Jupiter has thin rings, despite being bombarded a great deal more than Uranus or Saturn, though you'd need to talk to an expert in planetary physics if you have much of a hope of finding out why.
I don't know homeboy, I hear Uranus gets bombarded ALL THE TIME! Oh yes, don't stop the magic.
Seriously though, does ANYONE not LOVE Uranus jokes? Here it it, a massive planet many times larger than ours, and at this point in our space exploration infancy all it's good for is absolutely hilarious ass jokes. DAMN I love Uranus.
This was a very well thought-out essay with a lot of useful ideas that really should be implemented almost immediately by newapaper corporations on their web sites. I particularly liked the idea of TV stations putting printable coupons onto their web sites as a way to generate ad revenue. That's a great idea, and only begs the question of why they aren't doing it right now! Thanks for an insightful essay.
They want fanatical fans that will litterally beat down any naysayer of their product. I found myself doing this today defending halo.
Why would you do that? Halo sucks.
This is a stupid idea. They probably won't use this for the PS3, and if they do, then the PS3 will be a massive failure.
Re:Why does everyone hate E.T. so MUCH?
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It's actually very easy to climb out of a pit. Just press the button, push up on the joystick (holding the button down the whole time) and when you get to the top, press left or right until you are out of the pit. You only fall back in if you let go of the button. The exception is the screen to the right of the start screen; if you fall in there you have to go to the right or you'll fall back in again. You can even push the button in midair and "catch" E.T. before he falls all the way. It's not a great game but it's pretty fun, and I agree with those who say it gets a bad reputation somewhat undeservedly. I just wish Todd Rogers hadn't beat my high score.
Not true; the only manned mission to the moon was accomplished during the height of the Vietnam War as well as the Cold War. It was hard though, regardless.
Google Moon is here, although it only shows the area of the Apollo landings. There was a Slashdot article discussing it, it was developed for the 36th anniversary of the first moon landing. What I would like to know is, if we were able to do Apollo (and Mercury AND Gemini) in less than ten years, why 1. haven't we been back in over 30 years 2. aren't we going to go back for another 13 years?
OK, I vividly recall that at one point while playing this game, I got into trouble with the law and ended up in a courtroom. I said something snide to the judge and went to jail. Now this was a long time ago, but I have to ask, is this a completely false memory or did something like this happen in The Oregon Trail or some other similar Apple II game?
I know it's already been discussed, but I'll go ahead and say it here for the record. The GameCube failed as a console.
YOU failed as a console! I love GameCube. The games are great. Answer an honest question, would you rather it was PS2 + XBox than PS2 + XBox + GameCube? My PS2 is awesome, I love the GTA series + Kingdom Hearts, but I also love Nintendo. No one else does it the same, period.
The real travesty is that, after inventing the technology to go to the moon and return safely, no human has been there in nearly 33 years. They gave up on the last 3 Apollo missions and no one has been since Apollo 17. It's disgusting. I want my moon base and I want it now! Far too far long ago
Get a mission for like Ancient Bull Rancors that were level 98 (yes there have always been levels, just before it was in the background. Any master scout could tell you that.) Players maxed at the 40's levels or so. So to someone unbuffed, un-armored they killed you in a couple hits. Now.. your buffed, your armored. You head to that mission and you spam your best circle attack with your sword that does 5k dps. You spam it about 100 times. Then you go take a shower (and yes I have LITTERALLY DONE THIS), come back 5 minutes later. Rancors are dead, the nest is destroyed and you are completely unharmed. Then you find your next nest.. repeat.
That's a lot of showers to take, you must be real clean!
I actually completely agree with this. If Netflix (or another company) offered some pornos with their current selection, their profits would explode. And that's not all that would explode, OH YEAH!!!
Keep in mind the volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi r^3, so the volume of space that this would take up is increased by a factor of 8,000,000. I'd say, that the chance of this happening to us, therefore is increased by a factor of 8 million.
I don't buy any of this. If the radiation extends in an equal amount in every direction, we would receive an amount proportional to an Earth-sized point on the edge of a sphere with a radius of 6,000 light-years. Therefore we'd receive 1/(4/3)(pi) * ((6000)(c)(1 year))^3 of the radiation. That's a VERY small fraction. I think we'll be OK. Trust me!
Interestingly the study, detailed on GamesIndustry.biz, also found that "three quarters of them would have paid for the games if they hadn't been available for free."
GamesIndustry.biz huh? What's the next hot news item?
"three fifths of them would have just mailed in bags full of money if they hadn't been available at all."
Ha, well, fairly easy right? One thing that makes it easier for me is I re-wrote the entire system from the bottom up in Perl so it would be easier to extend later on. For my tasks I have yet to come across anything that couldn't be done with Perl but of course I am extending my own codebase. When I get a task on my list to re-write Unix I would have to question the logic of doing it in the first place.
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Excellent! Here are more GREAT ones:
Uranus Jokes
Well, they could just pronounce it UrUnus, which is what most astronomy folks do anyways...
Only the worthless ones do. I, for one, am all about YOUR ANUS. As a pronunciation of course.
Jupiter has thin rings, despite being bombarded a great deal more than Uranus or Saturn, though you'd need to talk to an expert in planetary physics if you have much of a hope of finding out why.
