I don't intend to buy an ebook ever. I purchased my Nook a few weeks ago and found plenty of freely available epubs and pdfs to read. It actually does quite a good job on the pdfs I've put on it. And I just loaned an epub version of The Lost Symbol from the library.
I'm a little curious at how much better the display is on the new Kindle. But all the other stuff I don't care much about. What do I care if my Nook needs to be recharged every 2 weeks versus 1 month for the new Kindle?
On the topic of stupid kid things, I inherited a bunch of indian head pennies from my father. I was probably no more than 12. You'd see ads on tv all the time advertising these shiny coin collections for easy payments of $19.95. My indian heads didn't look shiny at all, so I cleaned them all so that they were. Thought this was a good thing.
Now that I'm older, and wiser about coin collecting, I really hate how stupid I was to do that. It's a collection I wasn't going to sell anyways (pass it on, keep it in the family), but still.
The first half of the game didn't need to be set in 1911. It would have worked in any time period of the Old West. You help the town marshall, help a rancher's daughter, and hunt down a gang. The second half of the game takes place in Mexico during the Revolution. I don't care for it much. The first mission that sets you on the path to helping the revolutionaries is frustratingly difficult. You have to maneuver a wagon in a set amount of time while killing some federales. The killing isn't so hard. Keeping the wagon on the road and not getting stuck on rocks is the problem. I'm at the point where I'm going to join the federales just because I can't get by that wagon part.
Think of the things that could have been included had the game been set earlier: hunt buffalo, join the Cavalry, fight Indians, avoid or not avoid Indian Country, escort settlers, etc...
We may think we have all these multiple lives, but in truth there isn't anything separating them except for our own ability to compartmentalize them. We have but one life.
Boston civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate calls his new book "Three Felonies a Day," referring to the number of crimes he estimates the average American now unwittingly commits because of vague laws. New technology adds its own complexity, making innocent activity potentially criminal.
I joined recently to update the page of a candidate running for Ted Kennedy's seat (election will be done and over with by January). I wasn't updating much, adding the candidate's birth date, linking to a book he had written, and adding the part copied from other candidate's wiki pages that links him to the Senate race. After a full day of back in forth with an editor deleting whatever I had just added, the only think that made it through was the link to the book he had written. And I think that just slipped through. Not worth the effort at all trying to update a page with new info. That ends my time working with Wikipedia.
After the Red Sox beat the curse it seems to me that everyone became hyper involved with the Red Sox. If you don't care for game of baseball and specifically do not watch the Red Sox it makes you a bit of an outcast.
I didn't understand that either. But one thing I'd mention is that Red Sox games make public transportation (green line) grind to a halt. Can't recall that being much of a problem though with our other sports franchises.
They were much to frenetic for Star Trek and looked more like Star Wars. I couldn't really tell the difference between phasers and photon torpedos. And I swear I even heard Star Wars sound effects a few times, particularly when Spock's ship was firing at the drill.
People just don't do it. The application should take human behavior into account.
I handle support calls for a large office. Things like this happen all the time. A user will work on a new document for hours and not save it at all. They close the application they are working in and when the application asks them if they want to save the document they inadvertently hit No. The user screwed up. However, it would be nice if their error were recoverable in some way. It would be great to grab the unsaved file from some temporary location C:\usererror\backup.
If someone isn't familiar with the terminology for these things it's a pain in the ass. Click the big multi colored button thing. Click the icon that looks like..., no the other one..., no to the left of that.
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I don't intend to buy an ebook ever. I purchased my Nook a few weeks ago and found plenty of freely available epubs and pdfs to read. It actually does quite a good job on the pdfs I've put on it. And I just loaned an epub version of The Lost Symbol from the library.
I'm a little curious at how much better the display is on the new Kindle. But all the other stuff I don't care much about. What do I care if my Nook needs to be recharged every 2 weeks versus 1 month for the new Kindle?
