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... and Plutonium can't fly by itself, can it?
It's all explained, right there, in page 2 I believe. It also explaines why the ugly stuff was able to "fly" from Chernobyl; I don't see flying graphite outside Fukushima No. 1, do you?
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... and Plutonium can't fly by itself, can it?
It's all explained, right there, in page 2 I believe. It also explaines why the ugly stuff was able to "fly" from Chernobyl; I don't see flying graphite outside Fukushima No. 1, do you?
The one thing that could greatly benefit from this is interplanetary communications. Want to send data to/from Mars? Send the message *back in time* for the exact amount of time it takes for the message to reach Mars. It will be instant communication!
Of course, someone listening in between would then have the awkward situation of hearing transmissions that have not been transmitted yet... mind-boggling paradox theories result!
At least the COICA crap bill came out from a couple of very dumb representatives. This turd is coming out of the White House!
I live in a country where selling pirated stuff now means that the Policia Federal will crack down with assaut rifles upon you and basically treat you as a terrorist. Looks like the US is following our Third-World methods...
I thought True Grit was YAFCM (Yet Another F**king Cowboy Movie) which was also some kind of Oscar-baiting movie. Haven't seen it.
Not sure about the number of days, but IIRC it was about a week or less; that is assuming they can keep the flow of coolant so that the core is maintained underwater, and that the core is actually cooling down.
You know they've screwed up when the Goatse logo looks much better than the "official" logo!
Lewis is basically stating what I've already known for days. Most people don't seem to know about the containment chamber or even think that the Fukushima reactors are still running! From an unbiased POV, the reactors have proven that even being 40 years old and lacking the CANDU or Pebble-bed levels of safety, the protection features are still good enough to actually avoid another Chernobyl!
The containment chamber's intact, and radiation levels have gone down. As long as the containment chamber is intact, there won't be any severe contamination outside; the lack of containment chambers in Chernobyl was what made that one go so ugly.
So it isn't quite the end of the world...
Oh, looks like physicists have read "Thrice upon a time" ...
Adding the WebKit browser to the BB OS actually made it *less* secure?
Geeze, looks like RIM is trading security for "shiny!" now. :(
Probably Sprint is eyeing on getting rid of their shit tech and switch to the GSM branch like the rest of the world. Then again, they do have Nextel...
The real reason behind those languages being still in use is because of political reasons. Spanish is called Spanish (Español) everywhere *except* in Spain. Also, only Castellans will call themselves Spaniards (Españoles) as well; Asturians are Asturians, Gallegos are Gallegos (and oh dear, the jokes on the "Gallego idiot" are infinite!); Catalans are Catalans and Basques are Basques. Those with their own languages use them as a differentiator stating "we ain't Spaniards!".
I still remember one friend searching info on the Barcelona University and got slammed with that university's Catalan-only website. Ow!
That said, it does seem to be the same case for Welsh, anyone remember those super-duper-long towns which were named that way just to fuck with English-speaking people?
"Incidentally, the bad guys seem to be very adept at getting blocks of IPv4 in /24, /23 or even /22 chunks. Once they have destroyed the reputation of these blocks (often permanently) they move on. I wonder how much of the IPv4 address space is currently widely blacklisted?"
They FUBAR'd the netblock where I have my main SMTP server. Some lists let me whitelist my addy, but SORBS has a jackass reputation for netblocking without any whitelisting option. Jackasses!
I would presume that under IPv6 it will simply be a matter of blocking whole /64 blocks to prevent the zillion IP roulette o' spamming servers. Whitelisting would help for those who actually run respectable servers...
They probably hear anything called "critical" and crap themselves anyway. Chernobyl screwed up the nuclear power plant's reputation; ordinary people don't know that nobody is building RBMK reactors anymore, not even Russia.
If your car is doing 55 mph @ 3000 rpm you NEED TO CHANGE GEARS!
I remember that retarded speed limit. I used to live in the US back then, and wondered why the hell did the US have such a slow-ass speed limit. Given US distances, it meant that most trips were a multi-day affair.
110 km/h is the standard speed limit in Mexico, but cops will only go after you if you go over 120 km/h.
