If you ever get a chance to see a serious foosball tournament with high level players, go and prepare to be amazed. The difference between ordinary recreational foosball and hard-core tournament winners is like the difference between shooting a piece of wadded up paper into the garbage can from across the room and the NBA.
Those are some very clever ideas. I have to laugh, though, thinking about what it would all look like. An all concrete room (Step 2) with everything bolted onto the walls and ceiling instead of hidden away (Step 4)? Your living room will look like some kind of cross between a prison cell and a boiler room:-)
So now I need an admin account for the kids to play games
There's a secure, stable, inexpensive, convenient, simple platform available to play games on. It's called PlayStation 2 and it has a lot of advantages. You can rent the games before buying them at most video rental places. You can buy the games used, and sell the used games back when you're through with them. Just switch;-)
To fish for good stuff on mp3.com, you need the right strategy. Don't even bother looking at the "charts". Here are two strategies that have worked for me.
Type the name of a band you like into Search. When you get the results page, click on the Similar Artists link, and browse through the mp3.com bands that sound similar (or claim to).
Go to the Artist page on mp3.com of an artist you like. Click on the link that says "Stations Now Playing". This takes you to "Stations" people have created that play that artist. Now browse through the other things played by that station. This often works because: 1) people who take the trouble to make a station usually put songs on them that aren't total crap, and 2) since the station plays at least one artist you know you like, there is probably some other overlap between your taste and the station's.
I gave up on PC gaming years ago and switched to consoles. It's simple -- with a PC game, when the developer gets behind schedule they can just ship whatever buggy unfinished garbage they have and (maybe) put out patches later. You can't do that with a Playstation game, because Sony won't let you ship buggy games (although they may let you ship bug-free games that aren't very fun, but that's another story). Consoles have real quality control!
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If you ever get a chance to see a serious foosball tournament with high level players, go and prepare to be amazed. The difference between ordinary recreational foosball and hard-core tournament winners is like the difference between shooting a piece of wadded up paper into the garbage can from across the room and the NBA.
The Chinese character that looks like # means "a well." We could generalize it to mean a hole in the ground. So F# should be pronounced "F-hole."
Those are some very clever ideas. I have to laugh, though, thinking about what it would all look like. An all concrete room (Step 2) with everything bolted onto the walls and ceiling instead of hidden away (Step 4)? Your living room will look like some kind of cross between a prison cell and a boiler room :-)
There's a secure, stable, inexpensive, convenient, simple platform available to play games on. It's called PlayStation 2 and it has a lot of advantages. You can rent the games before buying them at most video rental places. You can buy the games used, and sell the used games back when you're through with them. Just switch ;-)
See also "The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get so Much More than the Rest of Us" by Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook. This is a great book explaining some of the forces that shape our society.
To fish for good stuff on mp3.com, you need the right strategy. Don't even bother looking at the "charts". Here are two strategies that have worked for me.
I gave up on PC gaming years ago and switched to consoles. It's simple -- with a PC game, when the developer gets behind schedule they can just ship whatever buggy unfinished garbage they have and (maybe) put out patches later. You can't do that with a Playstation game, because Sony won't let you ship buggy games (although they may let you ship bug-free games that aren't very fun, but that's another story). Consoles have real quality control!
One of my favorites - it identifies what would happen in a world where advertisers were let run rampant.
Which is totally unlike our world, where advertising is so restrained as to be barely noticeable ;-)
I love The Merchants' War . . . it is a favorite of mine, too.