I assume it means that canoes are light and able to be carried around. As far as I know this was their purpose, since Native Americans had to walk between rivers, carry the canoe past some rapids/waterfalls, etc.
I think his point is, software's purpose isn't to run on multiple systems, but to work correctly and solve a problem. So wasting time making it portable only prevents you from releasing it on time. Certainly an arguable point, since portable software is very useful, but I see his point of view. It's easier to develop a quality application if you are focusing on just one platform.
my 486 sx25 had 8 mb of ram (we upgraded by buying 4 mb more!) and it ran windows 3.1 perfectly fine. well we couldn't play any games except solitaire and minesweeper without booting to dos, but i thought that was standard back then.
yes they are quite different in different states. it's 55 everywhere in pennsylvania, except on the turnpike west of civilization it's 65 (harrisburg to pittsburgh area).
yep, although "The Bridge" on UPenn's campus totally gouges Penn and Drexel students. Fri and Sat nights tickets are $10. i think every other night it's $7.50 with student ID. And the next county up (about 30 min drive) it's $6.50 every night with student ID. So, yeah, I live in the 4th largest city and I feel that $10 is insane to be paying, so I'm a little confused where that guy got $15-$20 from.
suburban philadelphia (halfway between philly and allentown). student price (w/ student ID) = $6.50 (any nights). in philly itself there are no student prices, adult tickets are $8.50-$10 depending on the night.
Well everyone I know in my "generation", born in the early 80s, likes ESB the best. Not that it proves anything, but i always thought that ESB was the most popular.
i've already had verizon dsl at my apartment for a couple months without paying for a phone line, i didn't think this was anything new. no charge or anything (though there was like a $3 discount if you paid $20 for a phone line). of course it sucked so i switched to comcast.
so you're saying this guy is an idiot posing as a hardcore hacker because it makes himself feel special. that's what i always thought about people who use those chars.
agreed, torment was easily the best RPG i've ever played. the story was just incredible. i never knew that about the game's writers, but that make's a lot of sense.
to be honest, i enjoyed reading the game's dialogue more than reading a lot of fantasy novels. it was very intriguing.
in my opinion, torment was the best game i've ever played. the story was incredibly well done. i never really expected another game of torment's quality to come along, but now i guess i know for sure that i'll never see it.
last few times i called for my latitude, i couldn't tell if i was talking to a person or a machine with an indian accent. and one guy was incredibly rude to me, declaring that there's no way my case could have broken in that way. how dare he insult an american who created his job!? of course when the technician arrived he told me that the latitude is a piece of shit, and he sees the hinges breaking all the time. well anyway, hurray!!! i like talking to people i can understand on the phone.
as a correction, americans were not in favor of joining in ww2 against germany. there was something like 20% public support for war up until pearl harbor. our help in ww2, while pretty much vital to the allied victory, was late in coming, and only because we had been actually threatened.
that's not all i got from it. but, since it's a movie millions of americans will watch, i figured that was the most useful theme for people to learn. and i know he hated allegory, i've written a few papers on him in high school/college, but a writer often includes themes in his writing even if it wasn't his intent.
The scouring of the shire isn't included in the movie at all. Bad choice in my opinion, it drives home the theme that no one and nothing is untouched by war (a lesson some americans need to learn).
some friends and i were involved in teaching at philadelphia schools, and they need all the help they can get. at my school, a lot of the students couldn't read, in 2nd grade(!!). the school computer was an imac that a previous student donated. just 30 miles north, at my high school in bucks county PA, we had several computer labs, and enough computers in the library that you hardly ever had to wait to use one.
so selling out is certainly justified. basically, there's very little opportunity for conditions to get worse in the philadelphia school district, so anything is an improvement.
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I assume it means that canoes are light and able to be carried around. As far as I know this was their purpose, since Native Americans had to walk between rivers, carry the canoe past some rapids/waterfalls, etc.
