"user interaction is required for any viruses to spread" So? We recently had a virus at my work (a large fortune 500 company) that required you to open up a zip file, put in a supplied 6-digit password from the email into the application the zipfile opened, and run the executible application. We still had people do this, because they thought it was "secret pictures" or something from their co-workers.
A virus could require you to bleed onto the keyboard by stabbing yourself in the hand. If it promised nude pics and said it was from someone you know, there are enough people out there that will run it to give me a headache.
For a few months now. I think the biggest thing keeping people playing it is the complexity. On eve-online there are programs to help you choose the right types of weapons for range, speed, ship size, ammo type, and so on. There are about five different types of each turrent, going from really cheap to really expensive...and there is a definate difference in game play. Hundreds, if not thousands, of different combinations of different ship moduals that can change various attributes of the ships such as CPU usage, power output, sheilding (against four different types of damage like explosive, thermo, emp) all combine to make a complex game just to start out with.
Throw in corporations, pirates, wars...it really is like a different world. What I find most interesting in it is the fact I can start my character training on something, and then don't really need to go back and mess with the game until the training is done if I don't want to. The biggest problem is the amount of ISK (in-game money) that things cost. It takes weeks to get enough ISK together to build a decent battleship, and you can loose it in less than a minute. You sit in your escape pod...hopefully you bought some insurance, and even that isn't enough to get a ship like you had. There are pirates everywhere in low security space, and once you've dropped to.4 or lower (on a scale of.0 to 1, with 0 being mad-max land) anything goes pretty much. A few times I've come through a gate to be immediatly attacked. If I have a mission into low-sec space I'll put 2-3 warp coil stabilizers on the ship just so I can escape if I'm jumped.
EVE is definetly not a game for the casual player. To get a really good character is usually takes at least 6mo to a year to build up one character. But, if you enjoy space combat and corporate subterfuge, it is a very fun game. Also, even though it have great graphics, it's not overly-taxing on the system like WOW and COV.
I shun from workplace relationships. Mainly because I don't want the people I work with to know a damn thing about my personal life...because I work in the Bible Belt at a large comapny. I am afraid of some girl telling her co-workers how I drink alot, enjoy "dark" music, how most of my books on my shelf are about the occult, and my other habits...I sorta have to lead a double life because I'm afraid of the backlash.
But I don't have too much trouble finding women outside of work (at least for a semi-random hookup), so I'm not looking too hard. I really don't like the whole "dating" scene, which reminds me of a drawn-out pay-per-view drain on my money with little guarentee of anything besides being treated like a chump.
In America, we bill everyone we can for anything. If your phone plan doesn't have something like "free incoming minutes" then yes, both parties are getting billed for the usage.
my old roommate is ADD and had a script...he'd let me have some for when I had to finish up a programming contract and needed to work several days straight. Take one every 8 hours and you can keep going for at least 3-4 days without sleep, without increasing your error rate too bad.
People used to come over and buy them off him for the performance boost...
He's a programmer too, but he needs it to just function from day to day.
RS 6000 desktop under a desk at my job at IBM. Don't know much more about it, but it was good for a "woa...um, I don't support those" comment.
My old roommate used to cart around some huge spark box from apartment to apartment...had like 8 processor boards. He never got it running, but it would boot. We almost had a computer museum in our 3rd bedroom "NOC"...thank god for all-bills paid apartments with a good net connection. I think he had some Amiga box, maybe even a commodore 64. I remember him playing Leather Goddesses of Phobos on the amiga.
I agree. When I first got into computers, all I had was a C64 and a TRS80-II. I had to do a bit of programming on the C64, and ALOT on the 80...just to get them to really do anything.
I think this was around 85-86 when I really "got into computers"...I was 12 at the time, and had picked up these weird books at the bookfair that had programming in them to finish the "adventure" in the book. Looking back, they where awesome. They had programs for multiple machines, explained a bit of programming, and did various things after you typed them in. No disks or crap. I wish I could find them again...you where in some spy agency or such haha.
Well, the best thing to do is start a local inssurection, supplying them with American weapons. Then once their doing OK, start funding another with Russian or Chinese weapons. Once the place is in total chaos, pull your support to both insurrections. Once their out of most their ammo, swoop in with the regular US military and finish the job of taking everyone left fighting out...
