I never would of guessed that flying thousands of miles and high-speeds outside of the earth's atmosphere carried with it the possibility of injury. I mean, come on.
I'd really like to see the law they use to back this up. This is freaking insane, it doesn't make any logical sense. So, are we going to start pirating free software ?
I sold everything about a week before it peaked, and diversified. My portfolio is growing as quickly, but I'm still making money. Don't read this and think I'm bragging, my timing was pure luck, and nothing else. Not everyone can be good at the Money Machine Investment Challenge.
Dear GOD Why? I think I've yet to throw away anything sort of computer hardware no matter how old or worthless, there is a mouse (works actually) hangiing from my rearview mirror, I have a closet full of worthless 386's and a drawer of token ring nics. Old monitors make great fish tanks, and I've never found a whole computer that didn't have some use. I'm not going to pay IBM $30 to haul off my machine, considering the possibility they might donate it to some charitable organization, and then THEY get the tax-break. Heh, I'd hate that. Umm, something else, I love my computer parts and wouldn't part with them, unless of course you paid ME.
They are running some specials right now, But when I signed up I got a free phone, free internet for 6 months, and you could get 1000 minutes for $50, with long distance. Only problem, its though I have a dual-band phone, and can use it anywhere, I get charged for roaming if its used outside of the PCS network, which is only the major metropolitian areas, about 300 of them, and most of the major interstates. Hasn't been a problem for me yet, I stay off the phone outside of my service area, and if i ever really NEED it in an analog area, I have it. Plus, logging onto AIM from your phone is so geeky..... I love it.;)
And thats just the beginning, now that I can punch in a stations call letters, (like i'm going to remember what they are) and order a CD, my bill is going to get quite a bit bigger, just the fact that you can be on I-20 and AIM at the same time is disturbing.
with that high of a latency? I'd rather have ISDN, i mean, web pages are so small, you'll click on a link, and have to wait quite a bit, sure its instantaneous when it DOES come up, but still, the "lag" will make surfing no fun at all, and running a web, ftp, blah server is also out of the question, as is using it to make phone calls, video conference, almost all the 'neat' broadband applications will be neutered by the latency. Heck, even IRC will suck with that ping......
That all those 3d-accelerators i've been reading about our hoaxes? What about those cards that supposedly let my computer play SOUND, now that just sounds downright fishy to me.
At least not officially. Lets not forget Valve basicly BOUGHT The TF team. and the next TF game will be for Valve, and no one else. No, that doesn't stop good clones of TF (such as weapons factory for Q2) from appearing for Q3, just no REAL Team Fortress. If you Want it, then talk to Valve.
Because the photon torpedo disrupts the stability of the entire ship. Its a giant explosing shaking the entire damn thing. Its more powerful than a Fusion Warhead for crying out loud. Besides, it also overloads the plasma grid and/or the EPS sending shocks into the systems (con, science statsions, etc.) on the bridge, causing EXPLOSIONS ON THE BRIDGE that would also send people flyiong. DUH!
Until some moron gets the bright idea to bottle this water and sell. I mean, if people are willing to pay big bucks for knives made out of a meteor, just think what they will pay for extra-terrestrial water. I can just see the labels now, "From The Beginning Of the Solar System, To You" Of course, harvesting it will be a huge problem, but no matter, take lots of pre-orders from rich people who spend anything less than 5 figures without thinking about it, and name the company something with linux in the title, do an IPO, and bam, you're set. Now, if Only I could somehow work a cluster into this whole thing.....
I'll be willing to take the infrastructure and paying customers off their hands, if they pay me enough. I'll also drop all the sports channels, CMT, and TNN (except american shooter) and use the leftover bandwidth to stream people high-resolution ads saying why AT&T is the best company EVER. After that, I'll replace all the cable boxes with something running linux, and a transmeta chip, and use that to see exactly what people are watching. I'll sell that information to AT&T too. Man, if i'm not careful, I could be rich, and finally afford that operation to get Red Hat ported to my brain.....
What that means is HavenCo is planning to expand to lots of different countries, and that these countries will have different laws stating what is illegal, and what is legal. Sealand, for instance, says Child Pornagraphy is illegal, and therefore, havenco servers in Sealand will NOT host kiddie Porn (though if they did, I'd attack the place with a warship....) Not that you can't upload warez from the US, or regular porn from Saudi Arabia. The "originating server" is not where it was BEFORE it was on their servers, its their server. Geez people, learn to read.
PDF format, you fucking NEED this supercomputer to get one of those things to scroll smoothly. I mean, GEEZ! What are people thinking when they "publish" something in PDF? Wow, this looks EXACTLY like I want it to. Too bad no one cares, ever try reading a lengthy document in PDF, it sucks ASS.
My study of gravity has long been hindered by not enough computer power. I have a room full of ulttra-sparcs crunching away day and night and I can't get anywhere. I can't even prove for sure that gravity exists. I get laughed out of all the conferences, people don't return my calls, I must simply have this machine to prove my theories. I'll take 4, wait, make it 3, i'll just overclock them. Hmm, now, about porting linux to it.....
I just think its cool that the articles mentions the USP, that being my favorite weapon in Counter-Strike. Not that I've ever fired a REAL gun, I'm a computer nerd for Christ's sake.
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They did that in Germany a few years ago.
Amazon.
AIM.
And thats just the beginning, now that I can punch in a stations call letters, (like i'm going to remember what they are) and order a CD, my bill is going to get quite a bit bigger, just the fact that you can be on I-20 and AIM at the same time is disturbing.