You could throw in Escape from Butcher Bay while you're at it. It was made around the same time as Dark Fury and Chronicles of Riddick, but is chronologically a prequel to Pitch Black.
That's also the biggest reason why I'd rather see a movie on DVD than go to the theaters. The emphasis here is "per person". I have three kids and where I live it costs ~$12/person to see a new movie, and concession cost is maybe ~$6/person. That's $90 to see a movie with my family.
I'd rather use that money to buy 5-6 DVDs that I can watch over and over again and have the luxury to pause it when anybody has to take a pee break or answer the phone.
Granted, some movies are still worth seeing in the theatres, but it's only 3-4 movies per year.
It undermines the spirit of the game "Monopoly". It does not undermine the spirit of the meta-game being played by (in this case) Parker Brothers against other board game manufacturers. If being able to buy Boardwalk for $5 makes Monopoly more fun to play, odds are greater that I'll buy Monopoly. (And if it makes Monopoly suck, I'll be less likely to buy the game.)
I don't care if a group of guys in a cabin out at sea playing Monolopy do this (whether they think it's fun or not), because... well... it doesn't affect me in the least and it doesn't affect Parker Brothers. Monopoly is sold with static content and you can not produce inflation or artificial shortage in one Monopoly game by playing another Monopoly game somewhere else.
Blizzard is selling accounts that come with dynamic content and the supply of that content can in many ways be controlled by other people playing on other accounts somewhere else. When Joe Schmoe decides to hand over some dough for some game content I want, he's encouraging the seller to continue hogging that content, directly affecting my gameplay, whether I like it or not.
Just don't forget to let the megamulti know about it. It's better for all of us if they know what they're doing wrong than having them watch profit slowly decline and maybe not having a clue about why.
VB macros are (pure ass but) unavoidable when you deal with gov'ment forms
Ain't that the truth. A friend of mine works for a government institution that uses MS Office. It wil cost them $260,000 to upgrade all their licences.
The sad thing is, they considered OpenOffice, but due to the lack of VB script support, they're gonna cough up the money and upgrade their licenses instead.
While we're on the subject of interesting and silly backup formats, here's an idea I read from a book (can't remember the title, sorry) about logical impossibilities and paradoxes:
An alien visits Earth and gathers all the information from all the books it can find. Its mission is to take this information to its home planet for study. Taking all the books would be too cumbersome. Even putting the data on hard disks would be too cumbersome (we're talking about a lot of data). How does the alien do it?
The alien has a very precise measuring instrument that he uses to mark a stick, the idea being that there is a infinite number of possible places to mark the stick, and dividing the length of one side with the other gives a real number that's decoded into data of 1's and 0's.
Being a true geek, I actually thought about buying one of these, but then I visualized many frantic mornings, thinking I'm late for work and rush out at 4am instead of 8am.
...that he was fired for security reasons, but because he got fired, his blog and picture have been viewed by more people than would ever have seen it if he hadn't gotten fired.
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You could throw in Escape from Butcher Bay while you're at it. It was made around the same time as Dark Fury and Chronicles of Riddick, but is chronologically a prequel to Pitch Black.
For a second there I thought you were talking about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
It's $7/person to get into the theater,
That's also the biggest reason why I'd rather see a movie on DVD than go to the theaters. The emphasis here is "per person". I have three kids and where I live it costs ~$12/person to see a new movie, and concession cost is maybe ~$6/person. That's $90 to see a movie with my family.
I'd rather use that money to buy 5-6 DVDs that I can watch over and over again and have the luxury to pause it when anybody has to take a pee break or answer the phone.
Granted, some movies are still worth seeing in the theatres, but it's only 3-4 movies per year.
Just be sure to be covered with Old Glory Robot Insurance.
And the foreign investors are getting very nervous as the dollar continues to slide.
:)
I have a solution: change currency. Drop the dollar and take up, say, Euro.
I don't care if a group of guys in a cabin out at sea playing Monolopy do this (whether they think it's fun or not), because... well... it doesn't affect me in the least and it doesn't affect Parker Brothers. Monopoly is sold with static content and you can not produce inflation or artificial shortage in one Monopoly game by playing another Monopoly game somewhere else.
Blizzard is selling accounts that come with dynamic content and the supply of that content can in many ways be controlled by other people playing on other accounts somewhere else. When Joe Schmoe decides to hand over some dough for some game content I want, he's encouraging the seller to continue hogging that content, directly affecting my gameplay, whether I like it or not.
You can reach their IT department (I'm presuming they have a say in the web development) at Itrep@uat.edu
WoW is only available in the U.S., New Zealand, Australia and South Korea if I'm not mistaken.
Prepare to see the WoW sales increase even further when they open up for Europe and the rest of the world.
You mean like the one you get when you do Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> Plug-ins... ?
Just don't forget to let the megamulti know about it. It's better for all of us if they know what they're doing wrong than having them watch profit slowly decline and maybe not having a clue about why.
I know it's a false claim, but fun nonetheless:
What a "Home computer" would look like in 2004.
Nothing is impossible.
I challenge you to lick your own elbow.
VB macros are (pure ass but) unavoidable when you deal with gov'ment forms
Ain't that the truth. A friend of mine works for a government institution that uses MS Office. It wil cost them $260,000 to upgrade all their licences.
The sad thing is, they considered OpenOffice, but due to the lack of VB script support, they're gonna cough up the money and upgrade their licenses instead.
Fairly expensive macros, wouldn't you say?
Same goes for Burma.
Seeing as there is no combat in ATITD, I'd say this article is filed under the wrong dept.
While we're on the subject of interesting and silly backup formats, here's an idea I read from a book (can't remember the title, sorry) about logical impossibilities and paradoxes:
An alien visits Earth and gathers all the information from all the books it can find. Its mission is to take this information to its home planet for study. Taking all the books would be too cumbersome. Even putting the data on hard disks would be too cumbersome (we're talking about a lot of data). How does the alien do it?
The alien has a very precise measuring instrument that he uses to mark a stick, the idea being that there is a infinite number of possible places to mark the stick, and dividing the length of one side with the other gives a real number that's decoded into data of 1's and 0's.
All the information in the world in a stick.
Aaarrgghh! Too many Star Wars jokes - must mock kherr!
Being a true geek, I actually thought about buying one of these, but then I visualized many frantic mornings, thinking I'm late for work and rush out at 4am instead of 8am.
No, TOLR!
Not everybody lives where TiVo is available.
I know, you can make one yourself, but not everybody has the technological experience to do it either.
...that he was fired for security reasons, but because he got fired, his blog and picture have been viewed by more people than would ever have seen it if he hadn't gotten fired.
Fate, it seems, is not without its sense of irony
Teacher: Billy, who was the first president?
Billy: Uhm... Microsoft?
Teacher: Partial credit!
I for one welcome our new... ehm... comet overlo.. I'm sorry, I can't do this.