Anime is the Japanese word for animation. Well, more correctly, it is the standard shorthand for fAfjffVff" which is the katakana for "animation".
I am a beginning student of Japanese, and do not claim to be a master of anything (ok, I rock on GT3), but IIRC, the Japanese tend to shorten lots of things. I.E. Famicom for the Japanese Nintendo. Short for Family Computer.
Imagine this fan-boy otaku's chagrin when he realised "anime" is just truncated English!
I'm not sure if you even see this, but hopefully you check your message list often...
My "Dad's day" was a mere 20 years ago, give or take. When cable first came to my 'hood about 20 years ago, I believe there were two vendors, but one had a great package, and was excellent until they got bought out. And bought again, and again...
As for phones, didn't de-reg happen in the beginning of the 80's? He had choices.
But that's not the point. I've never whined to him per se, but we've gotten into discussions like when we were looking at HDTV's.
I've never said I felt information should be free. I've never said capitalism was evil. My point, and the one my father doesn't or can't see, is that it's no longer capitalism in its pure form. Artificial price supports and an oligarchistic manufacturing cartel don't encourage competition. Have you heard indie music lately?
My biggest gripe about where America, Inc. is headed is that it seems we're losing our position as CONSUMERS. The mega-corps seem to be herding the sheeple in the direction of pre-packaged, approved, and spoon-fed information/entertainment.
For example, let's take RIAA. Some years ago, they saw the net and what it might mean. They KNEW Napster was a possibility. But instead of taking initiative, creating a reasonably secure and portable music format and giving CONSUMERS a CHOICE to either buy the meatspace CD or just the three GOOD tracks electronically, they said, "It's not a real threat. We control the entire supply chain from creation to distribution."
Napster bit them in the ass and instead of trying to beat Shawn Fanning, or even buying him out, they turned to the courts. Dumbasses blew the biggest money-making opportunity for their industry and they run like schoolgirls to Judge Patel.
It doesn't piss you off that when CD's were new in 1983 almost every disc came with the frigging lyrics? Now, RIAA has shut down all the non-RIAA-controlled lyric sites. How fucked up is that?
I would jump at the chance to legally purchase PORTABLE music files for, say, $1.00 a pop. That's close to the rate they get per CD at wholesale and they get to lose a lot of the distro costs.
Instead, RIAA wants to move one step further, from distro to consumer control. That's something calling for civil disobedience. See the above reply.
I'm tired now, so I think I'll go watch "The Emperor's New Groove" again. Damn that David Spade is hilarious!
GTRacer
- Still doesn't see why the IP Monoliths should have their cake and eat it too...
You pose just about the same argument my father does when I discuss "The Future of IP" with him. He likes to point out that people have a choice to not support regimes we don't approve of.
Maybe in HIS day, but now? I have exactly one choice for cable. I have two choices for telco, but one is the aforementioned cable monstrosity and the other blows goats. I have a couple of choices for DBS, but I can't afford what it would take to get it into three rooms with a decent channel selection.
Anacron's right: "Capitalism sucks when the people with the power aren't the ones with the money." I hate that if I want a decent movie or CD, I have to pay into the evil that is MPAA/RIAA. I hate the fact that little-by-little, my rights as a consumer are being torn away and "replaced" by my privileges as a LICENSEE!
I believe in IP, and in the FAIR compensation for same. I also believe well-organized civil disobedience has a place here. I also believe that by the time Joe and Jane Sixpack realise they've been bent over for good that they won't remember or care what it was like to stand up.
Check my sig. Soon there'll be 500 channels with nothing on that we're not allowed to watch...
MGS didn't try to simulate real life. I never really felt that I *was* Snake. I think Kojima-san's goal was to present a seamless narrative. Kinda like watching a bad-ass action flick crossed with a bit of Tom Clancy but you get to participate in its making and direction.
I *LOVED* the way new characters were introduced and the way the in-game engine was used for everything. I have the MGS2 demo for PS2 and now that I have GT3 out of the way, Sons of Liberty is my next target of insane desire.
Oh, P.S., you didn't need the CD case if you heard all the conversations. Otacon (or was it the general?) gives you her freq. And it IS possible to off Psycho Mantis without the second controller trick. It's just hella hard.
Take a look to the left of the open bay and you'll see a screwhole. Above it is a SCSI-looking port.
Unless they change the formfactor, what's going to happen is this: Drive body fits in bay, "foot" or "pedestal" sticks out and over the opening to connect to the port and allow you to secure it with the screw.
Modem and ethernet jacks go on side (I think) of base.
USB keyboards and mice work NOW for the games that support them. The idea is that when the drive launches, it's going to have *shudder* AOL *shudder* software available for Internet access.
Maybe it'll be a bundle: Drive, KB, mouse, 700-hours-free AOL CD and a phone cord?
I'm not so sure it's all bad news for Sony. Yes, add-ons have a HORRIBLE adoption rate. Yes, it WILL frag the market. But done right, it could work:
(Before you roast my ass, I know it didn't sell heaps, but the idea's good)
Take Perfect Dark on N64. It works with or without the RAM Expansion. It works WAY better with, but the without portion is just enough to convince you you NEED the expansion
Take this logic and apply to a console in the second, not last year of its cycle. Also, PS2 is doing well at home in Japan and overseas with what? 3 mil+ units in Japan, North America and Europe. Also Also, as stated before, FF is a system seller. I'd be surprised if LESS than 2 million units of FF+Hdd sold through the first quarter.
For some reason, when I read your post, my Futurama-vision was on and I had these hilarious images of animated flaming people running from an animated killerbot with those cheesy blue sparks emanating in an animated way from its head...
I can just see Bender coming upon the supine robot and, after a quick glance, kicking it whilst it's down!!
I don't know if you, Cheshire Cat, or anyone else will see this, but...
Schuey Wins is referring to the motorsport of Formula One in his sig. He may also have some Axis Power fetish, but who can tell?
Michael Schumacher won the French Grand Prix yesterday, making 50 career wins for him in like 6 years. He's winning at about a 25% rate. He's one of the highest-paid athletes (contract+endorsements) in the world.
Actually, it's two schemes, one for network access and the other for internet.
For the legion of sites where logins are necessary or desirable (/., NYT, etc.) I have two "core" passwords. When I register on the site, I pick a core and then a suffix that's somewhat related to the site, hopefully separated by at least one abstracion layer (New York Times -> NYT -> nit)
That way, in theory, if someone hacks/engineers/takes at gunpoint one PW form one site, it's no good elsewhere as the core may or may not match and they still don't know the suffix.
For net access I have a set of foreign words, some misspelled and laced with a numeric index and punctuation and mixed casing. Every 42 days (!) I advance the index, go to the next word and voila'!
Has anyone noticed websites that only take 8 character PWs even if the input accepts more? My-Deja mail will let you type like 20 chars but it only validates the first 8!
OK, now everyone tell me how lame and insecure my scheme is, IF YOU CAN!
GTRacer
- Social Engineering for Fun and Profit
Re:Am I the only one who can "tune out" the noise?
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Thank God I'm not the only person who can still filter!
A little Webwasher, a little IE scripting security, and voila! Very few banner ads. As for TV, I've practically worn out my "Previous" button. It's not that hard to avoid unwanted commercials.
I have been wondering something with all this attention on adverts - am I the only person who finds most of the last 18 months of TV and print ads ENTERTAINING? There are some genuinely well-done ads that I LIKE to watch.
It's like with movies: My wife wants me to get a Coke and popcorn. OK, but wait until AFTER the previews.
OK, let me start with the fact that I agree in principle with what ACME's doing. It is their car after all. However, Mr. AC, if that is your real name, I think the average/.er's objection is the more-or-less undisclosed monitoring and the probability of erroneous data collection
I'll be damned sure to ask the rep at the counter if my mid-size comes with a black box, and if so, I have a good idea where they can park it.
As for "speed kills", I'll go on record as saying that that phrase is the most misleading bit of jingoism ever. Speed alone doesn't kill, and you know that. Tailgaters, weavers, slow-in-the-fast-laners, no-signallers, getting-head-in-the-front-seaters, and no-tail/brake-lighters are far more dangerous.
There is such a thing as a safe speed for the conditions and most of the time, the posted number isn't it. How much incentive is there for a Lawtey or Waldo, FL to up speed limits when they profit so highly from them, eh?
Also, IANAL, but I've always claimed civil disobedience when driving at the prevailing rate meant "speeding". "Speeding" is a matter of semantics. It's relative. It's (mostly) arbitrary.
