Actually, Steve kept the "i" when he dropped the interim. He though it went well with iMac, iTunes, iLife, iChat, etc. One of his more, er, conceited moves, but that's Steve for you.:D
Sorry, I must of missed that one - what book did this happen in? And here I thought I'd read them all.
There's a long passage in Executive Orders/Decisions/the one with ebola, about the new Secretary of Treasury trying to get the tax laws changed, and how the current system is too cumbersome, wrongheaded, just Clancy using his characters to espouse his political beliefs.
Yeah but Penny Arcade is *still* frequently very funny even if you're not a gaming nut.
I didn't say that PA lacks the funny; merely that the strip is very static in terms of characters and humor. In that respect PA is not much different from Peanuts or Garfield. If PA continues for as long as a strip like Garfield has, and Gabe and Tycho continue to do the same style of humor, then people will be saying they're beating the horse into the ground, much like what people now say about Garfield. It's more a function of time than anything else.
If you hadn't noticed, 90% of the comics page is stuck in a rut so big it's been reclassified as a box canyon. It seems that paper editors choose the least offensive most watered down cheap fare they can find for the comics page. This practice has turned the whole thing into a tremendous waste of time, as the same few jokes are told over and over again by the same old tired characters.
There are also comic strips that run in real time and let the characters grow and change, and then there are strips in between. "For Better or For Worse," "Luann", "Crankshaft", "The Norm", and "Doonesbury" all experience the passage of time and character growth in one form or another.
The Funny pages are as much a place for "comfort" good as they are cutting edge humor. Most of the big hitters have been in the game for twenty years or more, people are familiar with them and they don't like chance. For years the Detroit Free Press tried to drop Modesty Blaise but everytime they did there were howls of protests. In fact, when artist/writer of Modesty Blaise decided to end the strip the Freep had to run a notice that the strip was over for a week in the strip's palce to make sure people were clear on what happened.
Then again the technical quality of most of the strips that run in your local paper are better than most of the web comics out there. It's also not a given that all print strips are uncreative crap. Strips like "Get Fuzzy," "Pearls before Swine" and "Boondocks" are all just as good, if not better, than even the top-tier webcomics.
Besides, how many webcomics did jokes about how big the X-Box is? How much character development have Tycho and Gabe undergone over the run of Penny Arcade? Webcomics can be just as predictable and static as the newspaper funny pages
Also, I'd like to comment on Real Life Comics that it's cute, at times. Whenever the guy is completely obsessed with something painfully irrelevant to his readers and he continues to post shitty strips about it for weeks after, it's not cute. Really, I quit reading it after reading on and on for about three weeks about the guy whining about losing something irrelevant in a MMORPG and the fact he got a net girlfriend.
If you were to ask me which webcomic was the stereotype for webcomics I would have to say RealLife Comics. And I mean that in all it's intedended good and bad. I mean how many other webcomics are exaggerated stories about the game-obsessed friends of the creative staff?
You shall observe that upon death, the player is not forced to replay anything, or to restart the game. They are merely returned to the local temple, less a few XP and gold, ready to return to the fray if they so choose.
It's more than just a little XP and gold. I don't remember exactly but the cost is like 10% of your XP plus 50*your level in gold. Even in NWN it is far cheaper to save your game before a big fight and reload if you die. It also doesn't hurt to assign the stone of recall to a quickslot and be quick on the function key when your HP gets low:)
For example, more people die from water than terrorism. I don't see the current administration setting up surveillence cameras in each of our swimming pools...
Just wait, i believe it's next on Ashcroft's schedule, after Bongs...
I'm not in any way trying to bash Apple. My point is that I think they would draw a larger crowd if they were to drop the prices on the machines. Granted, a Mac normally comes with higher qualtiy parts than say a Dell or HP, but I feel they are loosing market share by their price point.
And just how much does a Dell with dual P4s, a 23" LCD, SATA, PCI-X, Firewire 800, Superdrive, etc. cost? For what Apple puts in the box the price is fair. If you want low end buy an eMac or iMac.
