Exactly, and if you ever move, you won't have to hire a team of people to uninstall/reinstall that beast. You can unscrew your projector from the mount in the ceiling, unplug it, throw it in it's little 2'x2' case and carry it to the new place easy as can be.
The way I see it, if you want a big TV you can't beat a projector, I don't see any reason to spend 10 grand on a 65" HDTV when you can buy a $1500 1200lumens HD Projector (if you even spend that much) that can blast anything from a 20"-110" image. You could also save a lot of space whether you use a roll up screen or just the wall itself.
All that being said, the next time I need to buy a TV I'm getting a projector.
Wrong, this one time it was the middle of summer and it was scorching hot, I was lost and couldn't find my way back to the car when my watch died and I was stuck in daylight until I could find a watch repair place.
One other thing, I'm not a WoW player, but I have played games of the like before. In the games I used to play, people would level at different rates. Like you could use a character that levels at a much faster rate, to reroll to the same level of a different (much slower advancing) class. So you'd have to account for that, maybe just reroll to half the current experience, that may be a better compromise I'd think. That way you still get smacked for doing it and lose half of your experience, but you still don't have to start from nothing.
Sounds like somebody has never used a Windows Mobile smartphone.
I have, when my treo 600 broke. Then I realized how mediocre it was and decided to try out a blackberry, been satisfied ever since. But I digress -- Windows Mobile was godawful IMO.
Nooooo, those nice idokorro folks charge $95 for ssh, but those nice midpssh folks have a free version which works great for everything i've used it for so far.
It is torture. Don't mince words and don't try to apologise. A foreign student was repeatedly tortured in front of a crowd of students by the police.
So what they should.. ask him politely to leave and if he tells them no, ask again until he does? let him stay? what?
These cops asked him to get up and walk out for -3 minutes- with him constantly bitching and crying and telling them to fuck off. Had the kid shown some sign of cooperation and not made a scene I'm sure it would have ended differently.
And there's about 3 minutes straight of the cops telling him to get up, or he's gunna catch another, he didn't get up, he got zapped. Once he got zapped he suddenly managed to find a way to move though huh? Maybe next time he'll listen the first time and try to avoid the whole ugly mess.
Kinda like when opera was ad driven. I never tried to disable the ads because in the preferences, they allowed you to select your interests. I saw all kinds of ads for stuff that I thought was pretty cool, and everybody won!
This is the first I'd heard of a CD/DVD hybrid, which sounds like it could be the worst of both worlds (and has been for some people). Since they make dual-disk holders, you would think they would have just put in two disks, one DVD and one CD. I just bought a Japanese enka album that did that, and both work just fine.
I've really never liked dual sided discs at all... not even for the 16:9/4:3 DVDs that they have out... Then you have to worry about -2- sides of a disc that can be scratched or dirty or smudged... I like having the picture on one side to at least give it -some- protection.. And like you said, with dual disc cases readily available, what's the point?
that's overly simplistic (and i'm being overly polite). domestic violence has a dramatically different character than a pub or street brawl.
You hit a lot of good points.. I was thinking that, at least in a bar fight you've generally got 2 willing participants who know why they want to fight. Domestic abuse you've got an abuser who's pissed off for some totally unrelated reason to the victim, who takes it out on said victim. I'd gladly take a -large- increase in public violence if it lead to a relatively small decrease in domestic violence (if it could be proven that the drop in domestic violence was due to the increase in public violence, after all, a guy could get his ass kicked then go home and take it out on his s/o which would just increase the domestic abuse as well)
Fights happen, usually between two people who are pissed at one another, spousal and child abuse are just inexcusable...(sp)
public violence is much more amenable to a wide range of solutions
Another good point.. a bar fight is generally chock full of willing witnesses, a frail little kid is going to be absolutely terrified to come forward for fear of a -worse- beating than before..
Plus wasn't the whole podjacking thing named so because you unplug your headphones and plut them into -their- iPod and vice versa? You're using your own headphones...