Go through your town and look at roads that are identical in construction, lanes, exits, houses, etc. Are they consistently limited? I doubt it.
I live in a suburban neighborhood with a posted 45 MPH limit. For the most part, traffic stays within +/- 5 MPH. However, we've had countless accidents and a growing number of fatalities the last 18 months due to, not SPEED, but CARELESSNESS. These wrecks weren't attributed to speed. In most of the cases, the report said the crasher hit the crashee when the crasher failed to comprehend that BRAKE LIGHTS and a TURN SIGNAL ahead means SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
Speed alone doesn't kill, Mr. AC. It takes ignorance, carelessness or recklessness too! And mass. Can't forget the mass.
GTRacer
- I feel the need, the need for...oh nevermind!
Well, I'm not sure where you live, but I live in America, where freedom still rings (more or less...). Disclaimer, IANACJ (crotch-rocket jockey)
The reason cars can go higher than the highest speed limit is simple - speed limits do not apply everywhere, and speed limits CHANGE.
I can legally drive my car on a racetrack and exceed the speed limit by 40 MPH if I want. It's a Chevy Lumina so it might take a while, but I COULD, mind you!
And what do you think would've happened to speed-limited car owners in Montana when the daytime speed limits were essentially nullified? How many vehicles registered there? That's a damned big recall to up the limiters...
I'm all for road safety but speaking from experience, I'd rather have the odd speeder whiz by than to come upon a slow-moving Buick in the fast lane, at night, on a curve, etc...
GTRacer
- Got popped by a state trooper for 30 over and he was nice enough to write it for 19!
Perhaps steal the Blue Print of the Star Wars program?
Too late! You'll need to scour the space-lanes near the small desert world of Tatooine for a Corellian-made ship called Tantive IV and see if a white-and-blue astromech droid is aboard.
You might be able to get the plans out of him, if you can get his ponce "companion" to shut up long enough...
While you're waiting for the droid to be found, why not watch Wargames? Somewhere in that movie is the infamous line:
WOPR: All your ICBM are belong to us!!
GTRacer
- C'mon, I know it's troll-feeding, laugh a little!
The GSCube, Sony's high-end graphics workstation is supposed to be able to handle 64 sets of Emotion Engines/Graphics Synths.
The PS3 is (or was) expected to be equivalent to 16 sets of EEs/GSs and is due sometime in 2005
How does Intel's new microtransistor technolgy fit in? Will this unanticipated advance be duplicatable by IBM by then? I know that production chips aren't due until, when, 2007?
Will the console maker that follows PS3 be able to sign with Intel for chip fab?
I *MUST* know - The future of Gran Turismo depends on it!
My wife and I are true believers (if by true believers you mean redeemed by Christ's blood) and I acknowledge your points above. But I do have to take small exception to your last paragraph:
When my wife sheds blood, she knows that it is her punishment as a women, and is properly ashamed of the flaws of her kind.
My wife knows about Eve's part in the Fall, but I don't think she or I feel personally responsible for it. We both know we're sinners in need of forgiveness, but "ashamed of the flaws of her kind"? We're ashamed to be sinners, yes. But "of her kind"? Man, that's harsh!
I don't dig feminine hygiene product ads any more than the next guy, but I don't think I've ever picked up a "I flow and I go and I'm a WOMAN!" vibe. More like, "What to use to get through this without accidents or discomfort" kind of thing.
HOLD THE PHONE - I just re-read your title. Don't you mean "Menstruation is a result of sin"?
GTRacer
- Should probably talk more about Jesus and less about GT anyway;)
Huh? You've never heard of Schrodinger's Cat? (http://www.phobe.com/s_cat/s_cat.html) That's exactly the kind of creepy science shit that keeps me up at night.
I know it isn't all that involved, but trust me, there will be times when you're trying to get your mind around the concept that it just zaps your brain.
GTRacer
- Technically, Michael Schumacher may have won or lost the race. You never know until you look.
I think the main point of comntention (ok, one of 2) is, just who will be deciding what's related? Something similar to Google's toolbar that related pages based on hits or search frequency is one thing. Bending over for M$ is another...
I'd be able to deal with this if they provided easy-to-select options for choosing the "relater".
Look at it this way - if (as RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft want it) my CD "purchase" is merely a license to play one copy of those songs, does it matter where that copy comes from as long as I have a legally-obtained license?
