You know that commercial where the guy has the hawk that gets him beer? He tells it to get him a beer, and he doesn't know where the beer comes from. Meanwhile the hawk is terrorizing downtown restaurants getting the beer... I can see the comedic potential in the same thing happening here:
Robot comes back, a little dusty, one of the wheels is squeaking, holding a frosty cold one. Pan to the outside world, there's a robot-sized hole in a Semi, cars turned upside down, police cruisers arriving on scene, and a minority guy standing outside of a liquor store with smoke pouring out of the broken front door. Moral: beer is worth any price.
I think people are freaking out because they all used Windows 98, and they hate it. Just thinking about that operating system gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. More recent MS operating systems don't do that to me. So hearing that this car runs CE, I'm happy.
2/ suddenly you need windows installed to install linux things. I don't have that.
If there is currently no Linux client, you're going to have to have a windows computer with NWN installed to play the game, so unless your sole purpose in life is to host others' NWN games, you're likely to have it installed yourself, making copying files not such a big deal.
My question to you is this: Why are you interested in hosting a server for a game you can't (yet) play?
Probably not that kind of lesbian. The girls you're referring to are the sexually confused, so-called bisexuals. Those are the ones you want. Lesbians are the ones you see on ESPN2 playing pool. The ones you're looking for, you'll only find in Girls Gone Wild commercials on TV. So you should be looking for lesbian porn as well as straight porn on the HD, then it's go time.
Gesture-based computing has a lot of intrigue for me, and while the stuff in Minority Report was pretty fake (gesture at a green screen, put in the rest later), it still looked like a lot of fun.
But I would go one further. I want an extremely sensitive camera that could tell where on a screen I was looking, and use that like a mouse cursor. If they have cameras that can identify you based on your eyes from 10 feet away, certainly they can tell where your eyes are focused on a screen with a few millimeters.
That, to me, is the ultimate in interfaces. Effective voice recognition would be great as well, but that's stalled too.
Sure but who says it's 100% accurate. The US requires that you prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt - could you guarantee me that up until the minute the suspect points a gun at the victim that he was going to kill him based solely on some previously accurate 'psychics'? I may dream hateful epithets and envision killing someone in my mind. There is nothing wrong with that until I put into action a plan to carry it out.
I don't think it's 100% accurate, and in fact the movie's point is that it's not a perfect system. The murders predicted are going to happen, but everything else, including the circumstances surrounding the murder, are not always clear, and that is what makes all the difference. But that's not my point. In the movie, Tom Cruise visits one of the original creators of the pre-crime system, and she's not afraid of him even though she knows that he's going to murder somebody, he's not going to murder her. Not having to worry about that takes a load off of one's mind, and that was my point. Any other comments you made based on the stance you assume I am taking are fine, but don't assume that I stand on the other side of the fence. I'm pro-murder-free-world, and if you assume by my previous post that I'm pro-anything else (except for 10,000 watt sound systems), then you're incorrect.
Your vision of freedom is boring, imagine if everyone had to avoid doing anything that offended anyone.
I would argue that Safety actually *is* freedom. In the movie, they can only tell when murder is about to occur - not other violence, rape, copyright infringement, cable theft, or other, lesser crimes. How great would the world be if we didn't have to fear for our lives? It'd be almost as free a world as if there were no spam. We wouldn't have to hide. If only they could predict the weather...
BTW, Minority Report sucks ass, it's an insult to your intelligence. I watched it on an Imax screen with a 10,000 watt sound system, there's one part in the movie that scared the crap out of me. Not nightmares, or make-you-afraid-of-the-dark scared so much as quiet, quiet, 10,000 watts blaring scared.
Nobody makes you repurchase your content just because it's out in a new format. But people will do it because new formats are generally superior in some way to old ones, ie vhs -> dvd.
That being said, you have a good point about digitizing VHS movies instead of fscking around with DeCSS-type stuff. Too bad the public isn't with you, and as such, VHS will one day die. No, moreso than VHS dying, fair use rights with video will die.
Somedays I wish this country wasn't so litigious in nature, but others I figure out that its the only thing holding back huge mega-corporations from totally screwing us.
Well, it goes both ways really. They screw us by getting BS laws pushed through, then we screw them back by finding loopholes and organizing boycotts and suing them and what not. It's a give-and-take sort of thing, ya know?
Also, Your list of things not to do to catch a virus reminds me like avoiding pregnancy via the 'pull out' method. Sure it might improve your chances, but it won't 'protect' you in any real sense.
I think this is a bad analogy. His list reminds me of avoiding pregnancy via the "if it looks like a vagina, don't put your penis in it" method, which is significantly more effective.
