No, no, no...the real problem is the new owner of the horse realized this and has tethered the horse to his barn. But the horse salesmen has used his lobbying effort to outlaw the use of tethers, leases or other restraining devices on and sold horses, which they maintain are actually rented horses......I'll come back in.
He did not specify whether the text messages he sends when typing at 60WPM where coherent, readable or contained what would be recognized as words in any language! And what is more amazing...some one sending 500 text messages a day, or that some one actually had 500 worthwhile things to text to some one on any given day? I'll be honest about my own situation, I don't think I could even find enough material to write 500 texts a day even if I included things like "eatn a sndwch" or "coffee made me poop". I just don't there there are that many events in my average day to write a text about.
But don't mind me, I'm kind of a Luddite when it comes to these things.
This is the first I've ever heard of this toilet paper thing. It's also kind of hard to believe. Since women use 97% of any given roll of toilet paper in a shared bathroom, men must have a genetic predisposition to horrible timing to consistently even be in a position to cause this!
No worries, us folks over here in the US don't understand it either.
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Intel plans to release a final update to all Mcafee users that will force uninstall the software from their machines, increasing the performance of Intel systems by 300%.
Absolutely. Driving makes me seriously consider both suicide and homicide on a daily basis. I could instead play with/give attention to kids, play a game, read a book, catch up on some work, take a nap or many other activities. As it stands now, almost an hour and a half of my life is spend every weekday on a pointless and soul crushing endeavor that offers me neither a financial nor a personal reward.
My first thought (since its based on spore) was you'd build completely custom creatures from the creature creator and then fight in a co-op game. Sounded like it had potential as players would race to create inventive designed and show them off to each other. That could be quite fun and different.
Then I read the summary and saw you would just be choosing from a handful of canned classes and some upgradable stats. While this isn't a horrible idea, its hardly a new one or really that interesting and I was immediately disappointed. Well, not that disappointed...I didn't much like the idea of buying an EA game anyway.
You raise some good points about minimum frames per second, which is many ways is more important than average frames per second. I've noticed many hardware review sites have gotten wise to this in the past few years and started including it in the charts. I could be remembering this wrong, but it just serves as an example: I seem to remember when Oblivion came out certain nvidia parts gave the highest average frames per second, but there was more variation between that and the low. While ATI generally had a higher minimum. The difference between 15fps and 25fps in the worse case scenarios is huge with regards to playability. The difference between 60 and 100 fps average is less so.
I'm having similar feeling as the parent though...in the last 3 years I've upgraded video cards several times and I'm still rocking a pentium dual core overclocked to just shy of 3ghz. I've come to the realization though that my last few upgrades have been largely unnecessary even considering the small amount of money I spent on them. Hardware to power is a lot cheaper these days...but I still don't use it. I mostly play valve games and older classics these days.
Those are all fine ideas, but when modding any new game you have to get the basics out of the way first. So we should start with a white square no panties mod.
Certainly, but wouldn't that benefit only apply to players in your same region? That seems like it would greatly limit the number potential players to play the game with.
I assure you that source games are quite unplayable on 56K connections in any useful capacity. And that's ignoring the nightmare that required and frequent game and steam updates thrust upon the user every time they try to fire the game up.
You are not being killed because your ping is to low.
Aren't large amounts of hills something an electric or hybrid vehicle is good at? The regenerative braking systems return energy on the way down the hill, whereas you don't get that with a gas vehicle.
I agree that the main enemy is the government, since their are tons of powerful entrenched players with lobby groups they will use to outright destroy or hinder these kinds of vehicles. It is far from the only technology that suffers this fate, but it might be the best example.
Don't get me wrong, there are some real draw backs to these cars as they stand now...but they actually would work for a lot of people, and the prius doesn't make any financial sense and still sells well.
That's why this article is so great! Just buy a 5 year old Leaf for $3000, drive it until the batteries die to the salt kills in and then throw it away! You can just buy another one for a mere $3000! Who cares if they last, at that price they're quite disposable.
This is modded funny, but it should really be insightful I think.
Also according to this, I will be able to buy a 5 year old Nissan Leaf for $3000. By the article's own assertion, it has 3 years of battery life left. That means for the lost cost of $1000/yr plus insurance (had to pay this anyway, I can get basic coverage though on a $3000 car) minus fuel cost savings (I spend $1000/yr now to drive to work with my 30mpg car) I get to drive a 5 year old car. My car is already 5 years old!
This sounds like a hell of a great deal. I can't even buy a 5 year old chevy aveo manual transmission for that much right now. Who cares if the batteries only last 3 years? I'll just sell the car for a few hundred dollars worth of scrap and buy another one.
...but we're a long way past the point of the Xbox being all about shooting and driving, even if the public perception hasn't quite moved with the software line-up.
How long is long past? Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention and part of the unwashed masses, but after I bought an Xbox 360 last year to play rock band 2 I decided to search out some games to retroactively justify purchasing the console for one game. I have purchased no other games since. The only games available seem to consist mainly of FPS/3rd person shooters (which I'm not interested in playing outside of a PC environment) and driving games that I was never interested in. There's a handful of RPGs that I might be interested in I suppose, but those are often available on the PC as well and I kind of lack the time to play them these days.
Again, maybe some one deeper into console games can enlighten me...but my piece of the public perception is that the Xbox is still all about shooting and driving.
I can't find the article (believe it was here on slashdot) but the reason for that is simply that Linden Lab stopped paying everyone to say it was important so they stopped saying it.
These prototype boots sound like a great idea to me. However, rubber boots don't keep my feet very warm. That's why I plan to wear battery powered heated socks at the same time to alleviate the problem!
Hey...I've got a great idea, why don't we rig the battery powered heated socks to the power generating boots so I don't have to replace the batteries in the socks all the time.
I have to assume your disbelieve in the 5 way intersections existence means you hail from place with roads that were not designed primarily around horse use. The northeast at least is a hot bed of horribly designed roads that often also host massive amounts of traffic.
Its a well known fact that people from all other countries are consistently killed when attempting to get onto the highway. This natural culling effect is the main reason other nations drive less than their less horse-power challenged American brethren.
As indicated in this thread horse power has doubled over the past 20 years while traffic deaths have gone down. The numbers speak for themselves, horsepower saves lives!
Somewhat off topic, but have you ever given Vampire: Bloodlines a play? Source engine based game that came out in 2004/5 or so? Not a perfect work, but a very good one that seems like it might fit what you're looking for.
And of course, Bioshock is suppose to be the spiritual sequel to SS2. I never got to play it I'm afraid as I was uninterested in purchasing a game with install limits.
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No, no, no...the real problem is the new owner of the horse realized this and has tethered the horse to his barn. But the horse salesmen has used his lobbying effort to outlaw the use of tethers, leases or other restraining devices on and sold horses, which they maintain are actually rented horses... ...I'll come back in.
He did not specify whether the text messages he sends when typing at 60WPM where coherent, readable or contained what would be recognized as words in any language! And what is more amazing...some one sending 500 text messages a day, or that some one actually had 500 worthwhile things to text to some one on any given day? I'll be honest about my own situation, I don't think I could even find enough material to write 500 texts a day even if I included things like "eatn a sndwch" or "coffee made me poop". I just don't there there are that many events in my average day to write a text about.
But don't mind me, I'm kind of a Luddite when it comes to these things.
This is the first I've ever heard of this toilet paper thing. It's also kind of hard to believe. Since women use 97% of any given roll of toilet paper in a shared bathroom, men must have a genetic predisposition to horrible timing to consistently even be in a position to cause this!
No worries, us folks over here in the US don't understand it either.
Intel plans to release a final update to all Mcafee users that will force uninstall the software from their machines, increasing the performance of Intel systems by 300%.
...No skill involved at all besides hypnotizing the masses that you're somehow better than them and somehow /deserve/ to get money for free.
I don't know man, that sounds like a pretty useful skill.
Absolutely. Driving makes me seriously consider both suicide and homicide on a daily basis. I could instead play with/give attention to kids, play a game, read a book, catch up on some work, take a nap or many other activities. As it stands now, almost an hour and a half of my life is spend every weekday on a pointless and soul crushing endeavor that offers me neither a financial nor a personal reward.
We already do. They're called Toyotas.
My first thought (since its based on spore) was you'd build completely custom creatures from the creature creator and then fight in a co-op game. Sounded like it had potential as players would race to create inventive designed and show them off to each other. That could be quite fun and different.
Then I read the summary and saw you would just be choosing from a handful of canned classes and some upgradable stats. While this isn't a horrible idea, its hardly a new one or really that interesting and I was immediately disappointed. Well, not that disappointed...I didn't much like the idea of buying an EA game anyway.
You raise some good points about minimum frames per second, which is many ways is more important than average frames per second. I've noticed many hardware review sites have gotten wise to this in the past few years and started including it in the charts. I could be remembering this wrong, but it just serves as an example: I seem to remember when Oblivion came out certain nvidia parts gave the highest average frames per second, but there was more variation between that and the low. While ATI generally had a higher minimum. The difference between 15fps and 25fps in the worse case scenarios is huge with regards to playability. The difference between 60 and 100 fps average is less so.
