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To make a brick of these things, or some kind of cube, with massive processing power that one could just carry around and interface with via their PDA?
Just think about carrying around something as fast, if not faster, than your desktop that fits in the palm of your hand.
...somewhat of the time I said DOS was dead, soon to be replaced by OS/2 Warp......Well, not quite. But isn't it premature to predict the death of such a venerable OS?
We have less choice in our lives than you'd think.
Think about it. When we wake up in the morning and get dressed, who decides what we wear?
Certainly on the surface we do, but why do we choose what we do? Because of society's influence upon us. Because of marketing targeted at specific age groups, because of what is 'cool,' because of what is socially acceptable.
We have very little freedom in any choices we make, no matter how much apparent freedom we think we have.
Anyone who says, 'I can do whatever I want' is a fool. You can't just go out and kill someone. You can't go outside in public completely nude. You can't call some random stranger a four letter word without it being rude. Society dictates what we can and cannot do, and what we will and will not do.
Hello. My name is PakProtector, and I'm an addict.
I actually am. Pot and Acid and anything else I could get my hands on. Including EverQuest.
I played EverQuest for nearly Three and a Half years, starting the day it came out. If you ever hear someone call the game 'EverCrack,' they're not trying to be funny. It's true.
I would do nothing but play that game. I would come home from school, not do my homework, and start playing. There were times when my parents would tell me to goto sleep, and then get up in the morning only to find I hadn't left the chair I was in all night, as I was so caught up in playing the game.
But that's just me. I agree. If you are a person who can become addicted to something, it doesn't matter if it's drugs or EverQuest.
However, I disagree on one very important point.
Blaming the developer and distributor for the psychological problems of the player places the blame in the wrong hands
So, I guess I shouldn't blame the person who's pushing crack down at a school? Or the person who's brewing up Crystal Meth in a lab somewhere?
Sure, not everyone gets addicted to them, but still, some people do. And they destroy lives and kill people. Kind of like EverQuest can do.
And personally, I can say in all seriousness I am glad as hell I got away from it in time.
I love this idea. We need to keep these Majestic trees alive for future generations. I want to be able to go and visit these wonders of nature, and I want my children and their children to be able to see the Redwoods also.
And it's just so damn cool that we're networking the Redwoods to figure out how to keep them tickin'.
...Is this somehow parallel with how to know the exact location of a particle you must actually move the particle from that location?
If I'm understanding what I'm reading correctly, which I'm probably not, it seems that to locate a specific moment in time you have to be aware of that moment happening which takes time and thus you can't?
Actually, I'll shut up now. I'm probably just sounding stupid.
Anyone who's in the know knows that the Masonic Lizards are just a front for the secret organization of International Bartenders. Bartenders are the most powerful people in the world! Just think about it. I've told many deep, dark secrets to bartenders! They must know absolutely everything!
Even now, they sit in their secret base, plotting the overthrow of the world's governments, using those same governments' leaders as their willing dupes!
Heck yeah! I remember one time I was flying back to South Carolina from Florida one summer when I'd been visiting my grandparents. I had a gameboy with me with one of those old carrying cases. This is back when Gameboys were about twice the size of walkmans. And this was when walkmans existed.
They demanded to scan my gameboy and everything in the case, which was okay for the most part -- except they wanted to X-Ray four floppy disks I had - One of QBASIC programs I'd written and 3 that were SSI's Unlimited Adventures program. It took a while of telling them what would happen if they did to get them to decide that the disks weren't going to compromise the flight.
Then when I got on the plane, the Stewardess wouldn't let me play my Gameboy!
I swear. I want a frickin' Galaxy Class Starship with a thousand stewards who are all clones of Bender from Futurama. I want the replicator spittin' out martinis no stop, so fast that Hawkeye Pierce wouldn't know what to do.
By the way, these events occured... Oh... 8, 9 years ago.
Actually, I was ripping of a game called StarSiege. It's actually the third game in the EarthSiege series. It's the game that Tribes was based off of. That's how the Cybrids talked. They'd say things like:
human//animals.
meat//metal.
kill\\destroy\\maim.
I believe they already have one for the Armed Forces. Personally, I don't see the big deal with giving a DNA sample. If I have to get fingerprinted for certain jobs and permits and other things, why not give a DNA sample? It's much more reliable than fingerprings. And what do you do for someone who _doesn't_ have fingerprints? I believe they can be burned off with acid, or just really really hot metal. Like a stove's burner.
...as I think it will seriously make finding the guilty easier, and seperating the innocent from the guilty. If I'm not mistaken, it currently requires a judge's order in the united states to collect a DNA sample. Now all you have to do is dust something touched by the suspect to get a DNA sample.
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To make a brick of these things, or some kind of cube, with massive processing power that one could just carry around and interface with via their PDA?
Just think about carrying around something as fast, if not faster, than your desktop that fits in the palm of your hand.
...somewhat of the time I said DOS was dead, soon to be replaced by OS/2 Warp... ...Well, not quite. But isn't it premature to predict the death of such a venerable OS?
They can't kill John Romero! I love her!
...to see Gabe and Tycho make a computer inside someone's hollowed out skull. Any PA fans in the house?
Kind of like how NWN is DirectX compliant for Linux?
It'd be nice to see benchmarks for this game on Linux. They do plan to release it for Linux, right?
Try to get a cleric to ressurect you at the feet of lord Nagafen.
/me wonders if Naggy can see through sneak/hide.
/shout Can someone gimme a res. at Naggy's feet?!
We have less choice in our lives than you'd think.
Think about it. When we wake up in the morning and get dressed, who decides what we wear?
Certainly on the surface we do, but why do we choose what we do? Because of society's influence upon us. Because of marketing targeted at specific age groups, because of what is 'cool,' because of what is socially acceptable.
