It's not simply un-pc. it's rediculously wrong. My kid can lift me if i sit far enough up on the see-saw. It's all about center of gravity. If someone is still too weak to lift the bike being perfectly in position, then.. well.. maybe they should sell their bike, or don't ride alone much, or get more experience so as to not turn it over in the first place.
I can't remember specifically, but the screens are given a class depending on how many pixels are dead are they not? A "Class A" screen has less than X percent of dead pixels from the factory then going down in classes from there. So pay attention to that aspect when buying any screen from any manufacturer.
Also consider in regular projection televisions, Hitachi makes 70% of the light guns on the market with differing qualities going to cheaper TV's, so when you're buying a Projo TV, it's probably got Hitachi parts in it.
First time was something like 40+ hours. Finished it once training a Gold Chocobo (sp?) that took forever, but i did get the two mimics. It made for a quick finish, two mimics and a Knights of the Round is all you need at the end. Did it once in 22 hours... straight, skipping a lot of side stories.
"This [xu.edu] is not a scam"
http://www.cs.xu.edu/~neyer/Ipod.htm
OT, but i had to say something about this sig.. this is SO a scam. In ten levels of your pyramid scheme you've come close to the population of the planet. The first 5 levels would get one, but are you the one to tell them that all of the ninth tier people come up on 6,103,515,625 people in order to get an IPod? Give me a break.. not even on/. are we immune to internet scams. Amazing.
I had to sign a non compete when i ran a Pizza Hut quite a while back.. don't know if they'd have ever enforced it. Considering i never knew what the mix was in their little "secret dough concoction - Just add flour and water bag)i think it said i couldn't work at another restraunt that served pizza.. not sure now, it was a long time ago.
I think this is the first time that the States has even mentioned that the arm is in fact a Canadian innovation. In movies, news, etc. I've never seen it mentioned before. Kinda like a wide range of other things that the US tries to take credit for.. I know, I know.. time for a flamebait mod, but it's true.
speaking of pron. Could you imagine the number of people the pron producers could sue? And the evidence would be all over the keyboard. Half stained with old cheetos, half stained with... well, you know.
CAP - See "hat" n.
1. A covering for the head, especially one with a shaped crown and brim.
2.
1. A head covering of distinctive color and shape worn as a symbol of office.
2. The office symbolized by the wearing of such a head covering.
3. A role or office symbolized by or as if by the wearing of different hats: wears two hatsone as parent and one as corporate executive.
A little devil's advocate if i may. "23 Miles around the WTC is restricted airspace?" Pilots know that, the Air Force knows that, but the 350 passengers you just vaporized don't know that. Navigational error, radio issues, mechanical problem, tracking from Air Traffic Control is wrong, whatever the issue, which are perhaps more likely than a terrorist attack. You kill innocents because the plane had a technical problem. As far as their families are concerned, the government just killed their mother, father, etc because of a glitch.
No 9/11, doubtful. How would you determine that a 747 was on course for the WTC until the jet was almost on top of it? An error in judgement would have killed a lot of American civilians and caused a revolt of massive proportions. A sucessful defense so close to downtown New York would have killed civilians on the groud around the tower. There are hundreds of flights a day out of NYC, again, I highly doubt that this would be an effective defense in a situation like that. My opinion anyhoo.
Okay, granted, i shouldn't have said i don't have or play any T games. I do go to Pogo.com every once in a while and play popit and card games too, i guess on the whole, i guess many people have just become desensitized to things like this, including me.
Many, many games focus on the hero fighting his way through enemies, but people seem to raise a stink when you put a human face on those same enemies. Mario; crush mushrooms with feet, no uprising from the censor groups. Frogger; don't get your guts splattered on the road, GTA, kill a derranged chef wielding a butcher knife and the censors explode in fury trying to ban the game. I say 16-30 because that's who the T and M games are pointed at, hence the rating in the first place. Even a game like Munch's Oddessy (which i've played) managed to get a T rating; cartoon violence, cartoon enemies, and a couple of fart jokes. I think this could easily be rated E. Football and Hockey have real human on human violence in them and they have an E rating, why?