Twitterati of the world: Unless you've got some real nice sat links, your Twitter-fueled revolutions will be disrupted by:
config t
int serial0
Shows how fragile the Twitter/Facebook "people power" tools really are. Ad-hoc networks could be raised, but it would require at least one exit point to be successful. Oh well, it's probably time to whip out the medium-wave radio transmitters...
Not fanbois, but merely pointing out that the "walled garden" on Kindle devices is FUD. By the way, it is the Apple fanbois who usually claim that Kindle also has a "walled garden".
Look, it's revolutionary! Oh wait ... BBs have done that for quite some time. In fact it's called a "Holster" state and the BB OS supports that as well.
Yay for "innovation"!
Probably could use POSIX as an umbrella term for all Unix and Unix-like systems. The Unix separation mainly comes from:
- UNIX being reserved for "genetic UNIX", those commercial systems are based on SysV.
- The BSDites, that have weird things in their rc.d/init.d files and use the fugly /dev/ttyXX everyone else stopped using since the Unix98 PTY spec came out
- The "Unix-like" OSen, of which Linux is the most known. Some purists insist to call this GNU/Linux, and the same purists will go up in flames if anyone were to call Linux "Unix".
In reality, the GNU OS was never finished. Linus built a kernel and put the GNU tools over that, thus the GNU/Linux controversy began as GNU thinks that Linus Torvalds only built the kernel and thus didn't really make a full OS from scratch. Meh.
They'll BOTH be in the trash bin by next December. Or stored in the "forgotten" stuff next to the Dance Dance Revolution pad, the Lifeline diadem and the Karaoke microphone. Probably joined by the Guitar Hero controller by then...
It is easier to shitlist email when it has wonky characters. The aforementioned rule on banning Korean encoding can be simply extended to "anything not ISO-8859-1 or UTF8" which works for anyone using Latin alphabets. Most penis pill spam is targeted at the US, and they don't need to support any of the non-Latin character sets. :)
"I just hate whingers... if you wanted to run Linux you should have bought a PC."
... Aaand you have branded youself as either computer-illiterate or you're simply missing the point. PCs don't have PPC arch, much less a CellBE processor. That's the point behing OtherOS; your PS3 has much more processing power than your *current* PC because of this!
PSJailbreak and the dubious piracy stuff wouldn't have been able to work at all if the hacker community hadn't been pissed off enough to make them crack the PS3 just to get Linux running again.
I still wonder why so many trolls await any PS3 news to bash on those miffed by OtherOS removal. Still insisting on the "get a PC" argument? Sad to see that even IT-savvy people can't understand the difference between PPC, x86 and the PPC-based CellBE arch.
IBM axed their CellBE server roadmap, those of us who want CellBE hardware just can't get it outside of the PS3. Some of us even play games as well!
PD: It's "lose", not "loose". ;)
The post-WW2 Germany has been very picky about user privacy; even more after the German Reunification as their former DDR brethren had to suffer the Stasi for much, much longer than the Nazi regime. I remember watching a documentary on privacy issues back in 1998, where they showed a pic of one guy who had been caught by an ANPR-ish speed camera speeding ... but the pic only showed him and not his passenger (it was his wife).
Looks like they haven't given in to the Facebook/Google data grab. Good for them!
Dude, you gotta pass on that link. I've got a couple of projects that would benefit from that kind of stuff! :D
I've been stuck with 3.15 for almost a year by now. I want to get the new games, but - just can't play 'em ... :(
I grew up with the fruity computers. Alas, that was in the Jobs-free era, when you could tinker a bit with the OS and the Resource Kits with ResEdit, and they actually had an edge over their PC brethren (and a lot of other PCs that didn't run the MS-flavored OS). I did find it ridiculous that some movies like The Net would show UNIX running on Macs, but back then they were actually cutting edge.
I now keep myself away from Macs, thanks to the Jobsian cult, the fact that the hardware is now the same crap in generic PCs (but shiny!) and finally, that a good chunk of the Mac userbase is now full of aggressive fanbois. No quantity of marketing will change my mind, even if I used to like the Mac platform!
