The body of Sediq Wardak was pulled out of the flaming wreckage of a modified Volkswagon today, after a U.S. pilot mistook the vehicle for a mobile WMD factory and called in a full cruise missile strike.
... my mother would never be able to buy another galon of milk. She regularly uses coupons with sales to buy $50 worth of groceries for under $10. Once in a while the store winds up "owing" her money (though of course they never pay)! Yes I realize that the stores get money back for the coupons, but still.... If sales make a company unprofitable, then they just shouldn't have sales. Don't blame the customers.
On the other hand, those who buy, file for rebate and return... Something needs to be done about that. How about a database that the product company can check and update before sending out the rebate, and the store can check and update before accepting the return?
The one story practically created for welcoming new overlords, and not a single post??!! Is the story simply too perfect to be funny, or are slashdotters becoming unfriendly?
PC Gamer and Shonen Jump. PC Gamer I only read while taking a #2 though, so I'm about a year behind by now. This is probably because my computer is 5 years old and can't run any of these new-fangled games with their hardware T&L.
Hotmail accounts which are suspected of sending spam are closed without a single investigation. This article states that Maariv International registered a new Hotmail account and sent an abuse message about spamming activities from that account, while not a single message was sent from it. Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating."
Prompts the question, what came first: the government, or the corporation?
While I belive in purchasing the works when they come out in the US. I do download and read manga.
I'm like that too. I started out just reading scanlations in college, but once I got a job I started buying Great Teacher Onizuka (awesome series,) even the first two volumes which I'd already read scanlated. By now I've spent several hundred dollars on various manga, though half or more of it has been through eBay. But I still read scanlations, mostly for series either not available in the States or the ones where their English releases are waaaaay behind the japanese ones (Berserk, Naruto).
So what I'm saying is, I believe scanlations serve to actually get you interested in manga, and if that happens, there's a very good chance you'll start buying the actual thing. So it actually helps companies like Viz and Tokyopop who publish official English translations.
I do admit to reading all of Love Hina with scanlations and not buying a single one of the printed volumes. But that's one of the exceptions.
I think that without sensation the user will have to rely on visual feedback until they get used to it. It would be kind of like playing some kind of really difficult "balancing act" computer simulation with no force feedback and complicated controlls. Hard to do, but possible with practice.
The wires and electronics obviously exist in both the stable and the ignited states simultaneously. Then, when observers enter the area, the waveform collapses to just one of the aforementioned states.
I just decided to find out what kinds of treasures the Greater Glaabrezu in Under Sigil could drop. IIRC each kill was worth 100,000XP, and I left the rest of the party behind so TNO could have the pleasure of the killing by himself. After I got tired of that, I looked for interesting ways to beat the Nemesis. My two favorites were:
1. Missile of Patience (thats the name, right?) which took 4 or 5 casts - not bad for a Level 1 spell!
2. Beating the poor guy to death with TNO's own severred arm. As a mage:)
And this is the sort of thing that ended up giving me carpal tunnel syndrome:/
You were lucky if you got to Level 15 with the Nameless One by the end of the game. While it was important to level up and boost traits, it was not your driving motivation.
Hmmm, by the time my TNO beat Planescape: Torment, he was at least level 30 in each of the 3 classes. Guess I'm a Diablo 2 player at heart after all:/.
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This would be a bit simpler probably for older 2 1/2 D games like Doom, ROTT and Descent, compared to full 3D engine games like the Quake and Unreal series. But definitely do-able I think.
Just FYI, Descent was a full 3D game in every sense of the word.
Time travel invented 2075 (earliest)
Faster than light travel 2100 (earliest)
Once time travel is invented, couldn't you just go far enough into the future to get all technologies that would ever be invented, and bring them back to the past?
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The body of Sediq Wardak was pulled out of the flaming wreckage of a modified Volkswagon today, after a U.S. pilot mistook the vehicle for a mobile WMD factory and called in a full cruise missile strike.
