"Anti-radiation missile" is a military term for anti-radar missiles like the Shrike and HARM, or for EU types the ALARM. Doesn't have anything to do with nuclear radiation.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the non-active ingredients. I'm sure Tylenol gets their batches of acetaminophen from the same chemical plants that everyone else gets it from, so that's the only logical explanation.
I know the difference between plain tylenol and tylenol sinus, ok? I can read an ingredients list.
If I take regular Tylenol, which contains no active ingredients other than acetaminophen, it works. If I take a generic acetaminophen pill, which contains no active ingredients other than acetaminophen, it does not work.
yeah, but I can take generics of anything else and it works just the same as the name brand. aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, sudafed, the only generic that is any different for me is tylenol.
Sounds like the advertising displays in Minority Report to me. Therefore, I say we shut these guys down before they get any closer to production-ready..
For all their software failings, MS' hardware has always been pretty good stuff. They contract with good companies to build it and they hire good engineers to design it.
Generic acetaminophen does nothing for me but Tylenol-branded stuff almost always works. It's not this way for me with any other drug so I guess it must have to do with the buffers that Tylenol puts in their pills.
I loved the original idea where it was more like a society simulation rather than controlling one person. If it had been more like that I would have probably played it myself. When I heard that you had to do things like tell your guy who to date I was turned off immediately..
I didn't go through DARE, and I graduated from high school in 1993. I know that the mafia and coke barons are real and I know that they're not good people. Look at that mob graveyard they're digging up in NYC right now, John Gotti had a guy killed because he accidentally hit his son, for joe's sake.
The difference between GTA3/GTA:VC and GTA:SA is that the first two are based on the romanticized versions of their subject matter. GTA3 is clearly based on the Hollywood/Puzo mafia mythology. Any one of the characters in Vice City would have been at home on your average episode of Miami Vice, which, was as cheesy as it gets even in its day. SA seems to be based on the way things actually were with the LA gangs.
Or maybe you guys are right and it's just because the gang thing was closer to me in the 90's than the other stuff was. In 1990 I was 14 so it's not like I spent a lot of time knowing what was really going on in the 80's.
I played GTA3 on the PC and Vice City on the PS2 and loved them (Vice City in particular) but I'm getting a real "been there done that" vibe from this San Andreas. It sounds like they've just added more stuff to do on top of the same old shit and thrown new skins and voices onto the same old graphics engine.
There's such a thing as too much realism. I mean, who wants to eat and work out and ride a bicycle in a video game? I play games to feel like I'm doing something that I can't do in the real world, and between GTA3 and Vice City I've already done all the crazy shit that I wanted to do.
Finally, the early 90s L.A. setting isn't what I'd personally call fun. If GTA3 is comparable to The Sopranos and Vice City is like Miami Vice or Scarface, then San Andreas is like the LA gangsta scene and that wasn't fictional. Lots of young people really died in the places that movies like "Boyz in The Hood" were about. Yeah, eventually that gangsta rap stuff got to be cliche and Snoop Dogg is funny and all that but it all comes from a place where innocent people died. You can't say anything about Tony Montana is real other than there were Cuban cokeheads in Miami in the early 1980s.
The geek part of me says "ooh, shiny new game" but the rational side says "don't believe the hype."
Then, if you're me, you wear shorts to school the day after your dad hits you with the belt below what the shorts will cover, so that the teachers and administration can see what kind of parents you have. Keeps you out of trouble.
you preach to the choir. I'm just calling out all the children of company men that usually jump all over shit like that telling the grandparent to "get another job and stop wasting the courts' time"
I have to admit that I've always just heard that about MS, and I have no first-hand experience there.
I guess I'm too used to the environment where I work now. Most of my co-workers come in early and leave correspondingly early. They are also mostly family men (and women) so their main priority is to get their work done and get home to be with their spouses and kids.
It was really strange coming here after working through the dot-com era where everybody thought they were in the process of becoming instant millionaires so they worked like they'd never have to again.. but once I got used to it I prefer it. Seems like the priorities of people here are in the right place.
I have nothing wrong with terming it as "so very cool" at all, in fact, I like the phrase. I just have a hard time seeing how any office can be anything like "cool". My ideal work environment is a lack of one.
I always heard MS encouraged socializing because MS encouraged people to not ever leave the office and that's easier to do when your social life is already there.
I would respond, but your first sentence tells me that you wouldn't be capable of understanding an adult. Go play BF1942 or something and come back when you can have a civil conversation.
That's more insightful than you think. They might think they're maximizing revenue by adding an advertising stream to the game, but it also makes the argument against piracy a lot less buoyant. If they're making money just from the game being played, there's no real legal precedent that allows them to shut down P2P networks for carrying software.
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"Anti-radiation missile" is a military term for anti-radar missiles like the Shrike and HARM, or for EU types the ALARM. Doesn't have anything to do with nuclear radiation.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the non-active ingredients. I'm sure Tylenol gets their batches of acetaminophen from the same chemical plants that everyone else gets it from, so that's the only logical explanation.
I know the difference between plain tylenol and tylenol sinus, ok? I can read an ingredients list.
