Plus, they have quasi AI level computers and freaking force fields to compensate for a less than ideal aerodynamic design. COAS, if you want less fantasy in your scifi fine, but Star Wars has more magic in it than LOTR.
Now in REALLIFE a good % of/.ers have built, launched, and successfully recovered the smaller Estes version of this 21foot toy. It's a big lawn dart with four rockets. Let's argue about whether a lawn dart can fly.
I thought they were all nicknames, as actually using the "people of the book" God's real name was idolatry or cause the end times or something. Hence YHWH instead of Yahwey... oops.
"...Well, that and people smart enough to know how to reboot Windows in safe mode."
When the cop commands the kid to come over and fix his computer, the kid tells him something to get him off his case. I guess that's the kind of person they want. Little known fact; In the unedited version of the commercial the kid gives him a krispy kreme as well.
I remember I went to a computer fair some years ago. One of the guys selling OEM copies of xp had removed the exposed license stickers and placed them face down in the shrink wrap. He also had a "No Cameras" sign up. I asked him about it and he said "kids" were stealing the codes. In the years since I've encountered a few instances where the system being built would fail auto validation and I would wonder if some Fry's stock boy with a phonecam was padding his income with legit codes.
So (I don't build systems anymore)... do OEM Vista packages have the code on the shrinkwrap?
I "use" titan tv sorta. It's what came with my winfast card. But it played this (really loud) sound file whenever I tried to use it to change channels. It's wrong alot too. Hugely annoying. So I just program the PVR for time and channel manually.
No. Paper rulebooks. Fantasy Lead/Pewter/Plastic Miniatures. Buncha geeks arguing about obscure game related rules. Deathstalker II playing n the background. Maybe 1 girl in 10 gamers. Nothing like D&D.
The basis of MTG's card value was "the ante". At the beginning of each game each player exposed a random card from their deck and the winner of the game got that card. Thus, there was real value to the card. As the number of each type of card was limited, very small decks increased the odds of playing powerful card combos. Shortly thereafter (after the beta run was done) people started paying cash for good cards(Mostly alpha and beta cards at first), because they couldn't win without them in tourneys. After awhile it became hard to find an ante game, but the card value stuck... Then WoTC changed the game rules to encourage the purchase of new cards.
In contrast, WH/WH40K was based on a "recognisable" force and scratchbuilt models were even featured in WhiteDwarf, the Games Workshop owned game 'zine. This was because GW could not innitially supply models for every unit in their rulebook(s). The basic rule that most people seemed to play with was if every detail in your army's models options was accurate and the army was all GW models, your opponent didn't get to look at your army list (though it still had to be verified by a ref in a tourney). Otherwise you had to let your opponent read your list. Despite this there was an advantage to playing powerful scratchbuilt models. Then GW changed the game rules to encourage the purchase of "official" models.
In both cases, it was the newer players of the games that allowed the rule changes to go into effect. They were at the disadvantage if they didn't and massively outnumbered the old school. The rule changes were only official tournement rules, and yet they became defacto because they benefited the masses.
...Ah ha. The old you get what you pay for factor. I've got few of those. Some were free after rebate, some were too eager trades. Then I'd waste a s/t of hours with bios updates and listening to diptards tell me I needed a Giggawatt PSU to run a downclocked AthlonXP Mobile processor.
Free wifi in bars, coffeeshops, and resturants is very common in Atlanta suburbs. Not so much in auto repair shops and laundry-mats. Starbucks is an exception. They paired up with T-Mobile years ago to provide "hotspots" in all of their shops. T-Mobile wouldn't exhale unless they could charge someone for the breeze they had created. Cariboo Coffee (the other major coffee chain in ATL) and Panera do it for free tho...
