I would gladly pay a subscription to download programs for a flat fee, but would I pay $1900US for CS5? Hell. No. Not when I can "liberate" it from Usenet. But TV shows and movies for around the same that it costs to rent a disc from the RedBox? Sure, I'd do that. Especially if it means I don't have to get my fat ass out of the car whilst in line at the McDonald's drive thru-getting fat-burgers fat-nuggets for me and the fat-family.
Off topic, but that's why cyclists shave their legs. Not because of aerodynamic advantage (like with swimmers) but because when they crash (not if) it reduces their chance for infection in the road rash.
Very impressive video and I tend to agree: It seems probable to me that the basic life-giving elements could have been delivered via abiogenisis AND space, since it's all basically made up of the same stuff. Just like the early organisms being bounced around in the oceans and picking up new parts, why couldn't the universe be considered just one huge ocean where all the rocks (whether planets or asteroids) have the same parts and the big ones borrow from the small ones?
You said it. Those games were seemingly way more fun to play than some of today's games. To (loosely) quote a fellow/.'er: I can imagine a fun, ok-looking game to look pretty, but I can't imagine a boring, pretty game to be more fun.
Maybe today's games are just as fun as they once were, but the excitement of going to friends' houses and spending as much time trying to figure out how to network 15+ computers together as we did actually playing, just isn't there anymore. I mean, being able to move my guy around on the screen and watch it on the guys screen next to me was completely mind-blowing! We felt like we were kings of technology when we made it all work. Granted, we didn't actually invent the protocols or network hardware, but being to actually put on a successful LAN party instilled a certain amount of pride.
I'm sure 20 years from now our kids will be sitting around talking about what a pain it was to lug around their console and play games picture-in-picture. Not like the lazy kids of the future that will just carry their entire gaming, music, video, telecommunications system in their pocket and plug them into their 2" LCD eye-wear and play any person from any location. Bastards.
I upgraded my 5x86 133 to a full Pentium 133, doubled my RAM from 8 to 16 MB and bought a 2Mb video card instead of a 1Mb. I distinctly remember playing Quake right after the upgrade, looking up and saying to myself "holy shit, those floaty blobs were clouds this whole time!"
And remember the HUGE difference 3DFX and Open GL made for GL Quake? Damn I'm old...
Exactly. ANY old ID game (not sure if you can say this about Duke Nukem or some older Blizzard games) still has many servers up and running AND people actually playing in them. I guess their Celeron 300 (Oc'd to 400, ofc) and their dual VOODOO2 running in SLI has to be used for something. But game-play can, in theory, go on indefinitely or until they stop supporting IPv4. Even then someone will build a patch. Because they can.
Says who? The planet may have "limited resources" the way we are using them now but who says there won't be renew-able energy discovered or developed at some point? Why couldn't we find a super-efficient way to harness the energy from the sun to power everything and stop using the "limited resources", for example? I personally believe we have everything here we need. If we make it to another planet and find a way to make it habitable then cool, but we need to focus on finding a way to survive here indefinitely.
Of course, by the time we have that all figured out the A.I. we will have created will become the top of the food chain and we'll be annihilated in the robot wars, anyways.
I agree with you. This is off topic, but I wonder if there is evolutionary value in resisting change? Maybe to make sure that which is new stands a rigorous test to ensure it has a rightful place in history? Or perhaps to challenge our already set ways and give strength to existing process?
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C'mon now, you know things don't get invented or released to the public unless they can be used by the military or NASA.
Too Much Indigestion? Nah, you get used to it...
I would gladly pay a subscription to download programs for a flat fee, but would I pay $1900US for CS5? Hell. No. Not when I can "liberate" it from Usenet. But TV shows and movies for around the same that it costs to rent a disc from the RedBox? Sure, I'd do that. Especially if it means I don't have to get my fat ass out of the car whilst in line at the McDonald's drive thru-getting fat-burgers fat-nuggets for me and the fat-family.
I think you are referring to the Dermal Regenerator. Here's a list of episodes that featured this bad-boy.
