I bought a copy off the street in Asia in April, and this game is beyond bad. Crappy game play, crappy load times (get up and make some tea in the two minutes it takes to load when you cross into another area of the town).
Forget what they say about it being vile and violent and all that, its just a very poorly designed piece of crap game. Not worth the 2 dollars I paid for it. Not even worth its value as a coaster.
I met several Niueans when I was in Auckland. A good percentage of them live in NZ. Very nice people, and I'm sure its a lovely island.
I'm betting there are lots of places you have never heard of. Vanuatu, Tonga, Marquessas, Tuvalu, Nauru, etc.
Get a passport and go.
That is why I have a very old purebred breed of dog that is well protected from backyard breeders. Thus it has nearly no genetic problems.
Way too many breeds of dogs have been ruined by puppy mills, backyard breeders and unscrupulus types out there. The English Bulldog has been bred with such a large head that ceaserian birth is usually the only option for the pups, as the birth canal cannot tolerate the puppies enormous heads.
Own a purebred, but own a good one!
I remember some sales-bot at Circuit City who bet me that DIVX would be a huge success and that in one year's time, all DVD's would be in the DIVX format.
I laughed, did something stupid like point at him and invited other customers to pet the monkey-boy, and then told him I'd be back in a year.
Funny, he no longer worked there....hmmmm
I love film too much to ever "buy" anything as asnine as DIVX.
I find that the freeware airplanes are the best part about it. Microsoft was smart in allowing anyone to create planes and scenery. I love flying the old style Connies and DC4's and such and long since forgotten airlines like Hughes AirWest, Brannif, Air Cal, PSA, Piedmont.
I have a buddy that was an FO on the A320, and is now a captain on the 737, it always scared me when he would call and ask how to do specific things when he would fly Flight Sim!
I love it! I wish I coulda bought stuff of my old airline's 737-100 (the last -100 that flew in america, we called it "death jet")
I love flight simming, and got to play with some of the real stuff when I worked for the airlines, cool stuff. Best part was once sitting jumpseat on an A320 Lufthansa flight, I resisted the urge to tell the pilots "hey, that's just like Microsoft Flight Sim!!"
I agree, the problem is that the shuttle is a politically built vechile, not a scientific one. Parts built in as many congressional district as possible.
I think that gov't should egg along the privitisation of space. Profit motive will drive better technology.
Mixed feelings on this, the shuttle has to go, but till we pull our heads out and get something better (and vastly more simple) we are stuck.
I worked with Commander Rick Husband's brother, who is an Airline Captain. Rick made a few visits out to our hangar and did some great PR after his first shuttle flight. By all accounts, he was a fantastic guy and a great ambassador for human spaceflight. We all followed the progress of his flight, and I was stunned when I saw the footage of the accident. These are real people on these missions, with family and friends, and I pray that NASA and the beaucracy that puts up the shuttle never has another disaster.
Unfortunately, in America, you would probably get a visit from the same goons that make you buy a license to play music from the jukebox that you own,or over the sound system.
I go to Asia quite a bit, and most of the bars and resturants usually have a schedule of the movies that they are showing advertised. Of course most of these films are bootlegs of currently running films in the US-often well before they even open legit in their country.
Only bad part is that the early bootlegs tend to be pretty crappy, sometimes you can see the silloutte of a theatre goer in front of the screen!
A little decorum would have saved you from coming off like the "Comic Shop Guy" from the Simpsons.
Your replies showed that you are an arrogant, unforgiving geek who probably has to reaquaint himself with the outside every three months.
The Sagan stuff was a joke, get it spock boy? It was light hearted funsterism!
BTW, I am a libertarian, and had a family member die of cancer that could have used pot, but wouldn't during chemo, because it was illegal, so don't go there monkey-boy.
Give me a break, it was 20 years ago when I read the article!!!
In any case I thought the pics were cool, but they had a detailed explanation about why they looked the way they looked, and Sagan is dead now, and it turns out he was pothead as well.
Its the heat layers also. Not unlike the thermoclines that you get when scuba diving, where the warmer upper water meets the cooler water, and it is all wavy and distorted. If you find a thermocline that is thick enough to try to dive through, it is an interesting experience.
Its not the atmosphere, its the density of the atmosphere that causes distortion. Still, you have to hand it the Venera team for pulling this off. I used to subscribe to the Planatary Society, and they had a magazine that had the color photos. It looked pretty nasty, not unlike Yuma, Arizona on a hot day.
As I recall when I saw the pictures years ago (there are I believe 2 colorized photos) the density of the atmosphere essentially warps the view that the camera had, so that the photos show a wide area but it doesn't look that way.
Its like looking through gas fumes, lots of distortion. Add in the fact that its hot enough to melt lead and you have showers of sulfuric acid as well as a dense enough atmosphere to crush a man, its a wonder that with Soviet technology, they landed there and were able to get a few holiday snaps off!
I'm one of the old timers in AZ caching! I haven't hid one in a while, but I'm sure you got one of the early ones I hid. My Geocaching name is Dobre.
