Plus, there are endless hours of entertainment watching them try to figure out how to face Mecca when they pray!
Actually that makes it easier. Consider that all of earth is less than 15 degrees wide when seen from the moon, that makes less error than many muslims probably have when facing Mecca today!
Problem is, every one in a while someone does a truly great 3D adaptation of a 2D game (Prince of Persia:Sands of Time, what a great game) and everybody and their brother tries to get into the act thinking they can copy the success. So we end up with 3D ports of great 2D games which truly suck.
Evolution takes place every day. There are consistent reports of scientists being "surprised" at how fast individual species seem to adapt.
I'm also curious, how many extinctions would there be if there weren't humans around? I'd be willing to put my neck out and say that number is a lot more than we might think otherwise.
And does anyone remember (not from personal experience obviously) that during the Middle Ages, the average temp around the earth was 3-4 degrees (F, I believe) warmer than it is now?
I get tired of the doom & gloom predictions that always come out...and for some reason never seem to come true! How long have they been saying that we will run out of fossil fuels in 20 years? (It's a lot longer than 20 years, to be sure.)
It's a shitty policy, but this is a perfect example of how a few bad apples can ruin it for everyone.
No, it's not. Let's make this clear: the RIAA et al. are not afraid of people. They are afraid of technology. If they had their way, they would make a technology illegal even if it were impossible for more than one person in the world to use.
What is is a perfect example of how the realization by many corporations that they can piss a lot of customers off while still making money has changed the way they do business.
This is no different than being unable to return a software package which has licensing terms with which you don't agree. If they make the barrier high enough, most people won't bother, and the companies get to keep their money, despite irritating their customers.
Right now I have 4 alarms - two on the T68, and two on my alarm clock, and the alarm clock is across the room. I still 'sleep' through them.
I find that waking to music is the best option for me. If I put in a song I really like, I can wake much better than otherwise.
Here are some additional items I'd like in an alarm: -2 independent (selectable CD/tone/radio) alarms -any track CD wake for both alarms -multiple tones for alarm wake -CD to tone failover -weekend sleeper -self-recharging backup battery -anti-skip CD playing
The closest thing I've found is the Philips AJ393517 , but it doesn't play CDs reliably (and the tone failover isn't reliable either!) and when you turn the volume up, the vibrations make the CD player skip horribly and often.
I haven't had a land-line at home for about 6 years. Never really felt the need to get one since getting my mobile phone. -- Yes, of course it's the right cabl [le0: NO CARRIER]
Free speech doesn't protect libel. Someone recently told me about an old article where a Doctor Shaklee (someone who had earned a PhD or MD or equivalent, I'm not sure what) was described in the NY Times as, "Mr. Shaklee, who calls himself a doctor". This sort of speech is not protected, because it is untrue and defamatory. I would speculate that Rockstar might actually have a case here.
BTW, it was Billy Joel, and the song banned was "Only the Good Die Young". By his own admission (which I was personally present for), it was a mediocre song which suddenly hit the big time when it was banned. The moral is: it is far better to ignore or intelligently ridicule something you want people to avoid than to censor it, especially in American culture.
Hey, say it with me... *re-lay*. A transceiver satellite orbiting above the moon will be more than capable of sending images back to Earth. (Obviously, cost is not a factor, since we're talking about putting a telescope on the moon...)
Interestingly, we should also be able to make a much bigger mirror/lens if it is manufactured locally on the moon (imagine that - UAW local 4775, Mare Imbrium) since the gravity is so much lower. The distortions and cracking prolem here on Earth would be lessened considerably there.
I stumbled on the show by accident the other day. I (VERY) vaguely remember the original, and how cheesy it seemed even when I was a wee one.
Ultimate frisbee interfered and I couldn't watch the end of it, but I was extremely pleasantly surprised with what I did see. I hope they show it again soon when I have time to watch it.
The thing that struck me most about it was how quiet it was. Not just sonically (though I loved the reduction in "space noise"!) but in acting and directing styles - it was more subtle and polished than anything Star Trek has ever done, IMO.