The only true competitor to Java is .NET, which is worse. I'm sick and tired of mscorsvc.exe eating away 1Gb+ of my RAM.
Asking users to uninstall Java is bordering in the Jobsian fetish of uninstalling Flash.
I think that the problems with Spring/Hibernate stem from the fight between the official EJB spec and the renegade Spring/Hibernate "spec". The latter one breaks compliant J2EE containers! Even when Sun capitulated and added the wacky Hibernate thingies into the EJB spec, the weird frameworks prevailed. We had one coder do his stuff using Spring/Hibernate and the result was unusable in our QA WebLogic Server ... there was no way we would pass that turd all the way into production.
Mind you, the Entity Beans used up to J2EE 1.4 were pretty bad on their own, but Session Beans with their Container-managed transactions were really good.
I don't see any Blackberry questions there, but that could be because RIM also has its own forums.
I think the "DVD Movies" are actually the miniseries "Robocop: Prime Directives" which consisted of 4 episodes. Yes, they were good enough for me to overlook the dating blunder in the graveyard scenes.
The PS3 has a CellBE PPC processor, the PC does not. That's the reason anyone computer literate enough wants to use the PS3, especially now that IBM has wound down the CellBE servers. It would probably be a moot point if we actually had the chance to buy CellBE-powered PCs, but sadly the x86 crapware is still king in the PC market.
These Sony PS3-related articles seem to have attracted a good bunch of "defenders" ever since Sony decided to kill OtherOS. Any self-respecting CompSci professional would never be caught saying such bullshit as "buy a PC you retard!" or equating Linux with Piracy, especially given how the OtherOS hypervisor worked.
I'm stuck at 3.15, and I haven't been able to play Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare because it requires the 3.21 FW. I didn't give a flying fudge about RSX, the grunt power of the PS3 is the CellBE processor. Even with the low amount of memory, I could do interesting stuff with the CellBE ... and still can, but at the price of being locked out of PSN and being unable to play any game released after May 1, 2010.
The thread is moderated all right, but the Moderatrix doesn't give a fuck if you fucking swear in your fucking post.
You've actually got to be really nasty/offensive for your comment to get deleted, not just spray a load of swearing in your post. However, it helps if you want to get FoTW!
You seem to forget that the Sex Offender Registry includes a lot of things, not only paedo/rape. El Reg has a couple of innocent cases where the "sex offender" was reported as such for ... screwing a bike.
I can attest that even in the recent past (2008), COBOL was pretty much alive in the bank's mainframe. In fact, the CICS stuff is still being maintained and getting added functionality.
In Russia, Sun revolves YOU!!!
Of course the shares would go down! Anyone with any kind of hindsight would know that the ones who have gone into such deals with Microsoft have suffered a silent death. However, I don't think that selling Nokia stock is the real solution.
Shareholders should be voting to fire Elop and reinstate someone more Finnish; someone who would kill this retarded Microsoft deal. Save Nokia before it's too late!
Isn't that the one used to harass photographers? Nice!
In fact, most Mexicans in the US do know English, or at least a bit. Having the US so close means that English creeps a lot into daily language. Hell, a lot of Mexicans *in Mexico* know English as well.
Those who come from South American countries are the ones that will usually be English-impaired, but even they will actually learn English at some point.
So, it went the way of the Dance Dance Revolution, Pump It Up, Dance Freaks, and the Karaoke thingy that came before GH. No surprise there ... the games are usually fads, and while they do have a good run, they will eventually be set aside after some time. Pimping out the brand with a zillion releases doesn't help any franchise, either: Street Fighter 2 and Duke Nukem 3D can attest to that. (By the time Street Fighter 3 came out, everyone was playing King of Fighters...)
Blackberries have a "password storage app" for storing passwords (duuuuuh), and it has a "generate random password" feature. I've been using it lately for site passwords I don't really trust. I used to have a generic password for non-critical sites, but that one was cracked by the Gawker bust. So now I've changed passwords, and any site that looks like it might have the Gawker "security" model will have a random generated password.