BUT when he became Vice President, what kind of car was he motoring down the streets of Washington, D.C. in? A huge double-stretched Lincoln Town Car limousene...probably getting 1 mile per gallon if he's lucky. Ditto for Clinton and the rest of his entourage touring the city. Their attitude (I mean politicians in general) is that the huddled masses should suffer while they live in luxury. I think that car choice should be that...a CHOICE,
I suspect the Secret Service would object to the President and Vice President riding around in anything but the tanks disguised as limos they provide. After all, it's not like anybody's tried to kill the President before.
Your real point is certainly well taken, though the difference between want and need is quite vast. In otherwords, if you need a pick-up buy a pick-up; but if you just need a car buy a car, it's the more practical purchase anyways.
How many movies show large NVA units, or artillery on either side? How many movies even mention the NVA? At this point, I think most people think the war was fought entirely between the US (French? What French? Aussies? Canadians?) and the Viet Cong.
Interestingly enough I had a history prof who insisted that Viet Cong was an invention of the Americans who didn't really understand the Vietnamese Order of Battle. I wish I could remember his reasoning for that statement.
At the risk of sending this totally off the rails the only movies that comes to mind quickly are We Were Soldiers and Flight of the Intruder.
The same is not at all true for the Mac. You can forget off the shelf for starters. If you're lucky you'll find some third party who'll sell you some solution for your particular model, but you'll most likely be hobbled by the original motherboard architecture (e.g. some kludge to fit a G4 into a G3 socket), memory limitations, bus speed etc. or expect to do major surgery to do it.
Kludge? Wha? G3 and G4 chips both use ZIF sockets, just pop the old chip out and drop the new chip in. iMacs might be different, as are powerbooks, but laptops are never designed to be easily upgradeable, and the iMac --the first model anyway-- is essentially a laptop with a CRT. G5's might break the trend, but for the line of machines that Apple's designated as upgradeable (the PowerMac line) they can have every component down to the motherboard replaced by the end user, and in a case more elegant than most Wintel boxes. Even the beige towers are pretty well designed, though nowhere nearly as cool as the case design they introduced with the B&W towers.
Anyway, the breakneck pace of obsolescence is not unique to the Mac community, i mean how often do Intel and AMD introduce new chips?
As a matter of fact, current developer seeds of Panther aren't supported on Macs that didn't come with built-in USB, which includes all beige G3s. Ten bucks says Panther isn't going to run on this guy's beige box, regardless of how you feel about that.
Then again, those beige boxes are now 5 to 6 years old and it's time to upgrade them. Apple started including built-in USB 5 years ago, and it's been standard across their entire product line for, what, 3 to 4 years? So when Apple says they're dropping support of systems that do not have built-in USB it's just because those systems have reached the end of their lifespan. It's not like they're saying every thing before 2001 is now obsolete, we're talking about systems that were introduced in 1997, are we really surprised that they're dropping support for systems that old?
I don't know about you, but I feel rather uneasy about the whole prospect. Macs are hardly known for their long shelf life (i.e. builtin obscelesence) so it seems that the best strategy is to wait for a machine which actually delivers on its promises (and throws in some extra Ghz in the meantime) and not some half baked go-between.
Actually, back when I was working for my alma mater's academic IT department the life-span of a Mac was 5 years, and they've been pretty good at keeping the old stuff working with the new stuff, recent lawsuits nonwithstanding.
Then again Apple does update their product line on a pretty quick basis. They're like the auto industry in that way. Every year car makers come out with the latest design of their models with all sorts of new whiz-bangs. Hell, Dell and the boys are the same way, only difference is that Apple makes a big show out of their new model years computers, like the auto industry.
I don't think it's being too unrealistic to expect that we will be able to manipulate matter at a subatomic level within a few hundred years, and when we do have that capability we can alter the waste so that it is harmless.
Here's hoping nothing goes wrong in those couple hundred years.
The difference is that Hitler advocated the extermination of several groups of people, the pro-abortion rights crowd merely opposes the criminalization of the act of abortion. They do not endorse the act nor do they suggest that it should enter into widespread use. The pro-abortion rights crowd is simply making sure that people who do choose to have an abortion can get one in as safe an environment as possible.