The fight scene with the female pilot, where the TACNET was silent except for her voice in the middle of a major battle was jarring. Who cares that she made it through a tough scrape when there are dozens of other pilots dying in near proximity? I dislike it when it's expected that other characters are assumed to have the same level of knowledge that the viewer does.
But the short of it is, I think I would be inclined to watch it if it came out as a serial, if it could maintain the same quality.
OTOH, you can play from Excel! This link is supposed to have downloads to pacman and space invaders Excel macros, but I've only found the pacman one so far.
The site is in Nihongo, so I can't read it all that well. Anybody want to translate?
So much for trying to be neutral, huh? RR vs. Newtown is like comparing apples to realizations. I know it will take some forcing, but give it a rest, would you? Otherwise I know you could go on like this forever. Of course, every action has an equal and opposite criticism...
Then what constitutes an observer? This has always seemed to be a problem with the HUP to me... Say I record the event of the cat's death on a computer (EKG, for instance). Then I look at the computer reading before I open the box to see the cat directly. So I know the state of the cat without actually observing the cat. At what point does the cat actually die? When the computer records it? When I look at the readout? If the computer records it at a particular time, but the waveform doesn't collapse until a later time when I observe it, this seems paradoxical to me.
Take this a step further - what if the EKG is just an entangled particle? Now we have base matter acting as observers perhaps? What constitutes an "observer"?
If each universe is unique to the observer, does that mean we have as many universes as their are quantum particles? How do those universes stay so closely collaborated that we can all observe the same initial condition to start from?
if i want video games, i want video games. i don't want something that records tv, plays dvd's, answers the phone, does spreadsheets and whatever else.
Absolutely correct. The railroad analogy is a poor one; Amtrak still makes millions of dollars a year, as do Union Pacific, Sante Fe and a host of other carriers - one can hardly call them unsuccessful. While rail transport is nowhere near the powerful money-making machine it was 150 years ago, that's simply because the market has matured and other technologies have filled niche portions of what used to be the rails' market more efficiently than the rails themselves could do it.
It is ALWAYS better to be a niche player in a specific market than to try to be all things to all people. It allows you to focus on those things you do best, and forces you to concentrate on your core business instead of spending resources on things you really know nothing about.
Nintendo is in no trouble from this decision. In fact, this decision will help them weather other things like bad management or adverse market conditions much more profitably than they might otherwise.
There are several software packages including Ztrace and Absolute Software's Computrace which deal with the issue of laptop theft directly. It seems very likely that these computers were protected with one of these type of programs.
No kidding? I had just assumed that someone had taken up on Brian Regan's pluralizations, like boxen and moosen.
Another of my favorites: "I before E except after C and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh or on weekends or holidays or all throughout May and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!"
He's a very funny comic. There's a fan site that's worth checking out too.
Nope, unfortunately. Phoenix, IIRC, is the largest provider of BIOS hardware out there. They specialize in OEM BIOS sales - nearly every Gateway or Dell computer I've ever seen had a Phoenix BIOS. I have already refused to purchase Phoenix-brand BIOSes for years because they lack functionality which is present it nearly every other mfg's BIOS.
Ironically, they also own the brand Award (my favorite BIOS), which is more fully-functioned than most (if not all) other mfgs. But when Phoenix DRM creeps its way into AWARD_SW, I will be sure to purchase another, unencumbered brand.
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Plus, there are endless hours of entertainment watching them try to figure out how to face Mecca when they pray!
Actually that makes it easier. Consider that all of earth is less than 15 degrees wide when seen from the moon, that makes less error than many muslims probably have when facing Mecca today!
Problem is, every one in a while someone does a truly great 3D adaptation of a 2D game (Prince of Persia:Sands of Time, what a great game) and everybody and their brother tries to get into the act thinking they can copy the success. So we end up with 3D ports of great 2D games which truly suck.
Evolution takes place every day. There are consistent reports of scientists being "surprised" at how fast individual species seem to adapt.
I'm also curious, how many extinctions would there be if there weren't humans around? I'd be willing to put my neck out and say that number is a lot more than we might think otherwise.
