Oh yeah, I liked the season with the time-travelling alien nazi's.
The season with the time-travelling alien Nazis was this season. It was the first two episodes. Unless you're considering the five seconds of a time-travelling alien Nazi appearing on-screen in the previous season's finale.
In the case of the GBA, I believe that part of the reason there are so many more multi-cart multiplayer games than single-cart multiplayer games is a tradeoff with quality. I've played Advance Wars 2 with a single cartridge on two linked GBAs, and the result was less than satisfying--the game was significantly less sophisticated than the single player version, without any of the battle animations, a very limited choice of maps, poor map animation, and a much less complex game (no cities, so no capturing, no producing new units--all units are pre-placed and you don't get any new ones during the course of the game). I'm guessing that the low quality of the single-cart multiplayer was due to the amount of data that the hosting GBA was required to send to the linked GBA through the cable. Sending enough data for the full game experience to the GBA without the game cartridge may take a prohibitive amount of time, so the developers elected for a simpler game.
I'll bet that if you were to play this game in multi-cart mode, the experience would be vastly improved.
I'm also sure that part of the reason games require multiple cartridges for multiplayer is to spur sales of cartridges. In the case of the GBA, however, I believe that it is also a technical concern.
On the DS, though, it might be that the profits aspect is more of an influence than technology limitations.
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What does Parade have to do with Time-Life or Conde Nast?
Little to do with Time-Life, but Parade and Conde Nast are both owned by Advance Magazine Group, along with Fairchild Publications and the Golf Digest Companies.
On vacation in Delaware last year, I discovered Old Bay Seasoning potato chips. They were prominently displayed at supermarkets and convenience stores everywhere I went in the DelMarVa region--and lots of the seafood places I ate at also used this seasoning. The chips were pretty good, although it looked like someone had just taken a bag of regular potato chips and dumped a pound of paprika in it. They were strangely addictive, but also off-putting: after a few handfuls you had to stop eating them or risk taste-bud-blowout. This recipe for making your own Old Bay Seasoning seems to indicate celery seed is more of a major ingredient than paprika.
jeez - I can't even remember what it was called before X-play
Extended Play. I really enjoyed the promo that had Adam Sessler punching and dodging in a side-scroller, the camera pulling back to reveal Kate at the joystick of a cabinet.
I recall an interesting situation from when I used to run the website for the Illinois Supreme Court. I received a phone call from a gentleman who was upset with a Google result. Apparently, an employee at the business he owned had gone through a divorce, and the divorce case had reached the appellate court. Our website published the appellate justice's opinion of the case, and the text of the opinion had mentioned the name of the business in conjunction with the employee's name. A Google search for the name of the business returned this opinion as one of the top results, and the owner wanted us to remove the text of the opinion that mentioned his business. He seemed to feel a divorce court record reflected poorly on his company. In fact, he had already called Google to complain, and they suggested he contact the website publishing the page. Google was just doing what it should--return results containing the search terms. His company didn't have a website, so there were very few results to show, and the divorce records were prominent. However, the opinions of the appellate courts are a matter of public record, and the state has a duty to publish them, primarily in book form, but also as a public service, on the web. Furthermore, the part of the judicial branch where I worked, the Illinois Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions Office, certainly couldn't go around mucking with official opinions. We were charged with formatting the decisions for publication and fixing punctuation, but no substantive changes. Tough luck for that guy. If he was so worried what was said on the web about his company, perhaps he should have gotten a website of his own, and published relevant information to push the appellate opinion down in the search results. If other users agreed that his page was more helpful, the Page Rank of the divorce records would have dropped. Google's business is to find information on the web, and it displays results based on what the linking public finds helpful. If you have nothing good to say, you can't make Google say nothing at all.
Bluetooth certainly has the bandwidth for two-way voice--that's why you can buy a Bluetooth wireless hands-free headset for your (Bluetooth) cell phone. For example, one from Jabra. However, the range of Bluetooth is much shorter than Wi-Fi. At a maxium of 30 feet (a lot less going through the walls in my apartment), Bluetooth would be less convenient than Wi-Fi. Also, Wi-Fi access points are already becoming prevalent, whereas Bluetooth access points are less widespread. Though you can buy a Bluetooth access point, Bluetooth is meant more as a device-to-device standard for peripherals, not a networking protocol. It would be easier to cover a large buiding with Wi-Fi, and the network would be multi-use, allowing laptops and PDAs and such to connect along with the badges. While it's possible for devices to use Bluetooth to use a computer's internet connectivity (see the Share2Blue2th AppleScript that my friend C.K. wrote for allowing a cellphone to browse the web over a computer's intenet connection (that's the reverse of the usual way where a notebook uses Bluetooth to browse the web over the cellphone's modem connection)), it's much more of a hassle than with Wi-Fi, which was designed expressly for that purpose.