... my mother would never be able to buy another galon of milk. She regularly uses coupons with sales to buy $50 worth of groceries for under $10. Once in a while the store winds up "owing" her money (though of course they never pay)! Yes I realize that the stores get money back for the coupons, but still.... If sales make a company unprofitable, then they just shouldn't have sales. Don't blame the customers.
On the other hand, those who buy, file for rebate and return... Something needs to be done about that. How about a database that the product company can check and update before sending out the rebate, and the store can check and update before accepting the return?
The one story practically created for welcoming new overlords, and not a single post??!! Is the story simply too perfect to be funny, or are slashdotters becoming unfriendly?
PC Gamer and Shonen Jump. PC Gamer I only read while taking a #2 though, so I'm about a year behind by now. This is probably because my computer is 5 years old and can't run any of these new-fangled games with their hardware T&L.
Hotmail accounts which are suspected of sending spam are closed without a single investigation. This article states that Maariv International registered a new Hotmail account and sent an abuse message about spamming activities from that account, while not a single message was sent from it. Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating."
Prompts the question, what came first: the government, or the corporation?
While I belive in purchasing the works when they come out in the US. I do download and read manga.
I'm like that too. I started out just reading scanlations in college, but once I got a job I started buying Great Teacher Onizuka (awesome series,) even the first two volumes which I'd already read scanlated. By now I've spent several hundred dollars on various manga, though half or more of it has been through eBay. But I still read scanlations, mostly for series either not available in the States or the ones where their English releases are waaaaay behind the japanese ones (Berserk, Naruto).
So what I'm saying is, I believe scanlations serve to actually get you interested in manga, and if that happens, there's a very good chance you'll start buying the actual thing. So it actually helps companies like Viz and Tokyopop who publish official English translations.
I do admit to reading all of Love Hina with scanlations and not buying a single one of the printed volumes. But that's one of the exceptions.
How do we blame Micro$oft for this?
Please tell me it's not that AWFUL cartoon that plays in my area weekday mornings on UPN!
I think that without sensation the user will have to rely on visual feedback until they get used to it. It would be kind of like playing some kind of really difficult "balancing act" computer simulation with no force feedback and complicated controlls. Hard to do, but possible with practice.
I believe the full version of Wolfenstein 3d came on 2 disks. The shareware fit on 1 though.
The wires and electronics obviously exist in both the stable and the ignited states simultaneously. Then, when observers enter the area, the waveform collapses to just one of the aforementioned states.
I'd like my Nobel Physics prize now.
Bill Gates was quoted as saying "Well, there goes my pocket change. Gotta hit an ATM sometime today."
Is there a way to mark a story "Off Topic"?
I just decided to find out what kinds of treasures the Greater Glaabrezu in Under Sigil could drop. IIRC each kill was worth 100,000XP, and I left the rest of the party behind so TNO could have the pleasure of the killing by himself. After I got tired of that, I looked for interesting ways to beat the Nemesis. My two favorites were:
:)
:/
1. Missile of Patience (thats the name, right?) which took 4 or 5 casts - not bad for a Level 1 spell!
2. Beating the poor guy to death with TNO's own severred arm. As a mage
And this is the sort of thing that ended up giving me carpal tunnel syndrome
You were lucky if you got to Level 15 with the Nameless One by the end of the game. While it was important to level up and boost traits, it was not your driving motivation.
:/.
Hmmm, by the time my TNO beat Planescape: Torment, he was at least level 30 in each of the 3 classes. Guess I'm a Diablo 2 player at heart after all
This would be a bit simpler probably for older 2 1/2 D games like Doom, ROTT and Descent, compared to full 3D engine games like the Quake and Unreal series. But definitely do-able I think.
Just FYI, Descent was a full 3D game in every sense of the word.
Time travel invented 2075 (earliest)
Faster than light travel 2100 (earliest)
Once time travel is invented, couldn't you just go far enough into the future to get all technologies that would ever be invented, and bring them back to the past?