If I trash my car (read book), I can't walk up to yours and take it-that's not my point. But if I have a Driver's License, then I can legally drive my car, your car, and anyone else's car who gives permission.
Why should using my backup or someone else's be any different as long as I'm only exercising ONE license?
These bastards want to have it both ways - they want us to purchase their stuff (CD's WinXP, Crouching Tiger) but then they want us to purchase a license for every situation - listen at work, backups, portable devices, etc, etc.
C'mon dammit, did I buy it or did I license it? I know that in a free-market system, they CAN write their EULAs any way they want. But should they? Should Congress et al. allow that? What happened to common sense like Borland's "Like a Book" license?
Who do I need to vote for and where do I need to live to get common sense back?
"Ummm...well, here's some TrollSmeg(tm) brand Crusty Niblets® I was about to trash..."
Oh dear God, why can't people figure this shit out? While I HATE what RIAA/MPAA/MegaCorp USA are doing to us, there's something to remember! Napster and its kind are merely tools, and are not designed expressly for any copyright violation. DeCSS, however necessary, has only one use, to decrypt CSS. OTOH, Napster, or Scour as a better example, can be used for sharing most anything with a little tweaking, and it doesn't have to be copyrighted music.
Yes, my head is not up my arse, and yes, I know 96% of Nappers are nabbers, but still, there are legitimate uses for it! I have two CD's from my college days (Korn - Peachy and GNR - Appetite) that I damaged during a move and was going to replace via Napster. Now I can't. But I have a legal license to the music and my originals are unplayable, so what do I do?
Oh, if people keep plying the same bullshit argument that digital copying is not theft, well then maybe we're too stupid as a society to have tools like Napster!
Not necessarily...there are a handful of games that were using some direct-to-the-metal routines that won't emulate and so Sony keeps a list of what's not compatible. Some PSOne periphs don't work well either (Twin Shock Home Arcade Stick). Fortunately, GT and Vagrant Story are not on that list.
Even if it does run (and it probably will), why not wait for a PS2-specific distro? Anything written for PSOne will be unable to take advantage of the PS2's forthcoming HD and net access anyway.
GTRacer
- I didn't come here to play. I came to win!
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I'll give you the "whence" but I'll need some clarification on "wherefore". To wit:
"Romeo, Romeo... Wherefore art th..." Oh damn. I just came upon the alt.usage.english FAQ. Seems the Bard and I are both wrong.
Oh well, learn something new...
GTRacer
- Wishes people would get the diff between "site v. sight" and "lose v. loose".
I'm waiting for a reliable and easy-to-install modchip for my PS2 so I can finally start importing all the dating/school-sim goodness!
GTRacer
- My high school experience SUCKED. At least on console, I can reload if things don't go my way...
Anime is the Japanese word for animation. Well, more correctly, it is the standard shorthand for fAfjffVff" which is the katakana for "animation".
I am a beginning student of Japanese, and do not claim to be a master of anything (ok, I rock on GT3), but IIRC, the Japanese tend to shorten lots of things. I.E. Famicom for the Japanese Nintendo. Short for Family Computer.
Imagine this fan-boy otaku's chagrin when he realised "anime" is just truncated English!
GTRacer
- Need to study Nihongo some more...
My "Dad's day" was a mere 20 years ago, give or take. When cable first came to my 'hood about 20 years ago, I believe there were two vendors, but one had a great package, and was excellent until they got bought out. And bought again, and again...
As for phones, didn't de-reg happen in the beginning of the 80's? He had choices.
But that's not the point. I've never whined to him per se, but we've gotten into discussions like when we were looking at HDTV's.
I've never said I felt information should be free. I've never said capitalism was evil. My point, and the one my father doesn't or can't see, is that it's no longer capitalism in its pure form. Artificial price supports and an oligarchistic manufacturing cartel don't encourage competition. Have you heard indie music lately?
My biggest gripe about where America, Inc. is headed is that it seems we're losing our position as CONSUMERS. The mega-corps seem to be herding the sheeple in the direction of pre-packaged, approved, and spoon-fed information/entertainment.
For example, let's take RIAA. Some years ago, they saw the net and what it might mean. They KNEW Napster was a possibility. But instead of taking initiative, creating a reasonably secure and portable music format and giving CONSUMERS a CHOICE to either buy the meatspace CD or just the three GOOD tracks electronically, they said, "It's not a real threat. We control the entire supply chain from creation to distribution."
