A few people I know have Mac laptops even though they primarily use Windows PCs. I even know a couple of dudes who bought Macbooks and then installed Windows on them, for the shiny case I suppose. Even my friend who is Apple Or Die (tm) and buys everything that ever comes with an Apple logo has a Windows box running. I've been looking at getting a cheap Mac (relatively cheap; we're still talking Apple here) for iPhone development on a supported platform versus a VM or Hackintosh, but I sure as hell wouldn't use a Mac as my primary computer for the same reason.
For a lot of us to do what we use our computers to do, running anything other than Windows is a matter of convenience or personal preference, but running Windows is a requirement. At the same time there are certainly plenty of people who can get by just using a Mac, but most of them could get by on an eMachine just fine and so have no reason other than personal aesthetics to drop the extra coin.
One or both of your sinus cavities may be too narrow. See about getting them bored out a bit. Seriously. My wife spent years choking down meds from being stuffed up and dealing with repeated sinus infections. She went in, spent a half hour under the knife and then a week of recovery. Good to go since. Mother Nature dropped the ball in her case, and you might be in the same boat. I'm not a big fan of medications for treatment when surgery can just fix the root cause.
No doubt. It still boggles me that there is this big push to make texting illegal since it seems like there could be no possible way that it could be legal. As much of a freedom junkie as I am, I am still perplexed at how it could possibly be legal to read and type while hurling down highways at 50+ MPH in conditions where death can occur within seconds. Even the phone users I am willing to overlook while gritting my teeth, despite the many times that they have nearly swirved into or in front of me, always with that wide-eyed idiot gape and head snap when they suddenly realize that there are other cars on the road around them. But texting while driving is a special brand of retard phenomena that transcends even the fucking morons that apply makeup in traffic. At least the drunk guy is watching the road most of the time, even if he sees a couple of extra cars and the lane ripples a bit.
Yes, $380 for a video card that provides graphical performance that well supersedes the capabilities of the PS3, and possibly even the PS3's successor. Or you can actually compare a video card with very similar capabilities to the card in the PS3, the NVIDIA RSX "Reality Synthesizer" with a 550MHz CPU and 256 MB of DDR2, which would be an NVIDIA GeForce 9400 that you can pick up for about $50.
If you're driving a late-model Honda Civic that has been completely paid off and your bonus check just came in, go ahead and spring for the new stereo and paint job, but if your old Buick has more flashing lights on the dashboard than a squad car has on its roof then maybe you should skip the spinners and get the damned engine checked!
But partisans are already told what to think by the wealthy folk that wouldn't even piss on their ardent followers to extinguish a fire. What difference does changing the color on a vague chart add to that?
Fair enough. Simply convince the scientific community that they need to stop focusing on trying to develop an understanding of the way that the universe works and change the priority to having fun instead.
Because for some reason my coworkers don't like to bask in the rich aroma of my sweaty balls after bicycling several miles to work. I will grant you a point on the "fancy motor scooter" quip, though, as one can get a motor scooter that gets far greater range at three times the speed for a third of the price, with the bonus of slightly more carrying capacity.
Karaoke is the vocal equivalent of air guitar. With karaoke, you can just sing "la" and, while you would likely annoy those around you, all is well. In Rock Band, if you just sing "la" then you will fail unless you enable the No Fail cheat. Vocals requires that the singer at least be able to modulate their tone and maintain time with the vocal track of the song, even if they screw up the lyrics. As you asked, I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there who denigrate people who play the vocalist portion of Rack Band tracks, just not nearly as many who like to insult people who play the guitar and drum parts.
As for your question regarding how close playing Guitar Hero is to real guitar, not very. For the most part, playing a real guitar is much harder. There are the occasional spots in GH/RB tracks that are actually more difficult than the playing of the same section on the actual instrument due to phrases that translate easily arpeggiated riffs to exercises in fret button tapping.
If those astronauts just sat around for hours staring out the window then they'd either be getting the finest weed that can be packed into a shuttle cabin or they'd be the most brainless bunch of two-legged vegetables in existence. I doubt either is the case so after a few minutes of the requisite, "Ooh, purty," I'm sure that they go and find some other shit to do.
