Yea those darn security guards. Wouldn't be so bad if they just stayed in the shops, but they insist on moving in with us and making sure we use the product appropriately and let no one else use it who didn't pay for it. My kids really hate them. They like to "crack" jokes at the guards and have silly nicknames for them like "dongle." I know, my kids are weird. Those security tags are a pain too, I wish they'd just take them off at the store and not leave them on my clothing to get snagged on every thing I walk by. They itch too. Price of doing business I guess. But hey there are real thieves out there!
The more intelligent people in the world today are less and less involved in the political process. It's corrupt and nonfunctional. Religious extremists have filled the gap and are worsening the system with antiquated thinking. Bring on the singularity. If man can create something in his own image but superior to god's previous effort, that's a pretty convincing argument for the non-existence of god. Or a living embodiment of god for those that simply cannot deal with the truth. Short of aliens landing, I can think of nothing else that would so conclusively destroy the persistent superstitions of the last few millenia, or at the very least, ground us in some new ones. If we could at least query god like a database, we might be able to get shit done. And even if we get wiped out by Skynet, as far as apocalypses go, WWIII was such a boring alternative anyway.
Speak for yourself. I live in Florida, and if there was a button that would instantaneously murder in the most painful and terrifying way each and every species of cockroach that roams the earth, you can bet I'd press it. Bonus points for a ray that first evolves them to a level of intelligence that allows them to "shit their pants" in fear before their fate. I kill spiders too, but I know they at least serve a purpose beyond freaking me out, so no arachnid genocide button needed.
Actually that is what I'm talking about. Not necessarily as cheap as DVD-+Rs, but something real cheap that doesn't require swapping out discs that you'd write to only once and read from for the rest of it's life. If it's for movies/music then it isn't as though you're going to be reading the same part of the disk constantly (unless you wanted to watch Caddyshack 1000+ times, and actually I may have done that by now). Solid state HDs would probably be better for this task and they're only going to get cheaper. And I'm not trying to be lazy here, it would just be really cool to have a library of personal media that was easily accessible and completely indexed and tagged with rich media meta-data. Something to sync your iPod to or serve your house's many terminals. Until I can buy a digital jukebox at which I can throw spindles of DVD-Rs with random media formats, I can't really have such a system without terabytes of hot storage.
It is just writing that is limited right? Myself, I'd love to have the space to host all my media, most of which just sits archived on dvd-r. I'd only need to write to the disk once. Seems most people, aside from those who do video production, really only need large amounts of space to serve/store media. Be cool to just keep a 200 gig SATA for regular use and just keep buying these suckers and fillin' them up for all that media. Later, when they're cheap that is.
Pick up Resident Evil 4 for the Wii. I didn't play it earlier on the GC or PS2, so it was completely fresh to me anyway, but I really think the Wiimote is flat out perfect for that series. I always thought the RE series was boring, but it's great on the Wii. I haven't played any of the other shooters for Wii (they're all rehashed and uninspiring to me), but the Wiimote sure does work well for the close quarters tense zombie combat of RE4. For what it is, it's nearly a perfect game really. Of course I haven't played the new Metroid (which I didn't even know was out yet), so it may well be the best game yet. I agree the Wii really needs some more titles, but at least when the titles do come and they work, they're not only fun, but innovatively so. I have a pretty good idea what Halo 3 will play like, Wii games are more exciting to me though....
In fact, I just watched some preview movies of Metroid and it looks damn cool.
There was something about Bill Gates and Microsoft at the end of one of Jared Diamond's books (Gun Germs & Steel I think) and how they implemented one of his theories about geographical fragmentation and state power. Something about how China stagnated while Europe flourished, and there being an optimum group size when tackling problems, a technique which MS chose to implement in its software development. Looks like they've overshot that balance. Kinda like the US Intelligence community in recent times. Where are the project managers?
