At Circuit City, I've seen 2 copies of the same PS2 game have significantly different prices. It was the same game, not some 'special edition' version vs. regular.
Most American politics is pretty cut and dry. That stuff rarely gets talked about by the media.
I'm just surprised that politicians are talking about the Internet not involving the legislation bingo buzzwords ["predator" || "myspace" || "molestor" || "terrorism" || "censorship" || "children" || "tubes" || "columbine" ]
It's kind of like reading a Family Circus comic and having Billy talk about some sort of technology made after 1952. It just surprises you.
I started losing my hair at around age 16. I was a bit worried because obviously high-school students are mostly evil and I didn't want to give them yet another name to call me, but it wasn't really visible since I had a big bushy head of long, wavy, early-1990s-tortured-artist hair at the time.
Once school was over and the socially-active mutants I called my classmates ceased being a worry, I didn't have much of a problem with it. In fact, since I started buzzing it all off a few years ago, I find I really prefer how I look and feel. Additionally, people are occasionally inspired to rub my head, which is quite soothing.
Since we're spilling our hearts out like this was an Oprah episode:
I started losing my hair at 19(thankfully past high school). Yes, at one time I had a freakin' mullet. But then the top started thinning. Several years later I decided to bite the bullet like you, and shave it all off. I now am as hairless as my uncle & father, even though you get baldness from your mother's side.
I too get the head rubbing treatment. One roller derby girl did it to me before she went on the rink to my flattery. We can all thank our friend Buddah for starting that trend. Yes, it is smoothing.
Another advantage is with a bald head, you now have a tactile sensor network around your head. Any slight displacement of air and you can feel it. Sadly, this means having to wear hats in windy weather, but you save tons on hair care products, only needing to buy razor blades.
I have a Comcast HD box, and yes, it indeed sucks. Let's add to the list shall we?
- How about have on-screen guides in HD? After all, the box is for HD, why not bring the program data(descriptions, etc) and re-render it in 720 or 1080? C'mon, it's 2007. - enable the composite in ports in the front? I'd love to have access to those to hook up a video game console, etc. - enable the Ethernet port so I can watch downloaded videos(okay that's a pipe dream, but that dang Ethernet could be useful). - make the god damn DVI port work with my HDMI port on my TV? I have one of the HDTV models it's not compatible with. - USB port: woudln't it be cool if we could put video files on a thumbdrive and it would play them on the television screen?
Yeah, I know. I'm coming up with ideas for ports they for some strange reason decided to include(which costs money) but make absolutely no use of.
From what I remember of Logo, few people in the class "got" it. Everyone in CS harps on and on about how great logo is, but most of my classmates in grade-school just laughed when the "turtle" did stupid things, and asked the teacher for help (ie, to fix it for them.)
I fail to see how that's a problem. Not everyone will understand computers, just as how I failed Calc twice in college. I remember making an alternative to the standard method of drawing a circle( repeat 360[fd 1 rt 1]) by doing a pen-up, fd 50, pen down, fd 1, pen up, back 51, rt 1, and repeating 360 times. A much more flexible circle function!
Now it's over 20 years later and I'm programming in Python on a daily basis at my job. I'm happy.
So they roll out this technology for the relatively unimportant issue of video piracy, yet they let the spambots roam free? Myspace's biggest problem, IMO is the gazillions of fake accounts being made every minute. It ruins the site. No, they are more interested in video piracy, jeesh.
The last time I tried last.fm's audio player app, I got nowhere fast. It simply didn't work, at all. I hope that's been improved. The interface is awful and there's not a simple "play some music, dammit!" button.
So say you had a document that was shredded the standard way, like strips of paper.
Put 'em in a hopper, and have an assembly line with a narrow page scanner scan 'em up and store them on a hard drive.
Then write an app that scans the left & right edges of the paper. Look for a similar pattern of edges(ink) on any other strip. Try to put 'em together and see if it forms words. Lather, rinse, repeat. Sounds like a jigsaw puzzle.
I know the map sequence 99% of the servers in Half-Life TFC by heart. It's easy!
2fort 2fort 2fort 2fort 2fort
That was my biggest gripe of Half Life TFC: Almost no map variety. You were almost always guaranteed to play 2fort. It was the de_dust of TFC. It got boring after awhile.
