We lost the Soviet Union as our boogy-man so we need a new enemy to distract ourselves. The alternative is having to turn inward and we might not like what we see.
If the game is decent or gives me some enjoyment for a few hours at a time then why is it wrong for them to try to get me to spend money on it? Still cheaper than going to the movies in most places and more fun than watching TV.
Wonder if it would be legal to cover your plate when it is parked. I don't recall any requirement that your plate me visible when you weren't operating it. Otherwise it would be illegal to use car covers and such.
Unless you've played with potassium permanganate and glycerin in your parent's basement you haven't experienced the joys of (non-narcotic) chemistry based juvenile delinquency.
Fenyman wasn't saying that quantum mechanics was bogus, what he was saying was that no one could explain the fundemental reasons behind what they were seeing. Not that they disbelieved what they were seeing.
The really embarrassing part of all this is your contacts finding out that you actually need an app to help you not walk into lightpoles, in front of trains, etc because you can't stop texting for a single second.
Judging from the number of cars I see with drivers blabbing on cells phones while drifting around on the road, people stuffing their faces, digging around the passenger seat, etc I'd say we've had driverless cars for some time now.
Hell, half the time at work people struggle with large install packages and they have the benefit of documentation, people standing over their shoulder, a developer on speakerphone...
I just like how computers in general seem to be packed with either explosives or 5 megawatts of power in pretty much every sci-fi movie. Star Trek is one of the worst offenders for this. "Oh no, the computer is overloaded! *bzzzt, boom*" If I blew up a PC everytime it got stuck in a logic loop I'd be typing with hooks by now.
While I wouldn't call it a gaffe, I'd call it annoying. There is the habit Hollywood has for displaying text to screens like it is being printed on a teletype machine (Alien, The Matrix, etc), complete with clicking noises. I know it is done for the slow readers in the audience but still.
Then there are the unnecessary graphics. Someone will be doing genetics research and a totally useless image of a DNA strand will appear on the screen (Jursassic Park, The Fly (remake)). "Hey look, DNA! So THAT'S what I've been working on for years!"
I'd say Independence Day is the worst offender for bad technological plot gimmicks but The Terminator is also guilty. Why would a robot need a display in its head? Wouldn't it just think the info, not display it to its own eyes? Yah, not as thrilling to the audience to show a robot standing there staring and analyzing.
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The Insane Clown Posse is still trying to figure out how magnets work.
The biggest hole is here at work.
We lost the Soviet Union as our boogy-man so we need a new enemy to distract ourselves. The alternative is having to turn inward and we might not like what we see.
500 lines of error filled code vs 100 clean lines? I'll take the clean lines tyvm.
Ding! What IT professional wouldn't have their own PC sitting right next to it for the occasional mental break, personal email, etc?
So if the car is at the stop line and its speed is over, say, 10 mph I'd say it will be running that red light.
The judge has simply ordered that the pipes be flushed.
Someone in the Russian space program is a big Doom fan it seems.
"It's like, how much more black could it be? And the answer is none, none more black."
If the game is decent or gives me some enjoyment for a few hours at a time then why is it wrong for them to try to get me to spend money on it? Still cheaper than going to the movies in most places and more fun than watching TV.
Wonder if it would be legal to cover your plate when it is parked. I don't recall any requirement that your plate me visible when you weren't operating it. Otherwise it would be illegal to use car covers and such.
Neon pink? I'll stick to a manly color and pattern, like camoflage. Wait a minute...
And there is more where that came from!
I was going to read the whole article but I got distracted by a moth in my room. Ooooh, look!
Unless you've played with potassium permanganate and glycerin in your parent's basement you haven't experienced the joys of (non-narcotic) chemistry based juvenile delinquency.
Fenyman wasn't saying that quantum mechanics was bogus, what he was saying was that no one could explain the fundemental reasons behind what they were seeing. Not that they disbelieved what they were seeing.
Gender, location, phone? It is clear what the people at Pandora are doing, trying to get dates.
The really embarrassing part of all this is your contacts finding out that you actually need an app to help you not walk into lightpoles, in front of trains, etc because you can't stop texting for a single second.
Judging from the number of cars I see with drivers blabbing on cells phones while drifting around on the road, people stuffing their faces, digging around the passenger seat, etc I'd say we've had driverless cars for some time now.
"It was raining and the pollution was terrible, couldn't even see Rigel."
They should've had some comments in the code then. "/* I know this is a kludge but a case insensitive match on SARAH is good enough for now. */"
The best part was that it was done with one of those giant acoustically coupled phone modems.
Hell, half the time at work people struggle with large install packages and they have the benefit of documentation, people standing over their shoulder, a developer on speakerphone...
I just like how computers in general seem to be packed with either explosives or 5 megawatts of power in pretty much every sci-fi movie. Star Trek is one of the worst offenders for this. "Oh no, the computer is overloaded! *bzzzt, boom*" If I blew up a PC everytime it got stuck in a logic loop I'd be typing with hooks by now.
While I wouldn't call it a gaffe, I'd call it annoying. There is the habit Hollywood has for displaying text to screens like it is being printed on a teletype machine (Alien, The Matrix, etc), complete with clicking noises. I know it is done for the slow readers in the audience but still.
Then there are the unnecessary graphics. Someone will be doing genetics research and a totally useless image of a DNA strand will appear on the screen (Jursassic Park, The Fly (remake)). "Hey look, DNA! So THAT'S what I've been working on for years!"
I'd say Independence Day is the worst offender for bad technological plot gimmicks but The Terminator is also guilty. Why would a robot need a display in its head? Wouldn't it just think the info, not display it to its own eyes? Yah, not as thrilling to the audience to show a robot standing there staring and analyzing.