Tommorow is the 1 year anniversary of their 52 week low, at $2.23 a share.
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I'm glad that this release improves the accessability to normal enthusiasts. A person pointed me to the Gimp once about half a year ago, and I couldn't stand to use it because of the god-awful interface that I encountered. I'll definitely give it a try.
I never saw a need for.NET Passport in any way. Privacy issues aside, all Passport would achieve for the company using it is something they could already do with simpler, more secure, and less liable technologies already available to them.
"Like any company eager to burnish its brand, Intel had produced a brochure with the finalists' bios and a description of their projects--from Boris Alexeev of Athens, Ga. ("Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata--DFAs--for Testing Divisibility"), to Ning Zhou of Plymouth, Minn. ("Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in the Mouse Brain")."
Did they supply a dictionary with that brochure, as well?
They say it is fanatical, isn't that a BAD thing?;)
fanatical ( P ) Pronunciation Key (f-nt-kl)
adj.
Possessed with or motivated by excessive, irrational zeal.
I can just imagine them sending a tech support guy to my house. When I answer my door, he storms in, hugs, me and shouts in my ear "WHAT DO YOU NEED HELP WITH?! I'M HERE TO FIX IT! "
Unlike tracking by phone number, wouldn't it be indescribably easy for someone on a dynamic ip (or hell, anyone who has proxy) to repeatedly abuse this feature? A single person could completely shut down a compliment of 6 people doing tech support.
A good example of a 'grit' effect like this is the Silent Hill series. After beating one Silent Hill games (I think it was #2), you can replay it over again without the 'grit filter', which makes the game a COMPLETELY different animal. It's so much better in the grit form, I couldn't imagine playing it in the original form.
A word to all looking to buy a Playstation 2, Game Boy Advance, or any other modern system:
Make sure to check the description of the auction closely, many of these too-good-to-be-true auctions actually are. If they mention anything at all pertaining to instructions or wholesalers, AVOID IT ALLTOGETHER! I've been sucked into one of these auctions, which worded very vaguely that they 'work with a wholesaler to get you this at the lowest possible price', which was another way of saying 'we're giving you instructions on how you MIGHT get it at a lower price', which might not even be a lower price after what you paid on the auction.
There are a couple things that I have observed being 15 in this durn strange confangled new age of interwebbing goatseology.
First, never make rules you cannot enforce. Further, never make rules that you do not follow yourself. Set a good example for your child by doing, not by saying. If you don't, you will have lost all respect from your child. I originally got access to the internet for my 8th birthday. Not many year after this, even with conventional blocking software and the like (goes to show you how ineffective these were), I found my way into the Right Light District of the internet. At the time I was not light on my feet, so obviously within a time my father found out what I was surfing around in.
What he DID do right was to calmly explain why he did not want me looking at it, stating his principles, he never blew up in my face. What he DIDN'T do right was not hold to his own proclaimed principles. Eventually I found that he was surfing pornography, and I suddenly lost all respect for his rules about the internet, and much of my respect for him. So now we're equals, he just doesn't know it. Build a respect base with your children, don't be a hypocrit.
Second, the child has to learn responsability for their actions. Most of this is common sense that your child must learn on their own, but unfortunately common sense isn't all that common. Imagine these crazy situations where a minor is giving out information like it's candy, and doesn't care at all about meeting up with someone that he or she doesn't know over the internet. Some kids just have to learn to not be stupid.
I mean, seriously. What does it matter that much to know what these people are using? Are we going to somehow draw a conclusion on these people, or draw a conclusion on what they are using BECAUSE they are using it?
That could be a rhetorical question, but it doesn't seem to be. Can someone convince me to why this isn't a completely useless idea?
A Tale in the Desert has an extreme level of interaction between the developers and gamers. The Lead Programmer and Designer gave away their personal cell phone numbers on the account that they are not at the office and players want to report a serious problem. They also let players visit their development studio, and commonly talk casually with the players on the official IRC channel each and every day.
