I recommend Minecraft. Sure you can "cheat" and find your save files to copy before you make some decisions (e.g. my decision to blow up my dungeon was not a good one because I blew up myself into a pool of lava, destroying my diamond picks). However the way the game is structured, each decision is final and without a restore point. And it has absolutely infinite replayability, I think there are zero limits to this sandbox type game.
I hate that too, and always the boom destroys that 6 block diamond deposit, and then you have to remember which freakin' direction your spawn point was from your awesome homebase.
Either that or you do like I did and dig underneath lava and have the lava destroy all the diamond blocks. No! Stop! Argh!
I search for 45 minutes for diamond to make picks and shovels so I can search for another 45 more minutes for diamonds.
At least I used to. Now I just fire up Cartographer and use stone picks to get to the good stuff. It feels like cheating but it does help get rid of the "grind" feel a little bit.
If you want to get well trained using standardard marksmanship techniques I highly recommend Appleseed, www.appleseedinfo.org. The goal is 4 MOA accuracy which is more than enough to hit a 20 inch target at 500 yards. You can do Appleseed using a.22LR rifle @ 25 meters and I'd challenge just about anyone who things they are good shot to give it a whirl. Apparently less than 1% of rifle owners are able to achieve Rifleman scores (210 or higher out of 250 points on the Army Qualification Target).
I wonder how many younguns won't know the tune to sing this to. Made me laugh, we used to play the original song really loudly on the 8-track in my parent's Ford Capri while driving to the beach. Thanks for the earworm!
They make these things for sailplanes called winches. I don't know if they apply to motor powered aircraft, because a sailplane needs very little force to keep it aloft, but it is a consideration.
Lousiana in the summary, Louisiana for real. Sorry had to nitpick but c'mon there are only 50 states you would think all U.S. residents would know how to spell them! Or was this outsourced to India too?
Maybe it is because there are so many responders with 6 or 7 digit UIDs. But we know that soon enough someone will come along after this post with a 4 or 3 digit UID just to say they can. I was here at the beginning, wish I knew enough to sign up when I started reading Slashdot!
I agree the game was too short and except for level 16 (I think, it is very long and requires good timing for half-stepping through a portal to press a button) I got through it in a few hours.
I disagree with everything else, I really thought it was a fantastic game. For an added challenge, download the Flash Mappack. That will provide a few more hours of fun and there are some really challenging puzzles in there. That is, ones I absolutely could not figure out until I looked at an online walkthrough.
Your technical notion of troubleshooting is entirely much more complicated than the consumer/user version of troubleshooting. What you described as "choose a random item from a list" is exactly what MS and any other consumer company label as troubleshooting. Look in the back of many device manuals and you will see a section labeled "troubleshooting" where it gives a description of the problem and a list of things to do/try.
Actually race cars usually have regular uncambered tires but they set up the suspension so the entire wheel is cambered. In a design like this it looks like the tire itself is precambered without requiring the suspension/rim to be tilted.
HSA (individual owned) and HRA (employer owned) savings accounts allow you to save money up to certain IRS limits per year. In the case of the HSA, this is your money and is not owned by the employer. That means you can take it with you if you go to a new employer, or if you lose your job etc. This is pre-tax money that is yours to use on most IRS 213(d) expenses. This money does not expire at the end of the year (you are thinking Flexible Spending Account, which is different).
I am a huge gun fan but not much of a historian. But one thing I did learn (at an Appleseed marksmanship event) is that rifled guns were very rarely used during the Revolutionary War, playing a very minor support role due to their incredibly long reloading time. If you read your history you will find the technological advancement that allowed fast enough reloading for effective military use of rifling was the Minie Ball.
The technology of the day, 1775, was smooth bore muskets and they were quite inaccurate. What won the day was France bankrupting themselves in support of the colonists war against the English. Without French support we would have been a British colony for much longer. As an Englishman myself I often joke about cheese eating surrender monkeys, but I know for a fact that without French military support in the 18th century, my new home country, and perhaps the world, would be a very different place.
Where I live most police officers "retire" after 20 years with a 50% annual salary of their final employment year, paid until they die. Many of these officers will then take another police job in another town for *more* than they previously making, at the age of 38 - 42, they are also highly sought because of their 20 years of experience. Others who are sick of law enforcement will go into detective type work. Where I live there are a ton of insurance companies and they love to hire former detectives to go after insurance fraud.
This may seem an appropriate use of resources in an inner city where there is a need to retain police officers, and also compensate them for many years in a stressful situation. I can assure you, however, that this need not apply to my nicely wooded suburb in Connecticut.
