Yes, a lot of people do use laundromats. I can see it now, some bored teen decides to hack his sister's laundry in the laundromat and set it to "Extra Dark Wash, Extra Hot, Hot Rinse, No Spin Dry" just because he can.
Just think, if EA games is totally behind the Wii, that means not just playing Animal Crossing: Animal's Revenge on the Wii, it also means we'll get both Sims 3: High School and Sims 3: Pet Zoo as well as Spore by Will Wright on it as well!
Forget the PS3, I have no further interest in it anymore...
which laugh menacingly at the "laser shield" as they succeed in using the inevitable counter-measures that can cheaply defeat any such "defensive laser shield".
Plus small kids start throwing rocks with slingshots and find that a nice EMP truck will "turn off" the "laser shield".
[caveat - I used to work on Star Wars, on the mil side - these things don't work in real life conditions against someone who has half a brain]
you seem to forget the first net, which I was on, was ARPA*Net, and we didn't have that many connections at all.
the current Net is so much much bigger and so much much more complex, that it's fairly easy to slip in through a side channel somewhere, as even the Great Firewall of China is learning.
I predict that the Net will reroute to repair the damage. It may not be easily accessible to all, but it will exist.
It's like trying to kill off infections by using anti-biotics - you just end up encouraging them to develop anti-biotic resistance, and they're that much tougher to kill off. A better strategy is to deal with them by coaxing, and reserve good anti-biotics for when we need them.
1. Just because your cell phone can take pictures and post them on the Net (or Facebook), doesn't mean you should.
2. Joining a Facebook group like The Drunker I Am The Smilier I Get and posting an album of pics to it, probably isn't a swift move unless you want to work as a public drunk.
3. Taking revealing pics of yourself always sounds good, until your grandma or prospective employer sees them. Ewww.
4. The more you drink, the less sound your judgement becomes. Never post anything while drunk. Ever.
5. Don't break up with a vindictive ex-bf/gf, as they will post those pics they promised never to post.
Have you ever seen the paperwork for a secret clearance? Yeesh! They want everything - and I mean everything - for the past 5 years. 7 if it's top secret.
Yes, I used to be the Acting Security Office for one of the regions when I was in the Army. I was responsible for making sure people had clearances - it was one of my other duties during my service.
But, it should be noted it was a state agency looking for an intern, not a national agency looking for an operative. Perhaps if it involved a state liquor board, or interning as an auditor or some similar position, but for most state jobs, it seems like either: a. overkill; or b. misuse of silly laws like the Patriot Act.
to avoid damaged segments, such as any US restrictions.
In an interconnected world where China has more Net users than the US, and so does the EU, one country standing in defiance of the Net is like a small earthen dam trying to constrain the massive tsunami that will either go around it, go over it, or crush it beneath its massive weight of inevitability.
My mother was really young, I think she was 7 or 8, so I kind of doubt it.
And one thing the letters show is that he did have more feelings for his kids than we had assumed previously, however distracted he might have been by science.
Really? What about the tranclucent menus and their thing that works like the retarded cousin of Mac OS X Dashboard? Those are leaps beyond Windows XP. There's also the completely new Alt-Tab switching with thumbnails of the applications and the ability to turn windows on their side with labels on the windows. You can even make notes on the back of windows. That's not different from 2K or XP? Really?
Um, my son has a Mac mini, which does all those translucent menus and things. I don't see why I have to pay at least $2000 to buy a new laptop that won't crash when running all that cruft I don't care about, just so MSFT can push out a new OS release.
If I wanted those features, I'd have bought an iBook.
What he really meant was that it would be 80% DONE by January. That means, if they release it in January, it will be the most complete and stable OS ever released by Microsoft.
Or, in the real world, this would mean they ship it to MSDN then, wait for the inevitable problems to surface, and officially release it in time for March Madness!
Start talking quantum physics to a woman and it's not long before the clothes come off.
Ah, but for a true discourse on quantum physics, you need to make sure it's not just you taking off your clothes, but that both participants interact on an equal level.
In other words, in addition to charm, beauty, and truth, you need to make sure she also takes her clothes off as well.
1. If you go on vacation, and spend the usual two to four weeks relaxing, ignoring all the news except maybe browsing the headlines one day a week, as I frequently do, does the news not have equal importance? In other words, perhaps most of what we call "news" is temporary by nature, and grows less relevant with the passage of time. Please note this doesn't relate to medical/health/science news, as I've read many scientific papers from years ago that are just as relevant today as they were then. Also, for those in the US and Japan, yes, the world understands you don't get much vacation, but that's your problem.
2. How much of the news is what we call 'entertainment' news? How much is 'sports' news? Such news quickly ceases to have relevance, other than to fans of both media.
3. Perhaps the lack of investigative journalism, the lack of crafting of news into stories that take days to write, has led to the current situation where news quickly becomes staledated? I've read many an old copy of The New Yorker, and most of the stories about news are still relevant today, maybe one-fourth becoming less so due to the passage of time. Consider the skill and the medium used.
Nintendo didn't deny the rumor so much as say that we'll just have to wait until September to find out. Still, a September release seems HIGHLY unlikely.
Expecting a full multi-nation rollout in September, with games available for multiple game genres might be impossible.
But targetted city/region release with limited games in September, staggered for maximum media domination, followed by total system rollout in October is possible.
The thing is, console gamers have been preconditioned for late released few-games-at-intro consoles like the PS and xBox series.
All Nintendo has to do is wait until September and then start an all out assault by releasing their consoles in certain markets, with full introduction in October, to complete total console domination.
The main reason to hold off on full release is to ensure there are lots of games for many different types of gamers available, and to stagger the announcements so it feels like everyone is going Wii and noone cares about PS3 and xBox360 any more.
Strategy beats tactics every time. Well, except when you've got the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch...
That's not to say that revenues from casual gamers will exceed those from extreme gamers, or even FPS or MMORPG gamers.
But as a previously mostly untapped market, based on what has been happening in a number of countries, and specifically with the Nintendo DS, casual gaming is where the next growth area is.
1. al-Qaeda receives more than 90 percent - even today - of its funding directly or indirectly from Saudi Arabian citizens.
2. Most people using Western Union with Arab names are not from Saudi Arabia.
3. Requiring a Passport of someone wiring money with an Arab name, and just checking to see if they're citizens of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Egypt would work much more effectively.
4. Fake passports and name changes are easy to buy, usually costing less than $25 on downtown streets of any major port city (or even Detroit, Michigan).
5. Fake patriotism, like concern for non-existent flag-burning rampages, is very easy to do, and highly ineffective.
Sometimes the deals are ok, but you are correct, most of the time I can get a better deal if I look around a bit. The U Bookstore "deals" are at least only partially ripping one off.
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Yes, a lot of people do use laundromats. I can see it now, some bored teen decides to hack his sister's laundry in the laundromat and set it to "Extra Dark Wash, Extra Hot, Hot Rinse, No Spin Dry" just because he can.
10. Not only are there billions of Chinese citizens who will be on the Net, now the washers and dryers want to IM each other.
Just think, if EA games is totally behind the Wii, that means not just playing Animal Crossing: Animal's Revenge on the Wii, it also means we'll get both Sims 3: High School and Sims 3: Pet Zoo as well as Spore by Will Wright on it as well!
...
Forget the PS3, I have no further interest in it anymore
which laugh menacingly at the "laser shield" as they succeed in using the inevitable counter-measures that can cheaply defeat any such "defensive laser shield".
Plus small kids start throwing rocks with slingshots and find that a nice EMP truck will "turn off" the "laser shield".
[caveat - I used to work on Star Wars, on the mil side - these things don't work in real life conditions against someone who has half a brain]
good thing most of the world has gone metric, in fact every country other than the US uses kilometers.
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But we may need to invest in good satellite dishes to access the strong pure Net from our brothers to the North in Canada
And, if they're organic, you could always build a self-repair mechanism and data-correction mechanism.
Brings new meaning to the terms:
1. wipe the disk
2. lay down some tracks on the disk
3. if disk has gone bad and smells, use the data-correction and self-repair virus wipes.
Why yes son, it was kind of dirty, so I just cleaned it with my anti-bacterial spray.
...
AAAAAAAHHHHHH!
it's not dirty, it's organized using stochastic improbability theory
again, the Net reroutes.
you seem to forget the first net, which I was on, was ARPA*Net, and we didn't have that many connections at all.
the current Net is so much much bigger and so much much more complex, that it's fairly easy to slip in through a side channel somewhere, as even the Great Firewall of China is learning.
I predict that the Net will reroute to repair the damage. It may not be easily accessible to all, but it will exist.
It's like trying to kill off infections by using anti-biotics - you just end up encouraging them to develop anti-biotic resistance, and they're that much tougher to kill off. A better strategy is to deal with them by coaxing, and reserve good anti-biotics for when we need them.
1. Just because your cell phone can take pictures and post them on the Net (or Facebook), doesn't mean you should.
2. Joining a Facebook group like The Drunker I Am The Smilier I Get and posting an album of pics to it, probably isn't a swift move unless you want to work as a public drunk.
3. Taking revealing pics of yourself always sounds good, until your grandma or prospective employer sees them. Ewww.
4. The more you drink, the less sound your judgement becomes. Never post anything while drunk. Ever.
5. Don't break up with a vindictive ex-bf/gf, as they will post those pics they promised never to post.
Have you ever seen the paperwork for a secret clearance? Yeesh! They want everything - and I mean everything - for the past 5 years. 7 if it's top secret.
Yes, I used to be the Acting Security Office for one of the regions when I was in the Army. I was responsible for making sure people had clearances - it was one of my other duties during my service.
But, it should be noted it was a state agency looking for an intern, not a national agency looking for an operative. Perhaps if it involved a state liquor board, or interning as an auditor or some similar position, but for most state jobs, it seems like either: a. overkill; or b. misuse of silly laws like the Patriot Act.
