Since I live in Alabama, I know where the rest of the nation is headed. Some words of advice:
You would think going to Wal-Mart during church hours would help. Not so. The Church of Let's Kill Abortion Doctors and The Church of I Hate Gays have different hours. So, Wal-Mart is always crowded.
Sometimes, you'll be unsure of whether you are at a Nascar track or Church. The tracks serve alcohol.
Make sure your shirt and your wife's shirt match. One person having a Jeff Gordon and the other wearing a "In memory of Dale" shirt is a big no-no.
Feel free to throw beer cans out of your pickup truck. Don't fret if they don't land in the bed, it will feel good to decorate the highway.
If you live in an actual city, be glad that your gov't is run by backwoods folk who hire their relatives. If you live in the country, do not enter the city unless absolutely necessary (i.e. sell firewood). Otherwise, you might get some education, then you would realize - Hey, wait a second? Bush isn't going to help my poor white ass out!
Next time you hear this crap about prepositions, reply
Fuck Off.
Here in America, we can make do with one verb and one preposition. (Arguably, the "yourself" at the end of the sentence is implied).
Signed, American Programmer who says correct grammer is determined by the compiler
From Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . The fact is that. . . . even now immense pains are sometimes expended in changing spontaneous into artificial English. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards. The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained. . .. In avoiding the forbidden order, unskillful handlers of words often fall into real blunders. . . . (473-474)
You know, mod his ass down. There isn't a damn thing intsightful about the comment.
Saying 3D Maps/interior spaces in these terms is like talking about Rap or Country mp3s. Maps are just a use of the format.
A 3d file object would be like any other out there now, be OpenFlight, DirectX, VRML, Blender, you name it. An extensionable node list, that at the very least describes vertices, normals, texture cordinates, and colors.
While weighting reviews against each other is silly, you at least recieve a list of different places that have other opinions about that game. That way, someone who was already thinking about it can judge better whether it's worth 20 or 60 bucks.
And it doesn't matter if Madden recieves 92.4% if you don't like football games at all.
Playing FFT makes kids want to clone themselves to find enough fucking time to play the game. (And if playing the PS version, makes them question whether we need noses or not).
You obviously went to a school that stressed doing research instead of speaking out of your ass. Just cause you hadn't heard of them, doesn't mean other people and employers did not.
from http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~landay/school-rankings94. txt For 1994 (see #26):
GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY
1. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Calif.)
3. PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Ind.)
4. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
5. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
6. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
7. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
8. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (N.Y.)
9. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 10. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 10. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 12. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Ill.) 13. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON 14. PENN STATE UNIV. AT UNIVERSITY PARK 15. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AT TWIN CITIES 16. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (N.J.) 17. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 18. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (N.Y.) 19. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 20. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT COLLEGE STATION 21. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 22. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER 23. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 24. RICE UNIVERSITY (Texas) 25. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Md.) 26. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 26. VIRGINIA TECH 28. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 29. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 30. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) 31. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 31. UNIV. OF CALIF. AT SANTA BARBARA 33. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 33. DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.) 35. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 36. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 37. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK 38. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS 39. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO 40. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (N.Y.) 41. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 42. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Tenn.) 43. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 43. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (N.H.) 45. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 46. BROWN UNIVERSITY (R.I.) 47. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE 47. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY 49. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 50. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
I couldn't resist, this is the second time I've got the use the same precise link in the same article, but for a different name. This time it's Nimrod instead of assassin.
Slashdot Mirror
I've heard of the same thing. Rods if you search on UFO stuff. There just bugs.
http://www.ufotheatre.com/rods/rods.htm
Then, I put on a robe and kill a grue.
What? You mean it was Interactive Fiction not Infocon Fiction?
When asked what she thought about Vin Diesel's intro, Paris Hilton replied
/. interview.
"That's hot"
This was follow by Stephen Colbert doing a Goodwrench ad in which Wil Wheaton references a second
You should read the sequel
The Adventures of Traceroute
There is no god, Only Dude. - MST3K
I tried that and have 6800 GT card. Aparently, that is not in the range for GeForce 2 cause the raises an error.
You've summed up all I feel/fear in one sentence.
Since I live in Alabama, I know where the rest of the nation is headed. Some words of advice:
You would think going to Wal-Mart during church hours would help. Not so. The Church of Let's Kill Abortion Doctors and The Church of I Hate Gays have different hours. So, Wal-Mart is always crowded.
Sometimes, you'll be unsure of whether you are at a Nascar track or Church. The tracks serve alcohol.
