While their worth as gaming machines is questionable, X-Boxes make for great media centers. But you only need to hook it up on your LAN to make it do that.
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I'm French and I had no problem. I guess it's a matter of how well you master the language.
If it's become an integral part of you then you just read the words as a wolhe, skimming through the text, and don't ncsesraliy notice jumbled up letters in the mdilde of words.
A purist would tell you all Porsche sucks since 87 (?) when they stopped making their own engines but it's hardly a mystery that Porsches recently have stopped being cars for sportsmen and people who enjoy a good driving experiences, but cars for MS CEOs and rappers.
A friend of mine owns a Porsche 911 from the last year when Porsche made their own engines, and I got to drive one of the new 911s. Let me tell you, it's a whole 'nother story.
It's called a Shuttle and I have one. Or at least will, when I have the money, but several of my friends have them already, and they're just flawless. Silent, pretty efficient cooling, etc. etc.
Of course you have to give up the extra hard drive bay and do with a combo drive to replace your DVD & CDRW but it's still a neat package. The (optional and expensive) bag looks cool enough. That in one hand and a 17" Prophet LCD bag in the other and you'll be the King of any LAN parties.
If you ask me the lawyers are more like the Ringwraiths.
No, the orcs are all the sales people, the marketing people, the executives, the sloppy programmers (or rather the good programmers whose bosses tell them it's okay to release an alpha as a stable release)...
Good analysis, especially considering how now's hardly the time for China to do things like this... It would go against all of the image and foreign policy they've been trying to build since they tried to get into the WTO. But then again Taiwan is a very sensitive issue for them and they've done other "erratic" things to try and intimidate the island...
This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a wookie of the planet Kashyyyk. Now I ask you, does that make sense? No. Well if that doesn't make sense, then the mainframes weren't stolen!
This is hardly a troll, but the spokeswoman for X-Box claims games don't have a mass appeal because they're too complicated, but when Nintendo makes games like Mario and Zelda that you can pick up and figure out within seconds, the same woman is going to explain that the GameCube is a console aimed at kids, while the X-Box has games for adults, like Dead or Alive Xtreme Look at Bikinis.
Not that the X-Box doesn't have great games or isn't a very nifty toy (as soon as you've installed Linux on it;-)), but I don't think any of the hits of that console were commended for their simplicity...
The Nordic countries? So what are they? The three Scandinavian countries? The three Scandinavian countries and Denmark? The three Scandinavian countries and Iceland? Two Scandinavian countries and Denmark but not Iceland?
Apparently according to their page, it's the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Iceland and Groenland. So that's okay. But please mention it, because I'm European and I only just found out about this Nordic Council of Ministers.
It's really irritating when people use mindlessly generic terms like that. "Other countries like Europe--" GRR!
I understand that the MSN network is MS propriety and they have every right to charge for it, but isn't that just a bad move? If you have to pay for MSN but can still go on AIM for free, then I know what's going to happen next.
I'm hardly representative of the bulk of the Internet population, but everyone I know has AIM, and the only people I know who use MSN also use AIM.
The article doesn't say the witness saw the kid code it, it says the witness saw him test it.
If you ask me, he probably infected his own machine, or spread it on the school's network or something to see how well it worked -- and bragged to a friend. And when he saw it later on the news, he told a teacher (or a friend, or his parents), who told the cops, who told him to tell the FBI.
In France, we call that "la tourista" -- because tourists are mostly affected by it.
Well, mostly. At least nowadays. The people who got most affected by that phenomenon are of course the American indians. Not that we wouldn't have exterminated them anyway.:-S
As most of us know (the article's been slashdotted, so I don't know if it's there), vaccines actually work by inoculating a small quantity of the agent into our system so that our immunodefensive system can learn how to combat it when it comes back full force.
When I was a baby and a kid, my parents let me walk on the floor naked, put things in my mouth and all things that most parents shriek at. But the consequence is that my immunodefensive system got extremely strong very soon, so now I don't have any problems. In kindergarten and school I would drive teachers mad because I'd play in the rain with only a shirt on, and they'd call my mom and she'd simply reply "Well, does he get sick?... No? Well, there's nothing wrong with letting him play in the rain, then." And indeed there wasn't. Now I don't care about the cold, I'm very resistant to common disease and pain (I once had an ingrown toenail that I foolishly let grow and infect, and the podologist said it was the biggest she'd ever seen and exclaimed "It must hurt like hell!" and my genuinely surprised reply was "It's supposed to hurt?"). When most people I know catch the flu and so do I, they're floored for two weeks and load up on antibiotics (which don't make a fucking difference because the flu is a virus and antibiotics only kill bacterias!), and I just sniffle for a few days and go on with my life like nothin'.
