Of course its a scam. It has nothing to do with reality, and in particular it has nothing to do with the presense of actual physical or IP assets of a company, and thus nothing to do with actual value. Not to mention that since it has nothing to do with assets, a company can offer a bunch of stock, get real money in return, invest that money into assets held by another company they own, then declare bankruptcy and default on their stock, leaving them with profit (value holding assets) while their "investors" get nothing. Not that that scenario happens too frequently. I'd say its something akin to playing the lottery, albeit with a higher rate of return.
I dunno, my experience has been that Gamecubes and Xboxes don't break, and that PS2s, though they do break, are frequently trivial to repair. I'd rate them all about equal. I hate to say it but the only console that I've seen non-trivial hardware errors in for the past few years is the Dreamcast (particularly with audio), which is a shame since they're becoming hard to get. I have a whole spare one myself, should I ever need it.
That looks like a really good idea; if the image buttons appended a new property to themselves when they loaded, then I could just check for that instead of.complete in the rollover code. I didn't even realize that properties could be appended to objects on the page, though I guess I should have suspected since I've done it with functions. I'll give that a try tonight.
Hmmm, I hadn't realized that it was a proprietary property. Given that, is there any equivalent standard property that I could use to check if something is loaded? Or is this a case where MS actually has a good idea and Gecko should finish their implementation, as they apparently have with normal img elements? I'm using it with an image preloader/swapper I've been messing with, to ensure that an image isn't swapped for something that isn't completely loaded. Works beautifully everywhere but on image buttons... right now I've got a nasty hack in the check that allows Firefox to swap anyway if the swapped object is an input. I think the oddest thing might be that Firefox doesn't even have an error message when the.complete check fails, as it does when I usually try to access something that doesn't exist. I'll take a look at Firebug later, since I've got to run off right now. Thanks for the help.
There's a very nice theater in Blacksburg VA called "The Lyric" that sort of does this already. They don't serve food, but they have a wonderful restored old building, show films they like and varied live shows, and don't take kindly to asshats. Their ticket prices are frequently cheaper than the 'big' theaters too. If you poke about on Google they have a website, I'm just not inclined to go find it at the moment.
Speaking of JavaScript, is there any good reason why Firefox can get and set the.src attribute of an imageButton (an image with a tagName of input), but can't read its.complete attribute? Its been driving me nuts all morning... Other than that, v1.5 hasn't seriously bothered me yet, though I don't like the way it dumps CSS and program errors to the javascript console without separating them from the javascript errors.
Back towards the end of the awful old win98 days, I used StarOffice as my entire shell, instead of explorer. That made it slightly less mind-numbingly useless, though not much so. It would get awfully annoying if everything started doing that though. I'm already annoyed enough at apps like Photoshop that think they need to have a big gray window behind their workspace.
Mainly because the headphones are shitty generic earbuds, and who wants to be locked into a specific pair of headphones anyway? Functionality of the headphones should be independent of functionality of the player. That top button relocator thing in another post looks vaguely interesting though, were I willing to buy another iPod.
What I don't understand is how the 'virtual scroll wheel' ever became more popular than forward and back buttons anyway... its more work to operate, and it can't be operated in a pocket because it goes nuts whenever it touches anything (at least I couldn't reliably do it)... I had to take the thing out of my pocket to operate it at all. That really annoyed me. So I sold the bastard. Tactile buttons are definitely a better design for a device that can't always count on being right-side-up with nothing poking it. And if said buttons are different shapes (like on a Rio 500) they're even easier to operate blindly.
I might have to look up that Rave MP sometime, but since I sold the iPod I've found that I am equally fine without an mp3 player (my head plays songs anyway, though its taste is sometimes questionable). I may not bother to get another.
"You seem to have this view of economics where people buy the legitimate item out of the goodness of their hearts, as a sort of donation to a company for doing a good job. It's terribly naive and frankly doesn't make much sense."
I thought that was exactly how economics works... you vote with your dollar. If I like what a company is making, I buy a real copy because it "donates" to them. They need return on investment if they're ever to create more and better games. Same applies to books and music. Your naive view of economics means that eventually everything goes to shit, and there's not even anything left to pirate.
You shouldn't let your justified hatred of television programming stop you from ever using a TV, they can be good displays... I've got a 27" Samsung HD-ready that I got as a surplus/second online for $300, and it makes a nice display for my laptop and a nice console monitor. You could also just get a TV-in card; I used one until I was out of college and got the TV. I recommend Leadtek's card for tuner and picture quality, and it works with DScaler. And GameTunnel is awesome, they're a great indy review site.
I never knew that stars were visible without binoculars until I got glasses when I was 7 or 8. I had no clue that I was supposed to be able to see reasonably clearly for more than about 15 feet.
