Jacques could really use some help fertilizing their crops in FarmVille!
Renee just found some Treasured Golden Mystery Eggs and wants to say thank you!
Ha! I'm actually in excellent shape and exercise regularly, including daily pushups, lifting weights, etc. I'm about as far from out of shape as you can get and still find your way onto Slashdot.
Yet that doesn't mean that I want to lift my finger from the mouse (an extra step) every time I click.
I based my criticism of the mouse on the video linked in the article, which shows the user lifting his finger each time he performs a click. However according to timster and HoqGeek in their replies above, you can click as normal without that extra step (presumably added for emphasis in the video to show when the user was clicking). In which case I have no complaint about the mouse.
So with my current mouse I can rest my finger on the mouse button, and press down when I want to click.
With these new mice, when I want to click I have to lift my finger up from the surface of the mouse and then press down (if the video in the article is indicative of how it functions). I think constantly lifting my finger would become tiring.
Nothing is stopping me from enrolling my girlfriend's cat in an on-line degree program and taking all his tests. I assure you, Marvin's grades will be very good, but I don't suggest you hire him; he would be sleeping on the job an awful lot.
And regardless of what you think of him do try and remember this: Olbermann is not a reporter. He's a commentator. It seems to me like a lot of people have forgotten the difference between the two.
The whole of Fox News and most of their viewers, for example.
I stayed away from Circuit City stores for probably ten years because of the DIVX nonsense.
Me, too. The minute they started pushing that DIVX "pay per view media" crap I stopped going to their stores, and advised all my friends and family to do likewise.
Haven't walked into one of their stores since. Good riddance.
Herod's Lost Tomb has been out on Game Socks and Big Fish Games since around last Thursday or so - for Windows and Mac - but unfortunately doesn't seem to be setting the world on fire. The bar is set pretty high when it comes to puzzle / hidden object games these days. And Herod's Lost Tomb is an untypically large download for a casual game (150 MB), which may deter some players.
Best Buy sucks too, but at least they're not Circuit City.
Funny, whenever I want to buy something in person at a big box electronics store, that's my exact thought process as I drive past Circuit City to Best Buy.
I'm in Ohio, so I know exactly what you mean. I'll also be voting for Obama, who I see as the lesser of two evils.
I PASSIONATELY HATE people who knowingly distort the truth in an argument. Or repeat known BS to strengthen their position. The McCain campaign has released three or four odious character attack ads designed specifically to mislead voters. For example, claiming Obama wanted to teach sex-ed to kindergarten students. Trying to trick me? I don't want you to lead my country.
Unfortunately Obama is not blameless when it comes to misleading ads, either. (check factcheck.org) But he's no John McCain. sigh So he gets my vote.
They silently drop messages they think are spam with no recourse on your part. You can't turn off this filtering and you can't inspect messages that are dropped or even find out how many are dropped.
I was a fairly satisfied customer of their paid email plan until they turned this "feature" on and I started losing messages. Email sent from Japanese cell phones, for example, seemed to get dropped about 50% of the time.
I've since switched to Tuffmail and haven't looked back.
It's a non-partisan site that checks the facts of the candidates' statements.
Neither are 100% honest (shock! gasp!) but McCain is clearly the bigger liar of the two - especially when talking about Obama. Definitely opened my eyes a bit.
The BBC Hitch-hiker radio broadcasts were far and away the best versions of Douglas Adams' story of Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the destruction/creation of Earth, and the search for the question. While I enjoyed the books somewhat, the original radio series was a spectacular production that couldn't be topped.
In fact there are command line utilities out there that will randomly swap the numbers in existing puzzles and/or do transformations (mirror, rotation, etc.) on them to generate "new" puzzles.
And it's fairly easy to generate new puzzles anyway (even if rating their difficulty is nontrivial). Which is partly why there are fifty zillion self-published sudoku puzzle books for sale online. And tons of flash and javascript puzzles.
Here's one nifty javascript daily sudoku: sudoku cat.
I wouldn't exactly call him "washed up." He decided to end his hit show against NBC's wishes because he didn't want it to end up slowing fading away like so many sitcoms. Since then - except for a few projects - he's been largely relaxing and enjoying his huge-assed fortune.
