What's worse, you didn't even need to forget the four-leaf clover. You didn't even know it was there. That's because you failed to use this chain of commands:
Look at room
The meadow is a tranquil setting, with the occasional tree providing shade for passers-by.
Look at grass
Spread before you is a foot high carpet of soft, gently swaying grass and clovers
Look at clovers
Clovers are scattered through out the grass, with a four-leafed one nearby
Pick up clover
You try to pickup the four-leaf clover, but stop for fear of damaging it
Use scissors on clover
You clip the clover with your magic gardening shears and gently place the clover in your pocket
I'd say that King's Quest was the greatest offender in this regard. Although it seemed you died in Space Quest more, at least they came up with hilarious ways of killing you.
I live in Silver Lake, which is less than 5 miles from Downtown LA. We routinely have coyotes running around our streets at night. We go to sleep listening to them yapping to each other as they run around in the neighborhood. On occasion, they eat a cat.
I must admit though, we seem to have a friendlier opinion of them here than other Angelinos do. The people who live on the edges of the city that border the wilderness tend to have a less favorable opinion of them. They seem to think that they're going to get eaten or whatever; such attacks are extremely rare, despite the constant encroachment of development into wilderness areas.
I've heard that many Logan scripts require ghost rewrites to prevent them from becoming train wrecks. Gladiator, The Aviator, and The Last Samurai had the benefit of large studio backings combined with reputable directors and strong casts. Frankly, while waiting for Nemesis, I recall people warning of the impending doom of the script with anecdotes about Ridley Scott having found it necessary to get a ghost writer to make sense of the Gladiator script. Though Logan seems to be a popular writer, remember that he's credited for penning dreck like Nemesis, The Time Machine, and Sinbad.
In all seriousness, have any of the movies that he's been involved with had strong scripts? Have we been awed by his dialog? We remember those good movies because of the setpieces and the acting, not because of the contrivances or awkward lines.
Whenever people mention John Logan, I'm extremely wary of the product. One must look to other factors in the production to see if it might have the support to get that necessary rewrite.
Maybe it's an outcropping of uranium, just like in Civilization!
Video game representations of reality aside, it's either going to be some color distortion due to refraction or it could be some type of green mineral embedded in the surface. Maybe some quartz impacted the surface, scattering the light as photographed?
Sorry, this is Slashdot. I think the website you're looking for is http://www.collegehumor.com/. Your access has been revoked and you have two kiloseconds to vacate the premises.
I also want to join in the Filipino vent-fest. By virtue of being half-filipino and befriending a wide variety of them, I can attest that they are ALL crazy in some way or another. I can't tell whether it's the culture or that most of them have deep seated Catholic guilt.::shrug::
I have to admit that I've read to one extent or another many classics as a part of my schooling, and many I didn't like. But there are a few that I LOVE, despite their reputation for being obtuse or obscenely long. Two of my classical favorites are Les Miserables and A Tale of Two Cities, specifically because like jizziknight mentions, because the themes in those novels are still appealing to this modern American.
As for the tales of Middle Earth, I've actually only read The Hobbit to completion. I started LotR: FotR, but fell asleep and eventually put it down somewhere in the Tom Bombadil chapter. I hate that goat-riding fucker with a passion. I'll pick it up again at some point.
Yeah, what I can't believe is that for all the touting MSFT did for their improved search, when I tried it I was terribly disappointed. I was trying to open an.nfo on my sister's new Vista laptop. I right clicked to find the "Open with..." menu so I could open the file in notepad.exe, but the menu wasn't there. Rather than going through the file tree to the Windows folder, I thought I'd be clever to click on the search field right there in the top of the window and use that new fangled search to find "notepad.exe". So I type it in and wait, and wait, and after a minute and a half, Vista tells me that "notepad.exe" does not exist. After 15 secs of going through the tree manually, I did my task and sorrowfully lament that I didn't have the option to order that laptop for her without Vista.
I don't think NASA would put Cassini into any significant danger, considering that the probe is still doing a lot of good work. But think of the science being done here! This is why we should be putting more money into our robotic missions. We don't even need to qualify them by saying they can do some things more efficiently than humans, they can do things right NOW that we meatbags have no chance of doing for at LEAST another century!
Back in 2005, I bought a few shares of GE and an equally small amount of Citibank. I was a little disappointed that GE's stock was staying rather flat over the next couple years while Citi was doing very well. I stuck with the GE because I intent to hold for the long term and the dividends were nice. Nowadays I don't complain about my GE stock's stable price; I took my head out of the game because of my graduation last summer and didn't sell the Citi when I should have.::welcomes schadenfreude::
At least we know the MSFT executives aren't drinking their own Kool-Aid.
As someone who prefers stability in the OS market and doesn't yet have the money to build a specialized Linux testbed, I'd like to see MSFT get their act together. If the executives are "dismay[ed]" with their product, it'll help weed out or isolate those who continue to support Vista or haven't learned from mistakes, hopefully leading to better product development.
Rather than hoping MSFT doesn't learn from their mistakes because we have a grudge against them, how about we encourage better product? Make your OS choices based on product.
The act of photocopying books in a book store (piracy) does do harm. It is depriving both the holder of the IP revenue for consumption of their good as well as depriving the bookstore revenue for the provision of the hard copies that were obviously used. Just because the mob leaves the books on the shelves after photocopying them doesn't mean that they aren't stealing property and services.
Is not most of the Helium 3 present on space-borne objects due to the ejecta of the sun? IIRC, that's why Helium 3 is plentiful and only in the regolith of the Moon.
Asteroids may not have a similar layer of dust to adequately collect Helium 3. Asteroids are better for ores and rare earths that are in short supply or are too difficult to mine, such as copper, platinum, palladium, and perhaps uranium. Even though these materials would be valuable, it will probably be too inefficient to mine asteroids that aren't in Earth orbit or near any future colonies (Moon or Mars orbit). All the more incentive to research new propulsion technologies and near-earth asteroid deflection.
I can imagine a xenophobia developing combined with a nostalgia for "earthborn" items. First with diamonds, then people. Refer to Mass Effect for details.
The difference of fate between our dark and shiny spacecraft is a rather sad one. All the probes destined to stay within the inner solar system are covered with reflective material to shield them from the radiation. The probes sent outwards are painted black to absorb as much radiation they can to stay warm. Though humans will hopefully be able to visit Ulysses again at some point in the distant future, as long as it's controllers put it in a stable orbit before they lose contact, Voyager 2 is likely to never be seen again. Even if humans developed the technology to travel as far as Voyager has gone, it will likely be so cold and dark that we wouldn't be able to find it.
I hope that humans will eventually develop the ability to go visit our long deceased robotic explorers, I'm just lamenting how some of our greatest ones will likely never be seen again.::pours out a bit of beer::
If one does not have a 1080p set, upscaling SD DVDs is a very good option. Unlike most video found on computers and the internet, DVD video has a relatively high bitrate which when combined with quality scaler can result in fairly respectable 1080i images. Much of the HD video you "purchase for download" is of a very low bitrate combined with the minimum resolution possible to qualify as "HD". HD broadcast bitrates are not that much better than those found in "downloaded content", which results in high levels of artifacting (painfully obvious, for example, on CBS).
The point is to not to fall into these marketing traps about what's "HD". Standard definition DVDs (especially the well produced or remastered discs) are still perfectly good in terms of picture quality for most of us. For me, I plan to stick with SD DVDs until downloadable content gets it's act together rather than cowtowing to Sony.
Hmm, if these Robot Overlords will scan and kill Natalie Portman, I say we kill all the robots before they rise up! But if these robots will scan and "capture" Natalie Portman... and maybe clone her . . . a few thousand times . . . we should let them live a little longer.::rubs hands together menacingly::
Yeah, but those 1000 people control the purse strings of a nation with a $13.7 trillion economy. Think of it as iRobot preferring to sell Ferraris rather than a bunch of Yugos. Compared to military contracts, we're peanuts.
Britain is naturally biased towards Pirates; if he had lived a few centuries later, I'm sure they would have found some way to make Francis Drake their Prime Minister.
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Charlie Wilson: "These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame."
What's worse, you didn't even need to forget the four-leaf clover. You didn't even know it was there. That's because you failed to use this chain of commands:
Look at room
The meadow is a tranquil setting, with the occasional tree providing shade for passers-by.
