Not that anyone's going to see this now (I mean, this is a thread to a post a whole day old!), but it looks like it has begun... Go ahead, try and recognize this horse's face:
Yeah I love how she throws in the cost of music and video on her lost computer into her justification for suing for so much. What did she buy enough to fill up an iPod?:)
She only had about 50 songs on there, but she was using the prices put forward by the RIAA's lawsuits.
With a name like that, the plane better have little buzz saws that extend out of the front to cut down... er, really tall trees, I guess. And should take off with the help of extending stilts from the bottom. Plus a lot of other cool, but ultimately useless, gadgets.
Oh, and a chimpanzee and a little kid in the trunk.
If you are interested in this sort of thing, there is also Wikichan. As reliable a source as you can get from a publicly editable site run by the same sort of folk who populate the *chan sites.
You also can't take a flag through a teleporter, or put a teleporter on the ceiling, or go both ways through a teleporter, or shoot through a teleporter, or quickly drop a teleporter under someone by surprise, or over them by surprise. You can't put a teleporter behind the sentry gun that is causing you so much grief and shoot it from behind. You can't look through a teleporter to see what is going on on the other side.
I see what you're getting at, but a teleporter as it exists in TF2 now has a very limited scope, whereas the portal gun's portals would be so much more versatile.
Actually, I'd love to see a TF2 map that featured the portal gun in a very limited sense - say, one gun with very limited "ammo" that cannot be reloaded, and had a slow respawn. Or perhaps a class that was armed with the portal gun only, and limited to one player per team.
Could open some interesting dynamics, like forming a mass attack party to try and escort that player to the intel room, or trying to open a portal into the enemy's choke point after 4 engineers build level 3 turrets at the other end. Or open a portal under the enemy flag runner to return them to the intel room.
When our business laid down a new concrete parking slab for a dock building, we used a pigmented concrete and did this very same thing. Loops of tubes laid down before the pouring, and now we can run cold city water through it in the summer to heat it up before it hits the boilers, and run excess warm water through them to de-ice it in the winter. It also helps that we're in a business that uses a lot of steam and hot water.
I considered putting a Democrat link instead of a Republican one, but ultimately decided against it. The Democrats could never get organized enough to form one pile. Therefore, I stand by my original post.
from the look-at-me-still-talking-while-there's-science-to-do dept.
Now this is great. Nice one.
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OR, you could argue that PC gaming has evolved beyond the dusty store shelf and has embraced digital commerce pathways more fully than consoles. Yeah, you're just trolling, but there is a valid comment hidden in your post (or rather, there could have been had the post been more than an incitement to war). However, more and more PC game sales are occurring strictly online. A service like Steam is a great delivery method. NCSoft also has a pretty good site for their goods as well. I can pretty much guarantee that most of the sales for Popcap Games and other purveyors of more casual games take place online. And then there's a game like Puzzle Pirates, wildly popular and online only.
True, the consoles are catching on, with their own specific channels for content, but they are also more tightly controlled.
Myself (admittedly not a "hardcore" gamer), I've bought three games this month, but it has been years since I stepped foot in a video game store. Just some thoughts.
Myself, I was actually a wee bit miffed when GlaDOS informed me that "no other test subject incinerated their Companion Cube as quickly as I did" (paraphrased, obviously). And that's with the realization right of the bat that she likely says that no matter how long you dawdle beforehand (confirmed when I went back and spent a considerable amount of time trying to knock that last camera of with the cube).
See, that was my initial response, that this was just a joke. But, then I thought about how many other times I've thought "Surely someone wouldn't think/do that..." I guess my days in tech support has sort of dropped my optimism for overall humanity just a wee bit.
Well, I'll risk assuming this isn't a joke/troll and answer it honestly....
Don't just sit on the track into the furnace. Look for another way out. For example, one involving that device in your hand that they have been teaching you to use....
Honestly, it sounds like you've missed out on at least half of the game.
Parent poster got it correct. The "no 2 AM calls" was in reference to the janitorial position. Lord knows I've had enough "emergency" calls myself at this position. Sorry if there was any confusion.
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Not that anyone's going to see this now (I mean, this is a thread to a post a whole day old!), but it looks like it has begun... Go ahead, try and recognize this horse's face:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=nyc&ie=UTF8&ll=40.771799,-73.982878&spn=0.026455,0.067635&z=15&layer=c&cbll=40.767851,-73.976067&panoid=FLnBFuHlw7KWUl62yqgBPw&cbp=1,171.06655206143841,,0,8.380873257930794
To be fair, I found it through BoingBoing: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/google-blurs-horse-f.html
I was just thinking how well this would work with reproductions of faces.
The smiling, friendly faces of your local anchorpersons on that billboard for the nightly news? Blurred.
How about that chimp staring out from that zoo as the Google van went past?
