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I have two on my keychain right now..tiny little buggers one's a red Tux Light from thinkgeek and the other..no clue what it is, but it's a white one. i must say they have FAR better light than any flashlight i've ever owned. the white one lights up a 100sq foot area and the red one is less, but doesnt ruin your night vision. I LOVE THESE THINGS!
This is further proof that someone is soon going to control, or at LEAST monitor EVERYTHING we do. not to mention they'll probly charge more for it, and say it's to protect US. I hope that FREEDOM doesnt lose the fight against the BS that this most likely is
Reading over all the comments so far, it seems everyone LOVED or HATED the last st:voy And now, i'll offer up my $0.02 Dispite the fact timetravel never works right in ANY show(plot holes you could drive a bus thru) Endgame's time travel was minimalistic, and therefore ALMOST worked for me..the only problem was the 180 both janeway's attutes took. I had been hopeing that the first hour of endgame would be "getting home" and the second part would be once they were home. in any case, they needed far more of an ending. or an explnation of what happened and now for the rest of the series: The effects over the last few seasons have been stunning, IMHO far better than any other show i've seen In plot however, there was too much repition, and the way they can solve any problem by creating some magical, unheard of device is, to say the least..rather patheticWhile i am looking forward to the next series, I will miss voyager, because dispite it's problems, i's realy grown on my in the past few years.
No offence, but this has got to be one of the single DUMBEST things I've ever heard (that didn't come out of Dubya's mouth.
Alow me to shoot down your plan, if I may. 1)"Women in general actively dislike porn...The few women who do enjoy it are probably suffering from the kind of psychological problems that can only be solved by therapy." Umm, no. They just have a different view then you. Sex, in itself is a very natural thing. The human body is a beautiful thing. Sex/nudity is not something that should be considered bad, hidden or anything of the sort.
2)"If porn were made available freely, to anyone" I'll forget how ridiculous this is for just a moment, and focus on the LEGAL issues. Somebody owns a copyright on it, and thus it is THEIR PROPORTY. They can do with it as they see fit. Sell it, give it away free, etc. I'd love to see more free porn, but I know that the people who make it need to make money. (Anything free [as in beer] has this problem)
3)"regardless of sex or gender" Last time I checked, it was...
4) "say for example in our public libraries, and supermarkets" And just HOW MANY easily offended people like you are going to FLIP over this? Please...you shoot this one down yourself.
5) "It is the duty of congress to kill off the market for this debasing pornography" No, it isn't. Plus, congress is a bunch of old white guys who don't understand jack about the modern world, and don't know what FUN means.
6) "...and all the consumers get totally bored." Good god. I thought the problem was "There is enough porn in circulation now" If there's enough, why ain't we bored? I leave this one up to you.
So what? Sex sells. ESPECIALY to the 13-20ish male geeks. That's the demographic these games have. Face it, we're geeks. We can't get any. If we could, we wouldn't be playing the games in the first place. Will half-naked chicks get me to buy a game? It all depends. Are they in the game? Are they out of the game? Are they hot? And really, who is a little softcore porn in games hurting? If you don't want to see it, close your eyes. If you don't want your kids to see it? Tough luck, they will one day, no matter what. and objectifying women? Please give me a break. Anyone who cant tell the difference between a [hooker|porn star|naked chick in a game|insert other sex orianted female profesion here] and an honest to goodness real life woman needs to go out and get a f'ing clue. Thank you. You may go now.
I agree with everyone about the miss realy being social changes, but...I think it's time for some of these changes to take place. we need to change the way everything works, to stop the mad rush for money we have now and start HELPING socity, the envorment, the world and ourselves. think about this articl for a second. why, for example dont we want to live in a small plastic house? why dont we want to drive small cars? because a big, fancy house is a sign of welth and higer social standing. the same thing goes for cars. if nothing changes, in 50 years, we'll be in the same place we are now. we'll have the same technology, it'll just be smaller and more expensive (and a little faster) companys will be more powerful, and more controling if we dont change alot, soon. we are screwed. how can we change? beats me, but one thing we can all do, is sop thinking of ourselves for a second, and do what we can to better the world (open source is leaning in this direction) or, you can recycle, or whatever, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is all i can say on this.
