But I liked Airborne Express before DHL ate them, but since the merger I haven't sent/recieved anything with them. So I'm sort of wary of them.
Plus their uniforms are pretty lame. They'd probably attract lots of fruit flys or thrips, making an employee's life miserable when in tropical weather.;)
1. Gameplay/Level freedom (3 massive levels) 2. Music ("Naa nana na nananana na nana nanana!", or "You're lonely rolling star!") Kinda sticks in your head. 3. Precisely because it's weird. It's different. It's not FPS version #10^100. 4. 19.99!
Reasons for another one: 1. Possibliity of decent multiplayer. (Just imagine: continent sized multiplayer levels; each person starts off in some little random nook; Games end based on time limit or... "There can be only one"). Create network adapter support, and THAT would be cool. 2. Possibliity of more cool music. 3. Encouragement of cool, non-violent games: Note that you don't kill anything (although you would assume that little tweety birds you pick up initially would be crushed if you were picking up islands, whales, Petronas Towers, etc.) 4. 19.99? (pretty please?!?)
Yeah, I mean if someone wants to claim that some mail company is lazy and slow (and hence only works 4 months in the year), at least attack the ones that seem slower.;)
FedEx is IMO the fastest & most reliable of the FedEx/UPS/USPS gang. What was Ken thinking?
I found the Taurus and the Ursa levels to be the funniest and at the same time most frustrating in the game. All I can say is, I hate those floating Bear signs and those Cow traffic cones.
Its more fun if you have spectators, as they can see (and call out..."Ha! You picked up a cow!") all the wacky things you pick up, which you tend to miss as you are busy trying to control where the silly thing goes.
The funniest part of the game was the first time started to collect office buildings; the caucaphony of all the people screaming and telephones ringing will get your first-time spectator laughing.
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Heh, yes, well the supposed fight against the spread of communism was the driving factor for most of the explosion of tech. As were the world wars. We fought two 'wars' to stop communism. We fought two wars to fight facism. Hopefully this -ism of terror doesn't make us break that pattern.
We still have innovation. Except that after the wall fell, our newfound enemies were/are far smaller than the USSR. Our innovations were built on the assumption we were one team against another, similarly sized team. It's no longer Team Reds vs. Team USA; it's the Uncle Sam vs. a ton of angry killer bees.
Because we needed things like spy satellites, big navies and fast fighters (all money) to beat team red, we developed our techs like crazy. We spent like hell, we developed like hell. Now, we don't need to so much. We need stealth. We need nimbleness. And we need drugs to soothe our shell shocked loved ones.
Now, what do we have: invisible robot-controlled planes, GPS guided munitions, golf clubs that seemingly defy the first law, and Rogaine.;)
The current -ism doesn't really make us build wholly new techs. Until we have Minority Report technology (read minds/motives), I don't think terror will be stopped. There's always going to be small countries/groups that have far less people than the US that hate us (or one of the countries we support); they have little choice other than to channel and foment their anger into terror. And because America is getting that feeling that we're not liked everywhere (yeah, it's mainly toward the prez, but it just seems that way,) we'll circle our wagons, and this circle of hate will continue.
In the meantime, I think that we are in a good time for progress of conveinience tech. (as for social progress, well, the US just becoming lazy and a little insular, that's all). Better mpg (SUVs notwithstatnding), faster internet, stronger, um, Viagra products. (Sort of reminds me of that BASF commercial) Yes, we aren't building wonderful Saturn Vs nowadays (The only way we'd ever go to the moon now would be if we heard BL had himself a terror training base buried underneath the Sea of Tranquility,) but I would rather live in an age of relative peace with my Roomba versus flying to the moon with the constant threat of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Just wait till India's or China's (more likely China at this point) GDP matches or surpasses the US. Someone will get pissed off at someone again and then the tech push will happen again. I wonder if the US would win then.