A few years ago I was moving some junk around on my desk and accidentally pushed my stapler off the back. About thirty seconds later I realized that I hadn't heard it hit the floor, so I pulled the desk away from the wall and looked. I never have found it. I took everything out of that room when I moved about a year ago and there was no old stapler, only the slightly shinier newer stapler that I eventually bought to replace it.
Er, a laptop should last more than two years. I had a Thinkpad X20 for almost 6 years and beat the shit out of it. It was never in a laptop case, just thrown in a pack with books/water bottles/etc. It was dropped several times, and frequently carried around by its screen frame while it was open. It had water spilled on its keyboard at least twice. That computer was with me almost every day, and went through everything I did, and it still works great now; in fact its the only computer my dad uses. I finally quit using it about a year ago and bought a Tecra M2 since I needed some more speed and video power. I've been beating the shit out of the Tecra too, and its fairly robust, not a problem with it.
I would never buy a piece of hardware that has to be delicately treated just to get 2 years out of it. That's a waste of money and resources. And a shame that something so bad was created.
That whole game was fairly well balanced on legendary except for one bit: that last ravine before the crater lake with the temple in the middle of it. The ravine that was full of snipers and bugs, and had elites at the top with carbines... that was completely and utterly evil.
But I thought it was the gravity of the black hole that slowed down the photons... now there's going to be some sort of incredible particle mess... I mean, the whole point of the black hole is that its gravity (from the old space distortion model) is so great that even light/photons, moving at c, cannot escape... So wouldn't the gravitons themselves be unable to escape? Or would they be immune to gravity themselves? If so, do they travel outward at normal c? If not, can I get some graviolis?
Watch 'Robot vs. Mummy' and then tell me that you still love MST3k. I haven't watched it since, and will never forgive them for that. Nor will I forgive the bastard that made me watch it.
Trust me, you're not missing anything on the hardware either. And if you use Windows and can't stand iTunes for mis-managing your existing mp3 collection (or want to browse your ipod's files in some meaningful arrangement), prepare to pay more for a third-party shell integration app.
About the only thing its got going for it is that it makes a decent pocket hard drive.
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Of course its a scam. It has nothing to do with reality, and in particular it has nothing to do with the presense of actual physical or IP assets of a company, and thus nothing to do with actual value. Not to mention that since it has nothing to do with assets, a company can offer a bunch of stock, get real money in return, invest that money into assets held by another company they own, then declare bankruptcy and default on their stock, leaving them with profit (value holding assets) while their "investors" get nothing. Not that that scenario happens too frequently. I'd say its something akin to playing the lottery, albeit with a higher rate of return.
Yea, that's the first thing I thought when I read it too. It doesn't sound auspicious.
Well, the Army does 1 Oct... but for end of Jan to be a quarter that one would have needed to start on 1 Nov, which is odd to me. I dunno.
I dunno, my experience has been that Gamecubes and Xboxes don't break, and that PS2s, though they do break, are frequently trivial to repair. I'd rate them all about equal. I hate to say it but the only console that I've seen non-trivial hardware errors in for the past few years is the Dreamcast (particularly with audio), which is a shame since they're becoming hard to get. I have a whole spare one myself, should I ever need it.
That looks like a really good idea; if the image buttons appended a new property to themselves when they loaded, then I could just check for that instead of .complete in the rollover code. I didn't even realize that properties could be appended to objects on the page, though I guess I should have suspected since I've done it with functions. I'll give that a try tonight.
Thanks!
Hmmm, I hadn't realized that it was a proprietary property. Given that, is there any equivalent standard property that I could use to check if something is loaded? Or is this a case where MS actually has a good idea and Gecko should finish their implementation, as they apparently have with normal img elements? I'm using it with an image preloader/swapper I've been messing with, to ensure that an image isn't swapped for something that isn't completely loaded. Works beautifully everywhere but on image buttons... right now I've got a nasty hack in the check that allows Firefox to swap anyway if the swapped object is an input. I think the oddest thing might be that Firefox doesn't even have an error message when the .complete check fails, as it does when I usually try to access something that doesn't exist. I'll take a look at Firebug later, since I've got to run off right now. Thanks for the help.
There's a very nice theater in Blacksburg VA called "The Lyric" that sort of does this already. They don't serve food, but they have a wonderful restored old building, show films they like and varied live shows, and don't take kindly to asshats. Their ticket prices are frequently cheaper than the 'big' theaters too. If you poke about on Google they have a website, I'm just not inclined to go find it at the moment.
Speaking of JavaScript, is there any good reason why Firefox can get and set the .src attribute of an imageButton (an image with a tagName of input), but can't read its .complete attribute? Its been driving me nuts all morning... Other than that, v1.5 hasn't seriously bothered me yet, though I don't like the way it dumps CSS and program errors to the javascript console without separating them from the javascript errors.
