...will be the tricorder. Eventually they're gonna cram so much stuff in that they won't have room for the actual PHONE anymore and we'll have to carry around communicators.
Does no one recognize the value of a gadget that does it's one function extremely well? Specialization is the key for success. I'd never buy a soundcard that has a network feature built in. I'd never buy a tv that has a vcr attached to the bottom. I don't want a pack of cigarettes with a lighter on the side, and if I want a phone I'm only gonna buy it for the sake of talking to people, not so I can write them emails warning them I'm about to call them during off-hours and send them a picture of where I'm calling them from. I LIKE my gadget arsenal, I LIKE not needing to buy a new phone/camera/emailer/sms/mp3 player just because the one feature I want to upgrade is attached to all that crap I don't want. It's not like my penis is gonna grow another inch if I have a ton of features in one (or 4) machines on my belt. All the stuff I have, I have because I can't think/find/buy a better solution for that particular task and I hate the idea of reducing the amount of the stuff I choose to carry with me at the expense of not being able to do any of it as well as I know I could.
I think it was Fox, and they made a mock newscast showing scenes from Independance Day with people pointing at fireballs and objects in the sky. It was so well crafted that my mother was actually shocked into blurting out "oh, good heavens!" at the first shot of the flaming sky. She actually believed the "hoax", at least until none of us could keep a straight face anymore.
To summarize, apparently what happened is M. Night Shyamalan tried to block a made-for-tv bio about him that had some dark secret, but it was later revealed (and admitted) that the whole story was made up and he (they?) was only trying to drum up some extra publicity for his name in the weeks leading up to the release of The Village.
I dunno about other MMO games, but I know from playing world of warcraft that most female avatars can use a/bounce command to, y'know, bounce. It's jiggle on demand and there's not a 14 year old boy alive who can resist that!
(BTW I'm well past my teens and my main character is male)
The movie I mean. I know it's two different mediums, but I'm pretty sure that max payne bullet time was inspired by the matrix bullet time. The matrix game might not have come until later, but props for the concept gotta go to the movie, not an (admittedly good) game built around an inspired gimmick.
Why do people just use itunes? Competition is a good thing, and I'm sure the crowd here will agree that 1) monopoly = evil, and 2) alternatives = good. I mean, why not just drive ford? Why not just play sony? Why not just eat bananas?
The more companies start offering digital media for sale, the better off we'll all be. They might not have it quite right just yet, but they seem to be getting enough encouragement from the market to keep trying which is a very good sign. Sooner or later one of these retailers will give us exactly what we want and it'll all be thanks to these early efforts.
I know on the surface it looks like a simple read, but the book nails every aspect of conflict so precisely, but still stated in simple enough terms that can be easily applied to nearly any situation. I don't mean to make it sound like a self help book or anything of the sort, but when are we ever not fighting for what we want?
They should make live a battle.net type system so those of us with a copy of pandora tomorrow on our computer can play people who bought the xbox version. There's a ton of multiplayer games that are on both the xbox and pc, would it really be that hard to set up the games to play between platforms? They all connect to this same intarweb thing here and it's the same people making both games, so did someone just not mention "double the user base" to the xbox live team?
A little while ago the phantom was nothing but a ghost story and nearly everyone believed it was all a hoax, and now that it's getting closer to a release date everyone's getting excited that it may be a real thing now.
...how much nuclear waste does a nuclear power plant actually produce? Would it be feasible to fill a big rocket with it every so often and launch it into the sun? We wouldn't have to worry about environmental damage, seeing as how a) it won't be on earth, and b) the sun's not gonna notice a little extra radiation.
I'm sure the idea's been thought of before, but it sounds good to me and I'm wondering why it's not an option that's considered.
My htpc uses a simple ir receiver with a universal remote I picked up from my local sony store. Cost me about 50$ and an afternoon of my time. I use a program called girder to map my remote buttons, and depending on what I want to do I just switch the remote to say, vcr mode to take care of settings that wouldn't fit on the first "page" of keys. I know it's no good for typing, but it's an htpc so that's not a prevalent issue I hope. I'm able to map all the keyboard keys and shortcuts I need to operate the htpc and even to perform regular maintenance like deleting old files and media, defrag and such. The only time I need to plug in a keyboard at all is when I install a new media module or some other new feature, but that's rare. I know it's not the solution you were looking for, but I've been using my set like this for nearly a year and I love it. Just look at the size difference of a remote and keyboard if you're not convinced, remember whatever you choose will need to be picked up/passed around/stashed away (or sat on)
A friend of mine finished his 4 year computer science course here at the University of New Brunswick in 2003, and after sending out resumes all summer long, finally settled on the best offer he got that didn't require him to move an unreasonable distance (for him). He landed a job at a company in Quebec City, about 6 hours away. The job he took had him building webpages, and they were paying him 8$ an hour to do it. That's canadian, remember. It was the most attractive option available to him, unless he was willing to move to Vancouver for an extra 3$ (he wasn't).
It took me 2 years in a kitchen to work up to 8$, and that was 5 years ago. He was so embarrassed about his wage he wouldn't even tell me himself, and after 6 months on the job the company declared bankruptcy, stiffed him on his last 6 weeks of work, without giving him any kind of notice of what was happening beforehand. He still hasn't gotten paid for those 6 weeks yet, even after multiple court sessions.
I guess the point is, even though he wasn't raking in the dough, reliability in an employer should be at least as high on your priority list as a high salary. If a strong business is offering you a low wage and no one's putting up a better offer, take it. At the very least you'll get job experience until a better offer comes along, and that's something all those degree-holding waiters won't have.
I don't understand how time dilation really works. I've seen examples of it, but as far as I can see it appears they all state that time appears to slow down for a fast-moving object relative to a stationary observer. From my admittedly layman's point of view, it seems to me that time slowing down would basically be seen along the same lines as the doppler effect on a moving sound source. I know it may be apples and oranges, but sound and light both travel in waves, correct? I hate making myself sound like an idiot, but I really don't think it's a stupid question, so why wouldn't time for the speeding object appear accelerated if it turned around and came back towards the observer? Wouldn't that cancel out the slowed time for the first half of the journey?
All quoting aside, I wonder what will or would happen if the theory of relativity turns out to be nothing but bunk. It wouldn't be the first time our scientists knew something, even if it were based partly on observation. I'm no physicist, but I know Einstein's made assumptions that haven't been proven wrong or right, for example the speed of light in a vaccum is the fastest attainable speed in the universe. Just because we haven't doesn't it doesn't. And what about the unexplainable increase in velocity of the voyager probe as it neared the edge of the solar system? When I read that article, I remember thinking "wouldn't it be great if I was alive to see such a monumental discovery, along the lines of 'the earth ain't flat no more'?" I think it'd be so cool (ok, interesting) if this experiment means we need to rewrite our laws of gravity.
Maybe they were trying to review the newer players on the market, I dunno, but the iPod has seen 3 generations so far and having just bought a 3rd gen iPod a few months ago I'd be interested to see how it compares. The last generation is certainly more recent than some of the players they reviewed, so why wouldn't they include it?
I remember trying to get Porsche Unleashed working on win2k after I upgraded from win98. I eventually did get it to work, but only after a few patches and even still it wouldn't run nearly as well as it did on the older OS (and hardware too, I might add). I've also got a few DOS emulators that refuse to work under XP, but they'll run fine on other windows systems.
It's a kick in the ass for sure, and I (we) seem to be in the minority, but I think there's a fine kind of satisfaction with the intricately simple games of old that's being lost in the modern age.
the RIAA was sued for making false claims of amnesty
Did the RIAA say that they wouldn't sue you, or that you wouldn't be sued? If it was the former, IANAL but wouldn't that be the same as an out of court settlement and hence it would be legal? The RIAA might be ignorant and stupid, but I'm sure their lawyers aren't.
And as long as we're nitpicking, I'm pretty sure all the money in America doesn't come from the same mint. Or even the same country for that matter. I assume you meant the United States of America, because America isn't of the United States, but I'm one of those people who has to point out every little thing like that.
Seriously, is it any surprise to anyone here that the government is involved in social engineering programs? They've always used any form necessary/available to bend our thinking into what they want their population to be, and as soon as the next far-reaching information/media service becomes available you can bet they'll be using that too.
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...will be the tricorder. Eventually they're gonna cram so much stuff in that they won't have room for the actual PHONE anymore and we'll have to carry around communicators.