I enjoyed the other maps like the attack/defense map where you would have the attacking team going literally at a snail's pace towards the flag due to all the crossfire. It was great. Favorite map? The map of the gigantic living room where snipers frequently stood in the bookshelf.
In terms of multiplayer-PC game maps, Multi Theft Auto is great. Tons of maps(Deathmatch and race), most of them suck, but still fun to play. They load literally in a second, being grafted onto San Andreas. Now only if the combat(ie get out of your car) MTA will surface.
Consider their fortunes of late, he should be glad they're not making him commit sepuku.
I was envisioning an expensive Sony-brand proprietary Wikazashi(sp?), a blade shorter than a katana that is especially for suicide. That seems more appropriate.
Either that, or he'll be assigned to staring out of a window forever, or maybe that weird white cube-room we saw in the bizarre PS3 commercials.
This seems entirely out of Microsoft's ordinary character. What is the world coming to?
They are trying to beat the snot out of Sony in the video game field. If you want to go into more detail, they are trying to outdo Sony's backward compat. with PS2 games.
YouTube's search engine while I agree is immature(you can't do specific searches on tags/metadata that you can input in uploaded videos), but still 100 times better than google video's crude layout & search.
I swear any search I do on google video ends up with Charlie Rose programs in the search results. Like I wanna see him!
1. Embedded windows media video is just plain awful. NOTHING good about it. Rewinding, etc is a pure pain.
2. Realplayer - My main complaint is...buffering..... Then again, it's not 1998 anymore.
3. Quicktime - Sometimes it makes Firefox crash. Your mileage may vary.
4. Proprietary video players - I seem to have the worst luck with them in Firefox. Lots of local news websites roll their own, and make it needlessly complicated.
Flash-embedded media players seem to be the least problematic of embedding video in web pages.
-A poster pointed out that cops don't always signal. This is probably true, have you ever tried to talk on a radio, usually to both a dispatcher and other units, type a plate into a mobile terminal, and drive at the same time? A cop must do this all at the same time even while on normal patrol. At some point, a cop is going to have to make a decision whether he can safely execute a maneuver without signaling or he is going to be task saturated.
Considering us civilians are under scrutiny for talking on our cellphones + driving, cops shouldn't be trying to one-up that. That's going to get them into an accident. They should pull over.
Just as long as bloggers think they have the freedom to spread lies about other people, and have their readers believe every word of it, they deserve no special protection.
Gran Turismo: They drive like robots, making the same mistakes on turns, and don't even dodge you if you are sitting in the middle of the road.
GTA: Not exactly "worst" but they follow such a linear fashion(cops, bad guys, etc) it is easily exploitable. Cars are programmed to chase you at maximum speeds, and will overshoot if you drive slower. I've seen cop cars drive off of docks into the water. Easy to do PIT manuvers on.
(SA) Supposedly in the gang wars they will run away to make you think they are retreating, but come back later. Some will even crouch to shoot you.
IIRC R* Leeds made GTA: Vice City Stories. Of all the GTA games, this one is the most disappointing. The port to PS2(from the PSP) was sorely lacking in features that we've grown used to. The graphics seem a lot glitchier, and I've twice run into a situation where I had to reboot the console. All the other GTA games I've played have been much more stable.
Why do game companies have other companies(er, divisions in this case) do a sequel, only to disappoint? The same thing happened with Carmageddon TDR, which was just awful compared to the first 2.
You see, they should have bought the "layoff protection plan" for $19.95. You can bring your job back to any Circuit City store for a replacement job, no questions asked.
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At Circuit City, I've seen 2 copies of the same PS2 game have significantly different prices. It was the same game, not some 'special edition' version vs. regular.
Most American politics is pretty cut and dry. That stuff rarely gets talked about by the media.
I'm just surprised that politicians are talking about the Internet not involving the legislation bingo buzzwords ["predator" || "myspace" || "molestor" || "terrorism" || "censorship" || "children" || "tubes" || "columbine" ]
It's kind of like reading a Family Circus comic and having Billy talk about some sort of technology made after 1952. It just surprises you.
I started losing my hair at around age 16. I was a bit worried because obviously high-school students are mostly evil and I didn't want to give them yet another name to call me, but it wasn't really visible since I had a big bushy head of long, wavy, early-1990s-tortured-artist hair at the time.
