I'm not planning to do that at all.:-) I like having legal copies of the movies, although I have occationally watched pirate versions of new movies, they are rarely of good enough quality to compete with originals. The only advantage is that the pirate versions get out before the movies are released on DVD. For practical reasons I don't go to the movies anyway, so the way I see it, the movie companies don't loose any money on me if I see a pirate version. On the contrary, I buy the movies I like anyway.
And hey, that law you are talking about; we don't have that in my country. . .
No talking down on 8MHz 286, please! Mine served me well for years, I tell you! And it cost me twice as much as this little 2GHz 1GbRAM, 60Gb Harddrive Unobtainium cased laptop I carry around these days just for sending mail and reading documents.
... would be to cram all his symphonys into 240 seconds, getting it over with and release all that time for doing something more (or less, if preferred) usefull. Like stretching the latest hip hop hit into lasting 24 hours, giving it a beat you can actually dance to.:-)
How about a "This day, five years ago"?
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With one of the top stories on the same date five years ago featured again.
On the other hand, if enough people do this, the bad guys can't have enough resources (time, money, manpower etc) to come get us all, and if they start killing people, (if they can even find out who/where we are), authorities will really start looking into getting them.
As for now, people stupid enough to fall for this scam should be put in jail, before they hurt sombody. (My $.02)
I too really hope the sequel will be made in 2D. Last time I experienced a jump from 2D to 3D was with Deuce Nukem, and I was SO disappointed when the 2D platform game was turned into just another Doom clone.:-( As has been stated; the 2D cartoon feel is what makes these games great!
Never mind x-ray and night vision. Just let me install the browser of my choice and hook me up to my ISP at maximum speed.
I can't wait to see the poll here
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Who do you want to send to Mars:
1. Osama bin Laden should be nuked all the way there 2. George W. Bush - no more stupid quotes 3. Michael Jackson is not of this earth 4. CowboyNeal - phone home
I bet it could be used to prevent waste of copying paper and toner by not letting the funny-people at the office xerox their tits/a$$es/whatever. Or keeping me from showering with my pajamas on every monday morning.
... on preventing phone theft? I wouldn't pay an extra $50 for a phone with a system making it a bit less attractive to steal, when I can have a phone without such a system for $5. On gun control it might be a good idea, although the bad guys would bypass the system somehow, and any weapon owner with half his brain intact has a lockable cabinet for his gun(s).
It might very well be your own psychology playing you a trick, the same way my psyche makes me have to pee after I brush my teeth, even if I just did so right before brushing them. Please don't call the guys in the white suits!
I think the crop-circles are "the aliens" way to "light a bag of cr*p" on our porch, making us look like idiots running around trying to find out "who did it". A lot of them look nice, though.
I think this kind of simple, addictive games can be just as dangerous as the "Violent, realistic and addictive" 3D Doom-style games. To give you a little idea:
When I was in the army, about ten years ago, we had a lot of time to kill, so a couple of my roommates got themselves a gameboy. Both of them had Tetris on it, and for a while we had a blast playing to see who could get the space shuttle, and when they got the link cable, we could play against each other too. After a while the others got tired of it, but not me. I kept playing, and shortly I found myself playing on two gameboys simultaneously.
It was when I realized that I kept seing the blocks and hearing the music after going to bed and until next morning I asked them to send the tetris games home, and I haven't dared play tetris since.
Wouldn't it be possible to increase data read rate without increasing rotation speed by using more than one laser, although not 700 Million of them? E.g. by using two lasers reading parallell tracks, you would be able to read twice as much data on a rotation as with only one laser, and so on.
I'd like to have a small ome, myself. Just large anough to fit inside my kitchen waste-bin, so that I could just put all my garbage into it, and never have to carry it out. I know you'd like one, too.
So, basically, by hooking up some old AM radios ("slightly" modified, of course) to every computer in my home, and by installing some sofisticated software (Will I need a "slightly" upgraded version of the mentioned software, I wonder?), I can actually have a wireless LAN in my home, right?
The safest thing to do (by my experience, anyway), is to swallow the pride, and ignore and delete the spam, and thereby NOT confirming to the spammer that he/she has got a valid e-mail address with you as the recipient.
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I'm not planning to do that at all. :-) I like having legal copies of the movies, although I have occationally watched pirate versions of new movies, they are rarely of good enough quality to compete with originals. The only advantage is that the pirate versions get out before the movies are released on DVD. For practical reasons I don't go to the movies anyway, so the way I see it, the movie companies don't loose any money on me if I see a pirate version. On the contrary, I buy the movies I like anyway.
