If this catches on it will become a bigger money-laundering scheme than the Las Vegas casinos:
1. invest dubiously gotten gains into virtual island 2. trade virtual island in-game with criminal B 3. sell new island on open market. 4. spend all that crazy loot legally(sorry, PROFIT!!!)
So, who will become the top Entropia players? Al Quaeda, investment bankers or drug cartels?
Why is it that cell phone users always get so defensive? I own one, but I am still annoyed by the guy who not only refuses to turn off his cell phone in the theater (sorry, but you're reminded often enough not to forget) but then starts a loud conversation about nothing in particular, or the girl that just must talk VERY LOUDLY on her cellphone at 2:30 at night in the middle of the week, right under my bedroom window.
I am not high and mighty, it's they who are less than scum.
phew. went off on a rant there. Must think of happy place.. must think of happy place...
You're trapped in a labyrinth of duplicate stories all alike. You hear CmdrTaco chuckling in the distance.
>read slashdot
You're trapped in a maze of silly poll options all different.You feel slightly annoyed by the missing options. A gaggle of trolls cowers away from your superior karma.
>whack troll.
A bright flash of light, a hollow laugh... One more GNAA member banished to -1.
Since we're all way ahead of the curve here, (let's face it TV shows have been around on P2P networks for ages) let me take this opportunity to announce the Next Big Thing:
Sheet Music piracy.
After all, everything else is being shared already.
Introducing Cleffster a P2P utility written in C# especially for the sharing of scanned sheet music.
(And if that network really exists I'll eat my tinfoil hat.)
In LCDs you have the 50/60 Hz flickering of the background light
If I were you, I'd return that LCD to the store you bought it from! The background light on all LCD screens I have seen are either driven with DC or with high frequency AC. Just wave your finger in front of one , you'll see no strobe effect.
True, but without a vibration-dampened optical bench, you won't be making more than reflection holograms with a depth of 2cm tops, so a laser diode is more than adequate.
Not that it's all that difficult to make such a thing if you have room to do it. I remember there used to be a book about it from the '70s or early '80s by these hippie types, explaining how to build tables like that. Basically it was a big sandbox resting on innertubes of wheelbarrow tires. The optics were mounted on pieces of electrical tubing, stuck in the sand.
Actually, I'm a little bit uneasy about this. When the RIAA or MPAA tries to recruit an army of snitches, everybody here cries foul, but when Nintendo fans rat each other out, it's seen as something noble. Nintendorks indeed!
Now please excuse me, I have to report on my neighbors.
This article reminds me of the kinds of articles that were written in the early '90s about the fall of nation states and the emergence of a cosmopolitan information economy due to that newfangled internet thingy. Well I'm glad the days of millenarian doom and gloom are over and that we will go back to '90s optimism. (yes the world is a mess, but it was bad back then too. Remember it gets worse before it gets better) Now all I want is my VR helmet.
For yea brothers you will know that the end times are upon us! Is it not written in the good book?
"They sitteth in their parents basements and downloadeth torrents of Star Wars movies and the skye will weep for they are not the true gospel, nay they are the originals where Han shooteht first."
The biggest challenge in moving to linux is burning ISOs on CDRs that spin the other way, or as we in OZ like to say, the right way. We have hired a local firm to write a clever utility based on ancient boomerang technology to fix that problem.
Those clever antepodeans! is there no stopping Linux in the southern hemisphere? We'll leave you with one more quote:
Due to our nearness to Antarctica, we have an unlimited supply of penguins. I'm very excited.
Slashdot Mirror
nothing too loose?
I thought that was the slogan for the full page goatse ad that will be published next week.
Look at it as an open source approach to news.
If this catches on it will become a bigger money-laundering scheme than the Las Vegas casinos:
1. invest dubiously gotten gains into virtual island
2. trade virtual island in-game with criminal B
3. sell new island on open market.
4. spend all that crazy loot legally(sorry, PROFIT!!!)
So, who will become the top Entropia players? Al Quaeda, investment bankers or drug cartels?
My guess is: All of the above.
I have played with Maxima a little bit.
You lucky devil!
Ok. I'll admit it. I'm just jealous that they have all these exciting people to talk to.
