I remember my dad replaced the side-buttons on both our joysticks (the orange, rubber buttons) with keyboard keys because the buttons wouldn't make contact anymore and were all smached in. The analog sticks worked OK, from what I remember. They also had a full, telephone-style keypad on them, which I think I used exactly 0 times while playing the system.
There was some awesome 3D space game, Star Raiders (I think), where you got to fly around to different star systems in honest-to-god 3D, volumetric space. What a great game. What else did we have:
Jungle Hunt Q*Bert Keystone Kapers Centipede Galaxian Dig Dug Mario Brothers Pole Position
You are spot on in your analysis...after playing FFXII for 3 or 4 hours, I kept saying to myself "You know, this *so* reminds me of that very weapons-and-armor-oriented PS game I played way back in the day...what the hell is it called?"
You answered that nagging question for me. It does indeed have a very similar feel. I had no idea it was made by the same design team, but it totally makes sense.
How does not voting help the incumbent? Whoever gets the most votes will win the election, regardless of whether or not he/she is the incumbent. Not voting gives equal help/hinderance to both sides, and is therefore a neutral action.
Would you say that not voting in a race with no incumbent is a neutral action? If so, how is it different?
I've looked at the maps/stories from Warcraft I, II, and III, and they don't seem to stay within canon very well between versions. What did Bliz do with WoW that was so bad?
making my 2ghz CPU feel like a P2 running at 200mhz
Don't worry, Vista will do that for you! Sure you don't want one of those Macinfags, you know, the one that has an OS that runs faster on the same hardware with each new release?
I'm a webmaster at a large midwestern Credit Union, and we see only about 8% or so Firefox. It's a solidly rural area, but our territory does cover several cities with populations of >100,000; I'd consider it a med techno-savvy market. Here are our stats for the last month or so:
Lets you VNC (or whatever) into a huge bank of machines (virtual or not, I don't know) that allow you to test your pages in every platform/browser combo in the known universe. Pretty cool, I wish I had thought of it.
Don't forget that only 15-20% of the energy stored in gasoline is converted to mechanical energy to drive the car. The other 80-85% of energy is waste heat.
I don't want to work that into your calculations, but it amount of energy needed to drive a car X miles is far less that what is contained in a tank of gas that will drive you X miles.
It was my understanding that most cat allergies (although not all) are caused by a protien related to an antiseptic substance in cat saliva. When the cat grooms itself and the saliva later dries, it's the microscopic dried saliva bits in the air that cause the reaction, not traditional "dander" (skin and hair alone).
Do hairless cats groom themselves as often? Does their skin absorb the saliva, as opposed to it drying and flaking off (as is the case with cat hair)?
Honest to God, this happened to me when I was about 13.
I had braces (for your teeth) for about 4 years, and just once, I must have created some crazy dental diode in my mouth, because picked up a radio transmittion of some kind.
I was lying on my bed reading a book, and I was convinced someone had left a TV on in an adjacent room. I kept hearing the faintest sounds of either speech or music, it was really hard to tell, and so quiet and muffled it almost wasn't there. I was alone in the house and NOT on any kind of drugs (prescription or otherwise). I also had no fillings in any of my teeth (not that it matters now-a-days, as they're all resin and not metal).
I got up several times to make sure a TV or radio wasn't on in another room, and of course as soon as I moved from the position I was lying in the noise would stop. I figured it out after about 5 minutes of feeling like an idiot, and it only worked if I held my head at a certain angle in a certain location in my bedroom. It worked for 20 or 30 minutes, and then stopped. I was never able to recreate the phenomenon again. =(
Americans tend to go grocery shopping a lot less frequently than their European counterparts.
Instead of picking up a few items every day at the corner store that's 100 feet from their flat, Americans shop weekly, or even bi-weekly, and buy and store much large quantaties of food as a result. Of course, that means more preservatives and processed food, but that's another observation entirely.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock. Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money] Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
The problem is, what if someone managed to get their fake passport to respond with *your* passport ID?
Now they can impersonate you, and when that person's crimes come back to you, the cops will say "We know it was you, those passport chips are unhackable!" It makes no sense, an optical (2D barcode or something similar) system would make MUCH more sense.
