Considering the (really pissed off, poorly funded) Hamas guys in Gaza make artillery rockets out of water mains for the casing and table sugar for the fuel, I'm not incredibly comforted.
Actually, the stipulation to stop at 4 cups is rather strong. The Seder is structured like a Greek symposium, except that at the end, the Greek version of the Afikomenos was to go out drinking and whoring in the streets after the fancy talk was over. Turning the Afikomen into a dessert after which no more can be imbibed was a repudiation of this part of the tradition.
Did I miss the announcement that one had been intercepted? Or the telecast from the parallel universe where there was no such law showing the devastation?
If the absence of a negative outcome is proof to you, I'll be sending you a bill shortly for my hard work preventing you from getting cancer.
Well, every single case in the court system has one losing side. I could see that being incentive to make the bar for considering bad lawyering to be malpractice high.
Furthermore, it always mystifies me when people wax indignant about most of our politicians being lawyers. Don't you want the people who write and amend the laws to have some idea about how the law works?
Photoshop is one of the core apps that pay my rent. I use version 6 for 90% of my work. The same tasks with the same images on the same machine are so much slower in CS2 that it's not even funny. I have to wait for the paint to catch up with the brush like I used to on the old pizza box quadras (and this is for a simple round cloner, not a fancy dynamic brush).
I wonder if any place has tried an "on-demand" bus system. Basically, on-line you enter your source, destination, and time window, and their computer figures out the optimal routes - which could be optimized in different ways, say to maximize passengers per mile or to minimize passenger inconvenience, whatever is considered most important. Then, for example, a bus could pick you up at your front door - pretty close to a specific time they tell you - and drop you off at your destination, after a few digressions along the way to process other passengers.
It's called paratransit, and most municipalities offer it free or at very low cost to the disabled and elderly. The disabled and elderly I've spoken with about it generally aren't thrilled with the service, but I don't think it's computerized or optimized in any way.
They do have pedal bike cops, and they've been really effective patrolling the grounds of 1960's-era "tower-in-a-park" housing projects. I've seen NYPD motorcycles in two places - motorcade/parade route duty, and highway patrol (NYC has over 100 miles of limited-access highways within city limits - thanks, Mr. Moses!).
Actually, it makes Jan 1 the day Jesus was circumcised, and hence became a person according to the prevailing Jewish law of the time (a pragmatic way of dealing with high infant mortality rates when mourning rituals are fairly labor-intensive).
I for one welcome our new idea-deprived overlords, and will surely be delighted by the vapid, patronizing, derivative garbage that they bring to the video game medium.
You wanna bring vapid, patronizing, derivative garbage to the video game medium? Get in line.
Photoshop 7 was IMO the last usable version for day-to-day image editing. CSfoo is so bloated, slow, and memory hungry that unless I need its features, I do my work in 6. You're teaching high school students what a pixel is and how to do some basic retouching, color correction, and layer effects. You don't need much. I'd avoid the GIMP for UI/standardization reasons, as well as the fact that you're going to be the defacto fall guy when something goes wrong.
Dreamweaver 2000 is more problematic, though, as web standards have changed to the point where teaching WYSIWYG HTML without CSS is doing the students a disservice. I'd advocate Notepad and Filezilla with a heavy dose of CSS for your web development curriculum.
What are all those student games (produced in a semester or two in the extra time between bouts of drinking), IGDA festival entries, highly-polished flash games, Dwarf Fortress and other Roguelikes, IFF entries, Defcon/Darwinia/Uplink, Gish, Gate 88, and damn near everything Greg Costikian blogs about, if not things people either made in their garage for fun, or made with a small team for a low budget?
Garage Developers dead? Many people's Game of the Year, Portal, was a student project that got snapped up and polished by a major studio (sort of like the way Robert Rodriguez made his way to Hollywood with his $6000 El Mariachi, except that in this case the game got better rather than worse) Expensive dev tools? I forget which, but either Wii or 360 dev kits are 3 grand. Want a quality 3D engine? Shockwave 3D for a few hundred bucks. Or how about Torque for $100? Or make a Quake n/Half-Life n/NWN mod for free. Or use one of the ___ Game Creator packages out there, which all have had some high-quality content made with them (right now I'm enjoying Trilby:The Art of Theft immensely). And all the tools have huge amounts of free technical support available in the form of web forums.
Need a userbase? Easy to find through the web if your game's any good. If your game is good enough, you can even sell it on the web or through XBLA without publisher backing.
This is the best time EVER to be a garage game developer, whether or not you ever intend to make a profit.
I wait anywhere from six hours for a few days for my raytracer to calculate a print-resolution still image on my (admittedly long in the tooth) dual-CPU Athlon for my clients, and rent time on a 750-node cluster when they want animation. 20% is a huge deal.
I have no idea what you do between bouts of terrorizing and skullfucking Adobe personnel, but I've found PDFCreator and Foxit Reader to be excellent default PDF reading/writing apps for my purposes, while Acrobat Pro 5 quietly sits on my drive waiting for me to need to create a form every so often.
I love graylisting, too. The trouble is that it introduces 12-24 hour delays when some people email me for the first time unless I whitelist them first. Any suggestions?