I'm pretty young (14, nearly 15), and I'm a bit overweight from the average kis my age (5' 7", 175-180), I was in much worse shape a year ago, though (5' 5 1/2", 195).
Generally I needed two things:
Problem #1: Exercise that I LIKED. Generally all exercise seemed like a waste of my time, where I could be doing other things. I would exercise, and get bored! Same darn motion over and over and over again. It just wasn't my thing.
Solution: Based on the fact that I love computer programming and video games, I found Dance Dance Revolution. Thankfully a few of my friends liked it, too, so we started going to the arcade. I soon after that got a home pad, and I've been doing that every day or two for about 45 minutes, with some short breaks inbetween. Generally on the harder songs, that's long enough of a time to really get some good exercise.
Problem #2: I was consuming too many simple sugars, snacks, etc.
Solution: This went hand in hand with beginning to play DDR. As I played, after every song or two I would need a quick refresh. Generally whenever I wanted a drink before I started playing I would drink soda, but I noticed as I began playing that it just didn't satisfy me. I began drinking gobs and gobs of water while I was playing. By the time I was finished, I really didn't feel like having soda anymore. I also began drinking tea for when I wasn't playing.
Now in a year, I have a much less stocky body overall. My calves are very toned, and slowly but surely I'm still losing more and more weight.
Simply put, A Tale in the Desert's political system is how the Founding Fathers promised the democracy. Our government is 100% by the people, for the people (as every vote goes counted, and everyone gets to vote).
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Tommorow is the 1 year anniversary of their 52 week low, at $2.23 a share.
I'm glad that this release improves the accessability to normal enthusiasts. A person pointed me to the Gimp once about half a year ago, and I couldn't stand to use it because of the god-awful interface that I encountered. I'll definitely give it a try.
How can we pin the blame on Microsoft? Dooooo +p.
I never saw a need for .NET Passport in any way. Privacy issues aside, all Passport would achieve for the company using it is something they could already do with simpler, more secure, and less liable technologies already available to them.
1. Insert 'Witty' Joke here 2. ??? 3. +5 Funny!
"Like any company eager to burnish its brand, Intel had produced a brochure with the finalists' bios and a description of their projects--from Boris Alexeev of Athens, Ga. ("Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata--DFAs--for Testing Divisibility"), to Ning Zhou of Plymouth, Minn. ("Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in the Mouse Brain")." Did they supply a dictionary with that brochure, as well?
fanatical ( P ) Pronunciation Key (f-nt-kl) adj. Possessed with or motivated by excessive, irrational zeal.
I can just imagine them sending a tech support guy to my house. When I answer my door, he storms in, hugs, me and shouts in my ear "WHAT DO YOU NEED HELP WITH?! I'M HERE TO FIX IT! "
Unlike tracking by phone number, wouldn't it be indescribably easy for someone on a dynamic ip (or hell, anyone who has proxy) to repeatedly abuse this feature? A single person could completely shut down a compliment of 6 people doing tech support.
A good example of a 'grit' effect like this is the Silent Hill series. After beating one Silent Hill games (I think it was #2), you can replay it over again without the 'grit filter', which makes the game a COMPLETELY different animal. It's so much better in the grit form, I couldn't imagine playing it in the original form.
At least I post on my name instead of being an AC when I want to make a stupid comment. *grin*
A word to all looking to buy a Playstation 2, Game Boy Advance, or any other modern system: Make sure to check the description of the auction closely, many of these too-good-to-be-true auctions actually are. If they mention anything at all pertaining to instructions or wholesalers, AVOID IT ALLTOGETHER! I've been sucked into one of these auctions, which worded very vaguely that they 'work with a wholesaler to get you this at the lowest possible price', which was another way of saying 'we're giving you instructions on how you MIGHT get it at a lower price', which might not even be a lower price after what you paid on the auction.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Stupid people? I'd love to buy this thing, it sounds great.... Hey...Wait a second..