Why not take a note from actual software development and give licenses an inheritance hierarchy? I've always thought it was stupid that EULAs aren't standardized to a certain extent. If everyone knew a general EULA quite well, then companies could just state where their EULA differs from this common-knowledge EULA, instead of blindly clicking ok, consequences be damned. Same process could be applied to middleware licenses. One could even develope a license format whereby you could compile the various licenses among your project's components into one final license with most of its redundancy (hopefully) trimmed out. Of course, legalese was pretty much developed to obscure any such process and its strength is in its (evil) complexity. What a mess.
Not mentioned in TFA is another exciting new feature. A wireless bed pan with built in rumble! Experience full gluteal tactile feedback and fully immerse yourself in your gaming experience, defecating right along with your in-game avatar. Now the PS3 is the most amazing console ever.
I don't understand. I thought the government loved stories like this.
So the roads are in disrepair. Great, let's talk about it. For the next 6 months we'll talk about it, and ignore that whole war thing going on. Those wiretapping stories. Those stories are a bummer, but the roads, now that's something we can discuss and discuss. And there's a solution. We'll take care of that with our new program which will be implemented over the next 20 years by private contractors beholden to no one with no oversight (or the whole program cancelled prematurely upon the next cycling of leadership).
You know, like gay marriage, or illegal immigration. Issues that kinda need a solution, but not really. Just debate. So long as we're not talking about foreign policy or the erosion of our rights, or energy policy. You know, stuff that matters. That stuff's a drag.
With modern PC software you have all the tools you need to make a wretchedly loud copy of the disc and play it full bore in the old folks home with all the other deaf people. The opposite is not true, I can't pull a decent recording out of disc mastered at full loudness. Personally, I've never had any of my sound equipment at full volume and I hope my hearing lasts long enough not to necessitate such a measure.
I believe they're saying writer John Olson's vision is tamer than McFarlane's with his Twisted Land of Oz toyline. Particularly the Dorothy/Munchkins BDSM stuff I would imagine. Too bad really.
If that kind of thing continues, the word "executive" will become synonymous with the word "sleaze". The 19th Century called, they want their prediction back.
In The Adventures of Willy Beamish, is there a way to see the principal and teacher fucking on top of the school, or were my junior high friends just pulling my leg?
I'm not really hip to the Chinese internet experience, but I'd imagine they get about as much spam as the rest of us, piles and piles. There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions here from those of us frustrated with spam to the point of zero-tolerance, but think about it this way. It isn't as though spam will be going anywhere anytime soon. It's not like there is some great new solution out there and the practice of spam is on its way out. It is something that will probably be with us indefinitely. May even get worse. So who cares if someone starts spamming revolutionary ideas? The overall volume of spam will not increase significantly, and maybe a few poor slobs will be enlightened about the wackiness of their government. No different than handing out pamplets really.
Personally I don't see the point of it, the people need to take care of their own government (that's why the US gov sucks so much, we the lazy), and take it down if necessary. It's up to them. We'd be better off spamming our own leaders to keep us the hell out of these ridiculous countries. You know it's called "writing your congressman." Fat lot of good that does either.
I'm always hearing about how we should not use antibiotics unnecessarily because it allows bacteria to adapt to and as such defeat their use. I get that, but aren't we then fighting a losing battle? Are we all just waiting around until bacteria become superior and wipe us out? Is there any way to escape this eventuality?
I watched the making of that stunt (on laserdisc of all things!), and IIRC they built a ramp that was more like a 30* incline. You can tell in the movie b/c the bus suddenly pitches up like a motherfucker for no apparent reason, I mean they don't build highway ramps like that. Always thought that was ridiculous looking myself, ah the 90's. Oh and the gap was completely digital. Pussies.
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Yea those darn security guards. Wouldn't be so bad if they just stayed in the shops, but they insist on moving in with us and making sure we use the product appropriately and let no one else use it who didn't pay for it. My kids really hate them. They like to "crack" jokes at the guards and have silly nicknames for them like "dongle." I know, my kids are weird. Those security tags are a pain too, I wish they'd just take them off at the store and not leave them on my clothing to get snagged on every thing I walk by. They itch too. Price of doing business I guess. But hey there are real thieves out there!