This is assuming version numbers represent some transparent indication of progress of performance in chip design and that the manufacturer wants to convey that information. The purpose (at least towards those outside the hallowed halls of the engineers doing the work) of a code name is to intentionally promote a level of obscurity. That outsiders catalog and rank these names is contraproductive to this purpose. Manufacturers produce brand names for public consumption to indicate what they want you to believe is progress in performance. Intel ranks them as follows,
Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Core2. Products such as Celeron, Pentium M, and Core(1) should be ignored for the purpose of performance rankings. In all cases a newer branding and a higher number following the brand suffix represents a "better" product. When in doubt just buy the most expensive processor.
See, they've got it all figured out for you. Paying attention to all this peynron this and that is just too troublesome. Just let the marketeers figure it out for you./assmode
I wasn't talking about their sound cards, I sold lots of systems with those. All my gaming friends had them too. I had read something around the time of the demise of Aureal that they had spent too large a chunk of money on r&d for something else chip related. It doesn't matter, my memory of the events is contradictory with what I see with a google search. I was also under the impression that Aureal had won compensation due to its own patents, but that doesn't appear to be true either.
As I recall, Aureal more or less bankrupted themselves with some new tech that didn't pan out. They were sueing Creative over core 3d sound patents and won (not the other way around) but not until they were prettymuch out of business. Creative bought the company mostly because they were going to have to shell out millions in that direction anyway and buying a competing (and at that time, superior) IP would remove it from play.
"As to the shotgun blasts blowing someone across the room, I've never shot anyone or anything at close range with a shotgun, but it might work against a smaller person/animal. With a really big gun held by a really massive person (properly braced) it would possibly stagger the shooter while propelling the shootee..."
With the shotgun... maybe a "little person" or a rabbit or something. Buckshot was designed to shoot bucks (surprise!) from pretty close ranges and they don't fly anywhere. Even little 120lb whitetails either fall from gravity or run till they bleed out.
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I've always found it hard to believe that this never happened.
Plus, they have quasi AI level computers and freaking force fields to compensate for a less than ideal aerodynamic design. COAS, if you want less fantasy in your scifi fine, but Star Wars has more magic in it than LOTR.
/.ers have built, launched, and successfully recovered the smaller Estes version of this 21foot toy. It's a big lawn dart with four rockets. Let's argue about whether a lawn dart can fly.
Now in REALLIFE a good % of
I thought they were all nicknames, as actually using the "people of the book" God's real name was idolatry or cause the end times or something. Hence YHWH instead of Yahwey... oops.
"...Well, that and people smart enough to know how to reboot Windows in safe mode."
When the cop commands the kid to come over and fix his computer, the kid tells him something to get him off his case. I guess that's the kind of person they want. Little known fact; In the unedited version of the commercial the kid gives him a krispy kreme as well.
I remember I went to a computer fair some years ago. One of the guys selling OEM copies of xp had removed the exposed license stickers and placed them face down in the shrink wrap. He also had a "No Cameras" sign up. I asked him about it and he said "kids" were stealing the codes. In the years since I've encountered a few instances where the system being built would fail auto validation and I would wonder if some Fry's stock boy with a phonecam was padding his income with legit codes.
So (I don't build systems anymore)... do OEM Vista packages have the code on the shrinkwrap?
Finally we have the hardware that grand parents will buy for the kids that wanted an HD player.
It doesn't need to be HD porn, just 30GB of SD Porn. There's your winner.
I "use" titan tv sorta. It's what came with my winfast card. But it played this (really loud) sound file whenever I tried to use it to change channels. It's wrong alot too. Hugely annoying. So I just program the PVR for time and channel manually.
TFW, would Yoda say.
Folks, this should be modded up. It happened all over the f'n country.
No. Paper rulebooks. Fantasy Lead/Pewter/Plastic Miniatures. Buncha geeks arguing about obscure game related rules. Deathstalker II playing n the background. Maybe 1 girl in 10 gamers. Nothing like D&D.
The basis of MTG's card value was "the ante". At the beginning of each game each player exposed a random card from their deck and the winner of the game got that card. Thus, there was real value to the card. As the number of each type of card was limited, very small decks increased the odds of playing powerful card combos. Shortly thereafter (after the beta run was done) people started paying cash for good cards(Mostly alpha and beta cards at first), because they couldn't win without them in tourneys. After awhile it became hard to find an ante game, but the card value stuck... Then WoTC changed the game rules to encourage the purchase of new cards.
