"Could it also be that you use your Tarutaru avatar like some men use cute pets in the park to attract women, except you yourself remain hidden from view?"
Or it could be that I just like Teh Cute. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Even those who use pets or avatars exclusively for that purpose need to be able to appreciate the pet or avatar, otherwise they would not be effective, and when used as a ruse would be quickly seen through.
And I have to say I'm insulted by your accusation Don't be. I did say "also", not "instead". I'm sure it can be frustrating to be gathering unappreciated attention when their and your goals don't coincide. I didn't think it to be an unreasonable question, and certainly not accusatory.
Now I hope it isn't strictly the other way around, where the cuteness of your avatar is not for others to enjoy but rather only for you to enjoy. I hope the attentions of others to your avatar isn't always an irritant; otherwise I'd recommend a pseudo-MMO like.hack// or plain RPG to be more appropriate for you.
Could it also be that you use your Tarutaru avatar like some men use cute pets in the park to attract women, except you yourself remain hidden from view?
<sup>1</sup> Immediately upon being aware of the contents of the exhibit, I [Judge Adalberto Jordan] requested that the Clerk of the Court take appropriate action to prevent public access to the exhibit.
Crow T. Robot: Aaaah, women. Women, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ha-ha-ha-ha. For you young fellows, fresh on the cusp of a blooming manhood, the questions are abound: What are women like? What do women want? How should I treat a women[sp!]? Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man is finding a woman in the first place! It turns out to be... nearly impossible! This reporter spent countless hours searching for a woman, like these pictured here:
[clips of Hobgoblins, with Amy and Daphne in them]
Crow T. Robot:...to no avail. The nearest we came during a tense stakeout was this fellow:
[a clip of Mike Nelson biting into a sandwich,]
Crow T. Robot:...who experts believe, is not a woman. We begin to wonder, where are all the women? The over-heated references in poetry, the images that dominate our media, is it all an elaborate fraud? This grainy photograph is the only direct evidence we have of a woman in her natural environment:
[A black and white, Bigfoot-like photo of a large woman in a forest]
Crow T. Robot: The longer hair, the gentle and nurturing demeanor are typical of how witnesses describe their supposed encounters with women. This footprint...
[Crow stands beside a clay model of a huge Bigfoot-sized footprint]
Crow T. Robot:...while possibly the work of jokesters, is another piece of the puzzle! And it is hard to discount this man's terrifying story!
Mustachioed Crow T. Robot: Then... uh... this woman - I think it was a woman... she... uh... married me.
Crow T. Robot: [off-screen as interviewer] Did you have any children, sir?
Mustachioed Crow T. Robot: I don't remember!
Crow T. Robot: Some day perhaps, an actual woman will emerge, and they will no longer exist only in the realm of myth and maybe. Thank You.
Major releases of 10.x are $129 for a single machine, and $199 for a family pack that covers five machines. And it looks like I'll be canceling my Amazon pre-order for the Family Pack, since it apparently isn't for my G4 Cube (450 MHz G4) or my upgraded Blue & White G3 (550 MHz G4 upgrade and original Firewire dead), both of which currently run Tiger. My Mac Pro is the only machine I have that will be able to run it, unless it can be made to run on non-Apple hardware or a virtual machine. (My mother's eMac might be able to run it depending on model, but it is in a different household and thus excluded by the license.)
It's feeling like 10.5 should be released as 11.0 so Apple doesn't break compatibility promises to the G3 owners.
I never found the feeble little vibration on my previous-gen box immersive at all. More like "oh the controller's vibrating again, interesting that somebody thought I'd appreciate that". But, rumble is so easily convertible to electroshock! Put up some wireframe vector graphics and some webcams for networked play and ETERNAL BATTLE FOR DOMINATION OF THE WORLD BEGINS.
Most standard PC monitors are very much smaller than 32" and those that can support higher resolutions than 1920 x 1080 are not what I would call cheap Depends on what you're looking for. VGA CRTs with even higher resolutions are still reasonably priced. I have comparable resolution on my VGA CRT (2048x1536) at less than half the price of a dual-link DVI LCD (2560x1600), and it works with my existing KVM switch with still perfectly good computers that will never see a dual-link DVI card made for them (PCI only, no bloody -X or e, no AGP).
