Webster says:
hacker \Hack"er\, n. One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.
What's wrong with these fascists! I have a right to collect turpentine from my trees! Isn't that somewhere in the 18th Ammendment?
Exactly why we need SETI. We have to find wherever the dinosaurs went and tell them to come back. Then we'll put them on an island ammusement park and get rich.
If you're in the US, "deliberately going to step in the FBI's way" would be obstruction of justice. Nice idea, and it might work if it's coming from another country. But then in might be an act of war... Oh, well.
Not if you buld a seperate planet with no atmosphere. It'd only cost a few octillion or so dollars. There'd be a few stray dust particles and some hydrogen, but it'd keep going for a few decades anyway.
Of course, why would you want to? No good way i can think of to get energy from it without killing off momentum, but it might be a good ride.
In the real world...
you must be 9 to buy prOn.
you must be 12 to get into an R rated movie.
you must be 16 to drive, 18 to vote.
you must be 10 to buy cd's with a parental warning
you must be 12 to purchase a gun.
you must be 13 to purchase cigarettes.
you must be 13 to purchase alcohol.
In a perfect world all the ages would be somewhere around 150. I haven't met anyone under that age mature enough to handle all of these things responsibly.
Spoon-armed robbery? That takes talent my friend. If somebody could sucessfully rob the local Quick-E-Mart with a spoon, they'd be busy stealing rare artwork or small office buildings instead. They'd probably have enough money to buy France by now.
I noticed when I saw Gladiator with some friends that some people can see that the crowd is CGI right away, and others don't see it at all. One of us, who happens to be a good programmer, noticed the CGI easily. Another, who has a hard time with programming, didn't notice anything. 4 people isn't much of a test group, but probably some of the skills that help you program well also help you see copied or unnatural movements in the crowd.
Read "Net Force" by Tom Clancy. It makes those 2 look almost accurate.
In ten years the internet we have today will be replaced by a virtual reality program that features grey Dodge Neons stuck in traffic on an interstate lined with seedy truck stops. Whoooeee! Now that's an information exchange! But then again, who knows what'll happen in M$ "innovates" the internet.
The accurate part is that the FBI gives Net Force the authority to police the internet. You know, blowing up buildings in Russia, arresting Chinese citizens and charging them in the US, etc...
I think it's less buying fame and more "Holy s**t! I have more money than God! I could burn $100 million a year for the rest of my life and not make a dent in it!" That and buying immortality, but I think he gave all the nano/biotech guys enough money to get first dibs on anything they come up with already.
The main reason I didn't buy a PSX is because I could play the games on my computer. I got free copies of said games rather than buy them. Now Sony gets none of my money.
N-Cube is already handicapped by not being able to play CDs or DVDs.
They have a contract with Matsushita. They will make DVD players that can play N2(N-Cube) games, and Nintendo makes just the game system for people who already have a DVD player or just want games. Nintendo gets licence fees no matter which one you play the games on.
nintendo will never mass produce their games like CDs/DVDs are mass produced. Thus games will cost more for Nintendo.
Nintendo is using a mini-disc DVD. You can mass produce them just as easily and cheaply as as you can mass produce CDs or DVDs. Thus games will cost exactly the same for Nintendo.
It's cool. Just like WWF, but fewer scantily dressed sweaty fat guys. Oh yeah, and more whirling blades of imminent death. I wonder if Caltech or Carnagie Mellon will get into this. I just hope somebody's robotics dept. doesn't sweep everybody out.
Danger! Rambling! Danger!
Um, why not use a off the shelf DVD machanism and DVD discs.
Because people will copy them! Ok, maybe that's what you want, but Nintendo doesn't like that. Look at the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast. They're getting copied already and neither is a year old yet. If you controll the medium, then you don't have piracy, except for roms, but that gets hard if you have a mini-DVD.
It's available until someone in the Australian gov. notices that the movie they were looking forward to getting on DVD doesn't have a zone 4 (Australia and New Zealand) version. Whoops! "Quick! Shut them down! I want my X-Men DVD! WHAAA!"
But cheer up! They might try shutting down zone 3 (Asia) and get blown up by a Chinese cruise missile. Remind me to listen for the rockets when I'm near MPAA HQ.
Hey... Does anyone else think it odd that Japan is in the same zone (zone 2) as Europe? Yust a thought.