We have very little freedom in any choices we make, no matter how much apparent freedom we think we have.
Anyone who says, 'I can do whatever I want' is a fool. You can't just go out and kill someone. You can't go outside in public completely nude. You can't call some random stranger a four letter word without it being rude. Society dictates what we can and cannot do, and what we will and will not do.
Hello. My name is PakProtector, and I'm an addict.
I actually am. Pot and Acid and anything else I could get my hands on. Including EverQuest.
I played EverQuest for nearly Three and a Half years, starting the day it came out. If you ever hear someone call the game 'EverCrack,' they're not trying to be funny. It's true.
I would do nothing but play that game. I would come home from school, not do my homework, and start playing. There were times when my parents would tell me to goto sleep, and then get up in the morning only to find I hadn't left the chair I was in all night, as I was so caught up in playing the game.
But that's just me. I agree. If you are a person who can become addicted to something, it doesn't matter if it's drugs or EverQuest.
However, I disagree on one very important point.
Blaming the developer and distributor for the psychological problems of the player places the blame in the wrong hands
So, I guess I shouldn't blame the person who's pushing crack down at a school? Or the person who's brewing up Crystal Meth in a lab somewhere?
Sure, not everyone gets addicted to them, but still, some people do. And they destroy lives and kill people. Kind of like EverQuest can do.
And personally, I can say in all seriousness I am glad as hell I got away from it in time.
I love this idea. We need to keep these Majestic trees alive for future generations. I want to be able to go and visit these wonders of nature, and I want my children and their children to be able to see the Redwoods also.
And it's just so damn cool that we're networking the Redwoods to figure out how to keep them tickin'.
What doesn't kill you can still leave you maimed and crippled. The same goes for Linux.
...I learned from Maxis' The Sims. If your or your Sim's social bar drops too low, bad things happen.
...but wasn't one of the original ideas behind the Internet and the World Wide Web the spread of knowledge?
Doesn't making people pay for ideas kind of make people not want to *have* ideas?
Oh, I give up! You do it! There, go outside.
...
I wasn't expecting the Adversarial Science Lab!
Nobody expects the Adversarial Science Lab! Our main construction material is Metal Poles!
Metal poles and Window Screen Mesh!
Two construction materials! Our Two Weapons are Metal Poles, Window Screen Mesh, and Cardboard!
Our Three Main Construction Materials are Metal Poles, Window Screen Mesh, Cardboard! And Duct Tape!
Among our CHIEF building materials are such diverse materials as Metal Poles, Window Screen Mesh, Cardboard, Duct Tape, and Aluminum Foil!
Oh, bother. I'll come again.
... If you ask me. 98 Dollars of crap you find at a Home Improvement store makes an antenna that blasts across as small desert.
Ingenuity++;
I take my hat off to these guys.
...Is this somehow parallel with how to know the exact location of a particle you must actually move the particle from that location?
If I'm understanding what I'm reading correctly, which I'm probably not, it seems that to locate a specific moment in time you have to be aware of that moment happening which takes time and thus you can't?
Actually, I'll shut up now. I'm probably just sounding stupid.
I probably shouldn't of posted this.
Me and my low self esteem.
...I don't think I saw anything mentioned in the article, but the picture I saw of this device made it look like it had a built-in pen.
Is this a standard feature? I remember many a time I've been watching pronography and have said to myself:
"Damn. I need a pen! I should be taking notes on this!"
If this TV has a built in pen, it's perfect for me!
Forget this. I blame the whole thing on Marketing.
Oh, stop spreading such disinformation.
Anyone who's in the know knows that the Masonic Lizards are just a front for the secret organization of International Bartenders.
Bartenders are the most powerful people in the world! Just think about it. I've told many deep, dark secrets to bartenders! They must know absolutely everything!
Even now, they sit in their secret base, plotting the overthrow of the world's governments, using those same governments' leaders as their willing dupes!
Of course... I could be crazy.
Where's the +1 Paranoid mod?
Heck yeah! I remember one time I was flying back to South Carolina from Florida one summer when I'd been visiting my grandparents. I had a gameboy with me with one of those old carrying cases. This is back when Gameboys were about twice the size of walkmans. And this was when walkmans existed. They demanded to scan my gameboy and everything in the case, which was okay for the most part -- except they wanted to X-Ray four floppy disks I had - One of QBASIC programs I'd written and 3 that were SSI's Unlimited Adventures program. It took a while of telling them what would happen if they did to get them to decide that the disks weren't going to compromise the flight. Then when I got on the plane, the Stewardess wouldn't let me play my Gameboy! I swear. I want a frickin' Galaxy Class Starship with a thousand stewards who are all clones of Bender from Futurama. I want the replicator spittin' out martinis no stop, so fast that Hawkeye Pierce wouldn't know what to do. By the way, these events occured... Oh... 8, 9 years ago.
Actually, I was ripping of a game called StarSiege. It's actually the third game in the EarthSiege series. It's the game that Tribes was based off of. That's how the Cybrids talked. They'd say things like: human//animals. meat//metal. kill\\destroy\\maim.
This is why I'm planning on transfering my human mind into an immortal meat//metal body. And joining the anti-human revolution.
I believe they already have one for the Armed Forces. Personally, I don't see the big deal with giving a DNA sample. If I have to get fingerprinted for certain jobs and permits and other things, why not give a DNA sample? It's much more reliable than fingerprings. And what do you do for someone who _doesn't_ have fingerprints? I believe they can be burned off with acid, or just really really hot metal. Like a stove's burner.
...as I think it will seriously make finding the guilty easier, and seperating the innocent from the guilty. If I'm not mistaken, it currently requires a judge's order in the united states to collect a DNA sample. Now all you have to do is dust something touched by the suspect to get a DNA sample.