Finnish is a crazy language. Apparently in Finnish "Ha ha ha" translates into "No remorse." Also apparent is the fact that there are no black people in Finland or something, because all the black characters are just white people painted black...poorly.
Lastly, story dupes are bad enough but now topic dupes? Take a look at the icons for this story and you'll see what I mean;)
I'd like to propose a new feature for when slashdot is retooled with the most current web standards. Some have proposed a feature to eliminate dupes, but here is a better idea. In the future, when the same story is posted two or three times in a day then the comments from the last story should be duped along with the story. This would save not only time, but also bandwidth.
By age 15, I'd be concerned if they weren't yet looking at porn.
By the time I was 15 I was already bored and jaded by internet porn, erotic starwars fanfic^W^W stories, and the anarchist cookbook. Not that I don't still see what's out there now and then:) Ever since the tilted forum project took down the titty board, the internet just hasn't been the same *sigh*.
If I had some points I would mod this up. Everyone who hasn't yet tried iRate is seriously missing out, so please, mods, spare a point on this and spread the word about iRate!
According to the article on space.com, the mission cost 1 billion. To quote, "Yang hurtled around the planet for the rest of Wednesday, making a planned orbit shift in midafternoon and stopping work only to rest and eat Chinese food designed especially for space travel." I for one think 1 billion dollars is well worth it for space chinese food. Along with space icecream, we can now have a complete and balanced space diet. I look forward to the day when the guy on the phone of the local chinese restraunt asks if i want my dumplings to be steamed, panfried, or 'space'.
You may have noticed that this article seemingly falls into 7 different categories. Let me break them down for you so you can see for yourself how each one applies to this insightful article.
Firstly, the Bill-Gates-As-Cyborg is representative of Microsoft being fucked.
Secondly, the IE icon with the broken halo is representative of Microsoft falling from grace.
Thirdly, the circuitboard was just misclick by Taco.
Fourthly, the patent pending icon is representative of Cyborg-Bill being stabbed in the back by a rusty spoon.
Fifthly, the hat on briefcase thing also represents Microsoft being fucked.
Sixthly, the internet thing represents my posting this on slashdot about Microsoft being fucked.
Lastly, the newspaper icon represents joe sixpack reading in weekly world news tomorrow that Microsoft is being fucked.
The capsule was put through a number of manoeuvres during its descent to fully validate the steerable ram-air parachute canopy that made it possible to fly the craft like a glider.
What maneuvers is it capable of?
What is a steerable ram-air parachute canopy? How does it work?
How is this better than what has been done before?
How does this contribute to the overall goal of winning the X-Prize?
This sad stub for an article leaves me with much more questions than answers. Can't the editors find a fully fleshed out story or wait for one to be published, rather than linking to things like this?
You can take all the best car parts in the world and put them together and the car probably won't even run. This article even admits that, and says they are developing systems to make the parts communicate and work together. Think about what this means. Car 1 is a normal car with normal parts the break down at a normal rate. Car 2 is a car with the best of each type of part that breaks down slightly less often than the parts of car 1, only for the parts of car 2 you need an extra widget for each of the parts to make the parts communicate.
Now even if you have the most high end parts on the market that never break, you still have 50% more parts total to make them work together. That means that each part has to work 66% better and last 66% longer just to break even. Plus imagine how heavy and awkward the car will be with all these extra widgets. This is just another scam to part fools from their money, it makes absolutely no sense from an engineering point of view. Sure you get pretty platinum coated spark plugs, but will they fit in the engine block!
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel tied to his crotch. The bartender says "Why do you have a steering wheel tied to your crotch." The pirate responds:
The waste ate its way down into layers of saprolite, a claylike rock, so that more than 99 percent of it is deep in the soil, he said.
Maybe this technology could be put to other uses. for example, what if we used old nuclear waste for drilling deep within the earth. We could pour some in the hole, and then microbe it when it stopped being effective. lather, rinse, repeat.
1. Pour nuclear waste into ground making a really really deep hole.
2. Clean up hole with microbes.
3. ????
