I tried reading a few, including our resident's celebrity's, and I can't see the appeal to them for the reader ( sorry Clever ). I have enough going on in my life that I don't need to read about someone else's problems.
For the most part I'm in the same boat (and ironically I have my own). Those that read like the mundane topics they usually cover are quickly dismissed. But there are some writers that can actually make every day situations interesting and/or funny.
I have 3 blogs that fall into this category in my aggregator, one is a friend's, one is the aforementioned Mr. NickName (whose site is pretty broke this days), but the best one is Dooce. She simply has a knack for making me smile, while describing the the everday happenings in her life (not to mention she's a cutie). And recently she announced that her husband left his job and their income will be generated solely from her site.
There are thousands of other people out there talking about the same exact things on their blogs but it takes a certain amount of talent (and a williness to discuss constipation in great detail I suppose) to turn the mundane into entertainment.
Video is not portable in any successful manner. Cell phone providers can't get people interested; portable mini-LCD DVD players spend more time on family room shelves than in-use.
Hey if the price is right (a big if with Apple), I'd buy 2 of these straight away for the next long trip in the car with the kids. Load em up with cartoons and let the them watch and/or listen to them isn't of asking if we're there yet for 200 miles. They already watch crappy Spongebob, Fairly OddParents, etc videos on the GameBoy. I'm betting the viPod would be nicer.
I appreciate the offer, but I don't design professionally, it's just a problem on my personal site so don't go out of your way. My solution: Deisgn so that it looks nice (such that it is) on a decent browser and but just ok on IE. If it bothers people enough they'll either switch to Firefox or stop coming to my site.
All that being said if you want to post your solution just for instructive purposes that would be great.
I just picked up a a new cell phone Friday. I've gone nearly 10 years without one and gotten along just fine. However, I'm taking a new job soon and I'll need to have one then. Unlike everyone else, I'd like a contact list and calendar that can make phone calls. The emphasis is on the PDA type features, not the calling features. I had a Visor for the last few years, and I can honestly say that all I really ever used it for was the contact list. So when this nice company also bought me a shiny new TiBook which has Bluetooth, I had another reason to go gadget hunting.
I ended up picking up a Nokia 3650. Yeah the camera's kinda gimmicky, but what the heck. Anyway, I hooked up the Visor to the USB, enabled the Bluetooth on the phone, opened up iSync and synced everything up and ditched the Visor. I can't yet say that I don't know how I've gotten by without one yet, but I'm very happy so far.
My thoughts exactly. A quick check at TitanTV show that I would miss out on Young and the Restless, Joan of Arcadia, JAG, and The Handler today. Shucks.
As one of the 10 HDTV viewers, gimme my Monday Night Football, ESPNHD, and INHD, and I'll be just fine thanks.
Oh please!!! That's statement is more stupid than the original. By your logic I could say "Well Arabian people (as a whole) aren't doing enough to stop the image of them flying airliners into buildings!" What utter BS. It's not anymore my responsibility to make sure "white people" other than myself and my childern don't call you a name that hurts your tender feelings any more that it is the responsibility of Arabians to make sure that bad people don't hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings.
As someone trying to make a case against prejudice and stereotypes, I found the following very interesting:
White America still wants minority people dead.
This is one the most aggravating posts I've seen on Slashdot in a while. In trying to show how you were pre judged because of your appearance, you go on to portray every white American as people who wish every minority would die!? Did you not learn anything about the stupidity of prejudice in your experiences?
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Because they knew they would have to pay per month for it. Everytime I talk abotu EverQuest, they go off saying i'm an idiot for paying for a game I already payed for.
I can sympathise with them, I don't think I could bring myself to pay a monthly fee for a game I've already purchased... on the other hand I remember a lot of people saying the same thing about cable television way back when. XBOX Live probably has the right idea in this regard. One payment gets you access to the entire suite of XBOX Live games... then again I have a GameCube.
"Oh!" I said to myself as I skimmed the table of contents, "there is a section on How to Stay Motivated". I've haven't been tearing it up lately and so I quickly scrolled to page 20 looking for some helpful ideas... in a nutshell the author suggests I work on "beautiful, useful, or nifty" things.... Great. Thanks. I'm fired up now.
It was estimated that the strange quark matter might pass through the earth at 400 km per second (250 miles per second), 40 times the speed of seismic waves.
-- and -- The other occurred on 24 November, 1993, when an object entered south of Australia and exited the Earth near Antarctica 0.15 of a second later.
