Speaking of Quake, does anyone remember the Well of Wishes in the first Quake? It was an underwater room with some goodies and a picture of Dopefish on the wall as well as the text "Dopefish lives".
Anyone who's stupid enough to start fucking with the copper in their house should be aware that they actually don't own the copper. I know here in Australia...
I can't speak for Oz, but here in the US you own all the copper past the box. That's why they have different types of service plans. Some cover the line all the way to the phone (and even include the phone in some cases) while cheaper service plans only cover to the box. The phone company didn't pay for the copper to be put into the house, you did or the original owner of the house did initially. The cable company also tries to claim ownership over the coax in the wall too (which they don't own), but just try to get them to come an remove it if you use satellite.
Now that you say that, here is a crazy idea: instead of making the PC faster, why not make the player slower? isn't there a drug that can slow down perception? a video game running slowly will seem like being fast under those conditions.
Hmm, there's a way to beat piracy. I'd like to see how you could Bittorrent the "medication" needed to play the game.
Removing it is a trivial task for anyone who knows enough to care.
I agree with everything you stated except for the above sentiment. I never understand why such a disproportionate number of people in IT, compared to other fields, think this way. Just imaging if you were in an accident and the EMS crew showed up and said, "Eh, he's still conscious, anyone who knows enough to care could stitch those lacerations up".
Looking at Germany's past history of being overrun by a malevolent cult; and considering Germany has barred Scientolgists from serving in public offices and had moved toward banning them all together at one point...
Wait, the Scientology leader compared Wikipedia to what?
At least no one told me I'd be getting all my meals in pill form
I remember being told that our lunches could eventually come in pill/wafer form in health class when I was in high school. We had an exchange student from Hong Kong who misunderstood this and thought it was going to happen in the next couple of weeks. He was almost in a panic about whether or not the price for lunch was going to go up.
Yup. I think a lot of people who are so fanatical about digital might open their minds just a little bit if they bothered to take a photo class and play around in the darkroom. It's different, yes, and in some ways is inferior, but in many ways the quality you get is superior, especially in the B&W dept.
That's why I have a Canon AE-1 for film and a 40D for digital. Though I must say, the AE-1 has not seen much use in some time. The convenience of digital usually trumps any superiority of film 99% of the time for me these days.
Not to mention that the quality of a Polaroid was awful at best and if you did get a great shot it's not like it was trivial to make copies of it or enlarge it. A scanner would certainly make it possible to make copies now, but that kind of defeats choosing it over a digital camera, and the enlarging of the image still applies due to the image quality.
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Uh, haven't basically all US market cars for the last decade or more been designed for E85?
No, they have not.
I know even my 1998 Windstar had filters and seals that were E85 compatible, it's not like it adds much cost to make a car E85 compatible.
Great, now are your sensors and injectors? What about the EFI computer? Do you know if the fuel tank and lines were also? E85 is more reactive so basically everything that the fuel comes in contact with has to be corrosion resistant. Your EFI computer also has to know to inject more fuel into the cylinders because E85 has a lower energy density than that of regular unleaded.
Heck here is the midwest winter mixes probably go to 15% ethanol already to combat fuel line freezup.
Fuel line freeze up is a diesel only issue. The freezing point of gasoline is around -120 F, possibly as "warm" as -97 at best depending on the the water content. Gasoline has winter and summer blends due to the change in atmospheric pressures and regulation by the EPA to maintain a specified Reid vapor pressure (RVP) for gasoline. If the RVP of a liquid exceeds the atmospheric pressure it will boil. Obviously this would not be a good thing. Since the atmospheric pressure is lower in the summer the RVP must be as well. In the winter the RVP can be higher, which also tends to make gas much cheaper to produce, with a higher RVP, and is why winter gas prices tend to be lower.
I was wondering the same thing. What if you refuse them entry? Can you be restrained and/or arrested? If so, what for? What if you refuse to open the door? Can they force entry? What if you're not home, are they going to kick your door in? The only way I could see this being instituted would be if someone mods their wireless access point to transmit at a high enough power level to interfere with their neighbors. Or perhaps if someone is intentionally jamming frequencies. Otherwise they might as well change the name of the FCC to the KGB.
Things like this get me irked that we are spending billions upon billions each year on equipment, employees, and wasted time for all the added airport security since 9/11.
Agreed. I fly frequently and the blind spots in security are pretty obvious to me. I can't imagine what an individual who is motivated enough to kill themselves could get away with.
The fact is, is I were a terrorist I'd simply walk onto a bus or subway during rush hour with a bomb, like has been done in England and Spain. Effective, cheap, and little can be done to stop it. Not the same impact as collapsing two skyscrapers, but I seriously doubt any future plane hijackings will be successful since the rules have changed.
I've been in the airport during holidays and have often thought that the thousands of us all crammed in the pre-checkpoint line would be an easy target too.
