This is still better than people left to their own BS, which as we now know is posting/e-mailing that Obama is a muslim and Michelle called Rick Astley "whitey" (hehehe I may have that a little wrong) and all that other made up BS about Obama. I'd rather have cookie cutter, slightly more true BS floating around. Btw I'm independent and hate Obama a lot and McCain almost as much so yes, this post was sort of unbiased.
I hear the players are planning a recruit a server program. If blizzard buys more servers then as a reward, players will actually log in during peak hours and keep playing. I think that one would be a lot more successful.
Too bad you always could and still can and always will be able to get a cheaper, better, faster, more compatible, less locked down blackberry. Seriously, iphones and all apple products are for arrogant, self important douchebags and who the hell knows why all the major news networks feel the need to report on it. Nobody ends up actually being happy with their iphone because of locked down crap and activation troubles, etc. Ever hear someone complain about their blackberry? NAH AH! It's just like Creative players vs ipods. They're cheaper with bigger screens and more features and free games and you can load them with any program you want and yet you're only really damn cool if you but an ipod so everyone does. I would think slashdot readers are smart enough to actually weigh the features and pros and cons against price and BUY SOMETHING ELSE!
you have to use fuel to adjust your distance from the asteroid to keep it somewhat constant. In fact, the manuevering thrusters needed to do this could move the asteroid a heck of a lot faster if the craft would just park and fire the manuevering thrusters in one direction nonstop.
Why use one of the weakest forces in existence to move it? You'd probably get the same amount of thrust by attaching a dozen black cat bottle rockets to it. Gravity is pathetic! If I've got a paperclip sitting on a desk, the entire earth is pulling at it and yet one little 1 ounce magnet could pick it up. Refrigerator magnet 1, earth 0. They could strap a tiny, low yield rocket to the asteroid and blast it away waaaaaaay faster and more effectively. The whole gravity thing is so weak and dependent on the distance between the asteroid and the weighted spacecraft that it has a high chance of not working or at least not working enough.
Hopefully now we can use them to catch China "not censoring the internet" like they finally agreed they would. I'm sure there won't be ANY discrepency between access with and without one of those tools now and no international incidents will happen[/sarcasm]
Maybe they'll have better luck if they actually make a water vapor cloud that can do calculations. But of course then the patent people would just say "WTF, I ordered your new cloud and I'm locked out of local disk management" and refuse them the patent anyway.
Now wouldn't they feel dumb if someone invents an earth to space teleporter next year? jk we totally won't have teleporters for hundreds of years if they work on star trek technology
The human memory works by really, really remembering things that are deemed important by you at the time. If you know you can just save everyone's name and photo to a device, it'll get marked as don't remember. And then the device gets stolen or breaks and you didn't back it up and suddenly you're an amnesiac lol.
OMG people, we have php forums, get the hell over it! Usenet is ANCIENT! Are you still running DOS too? Upgrade already! I hope they demolish IRC too cuz that's a klunky, ancient technology too and not the cool Stargate type, the uncool, as old as the internet kind. We have real messengers now! Seriously, this is not the end of the world.
OMG I LOVE DDR! Then again I get paid to be an expert at it:D I know, I know, dream job. I'm actually a DJ assistant and at youth dances as a gimmick and definite entertainment I vs someone on some completely mental song like Maxx Unlimited and beat then or fill in for people that do poorly and get like 200 combos. Anyway, my rough estimatations put that at like 700-1000 calories an hour if you're playing the right songs. It also got my heartbeat to within 9 BPM of dangerous (it was like 230 or something!) and I'm pretty well in shape! That's the only way to go, trust me. Btw if you're really cheap and don't wanna buy the proper consoles, get Stepmania. That's a free, possibly open source but I dunno for sure version of DDR not made by Bemani/Konami and you can download all the songs from every DDR version at ddruk.com. I've got like 600 songs or something so a daily workout is never boring. Oh yeah and play some really intense video game like Unreal Tournament. I'm no doctor but to get that hot and sweaty, I've got to turning some fuel into energy so it probably burns calories. It helps if you swear back at the characters though like WHAT'S UP NOW, BITCH?!
And how does it stand up agains a 2.6Ghz Intel Quad Core? Seriously does anyone else see this conspiracy? They couldn't make any faster CPUs so they decided the best business decision was to start over at like 400 MHz and then pretend be making amazing speed increases all over again when really all they're improving is power efficiency a little. Maybe Microsoft should do the same thing and toss 7 out the window and make a Windows 3.1 clone and then go to a 95 clone and soon they'll be back at an incredible re-release of XP!
