ahh, but it is cute when the character starts to flex and make silly faces, or go to sleep and stay laying there asleep until it senses input. The trick is make it something that eith fits with the character, or make damn sure you ahve enough animations that players dont get sick of seeing the same two.
A whole 2 buildings there. Off the top of my head the only building you could go into in the game were as follows:
Any business you could buy something in, or could own/rob.
The hideout building (hotel) you started in or the mansion you get later. The rest of your hideouts were just save spots outside a house you could not enter.
Major landmarks like the Airport, Stadium, and mall.
Certain mission related buildings, of which the 2 hotels/condos you mention fall into.
Entering a door and magically appearing on the roof does not "going inside a building" make.
If you dig down at nausicaa.net you can find some translations of things the author said (int he FAQ for that film as I recall) as well as sources for translations of the book he wrote.
What evidence do you have that hybrids need to replace batteries at 80K?
Toyota covers my Prius hybrid system (battry electronics and hybrid side of the drivetrain) for 8 years. In the 3 years I have owned it I ahve put 58K onto the car with no sign of battery issues.
Nowhere was I saying we should be the worlds police.
I agree our foreign policy over the last fifty years is the cause of many of our problems.
At this point "just leaving them alone" won't work IMO. However if we work with the non asshats who are not extremist nut jobs in various places and help out, we might make it so the moderates can put the hardliners in check.
After reading a bit more in depth (I was aparenly mislead for the most part) via some google searches, Someone did try.
"There is no evidence that Col. Bouquet took any action on Amherst's letter, but there is evidence that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt did.
"Out of our regard for them (two Indian chiefs) we gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out of the smallpox hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect (William Trent)."
Mostly it looks like white men inadvertantly helped spread smallpox amongst the Native Americans by catchign it and then getting kiled. The trophies the warriors would take were infected and helped to spread it around.
Maybe he thouhgt the astromech had been brainwiped, or maybe he thought it was some other unit besides R2, after all there are plenty of his model in existance as well as 3-P0 models.
While ripping on Grave of the Fireflies, do you realize that it was someones actual experiance? It is based on a book (more of a short story)"Hotaru no Haka" by Akiyuki NOSAKA. The story is semi-autobiographical. He lost his little sister during the war due to malnutrition. He blamed himself for her death and wrote this story to come to terms with it. As I understand it (not haing read his written version) most of what Takahata put into the film did happen.
The message was not "Conform and be miserable!", I'm sorry thats all you got out of it.
Also of note, it should only be watched as it was released in Japanese theaters, as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro after.
Article says: "Star Wars: Episode III" returned to the space opera roots of the original film and succeeded on that level, and for that I wanted to honor it, while regretting that it did not succeed at the levels of intelligence and wit as it did on the levels of craftsmanship and entertainment."
You say about article: "You just heard me say that Star wars is a space opera of robots. If my job was any fucking easier, I would not have to show up to talk about movies."
Where did he mention robots again? Looks like reading comprehension took a back seat to bitter sarcastic flaming.
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Supposedly to work in the patent office you have to authorize at least 250 patents per day, if you don't stamp approved on that many you get fired. /. that is was nearly as bad in reality.
Thats an exaggeration but I seem to recall a patent examiner posting to
Why outsource the procurement of Dung? American dung is just as good, and available at the local dairy producer.
Now if the IP lawyer is in India then by all means use the local stuff.
AMD processors have been stable, reliable and good since the K6-III line of chips. Before then yah, everything after the 486 line did suck performance wise, but so did everything else non Intel.
You were fucked by hardware not the processor (well you could have been unlucky and got a bun chip).
I bought the 133MHZ FSB Thunderbird 1.33 GHZ chip. hotter then heck, but I also bought a good heatsink & fan.
I used an abit KT7A-RAID (still using it with an Athalon 2000 (I think it's 1.5 GHZ).
Turns out Abit is one of tha MANY, MANY, MANY companies who used capacitors made with the stolen faulty electrolyte formula. OF the 20 or so main caps on the motherboard I have lost (I can see where the electrolyte ozzed otut he bottom as a burnt smelly mess or where the top has buckled) a total of 8 capacitors.
It still runs fine, all motherboard functions work (I think all the ones I lost were in the on-board voltage regulator). and performance is still good.
I think your problems were due to the VIA chipset, I have had a couple but I researched the hell out of how to fix them.
As for IBM hard drives, once the word was out that 75GXP series drives had issues, IBM came out with the 65GXP line that corrected all the problems, ran quiet and well for a lot of years now, being on 24/7.
Nothing is Beatle-proof.
Something awful puts up a page of gay porn if you go there from a slashdot link.
I'm pretty early on in the game, bridges are all still closed due to earthquake, just finished drive-by mission. I cant say outside of shops and resturants how many buildings you can enter. There is at least one hotel and it is much larger then the ones in VC as well as having an actual interior.
Do the hotels in VC really cound as enterable? one is just a staircase up to roof access, as I remember, and the other just magicaly pops you up to the roof.
Ohh I did forget the apartment in VC where there is the scarface scene.
Ahh, but it is cute when the character starts to flex and make silly faces, or go to sleep and stay laying there asleep until it senses input.
The trick is make it something that eith fits with the character, or make damn sure you ahve enough animations that players dont get sick of seeing the same two.
A whole 2 buildings there.
Off the top of my head the only building you could go into in the game were as follows:
Any business you could buy something in, or could own/rob.
The hideout building (hotel) you started in or the mansion you get later. The rest of your hideouts were just save spots outside a house you could not enter.
Major landmarks like the Airport, Stadium, and mall.
Certain mission related buildings, of which the 2 hotels/condos you mention fall into.
Entering a door and magically appearing on the roof does not "going inside a building" make.
I think this site works towards showing examples of that. Ignoring the killer pancakes of course.
No, because he is the Grue.
All I can suggest is to improve the quality of random strangers around you. ;-)
If you dig down at nausicaa.net you can find some translations of things the author said (int he FAQ for that film as I recall) as well as sources for translations of the book he wrote.
What evidence do you have that hybrids need to replace batteries at 80K?
Toyota covers my Prius hybrid system (battry electronics and hybrid side of the drivetrain) for 8 years. In the 3 years I have owned it I ahve put 58K onto the car with no sign of battery issues.
Funny, Turbo Tax tells me NOT to report income from an illegal business.
Nowhere was I saying we should be the worlds police.
I agree our foreign policy over the last fifty years is the cause of many of our problems.
At this point "just leaving them alone" won't work IMO. However if we work with the non asshats who are not extremist nut jobs in various places and help out, we might make it so the moderates can put the hardliners in check.
Maybe you should post something to snopes then.
After reading a bit more in depth (I was aparenly mislead for the most part) via some google searches, Someone did try.
"There is no evidence that Col. Bouquet took any action on Amherst's letter, but there is evidence that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt did.
"Out of our regard for them (two Indian chiefs) we gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out of the smallpox hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect (William Trent)."
Mostly it looks like white men inadvertantly helped spread smallpox amongst the Native Americans by catchign it and then getting kiled. The trophies the warriors would take were infected and helped to spread it around.
Remember only you can prevent sexy cheerleading!
Sexy Cheerleading will give you AIDS and other STD.
I was unaware the Tijuana drug lords were involved in terrorism (I mean americans dont care what they do to mexicans or tourists).
I was sad when they closed down. I was so looking forwards to an Office Bots game as well as Bread of Frankenstein.
Thats not priacy though. Thats bootlegging.
Dont forget the bringing about of armageddon.
Maybe he thouhgt the astromech had been brainwiped, or maybe he thought it was some other unit besides R2, after all there are plenty of his model in existance as well as 3-P0 models.
While ripping on Grave of the Fireflies, do you realize that it was someones actual experiance? It is based on a book (more of a short story)"Hotaru no Haka" by Akiyuki NOSAKA. The story is semi-autobiographical. He lost his little sister during the war due to malnutrition. He blamed himself for her death and wrote this story to come to terms with it. As I understand it (not haing read his written version) most of what Takahata put into the film did happen.
The message was not "Conform and be miserable!", I'm sorry thats all you got out of it.
Also of note, it should only be watched as it was released in Japanese theaters, as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro after.
Article says:
"Star Wars: Episode III" returned to the space opera roots of the original film and succeeded on that level, and for that I wanted to honor it, while regretting that it did not succeed at the levels of intelligence and wit as it did on the levels of craftsmanship and entertainment."
You say about article:
"You just heard me say that Star wars is a space opera of robots. If my job was any fucking easier, I would not have to show up to talk about movies."
Where did he mention robots again? Looks like reading comprehension took a back seat to bitter sarcastic flaming.
For an ubsubstantiated myth it made it into a lot of text books.