Can you imagine the damage a single drop of rain can make on a microrobot? None at all? It probably works the same way as ants aren't killed by drops of water. Nor by falling from a high building.
Interestingly, a very similar idea is used to trap monkeys without harming them. They put a long hollow tube attached to the ground and put some food in it. The monkeys put their hand in there and once they grab the food they can't squeeze their fist back through the tube. Most of the time they won't let go of the food, thus keeping themselves trapped.
They spent 4000 EUR for the computer, but use two boxes in order to situate the monitor higher. I guess they spent everything they had on the computer.
If I had I choice. I'd rather you not contact me if I were them.
Consider that they live simple lives, not bothered by any corporate machines, governments etc. Now it would turn out that they are vastly outnumbered by some strange people with strange rituals. They'd either end up killed by some reason or like the Indians.
To quote a friend of mine about The Matrix:
If some cyberpunk Jehovah's Witnesses' equivalents came to me, offering salvation by joining their weird renegate sect, I'd tell them to shove that red pill up their asses, show them the middle finger and say:
"Screw you, you jackass in fancy glasses. Screw you and the rest of you posers. God damned terrorists thinking they're some kind of world saviours. Trying to forcefully set millions of people "free". Thanks a lot, but the only thing you can offer us is a stupid and pointless death in the name of false ideals. Away from home, family and friends. You are saying that I should throw away my whole life because some nonconformist misfits don't like the idea of virtual reality? I just can't imagine how you blockheads thought up the idea that we would want to exchange our normal, comfortable lives for a filthy, flea-ridden village located hundred miles underground. Oh, so this isn't real? We're living in a lie, machines are sucking up our energy, and we ourselves are only meatbags suspended in jelly? When did your brain die? Listen, wise-guy. From what you're saying, it was us - humans, who destroyed this world. Those machines did not only allow us to continue our lives, but recreated for us everything that we destroyed! Only thanks to them can we live without the feeling of guilt for ruining the planet! What a bunch of ungrateful hypocrites. You think that you're so cool in those fancy leather coats and tinted glasses? Saviours of mankind, who won't think twice before slaughtering dozens of innocent bystanders and cops doing their job, just because they were in the way. And you kill without blinking an eye! No remorse at all. Who is the fucking stripped of emotions machine now? I want to spit you in the face, you damned nazis. Now get out of my apartment or I'll set the dogs on you! And don't you dare to come back! I'd much rather be a "slave" of the system than live in your free, real and full of lies world!"
Oh I dunno. How about counting the damned.torrent file downloads? Make it a private tracker with registering required so you won't get the files hosted on other sites, and you can get a pretty accurate number.
How can the Linux ntfs utility gain access to the Vista partition if it was encrypted... remember we haven't booted Vista yet?
I haven't tried encrypting the ntfs, but I just love how windows handles file ownership in ntfs.
When reinstalling windows I found out that I couldn't access my old documents, so I did a quick google search and you just disable simple file sharing in folder options, then right click the folder, go to a tab named "security" and give yourself ownership of the folder. The funniest part is windows saying "By doing this, you will have full unrestricted access to this folder, are you sure you want to?"
And "shards" can easily be dealt with by creating a single game world. (like EVE Online) The server-farm will be so massive that creating a copy wouldn't be feasible.
I watch films for entertainment. Same with games. I don't care about characters. I care about fun/awesomeness. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like any overly ambitious film. The one's I watch are like Botched. Simple, maybe stupid, but entertaining.
Comparing film actors with musicians doesn't really fit.
I like some bands because of how they play, but I like films because of what's happening in them. Not based on appearances. One thing which I omitted is acting. If an actor plays completely wrong, then I don't like him, but if he's just some random guy who does what's expected from him, why should I care whether he's super-famous or not?
Athletes or chefs don't count as I don't eat out nor watch sports.
Maybe more gamers are like me. I buy games for their content. Why the hell would I bother to even look up who did some character's voice?
It's the same with films. I don't give a rat's ass about who plays which role. I just watch the damn film and enjoy it or not. I don't even know more than ten actor names. I just don't care enough.
I once borrowed a few DVD films from a friend of mine and played them on linux. I could skip all the ads and choose to go watch the film straight away. I assumed that they only block you from skipping ads when you play it in a DVD player.
Some time later I tried playing it under windows and was surprised that I couldn't skip the damned ads. More power to linux, I say. If I already bought a DVD, why the hell should I be forced to watch ads?
No problem. I'll just walk in random directions all the time, thus screwing with their data.
On the other hand, since they have all those security cameras already installed, wouldn't it be easier to just come up with some people-tracking software that scans the video output?
This would be good only if it ALWAYS recorded your game. Say it'll keep the last thirty seconds or something around that.
Most of the time when you have a "WTF" moment it passes before you would get to the recording option.
By having a backbuffer you could start recording even after that corpse flew out of the window and hit someone, and still capture that funny moment.
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He is referring to the "It's super effective!" message you get in pokemon...
Mod him funny. Not insightful.
None at all? It probably works the same way as ants aren't killed by drops of water. Nor by falling from a high building.
I get 0,5Mbps down and 16KB/s up for, like $30 :(
Interestingly, a very similar idea is used to trap monkeys without harming them. They put a long hollow tube attached to the ground and put some food in it. The monkeys put their hand in there and once they grab the food they can't squeeze their fist back through the tube. Most of the time they won't let go of the food, thus keeping themselves trapped.