I reassembled the photos myself, and while this is some truely amazing photography (as well as the underlying techology) the images were touched up to hell and back if anyone wants me to, i'll put the images online somewhere for you all to see what they truely look like
Why bother? a good custom paint job hides the dust bunnies much better =PI'm working on a Gold/black case...looks tight as hell, plus it keeps the 8LB of dust in the computer away from my sight
...To the days of being able to pickup an upgrade (expantion, pci, yada yada yada) card and have it work in ALL of my boxes (Yeah, I have an old PCI video card i share with my two macs, and two PCs whenever i need an extra) this is ofcource not to mention all the BS they'll try to stick on them
Trees around the house works great, that is, until the roting leaves on the roof rot clear thru (then it rains indoors! wheee!)For me, if keepin warm in the winter means having a black house? who cares. I'm depressed as it is, and white in the summer is cool (provided the paint comes with a free pair of shades, damned california sun)
1) has hypercard seen a new relese since..1994?
2) what can you do in hypercard that you cant do [better|faster|worse|slower] in REALbasic (hell, it's even carbon!)
3) makeing an aplication in a scripting language is lame. LAME!
3) realy, people..realy...HyperCard is dead.
4) If you just cant grow up, there are alternitives (none come to mind at the moment, but you can always make one..in hypercard =P )
This thing looks majorly cool...but..how does it go? from the pics i saw, it looks like you put yer food right were the axle would be on a "normal" wheel. also, at 20 mph, you could hurt yourself on one of these things..hell..you could hurt yourself at 2 mph on one of these. Plus, the sticker shock was enough to scare me off...I can kill myself on a wheeled device for far cheaper then >$1K.
Yep. It's got an external powersupply. that mofo gets HOT tho, I've heard reports of things put over the vent on top catching fire (but the quiet part is nice!)
I dont know about you guys, but I've had fans die from dust (OK!! I'll clean out my server closet! jeez...) but..wouldnt one tiny speck of dust kindof..break a bunch of these fans? seems to me that that could lead to, well, problems (CPU BBQ anyone?)
The best (IMHO) stream you can get is gona be Apple's QuickTime TV (aka QuickTime Streaming Server) It's free...It's been ported (I belive) to Unix and BSD, as another poster pointed out, they've streamed to thousands of simlutanious users. Best of all, it's not Microsoft, so it's just cooler all around;)
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but, how exactly they squeeze all that data on a little phone line? With DSL, I can see the speed gain by cutting out the D/A conversion, but...that's about as far as my poor little brain could take me. so, how do you get a digital and an analog signal donwn the same line?
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the story says "Kamen assembled two Gingers -- or ITs -- in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes." lots of things can be taken appart, and stuck into cardboard boxes and duffle bags, and then put back together with a screwdriver - probly most things in my house could...and I'm not talking chairs here...computers come to mind here... Also, I think IT has to be something so new - so out of the box, that nobody would ever think of it, untill it is commonplace (think personal computers, internet). now dont get me wrong, I'm not saying I think it's a computer or Internet-2, or some such BS, but, it is on that level of revolutionary-ness.
The "billion-dollar old-line companies" are more then likely Oil and car companies (what else COULD they be?) so transportation DOES fit well, howerver, I dont find any of these ideas very plauseable (howerver, I hope the transporter is what it is;)
Those of us who don't know clock speed from speed need to be beaten with a large stick (no offence)
as some of us may allready know, steve jobs showed us all the true power of the macintosh by puting a single CPU g4/500 against a p3/1GHz Guess who won? thats right. the g4, then they did a dual cpu g4/500 and made that little p3 look silly =P
In the next 2 years:
Sales of personal computer hardware will drop to near 0, as nothing drastically new will happen
In the next 5 years:
Everything will be digitized
Talking to almost any object will allow it to do the tasks you ask
We will see vastly new methods of data storage, allowing us to store well over 10GB/sq in, with read/write speeds over 1GB/sec
Carbon nanotubes will be able to get longer, making the space elevator look very possible
In the next 8 years:
The first totally new idea in computers will be created by a high school student, making him an overnight billionaire
In the next 10 years:
All data entering or leaving your house will come from a single wireless service including: over 500 HDTV channels with some type of surround sound, up to 6 different phone lines (CD qual. audio, possibly video), and internet, at speeds well over 20MB/sec both ways.
In the next 30 years:
Genetic Engineering will lead us to create a new species
Companies will buy Countries
In the next 50 years:
The first human will be born on another planet(or moon)
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I have two on my keychain right now..tiny little buggers one's a red Tux Light from thinkgeek and the other..no clue what it is, but it's a white one. i must say they have FAR better light than any flashlight i've ever owned. the white one lights up a 100sq foot area and the red one is less, but doesnt ruin your night vision. I LOVE THESE THINGS!
