In my opinion, Maniac Mansion has the best music of any video game ever, I have it on a CD in my car that I listen to regularly. I think the only other game music that compares is from the Megaman games and possibly Duck Tales.
Too bad their pizza sucks. And by pizza, I mean the sauce and bread soup they call pizza in Chicago. NYC has them beat there. I'm still waiting for GTA Baltimore, though. "GTA: Loch Raven Stories."
Doesn't the fact that it's science fiction mean that it's not going to be scientifically accurate? Maybe you should look in another category like biological thriller; The Hot Zone is widely regarded to be very accurate.
Maybe I'm just not getting it... if you have a disc, and then enough information on a second disc to completely rebuild the first disc, isn't that the same thing as burning the same data twice? A compressed copy at best maybe. It's very possible I just don't understand correctly though.
I concur, while it is sensationalist, they do have a very valid and rational point. From TFA:
So the solution lies in parents getting the facts and then talking to their children about expectations for online activity. Foster believes that, "Whether it is the home computer or these new gaming consoles, porn is easily accessible. The Wii is an amazing console and tons of fun but parents need good info on how to keep kids safe."
I love the Brainstem, it's got 5 digital I/O ports, 5 analog I/O ports, 4 servo outs, GP2D02 port, RS232 port and an IIC bus. All of the functionality you could need, such as sonar, IR, servo, text-to-speech, even pyroelectric (human heat-signature sensor), and many more are implemented in pre-built, extensive libraries. You can run 4 VMs at once and swap them out among 11 different 1MB programs, with 1MB of shared scratch space. You can also program low level "reflexes" to run independently of the VMs. They're programmed with the TEA, or Tiny Embedded Application, language (you "steep".tea files into.cup files, which are the binaries:-D), which is a stripped-down, easy to use, C-syntax language that's really easy to learn and program with. The compiler is just a tiny little console that can be downloaded for free and even runs on PalmOS. Did I mention they're really easy to interface with Palm Pilots? They're great for post-intro robotics classes when you want more functionality and would like to really get down into nuts and bolts construction. As well as being cheap and easy to use, there are a ton of kits and libraries for platforms that specifically use the Brainstem. After doing research at my university's robotics lab with several different platforms for over 3 years now, I'd recommend these over anything else, of course, that's just my personal opinion and there's a ton of other great controllers out there, especially the BASIC, JAVA and other Stamp controllers. Here's the link http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/S1-GP-BRD.h tml
-Julius
That's really not what I'm saying; the point I'm trying to make is that rather than completely disregarding "covers" as 100% useless, as the parent implies, "covers" can actually be an extremely useful tool, and ignoring them completely or not using them to any effect is pointless and juvenile. Although, it's entirely possible that I have a shallow worldview and that I'm narrow minded.
I'm pretty sure that after elementary school, judging a book by it's cover is not a bad thing. I don't understand why people tout this juvenile, cliche concept in mature discussions. Welcome to the real world, first impressions count here. If your writing a book, make a cover that adequately describes the content, don't just tack on something ridiculous for shock value alone. If the game was a tasteful discourse on the Columbine shootings, and it was named "Tasteful Discourse on the Columbine shootings," that's reasonable, but with a title like that, what else could you expect about the game other than an offensive piece of garbage. Once again, not saying it is one, but from the title and a realistic perspective, that's the impression that I get. A "cover" in any sense of the word, is a window to your content, and people need to grow up and start using them effectively.
In two places it says TB, or terabyte, and then in the body it says terabit, although I suppose it really doesn't matter since the breakthrough is simply the order of magnitude, but which one is it?
This is awesome! Takes forever to type but still cool. Biggest problem I see is that when I logged in to/. it showed the password in plain text. This is the first site I went to:)
They already have those (I got some with the Triforce) and they're amazing. They're really comfy and pretty stylish, most people that haven't seen the Wii before just assume that's how they come. Froogle "Wii remote covers" and you can find a couple different brands. If I had to buy a Wii again I would get these first thing.