At my current position we deal in heavy datasets, full virtual-reality simulations, and a multiple shard world comprising up to 8,000,000 simultaneous online players. We're running into some scalability issues as well...our subscriber base is outgrowing our ability to correctly run the FIVR system.
Sometimes, it's just time to look for another job because your way out of your league when people ask vague questions!
What's the deal with the eyecandy that I can't achieve using Windowblinds? Is it really worth a $400 graphics card? I have a new mac-using friend who was going on and on about all the themes...I was just like "oh yeah, I can do that too with Windowblinds!"
Given that the threat they are designed to work against people still using WWII technology...I don't think the US is going to be going up against anyone sporting vehicle-mounted railguns any time soon.
A friend of mine made a railgun too...it's not that hard. Of course, he only fired it once without blowing all the caps out.
Perhaps with the additional funding they'll finally be able to confirm the extra-dimensional physics described here, and we can finally make the FTL drive a reality. That's what I thought of when I read about the Z Machine.
I saw a show on it...the main reason for killing it was it was irradiating the crew auite badly, and you couldn't put on enough sheilding to protect them and still fly the plane.
The major draw of a 401(k) is that an employer and the employee can both put money in it, and the money isn't taxed. Maybe you could have just given the employee the money, but by putting it into the pre-tax 401(k) you've saved both yourself and the employee money.
President Bush, in 2001, halted all federal funding on stem cells outside of the already-established 78 lines. Many of those cells have been corrupted and can't be used in human trials.
However, he did a partial reveral just recently and signed a law creating a national stem-cell bank based on umbilical cord cells. This is really good news, and hopefully will allow the US to catch up to other countries.
um...there are several different techniques used to harvest stem cells. Do a Google search on stem cell harvesting...
They can even be harvested from embryos without destroying it. In fact, the embryos in question that had a stem cell removed where later put into the womb of a female mouse, and 23 of the 47 came to term in spite of having cells removed. The 47/23 ratio is the same rate as the control test of coming to term as embryos that had not been tampered with...
They can also be harvested from your own bone marrow and blood, although these cells are already partially specialized. There is research into de-differentiate of the cells. This article is all the way back from 1999. Here is more information on de-differentiation, in which cells from a fruitfly have been successfully changed back to stem cells. Human trials are a bit off yet, but it's not a far leap to being able to do the same in our cells.
The anti-stem cell crowd has ingraved in so many people's minds that "stem cells=dead babies". That might have been true in the late 1990s...but not true anymore. The information is widely avalible on the net to current research. Many people, especially religious people in the US, feel the whole idea of cloning is so creepy as to do anything to stop it, even if they have to lie about it.
But the attraction to going to some dark, flickery, eardrum rattling hole populated by a mob of drunks and assholes, and then bouncing around to crappy music..
Then your just going to the wrong clubs...find a club that plays good dance music (like some EBM, synthpop, etc) and you'll find a whole different crowd of people. Avoid the meat markets, and you might have some fun there.
I do agree about the "knight" crap...I have an ex who complains about every bf since me about how none of them "match up" to what she wants. She considers herself a "princess" (a major reason for our breakup), but keeps dating these hot-on-the-outside-weirdo-on-the-inside guys because her main criteria are looks and money.
Cruisin mos espa in my delorian Wars over I'm a peacetime mandalorian My story has stumped star wars historians Deep in deabte buffet plate at bennigans Rhyme renegade sure to penetrate First and second defense I wont hesitate Got a job to do and darths the guy that delegates Got something against skywalker someone he really hates I dont give a fuck Im after Solo For all I care he could be hiding at yodas dojo Gotta make the money credits no good When the jawas run the shop in your neighborhood Think you can cook I got a grappling hook Lets make this quick cuz I'm really booked I'm a devious degenerate, defender of the devil Shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level
My backpacks got jets I'm boba the fett I bounty hunt for jaba hut To finance my vette I chill in deep space A mask is over my face I deliver the prize but I still narrow my eyes Cuz my time I dont like to waste. Get down!
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"user interaction is required for any viruses to spread" So? We recently had a virus at my work (a large fortune 500 company) that required you to open up a zip file, put in a supplied 6-digit password from the email into the application the zipfile opened, and run the executible application. We still had people do this, because they thought it was "secret pictures" or something from their co-workers.