If I take regular Tylenol, which contains no active ingredients other than acetaminophen, it works. If I take a generic acetaminophen pill, which contains no active ingredients other than acetaminophen, it does not work.
yeah, but I can take generics of anything else and it works just the same as the name brand. aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, sudafed, the only generic that is any different for me is tylenol.
Sounds like the advertising displays in Minority Report to me. Therefore, I say we shut these guys down before they get any closer to production-ready..
For all their software failings, MS' hardware has always been pretty good stuff. They contract with good companies to build it and they hire good engineers to design it.
Generic acetaminophen does nothing for me but Tylenol-branded stuff almost always works. It's not this way for me with any other drug so I guess it must have to do with the buffers that Tylenol puts in their pills.
I loved the original idea where it was more like a society simulation rather than controlling one person. If it had been more like that I would have probably played it myself. When I heard that you had to do things like tell your guy who to date I was turned off immediately..
I didn't go through DARE, and I graduated from high school in 1993. I know that the mafia and coke barons are real and I know that they're not good people. Look at that mob graveyard they're digging up in NYC right now, John Gotti had a guy killed because he accidentally hit his son, for joe's sake.
The difference between GTA3/GTA:VC and GTA:SA is that the first two are based on the romanticized versions of their subject matter. GTA3 is clearly based on the Hollywood/Puzo mafia mythology. Any one of the characters in Vice City would have been at home on your average episode of Miami Vice, which, was as cheesy as it gets even in its day. SA seems to be based on the way things actually were with the LA gangs.
Or maybe you guys are right and it's just because the gang thing was closer to me in the 90's than the other stuff was. In 1990 I was 14 so it's not like I spent a lot of time knowing what was really going on in the 80's.
I'd like for someone to explain the appeal of The Sims to me. It seems like it's just playing 'house' like a little kid, but onscreen.
I can totally respect that. I hadn't thought of it from that angle.
...I won't get to play until she passes out from exhaustion.
:D
Well that all depends on what you want to play, doesn't it
I played GTA3 on the PC and Vice City on the PS2 and loved them (Vice City in particular) but I'm getting a real "been there done that" vibe from this San Andreas. It sounds like they've just added more stuff to do on top of the same old shit and thrown new skins and voices onto the same old graphics engine.
There's such a thing as too much realism. I mean, who wants to eat and work out and ride a bicycle in a video game? I play games to feel like I'm doing something that I can't do in the real world, and between GTA3 and Vice City I've already done all the crazy shit that I wanted to do.
Finally, the early 90s L.A. setting isn't what I'd personally call fun. If GTA3 is comparable to The Sopranos and Vice City is like Miami Vice or Scarface, then San Andreas is like the LA gangsta scene and that wasn't fictional. Lots of young people really died in the places that movies like "Boyz in The Hood" were about. Yeah, eventually that gangsta rap stuff got to be cliche and Snoop Dogg is funny and all that but it all comes from a place where innocent people died. You can't say anything about Tony Montana is real other than there were Cuban cokeheads in Miami in the early 1980s.
The geek part of me says "ooh, shiny new game" but the rational side says "don't believe the hype."
Then, if you're me, you wear shorts to school the day after your dad hits you with the belt below what the shorts will cover, so that the teachers and administration can see what kind of parents you have. Keeps you out of trouble.
you preach to the choir. I'm just calling out all the children of company men that usually jump all over shit like that telling the grandparent to "get another job and stop wasting the courts' time"
I have to admit that I've always just heard that about MS, and I have no first-hand experience there.
I guess I'm too used to the environment where I work now. Most of my co-workers come in early and leave correspondingly early. They are also mostly family men (and women) so their main priority is to get their work done and get home to be with their spouses and kids.
It was really strange coming here after working through the dot-com era where everybody thought they were in the process of becoming instant millionaires so they worked like they'd never have to again.. but once I got used to it I prefer it. Seems like the priorities of people here are in the right place.
I have nothing wrong with terming it as "so very cool" at all, in fact, I like the phrase. I just have a hard time seeing how any office can be anything like "cool". My ideal work environment is a lack of one.
I always heard MS encouraged socializing because MS encouraged people to not ever leave the office and that's easier to do when your social life is already there.
you just invited the "get another job" argument, from some kid that's sitting in mommy's basement refusing to work in lieu of Everquest.
Hopefully, soon you'll outgrow thinking that any corporate office is 'so very cool' and you won't have this problem again.
If you don't outgrow it, I fear for our country's future.
why do that when you can work effectively drunk?
As long as you have someone to drive you around, of course.
I would respond, but your first sentence tells me that you wouldn't be capable of understanding an adult. Go play BF1942 or something and come back when you can have a civil conversation.
Sorry, I forgot to add IANAL at the end of this message.
That's more insightful than you think. They might think they're maximizing revenue by adding an advertising stream to the game, but it also makes the argument against piracy a lot less buoyant. If they're making money just from the game being played, there's no real legal precedent that allows them to shut down P2P networks for carrying software.
in other words, Agile is for software projects that took place in 1997. Except for that working part
yeah, but it ain't easy.