Yeah, Swiper is a little annoying but the Map UI is awesome. To get rid of the Swiper popups, follow these instructions:
1. Bridge 2. Mountains 3. Gooey Geyser
Then you're set.
So what was your favorite part of this post?
[Eerily long pause]
Me, too.
Boots' favorite part was talking about Map.
My favorite part is a big fat cop out because it's always the goal of what we set out to do (which in this case would be getting rid of the Swiper popups).
Well there was this one time when I was fooling around with the War Operation Plan Response computer over at NORAD when it decided a war game scenario was real. We convinced the computer through some tic-tac-toe simulations that the only winning move was not to play. I guess technically it wasn't stick my head in the sand but sticking the WOPR's head in the sand certainly saved us from imminent danger.
Am I the only person on earth who didn't like the Epyx? I bought it because it was the closest thing I could get on the NES to my beloved 7800 controller but it just never gelled with me. Maybe Skate or Die wasn't the best game to get used to the stick with or maybe it's just me but I hated that controller. I especially hated that the select and start buttons for the NES version got progressively harder to push as the controller got older. They were those pseudo-buttons like you'd find on a cheap car stereo remote that look like a bump in the surface.
I always preferred the Sega Saturn controller to the SNES (and all other digital-only controllers). It's got a smoother directional pad, 6 buttons in 2 rows of 3 with a bump for the bottom center button to find it without looking, and it still had shoulder buttons. The 2 rows of 3 was far superior for games like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. And personally I always thought the Genesis directional pad was a bit soft or I'd also put it above the SNES controller.
"Plus the enhancing viewing feature which gives you a VH1 pop-up video style of commentary/extras overlaid on the movie itself, is a pretty sweet feature. Much cooler than a DVD's director's commentary. Its one of those things you have to watch to really appreciate it."
You need to watch the Ghostbusters DVD. It's been out since some time in the late 90's or early 2000's. It has the same type of pop up you describe. The Mad Max DVD also has this. It's the best feature I've ever ever seen on a DVD but nobody ever uses it. I imagine it will be equally obscure on these new formats once the new formats can stop worrying about packing as many special features as possible onto the disc for adoption purposes.
You get 8 songs?! I just get DJs who think they're a lot more amusing than they really are and commercials. I'd love to have a radio station that actually played music.
Remus: Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-a. If you're watching this movie in the US, you've obtained it illegally. Plenty of lawyers comin' your way. Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-a.
And if he had tried to use one of today's plastic spatulas, it would've been no match for yesteryear's metal variety. I do assume an assassin would use some a bit more appropriate for assassination though.
But Slashdot does have an editorial staff (of sorts). If Slashdot's editorial staff is publishing these posts, then that editorial staff is ultimately responsible for the tone of the published post. You can't just hide behind the original poster. The editors dictate (though don't necessarily create) content.
The reason I did not also implicate the original submitter is that I could not determine exactly what the original submitter actually submitted. I can however determine exactly what the editorial staff intended to publish. If I were to wager, I'd wager that the original submitter submitted more or less exactly what was posted and the editorial staff merely posted it but I cannot know that for sure. Hence I can determine that "at least the Slashdot editorial staff wanted it to come off as embarrassing". I should've added that the original poster probably also wanted it to come off as embarrassing.
That writing does more to help you remember a topic than just listening to the lecture and reading e-notes afterwards ever could. Besides, if you are "frantically" writing, then you are doing something wrong. You don't have to write down every word that comes from the professors mouth. Most Universities offer a note-taking class of some sort. At my University, it only took two hours of my time and made me a much better note taker. I had to take the course before I could be a professional note taker for disabled students, but it was open to anyone.
That this post is titled "Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq" leads me to believe that at least the Slashdot editorial staff wanted it to come off as embarrassing. At the very least, a defense that it is not embarrassing is appropriate.
"I still don't understand how people come away with the impression that/. is an intellectual community."
Probably because there are at least a few people here and there who don't just go along with the popular groupthink and make their own minds up about issues.
Well, I'm not the kind to kiss and tell, But I've been seen with Farrah. I'm never seen with anything less than a nine, so fine.
I've been on fire with Sally Field, Gone fast with a girl named Bo, But somehow they just don't end up as mine.
It's a death defyin' life I lead, I take my chances. I die for a livin' in the movies and TV. But the hardest thing I ever do Is watch my leadin' ladies Kiss some other guy while I'm bandagin' my knee.
I might fall from a tall building, I might roll a brand new car. 'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.
I never spend much time in school But I taught ladies plenty. It's true I hire my body out for pay, Hey Hey.
I've gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs, Blown up for Raquel Welch. But when I end up in the hay it's only hay, Hey Hey.
I might jump an open drawbridge, Or Tarzan from a vine. 'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine.
Right. That's why they sell at new game prices and sell quite a few copies at those new game prices. I don't currently buy every year of Madden or NCAA football or FIFA but with very few exceptions, I'd much rather play the most recent year's copy than the previous year with updated rosters. If you want to talk about rehashes, the FPS genre is probably most suspect.
