Every time I've gone to the dentist the radio has been playing. I've always thought that's the case with most dentists.
Since the Radio is already payed for by radio advertising (which the dentist is subjecting his customers to), this shouldn't really be a problem. And I'm sure if this is enforced, dentists who currently play CDs would just use the radio. I doubt any royalties would be made.
I think gameplay hours are valid indicator, as game manufacturers can point to the amount of content in the game. Even if it's just an appoximate figure obtained by people test playing. We all realise the figures are somewhat subjective.
Having a large amount of content is especially important in the case of RPGs, where games like Baldur's Gate I/II and Planscape Torment could keep you occupied for hundreds of hours. If these games only had 10 hours of active content they would not have achieved the status they did.
It makes perfect sense to me for a company to advertise the Amount of Content in it's games.
That's quite disapointing. I was quite looking forward to Isaac Asimov's writing being made into a movie.
I thought it seemed a bit strange how the robots in the preview for I,Robot seemed to be murdering people and portrayed in quite a negative light - while (from Memory) - Issac Asimov generally portrayed robots in a fairly positive light.
I guess portraying technology as evil (frankenstein's monster type stories) is more popular these days for some reason...
Ola! And welcome to Raul's Wild Kingdom! Today, we're teaching poodles how to fly! Are you ready Fifi? Are psyched? Here we gooooooo..... (Throws poodle out of window)
yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe *thump*
You know, sometimes it takes 'em a leetle longer to get it right.
The voice acting in this game was brilliant, and it really helped make the game.
Some of the voices were loops of star wars alien-speak, but the fact that all dialogue was spoken and sounded reallistic and in character really helped make the game.
If your into Star Trek - star trek clubs and conventions are a good place to meet like minded people, and a good environment
Some of my friends have a pretty big circle of people they know online on MMORPGs also - although you don't meet people face to face (Avatar to Avator I guess), and it's pretty addictive.
You have to edit the freaking registry to change a simple icon's color??
How in the world do you expect the mythical "Joe Sixpack" to manage that? Every time you have a less-than-wizard user poke around in the registry you risk absolute ruin.
Neither this knowledge base article, no the registry, are there for 'Joe Sixpack'. Microsoft isn't expecting everyone to stop the icon from changing haircolor, and it's harly a 'bug' that's going to cause anyone problems.
Sure, poking around the registry can be dangerous, but so can poking around the files in/etc. It seems much the same thing. I think trying to criticise Microsoft for something like this that's harmless is really streching it.
Does the fact that Xbox games use a form of DirectX (from what I understand) make this a bit easier? If microsoft re-write these libraries for the new platform and emulate the rest, couldn't this allow compatability?
I've always thought it a shame that none (or hardly any of) these ideas made it into the movie Blade Runner.I've always thought the movie totally missed the most important and thought provoking ideas of the book it was based on.
While US dollars are the reserve currency in which oil is traded, all nations need to ensure that they have a fistful of dollars in reserve with which they can buy oil. This means that the US treasury can print and spend dollars and can get goods in return while being confident that most of these dollars are safely tied up in foreign national banks and will not be "cashed in" against the US reserves.
Some people have speculated that this was the reason the US went to war against Iraq. Iraq was intending to sell it's oil in euros rather than US dollars, and the US wanted to send a message that this can't be tollerated.
There are a couple of articles like
This one (I don't know how reliable they are though).
some of the finest English writing of by a man that died way too soon
I fully agree with that. From what I understand he died at the age of 42, which seems to be a pretty strange coincidence. Can anyone confirm if this is true?
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There's a link showing binary multiples here
Every time I've gone to the dentist the radio has been playing. I've always thought that's the case with most dentists.
Since the Radio is already payed for by radio advertising (which the dentist is subjecting his customers to), this shouldn't really be a problem. And I'm sure if this is enforced, dentists who currently play CDs would just use the radio. I doubt any royalties would be made.
I think gameplay hours are valid indicator, as game manufacturers can point to the amount of content in the game. Even if it's just an appoximate figure obtained by people test playing. We all realise the figures are somewhat subjective.
Having a large amount of content is especially important in the case of RPGs, where games like Baldur's Gate I/II and Planscape Torment could keep you occupied for hundreds of hours. If these games only had 10 hours of active content they would not have achieved the status they did.
It makes perfect sense to me for a company to advertise the Amount of Content in it's games.
That's quite disapointing. I was quite looking forward to Isaac Asimov's writing being made into a movie.
I thought it seemed a bit strange how the robots in the preview for I,Robot seemed to be murdering people and portrayed in quite a negative light - while (from Memory) - Issac Asimov generally portrayed robots in a fairly positive light.
I guess portraying technology as evil (frankenstein's monster type stories) is more popular these days for some reason...
Actually, the book is a collection of short stories (I believe).
Does anyone know which story the movie is based on?
From "The Vidiot from UHF"...
Ola! And welcome to Raul's Wild Kingdom! Today, we're teaching poodles how to fly! Are you ready Fifi? Are psyched? Here we gooooooo..... (Throws poodle out of window)
yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe *thump*
You know, sometimes it takes 'em a leetle longer to get it right.
Reminds me of Weird Al's movie (taken from the net):
Ola! And welcome to Raul's Wild Kingdom! Today, we're teaching poodles how to fly! Are you ready Fifi? Are psyched? Here we gooooooo.....
yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe *thump*
You know, sometimes it takes 'em a leetle longer to get it right.
The voice acting in this game was brilliant, and it really helped make the game.
Some of the voices were loops of star wars alien-speak, but the fact that all dialogue was spoken and sounded reallistic and in character really helped make the game.
I think you missed an apostrophe's in there somewhere
If your into Star Trek - star trek clubs and conventions are a good place to meet like minded people, and a good environment
Some of my friends have a pretty big circle of people they know online on MMORPGs also - although you don't meet people face to face (Avatar to Avator I guess), and it's pretty addictive.
You have to edit the freaking registry to change a simple icon's color?? How in the world do you expect the mythical "Joe Sixpack" to manage that? Every time you have a less-than-wizard user poke around in the registry you risk absolute ruin.
/etc. It seems much the same thing. I think trying to criticise Microsoft for something like this that's harmless is really streching it.
Neither this knowledge base article, no the registry, are there for 'Joe Sixpack'. Microsoft isn't expecting everyone to stop the icon from changing haircolor, and it's harly a 'bug' that's going to cause anyone problems.
Sure, poking around the registry can be dangerous, but so can poking around the files in
I wonder if the US military network has problems with spam.
.mil addresses.
I doubt spammers would target
Does the fact that Xbox games use a form of DirectX (from what I understand) make this a bit easier? If microsoft re-write these libraries for the new platform and emulate the rest, couldn't this allow compatability?
I've always thought it a shame that none (or hardly any of) these ideas made it into the movie Blade Runner.I've always thought the movie totally missed the most important and thought provoking ideas of the book it was based on.
Will StarOffice append '", eh?" to every sentence? Or does it simply replace "about" with "aboot"?
Isn't that New Zealand English?
It will also be release simultaneously on the new Amiga, due out at the same time.
Some people have speculated that this was the reason the US went to war against Iraq. Iraq was intending to sell it's oil in euros rather than US dollars, and the US wanted to send a message that this can't be tollerated.
There are a couple of articles like This one (I don't know how reliable they are though).
Windows ME came out during this timeperiod too. If you count it as an OS...
There's a old CNN article on it here
Gives me something to hang on to! Woof!
some of the finest English writing of by a man that died way too soon
I fully agree with that. From what I understand he died at the age of 42, which seems to be a pretty strange coincidence. Can anyone confirm if this is true?