I live in Omaha, and go there at least once a year.
My only complaint is that once Simmons creates an exhibit... that's it. It seems if any part of it breaks, or starts to wear down, it just stays that way forever, until it's "replaced" by a new exhibit for people to go to.
For instance, in the aquarium, in the first room they have a huge 3-part screen that loops a video. Unfortunately, it's the same video that's been running since the damn thing opened more than 10 years ago - you can tell the film has seen better days, and I wonder if any gift shop works have gone crazy listening to that music over and over.
The rest of it is awesome, especially that tube of jellyfish. I haven't checked to see if they've completed that "tides" exhibit next to it though - always seems to be a work in progress.
Same with the Lied Jungle too. It used to have a lot more stuff to see, but an entire pathway has been closed off since it opened. I forget what was even back there now.
Their new thing is the brand new Gorilla complex, and they're working on getting a Panda (they're building the entire panda house, and they haven't even been guaranteed it yet!)
Also, they're FINALLY revamping the Mutual of Omaha building after almost 20 years.
Finally, go check out the cool rotating globe of Earth in front of the desert dome. My challenge to you is to stop it from spinning - I've only done it once, and had like 6 kids helping me out. Of course we made it spin again, but that was fun to finally accomplish after so many years of attempts:)
Here in Nebraska, a boyfriend of a missing woman (Jessica O'Grady) was successfully convicted of murder. They've never found her body.
Her mattress, walls, and ceiling were COVERED in her blood. Soaked. Seeing as how she never checked into a hospital, it's safe to assume she is not alive today.
IIRC, the defense lawyer tried to say that the blood came from her period. Yeah, sure.
I'm not sure about this, but could they miniaturize the electronics needed to listen for and recieve the signal from the atomic clock in order to maintain calibration? I've been seeing smaller and smaller clocks and i think even a watch that set themselves using that now.
I had doubleclick all blocked off, and I wanted to see a video on MTV's website (a year or two back). I couldn't get the videos to load until I temporarily unblocked DoubleClick.
I prefer sites like GameTrailers, IGN, etc, that have a "fallback mode" if you can't see the ad. It just skips the ad and gives you the content, because they figure you weren't going to look at it anyway.
Have they ever really been multiplatform, though? Yeah, Half Life 1 ran on OpenGL, but that was probably because the engine they bought from id ran on it. And from what I remember, Half Life 1 never got a Mac or Linux port.
They've probably done some studies and decided that the Mac FPS market is not for them at this moment. That pretty much belongs to UT2K4 and Halo.
Not everyone in Omaha agrees with the lopsided power balance. I'm very glad that the other areas of the state were able to kill off the casino-related bills. It was crazy when they showed the map of the voting turnout: all the counties that voted in majority of legalizing casinos were all on the eastern border. Every single other county voted against it.
Heck, they even run roughshod over anything that isn't Downtown or West Omaha (South Omaha gets the short end of the stick, tons of abandoned houses in North Omaha, OPS trying to take over all the schools, annexing Elkhorn when we're having a budget problem..)
The petition laws were changed because we had waaaay too many out-of-state interests and companies spamming us with petitions, especially the Casinos, because their bank account for spending on it is for all intents and purposes, bottomless. Half the people that you saw hawking petitions didn't even live in Nebraska and got paid per signature! I couldn't even take a walk in the Old Market in Omaha each night without someone bugging me to sign a petition.
Almost every house in Omaha is already photographed and can be pulled up from the Douglas County Assessor's website. If also available, you can get the floorplan for the house, see it's last appraised worth, etc.
The photographs are always taken from the street and you never see people in them. The only name attached to the files are the owners of the property. Heck, my mom's house is 75% covered by the tree in front of it - even though they took the picture at an angle.
When I worked at the library, we used this site to look up people that did not have a ID with an address inside the county but owned property inside the county, which qualified them for a free library card.
Because we all know war and poverty can be ended with just 990 million dollars.
It's good faith. If the goverment is going to force everyone to either get a new TV (especially when TV is actually useful as a warning system. How many of you turn on the TV when the weather starts getting bad?) or a converter box, then they should help people make the transition. Otherwise, they would spend much more trying to forever support people still using the old standard. As long as these companies make the boxes for like 20$, and not just 40$ each to capitalize on the vouchers.
Perhaps stores could even offer to sell you a box and home installation in exchange for the 40$ voucher, which would be very helpful to the elderly or the technophobes.
Not really. It didn't affect Xbox360s before October 31st.
So, the only way to have an "open" 360 is to have:
1) Bought a 360 before October 31st.
2) Have updated your 360 on or shortly after October 31st.
3) Have never signed into Live since January 9th or so (unlikely, since that was shortly after Xmas and a lot of people that fell into #1 and #2 would have more than likely been playing a game they got for Xmas)
If you buy a 360 now, they still have the unaffected launch dashboard/BIOS/whatever. And the only way to patch them up is to get the cumulative patch up to this point. Any 360 they sell after this point is safe, and all 360s that signed on to Live since Jan 9 are also safe, which leaves a very small section of 360s that still have this exploit.
I probably would not have a TV either, except I need it to play my consoles - otherwise, it stays off (except for the occasional Family Guy, and Local news if something interesting is happening)
I sure hope the next president has an easily modifiable middle name. Otherwise you guys might have to come up with something actually clever to make fun of him/her.
Or think about it this way: 6-8 million subscribers under the population of both China and the US: 1 billion and 260 million.
Here's some other numbers:
Copies of Halo 2 sold: 7 million+
People that ever took it online: 1.2 million
Active userbase of Halo 2 per day at any time: 30,000- 100,000
You can see the daily stats of the game here: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/
I think what the guy was really trying to say though, (and I agree with him as a game developer) is that the new "every game must have online!" is stupid. It takes away from the focus on the actual -game-, and if a game doesn't have an online mode, it's really hard to miss something you never had. It also sucks when a game DOES have an online mode, but executes it poorly (see: most EA online games like Burnout 3 and NFS). Thank god they finally just decided not to include it at all in Carbon for Xbox.
Sure, online modes have their place (First Person Shooters, MMO's, etc) but they shouldn't be crammed in to every single game just to have online.
It's probably not blurred because it's at least 4 years old... they don't do many flyovers of Omaha, apparently.
If you go look at downtown Omaha, it still shows the new Union Pacific building starting construction. That's been completed and operational for a long time.
It seems it's definable by the phone provider. We have Cox Cable and Qwest providing phone service here in Omaha, and I've had them both within a short span of each other. You can skip to the end of the message on Cox's voice mail, but you have to wait until the end in Qwest's. It's the same system, same voice, same menu options.
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The day they do that is the day everyone jumps ship from the GPL.
I live in Omaha, and go there at least once a year.
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My only complaint is that once Simmons creates an exhibit... that's it. It seems if any part of it breaks, or starts to wear down, it just stays that way forever, until it's "replaced" by a new exhibit for people to go to.
For instance, in the aquarium, in the first room they have a huge 3-part screen that loops a video. Unfortunately, it's the same video that's been running since the damn thing opened more than 10 years ago - you can tell the film has seen better days, and I wonder if any gift shop works have gone crazy listening to that music over and over.
The rest of it is awesome, especially that tube of jellyfish. I haven't checked to see if they've completed that "tides" exhibit next to it though - always seems to be a work in progress.
Same with the Lied Jungle too. It used to have a lot more stuff to see, but an entire pathway has been closed off since it opened. I forget what was even back there now.
Their new thing is the brand new Gorilla complex, and they're working on getting a Panda (they're building the entire panda house, and they haven't even been guaranteed it yet!)
Also, they're FINALLY revamping the Mutual of Omaha building after almost 20 years.
Finally, go check out the cool rotating globe of Earth in front of the desert dome. My challenge to you is to stop it from spinning - I've only done it once, and had like 6 kids helping me out. Of course we made it spin again, but that was fun to finally accomplish after so many years of attempts
Nebraska's has a bar code on the back, but I've yet to see -any- place that makes use of them.
Here in Nebraska, a boyfriend of a missing woman (Jessica O'Grady) was successfully convicted of murder. They've never found her body.
Her mattress, walls, and ceiling were COVERED in her blood. Soaked. Seeing as how she never checked into a hospital, it's safe to assume she is not alive today.
IIRC, the defense lawyer tried to say that the blood came from her period. Yeah, sure.
I'm not sure about this, but could they miniaturize the electronics needed to listen for and recieve the signal from the atomic clock in order to maintain calibration? I've been seeing smaller and smaller clocks and i think even a watch that set themselves using that now.
I wonder if this is due to having a botnet being more useful than killing off potentional zombies.
I had doubleclick all blocked off, and I wanted to see a video on MTV's website (a year or two back). I couldn't get the videos to load until I temporarily unblocked DoubleClick.
I prefer sites like GameTrailers, IGN, etc, that have a "fallback mode" if you can't see the ad. It just skips the ad and gives you the content, because they figure you weren't going to look at it anyway.
all Xbox 360s are required to at least run in 1024x768 (or close to it, 720p), which also happens to be one of the most popular PC resolutions.
It doesn't matter if you could fit more textures in the game at 480i/p, because then it wouldn't run at the required 720p
Have they ever really been multiplatform, though? Yeah, Half Life 1 ran on OpenGL, but that was probably because the engine they bought from id ran on it. And from what I remember, Half Life 1 never got a Mac or Linux port.
They've probably done some studies and decided that the Mac FPS market is not for them at this moment. That pretty much belongs to UT2K4 and Halo.
Who says a written program has to actually compile? If you spent the time, the missing functions could be replaced with OSS counterparts.
Not everyone in Omaha agrees with the lopsided power balance. I'm very glad that the other areas of the state were able to kill off the casino-related bills. It was crazy when they showed the map of the voting turnout: all the counties that voted in majority of legalizing casinos were all on the eastern border. Every single other county voted against it.
Heck, they even run roughshod over anything that isn't Downtown or West Omaha (South Omaha gets the short end of the stick, tons of abandoned houses in North Omaha, OPS trying to take over all the schools, annexing Elkhorn when we're having a budget problem..)
I live in Nebraska too.. but I thought the Senate terms stuck? 20 senators were ineligible to run again.
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The petition laws were changed because we had waaaay too many out-of-state interests and companies spamming us with petitions, especially the Casinos, because their bank account for spending on it is for all intents and purposes, bottomless. Half the people that you saw hawking petitions didn't even live in Nebraska and got paid per signature! I couldn't even take a walk in the Old Market in Omaha each night without someone bugging me to sign a petition.
Almost every house in Omaha is already photographed and can be pulled up from the Douglas County Assessor's website. If also available, you can get the floorplan for the house, see it's last appraised worth, etc.
The photographs are always taken from the street and you never see people in them. The only name attached to the files are the owners of the property. Heck, my mom's house is 75% covered by the tree in front of it - even though they took the picture at an angle.
When I worked at the library, we used this site to look up people that did not have a ID with an address inside the county but owned property inside the county, which qualified them for a free library card.
It should be pointed out from TFA that you are not eligible to recieve these vouchers if you are subscribing to a satellite or cable service.
Because we all know war and poverty can be ended with just 990 million dollars.
It's good faith. If the goverment is going to force everyone to either get a new TV (especially when TV is actually useful as a warning system. How many of you turn on the TV when the weather starts getting bad?) or a converter box, then they should help people make the transition. Otherwise, they would spend much more trying to forever support people still using the old standard. As long as these companies make the boxes for like 20$, and not just 40$ each to capitalize on the vouchers.
Perhaps stores could even offer to sell you a box and home installation in exchange for the 40$ voucher, which would be very helpful to the elderly or the technophobes.
Not really. It didn't affect Xbox360s before October 31st. So, the only way to have an "open" 360 is to have: 1) Bought a 360 before October 31st. 2) Have updated your 360 on or shortly after October 31st. 3) Have never signed into Live since January 9th or so (unlikely, since that was shortly after Xmas and a lot of people that fell into #1 and #2 would have more than likely been playing a game they got for Xmas) If you buy a 360 now, they still have the unaffected launch dashboard/BIOS/whatever. And the only way to patch them up is to get the cumulative patch up to this point. Any 360 they sell after this point is safe, and all 360s that signed on to Live since Jan 9 are also safe, which leaves a very small section of 360s that still have this exploit.
I probably would not have a TV either, except I need it to play my consoles - otherwise, it stays off (except for the occasional Family Guy, and Local news if something interesting is happening)
When I worked at the library, a majority of the tweens and teens came in just to check/update their MySpace. they didn't even have a computer at home.
So -that- was why my roommate had an entire stack of CF-00040s under his bed for...
I sure hope the next president has an easily modifiable middle name. Otherwise you guys might have to come up with something actually clever to make fun of him/her.
Or think about it this way: 6-8 million subscribers under the population of both China and the US: 1 billion and 260 million. Here's some other numbers: Copies of Halo 2 sold: 7 million+ People that ever took it online: 1.2 million Active userbase of Halo 2 per day at any time: 30,000- 100,000 You can see the daily stats of the game here: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/ I think what the guy was really trying to say though, (and I agree with him as a game developer) is that the new "every game must have online!" is stupid. It takes away from the focus on the actual -game-, and if a game doesn't have an online mode, it's really hard to miss something you never had. It also sucks when a game DOES have an online mode, but executes it poorly (see: most EA online games like Burnout 3 and NFS). Thank god they finally just decided not to include it at all in Carbon for Xbox. Sure, online modes have their place (First Person Shooters, MMO's, etc) but they shouldn't be crammed in to every single game just to have online.
I'm what you would call an atheist, and a Republican. I just kinda phase in and out of reality, because it's like matter and anti-matter.
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It's probably not blurred because it's at least 4 years old... they don't do many flyovers of Omaha, apparently. If you go look at downtown Omaha, it still shows the new Union Pacific building starting construction. That's been completed and operational for a long time.
It seems it's definable by the phone provider. We have Cox Cable and Qwest providing phone service here in Omaha, and I've had them both within a short span of each other. You can skip to the end of the message on Cox's voice mail, but you have to wait until the end in Qwest's. It's the same system, same voice, same menu options.