Napster bit them in the ass and instead of trying to beat Shawn Fanning, or even buying him out, they turned to the courts. Dumbasses blew the biggest money-making opportunity for their industry and they run like schoolgirls to Judge Patel.
It doesn't piss you off that when CD's were new in 1983 almost every disc came with the frigging lyrics? Now, RIAA has shut down all the non-RIAA-controlled lyric sites. How fucked up is that?
I would jump at the chance to legally purchase PORTABLE music files for, say, $1.00 a pop. That's close to the rate they get per CD at wholesale and they get to lose a lot of the distro costs.
Instead, RIAA wants to move one step further, from distro to consumer control. That's something calling for civil disobedience. See the above reply.
I'm tired now, so I think I'll go watch "The Emperor's New Groove" again. Damn that David Spade is hilarious!
GTRacer
- Still doesn't see why the IP Monoliths should have their cake and eat it too...
Maybe in HIS day, but now? I have exactly one choice for cable. I have two choices for telco, but one is the aforementioned cable monstrosity and the other blows goats. I have a couple of choices for DBS, but I can't afford what it would take to get it into three rooms with a decent channel selection.
Anacron's right: "Capitalism sucks when the people with the power aren't the ones with the money." I hate that if I want a decent movie or CD, I have to pay into the evil that is MPAA/RIAA. I hate the fact that little-by-little, my rights as a consumer are being torn away and "replaced" by my privileges as a LICENSEE!
I believe in IP, and in the FAIR compensation for same. I also believe well-organized civil disobedience has a place here. I also believe that by the time Joe and Jane Sixpack realise they've been bent over for good that they won't remember or care what it was like to stand up.
Check my sig. Soon there'll be 500 channels with nothing on that we're not allowed to watch...
GTRacer
- DRM...B4k4^ni!
So how long until Ford sends a letter of their own on behalf of their Contour?
And yes, I know they don't compete in the same industry. Like THAT matters anymore...
GTRacer
- Thinks IP disputes could be settled by a little deathmatching
Well, maybe ;)
MGS didn't try to simulate real life. I never really felt that I *was* Snake. I think Kojima-san's goal was to present a seamless narrative. Kinda like watching a bad-ass action flick crossed with a bit of Tom Clancy but you get to participate in its making and direction.
I *LOVED* the way new characters were introduced and the way the in-game engine was used for everything. I have the MGS2 demo for PS2 and now that I have GT3 out of the way, Sons of Liberty is my next target of insane desire.
Oh, P.S., you didn't need the CD case if you heard all the conversations. Otacon (or was it the general?) gives you her freq. And it IS possible to off Psycho Mantis without the second controller trick. It's just hella hard.
GTRacer
- Needs to speak with Kazunori.
What are you, clinically thick?
I'm sure I don't have to tell you that those two images are NOT the same. Let's begin, shall we?
* - Facial expression different
* - Skin tones different
* - Pictures are cropped differently
* - Shadows, anyone?
I'll admit, both images are pretty spanktastic for CGI's, but I'll take Maxim's *REAL* Dr. Ross, thank you.
GTRacer
- GT3 - I won mine!
Take off the 6" x 1" cover marked Expansion Bay.
Take a look to the left of the open bay and you'll see a screwhole. Above it is a SCSI-looking port.
Unless they change the formfactor, what's going to happen is this: Drive body fits in bay, "foot" or "pedestal" sticks out and over the opening to connect to the port and allow you to secure it with the screw.
Modem and ethernet jacks go on side (I think) of base.
USB keyboards and mice work NOW for the games that support them. The idea is that when the drive launches, it's going to have *shudder* AOL *shudder* software available for Internet access.
Maybe it'll be a bundle: Drive, KB, mouse, 700-hours-free AOL CD and a phone cord?
GTRacer
1:23:733 on GT3 Demo at Trial Mountain
(Before you roast my ass, I know it didn't sell heaps, but the idea's good)
Take Perfect Dark on N64. It works with or without the RAM Expansion. It works WAY better with, but the without portion is just enough to convince you you NEED the expansion
Take this logic and apply to a console in the second, not last year of its cycle. Also, PS2 is doing well at home in Japan and overseas with what? 3 mil+ units in Japan, North America and Europe. Also Also, as stated before, FF is a system seller. I'd be surprised if LESS than 2 million units of FF+Hdd sold through the first quarter.
GTRacer
5 days and counting...
I can just see Bender coming upon the supine robot and, after a quick glance, kicking it whilst it's down!!
GTRacer
- Needs more Futurama
Schuey Wins is referring to the motorsport of Formula One in his sig. He may also have some Axis Power fetish, but who can tell?
Michael Schumacher won the French Grand Prix yesterday, making 50 career wins for him in like 6 years. He's winning at about a 25% rate. He's one of the highest-paid athletes (contract+endorsements) in the world.
He's also a robot.
GTRacer
- F1 cars in GT3! Hooray!
For the legion of sites where logins are necessary or desirable (/., NYT, etc.) I have two "core" passwords. When I register on the site, I pick a core and then a suffix that's somewhat related to the site, hopefully separated by at least one abstracion layer (New York Times -> NYT -> nit)
That way, in theory, if someone hacks/engineers/takes at gunpoint one PW form one site, it's no good elsewhere as the core may or may not match and they still don't know the suffix.
For net access I have a set of foreign words, some misspelled and laced with a numeric index and punctuation and mixed casing. Every 42 days (!) I advance the index, go to the next word and voila'!
Has anyone noticed websites that only take 8 character PWs even if the input accepts more? My-Deja mail will let you type like 20 chars but it only validates the first 8!
OK, now everyone tell me how lame and insecure my scheme is, IF YOU CAN !
GTRacer
- Social Engineering for Fun and Profit
A little Webwasher, a little IE scripting security, and voila! Very few banner ads. As for TV, I've practically worn out my "Previous" button. It's not that hard to avoid unwanted commercials.
I have been wondering something with all this attention on adverts - am I the only person who finds most of the last 18 months of TV and print ads ENTERTAINING? There are some genuinely well-done ads that I LIKE to watch.
It's like with movies: My wife wants me to get a Coke and popcorn. OK, but wait until AFTER the previews.
GTRacer
- 20 days and counting...
I'll be damned sure to ask the rep at the counter if my mid-size comes with a black box, and if so, I have a good idea where they can park it.
As for "speed kills", I'll go on record as saying that that phrase is the most misleading bit of jingoism ever. Speed alone doesn't kill, and you know that. Tailgaters, weavers, slow-in-the-fast-laners, no-signallers, getting-head-in-the-front-seaters, and no-tail/brake-lighters are far more dangerous.
There is such a thing as a safe speed for the conditions and most of the time, the posted number isn't it. How much incentive is there for a Lawtey or Waldo, FL to up speed limits when they profit so highly from them, eh?
Also, IANAL, but I've always claimed civil disobedience when driving at the prevailing rate meant "speeding". "Speeding" is a matter of semantics. It's relative. It's (mostly) arbitrary.
Go through your town and look at roads that are identical in construction, lanes, exits, houses, etc. Are they consistently limited? I doubt it.
I live in a suburban neighborhood with a posted 45 MPH limit. For the most part, traffic stays within +/- 5 MPH. However, we've had countless accidents and a growing number of fatalities the last 18 months due to, not SPEED, but CARELESSNESS. These wrecks weren't attributed to speed. In most of the cases, the report said the crasher hit the crashee when the crasher failed to comprehend that BRAKE LIGHTS and a TURN SIGNAL ahead means SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
Speed alone doesn't kill, Mr. AC. It takes ignorance, carelessness or recklessness too! And mass. Can't forget the mass.
GTRacer
- I feel the need, the need for...oh nevermind!
The reason cars can go higher than the highest speed limit is simple - speed limits do not apply everywhere, and speed limits CHANGE.
I can legally drive my car on a racetrack and exceed the speed limit by 40 MPH if I want. It's a Chevy Lumina so it might take a while, but I COULD, mind you!
And what do you think would've happened to speed-limited car owners in Montana when the daytime speed limits were essentially nullified? How many vehicles registered there? That's a damned big recall to up the limiters...
I'm all for road safety but speaking from experience, I'd rather have the odd speeder whiz by than to come upon a slow-moving Buick in the fast lane, at night, on a curve, etc...
GTRacer
- Got popped by a state trooper for 30 over and he was nice enough to write it for 19!
Too late! You'll need to scour the space-lanes near the small desert world of Tatooine for a Corellian-made ship called Tantive IV and see if a white-and-blue astromech droid is aboard.
You might be able to get the plans out of him, if you can get his ponce "companion" to shut up long enough...
While you're waiting for the droid to be found, why not watch Wargames? Somewhere in that movie is the infamous line:
WOPR: All your ICBM are belong to us!!
GTRacer
- C'mon, I know it's troll-feeding, laugh a little!
The GSCube, Sony's high-end graphics workstation is supposed to be able to handle 64 sets of Emotion Engines/Graphics Synths.
The PS3 is (or was) expected to be equivalent to 16 sets of EEs/GSs and is due sometime in 2005
How does Intel's new microtransistor technolgy fit in? Will this unanticipated advance be duplicatable by IBM by then? I know that production chips aren't due until, when, 2007?
Will the console maker that follows PS3 be able to sign with Intel for chip fab?
I *MUST* know - The future of Gran Turismo depends on it!
GTRacer
- Wi11 r4c3 ph0r b33r
Which one? The Schuey one or the IP one?
Ah crap, I just fed a troll, didn't I? Oh well!
GTRacer
- Inventor, the all-new turbo-powered troll-feeding machine!
My wife and I are true believers (if by true believers you mean redeemed by Christ's blood) and I acknowledge your points above. But I do have to take small exception to your last paragraph:
My wife knows about Eve's part in the Fall, but I don't think she or I feel personally responsible for it. We both know we're sinners in need of forgiveness, but "ashamed of the flaws of her kind"? We're ashamed to be sinners, yes. But "of her kind"? Man, that's harsh!
I don't dig feminine hygiene product ads any more than the next guy, but I don't think I've ever picked up a "I flow and I go and I'm a WOMAN!" vibe. More like, "What to use to get through this without accidents or discomfort" kind of thing.
HOLD THE PHONE - I just re-read your title. Don't you mean "Menstruation is a result of sin"?
GTRacer ;)
- Should probably talk more about Jesus and less about GT anyway
I know it isn't all that involved, but trust me, there will be times when you're trying to get your mind around the concept that it just zaps your brain.
GTRacer
- Technically, Michael Schumacher may have won or lost the race. You never know until you look.
I'd be able to deal with this if they provided easy-to-select options for choosing the "relater".
Just another NT and IE-loving, M$-loathing user!
GTRacer
- Less than a month to go now...
If I trash my car (read book), I can't walk up to yours and take it-that's not my point. But if I have a Driver's License, then I can legally drive my car, your car, and anyone else's car who gives permission.
Why should using my backup or someone else's be any different as long as I'm only exercising ONE license?
These bastards want to have it both ways - they want us to purchase their stuff (CD's WinXP, Crouching Tiger) but then they want us to purchase a license for every situation - listen at work, backups, portable devices, etc, etc.
C'mon dammit, did I buy it or did I license it? I know that in a free-market system, they CAN write their EULAs any way they want. But should they? Should Congress et al. allow that? What happened to common sense like Borland's "Like a Book" license?
Who do I need to vote for and where do I need to live to get common sense back?
GTRacer
- RIAA/MPAA can license my ASS~!
"What?"
"Should I feed it or not?"
"Ummm...well, here's some TrollSmeg(tm) brand Crusty Niblets® I was about to trash..."
Oh dear God, why can't people figure this shit out? While I HATE what RIAA/MPAA/MegaCorp USA are doing to us, there's something to remember! Napster and its kind are merely tools, and are not designed expressly for any copyright violation. DeCSS, however necessary, has only one use, to decrypt CSS. OTOH, Napster, or Scour as a better example, can be used for sharing most anything with a little tweaking, and it doesn't have to be copyrighted music.
Yes, my head is not up my arse, and yes, I know 96% of Nappers are nabbers, but still, there are legitimate uses for it! I have two CD's from my college days (Korn - Peachy and GNR - Appetite) that I damaged during a move and was going to replace via Napster. Now I can't. But I have a legal license to the music and my originals are unplayable, so what do I do?
Oh, if people keep plying the same bullshit argument that digital copying is not theft, well then maybe we're too stupid as a society to have tools like Napster!
GTRacer
- Hoping society isn't that dumb...
Even if it does run (and it probably will), why not wait for a PS2-specific distro? Anything written for PSOne will be unable to take advantage of the PS2's forthcoming HD and net access anyway.
GTRacer
- I didn't come here to play. I came to win!