Did you mean divergence by any change? Either way, think positively. Look at it like the great scattering. A kernal fork here and a kernal tree there..
I can't check since the site is slashdotted, but can anyone confirm the number system used in Var'aq?
If memory serves, the Klingons didn't use base10, but instead used base3 to count numbers. On one of the old 'Learn Klingon' audio cds (read by Worf, errr Michael Dorn) he gives an example while teaching some basic numbers along the line of "7 is therefor literally counted as (2 x 3) + 1"
Well, that's enough of my Star Trek geekness coming through for today thank you.
This is all we need now, a little bit of a scare and suddenly everybody stops sharing with other users. It's already become a bigger problem on the FT network, more and more people aren't sharing.
The whole system starts breaking down when you stop sharing people!
It's not much to ask, if you take, be willing to give back. Fine, maybe you have a half-duplex modem that slows to nothing if you do both, at least share during the night or while you're at work. Otherwise, at least one upload spot doesn't hurt anything.
Hmm... that came out a bit more idealistic than I'd hoped. Well, I'm just irate because no one shares their god-damned Reboot episode 314;)
Television marathons? On new year's? Mwaha, I laugh at the thought when I could be out celebrating with friends, going to great parties filled with beautiful women...
Ok, I'll be watching Transformers. Leave me alone!
I mean seriously, if I ever hear another one of those idiotic tv commercials I think I'll puke. You all know the one... some theme song keeps repeating
"Do you think you really want a clone?" and people scream out "no!".
Things like this really make me wonder. If you're going to be in the warez dump or just generally hoarding or distributing any amount of "illegal" stuff, why wouldn't you set up some sort of last resort protection?
It was what, a few years ago, some feds raided another pirate group, much smaller scale, 5 siezures I think. One of the 5 had time to sledge-hammer his CD rack and hard drives. He got away scott free if memory serves.
Something along these lines isn't hard to set up. Ok, a big hammer might not be the way to go if feds come barging in, but you could easily set up some sort of more practical means of destruction. An electromegnet around your hard drives is a no brainer. flip a switch and they're clean as a whistle. Some sort of incendiary cage around your physical media shouldn't be too hard to set up. Heck, it could be as easy as sprinkling gas and lighting a match or I'm sure someone could set up an entire torching system.
Remember that movie Conspiracy Theory? The conspiracy nut hit's a switch when "They" finally come to get him and his apartment goes up in smoke. Seems like a good idea to me. A couple of well placed charges or canisters of fuel connected all connected to a big red button with "EMERGENCY" written on it and you're good to go. Cops or federal agents come knocking or break down your door, you hit your big red button and they can confiscate the rubble and fragged hd.
Seems like a good deal to me. I mean seriously, do your Divx movies, or copies of Playboy Pinball, or your own personal music store, or whatever the hell you want to collect really mean that much to you that you'd rather go to jail?
Except when your battery runs out after a few hours...
Motorization
on
This is IT?
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· Score: 0, Redundant
I hate to complain, but this seems a little unnecessary doesn't it? My progenitors have spent millions upon millions of years evolving all these groovy body parts. More relevantly, I've evolved these nifty LEG things to which comes attach an even niftier FOOT. Not only that, but I have two of these wonderful appendages.
What does this mean? Well, in simple terms, if I want to go somewhere, I don't need to friggin trumped up little scooter because, thank's to these nifty legs... I can get in a car and drive.
The point is that the energy remaining will be in the form of heat, which is useless. Well, would be useless unless something like these heat -> useable energy devices could be put to use.
Well, no worries; we have 10^100 years to sort it all out.
Don't remember how where I got it or how it came to be in my dump file.. It's a bit dated too, but don't worry abot that.
It's not about odd/even movies, it's about PRIME NUMBERS! Have a little glimpse into the future:
Trek 7: 'The Spacefight Club' This series will be composed almost entirely of starship dogfights in space, with some minor plot thrown in to appease the critics. Alien hottie flesh will be in abudance.
Trek 9: 'What Starship Captains Want' Female and 'sensitive' male starfleet officers will particpate in a romantic comedy set entirely inside Starfleet headquarters. There will occasionally be futuristic matte paintings in the background depicting a futuristic earth, but there won't be any action or fight scenes.