4. Profit!
I swear, I really didn't NEED to have a life. I don't know about many of you, but Diablo II ended up being THE most addictive game I've ever played (eclipsing both Nethack and Civ II no less!).
More addicting than Nethack? DIE HERETIC DIE! And may the RNG spit upon your grave.
The first game to really affect my life was Ultima Online. Working my way up from lowly mage to owner of a player city took its toll on life. My computer was right next to my bed and at night I'd leave my character macroing. There were several occasions when I'd wake up in a cold sweat, dreaming in 3D-Isometric Tiles, thinking someone had used a 'sploit to break into my house, kill me, and take my stuff. I was so freaked out I'd have to go over to the computer to see if everything was still there and alright.
The second game to affect my life was Nethack. Simply put, this is just the best game ever made, and it's free and open source so check it out! Many people don't get how I can still be playing this game after so many years, and how I still haven't ascended or even come close (I made it to the castly once only to choke on a dragon corpse). Well, let me say this: You aren't truly hardcore until you have dreamed in ASCII.
This is pretty funny. However by far the best thing I have seen was the April Fool's thread posted on Fark yesterday.
However somehow I doubt my computer science teacher was so amused after we filled out a sex offender registration form and left it on the ground in his bosses office...:)
The Ultima Collection, available from eastore.ea.com all of the single player Ultima's except for the last one, number nine. They also through in Akalabeth.
Caveat Emptor -- Several of the games do not work properly on modern systems do to memory incompatibities. IMHO, the only Ultima really worth playing is U7, which now works perfectly do to the new engine made by Exult. However, Ultima's 4-6 are also very good if you have the time and patience to get them working (U4 worked fine for me except the sound but I could never really get U5 & U6 running correctly)
In the interview Lanier says that on the first version of macintosh, before it was released, they were experimenting with a version that did not use files. Is there anywhere I can find out more information about how this worked?
They have been talking about this for at least two years. I seem to remember them talking about the same thing for one of the Resident of Evil games. This is obviously just a publicity stunt where they will do maybe 5 or 10 to get themselves in the media and get exposure for their lame game without having to pay. The company should just learn from its mistakes. The last time they tried this they didn't make it into a single newspaper except for one or two articles online, and I doubt if it will work this time. Maybe if they are lucky they will make it on Larry King Live or Crossfire with Wolf Blitzer, as this is the kind of thing that could potentially drive up ratings a notch. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
I sold my Ultima online account two years ago for six hundred and ten dollars. That was after a year and a half of playing three hours or so a day. Eventually I got two large houses and three small ones, and a boat, which means i had basically maxed out on the material wealth you can have in the game.
The guy who bought it was a bartender in florida somewhere. I guess the appeal seemed to be that he could resell it if he ever got bored, and he would be able to play and be influential right away and be able to start a guild.
But as with any economic system, people will only buy items in the long run if they believe they can resell them for more. That said, if you do that math I was making only a fraction of a dollar an hour for playing this game. All in all, seemed like a fair trade and I got a spiffy new graphics card and a watch for my efforts.
There is a book called Forward Drive by Jim Motavelli that explains all of the different technologies that are competing to become the accepted standard. It's pretty in depth, but is a light read at the same time. For those curious, amazon.com is selling it for 20 bucks, and they give it a 4.5 star rating.
The battery lasts as long as the car. Also, since Toyota knew people would be scared of the battery dying, they will replace it for free in the first three years. The warantee is incredible and it comes with it, just to calm fears since its new technology. So basically no matter what you can't lose.
The only thing is that the battery is in the trunk all the way against the back. its pretty small, but if you accidently put your groceries on top of it or something it can overheat and stop working. That's basically the only time you'd need to rely on the warantee
Slashdot Mirror
Finnish is a crazy language. Apparently in Finnish "Ha ha ha" translates into "No remorse."
;)
Also apparent is the fact that there are no black people in Finland or something, because all the black characters are just white people painted black...poorly.
Lastly, story dupes are bad enough but now topic dupes? Take a look at the icons for this story and you'll see what I mean
I'm married, but I'm stunningly handsome;) , and rich some of the time, and a nerd. I met my wife at a rock show I was playing, so go figure.
