Fawlty Towers only had 12 episodes. I'm all in favor of not producing crap episodes, but by any measure, 12 episodes is nothing. There are daytime miniseries on mother/daughter/cancer issues which are longer than 12 episodes. I think 20 would have been a good number of episodes for the wit of John Cleese.
You can get a lot of people to upgrade if you make it worth their while. The only reason I upgraded windows media player to version 9 was because the Halo 2 teaser trailer would only work on version 9 so that was reason enough for me to upgrade.
The old lemmings was made by Psygnosis, which was bought by Sony in 1993. (Sony bought the US part of Psygnosis, Edios bought the European part of the company in 1998). If you had reported to Sony that someone was giving away "Lemmings" and "Oh No! More Lemmings!", Sony still probably wouldn't care, but they would at least give a response along the lines of "Thanks for the heads up, we don't care". More likely, it's the FBI who doesn't really care if someone has a contraband copy of Commander Keen or Brix, and isn't going to take the time to track them down where the cost taking this to court is 100000x the cost of the software.
This reminds me of a joke I heard. A guy and his friend are taking a cross country trip and are driving through Texas. At one point, a police car gets behind them, turns on its lights, and pulls them over. The cop walks over to the car and the driver rolls down the window and asks "What's the problem officer?" The cop takes his nightstick and hits the driver and says "This is Texas, when I get to the car you better have your license and registration out." The driver looks at the documents, writes a ticket and then walks over to the passenger side. He knocks on the passenger window and when the passenger rolls down the window the cop hits him with the nightstick. The passenger then asks "What was that for?" and the cop replies "Because when you were a mile down the road, I'll bet you were going to say to your friend "Man, I wish he had tried that crap with me"" The point of my story is that a lot of people have a great deal of bravado when you're discussing hypothetical situations with the anonnimity of the internet. Odds are everyone here would rather have the police poke around your apartment for an hour and be done with it, rather than spending a year and federal pound me in the ass prison and have your assets seized all for the sake of principles. There's a reason we remember people like Gandhi and Nelson Mandella and not Phil from IT.
Tuning into tech TV these days is met with a blue screen with white text reading "An error has occured on channel 87. If this error continues to occur, please contact your local comcast representative. Change the channel to continue." Turning the TV on and off seems to have no effect on the problem.
Student sues university over being kicked out for plagerizing. Common sense surrenders. Seriously though, it's nice to see that the lawyer schisterism of the US has gone across the Atlantic. I would have thought this kind of crap could only fly in US courts. The only way this kid could have a case is if he snuck unto the dean's office at night and found an entire file cabinet with documents outlining the vast conspricy against him, all for the purpose of taking an inconsequential amount of money from him (inconsequential to the university anyway). No college is going to risk a few thousand pounds over the possibility of it getting out that the school accepts plagerized work, because that could damage the school's reputation to a very significant degree.
There is someone in the loop. The missle silo's in Colorado are manned by Air Force officers. A college buddy of mine was Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps, pronounced rot-see). In return for the Air Force paying most of his tuition, he serves 4 years active duty and an additional period of time in the reserves. He has been assigned to the "Space and Missiles" program, which means that after a year of training he'll either be sent to "Space" which is mainly research and development, or to "Missiles", which is sitting in the missile silos. Of the people assigned to this program, about 20% go to space, and 80% go to missiles. As my friend describes it, he'd work on a 3 day rotation, where every third day he'd have a 24hr shift in an underground bunker where his primary job would be to wait for the signal to come in and then do the thing with the two keys and entering the final launch code or however it works these days. So there are still people in the loop for the US's long range missiles.
If I post "CHINA SUCKS!!", how long do you think it will be before the Ministry's Game Products Censorship Committee bans slashdot as a violation of Internet service regulations??
Not officially anyway. But I've had lots of professors who'll just do it anyway. But usually it's kept private to the class. Either the list will be posted outside the professor's office, or we'll have an Excel file E-Mailed to the entire class. Also, what you did could be considered illegal on some levels. You basically hacked they're system by entering in random numbers until you got a hit, so think about who's doing something illegal before you post.