Back towards the end of the awful old win98 days, I used StarOffice as my entire shell, instead of explorer. That made it slightly less mind-numbingly useless, though not much so. It would get awfully annoying if everything started doing that though. I'm already annoyed enough at apps like Photoshop that think they need to have a big gray window behind their workspace.
Mainly because the headphones are shitty generic earbuds, and who wants to be locked into a specific pair of headphones anyway? Functionality of the headphones should be independent of functionality of the player. That top button relocator thing in another post looks vaguely interesting though, were I willing to buy another iPod.
That's the best thing I ever read!
What I don't understand is how the 'virtual scroll wheel' ever became more popular than forward and back buttons anyway... its more work to operate, and it can't be operated in a pocket because it goes nuts whenever it touches anything (at least I couldn't reliably do it)... I had to take the thing out of my pocket to operate it at all. That really annoyed me. So I sold the bastard. Tactile buttons are definitely a better design for a device that can't always count on being right-side-up with nothing poking it. And if said buttons are different shapes (like on a Rio 500) they're even easier to operate blindly.
I might have to look up that Rave MP sometime, but since I sold the iPod I've found that I am equally fine without an mp3 player (my head plays songs anyway, though its taste is sometimes questionable). I may not bother to get another.
"You seem to have this view of economics where people buy the legitimate item out of the goodness of their hearts, as a sort of donation to a company for doing a good job. It's terribly naive and frankly doesn't make much sense."
I thought that was exactly how economics works... you vote with your dollar. If I like what a company is making, I buy a real copy because it "donates" to them. They need return on investment if they're ever to create more and better games. Same applies to books and music. Your naive view of economics means that eventually everything goes to shit, and there's not even anything left to pirate.
Excel?
You shouldn't let your justified hatred of television programming stop you from ever using a TV, they can be good displays... I've got a 27" Samsung HD-ready that I got as a surplus/second online for $300, and it makes a nice display for my laptop and a nice console monitor. You could also just get a TV-in card; I used one until I was out of college and got the TV. I recommend Leadtek's card for tuner and picture quality, and it works with DScaler. And GameTunnel is awesome, they're a great indy review site.
I never knew that stars were visible without binoculars until I got glasses when I was 7 or 8. I had no clue that I was supposed to be able to see reasonably clearly for more than about 15 feet.
A few years ago I was moving some junk around on my desk and accidentally pushed my stapler off the back. About thirty seconds later I realized that I hadn't heard it hit the floor, so I pulled the desk away from the wall and looked. I never have found it. I took everything out of that room when I moved about a year ago and there was no old stapler, only the slightly shinier newer stapler that I eventually bought to replace it.
I hope its in a better place.
Er, a laptop should last more than two years. I had a Thinkpad X20 for almost 6 years and beat the shit out of it. It was never in a laptop case, just thrown in a pack with books/water bottles/etc. It was dropped several times, and frequently carried around by its screen frame while it was open. It had water spilled on its keyboard at least twice. That computer was with me almost every day, and went through everything I did, and it still works great now; in fact its the only computer my dad uses. I finally quit using it about a year ago and bought a Tecra M2 since I needed some more speed and video power. I've been beating the shit out of the Tecra too, and its fairly robust, not a problem with it.
I would never buy a piece of hardware that has to be delicately treated just to get 2 years out of it. That's a waste of money and resources. And a shame that something so bad was created.
That whole game was fairly well balanced on legendary except for one bit: that last ravine before the crater lake with the temple in the middle of it. The ravine that was full of snipers and bugs, and had elites at the top with carbines... that was completely and utterly evil.
And when Nixon returns, he'll make things right!
But I thought it was the gravity of the black hole that slowed down the photons... now there's going to be some sort of incredible particle mess... I mean, the whole point of the black hole is that its gravity (from the old space distortion model) is so great that even light/photons, moving at c, cannot escape... So wouldn't the gravitons themselves be unable to escape? Or would they be immune to gravity themselves? If so, do they travel outward at normal c? If not, can I get some graviolis?
Watch 'Robot vs. Mummy' and then tell me that you still love MST3k. I haven't watched it since, and will never forgive them for that. Nor will I forgive the bastard that made me watch it.
That is more or less true of all his game-movies. House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark had nothing to do with their source material either.
Trust me, you're not missing anything on the hardware either. And if you use Windows and can't stand iTunes for mis-managing your existing mp3 collection (or want to browse your ipod's files in some meaningful arrangement), prepare to pay more for a third-party shell integration app.
About the only thing its got going for it is that it makes a decent pocket hard drive.
If Gravitons move at the speed of light, how do black holes work in that model?