ah, infamous love triangle between boy, girl, and computer. I had such a crush on Virginia Madsen. The idea of spontaneous AI from some spilled sodapop, jigsaw bricks, remote controlled appliances, plus a Georgio Moroder soundtrack... i especially liked the opening montage showing the growing pervasiveness of electronic gadgets in everyday life.
they're going to try to hoodwink some group into buying their game because "It's made for them, by them"
Businesses operate to make money, and all decisions must serve this goal. Considering yesterday's article about Wal-Mart's influence and the success of "redneck" games, it makes more sense for small studios to channel their limited resources to a sure thing, like niche gaming. Identifying and catering to a target audience (ie, hoodwinking) is the path to money, and that is what they want.
other games too, but a native World of Warcraft client would be sweet. They can still sell the boxes in stores with cds for texture, sound, all the platform independent stuff, and the all-important account activation code.
i love this mouse. the little ball lets me do horizontal as well as vertical scrolling. works under X as a 7button mouse without additional kajiggering. i only wish the scrollball were also optical, since it's a pain to clean.
On my desk, I have a pineapple plant. You can start you own by saving the crown of any store-bought pineapple. Mine is growing hydroponically in a glass jar. The plant is very forgiving and can handle prolonged neglect. I've let my jar run dry up to a week.
Perhaps a kind entymologist can answer me these questions three:
how do true dominants get their markings? are they simply pigments in the chitin (implying genetic pathways with perhaps environmental causes to expression) or were they earned like battle scars?
did they test how two true dominants reacted against each other? (the article only mentions putting the fake war-painteds against true dominants) one would think that the loser would still be harassed regardless of markings being fake or real
did they play the Star Trek fight theme when they staged their bouts?
I would love to have the empirical data a map like this would provide. I hope someone with access to such data will take up this project.
that the strongest correlation is with median income and not political affiliation?
This assumes that (1) there is no correlation between median income and a particular political affiliation, and (2) people with with like-minded views do not congregate. While there are stong arguments for (1) (you will generally favor the party in power when you made your pile), assumption (2) does not stand.
Ever notice that the different economic classes tend to cluster geographically (Beverly Hills vs. South Central). Ever notice that both parties have been accused of redrawing district maps to favor whoever has the majority in a given state legislature (Georgia comes immediately to mind as a recent case).
Taken together, it becomes clear that money and maps go hand-in-hand. Rich Democrats will move into democrat enclaves, poor Republicans will be re-zoned into republican ghettos, et vice versa.
This reminded me more of the scene where Garp and his wife are househunting. A small plane crashes into the house they are looking at. Garp tells the agent they will take the house. His wife give him that look, to which Garp replies, "what are the chances of that happenning again?"
Considering that most (if not all) the commodity components are manufactured overseas, and that the fastest growing markets for them are developing countries, I see Microsoft's influence over hardware development waning. When one considers that much of MS software overseas is pirated, these markets will not be interested in running longhorn. They already have software that works and will only want hardware that will support it.
Also, open source has taken hold in many of these developing countries, so there will be software to keep old standards alive (scary as that sounds).
MS displays much hubris if it thinks it can shove this up the rest of the world.
Many people "upgrade" only when forced kicking and screaming by external factors such as format and protocol changes or hardware failures
or when they can't find the install media for their software (which was already licensed, paid-for, and works fine, thankyouverymuch), but vendors won't provide a replacement, forcing the poor proprietary user to suck it up and buy a new version.
Two of my cow-orkers just upgraded fom Win98 to WinXP. They reinstalled most of their apps, migrated their files, but found they couldn't talk to the mainframe anymore without this proprietary emulator. Suckers!
I am not an EV1 customer, but if I were, their action would prompt me to immediately seek a new provider. If they took my fees, turned around and handed it to SCO, oooooh, I'd be livid.
Business reasons blah, blah, blah...
I cannot stand the idea of giving SCO money, even through a proxy.
I really appreciate your advice and insight on multitasking, turning non-kitchen items into cookware. It helps tremendously to know I can improvise yogurt makers and double boilers from appliances I already have on hand.
However, I do wonder if the devotion to multitasking can be taken too far. The problem I found with a multitasker tool is that you can still only make it do one thing at a time. And while it's doing that thing, other processes (not necessarily cooking related) that require that tool lose its utility.
