If they release a PG-13 version for the theaters and then an "unrated" version on DVD (OK, Blu-Ray) I'm boycotting on moral principle. It's gotta be the cussin-hard-drinkin-chain-smokin-inappropriate-office-attire-
runnin-around-nekkid-sexual-tension-filled-hundred-million-bullets version fans will expect, or all that CGI will be for naught.
I saw this at a brand-new bright-and-shiny coffee 'n muffin shop here in Brooklyn. This screams "out of business in six months" to me, blowing that much cheddar on something a Pentium II (if not a 486) could do, unless someone here thinks different.
Try downloading from FTP, read and post to newsgroups, and surf the web using just your text-only e-mail account. Back in the day some universities set up e-mail bots that would let you do just that. You e-mail them the properly formatted e-mail, they shoot you back a whole mess of text - uu-encoded in the case of files (life before MIME). For free!! If all you had was e-mail this was a veritable boon.
To surf the web, you e-mail them a URL, they'd shoot back a LYNX-style copy of the page, with numbers next the links. Send back the number, they send back that page. And so on. Another service sent you back the entire web page - graphics and all! But by fax.
True story - I wanted to use the FTP e-mail servers but of course everything was coming back uu-encoded. Where to get a uu-decoder? I posted my dilemma to a newsgroup (using e-mail!) and a very kind person snail-mailed me a floppy, along with a bunch of other EXEs and manuals he was able to fit. Nice.
The funny thing is that with this MCOM web page HTML mission creep is already well under way, the page's author trying to lay out hypertext in ways Tim Berners-Lee probably never intended. "You're chopping the word up in the hyperlink into two different fonts just to make the first letter bigger?! How's a webcrawler gonna understand that?! Whattsamattawityou?!" (smackety-smackety-smackety...)
How often does your computer crash, freeze up, get infected, cannot connect to the network, etc? When was the last time your company was sued for violating a software license or a terms of service agreement?
If the answer is "hardly ever" then your IT department is probably doing their job right. Now go through the damn approval process already. Once the application is approved for you there'll probably be dozens of other staff at your company that want to install it too that won't have to go through all the trouble.
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So you mean the internet is like a series of tubes?
I was just thinking that - all these pagan names! This is a Christian nation after all. "The Mary Magdalene achieved orbit around Mars today, while the Nicodemus lander safely touched down on Utopia Planitia.."
I listen to Rush just for laughs too! I religiously tune him in 3 hours a day just so I can shake my head and mutter "What kinds of idiots actually listen to this crap?!" O.o
In New York City there's a city councilman pushing an effort to (you sitting down?) force owners of biological, chemical, and radiological hazard detectors to register the devices with the police. This is to prevent widespread panic that can result from false positives which, as the article points out, has never actually happened. More likely to prevent citizens from monitoring air quality on their own (think the WTC cleanup.) Thankfully the city's science community had a conniption and has managed to put the kibosh on the effort - for now.
Remember when VCRs were expensive as hell? An investment? Now you can pick one up at ShopRite for $40 along with your Bud and Cheezits and bag-o-salad. At their current price - $180 or so - the psychological barrier is too much to use it as a VCR replacement. Get them around $99 retail and we're good to go. (I once saw an ad for a Protron DVD recorder for about $50 but the online reviews brickbatted it.)
Yep - of course just like it'd happen in the real world, he simply finds a drug that goes around the blocks. (it's called 'betaphenethylamine' in the book; based on the description of its effects Gibson could have called it 'sildenafil citrate'./smirk/ )
We bought one for our 70-something relatives for Xmas to replace their no-internet Win95 second-hand PC. We'll see how it goes. I do plan to hook it up to a full-size keyboard/monitor/mouse as an option from the smaller keyboard and screen.
If you can't get an agreement with the bosses, just take over the damn factory and run it yourself!
http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=synopsis
It looks like the strike will be settled one deal at a time, like they just did with David Letterman. ( http://gothamist.com/2007/12/29/wga_update_real.php ). The power of the AMPTP has been seriously underminded.
The writers will get deals eventually. After all, without writers, how will they make reality TV shows?
Now self-replicating MAVs, von Neumann stylee, now we're talking about a can of whoop-ass -
Step 1 - fly about until you find a good-sized landfill near some power lines...
Download as many cute kitten and Family Guy video snippets as you can! The continuity of western civilization depends on it! RUN! No, wait, don't run - SIT DOWN AND LOG IN!!!
...everything from KP to actual combat and this sort of thing they're doing in-house?
I suspect this is simply a recruiting tool. "You won't be involved in combat! We'll get you into our game development division! Would I lie to you?"
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If they release a PG-13 version for the theaters and then an "unrated" version on DVD (OK, Blu-Ray) I'm boycotting on moral principle. It's gotta be the cussin-hard-drinkin-chain-smokin-inappropriate-office-attire- runnin-around-nekkid-sexual-tension-filled-hundred-million-bullets version fans will expect, or all that CGI will be for naught.
As GITS2:Innocence demonstrated, even the people who should know what they're doing could fuk* it up.
(* I'm at work.)
I saw this at a brand-new bright-and-shiny coffee 'n muffin shop here in Brooklyn. This screams "out of business in six months" to me, blowing that much cheddar on something a Pentium II (if not a 486) could do, unless someone here thinks different.