Spike has actually started showing racy ads about the women of TNG and DS9 with lots of shots of Crusher and Troy in leotards doing their morning stretchy thing, and Kira and Dax in a variety of poses in various states of dress........ wait, what was I talking about?
CLEP credits aren't always as useful as AP credits though. First of all, living on the east coast, I've never even heard of CLEP credits until I went to college. Also, in applying to medical school, many schools that accept AP credits for prerequsite classes like Physics and Calculus, won't accept CLEP credits. If you had CLEP credits, you would have had to take those courses again to apply to medical school.
Memory? Has the format of the exam changed? I took the C++ exam when it was first offered in May 1999 when it had switched from Pascal, and the entire exam was 3 hours, pencil and paper. The first half was multiple choice questions, and the second half was coding questions, where you were given a task and had to write code by hand to execute it. Is it being done on computer these days? (Is the computer science exam being done on computer? That seems like such a stupid question, doesn't it?)
You're worried about the slight possibility that they might be accidentally targeting a legitimate business, eh? I can't imagine how much sleep you lose over/. intentionally blitzing dozens of legitimate and cool sites every week.
I would like to make some witty comment relating the movie to some well known aspect of the Metroid games, but in thinking about it, other than the image of Samus, the most recognisable part of the games are the musical themes; the music when the game starts, the music when you pick up a missle upgrade, brinstar theme, etc. I hope they work those themes into the soundtrack of the movie.
If this movie goes well, could a Halo movie be far behind? Halo has a pretty well defined story outside of the game (there are a few books about the story leading up to Halo, and about Master Chief's return to Earth). Samus is a chick who's space bounty hunter in a super suit fighting metroids, and Master Cheif is a dude who's a space marine in a super suit fighting aliens. The concepts seem pretty similar.
The gladiator fight scene was actually pretty good, if you can overlook how the newbies (R2, C3PO, Amidala, Boba) managed to escape the battle unscathed while jedi's were getting their shit ruined all over the place. Padme with her little blaster should have been the first to fall, but then we would have had a severe "boobs-in-tight-white-shirts" shortage, and that wouldn't have done at all.
I was a PC gamer starting since back in the day when I would play FIRE on my Dell 386 (which incidentally cost $5000 back then). I've slowly transitioned to consoles just because it's so much more convenient to play. Pop a disc in, turn it on, and I'm playing in under 30 seconds. It never crashes, never have to install anything, and there's never a system conflict; you never have to reconfigure your console to support your new game. But above all, the games are honestly more fun to play. PC games are nice and all, but I like not having to memorize 8 billion keyboard commands to play a game. Also, when you get game frustration, it's much better to throw the controler than to smash the keyboard (both things I've done before). Things like Warcraft will always be a PC game, but I think all other games could easily be done on console, and it'll be better for it.
Perhaps eccentricity of the orbit could be a qualifier of planetary status. Planets have relativly circular orbits compared to things like hailey's commet. Combine this with some minimum size requirement (say, half the difference between the size of Sedena the largest known asteriod/comet known) and you should be able to classify things as planets or not.
It does work in theory. That's how Standard Oil used to work. They'd move in next door to a smaller refinery, sell their kerosene for cheaper (sometimes at a loss even) so that the other business went under. Then they'd offer the owner of the small refinery two options - sell the company in exchange for stock in standard oil, or try and stick it out and eventually be crushed. This new service will get a share of the market, and it will stick it to other services like itunes and netscape by doing so. In addition, if they can successfully integrate the service into windows, they can get a whole other group of less tech savy people into music downloading if windows makes it easy to do so.
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Fawlty Towers only had 12 episodes. I'm all in favor of not producing crap episodes, but by any measure, 12 episodes is nothing. There are daytime miniseries on mother/daughter/cancer issues which are longer than 12 episodes. I think 20 would have been a good number of episodes for the wit of John Cleese.