Yeah, went through the same thing. I figure it's the trade-off for not having to spend five minutes starting the console, sitting through the godawfully slow legal screen while hammering the A button, waiting for the disc to finally show up in the game window, waiting for it to do its unskippable noisy thumbnail routing, and then wading through the sea of unskippable splash screens. Nintendo came up with a clever idea for a controller and then proceeded to fuck up every other aspect of the console.
So don't buy the car, or stock, if it suddenly costs more than you believe it to be worth. Christ, people deal with this sort of thing all the time when buying a house. My wife and I bought our first house last year, although it wasn't our first choice as that got an offer placed on it and accepted while we were still inside looking at the house. And this was in the middle of the housing downturn when everyone was moaning about the nosediving demand for housing.
If you are placing market orders, expect that you will never get the price that you want if you trade any underlying that more than five people give a crap about, because unless you happen to be sitting in the NYSE/CBOT/etc, you will NEVER be the fastest dude to the trade. Figure out how much a position is worth to you and offer that up. If you want to buy some TBT at 101.28 then put your limit in for 101.28. That way when that fast trade system slips in for the buy a second before you and drives up the cost to 101.29, you won't get stuck paying more than you are willing to pay. Of course, you could always try beating them at their own game if you're willing and able to put millions on the line.
Being a juror doesn't give you the magical ability to reinterpret the law or convince 11 other people that you aren't a clueless dipshit. Shooting someone who threatens you life in your home is easily defensible even in states that have repressive laws regarding the possession of firearms.
In a rail shooter, movement and view control is removed from the player, except perhaps to choose a path to proceed, although even that dynamic is rare. Think Area 51 or House of the Dead.
Professional soldiers who have trained extensively with firearms tend to average a couple thousand rounds per kill. Look at an example of a worst case scenario such as the Columbine killings, where two heavily armed kids were in a target-dense environment with no serious concern over defense and yet "only" killed 12 and wounded 24, which while horrible is a very low ratio compared to the potential. According to the DoJ's study, "Weapon Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001," victims of assault were less likely to be injured when the perpetrator used a firearm versus any other method, even unarmed. Victims of firearm assaults were also far less likely to suffer severe injury versus other assault methods.
You make a lot of presumptions about guns and bullets based upon their potential, which is powerful and does occasionally get used to full effect, but reality has shown time and again that guns are scarier than they are dangerous when put into actual practice. It is that damage potential and scariness that helps to diffuse a situation when a firearm wielding victim is threatened an aggressor who is otherwise armed or unarmed. At the same time, it is that unreliability of firearms that provides a better chance of survival for the victim of a firearm wielding aggressor versus an aggressor who is attacking with a knife, stick, or bare hands.
Yeah, I used to play the bullshit game of responding to loaded questions like, "Do you mind...," and, "Would you like to...," but then my wife would get pissed if I agreed and then didn't seem happy while doing it even though I wouldn't bitch. So now I just say, "fuck no," when she asks me something like that or does that weird thing that people do where they ask twelve questions in some bizarre chain of logic that is supposed to somehow end up getting the actual question answered. Although she still slips on occasion, she's gotten much better about using useful questions, like, "Will you do something for me...," and accepting that there are just some tasks that I won't do while shitting rainbows and singing showtunes.
I didn't want to learn him, just stab him with a relevant device.:) As for ball-and-can switches, those are what I replaced with the mercury tilt switches because ball-and-can switches are shit.
Against my better judgement, I swung into Rat Shack last week to see if I could pick up a couple of mercury tilt switches since Skycraft miraculously didn't have any. I made the mistake of taking the sales drone's offer of assistance instead of providing my cursory, "no, thanks." I told the dude the I needed a couple of mercury tilt switches; his reply: "They're illegal." I wanted to stab him in the neck with a thermometer but I didn't have one handy so I just turned around without saying a word and went home to order some switches online.
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A few people I know have Mac laptops even though they primarily use Windows PCs. I even know a couple of dudes who bought Macbooks and then installed Windows on them, for the shiny case I suppose. Even my friend who is Apple Or Die (tm) and buys everything that ever comes with an Apple logo has a Windows box running. I've been looking at getting a cheap Mac (relatively cheap; we're still talking Apple here) for iPhone development on a supported platform versus a VM or Hackintosh, but I sure as hell wouldn't use a Mac as my primary computer for the same reason.
