The funny thing about the freeze-dried ice cream they sell at the Air & Space Museum and other places is that astronauts apparently don't like it... It went to outer space maybe once on Apollo 7 in 1968, and NASA hasn't packed it since.
I do like it too, though, so at least there's more of it to go around for people like us (just wish there was a cheaper way to buy it than from tourist traps).
Huh? what? Uh, I have nothing against gay people, I have a chuckle myself every once in a while.
I am a bit peeved about all the fabulous names used by java "apps" and "applets" and "beans" and "singlets" and "servlets" and stuff. It just makes me want to EXECUTE them all with EXTREME PREJUDICE.
But I really try not to refer to master/slave components anymore, that's just offensive. Hardware should not be bound thusly.
Dammit, all of the java-esque names for things sound gay enough already. Now I'm pretty certain they're going to call their core structures "objet d'art"
... not to mention all of the large.orgs and.edus I've seen that now use some flavor of gmail/docs instead of running their own 24x7 mail & file servers like they did 10 years ago.
Yeah, I think I'd even take the spotty Yelp ratings over Zagat nowadays, it's actually quite sad. I used to play with Zagat a bunch of years ago, and even maybe paid for their Blackberry app once, but it didn't really deliver the goods when we turned to it for our night out. My suspicion is that Google will simply add some of the Zagat editorial to some of the Yelp content, and maybe level out some of those 5-star crap chain listings that litter the listings of unique establishments, but I don't intend to pay the Zagat blurb much mind.
In our area, we do have a really great alternative, the local Washingtonian. I wish more of these services could figure out how to emulate some of their features and quality, or if we could get something that consistently covers other metro areas.
Whatever you start off with, give it a run through doxygen first. Esp. with C++, this will save you a lot of time looking up definitions of objects and other stuff buried in various (and overridden) header files.
Pretty much... I liked their hand-picked "directory of the internet"... it was a good starting point for several things.
I had been using yahoo mail as my spam account for the longest time (i.e., for just about every website registration and mailing lists that I didn't really care about). But recently I went through the considerable trouble of changing everything to an extra gmail account, for a couple of reasons:
fetchyahoo lag : this nifty script used to let me grab all of my yahoo mail into a maildir folder on my home system, but yahoo kept changing the protocol and the poor perl script would always have to be updated. With gmail, I simply have it forward a copy to my home server for my personal archive, plus I could probably get to it using pop or imap at no additional charge:P
bounced emails : the thing that really got me was that they started bouncing about 10% of my incoming mail back to the sender, so all the sites were asking me to update my email address. It sounds like lots of other people had been having this problem for months. I waited for them to resolve it for a few months, but finally gave up:P
It's been interesting changing all of my accounts over to a new address, but at least now I can track both my personal and spam email from the gmail app on my Android phone, and free up some space by uninstalling the yahoo mail app:-P Not terribly keen on having all of my email traffic being sent through Google, but oh well. Hopefully they'll add some kind of encryption (or at least digital signature) support someday like hushmail.
Ha, Al Qaeda did more to punish Wall Street for their excesses than any of our parties ever did... say! maybe they should run here! They'd probably do pretty well:-P
Heh, I won't argue that there's a dearth of driving sims, period. The passenger giving you pointers for speeds to take the next turn in Dirt was a nice touch, but actually controlling the cars felt more like sledding than driving; I'd just as soon be playing tuxracer:-P I bought Grid because it got fairly good reviews and worked with my Logitech G25 wheel (yeah, the PS2 + GT4 I picked up a few years ago was merely an accessory for the wheel), but it still feels more like an arcade racer than a sim.
I'm still looking for a nice driving sims (not necessarily racing), and I really like the lessons and challenges from GT and L4S that focus on your understanding of the physics. Never played with Forza, so far the only PC sims I really enjoyed toying around with were L4S and the EuroTruckSim demo. I do enjoy the occasional arcade racer, but those tend to be much less serious fun/puzzle/twitch games suited for the control pad, like Burnout or Trackmania.
Meh, doesn't sound like anything of value was lost. I've played Grid and maybe the demo of one of the earlier Dirts, but they're pretty much arcade racers that get boring and monotonous fast. Go play Gran Turismo something, or better yet Live4Speed, those seem to be the only racing games that feel anything remotely similar to driving real cars (at least if you have a wheel & pedals).
