You can watch almost everything in Hulu in 480 resolution, which is better than my standard cable. I can also watch it on my flatscreen TV which has both a VGA and DVI port. The line is blurring between TV and computer monitor. If Hulu and Crackle and such had a little more content and were updated more regularly, I'd drop cable altogether.
My girlfriend is right handed but uses a mouse almost exclusively left landed. If she were a man I'd make a joke about 'one-handed-computing' but I don't think that quite explains it.
Why the hell are they using Facebook and MySpace anyway? These are adults, that shit is for teenagers. The fact that they HAVE these accounts should disqualify them from office.
Absolutely not. It isn't like you can pick the experience level of your doctor anyway, or that there is some miracle cure that you ONLY get if you spend a certain amount of money. I don't imagine he got any special treatment (maybe a nicer, more private room) than you or I would have gotten, and he probably took his own helicopter in when it was time for surgery. Insurance dollars spend just as well as Apple dollars, and the docs would have to answer the same questions to the same review board if something went wrong. He had the luxury of picking his hospital and of course he chose the one with the shortest list. He still had to wait in line, BEHIND some regular old people from Tennessee, before he got his turn.
Exactly! They should be ashamed that ANY scam of this nature still exists. I mean, by the very basic model of the system there has to be a link between the scammer and the scamee for money to flow, so why can't the authorities just follow the money to its destination? Its like a bank robber who leaves his calling card at the scene of every crime. Would this type of thing work door-to-door? No! Why should virtual scams and thievery be any more tolerated?
It can be difficult to diagnose. I had an ex who had it, and had been diagnosed for years. She went to a new doctor who ran some tests and they said they couldn't find any trace of Crohns, and tried to re-diagnose her with IBS. Apparently the signs are not persistent, so depending on when the doctors did the test, its possible they could have missed the inflamed tissue and ruled it out early on. Or, they could just be morons.
I believe you are correct, thats the way it is in KY anyway. If you have phone troubles, the telco will fix anything up to that box on their dime (if it isn't your fault), but if they have to come inside your house, its $75/hour.
Nice thought, but phone jacks are usually daisy chained and ethernet can't be, unless you were to put a hub in each room. Not entirely a bad idea, but if you're going through the trouble, might as well do it right and run them all to the punch block area. It will still be handy to use the existing lines to fish your cat5 down the walls to the jack. That way, when you sell the house, you can just wire up the phone jacks to your Cat-5/6 and nobody will be the wiser.
Mouse and keyboard will STILL be better and more accurate for FPS games, and dual analogue sticks will still be better for platformers.
Personally I wouldn't mourn the loss of FPS or platform games, and evolving the controller is one means to this end. I mean, come on, isn't it time to progress? How many times can you re-skin Wolf3d/Doom/Quake/Duke3d/etc before we all get sick of it? When was the last time someone actually came up with a NEW concept for a game instead of re-branding something else?
I appreciate the joke, but this wouldn't be/. if I didn't correct your SW. It was Han Solo's team who found the "secret" entrance, and Wickett told him exactly where it was. Luke was busy playing with Vader and the Emperor at that time. Also, it was a shield generator and not a nuclear reactor. The ewoks probably wouldn't appreciate the fallout from blowing up a reactor in their forest.
I wont get in to the logistics of how they found adequate power on a forest moon to generate such a shield, or why people in SW insist on building shield generators OUTSIDE of the shields...
Anti-climate change and anti-Israeli sites? Why didn't they at least do something funny, like redirect to goatse? This story would be so much better if it were 'Hackers Rick-Roll US Army Servers' or something along those lines.
I don't think so, I had a pair of Win98 computers at work that were running 24/7 for several years before I finally upgraded them to XP. 98 was a solid OS if you trim out some of the fat and don't let people install junk on them.
open source != free/gratis (like free beer)
While most FOSS is free in every sense of the word, it doesn't necessarily have to be given out freely. There is open source software that you have to buy, and closed software that costs nothing, so that can't really be included as part of the law.
If there is a cure for the disease then why only treat the symptoms?
Amen to that. If someone can be sued for downloading an mp3, and if the whole Pirate Bay trial can happen, why can't it be universally illegal to damage someone's computer intentionally? It's a real, tangible thing and has real costs associated with fixing, so how is it any different than someone running by and chucking a brick through my window? (with an herbal viagra ad, and contact information taped on it!)
