I believe they were charging an extra £2.50 or something for the tickets for the 3D version, though I still got in 'free' and didn't have to pay anything for the glasses (which I kept) using my £12 a month unlimited card \o/ so I reckon they must be fairly cheap - but they weren't too stylish.
The 3D effect is very cool, I saw Beowulf in it. The outdoor night scenes were especially impressive, looking out over hills and such. I still don't know how the technology even works without the red/green separation?
Well, I did realise afterwards that we have Fords, and you probably have the Focus in America, but I'm not sure about other models such as the Mondeo. What other cars are you referring to, though? I know for a fact that the Peugot, Citroen, BMW, Skoda, Seat, Volswagen, Vauxhaull, Fiat, Honda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Aston Martin, etc cars that I see around here are not designed or built in America (though some of the companies may be owned by GM or whatever). If you drove on the roads here you'd really see a difference - I was quite shocked at the size of the roads when I went to Canada. And I basically didn't recognise any of the cars apart from a Pontiac GTO - it was a real shock to my system!
You mean your work involves all of the fields covered on/. ? I don't think I could get away with reading articles on games all day, but the articles on security matters and such usually have some useful insights and ideas - like the large discussion on password security I was reading yesterday, which is always work related for an IT department, but I did really have some other things I should probably have done first:P
How big is that habitable zone going to be? Depends if those midgets have invented electricity. It would be pretty fun to watch a midget flying a kite in an electrical storm. Hmm.
Anyway, roll on the discovery of other M class planets! Gas giants are fun because you can joke about gas and give them names like 'Uranus', but they're not much use for habitation.
I propose that we call these gas giants Dupiter, and Dupiter.
I wonder if they have an article about us on their org.dotslash\\:ptth site. And possibly even a dupe of that article. Holy shimmering doppeldupers, batman!
Well, I don't know about the roads in New Zealand, but if they're anything like the Australian ones then they will also be pretty wide and straight? You'd probably take up both sides of the road if you tried to drive a hummer in the UK..
Well, I don't need 'serious' graphics power, but I did intend to play games on it, and it's nice to have the power I need to run several apps at once, compile quickly and such. I tried to install Ubuntu on it but it didn't even manage to get into X server on the live CD..
And nah I don't really deal with clients much, though your argument does hold for one of our sales people who wangled a nice Dell XPS laptop from my assistant:P I have just always had a thing for Macs since one of our first computer was a Classic.
I did have the lightup keyboard turned off for months, but I figured I may as well use it since I have it, and I usually use the machine to play music while I go to sleep and sometimes I want to adjust the volume etc (I turned the screen brightness right down in that case).
Anyway yeah I do wonder if Macs are justifiably more expensive a lot of the time, but after using mine for a year, I'd definitely consider buying one with my own money if I ever left this job - though I don't really want to because I enjoy it, and the perks like my laptop, 'smart' phone (no phonebill \o/ ), car (no maintenance costs!).. okay that was showing off a little:)
It's possible that he never passed that stage of mental development where you realise that we aren't all one hive mind collective consciousness type thingy. Self realisation? Something like that:p of course if you spend all your time on/. , maybe you revert to one of the hive
Uh.. does anyone import american cars? Okay you can get that new model Mustang, and I saw a big mahusive cadillac or something on Top Gear a few weeks ago.. but seriously, American cars tend to be like 20-50% bigger than our biggest cars, but you can get away with it because your roads are much wider. A lot of American cars handle like boats too, again because you have big wide roads, and all the intercity roads probably go in straight lines.. over here we have nice 'twisties' to negotiate.. there are motorways but even they don't just go in a straight line. I would probably fall asleep at the wheel if I had to drive across america..:p
Yeah I wish I'd read this comment before I bit the bait:P I should check more often to see if someone's shown a little perspective. I bought a nice HDTV too - I was initially setting out to buy a monitor, but I knew I'd probably get a PS3 or blu-ray player at some point in the future, so I decided I'd be better off just buying a TV that also doubles up as an extremely big ass monitor, and it's worked out nicely:) Something cool about sitting in a comfy chair in your living room and using your PC on a nice big high res screen. Helps with immersion in games too:) Spot on with the cars too. I don't care if my car is ugly as **** as long as it's fun to drive.. thing is that most "driver's" cars tend to look cool anyway..
