A what? I've never even heard of a military police officer. To me, MP means one thing and one thing only: mana point. Or I suppose some games call them magic points. Or possibly also muscle or moxie points, if you're playing KoL, but the point still stands.
I follow a few (non-mainstream) musicians on twitter. Why? Because their twitter posts have stuff like, say, how their new album is doing, where they're thinking about touring, secret links to unreleased covers they've recorded, that sort of thing. I also follow one (also non-mainstream) game developer twitter, because their game is hilarious, and so is everything else they write, including their twitter posts. I agree, twitter is mostly just full of hype, but occasionally people do use it in useful (or at least amusing) ways.
Reminds of one of many great quotes from Burn Notice: "Anyone who has handled large amounts of cash can tell you it's one of the toughest things in the world to move. It's heavy and dense; dead weight. If it's on fire, of course... that complicates things further."
I don't blame her. I wouldn't really want to eat bloody vegetables either; I don't even like rare meat, but at least there you know where the blood would be coming from. On vegetables, though, it would just be disturbing.
When I was 7, my family vacationed in Singapore. I remember seeing a sign for an arcade across the street from our hotel. An arcade! I was all excited, and wanted to go visit it! Yeah, well, it wasn't what I expected.
As for a 'new school' arcade, I assume they refer to places like Gameworks, that mostly feature horribly overpriced racing/gun games with lots of flashing lights and technogadgets to draw your attention, but not so much actual gameplay.
Actually, you can. There's a setting, it's just not UI-visible. When I just had to reformat my computer a week ago, and then grabbed Thunderbird and discovered I'd gotten a newer version and the tabs were freaking ugly... I went out and googled how to get rid of them immediately. I definitely saw the dev response, or more like total *lack* of dev response, but then I found the config setting to remove them, soon after. (I don't remember what it was called anymore, but it shouldn't be that hard to find.)
Funny, I'm just thinking of Inspector Gadget. How long before we get thought-controlled binoculars, an umbrella, roller skates, extra arms, a helicopter...? (Cause I would totally purchase this.)
No, in that particular case, it would be more like sneaking into a gas station in the middle of the night, and replacing their machines (programmed to send them money when people use them) with identical-looking machines programmed instead to send you the money.
I would like to point out that nobody goes to a Broadway musical to hear the nuanced performance of the guys in the pit. I'd go to a symphony to see and hear an orchestra; not so much with a musical. There's a reason most shows don't even bother to show you the pit: because we don't care. They're there to provide music for the singers on stage. Of course, I don't think we're nearly at the point where we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between live backing musicians in the pit vs. a live-synched digital arrangement, but it's within the realm of imaginability, and once we achieved it, I'm not sure anyone would be terribly bothered unless they were looking to get a job in that field. The vocalists get to sound live; the orchestra is just there to do what the soloist(s) tell them to. Granted, part of making it sound real would be allowing the freedom for the vocalists to give different performances and having the backing follow it, which would be a much more difficult problem. But a potentially solveable one, still.
Now, start replacing musicians in a symphony with fakes, then I'd start getting irritated.
Um... what world are you living in? Not the real one, clearly. Go to any school that has a private lan. Ask a handful of people walking to classes, whether they use that lan to download files they don't own. I bet you very few colleges would have many negative responses to that question] (unless you showed up declaring yourself a member of the RIAA, in which case, of course nobody ever did that.)
Obviously, I can't speak from experience about every college ever. But certainly, every college I've ever seen or heard of, either students used its private lan to share files, or else it just didn't have a private lan capable of setting up Windows file-sharing.
Hasn't it always been that way? For instance: the college I graduated from, had a policy on drinking. It went like this: don't do anything that will force us to care that you're drinking, and we won't care that you're drinking. Interestingly, the same went for file-sharing.
Why would you want to steal something from someone who is a. momentarily famous, and b. proven to be intelligent at crook-finding? Seems like that'd be a perfect recipe for getting caught quickly?
And anyway, oh no, god forbid people know approximately where I live. For the record: I live in Santa Cruz, near the Safeway on the west side, and our house contains several tvs, and several computers. That only describes several hundred houses...
More like, if you migrate to Vista and then decide it sucks, and want to upgrade back to XP, sucks to be you if you have any music. So better just stick with what you have!
Really? From what I've heard, AT&T provides way better service than Verizon.
Out here, I had two choices: Verizon, or Charter. Verizon's service is flaky at best, but Charter makes it look flawless by comparison. So I went with Verizon. I'd switch in a second, if I had anything to switch to.
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A what? I've never even heard of a military police officer. To me, MP means one thing and one thing only: mana point. Or I suppose some games call them magic points. Or possibly also muscle or moxie points, if you're playing KoL, but the point still stands.