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Bullshit. Youtube and Itunes movies are slideshows on that hardware. And grandma needs her skateboarding dogs.
Considering the (really pissed off, poorly funded) Hamas guys in Gaza make artillery rockets out of water mains for the casing and table sugar for the fuel, I'm not incredibly comforted.
Actually, the stipulation to stop at 4 cups is rather strong. The Seder is structured like a Greek symposium, except that at the end, the Greek version of the Afikomenos was to go out drinking and whoring in the streets after the fancy talk was over. Turning the Afikomen into a dessert after which no more can be imbibed was a repudiation of this part of the tradition.
EBay owns Craigslist, though...
If the absence of a negative outcome is proof to you, I'll be sending you a bill shortly for my hard work preventing you from getting cancer.
Furthermore, it always mystifies me when people wax indignant about most of our politicians being lawyers. Don't you want the people who write and amend the laws to have some idea about how the law works?
Photoshop is one of the core apps that pay my rent. I use version 6 for 90% of my work. The same tasks with the same images on the same machine are so much slower in CS2 that it's not even funny. I have to wait for the paint to catch up with the brush like I used to on the old pizza box quadras (and this is for a simple round cloner, not a fancy dynamic brush).
It's called paratransit, and most municipalities offer it free or at very low cost to the disabled and elderly. The disabled and elderly I've spoken with about it generally aren't thrilled with the service, but I don't think it's computerized or optimized in any way.
Maybe Google's dark fiber buy-up could become relevant...?
Unfortunately, not ethical.
They do have pedal bike cops, and they've been really effective patrolling the grounds of 1960's-era "tower-in-a-park" housing projects. I've seen NYPD motorcycles in two places - motorcade/parade route duty, and highway patrol (NYC has over 100 miles of limited-access highways within city limits - thanks, Mr. Moses!).
The day of the birth is day 1.
Actually, it makes Jan 1 the day Jesus was circumcised, and hence became a person according to the prevailing Jewish law of the time (a pragmatic way of dealing with high infant mortality rates when mourning rituals are fairly labor-intensive).
You wanna bring vapid, patronizing, derivative garbage to the video game medium? Get in line.
Hubble would be completely blinded by Mars, as well as being unable to focus that close.
They can both be bad, but only one seems worthy of the full attention of the United States legislature, and it's not the one that got it.
And your point is...? Until there's a hysteria over adult-onset autism, that's moot.
Photoshop 7 was IMO the last usable version for day-to-day image editing. CSfoo is so bloated, slow, and memory hungry that unless I need its features, I do my work in 6. You're teaching high school students what a pixel is and how to do some basic retouching, color correction, and layer effects. You don't need much. I'd avoid the GIMP for UI/standardization reasons, as well as the fact that you're going to be the defacto fall guy when something goes wrong.
Dreamweaver 2000 is more problematic, though, as web standards have changed to the point where teaching WYSIWYG HTML without CSS is doing the students a disservice. I'd advocate Notepad and Filezilla with a heavy dose of CSS for your web development curriculum.
What are all those student games (produced in a semester or two in the extra time between bouts of drinking), IGDA festival entries, highly-polished flash games, Dwarf Fortress and other Roguelikes, IFF entries, Defcon/Darwinia/Uplink, Gish, Gate 88, and damn near everything Greg Costikian blogs about, if not things people either made in their garage for fun, or made with a small team for a low budget?
Garage Developers dead? Many people's Game of the Year, Portal, was a student project that got snapped up and polished by a major studio (sort of like the way Robert Rodriguez made his way to Hollywood with his $6000 El Mariachi, except that in this case the game got better rather than worse) Expensive dev tools? I forget which, but either Wii or 360 dev kits are 3 grand. Want a quality 3D engine? Shockwave 3D for a few hundred bucks. Or how about Torque for $100? Or make a Quake n/Half-Life n/NWN mod for free. Or use one of the ___ Game Creator packages out there, which all have had some high-quality content made with them (right now I'm enjoying Trilby:The Art of Theft immensely). And all the tools have huge amounts of free technical support available in the form of web forums.
Need a userbase? Easy to find through the web if your game's any good. If your game is good enough, you can even sell it on the web or through XBLA without publisher backing.
This is the best time EVER to be a garage game developer, whether or not you ever intend to make a profit.
I wait anywhere from six hours for a few days for my raytracer to calculate a print-resolution still image on my (admittedly long in the tooth) dual-CPU Athlon for my clients, and rent time on a 750-node cluster when they want animation. 20% is a huge deal.
I have no idea what you do between bouts of terrorizing and skullfucking Adobe personnel, but I've found PDFCreator and Foxit Reader to be excellent default PDF reading/writing apps for my purposes, while Acrobat Pro 5 quietly sits on my drive waiting for me to need to create a form every so often.
.25 x (your hourly) = nonzero opportunity cost to you.
And have sweaty man sex, by that reasoning. That's what the GP meant.
I love graylisting, too. The trouble is that it introduces 12-24 hour delays when some people email me for the first time unless I whitelist them first. Any suggestions?
Of course, it's also a lovely way for the labels to lock said diamonds in the rough into abusive recording contracts before they sing a note.