judging from my profile and your insight, 107 percent of the ads i view will be porn. i guess it's time to cultivate a healthy interest in bad 80s porno music and The Bloodhound Gang.
My favorite radio statio, DC101, is a CCCS (so close to communism I feel like eating Borsht) and right now since I dont feel like spending 20 bux on a cheap radio, I can only listen to it in my car with my blown speakers (maybe just speakers that blow). Now I will be able to listen to good music without stealing it and on good speakers.
i have something like this already. use a poorly grounded electrical outlet. we were playing Ages of Empires at a lan party and periodically i would throw my mouse into the air because i had just recieved a painful shock to the head courtesy of my headphones.
One would think that at a mere 55 miles from Washington DC one might be able to get a pretty spiffy internet pipeline. But oh no.
Our local cable company a few years ago was planning to offer cable internet access. Then they, Media General, were baught out. For a while, our new cable company, Cox, offered limited one-way cable internet using a 64kBps cable modem downstream and a standard 28.8 modem for upstream. Latency times were so horrible that unless we had a huge download to do, we used our 56k line because it was faster for web access.
The cost of the service was $39.99 per month for the access, $10 per month for the modem, and $20 per month to the phone company for the extra dedicated phone line.
The more rural parts of the area who had Adelphia as their provider had 256/32kBps cable service at $40+10.
Then, the Cox switched ISPs from ISP Channel to RoadRunner. They had to upgrade all of the cabling to and in the neighborhoods to offer two-way cable access. There was a 2 month period where dial-up was it and the large number of users hopping on their 56ks again caused huge amounts of down-time on the few local dial ISPs. Finally we have our cable service back. It's cheaper now without the extra phone line, it's faster, but it's still slow, averaging 100kBps down and 20kBps up.
Verizon, aka Das Mann, has no plans to put DSL in the area despite numerous promises that they do, and flyers offering it.
Linturbocare? Sounds like some sort of drink.
Careturlinbo? Nah, college game that invloves drinking.
Turbolinuxcare? Sounds too much like original. Of course we already do have AOL Time Warner Netscape Glothax Megathorp. ..
this of course brings up another issue. if the figures are based on 50 million people, well, let's be honest here. of the 50 million people who use napster, there is a large number who, if required to pay a user fee, will simply pirate service. i know i'd be more than happy to spend up to about $50us per year for napster, since i save that much on CDs i dont buy since i only want 1 song. $1.67 per month comes out to about $20 per year or something. in essense, the fee would have to be raised to make up for what's lost to piracy.
I'm going to patent Bringing Large Oxygen Waves Into Normal Greenhouse Heat Aspirated Realtime Datasystems. It's high time that all these engineering pirates pay for the amazing innovation of BLOWINGHARD. I'm tired of my meelions being squandered by the malicious people who refuse to pay an honest dollar.
Seeing as in most Geeks in Space episodes Anime quotes and quips spew forth from you, I think we the listeners (and deranged readers) should see exactly how your background in anime developed.
When did you really get into Anime? What was the first anime movie/series you watched? Are there any in particular that stick out as being particularly good or "close-to-home"? If you could be any anime character, who? Have you seen The Lain?
I would like to patent feet. I fugure this is a great way to selectively hit the people who most need to be hit. Like Microsoft. The Microsoft slogan would have to be "Where do you want to not walk today?" otherwise i would haev to sue them based on the fact that it is a blatant and gross undermining of my product. At the same time, the geeks, coders, hackers, and people who operate Zambonis wouldn't give a pair of dingoes kidneys about it since i mean, come on, when was the last time YOU moved?
That and i will also be trademarking the combination of chemicals to make the scent of fresh cut grass. I would like to state that- oh, nevermind, i guess i missed the bus on that one. Damn.
I think I'll also be patenting Natalie Portman. Because I-CANN.
you know, if they didn't have Fortess installed on them (locks the system down so tight you can't even right click or access the Start menu in win98 and no alternate boot options available) i probably would have REMed out or msconfig'ed out a lot of the useless stuff, but since they did and i can't, i can't. and how the hell do you have 98 megs of RAM? if that's on SIMMs that would take 32|32, 16|16, 1|1, seems like a rather odd combination. and on DIMMs that would be 64|32|2 and i dont think you can get a 2m DIMM. It's a SCHOOL and i can't just "buy a friggan' console" so make sure to actually read the post before you go off on a rant. a mail server isn't going to need to load large multimedia applications (we tried to pull up MS Powerpoint and it took 20 minutes for crissakes. and nonlinear differential equations, gen/spec relativity, lines of derivitive, all that fun stuff would be taught in a higher science class. we do't have higher science, and the computers are ONLY in the science wing, the math wing got completely shafted in computing power.
