When Quake multiplayer came out I was ridiculously addicted. I was about 16 at the time, therefore in high school and had no real obligations. I remember many many nights of playing CTF online with a modem (and of course cursing the very few LPB's who had broadband) until the wee hours of the morning.
Probably somewhat due to sleep deprivation, but still an effect of the game, I would hear quake sound effects around me all the time. I always thought I'd heard someone grapple to the ceiling above me or jump into water nearby, etc. I can remember all the times I just subconciously thought about switching to rocket launcher, etc and blasting whatever (whomever) it was that was pissing me off, or just for good clean fun.
And then there was the grappling hook... I can't count the number of times I just thought I could or wanted to use it in real life, just subconciously, where you think it and a few seconds later you realize that in the game of RL there is no grappling hook mod! Dammit!
Anyone notice the Wakamaru robot manuf'd by Mitsubishi looks just like some 1980s version of a robot from a cartoon, or some toy that I seem to recall, although the name escapes me. Apparently a big round clunky robot with yellow plastic case is going to be the personal assistant of the 21st century.
I think the designers watched the Jetsons too much when they were children?
There's no way they would let that happen - Office is their big cash cow, and they have a strangle-hold on the OS market because of people's reliance on running Office (and yes, I know they make Office for Mac...).
I would think a real oven with the refrigeration and remote control would be more useful here... I mean who really cooks a meal that takes longer than 10 minutes in a microwave? However, it would be great to throw a meal in the oven for the day and have it start cooking an hour before you get home...
I'm of course glazing over the fact that any sort of appliance (especially one that can burn your house down) should not be accessible from the internet.
I don't know how many times a USB NIC has come in handy for repairing systems, I also keep a driver diskette with drivers for versions of Windows (I assume you are mostly repairing Windows PC's;) that don't autodetect the NIC.
Works great for transferring files (backup/restore) and doing updates, software/driver downloads, etc..
Oh yea and of course a few Windows install CD's, hush hush.
If I had mod points right now, I'd abuse them and mod you up for mentioning this one! When I read this the first thing that popped into my head was this exact movie. I was going to post it but a quick ctrl-F on 'flight' brought up yours.
Always been one of my 'long lost favorites', as I have only seen it probably once since my childhood and that was at least 5 years ago. My favorite part was the aliens on the ship in the glass jars and such! I will never forget the hilarious laugh that one made. I am joining your cult.
Even if VNC is supposedly secure, (and I use it for some workstations), I still can't imagine putting it on a server. There just seems to be something inherently wrong with putting up a service on a dedicated server which gives people full and complete control over your system...
This would probably help cut down on spam from a lot of larger American companies, however, most spammers are shady and try to get around laws and hide their identities as it is. I'm sure the law will dictate that the spam cannot originate from a mail server physically located in the States, so the spammers will just originate (or bounce) messages from a server located outside of U.S. turf. Not to mention the relative ease of forging email headers.
I don't think they could enforce the law on anyone outside of the States, and I'm sure most spammers won't care.
So I kind of doubt it would be all that effective.
"From my perspective, wireless is great! I've loved it since day one. It kicks the crap out of satellite.. I can actually play games now with a decent ping!".... "Our service is subject to frequent bottlenecks and complete downages regularly "
Umm... need I say more??? What is wrong with moderators who mod this up to +5 Interesting?? The only thing interesting about it is the double standard and the complete stupidity of this statement.
Go ahead mod me -1 troll I care not. Who said life is fair?! This guy got +5 for these ridiculous comments, I may as well get -5 for pointing it out.
Does it seem eerie to anyone else that such a story would make the front page (when other much more relevant tech stories are rejected)? Do I smell a paid advert in disguise?
Ok mod me troll -1 all you want, but I also want to file a complaint with slashdot. I typed up a really nice summary of this story with links about a week ago when it would be actually relevant so people could watch it (instead of posting it AFTER the first game) and of course got rejected. Losing more and more faith in/.... (and i have been here a very long time)
Ok I'll probably get flamed for stating this in this community, but...
I don't see why video games can't be rated and regulated the same as movies. If a movie is R rated, you have to be of legal age. This permits movie producers and directors to put content in the movies that is 'for adults.' I have always wondered why video games were not regulated in the same manner.
This may actually help to remove the stigma that video games 'have to be for kids since theyre video games', and allow more adult entertainment (ie gratuitous sex and violence) in video games without tons of media hype and right-wing conservatives jumping all over them and saying they're evil and destroying our youth.
So... rating systems may give us better games and less controversy over them. There is no hype that our youth is being corrupted with the release of each R-rated movie.
Why don't manufacturers start doing dual-DVI outputs? Granted, most LCD's have a second analog input, but what's the point of having one DVI output then?
I wish they'd start putting dual-DVI outputs on them. Maybe one of the other companies that makes them (MSI, PNY, Leadtek, etc) will offer one finally. AFAIK they don't even offer a hydrahead adapter for the one DVI port to split to two (doubt its possible without a proprietary output like the Radeon VE's).