I agree with the author of the article that Depths of Peril is probably the best indie RPG available today. But of course I haven't played them all. (And he's obviously slanted towards RPGs based on his list.)
I find more and more that my game purchases are smaller games, or just donating on the Paypal buttons of freeware games I like. The last indie game I bought was a simple, mindless (but strangely addictive - at least at first) tile RPG called Battle of Tiles that cost $4.95.
There are so many indie games (freeware and shareware) out there that it's hard to find time to sort throughthem all.
It's entrenched in their culture and world outlook, and reinforced by their language (ingroups/outgroups/politeness levels). There are Japanese. And there are others.
As a foreigner you just have to kind of roll with it. Correcting everyone will wear you out.
When it comes to the kids' statements, I just explained to them that some people have blue eyes.
I've lived in Japan for 7+ years. I have blond hair and blue eyes.
One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is that the majority of them divide the world into two groups: Japanese and others. They CONSTANTLY bring up the fact that I'm a foreigner, even when it has no bearing whatsoever on the situation. They also frequently tell me that they can/can't do something because they are Japanese.
I've been asked by children if I'm a person or not. When I say "yes" they respond matter-of-factly that I can't be a person, because I have blue eyes. People have brown eyes.
SAW NO MENTION OF HAM 95 THE SUPERIOR 44 bit OS THAT IS RUNNING ON MY VIC-20. YOU GUYS ENJOY YOUR WIN 95 AND YOUR FLASH PLUGINS I AND MY CATS ARE SURFING THE NET FASTER AND MORE PRE-EMPTIVELY WITH HAMILTON 95 AND ITS PATENTED COLOR DISK FORMATTING.
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Jacques could really use some help fertilizing their crops in FarmVille!
Renee just found some Treasured Golden Mystery Eggs and wants to say thank you!
It probably has better compatibility than your '95 based computer ever did, although I admit that the fiddling was part of the fun of those old games.
No, it wasn't.
I stopped watching at this point. I'm amazed I made it that far, actually.
Woooooosh!
(Well, if you had kept watching you'd have seen he intentially screws up every prequel actor's name. And a few words, too.)
The US HAS got local restaurants, even chains of them, that provide something different, something with a taste that dares not to appeal to everyone.
Ah yes, Taco Bell. I'm a big fan myself.
Ha! I'm actually in excellent shape and exercise regularly, including daily pushups, lifting weights, etc. I'm about as far from out of shape as you can get and still find your way onto Slashdot.
Yet that doesn't mean that I want to lift my finger from the mouse (an extra step) every time I click.
I based my criticism of the mouse on the video linked in the article, which shows the user lifting his finger each time he performs a click. However according to timster and HoqGeek in their replies above, you can click as normal without that extra step (presumably added for emphasis in the video to show when the user was clicking). In which case I have no complaint about the mouse.
So with my current mouse I can rest my finger on the mouse button, and press down when I want to click.
With these new mice, when I want to click I have to lift my finger up from the surface of the mouse and then press down (if the video in the article is indicative of how it functions). I think constantly lifting my finger would become tiring.
Nothing is stopping me from enrolling my girlfriend's cat in an on-line degree program and taking all his tests. I assure you, Marvin's grades will be very good, but I don't suggest you hire him; he would be sleeping on the job an awful lot.
Not in my goddamn shop I can assure you!
Reject the one app that would have guaranteed me purchasing an iPhone.
Wow. Your Slashdot membership is hereby revoked.
And regardless of what you think of him do try and remember this: Olbermann is not a reporter. He's a commentator. It seems to me like a lot of people have forgotten the difference between the two.
The whole of Fox News and most of their viewers, for example.
I stayed away from Circuit City stores for probably ten years because of the DIVX nonsense.
Me, too. The minute they started pushing that DIVX "pay per view media" crap I stopped going to their stores, and advised all my friends and family to do likewise.
Haven't walked into one of their stores since. Good riddance.
Herod's Lost Tomb has been out on Game Socks and Big Fish Games since around last Thursday or so - for Windows and Mac - but unfortunately doesn't seem to be setting the world on fire. The bar is set pretty high when it comes to puzzle / hidden object games these days. And Herod's Lost Tomb is an untypically large download for a casual game (150 MB), which may deter some players.
Best Buy sucks too, but at least they're not Circuit City.
