Hmmm. I find this very interesting. Tell me: can anyone do this or do you have to be, like a citizen or something?
Also. Remind me. Where's New Zealand? (I'm American.)
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The full-load scenario is also a factor in trucking though.
A few years ago I moved from Calif. to Wisc. After my stuff was loaded onto the van (about a fourth of the space) the driver said "See you in a week." I wondered why. I was planning on driving the same distance in a couple days. When he said "...maybe more" I asked why. "I can't afford to make the trip without a full load". So as I was hitting the road he was holed up with his cell phone, waiting to hear from the moving company for another east-bound load.
Load time.
I'm on dial-up on one computer and several months ago had to drop Yahoo as my home page because of the bloat. You know how sometimes you want to use the Home icon to bail out of a situation. You want to know ASAP that things have stabilized.
Two points:
Roger Ebert is alive and reviewing movies, just not (currently) on TV.
And B, while I don't always agree with him and his aisle-opposite at least they were/are consistent enough in their criticism that I can get a good idea of what my impressions of the movie in question will be. The raises the point of why review neutrality is important. I don't know, by name, as many game critics as movie critics, but would like to think that whether or not I had the same tastes as a Jeff Gerstmann, at least he would be consistent and unbiased enough that I could use the review for my purchasing decision.
Another factor which I didn't see in a quick scan of the other responses: Americans seem to need, even demand, instant gratification and feedback on an election. After a [too]long campaign, endless TV commercials, countless dinner-time phone calls and a wait in line we can't wait the day and a half it would take to hand-count a complicated ballot. I want to know if my guy won Now! Dammit. We see machines as a way to provide this.
Actually in the early 90s there WAS an "Arkanoid" shareware clone named "Aquanoid". It was quite well-made and even the +/- 20 level demo version very engaging.
You're right though, the lineage properly is: Pong, Breakout, Arkanoid, Others...
Right you are. DOS 5.0 also broke the Point Oh jinx. Before DOS 5 no.0 version of any M$ product was considered stable enough (yet) to be taken seriously. For a few months there it was an era of good feeling toward Redmond. Ahh, the days.
Well said. The only thing I would add is what I always mention when trying to turn someone on to Vonnegut: Read Timequake last. It will make more sense and the other, earlier works will deepen in meaning too.
Also, porn pages are probably more temporary than, say, My First Web Page, with less archiving than a blog or news site. Not that I would know first-hand, of course. But I've heard.
...the lobbyists and permanent committee staff write the laws.
Thanks for making this point. This is the reason I have always been against term limits. It's cynical and shortsighted to say that if we keep rotating "them", elected officials, then we will always have a fresh, responsive, uncorrupted set of representatives.
GP is now moderated funny, which seems correct. At least that's the way I took it.
The whole digg/slashdot dichotomy reminds me of the dial-up days when Compuserve was the professional, nerdy gorilla poking fun at the newby, upstart monkey AOL. By the time AOL swallowed CServe most of the elite had probably moved on but it still must have been a bitter pill.
I always choose USPS if it's an option. FedEx and UPS don't have access to my building's mailbox lobby and USPS does. So for anything smaller than a breadbox (whatever that is) it's more convenient to have the PO deliver it, rather than running around, coordinating delivery by the other guys.
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Hmmm. I find this very interesting. Tell me: can anyone do this or do you have to be, like a citizen or something?
Also. Remind me. Where's New Zealand? (I'm American.)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams
The full-load scenario is also a factor in trucking though.
A few years ago I moved from Calif. to Wisc. After my stuff was loaded onto the van (about a fourth of the space) the driver said "See you in a week." I wondered why. I was planning on driving the same distance in a couple days. When he said "...maybe more" I asked why. "I can't afford to make the trip without a full load". So as I was hitting the road he was holed up with his cell phone, waiting to hear from the moving company for another east-bound load.
In Soviet Korea "What's funny about this" repeating overlords welcome only old people.
Close, but you left out "beowulf cluster", you insensitive clod.
... completing the Pogo reference.
(I wonder how many people will get it.)
Yeah, and that's dog dollars. So that's like what, over $800 a year?
"... there are about a zillion compositions that use this chord progression (I-IV-V)..."
Of course half of them are versions of Louie, Louie
Load time.
I'm on dial-up on one computer and several months ago had to drop Yahoo as my home page because of the bloat. You know how sometimes you want to use the Home icon to bail out of a situation. You want to know ASAP that things have stabilized.
Exactly. If you're taking the trouble to memorize six digits why not "3 1 4 1 5 9".
Two points:
Roger Ebert is alive and reviewing movies, just not (currently) on TV.
And B, while I don't always agree with him and his aisle-opposite at least they were/are consistent enough in their criticism that I can get a good idea of what my impressions of the movie in question will be. The raises the point of why review neutrality is important. I don't know, by name, as many game critics as movie critics, but would like to think that whether or not I had the same tastes as a Jeff Gerstmann, at least he would be consistent and unbiased enough that I could use the review for my purchasing decision.
Another factor which I didn't see in a quick scan of the other responses: Americans seem to need, even demand, instant gratification and feedback on an election. After a [too]long campaign, endless TV commercials, countless dinner-time phone calls and a wait in line we can't wait the day and a half it would take to hand-count a complicated ballot. I want to know if my guy won Now! Dammit. We see machines as a way to provide this.
Actually in the early 90s there WAS an "Arkanoid" shareware clone named "Aquanoid". It was quite well-made and even the +/- 20 level demo version very engaging.
You're right though, the lineage properly is: Pong, Breakout, Arkanoid, Others...
Right you are. DOS 5.0 also broke the Point Oh jinx. Before DOS 5 no .0 version of any M$ product was considered stable enough (yet) to be taken seriously. For a few months there it was an era of good feeling toward Redmond. Ahh, the days.
Well said. The only thing I would add is what I always mention when trying to turn someone on to Vonnegut: Read Timequake last. It will make more sense and the other, earlier works will deepen in meaning too.
Also, porn pages are probably more temporary than, say, My First Web Page, with less archiving than a blog or news site. Not that I would know first-hand, of course. But I've heard.
...the lobbyists and permanent committee staff write the laws.
Thanks for making this point. This is the reason I have always been against term limits. It's cynical and shortsighted to say that if we keep rotating "them", elected officials, then we will always have a fresh, responsive, uncorrupted set of representatives.
Or the only temporarily helpful "slashdotted".
Holy Moly, antdude. Is that the rack room or the hay harvest?
Fraid so. You're stuck here on Slashdot.
(Who's Billy Ray Cyrus?)
...spinning many, many times. ;)
Well, TWICE anyway.
C'mon. It's not that bad, once you get used to always working with a compound arrow/hourglass cursor.
Oops. Right you are. Missed an indent.
GP is now moderated funny, which seems correct. At least that's the way I took it.
The whole digg/slashdot dichotomy reminds me of the dial-up days when Compuserve was the professional, nerdy gorilla poking fun at the newby, upstart monkey AOL. By the time AOL swallowed CServe most of the elite had probably moved on but it still must have been a bitter pill.
I always choose USPS if it's an option. FedEx and UPS don't have access to my building's mailbox lobby and USPS does. So for anything smaller than a breadbox (whatever that is) it's more convenient to have the PO deliver it, rather than running around, coordinating delivery by the other guys.