You see they're going to let you sell them and you'll get a cut of the sales. Now you can get someone to sell them for you and then both you and Sony will get cuts of the sales. That chain can keep on going. Eventually, you'll be able to get enough people under you that you don't even have to sell PS3s anymore. You can just watch the money pour in from your underlings selling PS3s.
I for one would like a search engine that will stop displaying darn e-commerce sites every time I try to find information on a topic. I can't count the number of times I'm looking for info on a particular part and have to wade through 50 sites trying to sell me said part. How about cutting down the universal a notch and giving me specifically the type of results I'm looking for?
I do understand that completely. The Justice Department is in the pocket of whoever runs the current administration (as it usually is and near as I can tell Constitutionally should be). However, the only thing I take issue with is that you are attempting to directly compare one party's voting improprieties with another using entirely different criteria. Justice Department convictions are not a good metric but the more important issue I was pointing out is that your method of comparison is not an obviously fair metric but you may be using criteria you have left out of your original explanation. I was just wondering what that additional criteria is.
Amen. At work we used to have Foldger's and that was indeed the best part of waking up. Then we got some snooty fancy coffee. I don't mind the Columbian. Coffee is coffee. But if I don't get the 7:30 pot some jackass decides to make some hazlenut crap in the coffee maker. It takes a LOT of milk and sugar to make me not mind that other crap in my coffee.
"In other words, Democrats did not have an organized campaign to skew the elections like certain other parties...."
So the criteria for Democratic party wrongdoing is Justice Department convictions? That doesn't seem to be your criteria for Republican party wrongdoing. Or were you talking about some other party when you said "an organized campaign to skew the elections like certain other parties" (emphasis mine)? I'm not saying that there is or isn't some sort of larger conspiracy in either party's voting schemes but Justice Department doesn't seem to have much on either party.
Exactly. Republicans don't have to resort to amateurish election fraud like bribing the homeless with cigarettes to vote, having dead people vote, and complaining that ballots they approved are too confusing. Republicans like the big stuff.
Look, stop making justifications already. I know you're trying to come up with some way that your mom could've got all that malware on her machine when she doesn't play a single game on it. And you may feel better thinking she just got it from chatting and message boards but we all know the truth. I think it's time you do yourself a favor and come to grips with the it.
Slashdot Mirror
Here are some British points of view (who also happen to be Who fans): Outpost Gallifrey Discussion
Yeah, Swiper is a little annoying but the Map UI is awesome. To get rid of the Swiper popups, follow these instructions:
1. Bridge
2. Mountains
3. Gooey Geyser
Then you're set.
So what was your favorite part of this post?
[Eerily long pause]
Me, too.
Boots' favorite part was talking about Map.
My favorite part is a big fat cop out because it's always the goal of what we set out to do (which in this case would be getting rid of the Swiper popups).
Well there was this one time when I was fooling around with the War Operation Plan Response computer over at NORAD when it decided a war game scenario was real. We convinced the computer through some tic-tac-toe simulations that the only winning move was not to play. I guess technically it wasn't stick my head in the sand but sticking the WOPR's head in the sand certainly saved us from imminent danger.
Am I the only person on earth who didn't like the Epyx? I bought it because it was the closest thing I could get on the NES to my beloved 7800 controller but it just never gelled with me. Maybe Skate or Die wasn't the best game to get used to the stick with or maybe it's just me but I hated that controller. I especially hated that the select and start buttons for the NES version got progressively harder to push as the controller got older. They were those pseudo-buttons like you'd find on a cheap car stereo remote that look like a bump in the surface.
Oops. I should've been explicit that I meant the 6-button Genesis controller. That's the only one I've ever used.
I always preferred the Sega Saturn controller to the SNES (and all other digital-only controllers). It's got a smoother directional pad, 6 buttons in 2 rows of 3 with a bump for the bottom center button to find it without looking, and it still had shoulder buttons. The 2 rows of 3 was far superior for games like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. And personally I always thought the Genesis directional pad was a bit soft or I'd also put it above the SNES controller.
"especially in hot/wet conditions"
And it really brings a whole new dimension to crotchpot cooking.
"Plus the enhancing viewing feature which gives you a VH1 pop-up video style of commentary/extras overlaid on the movie itself, is a pretty sweet feature. Much cooler than a DVD's director's commentary. Its one of those things you have to watch to really appreciate it."
You need to watch the Ghostbusters DVD. It's been out since some time in the late 90's or early 2000's. It has the same type of pop up you describe. The Mad Max DVD also has this. It's the best feature I've ever ever seen on a DVD but nobody ever uses it. I imagine it will be equally obscure on these new formats once the new formats can stop worrying about packing as many special features as possible onto the disc for adoption purposes.
You get 8 songs?! I just get DJs who think they're a lot more amusing than they really are and commercials. I'd love to have a radio station that actually played music.
I preferred the Uncle Remus version:
Remus: Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-a. If you're watching this movie in the US, you've obtained it illegally. Plenty of lawyers comin' your way. Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-a.
