Also I forgot to Mention. A few of the attendees of the Turbine event were given invites to Beta Test the new D&D Online game. what a great opportunity I'd say. Sean, a friend I met there one his by imitation a Gelatinous Cube in Monster Manual Charades, while another hardcore games won two tickets to Beta Test (one for him & his wife) by rolling a natural 20 against the DM. At the end of it all Turbine threw a bunch of swag to the audience. I caught a T-shirt... Lucky!
I'd have to say that PAX05 was one of the greatest geek events I've been to. Some of the highlights: The sheer number of different things to do there never left you bored. Between Consol free play, the many different tournaments (Halo 2, Super Smash Bros Melee, Omegathon...) and 4 floors dedicated to gaming left few to be desired. Turbine pulled out the biggest surprise of all, by hosting a 21 and over event at the Doubletree on Friday night, where they provided free food and drinks to any PAX attendee meeting the age requirements. But more exciting about this event was their unveiling of their new D&D Online. Watching them try and beat one of their scorpion like monsters in a visually stunning environment and consistantly getting PWNED! by their own game multiple times... it was hillarious. To add to the comedy they allowed a select few attendees to play a little game called draw a card from the deck of not too many things. some of the more interesting cards were those marked T.G.C. True Geek Confessions. A few geeks described their experiences turning down sex for alternative geek activities, and the best by far was an individule who asked his girlfriend to say "Help me Obi Wan Kenobe... You're my only hope" during an "Intimate Moment".
I had planned on driving home to Seattle after this event, however due to the great quantity of free drinks, I was only able to attend the 5th floor parties in the hotel, where we played more video games, I had a rather humiliating game of Texas Hold 'em with some of the guys from the Gamer Transit Authority followed by a transfer to the room of The N35K1M05 (NESkimos)" Simon offered to sign my tin of Bawls mints that I was given for free at PAX. However the ink rubbed off in my pocket.. oh well.
Overall I had more fun in 37 hours than I have in over a month.
My only complaint would have to be that the number of consols available for consol free play needed to be increased. The first floor hallway outside the entrance to the exposition hall was lined with xbox, ps2, & gamecubes. however they were not organized very effectively, there was not enough Xboxs/copies of HALO 2 to satisfy the number of people who wanted to game. As a result we would have to stand in a long line and check out the game and the controllers (if available) and then once we had everything and sat down to game, made our profiles, and got linked up to another box for some 4 on 4 action, a PAX Enforcer would come over and tell us our time is up after this game and we'd have to forfeit all the items we waited so long to obtain. Nevertheless it was quite frustrating. I'm definatly glad to hear that they will be moving to a bigger location next year. I can't wait
Okay if you get stuck at all by the fence or otherwise, simply hit the HOME key to be returned to the track.
Also if you're going really fast on manual drive. Simply crank the wheel into the fence at any spot that isn't dark orange, and you'll drive right through it. Have fun.
"Rackspace employees searched for the specific information requested in the subpoena but were unable to locate this information prior to the strict delivery deadline imposed by the FBI. In order to comply with the mandated deadline, Rackspace delivered copied drives to the FBI. Shortly thereafter, Rackspace succeeded in isolating and extracting the relevant files responsive to the subpoena and immediately asked that the drives be returned by the FBI.
So why in the world was there a week of downtime if they had copied all their drives first? You could argue that perhaps TFA is misreported, and that they actually turned in the original drives, but if that were the case, how in the world could Rackspace have found the files *AFTER* they turned in the disks? Something else here is aloof, I'd put my money on some FBI shit going on.
What good is a second button then if no applications have been written to utilize it's functionality? Will developers now begin writing their code with this new mouse in mind and forego the users who wish not to switch? obviously the new right click menus must be accessed somehow by users who havn't gone out and purchased this new device. more than likely through the use of cumbersome keyboard shortcuts. convenience indeed.
Caption:Professor Ishiguru (r) stresses the importance of appearance
Actually those hands looks suspiciously like they were photoshoped in. Something must have been seriously wrong to have to digitialy edit the photo to look that bad... I mean, they added the hairy man hands to cover something else up...? perhaps they havn't made the rubber skin for her hands yet, and they're covering them up with photoshop for the story. Which only leads me to wonder... Does she have "skin" on the parts that are covered by her clothes too? or did all the work on the outside appearance go into the face and hair? at any rate, it's a pretty remarkable job there anyway.
Of course Google has a sense of humor.
I emailed lunarjobs@google.com about their available positions. It seems everyone else got to them first ^_^
"From: lunarjobs@google.com
Thank you for contacting Google about our Copernicus Research Center.
We've received an overwhelming response to this opportunity and are not
currently accepting additional resumes. We will, however, keep your
information on file should we have an opening in the future. At the
current staffing levels, we anticipate that we may need additional
applicants on or around April Fool's Day in 2104. Until then, we
appreciate your interest in Google and your taking the time to write us.
Slashdot Mirror
Also I forgot to Mention. A few of the attendees of the Turbine event were given invites to Beta Test the new D&D Online game. what a great opportunity I'd say. Sean, a friend I met there one his by imitation a Gelatinous Cube in Monster Manual Charades, while another hardcore games won two tickets to Beta Test (one for him & his wife) by rolling a natural 20 against the DM. At the end of it all Turbine threw a bunch of swag to the audience. I caught a T-shirt... Lucky!