"until now, when Home Depot announced they would be upgrading their POS systems with technology from NCR Corp., and 360 Commerce Inc. and... Microsoft Corp."
So they are upgrading POS systems to great big whopping POS systems! (same TLA, but use your imagination)
Usually they did this when you added paper to the stack, but without taking out the previous stack and making it into one big stack first. if there was already paper in there and you just stuck more on top, it would inevitably grab multiple sheets and jam. btw, having the printer reconditioned has fixed many 5L's that we've had at work!
One feature that I have many times yearned for is the ability to send semi-personal batch emails to lists or groups. It would be so easy to implement in a mail client too. Just have a New Form Message or something and input the addresses and match each address to some personal attributes like greeting, personal message paragraph, closing, whatever options the user chooses and then also a "generic body" that is the same for all users, with the option to insert variables into it as well (such as first name, etc).
Let me know if this is an existing feature in any clients, but TMK it's not (and I've tried a crapload across all platforms).
I think we should send this link to David Cantrell... I'm also a loyal Slack user (since version 3.4 I believe). It was my first linux experience, and I have tried just about every distro under the sun, and still keep coming back to slackware, for many reasons already mentioned in above posts... Not to mention that I've had the best luck on many different laptops with slack. We can't see slackware go!! I'm running it right now on the machine I'm typing this message even...
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21 hours to code, 1 hour to eat, 2 hours to sleep... Would still have to bypass bathing.
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you are the disgusting slob that gives computer "nerds" a bad name. yech, i want to retch just thinking of your fat stinky greasy rotting body. get out in the sun instead of hunching over a console in a dark basement.
I didn't make it in time to see the cube pics when they were first leaked, does anyone care to email me a few to gotti-@rocketmail.com or post a link up here (if there's anyone so bold as to be still hosting them)..
thanks much
Does anyone know of a mirror that still exists with the G4 cube pics ? I never got a chance to see them, they all got taken down too quickly. If you want to email me privately if you have pictures on your HD you could attatch, mailto:gotti-@rocketmail.com. Thanks much !
Slashdot Mirror
When Quake multiplayer came out I was ridiculously addicted. I was about 16 at the time, therefore in high school and had no real obligations. I remember many many nights of playing CTF online with a modem (and of course cursing the very few LPB's who had broadband) until the wee hours of the morning.
Probably somewhat due to sleep deprivation, but still an effect of the game, I would hear quake sound effects around me all the time. I always thought I'd heard someone grapple to the ceiling above me or jump into water nearby, etc. I can remember all the times I just subconciously thought about switching to rocket launcher, etc and blasting whatever (whomever) it was that was pissing me off, or just for good clean fun.
And then there was the grappling hook... I can't count the number of times I just thought I could or wanted to use it in real life, just subconciously, where you think it and a few seconds later you realize that in the game of RL there is no grappling hook mod! Dammit!
Anyone notice the Wakamaru robot manuf'd by Mitsubishi looks just like some 1980s version of a robot from a cartoon, or some toy that I seem to recall, although the name escapes me. Apparently a big round clunky robot with yellow plastic case is going to be the personal assistant of the 21st century.
I think the designers watched the Jetsons too much when they were children?
There's no way they would let that happen - Office is their big cash cow, and they have a strangle-hold on the OS market because of people's reliance on running Office (and yes, I know they make Office for Mac...).
I would think a real oven with the refrigeration and remote control would be more useful here... I mean who really cooks a meal that takes longer than 10 minutes in a microwave? However, it would be great to throw a meal in the oven for the day and have it start cooking an hour before you get home...
I'm of course glazing over the fact that any sort of appliance (especially one that can burn your house down) should not be accessible from the internet.
I don't know how many times a USB NIC has come in handy for repairing systems, I also keep a driver diskette with drivers for versions of Windows (I assume you are mostly repairing Windows PC's ;) that don't autodetect the NIC.
Works great for transferring files (backup/restore) and doing updates, software/driver downloads, etc..
Oh yea and of course a few Windows install CD's, hush hush.
Imagine the new market for customized pets.. It wouldn't be too cool when your pet Balrog-look-alike turns on you though and tears your limbs off.
I would get a pet ostrich with the head of an antelope.
If I had mod points right now, I'd abuse them and mod you up for mentioning this one! When I read this the first thing that popped into my head was this exact movie. I was going to post it but a quick ctrl-F on 'flight' brought up yours.
Always been one of my 'long lost favorites', as I have only seen it probably once since my childhood and that was at least 5 years ago. My favorite part was the aliens on the ship in the glass jars and such! I will never forget the hilarious laugh that one made. I am joining your cult.
cheers
Even if VNC is supposedly secure, (and I use it for some workstations), I still can't imagine putting it on a server. There just seems to be something inherently wrong with putting up a service on a dedicated server which gives people full and complete control over your system...
pr0n!
