Who needs teeth when astronaught food is generally pasty anyway?
I know some tooth-impaired good ol' boys who would be excellent candidates for the Mars program. Far from pretty boys, they would not mind at all losing their remaining teeth.
NASA should also contact Shane McGowan [formerly of The Pogues] if anyone can find him.
Socialist Internet Service Provider?
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Ah, I get it. The service is cheap or free, but you have to stand in line for hours to get a decent connection.
Makes sense to me. People in my area have been waiting in line for months to get DLS installed correctly.
New Zelda = Dragon's Lair?
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The move to cartoon Zelda was not just a demo for the GameCube's shaders- it also is meant to simplify gameplay.
Many game fans are put off by the complexity of most RPG's. Zelda titles have been much simpler than most, but all the same, it will be simplified to appeal to a larger audience.
Instead of epic quests for a glowing sword or whatever, you just try to survive from room to room. Example: your guy runs into a room and rocks start falling- what do you do? Pick a direction to run in and that's it. If you choose wrong, you die. Try again. No health status and objects to find- no alternate endings or pointless side quests.
The cult of "buying crap that doesn't fit my lifestyle" may seem strong now, but its members will eventually going to grow old and die off.
What will happen to gadget computing when people refuse to adjust their lives around an eight ounce hunk of hot-syncable plastic? The threat to the larger economy is palpable.
A program like this will help assure that gadget companies like this will have a fresh supply of suckers- uh, customers for decades to come.
Spontaneous human combustion is a heck of a way to go.
It has been theorized that Hoyle's particles are drifting apart at an increasing rate. After a billion years or so [give or take 50 million or so] his hydrogen atoms will begin to congeal again into clusters that will one day form new stars.
According to the newest data, Hoyle will continue to expand for the next ten billion years at which point it will begin the slow process of contraction until
A colleague of mine updated a simple midi driver on his system that accidentally wrote over his boot record and did a lot of things that viruses are famous for doing. The company [which will remain nameless until they do something like this again] was good enough to compensate us for the downtime.
"I can't print" != virus
"This brand new computer is running slow when I open Photoshop, IE, and Excel at the same time" != virus
However
"This.doc file won't open because we need to spend thousands for software we don't need" = virus
I read somewhere that some of the banned drugs are just substances that are otherwise ilegal, not necessarily designated as "performance enhancing."
But they don't say which is which. So, would it be an unfair advantage if my opponent could smell his next move? What if he was so fearful that my Bishop was going to strap him to a wall and go Inquisition on him that he played with more ferocity?
I have a hunch that such abuse would have you busted back to playing old wooden puzzles.
"I'm just a
boy who can't say no," said George W. Bush as he announced his
decision to allow public funding of stem cell research. The
President then burst into a medley of other songs from
Oklahoma before someone reminded him that he had a
speech to finish.
Some worry that in their push to get the funding approved,
biologists have over-promised the potential of stem cells. Several
scientists who testified on the issue have had to issue
clarifications in recent days. For example, stem cell research will
not one day lead to free trips to Disney World. And the field of
study will likely never lead to the long-awaited vaccine for
Cooties.
All those years I held the key to unifying the fields... who knew?
People have been telling me for years that my presence pushes people away, that my breath repels people. Now I know why.
9+:1 Compressed HD - yummy
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20Mb/s can't even do uncompressed standard definition video (that's with no audio). If you haven't seen HD uncompressed, you may not notice the blurriness of beat-down HD- but the end result is that it looks a hell of a lot like standard def NTSC. But we get to call it HD!
All of this would be funny if people still had the disposable income they had two years ago. Now it just seems sad.
The Code Red reporting made me laugh- until I got two dozen requests by desktop users for "that thing from Microsoft that's supposed to stop Code Red."
How can we expect good tech reporting when the whole of the news business is going down the pooper? Look at what CNN is about to do to Headline News. They have hired an actor to anchor the news. Now some news organizations would have played it safe by hiring someone with more than two years of reporting unde their belt. But CNN knows that outdated concepts like "experience," "journalistic integrity," and "fact checking" no longer apply in the 21st century's news entertainment business.
And people will watch, no doubt. And these people will get the kind of crappy, poorly-researched, panick-stricken news that they deserve.
Another near disaster passes us by and I have to say that I'm more than a little dissapointed.
I got all revved up in late '99, waiting for the death cults and survivalists to do their thing. But everyone was remarkably quiet about it all.
Y2K = all hype and no looting. California Power Crisis = same. Code Red = Same. I promised myself I wasn't going to get excited this time. But with all the coverage, I got suckered into it again.
What am I going to do with my Honda generator that I bought in '99, sold in 2000 and bought back again two weeks ago?
Here are some links to stories about similar dissapointments:
I cannot [nor do I possess the patience to] count the number of desktop users who have demanded that I install the patch on their machines before it "hax0rz the white house gibson" and gets them put in jail. They seem more worried that the virus will drown the Net and cause their multiplayer game of Hearts to be interrupted.
