I was still a good 5 metres from the building, on the grass in the big field under the Peace Arch. I didn't walk into some secret compound or anything, I was walking across an open fucking field!
I didn't have a chance to ask him to put the gun down because his yelling cut me off.
I'm in no way exagerating. I was walking across the grass field under the peace arch with my then girlfriend. We were travelling from Vancouver to Seattle to catch a plane at Seatac. As I didn't feel like spending 400$ on a cab between Vancouver and Seattle, I arranged to have a friend from the US pick me up at the border crossing, and took a (less expensive 80$) cab from Vancouver to the arch.
We apparently chose the cars-only side to walk up to, because a solier inspecting a car snapped up from his work, aimed his automatic rifle at us, and yelled at us to go around to the other side. When I tried to talk to him, to ask him to put the gun down among other things, he just screamed harder at me.
When we did go inside, the US military guys tried to play good cop/bad cop on why I felt the need to enter the United States. It was complete BS, and an example of exactly how silly US customs is. On the way back, the Canadian border guard was nothing but courtieous to us. I don't even think they had M-16s!
As for Sept 11, Canada had the whole FLQ thing in the 1970s. Trudeau invoked the war measures act. However, once the situation was taken care of, the war measures act went away. Why isn't the patriot act going away? Why must the US continue to militarize and occupy foreign nations not related to the terrorist attack?
.. pointed at me, was when I walked across the Peace Arch crossing from Canada to the US.
The US is a rogue state, with a military police mentality running everything, along with paranoia and hysteria rampant. The terrorists won a long time ago, and all that's happening now is that the US has to live in the bed it's made by not going through resistance to the crazy, right-wing that dominates everything.
If this example shows anything, it's that there needs to be another American revolution, one which breaks up the Union into a set of smaller unions where the federal government isn't so separated from the people as to allow these constant abuses of the original US constitution. I like a strong federal government as much as the next person, but only in the cases where it makes sense (such as actually instituting proper public health care), not in cases where people have their landlord call the fucking FBI on them.
I just know that Motorola has a wicked text entry system, but that they don't have any phones available that meet my price point/feature desires. They don't compete with Nokia it that pricepoint at all, so I don't see why it wouldn't be unreasonable for Nokia to be able to use iTap there with the aid of a licence of some kind (more money for Motorola since they have no phone there, more money for Nokia since more people buy that model of phone).
It's happened before in oligopolies. Personally, I just wish I could write my own text entry method for the phone, but then I'd probably need to replace part of Symbian, and that's another can of worms altogether.
The N-Gage (non-QD) has these features: * Bluetooth (better than t68i) * Good Java * Color screen * Ability to make my own ringtones, etc (use midi, mp3, a recording of someone's voice, custom per incoming phone number or in general!) * Able to use a laptop with it (over BT) to access the 'net
It lacks this feature: * Camera phone (1mp or so) would be very nice
I haven't been able to get it to GPRS or BT / PPP link to my Linux machine for browsing, though. I've read some of the few tutorials floating around (which usualy assume something based on PalmOS), but have only found frustration.
It's a non-provider locked phone, and is about 250$ CDN cheaper than any equivalent phone in my market at least.
We take the poorly designed N-Gage device, remove all the features that made it a cool cell phone (tri-band, movie player, radio tuner, mp3 player), but keep the crappy game play features and make it easier to swap carts (only really done if you play games, but since there are 0 good games anyways...).
No. When you redesign a unit, you should keep what's good and ditch the rest. As Nokia has no good software, it should've made the N-Gage QD something more like the P900. I mean, at least they could licence iTap from Motorola so their happles users wouldn't have to deal with the ShittiestTextEntryEver!
You're able to satisfy everyone constantly throughout the entire game, right up until the end. It's lame that you didn't have to choose at some point irrevokibly. Even if you kill certain leaders or piss off a group, they'll still work with you later.
I also missed the skill system. The further I got into the game, the more multitools it took to crack locks. I started to wish for a way to allievate this. However, to balance it, it did force you to make some choices about to open/do with them. Granted, most of it was, "well, I guess I don't really need another 4 bombs.. so I'll leave that closed"
I liked the story in DX1 more because it was darker, even if you were forced into most of the choices in it (liked the idea of controlling the world? Can't do it -- you have to rebel in the 3rd mission on the plane..)
But overall, it was a great play through, well worth the 30$ CDN I paid for the game. I spent a good 14 hours on it, which means I paid way less for the entertainment than if I'd just bought a DVD (~same price):)
It seems like CNN and Yahoo use the same AP news for DDR, and/. recycles the link for the same news on DDR. A simple search for "DDR weight" comes up with both the dupe and the original (posted by Cliff no less!).