I don't know if you own a Wii or not, but I think you're being a little opinionated about the issue. We've never had any incidents at my place, however it's pretty easy to see how one could let go of the remote. For instance, in bowling you release the trigger button to release the ball; when you really get into it, you sometimes bowl pretty hard and it's not difficult to imagine letting go of the entire remote when you let go of B. After all, you're supposed to be bowling, letting go of the ball, and you're already letting go of the trigger, which is your main grip on the remote. It certainly, however, was not merely "designed to prevent people from dropping it..." to get to any actual sports gameplay, you have to sit through at least three unskippable, five-seconds-at-least full-screen warnings about putting on and tightening the wrist strap every time you boot up the console. I'm pretty sure they had more in mind than just dropping it. On that matter as well, It's pretty obvious you could drop a remote from ten feet onto cement and it would be fine, they're very sturdily built. Personally, I'm going to get the new wrist straps to give me free reign to be "stupid."
I'm the champion Wii boxer in my group of friends, so I'm always up, and the only way to be really good at boxing is to throw your arms fast for the punches, and I can say from first hand experience, my shoulders are killing me. It really feels like I went to the gym after a long absence. Incidentally, I haven't been to the gym in 4 years, so that probably didn't help. It's totally worth the pain though. Every single night since I've had it, I've had a party at my apartment. It's great game when you have beer pong in the other room, and the people who aren't playing can box or golf or whatever.
I use a Boss DB-12 electronic metronome, it's got tons of features and is still really easy to use. It has a line out that I plug my Vic Firth drummer isolation phones into and that works much better than any mp3 type of system you could cook up, since you can change tempo, time signature, and accents. It works great with the isolation phones; both the drums and the metronome are clearly audible. You could also easily do the same thing with the Wired Metronome that is mentioned in the post.
I guess you had no idea that holding shift iterates backwards with Ctrl+Tab and Alt+Tab in Windows. It's been like that as long as I can remember. Just because you don't know the keyboard shortcuts doesn't mean they don't exist.
I seriously don't think I've actually typed out "www." or ".com" in at least 4 years. Just type website then Ctrl+Enter and Firefox and IE add it for you. I don't think Safari, Nautilus, or Konqueror do it by default but I might be wrong. But if you're using Firefox, it's so much easier. There's also Shift+Enter for ".net" and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for ".org".
It's pretty obvious that you're the one who's "ignorant." Drugs are what raises the carrying capacity of the human race. Take a damn environmental science course and your teacher will draw it out for you - rise in technology/medicine = greater max human population. These things happen. It's terrrible. If you made a post to that effect we would have all agreed and moved on. But when you call people who go in for medical testing "ignorant" and flame the entire pharmacutical community you're just being a dick who doesn't know what they're talking about. I think "Brave" or "selfless" might be closer to an appropriate adjective for these people. These are the same people who allow you to live your life without worry of dying every time you catch a cold, so stop being a jerk and make a real post.
You said "...in the 7+ years of using the program it never once protected me from getting a virus." How do you know that? Maybe you would have gotten more viruses if you hadn't been using it. You'll never know since you had it running the whole time. Seriously though I do agree with everything you said, I don't use AV either, I just run trendmicro sysclean every now and then to keep tabs on things and that's it. Hopefully as computers become more and more integrated into everyone's lives, future generations will have gained the common sense needed to keep people from clicking where they shouldn't.
While Dell machines may be notorious for their heat problems (think Inspiron 5100), I can't see any way this could possibly happen. If the battery explodes, that's one thing, but batteries explode from pressure when they get too hot, it's not like they actually combust(they can when they're drastically overcharged), wich is clearly the case in the picture. It looks like magnesium oxidizing! What in a laptop could possibly burn that bright? Plastic doesn't burn like that, PCB doesn't, and I can't imagine ICs do. And multiple explosions? I guess fromm the different cells in the battery, but once again, they don't explode like that from just overheating. Maybe I'm totally off the mark here but I call BS.
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Gotcha! Haha, who would have believed such a ridiculous thing.
