Actually I really like having the eject button on the remote, especially since most DVD players these days seem to take forever to spit the disc out anyway. With the button only on the player, you're left standing there in front it staring blankly at the 'ejecting' screen on the TV for what seems like 10 minutes waiting for the disc to finally find its way out. If the button's on the remote you can press it and the player can do all its dicking around while you untangle yourself from the couch/girlfriend/cat/etc, find the DVD case, and then walk across the room to grab the disc as it pops out.
Best known as one of the discoverers of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that hit Jupiter in 1994, but he did an incredible amount of other stuff as well. He was the first person to prove that craters on Earth and the Moon were caused by asteroid impacts, and he practically invented the field of Astrogeology. This all lead to him being heavily involved in developing scientific experiments for the Apollo missions, and training the astronauts to perform them - most likely he would've been sent to the Moon himself if not for health problems. He spent the last few years of his life alternating between searching the night skies for asteroids and comets, and travelling the world hunting for impact craters. He was killed in a car crash in 1997 in Central Australia.
As far as I know there's only been on biography written on him - thankfully it's a decent one, written by long-time friend David Levy. See here.
Yesterday we got what sounds like the exact same package. A big box containing nothing but a single slip of paper... why they couldn't stick it in an envelope (or even just an email) is beyond me. I can only assume Microsoft has paid FedEx some massive amount for a bulk lot of as many of those boxes as they feel like sending, because we always get the same sized box from MS, whether it's a dozen CDs plus technical documentation, or a just a single CD or piece of paper.
The other one I always wonder about is why Dell feels the need to seal every single component inside the box of a new PC in plastic, even if it's just a single sheet of paper...
if you can stand playing solitaire for more than an hour
It can happen. I literally wore out the buttons on the mouse on my first PC playing Minesweeper incessantly... fortunately the cheap'n'dodgy mouse I bought to replace it never felt quite the same, so my Minesweeper times were never quite as good, and I slowy lost interest after that.
Anyway, The true test of a sports cars, as opposed to just a fast car, is the handling
The good news there is that he was hiring lots of engineers from Lotus - they've been the guys you call when trying to develop a good handling car for a long time now...
Except of course what Canadians call 'hockey' is known in most of the rest of the world as 'ice hockey', to distinguish it from real hockey, which is played on a field with a ball, not on a rink with a puck...
AVG does the job well, doesn't completely take over any machine it's installed on causing massive performance problems, is dead simple to deploy & administer, and was the best value for money of all the various AV solutions we looked at.
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To me, the bit saying 'from general view' sounds like the key - it doesn't mean I can't use Adblock or whatever to stop me from seeing the ad, but does mean I can't use anything to stop everyone else from seeing it. (Insert standard IANAL disclaimer here.)
(On another point, if I use Adblock to block ads from a site, how easy is it for them to tell that I've done so, and to narrow it down to a specific ad blocked from a specific site on a specific visit?)
I'm the same. Doom, Descent, Half Life/CS, UT, Battlefield, Halo - no problem at all. But any more than about 5 minutes of Timesplitters 2 gives me a headache and nausea that lasts for at least an hour after I stop playing...
I heard it as a horse and a chicken on a farm, getting stuck in a big puddle of mud, with the punchline "if you're hung like a horse, you don't need a [fancy car name] to pick up chicks".
I select the files in Windows Explorer that I want, right click, and "Send To" the player that is listed as a removable drive.
Times like this you really need a "+1 - That's What I Was Going To Say" mod... The reliance of all the various iPods on iTunes (or other specific applications) was one of the main reasons why I decided not to get one. It's so much simpler to have your MP3 player just function as a normal removable drive - makes it easier to move the music files around the place too (eg, from home to work).
If you RTFA (although you really didn't miss anything by not doing so), you'll find out it's actually a contraction of his original tag "doodirock", which was supposed to be pronounced "dude I rock" but kept getting pronounced "doodie rock" and eventually just got shortened to "doodie".
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Just posting to undo an accidental mis-moderation of your comment (was going for Funny, but managed to hit Overrated instead).
Wish I could find an archive of that thread.
You mean this one?
(Shows up as the first link when you search for 'deckard 57 chevy' on groups.google.com)
Actually I really like having the eject button on the remote, especially since most DVD players these days seem to take forever to spit the disc out anyway. With the button only on the player, you're left standing there in front it staring blankly at the 'ejecting' screen on the TV for what seems like 10 minutes waiting for the disc to finally find its way out. If the button's on the remote you can press it and the player can do all its dicking around while you untangle yourself from the couch/girlfriend/cat/etc, find the DVD case, and then walk across the room to grab the disc as it pops out.