Funny, whenever I want to buy something in person at a big box electronics store, that's my exact thought process as I drive past Circuit City to Best Buy.
I'm in Ohio, so I know exactly what you mean. I'll also be voting for Obama, who I see as the lesser of two evils.
I PASSIONATELY HATE people who knowingly distort the truth in an argument. Or repeat known BS to strengthen their position. The McCain campaign has released three or four odious character attack ads designed specifically to mislead voters. For example, claiming Obama wanted to teach sex-ed to kindergarten students. Trying to trick me? I don't want you to lead my country.
Unfortunately Obama is not blameless when it comes to misleading ads, either. (check factcheck.org) But he's no John McCain. sigh So he gets my vote.
They silently drop messages they think are spam with no recourse on your part. You can't turn off this filtering and you can't inspect messages that are dropped or even find out how many are dropped.
I was a fairly satisfied customer of their paid email plan until they turned this "feature" on and I started losing messages. Email sent from Japanese cell phones, for example, seemed to get dropped about 50% of the time.
I've since switched to Tuffmail and haven't looked back.
Everyone probably already knows about this resource, but I've only recently discovered it:
factcheck.org
It's a non-partisan site that checks the facts of the candidates' statements.
Neither are 100% honest (shock! gasp!) but McCain is clearly the bigger liar of the two - especially when talking about Obama. Definitely opened my eyes a bit.
Note that there is no easy way to tell if the material on Wikileaks is genuine or a hoax.
Wired has confirmed from one sender, Amy McCorkell, that the displayed message from her to Sarah Palin is genuine.
If Google can release a lighter browser without all the cruft and bloat of Firefox, I'll definitely give it a chance.
The BBC Hitch-hiker radio broadcasts were far and away the best versions of Douglas Adams' story of Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the destruction/creation of Earth, and the search for the question. While I enjoyed the books somewhat, the original radio series was a spectacular production that couldn't be topped.
Geoffrey Perkins will be missed.
Yep, the numbers are just symbols.
In fact there are command line utilities out there that will randomly swap the numbers in existing puzzles and/or do transformations (mirror, rotation, etc.) on them to generate "new" puzzles.
And it's fairly easy to generate new puzzles anyway (even if rating their difficulty is nontrivial). Which is partly why there are fifty zillion self-published sudoku puzzle books for sale online. And tons of flash and javascript puzzles.
Here's one nifty javascript daily sudoku: sudoku cat.
I wouldn't exactly call him "washed up." He decided to end his hit show against NBC's wishes because he didn't want it to end up slowing fading away like so many sitcoms. Since then - except for a few projects - he's been largely relaxing and enjoying his huge-assed fortune.
I agree with the author of the article that Depths of Peril is probably the best indie RPG available today. But of course I haven't played them all. (And he's obviously slanted towards RPGs based on his list.)
I find more and more that my game purchases are smaller games, or just donating on the Paypal buttons of freeware games I like. The last indie game I bought was a simple, mindless (but strangely addictive - at least at first) tile RPG called Battle of Tiles that cost $4.95.
There are so many indie games (freeware and shareware) out there that it's hard to find time to sort through them all.
It's entrenched in their culture and world outlook, and reinforced by their language (ingroups/outgroups/politeness levels). There are Japanese. And there are others.
As a foreigner you just have to kind of roll with it. Correcting everyone will wear you out.
When it comes to the kids' statements, I just explained to them that some people have blue eyes.
I've lived in Japan for 7+ years. I have blond hair and blue eyes.
One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is that the majority of them divide the world into two groups: Japanese and others. They CONSTANTLY bring up the fact that I'm a foreigner, even when it has no bearing whatsoever on the situation. They also frequently tell me that they can/can't do something because they are Japanese.
I've been asked by children if I'm a person or not. When I say "yes" they respond matter-of-factly that I can't be a person, because I have blue eyes. People have brown eyes.
SAW NO MENTION OF HAM 95 THE SUPERIOR 44 bit OS THAT IS RUNNING ON MY VIC-20. YOU GUYS ENJOY YOUR WIN 95 AND YOUR FLASH PLUGINS I AND MY CATS ARE SURFING THE NET FASTER AND MORE PRE-EMPTIVELY WITH HAMILTON 95 AND ITS PATENTED COLOR DISK FORMATTING.