You would hardly expect the Cult of Skaro to be all that concerned about human safety when they built the Empire State Building with homeless laborers.
I've found that the Linux version (running in Gnome on RedHat 9) starts consuming ungodly amounts of processor time for minor tasks--even taking 1-2 seconds to respond to buffered keypresses in a slashdot comment textarea--if it has been allowed to run for more than 24 hours. It feels like the same time every day when I have to kill -9 the process and restart it. The only exception seems to be it is able to survive a weekend of non-use. Even vs. odd days?
Surely halo is better than your average FPS, in that you are killing weird aliens, and not other humans. Except in MP of course Well, even in single player, I found by trying to get a warthog through a door, my fellow marines would gladly turn their weapons on me for killing one of them trying.
Actually, there were two of us playing cooperative. They turned on both of us.
Mea Culpa. when the coffee is scarce, the mind does silly things. It's good to see you accepting responsibility for starting what has every chance of becoming a new Internet meme.
First off, obviously if intel is using the term "mash up", it's not referring to DangerMouse and The Beatles. And here I was going to launch into a rant about corporate tools establishing what rigidly defined predetermined areas of originality and creativity will be permitted.
Unfortunately, the amount of money saved on electricity are quickly offset by the increase in property taxes for having solar panels in many places in the US vs. the tax breaks given in other countries.
This season I'm placing my bets early on what shows will not only get canceled but also never make it to DVD. These will be the shows I'll be capturing to my computer using an HD cable box and Firewire. Anything that's made it past its first season and/or had that season published on DVD (or and especially HD-DVD or BluRay like Heroes) I won't bother to record.
I'm betting that "The Big Bang Theory" will either be canceled quickly or otherwise never make it past one season. The biggest strain to credibility in this sitcom is the studio audience knowing enough quantum physics to get the jokes and laugh that loudly at them. I've seen the pilot.
Also, like the TV series Ferris Bueller, I expect The Sarah Connor Chronicles to fall... but not as hard. Maybe more like the series Starman, or Tracker. I understand the characterizations already break with continuity. Coming in mid-season is an established "Lack of Confidence"-labeled nail in its coffin.
I think Reaper may have a chance, or at least make for an entertaining one-season run. Tyler Labine continues to amaze me in finding good and steady work after portraying the delusional Croker in Evil Alien Overlords, but so far it was the only bad thing I've seen him in. Still, it seemed he was having fun doing it.
Vyro Games, a Dublin Ireland company, unveils a device today that forces you to relax while playing games. It is called a PiP, or "Personal Input Pod," and it measures things like the moisture in your hand to assess whether you're stressed.
The product works by first establishing a baseline set of characteristics for the user. It finds things like the normal level of moisture in your hand, and then works by detecting the slightest bit of variance from that baseline level. So you can cheat not only by putting on a pair of "gaming gloves" but also by submerging the controller in a fishbowl during its initial calibration?
Slashdot Mirror
If this were being installed in Boston, it will then become a crime to behave in a suspicious manner. See 2007 Boston Mooninite scare.
Conform! Conform! Conform!
Or it could be that I just like Teh Cute. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Even those who use pets or avatars exclusively for that purpose need to be able to appreciate the pet or avatar, otherwise they would not be effective, and when used as a ruse would be quickly seen through. And I have to say I'm insulted by your accusation Don't be. I did say "also", not "instead". I'm sure it can be frustrating to be gathering unappreciated attention when their and your goals don't coincide. I didn't think it to be an unreasonable question, and certainly not accusatory.
Now I hope it isn't strictly the other way around, where the cuteness of your avatar is not for others to enjoy but rather only for you to enjoy. I hope the attentions of others to your avatar isn't always an irritant; otherwise I'd recommend a pseudo-MMO like
Hippy - "I'd like to try Porky Pig"
Captain America - "I never wanted to be anyone else" Crow T. Robot: [as Hippy] "Sure, whatever you say, Steve Rogers!"
Could it also be that you use your Tarutaru avatar like some men use cute pets in the park to attract women, except you yourself remain hidden from view?
