When I joined my school in 1999, they had an award-winning Mac network.
By the time I left this year, the only Mac in the place was the video editing Powerbook locked away in a little room. They bought 30 brand-new green iMacs (this was then) and a year later, chucked them, and bought Viglens running Windows.
Phh.
Plus, this man's logic is flawed. When he typed that, he had not posted the article. No one knew about it. No noise would therefore be made until he had posted it.
Sorry.
And I don't know, this looks like noise to me.
I really dislike smug people. People who try and beef up a weak argument with me-feel-good smugness like the classic "I told you so," and "well, it looks we was right all along, chaps," don't have an argument worth arguing.
Maybe they're trying to make themselves feel better about having Windows. Denial is always a possibility.
I read in the Official UK Playstation2 Magazine that the PS3 would not be able to play PS1 games. I don't know how I would survive without Wipeout2097, the Final Fantasies VII, VIII and IX, Vib Ribbon, the decent first three Spyro games and the first Tomb Raider.("No! I'll never let go! Never!") I don't believe that with the amount of power the new machine is supposed to have, they can't fit in a little PS1 emulator. Buying a PS3 would certainly not be the no-brainer the PS2 was if my entire precious PS1 game collection became obselete.
Maybe they could release some classic PS1 games again, in a souped up PS2 DVD format, with improved graphics? And the PS1 games were CD-ROMs not DVDs- so if they're going to include a CD player again, which is highly likely, then it'd be a pinch to add a PS1 emulator, as they'd already have the technology to play the discs...?
The reason that we have all those adverts for TV licences is because we in the UK have to pay for TV licences. People in the UK were responsible for banning iTrip. Did you get the point of the discussion? Why are you talking about Pi? If you don't have a scientific calculator, then use 3.14. No reasonably bright slashdot user would slack off like that. Anyway, we are talking about the baning of iTrip being a bad thing. If I said everyone in the UK was a good, trustworthy person like Tony Blair, I'd be Alistair Campbell. (sorry)
I think that the iTrip, even though I just found out about it, sounds like a really fantastic piece of kit. If I had a car, I'd have bought one. Isn't having a gadget like an iTrip important for deals like "buy a VW Beetle and get an iPod free"? I don't really see the point anyway. It's not like we're stealing anything. We don't have to pay to listen to the radio, apart from buying the radio. Of course, even though we may not want to listen to the radio anyway, other people might, and if the iTrip transmission blocks the signal, then the radio station just lost a listener. It might be a better idea to have a Bluetooth-like system where the system has to recognise the car stereo or the Hi-Fi. It might be even more reliable.
Whatever. This law, the Wireless Telegraphy Act, is from 1949. Maybe here in the UK, the law hasn't caught up with the technological advances and the freedoms people expect in the 21st century!
Just bitchin'. And I'd never piss in my drinking water, for the simple reason that I'd like to drink it.
This would seem eerily familiar to...an office worker!
A) These activities consume up to half of the creatures' waking hours, every single day.
8 hours, and that's only 9-5. Do mice get weekends? They definitely don't get paid overtime, that's for sure.
B) The affected animals also exhibit other deficiencies and obsessive behaviors.
Like drinking 20 cups of coffee a day? Swivelling the swivel chair, round, and round, and round...Sharpening pencils with the electric sharpener? Or surfing porn? Rage?
C) The entire lifestyle of these creatures is wildly altered by the addition of something as simple as a cardboard tube to their cages.
New coffee machine! There's a CRANE outside! Look at all the pretty colours! Check out that new carpet the boss has! I have a NEW MOUSEMAT!
Or maybe the office workers are the mice. Do they feel like mice? Trapped, like a mouse in a cage? Desperately squeaking for something more stimulating? Waving their little hairy tails recklessly behind them as they chew on the window panes...attacking each other in their madness...
I thought that the largest whales only ate plankton. And that's gotta be a pretty big damn whale- I saw pictures on the BBC. It said it could be a 'giant octopus'. It looked like it had tendrils, too. Big tendrils. Some guy was grabbing chunks of it and wobbling it up and down to prove it wasn't a massive lava flow or something. Which was what I thought it looked like. (Which could be impossible anyway, depending on whereabouts in Chile the thing is...just saying.)
Are we saying the whale got washed up, all decomposed, with bits of the huge giant something poking out?
Get this- I met someone who, when I asked her if she saw 'Walking With Dinosaurs', she said she didn't believe in dinosaurs and that the bones were planted by the scientists.
[I had to remind her these people are called archaeologists].
I guess if NASA actually did find life on Mars and brought it back, some people would never believe it...
Fictional interview on the news with 'doubters'...
"First we burned Harry Potter because witchcraft is SATANIC even though it's fiction, and NOW we're burning our televisions bacause it's telling me NASA thinks there's ALIENS! On MARS! What is this, science fiction?"
I don't know if this applies to England as well, that X-2 and Crystal Chronicles come out on the same day, just much later.
