Not to mention Duke Nukem (the original, not the vaporware)! Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Monster Bash (another Keen-like adventure) Wolfenstein 3D
You can find Aliens Ate My Babysitter as a download (it was a Keen adventure comercially published by others and is considered abandonware.) Plays very nicely with DOSBox on Vista! Remember the Dopefish? Ha!
Back in the day, Apogee games came up with a similar model. They put out the first in the series (usually 3 games) for free--I remember getting Commander Keen on a floppy disk with my joystick purchase. If you liked the first one, you could order the rest of the series for a nominal fee. It seemed to be a fairly successful business model.
Wasn't a lot of it because the liver's stem cells got into her bone marrow? Once the bone marrow starts reproducing blood cells, and since most cells regenerate, won't they all have some of that same genetic material? Then they (the other cells) wouldn't be foreign bodies.
Yikes, and that begs the question...will other genetic traits start to change to the doner's?
You know, part of taking responsibility is listening to expert opinions before making your decision. Making an arbitrary choice without becoming informed first is not taking responsibility, it's avoiding it.
Note: It does NOT take a village to raise a child. Chrissakes, video games aren't new, most of today's parent's grew up with them at one point or another. If you have to run around to so-called experts every time you make a decision like this, you aren't being a parent at all. You've hopefully got some common sense--use it. In my opinion, you make sure the child is doing well in school, knows how to pick up a book and read it (on their own.) They also need some time out riding bicycles, playing kickball, soccer or other (non-regulated--no uniforms, no coaches, no screaming parents) sport with their friends. They need to get to be a kid to where playing video games isn't the only thing they want to do. Too many parents already use the TV as a babysitter, these games don't need to be another one.
And the parents need to sit down a play a few with them. Remember when families used to sit down together and play a board game? It was a time for fun and conversation. So this isn't the same, but taking out the Lego death star with your kid might give you some time together. Also you'll get to know what all those mysterious ratings on boxes mean if you didn't know before.
And don't forget the money aspect of any cult--once you're in they expect regular (and significant) "donations." They like to preach that material things aren't important (to you, not them) while at the same time making you believe that if you follow their teachings you will become more successful. (It's no wonder that these airheads in Hollywood fall for this.) All your successes will be credited to how great their program is. Any failures will be your fault and an indication that you're not following the teachings (or more likely, not donating enough.) They will encourage a member to break up their marriage or break off any ties to family and friends who are non-believers. They want to recruit you, but will not tell you what they're about up front. Because of course they would be laughed at if they told you the whole story. Rather they take you through a series of brainwashing exercises and feed you bits and pieces of half-truths. So eventually if A = B and B = C then C will = A. Or, in the words of the late Richard Jenni, "So if God is Love and Love is Blind...Ray Charles must be God."
First off this was hardly one person expressing a dislike. He spearheaded a group of sixty-seven professors and researchers, not including students, to protest his visit until the Pope cancelled. All over some rather vague, out-of-context comment about a quote made 400 years ago. Unfortunately, universities have become bastions for censorship instead of speech. If a person shows up that carries a view some don't approve of they throw things or shout the person down. That IS censorship and that IS force. You make it sound like Cini merely presented a paper or a dissertation on the topic. He was protesting a religious icon speaking at a so-called "secular" setting. The students opposed to the visit kicked off "an anti-clergy week."
Then Cini has the gall to complain that, "It will be a pretext for accusing us of refusing dialogue." WHAT dialogue? They've made it clear they don't want any sort of dialogue that disagrees with their own fervent beliefs. Says Cini, "Today it [the Church] uses the Enlightenment's God of Reason as a Trojan horse to enter the citadel of scientific knowledge."
Now that's not only intolerant it make me wonder what he and the other scientists fear about discourse. If their belief in science is as rock solid as the Pope's faith, then they should welcome the challenge. Instead they compare religion as Trojan horse who will, after entering the gates, overcome their vulnerable "citadel."
That makes no sense because the bricks and sticks shops don't charge shipping costs either. So the same book for $7.99 that Amazon would be forced to add $2 dollars shipping can be sold by a local book seller for $7.99 with no penality.
IMO, this is all about the French government punishing an AMERICAN company and protectionist action which only hurts consumers.
