You worked as Donald Duck to get money, and then you bought playground pieces for his nephews to play on. This, and Burger Time.
Fun fact, I just found out this game was in color. We had a black and white monitor for the C64, I had always assumed the game had no color. Amazing, thanks Slashdot!
In Wii Tennis, you lose the main benefit of real tennis: running.
You've never seen a 5-year old play Wii tennis then. My brother will run around the room when his person moves to get the ball. And when he isn't running, he's hopping up and down in anticipation. After a best of 5 game, he's about ready to pass out.
Actually, with fossils, you sometimes have to do a lot of extrapolation. Very often you only find bone fragments or shell parts, especially with rare species. Euripterid fossils are relatively common, and the different species (300+) are fairly well documented. It is not a stretch to get a reasonably accurate length measurement based on one part. It would be similar to estimating human height based on hand size.
It has been a while since my paleo-biology days, but I have no recollection of asymmetric body structures of any kind of euripterid. A quick search turns up no records of any species with different sized claws. Euripterids are more closely related to scorpions or spiders than crabs anyway. Info here, under classification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelicerata
This reminds me of a story I heard about a quick brown fox and some lazy dogs. Although the fox is a different color, I think the outcome will be the same.
Well, there's a reason 17 year olds aren't allowed to be president or serve on the supreme court. News Flash! People with no real world experience don't know how the real world works!
Besides, when was the last time flag burning was a popular form of protest? 1970?
Your'e dead right. Also, any charitable donations count as a tax write off. Although this might be out of the goodness of his heart, it's not like he doesn't get anything back. Big companies do this all the time.
It's not even from his personal bank account anyway, it's from The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Which I'm sure does lots of good, and saves Bill Gates loads of taxes in the process.
I wish I had mod points. Depending on the complexity of the system, I might double all of your estimates. Plus the more people involved, the more likely you are to miss a deadline, incurring further costs.
I believe it was about a robot trying to become more human. It kept getting upgraded over the centuries, until it got so advanced it wanted to die to complete the experience.
My memory may not be correct, it has been a while since I did any serious reading.
Have you ever read "Ender's Game" By Orson Scott Card? He brings up the idea of a "speaker for the dead", where your life is laid out for everyone to see, the good and the bad. It might be painful, but if you can't forgive the dead, who can you forgive?
I heated my (very drafty) room in college with my AMD Thunderbird system. The thing was loud as hell, but a few hours of gaming and I was nice and toasty.
If I Remember Correctly (space camp was a long time ago), the main reason they stopped painting them was weight. Something around 600lbs of paint I believe. So that's alot of extra equipment or a few more people that can go up.
Money also counts, I think it costs something like $1,000 / lb. to fly things into space. Again, this is from memory, I'm not going to check that.
Your comment reminds me of an Azimov story: A multi-part robot that when it wasn't occupied it "twiddled it's thumbs" and it's sub-robots seemed to be dancing.
I also wasn't clear in my reply, my internet/asshole instinct took over. Yeah, if you just took a baseball strait up into space and tried to throw it, it would fall back down. I was talking more about in an orbit, since you are spinning that would help throw the ball into space.
I was trying to be informative. My intent was not to cause further confusion, a task at which I failed miserably.
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It was around 1985, and we had just gotten a Commodore 64. The game was Donald Duck's Playground http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D588
You worked as Donald Duck to get money, and then you bought playground pieces for his nephews to play on. This, and Burger Time.
Fun fact, I just found out this game was in color. We had a black and white monitor for the C64, I had always assumed the game had no color. Amazing, thanks Slashdot!
In Wii Tennis, you lose the main benefit of real tennis: running.
You've never seen a 5-year old play Wii tennis then. My brother will run around the room when his person moves to get the ball. And when he isn't running, he's hopping up and down in anticipation. After a best of 5 game, he's about ready to pass out.
Actually, with fossils, you sometimes have to do a lot of extrapolation. Very often you only find bone fragments or shell parts, especially with rare species. Euripterid fossils are relatively common, and the different species (300+) are fairly well documented. It is not a stretch to get a reasonably accurate length measurement based on one part. It would be similar to estimating human height based on hand size.
It has been a while since my paleo-biology days, but I have no recollection of asymmetric body structures of any kind of euripterid. A quick search turns up no records of any species with different sized claws. Euripterids are more closely related to scorpions or spiders than crabs anyway. Info here, under classification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelicerata
This reminds me of a story I heard about a quick brown fox and some lazy dogs. Although the fox is a different color, I think the outcome will be the same.
Yeah, but that's still one hell of a Doppler shift!!
You're my hero.
Well, there's a reason 17 year olds aren't allowed to be president or serve on the supreme court. News Flash! People with no real world experience don't know how the real world works!
Besides, when was the last time flag burning was a popular form of protest? 1970?
My first thought was, "In AD 2101, war was beginning!"
... bad.
It kind of reads like a bad translation of something
Your'e dead right. Also, any charitable donations count as a tax write off. Although this might be out of the goodness of his heart, it's not like he doesn't get anything back. Big companies do this all the time.
It's not even from his personal bank account anyway, it's from The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Which I'm sure does lots of good, and saves Bill Gates loads of taxes in the process.
At least it's not "1 2 3 4 5", like on my luggage.
Damn, I think I missed that one.
Was that the one where Moulder dropped his gun and Scully didn't beleive any of his theories, and had a logical explaination for everything?
Dear god, are you looking over my shoulder at work?
You just desribed the project I'm working on exactly.
I wish I had mod points. Depending on the complexity of the system, I might double all of your estimates. Plus the more people involved, the more likely you are to miss a deadline, incurring further costs.
"Bicentennial Man"
I believe it was about a robot trying to become more human. It kept getting upgraded over the centuries, until it got so advanced it wanted to die to complete the experience.
My memory may not be correct, it has been a while since I did any serious reading.
Again, Azimov covered this. They made a bad movie out of it starring Robin Williams.
Kind of like the zero-th law?
Can't recall the name of the book, but basically it says the robot must look out for society over the individual.
I need to brush up on my Azimov
Have you ever read "Ender's Game" By Orson Scott Card? He brings up the idea of a "speaker for the dead", where your life is laid out for everyone to see, the good and the bad. It might be painful, but if you can't forgive the dead, who can you forgive?
I heated my (very drafty) room in college with my AMD Thunderbird system. The thing was loud as hell, but a few hours of gaming and I was nice and toasty.
I stand corrected.
I'll just go cry in the corner now.
I can't seem to find any info about this chip on the AMD web page. Does anyone know any tech. specs?
...that the princess will be in this castle. Or the next one. Or the one after that.
If I Remember Correctly (space camp was a long time ago), the main reason they stopped painting them was weight. Something around 600lbs of paint I believe. So that's alot of extra equipment or a few more people that can go up.
Money also counts, I think it costs something like $1,000 / lb. to fly things into space. Again, this is from memory, I'm not going to check that.
Excellent, spoken like a true nerd. I salute your literary skills.
Your comment reminds me of an Azimov story: A multi-part robot that when it wasn't occupied it "twiddled it's thumbs" and it's sub-robots seemed to be dancing.
There has to be someone here who knows the name.
I also wasn't clear in my reply, my internet/asshole instinct took over. Yeah, if you just took a baseball strait up into space and tried to throw it, it would fall back down. I was talking more about in an orbit, since you are spinning that would help throw the ball into space.
I was trying to be informative. My intent was not to cause further confusion, a task at which I failed miserably.