At the risk of redundancy, I think this is a very good idea. I liked how the screenshos were from the original Myst and not some other world. Ah, memories. Now if they just make it and release it within an acceptabe time span *cough cough* Diablo 2 *caugh caugh*
In reference to the whole computers for education spending shindig going on lately, i dont know about your schools, but the ones they supplied ours with absolutely and utterly blow. I tried to load a 186 meg ASF of Spaceballs up and the Celery 433 w/ 32megs PC-66 RAM chugged away at the issue for a solid 15 minutes before i just gave up and ripped the CD out of the drive. There are five of these computers in every science class. IMHO, it would have been much more worth it to purchase 1 or 2 nice computers (Pentium III's or so) instead of 5 stripped down calculators. So thumbs down to the school systems.
Pinball is always fun. There is no such thing as a bad game of pinball. Even if you do get a rare bad game or something, there is always the knowledge that you are in full control of something real and something physical and not something made of infinite polygons.
How can you go wrong with hentai? La Blue Girl! I'm surprised i didn't see more geeks posting this. That and the hentai remake of Neon Genesis Evangelion. On the less lewd side, Bubblegum Crisis is good, Battle Dolls is good, Rorouni Kenshin is awesome. Hmm, what am i forgetting? Oh yeah, SPRIGGAN! Spriggan is amazing, check out Sailor Death Productions for two Anime Music Vids with Spriggan in the filmwork.
Ah ha! No more physical activity at all. I can finally completely veg out in front of my computer instead of having to actually move a mouse or my keyboard. This is a major revolution. Cool. Unreal tournament will never be the same. Rock on. What OS will it use first (When it is finally developed)?
In Medievia, they're are quite a few mega items available for purchase. The difference in the two systems is that Everquest has a required service fee of $10 per month, while Medievia is completely free in every sence. No software to install, any Telnet capable system can already log on. Vryce (the owner of Medievia) gets all of his server finance throught the selling of the immensly powerful Mystical Talisman Of Medievia. He relies on these sales to keep Medievia running as smoothly as the players require. With sometimes over 500 users logged on simultaneously, massive hardware is needed or else the deadly Lagmonster attacks (brutally slay it!). Simply put, in free games, selling items to the players from the system is good. In pay games, any selling of items is inane and pointless. Almost all of the Hero characters in Medievia have almost if not every donation item. Totalling over $250 in real world cash or 250,000,000 medievia gold if baught off medievia auction.
BTW: telnet to medievia.com:4000 MudMaster 2000 rules.
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So now when I flip my computer the bird, it can delete my porn, right?
I'm sorry, but it has to be said. It's 4:20!!
judging from my profile and your insight, 107 percent of the ads i view will be porn. i guess it's time to cultivate a healthy interest in bad 80s porno music and The Bloodhound Gang.
My favorite radio statio, DC101, is a CCCS (so close to communism I feel like eating Borsht) and right now since I dont feel like spending 20 bux on a cheap radio, I can only listen to it in my car with my blown speakers (maybe just speakers that blow). Now I will be able to listen to good music without stealing it and on good speakers.
i have something like this already. use a poorly grounded electrical outlet. we were playing Ages of Empires at a lan party and periodically i would throw my mouse into the air because i had just recieved a painful shock to the head courtesy of my headphones.
...garrotte wire in the fiber cable runs.
time to go download "|V|E74LL1C4 - |_|nf0rg1v3n"
One would think that at a mere 55 miles from Washington DC one might be able to get a pretty spiffy internet pipeline. But oh no.
Our local cable company a few years ago was planning to offer cable internet access. Then they, Media General, were baught out. For a while, our new cable company, Cox, offered limited one-way cable internet using a 64kBps cable modem downstream and a standard 28.8 modem for upstream. Latency times were so horrible that unless we had a huge download to do, we used our 56k line because it was faster for web access.
The cost of the service was $39.99 per month for the access, $10 per month for the modem, and $20 per month to the phone company for the extra dedicated phone line.
The more rural parts of the area who had Adelphia as their provider had 256/32kBps cable service at $40+10.
Then, the Cox switched ISPs from ISP Channel to RoadRunner. They had to upgrade all of the cabling to and in the neighborhoods to offer two-way cable access. There was a 2 month period where dial-up was it and the large number of users hopping on their 56ks again caused huge amounts of down-time on the few local dial ISPs. Finally we have our cable service back. It's cheaper now without the extra phone line, it's faster, but it's still slow, averaging 100kBps down and 20kBps up.
Verizon, aka Das Mann, has no plans to put DSL in the area despite numerous promises that they do, and flyers offering it.
Linturbocare? Sounds like some sort of drink. .
Careturlinbo? Nah, college game that invloves drinking.
Turbolinuxcare? Sounds too much like original. Of course we already do have AOL Time Warner Netscape Glothax Megathorp. .
this of course brings up another issue. if the figures are based on 50 million people, well, let's be honest here. of the 50 million people who use napster, there is a large number who, if required to pay a user fee, will simply pirate service. i know i'd be more than happy to spend up to about $50us per year for napster, since i save that much on CDs i dont buy since i only want 1 song. $1.67 per month comes out to about $20 per year or something. in essense, the fee would have to be raised to make up for what's lost to piracy.
Open source hardware? Gasp! This is clearly an attempt to undermine the American Way! We must unite and stand against this Swedish communism!