You may be right, however in the jury instructions I was given last week, the judge was very clear that a police officer is a witness like any other, and it is up to the jury to determine the believability of the witness. I was a potential juror for a criminal trial and they stated several different ways that a police officers testimony was not to be believed as more or less important, more or less truthful, or more or less relevant than any other witnesses testimony.
In reality some jurors may choose to assign more believability to a police officer's testimony, but we were warned not to do so.
Shudder... cotton/polyester blend?? Sorry, 100% cotton for shirts only, and either cotton or wool for pants. Cotton/poly is for pocket-protector worthy plaid only.
Just to counteract your sexism, my wife is an awesome parallel parker. In fact, when we go to the city she often will take the car once we see a spot. I can do it well enough, but she is really good at it, nailing it perfectly on the first try... always just a few inches from the curbing.
Just last week there was a case of a motorcyclist recording a man waving a gun running up to him. The guy was a state cop and after he had taken a few steps out of his car yelled "state police!". The motorcyclist was being charged with a felony under federal wiretapping laws. MD is indeed a two-party notice state according to the news articles last week.
And if you are like the motorcyclist in Maryland, recently, you will find yourself brought up on felony wiretapping laws for illegal audio recording of a state police officer without permission. Yikes! Most states are two party consent, which means each party to a recording needs to provide acknowledgment and agreement for the recording to proceed.
Sorry but this is a scam. $80 - $90 per year? People would ordinarily scream bloody murder if asked to pay that much for a magazine subscription, much less a way to pay your freakin' taxes.
I do my 1040 the old fashioned way, pencil and paper and my HP 12c calculator. It takes me about 45 minutes to do both federal and state, including all the itemized interest income and deductions (house, family of 4 w/ 2 children) and saves me $80 - $90. Who wouldn't spend 45 minutes to save that kind of money??
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Bedrock is fairly impermeable.
I recommend Minecraft. Sure you can "cheat" and find your save files to copy before you make some decisions (e.g. my decision to blow up my dungeon was not a good one because I blew up myself into a pool of lava, destroying my diamond picks). However the way the game is structured, each decision is final and without a restore point. And it has absolutely infinite replayability, I think there are zero limits to this sandbox type game.
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SSSSSsssssss! Boom!
I hate that too, and always the boom destroys that 6 block diamond deposit, and then you have to remember which freakin' direction your spawn point was from your awesome homebase.
Either that or you do like I did and dig underneath lava and have the lava destroy all the diamond blocks. No! Stop! Argh!
I search for 45 minutes for diamond to make picks and shovels so I can search for another 45 more minutes for diamonds.
At least I used to. Now I just fire up Cartographer and use stone picks to get to the good stuff. It feels like cheating but it does help get rid of the "grind" feel a little bit.
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IF I = "0" GOTO 20
GOTO 10
20 EXIT
If you want to get well trained using standardard marksmanship techniques I highly recommend Appleseed, www.appleseedinfo.org. The goal is 4 MOA accuracy which is more than enough to hit a 20 inch target at 500 yards. You can do Appleseed using a .22LR rifle @ 25 meters and I'd challenge just about anyone who things they are good shot to give it a whirl. Apparently less than 1% of rifle owners are able to achieve Rifleman scores (210 or higher out of 250 points on the Army Qualification Target).
I wonder how many younguns won't know the tune to sing this to. Made me laugh, we used to play the original song really loudly on the 8-track in my parent's Ford Capri while driving to the beach. Thanks for the earworm!
It sounds exactly like Spore was supposed to be.... a really huge sandbox with tons of possibilities.
They make these things for sailplanes called winches. I don't know if they apply to motor powered aircraft, because a sailplane needs very little force to keep it aloft, but it is a consideration.
Lousiana in the summary, Louisiana for real. Sorry had to nitpick but c'mon there are only 50 states you would think all U.S. residents would know how to spell them! Or was this outsourced to India too?
Maybe it is because there are so many responders with 6 or 7 digit UIDs. But we know that soon enough someone will come along after this post with a 4 or 3 digit UID just to say they can. I was here at the beginning, wish I knew enough to sign up when I started reading Slashdot!
I agree the game was too short and except for level 16 (I think, it is very long and requires good timing for half-stepping through a portal to press a button) I got through it in a few hours.
