What are those squiggly things that look alarmingly like sperm that can be occasionally seen in your near vision and appear to move when you chase them with your focus? You know, where they seem to fall to bottom of your eye and disappear?
I've always wondered, especially on sunny days when they are more visible and 'catchable', what these things are. Are they bacteria on the surface of your eyeball?
Actually, I think that this is the first and only area where spams for buying diplomas and other qualifications might be welcomed at 3 a.m. with a paper due in at nine...
drivers approach down each other's right-hand side, which makes a lot of sense considering how much of the population is right-handed.
This page gives an interesting description on driving traditions.
Basically, driving on the left comes from the need to protect yourself with your sword arm from oncoming attackers, and driving on the right comes from needing to whip a train of horses with your right hand while riding on the left-rear horse (this was before seats, and if you're on the left hand horse, it's easier to pass people on the right). So both systems are rooted in the notion that most people are right handed, it's just that the use of the right hand for either reigns or swords determined the protocol chosen.
Well, I intended for the 'Tag' part to be separate from the acronym, the same way it is separate in RFID Tag (as opposed to RFIDT). Alas, you have highlighted the redundancy of my acronym, as displayed by the 'Device' component, so I must walk away from a poor attempt at an ironic FREEDOM acronym joke with my head hung.
So if a car is reported stolen, and it passes a Gatso (not a Sun reader, BTW, just felt like using the term), is there a red flag that goes off somewhere screaming 'Stolen car spotted in X!'?
Yeah, Mr Aldrin seems like a very articulate and well-mannered old man. I'd love to sit down and chat with him about his career, and ask him what he thinks about the conspiracy theorists who say that there's no moon, or how he feels by being beaten to the surface by Louis Armstrong. It's a shame he never made it to the sun...
This has all of the trademarks of a MensaBabe alt-nick. Newly-registered (yet claims to be an old-school hacker), explicitly descriptive nick, (purposefully?) noticeable spelling mistake, condescending language...hell, looking at the posting history gives this away as a troll account rather quickly.
Sony hasn't done 'it' before. Sure, they released PS2 later than the Dreamcast, but the 'it' we are talking about here is purposefully delaying to build up a strong launch library as described in the summary and article.
IIRC, the PS2 launch lineup was one of the weakest in history (unless you love fireworks simulators), and many people just used the machine for DVD movie playback until the quality titles started being released a few months after.
Sorry to be offtopic, but has anyone else completed the third level of Duke Nukem Forever? I only managed to get my copy a few hours ago so I'm a bit behind most people. I'm stuck at the part just after the red light district and I keep getting killed by the Octobrains lurking there. Cool game though, I like how it retains the trademark wit and satire, although I think the new Wet T-Shirt Cannon is a bit of a cheesy addition.
I was under the impression that it featured a tower of ratings from 'Stone cold sober' to 'Pissed as a fart' and that when you blew into the mouthpiece, your score bar would rise slowly, accompanied by a slide-whistle sound effect, and upon hitting the top score a bell would ring out and you'd win a prize.
Wow, an anti-MS joke (or is that M$ or MSFT?) on Slashdot that is actually funny? Jeez.
Fuck me, the next thing we'll know is that DNF has gone gold, Zonk posts his final dupe, and I'll have pulled a girl at 2 A.M. on a friday night who weighs less than 300 pounds...
Hmm, I think you're reading too much into the Independence Day scene. Smoking cigars is associated with special occasions and is also predominantly male way of relaxing. Infact, Goldblum's line has to be one of the most natural in the entire movie.
Would all action movies be advertisements for gun manufacturers? If a character in a movie asks another, 'Wanna grab a burger?', is that an advertisement for fast food? Would any positive reaction to any object be an advertisement for said item? I doubt it. Product placement, a slightly subtler form of advertising, is still quite easy to spot because the brand name is clearly revealed. See I, Robot for a textbook example. When a bunch of high school students are crowding round a bright Mountain Dew machine, it's almost a certainty that they studio got funding from the soda company. If a character sparks up a generic cigar, it's highly doubtful that a tobacco company is behind it.
Personally, movie product placement is a form of advertisement that probably irks me the least, unless it is so blatant and so overdone that the obnoxious colours and logos are jumping right out of the screen. Seeing a character drink a can of Coke is less likely to ruin immersion and suspension of disbelief than if it were some cheesy studio-invented brand.
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What are those squiggly things that look alarmingly like sperm that can be occasionally seen in your near vision and appear to move when you chase them with your focus? You know, where they seem to fall to bottom of your eye and disappear?
I've always wondered, especially on sunny days when they are more visible and 'catchable', what these things are. Are they bacteria on the surface of your eyeball?
Battery, electrolyte. Electrolyte, battery.
Lengthen your hypotenuse instantly!
Hot, young atoms willing to bond with you!
L@@K, mini radio-controlled Freud toys!
