One person may have intimate knowledge of how to hit a tennis ball but still be terrible when it comes to hitting the ball. Practice and experience develops skill, so player can gradually become excellent at hitting. The same applies in some types of video games, like fighting or FPS games such as UT and Quake. You can study the game all you want, but only talent and practice will give you skill. Other games, like many MMORPGs, reward time spent more than they reward player skill.
Sure! I do it all the time! It's a new-fangled invention called a "left turn signal". Y'see, traffic stops both ways for a short time so I {and those across from me} can turn left. And do you propose to sprinkle left turn signals every 50m along these busy thoroughfares? Also, alternating the signals to serve all directions takes time and will increase congestion (and vastly increase the difficulty of properly programming the light sequences for long stretches.)
...and I'll betcha that San Antonio, Texas, has a larger population than the AA/Ypsi area... I'm not talking about the AA/Ypsi area. As I stated in my first post, that area of the state has very few "Michigan Left"-type roads, not to mention that the traffic in the AA/Ypsi area is the lightest of any city I have ever lived in (I currently live in AA actually.) This makes me wonder if maybe we're talking about different topics.
...and if you've lived in Michigan all your life, you might not have another example to compare to. I haven't, wouldn't, and know better. If it were such a traffic boon, don't you think it'd be more widely implemented? Actually I haven't lived here all my life, yet I am a firm believer that "Michigan Left" road setups are much better solutions for 6+ lane roads than left turn lanes and signals.
If it were such a traffic boon, don't you think it'd be more widely implemented? Does something need to be widely used for it to be a boon? Would you use that same logic for music, politics, etc?
Look: I'm not saying that Michigan Left's are the end-all of traffic engineering, but I am saying that they are very useful when implemented in the correct situations. Suggesting that these roads would be better served by throwing up some left turn signals is ignoring the facts.
I used to live in an apartment complex that was situated directly on one of these Michigan Left roads. This road (M-59 in Macomb Township) has four lanes running in each direction, plus right hand turn lanes. Let me tell you that it would have been a hellish experience had that been a typical intersection with left turn signals and all that. Can you imagine turning left across 4 lanes of busy traffic to get to a business on the other side of the road?
These intersections also moved an incredible amount of traffic. I drove on a sequence of two of these roads on my way to work, and due to the fact that lights can be easily timed the traffic is able to continuously flow at decent speeds. Yes, if you are turning "left" onto such a road you will have to stop and wait a few minutes before you can get going, but it is well worth the wait considering the alternative would be to make a much riskier left hand turn in a much more congested intersection.
So don't assume most people in Michigan hate these roads, because they make life easier for thousands of people (whether they realize it or not.) Also- the Ann Arbor/Ypsi area barely has any Michigan Left roads. In fact, traffic control seems mostly like an afterthought there.
Typically I'd be lying in bed at night while playing this game. My wife would have kicked me out of bed completely if I had started shouting at my DS while she was sleeping, so instead I would fake a cough with my mouth close to the mic. In my opinion a decently faked cough looks even less embarrassing than snapping your fingers, you just need to be careful not to spray your DS.
I was shocked that the demo would even run on at all on my Radeon 9800. With a tweaked UTEngine.ini file I was hovering between 25-30 FPS. Of course by "tweaked" I mean stripping out most of the fancy eye candy.
The map selection in the demo is a bit of a let-down, but the movement and nearly all the weapons feel great. Since this is a "beta" demo, I am hoping they will release an updated demo in a few weeks to fix some of the big issues and give everyone a look at what the final product should be like.
While it sucks to see a good (even if it hasn't been THAT great recently) end, I am happy to know that it will end without having several crappy seasons at the end. Too many TV shows seem to run season after season until the writers are completely out of ideas and the quality of the stories start to tank. I'd much rather have something shorter and sweeter.
I like how a lot of the anime TV series in Japan run for a single season with something between 12 to 26 episodes. These series can focus strongly on a main arc and usually have much better pacing than something like LostOurDirection Season 6.
This was only in my Junior High computer lab but it was funny nonetheless.
There was a large red button on the wall in the lab, with a printed sheet of paper declaring "Emergency Power-Off DO NOT TOUCH" on the wall right above the button. Someone that worked for the school had the wonderful idea to park the recycle bin in front of the button. This bin was basically one of those plastic trash bins that people put at the end of their driveways: about waist high with a heavy plastic lid that hinged at the back.