I have the great one at Arizona State, Secret Garden. It has been discovered by the groundskeepers, but they allow it to stay where it is. The ironic part is that it is smack dab in the middle of the campus in a garden that 99% of the students don't even know exists.
I gotta go hide some more, but its just too hot.
Most of the caches I have hid are in heavily people traffic areas. One is hidden smack in the middle of a 50,000 student university, surrounded by office and classroom windows at eye level. Makes it daring, makes it fun. The school landscapers know about it now, and it was one that was found on a newscast about geocaching.
I would never hide a cache in a dangerous area or one that would be harmful to wildlife, but 99.93% of cachers would not do that anyway. Its like anything else, always a few people who screw it up for others.
I picked up a copy of this in Thailand for a buck, and it is an unmitigated piece of crap. The game sucks, the graphics and sound suck, the loading is garbage, everything about this game sucks from the minute you load it into your machine.
There is a reviewer down here in AZ, where the publisher of this game is headquartered who was obvioulsly on the payroll, they sent him all over the country to shill for this game and lie about how great he thought it was. He used to have a radio show here where he was just a mouthpiece of one real crappy PC game maker and all his shows just happened to be about how great their games were!
I got ripped off at buck, even buying it blackmarket.
About a year and a half ago I did a liveaboard to the Similans and half the divers got food poisioning (including the divemaster). I went back last month, and redid the trip, but none of the same crew. Then I did a 3 tank dive and one of the DM's was on food poisioning boat, she remembered everything, its a small world.
Thailand is heaven.
There are 2 nitrox classes under PADI, one is a short course for nitrox using a computer, and a much longer course (recommended) where you learn the hows and whys of nitrox and how to calculate using nitrox tables.
Didn't make it to Koh Tao last time I was in Samui, the weather wasn't so hot, but I did Phuket last month. Love Thailand, amazing dives and I have some fantastic u/w photos from the trip.
I've been diving for years and have a few hundred dives on my new computer. As for expecting the divemaster to manually check the calculations, it didn't happen on many of the dive trips I've been on. I can lie and say that as a super concientious diver I always used my tables in conjunction with the computer, but unfortunatly that didn't happen.
I consider myself a very conservative diver, last month I was going to do 3 tanks of Nitrox at 37% Oxygen, and as soon as I attached my regs and turned on the computer, it had just enough power to tell me that it was shutting down. It has a low battery warning, but since my last dive was 24 hours before, and it stays on until the safe to fly time is reached, it went dead. Rather than risk the possibility of Nitrox problems with a high O2 mix and not enough data on the depth, I switched to regular air (at a loss of some $$). The fact is, when you dive, you dive conservatively, and never push the limits, even if you have a computer. All divers need to remember that the #1 best computer you have is your brain.
One other story, I bought my Aeris computer, and it had a link to the PC to download data, but only in Windows 98. I called Aeris, and they stated that they didn't see the need to write a patch for it to work in XP....that made me feel just wonderful about the company.
I'm planning on hopping in my Delorean (the Edsel is in the shop) and winging my way down there wearing my XFL T-shirt "He Hate Me!", drinking my Crystal Pepsi (better than the new coke), and seeing if I can get my Segway!
I'll send ya all a betamax of the trip!
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Forget what they say about it being vile and violent and all that, its just a very poorly designed piece of crap game. Not worth the 2 dollars I paid for it. Not even worth its value as a coaster.
And Tristan de Cunha, St. Helens, Majuro, Phonpei, Kosrae, etc...
I met several Niueans when I was in Auckland. A good percentage of them live in NZ. Very nice people, and I'm sure its a lovely island. I'm betting there are lots of places you have never heard of. Vanuatu, Tonga, Marquessas, Tuvalu, Nauru, etc. Get a passport and go.
That is why I have a very old purebred breed of dog that is well protected from backyard breeders. Thus it has nearly no genetic problems. Way too many breeds of dogs have been ruined by puppy mills, backyard breeders and unscrupulus types out there. The English Bulldog has been bred with such a large head that ceaserian birth is usually the only option for the pups, as the birth canal cannot tolerate the puppies enormous heads. Own a purebred, but own a good one!
Laz, don't tell me you are at this site too. shrug
...is like a good looking nun, what's the point?
I laughed, did something stupid like point at him and invited other customers to pet the monkey-boy, and then told him I'd be back in a year.
Funny, he no longer worked there....hmmmm
I love film too much to ever "buy" anything as asnine as DIVX.
I did get to sit on the jump seat once for a flight on the A320. Man, it was cool, it is really the office with the best view in the world.
I have a buddy that was an FO on the A320, and is now a captain on the 737, it always scared me when he would call and ask how to do specific things when he would fly Flight Sim!
I love flight simming, and got to play with some of the real stuff when I worked for the airlines, cool stuff. Best part was once sitting jumpseat on an A320 Lufthansa flight, I resisted the urge to tell the pilots "hey, that's just like Microsoft Flight Sim!!"