Games need a story and action for me to discover and i just don't see it in E games, sorry.
would be a crappy theme for a game. Plain and simple. I'm a 25 year old, mentally well adjusted gamer but i'm also someone who gets very bored with things quite easily. I did however, play GTA: Vice to 99% completion. The only rated E games i play are sports games, a couple T games, but mostly M. i love driving games (True Crime, The Getaway, Driver) and it's a bonus to have good 1st person shooting in it. As i said above, a 25 year old guy playing a game where a small white kitten, named Baby, picks up posies and is timed.. sorry, but there's no way on earth you'd see someone like me playing it. Who has the money? 16-30 year olds, and they want M rated games.
What about aiming a nuke at it? a little test of the actual first hand effects of detonating a nuke on the surface of an oncoming asteriod would be a useful experiment. Modified trajectory, actual damage incurred... this would be a great opportunity!
Off topic, but amusing. I actually snail mailed the guy who patented the method for swinging on a swing asking him if i could be the sole distributor of licensing in Canada because i found the method "exciting and fresh"... Sadly, he never responded:-(
Personally, i just press zero until the operating software is thouroughly convinced that i'm a complete idiot.. a few seconds later and voila, instant live attendant! I wonder why they talk so slow to me though..
As a side note, most of the "big' places i shop at now have it posted at the till. If an item is incorrectly priced on the barcode, they'll buy your first item up to a value of 10 bucks... Provided you remember what the tag said you were going to pay for it of course.
Similar to that rediculously stupid Mentos commercial. And they did the commercial with 4 ginormous ex-wrestlers that bench press Mini's for warmup excercise. Something tells me most of us/.ers would have a hard time doing it.
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It's not simply un-pc. it's rediculously wrong. My kid can lift me if i sit far enough up on the see-saw. It's all about center of gravity. If someone is still too weak to lift the bike being perfectly in position, then.. well.. maybe they should sell their bike, or don't ride alone much, or get more experience so as to not turn it over in the first place.
I can't remember specifically, but the screens are given a class depending on how many pixels are dead are they not? A "Class A" screen has less than X percent of dead pixels from the factory then going down in classes from there. So pay attention to that aspect when buying any screen from any manufacturer.
Also consider in regular projection televisions, Hitachi makes 70% of the light guns on the market with differing qualities going to cheaper TV's, so when you're buying a Projo TV, it's probably got Hitachi parts in it.
First time was something like 40+ hours. Finished it once training a Gold Chocobo (sp?) that took forever, but i did get the two mimics. It made for a quick finish, two mimics and a Knights of the Round is all you need at the end. Did it once in 22 hours... straight, skipping a lot of side stories.
Actually, being in space, your gun wouldn't fire anyway. No oxygen to fuel the 'explosion' of the gunpowder. I know.. spoilsport. :-)
Gives a new meaning to the term 'dick head'.
"This [xu.edu] is not a scam" http://www.cs.xu.edu/~neyer/Ipod.htm OT, but i had to say something about this sig.. this is SO a scam. In ten levels of your pyramid scheme you've come close to the population of the planet. The first 5 levels would get one, but are you the one to tell them that all of the ninth tier people come up on 6,103,515,625 people in order to get an IPod? Give me a break.. not even on /. are we immune to internet scams. Amazing.
Or just point out the fact that it was a story a few days ago... That seemed to work too. :-)
I had to sign a non compete when i ran a Pizza Hut quite a while back.. don't know if they'd have ever enforced it. Considering i never knew what the mix was in their little "secret dough concoction - Just add flour and water bag)i think it said i couldn't work at another restraunt that served pizza.. not sure now, it was a long time ago.
I think this is the first time that the States has even mentioned that the arm is in fact a Canadian innovation. In movies, news, etc. I've never seen it mentioned before. Kinda like a wide range of other things that the US tries to take credit for.. I know, I know.. time for a flamebait mod, but it's true.
speaking of pron. Could you imagine the number of people the pron producers could sue? And the evidence would be all over the keyboard. Half stained with old cheetos, half stained with... well, you know.
