I could forgive the presence of Num Lock if there were no way for software to turn it off. When I am at work, and forced to use a windows machine, several of the applications seem to think they know better than me what the state of Num Lock should be. Some applications turn it off, some inexplicably toggle it. I'm a Mac user at home, and somehow I have never found myself in a situation where I thought... if only I could move diagonally, life would be perfect.
If you are, someone ought to fire you, out of a cannon, into the sun!
Watch out... every action has an equal and opposite reaction... if you fire me off into the sun, you might just send the Earth hurtling out in the other direction...
I am a senior undergrad at UVM, dual major Computer Science and Studio Art. I have never taken a class at any level that was graded on a curve. I think the heavy duty bio and chem classes that the pre-med students take are graded that way, but not any class with fewer than 100 students. Even the classes with more students are rarely graded that way.
It's funny, every time details about some "cutting edge" idea or business model surface, this forum (which used to be populated with physicists, engineers, and geeks of all stripes) piles on with their own particular angle on why it won't work.
Far be it from me to stick a pin in your nostalgia, but slashdot has never been any different, really. And in this case, we're right, this product has "going nowhere" written all over it.
I was an operator (with two partners) of a nightclub in SL until a few days ago. We shut down because we just didn't have enough time to put into it, but we were marginally profitable even though we never had gambling of any kind. We decided not to have gambling for two main reasons, first, we considered it unethical, and second, it is obviously illegal being that we are all based in the US. We sold our land to another resident who will be putting in his own nightclub, and I hope for his sake that gambling wasn't part of his business plan. I guess we sold the land at the right time, I expect land prices to take a dive with all the casino operators selling.
I guess I'm not really sad to see gambling go, but I'd like to see the law changed because it clearly is all about patronage for the big brick and mortar casino interests. Regardless, it is the law and Linden Labs has to obey it if they want to remain in business. Like it or not, that's a fact.
They correctly honored several classic arcade derivatives including Tempest, Robotron 2084 (twice) and Pac Man, but if they are going to include Dig Dug in that list (Mr Driller) than they should also include Defender, Galaga and Joust. There is no excuse. I would also argue for I Robot as a pioneer in 3D, even though they only sold like 500 of those.
As far games that are not classic arcade derivatives, I would also include Master of Orion and Crazy Taxi.
You may distribute the file to a third party, but if you do, you must follow these conditions: (1) You may not cause the third party to to be unable to distribute the file to other parties. (2) You may not cause restrictions to be placed on how many times the third party can utilize the file. (3) You may not cause restrictions to be placed on the manor that the thrid party can utilize the file.
This is a scan of a 4 by 5 inch chrome (positive) done with the Epson 4990 scanner. This is a crop of part of the center of the frame, if you click "original" you will see it at full pixels. The original scan is 11,105 by 8,737 pixels. The scanner of course also handles negatives quite well, and medium format. 35mm film scans are acceptable, but are much better with an inexpensive dedicated film scanner (which won't handle anything larger than 35mm.)
Please excuse the drop off in the top corners and the out of focus stuff, I should have stopped down more. It was one of the first shots I took with my clunky Crown Graphic 4x5 camera.
You know, it actually is possible to stick it to the RIAA without resorting to ripping, burning, and sharing, as you put it. Simply buy all your CD's used. It is cheaper, and better audio quality than iTunes.
Hmmm... and this "superior mode of lift and orbital flight" will be, what, magic? Has it occurred to you that the Space Elevator may be the superior technology that we are seeking, in spite of the fact that you seem to find it esthetically displeasing? I'm sure that Nuclear Pulse Propulsion would be much prettier, from a distance anyway!
There are not nine planets, there are probably hundreds. The voters at the IAU obviously had an emotional problem with there being more than a small number of planets, so they decided to dispense with science and permanently and arbitrarily cap the number of planets at eight. I say we ignore them.
