Or you could save yourself alot of trouble and just dip the heatsink in paint thinner, which will dissolve the wax no problem. about a 10 second process.
I realize that my solutions wern't legal, but should they be challenged in a court of law, you might be able to more easily have your solutions introduced into a bill. Civil disobedience, of some sort. At least the book is in circulation.
so have your friend in D.C. swing by the library of congress, check it out, mail it to you. scan it in, send it back with a money order to cover the late fee and his S&H cost, and you're set. no, it's not easy, but if you think the public should have a copy, I say it's your responsibility to put the work into a public medium (gnutella), or buy a copy and donate it to your local library for public consumption. there's probably 100 ways to circumvent this small problem.
What's so bad about the D20 system? I don't follow the whole pen and paper RPG thing closely, the last book i bought was the D&D 3 player's guide, you know, the one before they made the extra 20 page revision one? Anywho, it seemed alright, and took 95% of everything needed into account, at least to the casual player.
I went w/my girlfriend to drop off some of her film at walmart, and was looking around; they sell a 640x480 digital camera that accepts compact flash cards, and has a USB cable, and then doubles as a web camera (but looks like a regular camera) for $38. Oh yeah It has a thing on the bottom to mount it to a tripod. Granted, there's no zoom, but you're looking at at least $50 for a film camera with a moving lens of any sort. Considering that my digital camera does double the resolution w/2x optical zoom, but without the webcam feature was bought 4 years ago for $200 on sale at Staples, $50 for 1/2 of the features 4 years later isn't too shabby.
I crop down and then compress 98% of my photos to less than 640x480 anyways. Uncompressed, it makes excellent printed 4x6" color photos, and decent B&W 8x10s. 3000 photos and 4 years later, I'm still not looking at buying a new digital camera; they last forever.
I dunno, but i consider several pieces of my anatomy below the waist to be some of the best possible parts of my anatomy, although they might be some of the worst possible places to get splinters:)
Then again GTA3 really broke new ground in the series. GTA 1 & 2 were essentially top-down, essentially 2-D shooters that you could drive around in cars. I played GTA2, and it was great, tons of fun. My friend showed me GTA3, and my jaw litterally dropped when I watched him picking off grannies from two blocks away with a sniper rifle, and taking on the SWAT team from a 3D over the shoulder view.
As to Vice City, You might have a point there, since all it is is GTA3 with a little bit of spit 'n polish & a Miami 80's story line, a page taken straight out of the Tomb Raider series.
I thought it was Michelangelo, when painting the Sistine Chapel's celing, that he said "When it is finished!". I'd post the IMDB link to the particular movie emphasizing that, but I'm not sure which movie it was. I'll let someone else reap the karma rewards.
sounds like you're talking about a PPC LCII. It'd be nice. Although I suspect if they did that, people would start questioning, 'if X computer is only $500, then why is Y computer $3500, buy into the whole "macs are much more expensive than PCs" thing', and just buy a pc, rather than get a $800-1000 eMac. i'd buy one, though.
Huzzah! This will no doubt be a popular article, but I'd like to go ahead and nominate this article for the most worthless/. article of the year award.
heh, i got modded as a troll - not what i was going for, but whatever. i suppose it might have been thailand; it was a while ago when i read the article - probably in february. thanks for clearing that up for me.
so if you were to do a translation of a popular online comic strip, with the author's blessing, who then linked to the translated strips from his main page, do you then 'own' the translated comic, images and all, or only the text?
if you only get a few replies to your response, it is likely because you only used two (2) buzzwords, proxies, and great firewall of china. thanks for playing.
At least their government isn't afraid to take drastic measures to protect their young. I think singapore is similarly protecting their young by killing drug dealers on the spot (although they're not officially announcing this due to human rights violations of punishment w/o trial), which has dropped drug sales by a significant amount in their country. While horrific, the government's stance on this means less drugs, which mean less kids doing 'hard drugs', and more kids have a chance at a good future. The United States government is ball-less in this respect.
Now, granted, midnight to 6am might be a better time for a gaming ban, but you have to ask yourself, did you really need to spend more time gaming tonight? Theres things called books, you know, they're fun too.
The only major qualm I have with this is that internet cafes in the far east (as far as I know) represent the new social meccas of the 35 and under crowd, much like drive in fast food was of the 50's, and by shutting these down after 10 pm, will likely be essentially asking for a 500% increase in petty theft and vandalism.
you forgot laptops. powerbooks, you just lift up the keyboard and there's the ram. the 'lock' is somthing that can be opened with a sharp fingernail by anyone. they're also considerably more likely to be stolen.
