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12/03/09
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"She will never know the deliciousness of an almond or walnut."
Edit: Oh James Lipton...
I don't know why I needed a google to refresh my memory but it did. The Actors Studio guy.
Looking at his wiki entry I see we went to the same high school. Just not in the same city or state.
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The joke being I'm sure there is a "Central High School" in almost state if not one in almost every city in every state.
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*shudder*
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It's like the moronic cousin of that Mavis Beacon "game" they subjected us to in school...
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Incidentally, you know you have an advocate around these parts?
11/22/09
last month when I went to my local arcade, I saw one of this game with a windows error on the screen, it made me and my friends laugh xD
11/22/09
Sega Lindbergh. RingEdge. RingWide. The Merit Megatouch. All of them are standard x86 platforms, with Intel dual-cores and various other devices connected to them.
I do speak from experience, the Merit Megatouch runs Linux, has no information about GPL software used on its' site, and isn't that hard to muck around with.
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now that I think about it, doesn't that mean that people with Linux should have more access to game than they do now?
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I think you've both got it a little wrong. It's easier to start from an embedded operating system to perform the basic functions of a computer when building an arcade game, rather than have each new arcade game also include operating system functions in the code. This also allows for easy altering of the game, eg, turn DDR superNOVA into superNOVA 2 or something.
As a unintended bonus, it only takes a copy of Windows and some clever searching and one can find the rip of a arcade game's HDD, which means that it's possible to run the arcade edition of say, Beatmania IIDX or some other current arcade game.
Why don't you have access to this? Arcade cabinets cost tens of thousands of dollars. You think they'd let you roll your own for a fraction of that?
11/22/09
Someone managed to get Megatouch FORCE 2007 software loaded onto a conventional PC with just a touchscreen.
Took some hacking to override the security key checks and to make a custom board to recognize parallel port input to, say, add credits and enter operator setup (instead of the USB I/O board they use). All on off the shelf hardware.
It was up on YouTube... until Merit had him take it down.
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In one hand I wish it weren't true, but on the other hand I hope her humiliation brought tears to her eyes.
11/02/09
I'm pretty much in agreement that distracted driving is dangerous. Personally, I think it should be the law to take a defensive driving course to get a license. I avoided three accidents on the way to work today. It's ridiculous. #texting
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One day you're just calmly driving down the road texting... Then the next you're electrocuting yourself to death in a bathtub full of cold water so your hot girlfriend can have your heart! #texting
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ah, turns out they only asked 829 people. which means that this statistic doesn't even qualify as being anecdotal.
hey matt? "Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive" is a pretty misleadingly bold headline. you could at least mention in the article that this is from a poll of only 829 people, and perhaps a footnote about how foolish it is to extrapolate the opinions of 300,000,000 people from the anonymous utterances of 829 people with enough spare time to sit around participating in phone polls. I doubt if half of them even own cars. #texting
11/02/09
'Sides, there's a good argument for making "controlled substances" legal. There isn't for texting while driving, unless you consider the population problem...hmm #texting
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At a 95% confidence level, their results should be accurate within about 1.15%.
There are some pretty good calculators out there if you're interested in experimenting with various sample sizes and confidence intervals. #texting
11/02/09
829 people = 0.00000276% of the population.
polling on that order could create headlines like '95% of americans are actually 1st generation chinese'. #texting
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