Beyond that there's not much point in debating with a person who's so intractable he's cut and pasting the same reply to every post here that disagrees with him.
You're missing something. The recall is not dependant on the population of the state or the number of registered voters. It's a percentage of the number of people that voted in the last election. If I'm not mistaken, it's 15%. That should be a big wake up call to all the idiots out here (yes, I live in California) that don't get out and vote. I think turnout in the last election was about 40% of the registered population (it could be lower, I can't remember right now) which means that Davis only one by a little over half of that, about 25-30%.
That's pretty typical across the country, the turnout is abysmal, even in presidental election years. Wasn't it under 50% in 2000? Makes you wonder what the political landscape would look like if the turnout was even just 10-25% higher.
So it requires 10% of the total voter turnout, doesn't that help prove my point since you need an even smaller percentage of the total population? Or can you only ask the people who actually voted if they suppor the recall, and is there even a mechanism to know that? My point is that there are probably more than 900,000 republicans in california, and i know there are more than 900000 democrats. What's to stop another recall initiative being put forward by the loosing party of this one? And so on and so forth. If you try hard enough you can come up with some dirt on anyone.
One final thought, wasn't the great apology for the budget deficits under Reagen was that Congress passed all the budgets, is not the same true in California? Why is it that Reagen gets a pass for the crippling federal deficits of the 1980's while Davis is being run out of office? Not that I care greatly. I know there are some people who are worried that GOP governor will through the state to Duhbya in '04, but I'm not convinced the governor can influence a state to that greatly, Engler was a big Bush backer but Michigan still voted for Gore in '04.
I think the recall is unfair because it required so few signatures in relation to the size of the state. They needed what, 900,000 signatures to move the recall initiative forward? And the state has how many people living there? it's between 40-60 million right? So by my math that means roughly 2% of the population needs to be peeved at the govenor to start a recall. That just does not sound like that much a "vote of no confidence" to me. Or am I missing something here?
Oh well, the mood of the country is supposedly determined by asking a couple thousand "random" people so i guess in those terms california was more precise.:/
You know, i never really got a handle on Dick Posthumus's politics...i voted against him mostly because he was Engler's successor...and he has one of the most unfortunate names i've ever heard:)
The best console FPS IMO is Time Splitters 2, a game which has a lot more interesting things to do to get around the limitations of the console.
Time Splitters 2, ugh, for whatever reason I get major motion sickness whenever I play it. I'd much rather play Halo, even if the ending is kind of weak, and the levels are repetative.
I bought a 10Gb second-gen back in February and it is possibly the finest purchase I have made all year. I find I get sort of close to the 10 hour mark with the battery, somewhere between nine to ten hours but i haven't timed it out exactly. I use it at work on a daily basis. I don't even bother with playlists, I just set it to random, hit play and let it go all day long. My only regret is that I did not buy a better case sooner; there's a faint scratch on the screen. I briefly toyed with getting a Nomad, or an Archos, but in the end I had to get the iPod.
If you're looking for a good pair of in-ear headphones I recommend looking up the etymonic line. Quite pricey, but apparently worth the money.
Haha what? You mean apple made an innovation to a mouse? Next to the single button whats next, the single button keyboard? I sure hope its the ESC key.
No, it's the "Any" key.
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Actually, Steve kept the "i" when he dropped the interim. He though it went well with iMac, iTunes, iLife, iChat, etc. One of his more, er, conceited moves, but that's Steve for you. :D
-sam
There's a long passage in Executive Orders/Decisions/the one with ebola, about the new Secretary of Treasury trying to get the tax laws changed, and how the current system is too cumbersome, wrongheaded, just Clancy using his characters to espouse his political beliefs.
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I didn't say that PA lacks the funny; merely that the strip is very static in terms of characters and humor. In that respect PA is not much different from Peanuts or Garfield. If PA continues for as long as a strip like Garfield has, and Gabe and Tycho continue to do the same style of humor, then people will be saying they're beating the horse into the ground, much like what people now say about Garfield. It's more a function of time than anything else.