Trek 13: 'Starfleet Tactics' Series written by Tom Clancy. This one will be a little more 'intellectual' than previous Treks, but will focus on political machinations, espionage, technical and scientific detail, and large-scale starship battles. Action will not be plentiful, but it will be frequent, and well written. Critics will hail it as a 'sleeper hit'.
Treks 14-16: Will nearly bankrupt Paramount due to the casting of David Spade, Tom Green, and Britney Spears as starship captains.
Trek 17: Will be filmed using a combination of live action, full-scale starship models that really explode, and state-of-the-art quantum computer-based animation. The series will depict a life-or-death struggle in space and on Earth for the future of humanity, with generous dashes of action, sex, comedy, and gratuitous explosions. Due to the damages incurred wiping out the City of San-Francisco with a neutron explosion for the grand finale of the series, Paramount will go bankrupt.
Legal disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any damages incurred by actually installing Quacktime Pro onto your system. You place your own files at risk by installing shoddy software, but, let's be realistic, if your platform can run QTP, your files aren't that safe anyway. You have been warned.
...Oh, and that piracy thing probably isn't legal...
Slashdot Mirror
Though I`m not a whiz at math or statistics, my rudamentry understanding of both leads me to two conclusions:
:)
1) There's only a 16% chance that HotBabe13 is female.
2) There's only a 13.5% chance that if she is a she, she is single and not dating..
So, for anybody I meet, I have about a 2% chance that they a single female. Leaving out other variables, I like those odds!
Did you mean divergence by any change? Either way, think positively. Look at it like the great scattering. A kernal fork here and a kernal tree there..
Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
I've been reading Dune too much..
I can't check since the site is slashdotted, but can anyone confirm the number system used in Var'aq?
If memory serves, the Klingons didn't use base10, but instead used base3 to count numbers. On one of the old 'Learn Klingon' audio cds (read by Worf, errr Michael Dorn) he gives an example while teaching some basic numbers along the line of "7 is therefor literally counted as (2 x 3) + 1"
Well, that's enough of my Star Trek geekness coming through for today thank you.
This is all we need now, a little bit of a scare and suddenly everybody stops sharing with other users. It's already become a bigger problem on the FT network, more and more people aren't sharing.
;)
The whole system starts breaking down when you stop sharing people!
It's not much to ask, if you take, be willing to give back. Fine, maybe you have a half-duplex modem that slows to nothing if you do both, at least share during the night or while you're at work. Otherwise, at least one upload spot doesn't hurt anything.
Hmm... that came out a bit more idealistic than I'd hoped. Well, I'm just irate because no one shares their god-damned Reboot episode 314
Television marathons? On new year's? Mwaha, I laugh at the thought when I could be out celebrating with friends, going to great parties filled with beautiful women...
Ok, I'll be watching Transformers. Leave me alone!
Fine by me.
I mean seriously, if I ever hear another one of those idiotic tv commercials I think I'll puke. You all know the one... some theme song keeps repeating
"Do you think you really want a clone?" and people scream out "no!".
/me groans
Things like this really make me wonder. If you're going to be in the warez dump or just generally hoarding or distributing any amount of "illegal" stuff, why wouldn't you set up some sort of last resort protection?
It was what, a few years ago, some feds raided another pirate group, much smaller scale, 5 siezures I think. One of the 5 had time to sledge-hammer his CD rack and hard drives. He got away scott free if memory serves.
Something along these lines isn't hard to set up. Ok, a big hammer might not be the way to go if feds come barging in, but you could easily set up some sort of more practical means of destruction. An electromegnet around your hard drives is a no brainer. flip a switch and they're clean as a whistle. Some sort of incendiary cage around your physical media shouldn't be too hard to set up. Heck, it could be as easy as sprinkling gas and lighting a match or I'm sure someone could set up an entire torching system.
Remember that movie Conspiracy Theory? The conspiracy nut hit's a switch when "They" finally come to get him and his apartment goes up in smoke. Seems like a good idea to me. A couple of well placed charges or canisters of fuel connected all connected to a big red button with "EMERGENCY" written on it and you're good to go. Cops or federal agents come knocking or break down your door, you hit your big red button and they can confiscate the rubble and fragged hd.
Seems like a good deal to me. I mean seriously, do your Divx movies, or copies of Playboy Pinball, or your own personal music store, or whatever the hell you want to collect really mean that much to you that you'd rather go to jail?
IANAL
The first time around
/.?
