Over the minutes that followed, the software analysed every one of the car's digital systems in search of a problem. The culprit could have been any number of things -- the Bosch-supplied, Linux-based infotainment system, the Visteon-supplied virtual instrument display, a heat-ravaged processor, an errant mouse somewhere in one of the car's hundreds of miles of wiring, or the dodgy contents of a CNET UK memory key in one of the XJ's two USB ports.
I know its just sensationalism on their part, but if putting a badly formatted USB stick into the in-dash USB port is enough to kill the car, there is something seriously fucking wrong with it.
Look at the internode prices someone else here posted, and they do indeed have a TON of free content, steam, ABC online, majorgeeks, sourceforge as well as their own FTP server (both for regular software, yes tons of linux distros, and also for games), however they do throw in free premium usenet access too, which will cause you to eat up all the downloads you save:)
Being able to remove a full brain, keep it on life support (the next step) and interface it to a computer would be rather useful I would have thought:)
Lets go a step further, the one thing drummed into ALL pilots by their corps (and eventually, when they are fools, a lesson) don't fly/transport what you can't afford to replace.
Lets say he did it smart, got on an NPC corped alt, jumps in an interceptor with a cloak, there is still the chance some smart arse in a destroyer will take a pot-shot at him (have had it done a few times when zipping around in mine) "just to see if they could take it down".
Its not that he undocked while war-deced, but that he undocked with something that he couldn't afford to lose;)
As for the class of ship, now if he had of stuck em all in a rifter it would have been ok? (yeah, I am laughing at this too)
You do know World of Goo had a "pay what you want" day right? where most people paid less than one dollar for it.
As someone who owns BOTH of these games through steam, I have to say WoG is the more addictive (the game-play makes it), but this one isn't bad.
One thing the author doesn't take into account, the way the monitor pirated copies is how many IP addresses access their stats server (at least for WoG), this is kind of fubar as whenever I power cycle my router I get a different IP, not to mention when I take my laptop on the go and play it (with touch screen, WoG is amazingly better with this) every time I change access points its a different IP.
No handguns No semi-auto guns Only allowed a gun with a specific use (farmer, hunter, sportsman, etc) Weapons must be stored un-loaded, separate from ammo in locked cabinets
Now I agree, if someone enters your home and brandishes a weapon (any weapon can be deadly, so lets forget about trying to distinguish) at YOU then you are within your moral rights to defend yourself. Whether you can live with shooting to kill is another thing, and I know a few friends in both military and police who have a hard time living with having to have shot in such a manner and that they may have to do it again.
I am a bit of a pacifist, but if someone intends to do you harm and you have a way to defend yourself, go for it.
Insurance is the first and foremost important one, usually a professionally installed alarm will reduce your premiums, good deadlocks too.
Guns (in America at least) are for personal protection, your stuff... well its just stuff, it can and will get replaced by insurance.
So yeah, my advice (as someone who has had their house broken into in the past) get good window locks (ones that you can lock closed and open just a little for ventilation), door locks (they saved all my PCs, since the thieves couldn't carry anything big since the doors were all deadlocked) and get a real alarm system, talk to their techs, get a quote, whatever.
I'm not going to spend my free time reading fiction when I could spend less time seeing a movie
You are missing out on a lot of story.
Latest popular example: TruBlood, I gave up watching the TV shows because of how much they distort the plot and outright make shit up to fit it into a TV series instead of a book.
Better example: day watch, night watch, twilight watch. The movies are at best a snippet of the real plots and intrigues behind the story, and I consider them a 2hr "theatrical trailer" for the books.
There will be many others where a good movie adaptation still misses TONS of story and plot from a book.
We have display PCs where I work, it takes us about 20min to wipe them and reload our image for display, I would guess apple have a similar thing in place.
We don't give net access to them, but neither do we count them as safe from virus' since anyone off the street can come in and toss a USB stick into them while a sales staff is busy.
Think about it, if walmart lost their supply chain, probably 1/3 of Americans would die of malnutrition within a week, or gain 50kg from the take out consumed.
To be honest, the "internet" would keep going, and does indeed route around damage, but the "web" would have the computer version of a stroke if you dropped the root DNS.
Yeah, you know its either science fiction or bullshit when the phrase "traditional time machines" is used to try and make your time machine stand out...
Or you could just grab a solid linux running windows-virus scanner, like the Kaspersky rescue disk, I find it tends to cut the rootkits up pretty well.
Yeah, mixing and matching input devices is one strong point for PC gaming, I love playing RTS games with a touchscreen and a keyboard "gamepad" thing (they have WASD and a handful of keys around it) actually gives a slight advantage in speed over a mouse in the same games, and lets you get a lot more immersed in the game.
Used to get this when I first started gaming, but after a few years and a well adjusted desk/chair height you will not get it any more, 11hr+ sessions in games like team fortress 2 are not a problem (I play spy mostly, so plenty of fast movement and finger stretching going on too), about the only thing I have to worry about is the dreaded Pyros Noobus (the common M1+W pyro).
Neither wrist nor finger strain are a problem, its all about excising the right muscles till they are suitably conditioned for the activity.
Thankfully the burgeoning porn industry on the net is helping young males everywhere get a grip on this problem early, so to speak:)
Have tried a few games on a touchscreen laptop (hp touchsmart tx2) and overall find it to work well, still need a keyboard for some things (edge scrolling doesn't work so well for instance).
A stylus is needed for most of them though, without a fast way to right click most of the time my commands were lagging a mouse users.
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I still have the manual for it around here somewhere, printed on letter tractor feed paper :)
Seriously, just buy worms.
Ahhh, we tend to use the colloquialism "looking daggers", probably derived from "if looks could kill..."
Simply posting a link to goatse in this case would have been on topic then?
Since you seem knowledgeable on the subject...
What the hell is a "stink-eye"?
Have never heard this turn of phrase before.
You mean they handed out acid to people to help them enjoy the game footage?
Or did you just reply to the first post (without even reading it) so that you would be at the top of the thread?
Mod parent down for stupidity.
Also, [citation needed]
From TFA
I know its just sensationalism on their part, but if putting a badly formatted USB stick into the in-dash USB port is enough to kill the car, there is something seriously fucking wrong with it.
Look at the internode prices someone else here posted, and they do indeed have a TON of free content, steam, ABC online, majorgeeks, sourceforge as well as their own FTP server (both for regular software, yes tons of linux distros, and also for games), however they do throw in free premium usenet access too, which will cause you to eat up all the downloads you save :)
Bah, think bigger, fire them from low orbit, you could spin them up in space, have some kind of guidance system on them...
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the internment of a" THUNK!...
Then one Veloci-Coffin employee says to another, "uh, I think you need to aim about 3 feet further away from the pastor next time Mike"
Ever read Anne McCaffrey brain/brawn books?
Being able to remove a full brain, keep it on life support (the next step) and interface it to a computer would be rather useful I would have thought :)
Lets go a step further, the one thing drummed into ALL pilots by their corps (and eventually, when they are fools, a lesson) don't fly/transport what you can't afford to replace.
Lets say he did it smart, got on an NPC corped alt, jumps in an interceptor with a cloak, there is still the chance some smart arse in a destroyer will take a pot-shot at him (have had it done a few times when zipping around in mine) "just to see if they could take it down".
Its not that he undocked while war-deced, but that he undocked with something that he couldn't afford to lose ;)
As for the class of ship, now if he had of stuck em all in a rifter it would have been ok? (yeah, I am laughing at this too)
You do know World of Goo had a "pay what you want" day right? where most people paid less than one dollar for it.
As someone who owns BOTH of these games through steam, I have to say WoG is the more addictive (the game-play makes it), but this one isn't bad.
One thing the author doesn't take into account, the way the monitor pirated copies is how many IP addresses access their stats server (at least for WoG), this is kind of fubar as whenever I power cycle my router I get a different IP, not to mention when I take my laptop on the go and play it (with touch screen, WoG is amazingly better with this) every time I change access points its a different IP.
My laws...
No handguns
No semi-auto guns
Only allowed a gun with a specific use (farmer, hunter, sportsman, etc)
Weapons must be stored un-loaded, separate from ammo in locked cabinets
Now I agree, if someone enters your home and brandishes a weapon (any weapon can be deadly, so lets forget about trying to distinguish) at YOU then you are within your moral rights to defend yourself. Whether you can live with shooting to kill is another thing, and I know a few friends in both military and police who have a hard time living with having to have shot in such a manner and that they may have to do it again.
I am a bit of a pacifist, but if someone intends to do you harm and you have a way to defend yourself, go for it.
Good point, my insurance gave me a yearly discount just for having a licensed alarm installer put an alarm in, so was well worth it in my case.
If I only had mod points...
Insurance is the first and foremost important one, usually a professionally installed alarm will reduce your premiums, good deadlocks too.
Guns (in America at least) are for personal protection, your stuff... well its just stuff, it can and will get replaced by insurance.
So yeah, my advice (as someone who has had their house broken into in the past) get good window locks (ones that you can lock closed and open just a little for ventilation), door locks (they saved all my PCs, since the thieves couldn't carry anything big since the doors were all deadlocked) and get a real alarm system, talk to their techs, get a quote, whatever.
Well don't that just beat awl?
You are missing out on a lot of story.
Latest popular example: TruBlood, I gave up watching the TV shows because of how much they distort the plot and outright make shit up to fit it into a TV series instead of a book.
Better example: day watch, night watch, twilight watch. The movies are at best a snippet of the real plots and intrigues behind the story, and I consider them a 2hr "theatrical trailer" for the books.
There will be many others where a good movie adaptation still misses TONS of story and plot from a book.
We have display PCs where I work, it takes us about 20min to wipe them and reload our image for display, I would guess apple have a similar thing in place.
We don't give net access to them, but neither do we count them as safe from virus' since anyone off the street can come in and toss a USB stick into them while a sales staff is busy.
Wow, I let my browser share my details to him, and it was accurate to within 500kM of my current location, scary stuff.
Although it took a good guess as to which of the 7 areas of mainland Australia I was on, it only narrowed it down to 3.
Lynx!
Think about it, if walmart lost their supply chain, probably 1/3 of Americans would die of malnutrition within a week, or gain 50kg from the take out consumed.
To be honest, the "internet" would keep going, and does indeed route around damage, but the "web" would have the computer version of a stroke if you dropped the root DNS.
Yeah, you know its either science fiction or bullshit when the phrase "traditional time machines" is used to try and make your time machine stand out...
Or you could just grab a solid linux running windows-virus scanner, like the Kaspersky rescue disk, I find it tends to cut the rootkits up pretty well.
Yeah, mixing and matching input devices is one strong point for PC gaming, I love playing RTS games with a touchscreen and a keyboard "gamepad" thing (they have WASD and a handful of keys around it) actually gives a slight advantage in speed over a mouse in the same games, and lets you get a lot more immersed in the game.
Used to get this when I first started gaming, but after a few years and a well adjusted desk/chair height you will not get it any more, 11hr+ sessions in games like team fortress 2 are not a problem (I play spy mostly, so plenty of fast movement and finger stretching going on too), about the only thing I have to worry about is the dreaded Pyros Noobus (the common M1+W pyro).
Neither wrist nor finger strain are a problem, its all about excising the right muscles till they are suitably conditioned for the activity.
Thankfully the burgeoning porn industry on the net is helping young males everywhere get a grip on this problem early, so to speak :)
Have tried a few games on a touchscreen laptop (hp touchsmart tx2) and overall find it to work well, still need a keyboard for some things (edge scrolling doesn't work so well for instance).
A stylus is needed for most of them though, without a fast way to right click most of the time my commands were lagging a mouse users.