A virus could require you to bleed onto the keyboard by stabbing yourself in the hand. If it promised nude pics and said it was from someone you know, there are enough people out there that will run it to give me a headache.
For a few months now. I think the biggest thing keeping people playing it is the complexity. On eve-online there are programs to help you choose the right types of weapons for range, speed, ship size, ammo type, and so on. There are about five different types of each turrent, going from really cheap to really expensive...and there is a definate difference in game play. Hundreds, if not thousands, of different combinations of different ship moduals that can change various attributes of the ships such as CPU usage, power output, sheilding (against four different types of damage like explosive, thermo, emp) all combine to make a complex game just to start out with.
.4 or lower (on a scale of .0 to 1, with 0 being mad-max land) anything goes pretty much. A few times I've come through a gate to be immediatly attacked. If I have a mission into low-sec space I'll put 2-3 warp coil stabilizers on the ship just so I can escape if I'm jumped.
Throw in corporations, pirates, wars...it really is like a different world. What I find most interesting in it is the fact I can start my character training on something, and then don't really need to go back and mess with the game until the training is done if I don't want to. The biggest problem is the amount of ISK (in-game money) that things cost. It takes weeks to get enough ISK together to build a decent battleship, and you can loose it in less than a minute. You sit in your escape pod...hopefully you bought some insurance, and even that isn't enough to get a ship like you had. There are pirates everywhere in low security space, and once you've dropped to
EVE is definetly not a game for the casual player. To get a really good character is usually takes at least 6mo to a year to build up one character. But, if you enjoy space combat and corporate subterfuge, it is a very fun game. Also, even though it have great graphics, it's not overly-taxing on the system like WOW and COV.
I shun from workplace relationships. Mainly because I don't want the people I work with to know a damn thing about my personal life...because I work in the Bible Belt at a large comapny. I am afraid of some girl telling her co-workers how I drink alot, enjoy "dark" music, how most of my books on my shelf are about the occult, and my other habits...I sorta have to lead a double life because I'm afraid of the backlash.
But I don't have too much trouble finding women outside of work (at least for a semi-random hookup), so I'm not looking too hard. I really don't like the whole "dating" scene, which reminds me of a drawn-out pay-per-view drain on my money with little guarentee of anything besides being treated like a chump.
All hair Lord Ender! Long live our great Lord!
In America, we bill everyone we can for anything. If your phone plan doesn't have something like "free incoming minutes" then yes, both parties are getting billed for the usage.
I'm not not licking toads!
I don't think major time travel is in line with the Stargate universe. The ultimate end of SG would be humans becoming the fifth Great Race.
my old roommate is ADD and had a script...he'd let me have some for when I had to finish up a programming contract and needed to work several days straight. Take one every 8 hours and you can keep going for at least 3-4 days without sleep, without increasing your error rate too bad.
People used to come over and buy them off him for the performance boost...
He's a programmer too, but he needs it to just function from day to day.
RS 6000 desktop under a desk at my job at IBM. Don't know much more about it, but it was good for a "woa...um, I don't support those" comment.
My old roommate used to cart around some huge spark box from apartment to apartment...had like 8 processor boards. He never got it running, but it would boot. We almost had a computer museum in our 3rd bedroom "NOC"...thank god for all-bills paid apartments with a good net connection. I think he had some Amiga box, maybe even a commodore 64. I remember him playing Leather Goddesses of Phobos on the amiga.
If your looking for good music...industrial, ebm, etc...soulseek is the only way to fly.
I agree. When I first got into computers, all I had was a C64 and a TRS80-II. I had to do a bit of programming on the C64, and ALOT on the 80...just to get them to really do anything.
I think this was around 85-86 when I really "got into computers"...I was 12 at the time, and had picked up these weird books at the bookfair that had programming in them to finish the "adventure" in the book. Looking back, they where awesome. They had programs for multiple machines, explained a bit of programming, and did various things after you typed them in. No disks or crap. I wish I could find them again...you where in some spy agency or such haha.
Well, the best thing to do is start a local inssurection, supplying them with American weapons. Then once their doing OK, start funding another with Russian or Chinese weapons. Once the place is in total chaos, pull your support to both insurrections. Once their out of most their ammo, swoop in with the regular US military and finish the job of taking everyone left fighting out...
