Reflexive has an awesome breakout-style neoclassic arcade game called Ricochet Lost Worlds, the sequel to their first title, Ricochet Xtreme.
Anyway, in Lost Worlds, the secondary objective is to make your ball hit 5 golden rings every level. Hit all 5 in one level and you get 10 rings. 35 means an additional ball.
[Sarcasm] I'm certain that Reflexive Entertainment is using 5 rings as a selling point because people identifying it with the Ancient Olympic Games (TM). Time to sue Reflexive. [/Sarcasm]
The Olympic organizers are a sad group of assholes. Like anybody is going to confuse "Rat Olympics" with the actual Olympics. Sheesh. Perhaps this is an example of the legal department "taking the initiative" without informing their client so they can ring up billable hours and make inaccurate status about "defending their client to the fullest"?
He notes that although a detectable tilt is caused when the temperature drops by a few degrees, that tilt is too small to explain the anomalies and, in any case, it would lag roughly 30 minutes behind the shadow (because it takes time for the ground to cool) while the experimental measurements show a change in g instantaneously during an eclipse.
Really? Only 30 minutes in the dark? What about the scientific anomaly called NIGHTTIME?
First, the point of patents is to allow others to see how your invention was made. For you to sell the same thing, you must pay a licensing fee. I'm not going to even partially validate your statement to make their patent "open source."
How do you propose to do such a thing?
You can't compile the patent. You can't modify the patent. Perhaps you meant simply "abandon the patent and go straight to public domain."
In that case, your comment displays an unenlightened understanding of the actual events and the concepts guiding them. You don't deserve "insightful."
Go melt your eyes out of your head if that's what you really want but flat panels do gaming just fine at 16 milliseconds and below. I haven't had a headache or any kind of vision problem since giving the CRT away. Considering the desk real estate gained by losing the glorious blaze of cathode rays, the price is excellent. Reading cranky Grandpa Simpson style posts from the low UID gray beards is always amusing. Thank you.:)
There is credible evidence that an "online desktop" advocate known only as "Jon_Aquino" is threatening to make the country less secure by encouraging already stupid computer users to abandon the safety and security of software that does not require an Internet connection. Remember, if you use online desktop applications then the terrorists have already won.
Your analogy works but for all the wrong reasons...
Internet Explorer wise & is crap. The only way Internet Explorer could get into the hands of the average person was to give it away and, later, tie it to the operating system.
Life is good with xp pro. I know that makes some people cringe but it _is_ stable. Granted, the Linux threat combined with the U.S. government's security demands have given incentive to get their act together.
As long as Microsoft fears Linux, they will keep ahead and offer a superior operating system. Not to mention becoming a friendlier company to do business with. Service Pack 2 demonstrates this--to me--nicely.
The whole idea of the operating system will be dead within a few years anyway so who really cares?
While it's nice to talk about cutting off the air supply of Microsoft, perhaps comparing what Mozilla is doing to Explorer would be a better analogy of karmic justice.
Karma (the real stuff) is governed by intention. IBM has generated a lot of good karma with their work with Linux. This speech seems like IBM knows that a huge shitstorm is on the horizon and they want to polish their image before it hits.
Isn't that what they said about the Titanic? Hubris has a dramatic way of destroying things. Google could suffer the same fate at this asking price. Pets.com seemed like a really cool investment in its day. Same goes for Dr. "kung fu" Koop.com.
The Internet itself will die soon for a variety of reasons (spam, peak oil, Super bugs, the Apocalypse). Just don't be disappointed when it happens.
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Don't fall into the sarchasm, dude. Just enjoy it.
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Bioforge shows us what can happen without morals or values. It displays the evil man is capable of in intergalactic isolation. Experimentation on sentient beings is prima facie evidence of the complete absence of respect for a higher power. It is a demonstration of what happens without religion, my friends.
Amigo, I'm sorry to hear about the horrible experiences you've had with the disabled. Since you experienced them in a work capacity, I can only suspect that it was a hospital or social services setting. Unfortunately, *nobody* is mentally well adjusted in those environments. Perhaps you should try spending time around a university or socially progressive areas like South Florida, Southern California, Berkeley, Madison, etc.
Everybody knows some really bad apples. In college, I knew a guy that pretty much represented everything you wrote. He was a demented fuckup. I remember hearing other disabled kids grumbling stuff like, "as long as that asshat exists, he's going to make things harder on everybody [who is disabled]."
Hawking is remarkable because of the severity of his disease. I can't imagine living in pain or without my wood but I know what the wheelchair is like and I know guys with the pain/wood issues that are happily married with children and paying their taxes every year.
It's always annoying to see somebody use "always" or "never". At/., that's usually a tipoff to a troll. I understand what you wrote and how those ideas may have evolved. You have the right to keep them despite anything I or anybody else presents to the contrary. The only thing I ask is that you leave a wider door open for the possibility that you could be entirely wrong.
It's the scientific thing to do, as Hawking eloquently demonstrates. Furthermore, the disabled know what they are up against. There's no need to make things harder by putting observations from a limited pool of experience into the net. Peace.
Turn based is great for pulling some really cool combat maneuvers. With a hunting rifle and keeping that f'n tribal NPC safely away, I was able to take out the slaver compound at level 5 in Fallout 2. I'm sure most turn based players have intriguing battles that would have been frustrating blowouts under any other system. Unfortunately, turn based combat takes way too long. The best system I've played is "real time with pause & queue" which I experienced in Xcom Apocalypse. The gameplay saved an otherwise annoying war against the extraterrestrial minions of the Cookie Monster. That style would have prevented Brotherhood of Steel from the "blah" category. I'd still be playing Brotherhood of Steel if the real time play offered a pause & queue.
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How about those bright "spots" on Titan the size of Arizona. Looks like a city to me. They say it's clouds but they don't look like the other clouds around it. Conspiracy, I say.
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The use of the term "2010" is banned in all uses referring to the upcoming Winter Olympics. That includes complaining about it. Now pipe down.
If your response includes the letter "H" or the number "5", you will find additional charges brought against you.
Reflexive has an awesome breakout-style neoclassic arcade game called Ricochet Lost Worlds, the sequel to their first title, Ricochet Xtreme.
Anyway, in Lost Worlds, the secondary objective is to make your ball hit 5 golden rings every level. Hit all 5 in one level and you get 10 rings. 35 means an additional ball.
[Sarcasm]
I'm certain that Reflexive Entertainment is using 5 rings as a selling point because people identifying it with the Ancient Olympic Games (TM). Time to sue Reflexive.
[/Sarcasm]
The Olympic organizers are a sad group of assholes. Like anybody is going to confuse "Rat Olympics" with the actual Olympics. Sheesh. Perhaps this is an example of the legal department "taking the initiative" without informing their client so they can ring up billable hours and make inaccurate status about "defending their client to the fullest"?
Really? Only 30 minutes in the dark? What about the scientific anomaly called NIGHTTIME?
How do you propose to do such a thing?
You can't compile the patent. You can't modify the patent. Perhaps you meant simply "abandon the patent and go straight to public domain."
In that case, your comment displays an unenlightened understanding of the actual events and the concepts guiding them. You don't deserve "insightful."
Sorry.
Go melt your eyes out of your head if that's what you really want but flat panels do gaming just fine at 16 milliseconds and below. I haven't had a headache or any kind of vision problem since giving the CRT away. Considering the desk real estate gained by losing the glorious blaze of cathode rays, the price is excellent. Reading cranky Grandpa Simpson style posts from the low UID gray beards is always amusing. Thank you. :)
There is credible evidence that an "online desktop" advocate known only as "Jon_Aquino" is threatening to make the country less secure by encouraging already stupid computer users to abandon the safety and security of software that does not require an Internet connection. Remember, if you use online desktop applications then the terrorists have already won.
they sell Astroturf by the square yard.
I'm sure OSDN and SCO will find a way to do business.
um... paranoia perhaps?
Your analogy works but for all the wrong reasons...
Internet Explorer wise & is crap. The only way Internet Explorer could get into the hands of the average person was to give it away and, later, tie it to the operating system.
Life is good with xp pro. I know that makes some people cringe but it _is_ stable. Granted, the Linux threat combined with the U.S. government's security demands have given incentive to get their act together.
As long as Microsoft fears Linux, they will keep ahead and offer a superior operating system. Not to mention becoming a friendlier company to do business with. Service Pack 2 demonstrates this--to me--nicely.
The whole idea of the operating system will be dead within a few years anyway so who really cares?
While it's nice to talk about cutting off the air supply of Microsoft, perhaps comparing what Mozilla is doing to Explorer would be a better analogy of karmic justice.
Considering that XP costs money and researchers with an intention to go public don't use warez, Microsoft's involvement is a safe bet.
is paved with good intentions.
Karma (the real stuff) is governed by intention. IBM has generated a lot of good karma with their work with Linux. This speech seems like IBM knows that a huge shitstorm is on the horizon and they want to polish their image before it hits.
Are you surprised? These punks work for Steve Forbes, the poster child of corporatism and its mantra, "capitalism for the people, socialism for us."
to fake a human settlement on Mars.
Isn't that what they said about the Titanic? Hubris has a dramatic way of destroying things. Google could suffer the same fate at this asking price. Pets.com seemed like a really cool investment in its day. Same goes for Dr. "kung fu" Koop.com.
The Internet itself will die soon for a variety of reasons (spam, peak oil, Super bugs, the Apocalypse). Just don't be disappointed when it happens.
Yes.
from a Hollywood soundstage! ;)
Don't fall into the sarchasm, dude. Just enjoy it.
Prove his solution isn't unique.
Watching grass grow is more fun.
This marketing meme rivals the stupid ones posted on slashdot.
Amigo, I'm sorry to hear about the horrible experiences you've had with the disabled. Since you experienced them in a work capacity, I can only suspect that it was a hospital or social services setting. Unfortunately, *nobody* is mentally well adjusted in those environments. Perhaps you should try spending time around a university or socially progressive areas like South Florida, Southern California, Berkeley, Madison, etc.
/., that's usually a tipoff to a troll. I understand what you wrote and how those ideas may have evolved. You have the right to keep them despite anything I or anybody else presents to the contrary. The only thing I ask is that you leave a wider door open for the possibility that you could be entirely wrong.
Everybody knows some really bad apples. In college, I knew a guy that pretty much represented everything you wrote. He was a demented fuckup. I remember hearing other disabled kids grumbling stuff like, "as long as that asshat exists, he's going to make things harder on everybody [who is disabled]."
Hawking is remarkable because of the severity of his disease. I can't imagine living in pain or without my wood but I know what the wheelchair is like and I know guys with the pain/wood issues that are happily married with children and paying their taxes every year.
It's always annoying to see somebody use "always" or "never". At
It's the scientific thing to do, as Hawking eloquently demonstrates. Furthermore, the disabled know what they are up against. There's no need to make things harder by putting observations from a limited pool of experience into the net. Peace.
What about pr0n? Doesn't that count?
Turn based is great for pulling some really cool combat maneuvers. With a hunting rifle and keeping that f'n tribal NPC safely away, I was able to take out the slaver compound at level 5 in Fallout 2. I'm sure most turn based players have intriguing battles that would have been frustrating blowouts under any other system. Unfortunately, turn based combat takes way too long. The best system I've played is "real time with pause & queue" which I experienced in Xcom Apocalypse. The gameplay saved an otherwise annoying war against the extraterrestrial minions of the Cookie Monster. That style would have prevented Brotherhood of Steel from the "blah" category. I'd still be playing Brotherhood of Steel if the real time play offered a pause & queue.
How about those bright "spots" on Titan the size of Arizona. Looks like a city to me. They say it's clouds but they don't look like the other clouds around it. Conspiracy, I say.