I'd love to see a Usenet 2.0, I modded you up.
Then I did a quick google and revealed that the idea is not new.
and what is this: http://usenet20.com/
??
Well, an edit button would get abused on these forums, it also promotes think before you speak.
I can understand why you don't want to get ripped apart for putting the wrong units, we just tore a guy a new one for mistaking GB's and TB's
Your math is incorrect.
One terabyte is equal to 1000 GB.
So if the movie used 100TB then it used 100,000 GB, or 100,000,000 MB which divided by 200 MB = 500,000 frames, which if the film is shot around 24-30 frames/sec equates to the film being around 5.78 - 4.63 hours worth of frames. (Maybe before editing? seems kinda long? Unless they shot in 60fps or something?)
Yes, this is correct.
Perhaps what he may want to see is the sun rising over the earth.
Although it had better be a HD webcam, I can't imagine why anyone would want some rubbish 320x320 webcam on the moon.
On a related note, NASA's blue marble project has these spectacular views in very nice resolutions.
I for one did not know LJ was staged. You've just ruined it for me. Much like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and of course WWF.
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I've seen many games thrive on user created content, and it is going to be seen more and more often.
Games like Counter-strike started out as a modification of another game (halflife).
Now Counter-strike itself has mods. (Mods of a mod if you will)
In terms of MMO's, In World Of Warcraft, I don't know any guild that doesn't require several certain add-ons for raiding. The add-ons are of course not made by Blizzard but by the community. Instead of making the game incredibly complex by offering every utility built-in that a player might want (not to mention the work involved)- They've opened up to allow players to create the add-ons so the players can pick and choose how to play. They've even gone so far as to allow complete customization of the GUI.
I was hoping to get some smart-ass replies about obscure and/or infringing copies of consoles.
If you can point me to the nearest store in New York or the USA where I can buy a Vii, then you've earned a cookie.
I don't think there are any consoles being produced that don't already have parental controls.
Please feel free to add any that don't, this doesn't include hand-helds right?
I do my banking with 1st Source Bank,
They just recently replaced my debit/atm card for the same exact reason. Their database had been compromised by hackers. The hackers had all the account information along with social security numbers and names. I was assured that they were not likely to be using the information for identity theft.
What do you think?
Sometimes I think these article summaries are intentionally worded to get slashdotters cranked up. Okay, it worked on me. Intentionally worded? CmdrTaco posted/approved the article, he knew what he was starting.
Hackers created tons of posts on this epilepsy forum containing flashing animations, or links that led to web and java based scripts that took over the screen- filling it with animations that both affected photo-sensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics. This is cruel
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy
But in the service contract, it states that vpn connections can warrant them to stop service. We were outraged. They basically said, eh- don't worry about it.
If science fiction has taught me anything, there are fields of these asteroid things all over the place. They make for great cinematography and space battles. Let me know when they find something other than a big rock or ball of gas.
People could spend a chunk of their annual income to get a "parlour wall", a screen with moving pictures that would be come your new family. The really rich people could buy four of these and surround themselves entirely, and for an additional price, their name could even be added to the program to be inserted into the dialogue.
Because they've only been working on it three weeks, they haven't gotten their cease and desist yet.
I remember at least one group making a SC mod of Warcraft3, and they got theirs.
Dear Mr. Thompson
From the desk of the millions of normal people who play games:
Much like you, we were deeply disturbed by the actions of the shooter at Virginia Tech and feel terribly for the families of the lost. However we deeply resent the fact that you have totally bypassed the issue at hand and chosen instead to scapegoat the electronic entertainment industry. Perhaps instead of blaming videogames (which are clearly not your area of expertise [teamxbox.com]) we should instead delve a little deeper in order to find what causes these depraved/deprived individuals to take such drastic measures. Your "proof" of a link to video game violence is tenuous at best - equivalent to such joke statistics as bread creating murderers [snopes.com]. Statistical correlation is not proof of cause and effect but beyond that, you have failed to even show a statistical correlation, instead bringing up the specific examples where the statistics say what you want to prove.
Like naysayers for the past several centuries, you see the advent of a new form of entertainment as the downfall of society. Novels, the waltz, radio and television have all been targetted in the past and so far civilization has emerged unscathed (but not unchanged).
Perhaps this is the issue; you (and millions of right-wing conservatives) are afraid of what the future may bring. Who knows what changes the liberalization of the West may bring?
In short, we feel that you are doing nobody any good - you are attempting (and luckily failing) to take the attention away from the actual issues (which in the case of the VT shooting are as of yet indetermined).
Signed,
Gamers of the world.
P.S. While we harbour you no malice, I wouldn't suggest you attempt any retribution - we have all been trained on "murder simulators" . . .
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I'd love to see a Usenet 2.0, I modded you up. Then I did a quick google and revealed that the idea is not new. and what is this: http://usenet20.com/ ??
