Now, if you're not in to White Wolf RPGs: armor has two soak values, a bashing soak for bashing damage like from punches and wooden clubs, and lethal soak to protect from swords and bullets and such.
So maybe these armors won't protect against bullets... but anyone wearing them will be invulnerable against fists! Imagine: Chuck Norris wearing a suit of nano-armor, kicking his way through Texas in the name of justice. Or, even better, Vin Diesel in nano-armor plowing through gang headquarters with his bare hands!
I don't care HOW many "girls who are geeks" calendars there are out there, as long as there aren't calendars like "dark and mysterious pictures of overweight sweaty guys playing D&D in a basement, while eating Cheetos" or "male engineers with their private parts cleverly hidden a bow made with backup tape ribbons", geekdom is *NOT* mainstream or cool.
Well, that's part of it.
Also, Van Von Hunter? Peach Fuzz? They're above average sequential art pieces. However, neither of them really fit the newspaper format---something that you can pick up whenever you want. As parent said, Azumanga Daiou would be perfect for newspapers, since although there is continuity each strip is also standalone.
Damnit! Now that the RIAA and MPAA and co. leet haxored/. and posted this here, the USCO site will be flooded with drooling idiots and "HURHUR ME NO LIKE DMCA COZ IT NO LET ME RIP FITY CENT AN HIS CD AN I CAN NOT LISTEN TO MUSIK AND LOOK AT UNDERAGE PORN WHILE $%%$@@#ING YO MOMMA!!!!!1111!!~ - Billy,/. ReADER REPRESENT!!!".
Much more cost effective than hiring their own drooling idiots, I'd say.
Why not call both China and Taiwan provinces of Japan? When anyone asks the engineers at Google that can just say "oops we were using old data from the WWII days" while they are being showered by Japanese gifts of schoolgirls and playstations and tentacle porn.
Brilliantly said.
Not to start a flame war, but there are many fields in which open source software simply may not be able to do the job.
For example, if a user asks for "a web browser that has less spyware", I recommend Firefox.
If a user wants to automate the editing a bunch of photographs or slides, I recommend Photoshop. As much as I love the GIMP, I don't really find it as useful as Photoshop in some areas.
Also, another factor I have to consider is that since I'm working in an academic enviornment, it's much easier to say "here's how you use this piece of software that's installed on our lab computers because though we spend a crapload of money on it Adobe supports it and helps us if the massive imaging of the software onto our network of computers fail" than "okay, let me misuse my admin priviliges and install an open source alternative for you". Though there has been a movement (mainly from students) to get at least open source browsers such as Firefox installed in place of Netscape.
Where can you see Linux?
Only in Kenya!
Come to Kenya we've got Linux!
Where can you see handhelds?
Only in Kenya!
Come to Kenya we've got handhelds!
Forget Windows!
Kenya! Kenya, Kenya, Kenya!
Come to Kenya we've got Linux!
Oh Linux Handhelds...
(Sung to the tune of Kenya, from Weebl's Stuff.)
We're just equip our elite guards with repeaters (as in the rifle) and force out peons to carry portable hard drives and run really fast around the globe.
It's brilliant!
If SA screws LJ users over, that would create a horde of people who would want to bitch and moan and whine and write bad poetry on their LiveJournals.
But then since SA controls LJ, they would either have to rant somewhere else (God forbid!) or pay to get a new LJ account so they can rant about how they had got screwed over but ended up going back to SA anyway.
And you know what? I bet a large amount of people would do exactly that if SA decides to screw LJ over. Some people are that stupid.
LiveJournal is a very emotional place. And as we all know, no matter how many times emotionally abusive "signifigant others" hurt some people, they still end up crawling back just to get screwed over again. Six Apart could just take this principle and apply it to making money. Hell, a bunch of assholes already do their with their girlfriends.
Marathon was nothing compared to Escape Velocity, and especially Escape Velocity: Override!!! Those two games were the reasons why I really really wanted a Mac.