Does no one recognize the value of a gadget that does it's one function extremely well? Specialization is the key for success. I'd never buy a soundcard that has a network feature built in. I'd never buy a tv that has a vcr attached to the bottom. I don't want a pack of cigarettes with a lighter on the side, and if I want a phone I'm only gonna buy it for the sake of talking to people, not so I can write them emails warning them I'm about to call them during off-hours and send them a picture of where I'm calling them from. I LIKE my gadget arsenal, I LIKE not needing to buy a new phone/camera/emailer/sms/mp3 player just because the one feature I want to upgrade is attached to all that crap I don't want. It's not like my penis is gonna grow another inch if I have a ton of features in one (or 4) machines on my belt. All the stuff I have, I have because I can't think/find/buy a better solution for that particular task and I hate the idea of reducing the amount of the stuff I choose to carry with me at the expense of not being able to do any of it as well as I know I could.
I think it was Fox, and they made a mock newscast showing scenes from Independance Day with people pointing at fireballs and objects in the sky. It was so well crafted that my mother was actually shocked into blurting out "oh, good heavens!" at the first shot of the flaming sky. She actually believed the "hoax", at least until none of us could keep a straight face anymore.
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2004-07-19#film2
To summarize, apparently what happened is M. Night Shyamalan tried to block a made-for-tv bio about him that had some dark secret, but it was later revealed (and admitted) that the whole story was made up and he (they?) was only trying to drum up some extra publicity for his name in the weeks leading up to the release of The Village.
I dunno about other MMO games, but I know from playing world of warcraft that most female avatars can use a /bounce command to, y'know, bounce. It's jiggle on demand and there's not a 14 year old boy alive who can resist that!
(BTW I'm well past my teens and my main character is male)
They'll start trying to sell us bottled martian water! Eons more pure than that razorback sludge they're selling us now.
The movie I mean. I know it's two different mediums, but I'm pretty sure that max payne bullet time was inspired by the matrix bullet time. The matrix game might not have come until later, but props for the concept gotta go to the movie, not an (admittedly good) game built around an inspired gimmick.
Why do people just use itunes? Competition is a good thing, and I'm sure the crowd here will agree that 1) monopoly = evil, and 2) alternatives = good. I mean, why not just drive ford? Why not just play sony? Why not just eat bananas?
The more companies start offering digital media for sale, the better off we'll all be. They might not have it quite right just yet, but they seem to be getting enough encouragement from the market to keep trying which is a very good sign. Sooner or later one of these retailers will give us exactly what we want and it'll all be thanks to these early efforts.
I know on the surface it looks like a simple read, but the book nails every aspect of conflict so precisely, but still stated in simple enough terms that can be easily applied to nearly any situation. I don't mean to make it sound like a self help book or anything of the sort, but when are we ever not fighting for what we want?
They should make live a battle.net type system so those of us with a copy of pandora tomorrow on our computer can play people who bought the xbox version. There's a ton of multiplayer games that are on both the xbox and pc, would it really be that hard to set up the games to play between platforms? They all connect to this same intarweb thing here and it's the same people making both games, so did someone just not mention "double the user base" to the xbox live team?
A little while ago the phantom was nothing but a ghost story and nearly everyone believed it was all a hoax, and now that it's getting closer to a release date everyone's getting excited that it may be a real thing now.
That PR team is nothing but genius.
The olsen twins won their lawsuit. Yep. They won the case and took everything acclaim had. God bless those sexy bitches.
...how much nuclear waste does a nuclear power plant actually produce? Would it be feasible to fill a big rocket with it every so often and launch it into the sun? We wouldn't have to worry about environmental damage, seeing as how a) it won't be on earth, and b) the sun's not gonna notice a little extra radiation.
I'm sure the idea's been thought of before, but it sounds good to me and I'm wondering why it's not an option that's considered.
My htpc uses a simple ir receiver with a universal remote I picked up from my local sony store. Cost me about 50$ and an afternoon of my time. I use a program called girder to map my remote buttons, and depending on what I want to do I just switch the remote to say, vcr mode to take care of settings that wouldn't fit on the first "page" of keys. I know it's no good for typing, but it's an htpc so that's not a prevalent issue I hope. I'm able to map all the keyboard keys and shortcuts I need to operate the htpc and even to perform regular maintenance like deleting old files and media, defrag and such. The only time I need to plug in a keyboard at all is when I install a new media module or some other new feature, but that's rare. I know it's not the solution you were looking for, but I've been using my set like this for nearly a year and I love it. Just look at the size difference of a remote and keyboard if you're not convinced, remember whatever you choose will need to be picked up/passed around/stashed away (or sat on)
Just make sure you drink plenty of water before getting into a hostile situation. Or beer. Soldiers love beer.