Well, an edit button would get abused on these forums, it also promotes think before you speak. I can understand why you don't want to get ripped apart for putting the wrong units, we just tore a guy a new one for mistaking GB's and TB's
Your math is incorrect. One terabyte is equal to 1000 GB. So if the movie used 100TB then it used 100,000 GB, or 100,000,000 MB which divided by 200 MB = 500,000 frames, which if the film is shot around 24-30 frames/sec equates to the film being around 5.78 - 4.63 hours worth of frames. (Maybe before editing? seems kinda long? Unless they shot in 60fps or something?)
Yes, this is correct. Perhaps what he may want to see is the sun rising over the earth. Although it had better be a HD webcam, I can't imagine why anyone would want some rubbish 320x320 webcam on the moon. On a related note, NASA's blue marble project has these spectacular views in very nice resolutions.
I for one did not know LJ was staged. You've just ruined it for me. Much like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and of course WWF.
I've seen many games thrive on user created content, and it is going to be seen more and more often. Games like Counter-strike started out as a modification of another game (halflife). Now Counter-strike itself has mods. (Mods of a mod if you will) In terms of MMO's, In World Of Warcraft, I don't know any guild that doesn't require several certain add-ons for raiding. The add-ons are of course not made by Blizzard but by the community. Instead of making the game incredibly complex by offering every utility built-in that a player might want (not to mention the work involved)- They've opened up to allow players to create the add-ons so the players can pick and choose how to play. They've even gone so far as to allow complete customization of the GUI.
The sword of 1000 truths is mine!
I was hoping to get some smart-ass replies about obscure and/or infringing copies of consoles. If you can point me to the nearest store in New York or the USA where I can buy a Vii, then you've earned a cookie.
I don't think there are any consoles being produced that don't already have parental controls. Please feel free to add any that don't, this doesn't include hand-helds right?
Heck, he did some terrible things, we nabbed him for overdue taxes.
How can a solar power plant affect the environment any more than wind turbines slow down the jetstream?
I do my banking with 1st Source Bank, They just recently replaced my debit/atm card for the same exact reason. Their database had been compromised by hackers. The hackers had all the account information along with social security numbers and names. I was assured that they were not likely to be using the information for identity theft. What do you think?
Everyone knows you run faster with a knife.
Doesn't this just show how easy it is to stalk someone using the internet?
But does it run linux?
Hackers created tons of posts on this epilepsy forum containing flashing animations, or links that led to web and java based scripts that took over the screen- filling it with animations that both affected photo-sensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics. This is cruel http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy
Shouldn't masking IP addresses via common utilities like a proxy server do the trick?
The last I heard, the only form of gene therapy is a retrovirus.
But in the service contract, it states that vpn connections can warrant them to stop service. We were outraged. They basically said, eh- don't worry about it.
Sounds like a space-age beer bong
If science fiction has taught me anything, there are fields of these asteroid things all over the place. They make for great cinematography and space battles. Let me know when they find something other than a big rock or ball of gas.
People could spend a chunk of their annual income to get a "parlour wall", a screen with moving pictures that would be come your new family. The really rich people could buy four of these and surround themselves entirely, and for an additional price, their name could even be added to the program to be inserted into the dialogue.
Because they've only been working on it three weeks, they haven't gotten their cease and desist yet. I remember at least one group making a SC mod of Warcraft3, and they got theirs.
Dear Mr. Thompson From the desk of the millions of normal people who play games: Much like you, we were deeply disturbed by the actions of the shooter at Virginia Tech and feel terribly for the families of the lost. However we deeply resent the fact that you have totally bypassed the issue at hand and chosen instead to scapegoat the electronic entertainment industry. Perhaps instead of blaming videogames (which are clearly not your area of expertise [teamxbox.com]) we should instead delve a little deeper in order to find what causes these depraved/deprived individuals to take such drastic measures. Your "proof" of a link to video game violence is tenuous at best - equivalent to such joke statistics as bread creating murderers [snopes.com]. Statistical correlation is not proof of cause and effect but beyond that, you have failed to even show a statistical correlation, instead bringing up the specific examples where the statistics say what you want to prove. Like naysayers for the past several centuries, you see the advent of a new form of entertainment as the downfall of society. Novels, the waltz, radio and television have all been targetted in the past and so far civilization has emerged unscathed (but not unchanged). Perhaps this is the issue; you (and millions of right-wing conservatives) are afraid of what the future may bring. Who knows what changes the liberalization of the West may bring? In short, we feel that you are doing nobody any good - you are attempting (and luckily failing) to take the attention away from the actual issues (which in the case of the VT shooting are as of yet indetermined). Signed, Gamers of the world. P.S. While we harbour you no malice, I wouldn't suggest you attempt any retribution - we have all been trained on "murder simulators" . . .