I'll wait for the mythbusters take on this. Which will be soon, since I'm guessing they'll be grounded for a couple of months after that cannon ball thingy.

It's a different kind of fun. Was Firefly better? Yes. Was Farscape shit? Far from it. Last of the good scifi series as far as I'm concerned. Everything since then has me either annoyed or bored.

Edit: Wrt different kind of fun - more Jim Hensony. Kind of like Pigs in Space for grownups who still love their muppets.

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*blocked by music bs

Well, this explanation is what happens on the hardware level, i.e. in the wiring inside the CPU. On the software side you can emulate the carry-over by allocating several pieces of memory and checking bounds and doing carry-over manually. So you're manually programming around the hardware constraints.

Trouble here is, the programmer has to anticipate that the given constraint isn't sufficient for the use case and needs to be worked around. For scores this was obviously the case. For the levels, I'm pretty sure that noone ever really anticipated that someone would go through 255 levels of pacman.

It's basically the same expectation management on a human level that brought us the fear of the Y2K problem.

It's spelled "Spielberg". It's german after all

>> ^lantern53:

Has Olbermann ever named Jeffrey Immelt as the worst person in the world?
guy is a 1%er, his company made billions and paid no income taxes
Oh yeah...Immelt owns MSNBC.


a) Being CEO of a corporation does not confer ownership. That is where stocks come in.
b) Current TV is not equal to MSNBC.
c) Enumerating the million or so 1%ers not good television makes.

There's already an open letter calling for the chancellors resignation:
https://bicyclebarricade.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/open-letter-to-chancellor-linda-p-b-katehi/

*blocked. boo!

Coil did it in 1998 with their album Time Machines. I'm guessing it's like those magic 3d images from the mid-90s where you had to squint at a pattern until your eyes watered and then maybe something popped out at you - it only works for some people. This never worked for me either in the sense of getting "high". Getting a headache - yes.

I so share her sentiment.

>> ^Sagemind:

... But Why?


During the cold war, there were some 2 mile long arrow-straight, bridge-free stretches of autobahn. There were supposed to be used as emergency airfields when the primary runways got bombed/nuked. Not a lot of these stretches remain in their aircraft supporting condition.

This cheery news has been brought to you by the same set of circumstances that had every major bridge in west germany stuffed with high explosives up until the mid 1990s.

Ohhh, private videos. Declaring *dead until the owner fesses up to socialism and starts the redistribution of moving pictures and ideas.

Any landing you can walk away from...

President O-BOW-ma, as in bow to every king and dictator,

Wow, thats really clever QM. Did your buddies and you come up with that all by yourselves?