If I walk past a security camera in a full sized squirrel outfit, humans couldn't even figure that one out let alone a computer. These systems are just dumb. Wait until computers are smart enough to talk with us to develop something like this otherwise it'll never be remotely accurate.
what about grain power? As in feed caribou some grain, hook them up to a turbine, and make em walk around in a circle lol. Jk, this is a good idea...well then there's the whole what if that geothermal area cools down and everyone loses power for years while they build a new power plant thing. Hey guess what will never go away...THE SUN! Solar power should run the entire world cuz it's never going away.
You know the regular alternate didn't work either. Never heard of Xubuntu but I'll maybe try it. The real Ubuntu one needs 256 for install and 384 for the live CD mode. The alternate needs 256 too. Bootable Knoppix ran but KDE couldn't open cuz of a lack of memory and I don't remember any text commands. Btw the Exile series runs on Linux and it's definitely the best line of Linux games EVER MADE!!! Seriously the graphics are crap (2d FTW!) but the gameplay and storyline rock. It's like oblivion without the 3D except a little older gameplay style.
Ubunutu wouldn't install. It needs 256 minimum. For some reason this laptop won't accept even low density PC133. I can't figure out WTF is wrong but it correctly reports the size but also reports every single bit as unreadable in a ram test with any new sticks I put in and it's not over the max ram limit. Anyway, would you rather I put XP on it? I mean yeah the computer took 2 hours of bullshit just to install a functional USB mouse drive and it froze up twice but I hear you get that exact same crap with Linux too so you can't complain too much. I use to play Unreal Tournament GOTY and Exile 3 from Spiderweb Software and that's about it so I haven't had any trouble at all. I'm a bit too young to have really gotten the full scope of ME hell but it seems alright if you don't try and really do much on it...you know, kinda like Vista and Linux lol.
I just got a P3 laptop for free at a rummage sale cuz the hard drive was broken (but I had a spare one). This model goes for far under $100 on ebay so let's compare. 400MHz processor vs 850 MHz processor. 128 vs 128 of ram. 1GB of storage compared to 20GB. 7 inch screen vs 14. And a who knows but probably less AH batter vs a 2.2AH battery (you can order a 4-6+ AH one on ebay for it though). Oh and mine came with ME on it so I reinstalled that and it boots from off in about 15 seconds and shuts down in just under 5 seconds. Yep, mine's faster. This trend of ultra cheap but slower than hell laptops is a joke. If you want some cheap, slow piece of crap that can surf the web and type documents, just buy a used laptop on ebay for even cheaper.
Oh yeah, they'll be like 20% efficient then 40 then 80 then 160...talk about idiotic. Just because of that simple fact, they obviously won't double in performance for any repetetive time period. It has to end eventually. Also I think with interest in solar technology going up lately, I think the innovation will spike then slow down. It's more of a logarithmic pattern or whatever that is. You know where it takes more and more effort to keep improving further. Kinda like speeding up to near light speed taking more and more energy as you get closer to 100%. And the cost of improving the quality of electronics increasing higher and higher as it gets closer to perfect. It's proven to be pretty cheap to improve efficiency as it is now but when we're at like 80% efficiency it's gonna take a heck of a lot more effort to get from 80 to 81% than it did to get from 20 to 21% and even more to get from 81 to 90% until it's just not feasible to get any higher.
I hope they install a cannon to shoot frozen monkeynauts at us cuz it's a race now! I mean if they launch at the same time and we're neck and neck, I'm not NASA but I bet there might be some bumping and some scraping and some phaser fire lol.
They rub the servers with cheetah blood. Anyway, the real magic is how is their index that big when there's not that many websites? I thought I just saw an estimate like a half a year ago saying that there's about 4 billion or 10 billion or whatever domain names registered and they estimate xxx number of total web pages and it wasn't even close to 1 trillion. Did all those stupid web 2.0 pages screw with it that much?
Really? That's the best you can come up with? You wanna talk and reason with these people and be polite? Okay I run a forum and here's how this shit goes down there. Someone posts shit, I ban their account and then IP ban them from the server's control panel. Then I google their username that they registered with and find them on other sites and send them hate PMs or post rude shit in topics they started. Then I look up their e-mail address in the memberlist and sign them up for every spam list I know of (like coupons.com and a bunch of dating sites). That's how I handle jerks like him! I don't mess around. I ruin their entire internet life! I HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR JACKASSES!