-sam
There are also comic strips that run in real time and let the characters grow and change, and then there are strips in between. "For Better or For Worse," "Luann", "Crankshaft", "The Norm", and "Doonesbury" all experience the passage of time and character growth in one form or another.
The Funny pages are as much a place for "comfort" good as they are cutting edge humor. Most of the big hitters have been in the game for twenty years or more, people are familiar with them and they don't like chance. For years the Detroit Free Press tried to drop Modesty Blaise but everytime they did there were howls of protests. In fact, when artist/writer of Modesty Blaise decided to end the strip the Freep had to run a notice that the strip was over for a week in the strip's palce to make sure people were clear on what happened.
Then again the technical quality of most of the strips that run in your local paper are better than most of the web comics out there. It's also not a given that all print strips are uncreative crap. Strips like "Get Fuzzy," "Pearls before Swine" and "Boondocks" are all just as good, if not better, than even the top-tier webcomics.
Besides, how many webcomics did jokes about how big the X-Box is? How much character development have Tycho and Gabe undergone over the run of Penny Arcade? Webcomics can be just as predictable and static as the newspaper funny pages
-sam, really should start outlining his
If you were to ask me which webcomic was the stereotype for webcomics I would have to say RealLife Comics. And I mean that in all it's intedended good and bad. I mean how many other webcomics are exaggerated stories about the game-obsessed friends of the creative staff?
-sam
It's more than just a little XP and gold. I don't remember exactly but the cost is like 10% of your XP plus 50*your level in gold. Even in NWN it is far cheaper to save your game before a big fight and reload if you die. It also doesn't hurt to assign the stone of recall to a quickslot and be quick on the function key when your HP gets low :)
-sam
Just wait, i believe it's next on Ashcroft's schedule, after Bongs...
-sam
Fine Xeon, the point still stands
-sam
And just how much does a Dell with dual P4s, a 23" LCD, SATA, PCI-X, Firewire 800, Superdrive, etc. cost? For what Apple puts in the box the price is fair. If you want low end buy an eMac or iMac.
-sam
So in other words it's a marketing department.
But seriously, the G5 looks like it's going to be fast enough to make the speed differential negligible.
-sam
I suspect the Secret Service would object to the President and Vice President riding around in anything but the tanks disguised as limos they provide. After all, it's not like anybody's tried to kill the President before.
Your real point is certainly well taken, though the difference between want and need is quite vast. In otherwords, if you need a pick-up buy a pick-up; but if you just need a car buy a car, it's the more practical purchase anyways.
-sam
Interestingly enough I had a history prof who insisted that Viet Cong was an invention of the Americans who didn't really understand the Vietnamese Order of Battle. I wish I could remember his reasoning for that statement.
At the risk of sending this totally off the rails the only movies that comes to mind quickly are We Were Soldiers and Flight of the Intruder.
-sam
Kludge? Wha? G3 and G4 chips both use ZIF sockets, just pop the old chip out and drop the new chip in. iMacs might be different, as are powerbooks, but laptops are never designed to be easily upgradeable, and the iMac --the first model anyway-- is essentially a laptop with a CRT. G5's might break the trend, but for the line of machines that Apple's designated as upgradeable (the PowerMac line) they can have every component down to the motherboard replaced by the end user, and in a case more elegant than most Wintel boxes. Even the beige towers are pretty well designed, though nowhere nearly as cool as the case design they introduced with the B&W towers.
Anyway, the breakneck pace of obsolescence is not unique to the Mac community, i mean how often do Intel and AMD introduce new chips?
-sam
Wasn't Martin Brodeur on the cover of NHL 96? He hasn't experienced any major injuries since then. -sam
Then again, those beige boxes are now 5 to 6 years old and it's time to upgrade them. Apple started including built-in USB 5 years ago, and it's been standard across their entire product line for, what, 3 to 4 years? So when Apple says they're dropping support of systems that do not have built-in USB it's just because those systems have reached the end of their lifespan. It's not like they're saying every thing before 2001 is now obsolete, we're talking about systems that were introduced in 1997, are we really surprised that they're dropping support for systems that old?