Damnit Timmy, don't you even read
I wouldn't be at all surprised if WfWG was still in use.
Just thought I'd throw it in that KFC's computers run of Win 3.11.
That's right, I've been a fast food grunt.
Stop looking at me like that! I was young and needed the money! Ok, it was a year ago, (breaks down and cries)
Music all of the time! and Everywhere!
Except when your battery runs out after a few hours...
I hate to complain, but this seems a little unnecessary doesn't it? My progenitors have spent millions upon millions of years evolving all these groovy body parts. More relevantly, I've evolved these nifty LEG things to which comes attach an even niftier FOOT. Not only that, but I have two of these wonderful appendages.
What does this mean? Well, in simple terms, if I want to go somewhere, I don't need to friggin trumped up little scooter because, thank's to these nifty legs... I can get in a car and drive.
What, You thought I would walk? Are you mad?
The point is that the energy remaining will be in the form of heat, which is useless. Well, would be useless unless something like these heat -> useable energy devices could be put to use.
Well, no worries; we have 10^100 years to sort it all out.
Excellent, now we need to start stockpiling these semiconductor's in preparation for the heat death of the universe.
What do you mean we won't be around by then?
Everybody's complaining and, dare I say it, whining about the headline being misleading...
:)
Thank (insert favorite deity here) it isn't! Something interesting for a change! Had enough of this terrorism business.
On a more related note, can't wait for NWN!
Don't remember how where I got it or how it came to be in my dump file.. It's a bit dated too, but don't worry abot that.
It's not about odd/even movies, it's about PRIME NUMBERS! Have a little glimpse into the future:
Trek 7: 'The Spacefight Club'
This series will be composed almost entirely of starship dogfights in space, with some minor plot thrown in to appease the critics. Alien hottie flesh will be in abudance.
Trek 9: 'What Starship Captains Want'
Female and 'sensitive' male starfleet officers will particpate in a romantic comedy set entirely inside Starfleet headquarters. There will occasionally be futuristic matte paintings in the background depicting a futuristic earth, but there won't be any action or fight scenes.
Trek 13: 'Starfleet Tactics'
Series written by Tom Clancy. This one will be a little more 'intellectual' than previous Treks, but will focus on political machinations, espionage, technical and scientific detail, and large-scale starship battles. Action will not be plentiful, but it will be frequent, and well written. Critics will hail it as a 'sleeper hit'.
Treks 14-16:
Will nearly bankrupt Paramount due to the casting of David Spade, Tom Green, and Britney Spears as starship captains.
Trek 17:
Will be filmed using a combination of live action, full-scale starship models that really explode, and state-of-the-art quantum computer-based animation. The series will depict a life-or-death struggle in space and on Earth for the future of humanity, with generous dashes of action, sex, comedy, and gratuitous explosions. Due to the damages incurred wiping out the City of San-Francisco with a neutron explosion for the grand finale of the series, Paramount will go bankrupt.
A nice new PS2 with Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 & Grand Theft Auto 3 would rock my world.
...and that little reindeer of yours too! (snicker)
A girlfriend would also be mighty nice..
Time to be realistic; after a year of karma whoring, it's a lump of coal for me!
Damn you Santa!
One word, four letters:
Cash.
Hmm.. lets see..
Nope, it only requires the Quicktime Pro crack.
Legal disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any damages incurred by actually installing Quacktime Pro onto your system. You place your own files at risk by installing shoddy software, but, let's be realistic, if your platform can run QTP, your files aren't that safe anyway. You have been warned.
...Oh, and that piracy thing probably isn't legal...
I hate to be a stickler but..
RIMMER: (All in one breath) White hole. Spewing time. Engines dead. Air supply low. Advise please.
HOLLY: Excuse me?
RIMMER: (Again, as though attempting a world record on the most words spoken in one breath) White hole. Spewing time. Engines dead.--
HOLLY: I can't understand a word you're saying.
RIMMER: White.
HOLLY: Yes.
RIMMER: Hole.
HOLLY: Right.
RIMMER: Spewing.
HOLLY: Yes.
RIMMER: Time.
HOLLY: With you.
RIMMER: Engines dead.
HOLLY: Oh.
RIMMER: Air supply low.
HOLLY: Ah.
RIMMER: Advise please.
HOLLY: Right
Good god, I can't access the MSN website with Opera!
Oh wait, who cares?
Seriously...