On the topic of stupid kid things, I inherited a bunch of indian head pennies from my father. I was probably no more than 12. You'd see ads on tv all the time advertising these shiny coin collections for easy payments of $19.95. My indian heads didn't look shiny at all, so I cleaned them all so that they were. Thought this was a good thing.
Now that I'm older, and wiser about coin collecting, I really hate how stupid I was to do that. It's a collection I wasn't going to sell anyways (pass it on, keep it in the family), but still.
Maybe we don't know as much about NK as we think we do.
Someone created a Wing Commander movie by splicing together the game cut scenes. That was better than the actual Wing Commander movie.
The first half of the game didn't need to be set in 1911. It would have worked in any time period of the Old West. You help the town marshall, help a rancher's daughter, and hunt down a gang. The second half of the game takes place in Mexico during the Revolution. I don't care for it much. The first mission that sets you on the path to helping the revolutionaries is frustratingly difficult. You have to maneuver a wagon in a set amount of time while killing some federales. The killing isn't so hard. Keeping the wagon on the road and not getting stuck on rocks is the problem. I'm at the point where I'm going to join the federales just because I can't get by that wagon part.
Think of the things that could have been included had the game been set earlier: hunt buffalo, join the Cavalry, fight Indians, avoid or not avoid Indian Country, escort settlers, etc...
All we need to do is drink the milkshake.
We may think we have all these multiple lives, but in truth there isn't anything separating them except for our own ability to compartmentalize them. We have but one life.
Maybe Slashdot covered this whole story and I missed it. Odd it wouldn't have it's own submission.
http://gawker.com/5529322/racist-harvard-law-email-the-cat-fight-that-turned-into-a-national-scandal-updated
Anything you say can and will be used against you. Period.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842.html
Too bad. I enjoyed World at War very much and was looking forward to the Korean War and/or Vietnam.
You, Murderer (1995)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716912/
Ah yes, midichlorians. I've heard of this before.
Which do exist at public universities and are taken seriously.
A segment of the population has always been like that. It's hard to blame them for the entire state of things.
I joined recently to update the page of a candidate running for Ted Kennedy's seat (election will be done and over with by January). I wasn't updating much, adding the candidate's birth date, linking to a book he had written, and adding the part copied from other candidate's wiki pages that links him to the Senate race. After a full day of back in forth with an editor deleting whatever I had just added, the only think that made it through was the link to the book he had written. And I think that just slipped through. Not worth the effort at all trying to update a page with new info. That ends my time working with Wikipedia.
The president at the time was Calvin Coolidge. Was this navy guy doing his own thing or was Cool Cal involved too?
After the Red Sox beat the curse it seems to me that everyone became hyper involved with the Red Sox. If you don't care for game of baseball and specifically do not watch the Red Sox it makes you a bit of an outcast.
I didn't understand that either. But one thing I'd mention is that Red Sox games make public transportation (green line) grind to a halt. Can't recall that being much of a problem though with our other sports franchises.
Quality doesn't matter much to me. For the price of one Blueray movie (~20) I can get Netflix 3 at a time for a month plus unlimited instant watching.
They were much to frenetic for Star Trek and looked more like Star Wars. I couldn't really tell the difference between phasers and photon torpedos. And I swear I even heard Star Wars sound effects a few times, particularly when Spock's ship was firing at the drill.
It's the new bread!
People just don't do it. The application should take human behavior into account.
I handle support calls for a large office. Things like this happen all the time. A user will work on a new document for hours and not save it at all. They close the application they are working in and when the application asks them if they want to save the document they inadvertently hit No. The user screwed up. However, it would be nice if their error were recoverable in some way. It would be great to grab the unsaved file from some temporary location C:\usererror\backup.
If someone isn't familiar with the terminology for these things it's a pain in the ass. Click the big multi colored button thing. Click the icon that looks like..., no the other one..., no to the left of that.
Menus were a lot easier to describe to people.
Need to insert a column or row in Excel? Go to the tab labeled Insert and...
No fullscreen mode for DOSBox :(
Is Windows 7 the same way?