Is calling an OS 'aging' the same as calling it 'stable'?
Try downloading from FTP, read and post to newsgroups, and surf the web using just your text-only e-mail account. Back in the day some universities set up e-mail bots that would let you do just that. You e-mail them the properly formatted e-mail, they shoot you back a whole mess of text - uu-encoded in the case of files (life before MIME). For free!! If all you had was e-mail this was a veritable boon.
To surf the web, you e-mail them a URL, they'd shoot back a LYNX-style copy of the page, with numbers next the links. Send back the number, they send back that page. And so on. Another service sent you back the entire web page - graphics and all! But by fax.
True story - I wanted to use the FTP e-mail servers but of course everything was coming back uu-encoded. Where to get a uu-decoder? I posted my dilemma to a newsgroup (using e-mail!) and a very kind person snail-mailed me a floppy, along with a bunch of other EXEs and manuals he was able to fit. Nice.
The funny thing is that with this MCOM web page HTML mission creep is already well under way, the page's author trying to lay out hypertext in ways Tim Berners-Lee probably never intended. "You're chopping the word up in the hyperlink into two different fonts just to make the first letter bigger?! How's a webcrawler gonna understand that?! Whattsamattawityou?!" (smackety-smackety-smackety...)
It more reminded me of a two guys carrying a couch up a flight of stairs. In a hurry. With much better coordination.
It's a Russian inwenshun.
How often does your computer crash, freeze up, get infected, cannot connect to the network, etc? When was the last time your company was sued for violating a software license or a terms of service agreement? If the answer is "hardly ever" then your IT department is probably doing their job right. Now go through the damn approval process already. Once the application is approved for you there'll probably be dozens of other staff at your company that want to install it too that won't have to go through all the trouble.
So you mean the internet is like a series of tubes?
I was just thinking that - all these pagan names! This is a Christian nation after all. "The Mary Magdalene achieved orbit around Mars today, while the Nicodemus lander safely touched down on Utopia Planitia.."
Under similar circumstances, the 2004 US election caging list controversy , where the Republican party was attempting to have thousands of African-Americans taken off the voter rolls, was revealed when sensitive e-mails were addressed to a George Bush parody site instead of the W's actual re-election site. The caging list wound its way into the hands of Greg Palast and the BBC and the rest is history.
I listen to Rush just for laughs too! I religiously tune him in 3 hours a day just so I can shake my head and mutter "What kinds of idiots actually listen to this crap?!" O.o
You left out the post-it note on the letter - "Jeffry, Roy - We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Remember - I know where you all live."
In New York City there's a city councilman pushing an effort to (you sitting down?) force owners of biological, chemical, and radiological hazard detectors to register the devices with the police. This is to prevent widespread panic that can result from false positives which, as the article points out, has never actually happened. More likely to prevent citizens from monitoring air quality on their own (think the WTC cleanup.) Thankfully the city's science community had a conniption and has managed to put the kibosh on the effort - for now.
Remember when VCRs were expensive as hell? An investment? Now you can pick one up at ShopRite for $40 along with your Bud and Cheezits and bag-o-salad. At their current price - $180 or so - the psychological barrier is too much to use it as a VCR replacement. Get them around $99 retail and we're good to go. (I once saw an ad for a Protron DVD recorder for about $50 but the online reviews brickbatted it.)
You can't! It's totally frictionless! This must be one mother of a mover!
Yep - of course just like it'd happen in the real world, he simply finds a drug that goes around the blocks. (it's called 'betaphenethylamine' in the book; based on the description of its effects Gibson could have called it 'sildenafil citrate'. /smirk/ )
We bought one for our 70-something relatives for Xmas to replace their no-internet Win95 second-hand PC. We'll see how it goes. I do plan to hook it up to a full-size keyboard/monitor/mouse as an option from the smaller keyboard and screen.
Oh, the folks at Tata don't find this sort of allusion to their name funny at all. Although their distate for it does result in unintentionally amusing legal documentation.
More cars in India's megacities? There's some good news....
If you can't get an agreement with the bosses, just take over the damn factory and run it yourself! http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=synopsis It looks like the strike will be settled one deal at a time, like they just did with David Letterman. ( http://gothamist.com/2007/12/29/wga_update_real.php ). The power of the AMPTP has been seriously underminded. The writers will get deals eventually. After all, without writers, how will they make reality TV shows?
How do you bury a Slashdot story
How do you bury a Slashdot story
How do you bury a Slashdot story
Early in the morning?
Attack their servers with a DOS
Attack their servers with a DOS
Attack their servers with a DOS
Early in the morning
Now self-replicating MAVs, von Neumann stylee, now we're talking about a can of whoop-ass - Step 1 - fly about until you find a good-sized landfill near some power lines...
Download as many cute kitten and Family Guy video snippets as you can! The continuity of western civilization depends on it! RUN! No, wait, don't run - SIT DOWN AND LOG IN!!!
...everything from KP to actual combat and this sort of thing they're doing in-house? I suspect this is simply a recruiting tool. "You won't be involved in combat! We'll get you into our game development division! Would I lie to you?"