And if he had tried to use one of today's plastic spatulas, it would've been no match for yesteryear's metal variety. I do assume an assassin would use some a bit more appropriate for assassination though.
But Slashdot does have an editorial staff (of sorts). If Slashdot's editorial staff is publishing these posts, then that editorial staff is ultimately responsible for the tone of the published post. You can't just hide behind the original poster. The editors dictate (though don't necessarily create) content.
The reason I did not also implicate the original submitter is that I could not determine exactly what the original submitter actually submitted. I can however determine exactly what the editorial staff intended to publish. If I were to wager, I'd wager that the original submitter submitted more or less exactly what was posted and the editorial staff merely posted it but I cannot know that for sure. Hence I can determine that "at least the Slashdot editorial staff wanted it to come off as embarrassing". I should've added that the original poster probably also wanted it to come off as embarrassing.
That writing does more to help you remember a topic than just listening to the lecture and reading e-notes afterwards ever could. Besides, if you are "frantically" writing, then you are doing something wrong. You don't have to write down every word that comes from the professors mouth. Most Universities offer a note-taking class of some sort. At my University, it only took two hours of my time and made me a much better note taker. I had to take the course before I could be a professional note taker for disabled students, but it was open to anyone.
That this post is titled "Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq" leads me to believe that at least the Slashdot editorial staff wanted it to come off as embarrassing. At the very least, a defense that it is not embarrassing is appropriate.
"I still don't understand how people come away with the impression that /. is an intellectual community."
Probably because there are at least a few people here and there who don't just go along with the popular groupthink and make their own minds up about issues.
Well, I'm not the kind to kiss and tell,
But I've been seen with Farrah.
I'm never seen with anything less than a nine, so fine.
I've been on fire with Sally Field,
Gone fast with a girl named Bo,
But somehow they just don't end up as mine.
It's a death defyin' life I lead,
I take my chances.
I die for a livin' in the movies and TV.
But the hardest thing I ever do
Is watch my leadin' ladies
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandagin' my knee.
I might fall from a tall building,
I might roll a brand new car.
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.
I never spend much time in school
But I taught ladies plenty.
It's true I hire my body out for pay, Hey Hey.
I've gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs,
Blown up for Raquel Welch.
But when I end up in the hay it's only hay, Hey Hey.
I might jump an open drawbridge,
Or Tarzan from a vine.
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine.
Right. That's why they sell at new game prices and sell quite a few copies at those new game prices. I don't currently buy every year of Madden or NCAA football or FIFA but with very few exceptions, I'd much rather play the most recent year's copy than the previous year with updated rosters. If you want to talk about rehashes, the FPS genre is probably most suspect.
You see they're going to let you sell them and you'll get a cut of the sales. Now you can get someone to sell them for you and then both you and Sony will get cuts of the sales. That chain can keep on going. Eventually, you'll be able to get enough people under you that you don't even have to sell PS3s anymore. You can just watch the money pour in from your underlings selling PS3s.
I for one would like a search engine that will stop displaying darn e-commerce sites every time I try to find information on a topic. I can't count the number of times I'm looking for info on a particular part and have to wade through 50 sites trying to sell me said part. How about cutting down the universal a notch and giving me specifically the type of results I'm looking for?
I do understand that completely. The Justice Department is in the pocket of whoever runs the current administration (as it usually is and near as I can tell Constitutionally should be). However, the only thing I take issue with is that you are attempting to directly compare one party's voting improprieties with another using entirely different criteria. Justice Department convictions are not a good metric but the more important issue I was pointing out is that your method of comparison is not an obviously fair metric but you may be using criteria you have left out of your original explanation. I was just wondering what that additional criteria is.
Amen. At work we used to have Foldger's and that was indeed the best part of waking up. Then we got some snooty fancy coffee. I don't mind the Columbian. Coffee is coffee. But if I don't get the 7:30 pot some jackass decides to make some hazlenut crap in the coffee maker. It takes a LOT of milk and sugar to make me not mind that other crap in my coffee.
"In other words, Democrats did not have an organized campaign to skew the elections like certain other parties...."
So the criteria for Democratic party wrongdoing is Justice Department convictions? That doesn't seem to be your criteria for Republican party wrongdoing. Or were you talking about some other party when you said "an organized campaign to skew the elections like certain other parties" (emphasis mine)? I'm not saying that there is or isn't some sort of larger conspiracy in either party's voting schemes but Justice Department doesn't seem to have much on either party.
Finally, the "Hot Hail" in Flash Gordon makes sense. Ming was just showering us with some hot ice!
Exactly. Republicans don't have to resort to amateurish election fraud like bribing the homeless with cigarettes to vote, having dead people vote, and complaining that ballots they approved are too confusing. Republicans like the big stuff.
Look, stop making justifications already. I know you're trying to come up with some way that your mom could've got all that malware on her machine when she doesn't play a single game on it. And you may feel better thinking she just got it from chatting and message boards but we all know the truth. I think it's time you do yourself a favor and come to grips with the it.