Even in globular clusters, where star densities are thousands of times greater than the rest of any given galaxy, star collisions are impressively rare. In fact, I know of no observed instance of two stars colliding that weren't formed together in a binary system.
The size of the hole compared to the size of the golf course is pretty impressive compared to the scale or stars in space. Two stars colliding would be more like firing a golf ball out of a cannon in London and hitting a hole-in-one in an unmaintained golf course in Scottland. Yes, its possible, but there are a lot of other things that will happen long before that.
I'd buy it. The games really never were for everybody. I have Myst, Riven, and Myst III Exile around, but never bought Uru. I mostly dig them up when there's nothing else to do and nobody online worth talking to. They're pretty fun once in a while, but even I've never manged to play them for more than a few hours at a time.
I could write a book on all the little things that they coulda/woulda/shoulda done with the entire Pokemon franchise to make it so much better.
It's a bit saddening to me, as an RPG fan, to see probably one of the most strategically complex and promising RPG systems ever crammed into a handheld platform with a mind numbingly easy kid's game stuck on the front end.
I said this like three months ago, when Microsoft open-sourced some old game they made that never sold. Wish I could remember the name. It's somewhere in the games section.-
Come on trolls, you're getting slow. It's the second article down the page. I've never seen a quantum computing article without somebody making the obligatory "It will even run Duke Nukem Forever!" joke.
The kind of weird SHIT they have outside? I never go out there anymore.
I'll tell you. This one time, I went outside, and there was this little brown thing, with a long fuzzy protuberance from the posterior quarter of it's torso. It chittered at me, and snapped it's protuberance in the air, and then - I kid you not! - it ran STRAIGHT UP the side of a TREE.
And you can't read. As I said, the REAL ACTUAL WORLD SPORTS have the same graphics, year in/year out. Then again, you probably don't know about this whole "outside" thing. Troubles with mother, anyone?
Does it even work anymore? If I remember correctly, didn't they basically turn the machines downward and dig them out of the path of the tunnel and abandon them down there? I'd hate to buy it and find out there's no way to get it out.
As for the sports titles, they fit the term sequel much better. If you think of it in sports terms, each title works like a season, which follows the previous title/season in the series.
Although, in sports themselves, each season is more of a patch to the previous season (same graphics, same engine, same effects, just shuffled some players around and added/dropped a few), with the occasional expansion pack (like the down line, puck highlighting, or a new brand of jersey).
If I told you about Mary, but left out the Little Lamb, do I even have the right to call it the same story? Adding content is one thing, so long as it fits the premise of the game (like the extra dungons in the Link's Awakening and Link to the Past remakes)
I'll admit there are things they can just take out (like the blue staff from Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, or fourty or so player characters from Chrono Cross), but they never take out the useless/pointless junk. They take out important things, change defining bits of dialog (Square showed great wisdom in not fixing the "You spoony bard!" mistranslation, or they'd have rabid fanboys burning their homes in the night), remove great plot insights, entire sections of the game sometimes, and usually cover it up by adding some completely random and unrelated bonus level that makes no sense in the overall game.
You're not too bright are you? Separation of Powers is the system of checks and balances that defines the operation of the three branches of the Federal Government. The only separation of power between the state and Federal government is that anything the Feds don't do, the states can do themselves. But that's not separation. The Feds can step in at any time and take over from the state, they can tell the states what to do and how to do it, and they can take powers away from the state.
THat's the thing: Before income tax, it didn't do most of those "core businesses." Roads were litterally maintained by the people who used them. If there was a pothole, you GOT OUT AND FILLED IT before you keept going (or you could keep going, but if you did, you risked your horse breaking a leg). If they did that in Michigan, nobody would drive. It would be slower to WALK from Saginaw to Detroit (a two to three hour drive, assuming you don't stop to patch the multitudinous potholes).
The borders were undefended, and they actually believed that thing they wrote on the Statue of Liberty (even though they didn't have it yet for most of that time).
Ugh... Shadow of the Beast had to be one of the worst games ever. The only good thing about it was the screen it showed every time you died, which was very well done.
On the subject, what does the 8 mean in the continue screen? It says "Continue: 8", but it's not a countdown, since it stays at 8. And it isn't how many continues you have left, because you only have like 4...
Yes, indeed. I never thought I'd see another commercially developed/sold sidescroller again. Viewtiful Joe really proves that even the old genres can still make it.
Thanks to just how long we've been without jobs, many of us are now classified as "out of the workforce" (which is a large part of why unemployment is falling - people aren't getting jobs, they're fallint out of the workforce).