I'm skeptical that the UN is really all that seperate from the US government. The UN's in New York, a lot of it's military power comes from the US, and the US consistently abuses the UN. We owe the UN a couple billion or so $ in back dues, and no one in the UN asks for it. I think it's all just an excuse for America to pretend that they care about the rest of the world. If you live here you know that we don't. We don't even care to know what's happening in the next state. The average knowledge of international events comes from Canadian beer comercials. Unfortunately, this doesn't get much better anywhere else in the world, which is why I'm leaving the first chance I get.
Come and get me baby! Probe me all you want, just get me off this rock!
PS- I'm serious. I'm not staying here any longer than I have to.
1) This will not let Bill Gates pull your Natalie Portman fantasies from your brain while you sleep.
2) I will not imagine a beowulf cluster of these and anyone who does will be shot.
3a) This will not let you hack your brain.
3b) Hacking your brain is dangerous, and should only be attempted by very skilled mad scientists. It has also been declared illeagal to help others to hack their brains under the ADWA (Assault with a Deadly Weapon Act)! Put a protest against this injustice in your/. signature! Hurry or your copy of 1984 will come to life and kill you!
4) This will not make your computer become sentient.
5) This will not let you install Linux on your body, unless you install 64 cc's of halucenogens first.
6) Do not mention "computer virus" in your post under threat of slow torture.
For more information buy my book: "Get Rich Quick by Giving Your Money to Me"
You can excuse Nintendo for that stuff though. None of it costs more than $30 (find me a GeForce 2 for that) and the N64 is going to be competing with the Dreamcast and the PS2 for awhile so they have to do something to keep up. And they aren't doing that bad. Some N64 games are almost as pretty as Dreamcast games (almost). And there are a bunch of N64 games that are a lot more fun than any games on other consoles, if not as pretty (ok, just Perfect Dark and Goldeneye).
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hacker \Hack"er\, n. One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.
What's wrong with these fascists! I have a right to collect turpentine from my trees! Isn't that somewhere in the 18th Ammendment?
Mir is cramped, loud, and somewhat dangerous
Not too different from my surroundings right now.
Exactly why we need SETI. We have to find wherever the dinosaurs went and tell them to come back. Then we'll put them on an island ammusement park and get rich.
If you're in the US, "deliberately going to step in the FBI's way" would be obstruction of justice. Nice idea, and it might work if it's coming from another country. But then in might be an act of war... Oh, well.
On NASA's side, they did come up with alot. Microchips, Velcro, Tang, turkey launchers...
"Hey, what does this button do?"
"Nooo! Turn left! Left! Ahhhhh!"
Not if you buld a seperate planet with no atmosphere. It'd only cost a few octillion or so dollars. There'd be a few stray dust particles and some hydrogen, but it'd keep going for a few decades anyway.
Of course, why would you want to? No good way i can think of to get energy from it without killing off momentum, but it might be a good ride.
you must be 9 to buy prOn.
you must be 12 to get into an R rated movie.
you must be 16 to drive, 18 to vote.
you must be 10 to buy cd's with a parental warning
you must be 12 to purchase a gun.
you must be 13 to purchase cigarettes.
you must be 13 to purchase alcohol.
In a perfect world all the ages would be somewhere around 150. I haven't met anyone under that age mature enough to handle all of these things responsibly.
Spoon-armed robbery? That takes talent my friend. If somebody could sucessfully rob the local Quick-E-Mart with a spoon, they'd be busy stealing rare artwork or small office buildings instead. They'd probably have enough money to buy France by now.
I noticed when I saw Gladiator with some friends that some people can see that the crowd is CGI right away, and others don't see it at all. One of us, who happens to be a good programmer, noticed the CGI easily. Another, who has a hard time with programming, didn't notice anything. 4 people isn't much of a test group, but probably some of the skills that help you program well also help you see copied or unnatural movements in the crowd.
In ten years the internet we have today will be replaced by a virtual reality program that features grey Dodge Neons stuck in traffic on an interstate lined with seedy truck stops. Whoooeee! Now that's an information exchange! But then again, who knows what'll happen in M$ "innovates" the internet.
The accurate part is that the FBI gives Net Force the authority to police the internet. You know, blowing up buildings in Russia, arresting Chinese citizens and charging them in the US, etc...