I spent a good week and a half playing through it, the same way I enjoyed DX1. Yes, they changed things. Yes, some of it was missed (the skill point system was great, finding extra multitools when exploring doesn't really make up for its loss as a way to reward more play).
Most of the stuff (positional hitting and universal ammo) make a lot of sense once you beat the game. It helps it flow better, and the game is definitely worth a good playthrough. Just get it with an open mind, and you'll see how good it really is. If they'd released this not as a sequel, I guarantee it would've done better.
They also have appaling grasp of the English language. I can understand Taito having "Train Shimulation" at TGS because, well, they're Japanese, but why do we English speakers have to endure such obvious wrongs as "Who is hair..." when it's "whose hair"?
Surely they have the 5$ or so to pay someone to vet their signs.
My old 1991 Hyundai Excel had the same chime, except faster, for when you left the keys in the ignition.
Currently I'm in the process of transforming a 1984 Honda Accord into a decent replica of Takumi's AE86. The funny thing is that the Trueno he drives (83-86 generation) looks very much like the coupe version of the Accord (84-86 styling). The Toyoto Camry Sedan edition looks like the Sedan version of the Accord as well. The FR vs. FF, though, is a huge difference;)
Bronze 15" 8-spoke rims + rubber will be going onto the car this next week. There'll be some bodywork to get it up to snuff and repainted Panda style, and then my friend with a vinyl cutter will set it up with the apropos Kanji (we've been doing Japanese togther for a year). After that I'm putting a Prelude engine in, but that's going to have to happen after some saving.
At least older cars (mid-80s) would have a gentle alarm go off when exceeding 100km/h, the highway speed limit in the country.
With currently technology, they could easily modify it to be aware of the real speed limit for a section of road. It'd beat the signs that people ignore or don't see if your car announced every speed limit for you by vocal, and had a gentle alarm to backup when speeding.
The model 50001 DVD playback is higher quality stuff. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, though.
The server software's just the byte-code they provide. The decoding's all done on the PS2, which is why the resolution's limited to 512x384. I just use Mencode to tranlate stuff to the apropos resolution.
The best thing you can get is a model 50001 PS2 with network adaptor, a memory card, and GameShark MP3 player (a licenced form of the BroadQ QCast software easily available at video game stores).
This nets you the ability to play progressive scan DVDs, a remote that can power on and eject the drive on your media device, the ability to play back MP3, OGG Vorbis, OGM, DivX (3.11, 4.x, 5.x), AC3 audio, JPEG, PNG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and more via updates. The PS2 itself will play burnt backup DVDs. The server-side software's in Java and runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and even Windows!
The total cost for this is way less than your Xbox, with no modding required, and gives you a much quiter machine that can be controlled via a simple remote (I use my Sony RM-VL700 which "learned" the PS2 remote's signals).
Spend an extra couple of dollars on a PS1 memory card, and suddenly you can play PS1 in addition PS2 games as well. The only thing you're missing out on is Xbox Live!, but you can't use that with a modded Xbox anyways:)
The config is way cheaper, quiter, and lower maintenance than my old Windows PC setup. The only thing I really miss is the ability to play VCDs directly, but I can rip those onto a media share in seconds with xreadvcd. It's just so quiter and easier to use, I don't know why you'd go to the hassle of an Xbox that doesn't let you completely control every by IR remote, and also requires you mod it.
Your post is the most silly thing I've read in memory.
"Hydrogen doesn't exist freely, it has to be made from something."
Hydrogen is the most plentiful item on the planet. Rather than do something silly, like drill down into huge deposits of it and setup refineries and have huge pumps and so on and so on, all you really need is a big bunch of water (like any freshwater late, or a desalinizer and some ocean front), and some electricity. Suddenly you have more hydrogen than there was oil in the world hundreds of year before we started mining for oil. Plus, as you consume it, it's just returned to the same storage container form (water) which is very stable, easy to transport (we've centuries of experience with it), and easy to de-combine again with solar power (it easily evaporates the water to make it pure, then some solar cells give the electricity to separate it to H2 and O2).
"It is also the least dense element in the universe, so the storage tanks in a vehicle would have to be massive"
Hmm, have you ever heard of STP? H2 is a gas, an ideal gas at that. Storing it in large densities is easy -- just pour on some pressure. Because H2 is the least-dense molecule in the universe, you can compact more of it into a given space.