With all the money i'm saving by downloading music i can finally afford a lawyer to defend against the RIAA.. Ahh, capitalism in motion.
CAP - See "hat" n. 1. A covering for the head, especially one with a shaped crown and brim. 2. 1. A head covering of distinctive color and shape worn as a symbol of office. 2. The office symbolized by the wearing of such a head covering. 3. A role or office symbolized by or as if by the wearing of different hats: wears two hatsone as parent and one as corporate executive.
A little devil's advocate if i may. "23 Miles around the WTC is restricted airspace?" Pilots know that, the Air Force knows that, but the 350 passengers you just vaporized don't know that. Navigational error, radio issues, mechanical problem, tracking from Air Traffic Control is wrong, whatever the issue, which are perhaps more likely than a terrorist attack. You kill innocents because the plane had a technical problem. As far as their families are concerned, the government just killed their mother, father, etc because of a glitch.
If they waited for it to come out, then the stick would be a USB dangle instead of dongle!
No 9/11, doubtful. How would you determine that a 747 was on course for the WTC until the jet was almost on top of it? An error in judgement would have killed a lot of American civilians and caused a revolt of massive proportions. A sucessful defense so close to downtown New York would have killed civilians on the groud around the tower. There are hundreds of flights a day out of NYC, again, I highly doubt that this would be an effective defense in a situation like that. My opinion anyhoo.
Okay, granted, i shouldn't have said i don't have or play any T games. I do go to Pogo.com every once in a while and play popit and card games too, i guess on the whole, i guess many people have just become desensitized to things like this, including me. Many, many games focus on the hero fighting his way through enemies, but people seem to raise a stink when you put a human face on those same enemies. Mario; crush mushrooms with feet, no uprising from the censor groups. Frogger; don't get your guts splattered on the road, GTA, kill a derranged chef wielding a butcher knife and the censors explode in fury trying to ban the game. I say 16-30 because that's who the T and M games are pointed at, hence the rating in the first place. Even a game like Munch's Oddessy (which i've played) managed to get a T rating; cartoon violence, cartoon enemies, and a couple of fart jokes. I think this could easily be rated E. Football and Hockey have real human on human violence in them and they have an E rating, why? Games need a story and action for me to discover and i just don't see it in E games, sorry.
would be a crappy theme for a game. Plain and simple. I'm a 25 year old, mentally well adjusted gamer but i'm also someone who gets very bored with things quite easily. I did however, play GTA: Vice to 99% completion. The only rated E games i play are sports games, a couple T games, but mostly M. i love driving games (True Crime, The Getaway, Driver) and it's a bonus to have good 1st person shooting in it. As i said above, a 25 year old guy playing a game where a small white kitten, named Baby, picks up posies and is timed.. sorry, but there's no way on earth you'd see someone like me playing it. Who has the money? 16-30 year olds, and they want M rated games.
What about aiming a nuke at it? a little test of the actual first hand effects of detonating a nuke on the surface of an oncoming asteriod would be a useful experiment. Modified trajectory, actual damage incurred... this would be a great opportunity!
And my personal favorite, being a techie... I'm going to go download some brownware!
Off topic, but amusing. I actually snail mailed the guy who patented the method for swinging on a swing asking him if i could be the sole distributor of licensing in Canada because i found the method "exciting and fresh"... Sadly, he never responded :-(
Personally, i just press zero until the operating software is thouroughly convinced that i'm a complete idiot.. a few seconds later and voila, instant live attendant! I wonder why they talk so slow to me though..
As a side note, most of the "big' places i shop at now have it posted at the till. If an item is incorrectly priced on the barcode, they'll buy your first item up to a value of 10 bucks... Provided you remember what the tag said you were going to pay for it of course.
Similar to that rediculously stupid Mentos commercial. And they did the commercial with 4 ginormous ex-wrestlers that bench press Mini's for warmup excercise. Something tells me most of us /.ers would have a hard time doing it.
~~~
Health nuts are going to be kicking themselves when they're 80 years old and lying in the hospital dying of nothing.