I think it's less buying fame and more "Holy s**t! I have more money than God! I could burn $100 million a year for the rest of my life and not make a dent in it!" That and buying immortality, but I think he gave all the nano/biotech guys enough money to get first dibs on anything they come up with already.
Oh, wait... Damn. I didn't say it the first time yet.
please to let me know sounds better.
The main reason I didn't buy a PSX is because I could play the games on my computer. I got free copies of said games rather than buy them. Now Sony gets none of my money.
N-Cube is already handicapped by not being able to play CDs or DVDs.
They have a contract with Matsushita. They will make DVD players that can play N2(N-Cube) games, and Nintendo makes just the game system for people who already have a DVD player or just want games. Nintendo gets licence fees no matter which one you play the games on.
nintendo will never mass produce their games like CDs/DVDs are mass produced. Thus games will cost more for Nintendo.
Nintendo is using a mini-disc DVD. You can mass produce them just as easily and cheaply as as you can mass produce CDs or DVDs. Thus games will cost exactly the same for Nintendo.
It's cool. Just like WWF, but fewer scantily dressed sweaty fat guys. Oh yeah, and more whirling blades of imminent death. I wonder if Caltech or Carnagie Mellon will get into this. I just hope somebody's robotics dept. doesn't sweep everybody out.
Danger! Rambling! Danger!
Um, why not use a off the shelf DVD machanism and DVD discs.
Because people will copy them! Ok, maybe that's what you want, but Nintendo doesn't like that. Look at the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast. They're getting copied already and neither is a year old yet. If you controll the medium, then you don't have piracy, except for roms, but that gets hard if you have a mini-DVD.
It's available until someone in the Australian gov. notices that the movie they were looking forward to getting on DVD doesn't have a zone 4 (Australia and New Zealand) version. Whoops! "Quick! Shut them down! I want my X-Men DVD! WHAAA!"
But cheer up! They might try shutting down zone 3 (Asia) and get blown up by a Chinese cruise missile. Remind me to listen for the rockets when I'm near MPAA HQ.
Hey... Does anyone else think it odd that Japan is in the same zone (zone 2) as Europe? Yust a thought.
I'm skeptical that the UN is really all that seperate from the US government. The UN's in New York, a lot of it's military power comes from the US, and the US consistently abuses the UN. We owe the UN a couple billion or so $ in back dues, and no one in the UN asks for it. I think it's all just an excuse for America to pretend that they care about the rest of the world. If you live here you know that we don't. We don't even care to know what's happening in the next state. The average knowledge of international events comes from Canadian beer comercials. Unfortunately, this doesn't get much better anywhere else in the world, which is why I'm leaving the first chance I get.
Come and get me baby! Probe me all you want, just get me off this rock!
PS- I'm serious. I'm not staying here any longer than I have to.
That's why he said estate.
It's lolo you fool! LOLO!
You're all crazy!
1) This will not let Bill Gates pull your Natalie Portman fantasies from your brain while you sleep. /. signature! Hurry or your copy of 1984 will come to life and kill you!
2) I will not imagine a beowulf cluster of these and anyone who does will be shot.
3a) This will not let you hack your brain.
3b) Hacking your brain is dangerous, and should only be attempted by very skilled mad scientists. It has also been declared illeagal to help others to hack their brains under the ADWA (Assault with a Deadly Weapon Act)! Put a protest against this injustice in your
4) This will not make your computer become sentient.
5) This will not let you install Linux on your body, unless you install 64 cc's of halucenogens first.
6) Do not mention "computer virus" in your post under threat of slow torture.
For more information buy my book: "Get Rich Quick by Giving Your Money to Me"
Wait a TiK! HAHAHAHAHAHAAA! I kill me.
-Austin
Frikin Moderator. I say it again! :(
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It still isn't offtopic. Sir Alec is dead and I am
You can excuse Nintendo for that stuff though. None of it costs more than $30 (find me a GeForce 2 for that) and the N64 is going to be competing with the Dreamcast and the PS2 for awhile so they have to do something to keep up. And they aren't doing that bad. Some N64 games are almost as pretty as Dreamcast games (almost). And there are a bunch of N64 games that are a lot more fun than any games on other consoles, if not as pretty (ok, just Perfect Dark and Goldeneye).