For a lot of us to do what we use our computers to do, running anything other than Windows is a matter of convenience or personal preference, but running Windows is a requirement. At the same time there are certainly plenty of people who can get by just using a Mac, but most of them could get by on an eMachine just fine and so have no reason other than personal aesthetics to drop the extra coin.
One or both of your sinus cavities may be too narrow. See about getting them bored out a bit. Seriously. My wife spent years choking down meds from being stuffed up and dealing with repeated sinus infections. She went in, spent a half hour under the knife and then a week of recovery. Good to go since. Mother Nature dropped the ball in her case, and you might be in the same boat. I'm not a big fan of medications for treatment when surgery can just fix the root cause.
Why wouldn't you eat cake if you had it? Sure, I prefer pie, but cake is good, too. Seems like such a shame to waste perfectly good cake.
No doubt. It still boggles me that there is this big push to make texting illegal since it seems like there could be no possible way that it could be legal. As much of a freedom junkie as I am, I am still perplexed at how it could possibly be legal to read and type while hurling down highways at 50+ MPH in conditions where death can occur within seconds. Even the phone users I am willing to overlook while gritting my teeth, despite the many times that they have nearly swirved into or in front of me, always with that wide-eyed idiot gape and head snap when they suddenly realize that there are other cars on the road around them. But texting while driving is a special brand of retard phenomena that transcends even the fucking morons that apply makeup in traffic. At least the drunk guy is watching the road most of the time, even if he sees a couple of extra cars and the lane ripples a bit.
Yes, $380 for a video card that provides graphical performance that well supersedes the capabilities of the PS3, and possibly even the PS3's successor. Or you can actually compare a video card with very similar capabilities to the card in the PS3, the NVIDIA RSX "Reality Synthesizer" with a 550MHz CPU and 256 MB of DDR2, which would be an NVIDIA GeForce 9400 that you can pick up for about $50.
He's insisting on keeping databases on SQL Server 2000. He doesn't know what in the fuck he's doing.
If you're driving a late-model Honda Civic that has been completely paid off and your bonus check just came in, go ahead and spring for the new stereo and paint job, but if your old Buick has more flashing lights on the dashboard than a squad car has on its roof then maybe you should skip the spinners and get the damned engine checked!
Don't worry, dude, I got your analogy covered. ;)
But partisans are already told what to think by the wealthy folk that wouldn't even piss on their ardent followers to extinguish a fire. What difference does changing the color on a vague chart add to that?
Fair enough. Simply convince the scientific community that they need to stop focusing on trying to develop an understanding of the way that the universe works and change the priority to having fun instead.
I'm gonna take a SWAG and go with your second interpretation, although I, too, had to take a moment to decipher the intent behind that first line.
MTV owns Harmonix. EA just publishes their games. Otherwise, agreed.
Because for some reason my coworkers don't like to bask in the rich aroma of my sweaty balls after bicycling several miles to work. I will grant you a point on the "fancy motor scooter" quip, though, as one can get a motor scooter that gets far greater range at three times the speed for a third of the price, with the bonus of slightly more carrying capacity.
Karaoke is the vocal equivalent of air guitar. With karaoke, you can just sing "la" and, while you would likely annoy those around you, all is well. In Rock Band, if you just sing "la" then you will fail unless you enable the No Fail cheat. Vocals requires that the singer at least be able to modulate their tone and maintain time with the vocal track of the song, even if they screw up the lyrics. As you asked, I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there who denigrate people who play the vocalist portion of Rack Band tracks, just not nearly as many who like to insult people who play the guitar and drum parts.
As for your question regarding how close playing Guitar Hero is to real guitar, not very. For the most part, playing a real guitar is much harder. There are the occasional spots in GH/RB tracks that are actually more difficult than the playing of the same section on the actual instrument due to phrases that translate easily arpeggiated riffs to exercises in fret button tapping.
If those astronauts just sat around for hours staring out the window then they'd either be getting the finest weed that can be packed into a shuttle cabin or they'd be the most brainless bunch of two-legged vegetables in existence. I doubt either is the case so after a few minutes of the requisite, "Ooh, purty," I'm sure that they go and find some other shit to do.