I have a recent DVD that forces previews on me: Lost in Translation. During the many film previews before the menu (even the notice that says "Press the Menu button to skip previews"), I am unable to skip to Next Chapter, Menu, Previous Chapter, Title, and I can't even use Stop. The Pause function works fine, for some reason. Something's definitely wrong if the disc is telling me to press a button that doesn't work.
Catching my own mistake:
Of course, you won't be able to see the end of your first show during the beginning of the padded NBC show, because the TiVo will have changed channels. Oops. I was thinking of how often the last joke on Friends falls into Scrubs because NBC doesn't even stick to its oddball schedule--if you can say Friends is going to run from 7:00-7:31 PM CST, why not just say 7:00-7:33? Then my Scrubs recording will ONLY have Scrubs in it, and I won't have to save it if I decide to watch Scrubs first but have to keep it around until I watch Friends so I can see the last joke--a tiny waste of hard drive space, a huge minor annoyance.
I think the manual recording is limited to 5-minute increments, forcing you to manually record 9:00-9:55 and probably miss the denouement. To get around this, you can pad the start time on the NBC show, and catch the end of your first show at the beginning of the NBC recording. Of course, the "Start X minutes early" option also has odd minute increments--I think it goes 1, 2, 3, 5, so you're forced to use "3" and miss the 9:55-9:56 minute and hope that it falls during a commmercial. Plus the hassle of setting a manual recording AND setting the start padding AND checking the NBC schedule each week to see what weird times are coming up.
All TiVos have a tuner. Many of the tuners are unused, perhaps, with a particular person's TiVo box controlling a satellite or cable box by IR or serial--but the TiVo still has an OTA tuner in it, and could tune basic cable or from an antenna if it were so hooked up. (I don't know about the DirecTiVo, though--maybe it doesn't have a standard tuner, only the pair of DirecTV tuners.)
Excellent point. I certainly wouldn't have someone listening to all X-Box Live conversations, or logging all Sims chats, but I guess my misguided thought above was leading that way. I just wanted to point out that if the prof. had any responsibility to report (and I wasn't arguing that he did, just IF), the authorities' ability to follow up on it hinged on the company's cooperation. I shouldn't have suggested that the company immediately investigate and invade privacy on a single customer's hearsay.
EA's not responsible for reporting anything. . .. The prof, otoh, might have some legal duty to contact the authorities
If the prof did have any legal duty to contact the authorities, he couldn't do so with out EA's assistance--the prof can't identify the real person behind the avatar that talked to him. At the least, he could contact the authorities, who would then contact EA for the information, and at that point, what has EA gained by delaying their responsibility?
Monty Python's _Matching Tie and Handkerchief_ had the double groove on one side. 33-1/3 rpm LP with two distinct programs on one side and one program on the other.
Where that period of civility was noted is especially important to your question of whether an adjustment was made for daylight saving time, because at the time the U.S. had no federal DST. Congress had previously enacted DST in 1918, followed it in 1918 and 1919, then repealed it. Certain states and cities kept following it, though. The full story is at this site about DST history.
I don't think the poster was suggesting the recording industry might start scratching CD surfaces as method of copy protection. I believe the question involved the legal sense of the wording of "effective security devices" in the DMCA. If that phrase is used to include things that aren't strictly security encryption (such as bad TOCs and corrupted data) as protected by the DMCA, how do we define "effective"? Does it have to be intended? A scratch in a used CD may have the effect of preventing ripping--is that an "effective security device" (and thus subject to litigation under the DMCA) because it has that effect though not intended?
Clearly that definition would be found non-sensical, but the situation does nicely raise the question of the broadly inclusive language of the DMCA.
They want the programmer back? That's preposterous of them--it was never theirs to begin with. First they sue you for owning an innocent piece of equipment, then they want to deprive you of ownership of that equipment? I'm disgusted, doubly so for the fact that you no longer have the programmer.
I seem to recall Michael Bolton was upset that used CD stores didn't pay royalties on residual sales. Ugh.
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Oh yeah, I liked the season with the time-travelling alien nazi's.
The season with the time-travelling alien Nazis was this season. It was the first two episodes. Unless you're considering the five seconds of a time-travelling alien Nazi appearing on-screen in the previous season's finale.
