I admit it. I was balked at the first Harry Potter game. Everything went fine until I got to the "Fluffy" dog heads. I could not find a way to get them all to sleep at the same time; gave up after a while.
"to carry a minimum of 3 adults of height 188 cm (6 feet 2 inches)"
Dwarfs and midgets have been barred from the Final Frontier. I guess it is back to the mines to look for precious precious mithril.... Oh, and Mini-Me, stop humping the laser!
As someone already pointed out, it says that the ship has to return safely, not the passengers.
It does not specify if the passengers have to be alive or not. If you send up corpses, it is easier to keep them intact than it is to keep live passengers alive.
Mice? Does not say you can't send them instead of humans.
I have a friend who once called me up talking about discovering all this free software in Juarez sites. It took me a few questions to find out that he wasn't connecting to Mexico. It was the way he thought "warez" was pronounced.
From dictionary.com definition of trust: "A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry."
Trusted computing, therefore, facilitates reduction of competition.
Has anyone else tried the "Microsoft Inventor" application? I think Bill has the only copy, but it has a function where it automatically submits random word strings to the US patent office as complete patent applications.
Sample output:
e-commerce
e-communism
e-constipation
e-conifer
one-click shopping
one-click shipping
one-clock shopping
one-click slapping
BASIC
ADA
difference engine
mouse
rat
.....
Not only this, but it can generate 1,400 patent applications per day, all conveniently dated to 1878 so you can beat everyone to the punch. Microsoft "Created" this after it embraced and extended a third-party password-guesser program.
I didn't like Doom 64. Even on the max brightness and contrast settings in the cartridge's setup, everything was extremely low-contrast "very dark brown/gray on black" with a few flashes of dark orange or dark green here and there. And this was in the lit areas. When you went into a darker area, it was black on black. The television's brightness and contrast controls did not help either, but a game's designers have "Failed it" if you even have to consider adjusting those controls on the set.
I got tired of resisting the urge to shine a flashlight at the black screen to see what was going on, and gave up on it.
"Doom and Quake popular in the first place was mindless, bloody, fast paced carnage"
Firing black bullets in a black room at black monsters is such fun! I've not seen any other game for any other system (including Doom and Quake for other platforms) which blew it on darkness/contrast like this one did.
I don't consider the games to be "sequels" in the same way movies are: The games are more like "new improved" versions of the old. (Whether they do improve things is another topic).
You are probably going to buy Halo 2 because you enjoyed Halo 1 and are expecting a better version of "more of the same". In contrast, you don't go to "Batman 5" expecting a version of "Batman 1" to see the same battle between Bats and the Joker with the latest new effects added that they didn't have in 1989.
"Aliens" (Alien 2) was one of those weak sequels. The first one was a masterpiece of horror and the Giger set design really sets it apart. Compared to this, the second one was a pallid echo that turned into a rehash of "Terminator" at the end. Based on "Aliens", I steered totally clear of the 3rd and 4th movies.
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US Robitics cable modems burst into flame upon connection.
Local FBI agents walking down the street now greet you by first name.
"they can kick your devices off your home network" means that your toaster, radio, blanket, and vacuum have left home never to return.
Reality TV shows feature different rooms in your house.
This must explain the Comcast version of the "Big Brother" show. I was wondering why it always showed my own living room.
(what can I say? It is karma-burn friday. May be overrated, but it sure isn't offtopic for once!)
I always ask Bonzi Buddy to help solve my spyware problems. He is always so helpful!
I admit it. I was balked at the first Harry Potter game. Everything went fine until I got to the "Fluffy" dog heads. I could not find a way to get them all to sleep at the same time; gave up after a while.
Why, did I mention antique plane parts in the scavenger list?
Want to cover the roof of the museum with cops and cop cars? Just open a donut shop. If you build it, they will come.
10. Mayor Daley the First
9. An effective WinXP security patch CD
8. 11,000 Bush vote ballots brought home early in 2001 by Bill "Lex Luthor" Daley and hidden in a landfill.
7. My car keys!
6. (still missing)
5. The Beagle
4. 8,700 ballots from 1960 election marked as votes for Nixon.
3. WMD's
2. Meigs Field
1. Jimmy Hoffa
Dwarfs and midgets have been barred from the Final Frontier. I guess it is back to the mines to look for precious precious mithril.... Oh, and Mini-Me, stop humping the laser!
As someone already pointed out, it says that the ship has to return safely, not the passengers.
It does not specify if the passengers have to be alive or not. If you send up corpses, it is easier to keep them intact than it is to keep live passengers alive.
Mice? Does not say you can't send them instead of humans.
I have a friend who once called me up talking about discovering all this free software in Juarez sites. It took me a few questions to find out that he wasn't connecting to Mexico. It was the way he thought "warez" was pronounced.
Can you imagine the prospect of SCO receiving $699 for each installation of Windows???
The witch is dead, but will likely by replaced by an ogre or a kraken.
Trusted computing, therefore, facilitates reduction of competition.
They have cancelled security? What next? Will Microsoft stop supporting Linux? Oh no!
Hey! Don't give the Linspire/Lindows guys any ideas for their next name!
That reminds me of an old spoof of "The One-Minute Manager" entitled "The One-Bullet Manager" by Chairman Mao.
Sample output:
e-commerce
e-communism
e-constipation
e-conifer
one-click shopping
one-click shipping
one-clock shopping
one-click slapping
BASIC
ADA
difference engine
mouse
rat
.....
Not only this, but it can generate 1,400 patent applications per day, all conveniently dated to 1878 so you can beat everyone to the punch. Microsoft "Created" this after it embraced and extended a third-party password-guesser program.
I got tired of resisting the urge to shine a flashlight at the black screen to see what was going on, and gave up on it.
"Doom and Quake popular in the first place was mindless, bloody, fast paced carnage"
Firing black bullets in a black room at black monsters is such fun! I've not seen any other game for any other system (including Doom and Quake for other platforms) which blew it on darkness/contrast like this one did.
At least for just a little while, "on line" will mean on the internet only, and not "in line".
10. iluvalqueda
9. idareyoutoguessthis
8. oldfattylumpkinwhosewisenoseledushere
7. *******
6. (my actual password)
5. cowboyneal
4. pencil
3. neo
2. secret
1. password
I remember the same thing being said about the actual Internet back in the mid-late 1980s. Academic playground, won't amount to much.
You are probably going to buy Halo 2 because you enjoyed Halo 1 and are expecting a better version of "more of the same". In contrast, you don't go to "Batman 5" expecting a version of "Batman 1" to see the same battle between Bats and the Joker with the latest new effects added that they didn't have in 1989.
"Aliens" (Alien 2) was one of those weak sequels. The first one was a masterpiece of horror and the Giger set design really sets it apart. Compared to this, the second one was a pallid echo that turned into a rehash of "Terminator" at the end. Based on "Aliens", I steered totally clear of the 3rd and 4th movies.
Who showers anymore? No shower, no germsheet curtain.