"Hydrogen also has the nasty ability to seep out of pretty much anything."
I doubt it. H2 is, as I said, an ideal gas. Gasoline's a solvent. Propane expands to 270 times its liquid volume when turning into a gas. One pinprick hole can lead to a rupture very quickly. Diesel also has solvent properties. H2 is the least of your concerns in a proper storage container.
"Fuel cells cost a lot of money and require exotic materials in many cases. They are also very fragile. People hope this will change, but it's hard to say if it will ever happen."
In the past 15 years, fuel cells have had remarkable advances. I doubt they'll stop anytime soon.
"they wear out after a number of touches (usually like 100k)"
When I worked at McD's in high school, they had touch screen registers. That was 7 years ago. They still use the registers today. In a similar vein, I'm still using my touch-screen PDA that I've used for 3 years. It gets quite heavily used.
I don't think the "wear out" factor is a real factor;p
It wasn't very popular at the arcade where it came in, as it had only 3 foot pads. However, it also had 2 "kick" pads (you kicked your foot or hands through a low sensor), and 2 "arm" pads (the top pair of the same sensors).
That the first thing you see on the Postfix mainpage is, "What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different. "
And mentioning Sendmail in the/. description couldn't have hurt either:)
Unless those pictures are of the "real" one from the movie, then the one up for auction is a manual 5-speed, and someone goofed up the auction listing.
Yea. Short of making another Xbox-like system.
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I don't see how you could have a bootable PC game disc that's as compatible across different hw without a 2-dongle system.
It's neat to think about, even if some of the/. commenters (not you) just like to argue that PC gaming is supperior the way it is;)
"But then again I drive fast and I respect the whole "faster traffic to the right" thing, so I'm never really in anyone's way. "
On any freeway, highway, or large motor way I've been, they have large, bold signs saying, "slower traffic keep right" as that's both the entry and exit lane. It makes more sense for the traffic there to be slower.
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I was still a good 5 metres from the building, on the grass in the big field under the Peace Arch. I didn't walk into some secret compound or anything, I was walking across an open fucking field!
I didn't have a chance to ask him to put the gun down because his yelling cut me off.
point a loaded weapon at me.
I'm in no way exagerating. I was walking across the grass field under the peace arch with my then girlfriend. We were travelling from Vancouver to Seattle to catch a plane at Seatac. As I didn't feel like spending 400$ on a cab between Vancouver and Seattle, I arranged to have a friend from the US pick me up at the border crossing, and took a (less expensive 80$) cab from Vancouver to the arch.
We apparently chose the cars-only side to walk up to, because a solier inspecting a car snapped up from his work, aimed his automatic rifle at us, and yelled at us to go around to the other side. When I tried to talk to him, to ask him to put the gun down among other things, he just screamed harder at me.
When we did go inside, the US military guys tried to play good cop/bad cop on why I felt the need to enter the United States. It was complete BS, and an example of exactly how silly US customs is. On the way back, the Canadian border guard was nothing but courtieous to us. I don't even think they had M-16s!
As for Sept 11, Canada had the whole FLQ thing in the 1970s. Trudeau invoked the war measures act. However, once the situation was taken care of, the war measures act went away. Why isn't the patriot act going away? Why must the US continue to militarize and occupy foreign nations not related to the terrorist attack?
.. pointed at me, was when I walked across the Peace Arch crossing from Canada to the US.
The US is a rogue state, with a military police mentality running everything, along with paranoia and hysteria rampant. The terrorists won a long time ago, and all that's happening now is that the US has to live in the bed it's made by not going through resistance to the crazy, right-wing that dominates everything.
If this example shows anything, it's that there needs to be another American revolution, one which breaks up the Union into a set of smaller unions where the federal government isn't so separated from the people as to allow these constant abuses of the original US constitution. I like a strong federal government as much as the next person, but only in the cases where it makes sense (such as actually instituting proper public health care), not in cases where people have their landlord call the fucking FBI on them.
I just know that Motorola has a wicked text entry system, but that they don't have any phones available that meet my price point/feature desires. They don't compete with Nokia it that pricepoint at all, so I don't see why it wouldn't be unreasonable for Nokia to be able to use iTap there with the aid of a licence of some kind (more money for Motorola since they have no phone there, more money for Nokia since more people buy that model of phone).
It's happened before in oligopolies. Personally, I just wish I could write my own text entry method for the phone, but then I'd probably need to replace part of Symbian, and that's another can of worms altogether.