"We are women; hear Us roar." -- Queen Elizabeth II
Send in the Glommer!
Crow T. Robot: Aaaah, women. Women, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ha-ha-ha-ha. For you young fellows, fresh on the cusp of a blooming manhood, the questions are abound: What are women like? What do women want? How should I treat a women[sp!]? Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man is finding a woman in the first place! It turns out to be... nearly impossible! This reporter spent countless hours searching for a woman, like these pictured here:
...to no avail. The nearest we came during a tense stakeout was this fellow:
...who experts believe, is not a woman. We begin to wonder, where are all the women? The over-heated references in poetry, the images that dominate our media, is it all an elaborate fraud? This grainy photograph is the only direct evidence we have of a woman in her natural environment:
...while possibly the work of jokesters, is another piece of the puzzle! And it is hard to discount this man's terrifying story!
[clips of Hobgoblins, with Amy and Daphne in them]
Crow T. Robot:
[a clip of Mike Nelson biting into a sandwich,]
Crow T. Robot:
[A black and white, Bigfoot-like photo of a large woman in a forest]
Crow T. Robot: The longer hair, the gentle and nurturing demeanor are typical of how witnesses describe their supposed encounters with women. This footprint...
[Crow stands beside a clay model of a huge Bigfoot-sized footprint]
Crow T. Robot:
Mustachioed Crow T. Robot: Then... uh... this woman - I think it was a woman... she... uh... married me.
Crow T. Robot: [off-screen as interviewer] Did you have any children, sir?
Mustachioed Crow T. Robot: I don't remember!
Crow T. Robot: Some day perhaps, an actual woman will emerge, and they will no longer exist only in the realm of myth and maybe. Thank You.
I've forgotten my eBay password and I no longer possess the e-mail address with which I registered (change of ISP).
I may be safe though as the account dates back to before PayPal, I never gave eBay my credit card information, and I wasn't a seller... right?
Strange. It's colored on the Firehose like it is on the front page, but it isn't on the front page.
And is Idle a new category?
It's feeling like 10.5 should be released as 11.0 so Apple doesn't break compatibility promises to the G3 owners.
"Power usually makes its own rules." -- Space Commander Travis
I've found that the Linux version (running in Gnome on RedHat 9) starts consuming ungodly amounts of processor time for minor tasks--even taking 1-2 seconds to respond to buffered keypresses in a slashdot comment textarea--if it has been allowed to run for more than 24 hours. It feels like the same time every day when I have to kill -9 the process and restart it. The only exception seems to be it is able to survive a weekend of non-use. Even vs. odd days?
I sincerely hope that she is really, really ugly. I sincerely hope that she isn't Ann Coulter. Think of the children!
Actually, in slashdot memes you drive jokes nuts.
Actually, there were two of us playing cooperative. They turned on both of us.
I wonder what that would be like on legendary.
Unfortunately, the amount of money saved on electricity are quickly offset by the increase in property taxes for having solar panels in many places in the US vs. the tax breaks given in other countries.
This season I'm placing my bets early on what shows will not only get canceled but also never make it to DVD. These will be the shows I'll be capturing to my computer using an HD cable box and Firewire. Anything that's made it past its first season and/or had that season published on DVD (or and especially HD-DVD or BluRay like Heroes) I won't bother to record.
I'm betting that "The Big Bang Theory" will either be canceled quickly or otherwise never make it past one season. The biggest strain to credibility in this sitcom is the studio audience knowing enough quantum physics to get the jokes and laugh that loudly at them. I've seen the pilot.
Also, like the TV series Ferris Bueller, I expect The Sarah Connor Chronicles to fall... but not as hard. Maybe more like the series Starman, or Tracker . I understand the characterizations already break with continuity. Coming in mid-season is an established "Lack of Confidence"-labeled nail in its coffin.
I think Reaper may have a chance, or at least make for an entertaining one-season run. Tyler Labine continues to amaze me in finding good and steady work after portraying the delusional Croker in Evil Alien Overlords, but so far it was the only bad thing I've seen him in. Still, it seemed he was having fun doing it.