Thankfully our Content-O-Matic server is in the clear. No one writes decent viruses for the DRDOS Http Daemon anymore. A shame, really.
As the web advertising market crumbles and formerly free sites become fee-based services, web folks gripe and scream about "freedom" and the demisde of the "indipendent Internet."
Contrary to what we had previously believed, it seems that sales of T-shirts cannot sustain a staff of 100+ at full salary and benefits.
Sure, Brittanica and Salon have only gone fee-based or semi-fee-based because otherwise they will probably go under. And, sure, they will both probably fail in this venture and go under anyway. But that isn't to say that it's a bad idea.
Vote of no-confidence: ABC dumped it for Monday Night Football last year and sold their HD truck. Sure, HD editing systems and hard drives get cheaper, but lightly-compressed HD decks and other infrastructure items carry such a high price tag, it would make you want to cry. The only solution for the consumer-end will likely be so compressed [ala digital cable & DSS] that consumers will be unable to tell the difference between NTSC and HDTV.
This is what we call the "big plate of crap" theory. Why would consumers spend all that money for a bigger plate of crap, trading analog noise for digital artifacts which blur the image rendering the higher resolution moot?
You're still going to see HD take off as an e-cinema vehicle and at big trade shows. But I don't think broadcasters [who got all this bandwidth for FREE for this very purpose] can be trusted to deliver the goods without mucking it up with multiplexed NTSC and data services to boost their bottom lines.
Ah. I've often wanted to build my own www-based text adventure. But can you imagine a page refresh for every mistyped command?
Take the wrench
[page refresh]
"What do you mean?"
Open the toolbox
[page refresh]
"What toolbox?"
Look up
[page refresh]
"You see a shiny new toolbox sitting on the top shelf"
Take the toolbox
[page refresh]
"You now have the toolbox"
Open the toolbox
[page refresh]
"You see a shiny new wrench inside the toolbox."
Take the wrench
[page refresh]
"You now have the toolbox. I hope you're happy."
Quit
Thanks to Google, my logs are an endless source of chuckles. I've never put any of these things in the site, but Google users constantly hit it hoping to find creepy, creepy stuff.
It's like that semi-friend everyone had in high school. He would piss you off constantly. But by the time you got up the nerve to tell him exactly why he's a jerk, the argument seemed weak. He was able to easily explain everything away. He walks away thinking the situation resolved. And in a way it is.
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I know some tooth-impaired good ol' boys who would be excellent candidates for the Mars program. Far from pretty boys, they would not mind at all losing their remaining teeth.
NASA should also contact Shane McGowan [formerly of The Pogues] if anyone can find him.
In thpace ... no one can hear you thcream.
Makes sense to me. People in my area have been waiting in line for months to get DLS installed correctly.
Many game fans are put off by the complexity of most RPG's. Zelda titles have been much simpler than most, but all the same, it will be simplified to appeal to a larger audience.
Instead of epic quests for a glowing sword or whatever, you just try to survive from room to room. Example: your guy runs into a room and rocks start falling- what do you do? Pick a direction to run in and that's it. If you choose wrong, you die. Try again. No health status and objects to find- no alternate endings or pointless side quests.
Nintendo has plans to make a space-oriented cartoon Zelda for release in Japan early 2002.
What will happen to gadget computing when people refuse to adjust their lives around an eight ounce hunk of hot-syncable plastic? The threat to the larger economy is palpable.
A program like this will help assure that gadget companies like this will have a fresh supply of suckers- uh, customers for decades to come.
It has been theorized that Hoyle's particles are drifting apart at an increasing rate. After a billion years or so [give or take 50 million or so] his hydrogen atoms will begin to congeal again into clusters that will one day form new stars.
According to the newest data, Hoyle will continue to expand for the next ten billion years at which point it will begin the slow process of contraction until
the beloved science fiction writer condenses
into a single
point
Make room everybody, Bernie has brought in his Beowulf Cluster for show & tell...
Instead of giving her teacher an apple on the first day of school, Suzy brought in a G4, running LinuxPPC.
As someone who came of age in the days of cassette drives and TRS-80 model 1's, I cannot imagine anything cooler.
When you post material verbatim from Ridiculopathy.com, you should at least say "thank you" and include the paragraph tags to make it easier to read.
It's time for Slashdot to have a laugh at its own expense.
"I can't print" != virus
"This brand new computer is running slow when I open Photoshop, IE, and Excel at the same time" != virus
However
"This .doc file won't open because we need to spend thousands for software we don't need" = virus
See the difference?
But they don't say which is which. So, would it be an unfair advantage if my opponent could smell his next move? What if he was so fearful that my Bishop was going to strap him to a wall and go Inquisition on him that he played with more ferocity?
I have a hunch that such abuse would have you busted back to playing old wooden puzzles.