Look at grass
Spread before you is a foot high carpet of soft, gently swaying grass and clovers
Look at clovers
Clovers are scattered through out the grass, with a four-leafed one nearby
Pick up clover
You try to pickup the four-leaf clover, but stop for fear of damaging it
Use scissors on clover
You clip the clover with your magic gardening shears and gently place the clover in your pocket
I'd say that King's Quest was the greatest offender in this regard. Although it seemed you died in Space Quest more, at least they came up with hilarious ways of killing you.
I live in Silver Lake, which is less than 5 miles from Downtown LA. We routinely have coyotes running around our streets at night. We go to sleep listening to them yapping to each other as they run around in the neighborhood. On occasion, they eat a cat.
I must admit though, we seem to have a friendlier opinion of them here than other Angelinos do. The people who live on the edges of the city that border the wilderness tend to have a less favorable opinion of them. They seem to think that they're going to get eaten or whatever; such attacks are extremely rare, despite the constant encroachment of development into wilderness areas.
I've heard that many Logan scripts require ghost rewrites to prevent them from becoming train wrecks. Gladiator, The Aviator, and The Last Samurai had the benefit of large studio backings combined with reputable directors and strong casts. Frankly, while waiting for Nemesis, I recall people warning of the impending doom of the script with anecdotes about Ridley Scott having found it necessary to get a ghost writer to make sense of the Gladiator script. Though Logan seems to be a popular writer, remember that he's credited for penning dreck like Nemesis, The Time Machine, and Sinbad.
In all seriousness, have any of the movies that he's been involved with had strong scripts? Have we been awed by his dialog? We remember those good movies because of the setpieces and the acting, not because of the contrivances or awkward lines.
Whenever people mention John Logan, I'm extremely wary of the product. One must look to other factors in the production to see if it might have the support to get that necessary rewrite.
Maybe it's an outcropping of uranium, just like in Civilization!
Video game representations of reality aside, it's either going to be some color distortion due to refraction or it could be some type of green mineral embedded in the surface. Maybe some quartz impacted the surface, scattering the light as photographed?
Sorry, this is Slashdot. I think the website you're looking for is http://www.collegehumor.com/. Your access has been revoked and you have two kiloseconds to vacate the premises.
I also want to join in the Filipino vent-fest. By virtue of being half-filipino and befriending a wide variety of them, I can attest that they are ALL crazy in some way or another. I can't tell whether it's the culture or that most of them have deep seated Catholic guilt. ::shrug::
I have been told that I should have skipped it. I expect I will when I get around to picking the series back up.
I have to admit that I've read to one extent or another many classics as a part of my schooling, and many I didn't like. But there are a few that I LOVE, despite their reputation for being obtuse or obscenely long. Two of my classical favorites are Les Miserables and A Tale of Two Cities, specifically because like jizziknight mentions, because the themes in those novels are still appealing to this modern American.
As for the tales of Middle Earth, I've actually only read The Hobbit to completion. I started LotR: FotR, but fell asleep and eventually put it down somewhere in the Tom Bombadil chapter. I hate that goat-riding fucker with a passion. I'll pick it up again at some point.
It sounds like we, the readers, need to seek out the Prothean Cipher to fully understand... what? Oh sorry, wrong epic!
Yeah, what I can't believe is that for all the touting MSFT did for their improved search, when I tried it I was terribly disappointed. I was trying to open an .nfo on my sister's new Vista laptop. I right clicked to find the "Open with..." menu so I could open the file in notepad.exe, but the menu wasn't there. Rather than going through the file tree to the Windows folder, I thought I'd be clever to click on the search field right there in the top of the window and use that new fangled search to find "notepad.exe". So I type it in and wait, and wait, and after a minute and a half, Vista tells me that "notepad.exe" does not exist. After 15 secs of going through the tree manually, I did my task and sorrowfully lament that I didn't have the option to order that laptop for her without Vista.
I don't think NASA would put Cassini into any significant danger, considering that the probe is still doing a lot of good work. But think of the science being done here! This is why we should be putting more money into our robotic missions. We don't even need to qualify them by saying they can do some things more efficiently than humans, they can do things right NOW that we meatbags have no chance of doing for at LEAST another century!