The N-Gage (non-QD) has these features:
* Bluetooth (better than t68i)
* Good Java
* Color screen
* Ability to make my own ringtones, etc (use midi, mp3, a recording of someone's voice, custom per incoming phone number or in general!)
* Able to use a laptop with it (over BT) to access the 'net
It lacks this feature:
* Camera phone (1mp or so) would be very nice
I haven't been able to get it to GPRS or BT / PPP link to my Linux machine for browsing, though. I've read some of the few tutorials floating around (which usualy assume something based on PalmOS), but have only found frustration.
It's a non-provider locked phone, and is about 250$ CDN cheaper than any equivalent phone in my market at least.
We take the poorly designed N-Gage device, remove all the features that made it a cool cell phone (tri-band, movie player, radio tuner, mp3 player), but keep the crappy game play features and make it easier to swap carts (only really done if you play games, but since there are 0 good games anyways...).
No. When you redesign a unit, you should keep what's good and ditch the rest. As Nokia has no good software, it should've made the N-Gage QD something more like the P900. I mean, at least they could licence iTap from Motorola so their happles users wouldn't have to deal with the ShittiestTextEntryEver!
You're able to satisfy everyone constantly throughout the entire game, right up until the end. It's lame that you didn't have to choose at some point irrevokibly. Even if you kill certain leaders or piss off a group, they'll still work with you later.
:)
I also missed the skill system. The further I got into the game, the more multitools it took to crack locks. I started to wish for a way to allievate this. However, to balance it, it did force you to make some choices about to open/do with them. Granted, most of it was, "well, I guess I don't really need another 4 bombs.. so I'll leave that closed"
I liked the story in DX1 more because it was darker, even if you were forced into most of the choices in it (liked the idea of controlling the world? Can't do it -- you have to rebel in the 3rd mission on the plane..)
But overall, it was a great play through, well worth the 30$ CDN I paid for the game. I spent a good 14 hours on it, which means I paid way less for the entertainment than if I'd just bought a DVD (~same price)
Oh, that's right.
/. recycles the link for the same news on DDR. A simple search for "DDR weight" comes up with both the dupe and the original (posted by Cliff no less!).
It seems like CNN and Yahoo use the same AP news for DDR, and
I spent a good week and a half playing through it, the same way I enjoyed DX1. Yes, they changed things. Yes, some of it was missed (the skill point system was great, finding extra multitools when exploring doesn't really make up for its loss as a way to reward more play).
Most of the stuff (positional hitting and universal ammo) make a lot of sense once you beat the game. It helps it flow better, and the game is definitely worth a good playthrough. Just get it with an open mind, and you'll see how good it really is. If they'd released this not as a sequel, I guarantee it would've done better.
They also have appaling grasp of the English language. I can understand Taito having "Train Shimulation" at TGS because, well, they're Japanese, but why do we English speakers have to endure such obvious wrongs as "Who is hair ..." when it's "whose hair"?
Surely they have the 5$ or so to pay someone to vet their signs.
I've not actually been to web forums for Initial D.
Standard temperature and pressure, the property of a gas to take up different volumes of space dependant on temperature and pressure.
My old 1991 Hyundai Excel had the same chime, except faster, for when you left the keys in the ignition.
;)
:)
Currently I'm in the process of transforming a 1984 Honda Accord into a decent replica of Takumi's AE86. The funny thing is that the Trueno he drives (83-86 generation) looks very much like the coupe version of the Accord (84-86 styling). The Toyoto Camry Sedan edition looks like the Sedan version of the Accord as well. The FR vs. FF, though, is a huge difference
Bronze 15" 8-spoke rims + rubber will be going onto the car this next week. There'll be some bodywork to get it up to snuff and repainted Panda style, and then my friend with a vinyl cutter will set it up with the apropos Kanji (we've been doing Japanese togther for a year). After that I'm putting a Prelude engine in, but that's going to have to happen after some saving.
My car likes cosplay
At least older cars (mid-80s) would have a gentle alarm go off when exceeding 100km/h, the highway speed limit in the country.
With currently technology, they could easily modify it to be aware of the real speed limit for a section of road. It'd beat the signs that people ignore or don't see if your car announced every speed limit for you by vocal, and had a gentle alarm to backup when speeding.
The model 50001 DVD playback is higher quality stuff. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, though.
The server software's just the byte-code they provide. The decoding's all done on the PS2, which is why the resolution's limited to 512x384. I just use Mencode to tranlate stuff to the apropos resolution.
