Don't I know it. With all the DDR I play, I have a 29" waist, 8% body-fat, and finding clothes is pure insanity! Being a stick-person isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially in this country.
Naw. We'll just use gene therapy to change the variations in any direction we want. Someday, those Penis Enlargement pills will actually work; unfortunately your spam filter will protect you from this amazing enhancement in medical science.:(
No, it won't scratch. Not if designed correctly. Oddly enough, the cell phone I've had for two years that I shove into my pocket on a regular basis doesn't have *any* scratches on the screen. Sure the body's pretty beat-up, but the cover over the screen is perfectly scratch-free.
Why does Apple get more leeway than a common cell phone manufacturer?
I'd say this is more "insightful" than "funny." I mean, seriously, when is the last time you bought a regular CD-player, or even saw someone else with one? Frankly, I've only seen people carrying some kind of mp3 device for years now. CD's are for ripping, I say!
Funny, my Panasonic PV-GS35 has a USB-2 port which I used recently to rip a perfectly sync'd video to disk. The sales-guy told me I'd want the optional firewire cable, but I just laughed at him.
Granted, if you plug it into a USB-1 port, it'll refuse to send anything but audio, but I can vouch for fireware not being a must for video editing. Firewire is great and all, but USB2 really narrowed the gap quite a bit.
It's not just that, either. What other Zelda games did we have? Up to and including the SNES version and Gameboy releases, the games were basically restricted to classic object tiling common on all RPGs of the era. They're not cartooney, just variants of controlling a character on a series of maps.
After that? Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask? Tentative forays into the 3D realm using the highly limited gaming engine of the N64. Not cartoonish either, just common for the time.
Wind Waker? They worked hard to perfect the anime cell-shading for that game, and it feels like taking part in an animated feature. A great effect wasted on countless hours traversing the overland map in an excruciatingly slow manner. This is the only arguably cartoonish Zelda, an intentional attempt at trying something different with the new abilities offered by the Game Cube.
Now we have Twilight Princess, which is yet another change in the graphical engine. It's also a very good direction to take the series, and I like it as well as I liked the others. It's something I haven't seen before, just like I had never seen an anime cell-shaded game, so I look forward to it! I just wish they'd quit pushing back the release date. Heh.
Dude, if I were bringing home less than $200 a week, I'd find another job. And who cares about the city I was born in? Seriously, fuck that city. I really don't understand this misplaced loyalty to some shitty area, just because someone was born there, or it was "all they ever knew." You know what? I was born in poverty myself, to a single-parent. Did I stay in the trailer parks just 'cause it was all I ever knew? Hell no!
Sometimes, it's just time to leave. I didn't even have a car, or much money. Funny what a good education and a little determination will give you. I'm not by any means rich these days, but I have a running car, own a house, enjoy where I live, and also "know a little about it."
You can accept what life has dealt you, or you can get a new hand. I chose the latter, as living in a trailer below the poverty line didn't exactly appeal to me. It's hard work, but what worthwhile isn't?
Right! Except the SNES came out in 1991, effectively ending the life-cycle of the NES about 14 years ago. Now, imagine a teenager wearing a shirt proclaiming roots either before they were born, or before they were four years old. Think about this carefully for a second or two. Freshmen in High School these days were born in the 90's, and would likely see the SNES or Playstation as their identifying console. If it were an SNES controller, it would make perfect sense.
If I had to hazard a guess, the shirt is aimed at people in their mid to late 20's, or intended as an ironic statement.
Maybe older versions of Windows (ME... ugh). But neither of my XP machines have ever crashed in the two years I've had them. And 2000? That'll stay up for at least a few days. Heh.
Right, but who can recover it? Me? You? Maybe, if we're lucky. The average user with an infected system spreading the virus all over the world? Not a chance. No need to reformat or zero, the computer is equally useless either way.
Though changing the boot sector into a boot-loader that zeros the drive as long as the computer is on would add insult to injury.
