Coding is not an efficient way to hash out an idea. Mind mapping software is free, quick and simple to use, and frees your mind to get detail-oriented without losing track of anything.
Pillars of the Earth, by Mayfair Games. Not as funny as Munchkin, but a higher replayability in my mind. And it did actually come out this year.
The book it's based on is pretty good too... although you might want to look at Half-Price Books or somewhere to get a copy that doesn't have "Oprah's Book of the Month" stamped on it. That's just embarrassing.
Relax... they still haven't found treatment for the lay-on-the-sidewalk-until-you-dry-up gene. If they get out of hand, we'll just turn a sprinkler on them.
If I don't pay the sales tax at the time of purchase, I'm still legally obligated to report untaxed purchases and pay up when I file my taxes, right?
Of course, I know few people who presently keep track of all of their online spending, but isn't Amazon's advantage here only an advantage to those who lie on their tax forms?
With the success of the independently developed Myst... one could argue that the plot twist became a staple in entertainment culture
Obviously you never played Pitfall or Night Driver. These ushered in the "surprise ending" for me. I'm running, running, running, running, running, running, EATEN BY AN ALLIGATOR! Oh man! Who saw that coming? Or I'm driving, driving, driving, driving, driving, driving, CRASHING INTO SOME KIND OF TREE OR CAR OR CAT OR SOMETHING! Man... that was suspenseful gaming.
Here's the difference. I can look at a building on your piece of land and decide whether it really is a McDonald's before I go in and eat.
Some of these squatters have no intention of selling their domain and no means of even entertaining offers. You would buy the land hoping that McDonald's will make a deal. Squatters buy their domains and put up a shack with a piece of posterboard on the door that says "MacDonalds" instead. By the time I realize the food I'm eating isn't a Big Mac at all, they've already made their dollar.
seems like it's high time for an unplugged Chistmas
I'd wager this isn't news to many people here, but the board game is alive and well. Check out some of the awesome games that have come out of Europe in the last 10 years.
My recommendation would be The Settlers of Catan for anyone who hasn't played it yet (or any of the 100 expansions for it), or Puerto Rico for someone with a circle of friends who are already fans of strategy games.
Slightly OT but... is the card game any good? Does anybody who just bought 1,000 of them for no reason want to give them to me? I tell you what, if you need trinkets so bad, I've got some salt and pepper shakers you can have in exchange. They look like little amish people.
I don't know about that. As a visual effects artist, a lot of my work is highly technical - but I only make money because of a highly developed sense of aesthetics. In my field at least, the line between "operators"(geeks) and "artists" grows thinner everyday.
I don't know... as a coder, if I got paid based on my sense of aesthetics, I'd be growing thinner too.
Plus, once you've gone past five times that Apple's decided your computer is different, you also lose all your music. Gone. Locked out.
Wrong. You can deauthorize all computers at once easily through iTunes. You'll need to reauthorize on any existing machines that you still actually use after doing this, and you can only do it once a year. So I'll give you "locked out" (if you somehow get yourself into this spot twice in 12 months), but "gone" is just false. The files are still in your library, and hopefully wherever you backed them up. You do back them up, don't you?
If they had, the world would have never known what "Napster" was.
Do you really mean that? It wasn't my lack of ethics or my dire need for new music that drove me to trying out Napster. Or BearShare. Or Kazaa. It was a lot of music, free and fast, and no apparent harm to anybody. I don't think this would have changed at all if iTunes had bean Napster to the punch. I was broke, it was free, and I hadn't at that point heard any stories of college kids going to jail over MP3s, so there was no perceived danger.
Now that I have a job, I know more about the legality of what I was doing with Napster, and I've seen stories of people getting bullied by the RIAA for exactly what I was doing in the late 90's, I choose to buy music (on CD or via iTunes) instead of stealing it. But I have no doubt in my mind that at that stage of life, I would have been using Napster regardless of what other options I had. I can't be the only one.
You would think so, seeing that his son is named Victor de Leon III!
My co-worker has always regretted having a boring name. He considered naming his son "Snake Eyes, Jr." to make up for that which is out of his control. If you can't have an awesome legacy, at least you can imply one.
This is semi-unrelated, but an interesting experience with the "familiarity" part of the brain.
My mother went through a two year battle with brain cancer a few years ago, and during the end, she started feeling like everything was familiar. It was a strange thing. Every song on the radio was one she knew from her youth, and every face in every restaurant was a long-lost friend. The name of the song or person was always "on the tip of her tongue", but of course she didn't actually know it at all. It was very confusing for her, to have that familiarity trigger firing all the time.