Back in 2005, I bought a few shares of GE and an equally small amount of Citibank. I was a little disappointed that GE's stock was staying rather flat over the next couple years while Citi was doing very well. I stuck with the GE because I intent to hold for the long term and the dividends were nice. Nowadays I don't complain about my GE stock's stable price; I took my head out of the game because of my graduation last summer and didn't sell the Citi when I should have. ::welcomes schadenfreude::
At least we know the MSFT executives aren't drinking their own Kool-Aid.
As someone who prefers stability in the OS market and doesn't yet have the money to build a specialized Linux testbed, I'd like to see MSFT get their act together. If the executives are "dismay[ed]" with their product, it'll help weed out or isolate those who continue to support Vista or haven't learned from mistakes, hopefully leading to better product development.
Rather than hoping MSFT doesn't learn from their mistakes because we have a grudge against them, how about we encourage better product? Make your OS choices based on product.
Lieutenant Porkins never gets any credit!
The act of photocopying books in a book store (piracy) does do harm. It is depriving both the holder of the IP revenue for consumption of their good as well as depriving the bookstore revenue for the provision of the hard copies that were obviously used. Just because the mob leaves the books on the shelves after photocopying them doesn't mean that they aren't stealing property and services.
Is not most of the Helium 3 present on space-borne objects due to the ejecta of the sun? IIRC, that's why Helium 3 is plentiful and only in the regolith of the Moon.
Asteroids may not have a similar layer of dust to adequately collect Helium 3. Asteroids are better for ores and rare earths that are in short supply or are too difficult to mine, such as copper, platinum, palladium, and perhaps uranium. Even though these materials would be valuable, it will probably be too inefficient to mine asteroids that aren't in Earth orbit or near any future colonies (Moon or Mars orbit). All the more incentive to research new propulsion technologies and near-earth asteroid deflection.
I can imagine a xenophobia developing combined with a nostalgia for "earthborn" items. First with diamonds, then people. Refer to Mass Effect for details.
The difference of fate between our dark and shiny spacecraft is a rather sad one. All the probes destined to stay within the inner solar system are covered with reflective material to shield them from the radiation. The probes sent outwards are painted black to absorb as much radiation they can to stay warm. Though humans will hopefully be able to visit Ulysses again at some point in the distant future, as long as it's controllers put it in a stable orbit before they lose contact, Voyager 2 is likely to never be seen again. Even if humans developed the technology to travel as far as Voyager has gone, it will likely be so cold and dark that we wouldn't be able to find it.
I hope that humans will eventually develop the ability to go visit our long deceased robotic explorers, I'm just lamenting how some of our greatest ones will likely never be seen again. ::pours out a bit of beer::
If one does not have a 1080p set, upscaling SD DVDs is a very good option. Unlike most video found on computers and the internet, DVD video has a relatively high bitrate which when combined with quality scaler can result in fairly respectable 1080i images. Much of the HD video you "purchase for download" is of a very low bitrate combined with the minimum resolution possible to qualify as "HD". HD broadcast bitrates are not that much better than those found in "downloaded content", which results in high levels of artifacting (painfully obvious, for example, on CBS).
The point is to not to fall into these marketing traps about what's "HD". Standard definition DVDs (especially the well produced or remastered discs) are still perfectly good in terms of picture quality for most of us. For me, I plan to stick with SD DVDs until downloadable content gets it's act together rather than cowtowing to Sony.
So does this mean we need to revise Sagan? "We are all star FARTS."
Hmm, it lacks a certain romanticism for all those older than 15.
If it nets me a trip to space, I'll be whatever personality they want me to be!
Hmm, if these Robot Overlords will scan and kill Natalie Portman, I say we kill all the robots before they rise up! But if these robots will scan and "capture" Natalie Portman... and maybe clone her . . . a few thousand times . . . we should let them live a little longer. ::rubs hands together menacingly::
Yeah, but those 1000 people control the purse strings of a nation with a $13.7 trillion economy. Think of it as iRobot preferring to sell Ferraris rather than a bunch of Yugos. Compared to military contracts, we're peanuts.
Britain is naturally biased towards Pirates; if he had lived a few centuries later, I'm sure they would have found some way to make Francis Drake their Prime Minister.