It's not even that hard. Infect, delete boot sector, propagate. Then the system is infected and spreads until someone shuts it down or it crashes, which can take weeks. Yet the removed boot sector is still destroyed even if the virus is later caught and sterilized. Next reboot? Good luck.
Someone else sees that transaction on eBay and decides to sell his +4 jewelled sword of ogre beheading. But before he can do that, some asshole comes in and steals that sword virtually.
Unfortunately, in-game theft is allowed by the game engine, otherwise the "thief" class would be pretty pointless. I would agree with a game-world based police force that jails your character if caught, since it's an issue of game mechanics and immersion.
About the only controversial thing that occurred here is that he used a bot, which is against the EULA. In that case, he should be permanently booted from the game, his victims get their items returned. There really is no need to get law-enforcement involved.
The excessive use of I and me make this an opinionated blog which doesn't lend credibility to her argument or 'findings'. In short, this is basically a troll.
It's not just that. She also frighteningly overuses the word "you," thereby creating a combative relationship with her reader and forever removing any academic or impartial quality the article may have contained. I can't take any written piece seriously if the author can't understand that simple rule.
And this is the problem with anecdotal evidence. I've been coding since I was nine, and now almost 20 years later, after college and learning the proper way to write code, I'm damn good at my job. There are others where I work without such background, and one dragged a project along for two years in various states of buggy semi-functionality.
Often we would rewrite parts of his code while he was on vacation, just to simplify, debug, and optimize major components. I've never read anything by Joel, but his observations are spot on; a bad programmer really can't produce anything very well, and part of the proof that a mediocre coder with years of experience is still just a mediocre coder. I only wish there was some way to tell this to the people who write help-wanted ads.;)
I know it's been said before... but people pay to play these online games. Why would I want to pay to hear an advertisement? This is about the same level as commercials before, during, or after a movie preview; actively exploiting a captive audience without providing them any tangible compensation seems short-sighted and risky.
Funny, I eat almost exclusively meat and dairy, in the form of steak, chicken-breasts, cuts of fish, milk, cheese, cottage-cheese, whey and amino-acid suppliments, and other things body-builders tend to inhale on a regular basis.
I also feel great, and have 7% body-fat. I guess that means I also TRULY know better.;)
No offense, but what exactly are you smoking? I suppose applying security patches and distribution upgrades isn't strictly necessary, but even when automated, I'd hardly call:
apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade [spend time configuring updates]
emerge sync emerge -uD world (good luck! Hahahah!) etc-update
Or whatever your flavor of system maintenence may be for your platform... Then you get to deal with all of the internal arguments each distribution is bound to have; Gentoo refuses to unmask PHP-5 in stable OR devel, even though it's been stable for an entire year, yet unstable php-5.1 betas are all good in the devel tree.
It's a retarded mess. I have yet to find a single distribution made by anybody that's even mildly sane. Sometimes updates move or overwrite configuration files, or entire library paths arbitrarily. It's at a point where keeping a system security updated involves installing only core componants with the package manager, and maintain everything yourself with custom RPMs, ebuilds, Debs, or whatever.
That's less work than a Windows machine? Maintaining a unix system is certainly not: 0.
What I don't get is why they never use the equivalent of the bulbs used in car headlights. They're bright enough to light up the entire road, last forever, embarrassingly inexpensive, and I could go on like this forever.
Build a proper enclosure based on a car headlight and reflective backing with some kind of focusing mechanism, and you'd get something smaller, quieter, using less voltage, and so on. I mean, sheesh.
That's true. I liked the old Republicans much better than the new ones. I also know that a lot of those same old Republicans are highly irate at Bush's tendency to spend like a drunk Democrat.;)
I hope it's enough to keep things going until a more obvious balance emerges.
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Don't I know it. With all the DDR I play, I have a 29" waist, 8% body-fat, and finding clothes is pure insanity! Being a stick-person isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially in this country.
Really. I got my PS2 on launch date - gen-1 all the way, and it's still churning along despite *heavy* use for nearly six years.
I guess I just got lucky...