One day an enterprising youth discovered that if he positioned the bin correctly, whenever someone opened the lid and let it fall back against the wall it would actually hit the button with enough force to power the whole lab down. Ouch, so much pain for kids that didn't remember to "save often"!
After word spread and this had happened enough times, someone actually taped a cafeteria bowl over the button with what had to be about half a roll of mail packing tape. Besides looking absolutely hilarious, I bet it might not have been that easy to pull the bowl from the wall in an emergency....
If you think that Bose headphones are a good buy I have hard time taking most of your post very seriously.
Although I have to say, the PSP as a movie device (using ripped movies and not UMD of course) does sound very cool. How is battery life when playing a movie from the memory stick?
One of my old bosses had six monitors on his PC. Whenever he clicked anything on his taskbar it always took him a while to find out what monitor it actually opened up in. On top of that, he always felt the need to fill all six screens and would choose to do so with applications that completely taxed his system's resources. I would estimate that his productivity was cut in half as a result of this sillyness but he didn't really do that much work to begin with.
Here where I work (a large defense contractor) there are signs posted all over that forbid having flash drives and other things such as camera phones anywhere in the complex. There are no IT policies though, and I still see people using them just about every single day.
This link is to a book swapping site my cousin and I whipped up in PHP and MySQL for students at our university. For being just a small effort, it actually has attracted quite a bit of attention- we've had an article about the site in the school newspaper as well as the city newspaper that got picked up by the AP and printed all over the country. We've just recently been sponsered by the student government who is now paying for the webhosting, domain name, and any other costs we have.
If you have the means my advice is to throw something together like this. Believe me, people will be enthusiastic about it. If for nothing else, its worth it just for the extra cash I made by selling my own books. If you don't have time or whatever to write your own there are plenty of cookie-cutter scripts out there that can be easily modified to suit this purpose...
Let me guess, the only TV series you've ever seen are those shown on CN. Its time for you to be introduced to Rurouni Kenshin, Evangelion, or a number of other excellent series (X is a new favorite). Not many movies can compare to the experience of following a series of 26+ episodes from beginning to end. Wings of Honneneise and Grave of Fireflies are possible exceptions, but they are true masterpieces.
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One person may have intimate knowledge of how to hit a tennis ball but still be terrible when it comes to hitting the ball. Practice and experience develops skill, so player can gradually become excellent at hitting. The same applies in some types of video games, like fighting or FPS games such as UT and Quake. You can study the game all you want, but only talent and practice will give you skill. Other games, like many MMORPGs, reward time spent more than they reward player skill.
People don't want them? I'm so glad you are here to speak for the rest of us people.
Call me crazy, but couldn't this "cat culling" cause a surge in the cities rat population?
...and I'll betcha that San Antonio, Texas, has a larger population than the AA/Ypsi area... I'm not talking about the AA/Ypsi area. As I stated in my first post, that area of the state has very few "Michigan Left"-type roads, not to mention that the traffic in the AA/Ypsi area is the lightest of any city I have ever lived in (I currently live in AA actually.) This makes me wonder if maybe we're talking about different topics.
...and if you've lived in Michigan all your life, you might not have another example to compare to. I haven't, wouldn't, and know better. If it were such a traffic boon, don't you think it'd be more widely implemented? Actually I haven't lived here all my life, yet I am a firm believer that "Michigan Left" road setups are much better solutions for 6+ lane roads than left turn lanes and signals. If it were such a traffic boon, don't you think it'd be more widely implemented? Does something need to be widely used for it to be a boon? Would you use that same logic for music, politics, etc?Look: I'm not saying that Michigan Left's are the end-all of traffic engineering, but I am saying that they are very useful when implemented in the correct situations. Suggesting that these roads would be better served by throwing up some left turn signals is ignoring the facts.
I used to live in an apartment complex that was situated directly on one of these Michigan Left roads. This road (M-59 in Macomb Township) has four lanes running in each direction, plus right hand turn lanes. Let me tell you that it would have been a hellish experience had that been a typical intersection with left turn signals and all that. Can you imagine turning left across 4 lanes of busy traffic to get to a business on the other side of the road? These intersections also moved an incredible amount of traffic. I drove on a sequence of two of these roads on my way to work, and due to the fact that lights can be easily timed the traffic is able to continuously flow at decent speeds. Yes, if you are turning "left" onto such a road you will have to stop and wait a few minutes before you can get going, but it is well worth the wait considering the alternative would be to make a much riskier left hand turn in a much more congested intersection. So don't assume most people in Michigan hate these roads, because they make life easier for thousands of people (whether they realize it or not.) Also- the Ann Arbor/Ypsi area barely has any Michigan Left roads. In fact, traffic control seems mostly like an afterthought there.
Typically I'd be lying in bed at night while playing this game. My wife would have kicked me out of bed completely if I had started shouting at my DS while she was sleeping, so instead I would fake a cough with my mouth close to the mic. In my opinion a decently faked cough looks even less embarrassing than snapping your fingers, you just need to be careful not to spray your DS.
I was shocked that the demo would even run on at all on my Radeon 9800. With a tweaked UTEngine.ini file I was hovering between 25-30 FPS. Of course by "tweaked" I mean stripping out most of the fancy eye candy. The map selection in the demo is a bit of a let-down, but the movement and nearly all the weapons feel great. Since this is a "beta" demo, I am hoping they will release an updated demo in a few weeks to fix some of the big issues and give everyone a look at what the final product should be like.
Does this mean that they are goign to release Halo DS?
Actually there is a complicated but thorough process you can follow to completely remove ATI drivers from your system. No OS reinstall necessary.
/duck
While it sucks to see a good (even if it hasn't been THAT great recently) end, I am happy to know that it will end without having several crappy seasons at the end. Too many TV shows seem to run season after season until the writers are completely out of ideas and the quality of the stories start to tank. I'd much rather have something shorter and sweeter. I like how a lot of the anime TV series in Japan run for a single season with something between 12 to 26 episodes. These series can focus strongly on a main arc and usually have much better pacing than something like LostOurDirection Season 6.
This was only in my Junior High computer lab but it was funny nonetheless. There was a large red button on the wall in the lab, with a printed sheet of paper declaring "Emergency Power-Off DO NOT TOUCH" on the wall right above the button. Someone that worked for the school had the wonderful idea to park the recycle bin in front of the button. This bin was basically one of those plastic trash bins that people put at the end of their driveways: about waist high with a heavy plastic lid that hinged at the back. One day an enterprising youth discovered that if he positioned the bin correctly, whenever someone opened the lid and let it fall back against the wall it would actually hit the button with enough force to power the whole lab down. Ouch, so much pain for kids that didn't remember to "save often"! After word spread and this had happened enough times, someone actually taped a cafeteria bowl over the button with what had to be about half a roll of mail packing tape. Besides looking absolutely hilarious, I bet it might not have been that easy to pull the bowl from the wall in an emergency....
If you think that Bose headphones are a good buy I have hard time taking most of your post very seriously. Although I have to say, the PSP as a movie device (using ripped movies and not UMD of course) does sound very cool. How is battery life when playing a movie from the memory stick?
You just made a contrary post and got modded up for it, what is your secret?
One of my old bosses had six monitors on his PC. Whenever he clicked anything on his taskbar it always took him a while to find out what monitor it actually opened up in. On top of that, he always felt the need to fill all six screens and would choose to do so with applications that completely taxed his system's resources. I would estimate that his productivity was cut in half as a result of this sillyness but he didn't really do that much work to begin with.
Does this also apply to when they ask you:
"How much were/are you making at your last/current job?"
Here where I work (a large defense contractor) there are signs posted all over that forbid having flash drives and other things such as camera phones anywhere in the complex. There are no IT policies though, and I still see people using them just about every single day.
LOL, I wondered if any other Bronocos had noticed this. Now if only I had a laptop....
Get more bucks for your books
This link is to a book swapping site my cousin and I whipped up in PHP and MySQL for students at our university. For being just a small effort, it actually has attracted quite a bit of attention- we've had an article about the site in the school newspaper as well as the city newspaper that got picked up by the AP and printed all over the country. We've just recently been sponsered by the student government who is now paying for the webhosting, domain name, and any other costs we have.
If you have the means my advice is to throw something together like this. Believe me, people will be enthusiastic about it. If for nothing else, its worth it just for the extra cash I made by selling my own books. If you don't have time or whatever to write your own there are plenty of cookie-cutter scripts out there that can be easily modified to suit this purpose...
Let me guess, the only TV series you've ever seen are those shown on CN. Its time for you to be introduced to Rurouni Kenshin, Evangelion, or a number of other excellent series (X is a new favorite). Not many movies can compare to the experience of following a series of 26+ episodes from beginning to end. Wings of Honneneise and Grave of Fireflies are possible exceptions, but they are true masterpieces.