I'm having similar feeling as the parent though...in the last 3 years I've upgraded video cards several times and I'm still rocking a pentium dual core overclocked to just shy of 3ghz. I've come to the realization though that my last few upgrades have been largely unnecessary even considering the small amount of money I spent on them. Hardware to power is a lot cheaper these days...but I still don't use it. I mostly play valve games and older classics these days.
Those are all fine ideas, but when modding any new game you have to get the basics out of the way first. So we should start with a white square no panties mod.
Certainly, but wouldn't that benefit only apply to players in your same region? That seems like it would greatly limit the number potential players to play the game with.
I assure you that source games are quite unplayable on 56K connections in any useful capacity. And that's ignoring the nightmare that required and frequent game and steam updates thrust upon the user every time they try to fire the game up.
You are not being killed because your ping is to low.
Which is perhaps why women are leaving...they aren't falling for the lie anymore!
Aren't large amounts of hills something an electric or hybrid vehicle is good at? The regenerative braking systems return energy on the way down the hill, whereas you don't get that with a gas vehicle.
I agree that the main enemy is the government, since their are tons of powerful entrenched players with lobby groups they will use to outright destroy or hinder these kinds of vehicles. It is far from the only technology that suffers this fate, but it might be the best example.
Don't get me wrong, there are some real draw backs to these cars as they stand now...but they actually would work for a lot of people, and the prius doesn't make any financial sense and still sells well.
That's why this article is so great! Just buy a 5 year old Leaf for $3000, drive it until the batteries die to the salt kills in and then throw it away! You can just buy another one for a mere $3000! Who cares if they last, at that price they're quite disposable.
This is modded funny, but it should really be insightful I think.
Also according to this, I will be able to buy a 5 year old Nissan Leaf for $3000. By the article's own assertion, it has 3 years of battery life left. That means for the lost cost of $1000/yr plus insurance (had to pay this anyway, I can get basic coverage though on a $3000 car) minus fuel cost savings (I spend $1000/yr now to drive to work with my 30mpg car) I get to drive a 5 year old car. My car is already 5 years old!
This sounds like a hell of a great deal. I can't even buy a 5 year old chevy aveo manual transmission for that much right now. Who cares if the batteries only last 3 years? I'll just sell the car for a few hundred dollars worth of scrap and buy another one.
How long is long past? Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention and part of the unwashed masses, but after I bought an Xbox 360 last year to play rock band 2 I decided to search out some games to retroactively justify purchasing the console for one game. I have purchased no other games since. The only games available seem to consist mainly of FPS/3rd person shooters (which I'm not interested in playing outside of a PC environment) and driving games that I was never interested in. There's a handful of RPGs that I might be interested in I suppose, but those are often available on the PC as well and I kind of lack the time to play them these days.
Again, maybe some one deeper into console games can enlighten me...but my piece of the public perception is that the Xbox is still all about shooting and driving.
At least you could format over the AOL floppies back in the day. The CDs are completely useless!
I can't find the article (believe it was here on slashdot) but the reason for that is simply that Linden Lab stopped paying everyone to say it was important so they stopped saying it.
These prototype boots sound like a great idea to me. However, rubber boots don't keep my feet very warm. That's why I plan to wear battery powered heated socks at the same time to alleviate the problem!
Hey...I've got a great idea, why don't we rig the battery powered heated socks to the power generating boots so I don't have to replace the batteries in the socks all the time.
Patent time!
I'm answering a question not intended for me, but we are frequently forced through this little nightmare: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=essex+jct,+vt&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.240201,54.84375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Essex+Junction,+Chittenden,+Vermont&z=13 Notice there is also the additional fun factor of an active rail network involved. It is generally referred to as "5-corners"...usually while attempting to describe to people how to avoid it altogether. A feat that is frequently impossible since it is a convergence of most main roads in the area.
I have to assume your disbelieve in the 5 way intersections existence means you hail from place with roads that were not designed primarily around horse use. The northeast at least is a hot bed of horribly designed roads that often also host massive amounts of traffic.
Its a well known fact that people from all other countries are consistently killed when attempting to get onto the highway. This natural culling effect is the main reason other nations drive less than their less horse-power challenged American brethren.
As indicated in this thread horse power has doubled over the past 20 years while traffic deaths have gone down. The numbers speak for themselves, horsepower saves lives!
Gasp! A talking potato!
Somewhat off topic, but have you ever given Vampire: Bloodlines a play? Source engine based game that came out in 2004/5 or so? Not a perfect work, but a very good one that seems like it might fit what you're looking for.
And of course, Bioshock is suppose to be the spiritual sequel to SS2. I never got to play it I'm afraid as I was uninterested in purchasing a game with install limits.