I'd have to say that PAX05 was one of the greatest geek events I've been to. Some of the highlights: The sheer number of different things to do there never left you bored. Between Consol free play, the many different tournaments (Halo 2, Super Smash Bros Melee, Omegathon...) and 4 floors dedicated to gaming left few to be desired.
Turbine pulled out the biggest surprise of all, by hosting a 21 and over event at the Doubletree on Friday night, where they provided free food and drinks to any PAX attendee meeting the age requirements. But more exciting about this event was their unveiling of their new D&D Online. Watching them try and beat one of their scorpion like monsters in a visually stunning environment and consistantly getting PWNED! by their own game multiple times... it was hillarious. To add to the comedy they allowed a select few attendees to play a little game called draw a card from the deck of not too many things. some of the more interesting cards were those marked T.G.C. True Geek Confessions. A few geeks described their experiences turning down sex for alternative geek activities, and the best by far was an individule who asked his girlfriend to say "Help me Obi Wan Kenobe... You're my only hope" during an "Intimate Moment".
I had planned on driving home to Seattle after this event, however due to the great quantity of free drinks, I was only able to attend the 5th floor parties in the hotel, where we played more video games, I had a rather humiliating game of Texas Hold 'em with some of the guys from the Gamer Transit Authority followed by a transfer to the room of The N35K1M05 (NESkimos)" Simon offered to sign my tin of Bawls mints that I was given for free at PAX. However the ink rubbed off in my pocket.. oh well.
Overall I had more fun in 37 hours than I have in over a month.
My only complaint would have to be that the number of consols available for consol free play needed to be increased. The first floor hallway outside the entrance to the exposition hall was lined with xbox, ps2, & gamecubes. however they were not organized very effectively, there was not enough Xboxs/copies of HALO 2 to satisfy the number of people who wanted to game. As a result we would have to stand in a long line and check out the game and the controllers (if available) and then once we had everything and sat down to game, made our profiles, and got linked up to another box for some 4 on 4 action, a PAX Enforcer would come over and tell us our time is up after this game and we'd have to forfeit all the items we waited so long to obtain. Nevertheless it was quite frustrating. I'm definatly glad to hear that they will be moving to a bigger location next year. I can't wait
Is this dark energy vortex anything like those black hole thingy's???
Could somebody post the text of the article. I don't have an account to read it. Thanks
I'll bet you find This a bit of a re-inactment then...
I use a lot of Hair Gel and the occasional curling Iron... Faciem durum cacantis habes Commodum habitus es!!!
What the hell kind of number is virgintillion?
Okay if you get stuck at all by the fence or otherwise, simply hit the HOME key to be returned to the track.
Also if you're going really fast on manual drive. Simply crank the wheel into the fence at any spot that isn't dark orange, and you'll drive right through it. Have fun.Num Keys 1-4 Change the Scenery.
- 1: Sparce Road
- 2: Tunnel
- 3: City
- 4: Industrial
numbers 5-9 just change it back to "very sparce road". The game defaults to 4: Industrial- Left, Right, Up, Down: Steer & Accelerate/Brake
- A, D, W, S: Same as above, respectively
- T: Toggle Info
- G: Grey Scale
- H: display random palette
- K: palette cycle (Pretty cool)
- C: adds Other Cars (8 at a time)
- N/M: Zoom in/out
- F1: Shows all key functions on Screen
- F2: Toggle WireFrame
- F3: Toggle Dashboard
- F4: Show Rear View
- F5: Toggle Manual Control
- F6: Toggle Sound
- F7: Change Sky Gradient
- F11: Toggle Full Screen
Play around with it!Note: you can seriously slow down the game by hitting C a whole bunch of times.
I too would look for a new ISP if I were a customer. I'd encourage any Rackspace customer to Boycott them.
Show them the true meaning of having extra RACK-SPACE
"I was typing a paper, and then I right clicked, and it was like beep beep beep beep beep beep beep... I never should have SWITCHed."
What good is a second button then if no applications have been written to utilize it's functionality? Will developers now begin writing their code with this new mouse in mind and forego the users who wish not to switch? obviously the new right click menus must be accessed somehow by users who havn't gone out and purchased this new device. more than likely through the use of cumbersome keyboard shortcuts. convenience indeed.
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Caption:Professor Ishiguru (r) stresses the importance of appearance
Actually those hands looks suspiciously like they were photoshoped in. Something must have been seriously wrong to have to digitialy edit the photo to look that bad... I mean, they added the hairy man hands to cover something else up...? perhaps they havn't made the rubber skin for her hands yet, and they're covering them up with photoshop for the story. Which only leads me to wonder... Does she have "skin" on the parts that are covered by her clothes too? or did all the work on the outside appearance go into the face and hair? at any rate, it's a pretty remarkable job there anyway.
Of course Google has a sense of humor.
I emailed lunarjobs@google.com about their available positions. It seems everyone else got to them first ^_^
"From: lunarjobs@google.com
Thank you for contacting Google about our Copernicus Research Center.
We've received an overwhelming response to this opportunity and are not
currently accepting additional resumes. We will, however, keep your
information on file should we have an opening in the future. At the
current staffing levels, we anticipate that we may need additional
applicants on or around April Fool's Day in 2104. Until then, we
appreciate your interest in Google and your taking the time to write us.
Sincerely,
The Googlunar Recruiting Team"