If a user starts saving his/her mission critical files to a directory named "temp", and then loses said files, I dont think they get to blame you, or if they do, you don't have to take it personally.
That's like being sued because a burglar hurt himself trying to break into your apartment. They weren't supposed to be doing that, and it's their own damn fault.
I imagine you could work something out with a login script that synchronizes a folder with a network share when logging into the network. Compare files and only copy the new ones. Maybe create a batch file to run at startup. It'd be rather ad-hoc, but I think you could get it to work fairly transparently.
Oh, and BTW, when I download songs, I download stuff that never gets any radio play (which, btw, is the record companies faults) and, if I like it, I buy the cd.
Amen. The songs on the radio/MTV/VH1 are just the same drivel, either pop, rock, or hip-hop, and not the good, lyrically significant, paying-your-dues hip-hop, we're talking the flashy, fast cars, expensive drinks, look how strong my weed is, look how many women I can have sex with hip-hop. Any variation on these three main themes is dismissed out of hand. Innovation is stifled.
It's also the same 5-10 songs, over and over. The songs change depending on what station you play and every few months, but still, it's just the same old thing. Ugh. And why should you buy those CDs? The music is stuffed down your throat enough, listening to it over and over and over whenever you turn on the radio.
If I were running a radio station, I would want my listeners to hear different groups all the time, I would want them to call me and tell me what to play, and I would strive not to play the same song in a 24-hour period. People wouldn't listen to my radio station because their favorite song is on, they would listen to it because a new song they've never heard before and may never hear again is on. It's like TV, you can't expect people to watch the same shows over and over again.
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You know that commercial where the guy has the hawk that gets him beer? He tells it to get him a beer, and he doesn't know where the beer comes from. Meanwhile the hawk is terrorizing downtown restaurants getting the beer... I can see the comedic potential in the same thing happening here:
Robot comes back, a little dusty, one of the wheels is squeaking, holding a frosty cold one. Pan to the outside world, there's a robot-sized hole in a Semi, cars turned upside down, police cruisers arriving on scene, and a minority guy standing outside of a liquor store with smoke pouring out of the broken front door.
Moral: beer is worth any price.
Just imagine what Doublespace could do.
Force you to reformat would be my guess.
Thank god for MS's Trusted Computing effort, or whatever they call it. Otherwise the /. community might be unprepared!
I'm afraid the Japanese might get hurt too. Where would we get our supplies of quality asian porn?
Could someone please mod this up?
That reminds me of an excellent point. If this car ran Windows 98, it would take 5 minutes to start, right? eww.
I think people are freaking out because they all used Windows 98, and they hate it. Just thinking about that operating system gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. More recent MS operating systems don't do that to me. So hearing that this car runs CE, I'm happy.
Exactly.
I put it in that notation because typical penalities are [damages], and then [damages * 3] for punitive penalities.
I guess my comment was an off-handed way of saying that I didn't realize that. I think the people who modded me up also didn't understand it.
2/ suddenly you need windows installed to install linux things.
I don't have that.
If there is currently no Linux client, you're going to have to have a windows computer with NWN installed to play the game, so unless your sole purpose in life is to host others' NWN games, you're likely to have it installed yourself, making copying files not such a big deal.
My question to you is this: Why are you interested in hosting a server for a game you can't (yet) play?
Probably not that kind of lesbian. The girls you're referring to are the sexually confused, so-called bisexuals. Those are the ones you want. Lesbians are the ones you see on ESPN2 playing pool. The ones you're looking for, you'll only find in Girls Gone Wild commercials on TV.
So you should be looking for lesbian porn as well as straight porn on the HD, then it's go time.
I saw fine them a total of damages + (damages * 3), plus give them 90 days in the can each.
I say we fine them damages + (damages * 4) - damages. You can call me apologist if you want, but damages + (damages * 3) is just too much!
Oh, and no more than three months in jail. None of that draconian 90 days stuff. Let the punishment fit the crime.
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Last year Gates made $666,520 in salary
[insert joke about BG being evil here]
Gesture-based computing has a lot of intrigue for me, and while the stuff in Minority Report was pretty fake (gesture at a green screen, put in the rest later), it still looked like a lot of fun.
But I would go one further. I want an extremely sensitive camera that could tell where on a screen I was looking, and use that like a mouse cursor. If they have cameras that can identify you based on your eyes from 10 feet away, certainly they can tell where your eyes are focused on a screen with a few millimeters.
That, to me, is the ultimate in interfaces. Effective voice recognition would be great as well, but that's stalled too.