They spent 4000 EUR for the computer, but use two boxes in order to situate the monitor higher. I guess they spent everything they had on the computer.
If I had I choice. I'd rather you not contact me if I were them.
Consider that they live simple lives, not bothered by any corporate machines, governments etc. Now it would turn out that they are vastly outnumbered by some strange people with strange rituals. They'd either end up killed by some reason or like the Indians.
To quote a friend of mine about The Matrix:
If some cyberpunk Jehovah's Witnesses' equivalents came to me, offering salvation by joining their weird renegate sect, I'd tell them to shove that red pill up their asses, show them the middle finger and say:
"Screw you, you jackass in fancy glasses. Screw you and the rest of you posers. God damned terrorists thinking they're some kind of world saviours. Trying to forcefully set millions of people "free". Thanks a lot, but the only thing you can offer us is a stupid and pointless death in the name of false ideals. Away from home, family and friends. You are saying that I should throw away my whole life because some nonconformist misfits don't like the idea of virtual reality? I just can't imagine how you blockheads thought up the idea that we would want to exchange our normal, comfortable lives for a filthy, flea-ridden village located hundred miles underground.
Oh, so this isn't real? We're living in a lie, machines are sucking up our energy, and we ourselves are only meatbags suspended in jelly? When did your brain die? Listen, wise-guy. From what you're saying, it was us - humans, who destroyed this world. Those machines did not only allow us to continue our lives, but recreated for us everything that we destroyed! Only thanks to them can we live without the feeling of guilt for ruining the planet! What a bunch of ungrateful hypocrites. You think that you're so cool in those fancy leather coats and tinted glasses? Saviours of mankind, who won't think twice before slaughtering dozens of innocent bystanders and cops doing their job, just because they were in the way. And you kill without blinking an eye! No remorse at all. Who is the fucking stripped of emotions machine now? I want to spit you in the face, you damned nazis.
Now get out of my apartment or I'll set the dogs on you! And don't you dare to come back! I'd much rather be a "slave" of the system than live in your free, real and full of lies world!"
Just say that by using this you can fight teh terrists!
Oh I dunno. How about counting the damned .torrent file downloads? Make it a private tracker with registering required so you won't get the files hosted on other sites, and you can get a pretty accurate number.
Yet another reason to buy water cooling for your PC.
Or just seal the case with duct tape and fill it with water.
Funny that. Start to end has five clicks needed.
Shortest path from start to end
Start
Start signal
Code
Computer printer
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5 clicks needed
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I haven't tried encrypting the ntfs, but I just love how windows handles file ownership in ntfs.
When reinstalling windows I found out that I couldn't access my old documents, so I did a quick google search and you just disable simple file sharing in folder options, then right click the folder, go to a tab named "security" and give yourself ownership of the folder. The funniest part is windows saying "By doing this, you will have full unrestricted access to this folder, are you sure you want to?"
Because few people like to travel by train and thus the price is higher? (In order for the companies to make a profit)
And "shards" can easily be dealt with by creating a single game world. (like EVE Online) The server-farm will be so massive that creating a copy wouldn't be feasible.
I watch films for entertainment. Same with games. I don't care about characters. I care about fun/awesomeness. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like any overly ambitious film. The one's I watch are like Botched. Simple, maybe stupid, but entertaining.
Comparing film actors with musicians doesn't really fit.
I like some bands because of how they play, but I like films because of what's happening in them. Not based on appearances. One thing which I omitted is acting. If an actor plays completely wrong, then I don't like him, but if he's just some random guy who does what's expected from him, why should I care whether he's super-famous or not?
Athletes or chefs don't count as I don't eat out nor watch sports.
Maybe more gamers are like me. I buy games for their content. Why the hell would I bother to even look up who did some character's voice?
It's the same with films. I don't give a rat's ass about who plays which role. I just watch the damn film and enjoy it or not. I don't even know more than ten actor names. I just don't care enough.
I know. It just pisses me off every time I hear Americans bitching about gas prices.
I didn't think about the need to track individual people. There's no need for face-scanning when you can just track how many silhouettes go where.
They aren't even going to bother certifying anything except AMD/ATI, so Nvidia/Intel was never expected to sign it.
If it bleeds, we can kill it!
I once borrowed a few DVD films from a friend of mine and played them on linux. I could skip all the ads and choose to go watch the film straight away. I assumed that they only block you from skipping ads when you play it in a DVD player.
Some time later I tried playing it under windows and was surprised that I couldn't skip the damned ads. More power to linux, I say. If I already bought a DVD, why the hell should I be forced to watch ads?
No problem. I'll just walk in random directions all the time, thus screwing with their data.
On the other hand, since they have all those security cameras already installed, wouldn't it be easier to just come up with some people-tracking software that scans the video output?
1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters
4.00 USD = 8.69120 PLN
1 LITER of gasoline costs over 4,5 PLN in Poland. That's $8 a gallon.
And you're whining about high gas prices?
This would be good only if it ALWAYS recorded your game. Say it'll keep the last thirty seconds or something around that.
Most of the time when you have a "WTF" moment it passes before you would get to the recording option.
By having a backbuffer you could start recording even after that corpse flew out of the window and hit someone, and still capture that funny moment.