I just organized ordering pizza through IM, instead of walking around and asking everyone individually what they want, I sent out a group message and the answers rolled in when my co-workers found it convenient to respond. It not only makes me more productive (as I don't have the risk of getting in a 30 minute conversation with someone, times 12), it makes me co-workers less distracted.
But of course, all productivity is negated through Slashdot. So whatever.
Speaking of Phantasy Star Online and keyboards, you could actually get a Gamecube controller with a keyboard in the middle. My friend had one and it was one of the funniest things I ever held. He used it for PSO, which he played all the time.
My finger just about fell off scrolling down to find a post that actually was on-topic. But now I'm so distracted by all the hatred here that I have nothing of interest to say. I'm sorry.
Maybe the merit badge could have Tux on it though.
Totally agree. The Wheel of Time will go down in literary history as "the super long book series where the author died before he could finish it", instead of "the ultimate fantasy epic that everyone interested in the genre must read." When my friends ask me about it, I basically have to preface all discussions with: this series is really good at first, but it really slows down near the end. It's too bad the first half of the series is really good in my opinion, especially the first three or four.
I did a quick ctrl-f at the level I browse at and didn't see anyone mention Monkey Island and only one person mention King's Quest (didn't RTFA). Those are the first games I had experience with copy protection.
I remember my cousin had the Secret of Monkey Island and I loved playing it at her house. The stupid wheel though was a hindrance from taking it home. I think my dad ended up photocopying every combination but that seems like there would have been a lot of permutations. Either way, a family friend eventually gave me Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and I was able to experience the monkeyness at home until I bought the collection on CD-ROM a few years later. Curse of Monkey Island is still one of my favorite games of all time.
The other game was King's Quest IV: Perils of Rosella. You had to type out certain words straight from the instruction booklet. We didn't own this game so we had a photocopy of the book. Eventually we lost that but I was able to remember a specific word or two from the book and just tried those over and over again until I got into the game. That game pissed me off though, I am not a fan of King's Quest these days.:P
A lot of users here were able to look at the evidence available and make decisions from that. There was a lot of weird stuff going on in this trial, from his hosing out his car to his wife's crazy friend who said he had killed people before. I can see armchair jurors latching on to either side just with stuff like that. Yes, I'm sure bias did play in here but don't a lot of us just want a happy ending? As in the wife was just hiding out in Russia and Hans was innocent (of murder at least). I personally thought he was guilty but I have no experience with Reiser and his file system. It's a sad story though.
Are you the guy at work using Outlook's Spring Green background with bright red font color and a 10 line signature? Yeah, just to let you know, I filter your email to plain text.
Actually I had System Shock 2 in mind when I wrote my original post, which is why I specifically said "in recent memory." Nine years is nearly a lifetime in terms of video games. But yeah, I agree.
It's a scripting language that was under the radar until Ruby on Rails came around. Rails is a well done framework for Ruby that opened up the language to the masses.
And because you brought up Java too, there's also JRuby, a Java implementation of Ruby.
Actually I don't trust video game reviewers at all. I just think that the concept of inflated game reviews is horrible. To me, an 81 says: "this is a good solid game, not perfect, but it's good." However, to the industry it's nearly the opposite. Why have a scale of 100 points when people only respect 10 of them.
Is anyone really surprised at this? Bioshock was very successful late last year and has been heralded as having one of the best stories in recent memory. If you would have told me there were going to be less than three games I would have been surprised, writes love trilogies, and so do consumers.
What's wrong with an 81 for any game? To me an 81 says that the game is good, if not great. Just because a game doesn't score a 95 doesn't mean it's not worth playing. Plus your double standard of whether a game is part of a "large series" or not is one of the big problems with game reviews these days.
Leaving race out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Barack Hussein Obama. A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies. Let's twist that around a bit:
Leaving gender out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Hillary Rodham Clinton? A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies (Dennis Rodman is one, you figure out the other). See how stupid that sounds, troll?
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I just organized ordering pizza through IM, instead of walking around and asking everyone individually what they want, I sent out a group message and the answers rolled in when my co-workers found it convenient to respond. It not only makes me more productive (as I don't have the risk of getting in a 30 minute conversation with someone, times 12), it makes me co-workers less distracted.
But of course, all productivity is negated through Slashdot. So whatever.
Riding our bikes?
