Samus Aran does not count as the first female action hero. Because no one knew.
I am certain that the designers of Metroid thought it was a guy inside that armor. They just retconned Samus into being female. I mean, by that argument, the character you play in Zork was the first female. And why not?
Have you actually abstracted resize functions into a library? That'd be a sight to see.
The reason no one does that is that all layouts are different, with different things that need to be resized or not, under different conditions. Like, if my window gets too small, this thing needs to be collapsed entirely. Or, as a window gets bigger, another thing only needs to be resized up to a point, then it is more useful to put the extra space somewhere else.
My point is that all these horrible things are happening is because we let it happen.
No! We are not letting it happen. It's the other voters, the dumb-asses, who are letting it happen. We don't want this, and we vote against this, but we are being ignored. And outnumbered. So I think we are entitled to feel that that is not our fault, and there is someone else to blame, and they should be summarily shot or something.
The write-up sounds like Battle-girl, a fast-paced shoot-em-up for the Mac. Unfortunately, it was OS 9. Under OS X, the graphics suffer, and it doesn't really deal with USB controllers as well as it should.
This is an interesting point of view, and not really one I want to argue against. But...let's just say that, when aliens show up, we might have a problem on our hands.
Morality and ethical thinking is why his administration replaced two people from the CDC's panel on lead poisoning with other people tied to the lead industry, right before the CDC was going to recommend tougher laws? Or why an EPA study, showing that a Senate clean-air bill was better than Bush's plan, got suppressed? Or why scientific advisory committees to arms-control departments were disbanded?
In popular vote, it might lose in a few fundamentalist states like Utah, Oklahoma, and Kansas. While you've got them at the polls, you might as well have them pass some referendums against Hip Hop music & videos being broadcast on public airwaves and prohibitions on homosexuals walking within 1000 feet of an elementary school.
That's exactly the point. If this country worked the way it ought to work, states would be different, and you'd move to a state that is in tune with your beliefs.
Right now, we've got a situation where the federal government is trying to enforce the same world-view on everyone in the country. So, duh, of course people get pissed at the government cramming various and sundry laws down their throats!
Disclaimer: I am a plasma physicist working in the magnetic fusion arena.
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
"Disclaimer" here means "take this with a grain of salt; I might be biased." Now, if you weren't actually a plasma physicist--say, if you were a gardener--I could see adding a disclaimer. But since you are a plasma physicist...
You say that driving a stick forces you to use all your limbs and keeps you from, for example, using a cell-phone. Well, my roommate drives stick. But he still talks on his cell-phone while driving, because he has realized that, usually, he won't need to change gears. Of course, if something bad happens, he's screwed. This is a man who really needs an automatic, because he can't drive a stick safely.
See, having a stick won't turn you into a good driver. You have to be a good driver before you can use a stick.
Me, I like automatics. Though I do downshift to my automatic's 3rd and 2nd gear to engine-brake going downhill. Works great.
Something like that happened to me once. I was sound asleep in my dorm when the fire alarm went off. By the time I woke up, I had already stood up on my bed, fists ready, and been looking around and been shouting things like "huh?" and "whazzinon?" for the last 5 seconds.
it would depend on the speed of an appliance's Internet connection and the speed at which the power utility updated its energy forecast
What Internet? What forecast? From the other comments, it seems like the devices look at the power signal itself to determine whether the grid is in trouble or not.
Yes, this is exactly what happened to OS/2. It supported Windows so well, no one bothered to develop OS/2 apps. The same thing happened with the Commodore 128. Since it had C=64 built-in, there weren't really any C=128 games put out on the market--even though the 128 had more memory and a better OS.
It's high time for the music industry to wake up. Digital music delivery systems are the new media of choice.
It's well past high time for them to wake up. At this point, they are like the kid laying in his bed with the noon sun shining through his window, buried under covers with a pillow on his head, muttering "don' wanna geddup, 's Saturday."
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I stand corrected.
Samus Aran does not count as the first female action hero. Because no one knew.
I am certain that the designers of Metroid thought it was a guy inside that armor. They just retconned Samus into being female. I mean, by that argument, the character you play in Zork was the first female. And why not?
Okay, this is the 4th comment that I've received along these lines, telling me to just buy the darn books.
This reminds me of Invader Zim.
"I want my slaw!"
"You have your slaw, sir!"
"I want my slaw!"
"You have your slaw, sir!"
"I want my slaw!"
"You have your slaw, sir!"
Cool. I didn't know there was such a thing as leather mugs.