So who's up for bombing sweden? I pulled a plan for a H bomb off of the internet. Didn't cost me anything, either...
I'm going to patent Bringing Large Oxygen Waves Into Normal Greenhouse Heat Aspirated Realtime Datasystems. It's high time that all these engineering pirates pay for the amazing innovation of BLOWINGHARD. I'm tired of my meelions being squandered by the malicious people who refuse to pay an honest dollar.
eh, was just a poke -.^
Seeing as in most Geeks in Space episodes Anime quotes and quips spew forth from you, I think we the listeners (and deranged readers) should see exactly how your background in anime developed.
When did you really get into Anime?
What was the first anime movie/series you watched?
Are there any in particular that stick out as being particularly good or "close-to-home"?
If you could be any anime character, who?
Have you seen The Lain?
I would like to patent feet. I fugure this is a great way to selectively hit the people who most need to be hit. Like Microsoft. The Microsoft slogan would have to be "Where do you want to not walk today?" otherwise i would haev to sue them based on the fact that it is a blatant and gross undermining of my product. At the same time, the geeks, coders, hackers, and people who operate Zambonis wouldn't give a pair of dingoes kidneys about it since i mean, come on, when was the last time YOU moved?
That and i will also be trademarking the combination of chemicals to make the scent of fresh cut grass. I would like to state that- oh, nevermind, i guess i missed the bus on that one. Damn.
I think I'll also be patenting Natalie Portman. Because I-CANN.
you know, if they didn't have Fortess installed on them (locks the system down so tight you can't even right click or access the Start menu in win98 and no alternate boot options available) i probably would have REMed out or msconfig'ed out a lot of the useless stuff, but since they did and i can't, i can't. and how the hell do you have 98 megs of RAM? if that's on SIMMs that would take 32|32, 16|16, 1|1, seems like a rather odd combination. and on DIMMs that would be 64|32|2 and i dont think you can get a 2m DIMM. It's a SCHOOL and i can't just "buy a friggan' console" so make sure to actually read the post before you go off on a rant. a mail server isn't going to need to load large multimedia applications (we tried to pull up MS Powerpoint and it took 20 minutes for crissakes. and nonlinear differential equations, gen/spec relativity, lines of derivitive, all that fun stuff would be taught in a higher science class. we do't have higher science, and the computers are ONLY in the science wing, the math wing got completely shafted in computing power.
Well, i thought it was uber interesting, so i guess that i personally would be ubterested. bye bye karma
Where was the deeper meaning of 42 explained? Quite a big hole left with What do you get when you multiply six by nine? (Grunt)
At the risk of redundancy, I think this is a very good idea. I liked how the screenshos were from the original Myst and not some other world. Ah, memories. Now if they just make it and release it within an acceptabe time span *cough cough* Diablo 2 *caugh caugh*
In reference to the whole computers for education spending shindig going on lately, i dont know about your schools, but the ones they supplied ours with absolutely and utterly blow. I tried to load a 186 meg ASF of Spaceballs up and the Celery 433 w/ 32megs PC-66 RAM chugged away at the issue for a solid 15 minutes before i just gave up and ripped the CD out of the drive. There are five of these computers in every science class. IMHO, it would have been much more worth it to purchase 1 or 2 nice computers (Pentium III's or so) instead of 5 stripped down calculators. So thumbs down to the school systems.
Pinball is always fun. There is no such thing as a bad game of pinball. Even if you do get a rare bad game or something, there is always the knowledge that you are in full control of something real and something physical and not something made of infinite polygons.
How can you go wrong with hentai? La Blue Girl! I'm surprised i didn't see more geeks posting this. That and the hentai remake of Neon Genesis Evangelion. On the less lewd side, Bubblegum Crisis is good, Battle Dolls is good, Rorouni Kenshin is awesome. Hmm, what am i forgetting? Oh yeah, SPRIGGAN! Spriggan is amazing, check out Sailor Death Productions for two Anime Music Vids with Spriggan in the filmwork.
Ah ha! No more physical activity at all. I can finally completely veg out in front of my computer instead of having to actually move a mouse or my keyboard. This is a major revolution. Cool. Unreal tournament will never be the same. Rock on. What OS will it use first (When it is finally developed)?
In Medievia, they're are quite a few mega items available for purchase. The difference in the two systems is that Everquest has a required service fee of $10 per month, while Medievia is completely free in every sence. No software to install, any Telnet capable system can already log on. Vryce (the owner of Medievia) gets all of his server finance throught the selling of the immensly powerful Mystical Talisman Of Medievia. He relies on these sales to keep Medievia running as smoothly as the players require. With sometimes over 500 users logged on simultaneously, massive hardware is needed or else the deadly Lagmonster attacks (brutally slay it!). Simply put, in free games, selling items to the players from the system is good. In pay games, any selling of items is inane and pointless. Almost all of the Hero characters in Medievia have almost if not every donation item. Totalling over $250 in real world cash or 250,000,000 medievia gold if baught off medievia auction.
BTW: telnet to medievia.com:4000
MudMaster 2000 rules.
and that's a bold statement for an athiest :-)