Learning the hard way that stuff on TV isn't as good as the commercials say is a really good life lesson. I'm still both bitter and thankful towards the Stomper 4x4 Danger Mountain -- the danger was that it was made out of lame brown styrofoam. I still remember lifting the package on Christmas monrning and being like "oh my, this isn't good" as I realized how light it was... (note the actual name may have been slightly different).
You know what? That's awesome, and I fully support your recreational drug use. But, uh, I really don't want my sex-year-old kid injesting *any* drugs, even ones that work great recreationally for young adults. And especially unintentionally, resulting in overdose and coma.
But thanks a million, China and the FTC, for watching out for me!
As I told my son this morning (Aquabeads were actually high on his Christams list -- its a pretty cool toy), "expect a lot of toys from Lego and Playmobil this Christmas." (99% of Lego and Playmobil are still made in Europe, not China.)
Sorry -- hit post too soon. To rephrase: My senators may be medicore at raiding the federal treasury to put your cousins on make-work jobs, but they've done a better job than your senator because to the best of my knowledge, neither Diane Feinstein or Barbara Boxer have killed someone while DUI.
They don't let people who kill people deliver the freaking mail, why should they let them make laws? And I'm sure he did a good job bringing pork back to Mass, but he holds himself up as this protector of decency, and he's a scumbag. I don't think he murdered her (40 years ago, not 20) to cover up a pregnancy, but I think him driving drunk off a bridge and being too lazy/stupid/drunk to bother trying to save her is more than enough to condemn him. A normdal person who did what he did would probably still be in jail.
You're exactly the kind of person I was referring to -- you probably condemned Clarence Thomas for being a sexual harasser, but you give Teddy a pass for being a murderer. I say hold them all up to the same standard -- don't differentiate depending on whether or not you happen to agree with them, or your faded nostalgia for the 1960s.
Dude, he still killed her. I never understand why people look up to him as this moral authority, when he's -- at the very least -- guilty of manslaughter, and probably negligent homicide. It has totally colored my feelings towards a whole generation of "yeah, but he's a Kennedy" baby boomer libs.
Access which you purchase with the proviso that it will always be there IS a right. It's fine to make fun of baseball, fans, and our culture, but if someone sold you a book, and told you you'd always be able to read it, and then two years later you couldn't -- well, to it bluntly, that's fucked. MLB needs to provide the access, or refund the money. It wasn't a time-limited purchase, and MLB is on the hook for this.
As a person of Roman ancestry, I just want to say "your welcome" to all the Northern European and other barbarians to whom we introduced civilization and urbanization. It was the Roman's influence on the Germanic tribes which enabled those same tribes to actually get it together enough to unite and defeat Rome. D'oh. As for the person above who implicated Christianity in the fall of Rome, the Eastern Empire, no less Christian, lasted for several hundred years after Rome fell. Current theories point to indefensible borders and far less resources than the Eastern Empire as the primary reason for the fall of Rome, quaint theories about lead in the water, christianity, debauchery among the Romans, etc. notwithstanding. (As one of my favorite historians points out: The Romans were just as debauched during their rise as their decline.)
Actually AP style says you only need to write out numbers below ten. From 11 to infinity, you can use numbers. One thing to remember, is you need to spell out numbers at the start of a sentence, or rewrite them so they don't begin with a number.
I can say as a game developer that it's extremely rare to be surprised by a rating. That is, you know what will get you a T, and E10, and an M. I have heard terms like "hard T" (meaning close to M, but not quite) tossed around, and we did once have a game get an M when we were expecting a T -- that was a hassle -- but in general Ts, Ms, and E10s are consistant across the board.
Whether parents know it or not, the ratings system -- despite being subjective -- is extremely consistant, much more so than the movie ratings. Also, the content descriptors (animated blood, comic mischief, use of tobacco, etc.) give you way more info than the MPAA's system does.
Grandstanding scumbags like [insert name of any politician here] make me sick, because with the sole excption of Joe Lieberman, they don't try to present a balanced position, just cherry-pick incidents they can condemn. At least Joe *did something* about games that was positive and helped the whole industry (eg, help jump start the rating system) and parents, while others just try to score political points.
Anyway, as a developer and a parent, I 3 the ESRB.
Regardless of the merits of the RIAA's case, if you try to insult the jury's intelligence and are clearly lying, they are going to nail you to the wall. No one likes have to sit on a jury and then be lied to.
I haven't examined the facts in the case, but the "spoofing" defense seems pretty thin if no wireless router was involved.
I went to the Monster Cable factory once. Like, it was just ladies hand crimping ends to wire that came from giant spools. Just like cables you'd make yourself. But with way better packaging. I suppose the cable may have been better, but it was surprisingly low-tech (as most manufacturing is). (Which is still surprising, even though I know it.)