The PSN service is not only free (unless you want the "plus" service), it has the option of using pre-paid cards instead of giving them full access to your credit/debit card. Using that route means that you won't have your CC tied in such a way that you might get charged without your knowledge.
Oh, and PSN child accounts have explicit locks which allow the parent to lock down how much the kid can spend. But then it could be the case that the account for said kid was made as an adult ... probably for that retarded reason that kid accounts have some features locked out. In PSN's case, under-18ers can't post to Facebook, and in some cases nobody under 13 can even *make* a fricking account.
So it does seem to be a FAIL on MS side as well, especially if they have the same retarded nerfing of under-18 and under-13 accounts.
There are quite a bit of PPC users, and PS3 isn't just PPC but it also has the CellBE processor, the only one with such a thing. Thanks to IBM's axing of the Cell Blades, the only way to get 'em now is by buying a PS3!
OtherOS users would never ever need to crack the ps3 for pirated games; those in the industry actually think that Sony's move was stuipd because the pirates themselves had considered the PS3 too hard to crack, and thanks to OtherOS the hackers didn't care about hacking the thing.
In fact, the hackers stopped short of enabling piracy precisely because they weren't interested in that. It was the pirate community the one that went and used the opened doors to enable the "copy game to HDD, run from HDD" thingy. But they would still be unable to do so if the hackers hadn't cracked the thing, and the crack wouldn't have happened if OtherOS hadn't been disabled in the first place!
It may be a small % of PS3 users, but it is the kind of people that actually have the knowledge to crack the thing. Bad move!
This was an unfortunate accident, partly caused by human stupidity... but 1m barriers are stupidly low. This seems to stray into the McDonalds hot coffe suit, mostly because the suing party actually was right: serving 3rd-degree burning coffe is stupid.
I'm 1.75m and I've seen roofs with stupid 1m barriers, and even a couple of pedestrian overpasses with 1m railings. Needless to say, crossing on those is a terrifying experience given the fact that quakes are common over here. I'd be scared shitless by any railing below 1.40!
This was an unfortunate accident, partly caused by human stupidity... but 1m barriers are stupidly low. This seems to stray into the McDonalds hot coffe suit, mostly because the suing party actually was right: serving 3rd-degree burning coffe is stupid.
I'm 1.75m and I've seen roofs with stupid 1m barriers, and even a couple of pedestrian overpasses with 1m railings. Needless to say, crossing on those is a terrifying experience given the fact that quakes are common over here. I'd be scared shitless by any railing below 1.40m!
They would probably doom theirselves if they go with WP7. That's what Palm did, it took away the only distinction they had and soon Treos were interchangeable with any generic WinMo trashphone. Nokia would go the same way with *any* of these options, but MS is a surefire road to failure.
BTW, numbers aren't lying. iOS is nowhere near the "#1" anywhere, not even in the US. It still hasn't managed to overtake RIM. I expect the Android share of the market to keep taking larger chunks at the expense of Symbian, Palm, WinMo and probably Blackberry and iPhone deserters. The only ones seeing iPhone as #1 are the Appleista fanbois.
Ironically, Spain also has a strong anti-toreada movement and seem to have better progress in banning bull-fighting than their former colonies.
Oh, and Catalans *hate* Spain, which they consider to be a rebaptized "Castilla". Calling a Catalan "Spaniard" would get you a response such as "I'm not a ****** Spaniard!"
Sure, if your dad stayed at a cheap hotel in a small town, I would also expect crappy cuisine. The poor man's version of Mexican food is pretty crappy by Mexican standards, especially the "soup" which is basically water with a couple of peas.
The best food you'll find will be in either Central Mexico or the Southeast (Yucatán Peninsula); Northern Mexico's food will be good, but it probably will look more US-ish. Oh, and BTW, nothern states don't eat much tacos, and are the ones that actually make burritos.

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Laura Gets A Surprise Gift
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General Assembly Israel 2013.
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Israel's current social challenges are as big a threat to its long-term
viability as a nation as any of the security threats that it currently deals
with, said Galit Sagie, the director of Planning and Development at the
JDC-Israel. Her comments came during a session Monday on the rich/poor divide in
the country, at the Jewish Federations of North America's 2013 General Assembly
in Jerusalem."If you turn on the news in Israel, the main topic that
everybody is talking about right now is Iran, and if it wasn't Iran, then it's
Syria, and if it's not Syria, then it's the Hezbollah and the Palestinian
situation," she added. "In no way am I belittling the security issues that
Israel is facing today, but I want to say that that's not what keeps me up at
night."Prof. Dan Ben-David of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies
in Israel, who also spoke at the session, presented data extracted from the
center's forthcoming State of the Nation Report 2013, which was released last
month.One of the most important problems the Israeli economy displays,
according to Ben- David, is the populations' low productivity level, meaning the
amount that a person produces on average in an hour of work.While Israel
is increasingly lagging behind in productivity for the past 40 years compared to
other developed countries, he pointed out that it does have the necessary
conditions not to."We're at least as innovative as the G7 countries, we
have universities at least as good as these countries, our medical center is at
least as good if not better and our living standard should be way above if not
the same," he said.The reason for the problem, he explained comes from
the fact that "there are two countries in one in Israel.""One country is
a start up nation. It's fantastic, it's cutting edge," he told the
audience."But there is another country within Israel and that other
country is not receiving either the tools or the conditions to work in a modern
economy."That other part of Israel is huge but not only is it huge, its
share in the total is getting bigger," he said. "And if our productivity is such
that we cannot be producing a Western levels, we're not going to be competing on
Western salaries either."Ben-David stressed the importance of education
to remedy to the issue and said that one of the important things requiring
improvement is haredi education, which he said is "among the worst in the world
when it comes to the core needs of a modern economy.""Whether we like it
or not, the less educated you are, the less chances you are going to have of
finding a job, not just in Israel, in every Western country," he
added.In showing other figures from his research, Ben-David also
revealed that Israel's tax and welfare systems are ineffective in reducing
poverty in the country and that Israel is the country experiencing the greatest
academic brain drain to the United States.As far as solutions for the
poverty issue, he expressed his belief that it requires a shift in national
priorities focusing on elements such as increasing incentives to work and to
employ and providing tools and conditions to do so, such as second chance
programs for completing high school and college, vocational training coordinated
with needs of the private sector and job placement.
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I'm a huge fan of Sins of a Solar Empire, and have been looking for a new Real Time Space Strategy game. DSS is looking fantastic! I've been following it for a while now. Is there any word on when we'll get to play it?
Deep Space Settlement is a real-time strategy game focused on empire building and grand-scale space battle. It is currently in development.
If you want to support the development, you can pre-prorder the game right now!
4 comments by StephanieRct on Jul 1st, 2015
I've been writing the "reflection" code to implement the save game mechanic and I'm very satisfied with the result. Here's a taste of what I can do with it:
This is the output of the memory used by a class called "gm::MetaComponentCfg" (the configuration of a ship component) with all its members, where they are in memory and what value they currently have. Knowing this structure make it possible to serialize the data into a file automatically.
Now that it's working properly, I must unify the system throughout the engine and the mod API. Prior to this I was using a slightly different serialization mechanic in engine and mod API, I'm really happy to remove all this ugly code and replace it with the new and improved system but it's a lot of monkey work.
June started out with me working on turrets and a turret platform for the enemy nexus. Stylistically it's the same as the nexus itself: a light/dark value duality. The platform has sockets for 4 turrets and each turret comes with 3 barrels. When attached to the Nexus, these turrets will be "size 4", which is one size bigger( 250%) than the turrets on the human turret station, colony ship or cruiser.
Once I had finished the turrets I went back to the Nexus model. I had proposed to Stephanie to turn the model into a wreck to get more use out of it. The idea is to have it be another object the player can find and research and perhaps scavenge.
Wrecks are also a great opportunity for storytelling, as you could find recordings or messages in them.
Anyway, I took the model, turned off the lights re-positioned and re-oriented elements and added a lot of smaller wreck parts from the ship wreck I did maybe 2 years ago. This is the result in-game:
Also, here's a turntable, from the DSS model viewer(so technically also in-game).