I know it sounds like I'm recounting all of this just to brag, but it's actually to prove a point. Most people will cover up with a bunch of sweaters (especially their children) whenever it's a bit cold, or it rains. We're not made of sugar! The rain won't melt us! It's good to be a little exposed to the Bad Things of this world, because it's the only way we can fight them when we get really exposed.
No, it doesn't have to realistic, but IMHO it should at least be believable.
I agree with you that movies that have all those annoying irrealistic things happening are enraging. But I don't think that sci-fi should be believable. SF is an literary movement, like naturalism or romanticism. What matters is the quality of the writing, the interaction between the characters. When he was starting out, Ray Bradbury had a very hard time getting published because his style was "too literary" instead of most SF writers, and that's wrong. In his stories, Bradbury gladly disregards any sense of realism, because that's not what matters in SF. When I read an Arthur C. Clarke novel, I'm impressed by all the detail and great ideas, but at the same time I'm annoyed by the time he spends explaining how realistic/plausible this is, so much that I call him the Tom Clancy of SF, which is hardly paying enough credit to his immense talent.
And after each novel, there's an addendum explaining that such or such idea is drawn from an article by a NASA researcher who's a good friend of his, or how it's just an extrapolation from well known data. Who cares? Or, rather, how does that make a character closer to me, or how does it make such or such description more vibrant, etc.
Every work of fiction builds its own rules. When it tries to look realistic and isn't, it's annoying. But I don't care about shpis making noise or lightsabres in Star Wars -- it's a space opera! Who cares that some inventions in Phil K. Dick's stories make little sense, except to him. The story is fantastic. If something irrealistic is thrown in just a sa plot device it's annoying. But if a writer or a filmmaker, SF or not, builds a universe which abides to other laws than the laws of physics as we know it, we don't have a right to bitch.
I'm the first to cringe at "insultingly stupid physics" during movies, but standardized nitpicking such as the one provided in this movie is highly annoying.
Let's not forget that filmmaking is an art and as such doesn't have to be realistic. I notice irrealistic stuff in a movie, and cringe when it isn't justified, but gladly accept it when it is. The need for style > the need for realism.
This is especially true for Asian movies and directors, whose respect for reality is far supreior to that of most Hollywood directors, but will willingly disregard it when it pleases them. I could mention John Woo's HK era masterpieces, which are wholly unrealistic -- but who cares? Tsui Hark's Time and Tide is an incredible combination of highly realistic action moments, far more than 99% Hollywood movies, and completely ludicrous/impossible events. And the director knows it.
Sometimes it's not because it's a timesink, it's just because it's fucking annoying. Think about it -- you sit down for a good read, switch your lamp on, and halfway through the first sentence the bulb dies. Now you gotta think about whether you've got extra bulbs, remember where you keep your extra bulbs, rummage through three lockers only to find out you've got a bunch of extra bulbs, only none of them are the right kind, go down to the store or, as is more likely since most lamps are used during nighttime, go for the rest of the day without your favourite reading lamp and go to the store the next day.
So sure, any nerd can point out that it'll only take me a minute to change that frickin' bulb, but the annoyance generated by it can't always be measured.:)
I still remember with emotion my first cup of white Yunan tea. Though I favour coffee (and I'm also a purist about that) for long nights in front of the computer, I also love tea, and I never liked Earl Grey, mainly because of the bergamot, and always favoured Chinese tea, even though there are come Ceylan and Indian varieties which are quite good.
That is true. However, while most people think that the stronger tea is, the more caffeine there is, the opposite is actually true.
The caffeine inside the tea is released very early, and what comes after are the tanins, the molecules of which wrap around the caffeine molecules and prevent them from doing their thang.
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Try telling this to a fan of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy : each volume is 1200+ pages, and I read each within two days of buying it. :)
The NeoGeo Pocket has a cavity for its analog joystick so that it doesn't protrude. I've had mine for years, the joystick has worked just fine.
And in French, "vole" means "steals." :-)
Or, don't hook it up to the Internet!