Are you blink-182?
I'd like to propose a new feature for when slashdot is retooled with the most current web standards. Some have proposed a feature to eliminate dupes, but here is a better idea. In the future, when the same story is posted two or three times in a day then the comments from the last story should be duped along with the story. This would save not only time, but also bandwidth.
By age 15, I'd be concerned if they weren't yet looking at porn.
:) Ever since the tilted forum project took down the titty board, the internet just hasn't been the same *sigh*.
By the time I was 15 I was already bored and jaded by internet porn, erotic starwars fanfic^W^W stories, and the anarchist cookbook. Not that I don't still see what's out there now and then
Hey all I am cute 17f blonde. I want you! I will sleep with all those who moderate this post plus one!
:)
--Karma Whore
If I had some points I would mod this up. Everyone who hasn't yet tried iRate is seriously missing out, so please, mods, spare a point on this and spread the word about iRate!
According to the article on space.com, the mission cost 1 billion. To quote, "Yang hurtled around the planet for the rest of Wednesday, making a planned orbit shift in midafternoon and stopping work only to rest and eat Chinese food designed especially for space travel." I for one think 1 billion dollars is well worth it for space chinese food. Along with space icecream, we can now have a complete and balanced space diet. I look forward to the day when the guy on the phone of the local chinese restraunt asks if i want my dumplings to be steamed, panfried, or 'space'.
You may have noticed that this article seemingly falls into 7 different categories. Let me break them down for you so you can see for yourself how each one applies to this insightful article.
Firstly, the Bill-Gates-As-Cyborg is representative of Microsoft being fucked.
Secondly, the IE icon with the broken halo is representative of Microsoft falling from grace.
Thirdly, the circuitboard was just misclick by Taco.
Fourthly, the patent pending icon is representative of Cyborg-Bill being stabbed in the back by a rusty spoon.
Fifthly, the hat on briefcase thing also represents Microsoft being fucked.
Sixthly, the internet thing represents my posting this on slashdot about Microsoft being fucked.
Lastly, the newspaper icon represents joe sixpack reading in weekly world news tomorrow that Microsoft is being fucked.
This remained consistant even when they split up the respondents by sex, income, and race.
Right, because everyone expects women, the poor, and black people to be ok with stealing. Wrong! Taco you racist bastard.
The capsule was put through a number of manoeuvres during its descent to fully validate the steerable ram-air parachute canopy that made it possible to fly the craft like a glider.
What maneuvers is it capable of?
What is a steerable ram-air parachute canopy? How does it work?
How is this better than what has been done before?
How does this contribute to the overall goal of winning the X-Prize?
This sad stub for an article leaves me with much more questions than answers. Can't the editors find a fully fleshed out story or wait for one to be published, rather than linking to things like this?
You can take all the best car parts in the world and put them together and the car probably won't even run. This article even admits that, and says they are developing systems to make the parts communicate and work together. Think about what this means. Car 1 is a normal car with normal parts the break down at a normal rate. Car 2 is a car with the best of each type of part that breaks down slightly less often than the parts of car 1, only for the parts of car 2 you need an extra widget for each of the parts to make the parts communicate.
Now even if you have the most high end parts on the market that never break, you still have 50% more parts total to make them work together. That means that each part has to work 66% better and last 66% longer just to break even. Plus imagine how heavy and awkward the car will be with all these extra widgets. This is just another scam to part fools from their money, it makes absolutely no sense from an engineering point of view. Sure you get pretty platinum coated spark plugs, but will they fit in the engine block!
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel tied to his crotch. The bartender says "Why do you have a steering wheel tied to your crotch." The pirate responds:
:)
1. "-1 Flamebait"
2. "-1 b4d gr4mm4r"
3. "Arrrg it's drivin' me nuts"
4. "-1 Troll"
Ahh the fond memories of insult sword fighting
Anyone read the title and think that AOL switched from CD-ROMs to Laserdiscs? :)
That is the sound of Cringely getting rainally aped on his first day of prison after he goes public with this idea.