And WHO needs MS mediaplayers anyhow...
You can get a lot of people to upgrade if you make it worth their while. The only reason I upgraded windows media player to version 9 was because the Halo 2 teaser trailer would only work on version 9 so that was reason enough for me to upgrade.
The old lemmings was made by Psygnosis, which was bought by Sony in 1993. (Sony bought the US part of Psygnosis, Edios bought the European part of the company in 1998). If you had reported to Sony that someone was giving away "Lemmings" and "Oh No! More Lemmings!", Sony still probably wouldn't care, but they would at least give a response along the lines of "Thanks for the heads up, we don't care". More likely, it's the FBI who doesn't really care if someone has a contraband copy of Commander Keen or Brix, and isn't going to take the time to track them down where the cost taking this to court is 100000x the cost of the software.
1. Release good old games on new platform (Example - Zelda Promotional Edition)
2. Have people pay for nostalgia.
3. Profit
This reminds me of a joke I heard. A guy and his friend are taking a cross country trip and are driving through Texas. At one point, a police car gets behind them, turns on its lights, and pulls them over. The cop walks over to the car and the driver rolls down the window and asks "What's the problem officer?" The cop takes his nightstick and hits the driver and says "This is Texas, when I get to the car you better have your license and registration out." The driver looks at the documents, writes a ticket and then walks over to the passenger side. He knocks on the passenger window and when the passenger rolls down the window the cop hits him with the nightstick. The passenger then asks "What was that for?" and the cop replies "Because when you were a mile down the road, I'll bet you were going to say to your friend "Man, I wish he had tried that crap with me"" The point of my story is that a lot of people have a great deal of bravado when you're discussing hypothetical situations with the anonnimity of the internet. Odds are everyone here would rather have the police poke around your apartment for an hour and be done with it, rather than spending a year and federal pound me in the ass prison and have your assets seized all for the sake of principles. There's a reason we remember people like Gandhi and Nelson Mandella and not Phil from IT.
Tuning into tech TV these days is met with a blue screen with white text reading "An error has occured on channel 87. If this error continues to occur, please contact your local comcast representative. Change the channel to continue." Turning the TV on and off seems to have no effect on the problem.
Student sues university over being kicked out for plagerizing. Common sense surrenders. Seriously though, it's nice to see that the lawyer schisterism of the US has gone across the Atlantic. I would have thought this kind of crap could only fly in US courts. The only way this kid could have a case is if he snuck unto the dean's office at night and found an entire file cabinet with documents outlining the vast conspricy against him, all for the purpose of taking an inconsequential amount of money from him (inconsequential to the university anyway). No college is going to risk a few thousand pounds over the possibility of it getting out that the school accepts plagerized work, because that could damage the school's reputation to a very significant degree.
There is someone in the loop. The missle silo's in Colorado are manned by Air Force officers. A college buddy of mine was Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps, pronounced rot-see). In return for the Air Force paying most of his tuition, he serves 4 years active duty and an additional period of time in the reserves. He has been assigned to the "Space and Missiles" program, which means that after a year of training he'll either be sent to "Space" which is mainly research and development, or to "Missiles", which is sitting in the missile silos. Of the people assigned to this program, about 20% go to space, and 80% go to missiles. As my friend describes it, he'd work on a 3 day rotation, where every third day he'd have a 24hr shift in an underground bunker where his primary job would be to wait for the signal to come in and then do the thing with the two keys and entering the final launch code or however it works these days. So there are still people in the loop for the US's long range missiles.
If I post "CHINA SUCKS!!", how long do you think it will be before the Ministry's Game Products Censorship Committee bans slashdot as a violation of Internet service regulations??
Not officially anyway. But I've had lots of professors who'll just do it anyway. But usually it's kept private to the class. Either the list will be posted outside the professor's office, or we'll have an Excel file E-Mailed to the entire class. Also, what you did could be considered illegal on some levels. You basically hacked they're system by entering in random numbers until you got a hit, so think about who's doing something illegal before you post.