I don't know that I agree with the statement, "With cable, the same show can appear on a channel several times." With some channels and some shows, i.e. movies, HBO, Showtime, etc. that's true. In years past we always had the summer reruns to catch up on a missed series, but no longer. Now a show goes through a season and never reruns unless it's highly popular and picked up as such a few years down the line. Seasons are broken up and new shows are now being introduced in what used to be mid-season (January) or even over the summer.
I do think the fact that you can run out and buy the entire season a few months after it aired might be a deterrent to getting a DVDR. Also that the standard DVD will only hold 1-2 hours of higher-def video.
However, I love my DVDR. I've got a Philips that plays DiVX on both CD AND DVD, so I can have almost a whole season of episodes on a DVD. When I record something I want to keep it's easy to copy from the disc (I use rewritable DVDs) convert to DiVX and edit out the commercials with Virtual Dub. Then it just a matter of recording them as files to a permanent disc. I never had that ability, in a practical sense, with a VCR. And I believe (or from what I've heard) that you cannot easily do this with a TiVO. That to me is more of a watch and record over. So if you don't want or need a permanent copy of something, that might be for you. And I hear a lot of people ending up with a hard drive full of show that they don't get around to watching.
The only disadvantage, as someone pointed out, was watching something else while recording is impossible. That is going to be a problem with almost any recording device except a TiVO because most people have to go through a cable or satellite box which has to be set to the right channel so it essentially records from that box. If it could go through the TV it would be able to record multiple channels at one time.
I don't think that most of the religious community today is intolerant of science or scientists, although there are certainly disagreements. However, this displays the vitriolic hatred scientists have for religion, which is just as irrational. I think the majority of scientists are just as intolerant of religion as the catholic church was of them in centuries past. If scientists such as these were in charge, they would wipe out religion for secularism. Those of religious beliefs would not be burned at the stake, but simply medicated and warehoused away as mentally deficient.
Well since it absorbs energy, and I think this is one of the suggested uses, couldn't it be used to enhance solar panels so that they absorb more solar energy? That would mean it would take less panels to power a household or a building or create stronger one that could power it longer.
SS in of itself is NOT a national ID. Even where it's required, you must also present a photo ID. Passports are not a true National ID as they are not required unless you travel out of the country. But unless you're living under a bridge you HAVE to have some sort of photo ID in the form of a driver's license or recognized photo ID to do pretty much anything.
Once again, the Feds are playing 'let's just do it and say we didn't.' They simply pass on their (unfunded) madates to the states and then wash their hands and say, "What National ID?"
* They will mandate that all states check SS# when you renew your DL. Thus the possibility of connecting your SS# with your state DL.
* They will not have chips, but our state and I'm sure others aleady have a magnetic strip that they can just run through a credit card type reader. No telling what information is or will be stored.
* You will have to have this ID in order to travel by plane in the US.
* They will take the photograph at the beginning so if someone is rejected, they will have it on file. Does anyone think for a momment this information will *not* eventually end up in federal hands. Reasoning will be, "After all, the *terrorist* could just go to another state and try so we really need to centralize this information." They will also have to centralize the information in order to make sure people aren't getting multilple IDs from several states. So the fed will have their hands on it.
And this won't do anything about illegal immigration even though it's part of the check. Neither party has shown any interest in stopping that flow and are even doing some things that will make it easier for people to illegally sneak into the country.
Neither will it stop experienced criminals or terrorists who always seem to find a way to make or get bogus IDs.
After reading this, did anyone else get an urge to run to Snopes and see if CNN just got served a false story. They do have information on it, and unfortuantely, yes, it's true.
Now my question is why is our so-called watchdog press waiting until now. I consider myself a bit of a newsie--I keep up with what's going on. I know there's been a debate every few years over a national ID and each time they say the're not going to do that; now this is essentially the same thing and nothing's said until it's a done deal? Bullshit!
The only quibble that this isn't a national ID is that they're making the states do it instead of the fed. Oh, except that it's MANDATED by the feds, so yes, it's a national ID.
No, it's more akin to: I go to the grocery store and buy a 5 lb bag of sugar. Now I don't need to use that much sugar so I let the neighbors have some. That's not stealing because I paid for it. You're essentially doing nothing more than what a Starbucks or other cafe does.