I follow a few (non-mainstream) musicians on twitter. Why? Because their twitter posts have stuff like, say, how their new album is doing, where they're thinking about touring, secret links to unreleased covers they've recorded, that sort of thing. I also follow one (also non-mainstream) game developer twitter, because their game is hilarious, and so is everything else they write, including their twitter posts. I agree, twitter is mostly just full of hype, but occasionally people do use it in useful (or at least amusing) ways.
Reminds of one of many great quotes from Burn Notice: "Anyone who has handled large amounts of cash can tell you it's one of the toughest things in the world to move. It's heavy and dense; dead weight. If it's on fire, of course... that complicates things further."
I don't blame her. I wouldn't really want to eat bloody vegetables either; I don't even like rare meat, but at least there you know where the blood would be coming from. On vegetables, though, it would just be disturbing.
I thought that was, "help I'm trapped in a universe factory".
When I was 7, my family vacationed in Singapore. I remember seeing a sign for an arcade across the street from our hotel. An arcade! I was all excited, and wanted to go visit it! Yeah, well, it wasn't what I expected. As for a 'new school' arcade, I assume they refer to places like Gameworks, that mostly feature horribly overpriced racing/gun games with lots of flashing lights and technogadgets to draw your attention, but not so much actual gameplay.
Step 1: open it in notepad...
Actually, you can. There's a setting, it's just not UI-visible. When I just had to reformat my computer a week ago, and then grabbed Thunderbird and discovered I'd gotten a newer version and the tabs were freaking ugly... I went out and googled how to get rid of them immediately. I definitely saw the dev response, or more like total *lack* of dev response, but then I found the config setting to remove them, soon after. (I don't remember what it was called anymore, but it shouldn't be that hard to find.)
Funny, I'm just thinking of Inspector Gadget. How long before we get thought-controlled binoculars, an umbrella, roller skates, extra arms, a helicopter...? (Cause I would totally purchase this.)
No, just pictures of cats. Duh.
No, in that particular case, it would be more like sneaking into a gas station in the middle of the night, and replacing their machines (programmed to send them money when people use them) with identical-looking machines programmed instead to send you the money.
I would like to point out that nobody goes to a Broadway musical to hear the nuanced performance of the guys in the pit. I'd go to a symphony to see and hear an orchestra; not so much with a musical. There's a reason most shows don't even bother to show you the pit: because we don't care. They're there to provide music for the singers on stage. Of course, I don't think we're nearly at the point where we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between live backing musicians in the pit vs. a live-synched digital arrangement, but it's within the realm of imaginability, and once we achieved it, I'm not sure anyone would be terribly bothered unless they were looking to get a job in that field. The vocalists get to sound live; the orchestra is just there to do what the soloist(s) tell them to. Granted, part of making it sound real would be allowing the freedom for the vocalists to give different performances and having the backing follow it, which would be a much more difficult problem. But a potentially solveable one, still. Now, start replacing musicians in a symphony with fakes, then I'd start getting irritated.
Um... what world are you living in? Not the real one, clearly. Go to any school that has a private lan. Ask a handful of people walking to classes, whether they use that lan to download files they don't own. I bet you very few colleges would have many negative responses to that question] (unless you showed up declaring yourself a member of the RIAA, in which case, of course nobody ever did that.) Obviously, I can't speak from experience about every college ever. But certainly, every college I've ever seen or heard of, either students used its private lan to share files, or else it just didn't have a private lan capable of setting up Windows file-sharing.
Heaven for Everyone? Made in Heaven? I Was Born to Love You? Note: TeX drives me crazy, too. I just like being contrary.
Hey, look at that. Sounds just like what I, living in America, do with Doctor Who.
Hasn't it always been that way? For instance: the college I graduated from, had a policy on drinking. It went like this: don't do anything that will force us to care that you're drinking, and we won't care that you're drinking. Interestingly, the same went for file-sharing.
KoLer!
No, the saddest key is definitely Richard's. And by "saddest", I mean "most annoying".
Technically, he only stated that he lives with a wife and two school-age children near Kyoto. And how do you know he doesn't?
I just lost the game, speaking of games that can only be won by not playing them.
Something new? Yeah, that'd be nice. If only such things still existed.
Why would you want to steal something from someone who is a. momentarily famous, and b. proven to be intelligent at crook-finding? Seems like that'd be a perfect recipe for getting caught quickly? And anyway, oh no, god forbid people know approximately where I live. For the record: I live in Santa Cruz, near the Safeway on the west side, and our house contains several tvs, and several computers. That only describes several hundred houses...
More like, if you migrate to Vista and then decide it sucks, and want to upgrade back to XP, sucks to be you if you have any music. So better just stick with what you have!
Wow. That is an amazing page, which I hadn't seen until just now. I thank you greatly - no sarcasm whatsoever.
Really? From what I've heard, AT&T provides way better service than Verizon.
Out here, I had two choices: Verizon, or Charter. Verizon's service is flaky at best, but Charter makes it look flawless by comparison. So I went with Verizon. I'd switch in a second, if I had anything to switch to.
Watch, I'll go post something somewhere public with that string, just to prove you wrong.