Except for the ones that fly. They'll just divebomb you out of spite for trying to trap them;) Heh, but actually, you need to place some food (like dried shrimp) on the center of the duct tape to convince them to land.
I bought my parents a 2400 a little more than a year or so ago, and things ran fine on it, until told them to install SP2. Now, for some reason, it's slow as hell; every little mouse click takes a very noticable pause. At first I thought it was malware, but we ran Adaware on things and nothing's helped. I think I've covered everything I can:
I've installed a decent video card
It has 768MB of RAM in it
It's firewalled (hardware router/firewall)
It has zonealarm just in case
It has Norton Antivirus
No programs installed in the last 9 months
It's been defragged
The only conclusion I have is that it's SP2. The Dimension was a little slow before, but once SP2 was installed, it went from a consistent 'kind-of' slow to a now progressively slower and slower system. Grr! I'll have to do windows reinstall next time I visit. Probably stick to SP1
Yup, anything is better than 2, which tended to freeze once in a while when I flipped my car over (or maybe let's call it enhanced negative reinforcement for driver safety).
Yup, maybe the City/State officials need to start making their traffic tickets, speeding violations, and jury duty notices with that same light blue colored thatch pattern paper to make people feel at ease.;) Then I wouldn't feel so weirdly stressed when looking at them. (or maybe I'll become cold and pallid looking at the Hello Kitty website)
Sanrio should put little gifs of unhappy hello kitty faces next to all the things one shouldn't do (or is that even possible?)
BTW it is rather funny how they just haphazardly throw User Conduct rules at you.. I mean, harming minors (b.) and "provid[ing] instructional information about illegal activities (n.) are kind of in the same league, but making the conversation windows "scroll too quickly" is wierdly thrown in there as well.
Solars are far more exciting. I've only witnessed a very-nearly-but-obviously-not-total eclipse, and that's because my parents didn't want to shell out the money to fly to the Big Island back in 1991 (grr!)
Anyways, This site has links to images where they show the path of the eclipse on the world map. Kinda nice.
Of course, NASA's is far more comprehensive, but it doesn't show which individual cites are blessed by such eclipses.
Hopefully Nintendo won't squish this project now that it's made the front page of Slashdot. Their website does appear to mention Nintendo's copyright on the page, but that doesn't mean they have big N's permission.
But I would think (hope) that Nintendo wouldn't really have a problem with them as: 1. It's non-profit. 2. It maintains a brand awareness of their product. 3. It doesn't look like people are trying to ruin/change the image of Zelda/Link (at least not in a bad way). I don't feel that this is one of those Star Wars / Star Trek strict universe/timeline things...
Well, somehow I don't think Nintendo's goal of more mature themed games will even touch their 'core' characters; Mario won't ever use a chainsaw to gib people, Pikachu will never be a cold & vengeful mass murderer (he could be however, if you think about it), Link would never be a regular in a red light district, and there won't ever be a transparent armor mod for Samus.
The old core characters could coexist with new, more 'colorful' ones, if Nintendo could take a risk and allow such games.
Maybe they could be like Disney/Touchstone/Miramax; create a sub-company that would rebranded (and understood) as a company that tends to have more edgy, provacative games. Call it "Games for the M and up."
(IANA Chemist but...)
Probably not very. However, as with many thin and light materials, a very good use would be to layer these sheets into thousands of layers. Each sheet layer probably could not be one single molecule; that would be far too brittle, but if someone could figure out a way to neatly link sheets of a regular size (say 10x10 microns), and then stack thousands of them on top of each other, you'd get a very strong (linkage along one plane, and layering interplane), light, and smooth (graphite). You'd end up with flexible and chemically non-reactive materials that happend to be strong as well... Maybe you'd have a very pliable armor, or maybe some sort of non-reactive soft containers (if Nalgene made waterskins)
Please. Fry's is pulling in crazy dough. I don't think they're at all screwed by any manufacturer if their parking lot is full nearly EVERY DAMN NIGHT (yeah, that's sad that I can verify that.;P ). Here's what I do:
1. Wait for the Friday Fry's ad. 2. If there's something that looks good, first check techbargains.com and pricegrabber.com for comparable items or better prices. 3. If I need to take a look at it, then regardless of price, I'll go to Fry's and take a look. 4. If Fry's is better, I'll stand in line like another geek sheep and get it. If not, just go home and get it online (works well if the rebate is a national one, not one that's just at Fry's).