In my opinion, Maniac Mansion has the best music of any video game ever, I have it on a CD in my car that I listen to regularly. I think the only other game music that compares is from the Megaman games and possibly Duck Tales.
Too bad their pizza sucks. And by pizza, I mean the sauce and bread soup they call pizza in Chicago. NYC has them beat there. I'm still waiting for GTA Baltimore, though. "GTA: Loch Raven Stories."
Doesn't the fact that it's science fiction mean that it's not going to be scientifically accurate? Maybe you should look in another category like biological thriller; The Hot Zone is widely regarded to be very accurate.
Maybe I'm just not getting it... if you have a disc, and then enough information on a second disc to completely rebuild the first disc, isn't that the same thing as burning the same data twice? A compressed copy at best maybe. It's very possible I just don't understand correctly though.
From their site: you can get 600 megs to a CD and 4.1 gigs to a DVD, pretty good space saving over having two full copies.
If pretty much anyone else said this, I might take it seriously, however, it's coming from John C. Dvorak.
Whoops, I meant 1K files... it can store 11 1K programs, not 1M. Sorry about that.
I love the Brainstem, it's got 5 digital I/O ports, 5 analog I/O ports, 4 servo outs, GP2D02 port, RS232 port and an IIC bus. All of the functionality you could need, such as sonar, IR, servo, text-to-speech, even pyroelectric (human heat-signature sensor), and many more are implemented in pre-built, extensive libraries. You can run 4 VMs at once and swap them out among 11 different 1MB programs, with 1MB of shared scratch space. You can also program low level "reflexes" to run independently of the VMs. They're programmed with the TEA, or Tiny Embedded Application, language (you "steep" .tea files into .cup files, which are the binaries :-D), which is a stripped-down, easy to use, C-syntax language that's really easy to learn and program with. The compiler is just a tiny little console that can be downloaded for free and even runs on PalmOS. Did I mention they're really easy to interface with Palm Pilots? They're great for post-intro robotics classes when you want more functionality and would like to really get down into nuts and bolts construction. As well as being cheap and easy to use, there are a ton of kits and libraries for platforms that specifically use the Brainstem. After doing research at my university's robotics lab with several different platforms for over 3 years now, I'd recommend these over anything else, of course, that's just my personal opinion and there's a ton of other great controllers out there, especially the BASIC, JAVA and other Stamp controllers. Here's the link http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/S1-GP-BRD.h tml
-Julius
I'm going to freeze myself until this comes out. Remember that tree over there and get me in June.
That's really not what I'm saying; the point I'm trying to make is that rather than completely disregarding "covers" as 100% useless, as the parent implies, "covers" can actually be an extremely useful tool, and ignoring them completely or not using them to any effect is pointless and juvenile. Although, it's entirely possible that I have a shallow worldview and that I'm narrow minded.
I'm pretty sure that after elementary school, judging a book by it's cover is not a bad thing. I don't understand why people tout this juvenile, cliche concept in mature discussions. Welcome to the real world, first impressions count here. If your writing a book, make a cover that adequately describes the content, don't just tack on something ridiculous for shock value alone. If the game was a tasteful discourse on the Columbine shootings, and it was named "Tasteful Discourse on the Columbine shootings," that's reasonable, but with a title like that, what else could you expect about the game other than an offensive piece of garbage. Once again, not saying it is one, but from the title and a realistic perspective, that's the impression that I get. A "cover" in any sense of the word, is a window to your content, and people need to grow up and start using them effectively.
In two places it says TB, or terabyte, and then in the body it says terabit, although I suppose it really doesn't matter since the breakthrough is simply the order of magnitude, but which one is it?
This is awesome! Takes forever to type but still cool. Biggest problem I see is that when I logged in to /. it showed the password in plain text. This is the first site I went to :)
They already have those (I got some with the Triforce) and they're amazing. They're really comfy and pretty stylish, most people that haven't seen the Wii before just assume that's how they come. Froogle "Wii remote covers" and you can find a couple different brands. If I had to buy a Wii again I would get these first thing.
