They're more like $10 to $20, even for crappy black and white sets.
Anyway, pretty soon all the analog broadcast TVs will be obsolete and worthless, and all the digital TVs will have V-Chips, and then you can start to say "cocksucker" on TV all you want, and legitimately argue that if people see it and are offended, it's their own fault.
But more importantly, even in an imperfect world, PBS should be allow to broadcast whatever they want, whether it's curses, tits, etc. because it's generally appealing to educational interests, not purient ones. And, while we're on the subject of tits, who really cares? CBS should be fined for putting on crappy half-time shows that need tits to draw attention to them, but the tits themselves, well, I've seen much worse in my spam folder.
Anyway, I just got a letter from my kids' school saying "no more superhero T-Shirts" so I'm particularly disinclined to support any censorship today.
maybe... and maybe it has to do with the laws of thermodynamics.
Find another group of molecules that holds as much energy in them as hydrocarbons do, and then maybe someday YOU could be one of the controlling interests!
Actually most people born before 1980 in the US got smallpox vaccines, but it was a new, weaker vaccine after ~1970, and it didn't leave that scar on your arm.
I had a friend who used to use the smallpox scar to date girls. If they had it, they were ok to date. If they didn't, chances are he wouldn't have enough in common with them for a LTR. I remember he was bummer when he met an Eastern European girl who didn't have it, until he discovered that it was in a different place on her body...
Olympic Decathalon for the Apple II was one of the best sports games of its day, and basically established the format and controls that all multi-event sports games (like Konami's Winter Games) have used since. And it was by Microsoft.
I was getting 20-21 city, ~24+ highway in my '98 Volvo S70 w/ nearly bald Michelan tires (probably original tires). I switched to some Goodyear Eagles and saw my milage drop like a stone to 17-18 city and maybe 21.
This frustrated the hell out of me for a really long time. Then I inflated the tires all the way to near their "max pressure" rating and suddenly my milage is way better than before.
So yeah, I'm a moron for not checking this sooner, but JFC, you'd expect them to properly inflate the tires when they install them!
This does bring up a question though: should tires be inflated to their stated maximum, or below that? If so, how far?
Silas Warner was super cool. One of the few times I've ever been rendered speechless was when this giant guy handed me his resume at our GDC job booth. I was like, "Hi, ok you've worked at Virgin, you some Sega CD codecs...... oh, cool...... wait a minute....... Holy Shit, You're SILAS WARNER!!"
I think he got a kick out of it. Unfortunately we weren't hiring senior engineers at the time, so I never got a chance to work with him.
Yeah, it's rad that when they execute the next guy in California, they're doing it on a gameshow with Richard Dawson!
I'm sorry, but have you seen the Running Man? And have you, like, been outside recently? The two things have nothing in common. It's one thing to be against something like the Patriot Act, but common, have some sense of scale or perspective.
It's like people who run around screaming "Bush is worse than Hitler, Bush is worse than Hitler," and they're then baffled when no one takes them seriously. (You may not like Bush as a president or person, but he's not exactly put 12 million people into death camps, and few reasonable people, on the left or right, would be impressed by the comparison.)
Similarly, the Patriot Act may be a shitty, stupid set of laws (less harmful than DMC, IMHO), but to suggest that it's going to lead to a Running Man world come to life is just dumb.
Word 5.1 was ok for a Microsoft product, but serious Mac word processors always used the blisteringly fast WriteNow (originally by T/Maker, later published by TLC). It was done in 68000 assembly and originally started as an Apple funded project which was a hedge against the possibility that MacWrite might not get done in time for the Macintosh launch.
In addition to the fastest word count ever seen (essential if you're a journalist), it also came with really well written and funny manuals. Even emulated on the first PowerMacs, it ran circles around WORD and had great line spacing abilities (essential if you're a student trying to hit a page count).
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The nazis who landed, out of uniform, were tried and executed after a (very rapid) Supreme Court appeal. It is that case that provides the precedent for the US executing -- not that we have yet -- prisoners who are convicted by military tribunals at Gitmo.
There's a great synopsis in a book review here , and the book looks pretty good too.
