Yet people in America think Monopoly is the ultimate board game. But deep down they know you're right, so they hate board games -- if monopoly is so boring, all board games must be boring. It's a shame because sitting down around a good game is a great social activity which is almost unheard of in the US.
The US board game companies would rather sell another copy of Monopoly than something good...I guess that's typical of American business so somehow appropriate.
Why is a game where the main strategy is "pray I get the roll I need" considering such a great game by American? People buy a new edition, play it once, remember how much it sucks and put it on the shelf for the cycle to repeat in 5-10 years.
There's so many amazing board games out there that are about the same complexity as Monopoly but actually fun (Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne for example).
In my 4th year "Computer Networks" course that was a final exam question except it was the school's T1 line (hey that was fast back then) vs an airplane full of CD-R's.
The airplane won easily on total bandwidth, but the Doom2 ping times sucked.
But when you want to upgrade your iMac, you have to pay for a new screen to replace the perfectly good one with the old computer. And if you want multiple machines on a KVM, you're screwed.
For me, the Mini is underpowered, the PowerMac is over priced, and I will not buy a computer with an integrated screen. The day they release something comparable to an iMac but without an integrated screen and a price that reflects the missing screen is the day I switch to mac.
I bought MS-DOS 6.0. It wiped out my hard drive. Then MS charged an extra $20 for the "upgrade" to 6.2 which doesn't wipe out hard drives (as often). Compared to that, Vista Ultimate was a bargain.
Not if you're good enough about the other aspects. Talking Dadaism, someone hung a urinal at the moma and it was considered art. Goldfish in a blender?
If you can BS as an artist, you don't have to create anything.
Your buddy is more likely to get a mandatory 5 year jail term than the moron tailgating him.
Besides an obvious charge of mischief, you're looking at assault with a weapon. Then there's a possible crim negligence endagering life; throwing something that can crack a windshield at someone driving highway speeds would make out the charge. Then dangerous driving.
And if he does smash a driver's windshield, the road-rage motivated driver might well ram his bike and then say when the bolt hit his windshield his accidently slammed down his foot which happened to be on the accelerator.
In law, if your experts cannot convince the judge that it works that, by definition, raises resonable doubt. The onus never shifts onto the accused to prove it doesn't work.
So how do the prosecutor experts convince a judge who knows nothing about programming that even though the code might not be perfect it still works well enough that he should be satisfied beyond resonable doubt?
'brownouts that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace,'
If a problem with the internet connection actually freezes someone's computer, whoever had a hand in creating the operating system is a complete idiot.
Or further along those lines, what if a competing service to turnitin were to offer royalties to the students for including their work in the database. Then the author of the work should have the chance to include their work in that database, but they're denied that opportunity by turnitin using their work for free.
That's what college is for; it's not just rote memorization of facts.
Depends on the quality of the school. Clearly, BYU is a crappy schoole where it is just rote memorization of facts with no actual understanding taught.
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Yet people in America think Monopoly is the ultimate board game. But deep down they know you're right, so they hate board games -- if monopoly is so boring, all board games must be boring. It's a shame because sitting down around a good game is a great social activity which is almost unheard of in the US. The US board game companies would rather sell another copy of Monopoly than something good...I guess that's typical of American business so somehow appropriate.
Why is a game where the main strategy is "pray I get the roll I need" considering such a great game by American? People buy a new edition, play it once, remember how much it sucks and put it on the shelf for the cycle to repeat in 5-10 years.
There's so many amazing board games out there that are about the same complexity as Monopoly but actually fun (Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne for example).
In my 4th year "Computer Networks" course that was a final exam question except it was the school's T1 line (hey that was fast back then) vs an airplane full of CD-R's.
The airplane won easily on total bandwidth, but the Doom2 ping times sucked.
Try taking a break from coding every week or so for a shower.
Shouldn't IE itself and microsoft.com be on any decent malware list?
Before they can work on a linux driver, they need to wait for someone to develop suitable linux nanolaser fonts. It should be available any year now.
"They" say being slightly overweight leads to a longer life than "normal" weight. Perhaps the reality is "they've" defined normal a little too low.
But when you want to upgrade your iMac, you have to pay for a new screen to replace the perfectly good one with the old computer. And if you want multiple machines on a KVM, you're screwed. For me, the Mini is underpowered, the PowerMac is over priced, and I will not buy a computer with an integrated screen. The day they release something comparable to an iMac but without an integrated screen and a price that reflects the missing screen is the day I switch to mac.
Most of the people who will pay $29 for snow leopard paid apple for their hardware. How many vista users bought their hardware from microsoft?
I bought MS-DOS 6.0. It wiped out my hard drive. Then MS charged an extra $20 for the "upgrade" to 6.2 which doesn't wipe out hard drives (as often). Compared to that, Vista Ultimate was a bargain.
Can I use the windows 7 license to legally run windows XP? ;)
Why do I picture human-sized ants under a magnifying glass when the beam shifts a little.
Not if you're good enough about the other aspects. Talking Dadaism, someone hung a urinal at the moma and it was considered art. Goldfish in a blender?
If you can BS as an artist, you don't have to create anything.
Your buddy is more likely to get a mandatory 5 year jail term than the moron tailgating him.
Besides an obvious charge of mischief, you're looking at assault with a weapon. Then there's a possible crim negligence endagering life; throwing something that can crack a windshield at someone driving highway speeds would make out the charge. Then dangerous driving.
And if he does smash a driver's windshield, the road-rage motivated driver might well ram his bike and then say when the bolt hit his windshield his accidently slammed down his foot which happened to be on the accelerator.
You never controlled the knocking to make music?
In law, if your experts cannot convince the judge that it works that, by definition, raises resonable doubt. The onus never shifts onto the accused to prove it doesn't work.
So how do the prosecutor experts convince a judge who knows nothing about programming that even though the code might not be perfect it still works well enough that he should be satisfied beyond resonable doubt?
Does it matter? The real question is "Can a prosecutor convince a computer illiterate judge beyond reasonable doubt that it does ultimately work?".
Customers have a long, long memory.
Since when? How many people even here think about the Sony Rootkit when buying their new electronics? EA software since the Spore DRM?
Customer memory lasts about half as long as it takes to roll out the next version or product.
I tried to find that in the science section at the bookstore, but it was in the mythology section.
Because that was DOS, a single-tasking operating system, and your example simply goes to show that co-operative multitasking really isn't.
And don't even get started on what Windows9x did with an unhandled exception.
For a modern multithreaded multitasking OS there's no excuse for the system to lock up.
'brownouts that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace,'
If a problem with the internet connection actually freezes someone's computer, whoever had a hand in creating the operating system is a complete idiot.
It's disgusting that this post was moderated Troll.
Or further along those lines, what if a competing service to turnitin were to offer royalties to the students for including their work in the database. Then the author of the work should have the chance to include their work in that database, but they're denied that opportunity by turnitin using their work for free.
That's what college is for; it's not just rote memorization of facts.
Depends on the quality of the school. Clearly, BYU is a crappy schoole where it is just rote memorization of facts with no actual understanding taught.
This is a BYU prof who doesn't seem to have ever set foot in a university because he just doesn't get it.