However, don't be surprised that companies like Comcast freak out because, while they want you to PAY for all that bandwidth, they don't actually want you to USE it!
Thank you, ArcherB! I'm no big fan of Bush, but I'm tired of every time the man does something good, the bash bush club starts howling. It's never enough. Meanwhile the hero of the environment, Al Gore, who flies around in his private jets and rides in limos and telling us all how bad we are for polluting, gets their praise. Reducing the amount of paper tonnage these reports create is a good thing, no matter which president does it.
I guess if you make a big show about the environment, even if don't follow the dictates yourself, that's okay. Because it's all about emotions. If you feel badly, that's enough. It used to be that character was what you did in private. I'll wager most here don't know or don't care that Bush's Texas ranch is environmentally-friendly, while their hero, Gore, lives in an energy sucking 10,000 square foot mansion that uses 12x the amount of electric of the average household.
No the reason you won't see this model over here isn't because of the "auto lobby." It's because Americans aren't going to buy what is essentally a supercharged golf cart. It's has 2 cylinder, 30 HP --most US cars start at 240 HP, 4 cylinders and go up from there. This WOULD be a death trap on any road except maybe some Sunnydale retirement community where golf carts and electric wheel chairs are the only modes of transportion. This car will be fine for navigating narrow, crowded roads where you can't drive very fast anyway, like in India and similar countries. But it isn't cheap just because it's made in India--it's cheap because there's not a lot under the hood.
If they can think of a way to hand it off to the one lone adminstrative assistant (formally known as a secretary) and at several pay grades lower, they will.
Trust me...they've done that with "web developers" in many companies. Usually formally titled Admin Assistant II - Specialist.
Were they that stupid that they didn't make the CTO and anyone else involved sign some sort of non-disclosure agreement to keep them from taking their research with them?
IANAL, but this is business 101--even with a non-profit, you don't want techonolgy created under your company to be and sold to someone else and possibly patented by others. This alone could cause you to lose the use of your product.
Someone mod this parent up. I was, for a long time, without anything more than regular TV, just because I felt it was an unnecessary expense--a luxury vs. a "need." Even now if I could just pay-per channel, I would probably not have more than a dozen, local channels included. And, although satellite has digital channels available, Satellite != digital TV. To get those channels you have to have the latest dish and (of course) pay more $$$ per month! Now I could probably get a deal where they replace the dish for free (with, of course, a renewed x-year commitment.) But only one of my TVs is digital. (If you don't have a digital-ready TV, it doesn't make sense to upgrade your satellite or cable.) And the regular DirecTV still looks good even on the hi-def TV. (Keep in mind when you shop for a digital TV that the store picture is digital cable or other Hi-Def format. YMMV once you get the set home.)
What I'm wondering is, right now the satellite companies are adding digital channels, but you have to upgrade to that format. What's going to happen in 2009 if you're still using the previous satellite dish--I'm suspecting there's going to be a HUGE bottleneck trying to replace all those older dishes. I will probably upgrade, but I'm debating about when to do so. I want to get the best deal (and I imagine they'll be floating some of those), but I don't want to be caught up in the flood once everyone else puts 2+2 together. Also I'm not even sure how it's going to work getting local channels even with a high-def TV if the satellite or cable goes down, like in a storm.
That might be a concern, although they'd have pretty much the same data whether it's a opt-out or just a 'do you want "hot coffee" with your internet or not' when you sign up. But I suspect they're going to find they have a lot more so-called "perverts" out there than not which will make it impossible for govenment to effectively track for child porn. There are a lot of husbands and fathers who aren't going to want their porn turned completely off even for the "sake of the kiddies." And depending on the ineffectiveness in discrimination filtration, a lot of women and mothers aren't going to like a sign telling them they're blocked when searching for a site on breast cancer or other medical site.
On the most part and from what I know having Oz acquaintances, they're not just going to roll over. They take their freedoms seriously. I suspect this legislation will be changed to an opt-in or go through other metamorphoses so this does not become a government "naughty" list.
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'Cause it's gotta be a real bitch when they have to pull that cable back through!
Not to mention Duke Nukem (the original, not the vaporware)!