Yeah, later. American gamers may think they're disadvantaged, missing out on soundtracks, much later release dates than Japan, and other Japanese RPGs that look great...only the publishers don't think it'll be popular enough to make money. But European gamers have to put up with all these things, plus an even smaller choice of games from overseas, a wait of weeks or even months longer than America, and extortionately high prices to boot. I'd much rather wait until one drops in cost, and I'd much rather like the choice of game myself.
I'm not going to pay a hundred quid for two games!
We're sorta lucky in England because we have game developers of our own, like Team Soho, the developers behind the Getaway (don't know if that's gone anywhere else yet- I suppose not, only Londoners can really appreciate the detail put into London), the developers who made Tomb Raider, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and so on. (Excuse the examples- I'm broke so have not been able to buy any magazines) The thing is, I much prefer Japanese games like Final Fantasy, so I have to SUFFER.
And I don't know why, but there seems to be a larger percentage of the American population who are Nerds into FF than Britain- indeed, the same goes for the General Nerd percentage. Therefore, the only Final Fantasy merchandise I have ever seen in London is an imported model of Cerberus from FFVIII, in a tatty box, with Kanji writing, on the top shelf in a mobile phone shop in Soho. And it was £35. Which is quite a lot to someone, like me, with no regular income. (=a lot of serious gamers, {and teenagers.} Apart from game testers. Those lucky bastards.)
George Bush:
"The plan to flatten the...erm, mountain range is going well... it, however, it is taking a little longer than expected. No worries, though, because we're gonna nuke those evil mountains for as long as it takes to flatten them and show those European bastards who's boss!"
-(Who's boss? I say Kevin Smith.)
Honestly, I really wouldn't be suprised. What next, the icebergs "because they make all the water near them all cold and...kill fishes and stuff?"
I did it with Final Fantasy VIII. And my life is better for it. So, being a game tester for Square would be better than, say, the developers who made that stupid hour long 2D children's game about an elf called Hugo. You've got to research.
I thought this was the NASA site I was visiting, until I saw them call the asteroid a 'big space rock'.
Or what?, I was rather suprised to find that the scientists at NASA called the Big Space Rock an 'asteroid'.
I don't get it. I thought these were the sort of people who would try and sue you for calling it that.
I now apologise for my light and probably very offensive use of the term 'sue'. I'm sure they wouldn't dream of suing anybody.
Don't sue me.
And also (the UK version at least) of Ridge Racer Type 4 had compatibility with PocketStation. There was all this hype, models posing with it etc. etc. etc., was going to be sold for £20... and nothing happened.
Annoying, that. The chocobo GF is a great big pile of turd without the PocketStation.
The Mummy? Yeah, all the animation was good...until the end, when the most important CGI character, the Scorpion King, managed to look like a lump of turd. Sorry, but they could prioritise a little more.
And, while I'm here, it probably flopped not because it had a rather flat storyline,(people would only figure that out after the film, methinks...) but because of the predjudice us gamers get! If we venture outside we get insulted for being geeks with no friends, yada yada...(admit we play Final Fantasy, for example...) Square Studios just did it on a bigger scale.
So...good idea, bad plot. I thought the animation was really good, just.. all brown. And some of the animated people's movement really freaked me out).
We could all sort of see it coming.
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When I joined my school in 1999, they had an award-winning Mac network. By the time I left this year, the only Mac in the place was the video editing Powerbook locked away in a little room. They bought 30 brand-new green iMacs (this was then) and a year later, chucked them, and bought Viglens running Windows. Phh.
Plus, this man's logic is flawed. When he typed that, he had not posted the article. No one knew about it. No noise would therefore be made until he had posted it.
Sorry.
And I don't know, this looks like noise to me.
I really dislike smug people. People who try and beef up a weak argument with me-feel-good smugness like the classic "I told you so," and "well, it looks we was right all along, chaps," don't have an argument worth arguing.
Maybe they're trying to make themselves feel better about having Windows. Denial is always a possibility.
Maybe they could release some classic PS1 games again, in a souped up PS2 DVD format, with improved graphics? And the PS1 games were CD-ROMs not DVDs- so if they're going to include a CD player again, which is highly likely, then it'd be a pinch to add a PS1 emulator, as they'd already have the technology to play the discs...?
I think that the iTrip, even though I just found out about it, sounds like a really fantastic piece of kit. If I had a car, I'd have bought one. Isn't having a gadget like an iTrip important for deals like "buy a VW Beetle and get an iPod free"? I don't really see the point anyway. It's not like we're stealing anything. We don't have to pay to listen to the radio, apart from buying the radio. Of course, even though we may not want to listen to the radio anyway, other people might, and if the iTrip transmission blocks the signal, then the radio station just lost a listener. It might be a better idea to have a Bluetooth-like system where the system has to recognise the car stereo or the Hi-Fi. It might be even more reliable. Whatever. This law, the Wireless Telegraphy Act, is from 1949. Maybe here in the UK, the law hasn't caught up with the technological advances and the freedoms people expect in the 21st century!
Just bitchin'. And I'd never piss in my drinking water, for the simple reason that I'd like to drink it.