P.S. one tip for all of you buying stuff from fry's; MAKE SURE YOU BUY SOMETHING THAT DOESNT EVEN REMOTELY LOOK RETURNED. Obviously look for the return tags (look on all sides of the box, as I found one time when it was on the bottom of the box of a bulky box), but I stay away from boxed items that they even have a little more scratches on them. If any seal looks played with, don't get it. You don't want to play the return game with Fry's if at all possible.
I recall seeing cracked Apple II/IIc games around then too, although I guess it would have been at the earliest in '84. The only one I recall clearly though was choplifter, but there were others as well. I didn't know how my older cousins got them, but I think that's the first time I ever saw "cracked by" (it's amazing that little kids like me learned what 'brun' means)
I purchased NBA 2k5, also because of the price cut. I got used to the controls somewhat , and only noticed some graphical glitches. So things were pretty much all well and good until last week, when my 24/7 mode games would freeze whenever I finished a game/trial. Once I completed a game, The "Loading..." text would come up, and then the "..." animation froze, and the music would start doing a 5 second loop.
Thinking maybe it was a bad music track, I found the surface of the disc had no scratches of any kind. However, I was still suspicious of the music thing (as games I have had before would freeze because of bad tracks of music), so I tried to shut the music off. But since I can't do that from inside the 24/7 mode, and also shutting it off before entering the mode doesn't help (if you originally created the 24/7 savegame with the music on, you're stuck), I just started a new 24/7 character with no music. I lost basically 6 hours of gameplay. And now it works. grr
This might not be the true solution, but I'm done with 24/7 mode and the game, (I'm not going to play 82 games) so whatever. In any case, I started to hate the AI after awhile. I couldn't figure out a way to drive, jump to shoot, and then directpass to a specific player. I vaugely remeber the EA version being a little more intuative in its passing, whereas 2k5 tends to pass to people that are not necessarilally where you are pushing the controls. This makes fast breaks annoying and difficult (You have to press the alley-oop button to pass to the trailers on te break; It's not like EA where I would simply hold shoot, getting defenders to commit, and then hitting pass to pass to the cutters) Grr!
Incidentally, we can actually drive most equipment from the past decade at higher refresh rates. 100Hz is not that uncommon from the past five years, but the real comparison comes from clamping colours, which NTSC has never really managed.
Yup, as they say, NTSC: Never twice (the) same color.
omg, I completely agree. http://www.kcna.co.jp is by far the funniest thing I've read in a few weeks. It's as if you took the craziest, most paranoid person in the world, and gave them a blog to write what they experienced each day. Everything (even the one today about objecting to the S Korean army 'practicing' in Iraq) is so blindingly pro-N Korea. I could see people actually believing it though, as it is (probably) their only news source.
Google should add this site to their list, but I don't know if the parsing filters would match them to the correct stories.;)
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully the game will come with some cleaning wipes, as you're basically spitting repeatedly & in many different ways into the mic.
1. This is a how you felt being the defacto uber-nerd/engineer champion, becoming almost an icon to many.
2. This is how smart Alex Trebeck really is.
3. This is the number of minutes of fame you have accumulated throguh this crazy journey (including interviews).
Ok ok. I ain't DHL hatin. ;)
;)
But I liked Airborne Express before DHL ate them, but since the merger I haven't sent/recieved anything with them. So I'm sort of wary of them.