Some people just seem to have a negative emotional response to the idea that there may be hundreds of planets in the Solar System, and that emotional response seems to be what has won the day here. There is no science behind this at all, it is a definition that is arbitrarily designed to permanently cap the number of planets to a small, manageable number. I see at least two big problems with this, first, the opening up to the possibility of there being hundreds of planets would force educators to rethink how these concepts are taught in elementary school. It could be something other than a memorize-these-nine-things exercise, but rather an opportunity to teach the basic concepts. Now it will just become a memorize-these-eight-things exercise. The other thing is that many of the newly discovered objects really merit study, and I don't see any Congress appropriating funds to send a probe to something that is just a "dwarf planet". The worst thing, though, is the pervasive media certainty that this is the end of the debate, five hundred really smart people voted on the issue and now it is settled for all eternity. I think that this new definition is deeply flawed in a number of ways, and we really need to treat this as a debate that has just begun.
If it is taking you 8 to 12 hours, you are playing it wrong. Try a few games of the computerized version, Colossus. You should be able to play a game against five computer opponents in about a half hour. That is if you don't play too conservatively. Those legions are for attacking with! You can even play on-line against human opponents, but it will take a bit longer.
Others have mentioned Puerto Rico, and The Settlers of Catan, which are awesome games, but I always find myself coming back to the old school wargaming goodness of Titan which, even though it is an elimination game with a completely different style and feel as all of the newer, more slickly designed games that are all the rage now, nothing beats throwing a fistfull of dice around to really get the blood pumping. It even has a free java implementation.
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How do you move diagonally with the arrow keys?
I could forgive the presence of Num Lock if there were no way for software to turn it off. When I am at work, and forced to use a windows machine, several of the applications seem to think they know better than me what the state of Num Lock should be. Some applications turn it off, some inexplicably toggle it. I'm a Mac user at home, and somehow I have never found myself in a situation where I thought... if only I could move diagonally, life would be perfect.
I have a Twitch City living room.
The unit you are looking for is the Helen. 1 Milihelen is the quantity of beauty (or "hotness") sufficient to launch a single ship.
If you are, someone ought to fire you, out of a cannon, into the sun!
Watch out... every action has an equal and opposite reaction... if you fire me off into the sun, you might just send the Earth hurtling out in the other direction...
I am a senior undergrad at UVM, dual major Computer Science and Studio Art. I have never taken a class at any level that was graded on a curve. I think the heavy duty bio and chem classes that the pre-med students take are graded that way, but not any class with fewer than 100 students. Even the classes with more students are rarely graded that way.
It's funny, every time details about some "cutting edge" idea or business model surface, this forum (which used to be populated with physicists, engineers, and geeks of all stripes) piles on with their own particular angle on why it won't work.
Far be it from me to stick a pin in your nostalgia, but slashdot has never been any different, really. And in this case, we're right, this product has "going nowhere" written all over it.
I was an operator (with two partners) of a nightclub in SL until a few days ago. We shut down because we just didn't have enough time to put into it, but we were marginally profitable even though we never had gambling of any kind. We decided not to have gambling for two main reasons, first, we considered it unethical, and second, it is obviously illegal being that we are all based in the US. We sold our land to another resident who will be putting in his own nightclub, and I hope for his sake that gambling wasn't part of his business plan. I guess we sold the land at the right time, I expect land prices to take a dive with all the casino operators selling.
I guess I'm not really sad to see gambling go, but I'd like to see the law changed because it clearly is all about patronage for the big brick and mortar casino interests. Regardless, it is the law and Linden Labs has to obey it if they want to remain in business. Like it or not, that's a fact.
How about Chicken Pox and Shingles?
I gave up HFCS and since last November I have lost about 70 pounds.
They correctly honored several classic arcade derivatives including Tempest, Robotron 2084 (twice) and Pac Man, but if they are going to include Dig Dug in that list (Mr Driller) than they should also include Defender, Galaga and Joust. There is no excuse. I would also argue for I Robot as a pioneer in 3D, even though they only sold like 500 of those.