A) These activities consume up to half of the creatures' waking hours, every single day.
8 hours, and that's only 9-5. Do mice get weekends? They definitely don't get paid overtime, that's for sure.
B) The affected animals also exhibit other deficiencies and obsessive behaviors.
Like drinking 20 cups of coffee a day? Swivelling the swivel chair, round, and round, and round...Sharpening pencils with the electric sharpener? Or surfing porn? Rage?
C) The entire lifestyle of these creatures is wildly altered by the addition of something as simple as a cardboard tube to their cages.
New coffee machine! There's a CRANE outside! Look at all the pretty colours! Check out that new carpet the boss has! I have a NEW MOUSEMAT!
Or maybe the office workers are the mice. Do they feel like mice? Trapped, like a mouse in a cage? Desperately squeaking for something more stimulating? Waving their little hairy tails recklessly behind them as they chew on the window panes...attacking each other in their madness...
Are we saying the whale got washed up, all decomposed, with bits of the huge giant something poking out?
Eew.
Your words, not mine.
You learn something again that you forgot every day.
I have my head stuck in the sand over the issue of the preview button!
[I had to remind her these people are called archaeologists].
I guess if NASA actually did find life on Mars and brought it back, some people would never believe it...
Fictional interview on the news with 'doubters'...
"First we burned Harry Potter because witchcraft is SATANIC even though it's fiction, and NOW we're burning our televisions bacause it's telling me NASA thinks there's ALIENS! On MARS! What is this, science fiction?"
"Darn it, Pete, I'm missing the X-Files!"
I don't know if this applies to England as well, that X-2 and Crystal Chronicles come out on the same day, just much later.
Yeah, later. American gamers may think they're disadvantaged, missing out on soundtracks, much later release dates than Japan, and other Japanese RPGs that look great...only the publishers don't think it'll be popular enough to make money. But European gamers have to put up with all these things, plus an even smaller choice of games from overseas, a wait of weeks or even months longer than America, and extortionately high prices to boot. I'd much rather wait until one drops in cost, and I'd much rather like the choice of game myself. I'm not going to pay a hundred quid for two games!
We're sorta lucky in England because we have game developers of our own, like Team Soho, the developers behind the Getaway (don't know if that's gone anywhere else yet- I suppose not, only Londoners can really appreciate the detail put into London), the developers who made Tomb Raider, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and so on. (Excuse the examples- I'm broke so have not been able to buy any magazines) The thing is, I much prefer Japanese games like Final Fantasy, so I have to SUFFER.
And I don't know why, but there seems to be a larger percentage of the American population who are Nerds into FF than Britain- indeed, the same goes for the General Nerd percentage. Therefore, the only Final Fantasy merchandise I have ever seen in London is an imported model of Cerberus from FFVIII, in a tatty box, with Kanji writing, on the top shelf in a mobile phone shop in Soho. And it was £35. Which is quite a lot to someone, like me, with no regular income. (=a lot of serious gamers, {and teenagers.} Apart from game testers. Those lucky bastards.)
George Bush: "The plan to flatten the...erm, mountain range is going well... it, however, it is taking a little longer than expected. No worries, though, because we're gonna nuke those evil mountains for as long as it takes to flatten them and show those European bastards who's boss!" -(Who's boss? I say Kevin Smith.) Honestly, I really wouldn't be suprised. What next, the icebergs "because they make all the water near them all cold and...kill fishes and stuff?"
I did it with Final Fantasy VIII. And my life is better for it. So, being a game tester for Square would be better than, say, the developers who made that stupid hour long 2D children's game about an elf called Hugo. You've got to research.
Men don't or can't be bothered to understand women 99% of the time!
I thought this was the NASA site I was visiting, until I saw them call the asteroid a 'big space rock'. Or what?, I was rather suprised to find that the scientists at NASA called the Big Space Rock an 'asteroid'. I don't get it. I thought these were the sort of people who would try and sue you for calling it that. I now apologise for my light and probably very offensive use of the term 'sue'. I'm sure they wouldn't dream of suing anybody. Don't sue me.
And also (the UK version at least) of Ridge Racer Type 4 had compatibility with PocketStation. There was all this hype, models posing with it etc. etc. etc., was going to be sold for £20... and nothing happened. Annoying, that. The chocobo GF is a great big pile of turd without the PocketStation.
The Mummy? Yeah, all the animation was good...until the end, when the most important CGI character, the Scorpion King, managed to look like a lump of turd. Sorry, but they could prioritise a little more. And, while I'm here, it probably flopped not because it had a rather flat storyline,(people would only figure that out after the film, methinks...) but because of the predjudice us gamers get! If we venture outside we get insulted for being geeks with no friends, yada yada...(admit we play Final Fantasy, for example...) Square Studios just did it on a bigger scale. So...good idea, bad plot. I thought the animation was really good, just.. all brown. And some of the animated people's movement really freaked me out). We could all sort of see it coming.
Weeeeell, the mass is the same as the matter but wouldn't it be minus-mass? like -1g?
We're looking at a bumpy re-entry...