The thing I miss from Pandora is the ability to explore their database without listening to the music.
Broadband is not free in New Zealand. Most broadband plans here are capped at a few gigabytes a month of traffic. I'd prefer not to spend all day pulling down a megabyte a minute just to explore new music...
With last.fm (and its predecessor Audioscrobbler), I can explore the similar artist lists. Or, I can find someone with similar tastes to myself and see what they are listening to. Or, I can pick an artist, find a fan of that artist, and look at their play history. Then I can wander to the library and borrow some CDs.
Much lower bandwidth, and it works well, but because of the problems people have raised with last.fm, I'd like to be able to do the same thing with Pandora...
[IT specialist Abdelfattah Qasem] is from Palestine and has an IT degree from a private institute in Texas.
He had more than 20 years experience in the industry as an IT manager and consultant in Kuwait, earning about $NZ100,000 a year, before he came to New Zealand.
Most of his rejection letters said the firms had found someone who met their requirements better than he did, Qasem said.
When he applied for lower positions, he was told he was over-qualified.
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Over half of Christchurch's adult Muslim migrants are unemployed - the worst rate in New Zealand, Muslim groups say.
Darth Maul tennis would be pretty cool. You could have a double-ended raquet, three balls in progress at once, force-pull for the ball, Jedi mind trick on the umpire...
_One Must Fall: 2097_: You are a dude inside a giant robot fighting other giant robots.
Playing in tournament mode, there are a bunch of tournaments you can enter, with money to be won. You can spend money on training for yourself or upgrades for your mech --- you start the game with minimal attributes and a cheap, slow mech. Or you can sell your mech and buy a different one — different mechs have different attributes and different upgradability.
It's an awesome game. You should be able to find a copy for download, although it could be tough getting it to run on modern PCs..
I've got three episodes of a SMB story told using flash sitting on my HDD. It's very good......but the story doesn't finish in three episodes, and I haven't the faintest idea where I got them from. Anyone heard of this? I'm sure they've made more by now and I'd like to see the rest:-)
Do note that it's really easy to get burned by this exploit if you're analysing it under Windows. All you need to do is to access an infected web site with IE or view a folder with infected files with the Windows Explorer.
You can get burned even while working in a DOS box! This happened on one of our test machines where we simply used the WGET command-line tool to download a malicious WMF file. That's it, it was enough to download the file. So how on earth did it have a chance to execute?
The test machine had Google Desktop installed. It seems that Google Desktop creates an index of the metadata of all images too, and it issues an API call to the vulnerable Windows component SHIMGVW.DLL to extract this info. This is enough to invoke the exploit and infect the machine. This all happens in realtime as Google Desktop contains a file system filter and will index new files in realtime.
I saw a demo reel of the KK game.. A T-rex shouldered its way through a stone archway, sending chunks of masonry almost as big as small cars falling to the ground. The rocks reached the ground... and sank into it. In moments, they were gone, without even bending the grass.
Then King Kong turned up, and, to show his strength, he pushed over a stone pillar as tall as he was, and at least a metre in diameter. It, too, tipped over, and then sunk quickly through the ground.
I mean, I don't object to broken crates or tree branches vanishing after a little while to keep things tidy, but huge massive rocks should have a bit more permanence if they want to preserve any kind of suspension of disbelief...
The primary reason for using vi is the awesome editing power it gives you. You can do all kinds of complex edits, making the cursor jump around as you will it, without your hands leaving the keyboard. In fact, without your hands leaving the home row (no RSI-inducing ctrl-meta:-) ).
This doesn't mean you shouldn't use IDEs; just that you should seek out an IDE with a good vi-mode:-)
(I use emacs. The only command I've found that viper doesn't support is:q! (emacs still asks me to confirm). And emacs unifies the default yank buffer with the clipboard, which vim doesn't, and which I find extremely handy)
Sanders Associates applied for the first videogame patent in 1964. The patent was purchased by Magnavox, which put out the first simple game in 1971. Magnavox sued all other entrants to the field.
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The thing I miss from Pandora is the ability to explore their database without listening to the music.
Broadband is not free in New Zealand. Most broadband plans here are capped at a few gigabytes a month of traffic. I'd prefer not to spend all day pulling down a megabyte a minute just to explore new music...
With last.fm (and its predecessor Audioscrobbler), I can explore the similar artist lists. Or, I can find someone with similar tastes to myself and see what they are listening to. Or, I can pick an artist, find a fan of that artist, and look at their play history. Then I can wander to the library and borrow some CDs.
Much lower bandwidth, and it works well, but because of the problems people have raised with last.fm, I'd like to be able to do the same thing with Pandora...
I wonder if anyone's told them yet that it's 2006 :-)
Already exists --- we just have to ask google.
For example: "Global warming is true" --- 774 results. "Global warming is false" --- 352 results. Case closed!
(in other controversial results, evolution wins by 76,000 to 21,000 and Santa Claus is clearly real.)
...have the lawful authority to crush kittens' heads with a hammer?
...but when I click on that google.com search, I still get xenu.net as the top link. So what's really going on?
All you need to do is blink at the right frequency and you'll never see it at all!
"No results were found for American cultural achievements. Perhaps you meant to search for American cultural embarassments instead?"
Darth Maul tennis would be pretty cool. You could have a double-ended raquet, three balls in progress at once, force-pull for the ball, Jedi mind trick on the umpire...
Playing in tournament mode, there are a bunch of tournaments you can enter, with money to be won. You can spend money on training for yourself or upgrades for your mech --- you start the game with minimal attributes and a cheap, slow mech. Or you can sell your mech and buy a different one — different mechs have different attributes and different upgradability.
It's an awesome game. You should be able to find a copy for download, although it could be tough getting it to run on modern PCs..
I've got three episodes of a SMB story told using flash sitting on my HDD. It's very good... ...but the story doesn't finish in three episodes, and I haven't the faintest idea where I got them from. Anyone heard of this? I'm sure they've made more by now and I'd like to see the rest :-)
I would say that $3.00 is just as precise as $3.21. If you want less precision, you have to go to $3...
...that's pretty sodium difluoride.
Don't worry, by the time this is ready for large-scale use, we'll have already caught and eaten all the useful fish in the seas anyway!
From F-secure's blog:
No --- it just means that you can never simultaneously know what the share price is and how many shares you have...
FF7 kinda fits the bill...
I saw a demo reel of the KK game.. A T-rex shouldered its way through a stone archway, sending chunks of masonry almost as big as small cars falling to the ground. The rocks reached the ground ... and sank into it. In moments, they were gone, without even bending the grass.
Then King Kong turned up, and, to show his strength, he pushed over a stone pillar as tall as he was, and at least a metre in diameter. It, too, tipped over, and then sunk quickly through the ground.
I mean, I don't object to broken crates or tree branches vanishing after a little while to keep things tidy, but huge massive rocks should have a bit more permanence if they want to preserve any kind of suspension of disbelief...
EA's Laptop Collection is pretty damn awesome: SMAC, SMACX, Red Alert 2, and Sim City 3000.
I'd buy it in a trice, if I could find anywhere in New Zealand that sells it...
(Amazon won't ship it overseas)
...shame they forgot to release the console at the same time :-/
Mind you, that's often what the news reports say.
"[name] died after his car failed to take a turn and plummeted off the cliff."
"Two people are seriously injured after the car they were in crashed into a tree in Whakatane yesterday evening."
The primary reason for using vi is the awesome editing power it gives you. You can do all kinds of complex edits, making the cursor jump around as you will it, without your hands leaving the keyboard. In fact, without your hands leaving the home row (no RSI-inducing ctrl-meta :-) ).
This doesn't mean you shouldn't use IDEs; just that you should seek out an IDE with a good vi-mode :-)
(I use emacs. The only command I've found that viper doesn't support is :q! (emacs still asks me to confirm). And emacs unifies the default yank buffer with the clipboard, which vim doesn't, and which I find extremely handy)
Put in a leaderboard and the ability to "level up" to more advanced robots and you'll have people queueing to play it.. :-/
Ho ho ho...
Read The Eye of Argon for the full splendour!