While their worth as gaming machines is questionable, X-Boxes make for great media centers. But you only need to hook it up on your LAN to make it do that.
I'm French and I had no problem. I guess it's a matter of how well you master the language.
If it's become an integral part of you then you just read the words as a wolhe, skimming through the text, and don't ncsesraliy notice jumbled up letters in the mdilde of words.
...Because the Carrera GT sucks?
A purist would tell you all Porsche sucks since 87 (?) when they stopped making their own engines but it's hardly a mystery that Porsches recently have stopped being cars for sportsmen and people who enjoy a good driving experiences, but cars for MS CEOs and rappers.
A friend of mine owns a Porsche 911 from the last year when Porsche made their own engines, and I got to drive one of the new 911s. Let me tell you, it's a whole 'nother story.
Is it some kind of Chinese dish? ;-)
It's called a Shuttle and I have one. Or at least will, when I have the money, but several of my friends have them already, and they're just flawless. Silent, pretty efficient cooling, etc. etc.
Of course you have to give up the extra hard drive bay and do with a combo drive to replace your DVD & CDRW but it's still a neat package. The (optional and expensive) bag looks cool enough. That in one hand and a 17" Prophet LCD bag in the other and you'll be the King of any LAN parties.
If you ask me the lawyers are more like the Ringwraiths.
No, the orcs are all the sales people, the marketing people, the executives, the sloppy programmers (or rather the good programmers whose bosses tell them it's okay to release an alpha as a stable release)...
It's actually Slashdotted now.
Good analysis, especially considering how now's hardly the time for China to do things like this... It would go against all of the image and foreign policy they've been trying to build since they tried to get into the WTO. But then again Taiwan is a very sensitive issue for them and they've done other "erratic" things to try and intimidate the island...
No, not the monkey.
This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a wookie of the planet Kashyyyk. Now I ask you, does that make sense? No. Well if that doesn't make sense, then the mainframes weren't stolen!
I know we're all geeks here, but PLEASE! Use paragraphs!
This is hardly a troll, but the spokeswoman for X-Box claims games don't have a mass appeal because they're too complicated, but when Nintendo makes games like Mario and Zelda that you can pick up and figure out within seconds, the same woman is going to explain that the GameCube is a console aimed at kids, while the X-Box has games for adults, like Dead or Alive Xtreme Look at Bikinis.
;-)), but I don't think any of the hits of that console were commended for their simplicity...
Not that the X-Box doesn't have great games or isn't a very nifty toy (as soon as you've installed Linux on it
The Nordic countries? So what are they? The three Scandinavian countries? The three Scandinavian countries and Denmark? The three Scandinavian countries and Iceland? Two Scandinavian countries and Denmark but not Iceland?
Apparently according to their page, it's the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Iceland and Groenland. So that's okay. But please mention it, because I'm European and I only just found out about this Nordic Council of Ministers.
It's really irritating when people use mindlessly generic terms like that. "Other countries like Europe--" GRR!
I understand that the MSN network is MS propriety and they have every right to charge for it, but isn't that just a bad move? If you have to pay for MSN but can still go on AIM for free, then I know what's going to happen next.
I'm hardly representative of the bulk of the Internet population, but everyone I know has AIM, and the only people I know who use MSN also use AIM.
The article doesn't say the witness saw the kid code it, it says the witness saw him test it.
If you ask me, he probably infected his own machine, or spread it on the school's network or something to see how well it worked -- and bragged to a friend. And when he saw it later on the news, he told a teacher (or a friend, or his parents), who told the cops, who told him to tell the FBI.
In France, we call that "la tourista" -- because tourists are mostly affected by it.
:-S
Well, mostly. At least nowadays. The people who got most affected by that phenomenon are of course the American indians. Not that we wouldn't have exterminated them anyway.
As most of us know (the article's been slashdotted, so I don't know if it's there), vaccines actually work by inoculating a small quantity of the agent into our system so that our immunodefensive system can learn how to combat it when it comes back full force.
... No? Well, there's nothing wrong with letting him play in the rain, then." And indeed there wasn't. Now I don't care about the cold, I'm very resistant to common disease and pain (I once had an ingrown toenail that I foolishly let grow and infect, and the podologist said it was the biggest she'd ever seen and exclaimed "It must hurt like hell!" and my genuinely surprised reply was "It's supposed to hurt?"). When most people I know catch the flu and so do I, they're floored for two weeks and load up on antibiotics (which don't make a fucking difference because the flu is a virus and antibiotics only kill bacterias!), and I just sniffle for a few days and go on with my life like nothin'.