Make sure your shirt and your wife's shirt match. One person having a Jeff Gordon and the other wearing a "In memory of Dale" shirt is a big no-no.
Feel free to throw beer cans out of your pickup truck. Don't fret if they don't land in the bed, it will feel good to decorate the highway.
If you live in an actual city, be glad that your gov't is run by backwoods folk who hire their relatives. If you live in the country, do not enter the city unless absolutely necessary (i.e. sell firewood). Otherwise, you might get some education, then you would realize - Hey, wait a second? Bush isn't going to help my poor white ass out!
Next time you hear this crap about prepositions, reply
:
.
Fuck Off.
Here in America, we can make do with one verb and one preposition. (Arguably, the "yourself" at the end of the sentence is implied).
Signed,
American Programmer who says correct grammer is determined by the compiler
From Dictionary of Modern English Usage
It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . The fact is that. . . . even now immense pains are sometimes expended in changing spontaneous into artificial English. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards. The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained. . .
In avoiding the forbidden order, unskillful handlers of words often fall into real blunders. . . . (473-474)
I for one welcome me as my new overload.
And can I just make a comment about what a wonderful job I am doing.
I learned something on Slashdot today. I'll have to mark the calendar.
Sorry, but southpark for N64, goldeneye and alot of the other classics are simply more fun to play
I liked Southpark when it was called Turok.
And for further laughs: Apple Switch-Gamer
Isn't that the game-within-a-game from Final Fantasy X? Blubber-ball or some such shit.
"Extreme Rice!" - MST3K
Here is a link: techtvblooper
Did anyone see the man breaking the Edison phonograph tube on TechTv? I saw it while flipping through on MaxX or some other shitty blooper show.
You know, mod his ass down. There isn't a damn thing intsightful about the comment. Saying 3D Maps/interior spaces in these terms is like talking about Rap or Country mp3s. Maps are just a use of the format. A 3d file object would be like any other out there now, be OpenFlight, DirectX, VRML, Blender, you name it. An extensionable node list, that at the very least describes vertices, normals, texture cordinates, and colors.
"GameRankings are ludicrous"
While weighting reviews against each other is silly, you at least recieve a list of different places that have other opinions about that game. That way, someone who was already thinking about it can judge better whether it's worth 20 or 60 bucks.
And it doesn't matter if Madden recieves 92.4% if you don't like football games at all.
>> definitely not on the top-ten-diseases-to-have list
I guess one of those would be magnimus- obliviophallocytis.
http://www.uprightcitizens.org/03/
Playing FFT makes kids want to clone themselves to find enough fucking time to play the game. (And if playing the PS version, makes them question whether we need noses or not).
Homebrewer's sidebar:
One more reason to use dried malts instead of sugar to make your beer at home.
You obviously went to a school that stressed doing research instead of speaking out of your ass. Just cause you hadn't heard of them, doesn't mean other people and employers did not.
. txt
from http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~landay/school-rankings94
For 1994 (see #26):
GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF
ENGINEERING WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY
1. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Calif.)
3. PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Ind.)
4. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
5. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
6. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
7. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
8. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (N.Y.)
9. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
10. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pa.)
10. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
12. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Ill.)
13. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON
14. PENN STATE UNIV. AT UNIVERSITY PARK
15. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AT TWIN CITIES
16. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (N.J.)
17. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
18. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (N.Y.)
19. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
20. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT COLLEGE STATION
21. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
22. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
23. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
24. RICE UNIVERSITY (Texas)
25. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Md.)
26. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.)
26. VIRGINIA TECH
28. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
29. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
30. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio)
31. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
31. UNIV. OF CALIF. AT SANTA BARBARA
33. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
33. DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.)
35. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Pa.)
36. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
37. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK
38. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
39. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO
40. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (N.Y.)
41. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.)
42. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Tenn.)
43. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.)
43. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (N.H.)
45. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
46. BROWN UNIVERSITY (R.I.)
47. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
47. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
49. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
50. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
FFI - Wasn't there only 4 letters (maybe five)? And I used names of friends, so sorry Baryshnikov.
And FFII(US), I decided like a lot of people to go that humorous route of giving names such as "bitch", just to hear them say it in the conversation.
Now, I usually use Punk, cause it's short enough to be used in most games.
"Good work punk."
I couldn't resist, this is the second time I've got the use the same precise link in the same article, but for a different name. This time it's Nimrod instead of assassin.
Apparently, Mensa people don't have site references ever... A potential one Origins of Assassin
I think some of the bomberman's have a coop mode if you do adventure and not battle.