Imagine people ducking out of the way at the money shot...
Funny thing is that I am currently watching that episode on the godliest of networks as I write this...
Oh great, now when someone wants to rob me they dont just stick a pistol in my back they rip my eye out like Wesley Snipes did.
Excuse me sir, can EYE talk to you???
This would probably help cut down on spam from a lot of larger American companies, however, most spammers are shady and try to get around laws and hide their identities as it is. I'm sure the law will dictate that the spam cannot originate from a mail server physically located in the States, so the spammers will just originate (or bounce) messages from a server located outside of U.S. turf. Not to mention the relative ease of forging email headers.
I don't think they could enforce the law on anyone outside of the States, and I'm sure most spammers won't care.
So I kind of doubt it would be all that effective.
-due to inflation this is now only my $0.0006
"From my perspective, wireless is great! I've loved it since day one. It kicks the crap out of satellite.. I can actually play games now with a decent ping!". ...
"Our service is subject to frequent bottlenecks and complete downages regularly "
Umm... need I say more??? What is wrong with moderators who mod this up to +5 Interesting?? The only thing interesting about it is the double standard and the complete stupidity of this statement.
Go ahead mod me -1 troll I care not. Who said life is fair?! This guy got +5 for these ridiculous comments, I may as well get -5 for pointing it out.
Does it seem eerie to anyone else that such a story would make the front page (when other much more relevant tech stories are rejected)? Do I smell a paid advert in disguise?
Ok mod me troll -1 all you want, but I also want to file a complaint with slashdot. I typed up a really nice summary of this story with links about a week ago when it would be actually relevant so people could watch it (instead of posting it AFTER the first game) and of course got rejected. Losing more and more faith in /. ... (and i have been here a very long time)
Ok I'll probably get flamed for stating this in this community, but...
/me puts on flame-retardant suit
I don't see why video games can't be rated and regulated the same as movies. If a movie is R rated, you have to be of legal age. This permits movie producers and directors to put content in the movies that is 'for adults.' I have always wondered why video games were not regulated in the same manner.
This may actually help to remove the stigma that video games 'have to be for kids since theyre video games', and allow more adult entertainment (ie gratuitous sex and violence) in video games without tons of media hype and right-wing conservatives jumping all over them and saying they're evil and destroying our youth.
So... rating systems may give us better games and less controversy over them. There is no hype that our youth is being corrupted with the release of each R-rated movie.
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Why don't manufacturers start doing dual-DVI outputs? Granted, most LCD's have a second analog input, but what's the point of having one DVI output then?
I wish they'd start putting dual-DVI outputs on them. Maybe one of the other companies that makes them (MSI, PNY, Leadtek, etc) will offer one finally. AFAIK they don't even offer a hydrahead adapter for the one DVI port to split to two (doubt its possible without a proprietary output like the Radeon VE's).
"until now, when Home Depot announced they would be upgrading their POS systems with technology from NCR Corp., and 360 Commerce Inc. and ... Microsoft Corp."
.sig is longer than yours.
So they are upgrading POS systems to great big whopping POS systems! (same TLA, but use your imagination)
-My
Usually they did this when you added paper to the stack, but without taking out the previous stack and making it into one big stack first. if there was already paper in there and you just stuck more on top, it would inevitably grab multiple sheets and jam. btw, having the printer reconditioned has fixed many 5L's that we've had at work!
One feature that I have many times yearned for is the ability to send semi-personal batch emails to lists or groups. It would be so easy to implement in a mail client too. Just have a New Form Message or something and input the addresses and match each address to some personal attributes like greeting, personal message paragraph, closing, whatever options the user chooses and then also a "generic body" that is the same for all users, with the option to insert variables into it as well (such as first name, etc).
Let me know if this is an existing feature in any clients, but TMK it's not (and I've tried a crapload across all platforms).
I think we should send this link to David Cantrell... I'm also a loyal Slack user (since version 3.4 I believe). It was my first linux experience, and I have tried just about every distro under the sun, and still keep coming back to slackware, for many reasons already mentioned in above posts... Not to mention that I've had the best luck on many different laptops with slack. We can't see slackware go!! I'm running it right now on the machine I'm typing this message even...
moderators - mod this one up
-------- snip --------- 21 hours to code, 1 hour to eat, 2 hours to sleep... Would still have to bypass bathing. ------- snip ------------ you are the disgusting slob that gives computer "nerds" a bad name. yech, i want to retch just thinking of your fat stinky greasy rotting body. get out in the sun instead of hunching over a console in a dark basement.
I didn't make it in time to see the cube pics when they were first leaked, does anyone care to email me a few to gotti-@rocketmail.com or post a link up here (if there's anyone so bold as to be still hosting them) ..
thanks much
Does anyone know of a mirror that still exists with the G4 cube pics ? I never got a chance to see them, they all got taken down too quickly. If you want to email me privately if you have pictures on your HD you could attatch, mailto:gotti-@rocketmail.com. Thanks much !