Now I want a Mac because OSX is pretty and chicks dig Macs.
But I thought they were mindless drones contolled by Overminds...
Wait, she must be Karrigan! Oh no, we're all gonna die! Run away! Stimpack! Every expendible infantryman for himself!
Space parks means... SPACE RANGERS!!!
"Hey Chuck, the tourists on trail three just ran out of oxygen. Can you spacelift them a few tanks with the Mars hopper?"
"All Rangers, a bunch of tourists are being attacked by native demons. Make sure to bring your BFGs! *click* Sigh, what part of the 'FEED THE DEMONS AND THEY WILL EAT YOUR SOUL' do they not understand?"
Okay, from what I can gather in the article, all they said is that "sales" went up 3% compared to last year.
But did they take into account things like the increase in the number of people in the UK? If there were more people who can afford and want music, then obviously more people will buy music. What about the total production of the music industry? No matter how good a band is most people would only buy one copy of any of their given CDs.
It feels like of like the industry saying "look we're selling a whole lot more because we rock" while in reality people are only buying the same amount of music as they did last year.
Though the singles download thing is actually pretty cool. Maybe companies would realize that unless they pack shiny things and gimmicks into their singles people aren't willing to shell out the price of half a full album for one song--but they will pay a bit more than A/n (where A is cost of an album and n is how many songs they have) for a song that they like.
Is it just me or is it just some writer under a deadline attempting poorly to write something related to Thanksgiving? I mean, table? That's not something I'd associate Thanksgiving with. And "binary digits"? WTF?
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WHY?! WHY?!!!!!!!
Now, if you're not in to White Wolf RPGs: armor has two soak values, a bashing soak for bashing damage like from punches and wooden clubs, and lethal soak to protect from swords and bullets and such. So maybe these armors won't protect against bullets... but anyone wearing them will be invulnerable against fists! Imagine: Chuck Norris wearing a suit of nano-armor, kicking his way through Texas in the name of justice. Or, even better, Vin Diesel in nano-armor plowing through gang headquarters with his bare hands!
And for those of you who are Tom Holt fans: the Flying Dutchman. Seriously, if he dies, the world's economy collapses! =)
Should we really be trusting the research of someone from a place called TIT?
At first I was like "wait, what? Bart Simpson fitted with wireless? Is this some new commericial tie-in gadget?"
I don't care HOW many "girls who are geeks" calendars there are out there, as long as there aren't calendars like "dark and mysterious pictures of overweight sweaty guys playing D&D in a basement, while eating Cheetos" or "male engineers with their private parts cleverly hidden a bow made with backup tape ribbons", geekdom is *NOT* mainstream or cool.
Well, that's part of it. Also, Van Von Hunter? Peach Fuzz? They're above average sequential art pieces. However, neither of them really fit the newspaper format---something that you can pick up whenever you want. As parent said, Azumanga Daiou would be perfect for newspapers, since although there is continuity each strip is also standalone.
Does "strike the iron while it is hot" means shooting it with our portable airplane-pilot-blinding PowerPoint-enhancing deathrays?
Damnit! Now that the RIAA and MPAA and co. leet haxored /. and posted this here, the USCO site will be flooded with drooling idiots and "HURHUR ME NO LIKE DMCA COZ IT NO LET ME RIP FITY CENT AN HIS CD AN I CAN NOT LISTEN TO MUSIK AND LOOK AT UNDERAGE PORN WHILE $%%$@@#ING YO MOMMA!!!!!1111!!~ - Billy, /. ReADER REPRESENT!!!".
Much more cost effective than hiring their own drooling idiots, I'd say.
It's cancer! Kill it with radiation!!! Let's hope it ain't testicular.
Why not call both China and Taiwan provinces of Japan? When anyone asks the engineers at Google that can just say "oops we were using old data from the WWII days" while they are being showered by Japanese gifts of schoolgirls and playstations and tentacle porn.