And does anyone remember (not from personal experience obviously) that during the Middle Ages, the average temp around the earth was 3-4 degrees (F, I believe) warmer than it is now?
I get tired of the doom & gloom predictions that always come out...and for some reason never seem to come true! How long have they been saying that we will run out of fossil fuels in 20 years? (It's a lot longer than 20 years, to be sure.)
Um, do you (or any one else) have any evidence or proof of a "habitable zone"?
Um, yes. We live in it.
Heh. That's what the original poster kept saying right up to the moment of truth, I'm sure.
It only takes once.
Experience is the one thing you never have until just after you need it.
It's a shitty policy, but this is a perfect example of how a few bad apples can ruin it for everyone.
No, it's not. Let's make this clear: the RIAA et al. are not afraid of people. They are afraid of technology. If they had their way, they would make a technology illegal even if it were impossible for more than one person in the world to use.
What is is a perfect example of how the realization by many corporations that they can piss a lot of customers off while still making money has changed the way they do business.
This is no different than being unable to return a software package which has licensing terms with which you don't agree. If they make the barrier high enough, most people won't bother, and the companies get to keep their money, despite irritating their customers.
Right now I have 4 alarms - two on the T68, and two on my alarm clock, and the alarm clock is across the room. I still 'sleep' through them.
I find that waking to music is the best option for me. If I put in a song I really like, I can wake much better than otherwise.
Here are some additional items I'd like in an alarm:
-2 independent (selectable CD/tone/radio) alarms
-any track CD wake for both alarms
-multiple tones for alarm wake
-CD to tone failover
-weekend sleeper
-self-recharging backup battery
-anti-skip CD playing
The closest thing I've found is the Philips AJ393517 , but it doesn't play CDs reliably (and the tone failover isn't reliable either!) and when you turn the volume up, the vibrations make the CD player skip horribly and often.
I haven't had a land-line at home for about 6 years. Never really felt the need to get one since getting my mobile phone.
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Yes, of course it's the right cabl [le0: NO CARRIER]
What's wrong with this picture?
Well, I suppose I could drop the "F", but I don't want to be responsible for reminding people of the existence of KC and the Sunshine Band.
Some things are just crimes against humanity.
Ohhh! Ow! Damn, my eyes!!!
Yeah, but it's so cold there, eh? In the wintertime yoo can't go oot of yer hoose.
'Coorse, Vancoover is really pretty in the summer and yoo don't even need yoor took. In May yoo can throw snowballs in yer shorts on the moont'n.
Free speech doesn't protect libel. Someone recently told me about an old article where a Doctor Shaklee (someone who had earned a PhD or MD or equivalent, I'm not sure what) was described in the NY Times as, "Mr. Shaklee, who calls himself a doctor". This sort of speech is not protected, because it is untrue and defamatory. I would speculate that Rockstar might actually have a case here.
BTW, it was Billy Joel, and the song banned was "Only the Good Die Young". By his own admission (which I was personally present for), it was a mediocre song which suddenly hit the big time when it was banned. The moral is: it is far better to ignore or intelligently ridicule something you want people to avoid than to censor it, especially in American culture.
Hmmm, gas giants and Kevin Kostner ? Yeah, I'd say that constitutes monsters and disasters!
Hey, say it with me... *re-lay*. A transceiver satellite orbiting above the moon will be more than capable of sending images back to Earth. (Obviously, cost is not a factor, since we're talking about putting a telescope on the moon...)
Interestingly, we should also be able to make a much bigger mirror/lens if it is manufactured locally on the moon (imagine that - UAW local 4775, Mare Imbrium) since the gravity is so much lower. The distortions and cracking prolem here on Earth would be lessened considerably there.
I stumbled on the show by accident the other day. I (VERY) vaguely remember the original, and how cheesy it seemed even when I was a wee one.
Ultimate frisbee interfered and I couldn't watch the end of it, but I was extremely pleasantly surprised with what I did see. I hope they show it again soon when I have time to watch it.