I use XP on my work machine (ThinkPad T60). I've been able to configure it so it looks quite a bit like Windows 95 or 98 -- grey start menu bar and task bar, no font smoothing, disabling all those stupid fades and animations. Can I do that in Vista, or is it like my home Mac, where there's no way to actually disable the stupid window closing and minimalization animations? (Yes, you can make them less effete and flashy, but that's not exactly the same thing)? And also, how much does this affect the perceived performance?
Anyway... IBM owns a massive chunk of Lenovo now, and they bought the whole ThinkPad DIVISION, not just the name. So... your ThinkPad is still designed in the US and made in China. Also, IBM still provides service and warantee support until 2010. So, ThinkPads may suck in the future, but as long as the IBM name is still on them (until 2010), IBM is still involved.
Frankly, the most important part of a laptop to me is the keyboard, and while I usually don't support Chinese companies, Lenovo can have my money until they screw that up.
Bottom line: Everyone I know who has a ThinkPad loves it, and everyone else with some lesser Windows laptop makes excuses. (Macs are obviously their own deal.)
That shit's easy. It's tricky to make AI act like they're in a living breathing world... and yet somehow still have the whole world revolve around you, the player.
Oh yeah, VLC scales it back to 4:3, no problem. I'm just saying there's less total information there, so the image quality is never as good. My point is that there is nothing intrinsicly wrong with an analog signal vs. a digital one, as TFA seems to claim.
My cable box outputs a totally clean, unscrambled signal via firewire. It's pretty cool, I guess it's used with some HDTVs (I use HDMI). Anyway, I use that signal sometimes to record stuff to PC. Analog stations come in at 640 x 480. HD comes in at 1900 x 1080 or whatever. SD digital comes in at some weird, non 4:3 resolution, like 512 x 480 -- basically they compress it horizontally and then expand it in the box. So it pretty much looks like shit compared to analog (non square pixels, etc).
So, uh, I'd be perfectly happy if my cable company shipped my digital channels in analog, frankly. Also, analog signal degredation looks better. In fact I just installed a splitter so I could put a cable directly into my TV, bypassing the box, for channels 2 - 99. It looks better and changes channels faster. No onscreen guide though.
FWIW I have Comcast with the grey Motoroloa HD DVR. Overall I am satisfied with the service.
Well, the press release does say his research is being published in a peer reviewed journal of the aiaa , so that lends some credibility. But yeah, Dr X of the X Institute is not generally a confidence inspiring construction.
Getting to Mars is included. Stopping once you get there is an exercise left to the reader. Seriously though, TFA (or TFPressRelease) first had me skeptical, since it's Dr. Bae of the Bar Institute claiming to have done something no one's even done before (I got that cold fusion feeling). But it's getting published in a peer-reviewed journal, so... man, sounds kind of impressive.
This is why we need to continue to use the English system. The metric system seems all orderly, till you realize the core definitions are based on lame french stuff. In my world, a mile is a mile, based on my Nike+iPod telling me I have gone a mile (ideally backed up with Lance Armstrong or that English chick congratulating me). A yard is the distance between King George's nose and the tip of his finger. A foot is 12 inches. And a pound is what my scale tells me I have too many of.
This is a very important point and life lession people should understand. Non-profits themselves frequently don't, and then go out of business. Smart non-profits make good profits, save some for a rainy day and pour the rest back into whatever they do.
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Learning the hard way that stuff on TV isn't as good as the commercials say is a really good life lesson. I'm still both bitter and thankful towards the Stomper 4x4 Danger Mountain -- the danger was that it was made out of lame brown styrofoam. I still remember lifting the package on Christmas monrning and being like "oh my, this isn't good" as I realized how light it was... (note the actual name may have been slightly different).
But thanks a million, China and the FTC, for watching out for me!
As I told my son this morning (Aquabeads were actually high on his Christams list -- its a pretty cool toy), "expect a lot of toys from Lego and Playmobil this Christmas." (99% of Lego and Playmobil are still made in Europe, not China.)
Sorry -- hit post too soon. To rephrase: My senators may be medicore at raiding the federal treasury to put your cousins on make-work jobs, but they've done a better job than your senator because to the best of my knowledge, neither Diane Feinstein or Barbara Boxer have killed someone while DUI.
You're exactly the kind of person I was referring to -- you probably condemned Clarence Thomas for being a sexual harasser, but you give Teddy a pass for being a murderer. I say hold them all up to the same standard -- don't differentiate depending on whether or not you happen to agree with them, or your faded nostalgia for the 1960s.
Dude, he still killed her. I never understand why people look up to him as this moral authority, when he's -- at the very least -- guilty of manslaughter, and probably negligent homicide. It has totally colored my feelings towards a whole generation of "yeah, but he's a Kennedy" baby boomer libs.