I used to get a lot of fax spam and I would often call the companies sending out the notices to complain. I'd tell them that what they are doing is illegal, and that I was going to report them to the FCC if it didn't stop. Know what? They laugh at you, because 90% of them are outside of the US and could care less what our laws are. It would be the same thing if malware was deemed illegal, so there needs to be some system in place for international cyber crime. What happens if someone outside the US hacks a bank and steals a few million dollars? Where is the line drawn to determine when an offense is punishable internationally?
I don't think that quite explains it. Any large game project is going to have a team working on the core engine, a team for mechanics, a team for graphics, a team for storyline, etc. It's not like there's one group that has to divide their time between writing content and making graphics, its just that the market has proven that most people don't care about content anymore, they just want eye candy. So, the makers focus on giving the biggest group of people what they want.
MUDs have a completely different business model. Most of them were free to play, and had absolutely no graphics (maybe ASCII art) so the developers pretty much had to focus on writing story and creative mechanics if they wanted to attract players from thousands of other MUDs with the exact same "graphics" system.
They could be waterproofed, at least enough to keep out a few raindrops here and there. Like the fancy little pad that the UPS guy carries. As far as losing/breaking it, treat that the same way as cell phones; offer insurance options and a reasonable replacement plan and there should be no big issues. If I know I've got a long ride and I don't have a book or magazine that I'm interested in at the moment, I'll bring my laptop just to have something to read. I'd sure rather take a $300 reader on the bus than my laptop.
I know there are concerns about such a major transition, but its pretty much sink or swim time for printed media, so they had better start swimming in one way or another.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm not sure that they plan on charging you for the devices. I've heard some media professionals discussing this topic before, and its really a win-win situation. The average newspaper costs WAY more to print than the news stand price, and they make even less money from subscribers. They make their money from the advertising dollars, so they basically pay you to read their paper. So, its in their best interest to give you the Kindle or whatever included with your normal subscription. Kind of like cable/satellite companies that give you a free DVR when you sign up for a year.
What's the big deal about 3-4 Kindles vs. 3-4 regular newspapers? Sure I guess you can roll up/fold up your newspaper, but at least you're not generating nearly as much waste paper with a reusable device.
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You must be new here, old jokes and redundancy are par for the course.
You can watch almost everything in Hulu in 480 resolution, which is better than my standard cable. I can also watch it on my flatscreen TV which has both a VGA and DVI port. The line is blurring between TV and computer monitor. If Hulu and Crackle and such had a little more content and were updated more regularly, I'd drop cable altogether.
My girlfriend is right handed but uses a mouse almost exclusively left landed. If she were a man I'd make a joke about 'one-handed-computing' but I don't think that quite explains it.
Why the hell are they using Facebook and MySpace anyway? These are adults, that shit is for teenagers. The fact that they HAVE these accounts should disqualify them from office.
So you're saying they glamorized something to sell it? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
Absolutely not. It isn't like you can pick the experience level of your doctor anyway, or that there is some miracle cure that you ONLY get if you spend a certain amount of money. I don't imagine he got any special treatment (maybe a nicer, more private room) than you or I would have gotten, and he probably took his own helicopter in when it was time for surgery. Insurance dollars spend just as well as Apple dollars, and the docs would have to answer the same questions to the same review board if something went wrong. He had the luxury of picking his hospital and of course he chose the one with the shortest list. He still had to wait in line, BEHIND some regular old people from Tennessee, before he got his turn.
10-20 MINUTES? I can't sit at a long red light without pulling out my cell phone and playing chess or tetris or something...
Exactly! They should be ashamed that ANY scam of this nature still exists. I mean, by the very basic model of the system there has to be a link between the scammer and the scamee for money to flow, so why can't the authorities just follow the money to its destination? Its like a bank robber who leaves his calling card at the scene of every crime. Would this type of thing work door-to-door? No! Why should virtual scams and thievery be any more tolerated?
I would be a nightmare for a captain to meet such things in high seas.
Someone had better warn Capt. Don Quixote immediately.
It can be difficult to diagnose. I had an ex who had it, and had been diagnosed for years. She went to a new doctor who ran some tests and they said they couldn't find any trace of Crohns, and tried to re-diagnose her with IBS. Apparently the signs are not persistent, so depending on when the doctors did the test, its possible they could have missed the inflamed tissue and ruled it out early on. Or, they could just be morons.
The circle is now complete, the master has become the learner...
I believe you are correct, thats the way it is in KY anyway. If you have phone troubles, the telco will fix anything up to that box on their dime (if it isn't your fault), but if they have to come inside your house, its $75/hour.
Nice thought, but phone jacks are usually daisy chained and ethernet can't be, unless you were to put a hub in each room. Not entirely a bad idea, but if you're going through the trouble, might as well do it right and run them all to the punch block area. It will still be handy to use the existing lines to fish your cat5 down the walls to the jack. That way, when you sell the house, you can just wire up the phone jacks to your Cat-5/6 and nobody will be the wiser.
