Very true, as I do have a tendency to only listen to the bands I already own until forced to listen to others (usually this means going into someone else's room, car, etc.).
And before someone answers the parent with a cynical "but there's only crappy top-40 stuff on the radio", there's plenty of great satellite and internet radio stations that can cater to almost any musical taste. Check 'em out.
Actually, this is one of the few annoying problems I've noticed with OOo vs Word... I never realized how often I check the word count of *selected* text while writing before I started with OOo.
Okay, its not actually that often, but its enough that opening a new document and copying the text over makes the whole program feel much more clunky than it should.
Oh, com'on, the Sonic Boom was one of Guile's best moves.
But seriously, while this could be very cool for frequent travelers, I still think that even regular airplanes are too loud. Especially if you live relatively near an airport. Are any airplane manufacturers working on quieter sub-sonic planes?
They're the easiest ways to try out Linux and test if your hardware is compatible. Just download the iso, burn it, and reboot your computer. Have fun.
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I think I'd be able to figure this thing out even when fall-down drunk... it would just take a very long time ("What's that button say? Uhhhhhh "yeshss??" yeah, that's what I want to click... whoops, almost missed there...").
But about your discussion on coding drunk, can't say I've done that, but I did once come back to my room piss drunk and suddenly decided that I wanted to "edit and proofread" the essay I had written earlier in the day. I woke up the next morning in a cold sweat, only remembering this intention and fearing that I would find that paper would not exist anymore/be unrecognizable. Luckily "editing and proofreading" to me that night apparently meant putting comments like this next to every sentence: [<-- tsis is suck no good I think htis is a run-on what a crapy ppaper imsoooo drunk!!1!]. Some of the comments were actually pretty smart, especially the [<-- u cant fukina wriet, yo!] one... =)
Man, I misread your shortening of "poontang" to "tang" as the Kool-Aid-like powdered drink mix stuff. "Art made out of Tang(tm)? I gotta check this out!" Then all I found were images like this. Damn. Although this one was pretty funny.
Yep, I'm headed straight for that offtopic mod, too.
Umm... breaking encryption is cool! Especially if you get paid for it!
Agreed. At first I thought I had clicked on the wrong link and was looking at the the most "unwireless" schools (as in, worst wireless coverage).
Then when I reread the word, I had images of people ripping the wires out of student's walls and laughing. "Can't download music anymore now, PUNK!"
Really, wireless sounds so much better than unwired, as we've been hearing for so long that being "wired" is great (as in "connected"), but "wires" (as in "the cables you trip over") are bad. Silly Intel.
True, but this still seems like something designers should try more often. In fact, this seems like a very good argument for DirectX -- since its pretty much required to play most modern Windows games, it is a Windows standard, and it comes with recent versions of the OS, you and I are most likely to already have it. This is in contrast to my admittedly minor attempts to get games going under Linux, as each game seems to use a different toolkit/library that needs to be dowloaded separately and which have names like dvsdl-1.62.78 (all right, I made that up). Don't want this to sound like anti-Linux flamebait, but there is something to be said for Microsoft's ability to force a single, simply-named and -numbered standard library.
Well, except for downtown (the oldest part of the city), where things get a little funky. But seriously, NYC isn't a particularly hard city to find your way around in, its just its sheer size that causes alot of people problems. Really, just a GPS service that shows you a map of the 100m area you could be in should be enough for you to find anything in most cities, I would think. You just have to make some research before you visit a city, especially if you don't know the language, to learn the method by which the city was laid out.
Whoa, video and screenshots. That sites gonna die soon.
From what I can see of the thumbnails, this doesn't look that interesting... more like regular Windows Explorer panes set at slight 3D angles... I don't see anything like a paridigm shift or anything. Although I guess this wasn't intended as such..
I believe it depends on the stadium they're playing at. If the AL team is in a NL stadium, then the pitchers bat, even if they're not particularly good at it (I'm sure they practice batting before they have to play at a NL stadium). And by "not particularly good", I mean not up to Major League standards, they're certainly better than you or I.
Well, iTunes is faster, more reliable, doesn't have misnamed files, and is less likely to be blocked by universities' firewalls like some file-sharing protocols are. That's probably not worth $0.99 to you, but it might be to some people.
Something like that with the radio interview happened to me once. Someone called at home and asked me if I wanted to participate in a survey. Normally I hang up on those people, but I was feeling bored, so I agreed.
The first question was "How many hours of radio did you listen to in the last week?"
I thought long and hard about it. I got on the subway and... put on my mp3 player. I got home and I... played some cds. I... hmm.
"None."
It was hilarious how taken aback he seemed at this answer, he undoubtably was expecting a big number, considering the amount of time I took to come to my conclusion. "None at all?"