Naw. We'll just use gene therapy to change the variations in any direction we want. Someday, those Penis Enlargement pills will actually work; unfortunately your spam filter will protect you from this amazing enhancement in medical science. :(
No, it won't scratch. Not if designed correctly. Oddly enough, the cell phone I've had for two years that I shove into my pocket on a regular basis doesn't have *any* scratches on the screen. Sure the body's pretty beat-up, but the cover over the screen is perfectly scratch-free.
Why does Apple get more leeway than a common cell phone manufacturer?
I'd say this is more "insightful" than "funny." I mean, seriously, when is the last time you bought a regular CD-player, or even saw someone else with one? Frankly, I've only seen people carrying some kind of mp3 device for years now. CD's are for ripping, I say!
Funny, my Panasonic PV-GS35 has a USB-2 port which I used recently to rip a perfectly sync'd video to disk. The sales-guy told me I'd want the optional firewire cable, but I just laughed at him.
Granted, if you plug it into a USB-1 port, it'll refuse to send anything but audio, but I can vouch for fireware not being a must for video editing. Firewire is great and all, but USB2 really narrowed the gap quite a bit.
It's not just that, either. What other Zelda games did we have? Up to and including the SNES version and Gameboy releases, the games were basically restricted to classic object tiling common on all RPGs of the era. They're not cartooney, just variants of controlling a character on a series of maps.
After that? Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask? Tentative forays into the 3D realm using the highly limited gaming engine of the N64. Not cartoonish either, just common for the time.
Wind Waker? They worked hard to perfect the anime cell-shading for that game, and it feels like taking part in an animated feature. A great effect wasted on countless hours traversing the overland map in an excruciatingly slow manner. This is the only arguably cartoonish Zelda, an intentional attempt at trying something different with the new abilities offered by the Game Cube.
Now we have Twilight Princess, which is yet another change in the graphical engine. It's also a very good direction to take the series, and I like it as well as I liked the others. It's something I haven't seen before, just like I had never seen an anime cell-shaded game, so I look forward to it! I just wish they'd quit pushing back the release date. Heh.
Dude, if I were bringing home less than $200 a week, I'd find another job. And who cares about the city I was born in? Seriously, fuck that city. I really don't understand this misplaced loyalty to some shitty area, just because someone was born there, or it was "all they ever knew." You know what? I was born in poverty myself, to a single-parent. Did I stay in the trailer parks just 'cause it was all I ever knew? Hell no!
Sometimes, it's just time to leave. I didn't even have a car, or much money. Funny what a good education and a little determination will give you. I'm not by any means rich these days, but I have a running car, own a house, enjoy where I live, and also "know a little about it."
You can accept what life has dealt you, or you can get a new hand. I chose the latter, as living in a trailer below the poverty line didn't exactly appeal to me. It's hard work, but what worthwhile isn't?
Right! Except the SNES came out in 1991, effectively ending the life-cycle of the NES about 14 years ago. Now, imagine a teenager wearing a shirt proclaiming roots either before they were born, or before they were four years old. Think about this carefully for a second or two. Freshmen in High School these days were born in the 90's, and would likely see the SNES or Playstation as their identifying console. If it were an SNES controller, it would make perfect sense.
If I had to hazard a guess, the shirt is aimed at people in their mid to late 20's, or intended as an ironic statement.
Maybe older versions of Windows (ME... ugh). But neither of my XP machines have ever crashed in the two years I've had them. And 2000? That'll stay up for at least a few days. Heh.
Right, but who can recover it? Me? You? Maybe, if we're lucky. The average user with an infected system spreading the virus all over the world? Not a chance. No need to reformat or zero, the computer is equally useless either way.
Though changing the boot sector into a boot-loader that zeros the drive as long as the computer is on would add insult to injury.
It's not even that hard. Infect, delete boot sector, propagate. Then the system is infected and spreads until someone shuts it down or it crashes, which can take weeks. Yet the removed boot sector is still destroyed even if the virus is later caught and sterilized. Next reboot? Good luck.
I really am surprised nobody has done this yet.
Someone else sees that transaction on eBay and decides to sell his +4 jewelled sword of ogre beheading. But before he can do that, some asshole comes in and steals that sword virtually.