When I was a baby and a kid, my parents let me walk on the floor naked, put things in my mouth and all things that most parents shriek at. But the consequence is that my immunodefensive system got extremely strong very soon, so now I don't have any problems. In kindergarten and school I would drive teachers mad because I'd play in the rain with only a shirt on, and they'd call my mom and she'd simply reply "Well, does he get sick?
I know it sounds like I'm recounting all of this just to brag, but it's actually to prove a point. Most people will cover up with a bunch of sweaters (especially their children) whenever it's a bit cold, or it rains. We're not made of sugar! The rain won't melt us! It's good to be a little exposed to the Bad Things of this world, because it's the only way we can fight them when we get really exposed.
No, it doesn't have to realistic, but IMHO it should at least be believable.
I agree with you that movies that have all those annoying irrealistic things happening are enraging. But I don't think that sci-fi should be believable. SF is an literary movement, like naturalism or romanticism. What matters is the quality of the writing, the interaction between the characters. When he was starting out, Ray Bradbury had a very hard time getting published because his style was "too literary" instead of most SF writers, and that's wrong. In his stories, Bradbury gladly disregards any sense of realism, because that's not what matters in SF. When I read an Arthur C. Clarke novel, I'm impressed by all the detail and great ideas, but at the same time I'm annoyed by the time he spends explaining how realistic/plausible this is, so much that I call him the Tom Clancy of SF, which is hardly paying enough credit to his immense talent.
And after each novel, there's an addendum explaining that such or such idea is drawn from an article by a NASA researcher who's a good friend of his, or how it's just an extrapolation from well known data. Who cares? Or, rather, how does that make a character closer to me, or how does it make such or such description more vibrant, etc.
Every work of fiction builds its own rules. When it tries to look realistic and isn't, it's annoying. But I don't care about shpis making noise or lightsabres in Star Wars -- it's a space opera! Who cares that some inventions in Phil K. Dick's stories make little sense, except to him. The story is fantastic. If something irrealistic is thrown in just a sa plot device it's annoying. But if a writer or a filmmaker, SF or not, builds a universe which abides to other laws than the laws of physics as we know it, we don't have a right to bitch.
I'm the first to cringe at "insultingly stupid physics" during movies, but standardized nitpicking such as the one provided in this movie is highly annoying.
Let's not forget that filmmaking is an art and as such doesn't have to be realistic. I notice irrealistic stuff in a movie, and cringe when it isn't justified, but gladly accept it when it is. The need for style > the need for realism.
This is especially true for Asian movies and directors, whose respect for reality is far supreior to that of most Hollywood directors, but will willingly disregard it when it pleases them. I could mention John Woo's HK era masterpieces, which are wholly unrealistic -- but who cares? Tsui Hark's Time and Tide is an incredible combination of highly realistic action moments, far more than 99% Hollywood movies, and completely ludicrous/impossible events. And the director knows it.
You know, I can certainly understand him.
:)
Sometimes it's not because it's a timesink, it's just because it's fucking annoying. Think about it -- you sit down for a good read, switch your lamp on, and halfway through the first sentence the bulb dies. Now you gotta think about whether you've got extra bulbs, remember where you keep your extra bulbs, rummage through three lockers only to find out you've got a bunch of extra bulbs, only none of them are the right kind, go down to the store or, as is more likely since most lamps are used during nighttime, go for the rest of the day without your favourite reading lamp and go to the store the next day.
So sure, any nerd can point out that it'll only take me a minute to change that frickin' bulb, but the annoyance generated by it can't always be measured.
Thank you!
I still remember with emotion my first cup of white Yunan tea. Though I favour coffee (and I'm also a purist about that) for long nights in front of the computer, I also love tea, and I never liked Earl Grey, mainly because of the bergamot, and always favoured Chinese tea, even though there are come Ceylan and Indian varieties which are quite good.
That is true. However, while most people think that the stronger tea is, the more caffeine there is, the opposite is actually true.
The caffeine inside the tea is released very early, and what comes after are the tanins, the molecules of which wrap around the caffeine molecules and prevent them from doing their thang.
Japanese making an exoskeleton... the elderly... HAL... So many jokes!
No, he said "Call me paranoid" so it should be "You are Paranoid."