The more intelligent people in the world today are less and less involved in the political process. It's corrupt and nonfunctional. Religious extremists have filled the gap and are worsening the system with antiquated thinking. Bring on the singularity. If man can create something in his own image but superior to god's previous effort, that's a pretty convincing argument for the non-existence of god. Or a living embodiment of god for those that simply cannot deal with the truth. Short of aliens landing, I can think of nothing else that would so conclusively destroy the persistent superstitions of the last few millenia, or at the very least, ground us in some new ones. If we could at least query god like a database, we might be able to get shit done. And even if we get wiped out by Skynet, as far as apocalypses go, WWIII was such a boring alternative anyway.
Speak for yourself. I live in Florida, and if there was a button that would instantaneously murder in the most painful and terrifying way each and every species of cockroach that roams the earth, you can bet I'd press it. Bonus points for a ray that first evolves them to a level of intelligence that allows them to "shit their pants" in fear before their fate. I kill spiders too, but I know they at least serve a purpose beyond freaking me out, so no arachnid genocide button needed.
Actually that is what I'm talking about. Not necessarily as cheap as DVD-+Rs, but something real cheap that doesn't require swapping out discs that you'd write to only once and read from for the rest of it's life. If it's for movies/music then it isn't as though you're going to be reading the same part of the disk constantly (unless you wanted to watch Caddyshack 1000+ times, and actually I may have done that by now). Solid state HDs would probably be better for this task and they're only going to get cheaper. And I'm not trying to be lazy here, it would just be really cool to have a library of personal media that was easily accessible and completely indexed and tagged with rich media meta-data. Something to sync your iPod to or serve your house's many terminals. Until I can buy a digital jukebox at which I can throw spindles of DVD-Rs with random media formats, I can't really have such a system without terabytes of hot storage.
Oh yea? How's the apple pie over their asshole!?
It's better isn't it? {sniffle}
That reminds me! Fuck you CompUSA. It's been like 3 months. Liars!
It is just writing that is limited right? Myself, I'd love to have the space to host all my media, most of which just sits archived on dvd-r. I'd only need to write to the disk once. Seems most people, aside from those who do video production, really only need large amounts of space to serve/store media. Be cool to just keep a 200 gig SATA for regular use and just keep buying these suckers and fillin' them up for all that media. Later, when they're cheap that is.
Pick up Resident Evil 4 for the Wii. I didn't play it earlier on the GC or PS2, so it was completely fresh to me anyway, but I really think the Wiimote is flat out perfect for that series. I always thought the RE series was boring, but it's great on the Wii. I haven't played any of the other shooters for Wii (they're all rehashed and uninspiring to me), but the Wiimote sure does work well for the close quarters tense zombie combat of RE4. For what it is, it's nearly a perfect game really. Of course I haven't played the new Metroid (which I didn't even know was out yet), so it may well be the best game yet. I agree the Wii really needs some more titles, but at least when the titles do come and they work, they're not only fun, but innovatively so. I have a pretty good idea what Halo 3 will play like, Wii games are more exciting to me though. ...
In fact, I just watched some preview movies of Metroid and it looks damn cool.
There was something about Bill Gates and Microsoft at the end of one of Jared Diamond's books (Gun Germs & Steel I think) and how they implemented one of his theories about geographical fragmentation and state power. Something about how China stagnated while Europe flourished, and there being an optimum group size when tackling problems, a technique which MS chose to implement in its software development. Looks like they've overshot that balance. Kinda like the US Intelligence community in recent times. Where are the project managers?
I love Fat Bottomed Girls too!