I then turned my attention towards drones.
Drones are the smallest unit and with ~10m in length about 1/3 the size of corvettes. They are structurally simpler than corvettes too. They are built from 3 pieces: a body/core a front with integrated tools or weapons and a tail with integrated engine(s).
I had campaigned for them for a while, as I think they are essential for the FP. The idea is to be able to produce them immediately once you've build your first colony station(maybe after some research though) - unlike corvettes, for which you need to build a shipyard, which in turn requires factories, refineries and perhaps a lab station.
There's gonna be 2 types of drones for now: mining/transport drones and repair drones. I'm hoping to do attack drones later :)
The purpose of the mining/transport drones is to get the economy going, increase your mining, accelerate the logistics etc. at least until you can do the same(and do it better) using corvettes.
Here's the repair drone at the left and the mining drone at the right.
Both of these are built already and i've just started texturing. Below is the central body/core.
I'm a huge fan of Sins of a Solar Empire, and have been looking for a new Real Time Space Strategy game. DSS is looking fantastic! I've been following it for a while now. Is there any word on when we'll get to play it?
It says "you can pre-prorder the game" ;)
sent pm. not sure of the stance on those like weather or not would reply. figured replies to comments probably would reply to a pm to.
Oh I've missed this somehow. Will answer soon. I'm just burried under work atm.
thx the game is turning out great cant wait. no rush to reply the game must take precedent keep up the great work.
I'm throwing money at my screen,Nothing happens
"High modding capabilities, access game content through XML and game logic through the API"
i see where my time will go ^^
btw is it 64-bit only or can someone play it with a 32.bit system as well ? :)
So, we are going to release a 64bit version for sure, 32bit is uncertain. Our current debug builds do run as 32bit, but maintaining two different releases is more work. If many people demand a 32 build built, it might be done, otherwise Stephanie won't bother maintaining an additional target.
You should chose them divide the team for both release (of course you can always wait some time after releasing the 64 bits version) for bugchasing, also you can use the always useful bugchasing players to help on it (centralize on game destroyer bugs firist, and in glitchs later) and in the forums (that you will need to create to centralize the mod comunity that will surely spawn around this game) maybe create a diferent folder for both versions (unless its get compatible trought some program :D)
32bit is backwards 64bit is the future why go backwards when we should go forwards?. Besides people will upgrade if they want to play games that are 64bit.
You can't divide one person :)
what happend to the other person?
It's always just been Stephanie. Never had a second coder on the project.
ah i remember there being another person but didnt really remember the diffrent jobs part lol.
Looks really good especially with customizing and constructing your own ship designs. That's very hot.
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RT @DSSMathias: Having a lot of fun with the drone. Also new texturing workflow :) #gamedev #indiedev T.co
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RT @DSSMathias: Turret and turret platform, for the enemy nexus I did early last month. #gamedev #indiedev T.co
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RT @DSSMathias: drones, left repair(missing an arm or something) and right, mining/transport(missing mining laser) #gamedev #indiedev http:…
Jun 23 2015, 3:35pm
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The thing I've learnt about you, the American people, is this— you are all heroes.
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Commentators asked whether Norway had learnt anything from 22 July: Did Breivik "win", as a Swedish journalist suggested?
Old English leornian "to get knowledge, be cultivated, study, read, think about," from Proto-Germanic *liznojan (cf. Old Frisian lernia, Middle Dutch leeren, Dutch leren, Old High German lernen, German lernen "to learn," Gothic lais "I know"), with a base sense of "to follow or find the track," from PIE *leis- "track." Related to German Gleis "track," and to Old English læst "sole of the foot" (see last (n.)).
The transitive sense (He learned me how to read), now vulgar, was acceptable from c.1200 until early 19c., from Old English læran "to teach" (cf. Dutch leren, German lehren "to teach," literally "to make known;" see lore), and is preserved in past participle adjective learned "having knowledge gained by study." Related: Learning.


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Debbie has graciously offered to organize this meetup at Abyssinian Restaurant on Thursday 10/22/09. Please note the dinner time is 6:30!! This is Ethiopian food, and a few members have said it was quite good and they'd like to go back there. I had trouble getting onto their website, so I used this one instead: http://www.menupix.co...