The thing that struck me most about it was how quiet it was. Not just sonically (though I loved the reduction in "space noise"!) but in acting and directing styles - it was more subtle and polished than anything Star Trek has ever done, IMO.
The fight scene with the female pilot, where the TACNET was silent except for her voice in the middle of a major battle was jarring. Who cares that she made it through a tough scrape when there are dozens of other pilots dying in near proximity? I dislike it when it's expected that other characters are assumed to have the same level of knowledge that the viewer does.
But the short of it is, I think I would be inclined to watch it if it came out as a serial, if it could maintain the same quality.
I enjoyed what little I saw of it.
OTOH, you can play from Excel! This link is supposed to have downloads to pacman and space invaders Excel macros, but I've only found the pacman one so far.
The site is in Nihongo, so I can't read it all that well. Anybody want to translate?
So much for trying to be neutral, huh? RR vs. Newtown is like comparing apples to realizations. I know it will take some forcing, but give it a rest, would you? Otherwise I know you could go on like this forever. Of course, every action has an equal and opposite criticism...
Then what constitutes an observer? This has always seemed to be a problem with the HUP to me... Say I record the event of the cat's death on a computer (EKG, for instance). Then I look at the computer reading before I open the box to see the cat directly. So I know the state of the cat without actually observing the cat. At what point does the cat actually die? When the computer records it? When I look at the readout? If the computer records it at a particular time, but the waveform doesn't collapse until a later time when I observe it, this seems paradoxical to me.
Take this a step further - what if the EKG is just an entangled particle? Now we have base matter acting as observers perhaps? What constitutes an "observer"?
If each universe is unique to the observer, does that mean we have as many universes as their are quantum particles? How do those universes stay so closely collaborated that we can all observe the same initial condition to start from?
*brain explodes*
if i want video games, i want video games. i don't want something that records tv, plays dvd's, answers the phone, does spreadsheets and whatever else.
Absolutely correct. The railroad analogy is a poor one; Amtrak still makes millions of dollars a year, as do Union Pacific, Sante Fe and a host of other carriers - one can hardly call them unsuccessful. While rail transport is nowhere near the powerful money-making machine it was 150 years ago, that's simply because the market has matured and other technologies have filled niche portions of what used to be the rails' market more efficiently than the rails themselves could do it.
It is ALWAYS better to be a niche player in a specific market than to try to be all things to all people. It allows you to focus on those things you do best, and forces you to concentrate on your core business instead of spending resources on things you really know nothing about.
Nintendo is in no trouble from this decision. In fact, this decision will help them weather other things like bad management or adverse market conditions much more profitably than they might otherwise.
There are several software packages including Ztrace and Absolute Software's Computrace which deal with the issue of laptop theft directly. It seems very likely that these computers were protected with one of these type of programs.
...and thus we have "spice is the variety of wife"! I get it now!
No kidding? I had just assumed that someone had taken up on Brian Regan's pluralizations, like boxen and moosen.
Another of my favorites:
"I before E except after C
and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh
or on weekends or holidays or all throughout May
and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!"
He's a very funny comic. There's a fan site that's worth checking out too.
Nope, unfortunately. Phoenix, IIRC, is the largest provider of BIOS hardware out there. They specialize in OEM BIOS sales - nearly every Gateway or Dell computer I've ever seen had a Phoenix BIOS. I have already refused to purchase Phoenix-brand BIOSes for years because they lack functionality which is present it nearly every other mfg's BIOS.
Ironically, they also own the brand Award (my favorite BIOS), which is more fully-functioned than most (if not all) other mfgs. But when Phoenix DRM creeps its way into AWARD_SW, I will be sure to purchase another, unencumbered brand.
Now if only they'd come for the trite and the histrionic :-)
;-)
Hopefully they'll come for the carelessly apathetic first.
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There are three kinds of people:
Those who make things happen.
Those who watch thing happen.
Those who wonder what the hell just happened.
Georgia nothin' - he means Brazil!
M.S. is just More of the Same.
PHD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
So he could have a PhD in BS.