Last time I checked emusic, not only did it lack DRM, but it lacked ANY artist I was looking for. Now it looks like I have to complete a lengthy enrollment process just to get to the search screen to see what it has.
emusic used to be great... unlimited downloads for 10 bucks a month. plus you could browse the catalog without an account... they've really gone downhill. I don't use them anymore, however when I did they were -great- if you were looking for punk or jazz. I don't remember finding 'hot new releases' or anything, unless it was an Epitaph label band. They seemed to really stay on top of things, new Bad Religion or Pennywise albums were out on emusic at the same time they were out in the stores. Not sure for the Jazz, because I just got old stuff there.. But yeah, emusic used to be great for that stuff, I agree with you now though.. Create an account just to see if they have anything at all you'd even bother looking at? That just sounds like a company that knows they have piss poor selection and wants to get you in the door before telling you..
Awesome, I was going to get a full working one for my dad (with the metal flight stick) at the same auction I got my game, but he wasn't there when they auctioned it and I 1) didn't want to spend his money (although I -knew- he'd be ok with it) and 2) commit him to an arcade cabinet to find storage for all on his own.;)
It had a nice front opening panel, made it easy to change boards.
I think we may have the same type of panel... on mine you drop the joysticks, pull out a couple pins then pull the joysticks up and out, then the long board they're attached to rests comfortably horizontal sticking out the front of the machine and has the PCB attached to that... I was -so- happy to score this cabinet when I found out how easy it was to maintain.
after compleating "F.E.A.R." the first time (positively the creepest, best game I've ever played)
I keep hearing this.. but I don't have a PC that can play it nor will I upgrade.. (I think there's a ps2/xbox version coming out finally...) anyhow, I'm hoping someone can tell me -- does the creepiness compare with The Suffering? That damned game I had my character tiptoeing around corners and peeking before stepping through -any- hallway... that game was actually scary. Does FEAR compare?
For some reason your post reminded me of Fuzion Frenzy for the XBox... Just nonsensical 2 minute levels of doing whatever you need to do to get ahead. Good fun to relax to, and I totally forgot about it. Another one I've always been hooked on was Voodoo Vince for that reason.. Pretty relaxing game. I think I'll go play them now:)
Of course, MAME and an X-Arcade are great, but not quite the same thing.
Absolutely! I can't get into MAME in a cabinet, but I do love my arcade games.. I don't know what the difference is, but I just like my standard games better. Congratulations on the galaga cabinet, I'd love to get that and Ms. Pac Man (or the combo machine). I picked up a SFII Turbo for $200 at auction.. hell, I probably spent more than that on it as a kid;)
Absolutely. A friend of mine and myself recently came across This place in Vegas (well, Henderson.) which has become a savior of mine lately. After a stressful week (or day) sometimes nothin' feels better than to get out to the pinball arcade for some SFII (pinball) or Addams Family being our chosen games... Place is awesome though, 150+ pinball machines (NFP, proceeds go to the salvation army) and it's just -relaxing-.. somethin' about it just puts me at ease, i'm like randal with the go karts in clerks2. The pinball arcade just centers me;)
Anyone in the area I highly suggest you give it a try. It just has a certain charm about it.:)
5) Street Fighter vs X-Men running in MAME - Memories of high school. Wireless gamepads, beer a few buddies and an endless supply of credits.
I feel the same way on this one -- but I took it a step further and picked up a SFII Turbo machine on the cheap at an arcade acution. I'm also -hooked- on the SFII pinball machine now too.
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Exactly, and if you ever move, you won't have to hire a team of people to uninstall/reinstall that beast. You can unscrew your projector from the mount in the ceiling, unplug it, throw it in it's little 2'x2' case and carry it to the new place easy as can be.
The way I see it, if you want a big TV you can't beat a projector, I don't see any reason to spend 10 grand on a 65" HDTV when you can buy a $1500 1200lumens HD Projector (if you even spend that much) that can blast anything from a 20"-110" image. You could also save a lot of space whether you use a roll up screen or just the wall itself.