Once school was over and the socially-active mutants I called my classmates ceased being a worry, I didn't have much of a problem with it. In fact, since I started buzzing it all off a few years ago, I find I really prefer how I look and feel. Additionally, people are occasionally inspired to rub my head, which is quite soothing.
Since we're spilling our hearts out like this was an Oprah episode:
I started losing my hair at 19(thankfully past high school). Yes, at one time I had a freakin' mullet. But then the top started thinning. Several years later I decided to bite the bullet like you, and shave it all off. I now am as hairless as my uncle & father, even though you get baldness from your mother's side.
I too get the head rubbing treatment. One roller derby girl did it to me before she went on the rink to my flattery. We can all thank our friend Buddah for starting that trend. Yes, it is smoothing.
Another advantage is with a bald head, you now have a tactile sensor network around your head. Any slight displacement of air and you can feel it. Sadly, this means having to wear hats in windy weather, but you save tons on hair care products, only needing to buy razor blades.
I have a Comcast HD box, and yes, it indeed sucks. Let's add to the list shall we?
- How about have on-screen guides in HD? After all, the box is for HD, why not bring the program data(descriptions, etc) and re-render it in 720 or 1080? C'mon, it's 2007.
- enable the composite in ports in the front? I'd love to have access to those to hook up a video game console, etc.
- enable the Ethernet port so I can watch downloaded videos(okay that's a pipe dream, but that dang Ethernet could be useful).
- make the god damn DVI port work with my HDMI port on my TV? I have one of the HDTV models it's not compatible with.
- USB port: woudln't it be cool if we could put video files on a thumbdrive and it would play them on the television screen?
Yeah, I know. I'm coming up with ideas for ports they for some strange reason decided to include(which costs money) but make absolutely no use of.
From what I remember of Logo, few people in the class "got" it. Everyone in CS harps on and on about how great logo is, but most of my classmates in grade-school just laughed when the "turtle" did stupid things, and asked the teacher for help (ie, to fix it for them.)
I fail to see how that's a problem. Not everyone will understand computers, just as how I failed Calc twice in college. I remember making an alternative to the standard method of drawing a circle( repeat 360[fd 1 rt 1]) by doing a pen-up, fd 50, pen down, fd 1, pen up, back 51, rt 1, and repeating 360 times. A much more flexible circle function!
Now it's over 20 years later and I'm programming in Python on a daily basis at my job. I'm happy.
So they roll out this technology for the relatively unimportant issue of video piracy, yet they let the spambots roam free? Myspace's biggest problem, IMO is the gazillions of fake accounts being made every minute. It ruins the site. No, they are more interested in video piracy, jeesh.
The last time I tried last.fm's audio player app, I got nowhere fast. It simply didn't work, at all. I hope that's been improved. The interface is awful and there's not a simple "play some music, dammit!" button.
So say you had a document that was shredded the standard way, like strips of paper.
Put 'em in a hopper, and have an assembly line with a narrow page scanner scan 'em up and store them on a hard drive.
Then write an app that scans the left & right edges of the paper. Look for a similar pattern of edges(ink) on any other strip. Try to put 'em together and see if it forms words. Lather, rinse, repeat. Sounds like a jigsaw puzzle.
Would that un-shred them?
I know the map sequence 99% of the servers in Half-Life TFC by heart. It's easy!
2fort
2fort
2fort
2fort
2fort
That was my biggest gripe of Half Life TFC: Almost no map variety. You were almost always guaranteed to play 2fort. It was the de_dust of TFC. It got boring after awhile.
I enjoyed the other maps like the attack/defense map where you would have the attacking team going literally at a snail's pace towards the flag due to all the crossfire. It was great. Favorite map? The map of the gigantic living room where snipers frequently stood in the bookshelf.
In terms of multiplayer-PC game maps, Multi Theft Auto is great. Tons of maps(Deathmatch and race), most of them suck, but still fun to play. They load literally in a second, being grafted onto San Andreas. Now only if the combat(ie get out of your car) MTA will surface.
...a kids registry of "do not kill" requiring child killers to filter out their murder via consulting a list, failed to work.
Gotta love the world we live in.