Mindless leveling is fun. For some people, at some times, successfully doing something by rote means, or by performing actions where the outcome is rarely in doubt, can be incredibly satisfying. It's almost analagous to building a model. You know what the thing is going to look like; you could have probably bought one that already looked like that; but it's fun sometimes to successfully follow instructions and watch something get created, even if you know what is going to be made.
Frankly, it's not really my cup of tea -- although I do get the urge every couple of years and pick up some dungeon crawler -- but I don't understand why people pick on leveling in and of itself as some kind of proof of failure of RPGs. That's like bagging on fighting games for requiring you to learn combos.
The real question to me, is why replace the mainframe system if it, you know, worked.
(The only answer I can guess is so that the new system would be fucked up, ensuring gainful employment for the IT department for years to come.)
My girlfriend's mom was a programmer at an insurance company, doing actuarial tables, etc, on a mainframe. Then they decided to replace it all with networked micros and discovered, after spending serious $$$, that their micro solution was a total failure, and despite their best effort, they hed to keep the mainframe -- and my gf's mom -- around for a lot longer than they expected. Lots of dough for the IT and CTO and Microsoft and Dell or whoever they bought the PCs from, no actual increase in productivity, or reduction in costs.
The only possible actual argument for the switch was that none of their new people knew enough low-level stuff to write good software for the mainframe -- you could argue that they had to switch to NT so they could continue to employ undereducated graduates, but that's about it.
Slight OT -- I've heard people mention the spotted owl taste, but when I eat seal -- or more usually, sea lion -- it really tastes more like California Condor to me. Even more than panda does (canned panda, anyway).
Also, the PS2 has, essentially, a PS1 onboard, which handles PS1 games and controller input.
For game systems with five year discrete lifespans, it's maybe cheaper to just include the old hardware, which costs pennies by that point, than to write and support a software emu.
Just for the record, Dvorak has never written positively about anything. His whole schtick is writing gloom and doom, devil's advocate, contrarian pieces about whatever anyone happens to be saying something good about.
Apparently this appeals to people's innate masochism, because he seems to have been doing it successfully in magazines since the mid-1980s.
You have to figure, though, that there are scores of jokes in Futurama that you don't get, or even notice, because they target different groups on the nerd/pop-culture spectrum.
MacPlay is still around; Interplay sold the name off a long time ago -- in fact it may have passed through a couple owners since then. (I think WizardWorks/GT/Infogrames/Atari owned it for a while.)
No, they're definitely for-profit, and profitable. Although, basically, who cares? Just trying to make a profit doesn't make you evil.
Activision makes cool games, and lots of profit, and treats developers well, and the people who work there well (as far as I know). It's a good company. And profitable. Just to point out an example.
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The fossil fuel question is much more complicated then just whether or not you drive.
Anyway, pretty soon all the analog broadcast TVs will be obsolete and worthless, and all the digital TVs will have V-Chips, and then you can start to say "cocksucker" on TV all you want, and legitimately argue that if people see it and are offended, it's their own fault.
But more importantly, even in an imperfect world, PBS should be allow to broadcast whatever they want, whether it's curses, tits, etc. because it's generally appealing to educational interests, not purient ones. And, while we're on the subject of tits, who really cares? CBS should be fined for putting on crappy half-time shows that need tits to draw attention to them, but the tits themselves, well, I've seen much worse in my spam folder.
Anyway, I just got a letter from my kids' school saying "no more superhero T-Shirts" so I'm particularly disinclined to support any censorship today.
Find another group of molecules that holds as much energy in them as hydrocarbons do, and then maybe someday YOU could be one of the controlling interests!
Actually most people born before 1980 in the US got smallpox vaccines, but it was a new, weaker vaccine after ~1970, and it didn't leave that scar on your arm.
I had a friend who used to use the smallpox scar to date girls. If they had it, they were ok to date. If they didn't, chances are he wouldn't have enough in common with them for a LTR. I remember he was bummer when he met an Eastern European girl who didn't have it, until he discovered that it was in a different place on her body...
Results 1-15 of about 1804205 containing "rabbit"
So it does appear to be a bug, and not the fault of anti-rabbit forces inside Microsoft.