The overreaction to airplane hijackings is disturbing to me. The high school in my home town had a similar reaction to the Columbine shootings. They installed metal detectors at every entrance and hired extra security even though there had been little more than small knives confiscated at school, and never any real violence. Of course, there wasn't time to check people's bags properly, so it would have been trivial to smuggle something in anyway.
After two years at a cost of about 1.5 million per year, the metal detectors were taken out and the extra security measures scrapped. By then the public outcry for action had calmed, and no one wanted to be flushing 1.5 million down the drain every year.
I sometimes wonder if [terrorist group here] has any plans to do anything to countries that have been attacked at this point. As far as I can tell the countries that have been are spending insane amounts of money on "feel good" measures that are frankly worthless. All it takes is one good scare and we spend hundreds of billion dollars to defend against something that they never have to do again. If the idea is to bring down the US, UK, etc. it seems, to me at times, like we're willingly an accessory to our own demise.
In other news, Prof. Obvious has written a report chronicling every confirmed case of malicius airplane crashing against skycrappers in the world from 1950 to 10/10/2001: 0 cases in all, plus 0 additional unconfirmed cases. His conclusion was, well, obvious: just because we have the budget and the products to buy doesn't mean we should spend them to fight such a highly improbable threat.
Yeah, um, Prof. Obtuse seems to have missed three little known cases of this happening just 29 days prior to his cut-off date.
Yes, but it just does not have the same je nais se qua as the iPhone. For some people, being more productive isn't enough. They have to have the only phone that matters.
When Nokia starts having billboards on the sides of buses with silhouettes of hip-looking young people dancing, then we can talk.
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Speaking of Quake, does anyone remember the Well of Wishes in the first Quake? It was an underwater room with some goodies and a picture of Dopefish on the wall as well as the text "Dopefish lives".
Anyone who's stupid enough to start fucking with the copper in their house should be aware that they actually don't own the copper. I know here in Australia...
I can't speak for Oz, but here in the US you own all the copper past the box. That's why they have different types of service plans. Some cover the line all the way to the phone (and even include the phone in some cases) while cheaper service plans only cover to the box. The phone company didn't pay for the copper to be put into the house, you did or the original owner of the house did initially. The cable company also tries to claim ownership over the coax in the wall too (which they don't own), but just try to get them to come an remove it if you use satellite.
2011 Hummer will be 100% superglue-resistant plastic with lead paint and genuine imitation plastic leather. A fitting end for a gas-munching behemoth.
So it will actually evolve into the Canyenaro.
Now that you say that, here is a crazy idea: instead of making the PC faster, why not make the player slower? isn't there a drug that can slow down perception? a video game running slowly will seem like being fast under those conditions.
Hmm, there's a way to beat piracy. I'd like to see how you could Bittorrent the "medication" needed to play the game.
But will it run on my netbook?
Does your netbook run Crysis (1)?
Removing it is a trivial task for anyone who knows enough to care.
I agree with everything you stated except for the above sentiment. I never understand why such a disproportionate number of people in IT, compared to other fields, think this way. Just imaging if you were in an accident and the EMS crew showed up and said, "Eh, he's still conscious, anyone who knows enough to care could stitch those lacerations up".
If you have Flash running you should be able to get the full Windows experience from here: http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/
What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?
Well they did release Vista.
Well, they did release Bob.
...And Clippy, and Windows 98 ME...
What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?
Well they did release Vista.
This guy needs to see a psychiatrist ASAP.
It's nothing an R2-45 won't cure.
Looking at Germany's past history of being overrun by a malevolent cult; and considering Germany has barred Scientolgists from serving in public offices and had moved toward banning them all together at one point...
Wait, the Scientology leader compared Wikipedia to what?
At least no one told me I'd be getting all my meals in pill form
I remember being told that our lunches could eventually come in pill/wafer form in health class when I was in high school. We had an exchange student from Hong Kong who misunderstood this and thought it was going to happen in the next couple of weeks. He was almost in a panic about whether or not the price for lunch was going to go up.
If you've driven on an interstate in the mid-west, chances are you've driven on cement. It really isn't any worse than asphalt.
Except how are you going to clean it to keep it white? Most of the cement roads that I've seen tend to not remain white for long.
Developed during a time of great uncertainty and world wars, our culture developed personas who were both empowered and selfless.
...and Captain America is now dead.
Then there is only one option left...
We must nuke the Internet.
Yup. I think a lot of people who are so fanatical about digital might open their minds just a little bit if they bothered to take a photo class and play around in the darkroom. It's different, yes, and in some ways is inferior, but in many ways the quality you get is superior, especially in the B&W dept.
That's why I have a Canon AE-1 for film and a 40D for digital. Though I must say, the AE-1 has not seen much use in some time. The convenience of digital usually trumps any superiority of film 99% of the time for me these days.
R2-45 may go a long way to allow others to conclude Hubbard thought his religion was a joke.