"Nope... haven't listened to the radio all week. Last week... none too. Any more questions?"
"Umm, no."
I really don't watch TV or listen to the radio, but with the internet, I seriously don't feel like I'm out of the pop culture loop. I read articles on the occaisonal "big" TV show -- the ones people actually talk about, like The Apprentice -- so I don't sound like I have no idea what's going on, but I really just don't have any need to actually waste my time with crappy ad-filled television or three-song-deep radio station playlists.
Com'on, the plot was that the demonspawn invade earth! Duh!... of course, the only reason why I or anyone else remembers that was because the game's tagline (slogan?) was "Hell on Earth". The entire plotline could be gleaned from looking at the box. And that, my friends, is the sign of a good game. =)
I've got a both GTA3 and Vice City for the PC, and I can no longer even look at the PS2 versions. Graphics are weak and fuzzy, the loading times take forever (they essentially don't exist on the PC), the controls are so much better (the ease and *challege* of the mouse compared to the hideous hacked-together control scheme of the PS2).
Sure my computer cost more than a PS2/XBox, but I built it myself nearly 3 years ago for 1500 bucks, it still can play any current game (and it will still play HL2 & Doom III, although with the settings turned down), and in the mean time I've been able to use it to, I don't know, write papers, check email, surf the internet, code, watch movies, play with Linux, game online for free (well, after internet access)...
The console has its place, and perhaps especially for the games you chose. But for other types of games, the PC is perfect.
While it is certainly true that Gucci really just wants to make money off your purchases, the reason you probably know that what you're buying is because the stores know that they have to be circumspect about selling fake Gucci products -- and by that alone, you know that its fake.
If you walk into a Macy's and there's a big Gucci arrangement right in the front door, you can be sure that those products are genuinely Gucci and are well made. If those products break, you have the right to not buy Gucci again. But if you walk into some seedy store in Chinatown, and are shown a pile of Gucci products in a back room, you are going to know that the products are fake, and will judge their lack of quality accordingly.
Hell yeah! Nothing quite like dying five times before you can actually step away from a respawn point... and then finally killing the guy with the rocket launcher, picking up his stuff, realizing that you now have every weapon and full ammo for all, and letting that smile slowly spread across your face as you embark on a massive albeit short-lived killing spree...
Maybe OT, but sometimes I get angry when I hear Columbine mentioned over and over again as if it was the be all and end all of violence. Americans (and first worlders) can be so arogant sometimes... and I say this as an American. I remember reading in the same newspaper which had several articles about the 15 children/teachers who died in the killings a small article about another mass grave full of over 50 bodies being unearthed in Kosovo. Yes, the Columbine killings were horrible. Yes, I feel for the families and spit on the graves of those little fuckers who did the crimes (and I really hate when the whole "Marilyn Manson/Doom made them do it" complaints make the two boys into some poor little misguided angels... they were sick, disgusting psychopaths!). But I sure would rather go into the worst American high school than walk around Haiti or Iran or Afganistan or (where ever)...
1) Of course most people wont pore over their credit card statement to verify that they're not being scammed... but some people will. And they will complain to their credit card company. And the credit card company will, if enough people complain, investigate the game company to see if their customers are being screwed. And if they find something, the game company is going up the river.
2) Your quarter analogy is not a great one, because how does the arcade manager know that you actually put a quarter in the machine and it didn't work? If there are 500 quarters in the machine, and the machine has recorded that it has been played 500 times (even if a bug made that 500th game unplayable), then there is no proof.
Of course, since the arcade has a reputation at stake and few people would have the desire/patience to go around scamming arcades for quarters, he's probably going to give you a free game, something sneaky online providers will not. But the physicality of the quarter doesn't make anything more certain.
But yes, I do see your point that you have to take an active role in placing the quarter into the slot, which is a somewhat different action than just going to a website. But still, wouldn't you have to activate the website to work with your micro-payment anyway?
Well, I think the idea is that you don't have post-traumatic stress syndrome because you aren't paralyzed and completely overcome every time you walk by ground zero. People with this syndrome don't need the memories necessarily to "go away", just not be incapacitating.
Dude, the "Sqrt" button is clearly for the Squirt operation. That's when you take a number and squeeze it until it squirts all over the place. The result is the various pieces of the number jumbled together. For example, Sqrt(54) might result in the bottom part of the five (which looks similar to a comma) and the right section of the four (which looks similar to an 'l'), along with two angle-thingies, which are like radians. See?
The squirt function is very usefull in electrical engineering and theoretical algorithmic programming. Com'on, didn't they teach you this in trig class?!?
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Very true, as I do have a tendency to only listen to the bands I already own until forced to listen to others (usually this means going into someone else's room, car, etc.).