Sorry, no results were found containing "rabbit"
(Google found 6.8 million, fyi).
At what point do the search engine creators just decide that their engine isn't ready for prime time? I mean, a rabbit is a fairly common thing.
It's still pretty fun.
Are there any good guides that explain exactly how weather, fuel, etc. affect milage?
This frustrated the hell out of me for a really long time. Then I inflated the tires all the way to near their "max pressure" rating and suddenly my milage is way better than before.
So yeah, I'm a moron for not checking this sooner, but JFC, you'd expect them to properly inflate the tires when they install them!
This does bring up a question though: should tires be inflated to their stated maximum, or below that? If so, how far?
(this assumes cold tires)
And I, for one, never tire of reading them! I can't wait to get a GTO. Or maybe a G6...
FWIW, my pedestrian, "I have a kid" '95 Grand Prix SE has a lifetime average around 18MPG...
I think he got a kick out of it. Unfortunately we weren't hiring senior engineers at the time, so I never got a chance to work with him.
He can't mod and post in the same thread. Sorry.
I'm sorry, but have you seen the Running Man? And have you, like, been outside recently? The two things have nothing in common. It's one thing to be against something like the Patriot Act, but common, have some sense of scale or perspective.
It's like people who run around screaming "Bush is worse than Hitler, Bush is worse than Hitler," and they're then baffled when no one takes them seriously. (You may not like Bush as a president or person, but he's not exactly put 12 million people into death camps, and few reasonable people, on the left or right, would be impressed by the comparison.)
Similarly, the Patriot Act may be a shitty, stupid set of laws (less harmful than DMC, IMHO), but to suggest that it's going to lead to a Running Man world come to life is just dumb.
In addition to the fastest word count ever seen (essential if you're a journalist), it also came with really well written and funny manuals. Even emulated on the first PowerMacs, it ran circles around WORD and had great line spacing abilities (essential if you're a student trying to hit a page count).
There's a great synopsis in a book review here , and the book looks pretty good too.
Frankly, it's not really my cup of tea -- although I do get the urge every couple of years and pick up some dungeon crawler -- but I don't understand why people pick on leveling in and of itself as some kind of proof of failure of RPGs. That's like bagging on fighting games for requiring you to learn combos.
Actually, EA too, especially the Apple II days.
(The only answer I can guess is so that the new system would be fucked up, ensuring gainful employment for the IT department for years to come.)
My girlfriend's mom was a programmer at an insurance company, doing actuarial tables, etc, on a mainframe. Then they decided to replace it all with networked micros and discovered, after spending serious $$$, that their micro solution was a total failure, and despite their best effort, they hed to keep the mainframe -- and my gf's mom -- around for a lot longer than they expected. Lots of dough for the IT and CTO and Microsoft and Dell or whoever they bought the PCs from, no actual increase in productivity, or reduction in costs.
The only possible actual argument for the switch was that none of their new people knew enough low-level stuff to write good software for the mainframe -- you could argue that they had to switch to NT so they could continue to employ undereducated graduates, but that's about it.
Slight OT -- I've heard people mention the spotted owl taste, but when I eat seal -- or more usually, sea lion -- it really tastes more like California Condor to me. Even more than panda does (canned panda, anyway).
Also, the PS2 has, essentially, a PS1 onboard, which handles PS1 games and controller input. For game systems with five year discrete lifespans, it's maybe cheaper to just include the old hardware, which costs pennies by that point, than to write and support a software emu.
Apparently this appeals to people's innate masochism, because he seems to have been doing it successfully in magazines since the mid-1980s.
You have to figure, though, that there are scores of jokes in Futurama that you don't get, or even notice, because they target different groups on the nerd/pop-culture spectrum.
MacSoft was the Mac division of WizardWorks/GT/Infogrames/Atari, and is still around, owned by, I thiknk, Destineer Studios.
MacPlay is still around; Interplay sold the name off a long time ago -- in fact it may have passed through a couple owners since then. (I think WizardWorks/GT/Infogrames/Atari owned it for a while.)
Activision makes cool games, and lots of profit, and treats developers well, and the people who work there well (as far as I know). It's a good company. And profitable. Just to point out an example.