The best thing you can get is a model 50001 PS2 with network adaptor, a memory card, and GameShark MP3 player (a licenced form of the BroadQ QCast software easily available at video game stores).
:)
This nets you the ability to play progressive scan DVDs, a remote that can power on and eject the drive on your media device, the ability to play back MP3, OGG Vorbis, OGM, DivX (3.11, 4.x, 5.x), AC3 audio, JPEG, PNG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and more via updates. The PS2 itself will play burnt backup DVDs. The server-side software's in Java and runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and even Windows!
The total cost for this is way less than your Xbox, with no modding required, and gives you a much quiter machine that can be controlled via a simple remote (I use my Sony RM-VL700 which "learned" the PS2 remote's signals).
Spend an extra couple of dollars on a PS1 memory card, and suddenly you can play PS1 in addition PS2 games as well. The only thing you're missing out on is Xbox Live!, but you can't use that with a modded Xbox anyways
The config is way cheaper, quiter, and lower maintenance than my old Windows PC setup. The only thing I really miss is the ability to play VCDs directly, but I can rip those onto a media share in seconds with xreadvcd. It's just so quiter and easier to use, I don't know why you'd go to the hassle of an Xbox that doesn't let you completely control every by IR remote, and also requires you mod it.
Your post is the most silly thing I've read in memory.
"Hydrogen doesn't exist freely, it has to be made from something."
Hydrogen is the most plentiful item on the planet. Rather than do something silly, like drill down into huge deposits of it and setup refineries and have huge pumps and so on and so on, all you really need is a big bunch of water (like any freshwater late, or a desalinizer and some ocean front), and some electricity. Suddenly you have more hydrogen than there was oil in the world hundreds of year before we started mining for oil. Plus, as you consume it, it's just returned to the same storage container form (water) which is very stable, easy to transport (we've centuries of experience with it), and easy to de-combine again with solar power (it easily evaporates the water to make it pure, then some solar cells give the electricity to separate it to H2 and O2).
"It is also the least dense element in the universe, so the storage tanks in a vehicle would have to be massive"
Hmm, have you ever heard of STP? H2 is a gas, an ideal gas at that. Storing it in large densities is easy -- just pour on some pressure. Because H2 is the least-dense molecule in the universe, you can compact more of it into a given space.
"Hydrogen also has the nasty ability to seep out of pretty much anything."
I doubt it. H2 is, as I said, an ideal gas. Gasoline's a solvent. Propane expands to 270 times its liquid volume when turning into a gas. One pinprick hole can lead to a rupture very quickly. Diesel also has solvent properties. H2 is the least of your concerns in a proper storage container.
"Fuel cells cost a lot of money and require exotic materials in many cases. They are also very fragile. People hope this will change, but it's hard to say if it will ever happen."
In the past 15 years, fuel cells have had remarkable advances. I doubt they'll stop anytime soon.
"they wear out after a number of touches (usually like 100k)"
;p
When I worked at McD's in high school, they had touch screen registers. That was 7 years ago. They still use the registers today. In a similar vein, I'm still using my touch-screen PDA that I've used for 3 years. It gets quite heavily used.
I don't think the "wear out" factor is a real factor
It wasn't very popular at the arcade where it came in, as it had only 3 foot pads. However, it also had 2 "kick" pads (you kicked your foot or hands through a low sensor), and 2 "arm" pads (the top pair of the same sensors).
You can find out more over here.
My TI-85 uses AA batteries. Granted, this calculator is over a decade old.
You can have a larger size fries and almost 1.5 times the pop!
But some of us just don't need that extra bit of food, regardless of how little the cost. The marginal cost is still more than the marignal benefit.
Go take a basic economics class. Bigger is not always better.
That the first thing you see on the Postfix mainpage is, "What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
/. description couldn't have hurt either :)
Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different. "
And mentioning Sendmail in the
The pictures make it very clear. There are 3 pedals in the car, and the shifter knob is manual.
Unless those pictures are of the "real" one from the movie, then the one up for auction is a manual 5-speed, and someone goofed up the auction listing.
I don't see how you could have a bootable PC game disc that's as compatible across different hw without a 2-dongle system.
/. commenters (not you) just like to argue that PC gaming is supperior the way it is ;)
It's neat to think about, even if some of the
"But then again I drive fast and I respect the whole "faster traffic to the right" thing, so I'm never really in anyone's way. "
On any freeway, highway, or large motor way I've been, they have large, bold signs saying, "slower traffic keep right " as that's both the entry and exit lane. It makes more sense for the traffic there to be slower.