*grabs a couple micro-neodynium magnets off the stack and a bottle of glue* I'll tell ya in a few hours.
Actually the benefit of the implant is being able to get used to it. Your brain learns things over time, so having the magnets always there, and always in the same place is an advantage for your ability to interpret the feelings you get from them. Also being internal to your finger and close to the skin would make it more sensitive.
Is it worth it? Who knows. I might get some when they're coated in titanium. As someone else said it'd be a problem for MRI, but people get metal implants fairly often. You'd have to wear a medical info bracelet, or you might end up with holes in your fingers...:)
Didn't the parent just say there's a coating on the cans? Aluminum is far more reactive than steel. The switch was probably for economic reasons.
They still sell all steel cans in Germany, for one.
Dunno if the cost of shipping steel cans is that much higher than aluminum, but it would generally have to travel less far anywhere in europe, so that's the only logical reason I can come up with with my limited information.
That struck me as funny, because I just pulled a loaf of banana bread out of the oven. It was fun to make. Granted, a cooking game would not be so tasty.
As for the sales of wheel controllers, they are used in games that were designed to play with joysticks, and are thus unnecessary for the experience the developer was targeting. Only car nuts would buy them.
Maybe the hippie tree-hugger chicks would say that.
But really, do you think the kind of girl that shops for different slutty outfits for every day of the month, and 100 pairs of shoes is concerned with wasting electricity or money? Hah.
Thank god I found a t-shirt & jeans geek girl. She says it's only impressive if you mod your case yourself though.:)
It's so cute when linux users think they have buying power.
Not to mention most motherboards and DVD drives come with DVD player software, so the same can probably be expected of blurry, doubly so if MS doesn't play out of the box.
MS's lack of support won't stop much. I doubt they'd even go through that trouble since they have little vested interest in HD-DVD, and a lot of interest in being *the* media platform.
*opens 67 tabs (webcomics)*
100% for 10 seconds, erratic between 80%-100% but responsive for 20 seconds as everything loads, back down to 2%.
Oh, right, I'm running flashblock and NoScript.
Still, happy shiny data point, hot and fresh to your door.
I think there's a mouse in africa or australia that can actually survive being run over by a car. It has interlocking spines on its ribs that spread out force.
I'm imagining you riding around on a Segway(tm) that has a laptop for a base. I think the word you're looking for is 'segue'. It's pronounced 'segway', so I know lots of people see it in writing and hear it in usage and don't realize it's the same word.
Oh, certainly. I'm just contesting that the redesign was inevitable. A lot of people held back to see how it would do. It excelled despite this, and I think Nintendo was (pleasantly) surprised by that success.
I bought the GBA and installed my own afterburner as well. The DS is not flawed, and the choice months ago when the Lite was first announced between having it then and waiting has been agony for me. The DS Lite is just such an improvement over an already superb product, but I kinda wish I had gotten it then and handed it down to my GF when the Lite came out next... month... (hypothetical future perfect tense hurts my head)
"it would have been really easy for folks to "just say no" and wait for the inevitable redesign."
Well, if the DS hadn't been the success it was, there wouldn't have been a redesign. Nintendo would have announced the new gameboy (DS is not a gameboy, although that may be retconned since it's doing so well) later this year or early next. They specifically stated that this was the plan, contingent on DS sales.
"I even gave you two examples of other words - 'wicked', and 'mad' - and how regional slang uses them to mean 'very' but without any relation to the other meanings of those words"
I'd have to disagree. The jump from wicked (evil) to wicked (cool) is a pretty small one. "That sword looks evil!" (It's got lots of spikes and drips blood) -> "That sword looks wicked!" (Spikes and blood are kinda cool) The connotation of the word isn't nearly as strong as 'gay'. Very few people feel that 'evil' is a word attached to themselves, and it's not used derogatorily, so some people might conveniently forget that connotation, but it's most certainly there. Similarly, mad meaning crazy, it's legitimate to say "You have a crazy number of widgets". It means a lot, but has the connotation that it's so much it's crazy.
To claim that these words don't have any link to their other meaning just sounds like you grew up hearing them and never spent 5 minutes figuring out what they actually meant. You should listen to 12 year olds fight. Mommy and daddy and the TV and everyone thinks gay is bad, but they don't have any conception of what being gay could possibly be. So being idiot children, they're afraid they might be, and if they might be, then others might be too. Hey, he might be gay and that's bad, so they'll scream accusations not understanding that it isn't a generic, like you seem to be doing.
Your other example, 'chink' was flawed in another way. It has truely separate meanings. I'd hazard to guess that 'chink' is a contraction. However, gay as an insult most definitely came from homophobes, which there are far too many of.
Language is amorphous, but you're completely wrong that gay as insult and homosexual are conceptually distinct. The person using it might not actually mean that the object of their insult lusts for other same-sexed objects, but it's idiocy to ignore the conotation. Someone saying 'jew cheap' doesn't necessarily mean they think Jewish people were behind it either.
Slashdot Mirror
*grabs a couple micro-neodynium magnets off the stack and a bottle of glue* I'll tell ya in a few hours.
:)
Actually the benefit of the implant is being able to get used to it. Your brain learns things over time, so having the magnets always there, and always in the same place is an advantage for your ability to interpret the feelings you get from them. Also being internal to your finger and close to the skin would make it more sensitive.
Is it worth it? Who knows. I might get some when they're coated in titanium. As someone else said it'd be a problem for MRI, but people get metal implants fairly often. You'd have to wear a medical info bracelet, or you might end up with holes in your fingers...
Microsoft Bob
Didn't the parent just say there's a coating on the cans? Aluminum is far more reactive than steel. The switch was probably for economic reasons.
They still sell all steel cans in Germany, for one.