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boil stagnant blood, maybe. on the human body only two things need to be 'shielded' from the microwaves emitted by a kitchen microwave, the eyeballs, and testicles, both of which do not have enough blood flow to cool themselves fast enough. if you're curious, they end up like hardboiled eggs. fun visual. Granted, if you stand infront of a microwave unshielded long enough (more than two minutes or so at a time, I would suspect), your body will overheat and you will die, but your body is notoriously good at dissipating heat, especially when you start to sweat.
hmm, i bought my sidewinder 3d way back in 1996. it came with mechwarrior mercenaries, and was like $60 total. i used it with that game, the original tie fighter game, xwing vs. tie fighter, and.... xwing alliance? the one where you pilot a version of the millenium falcon. picked the last one up for $7 in a used bargain bin about two years ago. sidewinder still comes out from time to time to play, but i haven't had to upgrade since. got a $20 driving wheel for need for speed: porsche unleashed, and a $9 saiko USB game pad to play emulator games on my powerbook on the airplane, long car rides. i'll probably own all three of those until i'm 35, maybe longer (i'm just 19 now). oh, and a $50 optical trackball for general use; $20 optical mouse for first person 3d shooters. i'm a casual gamer at best, and probably won't buy another piece of computer hardware for another 2 or three years unless one of my mice die, in which case i have a $15 ps/2 -> usb adaptor as a backup. yeah, i can see why the market is dying - it's not like these things get that much use by the general public, and the ones that do, still last forever.
buy used, or slightly used, at 1-800-phoneguys. i don't work for them or know them personally, but the guy who runs it is talked about alot on this site, and is pretty successful. buy from them and help fund their ferrari addiction!
That's really interesting. Thanks for the link! At the bottom of the main page is a link to the raw/recent data, which, in theroy should help work towards an early warning system.
In Texas we have a siren that goes off up to 30 minutes in advance of an actual tornado.... it's taken up until the last decade or so to be able to predict somthing like that. 40 years ago you might not find out till a week later that a tornado touched down 3 towns over. So far we're up to a day behind.... hopefully in another two years we'll see alerts hit the net as early as an hour after a worm hits the mainstream (since you can't predict when an annonymous person will release a worm). Maybe by then we'll have taught people to not open unknown attachments. Maybe.
I have an "early slashdot worm story alert system" built in to my DSL connection. I found out about this around midnight last night, when my DSL connection proceeded to crawl to a slow, and even google was returning results with considerable lag.
Anyone else so lucky to have a system such as mine? This works well on the UTA campus network, also. At least, a worm story has been reported w/in 24 hours of every noticable long slowdown of the net for me...
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if you're not crashing your palm (~ OS 3.5) on a regular basis, you're not trying hard enough.
haven't mucked about with anything else other than my m100, though. YMMV
Or you could save yourself alot of trouble and just dip the heatsink in paint thinner, which will dissolve the wax no problem. about a 10 second process.
I realize that my solutions wern't legal, but should they be challenged in a court of law, you might be able to more easily have your solutions introduced into a bill. Civil disobedience, of some sort. At least the book is in circulation.
so have your friend in D.C. swing by the library of congress, check it out, mail it to you. scan it in, send it back with a money order to cover the late fee and his S&H cost, and you're set. no, it's not easy, but if you think the public should have a copy, I say it's your responsibility to put the work into a public medium (gnutella), or buy a copy and donate it to your local library for public consumption. there's probably 100 ways to circumvent this small problem.
What's so bad about the D20 system? I don't follow the whole pen and paper RPG thing closely, the last book i bought was the D&D 3 player's guide, you know, the one before they made the extra 20 page revision one? Anywho, it seemed alright, and took 95% of everything needed into account, at least to the casual player.
I went w/my girlfriend to drop off some of her film at walmart, and was looking around; they sell a 640x480 digital camera that accepts compact flash cards, and has a USB cable, and then doubles as a web camera (but looks like a regular camera) for $38. Oh yeah It has a thing on the bottom to mount it to a tripod. Granted, there's no zoom, but you're looking at at least $50 for a film camera with a moving lens of any sort. Considering that my digital camera does double the resolution w/2x optical zoom, but without the webcam feature was bought 4 years ago for $200 on sale at Staples, $50 for 1/2 of the features 4 years later isn't too shabby.
I crop down and then compress 98% of my photos to less than 640x480 anyways. Uncompressed, it makes excellent printed 4x6" color photos, and decent B&W 8x10s. 3000 photos and 4 years later, I'm still not looking at buying a new digital camera; they last forever.
I dunno, but i consider several pieces of my anatomy below the waist to be some of the best possible parts of my anatomy, although they might be some of the worst possible places to get splinters :)
/grammar nazi
Then again GTA3 really broke new ground in the series. GTA 1 & 2 were essentially top-down, essentially 2-D shooters that you could drive around in cars. I played GTA2, and it was great, tons of fun. My friend showed me GTA3, and my jaw litterally dropped when I watched him picking off grannies from two blocks away with a sniper rifle, and taking on the SWAT team from a 3D over the shoulder view.
As to Vice City, You might have a point there, since all it is is GTA3 with a little bit of spit 'n polish & a Miami 80's story line, a page taken straight out of the Tomb Raider series.
I thought it was Michelangelo, when painting the Sistine Chapel's celing, that he said "When it is finished!". I'd post the IMDB link to the particular movie emphasizing that, but I'm not sure which movie it was. I'll let someone else reap the karma rewards.
sounds like you're talking about a PPC LCII. It'd be nice. Although I suspect if they did that, people would start questioning, 'if X computer is only $500, then why is Y computer $3500, buy into the whole "macs are much more expensive than PCs" thing', and just buy a pc, rather than get a $800-1000 eMac. i'd buy one, though.
whee.
Huzzah! This will no doubt be a popular article, but I'd like to go ahead and nominate this article for the most worthless /. article of the year award.
:)
'Cause you know it's gonna be a slow news day.
heh, i got modded as a troll - not what i was going for, but whatever. i suppose it might have been thailand; it was a while ago when i read the article - probably in february. thanks for clearing that up for me.
if i had points, i'd mod you up as insightful and informative. thanks for the input :)
so if you were to do a translation of a popular online comic strip, with the author's blessing, who then linked to the translated strips from his main page, do you then 'own' the translated comic, images and all, or only the text?
if you only get a few replies to your response, it is likely because you only used two (2) buzzwords, proxies, and great firewall of china. thanks for playing.
At least their government isn't afraid to take drastic measures to protect their young. I think singapore is similarly protecting their young by killing drug dealers on the spot (although they're not officially announcing this due to human rights violations of punishment w/o trial), which has dropped drug sales by a significant amount in their country. While horrific, the government's stance on this means less drugs, which mean less kids doing 'hard drugs', and more kids have a chance at a good future. The United States government is ball-less in this respect.
Now, granted, midnight to 6am might be a better time for a gaming ban, but you have to ask yourself, did you really need to spend more time gaming tonight? Theres things called books, you know, they're fun too.
The only major qualm I have with this is that internet cafes in the far east (as far as I know) represent the new social meccas of the 35 and under crowd, much like drive in fast food was of the 50's, and by shutting these down after 10 pm, will likely be essentially asking for a 500% increase in petty theft and vandalism.
you are worthless. slashdot has had that feature for about a month now. troll.
What's an "infojunkie" to do these days?
hmm, probably do some research on the topic and learn for himself? nah.
worthless.
you forgot laptops. powerbooks, you just lift up the keyboard and there's the ram. the 'lock' is somthing that can be opened with a sharp fingernail by anyone. they're also considerably more likely to be stolen.
boil stagnant blood, maybe. on the human body only two things need to be 'shielded' from the microwaves emitted by a kitchen microwave, the eyeballs, and testicles, both of which do not have enough blood flow to cool themselves fast enough. if you're curious, they end up like hardboiled eggs. fun visual. Granted, if you stand infront of a microwave unshielded long enough (more than two minutes or so at a time, I would suspect), your body will overheat and you will die, but your body is notoriously good at dissipating heat, especially when you start to sweat.
hmm, i bought my sidewinder 3d way back in 1996. it came with mechwarrior mercenaries, and was like $60 total. i used it with that game, the original tie fighter game, xwing vs. tie fighter, and.... xwing alliance? the one where you pilot a version of the millenium falcon. picked the last one up for $7 in a used bargain bin about two years ago. sidewinder still comes out from time to time to play, but i haven't had to upgrade since. got a $20 driving wheel for need for speed: porsche unleashed, and a $9 saiko USB game pad to play emulator games on my powerbook on the airplane, long car rides. i'll probably own all three of those until i'm 35, maybe longer (i'm just 19 now). oh, and a $50 optical trackball for general use; $20 optical mouse for first person 3d shooters. i'm a casual gamer at best, and probably won't buy another piece of computer hardware for another 2 or three years unless one of my mice die, in which case i have a $15 ps/2 -> usb adaptor as a backup. yeah, i can see why the market is dying - it's not like these things get that much use by the general public, and the ones that do, still last forever.
buy used, or slightly used, at 1-800-phoneguys. i don't work for them or know them personally, but the guy who runs it is talked about alot on this site, and is pretty successful. buy from them and help fund their ferrari addiction!
I'm on Verizon, and nothing went completely down.... just slowed to a crawl.
nice troll. on the off chance, might you happen to have few friends/colleiuges that use windows machines?
That's really interesting. Thanks for the link! At the bottom of the main page is a link to the raw/recent data, which, in theroy should help work towards an early warning system.
In Texas we have a siren that goes off up to 30 minutes in advance of an actual tornado.... it's taken up until the last decade or so to be able to predict somthing like that. 40 years ago you might not find out till a week later that a tornado touched down 3 towns over. So far we're up to a day behind.... hopefully in another two years we'll see alerts hit the net as early as an hour after a worm hits the mainstream (since you can't predict when an annonymous person will release a worm). Maybe by then we'll have taught people to not open unknown attachments. Maybe.
I have an "early slashdot worm story alert system" built in to my DSL connection. I found out about this around midnight last night, when my DSL connection proceeded to crawl to a slow, and even google was returning results with considerable lag.
Anyone else so lucky to have a system such as mine? This works well on the UTA campus network, also. At least, a worm story has been reported w/in 24 hours of every noticable long slowdown of the net for me...