Nobody cares about my story either AND no one will read it three days later, but here it is. We moved to a new school when I was in third grade, and they gave me a placement test to determine my English ability. It was Dick and Jane stuff, which I had never seen before (I read Watership Down when I was in Kindergarten. I had started reading at age 2). Needless to say, I scored perfectly, which the school could hardly believe. So they put me in the Advanced course, with the _other_ two gifted students in the school.
On the first day of Advanced, we went to the computer room where they had six PET computers. Our treat for being Advanced students was to get to type in a program in BASIC and run it. Since my family had had a Vic 20 for a couple years, and since the BASIC language is pretty much the same for both, I read the code and told the other two what would happen when we ran it.
Kicked. Out. And in record time, no doubt.
I was never allowed around the PET computers again.
*sigh*
In high school, they gave the IT duties to the volleyball coach (for real). I don't know how he ended up with the task, but he kept grabbing me out of sixth period (which was his free period, but I had Geology) so I could help him with computer problems. I flunked Geology. Good times.:-(
Prelude is nowhere near as fun/polished as TFV. There are bits of dialog that make me wonder if the creators were paying attention AT ALL when they played Portal themselves (so many things in Prelude don't make sense). I'm trying very hard not to come out and say that Prelude was intelligence-insultingly dumb, but there it is.
However, it was quite challenging, and if THAT is what you're looking for, Prelude has it in abundance.
But of the two, I highly HIGHLY recommend TFV, and I will outright DISrecommend Prelude. Prelude was way hyped when it came out and was a terrible disappointment. And, not that it has a bearing on quality, but TFV has a comparatively tiny download (as it mostly reuses the resources in Portal and HL2). 40 megs, vs the 20-times-larger 800+ meg Prelude.
(I may perhaps be a little bitter regarding Prelude, as I was really looking forward to its release. And I will say that it is maybe a bit better than a lot of the stand-alone fan maps. But Portal and TFV were so, SO much better.)
While you're waiting for Portal 2, play the FV mappack if you haven't already. It introduces some new game mechanics, and would itself have been an OK sequel (or prequel), except it's a totally free mod instead.
The question is, after the attempts to scale it back to a much more exclusive event has E3 managed to escape obscurity and defeat at the hands of up-and-comers like PAX?
E3 is about games. PAX is about gamers.
They're fundamentally different, and not really in competition with each other. I'm not sure where the submitter even got this question; E3 battling obscurity isn't mentioned in the article, nor is PAX, nor other expos at all.
Did you mean speech to text? I dunno, here's an actual Google Voice transcription I got recently:
well google voice driver back man on the day he how you're doing at all so lee the four on friday i'm at in the review and anyway gimme a call back i'll talk to you later bye
Multiple small warheads can be more efficient than one large one. And ironically, small warheads are "cleaner", making less fallout.
I thought the opposite was true: the more powerful the blast, the greater percentage of radioactive particles sent into the upper atmosphere where they decay out of harm's way. Am I the only one that read the high energy weapons FAQ that came with Fallout 1?
[...] the developers will find a way to increase memory usage to compensate, perhaps by having to remember the entire memory state of each paused tab or some such.
As opposed to the current system where running tabs DON'T remember the entire memory state?
I'm not sure what variable types you're thinking of, but this seems to simply be the difference between executing the next instruction or waiting at the current position. Neither affects memory.
A possible way to implement something akin to this, if tabs did run in separate processes, would be to idle the processes that aren't the active tab. They'd still run, if necessary, but it would be at a lower priority than any normal process (including the active tab).
I read your post with the Brawndo/PowerThirst voice in my head.
It's like shaving your chest with a lawnmower! That sounds dangerous, but it's not more dangerous than running VISTA because running VISTA is like riding a pony, which probably sounds not dangerous except that the pony is 300 feet tall and covered in chainsaws! And to get on the pony, you have to take an elevator filled with 16 live cougars, which is an actual sport in Latin America, which is extremely fun, but not as fun as VISTA because VISTA is like driving an ice cream truck full of angry bees through a petting zoo, which is a great way of becoming popular if you want to become popular with LAW ENFORCEMENT...
Sure, until you browse away from the original framed page (by following links on it), and then decide that the frame is no longer relevant, so you close it and OH HAI You're back to the original page.
There are no buttons to "close the frame". There are only buttons that take you to the original page, sans frame, from whatever page you are currently on.
I feel for them. The print paper shuts down and their online offering falls flat.
Saw this recently:
"So how are things at the newspaper?" "Really good. It's a boom industry right now. We actually drove here in a car made out of money. That's how good things are. Would you like some money? I have extra."
Yes, the V2V stuff is very interesting, and I see a lot of future potential there. But Tangos are being built right now today.
The prototype runs for 35 miles, at a top speed of 35 mph, on lithium-ion batteries.
