If I buy an old computer that has already had Windows 98 installed on it -- just do a quick wipe and reload of the base OS, and I shouldn't have to pay for the OS. It was already purchased for that computer anyways.
Why in the hell should it be purchased AGAIN?!
I'm not paying again to use the RAM in the computer. Or anything else.
And corporations wonder why people turn to piracy...
Slightly off topic, but this is part of the mentality that is screwing all if us over. You just accept that you are "licensing" the software, and you no longer own your own copy.
Excellent comment, otherwise!!!
Thats not possible. I think you've gotta wait for the future... when you'll get caffeinated bacon and baconated grapefruit. Not to mention Admiral Crunch.
If you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula!
http://www.elevator2010.org/site/
Has TONS of information on this. It is a contest site that has been mentioned here before a few times (I'm too lazy to look up previous articles).
All of the materials are currently available to construct one. The movie on the site explains a space elevator in simple terms. I recommend watching it.
I'm self-taught at bass-clarinet, harpischord, piano, and violin. You CAN find resources. For my "violin lessons", I found everything to be in.RM format. If you're a Win-Monkey like myself and DESPISE Real Media ANYTHING -- use the "Real Alternative" --
http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Windows/Edskes/r/realalt 129.exe
Another BIG factor is knowing HOW to search for what you're looking for. Google for things like, "beginner" "guitar" "lessons" "online".
For absolute beginner lessons, you'll find MANY free resources -- I don't know jack about guitar, but with violin, I needed to know how to properly hold the thing.
Happy searching, and someday I may download one of your songs after you become famous! (or good)
--Xan
One thing I REALLY loved about DAoC was that there were the little "+"s and "-"s after you con somthing. For those of us that can't see colors, other visual clues such as that make gaming MUCH more fun! (and, you don't have to ask somebody to help you with colorbased puzzles. Which sucks)
Actually, it is from the game, "Summoner". Click on CREDITS in the main menu, then press ESC. It is an entire skit done with Red Faction characters and Summoner characters.
We've got the same thing on Comcast. It's there in the menus, "Video on Demand". And you can select just about anything.
It's where I found Atom Television, Anime Network, Sci-Fi stuff, comedy, westerns, ANYTHING. I start the show when I want to, pause it, FF/RR, everything.
And I've had it for a while now. The library just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
My father had a cornea transplant in his left eye back in 1987.
They first had to do a plaster mold of his eye (the first one broke). And then he had to sit and wait for an acceptable donor.
When the cornea came in, they numbed his eye completely (locally) and all the surrounding area (he was fully awake when the procedure was done). And stitched in the new cornea.
Late one night, I was sitting in the hospital room with my dad -- this is late the very same day (mind you, I was only 14 when this was done) -- the nurse came in to change dad's eyepatch, reapply some goo, and just do a general check. Soon as the nurse walked out of the room, my dad grabbed me and said, "Holy shit, son. I JUST saw DEPTH! I can't f*ckin' believe it. I saw in three dimensions!!!!" -- I've never saw my dad so excited over something. I told him something to the affect of "welcome to the world of depth" or something stupid like that. He told me to wear one of his eyepatches for a day, then take it off and look at how different the world was.
Later on some months, I couldn't handle driving with him. "The TREES are coming AT ME!!!"
I guess we stereoptic folks take this stuff for granted sometimes.
I was thinking the same thing. Haven't come here in a while -- this is my first time hearing about any news in the world in over two weeks. I'm expecting some exciting news from Mars. Or how the Cassini/Hyughens(sp?) spacecraft is fareing. Maybe something new politically and globally -- maybe Texas did drop from the Union, Russia managed to get back together, or some crazy pro-American (which I am...*sigh*) scheme about how we hate the middle-east THIS week...
No. I find some exciting news about some patch, to some game. Hell, I check for patches for the few games I do play.
Would it be front page news if "Anachronox 2: Boots is Back" was announced to be released next week? No. Probably not.
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They'll find out that us hairless monkeys smoked grass!
If I buy an old computer that has already had Windows 98 installed on it -- just do a quick wipe and reload of the base OS, and I shouldn't have to pay for the OS. It was already purchased for that computer anyways.
Why in the hell should it be purchased AGAIN?!
I'm not paying again to use the RAM in the computer. Or anything else.
And corporations wonder why people turn to piracy...
I paid for it, and I licensed the software.
Slightly off topic, but this is part of the mentality that is screwing all if us over. You just accept that you are "licensing" the software, and you no longer own your own copy. Excellent comment, otherwise!!!
--Xan
Thats not possible. I think you've gotta wait for the future... when you'll get caffeinated bacon and baconated grapefruit. Not to mention Admiral Crunch.
If you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula!
http://www.elevator2010.org/site/ Has TONS of information on this. It is a contest site that has been mentioned here before a few times (I'm too lazy to look up previous articles). All of the materials are currently available to construct one. The movie on the site explains a space elevator in simple terms. I recommend watching it.
Masters of Orion 3
I hope this doesn't turn into, "Quake IV: Forever".