I'm still waiting for some sort of retribution from Steam for cashing in on a stash of high-level loot some random Level 69 pub hack dropped off on us in Borderlands. I grabbed three things out of the pile for the heck of it, and even though I couldn't use them, I sold them for the "Slumskag Millionaire" achievement, and now have more money than the counter can register. Doesn't really matter in the game though, money isn't exactly a limiting factor (loot drops are much better than anything you can buy), and I still run around gathering all the dollar bills for the heck of it. But if I get banned, so much the better, I spend waayy too much time playing games anyway:-P
Yeah, I'm a pretty big fan of Android myself, and have an HTC 3G Slide. But I do miss my ancient Blackberry Pearl keyboard, which I could operate with one hand, and I got a bit too comfortable with the (admittedly weird) way Blackberry arranged its numeric keypad.
But I get by.
Hoping I finally decide to shell out for a USB twiddler someday, so I can replace my car's shift knob with it and use it to control my G-Tablet:-P
I dunno, if it was just me, I'd rather go with the DVD-only plan, since it's much more likely to actually have the content I'm looking for. That said, my wife uses the streaming a lot because it's much more convenient than using torrents or whatever, and the quality is better (we don't have a blu-ray player for HD stuff... actually we don't even have a TV).
OTOH, I don't really watch movies or TV all that much, so we'll probably end up dumping the DVD plan:-P I have enough of a Futurama backlog to appease myself with streaming the few times I'm bored enough to turn to the tubes, and could just as well turn to the torrents or 'gasp' traditional DVD rentals or maybe even the library for the rare occasion that I wanted a particular movie that wasn't available on streaming.
Sprint and T-Mobile? They don't even use the same technologies! That makes about as much sense as an AMD / ATi merger! Oh, wait...
On the bright side, at least the new Intel server motherboards stopped coming with those horribly crappy on-board ATi ES1000 video chips, replaced with some Matrox 200 descendant that's refreshingly less crappy. On the bright side for the telecom industry... hmm, I don't see any bright side for any of the telecom mergers.
Hmm, we went to hit a half-dozen national parks this summer with the Frommer's guide loaded onto the Amazon Kindle app loaded our tablet + cellphones. The text was very helpful, but the greyscale maps were a bit too low res to be useful. The text part of the Frommer's guide was great for planning the handful of highlights to hit at each park, and how crowded to expect them, though.
I'd recommend WikiDroyd, though, which would let you download 2GB - 6GB of wikipedia-en text (or other languages) to your device, so you could always look up something about just about anything.
Yeah, I bought the G-Tablet earlier this year from Craigslist for about $400. Runs great with the VeGAN Tab 7 ROM... working Market, Dolphin Browser HD + Flash, Google Maps / Earth (using BlueGPS to share the GPS from my Android phone), Netflix (sideloaded) and Amazon Kindle. Also has stereo speakers and works with most (simple) USB keyboards and USB storage, which covers just about every major gripe I've heard from people with other tablets. If I could find a nice tablet mount, I'd probably get another one for the car... if you can live with the limited screen viewing angles and lack of GPS / 3G (which you can get by tethering to your phone), it's still one of the highest-spec Android devices out there, for half the price of more limited ones.
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Hmm, looks interesting, but even though I'm a Google fanboi, I'll probably stick with:
http://kayak.com/ for searching flights (check out http://kayak.com/explore ! )
http://flightaware.com/ for tracking flights (what is that plane that just passed overhead? Where is my connecting flight arriving from?)
http://tripit.com/ for itinerary scheduling / calendaring / alerting
All have pretty nifty Android / iOS apps as well... Google Market doesn't list anything for their Flight search as of this my lunch break :P
gee, thanks for making me go look :P Seems like you can get a 10-pack for $20.
But I'd still rather lug around my Aloe dessert chunks at 2-dozen for $20.
The funny thing about the freeze-dried ice cream they sell at the Air & Space Museum and other places is that astronauts apparently don't like it... It went to outer space maybe once on Apollo 7 in 1968, and NASA hasn't packed it since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-dried_ice_cream
I do like it too, though, so at least there's more of it to go around for people like us (just wish there was a cheaper way to buy it than from tourist traps).