The Tango runs for 150 miles and has a top speed of 135mph. That's around 4x the range/speed of the PUMA. Of course, the PUMA is projected to cost a lot less, assuming they come to production.
Let's look over the pros and cons again.
Tango
faster
safer
greater range
fully enclosed
actually exists right now
PUMA
cheaper
Just because the PUMA is cheap doesn't mean I'd want to buy one. YMMV
I know this is the AF joke for this year, but to be honest, I'm Type A, and achievements tickle me. Hence this completely unnecessary post, to get the April Fool achievement.
I used to be a teacher, and it bothered me when students fell asleep in class. Sometimes I would get right in their face and wake them up, so the first thing they see is my angry face and scary big eyes. They'd jump and the rest of the class would laugh.
And then I realized: I could only think of two reasons why they would fall asleep in class. 1) They were tired. 2) My lesson was boring.
If they were tired, who was I to wake them up? Maybe they had a part time job, or maybe they had trouble at home. Whatever. I don't know what's going on in their lives.
If my lesson was boring, was that their fault? No, it was mine. EVEN if they were tired, if my lesson were interesting enough they would stay awake for it.
I stopped waking up sleeping students, and instead worked on improving my lesson plans. The fewer snoozers, the better the lesson. (I also got a lot louder and more energetic, which also helped keep them awake/attentive)
By my third year as a teacher, I never had a student fall asleep in class again.
OK, so now I've read the article (I don't know whether to go "What? I posted before reading the article?" or "What? I've read the the article?"), and it says:
Oil based hydraulic devices are said to be safer, but most such chairs on the market today use gas cylinders; naturally these tend to be made in China, where this accident occurred.
(emphasis mine)
Is this true? All (three) of my desk chairs use springs.....how old is my furniture? I know I've had to replace the cushions a couple of times...
The problem has cropped up with adjustable office chairs fitted with nitrogen gas cylinders in place of the conventional springs in their height control mechanism. Preliminary findings suggest that metal fatigue cracks can develop in the cylinders, possibly caused by the poor chairs being asked to cope with more than they can bear.
In short, if your chair uses a spring (most likely), then you are in no danger. You can sit easily now.
An IP address is not like a street address (which is fairly permanent). It's more like a hotel room number (transitory). The identity of the occupants of room 128 are not public knowledge like in a phone book, but must be obtained through a 3rd party (the hotel's front desk).
Do police need a warrant to look at the front desk's guest log?
The hotel room analogy also explains why IP addresses are insufficient evidence of criminal activity. If they know that criminal activity took place in room 128 last week, and arrest whomever is staying in that room this week, they don't necessarily have the person responsible. Could it in fact be the criminal? Sure, it's possible. But hotel rooms change occupants on a regular basis.
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Nobody cares about my story either AND no one will read it three days later, but here it is. We moved to a new school when I was in third grade, and they gave me a placement test to determine my English ability. It was Dick and Jane stuff, which I had never seen before (I read Watership Down when I was in Kindergarten. I had started reading at age 2). Needless to say, I scored perfectly, which the school could hardly believe. So they put me in the Advanced course, with the _other_ two gifted students in the school.
On the first day of Advanced, we went to the computer room where they had six PET computers. Our treat for being Advanced students was to get to type in a program in BASIC and run it. Since my family had had a Vic 20 for a couple years, and since the BASIC language is pretty much the same for both, I read the code and told the other two what would happen when we ran it.
Kicked. Out. And in record time, no doubt.
I was never allowed around the PET computers again.
*sigh*
In high school, they gave the IT duties to the volleyball coach (for real). I don't know how he ended up with the task, but he kept grabbing me out of sixth period (which was his free period, but I had Geology) so I could help him with computer problems. I flunked Geology. Good times. :-(
Prelude is nowhere near as fun/polished as TFV. There are bits of dialog that make me wonder if the creators were paying attention AT ALL when they played Portal themselves (so many things in Prelude don't make sense). I'm trying very hard not to come out and say that Prelude was intelligence-insultingly dumb, but there it is.
However, it was quite challenging, and if THAT is what you're looking for, Prelude has it in abundance.
But of the two, I highly HIGHLY recommend TFV, and I will outright DISrecommend Prelude. Prelude was way hyped when it came out and was a terrible disappointment. And, not that it has a bearing on quality, but TFV has a comparatively tiny download (as it mostly reuses the resources in Portal and HL2). 40 megs, vs the 20-times-larger 800+ meg Prelude.
(I may perhaps be a little bitter regarding Prelude, as I was really looking forward to its release. And I will say that it is maybe a bit better than a lot of the stand-alone fan maps. But Portal and TFV were so, SO much better.)
TL;DR
Prelude = a challenge; TFV = a fun game
While you're waiting for Portal 2, play the FV mappack if you haven't already. It introduces some new game mechanics, and would itself have been an OK sequel (or prequel), except it's a totally free mod instead.
THAT's the part that bothers you?
How about: Humans fly half way across the galaxy, and encounter aliens roughly the same shape that also have a cultural hangup about exposed boobs.
(It's not just that they are essentially humans in furry suits, they are AMERICANS in furry suits. Boobs=bad, violence=OK)
Also syncing is a problem. If you watch the video, it's plain that one of the cameras lags on motion. Instantly ruins the 3d effect.
My Mary isn't from anywhere. I guess it doesn't work if you have NoScript.
E3 is about games.
PAX is about gamers.
They're fundamentally different, and not really in competition with each other. I'm not sure where the submitter even got this question; E3 battling obscurity isn't mentioned in the article, nor is PAX, nor other expos at all.
Did you mean speech to text? I dunno, here's an actual Google Voice transcription I got recently:
well google voice driver back man on the day he how you're doing at all so lee the four on friday i'm at in the review and anyway gimme a call back i'll talk to you later bye
Seems pretty clear to me. /s
Drew: Violence never solved anything? World War I, World War II, "Star Wars," every Super Bowl...Who says violence never solved anything?
I thought the opposite was true: the more powerful the blast, the greater percentage of radioactive particles sent into the upper atmosphere where they decay out of harm's way. Am I the only one that read the high energy weapons FAQ that came with Fallout 1?
As opposed to the current system where running tabs DON'T remember the entire memory state?
I'm not sure what variable types you're thinking of, but this seems to simply be the difference between executing the next instruction or waiting at the current position. Neither affects memory.
A possible way to implement something akin to this, if tabs did run in separate processes, would be to idle the processes that aren't the active tab. They'd still run, if necessary, but it would be at a lower priority than any normal process (including the active tab).
I read your post with the Brawndo/PowerThirst voice in my head.
Sure, until you browse away from the original framed page (by following links on it), and then decide that the frame is no longer relevant, so you close it and OH HAI You're back to the original page.
There are no buttons to "close the frame". There are only buttons that take you to the original page, sans frame, from whatever page you are currently on.
I feel for them. The print paper shuts down and their online offering falls flat.
Saw this recently:
source
The hardware store by my house takes CFLs to be disposed of. Which is convenient, since that's also where I buy my new CFLs.
Is this not normal?
I still prefer the Tango.
Yes, the V2V stuff is very interesting, and I see a lot of future potential there. But Tangos are being built right now today.
The Tango runs for 150 miles and has a top speed of 135mph. That's around 4x the range/speed of the PUMA. Of course, the PUMA is projected to cost a lot less, assuming they come to production.
Let's look over the pros and cons again.
Just because the PUMA is cheap doesn't mean I'd want to buy one. YMMV
Leading to a new national chain of "Drunkin' Donuts"
I know this is the AF joke for this year, but to be honest, I'm Type A, and achievements tickle me. Hence this completely unnecessary post, to get the April Fool achievement.
I used to be a teacher, and it bothered me when students fell asleep in class. Sometimes I would get right in their face and wake them up, so the first thing they see is my angry face and scary big eyes. They'd jump and the rest of the class would laugh.
And then I realized: I could only think of two reasons why they would fall asleep in class.
1) They were tired.
2) My lesson was boring.
If they were tired, who was I to wake them up? Maybe they had a part time job, or maybe they had trouble at home. Whatever. I don't know what's going on in their lives.
If my lesson was boring, was that their fault? No, it was mine. EVEN if they were tired, if my lesson were interesting enough they would stay awake for it.
I stopped waking up sleeping students, and instead worked on improving my lesson plans. The fewer snoozers, the better the lesson. (I also got a lot louder and more energetic, which also helped keep them awake/attentive)
By my third year as a teacher, I never had a student fall asleep in class again.
This is a technique called Lampshade Hanging. Here is a recent Dinosaur Comics about it.
I really wanted to like the finale, but this ruined it. I could no longer identify with the characters.
Abandon all technology? Frak. That. Felgercarb.
I see where you went wrong there.
OK, so now I've read the article (I don't know whether to go "What? I posted before reading the article?" or "What? I've read the the article?"), and it says:
(emphasis mine)
Is this true? All (three) of my desk chairs use springs. ....how old is my furniture? I know I've had to replace the cushions a couple of times...
Per this story from the '80s:
In short, if your chair uses a spring (most likely), then you are in no danger. You can sit easily now.
You got a bad lawyer fired. That was a week well spent.
An IP address is not like a street address (which is fairly permanent). It's more like a hotel room number (transitory). The identity of the occupants of room 128 are not public knowledge like in a phone book, but must be obtained through a 3rd party (the hotel's front desk).
Do police need a warrant to look at the front desk's guest log?
The hotel room analogy also explains why IP addresses are insufficient evidence of criminal activity. If they know that criminal activity took place in room 128 last week, and arrest whomever is staying in that room this week, they don't necessarily have the person responsible. Could it in fact be the criminal? Sure, it's possible. But hotel rooms change occupants on a regular basis.