Police investigate "rape" on in a freaking computer game.
Police investigate/arrest someone for making a Counterstrike(another freaking computer game) map.
So, to avoid getting arrested, may I recommend going out for a nice walk on the VTech campus?
No, wait, depending on the timing, that suggestion would get you killed.
I'm going to go hide in a cave.
Acccording to the badly-worded English page, it's only 15km from Tian'anmen Square. That's only a short tank ride away!
You can go to the "Gothic Cinderella Castle", which I can only assume has lots of Bauhaus & Sisters of Mercy posters lined within.
"Hey kids! Let's get a picture with Cindererra!"
I'm going to hell for that comment.
Keep in mind light speed is slow and latency is an issue esp if we are talking geostationary orbit, which
But you know most of the data is going to be spam anyway, and you don't need low ping times for that data.
Consider their fortunes of late, he should be glad they're not making him commit sepuku.
I was envisioning an expensive Sony-brand proprietary Wikazashi(sp?), a blade shorter than a katana that is especially for suicide. That seems more appropriate.
Either that, or he'll be assigned to staring out of a window forever, or maybe that weird white cube-room we saw in the bizarre PS3 commercials.
This seems entirely out of Microsoft's ordinary character. What is the world coming to?
They are trying to beat the snot out of Sony in the video game field. If you want to go into more detail, they are trying to outdo Sony's backward compat. with PS2 games.
YouTube's search engine while I agree is immature(you can't do specific searches on tags/metadata that you can input in uploaded videos), but still 100 times better than google video's crude layout & search.
I swear any search I do on google video ends up with Charlie Rose programs in the search results. Like I wanna see him!
I doubt it will kill the Flash video player.
1. Embedded windows media video is just plain awful. NOTHING good about it. Rewinding, etc is a pure pain.
2. Realplayer - My main complaint is...buffering..... Then again, it's not 1998 anymore.
3. Quicktime - Sometimes it makes Firefox crash. Your mileage may vary.
4. Proprietary video players - I seem to have the worst luck with them in Firefox. Lots of local news websites roll their own, and make it needlessly complicated.
Flash-embedded media players seem to be the least problematic of embedding video in web pages.
-A poster pointed out that cops don't always signal. This is probably true, have you ever tried to talk on a radio, usually to both a dispatcher and other units, type a plate into a mobile terminal, and drive at the same time? A cop must do this all at the same time even while on normal patrol. At some point, a cop is going to have to make a decision whether he can safely execute a maneuver without signaling or he is going to be task saturated.
Considering us civilians are under scrutiny for talking on our cellphones + driving, cops shouldn't be trying to one-up that. That's going to get them into an accident. They should pull over.
Just as long as bloggers think they have the freedom to spread lies about other people, and have their readers believe every word of it, they deserve no special protection.
If this article, or, an article that heavily resembles it(bad video game box art) was posted not once, but TWICE before, why go for 3?
Have we honestly ran out of content we can link to on the web? I highly doubt it. Come on, greenlight something a bit more original.
Gran Turismo: They drive like robots, making the same mistakes on turns, and don't even dodge you if you are sitting in the middle of the road.
GTA: Not exactly "worst" but they follow such a linear fashion(cops, bad guys, etc) it is easily exploitable. Cars are programmed to chase you at maximum speeds, and will overshoot if you drive slower. I've seen cop cars drive off of docks into the water. Easy to do PIT manuvers on.
(SA) Supposedly in the gang wars they will run away to make you think they are retreating, but come back later. Some will even crouch to shoot you.
There was a game called "True Crime: NYC" that has frickin NYC in the title, that was a GTA-like game. I don't see anyone complaining about that.
Case closed.
IIRC R* Leeds made GTA: Vice City Stories. Of all the GTA games, this one is the most disappointing. The port to PS2(from the PSP) was sorely lacking in features that we've grown used to. The graphics seem a lot glitchier, and I've twice run into a situation where I had to reboot the console. All the other GTA games I've played have been much more stable.
Why do game companies have other companies(er, divisions in this case) do a sequel, only to disappoint? The same thing happened with Carmageddon TDR, which was just awful compared to the first 2.
You see, they should have bought the "layoff protection plan" for $19.95. You can bring your job back to any Circuit City store for a replacement job, no questions asked.