If so, then I'll just have to play it on my Phantom console.
--Xan
I've always knocked the chips off and use the circuit board for a box cutter that you don't slice yourself on.
Also, you can go on a plane with them.
Well, that's what *I* do.
--Xan
... Grilled cheese sandwich portraying the Virgin Mary was entirely real.
And my Elvis potato chips.
And my guinea pig that is Alexander the Great reincarnate.
But lights? No way!!!
--Xan
I'm self-taught at bass-clarinet, harpischord, piano, and violin. You CAN find resources. For my "violin lessons", I found everything to be in .RM format. If you're a Win-Monkey like myself and DESPISE Real Media ANYTHING -- use the "Real Alternative" --
http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Windows/Edskes/r/realalt 129.exe
Another BIG factor is knowing HOW to search for what you're looking for. Google for things like, "beginner" "guitar" "lessons" "online".
For absolute beginner lessons, you'll find MANY free resources -- I don't know jack about guitar, but with violin, I needed to know how to properly hold the thing.
Happy searching, and someday I may download one of your songs after you become famous! (or good)
--Xan
One thing I REALLY loved about DAoC was that there were the little "+"s and "-"s after you con somthing. For those of us that can't see colors, other visual clues such as that make gaming MUCH more fun! (and, you don't have to ask somebody to help you with colorbased puzzles. Which sucks)
--Xan
Same principal why your car always runs better after you've washed and cleaned it.
--Xan
KITT
Knight Industries Two Thousand.
Oh shit, my geek is showing...
--Xan
Actually, it is from the game, "Summoner". Click on CREDITS in the main menu, then press ESC. It is an entire skit done with Red Faction characters and Summoner characters.
--Xan
I guess it doesn't really matter.
My local grocery store "saver's card" shows I'm a black woman born in 1945 named, "Juanita Junebug".
Seriously.
--Xan
I wish I still had mod points. This is one of the most insightful posts I've read in a long time.
--Xan
Three times? This is Slashdot. Give it some time, and this story will be posted two more times.
Slashdot. Keeping the "Story Duplication Tradition" alive!!
--Xan
We've got the same thing on Comcast. It's there in the menus, "Video on Demand". And you can select just about anything.
It's where I found Atom Television, Anime Network, Sci-Fi stuff, comedy, westerns, ANYTHING. I start the show when I want to, pause it, FF/RR, everything.
And I've had it for a while now. The library just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
--Xan
Hate to reply to myself, but...
This transplant my dad had done left him near-sighted in one eye, far-sighted in the other.
He's got a really weird prescription.
--Xan
My father had a cornea transplant in his left eye back in 1987.
They first had to do a plaster mold of his eye (the first one broke). And then he had to sit and wait for an acceptable donor.
When the cornea came in, they numbed his eye completely (locally) and all the surrounding area (he was fully awake when the procedure was done). And stitched in the new cornea.
Late one night, I was sitting in the hospital room with my dad -- this is late the very same day (mind you, I was only 14 when this was done) -- the nurse came in to change dad's eyepatch, reapply some goo, and just do a general check. Soon as the nurse walked out of the room, my dad grabbed me and said, "Holy shit, son. I JUST saw DEPTH! I can't f*ckin' believe it. I saw in three dimensions!!!!" -- I've never saw my dad so excited over something. I told him something to the affect of "welcome to the world of depth" or something stupid like that. He told me to wear one of his eyepatches for a day, then take it off and look at how different the world was.
Later on some months, I couldn't handle driving with him. "The TREES are coming AT ME!!!"
I guess we stereoptic folks take this stuff for granted sometimes.
--Xan
I was thinking the same thing. Haven't come here in a while -- this is my first time hearing about any news in the world in over two weeks. I'm expecting some exciting news from Mars. Or how the Cassini/Hyughens(sp?) spacecraft is fareing. Maybe something new politically and globally -- maybe Texas did drop from the Union, Russia managed to get back together, or some crazy pro-American (which I am...*sigh*) scheme about how we hate the middle-east THIS week...
No. I find some exciting news about some patch, to some game. Hell, I check for patches for the few games I do play.
Would it be front page news if "Anachronox 2: Boots is Back" was announced to be released next week? No. Probably not.
This is why I've foregone other forms of media.
--Xan
If you're using Windows Media Player, you can download the quicktime codec (as well as Real) from here:
http://a3.edskes.com/quicktimealt122.exe
Quicktime
http://a1.edskes.com/r/realalt111.exe
Real
--Xan
http://www.sjgames.com/SS
--Xan
"life as we know it" needs four basic elements to exist. I've always remembered it as CHON. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen.
Of course, you could go the silica based route... but I haven't a clue as to what's needed for something like that.
And again, I believe I'm right in the CHON thing. I seem to remember that from grade school back in the 70's...
--Xan
and $35 for a data cable. Contacts, appointments, to-do lists, everything. Including plenty of games.
Functionality, portable color game machine, productivity, and a cell-phone all in one handy device.
Oh, and it also serves as my alarm clock as well. And calculator when I'm grocery shopping.
--Xan