Plus their uniforms are pretty lame. They'd probably attract lots of fruit flys or thrips, making an employee's life miserable when in tropical weather.
Huh?
;)
Searching seems to indicate:
Sound chip = 8-bit Sony SPC700
Victory!
dan da-da-da da da da da dun!
dan dan da-dan, dah dan dan da-dan!
Reasons for the first game:
1. Gameplay/Level freedom (3 massive levels)
2. Music ("Naa nana na nananana na nana nanana!", or "You're lonely rolling star!") Kinda sticks in your head.
3. Precisely because it's weird. It's different. It's not FPS version #10^100.
4. 19.99!
Reasons for another one:
1. Possibliity of decent multiplayer. (Just imagine: continent sized multiplayer levels; each person starts off in some little random nook; Games end based on time limit or... "There can be only one"). Create network adapter support, and THAT would be cool.
2. Possibliity of more cool music.
3. Encouragement of cool, non-violent games: Note that you don't kill anything (although you would assume that little tweety birds you pick up initially would be crushed if you were picking up islands, whales, Petronas Towers, etc.)
4. 19.99? (pretty please?!?)
Yeah, I mean if someone wants to claim that some mail company is lazy and slow (and hence only works 4 months in the year), at least attack the ones that seem slower. ;)
FedEx is IMO the fastest & most reliable of the FedEx/UPS/USPS gang. What was Ken thinking?
Now I can play the wonderful tunes of Nobuo Uematsu without actually having to play the game! Let the inspirational 8-bit sound inspire all!
I found the Taurus and the Ursa levels to be the funniest and at the same time most frustrating in the game. All I can say is, I hate those floating Bear signs and those Cow traffic cones.
Its more fun if you have spectators, as they can see (and call out..."Ha! You picked up a cow!") all the wacky things you pick up, which you tend to miss as you are busy trying to control where the silly thing goes.
The funniest part of the game was the first time started to collect office buildings; the caucaphony of all the people screaming and telephones ringing will get your first-time spectator laughing.
To RPG or CARPG, that is the question ;)
Heh, yes, well the supposed fight against the spread of communism was the driving factor for most of the explosion of tech. As were the world wars. We fought two 'wars' to stop communism. We fought two wars to fight facism. Hopefully this -ism of terror doesn't make us break that pattern.
;)
We still have innovation. Except that after the wall fell, our newfound enemies were/are far smaller than the USSR. Our innovations were built on the assumption we were one team against another, similarly sized team. It's no longer Team Reds vs. Team USA; it's the Uncle Sam vs. a ton of angry killer bees.
Because we needed things like spy satellites, big navies and fast fighters (all money) to beat team red, we developed our techs like crazy. We spent like hell, we developed like hell. Now, we don't need to so much. We need stealth. We need nimbleness. And we need drugs to soothe our shell shocked loved ones.
Now, what do we have: invisible robot-controlled planes, GPS guided munitions, golf clubs that seemingly defy the first law, and Rogaine.
The current -ism doesn't really make us build wholly new techs. Until we have Minority Report technology (read minds/motives), I don't think terror will be stopped. There's always going to be small countries/groups that have far less people than the US that hate us (or one of the countries we support); they have little choice other than to channel and foment their anger into terror. And because America is getting that feeling that we're not liked everywhere (yeah, it's mainly toward the prez, but it just seems that way,) we'll circle our wagons, and this circle of hate will continue.
In the meantime, I think that we are in a good time for progress of conveinience tech. (as for social progress, well, the US just becoming lazy and a little insular, that's all). Better mpg (SUVs notwithstatnding), faster internet, stronger, um, Viagra products. (Sort of reminds me of that BASF commercial) Yes, we aren't building wonderful Saturn Vs nowadays (The only way we'd ever go to the moon now would be if we heard BL had himself a terror training base buried underneath the Sea of Tranquility,) but I would rather live in an age of relative peace with my Roomba versus flying to the moon with the constant threat of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Just wait till India's or China's (more likely China at this point) GDP matches or surpasses the US. Someone will get pissed off at someone again and then the tech push will happen again. I wonder if the US would win then.