In the case of the GBA, I believe that part of the reason there are so many more multi-cart multiplayer games than single-cart multiplayer games is a tradeoff with quality. I've played Advance Wars 2 with a single cartridge on two linked GBAs, and the result was less than satisfying--the game was significantly less sophisticated than the single player version, without any of the battle animations, a very limited choice of maps, poor map animation, and a much less complex game (no cities, so no capturing, no producing new units--all units are pre-placed and you don't get any new ones during the course of the game). I'm guessing that the low quality of the single-cart multiplayer was due to the amount of data that the hosting GBA was required to send to the linked GBA through the cable. Sending enough data for the full game experience to the GBA without the game cartridge may take a prohibitive amount of time, so the developers elected for a simpler game.
I'll bet that if you were to play this game in multi-cart mode, the experience would be vastly improved.
I'm also sure that part of the reason games require multiple cartridges for multiplayer is to spur sales of cartridges. In the case of the GBA, however, I believe that it is also a technical concern.
On the DS, though, it might be that the profits aspect is more of an influence than technology limitations.
What does Parade have to do with Time-Life or Conde Nast?
Little to do with Time-Life, but Parade and Conde Nast are both owned by Advance Magazine Group, along with Fairchild Publications and the Golf Digest Companies.
And Fairchild still has QPS, for one.
How about a diesel hybrid?
On vacation in Delaware last year, I discovered Old Bay Seasoning potato chips. They were prominently displayed at supermarkets and convenience stores everywhere I went in the DelMarVa region--and lots of the seafood places I ate at also used this seasoning. The chips were pretty good, although it looked like someone had just taken a bag of regular potato chips and dumped a pound of paprika in it. They were strangely addictive, but also off-putting: after a few handfuls you had to stop eating them or risk taste-bud-blowout. This recipe for making your own Old Bay Seasoning seems to indicate celery seed is more of a major ingredient than paprika.
However, there is just one problem:
Imminent domain.
Eminent. As in: given the large volume of comments on Slashdot, a misspelling of "eminent domain" is imminent.
jeez - I can't even remember what it was called before X-play
Extended Play. I really enjoyed the promo that had Adam Sessler punching and dodging in a side-scroller, the camera pulling back to reveal Kate at the joystick of a cabinet.
I recall an interesting situation from when I used to run the website for the Illinois Supreme Court. I received a phone call from a gentleman who was upset with a Google result. Apparently, an employee at the business he owned had gone through a divorce, and the divorce case had reached the appellate court. Our website published the appellate justice's opinion of the case, and the text of the opinion had mentioned the name of the business in conjunction with the employee's name. A Google search for the name of the business returned this opinion as one of the top results, and the owner wanted us to remove the text of the opinion that mentioned his business. He seemed to feel a divorce court record reflected poorly on his company. In fact, he had already called Google to complain, and they suggested he contact the website publishing the page.
Google was just doing what it should--return results containing the search terms. His company didn't have a website, so there were very few results to show, and the divorce records were prominent. However, the opinions of the appellate courts are a matter of public record, and the state has a duty to publish them, primarily in book form, but also as a public service, on the web. Furthermore, the part of the judicial branch where I worked, the Illinois Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions Office, certainly couldn't go around mucking with official opinions. We were charged with formatting the decisions for publication and fixing punctuation, but no substantive changes.
Tough luck for that guy. If he was so worried what was said on the web about his company, perhaps he should have gotten a website of his own, and published relevant information to push the appellate opinion down in the search results. If other users agreed that his page was more helpful, the Page Rank of the divorce records would have dropped. Google's business is to find information on the web, and it displays results based on what the linking public finds helpful. If you have nothing good to say, you can't make Google say nothing at all.
Bluetooth certainly has the bandwidth for two-way voice--that's why you can buy a Bluetooth wireless hands-free headset for your (Bluetooth) cell phone. For example, one from Jabra. However, the range of Bluetooth is much shorter than Wi-Fi. At a maxium of 30 feet (a lot less going through the walls in my apartment), Bluetooth would be less convenient than Wi-Fi. Also, Wi-Fi access points are already becoming prevalent, whereas Bluetooth access points are less widespread. Though you can buy a Bluetooth access point, Bluetooth is meant more as a device-to-device standard for peripherals, not a networking protocol. It would be easier to cover a large buiding with Wi-Fi, and the network would be multi-use, allowing laptops and PDAs and such to connect along with the badges. While it's possible for devices to use Bluetooth to use a computer's internet connectivity (see the Share2Blue2th AppleScript that my friend C.K. wrote for allowing a cellphone to browse the web over a computer's intenet connection (that's the reverse of the usual way where a notebook uses Bluetooth to browse the web over the cellphone's modem connection)), it's much more of a hassle than with Wi-Fi, which was designed expressly for that purpose.