I think his point is, software's purpose isn't to run on multiple systems, but to work correctly and solve a problem. So wasting time making it portable only prevents you from releasing it on time. Certainly an arguable point, since portable software is very useful, but I see his point of view. It's easier to develop a quality application if you are focusing on just one platform.
eh, winxp takes 15 seconds or less to boot on my P4 3.0 ghz w/ 1 gb memory.
my 486 sx25 had 8 mb of ram (we upgraded by buying 4 mb more!) and it ran windows 3.1 perfectly fine. well we couldn't play any games except solitaire and minesweeper without booting to dos, but i thought that was standard back then.
Word opens immediately on my winxp machine with a 7200 rpm ide drive, not even sata...
yes they are quite different in different states. it's 55 everywhere in pennsylvania, except on the turnpike west of civilization it's 65 (harrisburg to pittsburgh area).
yep, although "The Bridge" on UPenn's campus totally gouges Penn and Drexel students. Fri and Sat nights tickets are $10. i think every other night it's $7.50 with student ID. And the next county up (about 30 min drive) it's $6.50 every night with student ID. So, yeah, I live in the 4th largest city and I feel that $10 is insane to be paying, so I'm a little confused where that guy got $15-$20 from.
suburban philadelphia (halfway between philly and allentown). student price (w/ student ID) = $6.50 (any nights). in philly itself there are no student prices, adult tickets are $8.50-$10 depending on the night.
i ride a bike too. why dont you buy a fuel efficient car and rent a truck for that once a year when you actually haul something around.
watch out for the zergling rush...
Well everyone I know in my "generation", born in the early 80s, likes ESB the best. Not that it proves anything, but i always thought that ESB was the most popular.
eh, "we named the dog indiana" you mean.
it's easy to choose who to vote for in any election where a bush is running: the other person.
i've already had verizon dsl at my apartment for a couple months without paying for a phone line, i didn't think this was anything new. no charge or anything (though there was like a $3 discount if you paid $20 for a phone line). of course it sucked so i switched to comcast.
the key to windows xp is ram. once you get more than 128 it runs great. way better than 98.
so you're saying this guy is an idiot posing as a hardcore hacker because it makes himself feel special. that's what i always thought about people who use those chars.
agreed, torment was easily the best RPG i've ever played. the story was just incredible. i never knew that about the game's writers, but that make's a lot of sense.
to be honest, i enjoyed reading the game's dialogue more than reading a lot of fantasy novels. it was very intriguing.
in my opinion, torment was the best game i've ever played. the story was incredibly well done. i never really expected another game of torment's quality to come along, but now i guess i know for sure that i'll never see it.
last few times i called for my latitude, i couldn't tell if i was talking to a person or a machine with an indian accent. and one guy was incredibly rude to me, declaring that there's no way my case could have broken in that way. how dare he insult an american who created his job!? of course when the technician arrived he told me that the latitude is a piece of shit, and he sees the hinges breaking all the time. well anyway, hurray!!! i like talking to people i can understand on the phone.
as a correction, americans were not in favor of joining in ww2 against germany. there was something like 20% public support for war up until pearl harbor. our help in ww2, while pretty much vital to the allied victory, was late in coming, and only because we had been actually threatened.
probably not, i would loved to see it in the dvd though. oh well, perhaps ill still be alive when the next person makes a new set of movies.
that's not all i got from it. but, since it's a movie millions of americans will watch, i figured that was the most useful theme for people to learn. and i know he hated allegory, i've written a few papers on him in high school/college, but a writer often includes themes in his writing even if it wasn't his intent.
And you are from which country now?
America.
The scouring of the shire isn't included in the movie at all. Bad choice in my opinion, it drives home the theme that no one and nothing is untouched by war (a lesson some americans need to learn).
your use of "on one hand..., while on the other..." sucked. at first i thought you had 3 hands.
some friends and i were involved in teaching at philadelphia schools, and they need all the help they can get. at my school, a lot of the students couldn't read, in 2nd grade(!!). the school computer was an imac that a previous student donated. just 30 miles north, at my high school in bucks county PA, we had several computer labs, and enough computers in the library that you hardly ever had to wait to use one.
so selling out is certainly justified. basically, there's very little opportunity for conditions to get worse in the philadelphia school district, so anything is an improvement.