Yeah, went through the same thing. I figure it's the trade-off for not having to spend five minutes starting the console, sitting through the godawfully slow legal screen while hammering the A button, waiting for the disc to finally show up in the game window, waiting for it to do its unskippable noisy thumbnail routing, and then wading through the sea of unskippable splash screens. Nintendo came up with a clever idea for a controller and then proceeded to fuck up every other aspect of the console.
I'd venture a guess that it would be the same answer as anything else involving what they like: CASH.
So don't buy the car, or stock, if it suddenly costs more than you believe it to be worth. Christ, people deal with this sort of thing all the time when buying a house. My wife and I bought our first house last year, although it wasn't our first choice as that got an offer placed on it and accepted while we were still inside looking at the house. And this was in the middle of the housing downturn when everyone was moaning about the nosediving demand for housing.
If you are placing market orders, expect that you will never get the price that you want if you trade any underlying that more than five people give a crap about, because unless you happen to be sitting in the NYSE/CBOT/etc, you will NEVER be the fastest dude to the trade. Figure out how much a position is worth to you and offer that up. If you want to buy some TBT at 101.28 then put your limit in for 101.28. That way when that fast trade system slips in for the buy a second before you and drives up the cost to 101.29, you won't get stuck paying more than you are willing to pay. Of course, you could always try beating them at their own game if you're willing and able to put millions on the line.
Fair. In real life. That's rich.
Enabled by, but not the study of. Logic fail.
Being a juror doesn't give you the magical ability to reinterpret the law or convince 11 other people that you aren't a clueless dipshit. Shooting someone who threatens you life in your home is easily defensible even in states that have repressive laws regarding the possession of firearms.
In a rail shooter, movement and view control is removed from the player, except perhaps to choose a path to proceed, although even that dynamic is rare. Think Area 51 or House of the Dead.
Depends. You want to be squished or ejected into space? ;)
Professional soldiers who have trained extensively with firearms tend to average a couple thousand rounds per kill. Look at an example of a worst case scenario such as the Columbine killings, where two heavily armed kids were in a target-dense environment with no serious concern over defense and yet "only" killed 12 and wounded 24, which while horrible is a very low ratio compared to the potential. According to the DoJ's study, "Weapon Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001," victims of assault were less likely to be injured when the perpetrator used a firearm versus any other method, even unarmed. Victims of firearm assaults were also far less likely to suffer severe injury versus other assault methods.
You make a lot of presumptions about guns and bullets based upon their potential, which is powerful and does occasionally get used to full effect, but reality has shown time and again that guns are scarier than they are dangerous when put into actual practice. It is that damage potential and scariness that helps to diffuse a situation when a firearm wielding victim is threatened an aggressor who is otherwise armed or unarmed. At the same time, it is that unreliability of firearms that provides a better chance of survival for the victim of a firearm wielding aggressor versus an aggressor who is attacking with a knife, stick, or bare hands.
Yeah, I used to play the bullshit game of responding to loaded questions like, "Do you mind...," and, "Would you like to...," but then my wife would get pissed if I agreed and then didn't seem happy while doing it even though I wouldn't bitch. So now I just say, "fuck no," when she asks me something like that or does that weird thing that people do where they ask twelve questions in some bizarre chain of logic that is supposed to somehow end up getting the actual question answered. Although she still slips on occasion, she's gotten much better about using useful questions, like, "Will you do something for me...," and accepting that there are just some tasks that I won't do while shitting rainbows and singing showtunes.
I didn't want to learn him, just stab him with a relevant device. :) As for ball-and-can switches, those are what I replaced with the mercury tilt switches because ball-and-can switches are shit.
Against my better judgement, I swung into Rat Shack last week to see if I could pick up a couple of mercury tilt switches since Skycraft miraculously didn't have any. I made the mistake of taking the sales drone's offer of assistance instead of providing my cursory, "no, thanks." I told the dude the I needed a couple of mercury tilt switches; his reply: "They're illegal." I wanted to stab him in the neck with a thermometer but I didn't have one handy so I just turned around without saying a word and went home to order some switches online.