If you're getting hired by the US Federal Government, and are going to have *any* kind of security clearance (and sometimes even when you won't), you'll have to fill out a form called an SF-86.
This document asks (in addition to a lot of very personal info) if you have ever been charged with ANY crime (except traffic tickets/moving violations with fines of less than $150), and if so you have to list the charges, the results of the charges, and the contact information for the court/jurisdiction the charges were brought. Even if you get supervision of something similar, you have to report it, even if it was expunged (except in a very specific circumstance).
For example, there is slight evidence that solar radiation may have increased, but nowhere near enough to explain the observed warming.
Not sure if this OT or not, but I recently saw a NOVA about "Global Dimming".
The basic concept is that particulate pollution and jet aircraft contrails generated on a daily basis have reduced solar irradiance reaching the Earth surface by a significant amount, with the largest drop in mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (not surprising). This is *masking* the true amount of global warming going on, so when we really start to clean up our particulate pollution (which is happening already) the temperature will bounce higher than expected. Global estimates of percentage drop in solar irradiance:
* 5.3% (9 W/m); over 1958-85 (Stanhill and Moreshet, 1992)
* 2%/decade over 1964-93 (Gilgen et al, 1998)
* 2.7%/decade (total 20 W/m); up to 2000 (Stanhill and Cohen, 2001)
* 4% over 1961-90 (Liepert 2002) [3]
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Funny you should mention those 5200 joysticks.
I remember my dad replaced the side-buttons on both our joysticks (the orange, rubber buttons) with keyboard keys because the buttons wouldn't make contact anymore and were all smached in. The analog sticks worked OK, from what I remember. They also had a full, telephone-style keypad on them, which I think I used exactly 0 times while playing the system.
There was some awesome 3D space game, Star Raiders (I think), where you got to fly around to different star systems in honest-to-god 3D, volumetric space. What a great game. What else did we have:
Jungle Hunt
Q*Bert
Keystone Kapers
Centipede
Galaxian
Dig Dug
Mario Brothers
Pole Position
Pretty cool system when you're 6 years old!
The Google Translation of this page is surprisingly easy to understand.
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
Uh, anyone over the age of 25? People who have money to buy a Mac because they don't spend it all on pizza and pot?
You are spot on in your analysis...after playing FFXII for 3 or 4 hours, I kept saying to myself "You know, this *so* reminds me of that very weapons-and-armor-oriented PS game I played way back in the day...what the hell is it called?"
You answered that nagging question for me. It does indeed have a very similar feel. I had no idea it was made by the same design team, but it totally makes sense.
Like I said, "news for non-retards". I wouldn't expect them to stick around very long or post, as our news isn't for them!
How does not voting help the incumbent?
Whoever gets the most votes will win the election, regardless of whether or not he/she is the incumbent.
Not voting gives equal help/hinderance to both sides, and is therefore a neutral action.
Would you say that not voting in a race with no incumbent is a neutral action? If so, how is it different?
News for non-retards. Stuff that matters to intelligent, rational people...like non-NeoCons.
Why the heck is that video on the Boom Chicago site? Last time I checked, Boom Chicago is a Dutch comedy-club chain.
Can you elaborate on that?
I've looked at the maps/stories from Warcraft I, II, and III, and they don't seem to stay within canon very well between versions. What did Bliz do with WoW that was so bad?
making my 2ghz CPU feel like a P2 running at 200mhz
Don't worry, Vista will do that for you! Sure you don't want one of those Macinfags, you know, the one that has an OS that runs faster on the same hardware with each new release?
Broswers:
- Internet Explorer 427,504 89.03%
- Firefox 39,253 8.17%
- Safari 6,876 1.43%
- Netscape 4,892 1.02%
- Mozilla 716 0.15%
- Opera 538 0.11%
- gzip 182 0.04%
- Mozilla Compatible Agent 114 0.02%
- Camino 55 0.01%
- Konqueror 37 0.01%
Browser/Platform Combos:Check out this service (yes, it costs money):
http://www.browsercam.com/default.aspx
Lets you VNC (or whatever) into a huge bank of machines (virtual or not, I don't know) that allow you to test your pages in every platform/browser combo in the known universe. Pretty cool, I wish I had thought of it.
