Definitely agree with ThinkGeek. They have great stuff. I just ordered 3 things from them yesterday for various kids that I have to buy for (including my own).
I agree with you to a certain point. I did my undergrad at a brick and mortar school and loved it and can't imagine wanting to miss out on the whole "college experience". However, a couple of years ago I decided to add some resume fodder, and started my online Masters in Computer Science thru Colorado State University. We watch/listen to the same lectures that they do on campus and do the same assignments. So the course work is the same, but you do miss out on getting to know your professors which is a negative (but only a small one). However, I have made some pretty good friends while doing the online program while working on group projects, so the student networking is still there to a certain degree.
I thought the whole point of the first scenes of Ep IV was to establish the fact that Tatooine was a very boring place and that Luke couldn't wait to get away from the planet. Assuming this is right, then how much of a TV show could you make about working on a moisture farm??? Of course, I'm sure Lucas and company will just ignore this fact because they haven't worried about any of the other continuity issues.
That is true, but if the specs that are out on the 360 are true, I would think that it should have more than enough power to emulate the original. I'm not 100% sure but I am pretty sure the original had a 800 MHz Celeron processor, and the new process should be able to handle that easily.
Fox leans right, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC lean left. I don't know why folks have to get so "up in arms" about it. Nobody is going to tell you the whole truth without slanting it to their side a little/lot. Watch some of both sides and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
If that is the case then why don't we just remove the age requirements for buying alcohol and cigarettes, driving, voting, and gambling? Surely if a kid is old enough to earn enough for a fifth then it is their right to purchase it. Age requirements are put on stuff like this because kids need to grow up some before they can do some things. I know there is no way I would let a kid of mine play GTA before they were at least 16. So the stores may as well err on the side of caution.
I have to second Equifax as being a good company for identity monitoring. I use the Equifax Gold Credit Monitoring service for my wife and I, and it is great. Sure, it costs us $20 a month for the both of us, but I'm sure it will more than pay for itself the first time we have our one of our identities stolen. I like the fact that it notifies you within 24 hours via email if somebody pulls your credit report. Last month we refinanced our house and the morning after the bank pulled our credit, I got an email saying it was pulled and who pulled it. Had this been fradulent activity, then I would have found out months earlier than if I didn't use this service.
Not only that, but if you go back and look closely the good guys (ie CTU guys) drove Fords, all of the bad guys drove Chevys. I got a big kick out of that;)
My Father was first diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1997 when he first went into a mental hospital for a breakdown. At the time I had just turned 20 and wasn't sure what to think of it. The doctors gave us a lot of hope when he first went in. They told us about how far the treatments have come, new drugs, etc. but what they didn't tell us is that if you can't convince the person that they need to take the meds, then none of it does any good.
I won't go into all of the story (because it would take way to long to tell), but the short version is that he wouldn't believe he needed help. He was convinced that "they" were after him, and there was no way to reason with him. He wouldn't stay on his meds, so he was very cyclical. He would be fine (while taking them), and then he would get bad. We (the family) tried everything we could to help him. Of course a lot of the time the paranoia would keep him from trusting us, so our talking to him would do no good.
I guess we couldn't do enough to help because in December of 2003 Dad committed suicide. Needless to say it was a very hard situation for the family to go through. Nobody saw it coming (even his psychiatrist said things had been looking up), so we were all shocked. And of course there are the "what if" scenarios that everybody plays through their minds.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is make sure that there is somebody around that can monitor/administer the medication. I'm sorry this had to happen to your family, but I'll be praying for you.
I hate to say it, but I am a Star Wars Fanboy that just doesn't care anymore. I loved the original three films (4-6), used to play the Star Wars RPG, have read all the novels, etc (yes, my wife tells me to get a life). But I don't even care if Episode 3 ever comes out. After the huge disappointment from eps 1 and 2, we know 3 will suck because Lucas is still involved with it. Does anybody else feel the way I do?
....I have to admit that I am a Buffy fan, and my TiVo records at least two episodes a day for me to watch at my leisure...and of course...I fastforward thru all commercials;)
Yeah hdgames.net has a lot of information, but I like the way that this site is structured better and the search is nice. This is a link to the xbox HD games, but to dropdown contains the other consoles.
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Definitely agree with ThinkGeek. They have great stuff. I just ordered 3 things from them yesterday for various kids that I have to buy for (including my own).
I wish I had mod points because this is probably exactly how it went down.
I agree with you to a certain point. I did my undergrad at a brick and mortar school and loved it and can't imagine wanting to miss out on the whole "college experience". However, a couple of years ago I decided to add some resume fodder, and started my online Masters in Computer Science thru Colorado State University. We watch/listen to the same lectures that they do on campus and do the same assignments. So the course work is the same, but you do miss out on getting to know your professors which is a negative (but only a small one). However, I have made some pretty good friends while doing the online program while working on group projects, so the student networking is still there to a certain degree.
They are MP3s. Listen to them directly
http://www.sciencenews.org/sounds/files/bryan_guarantee_of_deposits.mp3
http://www.sciencenews.org/sounds/files/taft_rights_and_progress_of_the_negro.mp3
Why is it that when I actually want to mod a comment up, that I have no mod points. Oh well. Great point anyway.
if somebody can just get this technology to Geordi, then we will have a chance against the borg.
But then nobody has ever been able to prove that God doesn't exist, but therein lies the foundation of faith.
You must have never seen Mortal Kombat...well....what about Mario Brothers...ok...try....ahh screw it, you're right.
true enough, but then I'm a much more of a die hard starwars fan that I am superman
I thought the whole point of the first scenes of Ep IV was to establish the fact that Tatooine was a very boring place and that Luke couldn't wait to get away from the planet. Assuming this is right, then how much of a TV show could you make about working on a moisture farm??? Of course, I'm sure Lucas and company will just ignore this fact because they haven't worried about any of the other continuity issues.
That is true, but if the specs that are out on the 360 are true, I would think that it should have more than enough power to emulate the original. I'm not 100% sure but I am pretty sure the original had a 800 MHz Celeron processor, and the new process should be able to handle that easily.
I, for one, welcome our new Chindian Oveerrrr...oh wait...no I don't.
Sure. We will just give this technology to the insurgents, and we can wipe them out while they are busy dealing with blue screens...err...blue eyes???
Fox leans right, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC lean left. I don't know why folks have to get so "up in arms" about it. Nobody is going to tell you the whole truth without slanting it to their side a little/lot. Watch some of both sides and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
If that is the case then why don't we just remove the age requirements for buying alcohol and cigarettes, driving, voting, and gambling? Surely if a kid is old enough to earn enough for a fifth then it is their right to purchase it. Age requirements are put on stuff like this because kids need to grow up some before they can do some things. I know there is no way I would let a kid of mine play GTA before they were at least 16. So the stores may as well err on the side of caution.
I have to second Equifax as being a good company for identity monitoring. I use the Equifax Gold Credit Monitoring service for my wife and I, and it is great. Sure, it costs us $20 a month for the both of us, but I'm sure it will more than pay for itself the first time we have our one of our identities stolen. I like the fact that it notifies you within 24 hours via email if somebody pulls your credit report. Last month we refinanced our house and the morning after the bank pulled our credit, I got an email saying it was pulled and who pulled it. Had this been fradulent activity, then I would have found out months earlier than if I didn't use this service.
Not only that, but if you go back and look closely the good guys (ie CTU guys) drove Fords, all of the bad guys drove Chevys. I got a big kick out of that ;)
My Father was first diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1997 when he first went into a mental hospital for a breakdown. At the time I had just turned 20 and wasn't sure what to think of it. The doctors gave us a lot of hope when he first went in. They told us about how far the treatments have come, new drugs, etc. but what they didn't tell us is that if you can't convince the person that they need to take the meds, then none of it does any good.
I won't go into all of the story (because it would take way to long to tell), but the short version is that he wouldn't believe he needed help. He was convinced that "they" were after him, and there was no way to reason with him. He wouldn't stay on his meds, so he was very cyclical. He would be fine (while taking them), and then he would get bad. We (the family) tried everything we could to help him. Of course a lot of the time the paranoia would keep him from trusting us, so our talking to him would do no good.
I guess we couldn't do enough to help because in December of 2003 Dad committed suicide. Needless to say it was a very hard situation for the family to go through. Nobody saw it coming (even his psychiatrist said things had been looking up), so we were all shocked. And of course there are the "what if" scenarios that everybody plays through their minds.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is make sure that there is somebody around that can monitor/administer the medication. I'm sorry this had to happen to your family, but I'll be praying for you.
edealinfo.com is a pretty good site. All it does is catalog deals on other sites and list them daily. Check it out.
Yeah...I guess the patent lawyers have been too busy to talk to the Xbox folks ;)
I hate to say it, but I am a Star Wars Fanboy that just doesn't care anymore. I loved the original three films (4-6), used to play the Star Wars RPG, have read all the novels, etc (yes, my wife tells me to get a life). But I don't even care if Episode 3 ever comes out. After the huge disappointment from eps 1 and 2, we know 3 will suck because Lucas is still involved with it. Does anybody else feel the way I do?
....I have to admit that I am a Buffy fan, and my TiVo records at least two episodes a day for me to watch at my leisure...and of course...I fastforward thru all commercials ;)
Agreed. The Two Towers was probably the most disappointing film I've seen in the last 10 years,
;)
So...I take it you didn't see Matrix Revolutions
Yeah hdgames.net has a lot of information, but I like the way that this site is structured better and the search is nice. This is a link to the xbox HD games, but to dropdown contains the other consoles.
That is probably true, but I have a pretty good feeling that if your parents read Slashdot, then you would have a harder time getting around things