Graig Kinzler, the only current pro Golden Tee Golf player, "says he made about $70,000 last year playing Golden Tee..."
If he's the only pro Golden Tee Golf player, who does he play against to win that money? Something tells me that one-man Golden Tee exhibitions don't draw a large crowd.;)
It's the eighth installment if you count the VGA point-and-click remake of Leisure Suit Larry 1.;)
For what it's worth, here's Al Lowe's explanation for the why he chose to skip LSL4 and how, in the process, he "invented" online gaming. Not exactly modest, but interesting nevertheless.
In other words, video game company leverages nostalgic character to try to sell trendy-genre game that has absolutely no connection to the previous games or previous people involved.
Film at 11.
The same thing almost happened to Space Quest 7 before it was shelved.
Tell me about it!
Also, as I recently posted in my weblog, Josh Mandel (co-designer of Space Quest 6 and Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist) is not involved in the new Leisure Suit Larry game--contrary to popular belief. As Josh confirms at the Subspace Channel, he simply wrote a preview of the game for Computer Games Magazine.
What kind of world do we live in where a Warcraft boardgame is going to see the light of day and Warcraft Adventures was canceled half-way through its production?
Now, I realize that it's my own darn fault for running an OS from the last century, but why is iTunes only available for Win2000 and WinXP? It seems odd to me that something as simple as a media player/music store portal wouldn't be backwards compatible to Windows 98.
One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't.
Or, there's always the alternative solution of just not kicking the plug out of its socket.
I had similar problems with earlier releases of Thunderbird on my P3/500 with 128MB of RAM and Windows 98SE (yeah, yeah... laugh it up). Starting somewhere around the version.3 release candidates, however, Thunderbird's performance made a huge leap forward on my system. I don't know what they changed, but it seems to have done the trick. The program now loads and processes its tasks noticeably faster.
Your mileage may vary, but it's worth a shot upgrading.
Supreme Court Weighs 'Under God' Reference in Pledge Justice Scalia Recuses Himself; Could Lead to a 4-4 Split Decision
By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 14, 2003; 1:07 PM
The Supreme Court announced today that it will attempt to settle the legal battle over the Pledge of Allegiance -- but without the participation of one of its most conservative justices.
The court said it would consider whether the Constitution's ban on official establishment of religion prohibits Elk Grove Unified School District near Sacramento, Calif., from asking children to recite the pledge, which includes the phrase "one Nation, under God."
The court will also consider whether lower courts were correct in giving Michael A. Newdow, the atheist activist who sued to stop the pledge from being recited in his daughter's school, the legal right to bring the case in the first place.
But, in a surprise move, Justice Antonin Scalia recused himself from the case, leaving only eight justices to hear arguments and reach a judgment. In the event of a 4-4 tie vote, the ruling of the San Francisco-based federal appeals court that struck down the pledge in schools would stand.
Scalia offered no public explanation for his unusual and unexpected decision, but Newdow filed papers with the court last month, asking for Scalia's recusal based on the fact that the justice had spoken critically of the appeals court's ruling at a January 13 Knights of Columbus-sponsored religious freedom rally in Virginia.
"Under such circumstances . . . one might reasonably question his impartiality," Newdow wrote.
Scalia's recusal is a big victory for Newdow in a case that began in March 2000, when Newdow, who has argued the entire matter personally in the lower courts and plans to do so at the Supreme Court, filed a lawsuit in a California federal court.
He argued first that the 1954 federal law amending the pledge to include "under God" was unconstitutional, and second that a California law requiring teachers to lead their classes in the pledge each day imposed an unconstitutional sectarian observance on him and his daughter, an elementary school student.
Newdow's claim that the pledge itself is unconstitutional was upheld in June 2002, by a 2 to 1 vote of a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
But after the ensuing public outcry, the panel modified its ruling, issuing a new opinion last February that bars the recitation of the pledge in schools throughout the 9th Circuit, which encompasses nine western states, rather than invalidating the pledge as such.
It has long been impermissible to require individual students to recite the pledge, but the 9th Circuit ruled that Newdow's constitutional rights, and those of his daughter, were infringed merely by having to stand by as a state-sponsored religious ritual took place.
The case is Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, No. 02-1624. Oral argument will take place at the court early in 2004, and a decision is expected by July.
It's interesting that Scalia would sit this one out.
Given the sometimes cruel nature of peer pressure and cliques in public schools, do students really have that much of a viable choice in this matter--or do they risk being labeled as "anti-American" and treated as a social outcast if they decide to sit out on the recitation of the pledge? I'd argue that there's more to it from a social standpoint than students just not saying the pledge if they don't want to.
If P2P isn't being used for illicit file-swapping, is it really that much more efficient or useful for university students and professors than e-mail attachments and the various online course management software packages that are already out there?
He doesn't have much choice, Star Wars was always supposed to be the story of Anakin Skywalker. If he focused on the Clone Wars instead of Anakin's fall from grace, that would be contradictory to the intent.
Was Star Wars always supposed to be the story of Anakin Skywalker, or is that just another example of LucasHistory(TM)--you know, the version of history where the Star Wars films were always intended for kids, Greedo shot first, and Lucas planned a nine-part saga from day one?;)
I still say that Lucas missed out by having Episode III pick up after the Clone Wars. It's something that Star Wars fans have wanted to see for decades now, and I have a feeling that a series of animated shorts--no matter how well-produced they may be--just won't do the Clone Wars justice.