I disagree with everything else, I really thought it was a fantastic game. For an added challenge, download the Flash Mappack. That will provide a few more hours of fun and there are some really challenging puzzles in there. That is, ones I absolutely could not figure out until I looked at an online walkthrough.
Your technical notion of troubleshooting is entirely much more complicated than the consumer/user version of troubleshooting. What you described as "choose a random item from a list" is exactly what MS and any other consumer company label as troubleshooting. Look in the back of many device manuals and you will see a section labeled "troubleshooting" where it gives a description of the problem and a list of things to do/try.
Actually race cars usually have regular uncambered tires but they set up the suspension so the entire wheel is cambered. In a design like this it looks like the tire itself is precambered without requiring the suspension/rim to be tilted.
You can. http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=individual+HSA+plans&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CtG-tNnofTJixIIfAzQTJ9aHfDQAAAKoEBU_Q2Rjm
Specifically, note in the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account that 1.1 Million people have purchased into their own HSA accounts.
HSA (individual owned) and HRA (employer owned) savings accounts allow you to save money up to certain IRS limits per year. In the case of the HSA, this is your money and is not owned by the employer. That means you can take it with you if you go to a new employer, or if you lose your job etc. This is pre-tax money that is yours to use on most IRS 213(d) expenses. This money does not expire at the end of the year (you are thinking Flexible Spending Account, which is different).
Wish there was a delete key. After re-reading the submission I feel foolish for suggesting these two sites.
Tom's Hardware, Anandtech and others used to be really good resources. Maybe worthwhile to check them out?
I am a huge gun fan but not much of a historian. But one thing I did learn (at an Appleseed marksmanship event) is that rifled guns were very rarely used during the Revolutionary War, playing a very minor support role due to their incredibly long reloading time. If you read your history you will find the technological advancement that allowed fast enough reloading for effective military use of rifling was the Minie Ball.
The technology of the day, 1775, was smooth bore muskets and they were quite inaccurate. What won the day was France bankrupting themselves in support of the colonists war against the English. Without French support we would have been a British colony for much longer. As an Englishman myself I often joke about cheese eating surrender monkeys, but I know for a fact that without French military support in the 18th century, my new home country, and perhaps the world, would be a very different place.
Where I live most police officers "retire" after 20 years with a 50% annual salary of their final employment year, paid until they die. Many of these officers will then take another police job in another town for *more* than they previously making, at the age of 38 - 42, they are also highly sought because of their 20 years of experience. Others who are sick of law enforcement will go into detective type work. Where I live there are a ton of insurance companies and they love to hire former detectives to go after insurance fraud.
This may seem an appropriate use of resources in an inner city where there is a need to retain police officers, and also compensate them for many years in a stressful situation. I can assure you, however, that this need not apply to my nicely wooded suburb in Connecticut.
You may be right, however in the jury instructions I was given last week, the judge was very clear that a police officer is a witness like any other, and it is up to the jury to determine the believability of the witness. I was a potential juror for a criminal trial and they stated several different ways that a police officers testimony was not to be believed as more or less important, more or less truthful, or more or less relevant than any other witnesses testimony.
In reality some jurors may choose to assign more believability to a police officer's testimony, but we were warned not to do so.
Shudder... cotton/polyester blend?? Sorry, 100% cotton for shirts only, and either cotton or wool for pants. Cotton/poly is for pocket-protector worthy plaid only.
Just to counteract your sexism, my wife is an awesome parallel parker. In fact, when we go to the city she often will take the car once we see a spot. I can do it well enough, but she is really good at it, nailing it perfectly on the first try... always just a few inches from the curbing.
Just last week there was a case of a motorcyclist recording a man waving a gun running up to him. The guy was a state cop and after he had taken a few steps out of his car yelled "state police!". The motorcyclist was being charged with a felony under federal wiretapping laws. MD is indeed a two-party notice state according to the news articles last week.
And if you are like the motorcyclist in Maryland, recently, you will find yourself brought up on felony wiretapping laws for illegal audio recording of a state police officer without permission. Yikes! Most states are two party consent, which means each party to a recording needs to provide acknowledgment and agreement for the recording to proceed.
Sorry but this is a scam. $80 - $90 per year? People would ordinarily scream bloody murder if asked to pay that much for a magazine subscription, much less a way to pay your freakin' taxes.
I do my 1040 the old fashioned way, pencil and paper and my HP 12c calculator. It takes me about 45 minutes to do both federal and state, including all the itemized interest income and deductions (house, family of 4 w/ 2 children) and saves me $80 - $90. Who wouldn't spend 45 minutes to save that kind of money??