My sharks can have a medical contribution now!
Off topic, but that's why cyclists shave their legs. Not because of aerodynamic advantage (like with swimmers) but because when they crash (not if) it reduces their chance for infection in the road rash.
I've been playing Tunnels of Doom like crazy lately because of its simplicity. You can get the emulator here.
Commandant Jobs?
Don't worry, someone at /. will go back and change it. Post first, then let the users do the editing....
HAH! I'll come back tomorrow when I have mod points and mod you funny.
Very impressive video and I tend to agree: It seems probable to me that the basic life-giving elements could have been delivered via abiogenisis AND space, since it's all basically made up of the same stuff. Just like the early organisms being bounced around in the oceans and picking up new parts, why couldn't the universe be considered just one huge ocean where all the rocks (whether planets or asteroids) have the same parts and the big ones borrow from the small ones?
Very cool
No, it will pretty much just draw a flag, it seems. Surely there are less expensive ways to get the kids interested in space?
At least you recognized it as a joke...
That episode hasn't been shown in Australia yet.
The lead baloon engineer, known for his cocky attitude and general air of superiority, had his ego severely deflated.
If the Pedo bites, he gets a smack in the face and has to polish the preists' candle-sticks everyday for a month.
Ba-dum bum
You said it. Those games were seemingly way more fun to play than some of today's games. To (loosely) quote a fellow /.'er: I can imagine a fun, ok-looking game to look pretty, but I can't imagine a boring, pretty game to be more fun.
Maybe today's games are just as fun as they once were, but the excitement of going to friends' houses and spending as much time trying to figure out how to network 15+ computers together as we did actually playing, just isn't there anymore. I mean, being able to move my guy around on the screen and watch it on the guys screen next to me was completely mind-blowing! We felt like we were kings of technology when we made it all work. Granted, we didn't actually invent the protocols or network hardware, but being to actually put on a successful LAN party instilled a certain amount of pride.
I'm sure 20 years from now our kids will be sitting around talking about what a pain it was to lug around their console and play games picture-in-picture. Not like the lazy kids of the future that will just carry their entire gaming, music, video, telecommunications system in their pocket and plug them into their 2" LCD eye-wear and play any person from any location. Bastards.
I upgraded my 5x86 133 to a full Pentium 133, doubled my RAM from 8 to 16 MB and bought a 2Mb video card instead of a 1Mb. I distinctly remember playing Quake right after the upgrade, looking up and saying to myself "holy shit, those floaty blobs were clouds this whole time!"
And remember the HUGE difference 3DFX and Open GL made for GL Quake? Damn I'm old...
Ah, sorry...that's right 450mhz. Damn it's been forever since I even thought about those bad boys.
That's because Modern Warfare 2 is a shitty console port.
Exactly. ANY old ID game (not sure if you can say this about Duke Nukem or some older Blizzard games) still has many servers up and running AND people actually playing in them. I guess their Celeron 300 (Oc'd to 400, ofc) and their dual VOODOO2 running in SLI has to be used for something. But game-play can, in theory, go on indefinitely or until they stop supporting IPv4. Even then someone will build a patch. Because they can.
Go ahead and drop support. I'll build a server, host the game and anyone can play...FOREVER!
The planet has limited resources.
Says who? The planet may have "limited resources" the way we are using them now but who says there won't be renew-able energy discovered or developed at some point? Why couldn't we find a super-efficient way to harness the energy from the sun to power everything and stop using the "limited resources", for example? I personally believe we have everything here we need. If we make it to another planet and find a way to make it habitable then cool, but we need to focus on finding a way to survive here indefinitely.
Of course, by the time we have that all figured out the A.I. we will have created will become the top of the food chain and we'll be annihilated in the robot wars, anyways.
Swallow. /problem
I agree with you. This is off topic, but I wonder if there is evolutionary value in resisting change? Maybe to make sure that which is new stands a rigorous test to ensure it has a rightful place in history? Or perhaps to challenge our already set ways and give strength to existing process?
Google, here I come...