Now in her case, the cancer was untreatable and trying to counter this phenomenon wouldn't have made any difference in her ability to recover, but the quality of her life and her ability to enjoy new experiences may have been significantly increased by getting rid of this nuisance.
Slashdot Mirror
So a guy who sells ads has an actual news story, but people aren't clicking the link, assuming it's an ad? Delicious. The boy who blogged wolf.
This is why I cut & paste each word of anonymous emails from an online dictionary.
Untraceable.
Oh, I think you know the answer to that.
Coding is not an efficient way to hash out an idea. Mind mapping software is free, quick and simple to use, and frees your mind to get detail-oriented without losing track of anything.
Watch it! I'm farming here!
nice one. too bad my mod points just ran out.
I'll weigh in with my table-top vote, too.
Pillars of the Earth, by Mayfair Games. Not as funny as Munchkin, but a higher replayability in my mind. And it did actually come out this year.
The book it's based on is pretty good too... although you might want to look at Half-Price Books or somewhere to get a copy that doesn't have "Oprah's Book of the Month" stamped on it. That's just embarrassing.
Relax... they still haven't found treatment for the lay-on-the-sidewalk-until-you-dry-up gene. If they get out of hand, we'll just turn a sprinkler on them.
Slashdot is foregoing Roland's blog for the actual news source?
Looks like the army isn't the only one to be seeing less green.
Thanks, I'm here all night.
If I don't pay the sales tax at the time of purchase, I'm still legally obligated to report untaxed purchases and pay up when I file my taxes, right?
Of course, I know few people who presently keep track of all of their online spending, but isn't Amazon's advantage here only an advantage to those who lie on their tax forms?
Actually, it might cause them to short circuit.
Here's the difference. I can look at a building on your piece of land and decide whether it really is a McDonald's before I go in and eat.
Some of these squatters have no intention of selling their domain and no means of even entertaining offers. You would buy the land hoping that McDonald's will make a deal. Squatters buy their domains and put up a shack with a piece of posterboard on the door that says "MacDonalds" instead. By the time I realize the food I'm eating isn't a Big Mac at all, they've already made their dollar.
My recommendation would be The Settlers of Catan for anyone who hasn't played it yet (or any of the 100 expansions for it), or Puerto Rico for someone with a circle of friends who are already fans of strategy games.
Slightly OT but... is the card game any good? Does anybody who just bought 1,000 of them for no reason want to give them to me? I tell you what, if you need trinkets so bad, I've got some salt and pepper shakers you can have in exchange. They look like little amish people.
Hi Emily!
URL plz! Do you take PayPal?
You need to make some new friends.
Wrong. You can deauthorize all computers at once easily through iTunes. You'll need to reauthorize on any existing machines that you still actually use after doing this, and you can only do it once a year. So I'll give you "locked out" (if you somehow get yourself into this spot twice in 12 months), but "gone" is just false. The files are still in your library, and hopefully wherever you backed them up. You do back them up, don't you?
Do you really mean that? It wasn't my lack of ethics or my dire need for new music that drove me to trying out Napster. Or BearShare. Or Kazaa. It was a lot of music, free and fast, and no apparent harm to anybody. I don't think this would have changed at all if iTunes had bean Napster to the punch. I was broke, it was free, and I hadn't at that point heard any stories of college kids going to jail over MP3s, so there was no perceived danger.
Now that I have a job, I know more about the legality of what I was doing with Napster, and I've seen stories of people getting bullied by the RIAA for exactly what I was doing in the late 90's, I choose to buy music (on CD or via iTunes) instead of stealing it. But I have no doubt in my mind that at that stage of life, I would have been using Napster regardless of what other options I had. I can't be the only one.
My co-worker has always regretted having a boring name. He considered naming his son "Snake Eyes, Jr." to make up for that which is out of his control. If you can't have an awesome legacy, at least you can imply one.
This is semi-unrelated, but an interesting experience with the "familiarity" part of the brain.
My mother went through a two year battle with brain cancer a few years ago, and during the end, she started feeling like everything was familiar. It was a strange thing. Every song on the radio was one she knew from her youth, and every face in every restaurant was a long-lost friend. The name of the song or person was always "on the tip of her tongue", but of course she didn't actually know it at all. It was very confusing for her, to have that familiarity trigger firing all the time.
Now in her case, the cancer was untreatable and trying to counter this phenomenon wouldn't have made any difference in her ability to recover, but the quality of her life and her ability to enjoy new experiences may have been significantly increased by getting rid of this nuisance.
My washer uses SOAP!