Except for the ones that fly. They'll just divebomb you out of spite for trying to trap them ;) Heh, but actually, you need to place some food (like dried shrimp) on the center of the duct tape to convince them to land.
I bought my parents a 2400 a little more than a year or so ago, and things ran fine on it, until told them to install SP2. Now, for some reason, it's slow as hell; every little mouse click takes a very noticable pause. At first I thought it was malware, but we ran Adaware on things and nothing's helped. I think I've covered everything I can:
I've installed a decent video card
It has 768MB of RAM in it
It's firewalled (hardware router/firewall)
It has zonealarm just in case
It has Norton Antivirus
No programs installed in the last 9 months
It's been defragged
The only conclusion I have is that it's SP2. The Dimension was a little slow before, but once SP2 was installed, it went from a consistent 'kind-of' slow to a now progressively slower and slower system. Grr! I'll have to do windows reinstall next time I visit. Probably stick to SP1
Yup, anything is better than 2, which tended to freeze once in a while when I flipped my car over (or maybe let's call it enhanced negative reinforcement for driver safety).
Yup, maybe the City/State officials need to start making their traffic tickets, speeding violations, and jury duty notices with that same light blue colored thatch pattern paper to make people feel at ease. ;) Then I wouldn't feel so weirdly stressed when looking at them. (or maybe I'll become cold and pallid looking at the Hello Kitty website)
Sanrio should put little gifs of unhappy hello kitty faces next to all the things one shouldn't do (or is that even possible?)
BTW it is rather funny how they just haphazardly throw User Conduct rules at you.. I mean, harming minors (b.) and "provid[ing] instructional information about illegal activities (n.) are kind of in the same league, but making the conversation windows "scroll too quickly" is wierdly thrown in there as well.
Solars are far more exciting. I've only witnessed a very-nearly-but-obviously-not-total eclipse, and that's because my parents didn't want to shell out the money to fly to the Big Island back in 1991 (grr!)
Anyways, This site has links to images where they show the path of the eclipse on the world map. Kinda nice.
Of course, NASA's is far more comprehensive, but it doesn't show which individual cites are blessed by such eclipses.
Hopefully Nintendo won't squish this project now that it's made the front page of Slashdot. Their website does appear to mention Nintendo's copyright on the page, but that doesn't mean they have big N's permission.
/change the image of Zelda/Link (at least not in a bad way). I don't feel that this is one of those Star Wars / Star Trek strict universe/timeline things...
But I would think (hope) that Nintendo wouldn't really have a problem with them as:
1. It's non-profit.
2. It maintains a brand awareness of their product.
3. It doesn't look like people are trying to ruin
Hehe, ideal sales for M$ for the slashdot crowd is when
173
------------- ~ 1.36e-6 ~ 0%
127,333,002
of a population sample buy a Bill-product.
Well, somehow I don't think Nintendo's goal of more mature themed games will even touch their 'core' characters; Mario won't ever use a chainsaw to gib people, Pikachu will never be a cold & vengeful mass murderer (he could be however, if you think about it), Link would never be a regular in a red light district, and there won't ever be a transparent armor mod for Samus.
The old core characters could coexist with new, more 'colorful' ones, if Nintendo could take a risk and allow such games.
Maybe they could be like Disney/Touchstone/Miramax; create a sub-company that would rebranded (and understood) as a company that tends to have more edgy, provacative games. Call it "Games for the M and up."
(IANA Chemist but...)