I don't know if you own a Wii or not, but I think you're being a little opinionated about the issue. We've never had any incidents at my place, however it's pretty easy to see how one could let go of the remote. For instance, in bowling you release the trigger button to release the ball; when you really get into it, you sometimes bowl pretty hard and it's not difficult to imagine letting go of the entire remote when you let go of B. After all, you're supposed to be bowling, letting go of the ball, and you're already letting go of the trigger, which is your main grip on the remote. It certainly, however, was not merely "designed to prevent people from dropping it..." to get to any actual sports gameplay, you have to sit through at least three unskippable, five-seconds-at-least full-screen warnings about putting on and tightening the wrist strap every time you boot up the console. I'm pretty sure they had more in mind than just dropping it. On that matter as well, It's pretty obvious you could drop a remote from ten feet onto cement and it would be fine, they're very sturdily built. Personally, I'm going to get the new wrist straps to give me free reign to be "stupid."
I'm the champion Wii boxer in my group of friends, so I'm always up, and the only way to be really good at boxing is to throw your arms fast for the punches, and I can say from first hand experience, my shoulders are killing me. It really feels like I went to the gym after a long absence. Incidentally, I haven't been to the gym in 4 years, so that probably didn't help. It's totally worth the pain though. Every single night since I've had it, I've had a party at my apartment. It's great game when you have beer pong in the other room, and the people who aren't playing can box or golf or whatever.
I use a Boss DB-12 electronic metronome, it's got tons of features and is still really easy to use. It has a line out that I plug my Vic Firth drummer isolation phones into and that works much better than any mp3 type of system you could cook up, since you can change tempo, time signature, and accents. It works great with the isolation phones; both the drums and the metronome are clearly audible. You could also easily do the same thing with the Wired Metronome that is mentioned in the post.
I guess you had no idea that holding shift iterates backwards with Ctrl+Tab and Alt+Tab in Windows. It's been like that as long as I can remember. Just because you don't know the keyboard shortcuts doesn't mean they don't exist.
I seriously don't think I've actually typed out "www." or ".com" in at least 4 years. Just type website then Ctrl+Enter and Firefox and IE add it for you. I don't think Safari, Nautilus, or Konqueror do it by default but I might be wrong. But if you're using Firefox, it's so much easier. There's also Shift+Enter for ".net" and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for ".org".
Damon Wayans invented this in 1994! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blankman. He sprayed it on his clothes and made hime bulletproof!
It's pretty obvious that you're the one who's "ignorant." Drugs are what raises the carrying capacity of the human race. Take a damn environmental science course and your teacher will draw it out for you - rise in technology/medicine = greater max human population. These things happen. It's terrrible. If you made a post to that effect we would have all agreed and moved on. But when you call people who go in for medical testing "ignorant" and flame the entire pharmacutical community you're just being a dick who doesn't know what they're talking about. I think "Brave" or "selfless" might be closer to an appropriate adjective for these people. These are the same people who allow you to live your life without worry of dying every time you catch a cold, so stop being a jerk and make a real post.
You said "...in the 7+ years of using the program it never once protected me from getting a virus." How do you know that? Maybe you would have gotten more viruses if you hadn't been using it. You'll never know since you had it running the whole time. Seriously though I do agree with everything you said, I don't use AV either, I just run trendmicro sysclean every now and then to keep tabs on things and that's it. Hopefully as computers become more and more integrated into everyone's lives, future generations will have gained the common sense needed to keep people from clicking where they shouldn't.
While Dell machines may be notorious for their heat problems (think Inspiron 5100), I can't see any way this could possibly happen. If the battery explodes, that's one thing, but batteries explode from pressure when they get too hot, it's not like they actually combust(they can when they're drastically overcharged), wich is clearly the case in the picture. It looks like magnesium oxidizing! What in a laptop could possibly burn that bright? Plastic doesn't burn like that, PCB doesn't, and I can't imagine ICs do. And multiple explosions? I guess fromm the different cells in the battery, but once again, they don't explode like that from just overheating. Maybe I'm totally off the mark here but I call BS.