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Monster Bash (another Keen-like adventure)
Wolfenstein 3D
You can find Aliens Ate My Babysitter as a download (it was a Keen adventure comercially published by others and is considered abandonware.) Plays very nicely with DOSBox on Vista! Remember the Dopefish? Ha!
Back in the day, Apogee games came up with a similar model. They put out the first in the series (usually 3 games) for free--I remember getting Commander Keen on a floppy disk with my joystick purchase. If you liked the first one, you could order the rest of the series for a nominal fee. It seemed to be a fairly successful business model.
Wasn't a lot of it because the liver's stem cells got into her bone marrow? Once the bone marrow starts reproducing blood cells, and since most cells regenerate, won't they all have some of that same genetic material? Then they (the other cells) wouldn't be foreign bodies.
Yikes, and that begs the question...will other genetic traits start to change to the doner's?
You know, part of taking responsibility is listening to expert opinions before making your decision. Making an arbitrary choice without becoming informed first is not taking responsibility, it's avoiding it.
Note: It does NOT take a village to raise a child. Chrissakes, video games aren't new, most of today's parent's grew up with them at one point or another. If you have to run around to so-called experts every time you make a decision like this, you aren't being a parent at all. You've hopefully got some common sense--use it. In my opinion, you make sure the child is doing well in school, knows how to pick up a book and read it (on their own.) They also need some time out riding bicycles, playing kickball, soccer or other (non-regulated--no uniforms, no coaches, no screaming parents) sport with their friends. They need to get to be a kid to where playing video games isn't the only thing they want to do. Too many parents already use the TV as a babysitter, these games don't need to be another one.
And the parents need to sit down a play a few with them. Remember when families used to sit down together and play a board game? It was a time for fun and conversation. So this isn't the same, but taking out the Lego death star with your kid might give you some time together. Also you'll get to know what all those mysterious ratings on boxes mean if you didn't know before.
And don't forget the money aspect of any cult--once you're in they expect regular (and significant) "donations." They like to preach that material things aren't important (to you, not them) while at the same time making you believe that if you follow their teachings you will become more successful. (It's no wonder that these airheads in Hollywood fall for this.) All your successes will be credited to how great their program is. Any failures will be your fault and an indication that you're not following the teachings (or more likely, not donating enough.) They will encourage a member to break up their marriage or break off any ties to family and friends who are non-believers. They want to recruit you, but will not tell you what they're about up front. Because of course they would be laughed at if they told you the whole story. Rather they take you through a series of brainwashing exercises and feed you bits and pieces of half-truths. So eventually if A = B and B = C then C will = A. Or, in the words of the late Richard Jenni, "So if God is Love and Love is Blind...Ray Charles must be God."
First off this was hardly one person expressing a dislike. He spearheaded a group of sixty-seven professors and researchers, not including students, to protest his visit until the Pope cancelled. All over some rather vague, out-of-context comment about a quote made 400 years ago. Unfortunately, universities have become bastions for censorship instead of speech. If a person shows up that carries a view some don't approve of they throw things or shout the person down. That IS censorship and that IS force. You make it sound like Cini merely presented a paper or a dissertation on the topic. He was protesting a religious icon speaking at a so-called "secular" setting. The students opposed to the visit kicked off "an anti-clergy week."
Then Cini has the gall to complain that, "It will be a pretext for accusing us of refusing dialogue." WHAT dialogue? They've made it clear they don't want any sort of dialogue that disagrees with their own fervent beliefs. Says Cini, "Today it [the Church] uses the Enlightenment's God of Reason as a Trojan horse to enter the citadel of scientific knowledge."
Now that's not only intolerant it make me wonder what he and the other scientists fear about discourse. If their belief in science is as rock solid as the Pope's faith, then they should welcome the challenge. Instead they compare religion as Trojan horse who will, after entering the gates, overcome their vulnerable "citadel."
Excuse me, but this is worker bee chat! We all know the boss has nothing better to do than play with his wanker. :P
That makes no sense because the bricks and sticks shops don't charge shipping costs either. So the same book for $7.99 that Amazon would be forced to add $2 dollars shipping can be sold by a local book seller for $7.99 with no penality.
IMO, this is all about the French government punishing an AMERICAN company and protectionist action which only hurts consumers.