They should base them on the AD&D system. Or maybe Magic: The Gathering.
A friend of mine finished his 4 year computer science course here at the University of New Brunswick in 2003, and after sending out resumes all summer long, finally settled on the best offer he got that didn't require him to move an unreasonable distance (for him). He landed a job at a company in Quebec City, about 6 hours away. The job he took had him building webpages, and they were paying him 8$ an hour to do it. That's canadian, remember. It was the most attractive option available to him, unless he was willing to move to Vancouver for an extra 3$ (he wasn't).
It took me 2 years in a kitchen to work up to 8$, and that was 5 years ago. He was so embarrassed about his wage he wouldn't even tell me himself, and after 6 months on the job the company declared bankruptcy, stiffed him on his last 6 weeks of work, without giving him any kind of notice of what was happening beforehand. He still hasn't gotten paid for those 6 weeks yet, even after multiple court sessions.
I guess the point is, even though he wasn't raking in the dough, reliability in an employer should be at least as high on your priority list as a high salary. If a strong business is offering you a low wage and no one's putting up a better offer, take it. At the very least you'll get job experience until a better offer comes along, and that's something all those degree-holding waiters won't have.
I don't understand how time dilation really works. I've seen examples of it, but as far as I can see it appears they all state that time appears to slow down for a fast-moving object relative to a stationary observer. From my admittedly layman's point of view, it seems to me that time slowing down would basically be seen along the same lines as the doppler effect on a moving sound source. I know it may be apples and oranges, but sound and light both travel in waves, correct? I hate making myself sound like an idiot, but I really don't think it's a stupid question, so why wouldn't time for the speeding object appear accelerated if it turned around and came back towards the observer? Wouldn't that cancel out the slowed time for the first half of the journey?
All quoting aside, I wonder what will or would happen if the theory of relativity turns out to be nothing but bunk. It wouldn't be the first time our scientists knew something, even if it were based partly on observation. I'm no physicist, but I know Einstein's made assumptions that haven't been proven wrong or right, for example the speed of light in a vaccum is the fastest attainable speed in the universe. Just because we haven't doesn't it doesn't. And what about the unexplainable increase in velocity of the voyager probe as it neared the edge of the solar system? When I read that article, I remember thinking "wouldn't it be great if I was alive to see such a monumental discovery, along the lines of 'the earth ain't flat no more'?" I think it'd be so cool (ok, interesting) if this experiment means we need to rewrite our laws of gravity.
Maybe they were trying to review the newer players on the market, I dunno, but the iPod has seen 3 generations so far and having just bought a 3rd gen iPod a few months ago I'd be interested to see how it compares. The last generation is certainly more recent than some of the players they reviewed, so why wouldn't they include it?
I mean, if Batman has 'em, and Robin has 'em....why couldn't Batgirl get any?
I remember trying to get Porsche Unleashed working on win2k after I upgraded from win98. I eventually did get it to work, but only after a few patches and even still it wouldn't run nearly as well as it did on the older OS (and hardware too, I might add). I've also got a few DOS emulators that refuse to work under XP, but they'll run fine on other windows systems.
It's a kick in the ass for sure, and I (we) seem to be in the minority, but I think there's a fine kind of satisfaction with the intricately simple games of old that's being lost in the modern age.
the RIAA was sued for making false claims of amnesty
Did the RIAA say that they wouldn't sue you, or that you wouldn't be sued? If it was the former, IANAL but wouldn't that be the same as an out of court settlement and hence it would be legal? The RIAA might be ignorant and stupid, but I'm sure their lawyers aren't.
And as long as we're nitpicking, I'm pretty sure all the money in America doesn't come from the same mint. Or even the same country for that matter. I assume you meant the United States of America, because America isn't of the United States, but I'm one of those people who has to point out every little thing like that.
And I don't do laundry, you insensitive clod!
...then where does paper come from?
Seriously, is it any surprise to anyone here that the government is involved in social engineering programs? They've always used any form necessary/available to bend our thinking into what they want their population to be, and as soon as the next far-reaching information/media service becomes available you can bet they'll be using that too.
Resistance is futile.