In other news: The PC Turns 20 And We Are Supposed To Care
"I'm just a boy who can't say no," said George W. Bush as he announced his decision to allow public funding of stem cell research. The President then burst into a medley of other songs from Oklahoma before someone reminded him that he had a speech to finish.
Some worry that in their push to get the funding approved, biologists have over-promised the potential of stem cells. Several scientists who testified on the issue have had to issue clarifications in recent days. For example, stem cell research will not one day lead to free trips to Disney World. And the field of study will likely never lead to the long-awaited vaccine for Cooties.
Time will tell.
Click here for the full story.
People have been telling me for years that my presence pushes people away, that my breath repels people. Now I know why.
All of this would be funny if people still had the disposable income they had two years ago. Now it just seems sad.
It's six times larger, the programs are six times better!! Hurray!!!1!
Rejected titles for Episode 2:
Lucas hopes the 2nd film will make people forget the recent study alleging that the creator of Star Wars is a pedophile.
How can we expect good tech reporting when the whole of the news business is going down the pooper? Look at what CNN is about to do to Headline News. They have hired an actor to anchor the news. Now some news organizations would have played it safe by hiring someone with more than two years of reporting unde their belt. But CNN knows that outdated concepts like "experience," "journalistic integrity," and "fact checking" no longer apply in the 21st century's news entertainment business.
And people will watch, no doubt. And these people will get the kind of crappy, poorly-researched, panick-stricken news that they deserve.
I got all revved up in late '99, waiting for the death cults and survivalists to do their thing. But everyone was remarkably quiet about it all.
Y2K = all hype and no looting. California Power Crisis = same. Code Red = Same. I promised myself I wasn't going to get excited this time. But with all the coverage, I got suckered into it again.
What am I going to do with my Honda generator that I bought in '99, sold in 2000 and bought back again two weeks ago?
Here are some links to stories about similar dissapointments:
Foretold Apocalypse Refuses To Occur
Survivalist Emerges From Y2K Bunker, Says "Oh, Crap"
I wonder why?
I cannot [nor do I possess the patience to] count the number of desktop users who have demanded that I install the patch on their machines before it "hax0rz the white house gibson" and gets them put in jail. They seem more worried that the virus will drown the Net and cause their multiplayer game of Hearts to be interrupted.
Thankfully our Content-O-Matic server is in the clear. No one writes decent viruses for the DRDOS Http Daemon anymore. A shame, really.
I don't know where they got the idea- but no one could have come up with something so evil on their own.
Clearly, any attempt to control the desktop icons on a commodity-style operating system would constitute an illegal act, a crime against the state.
I agree with Microsoft that AOL should stop plying their dirty tricks tactics and play fair.
Microsoft has to play by the rules, why should AOL be any different?
And today, thanks to the hard work of a pair of students at Carnegie Mellon University, we can read that language.
And without further ado, here is the hidden message starting at the 74088 digit:
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!
But it all comes down to a little maxim that mothers tell their teenage daughters all over the world: Give your stuff away and no one will take you seriously.
Contrary to what we had previously believed, it seems that sales of T-shirts cannot sustain a staff of 100+ at full salary and benefits.
Sure, Brittanica and Salon have only gone fee-based or semi-fee-based because otherwise they will probably go under. And, sure, they will both probably fail in this venture and go under anyway. But that isn't to say that it's a bad idea.
Vote of no-confidence: ABC dumped it for Monday Night Football last year and sold their HD truck. Sure, HD editing systems and hard drives get cheaper, but lightly-compressed HD decks and other infrastructure items carry such a high price tag, it would make you want to cry. The only solution for the consumer-end will likely be so compressed [ala digital cable & DSS] that consumers will be unable to tell the difference between NTSC and HDTV.
This is what we call the "big plate of crap" theory. Why would consumers spend all that money for a bigger plate of crap, trading analog noise for digital artifacts which blur the image rendering the higher resolution moot?
You're still going to see HD take off as an e-cinema vehicle and at big trade shows. But I don't think broadcasters [who got all this bandwidth for FREE for this very purpose] can be trusted to deliver the goods without mucking it up with multiplexed NTSC and data services to boost their bottom lines.
Ah. I've often wanted to build my own www-based text adventure. But can you imagine a page refresh for every mistyped command?
Take the wrench
[page refresh]
"What do you mean?"
Open the toolbox
[page refresh]
"What toolbox?"
Look up
[page refresh]
"You see a shiny new toolbox sitting on the top shelf"
Take the toolbox
[page refresh]
"You now have the toolbox"
Open the toolbox
[page refresh]
"You see a shiny new wrench inside the toolbox."
Take the wrench
[page refresh]
"You now have the toolbox. I hope you're happy."
Quit
Some of the better search criterion that lead to my rather benign site:
You still can't stand the things he does- you just can't talk to him about it anymore.