Hmmm, they may be on to something here. Maybe I could come up with an item that can time shift a single image from a point in time. And how about being able to use it anywhere. Think that would work?... Nah.
A group of us had just gotten through playing the "who can bag 50 pedestrians first" multiplayer map. We decided to go out, and as we were driving through the parking lot, the pedestrians were moving exactly how they did in the game. All 3 of us tightened up and got the urge to see if we could run them over for a splatter bonus:) That's the only time a game has ever affected me.
Sounds like when I was staying at the Marriot Rennesance at Heathrow. I was in the club lounge, which is about 100 yards from the runway, every evening I would watch the concord come in, and I was also there one morning when it left. Even with the double thick glass, you could still feel it as it went down the runway. Shame it'll be gone, it was a beautiful sight to see.
Heh, after overlaying them and flipping back and forth, it's quite apperant the boy was added after the fact. If you notice, he doesn't even cast a shadow. They did a good job of lining him up with an already existing shadow. Do you have an article that the MSNBC picture came from, i'd be interested in seeing the caption
Actually, my karma (no, not my/. one) was on my side. I just bought a Dell 1800FP UltraSharp last month, and the price has actually creeped up $100 in the last month. You can take a look at it here. It's a beautiful picture, blows most LCD's out of the water, and it should hold me until OLED's go mainstream.
Man, first I hear about Bush saying that "Another Organization may have to step in if the U.N. does not" and now I read about Echelon being used to capture someone... Does Deus Ex come to anyone elses mind? or was that just because i got through playing it:)
The LiveDrive and such offers connectors that are not usually available on the back of a PCI card. Take for example the Toslink optical I/O. I haven't seen a PCI card that has an optical out on the card itself. By mounting a LiveDrive in the back, I could run an optical out for all my audio without it running through the front. Now if there were sound cards that have daughter cards for the connectors or have the connectors themselves on the PCI card then i'd be all for that. I just don't know of any.
I was refering to the 610. I would have liked to have seem them put a 5.25" bay on the back side of it (rather than in the front behind the panel), so I could mount something like a Live!Drive and run all the cables to it from the back, just like the rest of my components (DVD, VCR, etc.).
What I would like to see is a case like that with the 5.25" bay in the back, so I could mount the I/O bay back there and have most the A/V cables coming out the back like a real component solution. Other wise, things will look a little weird having everything running out the front.
After seeing Die Another Day, I decided to do some research on the abandoned tube station that Bond went to. The name of the station was "Vauxhall Cross". It turns out, that a Vauxhall Cross station never existed, but it is the offical name of the building better known as MI6 headquarters. Also here are some more pictures of Vauxhall Cross. I'll give them credit for throwing in a little easter egg like that.
CmdrTaco: Did you see the latest bill for our website - aack! We've got to stop posting such big stories, or else we're going to have to find another provider.
michael: or maybe if we just stopped posting the same stories twice...
Pioneer is releasing the Elite series DV-47i (i for IEEE) that has the correct output to use in conjunction with their recievers. I'm just going to get the 47, instead of the the 47i, because i'd prefer to stick with my Denon reciever.
"- Look at the expiration date. A beta that lasts for a year? Impossible."
I can't refute your other two points as i don't know enough about them, but as for the Beta, the Windows 2000 betas (RC2 and RC3), had a 444 day trial time, which is well over a year.
"And I don't know if you've noticed, but electricity hasn't been getting that much cheaper lately..."
I don't know if you understand the concept of a hybrid vechicle then. A hybrid does not require any outlet to plug into. It uses an internal generator to capture the kinetic power from braking and stores it in a battery for you to use. There's no cost for that electricity. No power cords, just pull up to your local Exxon. Honda has some good info on how the hybrids work.
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"The biggest problems were the women and the water."
Isn't that the problem that most men have to deal with anyway?
259 km^2 is only about 155 mi^2 which is not much bigger than about 12 miles by 12 miles... that's damn small IMO.
the Natalie Portman shower cam :D
Or maybe a beowulf cluster of them??
Hmmm... bullet time shower scene... *drools*
No fair, you just leaked SCO's code... now what case will they have?
From reading the link to ODBIII these lines scare me the most...
"The system is reportedly capable of retrieving information from 8 lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic whizzing by at speeds up to 100 mph!"
"...a stationary or portable roadside transmitter, it transmits back an answer in the form of the vehicle's 17-digit VIN number"
In other words they know exactly where you are, what's preventing someone from building a transponder on 915Mhz and tracking cars as they go by?