I don't know homeboy, I hear Uranus gets bombarded ALL THE TIME! Oh yes, don't stop the magic.
But not half as much as I love Uranus!
Seriously though, does ANYONE not LOVE Uranus jokes? Here it it, a massive planet many times larger than ours, and at this point in our space exploration infancy all it's good for is absolutely hilarious ass jokes. DAMN I love Uranus.
These are pretty great. My take on it, though, is if it you can't get it under 1.44Mb, it's not worth saving.
This was a very well thought-out essay with a lot of useful ideas that really should be implemented almost immediately by newapaper corporations on their web sites. I particularly liked the idea of TV stations putting printable coupons onto their web sites as a way to generate ad revenue. That's a great idea, and only begs the question of why they aren't doing it right now! Thanks for an insightful essay.
They want fanatical fans that will litterally beat down any naysayer of their product. I found myself doing this today defending halo.
Why would you do that? Halo sucks.
This is a stupid idea. They probably won't use this for the PS3, and if they do, then the PS3 will be a massive failure.
It's actually very easy to climb out of a pit. Just press the button, push up on the joystick (holding the button down the whole time) and when you get to the top, press left or right until you are out of the pit. You only fall back in if you let go of the button. The exception is the screen to the right of the start screen; if you fall in there you have to go to the right or you'll fall back in again. You can even push the button in midair and "catch" E.T. before he falls all the way. It's not a great game but it's pretty fun, and I agree with those who say it gets a bad reputation somewhat undeservedly. I just wish Todd Rogers hadn't beat my high score.
Not true; the only manned mission to the moon was accomplished during the height of the Vietnam War as well as the Cold War. It was hard though, regardless.
Google Moon is here, although it only shows the area of the Apollo landings. There was a Slashdot article discussing it, it was developed for the 36th anniversary of the first moon landing. What I would like to know is, if we were able to do Apollo (and Mercury AND Gemini) in less than ten years, why 1. haven't we been back in over 30 years 2. aren't we going to go back for another 13 years?
OK, I vividly recall that at one point while playing this game, I got into trouble with the law and ended up in a courtroom. I said something snide to the judge and went to jail. Now this was a long time ago, but I have to ask, is this a completely false memory or did something like this happen in The Oregon Trail or some other similar Apple II game?
I know it's already been discussed, but I'll go ahead and say it here for the record. The GameCube failed as a console.
YOU failed as a console! I love GameCube. The games are great. Answer an honest question, would you rather it was PS2 + XBox than PS2 + XBox + GameCube? My PS2 is awesome, I love the GTA series + Kingdom Hearts, but I also love Nintendo. No one else does it the same, period.
I will be buying the Revolution on launch date. I have been a Nintendo advocate since Donkey Kong and have never been disappointed.
In fact, this problem isn't unique to Louisiana, it's affecting most of Southern Louisiana.
OH! So... it's unique to Louisiana?
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you don't understand "risk", but that's another comment.
Isn't that the game with the cannons?
The real travesty is that, after inventing the technology to go to the moon and return safely, no human has been there in nearly 33 years. They gave up on the last 3 Apollo missions and no one has been since Apollo 17. It's disgusting. I want my moon base and I want it now!
Far too far long ago
Get a mission for like Ancient Bull Rancors that were level 98 (yes there have always been levels, just before it was in the background. Any master scout could tell you that.) Players maxed at the 40's levels or so. So to someone unbuffed, un-armored they killed you in a couple hits. Now.. your buffed, your armored. You head to that mission and you spam your best circle attack with your sword that does 5k dps. You spam it about 100 times. Then you go take a shower (and yes I have LITTERALLY DONE THIS), come back 5 minutes later. Rancors are dead, the nest is destroyed and you are completely unharmed. Then you find your next nest.. repeat.
That's a lot of showers to take, you must be real clean!
I actually completely agree with this. If Netflix (or another company) offered some pornos with their current selection, their profits would explode. And that's not all that would explode, OH YEAH!!!
Keep in mind the volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi r^3, so the volume of space that this would take up is increased by a factor of 8,000,000. I'd say, that the chance of this happening to us, therefore is increased by a factor of 8 million. I don't buy any of this. If the radiation extends in an equal amount in every direction, we would receive an amount proportional to an Earth-sized point on the edge of a sphere with a radius of 6,000 light-years. Therefore we'd receive 1/(4/3)(pi) * ((6000)(c)(1 year))^3 of the radiation. That's a VERY small fraction. I think we'll be OK. Trust me!
This sounds like the end of the drug war to me. First they bring in the coke in a submarine, now they got crack in the space shuttle?
Interestingly the study, detailed on GamesIndustry.biz, also found that "three quarters of them would have paid for the games if they hadn't been available for free."
GamesIndustry.biz huh? What's the next hot news item?
"three fifths of them would have just mailed in bags full of money if they hadn't been available at all."
Sounds about right?
Ha, well, fairly easy right? One thing that makes it easier for me is I re-wrote the entire system from the bottom up in Perl so it would be easier to extend later on. For my tasks I have yet to come across anything that couldn't be done with Perl but of course I am extending my own codebase. When I get a task on my list to re-write Unix I would have to question the logic of doing it in the first place.