So are Australia and Antartica 37.5 miles apart? Confused.
Apparently they are pretty tough to deploy even when you want them to. As this guy in Kentucky found out in May. Otherwise he would have been the first to deploy the chute on the SR20.
Maybe there wouldn't have been as many forks if communication with the "official" MAME developers hadn't often feel on deaf ears. Granted this was a long time ago, But I don't remember enjoying much of a dialog with the MAME folks back when I was dinking around with BeMAME. I ended up staying inside the lines for the most part, but a few minor changes here and there (header file capitalization issues IIRC) would've helped a lot.
Whatever. Glad to see it opening up. It's fun stuff.
If not for Creative Computing, Compute!, and books such as More Basic Computer Games I'd be pumping gas somewhere... hmm perhaps this reference should be retired. Anyway, I learned to code with my old Atari (do not bump the table while saving to tape!) 400 and these publications, and I'm lucky enough to get paid to code today.
I still have some copies of Compute from 1981 laying around here somewhere. They make for intersting reading especially with adverts such as:
48k memory upgrade board only $149
You never realize how handy it is until it's not there. Also, I don't know how many times I wished I had just that button on my stereo: "Where was that accident? Speed trap, etc" again?
Same here on my 266 WS/Powerbook with 192MB. I regularly consider switching back to 9. I'm also running iPhoto with less that the suggested requirements and the pain is very nearly palbaple. Is there an alternative to iPhoto in MacOS 9 besides folder full of jpegs?
32MB is a bit heavy for serious embedded work and as I understand, more and more developers are considering it for that purpose. It is a legitimate concern for certain applications.
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...where the producers assure the participants that this time they really will be going space. Honest, really.
Psych!
I tried reading a few, including our resident's celebrity's, and I can't see the appeal to them for the reader ( sorry Clever ). I have enough going on in my life that I don't need to read about someone else's problems.
For the most part I'm in the same boat (and ironically I have my own). Those that read like the mundane topics they usually cover are quickly dismissed. But there are some writers that can actually make every day situations interesting and/or funny.
I have 3 blogs that fall into this category in my aggregator, one is a friend's, one is the aforementioned Mr. NickName (whose site is pretty broke this days), but the best one is Dooce. She simply has a knack for making me smile, while describing the the everday happenings in her life (not to mention she's a cutie). And recently she announced that her husband left his job and their income will be generated solely from her site.
There are thousands of other people out there talking about the same exact things on their blogs but it takes a certain amount of talent (and a williness to discuss constipation in great detail I suppose) to turn the mundane into entertainment.
Video is not portable in any successful manner. Cell phone providers can't get people interested; portable mini-LCD DVD players spend more time on family room shelves than in-use.
Hey if the price is right (a big if with Apple), I'd buy 2 of these straight away for the next long trip in the car with the kids. Load em up with cartoons and let the them watch and/or listen to them isn't of asking if we're there yet for 200 miles. They already watch crappy Spongebob, Fairly OddParents, etc videos on the GameBoy. I'm betting the viPod would be nicer.
I appreciate the offer, but I don't design professionally, it's just a problem on my personal site so don't go out of your way. My solution: Deisgn so that it looks nice (such that it is) on a decent browser and but just ok on IE. If it bothers people enough they'll either switch to Firefox or stop coming to my site.
All that being said if you want to post your solution just for instructive purposes that would be great.
You can get it to work in IE by using Microsoft's method but you can't just slap a PNG in with alpha transparency and expect it to work in IE.
If you can get this to work with backgrounds and the like in style sheets then I haven't found it.
Are there plans to let classes, other than shadow priests, melt faces in PvP?
We don't have any Linux drivers, but I'm sure the spec will be made public in time. We made the PowerMate specs public after all.
HDTV broadcast beat out the use of my tivo this year
Same here, and yet I still found myself instictively reaching to hit the "back 8 seconds" button.
I just picked up a a new cell phone Friday. I've gone nearly 10 years without one and gotten along just fine. However, I'm taking a new job soon and I'll need to have one then. Unlike everyone else, I'd like a contact list and calendar that can make phone calls. The emphasis is on the PDA type features, not the calling features. I had a Visor for the last few years, and I can honestly say that all I really ever used it for was the contact list. So when this nice company also bought me a shiny new TiBook which has Bluetooth, I had another reason to go gadget hunting.
I ended up picking up a Nokia 3650. Yeah the camera's kinda gimmicky, but what the heck. Anyway, I hooked up the Visor to the USB, enabled the Bluetooth on the phone, opened up iSync and synced everything up and ditched the Visor. I can't yet say that I don't know how I've gotten by without one yet, but I'm very happy so far.
My thoughts exactly. A quick check at TitanTV show that I would miss out on Young and the Restless, Joan of Arcadia, JAG, and The Handler today. Shucks.
As one of the 10 HDTV viewers, gimme my Monday Night Football, ESPNHD, and INHD, and I'll be just fine thanks.
Oh please!!! That's statement is more stupid than the original. By your logic I could say "Well Arabian people (as a whole) aren't doing enough to stop the image of them flying airliners into buildings!" What utter BS. It's not anymore my responsibility to make sure "white people" other than myself and my childern don't call you a name that hurts your tender feelings any more that it is the responsibility of Arabians to make sure that bad people don't hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings.
As someone trying to make a case against prejudice and stereotypes, I found the following very interesting:
White America still wants minority people dead.
This is one the most aggravating posts I've seen on Slashdot in a while. In trying to show how you were pre judged because of your appearance, you go on to portray every white American as people who wish every minority would die!? Did you not learn anything about the stupidity of prejudice in your experiences?
Yep, it's also in Zork along with XYZZY, plugh, and possibly other references.
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http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~fayep/Zork~fayep/Zork/
Because they knew they would have to pay per month for it. Everytime I talk abotu EverQuest, they go off saying i'm an idiot for paying for a game I already payed for.
I can sympathise with them, I don't think I could bring myself to pay a monthly fee for a game I've already purchased... on the other hand I remember a lot of people saying the same thing about cable television way back when. XBOX Live probably has the right idea in this regard. One payment gets you access to the entire suite of XBOX Live games... then again I have a GameCube.
"Oh!" I said to myself as I skimmed the table of contents, "there is a section on How to Stay Motivated". I've haven't been tearing it up lately and so I quickly scrolled to page 20 looking for some helpful ideas... in a nutshell the author suggests I work on "beautiful, useful, or nifty" things.... Great. Thanks. I'm fired up now.
The article says:
It was estimated that the strange quark matter might pass through the earth at 400 km per second (250 miles per second), 40 times the speed of seismic waves.
-- and --
The other occurred on 24 November, 1993, when an object entered south of Australia and exited the Earth near Antarctica 0.15 of a second later.
So are Australia and Antartica 37.5 miles apart? Confused.
Let's hope these things never deploy accidently
Apparently they are pretty tough to deploy even when you want them to. As this guy in Kentucky found out in May. Otherwise he would have been the first to deploy the chute on the SR20.
I remember them doing unmanned testing on the Cirrus before it was certified. The guy that crashed in October was in effect the test pilot.
Maybe there wouldn't have been as many forks if communication with the "official" MAME developers hadn't often feel on deaf ears. Granted this was a long time ago, But I don't remember enjoying much of a dialog with the MAME folks back when I was dinking around with BeMAME. I ended up staying inside the lines for the most part, but a few minor changes here and there (header file capitalization issues IIRC) would've helped a lot.
Whatever. Glad to see it opening up. It's fun stuff.
If not for Creative Computing, Compute!, and books such as More Basic Computer Games I'd be pumping gas somewhere... hmm perhaps this reference should be retired. Anyway, I learned to code with my old Atari (do not bump the table while saving to tape!) 400 and these publications, and I'm lucky enough to get paid to code today.
I still have some copies of Compute from 1981 laying around here somewhere. They make for intersting reading especially with adverts such as:
48k memory upgrade board only $149
Ah, the good ole days.
The "Back 8 seconds" button.
You never realize how handy it is until it's not there. Also, I don't know how many times I wished I had just that button on my stereo: "Where was that accident? Speed trap, etc" again?
Same here on my 266 WS/Powerbook with 192MB. I regularly consider switching back to 9. I'm also running iPhoto with less that the suggested requirements and the pain is very nearly palbaple. Is there an alternative to iPhoto in MacOS 9 besides folder full of jpegs?
While considering a suitable reply to this thread, I stumbled across this and this
Fun
32MB is a bit heavy for serious embedded work and as I understand, more and more developers are considering it for that purpose. It is a legitimate concern for certain applications.
Oh, the whole article is written that way! The very last sentence is:
If successful, it could allow people to touch and feel each other over the Internet.