Access which you purchase with the proviso that it will always be there IS a right. It's fine to make fun of baseball, fans, and our culture, but if someone sold you a book, and told you you'd always be able to read it, and then two years later you couldn't -- well, to it bluntly, that's fucked. MLB needs to provide the access, or refund the money. It wasn't a time-limited purchase, and MLB is on the hook for this.
Like the flag concept tough.
As a person of Roman ancestry, I just want to say "your welcome" to all the Northern European and other barbarians to whom we introduced civilization and urbanization. It was the Roman's influence on the Germanic tribes which enabled those same tribes to actually get it together enough to unite and defeat Rome. D'oh. As for the person above who implicated Christianity in the fall of Rome, the Eastern Empire, no less Christian, lasted for several hundred years after Rome fell. Current theories point to indefensible borders and far less resources than the Eastern Empire as the primary reason for the fall of Rome, quaint theories about lead in the water, christianity, debauchery among the Romans, etc. notwithstanding. (As one of my favorite historians points out: The Romans were just as debauched during their rise as their decline.)
I don't know, I remain uncertain about Heisenberg priciples.
Actually AP style says you only need to write out numbers below ten. From 11 to infinity, you can use numbers. One thing to remember, is you need to spell out numbers at the start of a sentence, or rewrite them so they don't begin with a number.
And this is a problem for readers of slashdot how? More work = more work.
Whether parents know it or not, the ratings system -- despite being subjective -- is extremely consistant, much more so than the movie ratings. Also, the content descriptors (animated blood, comic mischief, use of tobacco, etc.) give you way more info than the MPAA's system does.
Grandstanding scumbags like [insert name of any politician here] make me sick, because with the sole excption of Joe Lieberman, they don't try to present a balanced position, just cherry-pick incidents they can condemn. At least Joe *did something* about games that was positive and helped the whole industry (eg, help jump start the rating system) and parents, while others just try to score political points.
Anyway, as a developer and a parent, I 3 the ESRB.
I haven't examined the facts in the case, but the "spoofing" defense seems pretty thin if no wireless router was involved.
I went to the Monster Cable factory once. Like, it was just ladies hand crimping ends to wire that came from giant spools. Just like cables you'd make yourself. But with way better packaging. I suppose the cable may have been better, but it was surprisingly low-tech (as most manufacturing is). (Which is still surprising, even though I know it.)
I use XP on my work machine (ThinkPad T60). I've been able to configure it so it looks quite a bit like Windows 95 or 98 -- grey start menu bar and task bar, no font smoothing, disabling all those stupid fades and animations. Can I do that in Vista, or is it like my home Mac, where there's no way to actually disable the stupid window closing and minimalization animations? (Yes, you can make them less effete and flashy, but that's not exactly the same thing)? And also, how much does this affect the perceived performance?
Frankly, the most important part of a laptop to me is the keyboard, and while I usually don't support Chinese companies, Lenovo can have my money until they screw that up.
Bottom line: Everyone I know who has a ThinkPad loves it, and everyone else with some lesser Windows laptop makes excuses. (Macs are obviously their own deal.)
That shit's easy. It's tricky to make AI act like they're in a living breathing world... and yet somehow still have the whole world revolve around you, the player.
You should also wrap yourself in duct tape, because of the low pressure outside the atmosphere. Could get messy otherwise.
Oh yeah, VLC scales it back to 4:3, no problem. I'm just saying there's less total information there, so the image quality is never as good. My point is that there is nothing intrinsicly wrong with an analog signal vs. a digital one, as TFA seems to claim.
So, uh, I'd be perfectly happy if my cable company shipped my digital channels in analog, frankly. Also, analog signal degredation looks better. In fact I just installed a splitter so I could put a cable directly into my TV, bypassing the box, for channels 2 - 99. It looks better and changes channels faster. No onscreen guide though.
FWIW I have Comcast with the grey Motoroloa HD DVR. Overall I am satisfied with the service.
Well, the press release does say his research is being published in a peer reviewed journal of the aiaa , so that lends some credibility. But yeah, Dr X of the X Institute is not generally a confidence inspiring construction.
Getting to Mars is included. Stopping once you get there is an exercise left to the reader. Seriously though, TFA (or TFPressRelease) first had me skeptical, since it's Dr. Bae of the Bar Institute claiming to have done something no one's even done before (I got that cold fusion feeling). But it's getting published in a peer-reviewed journal, so... man, sounds kind of impressive.
Anyway, I measure most things in Smoots.
This is a very important point and life lession people should understand. Non-profits themselves frequently don't, and then go out of business. Smart non-profits make good profits, save some for a rainy day and pour the rest back into whatever they do.
You can't eject the chip in an iPhone. It's a cute device, just not ready for prime time.