Dunno if the cost of shipping steel cans is that much higher than aluminum, but it would generally have to travel less far anywhere in europe, so that's the only logical reason I can come up with with my limited information.
That struck me as funny, because I just pulled a loaf of banana bread out of the oven. It was fun to make. Granted, a cooking game would not be so tasty.
As for the sales of wheel controllers, they are used in games that were designed to play with joysticks, and are thus unnecessary for the experience the developer was targeting. Only car nuts would buy them.
Point taken, but...
"I remember him falling asleep in front of the pope."
I really can't fault him for that one. I can't stay awake in church either.
Obviously, he couldn't delete it. The laptop was broken and he didn't know how to swap the hard drive into another computer. :)
Ahh, the answer was actually NoScript was stopping it from working. Your post helped anyway, by letting me know what was supposed to happen.
Man, that makes that article so much less vile. Thanks very much.
This would be a good opportunity for someone to explain how to use anti-pagination, with this article as an example. I can't get it to do ANYTHING.
Help?
Maybe the hippie tree-hugger chicks would say that.
:)
But really, do you think the kind of girl that shops for different slutty outfits for every day of the month, and 100 pairs of shoes is concerned with wasting electricity or money? Hah.
Thank god I found a t-shirt & jeans geek girl. She says it's only impressive if you mod your case yourself though.
The actual numbers are much more separated:
Nintendo 50%
Sony 15%
MS 10%
25% didn't care to select a legitimate option. So, yeah, Nintendo's beating the crap out of 'em in slashdot's opinion.
It's so cute when linux users think they have buying power.
Not to mention most motherboards and DVD drives come with DVD player software, so the same can probably be expected of blurry, doubly so if MS doesn't play out of the box.
MS's lack of support won't stop much. I doubt they'd even go through that trouble since they have little vested interest in HD-DVD, and a lot of interest in being *the* media platform.
FF for me is currently using 600 megs of memory.
about:cache tells me:
Memory cache device
Number of entries: 3166
Maximum storage size: 38912 KiB
Storage in use: 344902 KiB
Inactive storage: 0 KiB
Where'd the other 250 megs go?
*opens 67 tabs (webcomics)* 100% for 10 seconds, erratic between 80%-100% but responsive for 20 seconds as everything loads, back down to 2%. Oh, right, I'm running flashblock and NoScript. Still, happy shiny data point, hot and fresh to your door.
I think there's a mouse in africa or australia that can actually survive being run over by a car. It has interlocking spines on its ribs that spread out force.
Not to mention the lawsuit that forced them to remove it, so they had all that empty space in the handles to fill.
Heh, someone else did the same search as me. Found a really good example:
h tml
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/jvolstad/CarAccident.
Fear the telephone poles. They will end you.
Which is why they made a deal with Dell to sell them along with their high end machines.
"But you can't be a grammar nazi with bad grammar."
Can't? CAN'T?!? Oh ho ho! Around here internal consistancy is really a bit much to ask for, let alone demand!
'Sides, hypocrisy's only wrong when other people do it.
I'm imagining you riding around on a Segway(tm) that has a laptop for a base. I think the word you're looking for is 'segue'. It's pronounced 'segway', so I know lots of people see it in writing and hear it in usage and don't realize it's the same word.
Oh, certainly. I'm just contesting that the redesign was inevitable. A lot of people held back to see how it would do. It excelled despite this, and I think Nintendo was (pleasantly) surprised by that success.
... month... (hypothetical future perfect tense hurts my head)
I bought the GBA and installed my own afterburner as well. The DS is not flawed, and the choice months ago when the Lite was first announced between having it then and waiting has been agony for me. The DS Lite is just such an improvement over an already superb product, but I kinda wish I had gotten it then and handed it down to my GF when the Lite came out next
"it would have been really easy for folks to "just say no" and wait for the inevitable redesign."
Well, if the DS hadn't been the success it was, there wouldn't have been a redesign. Nintendo would have announced the new gameboy (DS is not a gameboy, although that may be retconned since it's doing so well) later this year or early next. They specifically stated that this was the plan, contingent on DS sales.
"I even gave you two examples of other words - 'wicked', and 'mad' - and how regional slang uses them to mean 'very' but without any relation to the other meanings of those words"
I'd have to disagree. The jump from wicked (evil) to wicked (cool) is a pretty small one. "That sword looks evil!" (It's got lots of spikes and drips blood) -> "That sword looks wicked!" (Spikes and blood are kinda cool) The connotation of the word isn't nearly as strong as 'gay'. Very few people feel that 'evil' is a word attached to themselves, and it's not used derogatorily, so some people might conveniently forget that connotation, but it's most certainly there. Similarly, mad meaning crazy, it's legitimate to say "You have a crazy number of widgets". It means a lot, but has the connotation that it's so much it's crazy.
To claim that these words don't have any link to their other meaning just sounds like you grew up hearing them and never spent 5 minutes figuring out what they actually meant. You should listen to 12 year olds fight. Mommy and daddy and the TV and everyone thinks gay is bad, but they don't have any conception of what being gay could possibly be. So being idiot children, they're afraid they might be, and if they might be, then others might be too. Hey, he might be gay and that's bad, so they'll scream accusations not understanding that it isn't a generic, like you seem to be doing.
Your other example, 'chink' was flawed in another way. It has truely separate meanings. I'd hazard to guess that 'chink' is a contraction. However, gay as an insult most definitely came from homophobes, which there are far too many of.
Language is amorphous, but you're completely wrong that gay as insult and homosexual are conceptually distinct. The person using it might not actually mean that the object of their insult lusts for other same-sexed objects, but it's idiocy to ignore the conotation. Someone saying 'jew cheap' doesn't necessarily mean they think Jewish people were behind it either.