Spike has actually started showing racy ads about the women of TNG and DS9 with lots of shots of Crusher and Troy in leotards doing their morning stretchy thing, and Kira and Dax in a variety of poses in various states of dress .... .... wait, what was I talking about?
CLEP credits aren't always as useful as AP credits though. First of all, living on the east coast, I've never even heard of CLEP credits until I went to college. Also, in applying to medical school, many schools that accept AP credits for prerequsite classes like Physics and Calculus, won't accept CLEP credits. If you had CLEP credits, you would have had to take those courses again to apply to medical school.
Memory? Has the format of the exam changed? I took the C++ exam when it was first offered in May 1999 when it had switched from Pascal, and the entire exam was 3 hours, pencil and paper. The first half was multiple choice questions, and the second half was coding questions, where you were given a task and had to write code by hand to execute it. Is it being done on computer these days? (Is the computer science exam being done on computer? That seems like such a stupid question, doesn't it?)
You're worried about the slight possibility that they might be accidentally targeting a legitimate business, eh? I can't imagine how much sleep you lose over /. intentionally blitzing dozens of legitimate and cool sites every week.
I would like to make some witty comment relating the movie to some well known aspect of the Metroid games, but in thinking about it, other than the image of Samus, the most recognisable part of the games are the musical themes; the music when the game starts, the music when you pick up a missle upgrade, brinstar theme, etc. I hope they work those themes into the soundtrack of the movie.
If this movie goes well, could a Halo movie be far behind? Halo has a pretty well defined story outside of the game (there are a few books about the story leading up to Halo, and about Master Chief's return to Earth). Samus is a chick who's space bounty hunter in a super suit fighting metroids, and Master Cheif is a dude who's a space marine in a super suit fighting aliens. The concepts seem pretty similar.
The gladiator fight scene was actually pretty good, if you can overlook how the newbies (R2, C3PO, Amidala, Boba) managed to escape the battle unscathed while jedi's were getting their shit ruined all over the place. Padme with her little blaster should have been the first to fall, but then we would have had a severe "boobs-in-tight-white-shirts" shortage, and that wouldn't have done at all.
Last I checked, the playboy always involved a lot of hand held action.
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I was a PC gamer starting since back in the day when I would play FIRE on my Dell 386 (which incidentally cost $5000 back then). I've slowly transitioned to consoles just because it's so much more convenient to play. Pop a disc in, turn it on, and I'm playing in under 30 seconds. It never crashes, never have to install anything, and there's never a system conflict; you never have to reconfigure your console to support your new game. But above all, the games are honestly more fun to play. PC games are nice and all, but I like not having to memorize 8 billion keyboard commands to play a game. Also, when you get game frustration, it's much better to throw the controler than to smash the keyboard (both things I've done before). Things like Warcraft will always be a PC game, but I think all other games could easily be done on console, and it'll be better for it.
Well, yes, companies do "forget" :-)
What does it say for small little companies when the world's largest software empire can't even remember to do that. There's no excuse for this at all...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33814.html
Perhaps eccentricity of the orbit could be a qualifier of planetary status. Planets have relativly circular orbits compared to things like hailey's commet. Combine this with some minimum size requirement (say, half the difference between the size of Sedena the largest known asteriod/comet known) and you should be able to classify things as planets or not.
MDragonBall processor Indeed, it also comes with an enhanced Majin-Boot Sector.
It does work in theory. That's how Standard Oil used to work. They'd move in next door to a smaller refinery, sell their kerosene for cheaper (sometimes at a loss even) so that the other business went under. Then they'd offer the owner of the small refinery two options - sell the company in exchange for stock in standard oil, or try and stick it out and eventually be crushed. This new service will get a share of the market, and it will stick it to other services like itunes and netscape by doing so. In addition, if they can successfully integrate the service into windows, they can get a whole other group of less tech savy people into music downloading if windows makes it easy to do so.
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Shipping and handling are going to be a bitch.