And hey, that law you are talking about; we don't have that in my country. . .
Now the "movie stealers" can swap pirate movies without anybody finding out! I bet the big movie companies will have a look into this. . .
Hey!
No talking down on 8MHz 286, please! Mine served me well for years, I tell you! And it cost me twice as much as this little 2GHz 1GbRAM, 60Gb Harddrive Unobtainium cased laptop I carry around these days just for sending mail and reading documents.
... would be to cram all his symphonys into 240 seconds, getting it over with and release all that time for doing something more (or less, if preferred) usefull. Like stretching the latest hip hop hit into lasting 24 hours, giving it a beat you can actually dance to. :-)
With one of the top stories on the same date five years ago featured again.
On the other hand, if enough people do this, the bad guys can't have enough resources (time, money, manpower etc) to come get us all, and if they start killing people, (if they can even find out who/where we are), authorities will really start looking into getting them.
As for now, people stupid enough to fall for this scam should be put in jail, before they hurt sombody. (My $.02)
I too really hope the sequel will be made in 2D. Last time I experienced a jump from 2D to 3D was with Deuce Nukem, and I was SO disappointed when the 2D platform game was turned into just another Doom clone. :-( As has been stated; the 2D cartoon feel is what makes these games great!
Anyawy, just my $.02
Never mind x-ray and night vision. Just let me install the browser of my choice and hook me up to my ISP at maximum speed.
Who do you want to send to Mars:
1. Osama bin Laden should be nuked all the way there
2. George W. Bush - no more stupid quotes
3. Michael Jackson is not of this earth
4. CowboyNeal - phone home
Has there been anything send further from Earth and returned safely?
Too late at night for reasearch on that right now, but if you count radiowaves, they might have bounced some back from objects more distant.
I bet it could be used to prevent waste of copying paper and toner by not letting the funny-people at the office xerox their tits/a$$es/whatever. Or keeping me from showering with my pajamas on every monday morning.
... on preventing phone theft? I wouldn't pay an extra $50 for a phone with a system making it a bit less attractive to steal, when I can have a phone without such a system for $5. On gun control it might be a good idea, although the bad guys would bypass the system somehow, and any weapon owner with half his brain intact has a lockable cabinet for his gun(s).
It might very well be your own psychology playing you a trick, the same way my psyche makes me have to pee after I brush my teeth, even if I just did so right before brushing them. Please don't call the guys in the white suits!
My debugger is mute, but my comuter says "Ding!" every time there is a sign of Microsoft developers NOT doing their job of debugging. . .
I think the crop-circles are "the aliens" way to "light a bag of cr*p" on our porch, making us look like idiots running around trying to find out "who did it". A lot of them look nice, though.
I think this kind of simple, addictive games can be just as dangerous as the "Violent, realistic and addictive" 3D Doom-style games. To give you a little idea:
When I was in the army, about ten years ago, we had a lot of time to kill, so a couple of my roommates got themselves a gameboy. Both of them had Tetris on it, and for a while we had a blast playing to see who could get the space shuttle, and when they got the link cable, we could play against each other too. After a while the others got tired of it, but not me. I kept playing, and shortly I found myself playing on two gameboys simultaneously.
It was when I realized that I kept seing the blocks and hearing the music after going to bed and until next morning I asked them to send the tetris games home, and I haven't dared play tetris since.
Wouldn't it be possible to increase data read rate without increasing rotation speed by using more than one laser, although not 700 Million of them? E.g. by using two lasers reading parallell tracks, you would be able to read twice as much data on a rotation as with only one laser, and so on.
Recent events and research reports concidered, I'd say the number of inhabitable planets is zero. None. 0.
. . . . we will have viruses that are something to look at, besides the HD lamp flashing wildly while the files are being deleted.
I'd like to have a small ome, myself. Just large anough to fit inside my kitchen waste-bin, so that I could just put all my garbage into it, and never have to carry it out. I know you'd like one, too.
So, basically, by hooking up some old AM radios ("slightly" modified, of course) to every computer in my home, and by installing some sofisticated software (Will I need a "slightly" upgraded version of the mentioned software, I wonder?), I can actually have a wireless LAN in my home, right?
The safest thing to do (by my experience, anyway), is to swallow the pride, and ignore and delete the spam, and thereby NOT confirming to the spammer that he/she has got a valid e-mail address with you as the recipient.
Sure ads a new dimension to powersaving computers when you can turn off all other light sources in the room. :-)
And by changing the bgcolor value to #FFFFFF you have a live feed of a closeup of the sun.
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If the alien species in question happened to be the Borg, it wouldn't matter. It would be their problem, really. . . :-)
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