And before someone answers the parent with a cynical "but there's only crappy top-40 stuff on the radio", there's plenty of great satellite and internet radio stations that can cater to almost any musical taste. Check 'em out.
That's not clippy, that's the search dog. And I kinda find him to be a little cute, although I pretty quickly turned him off.
Actually, this is one of the few annoying problems I've noticed with OOo vs Word ... I never realized how often I check the word count of *selected* text while writing before I started with OOo.
Okay, its not actually that often, but its enough that opening a new document and copying the text over makes the whole program feel much more clunky than it should.
Oh, com'on, the Sonic Boom was one of Guile's best moves.
But seriously, while this could be very cool for frequent travelers, I still think that even regular airplanes are too loud. Especially if you live relatively near an airport. Are any airplane manufacturers working on quieter sub-sonic planes?
Try Knoppix or MandrakeMove.
They're the easiest ways to try out Linux and test if your hardware is compatible. Just download the iso, burn it, and reboot your computer. Have fun.
I think I'd be able to figure this thing out even when fall-down drunk... it would just take a very long time ("What's that button say? Uhhhhhh "yeshss??" yeah, that's what I want to click... whoops, almost missed there...").
But about your discussion on coding drunk, can't say I've done that, but I did once come back to my room piss drunk and suddenly decided that I wanted to "edit and proofread" the essay I had written earlier in the day. I woke up the next morning in a cold sweat, only remembering this intention and fearing that I would find that paper would not exist anymore/be unrecognizable. Luckily "editing and proofreading" to me that night apparently meant putting comments like this next to every sentence: [<-- tsis is suck no good I think htis is a run-on what a crapy ppaper imsoooo drunk!!1!]. Some of the comments were actually pretty smart, especially the [<-- u cant fukina wriet, yo!] one... =)
Celebrity drunken midgets beat up little kids in a boxing ring with oversized novelty boxing gloves.
I'd buy a television just to see that. =)
Man, I misread your shortening of "poontang" to "tang" as the Kool-Aid-like powdered drink mix stuff. "Art made out of Tang(tm)? I gotta check this out!" Then all I found were images like this. Damn. Although this one was pretty funny.
Yep, I'm headed straight for that offtopic mod, too.
Umm... breaking encryption is cool! Especially if you get paid for it!
Agreed. At first I thought I had clicked on the wrong link and was looking at the the most "unwireless" schools (as in, worst wireless coverage).
Then when I reread the word, I had images of people ripping the wires out of student's walls and laughing. "Can't download music anymore now, PUNK!"
Really, wireless sounds so much better than unwired, as we've been hearing for so long that being "wired" is great (as in "connected"), but "wires" (as in "the cables you trip over") are bad. Silly Intel.
I started spending way too much time on /.
So, so true...
True, but this still seems like something designers should try more often. In fact, this seems like a very good argument for DirectX -- since its pretty much required to play most modern Windows games, it is a Windows standard, and it comes with recent versions of the OS, you and I are most likely to already have it. This is in contrast to my admittedly minor attempts to get games going under Linux, as each game seems to use a different toolkit/library that needs to be dowloaded separately and which have names like dvsdl-1.62.78 (all right, I made that up). Don't want this to sound like anti-Linux flamebait, but there is something to be said for Microsoft's ability to force a single, simply-named and -numbered standard library.
Well, except for downtown (the oldest part of the city), where things get a little funky. But seriously, NYC isn't a particularly hard city to find your way around in, its just its sheer size that causes alot of people problems. Really, just a GPS service that shows you a map of the 100m area you could be in should be enough for you to find anything in most cities, I would think. You just have to make some research before you visit a city, especially if you don't know the language, to learn the method by which the city was laid out.
Whoa, video and screenshots. That sites gonna die soon.
From what I can see of the thumbnails, this doesn't look that interesting... more like regular Windows Explorer panes set at slight 3D angles... I don't see anything like a paridigm shift or anything. Although I guess this wasn't intended as such..
I believe it depends on the stadium they're playing at. If the AL team is in a NL stadium, then the pitchers bat, even if they're not particularly good at it (I'm sure they practice batting before they have to play at a NL stadium). And by "not particularly good", I mean not up to Major League standards, they're certainly better than you or I.
Well, iTunes is faster, more reliable, doesn't have misnamed files, and is less likely to be blocked by universities' firewalls like some file-sharing protocols are. That's probably not worth $0.99 to you, but it might be to some people.
Something like that with the radio interview happened to me once. Someone called at home and asked me if I wanted to participate in a survey. Normally I hang up on those people, but I was feeling bored, so I agreed.
... played some cds. I ... hmm.
The first question was "How many hours of radio did you listen to in the last week?"
I thought long and hard about it. I got on the subway and... put on my mp3 player. I got home and I
"None."