I agree, the problem is that the shuttle is a politically built vechile, not a scientific one. Parts built in as many congressional district as possible. I think that gov't should egg along the privitisation of space. Profit motive will drive better technology.
Mixed feelings on this, the shuttle has to go, but till we pull our heads out and get something better (and vastly more simple) we are stuck. I worked with Commander Rick Husband's brother, who is an Airline Captain. Rick made a few visits out to our hangar and did some great PR after his first shuttle flight. By all accounts, he was a fantastic guy and a great ambassador for human spaceflight. We all followed the progress of his flight, and I was stunned when I saw the footage of the accident. These are real people on these missions, with family and friends, and I pray that NASA and the beaucracy that puts up the shuttle never has another disaster.
Only bad part is that the early bootlegs tend to be pretty crappy, sometimes you can see the silloutte of a theatre goer in front of the screen!
Your replies showed that you are an arrogant, unforgiving geek who probably has to reaquaint himself with the outside every three months.
The Sagan stuff was a joke, get it spock boy? It was light hearted funsterism!
BTW, I am a libertarian, and had a family member die of cancer that could have used pot, but wouldn't during chemo, because it was illegal, so don't go there monkey-boy.
In any case I thought the pics were cool, but they had a detailed explanation about why they looked the way they looked, and Sagan is dead now, and it turns out he was pothead as well.
Its the heat layers also. Not unlike the thermoclines that you get when scuba diving, where the warmer upper water meets the cooler water, and it is all wavy and distorted. If you find a thermocline that is thick enough to try to dive through, it is an interesting experience.
Its not the atmosphere, its the density of the atmosphere that causes distortion. Still, you have to hand it the Venera team for pulling this off. I used to subscribe to the Planatary Society, and they had a magazine that had the color photos. It looked pretty nasty, not unlike Yuma, Arizona on a hot day.
Its like looking through gas fumes, lots of distortion. Add in the fact that its hot enough to melt lead and you have showers of sulfuric acid as well as a dense enough atmosphere to crush a man, its a wonder that with Soviet technology, they landed there and were able to get a few holiday snaps off!
I'm one of the old timers in AZ caching! I haven't hid one in a while, but I'm sure you got one of the early ones I hid. My Geocaching name is Dobre. I have the great one at Arizona State, Secret Garden. It has been discovered by the groundskeepers, but they allow it to stay where it is. The ironic part is that it is smack dab in the middle of the campus in a garden that 99% of the students don't even know exists. I gotta go hide some more, but its just too hot.
I would never hide a cache in a dangerous area or one that would be harmful to wildlife, but 99.93% of cachers would not do that anyway. Its like anything else, always a few people who screw it up for others.
I picked up a copy of this in Thailand for a buck, and it is an unmitigated piece of crap. The game sucks, the graphics and sound suck, the loading is garbage, everything about this game sucks from the minute you load it into your machine. There is a reviewer down here in AZ, where the publisher of this game is headquartered who was obvioulsly on the payroll, they sent him all over the country to shill for this game and lie about how great he thought it was. He used to have a radio show here where he was just a mouthpiece of one real crappy PC game maker and all his shows just happened to be about how great their games were! I got ripped off at buck, even buying it blackmarket.
About a year and a half ago I did a liveaboard to the Similans and half the divers got food poisioning (including the divemaster). I went back last month, and redid the trip, but none of the same crew. Then I did a 3 tank dive and one of the DM's was on food poisioning boat, she remembered everything, its a small world. Thailand is heaven.
There are 2 nitrox classes under PADI, one is a short course for nitrox using a computer, and a much longer course (recommended) where you learn the hows and whys of nitrox and how to calculate using nitrox tables. Didn't make it to Koh Tao last time I was in Samui, the weather wasn't so hot, but I did Phuket last month. Love Thailand, amazing dives and I have some fantastic u/w photos from the trip.
I consider myself a very conservative diver, last month I was going to do 3 tanks of Nitrox at 37% Oxygen, and as soon as I attached my regs and turned on the computer, it had just enough power to tell me that it was shutting down. It has a low battery warning, but since my last dive was 24 hours before, and it stays on until the safe to fly time is reached, it went dead. Rather than risk the possibility of Nitrox problems with a high O2 mix and not enough data on the depth, I switched to regular air (at a loss of some $$). The fact is, when you dive, you dive conservatively, and never push the limits, even if you have a computer. All divers need to remember that the #1 best computer you have is your brain.
One other story, I bought my Aeris computer, and it had a link to the PC to download data, but only in Windows 98. I called Aeris, and they stated that they didn't see the need to write a patch for it to work in XP....that made me feel just wonderful about the company.
I'm planning on hopping in my Delorean (the Edsel is in the shop) and winging my way down there wearing my XFL T-shirt "He Hate Me!", drinking my Crystal Pepsi (better than the new coke), and seeing if I can get my Segway! I'll send ya all a betamax of the trip!