Poor you, sounds like you didn't have a turbo button.
Mod up, j0.
Actual conversation with my mother-in-law:
"Oh, so they look and act like zombies so you don't see them as real people?"
"Actually, I'm starting to observe how real people look and act like the zombies from the game."
Quick! Time for an extended civil disobedience campaign!
What? The internet? Pee too Pee? Huh.
I'm most disturbed by this instance of real life mirroring any element of Just Cause 2 (the navigation disruption towers on the northwest island.)
Huh? what? Uh, I have nothing against gay people, I have a chuckle myself every once in a while.
I am a bit peeved about all the fabulous names used by java "apps" and "applets" and "beans" and "singlets" and "servlets" and stuff. It just makes me want to EXECUTE them all with EXTREME PREJUDICE.
But I really try not to refer to master/slave components anymore, that's just offensive. Hardware should not be bound thusly.
Dammit, all of the java-esque names for things sound gay enough already. Now I'm pretty certain they're going to call their core structures "objet d'art"
... not to mention all of the large .orgs and .edus I've seen that now use some flavor of gmail/docs instead of running their own 24x7 mail & file servers like they did 10 years ago.
Yeah, I think I'd even take the spotty Yelp ratings over Zagat nowadays, it's actually quite sad. I used to play with Zagat a bunch of years ago, and even maybe paid for their Blackberry app once, but it didn't really deliver the goods when we turned to it for our night out. My suspicion is that Google will simply add some of the Zagat editorial to some of the Yelp content, and maybe level out some of those 5-star crap chain listings that litter the listings of unique establishments, but I don't intend to pay the Zagat blurb much mind.
In our area, we do have a really great alternative, the local Washingtonian. I wish more of these services could figure out how to emulate some of their features and quality, or if we could get something that consistently covers other metro areas.
Whatever you start off with, give it a run through doxygen first. Esp. with C++, this will save you a lot of time looking up definitions of objects and other stuff buried in various (and overridden) header files.
Pretty much... I liked their hand-picked "directory of the internet"... it was a good starting point for several things.
I had been using yahoo mail as my spam account for the longest time (i.e., for just about every website registration and mailing lists that I didn't really care about). But recently I went through the considerable trouble of changing everything to an extra gmail account, for a couple of reasons:
fetchyahoo lag : this nifty script used to let me grab all of my yahoo mail into a maildir folder on my home system, but yahoo kept changing the protocol and the poor perl script would always have to be updated. With gmail, I simply have it forward a copy to my home server for my personal archive, plus I could probably get to it using pop or imap at no additional charge :P
bounced emails : the thing that really got me was that they started bouncing about 10% of my incoming mail back to the sender, so all the sites were asking me to update my email address. It sounds like lots of other people had been having this problem for months. I waited for them to resolve it for a few months, but finally gave up :P
It's been interesting changing all of my accounts over to a new address, but at least now I can track both my personal and spam email from the gmail app on my Android phone, and free up some space by uninstalling the yahoo mail app :-P Not terribly keen on having all of my email traffic being sent through Google, but oh well. Hopefully they'll add some kind of encryption (or at least digital signature) support someday like hushmail.
Sorry Tea Partiers are more like terrorists.
Ha, Al Qaeda did more to punish Wall Street for their excesses than any of our parties ever did... say! maybe they should run here! They'd probably do pretty well :-P
Heh, I won't argue that there's a dearth of driving sims, period. The passenger giving you pointers for speeds to take the next turn in Dirt was a nice touch, but actually controlling the cars felt more like sledding than driving; I'd just as soon be playing tuxracer :-P I bought Grid because it got fairly good reviews and worked with my Logitech G25 wheel (yeah, the PS2 + GT4 I picked up a few years ago was merely an accessory for the wheel), but it still feels more like an arcade racer than a sim.
I'm still looking for a nice driving sims (not necessarily racing), and I really like the lessons and challenges from GT and L4S that focus on your understanding of the physics. Never played with Forza, so far the only PC sims I really enjoyed toying around with were L4S and the EuroTruckSim demo. I do enjoy the occasional arcade racer, but those tend to be much less serious fun/puzzle/twitch games suited for the control pad, like Burnout or Trackmania.
Where are all the "in Soviet Russia" trolls?
OK, I'll start...
In Communist Russia, dog eats dog.
Oh snap.
Meh, doesn't sound like anything of value was lost. I've played Grid and maybe the demo of one of the earlier Dirts, but they're pretty much arcade racers that get boring and monotonous fast. Go play Gran Turismo something, or better yet Live4Speed, those seem to be the only racing games that feel anything remotely similar to driving real cars (at least if you have a wheel & pedals).
I'm still waiting for some sort of retribution from Steam for cashing in on a stash of high-level loot some random Level 69 pub hack dropped off on us in Borderlands. I grabbed three things out of the pile for the heck of it, and even though I couldn't use them, I sold them for the "Slumskag Millionaire" achievement, and now have more money than the counter can register. Doesn't really matter in the game though, money isn't exactly a limiting factor (loot drops are much better than anything you can buy), and I still run around gathering all the dollar bills for the heck of it. But if I get banned, so much the better, I spend waayy too much time playing games anyway :-P
Yeah, I'm a pretty big fan of Android myself, and have an HTC 3G Slide. But I do miss my ancient Blackberry Pearl keyboard, which I could operate with one hand, and I got a bit too comfortable with the (admittedly weird) way Blackberry arranged its numeric keypad.
But I get by.
Hoping I finally decide to shell out for a USB twiddler someday, so I can replace my car's shift knob with it and use it to control my G-Tablet :-P
Hmm, has anyone suggested you try ninite?
Personally, I find that Steam carries just about all of the software I usually have to boot into Windows for.
I dunno, if it was just me, I'd rather go with the DVD-only plan, since it's much more likely to actually have the content I'm looking for. That said, my wife uses the streaming a lot because it's much more convenient than using torrents or whatever, and the quality is better (we don't have a blu-ray player for HD stuff... actually we don't even have a TV).
OTOH, I don't really watch movies or TV all that much, so we'll probably end up dumping the DVD plan :-P I have enough of a Futurama backlog to appease myself with streaming the few times I'm bored enough to turn to the tubes, and could just as well turn to the torrents or 'gasp' traditional DVD rentals or maybe even the library for the rare occasion that I wanted a particular movie that wasn't available on streaming.
No, three pounds per day is what you get just by exposing yourself in posts.
<pound>
And maybe if you opt-in to advertisements you'll get more!
Sprint and T-Mobile? They don't even use the same technologies! That makes about as much sense as an AMD / ATi merger! Oh, wait...
On the bright side, at least the new Intel server motherboards stopped coming with those horribly crappy on-board ATi ES1000 video chips, replaced with some Matrox 200 descendant that's refreshingly less crappy. On the bright side for the telecom industry... hmm, I don't see any bright side for any of the telecom mergers.
But just the moment before that, it's totally like this:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/09/17
Hmm, we went to hit a half-dozen national parks this summer with the Frommer's guide loaded onto the Amazon Kindle app loaded our tablet + cellphones. The text was very helpful, but the greyscale maps were a bit too low res to be useful. The text part of the Frommer's guide was great for planning the handful of highlights to hit at each park, and how crowded to expect them, though.
I'd recommend WikiDroyd, though, which would let you download 2GB - 6GB of wikipedia-en text (or other languages) to your device, so you could always look up something about just about anything.
Yeah, I bought the G-Tablet earlier this year from Craigslist for about $400. Runs great with the VeGAN Tab 7 ROM... working Market, Dolphin Browser HD + Flash, Google Maps / Earth (using BlueGPS to share the GPS from my Android phone), Netflix (sideloaded) and Amazon Kindle. Also has stereo speakers and works with most (simple) USB keyboards and USB storage, which covers just about every major gripe I've heard from people with other tablets. If I could find a nice tablet mount, I'd probably get another one for the car... if you can live with the limited screen viewing angles and lack of GPS / 3G (which you can get by tethering to your phone), it's still one of the highest-spec Android devices out there, for half the price of more limited ones.