:)
Probably not very. However, as with many thin and light materials, a very good use would be to layer these sheets into thousands of layers. Each sheet layer probably could not be one single molecule; that would be far too brittle, but if someone could figure out a way to neatly link sheets of a regular size (say 10x10 microns), and then stack thousands of them on top of each other, you'd get a very strong (linkage along one plane, and layering interplane), light, and smooth (graphite). You'd end up with flexible and chemically non-reactive materials that happend to be strong as well... Maybe you'd have a very pliable armor, or maybe some sort of non-reactive soft containers (if Nalgene made waterskins)
Or not
Yup. Its the reason why Rodeo Drive, Spinner Rims, and first class on a one hour flight exist.
Please. Fry's is pulling in crazy dough. I don't think they're at all screwed by any manufacturer if their parking lot is full nearly EVERY DAMN NIGHT (yeah, that's sad that I can verify that. ;P ). Here's what I do:
1. Wait for the Friday Fry's ad.
2. If there's something that looks good, first check techbargains.com and pricegrabber.com for comparable items or better prices.
3. If I need to take a look at it, then regardless of price, I'll go to Fry's and take a look.
4. If Fry's is better, I'll stand in line like another geek sheep and get it. If not, just go home and get it online (works well if the rebate is a national one, not one that's just at Fry's).
P.S. one tip for all of you buying stuff from fry's; MAKE SURE YOU BUY SOMETHING THAT DOESNT EVEN REMOTELY LOOK RETURNED. Obviously look for the return tags (look on all sides of the box, as I found one time when it was on the bottom of the box of a bulky box), but I stay away from boxed items that they even have a little more scratches on them. If any seal looks played with, don't get it. You don't want to play the return game with Fry's if at all possible.
I recall seeing cracked Apple II/IIc games around then too, although I guess it would have been at the earliest in '84. The only one I recall clearly though was choplifter, but there were others as well. I didn't know how my older cousins got them, but I think that's the first time I ever saw "cracked by" (it's amazing that little kids like me learned what 'brun' means)
I purchased NBA 2k5, also because of the price cut. I got used to the controls somewhat , and only noticed some graphical glitches. So things were pretty much all well and good until last week, when my 24/7 mode games would freeze whenever I finished a game/trial. Once I completed a game, The "Loading..." text would come up, and then the "..." animation froze, and the music would start doing a 5 second loop.
Thinking maybe it was a bad music track, I found the surface of the disc had no scratches of any kind. However, I was still suspicious of the music thing (as games I have had before would freeze because of bad tracks of music), so I tried to shut the music off. But since I can't do that from inside the 24/7 mode, and also shutting it off before entering the mode doesn't help (if you originally created the 24/7 savegame with the music on, you're stuck), I just started a new 24/7 character with no music. I lost basically 6 hours of gameplay. And now it works. grr
This might not be the true solution, but I'm done with 24/7 mode and the game, (I'm not going to play 82 games) so whatever. In any case, I started to hate the AI after awhile. I couldn't figure out a way to drive, jump to shoot, and then directpass to a specific player. I vaugely remeber the EA version being a little more intuative in its passing, whereas 2k5 tends to pass to people that are not necessarilally where you are pushing the controls. This makes fast breaks annoying and difficult (You have to press the alley-oop button to pass to the trailers on te break; It's not like EA where I would simply hold shoot, getting defenders to commit, and then hitting pass to pass to the cutters) Grr!
Incidentally, we can actually drive most equipment from the past decade at higher refresh rates. 100Hz is not that uncommon from the past five years, but the real comparison comes from clamping colours, which NTSC has never really managed.
Yup, as they say, NTSC: Never twice (the) same color.
omg, I completely agree. http://www.kcna.co.jp is by far the funniest thing I've read in a few weeks. It's as if you took the craziest, most paranoid person in the world, and gave them a blog to write what they experienced each day. Everything (even the one today about objecting to the S Korean army 'practicing' in Iraq) is so blindingly pro-N Korea. I could see people actually believing it though, as it is (probably) their only news source.
;)
Google should add this site to their list, but I don't know if the parsing filters would match them to the correct stories.