It was hilarious how taken aback he seemed at this answer, he undoubtably was expecting a big number, considering the amount of time I took to come to my conclusion. "None at all?"
"Nope... haven't listened to the radio all week. Last week... none too. Any more questions?"
"Umm, no."
I really don't watch TV or listen to the radio, but with the internet, I seriously don't feel like I'm out of the pop culture loop. I read articles on the occaisonal "big" TV show -- the ones people actually talk about, like The Apprentice -- so I don't sound like I have no idea what's going on, but I really just don't have any need to actually waste my time with crappy ad-filled television or three-song-deep radio station playlists.
Com'on, the plot was that the demonspawn invade earth! Duh! ... of course, the only reason why I or anyone else remembers that was because the game's tagline (slogan?) was "Hell on Earth". The entire plotline could be gleaned from looking at the box. And that, my friends, is the sign of a good game. =)
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I've got a both GTA3 and Vice City for the PC, and I can no longer even look at the PS2 versions. Graphics are weak and fuzzy, the loading times take forever (they essentially don't exist on the PC), the controls are so much better (the ease and *challege* of the mouse compared to the hideous hacked-together control scheme of the PS2).
Sure my computer cost more than a PS2/XBox, but I built it myself nearly 3 years ago for 1500 bucks, it still can play any current game (and it will still play HL2 & Doom III, although with the settings turned down), and in the mean time I've been able to use it to, I don't know, write papers, check email, surf the internet, code, watch movies, play with Linux, game online for free (well, after internet access)...
The console has its place, and perhaps especially for the games you chose. But for other types of games, the PC is perfect.
While it is certainly true that Gucci really just wants to make money off your purchases, the reason you probably know that what you're buying is because the stores know that they have to be circumspect about selling fake Gucci products -- and by that alone, you know that its fake.
If you walk into a Macy's and there's a big Gucci arrangement right in the front door, you can be sure that those products are genuinely Gucci and are well made. If those products break, you have the right to not buy Gucci again. But if you walk into some seedy store in Chinatown, and are shown a pile of Gucci products in a back room, you are going to know that the products are fake, and will judge their lack of quality accordingly.
Hell yeah! Nothing quite like dying five times before you can actually step away from a respawn point... and then finally killing the guy with the rocket launcher, picking up his stuff, realizing that you now have every weapon and full ammo for all, and letting that smile slowly spread across your face as you embark on a massive albeit short-lived killing spree ...
Maybe OT, but sometimes I get angry when I hear Columbine mentioned over and over again as if it was the be all and end all of violence. Americans (and first worlders) can be so arogant sometimes... and I say this as an American. I remember reading in the same newspaper which had several articles about the 15 children/teachers who died in the killings a small article about another mass grave full of over 50 bodies being unearthed in Kosovo. Yes, the Columbine killings were horrible. Yes, I feel for the families and spit on the graves of those little fuckers who did the crimes (and I really hate when the whole "Marilyn Manson/Doom made them do it" complaints make the two boys into some poor little misguided angels... they were sick, disgusting psychopaths!). But I sure would rather go into the worst American high school than walk around Haiti or Iran or Afganistan or (where ever)...
Well, two things:
1) Of course most people wont pore over their credit card statement to verify that they're not being scammed... but some people will. And they will complain to their credit card company. And the credit card company will, if enough people complain, investigate the game company to see if their customers are being screwed. And if they find something, the game company is going up the river.
2) Your quarter analogy is not a great one, because how does the arcade manager know that you actually put a quarter in the machine and it didn't work? If there are 500 quarters in the machine, and the machine has recorded that it has been played 500 times (even if a bug made that 500th game unplayable), then there is no proof.
Of course, since the arcade has a reputation at stake and few people would have the desire/patience to go around scamming arcades for quarters, he's probably going to give you a free game, something sneaky online providers will not. But the physicality of the quarter doesn't make anything more certain.
But yes, I do see your point that you have to take an active role in placing the quarter into the slot, which is a somewhat different action than just going to a website. But still, wouldn't you have to activate the website to work with your micro-payment anyway?
Well, I think the idea is that you don't have post-traumatic stress syndrome because you aren't paralyzed and completely overcome every time you walk by ground zero. People with this syndrome don't need the memories necessarily to "go away", just not be incapacitating.
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Dude, the "Sqrt" button is clearly for the Squirt operation. That's when you take a number and squeeze it until it squirts all over the place. The result is the various pieces of the number jumbled together. For example, Sqrt(54) might result in the bottom part of the five (which looks similar to a comma) and the right section of the four (which looks similar to an 'l'), along with two angle-thingies, which are like radians. See?
The squirt function is very usefull in electrical engineering and theoretical algorithmic programming. Com'on, didn't they teach you this in trig class?!?