That is NOT a mugshot of the evidence. That is the orginal "super-fuggin'-ugly" style Nintendo DS. This story is about the Nintendo DS Lite which looks more like this.
Here is a comparison for those that have trouble telling the difference between the two models.
"Fortunately, I am eligible for upgrade because I already bit that bullet."
Right, so in addition to buying your MacBookPro you had enough money (at some point) to buy CS and then later buy an upgrade to CS.
My point was that most people don't have $3k for a computer, but those that can afford one can also more easily afford $500 software packages. You seem to be a prime example.
This "science" flys in the face of what millions know to be absolute pure fact and you are abashing our faith in the unseen as a consequence!
It states clearly in the book of Ragu chapter 16:20 that eggs were concieved by the Him for the purpose of making omlettes, that the lives of all pirates might be more delicious, especially at breakfast.
Chickens were created as an after-thought to automate the egg making process because He got tired of making all the eggs by using His own noodley-appendages.
"A country that prides itself in constraining all markets, destroying their populace and basically giving the middle finger to rest of the planet is put on a pedestal by the countries that should be invading them to free their people?"
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT AMERIC..... oh, you're talking about China? yeah, yeah, I agree! /me gives the middle finger to China
deb
i
compiz
wtf
compile mother bitch
and something about the seasons
no, wait, i am probably thinking about haiku
damn this package! it has me all confused to the point that i can't even write a poem.
I have a sleeve from InCase that I like very much.
It has a little divider for papers, a large pocket with enough room for a mouse and powersupply, a small pocket without enough room for anything, and a little cd sized pocket I carry an Ubuntu live CD in. It seems somewhat like those Crumpler bags so many people are suggesting.
So Botnet hunters are tracking rogue Botnet puppet masters, taking them out using their own ISP, then tracking the Botnet drones who wander the net like 'lost sheep without a shepherd,... continually try[ing] to reconnect to the hacker's control server, unaware that it no longer exists'?
Sounds like a totally kick ass anime!
Naturally I imagine all these Botnet hunters are hyper-attractive ultra-well-endowed women who's clothes get partially torn off every time they have a Hack-net Battle a Botnet Drone with their emasculatingly over-sized gun/sword!
WoW already has great OpenGL support, it shouldn't be that hard for a company like Blizzard to port WoW to Linux.
There's already an online petition to get WoW ported to Linux claiming 23725 signatures (at the time of my posting this).
Sign it here.
(disclaimer: I'm not connected with the creaters/pwners of the site in any way what-so-ever, I just really want this to happen.)
You don't need to own or currently play World of Warcraft to sign; you just have to support the idea of it being ported to Linux. Please support this. This would make an incredibly strong argument for Linux as a viable gaming platform.
I had a vibraiting game controller in the late eighties. It was called a pager. See, I'd give my secret code to some fly hunny; then it'd rumble right before I was about to score!
They even called me a player.
I think the language is similar enough to claim prior art.:)
(FYI for anyone else thinking about picking up this game: Make sure to use a shield in the final encounter or you might play out your days with a permanent chance-on-pee to self inflict fire damage.)
"Designing new areas would be quite the cool endgame for WoW lvl 60s. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that it takes too much skill and training these days to create good enough content for games like that."
Ah, but there is the ability to write custom UI's, and, while you can write one even if you've never played the game, most of the good class specific interfaces, for example, are written by people with high level characters who really understand the role and needs of their class.
(oops, really long anecdote to try to impress my point, which is in the last paragraph)
This past Christmas I put together some random parts I had to build a PC for a friend of mine who doesn't have a lot of money but does have six children. The oldest one of his children is 13 and the youngest isn't 1, and they'd never had a computer before (and neither had the parents) so I figured I'd have to do some prep work to ensure that it'd be usable and also enticing (so they'd actually use it).
My first concern was that they have a gamecube and they like it a lot, and since I wanted this computer to be a fun way to self-educate I figured I'd need to make it a lot cooler than a grey box with a word processor. So to make it a lot more kid friendly I took the case all apart (including buttons and stuff), masked things off, and spray painted it bright red and yellow. I even did the monitor.
The computer was fairly low powered, and I'm a college student so I'm on a budget; so I went with Linux and choose Edubuntu (although I installed Ubuntu and installed Edubuntu on top of that). I set it up with as many educational games as I could find, knowing that it'd be competing with Mario Party.
Not being a parent I thought passwords would be hard for them to handle, but I thought user management would be useful for their parents so I installed turned on the face browser login and put pictures of all the kids on and gave them simple passwords like "dad" and "jr" (the name of their dog).
Anyways, this is getting really long, but the point is I went through all this extra work because I thought it'd be hard to convince them to use the thing, but I was played the fool! Not only had I underestimated their interest, I had no idea that even their kindergardner had computer experience from school! I thought I'd be starting on a blank slate and that I'd have to teach the kids everything abou the computer but as each one sat down for the first time to test their user account they immediately broke in to the menus and started clicking on things just to see what they did while their parents were freaking out, sure that they'd break something. With no instruction even on this part, it only took about a half hour the 5 year-old figure out how to completely fill his Gnome panels with googely Geyes (His interest was high enough that I gave him some simple games I'd written and explained to him that if he worked with computers he could learn to make his own games, and he thought that was just abou the coolest thing he's ever heard in his life).
The best part? They'd never used anything but Windows at school and, while the older kids said they noticed a difference, they absolutely did not care that it wasn't the interface they were already somewhat used to.
I think even if parents choose not to expose their kids to technology at a young age they are going to encounter it. Take the example of my friends who thought their kids had ZERO computer experience, but their 5 year old was all over it!
It's just like sex or drugs: if the parent's are quiet or uninvolved the kids will learn at school or from their friends, and those aren't always the best sources of information.
"It's even more irritating if you have a dual boot, since you can't readapt your brain to get a specific order of clicking a dialog"
Me? Really? I haven't noticed this problem on my dual-boot machine, or perhaps it is my brain's inability to adapt, as you said, that causes me to not adapt to your inability to use an "I" statement.
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Here's a mugshot of the evidence.
That is NOT a mugshot of the evidence. That is the orginal "super-fuggin'-ugly" style Nintendo DS. This story is about the Nintendo DS Lite which looks more like this.
Here is a comparison for those that have trouble telling the difference between the two models.
"Fortunately, I am eligible for upgrade because I already bit that bullet."
Right, so in addition to buying your MacBookPro you had enough money (at some point) to buy CS and then later buy an upgrade to CS.
My point was that most people don't have $3k for a computer, but those that can afford one can also more easily afford $500 software packages. You seem to be a prime example.
Well, if you've got enough money to buy a (non-mini) Mac the pricetag on the Creative Suite probably doesn't look as daunting.
This "science" flys in the face of what millions know to be absolute pure fact and you are abashing our faith in the unseen as a consequence!
It states clearly in the book of Ragu chapter 16:20 that eggs were concieved by the Him for the purpose of making omlettes, that the lives of all pirates might be more delicious, especially at breakfast.
Chickens were created as an after-thought to automate the egg making process because He got tired of making all the eggs by using His own noodley-appendages.
But won't the computers/robots just realise that:
"The only way to win
is not to play"
"A country that prides itself in constraining all markets, destroying their populace and basically giving the middle finger to rest of the planet is put on a pedestal by the countries that should be invading them to free their people?"
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT AMERIC..... oh, you're talking about China? yeah, yeah, I agree!
/me gives the middle finger to China
"What took Tool so long?"
Being born?
deb
i
compiz
wtf
compile mother bitch
and something about the seasons
no, wait, i am probably thinking about haiku
damn this package! it has me all confused to the point that i can't even write a poem.
Just wanted to add to the list.
I have a sleeve from InCase that I like very much.
It has a little divider for papers, a large pocket with enough room for a mouse and powersupply, a small pocket without enough room for anything, and a little cd sized pocket I carry an Ubuntu live CD in. It seems somewhat like those Crumpler bags so many people are suggesting.
So Botnet hunters are tracking rogue Botnet puppet masters, taking them out using their own ISP, then tracking the Botnet drones who wander the net like 'lost sheep without a shepherd, ... continually try[ing] to reconnect to the hacker's control server, unaware that it no longer exists'?
Sounds like a totally kick ass anime!
Naturally I imagine all these Botnet hunters are hyper-attractive ultra-well-endowed women who's clothes get partially torn off every time they have a Hack-net Battle a Botnet Drone with their emasculatingly over-sized gun/sword!eh?.........no?
they've fixed this problem.... just build your tv from cvs
WoW already has great OpenGL support, it shouldn't be that hard for a company like Blizzard to port WoW to Linux.
There's already an online petition to get WoW ported to Linux claiming 23725 signatures (at the time of my posting this).
Sign it here.
(disclaimer: I'm not connected with the creaters/pwners of the site in any way what-so-ever, I just really want this to happen.)
You don't need to own or currently play World of Warcraft to sign; you just have to support the idea of it being ported to Linux. Please support this. This would make an incredibly strong argument for Linux as a viable gaming platform.
I had a vibraiting game controller in the late eighties. It was called a pager.
See, I'd give my secret code to some fly hunny; then it'd rumble right before I was about to score!
They even called me a player.
I think the language is similar enough to claim prior art. :)
(FYI for anyone else thinking about picking up this game: Make sure to use a shield in the final encounter or you might play out your days with a permanent chance-on-pee to self inflict fire damage.)
Didn't George Lucas, like, totally just predict this would happen?
So, it's like he was a Jedi Director (4,5,6) who was seduced by the Dark Side (1,2,3), but then foresaw the balancing of the Force in Hollywood.
hmm...even his life sounds like a rehashed plotline...
"Designing new areas would be quite the cool endgame for WoW lvl 60s. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that it takes too much skill and training these days to create good enough content for games like that."
Ah, but there is the ability to write custom UI's, and, while you can write one even if you've never played the game, most of the good class specific interfaces, for example, are written by people with high level characters who really understand the role and needs of their class.
(oops, really long anecdote to try to impress my point, which is in the last paragraph)
This past Christmas I put together some random parts I had to build a PC for a friend of mine who doesn't have a lot of money but does have six children. The oldest one of his children is 13 and the youngest isn't 1, and they'd never had a computer before (and neither had the parents) so I figured I'd have to do some prep work to ensure that it'd be usable and also enticing (so they'd actually use it).
My first concern was that they have a gamecube and they like it a lot, and since I wanted this computer to be a fun way to self-educate I figured I'd need to make it a lot cooler than a grey box with a word processor. So to make it a lot more kid friendly I took the case all apart (including buttons and stuff), masked things off, and spray painted it bright red and yellow. I even did the monitor.
The computer was fairly low powered, and I'm a college student so I'm on a budget; so I went with Linux and choose Edubuntu (although I installed Ubuntu and installed Edubuntu on top of that). I set it up with as many educational games as I could find, knowing that it'd be competing with Mario Party.
Not being a parent I thought passwords would be hard for them to handle, but I thought user management would be useful for their parents so I installed turned on the face browser login and put pictures of all the kids on and gave them simple passwords like "dad" and "jr" (the name of their dog).
Anyways, this is getting really long, but the point is I went through all this extra work because I thought it'd be hard to convince them to use the thing, but I was played the fool! Not only had I underestimated their interest, I had no idea that even their kindergardner had computer experience from school! I thought I'd be starting on a blank slate and that I'd have to teach the kids everything abou the computer but as each one sat down for the first time to test their user account they immediately broke in to the menus and started clicking on things just to see what they did while their parents were freaking out, sure that they'd break something. With no instruction even on this part, it only took about a half hour the 5 year-old figure out how to completely fill his Gnome panels with googely Geyes (His interest was high enough that I gave him some simple games I'd written and explained to him that if he worked with computers he could learn to make his own games, and he thought that was just abou the coolest thing he's ever heard in his life).
The best part? They'd never used anything but Windows at school and, while the older kids said they noticed a difference, they absolutely did not care that it wasn't the interface they were already somewhat used to.
I think even if parents choose not to expose their kids to technology at a young age they are going to encounter it. Take the example of my friends who thought their kids had ZERO computer experience, but their 5 year old was all over it!
It's just like sex or drugs: if the parent's are quiet or uninvolved the kids will learn at school or from their friends, and those aren't always the best sources of information.
OH NO! My outrageously expensive false sense of security!!!
Same with the desktop on my UN*X machine......you know, OSX.
I guess "NO ONE ELSE ON THE PLANET" is starting to mean more and more people.
"It's even more irritating if you have a dual boot, since you can't readapt your brain to get a specific order of clicking a dialog"
Me? Really?
I haven't noticed this problem on my dual-boot machine, or perhaps it is my brain's inability to adapt, as you said, that causes me to not adapt to your inability to use an "I" statement.
"They aren't any worse than anyone else working in the ad industry." Wow, so they're pretty bad then?
"Thirdly, noone is going to upgrade their OS just to buy a praticular game."
No no no...you have it backwards: All OS upgrades are for particular games.
A particular game (Space Travel) was even the reason UNIX was invented.