Don't you know that pirating Javascript is just a slippery slope to more dangerous pirating? Like license number generators?
Speaking of Phantasy Star Online and keyboards, you could actually get a Gamecube controller with a keyboard in the middle. My friend had one and it was one of the funniest things I ever held. He used it for PSO, which he played all the time.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/media/2389/1/9342.jpg
My finger just about fell off scrolling down to find a post that actually was on-topic. But now I'm so distracted by all the hatred here that I have nothing of interest to say. I'm sorry.
Maybe the merit badge could have Tux on it though.
Perhaps you are confusing what your GP said, even though you wrote it in your own post. Geez, why do I even bother?
Totally agree. The Wheel of Time will go down in literary history as "the super long book series where the author died before he could finish it", instead of "the ultimate fantasy epic that everyone interested in the genre must read." When my friends ask me about it, I basically have to preface all discussions with: this series is really good at first, but it really slows down near the end. It's too bad the first half of the series is really good in my opinion, especially the first three or four.
I did a quick ctrl-f at the level I browse at and didn't see anyone mention Monkey Island and only one person mention King's Quest (didn't RTFA). Those are the first games I had experience with copy protection.
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I remember my cousin had the Secret of Monkey Island and I loved playing it at her house. The stupid wheel though was a hindrance from taking it home. I think my dad ended up photocopying every combination but that seems like there would have been a lot of permutations. Either way, a family friend eventually gave me Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and I was able to experience the monkeyness at home until I bought the collection on CD-ROM a few years later. Curse of Monkey Island is still one of my favorite games of all time.
The other game was King's Quest IV: Perils of Rosella. You had to type out certain words straight from the instruction booklet. We didn't own this game so we had a photocopy of the book. Eventually we lost that but I was able to remember a specific word or two from the book and just tried those over and over again until I got into the game. That game pissed me off though, I am not a fan of King's Quest these days.
And now there have been 43,600 that have "died in a blogging accident". This is becoming an epidemic!
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22died+in+a+blogging+accident%22
I'll take books five through eight again as long as I never have to read book 10, Crossroads of Twilight, ever again.
What else would it be?
A lot of users here were able to look at the evidence available and make decisions from that. There was a lot of weird stuff going on in this trial, from his hosing out his car to his wife's crazy friend who said he had killed people before. I can see armchair jurors latching on to either side just with stuff like that. Yes, I'm sure bias did play in here but don't a lot of us just want a happy ending? As in the wife was just hiding out in Russia and Hans was innocent (of murder at least). I personally thought he was guilty but I have no experience with Reiser and his file system. It's a sad story though.
Are you the guy at work using Outlook's Spring Green background with bright red font color and a 10 line signature? Yeah, just to let you know, I filter your email to plain text.
Isn't that essentially what Lucas did with General Grievous?
Actually I had System Shock 2 in mind when I wrote my original post, which is why I specifically said "in recent memory." Nine years is nearly a lifetime in terms of video games. But yeah, I agree.
Am I the only one who saw "^ See?" as a regular expression?
Yes, when I said masses I meant programmers, but not necessarily Java. I was introduced to Ruby through Rails, though I never went very far with it.
It's a scripting language that was under the radar until Ruby on Rails came around. Rails is a well done framework for Ruby that opened up the language to the masses.
And because you brought up Java too, there's also JRuby, a Java implementation of Ruby.
Actually I don't trust video game reviewers at all. I just think that the concept of inflated game reviews is horrible. To me, an 81 says: "this is a good solid game, not perfect, but it's good." However, to the industry it's nearly the opposite. Why have a scale of 100 points when people only respect 10 of them.
Is anyone really surprised at this? Bioshock was very successful late last year and has been heralded as having one of the best stories in recent memory. If you would have told me there were going to be less than three games I would have been surprised, writes love trilogies, and so do consumers.
What's wrong with an 81 for any game? To me an 81 says that the game is good, if not great. Just because a game doesn't score a 95 doesn't mean it's not worth playing. Plus your double standard of whether a game is part of a "large series" or not is one of the big problems with game reviews these days.
I've been using Tab Mix Plus (version from forum) with RC1 and it works great.
It should be noted I made a mistake on this, it's hasNextLine(), not hasNext() which is word by word.
Leaving gender out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Hillary Rodham Clinton? A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies (Dennis Rodman is one, you figure out the other). See how stupid that sounds, troll?