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Mod parent up - these things are awesome.
But if we call you Al, you won't be an Anonymous Coward anymore...
Hockey: no
Hockey: yes.
Ice Hockey: no.
From TFA:
1. Dilatants - fluids that get more solid when stressed.
That pretty much covers silly putty, doesn't it?
Gene Shoemaker
Best known as one of the discoverers of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that hit Jupiter in 1994, but he did an incredible amount of other stuff as well. He was the first person to prove that craters on Earth and the Moon were caused by asteroid impacts, and he practically invented the field of Astrogeology. This all lead to him being heavily involved in developing scientific experiments for the Apollo missions, and training the astronauts to perform them - most likely he would've been sent to the Moon himself if not for health problems. He spent the last few years of his life alternating between searching the night skies for asteroids and comets, and travelling the world hunting for impact craters. He was killed in a car crash in 1997 in Central Australia.
As far as I know there's only been on biography written on him - thankfully it's a decent one, written by long-time friend David Levy. See here.
Yesterday we got what sounds like the exact same package. A big box containing nothing but a single slip of paper... why they couldn't stick it in an envelope (or even just an email) is beyond me. I can only assume Microsoft has paid FedEx some massive amount for a bulk lot of as many of those boxes as they feel like sending, because we always get the same sized box from MS, whether it's a dozen CDs plus technical documentation, or a just a single CD or piece of paper.
The other one I always wonder about is why Dell feels the need to seal every single component inside the box of a new PC in plastic, even if it's just a single sheet of paper...
if you can stand playing solitaire for more than an hour
It can happen. I literally wore out the buttons on the mouse on my first PC playing Minesweeper incessantly... fortunately the cheap'n'dodgy mouse I bought to replace it never felt quite the same, so my Minesweeper times were never quite as good, and I slowy lost interest after that.
X-Play is still on Foxtel, on Fuel (the 'action' sports channel) from memory.
I get the joke, but couldn't disagree more - there is no possible way he could make Better Off Dead funnier...
Except if you're doing top speed, you're unlikely to be getting maximum range out of it.
Anyway, The true test of a sports cars, as opposed to just a fast car, is the handling
The good news there is that he was hiring lots of engineers from Lotus - they've been the guys you call when trying to develop a good handling car for a long time now...
here in Canada, hockey is the killer game
Except of course what Canadians call 'hockey' is known in most of the rest of the world as 'ice hockey', to distinguish it from real hockey, which is played on a field with a ball, not on a rink with a puck...
Mod +1, That's What We Just Did.
AVG does the job well, doesn't completely take over any machine it's installed on causing massive performance problems, is dead simple to deploy & administer, and was the best value for money of all the various AV solutions we looked at.
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To me, the bit saying 'from general view' sounds like the key - it doesn't mean I can't use Adblock or whatever to stop me from seeing the ad, but does mean I can't use anything to stop everyone else from seeing it. (Insert standard IANAL disclaimer here.)
(On another point, if I use Adblock to block ads from a site, how easy is it for them to tell that I've done so, and to narrow it down to a specific ad blocked from a specific site on a specific visit?)
about as effective as giving fish credit for plate tectonics.
:)
Yeah - everyone knows it wasn't fish, it was microbes...
Presumably you're talking about van Eck phreaking, which was featured quite prominently in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
We should coin a name for it.
We already did - since web logs are now knows as 'blogs', web apps will from now on be known as 'bapps'.
I'm the same. Doom, Descent, Half Life/CS, UT, Battlefield, Halo - no problem at all. But any more than about 5 minutes of Timesplitters 2 gives me a headache and nausea that lasts for at least an hour after I stop playing...
I had that exact same idea. Even came up with a catchy name for it - the Cinemini!
Unfortunately, someone else thought of it too. Hopefully they can make a go of it and we'll see these things popping up all over the place soon.
I heard it as a horse and a chicken on a farm, getting stuck in a big puddle of mud, with the punchline "if you're hung like a horse, you don't need a [fancy car name] to pick up chicks".
I select the files in Windows Explorer that I want, right click, and "Send To" the player that is listed as a removable drive.
Times like this you really need a "+1 - That's What I Was Going To Say" mod... The reliance of all the various iPods on iTunes (or other specific applications) was one of the main reasons why I decided not to get one. It's so much simpler to have your MP3 player just function as a normal removable drive - makes it easier to move the music files around the place too (eg, from home to work).
If you RTFA (although you really didn't miss anything by not doing so), you'll find out it's actually a contraction of his original tag "doodirock", which was supposed to be pronounced "dude I rock" but kept getting pronounced "doodie rock" and eventually just got shortened to "doodie".