Actually, I think that this is the first and only area where spams for buying diplomas and other qualifications might be welcomed at 3 a.m. with a paper due in at nine...
drivers approach down each other's right-hand side, which makes a lot of sense considering how much of the population is right-handed.
This page gives an interesting description on driving traditions.
Basically, driving on the left comes from the need to protect yourself with your sword arm from oncoming attackers, and driving on the right comes from needing to whip a train of horses with your right hand while riding on the left-rear horse (this was before seats, and if you're on the left hand horse, it's easier to pass people on the right). So both systems are rooted in the notion that most people are right handed, it's just that the use of the right hand for either reigns or swords determined the protocol chosen.
seeing there's not much in the way of collision detection built in just yet, I was expecting crashes.
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That's funny, I thought the opposite!
Well, I intended for the 'Tag' part to be separate from the acronym, the same way it is separate in RFID Tag (as opposed to RFIDT). Alas, you have highlighted the redundancy of my acronym, as displayed by the 'Device' component, so I must walk away from a poor attempt at an ironic FREEDOM acronym joke with my head hung.
Frequency-specific Responsive Electronic Emitting Device for Orwellian-style Monitoring Tag?
So if a car is reported stolen, and it passes a Gatso (not a Sun reader, BTW, just felt like using the term), is there a red flag that goes off somewhere screaming 'Stolen car spotted in X!'?
When you say you've been wondering for years, does this include 1997?
Yeah, Mr Aldrin seems like a very articulate and well-mannered old man. I'd love to sit down and chat with him about his career, and ask him what he thinks about the conspiracy theorists who say that there's no moon, or how he feels by being beaten to the surface by Louis Armstrong. It's a shame he never made it to the sun...
This has all of the trademarks of a MensaBabe alt-nick. Newly-registered (yet claims to be an old-school hacker), explicitly descriptive nick, (purposefully?) noticeable spelling mistake, condescending language...hell, looking at the posting history gives this away as a troll account rather quickly.
My hat's off to you, good sir.
Cute in a "your mother's best friend in the 1950s" kind of way.
Let me guess, you're also one of those people who can't fathom how a first post can be redundant?
Sony hasn't done 'it' before. Sure, they released PS2 later than the Dreamcast, but the 'it' we are talking about here is purposefully delaying to build up a strong launch library as described in the summary and article.
IIRC, the PS2 launch lineup was one of the weakest in history (unless you love fireworks simulators), and many people just used the machine for DVD movie playback until the quality titles started being released a few months after.
Sorry to be offtopic, but has anyone else completed the third level of Duke Nukem Forever? I only managed to get my copy a few hours ago so I'm a bit behind most people. I'm stuck at the part just after the red light district and I keep getting killed by the Octobrains lurking there. Cool game though, I like how it retains the trademark wit and satire, although I think the new Wet T-Shirt Cannon is a bit of a cheesy addition.
Anyone explain why the # DVD's ripped poll has been locked?
;)
Because you touch yourself at night.
Oh yeah, you want a seriously righteous hack, you score one of those Hiltons man. You know, the hotels they use to like, rent rooms and stuff.
*rubs nipple*
Wouldn't you just love to get one of those Hiltons baby...
I was under the impression that it featured a tower of ratings from 'Stone cold sober' to 'Pissed as a fart' and that when you blew into the mouthpiece, your score bar would rise slowly, accompanied by a slide-whistle sound effect, and upon hitting the top score a bell would ring out and you'd win a prize.
The irony is, I'm drunk right now.
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Wow, an anti-MS joke (or is that M$ or MSFT?) on Slashdot that is actually funny? Jeez.
Fuck me, the next thing we'll know is that DNF has gone gold, Zonk posts his final dupe, and I'll have pulled a girl at 2 A.M. on a friday night who weighs less than 300 pounds...
Hmm, I think you're reading too much into the Independence Day scene. Smoking cigars is associated with special occasions and is also predominantly male way of relaxing. Infact, Goldblum's line has to be one of the most natural in the entire movie.
Would all action movies be advertisements for gun manufacturers? If a character in a movie asks another, 'Wanna grab a burger?', is that an advertisement for fast food? Would any positive reaction to any object be an advertisement for said item? I doubt it. Product placement, a slightly subtler form of advertising, is still quite easy to spot because the brand name is clearly revealed. See I, Robot for a textbook example. When a bunch of high school students are crowding round a bright Mountain Dew machine, it's almost a certainty that they studio got funding from the soda company. If a character sparks up a generic cigar, it's highly doubtful that a tobacco company is behind it.
Personally, movie product placement is a form of advertisement that probably irks me the least, unless it is so blatant and so overdone that the obnoxious colours and logos are jumping right out of the screen. Seeing a character drink a can of Coke is less likely to ruin immersion and suspension of disbelief than if it were some cheesy studio-invented brand.