Why not take a note from actual software development and give licenses an inheritance hierarchy? I've always thought it was stupid that EULAs aren't standardized to a certain extent. If everyone knew a general EULA quite well, then companies could just state where their EULA differs from this common-knowledge EULA, instead of blindly clicking ok, consequences be damned. Same process could be applied to middleware licenses. One could even develope a license format whereby you could compile the various licenses among your project's components into one final license with most of its redundancy (hopefully) trimmed out. Of course, legalese was pretty much developed to obscure any such process and its strength is in its (evil) complexity. What a mess.
Not mentioned in TFA is another exciting new feature. A wireless bed pan with built in rumble! Experience full gluteal tactile feedback and fully immerse yourself in your gaming experience, defecating right along with your in-game avatar. Now the PS3 is the most amazing console ever.
For me to poop on!
I don't understand. I thought the government loved stories like this.
So the roads are in disrepair. Great, let's talk about it. For the next 6 months we'll talk about it, and ignore that whole war thing going on. Those wiretapping stories. Those stories are a bummer, but the roads, now that's something we can discuss and discuss. And there's a solution. We'll take care of that with our new program which will be implemented over the next 20 years by private contractors beholden to no one with no oversight (or the whole program cancelled prematurely upon the next cycling of leadership).
You know, like gay marriage, or illegal immigration. Issues that kinda need a solution, but not really. Just debate. So long as we're not talking about foreign policy or the erosion of our rights, or energy policy. You know, stuff that matters. That stuff's a drag.
With modern PC software you have all the tools you need to make a wretchedly loud copy of the disc and play it full bore in the old folks home with all the other deaf people. The opposite is not true, I can't pull a decent recording out of disc mastered at full loudness. Personally, I've never had any of my sound equipment at full volume and I hope my hearing lasts long enough not to necessitate such a measure.
We have a solution to these sorts of problems. I hereby declare a War On Loudness!
I believe they're saying writer John Olson's vision is tamer than McFarlane's with his Twisted Land of Oz toyline. Particularly the Dorothy/Munchkins BDSM stuff I would imagine. Too bad really.
In The Adventures of Willy Beamish, is there a way to see the principal and teacher fucking on top of the school, or were my junior high friends just pulling my leg?
I'm not really hip to the Chinese internet experience, but I'd imagine they get about as much spam as the rest of us, piles and piles. There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions here from those of us frustrated with spam to the point of zero-tolerance, but think about it this way. It isn't as though spam will be going anywhere anytime soon. It's not like there is some great new solution out there and the practice of spam is on its way out. It is something that will probably be with us indefinitely. May even get worse. So who cares if someone starts spamming revolutionary ideas? The overall volume of spam will not increase significantly, and maybe a few poor slobs will be enlightened about the wackiness of their government. No different than handing out pamplets really.
Personally I don't see the point of it, the people need to take care of their own government (that's why the US gov sucks so much, we the lazy), and take it down if necessary. It's up to them. We'd be better off spamming our own leaders to keep us the hell out of these ridiculous countries. You know it's called "writing your congressman." Fat lot of good that does either.
I am the Alpha and
I am the Alpha and
I am the Alpha and
I am the Alpha and...
Is it just me, or does the first person in this post have a split personality? The Fight Club reference only lends credence to my supposition.
Finally, Joe's Apartment goes interactive! But is $500 million nearly enough to get Jerry O'Connell for voice work?
I'm always hearing about how we should not use antibiotics unnecessarily because it allows bacteria to adapt to and as such defeat their use. I get that, but aren't we then fighting a losing battle? Are we all just waiting around until bacteria become superior and wipe us out? Is there any way to escape this eventuality?
A regular guy no. But a vampire or zombie...
I watched the making of that stunt (on laserdisc of all things!), and IIRC they built a ramp that was more like a 30* incline. You can tell in the movie b/c the bus suddenly pitches up like a motherfucker for no apparent reason, I mean they don't build highway ramps like that. Always thought that was ridiculous looking myself, ah the 90's. Oh and the gap was completely digital. Pussies.