Two more weeks for me, and I won't be "unemployed" anymore.
paying $8 to replace batteries on a $30 mp3 player is over a quarter of the price of the original unit
Since the grandparent just pulled numbers out of his ass, I'll give you hard figures from my own MP3 player:
Unit price: $75 (minus $25 mail-in-rebate)
Expected battery life: 25 hours
Time it takes to recharge battery: Overnight
How long I've had it without replacing the battery: 3 years, playing it nearly every day, sticking it on the charger when I get home. The batteries for it also put in three years of duty in my CD player before that.
Memory problems with the battery: Virtually none, it's NiMh.
How much the battery will cost when I replace it in the unforseen future: $12
Full-replacement warranty on this particular brand of NiMh AA-cell compatible battery: 5 years
Advertised nominal lifespan of said battery: 10 years
Apple could have VERY EASILY made their battery CHEAPER, and LIGHTER STILL than it already is, and made it last much longer without replacement - meaning they could still glue it up inside so the user can't replace it themselves.
These two batteries, at $6 each, have lasted me six years of fairly active use. My CD player stopped playing before the batteries crapped out, and my MP3 player will probably fail before the batteries, and I'll try to find a new one that takes two AA's.
I've seen chess programs that could move pawns in illegal ways (capturing forward, moving diagonally without capturing), as well as the unique ability to make their rooks, bishops, and queens jump over other pieces. And it wasn't from bugs in the logic, because the player couldn't move pieces illegally.
Well, if you watch the Red Green Show, you'll remember the cult that thought Red was their Great Leader? They could have built their ship to carry them back to the planet Georgon withoug having to rent garage space from Possum Lodge if they knew about this.
They've said themselves that they're only cancelling the 2004 lineup - 2005 is still on track.
By all indications, Sony will likely have the PS3 out by 2005. Microsoft's learned the hard way that you don't come late to the party and expect to sit at the head table, but they also know that console wars are won and lost within the first few months of a new generation of releases.
They're acknowledging that the Xbox isn't going to win it, but there's still a shot at winning it with the next console. It's a simple choice between "won't" and "might." A snowball's chance in hell is better than trying to build your igloo with water.
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Even in globular clusters, where star densities are thousands of times greater than the rest of any given galaxy, star collisions are impressively rare. In fact, I know of no observed instance of two stars colliding that weren't formed together in a binary system. The size of the hole compared to the size of the golf course is pretty impressive compared to the scale or stars in space. Two stars colliding would be more like firing a golf ball out of a cannon in London and hitting a hole-in-one in an unmaintained golf course in Scottland. Yes, its possible, but there are a lot of other things that will happen long before that.
Now I don't have to feel guilty about pirating it so many years ago.
Then again, I never did feel all that guilty.
I'd buy it. The games really never were for everybody. I have Myst, Riven, and Myst III Exile around, but never bought Uru. I mostly dig them up when there's nothing else to do and nobody online worth talking to. They're pretty fun once in a while, but even I've never manged to play them for more than a few hours at a time.
I could write a book on all the little things that they coulda/woulda/shoulda done with the entire Pokemon franchise to make it so much better. It's a bit saddening to me, as an RPG fan, to see probably one of the most strategically complex and promising RPG systems ever crammed into a handheld platform with a mind numbingly easy kid's game stuck on the front end.
Although, in sports themselves, each season is more of a patch to the previous season
Yes, but it also had Claudia Black wearing that leather tank top, which was why it was still fairly popular among guys.
I said this like three months ago, when Microsoft open-sourced some old game they made that never sold. Wish I could remember the name. It's somewhere in the games section.-
Come on trolls, you're getting slow. It's the second article down the page. I've never seen a quantum computing article without somebody making the obligatory "It will even run Duke Nukem Forever!" joke.
The kind of weird SHIT they have outside? I never go out there anymore.
I'll tell you. This one time, I went outside, and there was this little brown thing, with a long fuzzy protuberance from the posterior quarter of it's torso. It chittered at me, and snapped it's protuberance in the air, and then - I kid you not! - it ran STRAIGHT UP the side of a TREE.
That can't be natural.
And you can't read. As I said, the REAL ACTUAL WORLD SPORTS have the same graphics, year in/year out. Then again, you probably don't know about this whole "outside" thing. Troubles with mother, anyone?
Does it even work anymore? If I remember correctly, didn't they basically turn the machines downward and dig them out of the path of the tunnel and abandon them down there? I'd hate to buy it and find out there's no way to get it out.
I guess that's better than me learning Spanish in high school. The first full sentence we learned to say is "My donkey is in your bathroom."
Think American-made RPGs are good? (Apologies to Ubisoft and Bethesda. You're exceptions)
As for the sports titles, they fit the term sequel much better. If you think of it in sports terms, each title works like a season, which follows the previous title/season in the series.