This is further proof that someone is soon going to control, or at LEAST monitor EVERYTHING we do. not to mention they'll probly charge more for it, and say it's to protect US. I hope that FREEDOM doesnt lose the fight against the BS that this most likely is
Reading over all the comments so far, it seems everyone LOVED or HATED the last st:voy
And now, i'll offer up my $0.02
Dispite the fact timetravel never works right in ANY show(plot holes you could drive a bus thru) Endgame's time travel was minimalistic, and therefore ALMOST worked for me..the only problem was the 180 both janeway's attutes took.
I had been hopeing that the first hour of endgame would be "getting home" and the second part would be once they were home. in any case, they needed far more of an ending. or an explnation of what happened
and now for the rest of the series:
The effects over the last few seasons have been stunning, IMHO far better than any other show i've seen
In plot however, there was too much repition, and the way they can solve any problem by creating some magical, unheard of device is, to say the least..rather patheticWhile i am looking forward to the next series, I will miss voyager, because dispite it's problems, i's realy grown on my in the past few years.
Alow me to shoot down your plan, if I may.
1)"Women in general actively dislike porn...The few women who do enjoy it are probably suffering from the kind of psychological problems that can only be solved by therapy." Umm, no. They just have a different view then you. Sex, in itself is a very natural thing. The human body is a beautiful thing. Sex/nudity is not something that should be considered bad, hidden or anything of the sort.
2)"If porn were made available freely, to anyone" I'll forget how ridiculous this is for just a moment, and focus on the LEGAL issues. Somebody owns a copyright on it, and thus it is THEIR PROPORTY. They can do with it as they see fit. Sell it, give it away free, etc. I'd love to see more free porn, but I know that the people who make it need to make money. (Anything free [as in beer] has this problem)
3)"regardless of sex or gender" Last time I checked, it was...
4) "say for example in our public libraries, and supermarkets" And just HOW MANY easily offended people like you are going to FLIP over this? Please...you shoot this one down yourself.
5) "It is the duty of congress to kill off the market for this debasing pornography" No, it isn't. Plus, congress is a bunch of old white guys who don't understand jack about the modern world, and don't know what FUN means.
6) "...and all the consumers get totally bored." Good god. I thought the problem was "There is enough porn in circulation now" If there's enough, why ain't we bored? I leave this one up to you.
So what?
Sex sells. ESPECIALY to the 13-20ish male geeks. That's the demographic these games have.
Face it, we're geeks. We can't get any. If we could, we wouldn't be playing the games in the first place. Will half-naked chicks get me to buy a game? It all depends. Are they in the game? Are they out of the game? Are they hot?
And really, who is a little softcore porn in games hurting? If you don't want to see it, close your eyes. If you don't want your kids to see it? Tough luck, they will one day, no matter what.
and objectifying women? Please give me a break. Anyone who cant tell the difference between a [hooker|porn star|naked chick in a game|insert other sex orianted female profesion here] and an honest to goodness real life woman needs to go out and get a f'ing clue. Thank you. You may go now.
I agree with everyone about the miss realy being social changes, but...I think it's time for some of these changes to take place. we need to change the way everything works, to stop the mad rush for money we have now and start HELPING socity, the envorment, the world and ourselves.
think about this articl for a second. why, for example dont we want to live in a small plastic house? why dont we want to drive small cars? because a big, fancy house is a sign of welth and higer social standing. the same thing goes for cars. if nothing changes, in 50 years, we'll be in the same place we are now. we'll have the same technology, it'll just be smaller and more expensive (and a little faster) companys will be more powerful, and more controling
if we dont change alot, soon. we are screwed. how can we change? beats me, but one thing we can all do, is sop thinking of ourselves for a second, and do what we can to better the world (open source is leaning in this direction) or, you can recycle, or whatever, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is all i can say on this.
I reassembled the photos myself, and while this is some truely amazing photography (as well as the underlying techology) the images were touched up to hell and back
if anyone wants me to, i'll put the images online somewhere for you all to see what they truely look like
Why bother? a good custom paint job hides the dust bunnies much better =PI'm working on a Gold/black case...looks tight as hell, plus it keeps the 8LB of dust in the computer away from my sight
I dunno exactly, but isnt that roughly what most games call "Fog" or "View Distance" or something of the sort?
...To the days of being able to pickup an upgrade (expantion, pci, yada yada yada) card and have it work in ALL of my boxes (Yeah, I have an old PCI video card i share with my two macs, and two PCs whenever i need an extra) this is ofcource not to mention all the BS they'll try to stick on them
$100 monthly bill? you must not live here, or use anything other than a single 45 watt lightbulb
Trees around the house works great, that is, until the roting leaves on the roof rot clear thru (then it rains indoors! wheee!)For me, if keepin warm in the winter means having a black house? who cares. I'm depressed as it is, and white in the summer is cool (provided the paint comes with a free pair of shades, damned california sun)
1) has hypercard seen a new relese since..1994?
2) what can you do in hypercard that you cant do [better|faster|worse|slower] in REALbasic (hell, it's even carbon!)
3) makeing an aplication in a scripting language is lame. LAME!
3) realy, people..realy...HyperCard is dead.
4) If you just cant grow up, there are alternitives (none come to mind at the moment, but you can always make one..in hypercard =P )
This thing looks majorly cool...but..how does it go? from the pics i saw, it looks like you put yer food right were the axle would be on a "normal" wheel.
also, at 20 mph, you could hurt yourself on one of these things..hell..you could hurt yourself at 2 mph on one of these. Plus, the sticker shock was enough to scare me off...I can kill myself on a wheeled device for far cheaper then >$1K.
Yep. It's got an external powersupply. that mofo gets HOT tho, I've heard reports of things put over the vent on top catching fire (but the quiet part is nice!)
I dont know about you guys, but I've had fans die from dust (OK!! I'll clean out my server closet! jeez...) but..wouldnt one tiny speck of dust kindof..break a bunch of these fans? seems to me that that could lead to, well, problems (CPU BBQ anyone?)
The best (IMHO) stream you can get is gona be Apple's QuickTime TV (aka QuickTime Streaming Server) ;)
It's free...It's been ported (I belive) to Unix and BSD, as another poster pointed out, they've streamed to thousands of simlutanious users.
Best of all, it's not Microsoft, so it's just cooler all around
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but, how exactly they squeeze all that data on a little phone line?
With DSL, I can see the speed gain by cutting out the D/A conversion, but...that's about as far as my poor little brain could take me.
so, how do you get a digital and an analog signal donwn the same line?
lots of things can be taken appart, and stuck into cardboard boxes and duffle bags, and then put back together with a screwdriver - probly most things in my house could...and I'm not talking chairs here...computers come to mind here...
Also, I think IT has to be something so new - so out of the box, that nobody would ever think of it, untill it is commonplace (think personal computers, internet). now dont get me wrong, I'm not saying I think it's a computer or Internet-2, or some such BS, but, it is on that level of revolutionary-ness.
The "billion-dollar old-line companies" are more then likely Oil and car companies (what else COULD they be?) so transportation DOES fit well, howerver, I dont find any of these ideas very plauseable (howerver, I hope the transporter is what it is ;)
Configurations for the new Power Mac G4 systems are shaping up as follows:
*Power Mac G4 450 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 30 GB, DVD, 56K
*Power Mac G4 Dual 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB, DVD, CD-RW, 56K
*Power Mac G4 Dual 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB, DVD, CD-RW, 56K
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Those of us who don't know clock speed from speed need to be beaten with a large stick (no offence)
as some of us may allready know, steve jobs showed us all the true power of the macintosh by puting a single CPU g4/500 against a p3/1GHz
Guess who won? thats right. the g4, then they did a dual cpu g4/500 and made that little p3 look silly =P
Read the story =P 9.1 comes bundled on the new boxes. OS X seems to be a no-show at macworld
Sales of personal computer hardware will drop to near 0, as nothing drastically new will happen
In the next 5 years:
Everything will be digitized
Talking to almost any object will allow it to do the tasks you ask
We will see vastly new methods of data storage, allowing us to store well over 10GB/sq in, with read/write speeds over 1GB/sec
Carbon nanotubes will be able to get longer, making the space elevator look very possible
In the next 8 years:
The first totally new idea in computers will be created by a high school student, making him an overnight billionaire
In the next 10 years:
All data entering or leaving your house will come from a single wireless service including: over 500 HDTV channels with some type of surround sound, up to 6 different phone lines (CD qual. audio, possibly video), and internet, at speeds well over 20MB/sec both ways.
In the next 30 years:
Genetic Engineering will lead us to create a new species Companies will buy Countries
In the next 50 years:
The first human will be born on another planet(or moon)
but also that we've gotten the brains to stop laughing at it
Better still, they say it's gona be a reality in my lifetime!
But are carbon nanotubes that strong? I thought they were having problems manufactureing them that strong...
I guess, as usual..I'm wrong
Do exactly what this man says.
And if your monitor has on-screen controls, use them.
they do wonderfuly magical things
I CAN SEE AGAIN! THANK YOU!!