Sam (holding the decapitated head of a mad scientist with a ticking timebomb implanted in the skull): Where should I put this thing so that it doesn't hurt anyone we know or care about?
Max: Out the window, Sam. There's nobody but strangers out there.
Sam throws the bomb out the window. Moments later, there's an explosion outside.
Sam: I hope there was nobody on that bus," said Sam eventually.
Max: Nobody we know, at least.
What a great game! And, even though it's a bit out-of-date, this website offers up some great memories of the canine/lagomorph duo.
Pirate: Ahoy there, stranger.
Guybrush: My name's Guybrush Threepwood. I'm new in town.
Pirate: Guybrush Threepwood? Ha ha ha!!! That's the stupidest name I've ever heard!
Guybrush: I don't know... I kind of like 'Guybrush.'
Pirate: But it's not even a name!
Guybrush: Well, what's YOUR name?
Pirate: My name is Mancomb Seepgood.
"If it wasn't for the presence of Lara Croft and Xena Warrior Princess, techies around the world would have posters of Torvalds on their walls." It goes on to say: "In truth Torvalds best work is in the past"...
It should be noted that Google allows users to disable URL tracking; it's only there so the toolbar can display the current site's PageRank (which, of course, would require sending the URL to Google). As they explain in the installation, if you disable the PageRank feature through the options menu, the Google toolbar no longer makes contact with the mothership.
INFINITE: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that, in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big" time. Infinity is so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
Reading this, I couldn't help but think about this passage from The Hitchhiker's Guide regarding the population of the universe:
POPULATION: None
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
More on topic, you've gotta have Jedi in a Star Wars game. Besides, if Galaxies were an actual Star Wars film (or at least a prequel), all 300,000 users would be related to, the mentor of, the creator of, the childhood guardian of, or a clone of some character from the Original Trilogy. Are a few extra Jedi running around stretching the game's credibility that much?
Spidercase, Spidercase
It's proactive and in your face
Crawls the web, really quick
It kinda looks like a bloated tick
Look out, here comes the Spidercase.
Between the on-campus nuclear reactor and the supercomputer cluster, I'd keep an eye out if I were Tech's cross-state rival, University of Virginia. I'd say the Hokies are just one diabolical dean away from becoming an evil university bent on world domination. And five bucks says they start in Charlottesville.
...barely survives a bizarre transition into space, thanks to..."a camera that constantly switches between useless views of the action."
Is it just me, or are camera problems becoming pretty much a continual problem in third-person games? It seems like we're almost due for a revolutionary new system that will make this issue a thing of the past.
Something tells me, however, that it probably won't come in the form of Tomb Raider 6: Keep Raidin' Them Tombs.
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For what it's worth, here's Al Lowe's explanation for the why he chose to skip LSL4 and how, in the process, he "invented" online gaming. Not exactly modest, but interesting nevertheless.
Also, as I recently posted in my weblog, Josh Mandel (co-designer of Space Quest 6 and Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist) is not involved in the new Leisure Suit Larry game--contrary to popular belief. As Josh confirms at the Subspace Channel, he simply wrote a preview of the game for Computer Games Magazine.
What kind of world do we live in where a Warcraft boardgame is going to see the light of day and Warcraft Adventures was canceled half-way through its production?
Now, I realize that it's my own darn fault for running an OS from the last century, but why is iTunes only available for Win2000 and WinXP? It seems odd to me that something as simple as a media player/music store portal wouldn't be backwards compatible to Windows 98.
If if not mistaken, "lorry" is the term that the British use for what Americans might call a truck.
Your mileage may vary, but it's worth a shot upgrading.
Given the sometimes cruel nature of peer pressure and cliques in public schools, do students really have that much of a viable choice in this matter--or do they risk being labeled as "anti-American" and treated as a social outcast if they decide to sit out on the recitation of the pledge? I'd argue that there's more to it from a social standpoint than students just not saying the pledge if they don't want to.
If P2P isn't being used for illicit file-swapping, is it really that much more efficient or useful for university students and professors than e-mail attachments and the various online course management software packages that are already out there?
I still say that Lucas missed out by having Episode III pick up after the Clone Wars. It's something that Star Wars fans have wanted to see for decades now, and I have a feeling that a series of animated shorts--no matter how well-produced they may be--just won't do the Clone Wars justice.
It should be noted that Google allows users to disable URL tracking; it's only there so the toolbar can display the current site's PageRank (which, of course, would require sending the URL to Google). As they explain in the installation, if you disable the PageRank feature through the options menu, the Google toolbar no longer makes contact with the mothership.
Just be glad that we didn't end up with "McG" (of [i]Charlie's Angels[/i] fame) as the director.
I'm still waiting on my spiffy new polo shirt made from unstable molecules, Mr. Fantastic.
Spidercase, Spidercase
It's proactive and in your face
Crawls the web, really quick
It kinda looks like a bloated tick
Look out, here comes the Spidercase.
If nothing else, it looks like Governor Davis is making the best of his final days in office.
Between the on-campus nuclear reactor and the supercomputer cluster, I'd keep an eye out if I were Tech's cross-state rival, University of Virginia. I'd say the Hokies are just one diabolical dean away from becoming an evil university bent on world domination. And five bucks says they start in Charlottesville.
Something tells me, however, that it probably won't come in the form of Tomb Raider 6: Keep Raidin' Them Tombs.