Actually it appears that he thought it was a great way to make money.
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/scientology/start.a.religion.html
Not to mention that the quality of a Polaroid was awful at best and if you did get a great shot it's not like it was trivial to make copies of it or enlarge it. A scanner would certainly make it possible to make copies now, but that kind of defeats choosing it over a digital camera, and the enlarging of the image still applies due to the image quality.
Uh, haven't basically all US market cars for the last decade or more been designed for E85?
No, they have not.
I know even my 1998 Windstar had filters and seals that were E85 compatible, it's not like it adds much cost to make a car E85 compatible.
Great, now are your sensors and injectors? What about the EFI computer? Do you know if the fuel tank and lines were also? E85 is more reactive so basically everything that the fuel comes in contact with has to be corrosion resistant. Your EFI computer also has to know to inject more fuel into the cylinders because E85 has a lower energy density than that of regular unleaded.
Heck here is the midwest winter mixes probably go to 15% ethanol already to combat fuel line freezup.
Fuel line freeze up is a diesel only issue. The freezing point of gasoline is around -120 F, possibly as "warm" as -97 at best depending on the the water content. Gasoline has winter and summer blends due to the change in atmospheric pressures and regulation by the EPA to maintain a specified Reid vapor pressure (RVP) for gasoline. If the RVP of a liquid exceeds the atmospheric pressure it will boil. Obviously this would not be a good thing. Since the atmospheric pressure is lower in the summer the RVP must be as well. In the winter the RVP can be higher, which also tends to make gas much cheaper to produce, with a higher RVP, and is why winter gas prices tend to be lower.
Yeah. Also, how come every time I buy batteries, they aren't included?
Stephen Wright, is that you?
I was wondering the same thing. What if you refuse them entry? Can you be restrained and/or arrested? If so, what for? What if you refuse to open the door? Can they force entry? What if you're not home, are they going to kick your door in? The only way I could see this being instituted would be if someone mods their wireless access point to transmit at a high enough power level to interfere with their neighbors. Or perhaps if someone is intentionally jamming frequencies. Otherwise they might as well change the name of the FCC to the KGB.
Because it's a computer, so of course it doesn't matter.
And a terribly obsolete one at that. It can't even run Net Hack, and not even a Beowulf cluster of them could run GLQuake let alone Crysis.
There used to be a company that made a conversion kit for doing just that. You might find these links interesting:
http://www.corvaircorsa.com/crown1a.html
http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/featuredvehicles/54739_1965_chevrolet_corvair_monza_convertible/index.html
Things like this get me irked that we are spending billions upon billions each year on equipment, employees, and wasted time for all the added airport security since 9/11.
Agreed. I fly frequently and the blind spots in security are pretty obvious to me. I can't imagine what an individual who is motivated enough to kill themselves could get away with.
The fact is, is I were a terrorist I'd simply walk onto a bus or subway during rush hour with a bomb, like has been done in England and Spain. Effective, cheap, and little can be done to stop it. Not the same impact as collapsing two skyscrapers, but I seriously doubt any future plane hijackings will be successful since the rules have changed.
I've been in the airport during holidays and have often thought that the thousands of us all crammed in the pre-checkpoint line would be an easy target too.
The overreaction to airplane hijackings is disturbing to me. The high school in my home town had a similar reaction to the Columbine shootings. They installed metal detectors at every entrance and hired extra security even though there had been little more than small knives confiscated at school, and never any real violence. Of course, there wasn't time to check people's bags properly, so it would have been trivial to smuggle something in anyway.
After two years at a cost of about 1.5 million per year, the metal detectors were taken out and the extra security measures scrapped. By then the public outcry for action had calmed, and no one wanted to be flushing 1.5 million down the drain every year.
I sometimes wonder if [terrorist group here] has any plans to do anything to countries that have been attacked at this point. As far as I can tell the countries that have been are spending insane amounts of money on "feel good" measures that are frankly worthless. All it takes is one good scare and we spend hundreds of billion dollars to defend against something that they never have to do again. If the idea is to bring down the US, UK, etc. it seems, to me at times, like we're willingly an accessory to our own demise.
In other news, Prof. Obvious has written a report chronicling every confirmed case of malicius airplane crashing against skycrappers in the world from 1950 to 10/10/2001: 0 cases in all, plus 0 additional unconfirmed cases. His conclusion was, well, obvious: just because we have the budget and the products to buy doesn't mean we should spend them to fight such a highly improbable threat.
Yeah, um, Prof. Obtuse seems to have missed three little known cases of this happening just 29 days prior to his cut-off date.
Yes, but it just does not have the same je nais se qua as the iPhone. For some people, being more productive isn't enough. They have to have the only phone that matters.
When Nokia starts having billboards on the sides of buses with silhouettes of hip-looking young people dancing, then we can talk.
Obviously you haven't read this review of the iPhone: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone