What I would like is the ability to place all my UI tweaks in a file so that when I install the OS on a new system I can just say "apply the UI tweaks in this file" and be done with it.
Porting it to the xbox would be a really bad move on Microsoft's part. Developers would then have a choice of either making xbox games which would only run on an xbox or ps2 games which would run on either system. Any sensible developer would think: I'll make a ps2 game now. It will run on both systems. Eventually I'll make an xbox version, if there's enough demand.
I do just the opposite. Whether I gave my first or last name for a food order, the usual reply would be: Can I have you first name, please? So I just started using "Tony" when ordering out.
Its a great service. You might want to check one of their bundled packages. It's included in a lot of them. I was pleasantly surprised when a Verizon rep called me and offered to replace the service I had at the time (with Verizon) with another service (with Verizon, obviously) which had more features and cost less.
There was an old story, an urban legend perhaps, about DEC engineers inscribing a message in Russian right on the CPU chips' silicon for the Russians to read. Allegedly, it read: VAX, when you care enough to steal the very best.
This reminds me of a time I was working in an office and a co-op student suddenly started panicking. He yelled out to our resident techie "There's smoke coming out of my monitor! What should I do!" Our techie replied, very calmly: "Turn it off."
In my experience the drive letter is irrelevant. Most non-geeks I've worked with or helped out seem to have trouble with multiple directories, never mind multiple drives. All their files wind up either being scattered all over the place with no discernible pattern or they put EVERYTHING in one directory.
So what you're saying is that the Millenium Falcon only had to travel the equivalent of 12 parsecs of real space. Assuming it could achieve near-light speed, that means the Kessel run would have taken about 39 years (12 parsecs * 3.26 light years/parsec). Good thing they didn't have to travel the full distance!
I recently discovered audiobooks. I hardly ever listen to music in my car anymore. It seems to me that in addition to the textual form, it would be great to have a lot of these works available in audio form too.
I think it's better that the work is done by people who really care about the project rather than some poorly paid "schlubs" who couldn't care less. The transcriptions are going to be much more accurate.
I've read SF for most of my life but I've never understood the term "Speculative Fiction". Isn't *all* fiction, by definition, speculative? If it wasn't speculative, it wouldn't be fiction, now would it?
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I would argue that quake3 can take quite a bit of concentration to play well. You are constantly trying to outmaneuver other (human) players who do not move in predictable ways. When was the last time a tetris block did something completely unexpected? I have seen quake players pull off sudden inspired moves that just left me astounded. I find that the moment you lose your concentration, you die.
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That's "pedantically".
Oh, the irony!
are you trying to imply that BIND might be dying?
What I would like is the ability to place all my UI tweaks in a file so that when I install the OS on a new system I can just say "apply the UI tweaks in this file" and be done with it.
that I have ever seen in any movie was in True Lies. Arnold breaks into a room is faced with a computer running Windows 3.11 in Arabic. Priceless!
Porting it to the xbox would be a really bad move on Microsoft's part. Developers would then have a choice of either making xbox games which would only run on an xbox or ps2 games which would run on either system. Any sensible developer would think: I'll make a ps2 game now. It will run on both systems. Eventually I'll make an xbox version, if there's enough demand.
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I do just the opposite. Whether I gave my first or last name for a food order,
the usual reply would be: Can I have you first name, please?
So I just started using "Tony" when ordering out.
Shouldn't that be: Klingon! I will kill you where you stand for your insolence!
I thought most academic libraries were open to the public as well. You just can't check stuff out of the library.
Its a great service. You might want to check one of their bundled packages. It's included in a lot of them. I was pleasantly surprised when a Verizon rep called me and offered to replace the service I had at the time (with Verizon) with another service (with Verizon, obviously) which had more features and cost less.
It's run by Mickey Mouse's Dog?
What is the point of that?
It's a bit like the Dune Trilogy (6 books) or the Foundation Trilogy (at least 7 books).
Wasn't this movie already made. I swore I saw the Rama spacecraft in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It was looking for whales ;-)
I always thought "A Gift from Earth" would make a really good movie.
There was an old story, an urban legend perhaps, about DEC engineers inscribing a message in Russian right on the CPU chips' silicon for the Russians to read.
Allegedly, it read: VAX, when you care enough to steal the very best.
This reminds me of a time I was working in an office and a co-op student suddenly started panicking.
He yelled out to our resident techie "There's smoke coming out of my monitor! What should I do!"
Our techie replied, very calmly: "Turn it off."
I thought we locked people up based on how much damage they actually DID.
In my experience the drive letter is irrelevant. Most non-geeks I've worked with or helped out seem to have trouble with multiple directories, never mind multiple drives. All their files wind up either being scattered all over the place with no discernible pattern or they put EVERYTHING in one directory.
So what you're saying is that the Millenium Falcon only had to travel the equivalent of 12 parsecs of real space. Assuming it could achieve near-light speed, that means the Kessel run would have taken about 39 years (12 parsecs * 3.26 light years/parsec). Good thing they didn't have to travel the full distance!
I recently discovered audiobooks. I hardly ever listen to music in my car anymore. It seems to me that in addition to the textual form, it would be great to have a lot of these works available in audio form too.
I think it's better that the work is done by people who really care about the project rather than some poorly paid "schlubs" who couldn't care less. The transcriptions are going to be much more accurate.
I've read SF for most of my life but I've never understood the term "Speculative Fiction".
Isn't *all* fiction, by definition, speculative? If it wasn't speculative, it wouldn't be fiction, now would it?
LoJack does not use GPS.
I would argue that quake3 can take quite a bit of concentration to play well. You are constantly trying to outmaneuver other (human) players who do not move in predictable ways. When was the last time a tetris block did something completely unexpected? I have seen quake players pull off sudden inspired moves that just left me astounded. I find that the moment you lose your concentration, you die.
Team games are even better.