You beat me to it! Just bought one last week, heh!
Don't forget that only 15-20% of the energy stored in gasoline is converted to mechanical energy to drive the car. The other 80-85% of energy is waste heat.
According to the Wikipedia article on Ultracapacitors>, they have a cycle efficiency of 95%.
I don't want to work that into your calculations, but it amount of energy needed to drive a car X miles is far less that what is contained in a tank of gas that will drive you X miles.
It was my understanding that most cat allergies (although not all) are caused by a protien related to an antiseptic substance in cat saliva. When the cat grooms itself and the saliva later dries, it's the microscopic dried saliva bits in the air that cause the reaction, not traditional "dander" (skin and hair alone).
Do hairless cats groom themselves as often? Does their skin absorb the saliva, as opposed to it drying and flaking off (as is the case with cat hair)?
Ah, but does this dog poop in a box? Can you leave it alone (with another dog of its type, so it's not too lonely) for days at a time?
That's the main reason I have cats: low maintenance!
Honest to God, this happened to me when I was about 13.
I had braces (for your teeth) for about 4 years, and just once, I must have created some crazy dental diode in my mouth, because picked up a radio transmittion of some kind.
I was lying on my bed reading a book, and I was convinced someone had left a TV on in an adjacent room. I kept hearing the faintest sounds of either speech or music, it was really hard to tell, and so quiet and muffled it almost wasn't there. I was alone in the house and NOT on any kind of drugs (prescription or otherwise). I also had no fillings in any of my teeth (not that it matters now-a-days, as they're all resin and not metal).
I got up several times to make sure a TV or radio wasn't on in another room, and of course as soon as I moved from the position I was lying in the noise would stop. I figured it out after about 5 minutes of feeling like an idiot, and it only worked if I held my head at a certain angle in a certain location in my bedroom. It worked for 20 or 30 minutes, and then stopped. I was never able to recreate the phenomenon again. =(
Man I wish I had mod points for your post. Kudos!
Americans tend to go grocery shopping a lot less frequently than their European counterparts.
Instead of picking up a few items every day at the corner store that's 100 feet from their flat, Americans shop weekly, or even bi-weekly, and buy and store much large quantaties of food as a result. Of course, that means more preservatives and processed food, but that's another observation entirely.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
The problem is, what if someone managed to get their fake passport to respond with *your* passport ID?
Now they can impersonate you, and when that person's crimes come back to you, the cops will say "We know it was you, those passport chips are unhackable!" It makes no sense, an optical (2D barcode or something similar) system would make MUCH more sense.
I find Cabos to work a lot better than Acquisition, at least the Acquisition that existed 2 years ago (last time I tried it).
If you're getting hired by the US Federal Government, and are going to have *any* kind of security clearance (and sometimes even when you won't), you'll have to fill out a form called an SF-86.
This document asks (in addition to a lot of very personal info) if you have ever been charged with ANY crime (except traffic tickets/moving violations with fines of less than $150), and if so you have to list the charges, the results of the charges, and the contact information for the court/jurisdiction the charges were brought. Even if you get supervision of something similar, you have to report it, even if it was expunged (except in a very specific circumstance).
And if you lie on the form, it's a Federal crime (18 USC 1001).
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For example, there is slight evidence that solar radiation may have increased, but nowhere near enough to explain the observed warming.
Not sure if this OT or not, but I recently saw a NOVA about "Global Dimming".
The basic concept is that particulate pollution and jet aircraft contrails generated on a daily basis have reduced solar irradiance reaching the Earth surface by a significant amount, with the largest drop in mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (not surprising). This is *masking* the true amount of global warming going on, so when we really start to clean up our particulate pollution (which is happening already) the temperature will bounce higher than expected. Global estimates of percentage drop in solar irradiance:
* 5.3% (9 W/m); over 1958-85 (Stanhill and Moreshet, 1992)
* 2%/decade over 1964-93 (Gilgen et al, 1998)
* 2.7%/decade (total 20 W/m); up to 2000 (Stanhill and Cohen, 2001)
* 4% over 1961-90 (Liepert 2002) [3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming