I'm actually going to agree that someone up top must have had it in for the show. I never really watched it... but I do watch the NFL religiously every Sunday. I noticed that on the few occasions FOX didn't show a 4:30 game (usually when opposite my Dolphins), Futurama would come on at 7pm or so. I watched it a couple of times, and enjoyed it. The Simpsons is dreadfully awful now, but Futurama is sort of like Buck Rogers meets The Simpsons (when they were funny). It rocks.
And now it's been canceled; it's simply unbelievable. I don't even watch the news anymore, the only time I plug in my TV is during the football season. And finally, someone comes up with a show I'd actually watch... and they decide to put it in the timeslot from hell before canning it?
Horribly frustrating. I used to wonder how these fringe wackos got along without one, but now I'm starting to envy them.
What if this train offsets billions of dollars of necessary highway construction in the coming years because of reduced road traffic?
ROFL! You said that with a straight face? You are obviously not a Florida resident. Florida is right now dealing with the burdens of continuous mass immigration, industry decline (tourism has taken a hit recently), and horrendously mismanaged urban sprawl.
When someone says "we don't have the money to spend on a fucking maglev train," he means "we don't have the money for the train OR the embezzlement fund that goes with it."
Simply put: Florida doesn't have the money. I'm not sure if the old rail route between Miami and Tampa is still operational (I took it a couple of times, years ago), but it was more than adequate. It wasn't very popular, though, IIRC.
The reason the referendum passed? It was vaguely worded and there was virtually no publicity given to it. I remember seeing it on the ballot, thinking "Hmm.. that would be pretty neat," and damn near punching it. And then I realized that it would be simply another bloated fund for our local politicos to exploit -- another holy grail for South Florida's thriving embezzlement industry. No thanks.
Actually, Churchill's speculation about the inevitable abolition of slavery is considered accurate, and most southern historians (that I've read) agree with his assessment.
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Is anyone familiar with the game "Columns" for the Sega Genesis? Years ago, a friend and I were playing it, and managed to reach some positively obscene level. Then someone came into the room, saw us in our trance-like state, said something, and it all disappeared. We both lost about 3 seconds later, wondering how the frick we had actually managed to play at that level. Subsequent attempts at playing the game haven't been nearly as successful, and I still wonder how I was able to do that.
I think that much like you can go speedblind while driving, your brain can sometimes "slow down" the game when you're immersed. It allows you to perform actions that wouldn't otherwise be possible for someone with normal human reflexes. I think anyone who has ever played Robotron religiously at an arcade knows what I'm talking about.:)
This also happens to me sometimes during a variety of activities... whoever said above that it happens to them while running: I used to have the same experience often when I did a lot of endurance running. There comes a point during the run when you simply lose any sort of meaningful consciousness, your legs stop protesting, and you feel like you're gliding on air.
Test taking, also. I used to be incredible at taking tests, even when I wasn't really prepared.
I don't know about quack science, but the human brain is definitely capable of empowering the body to greater feats than it would normally be capable of.
The sound system on the other hand features 6 channel 13000 watts of quad-damage (to your ears as much as your avatar) coming from 44 speakers.
Well, around here, the quad damage powerup is also known as the "shake the fucking house" powerup, thanks to my Klipsch Promedia speakers. I imagine the folks in San Jose will soon discover just how earthquake-resistant their building is.:)
As a long-time, loyal PC guy, I was finally starting to soften up on the Mac issue. In fact, I was going to recommend someone I know to purchase a Mac. But between their new ad campaign and stunts like this, I've decided that I'll quietly point that person to dell.com.
Why? Because moves like this lead me to infer that Apple is slowly turning into another Microsoft, albeit one with a much smaller market share. They're not thinking different, they're thinking with the herd. "Dotcom is dead, cut costs." When you take away all the really cool services and such that Apple offers, you're left with an overpriced box that can't run 90% of commercially available software.
They've managed to both irritate their existing customers and squander their slow courting of folks like me. Somewhere in Texas, Michael Dell is still smiling.
Peace of mind? I used to work with Macs for years, and I found them to be a hell of a lot less stable, intuitive, and useful for getting things done than a PC. I remember being able to routinely lock up a PowerPC (200MHz, I think?), having problems with their lame version of virtual memory, and the like. I also recall having to put in some silly system disc (you had to insert a bent paperclip into the eject-hole and toss the CD in before it could finish attempting to boot up) which would decide (seemingly at random) whether or not it wanted to actually fix the OS.
This was at school, and we had a Mac lab right across the hall from a PC lab. The Macs managed to get themselves FUBARed more often than the PCs, were harder to fix (if a student physically broke something in a Mac, it had to be sent for repairs. On a PC, you just replaced the damaged part. Yawn.) Network problems were more common on the Macs. All of the work PCs in the staff offices were PCs... and the entire staff consisted of Mac fanatics!
My current box is a 2+ year old Athlon 850 running on the notoriously fickle VIA KX133 chipset. I've got poor quality generic RAM, a Geforce2 GTS, a weak power supply, lackluster cooling, and the ridiculously destructive SB Live! as my sound card. My OS is Win98. Number of system failures in the past 2 years? 0. Number of BSOD(tm)s in the last 2 years? I'd honestly guess that it's under a dozen, and maybe only *2* that weren't overclocking related.
Lockups? Very rare, and almost always the result of the software (i.e. games with known crash bugs). I can't even recall the last time I had a crash requiring a reboot on this machine.
Personally, I find it amusing. We have here a website dedicated to computer nerds... read by computer nerds who can't get their computers to stop crashing. Such delicious irony.
Normally, I don't get excited over Spielberg films (I can't stand his sledgehammer plot progression or utterly shameless use of the score as an emotional barb), but the Indy collaborations were great. Shrug.
But with this news, we can all still look forward to the wonderful Episode 3 merchandise . . .
Don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to a 2003 chock full of games whose copy protection scheme isn't compatible with my CD-ROM. I'm sure it's stopping pirates, though!
"I'm sorry, but the word 'craft' is a licensed subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, Inc. Please go directly to legal hell. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, and please, please please don't call a lawyer, ok?"
"Solar power is so popular because it has no moving parts so it can last a long time, harnesses a power source that is basicly infinite, and (except for the manufactoring of cells) has no affect on the enviorment."
It's not basically infinite. You still need to collect the sun's rays, and even if you covered the entire earth in solar panels, would that even be sufficient? Not to mention that you're diverting energy from the ecosystem and funneling it into electricity (or whatever). No effect on the environment? Let's set up 500 miles of solar collectors to soak up light/heat and see what happens to the local climate.:)
The energy to sustain 6 billion people has to come from somewhere, even if no one wants to admit it.
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I'm actually going to agree that someone up top must have had it in for the show. I never really watched it... but I do watch the NFL religiously every Sunday. I noticed that on the few occasions FOX didn't show a 4:30 game (usually when opposite my Dolphins), Futurama would come on at 7pm or so. I watched it a couple of times, and enjoyed it. The Simpsons is dreadfully awful now, but Futurama is sort of like Buck Rogers meets The Simpsons (when they were funny). It rocks.
And now it's been canceled; it's simply unbelievable. I don't even watch the news anymore, the only time I plug in my TV is during the football season. And finally, someone comes up with a show I'd actually watch... and they decide to put it in the timeslot from hell before canning it?
Horribly frustrating. I used to wonder how these fringe wackos got along without one, but now I'm starting to envy them.
What if this train offsets billions of dollars of necessary highway construction in the coming years because of reduced road traffic?
ROFL! You said that with a straight face? You are obviously not a Florida resident. Florida is right now dealing with the burdens of continuous mass immigration, industry decline (tourism has taken a hit recently), and horrendously mismanaged urban sprawl.
When someone says "we don't have the money to spend on a fucking maglev train," he means "we don't have the money for the train OR the embezzlement fund that goes with it."
Yes he can lay the smack down. Because he and the state congress get to decide how and when it's funded. :)
I voted against this in 2000.
Simply put: Florida doesn't have the money. I'm not sure if the old rail route between Miami and Tampa is still operational (I took it a couple of times, years ago), but it was more than adequate. It wasn't very popular, though, IIRC.
The reason the referendum passed? It was vaguely worded and there was virtually no publicity given to it. I remember seeing it on the ballot, thinking "Hmm.. that would be pretty neat," and damn near punching it. And then I realized that it would be simply another bloated fund for our local politicos to exploit -- another holy grail for South Florida's thriving embezzlement industry. No thanks.
I hope Jeb lays the smack down again.
The folks at Microsoft are nothing more than typically greedy and corrupt human beings.
They're not blood-sucking vampires seeking to establish a global technocracy.
Yeah, let's compare Megatokyo to . . . say, Mozart's Don Giovanni. Open mouth, insert foot?
Megatokyo is a comic for nerds? What about Schlock Mercenary?
As with most webcomics, it has started to go slack a bit, but a lot of it is top-notch.
Actually, Churchill's speculation about the inevitable abolition of slavery is considered accurate, and most southern historians (that I've read) agree with his assessment.
Is anyone familiar with the game "Columns" for the Sega Genesis? Years ago, a friend and I were playing it, and managed to reach some positively obscene level. Then someone came into the room, saw us in our trance-like state, said something, and it all disappeared. We both lost about 3 seconds later, wondering how the frick we had actually managed to play at that level. Subsequent attempts at playing the game haven't been nearly as successful, and I still wonder how I was able to do that.
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I think that much like you can go speedblind while driving, your brain can sometimes "slow down" the game when you're immersed. It allows you to perform actions that wouldn't otherwise be possible for someone with normal human reflexes. I think anyone who has ever played Robotron religiously at an arcade knows what I'm talking about.
This also happens to me sometimes during a variety of activities... whoever said above that it happens to them while running: I used to have the same experience often when I did a lot of endurance running. There comes a point during the run when you simply lose any sort of meaningful consciousness, your legs stop protesting, and you feel like you're gliding on air.