All that being said, the next time I need to buy a TV I'm getting a projector.
Well, then there's always FTP install distros. You'd probably have to be hooked up to a net connection for that.
Wrong, this one time it was the middle of summer and it was scorching hot, I was lost and couldn't find my way back to the car when my watch died and I was stuck in daylight until I could find a watch repair place.
One other thing, I'm not a WoW player, but I have played games of the like before. In the games I used to play, people would level at different rates. Like you could use a character that levels at a much faster rate, to reroll to the same level of a different (much slower advancing) class. So you'd have to account for that, maybe just reroll to half the current experience, that may be a better compromise I'd think. That way you still get smacked for doing it and lose half of your experience, but you still don't have to start from nothing.
Sounds like somebody has never used a Windows Mobile smartphone.
I have, when my treo 600 broke. Then I realized how mediocre it was and decided to try out a blackberry, been satisfied ever since. But I digress -- Windows Mobile was godawful IMO.
"Those nice Blackberry folks charge $95 for ssh"
Nooooo, those nice idokorro folks charge $95 for ssh, but those nice midpssh folks have a free version which works great for everything i've used it for so far.
It is torture. Don't mince words and don't try to apologise. A foreign student was repeatedly tortured in front of a crowd of students by the police.
.. ask him politely to leave and if he tells them no, ask again until he does? let him stay? what?
So what they should
These cops asked him to get up and walk out for -3 minutes- with him constantly bitching and crying and telling them to fuck off. Had the kid shown some sign of cooperation and not made a scene I'm sure it would have ended differently.
And there's about 3 minutes straight of the cops telling him to get up, or he's gunna catch another, he didn't get up, he got zapped. Once he got zapped he suddenly managed to find a way to move though huh? Maybe next time he'll listen the first time and try to avoid the whole ugly mess.
Kinda like when opera was ad driven. I never tried to disable the ads because in the preferences, they allowed you to select your interests. I saw all kinds of ads for stuff that I thought was pretty cool, and everybody won!
That's no good, it'd mark MTV's entire broadcast day as one big block of commercials.... oh, wait.
And it'd be RIGHT!
This is the first I'd heard of a CD/DVD hybrid, which sounds like it could be the worst of both worlds (and has been for some people). Since they make dual-disk holders, you would think they would have just put in two disks, one DVD and one CD. I just bought a Japanese enka album that did that, and both work just fine.
I've really never liked dual sided discs at all... not even for the 16:9/4:3 DVDs that they have out... Then you have to worry about -2- sides of a disc that can be scratched or dirty or smudged... I like having the picture on one side to at least give it -some- protection.. And like you said, with dual disc cases readily available, what's the point?
that's overly simplistic (and i'm being overly polite). domestic violence has a dramatically different character than a pub or street brawl.
You hit a lot of good points.. I was thinking that, at least in a bar fight you've generally got 2 willing participants who know why they want to fight. Domestic abuse you've got an abuser who's pissed off for some totally unrelated reason to the victim, who takes it out on said victim. I'd gladly take a -large- increase in public violence if it lead to a relatively small decrease in domestic violence (if it could be proven that the drop in domestic violence was due to the increase in public violence, after all, a guy could get his ass kicked then go home and take it out on his s/o which would just increase the domestic abuse as well)
Fights happen, usually between two people who are pissed at one another, spousal and child abuse are just inexcusable...(sp)
public violence is much more amenable to a wide range of solutions
Another good point.. a bar fight is generally chock full of willing witnesses, a frail little kid is going to be absolutely terrified to come forward for fear of a -worse- beating than before..
What a scary world you live in!
Plus wasn't the whole podjacking thing named so because you unplug your headphones and plut them into -their- iPod and vice versa? You're using your own headphones...