Something like "WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Offline Due to Slashdot".
SCO! SCO! SCO! Teeheeehee! (+5 Funny!!)
Just don't have these files on your desktop, and you'll be fine:
"Kill President.doc"
"How to Make an Effective C4 Explosive.doc"
"BOX CUTTERS ANONYMOUS.doc"
There are a couple things that I have observed being 15 in this durn strange confangled new age of interwebbing goatseology.
First, never make rules you cannot enforce. Further, never make rules that you do not follow yourself. Set a good example for your child by doing, not by saying. If you don't, you will have lost all respect from your child. I originally got access to the internet for my 8th birthday. Not many year after this, even with conventional blocking software and the like (goes to show you how ineffective these were), I found my way into the Right Light District of the internet. At the time I was not light on my feet, so obviously within a time my father found out what I was surfing around in.
What he DID do right was to calmly explain why he did not want me looking at it, stating his principles, he never blew up in my face. What he DIDN'T do right was not hold to his own proclaimed principles. Eventually I found that he was surfing pornography, and I suddenly lost all respect for his rules about the internet, and much of my respect for him. So now we're equals, he just doesn't know it. Build a respect base with your children, don't be a hypocrit.
Second, the child has to learn responsability for their actions. Most of this is common sense that your child must learn on their own, but unfortunately common sense isn't all that common. Imagine these crazy situations where a minor is giving out information like it's candy, and doesn't care at all about meeting up with someone that he or she doesn't know over the internet. Some kids just have to learn to not be stupid.
This is like saying when you broke into someone's car using a hammer, it was the hammer's fault. Completely illogical.
I mean, seriously. What does it matter that much to know what these people are using? Are we going to somehow draw a conclusion on these people, or draw a conclusion on what they are using BECAUSE they are using it? That could be a rhetorical question, but it doesn't seem to be. Can someone convince me to why this isn't a completely useless idea?
"I've got positive karma, I don't need your stinkin' mod points!"
A Tale in the Desert has an extreme level of interaction between the developers and gamers. The Lead Programmer and Designer gave away their personal cell phone numbers on the account that they are not at the office and players want to report a serious problem. They also let players visit their development studio, and commonly talk casually with the players on the official IRC channel each and every day.
Maybe the Linux community is looking harder for bugs than Microsoft? Ever think of that?
I'm pretty young (14, nearly 15), and I'm a bit overweight from the average kis my age (5' 7", 175-180), I was in much worse shape a year ago, though (5' 5 1/2", 195). Generally I needed two things: Problem #1: Exercise that I LIKED. Generally all exercise seemed like a waste of my time, where I could be doing other things. I would exercise, and get bored! Same darn motion over and over and over again. It just wasn't my thing. Solution: Based on the fact that I love computer programming and video games, I found Dance Dance Revolution. Thankfully a few of my friends liked it, too, so we started going to the arcade. I soon after that got a home pad, and I've been doing that every day or two for about 45 minutes, with some short breaks inbetween. Generally on the harder songs, that's long enough of a time to really get some good exercise. Problem #2: I was consuming too many simple sugars, snacks, etc. Solution: This went hand in hand with beginning to play DDR. As I played, after every song or two I would need a quick refresh. Generally whenever I wanted a drink before I started playing I would drink soda, but I noticed as I began playing that it just didn't satisfy me. I began drinking gobs and gobs of water while I was playing. By the time I was finished, I really didn't feel like having soda anymore. I also began drinking tea for when I wasn't playing. Now in a year, I have a much less stocky body overall. My calves are very toned, and slowly but surely I'm still losing more and more weight.
Simply put, A Tale in the Desert's political system is how the Founding Fathers promised the democracy. Our government is 100% by the people, for the people (as every vote goes counted, and everyone gets to vote).
Or impossible, take your pick.