Inspired by: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,1c013d42-c983-4102-9233-ca54b8f3d1a1.aspx

public void HighResSleep(int milliseconds)
{
    Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();
    uint loopCount = 0;
    watch.Start();

    while(watch.ElapsedMilliseconds < milliseconds)
    {

In this RPG (or story or whatever), Skynet's primary function is to control the human military in a time of crisis. One of its core functions in this regard is wargaming and strategy. The various conflicting timelines of the Terminator series are, in fact, Skynet running simulations using the most effective real-world model possible: real history.

The events of the various movies, the TV series, etc. are all wargame scenarios undertaken by Skynet itself to perfect the ultimate strategy.

Introduction

You will primarily be traveling between the town of Darkshire and the ghost town of Raven Hill, along with the enormous cemetary that lies to the north of it. Set your Hearthstone to Darkshire Inn when you arrive.
[edit] Entering Duskwood
The quests in this section of the walkthrough require a minimum level of 20 to accept.

Go to Stormwind.

* Talk to Emissary Taluun in the Stormwind Keep throne room.
* Start Travel to Darkshire.
* Cooking: Buy Stormwind Seasoning Herbs from the flower shop.
* Buy or create a Bronze Tube, created by Engineers.

The Drupal Rules module makes it easy to add triggered rules to a site, like auto setting CCK fields for new nodes. This thing should come standard.

Superhero games should be easy to playtest. Get a comic book, make PCs, run some battles and see if they match up.

"Our language has generators, obfuscators, qualifiers, annotations, collimations, computations, dissertations, and decerebrations." "Oh now you're just making things up."

Yeah, another dream. To my knowledge, though, I've never seen this schtick in anime, which is what it felt like: a student with a car is giving one of his attractive female teachers a ride home. For whatever contrived plot reason, she's wearing a bikini and can't really put on more. There's some dialogue, and for a moment he's rendered as a snowman in the driver's seat to indicate the chilly reception (or perhaps that he's suddenly cooling down).

The basic idea:

class Card
  def initialize(id, persistence_callback)
    @id = id
    @persistence_callback = persistence_callback
  end

  def commit
    @persistence_callback.call(self)
  end
end

class Factory
  def do_persistence(card)
    # implementation goes here
  end

  def create_card
    callback = lambda { |card| self.do_persistence(card) }
    card = Card.new(get_new_card_id(), callback)
  end
end

In working on various abortive projects to create a more modern MUD (usually in Ruby), I've thought about what stopped me. Part of the problem is the vagueness of the proposal: "create something as good as what's already out there". I was tempted to load down my new model with features: objects and properties and methods, security, multithreaded user applications...

I realized lately that I wasn't following Unix philosophy, and that Unix has been successful and popular precisely because of those attributes. So I started fresh.

The TARDIS looked like an extra-tall plastic machine, hinged to open, much like a soda dispenser, but kept its essential police-box "texture". The Doctor and a companion were being abducted by a criminal group in the 1980s, but he had a plan.

It all hinged on simultaneous parallel worlds somehow combining - for example, a character with a brother in one world (under one set of circumstances) had a different brother in the other. One character was waiting to hear a particular song, which the Doctor sang into the history of the world.