Last time I checked emusic, not only did it lack DRM, but it lacked ANY artist I was looking for. Now it looks like I have to complete a lengthy enrollment process just to get to the search screen to see what it has.
emusic used to be great... unlimited downloads for 10 bucks a month. plus you could browse the catalog without an account... they've really gone downhill. I don't use them anymore, however when I did they were -great- if you were looking for punk or jazz. I don't remember finding 'hot new releases' or anything, unless it was an Epitaph label band. They seemed to really stay on top of things, new Bad Religion or Pennywise albums were out on emusic at the same time they were out in the stores. Not sure for the Jazz, because I just got old stuff there.. But yeah, emusic used to be great for that stuff, I agree with you now though.. Create an account just to see if they have anything at all you'd even bother looking at? That just sounds like a company that knows they have piss poor selection and wants to get you in the door before telling you..
Then a Zaxxon (not working) for $25
;)
Awesome, I was going to get a full working one for my dad (with the metal flight stick) at the same auction I got my game, but he wasn't there when they auctioned it and I 1) didn't want to spend his money (although I -knew- he'd be ok with it) and 2) commit him to an arcade cabinet to find storage for all on his own.
It had a nice front opening panel, made it easy to change boards.
I think we may have the same type of panel... on mine you drop the joysticks, pull out a couple pins then pull the joysticks up and out, then the long board they're attached to rests comfortably horizontal sticking out the front of the machine and has the PCB attached to that... I was -so- happy to score this cabinet when I found out how easy it was to maintain.
after compleating "F.E.A.R." the first time (positively the creepest, best game I've ever played)
.. but I don't have a PC that can play it nor will I upgrade.. (I think there's a ps2/xbox version coming out finally...) anyhow, I'm hoping someone can tell me -- does the creepiness compare with The Suffering? That damned game I had my character tiptoeing around corners and peeking before stepping through -any- hallway... that game was actually scary. Does FEAR compare?
I keep hearing this
For some reason your post reminded me of Fuzion Frenzy for the XBox... Just nonsensical 2 minute levels of doing whatever you need to do to get ahead. Good fun to relax to, and I totally forgot about it. Another one I've always been hooked on was Voodoo Vince for that reason.. Pretty relaxing game. I think I'll go play them now :)
How do you kill that which has no life?!
Of course, MAME and an X-Arcade are great, but not quite the same thing.
.. hell, I probably spent more than that on it as a kid ;)
Absolutely! I can't get into MAME in a cabinet, but I do love my arcade games.. I don't know what the difference is, but I just like my standard games better. Congratulations on the galaga cabinet, I'd love to get that and Ms. Pac Man (or the combo machine). I picked up a SFII Turbo for $200 at auction
Sometimes, it's good to get back to your roots.
.. somethin' about it just puts me at ease, i'm like randal with the go karts in clerks2. The pinball arcade just centers me ;)
:)
Absolutely. A friend of mine and myself recently came across This place in Vegas (well, Henderson.) which has become a savior of mine lately. After a stressful week (or day) sometimes nothin' feels better than to get out to the pinball arcade for some SFII (pinball) or Addams Family being our chosen games... Place is awesome though, 150+ pinball machines (NFP, proceeds go to the salvation army) and it's just -relaxing-
Anyone in the area I highly suggest you give it a try. It just has a certain charm about it.
5) Street Fighter vs X-Men running in MAME - Memories of high school. Wireless gamepads, beer a few buddies and an endless supply of credits.
I feel the same way on this one -- but I took it a step further and picked up a SFII Turbo machine on the cheap at an arcade acution. I'm also -hooked- on the SFII pinball machine now too.
Do you SIT on your cell phone when you take a call?
..
For a lot of people I talk to, at least the phone would be closer to their head that way
Make them look like the old calculator watches! with a BT earpiece to use for talking! Everybody remebers how cool the calculator watches were!
Companies/company's I can live with. Misuse of loose/lose is the one that bugs the hell out of most people here.
Their Their, don't be too hard on them, I've seen worse...
Sue the parents
But... they were the ones shot!
Yup! Now that's a swift and firm hand of justice right there huh?