At my current position we deal in heavy datasets, full virtual-reality simulations, and a multiple shard world comprising up to 8,000,000 simultaneous online players. We're running into some scalability issues as well...our subscriber base is outgrowing our ability to correctly run the FIVR system.
Sometimes, it's just time to look for another job because your way out of your league when people ask vague questions!
Or Skynet is born...
What's the deal with the eyecandy that I can't achieve using Windowblinds? Is it really worth a $400 graphics card? I have a new mac-using friend who was going on and on about all the themes...I was just like "oh yeah, I can do that too with Windowblinds!"
Given that the threat they are designed to work against people still using WWII technology...I don't think the US is going to be going up against anyone sporting vehicle-mounted railguns any time soon.
A friend of mine made a railgun too...it's not that hard. Of course, he only fired it once without blowing all the caps out.
Perhaps with the additional funding they'll finally be able to confirm the extra-dimensional physics described here, and we can finally make the FTL drive a reality. That's what I thought of when I read about the Z Machine.
I saw a show on it...the main reason for killing it was it was irradiating the crew auite badly, and you couldn't put on enough sheilding to protect them and still fly the plane.
The major draw of a 401(k) is that an employer and the employee can both put money in it, and the money isn't taxed. Maybe you could have just given the employee the money, but by putting it into the pre-tax 401(k) you've saved both yourself and the employee money.
President Bush, in 2001, halted all federal funding on stem cells outside of the already-established 78 lines. Many of those cells have been corrupted and can't be used in human trials.
However, he did a partial reveral just recently and signed a law creating a national stem-cell bank based on umbilical cord cells. This is really good news, and hopefully will allow the US to catch up to other countries.
um...there are several different techniques used to harvest stem cells. Do a Google search on stem cell harvesting...
They can even be harvested from embryos without destroying it. In fact, the embryos in question that had a stem cell removed where later put into the womb of a female mouse, and 23 of the 47 came to term in spite of having cells removed. The 47/23 ratio is the same rate as the control test of coming to term as embryos that had not been tampered with...
They can also be harvested from your own bone marrow and blood, although these cells are already partially specialized. There is research into de-differentiate of the cells. This article is all the way back from 1999. Here is more information on de-differentiation, in which cells from a fruitfly have been successfully changed back to stem cells. Human trials are a bit off yet, but it's not a far leap to being able to do the same in our cells.
The anti-stem cell crowd has ingraved in so many people's minds that "stem cells=dead babies". That might have been true in the late 1990s...but not true anymore. The information is widely avalible on the net to current research. Many people, especially religious people in the US, feel the whole idea of cloning is so creepy as to do anything to stop it, even if they have to lie about it.
uh-huh. Never heard of the Ladder Theory, have you? read it here then tell us what you think off all the guys hitting on you!
Indeed...the Ladder Theory once again!
But the attraction to going to some dark, flickery, eardrum rattling hole populated by a mob of drunks and assholes, and then bouncing around to crappy music..
Then your just going to the wrong clubs...find a club that plays good dance music (like some EBM, synthpop, etc) and you'll find a whole different crowd of people. Avoid the meat markets, and you might have some fun there.
I do agree about the "knight" crap...I have an ex who complains about every bf since me about how none of them "match up" to what she wants. She considers herself a "princess" (a major reason for our breakup), but keeps dating these hot-on-the-outside-weirdo-on-the-inside guys because her main criteria are looks and money.
Cruisin mos espa in my delorian
Wars over I'm a peacetime mandalorian
My story has stumped star wars historians
Deep in deabte buffet plate at bennigans
Rhyme renegade sure to penetrate
First and second defense I wont hesitate
Got a job to do and darths the guy that delegates
Got something against skywalker someone he really hates
I dont give a fuck Im after Solo
For all I care he could be hiding at yodas dojo
Gotta make the money credits no good
When the jawas run the shop in your neighborhood
Think you can cook I got a grappling hook
Lets make this quick cuz I'm really booked
I'm a devious degenerate, defender of the devil
Shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level
My backpacks got jets
I'm boba the fett
I bounty hunt for jaba hut
To finance my vette
I chill in deep space
A mask is over my face
I deliver the prize but
I still narrow my eyes
Cuz my time I dont like to waste.
Get down!