-sam
Actually, back when I was working for my alma mater's academic IT department the life-span of a Mac was 5 years, and they've been pretty good at keeping the old stuff working with the new stuff, recent lawsuits nonwithstanding.
Then again Apple does update their product line on a pretty quick basis. They're like the auto industry in that way. Every year car makers come out with the latest design of their models with all sorts of new whiz-bangs. Hell, Dell and the boys are the same way, only difference is that Apple makes a big show out of their new model years computers, like the auto industry.
-samI don't think it's being too unrealistic to expect that we will be able to manipulate matter at a subatomic level within a few hundred years, and when we do have that capability we can alter the waste so that it is harmless.
Here's hoping nothing goes wrong in those couple hundred years.
-sam*sigh* I'll bite.
The difference is that Hitler advocated the extermination of several groups of people, the pro-abortion rights crowd merely opposes the criminalization of the act of abortion. They do not endorse the act nor do they suggest that it should enter into widespread use. The pro-abortion rights crowd is simply making sure that people who do choose to have an abortion can get one in as safe an environment as possible.
Beyond that there's not much point in debating with a person who's so intractable he's cut and pasting the same reply to every post here that disagrees with him.
-samThat's pretty typical across the country, the turnout is abysmal, even in presidental election years. Wasn't it under 50% in 2000? Makes you wonder what the political landscape would look like if the turnout was even just 10-25% higher.
So it requires 10% of the total voter turnout, doesn't that help prove my point since you need an even smaller percentage of the total population? Or can you only ask the people who actually voted if they suppor the recall, and is there even a mechanism to know that? My point is that there are probably more than 900,000 republicans in california, and i know there are more than 900000 democrats. What's to stop another recall initiative being put forward by the loosing party of this one? And so on and so forth. If you try hard enough you can come up with some dirt on anyone.
One final thought, wasn't the great apology for the budget deficits under Reagen was that Congress passed all the budgets, is not the same true in California? Why is it that Reagen gets a pass for the crippling federal deficits of the 1980's while Davis is being run out of office? Not that I care greatly. I know there are some people who are worried that GOP governor will through the state to Duhbya in '04, but I'm not convinced the governor can influence a state to that greatly, Engler was a big Bush backer but Michigan still voted for Gore in '04.
-samI think the recall is unfair because it required so few signatures in relation to the size of the state. They needed what, 900,000 signatures to move the recall initiative forward? And the state has how many people living there? it's between 40-60 million right? So by my math that means roughly 2% of the population needs to be peeved at the govenor to start a recall. That just does not sound like that much a "vote of no confidence" to me. Or am I missing something here?
Oh well, the mood of the country is supposedly determined by asking a couple thousand "random" people so i guess in those terms california was more precise. :/
-samYou know, i never really got a handle on Dick Posthumus's politics...i voted against him mostly because he was Engler's successor...and he has one of the most unfortunate names i've ever heard :)
-samTime Splitters 2, ugh, for whatever reason I get major motion sickness whenever I play it. I'd much rather play Halo, even if the ending is kind of weak, and the levels are repetative.
-samI bought a 10Gb second-gen back in February and it is possibly the finest purchase I have made all year. I find I get sort of close to the 10 hour mark with the battery, somewhere between nine to ten hours but i haven't timed it out exactly. I use it at work on a daily basis. I don't even bother with playlists, I just set it to random, hit play and let it go all day long. My only regret is that I did not buy a better case sooner; there's a faint scratch on the screen. I briefly toyed with getting a Nomad, or an Archos, but in the end I had to get the iPod.
If you're looking for a good pair of in-ear headphones I recommend looking up the etymonic line. Quite pricey, but apparently worth the money.
-samHaha what? You mean apple made an innovation to a mouse? Next to the single button whats next, the single button keyboard? I sure hope its the ESC key. No, it's the "Any" key. -sam