I mean, aren't you supposed to be Faced to be on it?
to avoid damaged segments, such as any US restrictions.
In an interconnected world where China has more Net users than the US, and so does the EU, one country standing in defiance of the Net is like a small earthen dam trying to constrain the massive tsunami that will either go around it, go over it, or crush it beneath its massive weight of inevitability.
My mother was really young, I think she was 7 or 8, so I kind of doubt it.
And one thing the letters show is that he did have more feelings for his kids than we had assumed previously, however distracted he might have been by science.
Really? What about the tranclucent menus and their thing that works like the retarded cousin of Mac OS X Dashboard? Those are leaps beyond Windows XP. There's also the completely new Alt-Tab switching with thumbnails of the applications and the ability to turn windows on their side with labels on the windows. You can even make notes on the back of windows. That's not different from 2K or XP? Really?
...
Um, my son has a Mac mini, which does all those translucent menus and things. I don't see why I have to pay at least $2000 to buy a new laptop that won't crash when running all that cruft I don't care about, just so MSFT can push out a new OS release.
If I wanted those features, I'd have bought an iBook.
Looks like MSFT is forcing me to go Linux
What he really meant was that it would be 80% DONE by January. That means, if they release it in January, it will be the most complete and stable OS ever released by Microsoft.
Or, in the real world, this would mean they ship it to MSDN then, wait for the inevitable problems to surface, and officially release it in time for March Madness!
Start talking quantum physics to a woman and it's not long before the clothes come off.
Ah, but for a true discourse on quantum physics, you need to make sure it's not just you taking off your clothes, but that both participants interact on an equal level.
In other words, in addition to charm, beauty, and truth, you need to make sure she also takes her clothes off as well.
is that when my mother was a child, he helped carry her books for her at Princeton after school - my grandmother was working there at the time.
Basically, he was a nice guy to kids, is what I'm trying to say, no matter what other quirks he may have had.
1. If you go on vacation, and spend the usual two to four weeks relaxing, ignoring all the news except maybe browsing the headlines one day a week, as I frequently do, does the news not have equal importance? In other words, perhaps most of what we call "news" is temporary by nature, and grows less relevant with the passage of time. Please note this doesn't relate to medical/health/science news, as I've read many scientific papers from years ago that are just as relevant today as they were then. Also, for those in the US and Japan, yes, the world understands you don't get much vacation, but that's your problem.
2. How much of the news is what we call 'entertainment' news? How much is 'sports' news? Such news quickly ceases to have relevance, other than to fans of both media.
3. Perhaps the lack of investigative journalism, the lack of crafting of news into stories that take days to write, has led to the current situation where news quickly becomes staledated? I've read many an old copy of The New Yorker, and most of the stories about news are still relevant today, maybe one-fourth becoming less so due to the passage of time. Consider the skill and the medium used.
Didn't happen, though.
It's time for TV broadcasting to wake up and smell the inevitable sound of history crashing down on their outmoded technology.
I am going to wait untill a game I actualy want to play
You have gone to the Nintendo Wii site, right?
There's lots of games in lots of genres for the Wii to play.
The only people who should hold out are people obsessed with FPS. Don't recall tons of games for that, just a couple for the Wii.
Nintendo didn't deny the rumor so much as say that we'll just have to wait until September to find out. Still, a September release seems HIGHLY unlikely.
Expecting a full multi-nation rollout in September, with games available for multiple game genres might be impossible.
But targetted city/region release with limited games in September, staggered for maximum media domination, followed by total system rollout in October is possible.
The thing is, console gamers have been preconditioned for late released few-games-at-intro consoles like the PS and xBox series.
...
All Nintendo has to do is wait until September and then start an all out assault by releasing their consoles in certain markets, with full introduction in October, to complete total console domination.
The main reason to hold off on full release is to ensure there are lots of games for many different types of gamers available, and to stagger the announcements so it feels like everyone is going Wii and noone cares about PS3 and xBox360 any more.
Strategy beats tactics every time. Well, except when you've got the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
That's not to say that revenues from casual gamers will exceed those from extreme gamers, or even FPS or MMORPG gamers.
But as a previously mostly untapped market, based on what has been happening in a number of countries, and specifically with the Nintendo DS, casual gaming is where the next growth area is.
1. al-Qaeda receives more than 90 percent - even today - of its funding directly or indirectly from Saudi Arabian citizens.
2. Most people using Western Union with Arab names are not from Saudi Arabia.
3. Requiring a Passport of someone wiring money with an Arab name, and just checking to see if they're citizens of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Egypt would work much more effectively.
4. Fake passports and name changes are easy to buy, usually costing less than $25 on downtown streets of any major port city (or even Detroit, Michigan).
5. Fake patriotism, like concern for non-existent flag-burning rampages, is very easy to do, and highly ineffective.
Sometimes the deals are ok, but you are correct, most of the time I can get a better deal if I look around a bit. The U Bookstore "deals" are at least only partially ripping one off.