Debbie says there is parking across the street at Kinko's and BOA in the back (yellow lines only). She is doing us all a nice service, so please be on time and SHOW UP if you RSVP'd 'YES" within 24 hours before the dinner time. Let's have a great time and kudos to Debbie.
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Do be careful if you park at the lot across the street! Last time we met here someone parked in the main part of the lot, and the car was towed to a dark lot a long (and expensive) way away. I'm sure the tow operators cruise that lot regularly for that very reason. (And that was on a Saturday evening, when no one was even using the lot!)
There was ample street parking on the side street opposite, or I may have been towed, as well.
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I would like to create an AVD of the Samsung Galaxy S II. The sole purpose is to test websites with it's default web browser to see how they look in both portrait and landscape mode.
As it's now the most popular Android smartphone, I'd like to test it with my websites.
I would just like to know the most basic settings so I can get at least a rough idea. I'm using the Andriod SDK with the GUI frontend.
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Radiata Stories
Our definitive review of Square-Enix's latest RPG.
Take its hero, Jack Russell. He's simply...thick. The son of a noble knight, he expects both skill and fame to fall into his lap; he's so confident that bravado carries him toward obstacles that could (and often, do) cut him down. Still, he keeps charging straight ahead, which results in both comedy and, eventually, grudging respect. You've got to hand it to the kid -- nothing fazes him.
Given its clueless lead, the storytelling gravitates to simple humor and comical character interaction. Radiata is a slow-paced charmer, not an earth-shattering epic. By the time the story heats up you'll have figured out most of its secrets; seemingly aimed at a younger audience, it relies on fantasy tropes (dwarves, elves and humans don't get along) instead of something fresh or intriguing. It's fortunate that the likable characters -- particularly Jack, the buffoonish knight Ganz, and haughty, secretive and noble Ridley -- do keep things from getting too off-track.
Obviously, the story is not, in short, what makes the game interesting. Its strength is in the world built by the developers -- a land of simple, cartoonish beauty where people live their day-to-day lives. Like Xbox's Fable, Radiata Stories gives you ample opportunity to explore. The town of Radiata, where the bulk of the off-the-battlefield adventuring takes place, is something of a marvel: it's full of interlocking areas, each with their own unique feel and dozens of individual inhabitants.
You can recruit just about anyone you might meet up with to your side; figuring out how to do so requires you to follow them on their seamless day-to-day routine. While this is really cool and interesting, following someone around for a whole game day/night cycle is, in fact, not terribly fun. Since you don't get any tangible benefits from recruiting characters outside of battle (as opposed to the Suikoden series' constantly changing home base, for example) it quickly becomes stale unless you've got the Pokemon gene. Still, the world of Radiata Stories offers 150 different characters to interact with, and that's a compelling reason to stay awhile.
All of this is wrapped up in the console RPG conventions you'd otherwise expect; you'll fetch useless trinkets from dank caves while engaging in countless battles against vermin. Fortunately, the battle system -- an evolved form of the one seen in last year's surprise hit Star Ocean: Till the End of Time -- does offer enough action to keep you pressing buttons without complaint. You have a huge array of attacks for each weapon you might put in Jack's hand, but unfortunately you can't modify your battle tactics on the fly, severely limiting your chance to strategize effectively. There's also a cool party formation system that's easy to use: just hit a button and your warriors snap into place, ready to surround and crush your foes. Still, even though it betters Star Ocean, the battles never get much better than adequate.
Radiata Stories is a game that coasts on charm and stirs up some clever ideas. Like its hero, however, it's too slow, simple, and obvious to overcome its routine existence. The neat touches, unique worldview, and collectible characters will definitely make many gamers happy to be residents of Radiata. All the same, this adventure is just so slow-paced and slow-witted that it's just not gripping in the way a good fantasy epic should be. You've got to hand it to tri-Ace, however. The company is not afraid to make flawed but fascinating cult RPGs. Viewed from that perspective, Radiata Stories succeeds.
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