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While it may be cheaper to use smaller gauge wire, it's also less durable. Saturn had a big problem with this with some of the earlier models at least.
Then again, the way the various companies seem to be going towards disposable cars (as noted by another poster) so I guess they don't really care.
Re:For those unfortunate times...
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Naw, just flag down 3 12 volt cars to give you a boost...
While you might regret it, you'll prove a wonderful point... most people just don't know how much people have expanded the functionality of Qbasic. I remember when using Qbasic for CGI was first announced... everyone scoffed. But I guess there's always someone with a use for anything.
I've got Javascript for dummies, and have read some of the others...
They're hard to read, at least from my perspective... they are useful as a referance on commands, so if you want a dead tree referance book cheap, they work.
For PHP, I've found "PHP: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server side content" to be a really good book to learn from. Combined with "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0" you have things explained to you both ways, the simple, and the more involved.
I'm still looking for a good book on MySQL and Database design...
There's still people playing with Qbasic... however most of the real innovators have left QBasic and gone on to other things.
Funny though, take QBasic 4.5 plus one of the libaries made with Assembly, and QBasic isn't such a toy, there's some fun little games made with it.
But, myself I used Qbasic the other day to take some data and generate a formated HTML file with it... it was simply the right tool (ie, the quickest to download and install seeing I just reinstalled windows)
Takeing an outdated peice of equipment and doing something new and exciting with it? While it's fine to do here on earth, because you can always walk home, but in space?
That's ass backwards. When you have something that's so old, you set it doing the simple stuff, while you send the new stuff to do the new and exciting.
Though, to do something truely new and exciting, you'd probably either have to go further out into space, or strat landing on the moon again and starting a base there.
We need new designs before getting to the new space projects... right now, beyond the ISS and Hubble, there's not much to do, other than onboard experiments.
Last time they had one of these, it was compleatly moderated... questions were asked by private messages to a single person, then posed for them to awnser, one at a time.
Normally Video/Electronics places show the latest releases only because it's part of the promotional package (or, they get paid and/or certain other benifits to show the movie for x amount of time after the release). So they're granted permission to do it.
*scratches head* It depeds on just how strict you want to be about death... there's people who have been for all intents and purposes "dead", for a very short time, then brought back...
SO it might be technically possible, but it also depends on the definition of murder (ie, do they have to stay dead after you do it for it to count?)
well gee. Considering that it was a prerecorded clip (oviously), not to mention the fact that he had the golden popcorn...
Now, if they didn't already have a golden popcorn, then I'd say give them some leeway. They got informed ahead of time that they were nominated, and MTV wanted an acceptance speach with Gollum if they won.
Now, you gotta wonder, was Gollum's commentary about MTV something akin to Weta's opnion, or just fluff?
What comes to mind is stratigic delaying with the FAQs, giving paying users a chance to get them sooner, partiuarly for news games.
Also perhaps there may be a move towards adding things like detailed maps as premium content. While other sites do have them, a central resource is something that a few folks may pay a bit for.
Main reason I intend to get zelda is because the fact that it's one of the bundles avlaiable... While I like Metroid and Mario, I've had more fun playing Zelda games.
The first party titles is what probably will keep Nintendo going... Zelda, Metroid, Mario and yes, even Pokemon all have thier following, who buy the system for that, and branch out a bit.
Heck, I haven't bought a consol since the PS1 and right now i'm truely considering picking up the GC, mainly for the Zelda game.
Well, after downloading one of the songs (I'm thinking that it's getting the slashdot treatment... means i should by rights look for the music on Kazzaa in moments, right?) the talent doesn't suck exaclly... but it's nothing to write home about. The singer's voice is washed away by the music, and the words seem to blur together.
If he sang clearer, and they mixed it with the music a bit quieter, it would probably go over a lot better.
Unfortanatly there's also the problem with some uneducated people with mod points who can't tell the differnce between a truely insightful post and one that is a well written troll. Nor, the people who confuse a troll with humor that's on topic in terms of a given discussion.
So while it works, there's still some holes in the system.
Not sure, but how many people preorder anything except what they know is going to be hard to get when it first comes out, like software, consols & games, and certain books.
Unless the band is extreamly hot and popular in the region, why would anyone bother to preorder, when they can just pick it up whenever it comes out, if they want the CD?
I beleive that up until recently most contracts between publishers and authors didn't include rights to publish digital versions.
Not sure in the non fiction line of books who has uncrippled digital versions, but in fiction, Baen leads the way, between their Webscriptions service, free library, and the CD's included with some of their recent hardcovers. They provide the books in HTML, RTF, Mircrosoft Reader, some format that's Palm/Psion/WinCE friendly and Rocket Ebook.