Brilliantly said. Not to start a flame war, but there are many fields in which open source software simply may not be able to do the job. For example, if a user asks for "a web browser that has less spyware", I recommend Firefox. If a user wants to automate the editing a bunch of photographs or slides, I recommend Photoshop. As much as I love the GIMP, I don't really find it as useful as Photoshop in some areas. Also, another factor I have to consider is that since I'm working in an academic enviornment, it's much easier to say "here's how you use this piece of software that's installed on our lab computers because though we spend a crapload of money on it Adobe supports it and helps us if the massive imaging of the software onto our network of computers fail" than "okay, let me misuse my admin priviliges and install an open source alternative for you". Though there has been a movement (mainly from students) to get at least open source browsers such as Firefox installed in place of Netscape.
Where can you see Linux? Only in Kenya! Come to Kenya we've got Linux! Where can you see handhelds? Only in Kenya! Come to Kenya we've got handhelds! Forget Windows! Kenya! Kenya, Kenya, Kenya! Come to Kenya we've got Linux! Oh Linux Handhelds... (Sung to the tune of Kenya, from Weebl's Stuff.)
How would one go about cutting up platters without damaging them or giving them sharp edges?
(I am the one who wrote the guide, by the way.)
Would the US army send the newly "enhanced" soldiers back to Iraq?
We're just equip our elite guards with repeaters (as in the rifle) and force out peons to carry portable hard drives and run really fast around the globe.
It's brilliant! If SA screws LJ users over, that would create a horde of people who would want to bitch and moan and whine and write bad poetry on their LiveJournals. But then since SA controls LJ, they would either have to rant somewhere else (God forbid!) or pay to get a new LJ account so they can rant about how they had got screwed over but ended up going back to SA anyway. And you know what? I bet a large amount of people would do exactly that if SA decides to screw LJ over. Some people are that stupid. LiveJournal is a very emotional place. And as we all know, no matter how many times emotionally abusive "signifigant others" hurt some people, they still end up crawling back just to get screwed over again. Six Apart could just take this principle and apply it to making money. Hell, a bunch of assholes already do their with their girlfriends.
I thought the story was about a game company destroying a European nation with lasers! How disappointing.
Even when he's dead his soul will live on, haunting the Internet and trying to sell Viagra.
Marathon was nothing compared to Escape Velocity, and especially Escape Velocity: Override!!! Those two games were the reasons why I really really wanted a Mac. Now I want a Mac because OSX is pretty and chicks dig Macs.
But I thought they were mindless drones contolled by Overminds... Wait, she must be Karrigan! Oh no, we're all gonna die! Run away! Stimpack! Every expendible infantryman for himself!
Space parks means... SPACE RANGERS!!! "Hey Chuck, the tourists on trail three just ran out of oxygen. Can you spacelift them a few tanks with the Mars hopper?" "All Rangers, a bunch of tourists are being attacked by native demons. Make sure to bring your BFGs! *click* Sigh, what part of the 'FEED THE DEMONS AND THEY WILL EAT YOUR SOUL' do they not understand?"
Okay, from what I can gather in the article, all they said is that "sales" went up 3% compared to last year. But did they take into account things like the increase in the number of people in the UK? If there were more people who can afford and want music, then obviously more people will buy music. What about the total production of the music industry? No matter how good a band is most people would only buy one copy of any of their given CDs. It feels like of like the industry saying "look we're selling a whole lot more because we rock" while in reality people are only buying the same amount of music as they did last year. Though the singles download thing is actually pretty cool. Maybe companies would realize that unless they pack shiny things and gimmicks into their singles people aren't willing to shell out the price of half a full album for one song--but they will pay a bit more than A/n (where A is cost of an album and n is how many songs they have) for a song that they like.
Is it just me or is it just some writer under a deadline attempting poorly to write something related to Thanksgiving? I mean, table? That's not something I'd associate Thanksgiving with. And "binary digits"? WTF?
Slashdot, the place in which godhood is defined by how many prime numbers you can find in an hour and a half.