What? Who in 1727 came up with the idea of an android (ie, a robot in the form of a human)?
Scottish alchemist Albertus Magnus. (Google cache)
I have a recent DVD that forces previews on me: Lost in Translation. During the many film previews before the menu (even the notice that says "Press the Menu button to skip previews"), I am unable to skip to Next Chapter, Menu, Previous Chapter, Title, and I can't even use Stop. The Pause function works fine, for some reason. Something's definitely wrong if the disc is telling me to press a button that doesn't work.
Catching my own mistake: Of course, you won't be able to see the end of your first show during the beginning of the padded NBC show, because the TiVo will have changed channels. Oops. I was thinking of how often the last joke on Friends falls into Scrubs because NBC doesn't even stick to its oddball schedule--if you can say Friends is going to run from 7:00-7:31 PM CST, why not just say 7:00-7:33? Then my Scrubs recording will ONLY have Scrubs in it, and I won't have to save it if I decide to watch Scrubs first but have to keep it around until I watch Friends so I can see the last joke--a tiny waste of hard drive space, a huge minor annoyance.
I think the manual recording is limited to 5-minute increments, forcing you to manually record 9:00-9:55 and probably miss the denouement. To get around this, you can pad the start time on the NBC show, and catch the end of your first show at the beginning of the NBC recording. Of course, the "Start X minutes early" option also has odd minute increments--I think it goes 1, 2, 3, 5, so you're forced to use "3" and miss the 9:55-9:56 minute and hope that it falls during a commmercial. Plus the hassle of setting a manual recording AND setting the start padding AND checking the NBC schedule each week to see what weird times are coming up.
All TiVos have a tuner. Many of the tuners are unused, perhaps, with a particular person's TiVo box controlling a satellite or cable box by IR or serial--but the TiVo still has an OTA tuner in it, and could tune basic cable or from an antenna if it were so hooked up. (I don't know about the DirecTiVo, though--maybe it doesn't have a standard tuner, only the pair of DirecTV tuners.)
You'll find that Shakespeare (to pick the most famous example) relies on a multiple of five rule.
AKA pentameter, oft iambic.
Excellent point. I certainly wouldn't have someone listening to all X-Box Live conversations, or logging all Sims chats, but I guess my misguided thought above was leading that way. I just wanted to point out that if the prof. had any responsibility to report (and I wasn't arguing that he did, just IF), the authorities' ability to follow up on it hinged on the company's cooperation. I shouldn't have suggested that the company immediately investigate and invade privacy on a single customer's hearsay.
EA's not responsible for reporting anything. .
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The prof, otoh, might have some legal duty to contact the authorities
If the prof did have any legal duty to contact the authorities, he couldn't do so with out EA's assistance--the prof can't identify the real person behind the avatar that talked to him. At the least, he could contact the authorities, who would then contact EA for the information, and at that point, what has EA gained by delaying their responsibility?
Monty Python's _Matching Tie and Handkerchief_ had the double groove on one side. 33-1/3 rpm LP with two distinct programs on one side and one program on the other.
I just hope I can get a custom controller when the next compilation features Tapper.
Where that period of civility was noted is especially important to your question of whether an adjustment was made for daylight saving time, because at the time the U.S. had no federal DST. Congress had previously enacted DST in 1918, followed it in 1918 and 1919, then repealed it. Certain states and cities kept following it, though. The full story is at this site about DST history.
I don't think the poster was suggesting the recording industry might start scratching CD surfaces as method of copy protection. I believe the question involved the legal sense of the wording of "effective security devices" in the DMCA. If that phrase is used to include things that aren't strictly security encryption (such as bad TOCs and corrupted data) as protected by the DMCA, how do we define "effective"? Does it have to be intended? A scratch in a used CD may have the effect of preventing ripping--is that an "effective security device" (and thus subject to litigation under the DMCA) because it has that effect though not intended? Clearly that definition would be found non-sensical, but the situation does nicely raise the question of the broadly inclusive language of the DMCA.
In Chicago, outside the John Hancock Center, at the northeast corner of Michigan Ave. and Chestnut--map.
From MacRumors in June: Apple Pursuing Fuel Cell Tech for PowerBooks?
They want the programmer back? That's preposterous of them--it was never theirs to begin with. First they sue you for owning an innocent piece of equipment, then they want to deprive you of ownership of that equipment? I'm disgusted, doubly so for the fact that you no longer have the programmer.
I seem to recall Michael Bolton was upset that used CD stores didn't pay royalties on residual sales. Ugh.