Mouse and keyboard will STILL be better and more accurate for FPS games, and dual analogue sticks will still be better for platformers.
Personally I wouldn't mourn the loss of FPS or platform games, and evolving the controller is one means to this end. I mean, come on, isn't it time to progress? How many times can you re-skin Wolf3d/Doom/Quake/Duke3d/etc before we all get sick of it? When was the last time someone actually came up with a NEW concept for a game instead of re-branding something else?
I appreciate the joke, but this wouldn't be /. if I didn't correct your SW. It was Han Solo's team who found the "secret" entrance, and Wickett told him exactly where it was. Luke was busy playing with Vader and the Emperor at that time. Also, it was a shield generator and not a nuclear reactor. The ewoks probably wouldn't appreciate the fallout from blowing up a reactor in their forest.
I wont get in to the logistics of how they found adequate power on a forest moon to generate such a shield, or why people in SW insist on building shield generators OUTSIDE of the shields...
Anti-climate change and anti-Israeli sites? Why didn't they at least do something funny, like redirect to goatse? This story would be so much better if it were 'Hackers Rick-Roll US Army Servers' or something along those lines.
Did you think they picked lottery numbers from ping pong balls just because its more fun?
I don't think so, I had a pair of Win98 computers at work that were running 24/7 for several years before I finally upgraded them to XP. 98 was a solid OS if you trim out some of the fat and don't let people install junk on them.
open source != free/gratis (like free beer) While most FOSS is free in every sense of the word, it doesn't necessarily have to be given out freely. There is open source software that you have to buy, and closed software that costs nothing, so that can't really be included as part of the law.
Well obviously the egyptians didn't have the X-ray fluorescence and multispectral imaging to read them, so of course they got thrown away.
If there is a cure for the disease then why only treat the symptoms?
Amen to that. If someone can be sued for downloading an mp3, and if the whole Pirate Bay trial can happen, why can't it be universally illegal to damage someone's computer intentionally? It's a real, tangible thing and has real costs associated with fixing, so how is it any different than someone running by and chucking a brick through my window? (with an herbal viagra ad, and contact information taped on it!)
I used to get a lot of fax spam and I would often call the companies sending out the notices to complain. I'd tell them that what they are doing is illegal, and that I was going to report them to the FCC if it didn't stop. Know what? They laugh at you, because 90% of them are outside of the US and could care less what our laws are. It would be the same thing if malware was deemed illegal, so there needs to be some system in place for international cyber crime. What happens if someone outside the US hacks a bank and steals a few million dollars? Where is the line drawn to determine when an offense is punishable internationally?
I don't think that quite explains it. Any large game project is going to have a team working on the core engine, a team for mechanics, a team for graphics, a team for storyline, etc. It's not like there's one group that has to divide their time between writing content and making graphics, its just that the market has proven that most people don't care about content anymore, they just want eye candy. So, the makers focus on giving the biggest group of people what they want.
MUDs have a completely different business model. Most of them were free to play, and had absolutely no graphics (maybe ASCII art) so the developers pretty much had to focus on writing story and creative mechanics if they wanted to attract players from thousands of other MUDs with the exact same "graphics" system.
They could be waterproofed, at least enough to keep out a few raindrops here and there. Like the fancy little pad that the UPS guy carries. As far as losing/breaking it, treat that the same way as cell phones; offer insurance options and a reasonable replacement plan and there should be no big issues. If I know I've got a long ride and I don't have a book or magazine that I'm interested in at the moment, I'll bring my laptop just to have something to read. I'd sure rather take a $300 reader on the bus than my laptop.
I know there are concerns about such a major transition, but its pretty much sink or swim time for printed media, so they had better start swimming in one way or another.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm not sure that they plan on charging you for the devices. I've heard some media professionals discussing this topic before, and its really a win-win situation. The average newspaper costs WAY more to print than the news stand price, and they make even less money from subscribers. They make their money from the advertising dollars, so they basically pay you to read their paper. So, its in their best interest to give you the Kindle or whatever included with your normal subscription. Kind of like cable/satellite companies that give you a free DVR when you sign up for a year.
What's the big deal about 3-4 Kindles vs. 3-4 regular newspapers? Sure I guess you can roll up/fold up your newspaper, but at least you're not generating nearly as much waste paper with a reusable device.
Rule #2 is "Who is speaking?". If the person is an average American, an 8th grade understanding of English is probably being generous.