In contrast, WH/WH40K was based on a "recognisable" force and scratchbuilt models were even featured in WhiteDwarf, the Games Workshop owned game 'zine. This was because GW could not innitially supply models for every unit in their rulebook(s). The basic rule that most people seemed to play with was if every detail in your army's models options was accurate and the army was all GW models, your opponent didn't get to look at your army list (though it still had to be verified by a ref in a tourney). Otherwise you had to let your opponent read your list. Despite this there was an advantage to playing powerful scratchbuilt models. Then GW changed the game rules to encourage the purchase of "official" models.
In both cases, it was the newer players of the games that allowed the rule changes to go into effect. They were at the disadvantage if they didn't and massively outnumbered the old school. The rule changes were only official tournement rules, and yet they became defacto because they benefited the masses.
...Ah ha. The old you get what you pay for factor. I've got few of those. Some were free after rebate, some were too eager trades. Then I'd waste a s/t of hours with bios updates and listening to diptards tell me I needed a Giggawatt PSU to run a downclocked AthlonXP Mobile processor.
And "no longer supported" is the new gold.
What's the point? All you'll catch are hippies in a microbus dumping trash on your property.
no
well played.
Free wifi in bars, coffeeshops, and resturants is very common in Atlanta suburbs. Not so much in auto repair shops and laundry-mats. Starbucks is an exception. They paired up with T-Mobile years ago to provide "hotspots" in all of their shops. T-Mobile wouldn't exhale unless they could charge someone for the breeze they had created. Cariboo Coffee (the other major coffee chain in ATL) and Panera do it for free tho...
This is assuming version numbers represent some transparent indication of progress of performance in chip design and that the manufacturer wants to convey that information. The purpose (at least towards those outside the hallowed halls of the engineers doing the work) of a code name is to intentionally promote a level of obscurity. That outsiders catalog and rank these names is contraproductive to this purpose. Manufacturers produce brand names for public consumption to indicate what they want you to believe is progress in performance. Intel ranks them as follows,
/assmode
Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Core2. Products such as Celeron, Pentium M, and Core(1) should be ignored for the purpose of performance rankings. In all cases a newer branding and a higher number following the brand suffix represents a "better" product. When in doubt just buy the most expensive processor.
See, they've got it all figured out for you. Paying attention to all this peynron this and that is just too troublesome. Just let the marketeers figure it out for you.
I feel you. I gave up around Dothan.
There's a Boston joke here somewhere. I guess you'd be safe as long as you stayed on the Cambridge side of the river.
I wasn't talking about their sound cards, I sold lots of systems with those. All my gaming friends had them too. I had read something around the time of the demise of Aureal that they had spent too large a chunk of money on r&d for something else chip related. It doesn't matter, my memory of the events is contradictory with what I see with a google search. I was also under the impression that Aureal had won compensation due to its own patents, but that doesn't appear to be true either.
Yep, I should google old history before typing.
As I recall, Aureal more or less bankrupted themselves with some new tech that didn't pan out. They were sueing Creative over core 3d sound patents and won (not the other way around) but not until they were prettymuch out of business. Creative bought the company mostly because they were going to have to shell out millions in that direction anyway and buying a competing (and at that time, superior) IP would remove it from play.
"As to the shotgun blasts blowing someone across the room, I've never shot anyone or anything at close range with a shotgun, but it might work against a smaller person/animal. With a really big gun held by a really massive person (properly braced) it would possibly stagger the shooter while propelling the shootee..."
With the shotgun... maybe a "little person" or a rabbit or something. Buckshot was designed to shoot bucks (surprise!) from pretty close ranges and they don't fly anywhere. Even little 120lb whitetails either fall from gravity or run till they bleed out.
That's a drinking game you know. Colision + explosion = drink.