Why buy a nice Apple Mac Book Pro where you can Build a Desktop that is 3 times more prowerful Well, 1 because I can't carry my desktop with me to my couch/bed/whatever, 2 because I don't need that much power to surf the web or even play the games I like (GTA IV, Test Drive Unlimited 2, any Half-Life 2 based game..), 3 because I don't have to deal with Windows at home if I can't be bothered waiting 4 minutes for it to startup and login just so I can play some music or check my email.. and 4 because I got it for work so I didn't have to pay for it.. and it has a cool light up keyboard (genuinely useful sometimes, even though I could find most keys on the keyboard with my eyes closed..) and a little remote control (okay, that's just good for showing off tbh):) \o/ I would very seriously consider one even if I had to spend my own money on it though. I like Mac OS X, it's pretty much how I want Linux to be like - nice GUI, good connectivity (I'm sure WiFi on Linux is better now than when I last tried, but I'm happy with OS X for now). Saying that I do like the configurability of the display manager's on Linux, but apparently you can get Gnome for OS X, etc etc. Anyway, the point is that spending extra doesn't have to be a 'waste' if you have a reason for it, and no I didn't get the Macbook to show off. I didn't go for the highest spec graphics card though because that really would have been a waste for what is primarily a work machine (I justified getting the Pro because I've been using hand-me-down desktops and laptops for 6 years, and I am the IT manager so why not get a decent macine for once..).
Oh and I got a big HDTV to make driving games more realistic alongside my steering wheel and soundrocker chair. Sure I think it's cool, and some others do too, but a lot of people (well, girls mainly) just think it's sad, so how does that endorse your argument?;)
When it comes to cars though, I do go for power over fancy looking things, so I drive a Skoda. Hehe. Can't accuse me of just wanting to look cool their either, considering most people still have a negative stereotype of Skodas. It is the vRS Fabia, which personally I think looks okay, plus I had it remapped so it's quite nippy:D
Are you annoyed that people just want to show things off, or is this just the way you yourself think about things you purchase?
That little robot dude is cool though. It's just like being on the Enterprise D. You could say "on screen" to the robot and it'll turn on your TV!:D Then "Number 1, make it so" to change to channel 1. Unfortunately I only have one device that requires infra red input, but it's a nice idea..
I do kinda have to concede that. I started playing Maplestory just because I literally felt I had nothing else to do at that time in my life and one of my friends introduced me to it. I played the game all by myself for a month or two, then joined a guild (leader was the person that introduced me to the game), and stayed in the guild for a while, enjoying the social aspects, having a fake online marriage and such (as you do), hehe. One day I just stopped playing though, and didn't start again. That was of course because I got addicted to a MUD (again). Without the social aspects, it would be very difficult to make a game that was so addictive that you keep playing it - I think games like WoW work so well because they're basically an IRC chatroom with some really intricate games to play while you chat:P I realised that while playing MUDs, but MMORPGs are just MUDs with fancy 3D graphics.. and believe me you don't need the graphics to have fun:)
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No, I think they're just being jerks rather than going for irony..
I believe they were charging an extra £2.50 or something for the tickets for the 3D version, though I still got in 'free' and didn't have to pay anything for the glasses (which I kept) using my £12 a month unlimited card \o/ so I reckon they must be fairly cheap - but they weren't too stylish.
Aye, I have the same album. It's probably the same polarisation technique as the other respondents mention
The 3D effect is very cool, I saw Beowulf in it. The outdoor night scenes were especially impressive, looking out over hills and such. I still don't know how the technology even works without the red/green separation?
Well, I did realise afterwards that we have Fords, and you probably have the Focus in America, but I'm not sure about other models such as the Mondeo. What other cars are you referring to, though? I know for a fact that the Peugot, Citroen, BMW, Skoda, Seat, Volswagen, Vauxhaull, Fiat, Honda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Aston Martin, etc cars that I see around here are not designed or built in America (though some of the companies may be owned by GM or whatever). If you drove on the roads here you'd really see a difference - I was quite shocked at the size of the roads when I went to Canada. And I basically didn't recognise any of the cars apart from a Pontiac GTO - it was a real shock to my system!
Tis presumably the CSS formatting that they are using? It's the same on my machine (XP Pro/FF 3 beta 5)
You mean your work involves all of the fields covered on /. ? I don't think I could get away with reading articles on games all day, but the articles on security matters and such usually have some useful insights and ideas - like the large discussion on password security I was reading yesterday, which is always work related for an IT department, but I did really have some other things I should probably have done first :P
I guess that should be 'discovered' rather than 'invented'. My bad.
Anyway, roll on the discovery of other M class planets! Gas giants are fun because you can joke about gas and give them names like 'Uranus', but they're not much use for habitation.
I propose that we call these gas giants Dupiter, and Dupiter.
I wonder if they have an article about us on their org.dotslash\\:ptth site. And possibly even a dupe of that article. Holy shimmering doppeldupers, batman!