I don't know that I agree with the statement, "With cable, the same show can appear on a channel several times." With some channels and some shows, i.e. movies, HBO, Showtime, etc. that's true. In years past we always had the summer reruns to catch up on a missed series, but no longer. Now a show goes through a season and never reruns unless it's highly popular and picked up as such a few years down the line. Seasons are broken up and new shows are now being introduced in what used to be mid-season (January) or even over the summer.
I do think the fact that you can run out and buy the entire season a few months after it aired might be a deterrent to getting a DVDR. Also that the standard DVD will only hold 1-2 hours of higher-def video.
However, I love my DVDR. I've got a Philips that plays DiVX on both CD AND DVD, so I can have almost a whole season of episodes on a DVD. When I record something I want to keep it's easy to copy from the disc (I use rewritable DVDs) convert to DiVX and edit out the commercials with Virtual Dub. Then it just a matter of recording them as files to a permanent disc. I never had that ability, in a practical sense, with a VCR. And I believe (or from what I've heard) that you cannot easily do this with a TiVO. That to me is more of a watch and record over. So if you don't want or need a permanent copy of something, that might be for you. And I hear a lot of people ending up with a hard drive full of show that they don't get around to watching.
The only disadvantage, as someone pointed out, was watching something else while recording is impossible. That is going to be a problem with almost any recording device except a TiVO because most people have to go through a cable or satellite box which has to be set to the right channel so it essentially records from that box. If it could go through the TV it would be able to record multiple channels at one time.
I don't think that most of the religious community today is intolerant of science or scientists, although there are certainly disagreements. However, this displays the vitriolic hatred scientists have for religion, which is just as irrational. I think the majority of scientists are just as intolerant of religion as the catholic church was of them in centuries past. If scientists such as these were in charge, they would wipe out religion for secularism. Those of religious beliefs would not be burned at the stake, but simply medicated and warehoused away as mentally deficient.
Well since it absorbs energy, and I think this is one of the suggested uses, couldn't it be used to enhance solar panels so that they absorb more solar energy? That would mean it would take less panels to power a household or a building or create stronger one that could power it longer.
And even some banks (Bank of America) have stopped asking for SS#.
SS in of itself is NOT a national ID. Even where it's required, you must also present a photo ID. Passports are not a true National ID as they are not required unless you travel out of the country. But unless you're living under a bridge you HAVE to have some sort of photo ID in the form of a driver's license or recognized photo ID to do pretty much anything.
Once again, the Feds are playing 'let's just do it and say we didn't.' They simply pass on their (unfunded) madates to the states and then wash their hands and say, "What National ID?"
* They will mandate that all states check SS# when you renew your DL. Thus the possibility of connecting your SS# with your state DL.
* They will not have chips, but our state and I'm sure others aleady have a magnetic strip that they can just run through a credit card type reader. No telling what information is or will be stored.
* You will have to have this ID in order to travel by plane in the US.
* They will take the photograph at the beginning so if someone is rejected, they will have it on file. Does anyone think for a momment this information will *not* eventually end up in federal hands. Reasoning will be, "After all, the *terrorist* could just go to another state and try so we really need to centralize this information." They will also have to centralize the information in order to make sure people aren't getting multilple IDs from several states. So the fed will have their hands on it.
And this won't do anything about illegal immigration even though it's part of the check. Neither party has shown any interest in stopping that flow and are even doing some things that will make it easier for people to illegally sneak into the country.
Neither will it stop experienced criminals or terrorists who always seem to find a way to make or get bogus IDs.
After reading this, did anyone else get an urge to run to Snopes and see if CNN just got served a false story. They do have information on it, and unfortuantely, yes, it's true.
Now my question is why is our so-called watchdog press waiting until now. I consider myself a bit of a newsie--I keep up with what's going on. I know there's been a debate every few years over a national ID and each time they say the're not going to do that; now this is essentially the same thing and nothing's said until it's a done deal? Bullshit!
The only quibble that this isn't a national ID is that they're making the states do it instead of the fed. Oh, except that it's MANDATED by the feds, so yes, it's a national ID.
No, it's more akin to: I go to the grocery store and buy a 5 lb bag of sugar. Now I don't need to use that much sugar so I let the neighbors have some. That's not stealing because I paid for it. You're essentially doing nothing more than what a Starbucks or other cafe does.
However, don't be surprised that companies like Comcast freak out because, while they want you to PAY for all that bandwidth, they don't actually want you to USE it!
Thank you, ArcherB! I'm no big fan of Bush, but I'm tired of every time the man does something good, the bash bush club starts howling. It's never enough. Meanwhile the hero of the environment, Al Gore, who flies around in his private jets and rides in limos and telling us all how bad we are for polluting, gets their praise. Reducing the amount of paper tonnage these reports create is a good thing, no matter which president does it.
I guess if you make a big show about the environment, even if don't follow the dictates yourself, that's okay. Because it's all about emotions. If you feel badly, that's enough. It used to be that character was what you did in private. I'll wager most here don't know or don't care that Bush's Texas ranch is environmentally-friendly, while their hero, Gore, lives in an energy sucking 10,000 square foot mansion that uses 12x the amount of electric of the average household.
No the reason you won't see this model over here isn't because of the "auto lobby." It's because Americans aren't going to buy what is essentally a supercharged golf cart. It's has 2 cylinder, 30 HP --most US cars start at 240 HP, 4 cylinders and go up from there. This WOULD be a death trap on any road except maybe some Sunnydale retirement community where golf carts and electric wheel chairs are the only modes of transportion. This car will be fine for navigating narrow, crowded roads where you can't drive very fast anyway, like in India and similar countries. But it isn't cheap just because it's made in India--it's cheap because there's not a lot under the hood.
Yeah, but will it run on Vista?
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Damn...I thought they were sending us on vacation to Italy.
If they can think of a way to hand it off to the one lone adminstrative assistant (formally known as a secretary) and at several pay grades lower, they will.
Trust me...they've done that with "web developers" in many companies. Usually formally titled Admin Assistant II - Specialist.
Nope...police suspect his fiance!
Were they that stupid that they didn't make the CTO and anyone else involved sign some sort of non-disclosure agreement to keep them from taking their research with them?
IANAL, but this is business 101--even with a non-profit, you don't want techonolgy created under your company to be and sold to someone else and possibly patented by others. This alone could cause you to lose the use of your product.
Someone mod this parent up. I was, for a long time, without anything more than regular TV, just because I felt it was an unnecessary expense--a luxury vs. a "need." Even now if I could just pay-per channel, I would probably not have more than a dozen, local channels included. And, although satellite has digital channels available, Satellite != digital TV. To get those channels you have to have the latest dish and (of course) pay more $$$ per month! Now I could probably get a deal where they replace the dish for free (with, of course, a renewed x-year commitment.) But only one of my TVs is digital. (If you don't have a digital-ready TV, it doesn't make sense to upgrade your satellite or cable.) And the regular DirecTV still looks good even on the hi-def TV. (Keep in mind when you shop for a digital TV that the store picture is digital cable or other Hi-Def format. YMMV once you get the set home.)
What I'm wondering is, right now the satellite companies are adding digital channels, but you have to upgrade to that format. What's going to happen in 2009 if you're still using the previous satellite dish--I'm suspecting there's going to be a HUGE bottleneck trying to replace all those older dishes. I will probably upgrade, but I'm debating about when to do so. I want to get the best deal (and I imagine they'll be floating some of those), but I don't want to be caught up in the flood once everyone else puts 2+2 together. Also I'm not even sure how it's going to work getting local channels even with a high-def TV if the satellite or cable goes down, like in a storm.
And going the legal way, at least in my country, means I have to sue my neighbor. And I don't want problems with people...
Well, in MY country, one way to really have problems with people is to kill their dog! :P
That might be a concern, although they'd have pretty much the same data whether it's a opt-out or just a 'do you want "hot coffee" with your internet or not' when you sign up. But I suspect they're going to find they have a lot more so-called "perverts" out there than not which will make it impossible for govenment to effectively track for child porn. There are a lot of husbands and fathers who aren't going to want their porn turned completely off even for the "sake of the kiddies." And depending on the ineffectiveness in discrimination filtration, a lot of women and mothers aren't going to like a sign telling them they're blocked when searching for a site on breast cancer or other medical site.
On the most part and from what I know having Oz acquaintances, they're not just going to roll over. They take their freedoms seriously. I suspect this legislation will be changed to an opt-in or go through other metamorphoses so this does not become a government "naughty" list.