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This is still better than people left to their own BS, which as we now know is posting/e-mailing that Obama is a muslim and Michelle called Rick Astley "whitey" (hehehe I may have that a little wrong) and all that other made up BS about Obama. I'd rather have cookie cutter, slightly more true BS floating around. Btw I'm independent and hate Obama a lot and McCain almost as much so yes, this post was sort of unbiased.
I hear the players are planning a recruit a server program. If blizzard buys more servers then as a reward, players will actually log in during peak hours and keep playing. I think that one would be a lot more successful.
Too bad you always could and still can and always will be able to get a cheaper, better, faster, more compatible, less locked down blackberry. Seriously, iphones and all apple products are for arrogant, self important douchebags and who the hell knows why all the major news networks feel the need to report on it. Nobody ends up actually being happy with their iphone because of locked down crap and activation troubles, etc. Ever hear someone complain about their blackberry? NAH AH! It's just like Creative players vs ipods. They're cheaper with bigger screens and more features and free games and you can load them with any program you want and yet you're only really damn cool if you but an ipod so everyone does. I would think slashdot readers are smart enough to actually weigh the features and pros and cons against price and BUY SOMETHING ELSE!
you have to use fuel to adjust your distance from the asteroid to keep it somewhat constant. In fact, the manuevering thrusters needed to do this could move the asteroid a heck of a lot faster if the craft would just park and fire the manuevering thrusters in one direction nonstop.
Why use one of the weakest forces in existence to move it? You'd probably get the same amount of thrust by attaching a dozen black cat bottle rockets to it. Gravity is pathetic! If I've got a paperclip sitting on a desk, the entire earth is pulling at it and yet one little 1 ounce magnet could pick it up. Refrigerator magnet 1, earth 0. They could strap a tiny, low yield rocket to the asteroid and blast it away waaaaaaay faster and more effectively. The whole gravity thing is so weak and dependent on the distance between the asteroid and the weighted spacecraft that it has a high chance of not working or at least not working enough.
Hopefully now we can use them to catch China "not censoring the internet" like they finally agreed they would. I'm sure there won't be ANY discrepency between access with and without one of those tools now and no international incidents will happen[/sarcasm]
Maybe they'll have better luck if they actually make a water vapor cloud that can do calculations. But of course then the patent people would just say "WTF, I ordered your new cloud and I'm locked out of local disk management" and refuse them the patent anyway.
Now wouldn't they feel dumb if someone invents an earth to space teleporter next year? jk we totally won't have teleporters for hundreds of years if they work on star trek technology
The human memory works by really, really remembering things that are deemed important by you at the time. If you know you can just save everyone's name and photo to a device, it'll get marked as don't remember. And then the device gets stolen or breaks and you didn't back it up and suddenly you're an amnesiac lol.
OMG people, we have php forums, get the hell over it! Usenet is ANCIENT! Are you still running DOS too? Upgrade already! I hope they demolish IRC too cuz that's a klunky, ancient technology too and not the cool Stargate type, the uncool, as old as the internet kind. We have real messengers now! Seriously, this is not the end of the world.
But you could alter your voice with extremely processor intensive effects in realtime! hehehehe. Oh and play Crysis rofl.
OMG I LOVE DDR! Then again I get paid to be an expert at it :D I know, I know, dream job. I'm actually a DJ assistant and at youth dances as a gimmick and definite entertainment I vs someone on some completely mental song like Maxx Unlimited and beat then or fill in for people that do poorly and get like 200 combos. Anyway, my rough estimatations put that at like 700-1000 calories an hour if you're playing the right songs. It also got my heartbeat to within 9 BPM of dangerous (it was like 230 or something!) and I'm pretty well in shape! That's the only way to go, trust me. Btw if you're really cheap and don't wanna buy the proper consoles, get Stepmania. That's a free, possibly open source but I dunno for sure version of DDR not made by Bemani/Konami and you can download all the songs from every DDR version at ddruk.com. I've got like 600 songs or something so a daily workout is never boring. Oh yeah and play some really intense video game like Unreal Tournament. I'm no doctor but to get that hot and sweaty, I've got to turning some fuel into energy so it probably burns calories. It helps if you swear back at the characters though like WHAT'S UP NOW, BITCH?!
And how does it stand up agains a 2.6Ghz Intel Quad Core? Seriously does anyone else see this conspiracy? They couldn't make any faster CPUs so they decided the best business decision was to start over at like 400 MHz and then pretend be making amazing speed increases all over again when really all they're improving is power efficiency a little. Maybe Microsoft should do the same thing and toss 7 out the window and make a Windows 3.1 clone and then go to a 95 clone and soon they'll be back at an incredible re-release of XP!