Hmmm, they may be on to something here. Maybe I could come up with an item that can time shift a single image from a point in time. And how about being able to use it anywhere. Think that would work?... Nah.
A group of us had just gotten through playing the "who can bag 50 pedestrians first" multiplayer map. We decided to go out, and as we were driving through the parking lot, the pedestrians were moving exactly how they did in the game. All 3 of us tightened up and got the urge to see if we could run them over for a splatter bonus :) That's the only time a game has ever affected me.
"...seen lots of posts complaining that the Slashdot editors aren't paying attention to what they post."
They must all be new to slashdot.
"...as a way to get cheap SMP. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Computers."
He just came up with a new way to say "How about a beowulf cluster..."
Sounds like when I was staying at the Marriot Rennesance at Heathrow. I was in the club lounge, which is about 100 yards from the runway, every evening I would watch the concord come in, and I was also there one morning when it left. Even with the double thick glass, you could still feel it as it went down the runway. Shame it'll be gone, it was a beautiful sight to see.
Heh, after overlaying them and flipping back and forth, it's quite apperant the boy was added after the fact. If you notice, he doesn't even cast a shadow. They did a good job of lining him up with an already existing shadow. Do you have an article that the MSNBC picture came from, i'd be interested in seeing the caption
Actually, my karma (no, not my /. one) was on my side. I just bought a Dell 1800FP UltraSharp last month, and the price has actually creeped up $100 in the last month. You can take a look at it here. It's a beautiful picture, blows most LCD's out of the water, and it should hold me until OLED's go mainstream.
"deprive the average citizen of regular rights and freedoms?"
But you see, this is the *new* United States... "By the Corporation, for the Corporation."
Man, first I hear about Bush saying that "Another Organization may have to step in if the U.N. does not" and now I read about Echelon being used to capture someone... Does Deus Ex come to anyone elses mind? or was that just because i got through playing it :)
fed-ex a couple large hard drives across the country...
:)
"Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes"
The LiveDrive and such offers connectors that are not usually available on the back of a PCI card. Take for example the Toslink optical I/O. I haven't seen a PCI card that has an optical out on the card itself. By mounting a LiveDrive in the back, I could run an optical out for all my audio without it running through the front. Now if there were sound cards that have daughter cards for the connectors or have the connectors themselves on the PCI card then i'd be all for that. I just don't know of any.
I was refering to the 610. I would have liked to have seem them put a 5.25" bay on the back side of it (rather than in the front behind the panel), so I could mount something like a Live!Drive and run all the cables to it from the back, just like the rest of my components (DVD, VCR, etc.).
What I would like to see is a case like that with the 5.25" bay in the back, so I could mount the I/O bay back there and have most the A/V cables coming out the back like a real component solution. Other wise, things will look a little weird having everything running out the front.
"Microsoft's next server platform was called Minux?"
Hmmm, Microsoft Linux... nah, too much of an oxymoron for my liking.
After seeing Die Another Day, I decided to do some research on the abandoned tube station that Bond went to. The name of the station was "Vauxhall Cross". It turns out, that a Vauxhall Cross station never existed, but it is the offical name of the building better known as MI6 headquarters. Also here are some more pictures of Vauxhall Cross. I'll give them credit for throwing in a little easter egg like that.
CmdrTaco: Did you see the latest bill for our website - aack! We've got to stop posting such big stories, or else we're going to have to find another provider.
michael: or maybe if we just stopped posting the same stories twice...
Pioneer is releasing the Elite series DV-47i (i for IEEE) that has the correct output to use in conjunction with their recievers. I'm just going to get the 47, instead of the the 47i, because i'd prefer to stick with my Denon reciever.
Well, if it wasn't arbitary, it probably would have been 666 days.
"- Look at the expiration date. A beta that lasts for a year? Impossible."
I can't refute your other two points as i don't know enough about them, but as for the Beta, the Windows 2000 betas (RC2 and RC3), had a 444 day trial time, which is well over a year.
"And I don't know if you've noticed, but electricity hasn't been getting that much cheaper lately..."
I don't know if you understand the concept of a hybrid vechicle then. A hybrid does not require any outlet to plug into. It uses an internal generator to capture the kinetic power from braking and stores it in a battery for you to use. There's no cost for that electricity. No power cords, just pull up to your local Exxon. Honda has some good info on how the hybrids work.