As far games that are not classic arcade derivatives, I would also include Master of Orion and Crazy Taxi.
Velvia 100F is crap. Velvia 100 (not 100F) is the way to go if you want the Velvia look, and you should expose it at ISO 80. I prefer Provia though.
"Brane and brane, what is brane?
How about:
You may distribute the file to a third party, but if you do, you must follow these conditions:
(1) You may not cause the third party to to be unable to distribute the file to other parties.
(2) You may not cause restrictions to be placed on how many times the third party can utilize the file.
(3) You may not cause restrictions to be placed on the manor that the thrid party can utilize the file.
IANAL, though.
This is a scan of a 4 by 5 inch chrome (positive) done with the Epson 4990 scanner. This is a crop of part of the center of the frame, if you click "original" you will see it at full pixels. The original scan is 11,105 by 8,737 pixels. The scanner of course also handles negatives quite well, and medium format. 35mm film scans are acceptable, but are much better with an inexpensive dedicated film scanner (which won't handle anything larger than 35mm.)
Please excuse the drop off in the top corners and the out of focus stuff, I should have stopped down more. It was one of the first shots I took with my clunky Crown Graphic 4x5 camera.
That reminds me of the time a Packard Bell sales rep told me (in the mid 90's) that they had no wide-spread reliability problems.
Needs some Zappa.
The fluid will try to compress, even if it is incompressable, and the result will be a crushed human.
You know, it actually is possible to stick it to the RIAA without resorting to ripping, burning, and sharing, as you put it. Simply buy all your CD's used. It is cheaper, and better audio quality than iTunes.
Well, I just did a google search for "I am Lying", but it seems to have not exploded. Oh well, it was worth a try.
Hmmm... and this "superior mode of lift and orbital flight" will be, what, magic? Has it occurred to you that the Space Elevator may be the superior technology that we are seeking, in spite of the fact that you seem to find it esthetically displeasing? I'm sure that Nuclear Pulse Propulsion would be much prettier, from a distance anyway!
There are not nine planets, there are probably hundreds. The voters at the IAU obviously had an emotional problem with there being more than a small number of planets, so they decided to dispense with science and permanently and arbitrarily cap the number of planets at eight. I say we ignore them.
Some people just seem to have a negative emotional response to the idea that there may be hundreds of planets in the Solar System, and that emotional response seems to be what has won the day here. There is no science behind this at all, it is a definition that is arbitrarily designed to permanently cap the number of planets to a small, manageable number. I see at least two big problems with this, first, the opening up to the possibility of there being hundreds of planets would force educators to rethink how these concepts are taught in elementary school. It could be something other than a memorize-these-nine-things exercise, but rather an opportunity to teach the basic concepts. Now it will just become a memorize-these-eight-things exercise. The other thing is that many of the newly discovered objects really merit study, and I don't see any Congress appropriating funds to send a probe to something that is just a "dwarf planet". The worst thing, though, is the pervasive media certainty that this is the end of the debate, five hundred really smart people voted on the issue and now it is settled for all eternity. I think that this new definition is deeply flawed in a number of ways, and we really need to treat this as a debate that has just begun.
If it is taking you 8 to 12 hours, you are playing it wrong. Try a few games of the computerized version, Colossus. You should be able to play a game against five computer opponents in about a half hour. That is if you don't play too conservatively. Those legions are for attacking with! You can even play on-line against human opponents, but it will take a bit longer.
Others have mentioned Puerto Rico, and The Settlers of Catan, which are awesome games, but I always find myself coming back to the old school wargaming goodness of Titan which, even though it is an elimination game with a completely different style and feel as all of the newer, more slickly designed games that are all the rage now, nothing beats throwing a fistfull of dice around to really get the blood pumping. It even has a free java implementation.
Oh, and 30 Days probably also qualifies.