Wonder why.
Sure but who says it's 100% accurate. The US requires that you prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt - could you guarantee me that up until the minute the suspect points a gun at the victim that he was going to kill him based solely on some previously accurate 'psychics'? I may dream hateful epithets and envision killing someone in my mind. There is nothing wrong with that until I put into action a plan to carry it out.
I don't think it's 100% accurate, and in fact the movie's point is that it's not a perfect system. The murders predicted are going to happen, but everything else, including the circumstances surrounding the murder, are not always clear, and that is what makes all the difference.
But that's not my point. In the movie, Tom Cruise visits one of the original creators of the pre-crime system, and she's not afraid of him even though she knows that he's going to murder somebody, he's not going to murder her. Not having to worry about that takes a load off of one's mind, and that was my point. Any other comments you made based on the stance you assume I am taking are fine, but don't assume that I stand on the other side of the fence. I'm pro-murder-free-world, and if you assume by my previous post that I'm pro-anything else (except for 10,000 watt sound systems), then you're incorrect.
Your vision of freedom is boring, imagine if everyone had to avoid doing anything that offended anyone.
Your vision of my vision of freedom is incorrect.
I would argue that Safety actually *is* freedom. In the movie, they can only tell when murder is about to occur - not other violence, rape, copyright infringement, cable theft, or other, lesser crimes. How great would the world be if we didn't have to fear for our lives? It'd be almost as free a world as if there were no spam. We wouldn't have to hide.
If only they could predict the weather...
BTW, Minority Report sucks ass, it's an insult to your intelligence.
I watched it on an Imax screen with a 10,000 watt sound system, there's one part in the movie that scared the crap out of me. Not nightmares, or make-you-afraid-of-the-dark scared so much as quiet, quiet, 10,000 watts blaring scared.
Nobody makes you repurchase your content just because it's out in a new format. But people will do it because new formats are generally superior in some way to old ones, ie vhs -> dvd.
That being said, you have a good point about digitizing VHS movies instead of fscking around with DeCSS-type stuff. Too bad the public isn't with you, and as such, VHS will one day die. No, moreso than VHS dying, fair use rights with video will die.
Shed a tear.
Somedays I wish this country wasn't so litigious in nature, but others I figure out that its the only thing holding back huge mega-corporations from totally screwing us.
Well, it goes both ways really. They screw us by getting BS laws pushed through, then we screw them back by finding loopholes and organizing boycotts and suing them and what not. It's a give-and-take sort of thing, ya know?
But would still be easy to copy.
Go Analog hole!
Also, Your list of things not to do to catch a virus reminds me like avoiding pregnancy via the 'pull out' method. Sure it might improve your chances, but it won't 'protect' you in any real sense.
I think this is a bad analogy. His list reminds me of avoiding pregnancy via the "if it looks like a vagina, don't put your penis in it" method, which is significantly more effective.
If a user starts saving his/her mission critical files to a directory named "temp", and then loses said files, I dont think they get to blame you, or if they do, you don't have to take it personally.
That's like being sued because a burglar hurt himself trying to break into your apartment. They weren't supposed to be doing that, and it's their own damn fault.
start -> run -> mmc
add/remove snap-in, group policy
poke around in there. It's around, but I forget where.
You could use Terminal Services.
I imagine you could work something out with a login script that synchronizes a folder with a network share when logging into the network. Compare files and only copy the new ones. Maybe create a batch file to run at startup. It'd be rather ad-hoc, but I think you could get it to work fairly transparently.
Oh, and BTW, when I download songs, I download stuff that never gets any radio play (which, btw, is the record companies faults) and, if I like it, I buy the cd.
Amen. The songs on the radio/MTV/VH1 are just the same drivel, either pop, rock, or hip-hop, and not the good, lyrically significant, paying-your-dues hip-hop, we're talking the flashy, fast cars, expensive drinks, look how strong my weed is, look how many women I can have sex with hip-hop. Any variation on these three main themes is dismissed out of hand. Innovation is stifled.
It's also the same 5-10 songs, over and over. The songs change depending on what station you play and every few months, but still, it's just the same old thing. Ugh. And why should you buy those CDs? The music is stuffed down your throat enough, listening to it over and over and over whenever you turn on the radio.
If I were running a radio station, I would want my listeners to hear different groups all the time, I would want them to call me and tell me what to play, and I would strive not to play the same song in a 24-hour period. People wouldn't listen to my radio station because their favorite song is on, they would listen to it because a new song they've never heard before and may never hear again is on. It's like TV, you can't expect people to watch the same shows over and over again.