And I used up all my mod points today. But even if I had them, I'd be torn between "Insightful" and "Troll"... just like the last thread mentioning Apple I read...
Okay, big props for KHII. Naminé and Roxas for the win. Buuuuut....
"The word LEGO® is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you! Susan Williams, Consumer Services."
I happen to play with Lego too, and speak British English, where this "Legos" silliness is nonexistant. XD
Video games can certainly be wholesome - you just need to know what games to buy. Personally, Kingdom Hearts is a great game with simple controls and a complex (but typically Disney) story that pretty much anyone from 4 to 20 can pick up. I'm 18 and I can't stop playing the damn thing. There's plenty of others - mostly movie tie-ins admittedly, and not always the best games on the market, but certainly suitable for any younger kids. And if you're not into the mass-market nonsense, there's always Sonic, Mario, and classic games to fall back on. I've been playing video games since I was 3 years old, and while I know there's always room for Lego, Frisbee, and model railroads - certainly nothing compared to the ridable one you mentioned! - video games do not lack innocence by nature. None of this 'keep to a minimum' silliness - they're certainly more wholesome than the junk streamed from modern kid's TV.
I hate to evangelise, but when I've been playing for 15 years and going into video games development soon, it always disheartens me to see someone who believes that video games stop at San Andreas. Video games are, in all honesty, just what happens when you mix toys with movies.
He's not talking about firing it into orbit. Railgun on moon: fires at earth. Slug uses parachutes, guidance fins, or some other crap to prevent it causing huge craters on impact.
I personally use Facebook (because I'm at a British university, and nearly every uni I know uses it) and that doesn't have any of the layout hells of MySpace. It's actually just... convenient. I wonder if it'll eventually outdo MySpace.
Well if size and complexity are the deciding factors, then Perl should be the best at keeping you going out of your mind:) Fixed.
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Sorry, I was tired and pedantic ^^ thanks for the correction though. Yeah, pointer arithmetic I'll either study next year, or in my spare time if this course is that poor.
Read the Darwin Awards before spouting this nonsense. The Darwin Awards allow for people who have already passed on their genes, as they are 1. no longer contributing and 2. their kids have learned through her demise to be less stupid. Nature overwhelmed by an extreme case of Nurture.
Starcraft came to my mind too, but more recently I've been playing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade as Tau, and their construction is similar. They start by dropping a framework via aircraft, and then use their robotic builders to build the actual building around the framework. This technology is remarkable similar, except the framework is build and the robots aren't free-roaming. Still, it's a start towards greater things.
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by "completely lacks pointers" I assume you mean "everything is a pointer". >_>
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I'm a CS Undergrad, first year... and I'm working in Java. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
I said nothing about the implications of the numbers. I'm a Wii fanboy, through and through, and I don't doubt that the numbers support it. But before whining on Slashdot about how people post anecdotes instead of statistics, do some damn research yourself.
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Once upon a time, roads were designed for people! Man, wouldn't want to go back to those dark days.
I think you're more likely to find prehistoric frogs with tire impressions.
For some reason I read that in completely the wrong tone.
"So all this time I guess I should have put the tinfoil... in my shoes!"
I'm currently at university, and have had to endure hearing every other sentence ending with "in my pants!", so that might explain it...
Shh. Hollywood might hear you.
And I used up all my mod points today. But even if I had them, I'd be torn between "Insightful" and "Troll"... just like the last thread mentioning Apple I read...
Don't worry, judges haven't heard of "lolicon" yet, and if they have, they're keeping it in a password-protected RAID.
VICTOLY INDEED POKEY!
-grumbles about lack of strike and underline-
Okay, big props for KHII. Naminé and Roxas for the win. Buuuuut....
"The word LEGO® is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you! Susan Williams, Consumer Services."
I happen to play with Lego too, and speak British English, where this "Legos" silliness is nonexistant. XD
Video games can certainly be wholesome - you just need to know what games to buy. Personally, Kingdom Hearts is a great game with simple controls and a complex (but typically Disney) story that pretty much anyone from 4 to 20 can pick up. I'm 18 and I can't stop playing the damn thing. There's plenty of others - mostly movie tie-ins admittedly, and not always the best games on the market, but certainly suitable for any younger kids. And if you're not into the mass-market nonsense, there's always Sonic, Mario, and classic games to fall back on. I've been playing video games since I was 3 years old, and while I know there's always room for Lego, Frisbee, and model railroads - certainly nothing compared to the ridable one you mentioned! - video games do not lack innocence by nature. None of this 'keep to a minimum' silliness - they're certainly more wholesome than the junk streamed from modern kid's TV.
I hate to evangelise, but when I've been playing for 15 years and going into video games development soon, it always disheartens me to see someone who believes that video games stop at San Andreas. Video games are, in all honesty, just what happens when you mix toys with movies.
The victim? Bandwidth.
it does not need additional energy, beyond the energy that would have been otherwise wasted heating up some grains of sand in a desert, for example.
Wait, which dog? Goofy or Pluto?
futaba Sage = (slashcode)(-1, Offtopic);
I'm sure that the band will play on as Microsoft's Titanic sinks, too.
He's not talking about firing it into orbit. Railgun on moon: fires at earth. Slug uses parachutes, guidance fins, or some other crap to prevent it causing huge craters on impact.
I personally use Facebook (because I'm at a British university, and nearly every uni I know uses it) and that doesn't have any of the layout hells of MySpace. It's actually just... convenient.
I wonder if it'll eventually outdo MySpace.
Well if size and complexity are the deciding factors, then Perl should be the best at keeping you going out of your mind :)
Fixed.
Sorry, I was tired and pedantic ^^ thanks for the correction though.
Yeah, pointer arithmetic I'll either study next year, or in my spare time if this course is that poor.
Read the Darwin Awards before spouting this nonsense.
The Darwin Awards allow for people who have already passed on their genes, as they are 1. no longer contributing and 2. their kids have learned through her demise to be less stupid. Nature overwhelmed by an extreme case of Nurture.
Starcraft came to my mind too, but more recently I've been playing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade as Tau, and their construction is similar. They start by dropping a framework via aircraft, and then use their robotic builders to build the actual building around the framework. This technology is remarkable similar, except the framework is build and the robots aren't free-roaming. Still, it's a start towards greater things.
by "completely lacks pointers" I assume you mean "everything is a pointer". >_>
I'm a CS Undergrad, first year... and I'm working in Java. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
I said nothing about the implications of the numbers. I'm a Wii fanboy, through and through, and I don't doubt that the numbers support it. But before whining on Slashdot about how people post anecdotes instead of statistics, do some damn research yourself.
http://nexgenwars.com/
http://www.vgcharts.org/
Any other tech news site, such as this. Take their statistics, add them all up, and take the average. You decide.
After a 36 hour caffiene and alcohol marathon, calling fiberglass "polysomething" is fairly impressive.