The first two are more than enough... their HTML setup is quite good actually.
After downloading it, upgrading to DX9.0a and playing throughthe one map, I can say it's a not bad game. I was entirely clueless of what to do... (The tutorial isn't the greatest help at times) It could grow in a person...
Take a look atthe new X-Men, X-Men: Evolution... definatly storylines running though it, even without the "To be Continued". Transformers Armada, big on the story arcs.
Justice League has some mutiple part episodes (actually, a fair number) but no long running story arcs though the whole thing.
But things like the old X-Men cartoon was the exception in that era, not the standard, it's far more common in this era, primarly I think, because of Anime being shown so much, plenty more wholeness to the show (Yu-Gi-Oh and Bayblade, some of the hotter shows with the younger crowd both have contining stories, detailing the protagonists travels and trials in their chosen game...even Pokemon had this, to a point)
I gave up hope on the saturday morning cartoon on the channels that they focused on... even when I was younger.
Myself, I like watching YTV on saturday mornings (it's a Canadian kids channel, for those who didn't know). The line up includes Transformers Armada, Transformers Beast Machines, He-man, Justice League, Jackie Chan Adventures and X-Men: Evolution. (a few others that I don't tend to watch much as well).
It's probably the most time I spend in front of a TV all week that little block.
But why would most kids want to spend saturday mornings watching cartoons? When I was younger, cartoons only happened in the early mornings, before school (forbidden to watch them by my parents at that time, or I'd miss the bus), a couple shows after school (normally the disney ones of the year) and saturday mornings.
Now, with 24/7 cartoon (or others with kid focused programming) networks, they can get their fix anytime, and plenty of households have multiple TV's, so parents and kids can each watch what they want. So there's nothing really special about saturday morning cartoons, at least to the average kid who watches cartoons (unless they realise that Saturday is when the new episodes come out... but there's always reruns, and multiple airings..)
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While it may be cheaper to use smaller gauge wire, it's also less durable. Saturn had a big problem with this with some of the earlier models at least.
Then again, the way the various companies seem to be going towards disposable cars (as noted by another poster) so I guess they don't really care.
Naw, just flag down 3 12 volt cars to give you a boost...
While you might regret it, you'll prove a wonderful point... most people just don't know how much people have expanded the functionality of Qbasic. I remember when using Qbasic for CGI was first announced... everyone scoffed. But I guess there's always someone with a use for anything.
I've got Javascript for dummies, and have read some of the others...
They're hard to read, at least from my perspective... they are useful as a referance on commands, so if you want a dead tree referance book cheap, they work.
For PHP, I've found "PHP: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server side content" to be a really good book to learn from. Combined with "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0" you have things explained to you both ways, the simple, and the more involved.
I'm still looking for a good book on MySQL and Database design...
There's still people playing with Qbasic... however most of the real innovators have left QBasic and gone on to other things.
Funny though, take QBasic 4.5 plus one of the libaries made with Assembly, and QBasic isn't such a toy, there's some fun little games made with it.
But, myself I used Qbasic the other day to take some data and generate a formated HTML file with it... it was simply the right tool (ie, the quickest to download and install seeing I just reinstalled windows)
Takeing an outdated peice of equipment and doing something new and exciting with it? While it's fine to do here on earth, because you can always walk home, but in space?
That's ass backwards. When you have something that's so old, you set it doing the simple stuff, while you send the new stuff to do the new and exciting.
Though, to do something truely new and exciting, you'd probably either have to go further out into space, or strat landing on the moon again and starting a base there.
We need new designs before getting to the new space projects... right now, beyond the ISS and Hubble, there's not much to do, other than onboard experiments.
Last time they had one of these, it was compleatly moderated... questions were asked by private messages to a single person, then posed for them to awnser, one at a time.
Normally Video/Electronics places show the latest releases only because it's part of the promotional package (or, they get paid and/or certain other benifits to show the movie for x amount of time after the release). So they're granted permission to do it.
*scratches head* It depeds on just how strict you want to be about death... there's people who have been for all intents and purposes "dead", for a very short time, then brought back...
SO it might be technically possible, but it also depends on the definition of murder (ie, do they have to stay dead after you do it for it to count?)
While slashdot certainly makes up one of the most vocal groups on the internet.... since when could everyone move in the same direction?
BSD, Linux, the odd windows zelot, trolls, goat.cx posters...
well gee. Considering that it was a prerecorded clip (oviously), not to mention the fact that he had the golden popcorn...
Now, if they didn't already have a golden popcorn, then I'd say give them some leeway. They got informed ahead of time that they were nominated, and MTV wanted an acceptance speach with Gollum if they won.
Now, you gotta wonder, was Gollum's commentary about MTV something akin to Weta's opnion, or just fluff?
He knows someone who works where they manufacture John Deere branded equiment?
(And no,I don't mean that he knows someone who works in a John Deere factory... they do, requently source the manufatureing out)
What comes to mind is stratigic delaying with the FAQs, giving paying users a chance to get them sooner, partiuarly for news games.
Also perhaps there may be a move towards adding things like detailed maps as premium content. While other sites do have them, a central resource is something that a few folks may pay a bit for.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look around for it...
Main reason I intend to get zelda is because the fact that it's one of the bundles avlaiable... While I like Metroid and Mario, I've had more fun playing Zelda games.
The first party titles is what probably will keep Nintendo going... Zelda, Metroid, Mario and yes, even Pokemon all have thier following, who buy the system for that, and branch out a bit.
Heck, I haven't bought a consol since the PS1 and right now i'm truely considering picking up the GC, mainly for the Zelda game.
Now, to find some good RPG's for it as well...
24 hours is a bit short, yes. But I beleive getting time on the big radio telescopes is a difficult feat to start with.
At least they were able to reschedual the 2nd and 3rd 8 hour periods, seeing solar flares washd out the original dates.
Well, after downloading one of the songs (I'm thinking that it's getting the slashdot treatment... means i should by rights look for the music on Kazzaa in moments, right?) the talent doesn't suck exaclly... but it's nothing to write home about. The singer's voice is washed away by the music, and the words seem to blur together.
If he sang clearer, and they mixed it with the music a bit quieter, it would probably go over a lot better.
Unfortanatly there's also the problem with some uneducated people with mod points who can't tell the differnce between a truely insightful post and one that is a well written troll. Nor, the people who confuse a troll with humor that's on topic in terms of a given discussion.
So while it works, there's still some holes in the system.
Not sure, but how many people preorder anything except what they know is going to be hard to get when it first comes out, like software, consols & games, and certain books.
Unless the band is extreamly hot and popular in the region, why would anyone bother to preorder, when they can just pick it up whenever it comes out, if they want the CD?
I beleive that up until recently most contracts between publishers and authors didn't include rights to publish digital versions.
Not sure in the non fiction line of books who has uncrippled digital versions, but in fiction, Baen leads the way, between their Webscriptions service, free library, and the CD's included with some of their recent hardcovers. They provide the books in HTML, RTF, Mircrosoft Reader, some format that's Palm/Psion/WinCE friendly and Rocket Ebook.
The first two are more than enough... their HTML setup is quite good actually.
It will matter, particuarly if they hold steady at that price point after the current PS2 stock is sold out and all that's avaliable is the $199 set.
Though, it's hard to find a bare X-Box system, normally all I see is the bundles...
After downloading it, upgrading to DX9.0a and playing throughthe one map, I can say it's a not bad game. I was entirely clueless of what to do... (The tutorial isn't the greatest help at times) It could grow in a person...
Take a look atthe new X-Men, X-Men: Evolution... definatly storylines running though it, even without the "To be Continued". Transformers Armada, big on the story arcs.
Justice League has some mutiple part episodes (actually, a fair number) but no long running story arcs though the whole thing.
But things like the old X-Men cartoon was the exception in that era, not the standard, it's far more common in this era, primarly I think, because of Anime being shown so much, plenty more wholeness to the show (Yu-Gi-Oh and Bayblade, some of the hotter shows with the younger crowd both have contining stories, detailing the protagonists travels and trials in their chosen game...even Pokemon had this, to a point)
I gave up hope on the saturday morning cartoon on the channels that they focused on... even when I was younger.
Myself, I like watching YTV on saturday mornings (it's a Canadian kids channel, for those who didn't know). The line up includes Transformers Armada, Transformers Beast Machines, He-man, Justice League, Jackie Chan Adventures and X-Men: Evolution. (a few others that I don't tend to watch much as well).
It's probably the most time I spend in front of a TV all week that little block.
But why would most kids want to spend saturday mornings watching cartoons? When I was younger, cartoons only happened in the early mornings, before school (forbidden to watch them by my parents at that time, or I'd miss the bus), a couple shows after school (normally the disney ones of the year) and saturday mornings.
Now, with 24/7 cartoon (or others with kid focused programming) networks, they can get their fix anytime, and plenty of households have multiple TV's, so parents and kids can each watch what they want. So there's nothing really special about saturday morning cartoons, at least to the average kid who watches cartoons (unless they realise that Saturday is when the new episodes come out... but there's always reruns, and multiple airings..)
Looks like one game I'll look for when it comes out.
I like the notion of having to run a disfuntional group... makes things so much more interesting