Test taking, also. I used to be incredible at taking tests, even when I wasn't really prepared.
I don't know about quack science, but the human brain is definitely capable of empowering the body to greater feats than it would normally be capable of.
How, exactly, are you going to land on/attach boosters to an object moving at 28km/s?
Maybe they'll license the afterlife and turn it into a shitty 2d platform-jumping game?
The sound system on the other hand features 6 channel 13000 watts of quad-damage (to your ears as much as your avatar) coming from 44 speakers.
:)
Well, around here, the quad damage powerup is also known as the "shake the fucking house" powerup, thanks to my Klipsch Promedia speakers. I imagine the folks in San Jose will soon discover just how earthquake-resistant their building is.
As a long-time, loyal PC guy, I was finally starting to soften up on the Mac issue. In fact, I was going to recommend someone I know to purchase a Mac. But between their new ad campaign and stunts like this, I've decided that I'll quietly point that person to dell.com.
Why? Because moves like this lead me to infer that Apple is slowly turning into another Microsoft, albeit one with a much smaller market share. They're not thinking different, they're thinking with the herd. "Dotcom is dead, cut costs." When you take away all the really cool services and such that Apple offers, you're left with an overpriced box that can't run 90% of commercially available software.
They've managed to both irritate their existing customers and squander their slow courting of folks like me. Somewhere in Texas, Michael Dell is still smiling.
Peace of mind? I used to work with Macs for years, and I found them to be a hell of a lot less stable, intuitive, and useful for getting things done than a PC. I remember being able to routinely lock up a PowerPC (200MHz, I think?), having problems with their lame version of virtual memory, and the like. I also recall having to put in some silly system disc (you had to insert a bent paperclip into the eject-hole and toss the CD in before it could finish attempting to boot up) which would decide (seemingly at random) whether or not it wanted to actually fix the OS.
This was at school, and we had a Mac lab right across the hall from a PC lab. The Macs managed to get themselves FUBARed more often than the PCs, were harder to fix (if a student physically broke something in a Mac, it had to be sent for repairs. On a PC, you just replaced the damaged part. Yawn.) Network problems were more common on the Macs. All of the work PCs in the staff offices were PCs... and the entire staff consisted of Mac fanatics!
My current box is a 2+ year old Athlon 850 running on the notoriously fickle VIA KX133 chipset. I've got poor quality generic RAM, a Geforce2 GTS, a weak power supply, lackluster cooling, and the ridiculously destructive SB Live! as my sound card. My OS is Win98. Number of system failures in the past 2 years? 0. Number of BSOD(tm)s in the last 2 years? I'd honestly guess that it's under a dozen, and maybe only *2* that weren't overclocking related.
Lockups? Very rare, and almost always the result of the software (i.e. games with known crash bugs). I can't even recall the last time I had a crash requiring a reboot on this machine.
Personally, I find it amusing. We have here a website dedicated to computer nerds... read by computer nerds who can't get their computers to stop crashing. Such delicious irony.
Normally, I don't get excited over Spielberg films (I can't stand his sledgehammer plot progression or utterly shameless use of the score as an emotional barb), but the Indy collaborations were great. Shrug.
But with this news, we can all still look forward to the wonderful Episode 3 merchandise . . .
Somebody hold me.
Changes in global temperature couldn't possibly be due to things like ongoing cyclical climate fluctuations.
Obviously, environmentalists are always right.
How is he going to fit Binks into Episode 4? Is it going to be like that scene from Jar Jar's Walking Papers?
(As Luke and Kenobi approach the spaceport, cut to the cantina interior)
JAR JAR: "Chewbaccasah, meesa you fatha."
Chewbacca: "*RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH*"
Despite this news, I bet the big PC retailers won't be dropping their prices (or at least not right away). Higher profit margins on high-end systems?
Somewhere in Texas, Michael Dell is touching himself.
I wonder if they're going to attribute increased sales to "strengthed" copy protection schemes. You know, those strengthened schemes that force legitimate users to find and download the NoCD crack.
Don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to a 2003 chock full of games whose copy protection scheme isn't compatible with my CD-ROM. I'm sure it's stopping pirates, though!
"I'm sorry, but the word 'craft' is a licensed subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, Inc. Please go directly to legal hell. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, and please, please please don't call a lawyer, ok?"
"Solar power is so popular because it has no moving parts so it can last a long time, harnesses a power source that is basicly infinite, and (except for the manufactoring of cells) has no affect on the enviorment." It's not basically infinite. You still need to collect the sun's rays, and even if you covered the entire earth in solar panels, would that even be sufficient? Not to mention that you're diverting energy from the ecosystem and funneling it into electricity (or whatever). No effect on the environment? Let's set up 500 miles of solar collectors to soak up light/heat and see what happens to the local climate. :)
The energy to sustain 6 billion people has to come from somewhere, even if no one wants to admit it.