However, they can't hold coffee. Only cold drinks. Sorry, they can't count.
Have you actually abstracted resize functions into a library? That'd be a sight to see.
The reason no one does that is that all layouts are different, with different things that need to be resized or not, under different conditions. Like, if my window gets too small, this thing needs to be collapsed entirely. Or, as a window gets bigger, another thing only needs to be resized up to a point, then it is more useful to put the extra space somewhere else.
My point is that all these horrible things are happening is because we let it happen.
No! We are not letting it happen. It's the other voters, the dumb-asses, who are letting it happen. We don't want this, and we vote against this, but we are being ignored. And outnumbered. So I think we are entitled to feel that that is not our fault, and there is someone else to blame, and they should be summarily shot or something.
I think that was actually a quote from South Park. So you can't blame it on the AC.
hat must have been heavy as hell... and were if the bullet ever went through, would it carry bits of glass with it?
You'll note they no longer use that kind of vest.
Sounds like you channeled a bit of Bloodhound Gang there...
The write-up sounds like Battle-girl, a fast-paced shoot-em-up for the Mac. Unfortunately, it was OS 9. Under OS X, the graphics suffer, and it doesn't really deal with USB controllers as well as it should.
But it was an awesome game!
This is an interesting point of view, and not really one I want to argue against. But...let's just say that, when aliens show up, we might have a problem on our hands.
Embryonic stem cell research has not produced any treatments yet
Well, it's hard to tell isn't it, seeing as how embryonic stem cell research is so restricted?
Morality and ethical thinking is why his administration replaced two people from the CDC's panel on lead poisoning with other people tied to the lead industry, right before the CDC was going to recommend tougher laws? Or why an EPA study, showing that a Senate clean-air bill was better than Bush's plan, got suppressed? Or why scientific advisory committees to arms-control departments were disbanded?
In popular vote, it might lose in a few fundamentalist states like Utah, Oklahoma, and Kansas. While you've got them at the polls, you might as well have them pass some referendums against Hip Hop music & videos being broadcast on public airwaves and prohibitions on homosexuals walking within 1000 feet of an elementary school.
That's exactly the point. If this country worked the way it ought to work, states would be different, and you'd move to a state that is in tune with your beliefs.
Right now, we've got a situation where the federal government is trying to enforce the same world-view on everyone in the country. So, duh, of course people get pissed at the government cramming various and sundry laws down their throats!
Disclaimer: I am a plasma physicist working in the magnetic fusion arena.
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
"Disclaimer" here means "take this with a grain of salt; I might be biased." Now, if you weren't actually a plasma physicist--say, if you were a gardener--I could see adding a disclaimer. But since you are a plasma physicist...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/08 01_050801_terrorbirds.html
The Terror Bird. It was around at the same time as early man.
You say that driving a stick forces you to use all your limbs and keeps you from, for example, using a cell-phone. Well, my roommate drives stick. But he still talks on his cell-phone while driving, because he has realized that, usually, he won't need to change gears. Of course, if something bad happens, he's screwed. This is a man who really needs an automatic, because he can't drive a stick safely.
See, having a stick won't turn you into a good driver. You have to be a good driver before you can use a stick.
Me, I like automatics. Though I do downshift to my automatic's 3rd and 2nd gear to engine-brake going downhill. Works great.
Something like that happened to me once. I was sound asleep in my dorm when the fire alarm went off. By the time I woke up, I had already stood up on my bed, fists ready, and been looking around and been shouting things like "huh?" and "whazzinon?" for the last 5 seconds.
it would depend on the speed of an appliance's Internet connection and the speed at which the power utility updated its energy forecast
What Internet? What forecast? From the other comments, it seems like the devices look at the power signal itself to determine whether the grid is in trouble or not.
It's pretty awful though.
Well, yeah. I mean, a) it's porn, b) with Daleks.
How could it possibly be good?
*cough* OS/2 *cough*
Yes, this is exactly what happened to OS/2. It supported Windows so well, no one bothered to develop OS/2 apps. The same thing happened with the Commodore 128. Since it had C=64 built-in, there weren't really any C=128 games put out on the market--even though the 128 had more memory and a better OS.
Another Dimension! So THAT's what happened to my little metal scottie dogs!
Um...I think this is supposed to be some kind of Doctor Who reference.
It's high time for the music industry to wake up. Digital music delivery systems are the new media of choice.
It's well past high time for them to wake up. At this point, they are like the kid laying in his bed with the noon sun shining through his window, buried under covers with a pillow on his head, muttering "don' wanna geddup, 's Saturday."