Unfortunately, in-game theft is allowed by the game engine, otherwise the "thief" class would be pretty pointless. I would agree with a game-world based police force that jails your character if caught, since it's an issue of game mechanics and immersion.
About the only controversial thing that occurred here is that he used a bot, which is against the EULA. In that case, he should be permanently booted from the game, his victims get their items returned. There really is no need to get law-enforcement involved.
The excessive use of I and me make this an opinionated blog which doesn't lend credibility to her argument or 'findings'. In short, this is basically a troll.
It's not just that. She also frighteningly overuses the word "you," thereby creating a combative relationship with her reader and forever removing any academic or impartial quality the article may have contained. I can't take any written piece seriously if the author can't understand that simple rule.
A sucker. ;)
And this is the problem with anecdotal evidence. I've been coding since I was nine, and now almost 20 years later, after college and learning the proper way to write code, I'm damn good at my job. There are others where I work without such background, and one dragged a project along for two years in various states of buggy semi-functionality.
;)
Often we would rewrite parts of his code while he was on vacation, just to simplify, debug, and optimize major components. I've never read anything by Joel, but his observations are spot on; a bad programmer really can't produce anything very well, and part of the proof that a mediocre coder with years of experience is still just a mediocre coder. I only wish there was some way to tell this to the people who write help-wanted ads.
Gah! Without a sleep or something in there to throttle that... oh, the humanity!
So, how many threads did that get to before your box burst directly into flames?
I know it's been said before... but people pay to play these online games. Why would I want to pay to hear an advertisement? This is about the same level as commercials before, during, or after a movie preview; actively exploiting a captive audience without providing them any tangible compensation seems short-sighted and risky.
Count the digits, buddy. ^_^ Though I think the guy who replied to you cheated somehow. Hehe.
That's why you have fun with them. I mean, you paid for the call, so you might as well get some entertainment out of it:
... ... <click>
Me: Ja! Thiz iz Zven's Hauze of Fizh!
Them:
Me: Ja, ve have ze bezt fizh in tawn! How mach do yu vant?
Them:
...but I *do* have a lower /. ID, so here goes...
Over half a mil is considered low these days? Damn! Where's my cane?
Funny, I eat almost exclusively meat and dairy, in the form of steak, chicken-breasts, cuts of fish, milk, cheese, cottage-cheese, whey and amino-acid suppliments, and other things body-builders tend to inhale on a regular basis.
;)
I also feel great, and have 7% body-fat. I guess that means I also TRULY know better.
No offense, but what exactly are you smoking? I suppose applying security patches and distribution upgrades isn't strictly necessary, but even when automated, I'd hardly call:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
[spend time configuring updates]
emerge sync
emerge -uD world (good luck! Hahahah!)
etc-update
Or whatever your flavor of system maintenence may be for your platform... Then you get to deal with all of the internal arguments each distribution is bound to have; Gentoo refuses to unmask PHP-5 in stable OR devel, even though it's been stable for an entire year, yet unstable php-5.1 betas are all good in the devel tree.
It's a retarded mess. I have yet to find a single distribution made by anybody that's even mildly sane. Sometimes updates move or overwrite configuration files, or entire library paths arbitrarily. It's at a point where keeping a system security updated involves installing only core componants with the package manager, and maintain everything yourself with custom RPMs, ebuilds, Debs, or whatever.
That's less work than a Windows machine? Maintaining a unix system is certainly not: 0.
What I don't get is why they never use the equivalent of the bulbs used in car headlights. They're bright enough to light up the entire road, last forever, embarrassingly inexpensive, and I could go on like this forever.
Build a proper enclosure based on a car headlight and reflective backing with some kind of focusing mechanism, and you'd get something smaller, quieter, using less voltage, and so on. I mean, sheesh.
That's true. I liked the old Republicans much better than the new ones. I also know that a lot of those same old Republicans are highly irate at Bush's tendency to spend like a drunk Democrat. ;)
I hope it's enough to keep things going until a more obvious balance emerges.