Specifically, I wanted to bring up an unrelated topic...so mod me offtopic now. I recall some years ago a presentation by a researcher where they had made a hologram of a lens, corrected by some program to delete the flaws in the glass of the original optics. It was perfectly flat, and had a decent magnification power. To that end, I wonder; is this technology the final result of that one? And, if it is, why aren't they using the converse (making better lenses out of holograms) to make optically corrected contact lenses, and replacement corneas?
I agree. Seriously, as a former player of COH and beta tester of COV, I have to ask, did your mother need some surgery? Is that why you've sold out to them?
I told Statesman to kiss my ass over the latest round of nerfs, set upon the Heroes entirely so that the villians would stand a shot at getting to kill them. It meant all of my high-level, carefully crafted and playtested characters would be cut back by a third. I couldn't choose to ignore his nerfs, even though there are only 3 areas where villians and heroes meet to fight. I left, because they only understand when the money stops coming in. And, a good number of my Supergroup left, as well, for similar reasons. I suspect they're getting anxious about now, as I'm guessing about a third of their subscribers left.
With luck, Marvel will come along with their superhero game, and a no-nerfs policy, and I can again fly the friendly skies of heroism.
Along these lines, is this wonderful graduation speech, written by an alt.peeves regular....
http://evilurl.com/scuzzKILLdamn
Specifically, the one by Angus McIntyre...
A short excerpt...
"If you are here today, it is because you have successfully resisted the impulse to buy a secondhand Tec-9 from a pizza chef and punctuate your English teacher and some of your more odious classmates with a couple of well-aimed bursts. This requires patience and fortitude. Congratulations."
Out of all of the parent article, the most significant part of the posted article for me was this one unintentionally-included word...
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Because the post is about a large company realizing the market isn't swayed by it's actions, this single word is profound, in a poetic justice sort of way. It says that the consumer, not the producer, has final say in what they are exposed to.
It's almost an ironic recursion. It's hard evidence of the future direction of market interests.
After all, MAME cabinets are a pain to build, and are limited to a few free designs. With this, and a switch box, I can legally play all of my favorite arcade games from those arcade-in-a-stick controllers, and now all of my C64 favorites. Here's to hoping that they do the same for the Apple IIe series, because I can't wait to play Wizardry again "Jump down, turn around, and kill a bunch of wights"...and so on.
If I recall correctly, most college bookstores have children's books (not just college-level texts) for education majors available after buyback. Usually $1 _FOR A BAG FULL_. So sell the laptop, and buy a metric buttload of these, and spend the money on shipping.
In an odd turn of events, locally (Athens, Ohio) recently got a few of the new low-power FM liscenses. We have a very rough terrain in our region, and the radio we can get consisted of A. Country, and B. Pop music pond scum. Weak-FM (very appropriately named) has about a ten-mile coverage, and plays nothing but oldies, and the occasional public service announcement. It's SO much better than ClearChannel, it's not funny. And I'm almost certain it's a couple of guys screwing around with Winamp.
How bad are things that two guys with an MP3 player can out-perform a national chain?
Really? So, for that Authentic Arcade experience, do you hire some mullet-haired chainsmoker to come over and perpetually hog the machine? Do you live for the visual of screen burn-in? Does the sound of a dying amplifier feeding a $.25 cent speaker bring you joy?
For me, it's about the game. When I discovered I could still remember my super secret patterns for Pac-Man Plus on MAME, it was all good.
They will as long as I can get to a screwdriver, and a bios flashing tool. Consider this; the T2/T3 would make a perfect RealDoll, and the T1 would do a fine job as Governor of California.
Oh, damn, someone beat me to it. But your point is well made, these would be the last word in company men. But speaking from personal experience, "for the tallest wall, there is a taller ladder" and we take pride in customizing our toys.
>People talk about the old days like their is lost knowledge, we still learn all that.
Riiight. When you can program ASM on punch card decks without blowing core memory because of complexity, come talk to me. Until then, stop claiming it's all good.
Regrettably, I am quite aware of this situation, as my wife works at what was U of P's major bookseller. Their e-text initiative will fail, however, as the dead-tree format has not gone out yet...
You might be surprized. I had friends that worked at a certain car dealership in Columbus, Ohio, where management would take the top monthly saleman out for a "winner dinner", consisting of a meal at their favorite eatery, with the hooker of his choice.
When those boys hit the doors in the morning, they were ready to sell some cars.
Slashdot Mirror
Specifically, I wanted to bring up an unrelated topic...so mod me offtopic now. I recall some years ago a presentation by a researcher where they had made a hologram of a lens, corrected by some program to delete the flaws in the glass of the original optics. It was perfectly flat, and had a decent magnification power. To that end, I wonder; is this technology the final result of that one? And, if it is, why aren't they using the converse (making better lenses out of holograms) to make optically corrected contact lenses, and replacement corneas?
I'm just wondering...
I agree. Seriously, as a former player of COH and beta tester of COV, I have to ask, did your mother need some surgery? Is that why you've sold out to them?
I told Statesman to kiss my ass over the latest round of nerfs, set upon the Heroes entirely so that the villians would stand a shot at getting to kill them. It meant all of my high-level, carefully crafted and playtested characters would be cut back by a third. I couldn't choose to ignore his nerfs, even though there are only 3 areas where villians and heroes meet to fight. I left, because they only understand when the money stops coming in. And, a good number of my Supergroup left, as well, for similar reasons. I suspect they're getting anxious about now, as I'm guessing about a third of their subscribers left.
With luck, Marvel will come along with their superhero game, and a no-nerfs policy, and I can again fly the friendly skies of heroism.
Seriously, imagine the fun I'd have 'accidentally' re-broadcasting a fake gps signal in a region of these, over and over and over and over...
The cellular phone thing is almost workable, but gps, give me a break.
Let's start a loyalty-card swapping service....
Along these lines, is this wonderful graduation speech, written by an alt.peeves regular....
http://evilurl.com/scuzzKILLdamn
Specifically, the one by Angus McIntyre...
A short excerpt...
"If you are here today, it is because you have successfully resisted the impulse to buy a secondhand Tec-9 from a pizza chef and punctuate your English teacher and some of your more odious classmates with a couple of well-aimed bursts. This requires patience and fortitude. Congratulations."
And it just gets better.
Out of all of the parent article, the most significant part of the posted article for me was this one unintentionally-included word...
>Adblock
Because the post is about a large company realizing the market isn't swayed by it's actions, this single word is profound, in a poetic justice sort of way. It says that the consumer, not the producer, has final say in what they are exposed to.
It's almost an ironic recursion. It's hard evidence of the future direction of market interests.
After all, MAME cabinets are a pain to build, and are limited to a few free designs. With this, and a switch box, I can legally play all of my favorite arcade games from those arcade-in-a-stick controllers, and now all of my C64 favorites. Here's to hoping that they do the same for the Apple IIe series, because I can't wait to play Wizardry again "Jump down, turn around, and kill a bunch of wights"...and so on.
I just d'led the version, and it's very cool.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
If I recall correctly, most college bookstores have children's books (not just college-level texts) for education majors available after buyback. Usually $1 _FOR A BAG FULL_. So sell the laptop, and buy a metric buttload of these, and spend the money on shipping.
In an odd turn of events, locally (Athens, Ohio) recently got a few of the new low-power FM liscenses. We have a very rough terrain in our region, and the radio we can get consisted of A. Country, and B. Pop music pond scum. Weak-FM (very appropriately named) has about a ten-mile coverage, and plays nothing but oldies, and the occasional public service announcement. It's SO much better than ClearChannel, it's not funny. And I'm almost certain it's a couple of guys screwing around with Winamp.
How bad are things that two guys with an MP3 player can out-perform a national chain?
I'd put in a link, but there's no web page yet.
Oddly, I think that forcing Microsoft into the open source, (open whatever) world might actually be a better business decision for the company.
Time will tell.
Rigor Morty
Privoxy is the newer version of Junkbuster. And for all that ad-free goodness, I chain Privoxy to Proxomitron (in Windows XP).
Prixovy - http://www.privoxy.org
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.shtml
Also, get a patched hosts file from here,
http://remember.mine.nu
And run Edexter to fill in the banners.
http://www.pyrenean.com/edexter.php
Ad-free pop-up free content. On dial-up, it's like sweet freedom.
Really? So, for that Authentic Arcade experience, do you hire some mullet-haired chainsmoker to come over and perpetually hog the machine? Do you live for the visual of screen burn-in? Does the sound of a dying amplifier feeding a $.25 cent speaker bring you joy?
For me, it's about the game. When I discovered I could still remember my super secret patterns for Pac-Man Plus on MAME, it was all good.
>It does not exclude or preclude emotional bonding or sensible family life - unless you have an unhealthy preoccupation with it.
...or unless you've found some of the Good Stuff(tm).
Does anyone have a link to a faster speed-reader system? I found I was able to keep up the pace at max on this one.
They will as long as I can get to a screwdriver, and a bios flashing tool. Consider this; the T2/T3 would make a perfect RealDoll, and the T1 would do a fine job as Governor of California.
Oh, damn, someone beat me to it. But your point is well made, these would be the last word in company men. But speaking from personal experience, "for the tallest wall, there is a taller ladder" and we take pride in customizing our toys.
See xbox-scene.com for evidence.
>People talk about the old days like their is lost knowledge, we still learn all that.
Riiight. When you can program ASM on punch card decks without blowing core memory because of complexity, come talk to me. Until then, stop claiming it's all good.
Regrettably, I am quite aware of this situation, as my wife works at what was U of P's major bookseller. Their e-text initiative will fail, however, as the dead-tree format has not gone out yet...
I don't know, but I'd be one happy redneck if I could get redhat 9 to accept even the 2.6.0 kernel without major god-damn surgery. ...grumble off...
I can pretty much assure you there will be crowding problems, because of these guys....
http://jamvention.4t.com/
Still, how can you hate people who intend to use repeaters to broadcast Deep Throat over the air?
Morty
And, Proxomitron, when chained with Privoxy, is an ad-free orgy of content without annoyance!
You might be surprized. I had friends that worked at a certain car dealership in Columbus, Ohio, where management would take the top monthly saleman out for a "winner dinner", consisting of a meal at their favorite eatery, with the hooker of his choice.
When those boys hit the doors in the morning, they were ready to sell some cars.
Besides, there are better college-based strips available, some of them in their entirety.
http://www.spacemoose.com is my personal favorite, although I suspect Dupie might be more along the mainstream.
It looks as though Dupie is only available in paperback.
>3. Has my child every had sex? Do I know this for sure?
Are you catholic?