You mean people sometimes use /. as something other than a lightly work based slacking device?
Well, I don't know about the roads in New Zealand, but if they're anything like the Australian ones then they will also be pretty wide and straight? You'd probably take up both sides of the road if you tried to drive a hummer in the UK..
Well, I don't need 'serious' graphics power, but I did intend to play games on it, and it's nice to have the power I need to run several apps at once, compile quickly and such. I tried to install Ubuntu on it but it didn't even manage to get into X server on the live CD..
:P I have just always had a thing for Macs since one of our first computer was a Classic.
:)
And nah I don't really deal with clients much, though your argument does hold for one of our sales people who wangled a nice Dell XPS laptop from my assistant
I did have the lightup keyboard turned off for months, but I figured I may as well use it since I have it, and I usually use the machine to play music while I go to sleep and sometimes I want to adjust the volume etc (I turned the screen brightness right down in that case).
Anyway yeah I do wonder if Macs are justifiably more expensive a lot of the time, but after using mine for a year, I'd definitely consider buying one with my own money if I ever left this job - though I don't really want to because I enjoy it, and the perks like my laptop, 'smart' phone (no phonebill \o/ ), car (no maintenance costs!).. okay that was showing off a little
You mean you're not here too?
It's possible that he never passed that stage of mental development where you realise that we aren't all one hive mind collective consciousness type thingy. Self realisation? Something like that :p of course if you spend all your time on /. , maybe you revert to one of the hive
Uh.. does anyone import american cars? Okay you can get that new model Mustang, and I saw a big mahusive cadillac or something on Top Gear a few weeks ago.. but seriously, American cars tend to be like 20-50% bigger than our biggest cars, but you can get away with it because your roads are much wider. A lot of American cars handle like boats too, again because you have big wide roads, and all the intercity roads probably go in straight lines.. over here we have nice 'twisties' to negotiate.. there are motorways but even they don't just go in a straight line. I would probably fall asleep at the wheel if I had to drive across america.. :p
Well, putting the money in is easy enough, but you really don't want to know how you get it back..
Yeah I wish I'd read this comment before I bit the bait :P I should check more often to see if someone's shown a little perspective. I bought a nice HDTV too - I was initially setting out to buy a monitor, but I knew I'd probably get a PS3 or blu-ray player at some point in the future, so I decided I'd be better off just buying a TV that also doubles up as an extremely big ass monitor, and it's worked out nicely :) Something cool about sitting in a comfy chair in your living room and using your PC on a nice big high res screen. Helps with immersion in games too :) Spot on with the cars too. I don't care if my car is ugly as **** as long as it's fun to drive.. thing is that most "driver's" cars tend to look cool anyway..
Oh and I got a big HDTV to make driving games more realistic alongside my steering wheel and soundrocker chair. Sure I think it's cool, and some others do too, but a lot of people (well, girls mainly) just think it's sad, so how does that endorse your argument?
When it comes to cars though, I do go for power over fancy looking things, so I drive a Skoda. Hehe. Can't accuse me of just wanting to look cool their either, considering most people still have a negative stereotype of Skodas. It is the vRS Fabia, which personally I think looks okay, plus I had it remapped so it's quite nippy
Are you annoyed that people just want to show things off, or is this just the way you yourself think about things you purchase?
That little robot dude is cool though. It's just like being on the Enterprise D. You could say "on screen" to the robot and it'll turn on your TV! :D Then "Number 1, make it so" to change to channel 1. Unfortunately I only have one device that requires infra red input, but it's a nice idea..
More like you should be required to eat breakfast first.
Help, I'm stuck and I can't get out! :(
I was wondering if they do a Sperm Bank version? Obviously it would sell better if it had a less creepy face..
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That little robot dude is a great idea too
I live in Asia, you insensitive article and other clods!
I do kinda have to concede that. I started playing Maplestory just because I literally felt I had nothing else to do at that time in my life and one of my friends introduced me to it. I played the game all by myself for a month or two, then joined a guild (leader was the person that introduced me to the game), and stayed in the guild for a while, enjoying the social aspects, having a fake online marriage and such (as you do), hehe. One day I just stopped playing though, and didn't start again. That was of course because I got addicted to a MUD (again). Without the social aspects, it would be very difficult to make a game that was so addictive that you keep playing it - I think games like WoW work so well because they're basically an IRC chatroom with some really intricate games to play while you chat :P I realised that while playing MUDs, but MMORPGs are just MUDs with fancy 3D graphics.. and believe me you don't need the graphics to have fun :)