My question: how far do you take it? Can you give us an example of something you do so often that you finally just broke down and got a specialty tool?
By the way, I use a temperature probe on my multimeter to see when my roast is done.;)
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ah, infamous love triangle between boy, girl, and computer. I had such a crush on Virginia Madsen. The idea of spontaneous AI from some spilled sodapop, jigsaw bricks, remote controlled appliances, plus a Georgio Moroder soundtrack ... i especially liked the opening montage showing the growing pervasiveness of electronic gadgets in everyday life.
it would be the perfect way to determine if a prospective hire is a team player or a lone wolf
other games too, but a native World of Warcraft client would be sweet.
They can still sell the boxes in stores with cds for texture, sound, all the platform independent stuff, and the all-important account activation code.
Scientists think that, one day, robots could fool us into believing they were human
The Cylons are coming! The Cylons are coming!
Still, I hope that when they get to the point of mass production, they hire Shirow Masamune to design the fembots.
not as much as I am addicted to food, clothing and shelter
I personally think Yoda is human. Using the Force to extend one's lifespan to 900+ years takes a physical toll.
i love this mouse. the little ball lets me do horizontal as well as vertical scrolling. works under X as a 7button mouse without additional kajiggering. i only wish the scrollball were also optical, since it's a pain to clean.
- Ability to manipulate data by dragging the category tiles around
- Formulae written in a reasonable facsimile of English
- Automatic identification of cell data collision
- Pretty simple scripting language
From 1992-1996, it was the only "spreadsheet" I would use. Too bad it could not migrate past Windows 3.1.On my desk, I have a pineapple plant. You can start you own by saving the crown of any store-bought pineapple. Mine is growing hydroponically in a glass jar. The plant is very forgiving and can handle prolonged neglect. I've let my jar run dry up to a week.
If only we could just slice up those huge blue spikes and seed them into the vast red plains
*sigh*
that the strongest correlation is with median income and not political affiliation?
This assumes that (1) there is no correlation between median income and a particular political affiliation, and (2) people with with like-minded views do not congregate. While there are stong arguments for (1) (you will generally favor the party in power when you made your pile), assumption (2) does not stand.
Ever notice that the different economic classes tend to cluster geographically (Beverly Hills vs. South Central). Ever notice that both parties have been accused of redrawing district maps to favor whoever has the majority in a given state legislature (Georgia comes immediately to mind as a recent case).
Taken together, it becomes clear that money and maps go hand-in-hand. Rich Democrats will move into democrat enclaves, poor Republicans will be re-zoned into republican ghettos, et vice versa.
This reminded me more of the scene where Garp and his wife are househunting. A small plane crashes into the house they are looking at. Garp tells the agent they will take the house. His wife give him that look, to which Garp replies, "what are the chances of that happenning again?"
Kings Play Chess On Fat Girls' Stomachs
heh heh
i missed the double b and completely misunderstood the headline
Also, open source has taken hold in many of these developing countries, so there will be software to keep old standards alive (scary as that sounds).
MS displays much hubris if it thinks it can shove this up the rest of the world.
or when they can't find the install media for their software (which was already licensed, paid-for, and works fine, thankyouverymuch), but vendors won't provide a replacement, forcing the poor proprietary user to suck it up and buy a new version.
Two of my cow-orkers just upgraded fom Win98 to WinXP. They reinstalled most of their apps, migrated their files, but found they couldn't talk to the mainframe anymore without this proprietary emulator. Suckers!
I am not an EV1 customer, but if I were, their action would prompt me to immediately seek a new provider.
...
If they took my fees, turned around and handed it to SCO, oooooh, I'd be livid.
Business reasons blah, blah, blah
I cannot stand the idea of giving SCO money, even through a proxy.
take a look at Mozilla Calendar
However, I do wonder if the devotion to multitasking can be taken too far. The problem I found with a multitasker tool is that you can still only make it do one thing at a time. And while it's doing that thing, other processes (not necessarily cooking related) that require that tool lose its utility.
My question: how far do you take it? Can you give us an example of something you do so often that you finally just broke down and got a specialty tool?
By the way, I use a temperature probe on my multimeter to see when my roast is done. ;)
The inmates are running the asylum by Alan Cooper, SAMS, 1999 ISBN 0-672-31649-8