And what about the mannequins in the storefront window?
So, really, this page takes whatever zip code you enter, then does a Google Maps search for the keywords "krispie kreme" and the zip code. Congrats.
Oh yeah, there's a clock, too.
She only had about 50 songs on there, but she was using the prices put forward by the RIAA's lawsuits.
With a name like that, the plane better have little buzz saws that extend out of the front to cut down... er, really tall trees, I guess. And should take off with the help of extending stilts from the bottom. Plus a lot of other cool, but ultimately useless, gadgets.
Oh, and a chimpanzee and a little kid in the trunk.
Then again, maybe I should have RTFA.
Nah, that would never work.
Why do you think anyone cares?
Better question - Why do you think he is going to see your response?
If you are interested in this sort of thing, there is also Wikichan. As reliable a source as you can get from a publicly editable site run by the same sort of folk who populate the *chan sites.
Actually, it's the same Anonymous. Looks like they even have a few images from one of the *chan sites in their article.
You also can't take a flag through a teleporter, or put a teleporter on the ceiling, or go both ways through a teleporter, or shoot through a teleporter, or quickly drop a teleporter under someone by surprise, or over them by surprise. You can't put a teleporter behind the sentry gun that is causing you so much grief and shoot it from behind. You can't look through a teleporter to see what is going on on the other side.
I see what you're getting at, but a teleporter as it exists in TF2 now has a very limited scope, whereas the portal gun's portals would be so much more versatile.
Actually, I'd love to see a TF2 map that featured the portal gun in a very limited sense - say, one gun with very limited "ammo" that cannot be reloaded, and had a slow respawn. Or perhaps a class that was armed with the portal gun only, and limited to one player per team.
Could open some interesting dynamics, like forming a mass attack party to try and escort that player to the intel room, or trying to open a portal into the enemy's choke point after 4 engineers build level 3 turrets at the other end. Or open a portal under the enemy flag runner to return them to the intel room.
That could lead to some very wonderful chaos...
When our business laid down a new concrete parking slab for a dock building, we used a pigmented concrete and did this very same thing. Loops of tubes laid down before the pouring, and now we can run cold city water through it in the summer to heat it up before it hits the boilers, and run excess warm water through them to de-ice it in the winter. It also helps that we're in a business that uses a lot of steam and hot water.
You mean he's gonna send us to another planet?
(*stage whisper* Man, you dropped so much of your last line...)
You mean...
I considered putting a Democrat link instead of a Republican one, but ultimately decided against it. The Democrats could never get organized enough to form one pile. Therefore, I stand by my original post.
If every user expected every /. article to contain hyperlinks to define every little word larger than two syllables, the it would indeed be a pile of shit.
Now this is great. Nice one.
OR, you could argue that PC gaming has evolved beyond the dusty store shelf and has embraced digital commerce pathways more fully than consoles. Yeah, you're just trolling, but there is a valid comment hidden in your post (or rather, there could have been had the post been more than an incitement to war). However, more and more PC game sales are occurring strictly online. A service like Steam is a great delivery method. NCSoft also has a pretty good site for their goods as well. I can pretty much guarantee that most of the sales for Popcap Games and other purveyors of more casual games take place online. And then there's a game like Puzzle Pirates, wildly popular and online only.
True, the consoles are catching on, with their own specific channels for content, but they are also more tightly controlled.
Myself (admittedly not a "hardcore" gamer), I've bought three games this month, but it has been years since I stepped foot in a video game store. Just some thoughts.
Myself, I was actually a wee bit miffed when GlaDOS informed me that "no other test subject incinerated their Companion Cube as quickly as I did" (paraphrased, obviously). And that's with the realization right of the bat that she likely says that no matter how long you dawdle beforehand (confirmed when I went back and spent a considerable amount of time trying to knock that last camera of with the cube).
See, that was my initial response, that this was just a joke. But, then I thought about how many other times I've thought "Surely someone wouldn't think/do that..." I guess my days in tech support has sort of dropped my optimism for overall humanity just a wee bit.
Oddly enough, you remind me of today's comic at XKCD...
http://xkcd.com/329/
Well, I'll risk assuming this isn't a joke/troll and answer it honestly.... Don't just sit on the track into the furnace. Look for another way out. For example, one involving that device in your hand that they have been teaching you to use.... Honestly, it sounds like you've missed out on at least half of the game.
Future Headline: Journalists try and mix humor, wit and puzzles in their writing in order to encourage /.ers to actually RTFA.
Summary Result: A bunch of disappointed journalists.
Parent poster got it correct. The "no 2 AM calls" was in reference to the janitorial position. Lord knows I've had enough "emergency" calls myself at this position. Sorry if there was any confusion.
Ah, you must be looking for slashdot.co.uk .
(OK, so it's a squatter site right now...)