If I walk past a security camera in a full sized squirrel outfit, humans couldn't even figure that one out let alone a computer. These systems are just dumb. Wait until computers are smart enough to talk with us to develop something like this otherwise it'll never be remotely accurate.
what about grain power? As in feed caribou some grain, hook them up to a turbine, and make em walk around in a circle lol. Jk, this is a good idea...well then there's the whole what if that geothermal area cools down and everyone loses power for years while they build a new power plant thing. Hey guess what will never go away...THE SUN! Solar power should run the entire world cuz it's never going away.
You know the regular alternate didn't work either. Never heard of Xubuntu but I'll maybe try it. The real Ubuntu one needs 256 for install and 384 for the live CD mode. The alternate needs 256 too. Bootable Knoppix ran but KDE couldn't open cuz of a lack of memory and I don't remember any text commands. Btw the Exile series runs on Linux and it's definitely the best line of Linux games EVER MADE!!! Seriously the graphics are crap (2d FTW!) but the gameplay and storyline rock. It's like oblivion without the 3D except a little older gameplay style.
Ubunutu wouldn't install. It needs 256 minimum. For some reason this laptop won't accept even low density PC133. I can't figure out WTF is wrong but it correctly reports the size but also reports every single bit as unreadable in a ram test with any new sticks I put in and it's not over the max ram limit. Anyway, would you rather I put XP on it? I mean yeah the computer took 2 hours of bullshit just to install a functional USB mouse drive and it froze up twice but I hear you get that exact same crap with Linux too so you can't complain too much. I use to play Unreal Tournament GOTY and Exile 3 from Spiderweb Software and that's about it so I haven't had any trouble at all. I'm a bit too young to have really gotten the full scope of ME hell but it seems alright if you don't try and really do much on it...you know, kinda like Vista and Linux lol.
I just got a P3 laptop for free at a rummage sale cuz the hard drive was broken (but I had a spare one). This model goes for far under $100 on ebay so let's compare. 400MHz processor vs 850 MHz processor. 128 vs 128 of ram. 1GB of storage compared to 20GB. 7 inch screen vs 14. And a who knows but probably less AH batter vs a 2.2AH battery (you can order a 4-6+ AH one on ebay for it though). Oh and mine came with ME on it so I reinstalled that and it boots from off in about 15 seconds and shuts down in just under 5 seconds. Yep, mine's faster. This trend of ultra cheap but slower than hell laptops is a joke. If you want some cheap, slow piece of crap that can surf the web and type documents, just buy a used laptop on ebay for even cheaper.
Oh yeah, they'll be like 20% efficient then 40 then 80 then 160...talk about idiotic. Just because of that simple fact, they obviously won't double in performance for any repetetive time period. It has to end eventually. Also I think with interest in solar technology going up lately, I think the innovation will spike then slow down. It's more of a logarithmic pattern or whatever that is. You know where it takes more and more effort to keep improving further. Kinda like speeding up to near light speed taking more and more energy as you get closer to 100%. And the cost of improving the quality of electronics increasing higher and higher as it gets closer to perfect. It's proven to be pretty cheap to improve efficiency as it is now but when we're at like 80% efficiency it's gonna take a heck of a lot more effort to get from 80 to 81% than it did to get from 20 to 21% and even more to get from 81 to 90% until it's just not feasible to get any higher.
I hope they install a cannon to shoot frozen monkeynauts at us cuz it's a race now! I mean if they launch at the same time and we're neck and neck, I'm not NASA but I bet there might be some bumping and some scraping and some phaser fire lol.
They rub the servers with cheetah blood. Anyway, the real magic is how is their index that big when there's not that many websites? I thought I just saw an estimate like a half a year ago saying that there's about 4 billion or 10 billion or whatever domain names registered and they estimate xxx number of total web pages and it wasn't even close to 1 trillion. Did all those stupid web 2.0 pages screw with it that much?
he was busy so they're gonna send in Dr Daniel Jackson. They say he knows a thing or two about crystals lol.
well duh! I never put a real e-mail on my profile anywhere and use a different, unique username on every website :D
Really? That's the best you can come up with? You wanna talk and reason with these people and be polite? Okay I run a forum and here's how this shit goes down there. Someone posts shit, I ban their account and then IP ban them from the server's control panel. Then I google their username that they registered with and find them on other sites and send them hate PMs or post rude shit in topics they started. Then I look up their e-mail address in the memberlist and sign them up for every spam list I know of (like coupons.com and a bunch of dating sites). That's how I handle jerks like him! I don't mess around. I ruin their entire internet life! I HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR JACKASSES!
That's idiotic so use a wired headset. Duh!