And just wait to see what happens when he starts claiming communal ownership of fellow prisoners fruit cocktail...
The waste ate its way down into layers of saprolite, a claylike rock, so that more than 99 percent of it is deep in the soil, he said.
Maybe this technology could be put to other uses. for example, what if we used old nuclear waste for drilling deep within the earth. We could pour some in the hole, and then microbe it when it stopped being effective. lather, rinse, repeat.
1. Pour nuclear waste into ground making a really really deep hole.
2. Clean up hole with microbes.
3. ????
4. Profit!
I swear, I really didn't NEED to have a life. I don't know about many of you, but Diablo II ended up being THE most addictive game I've ever played (eclipsing both Nethack and Civ II no less!).
More addicting than Nethack? DIE HERETIC DIE! And may the RNG spit upon your grave.
The first game to really affect my life was Ultima Online. Working my way up from lowly mage to owner of a player city took its toll on life. My computer was right next to my bed and at night I'd leave my character macroing. There were several occasions when I'd wake up in a cold sweat, dreaming in 3D-Isometric Tiles, thinking someone had used a 'sploit to break into my house, kill me, and take my stuff. I was so freaked out I'd have to go over to the computer to see if everything was still there and alright.
The second game to affect my life was Nethack. Simply put, this is just the best game ever made, and it's free and open source so check it out! Many people don't get how I can still be playing this game after so many years, and how I still haven't ascended or even come close (I made it to the castly once only to choke on a dragon corpse). Well, let me say this: You aren't truly hardcore until you have dreamed in ASCII.
This is pretty funny. However by far the best thing I have seen was the April Fool's thread posted on Fark yesterday.
:)
However somehow I doubt my computer science teacher was so amused after we filled out a sex offender registration form and left it on the ground in his bosses office...
The Ultima Collection, available from eastore.ea.com all of the single player Ultima's except for the last one, number nine. They also through in Akalabeth.
Caveat Emptor -- Several of the games do not work properly on modern systems do to memory incompatibities. IMHO, the only Ultima really worth playing is U7, which now works perfectly do to the new engine made by Exult. However, Ultima's 4-6 are also very good if you have the time and patience to get them working (U4 worked fine for me except the sound but I could never really get U5 & U6 running correctly)
In the interview Lanier says that on the first version of macintosh, before it was released, they were experimenting with a version that did not use files. Is there anywhere I can find out more information about how this worked?
I think that acclaim is making a grave mistake.
They have been talking about this for at least two years. I seem to remember them talking about the same thing for one of the Resident of Evil games. This is obviously just a publicity stunt where they will do maybe 5 or 10 to get themselves in the media and get exposure for their lame game without having to pay. The company should just learn from its mistakes. The last time they tried this they didn't make it into a single newspaper except for one or two articles online, and I doubt if it will work this time. Maybe if they are lucky they will make it on Larry King Live or Crossfire with Wolf Blitzer, as this is the kind of thing that could potentially drive up ratings a notch. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
I sold my Ultima online account two years ago for six hundred and ten dollars. That was after a year and a half of playing three hours or so a day. Eventually I got two large houses and three small ones, and a boat, which means i had basically maxed out on the material wealth you can have in the game.
The guy who bought it was a bartender in florida somewhere. I guess the appeal seemed to be that he could resell it if he ever got bored, and he would be able to play and be influential right away and be able to start a guild.
But as with any economic system, people will only buy items in the long run if they believe they can resell them for more. That said, if you do that math I was making only a fraction of a dollar an hour for playing this game. All in all, seemed like a fair trade and I got a spiffy new graphics card and a watch for my efforts.
There is a book called Forward Drive by Jim Motavelli that explains all of the different technologies that are competing to become the accepted standard. It's pretty in depth, but is a light read at the same time. For those curious, amazon.com is selling it for 20 bucks, and they give it a 4.5 star rating.
The only thing is that the battery is in the trunk all the way against the back. its pretty small, but if you accidently put your groceries on top of it or something it can overheat and stop working. That's basically the only time you'd need to rely on the warantee