Although, in sports themselves, each season is more of a patch to the previous season (same graphics, same engine, same effects, just shuffled some players around and added/dropped a few), with the occasional expansion pack (like the down line, puck highlighting, or a new brand of jersey).
If I told you about Mary, but left out the Little Lamb, do I even have the right to call it the same story? Adding content is one thing, so long as it fits the premise of the game (like the extra dungons in the Link's Awakening and Link to the Past remakes)
I'll admit there are things they can just take out (like the blue staff from Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, or fourty or so player characters from Chrono Cross), but they never take out the useless/pointless junk. They take out important things, change defining bits of dialog (Square showed great wisdom in not fixing the "You spoony bard!" mistranslation, or they'd have rabid fanboys burning their homes in the night), remove great plot insights, entire sections of the game sometimes, and usually cover it up by adding some completely random and unrelated bonus level that makes no sense in the overall game.
You're not too bright are you? Separation of Powers is the system of checks and balances that defines the operation of the three branches of the Federal Government. The only separation of power between the state and Federal government is that anything the Feds don't do, the states can do themselves. But that's not separation. The Feds can step in at any time and take over from the state, they can tell the states what to do and how to do it, and they can take powers away from the state.
THat's the thing: Before income tax, it didn't do most of those "core businesses." Roads were litterally maintained by the people who used them. If there was a pothole, you GOT OUT AND FILLED IT before you keept going (or you could keep going, but if you did, you risked your horse breaking a leg). If they did that in Michigan, nobody would drive. It would be slower to WALK from Saginaw to Detroit (a two to three hour drive, assuming you don't stop to patch the multitudinous potholes). The borders were undefended, and they actually believed that thing they wrote on the Statue of Liberty (even though they didn't have it yet for most of that time).
Ugh... Shadow of the Beast had to be one of the worst games ever. The only good thing about it was the screen it showed every time you died, which was very well done. On the subject, what does the 8 mean in the continue screen? It says "Continue: 8", but it's not a countdown, since it stays at 8. And it isn't how many continues you have left, because you only have like 4...
Yes, indeed. I never thought I'd see another commercially developed/sold sidescroller again. Viewtiful Joe really proves that even the old genres can still make it.
Thanks to just how long we've been without jobs, many of us are now classified as "out of the workforce" (which is a large part of why unemployment is falling - people aren't getting jobs, they're fallint out of the workforce).
Two more weeks for me, and I won't be "unemployed" anymore.
paying $8 to replace batteries on a $30 mp3 player is over a quarter of the price of the original unit
Since the grandparent just pulled numbers out of his ass, I'll give you hard figures from my own MP3 player:
Unit price: $75 (minus $25 mail-in-rebate)
Expected battery life: 25 hours
Time it takes to recharge battery: Overnight
How long I've had it without replacing the battery: 3 years, playing it nearly every day, sticking it on the charger when I get home. The batteries for it also put in three years of duty in my CD player before that.
Memory problems with the battery: Virtually none, it's NiMh.
How much the battery will cost when I replace it in the unforseen future: $12
Full-replacement warranty on this particular brand of NiMh AA-cell compatible battery: 5 years
Advertised nominal lifespan of said battery: 10 years
Apple could have VERY EASILY made their battery CHEAPER, and LIGHTER STILL than it already is, and made it last much longer without replacement - meaning they could still glue it up inside so the user can't replace it themselves.
These two batteries, at $6 each, have lasted me six years of fairly active use. My CD player stopped playing before the batteries crapped out, and my MP3 player will probably fail before the batteries, and I'll try to find a new one that takes two AA's.
I've seen chess programs that could move pawns in illegal ways (capturing forward, moving diagonally without capturing), as well as the unique ability to make their rooks, bishops, and queens jump over other pieces. And it wasn't from bugs in the logic, because the player couldn't move pieces illegally.
Well, if you watch the Red Green Show, you'll remember the cult that thought Red was their Great Leader? They could have built their ship to carry them back to the planet Georgon withoug having to rent garage space from Possum Lodge if they knew about this.
My first car was a Pinto too. It was also my first bomb, when somebody backed their pickup truck into it at 2 mph while parallel parking.
Yes, there is, and a lot at that.
They've said themselves that they're only cancelling the 2004 lineup - 2005 is still on track.
By all indications, Sony will likely have the PS3 out by 2005. Microsoft's learned the hard way that you don't come late to the party and expect to sit at the head table, but they also know that console wars are won and lost within the first few months of a new generation of releases.
They're acknowledging that the Xbox isn't going to win it, but there's still a shot at winning it with the next console. It's a simple choice between "won't" and "might." A snowball's chance in hell is better than trying to build your igloo with water.