Why is it that cell phone users always get so defensive? I own one, but I am still annoyed by the guy who not only refuses to turn off his cell phone in the theater (sorry, but you're reminded often enough not to forget) but then starts a loud conversation about nothing in particular, or the girl that just must talk VERY LOUDLY on her cellphone at 2:30 at night in the middle of the week, right under my bedroom window.
I am not high and mighty, it's they who are less than scum.
phew. went off on a rant there. Must think of happy place.. must think of happy place...
It works for me. I click on "here", and that's precisely where I end up. I wonder what happens when I click on "there"?
Surprise BSA audit?
From the article:
If you start questioning everyone's motives, then you'll be in a home with tinfoil on your head.
So that is why I feel creeped out about this. It doesn't work on slashdotters.
Dark Passage from 1947 with Humphrey Bogart was shot mostly in first person, so it's not very new.
Naoto Hattori's site is either silly or annoying depending on your mood:
http://www.wwwcomcom.com/
Nice art though.
>read slashdot
You're trapped in a labyrinth of duplicate stories all alike.
You hear CmdrTaco chuckling in the distance.
>read slashdot
You're trapped in a maze of silly poll options all different.You feel slightly annoyed by the missing options.
A gaggle of trolls cowers away from your superior karma.
>whack troll.
A bright flash of light, a hollow laugh... One more GNAA member banished to -1.
>smoke crack
Aaahh. The joys of having mod-points...
Since we're all way ahead of the curve here, (let's face it TV shows have been around on P2P networks for ages) let me take this opportunity to announce the Next Big Thing:
Sheet Music piracy.
After all, everything else is being shared already.
Introducing Cleffster a P2P utility written in C# especially for the sharing of scanned sheet music.
(And if that network really exists I'll eat my tinfoil hat.)
In LCDs you have the 50/60 Hz flickering of the background light
If I were you, I'd return that LCD to the store you bought it from! The background light on all LCD screens I have seen are either driven with DC or with high frequency AC. Just wave your finger in front of one , you'll see no strobe effect.
Why not combine a banana and a phone?
True, but without a vibration-dampened optical bench, you won't be making more than reflection holograms with a depth of 2cm tops, so a laser diode is more than adequate.
Not that it's all that difficult to make such a thing if you have room to do it. I remember there used to be a book about it from the '70s or early '80s by these hippie types, explaining how to build tables like that. Basically it was a big sandbox resting on innertubes of wheelbarrow tires. The optics were mounted on pieces of electrical tubing, stuck in the sand.
It is outrageous that Ms. Rosen holds some unknown kid to some higher standard than her own son.
C'mon cut the kid some slack. You'd be a criminal too with a mom like that.
Actually, I'm a little bit uneasy about this. When the RIAA or MPAA tries to recruit an army of snitches, everybody here cries foul, but when Nintendo fans rat each other out, it's seen as something noble. Nintendorks indeed!
Now please excuse me, I have to report on my neighbors.
What if, instead of a time based prison system, we could incorporate a level based system?
Good idea! And when you're up for parole, the judge will roll 2d6 to see if you get out.
This article reminds me of the kinds of articles that were written in the early '90s about the fall of nation states and the emergence of a cosmopolitan information economy due to that newfangled internet thingy. Well I'm glad the days of millenarian doom and gloom are over and that we will go back to '90s optimism. (yes the world is a mess, but it was bad back then too. Remember it gets worse before it gets better) Now all I want is my VR helmet.
Amen brothers!
Just for that I'm sticking another needle in your Voodoo doll. And don't think you can hide by posting anonymously. My crystal ball knows who you are.
everyone I knew thought of him as some loser.
Wil isn't a loser, but he played one on TV.
Since I turn 33 today, and until now I never knew I shared a birthday with something so big! It's the geek equivalent to being born on christmas day.
Guess I'm not an old fart, I'm in fact younger than the internet!
Centrelink's national manager was further quoted:
The biggest challenge in moving to linux is burning ISOs on CDRs that spin the other way, or as we in OZ like to say, the right way. We have hired a local firm to write a clever utility based on ancient boomerang technology to fix that problem.
Those clever antepodeans! is there no stopping Linux in the southern hemisphere? We'll leave you with one more quote:
Due to our nearness to Antarctica, we have an unlimited supply of penguins. I'm very excited.