I want to know how they can get a users name when they only have the IP address. I was assuming that ISPs don't just hand over that info. Am I missing something?
The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paying the way for an instant moonbase!"
He's paying for it? Is Mr. Dini some sort of James Bond villain? (I think it could of meant paving the way.)
(3) at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands[.]
That sounds backwards. A Dvorak has, for example, A and S on opposite sides of the keyboard. In fact, all the vowels are on the left side of the home row. And all of your most popular consonants are the other side.
Looking over at my wife's Qwerty, A and S are are close. So are E and R.
[This is off topic in regards to the above quote] Please realize that there's hardly anyone that just types Dvorak. Those that have two weeks to learn the new layout type both Qwerty and Dvorak! Your Qwerty speed can't go down, unless you neglect Qwerty entirely for years.
If you don't want any antibacterial in your soap, use cheap dish soap. It's cheaper than dirt (literally), and hastily degreases you. I use it refill the hand soap pump in the bathroom, and in the shower for body and hair. It can also be used to hand-wash your dishes!
This article was stratigically positioned so that any music geeks would already be at their Friday night gigs, and therefore unable to comment on it! Consider the user/contributor!
As with most problems in my life, I blame Microsoft.
Listen: Many years ago, when I was in grade school, the calculator was totally verboten. This led me and my age-mates to learn all sorts of things, like long division and multiplication tables, by heart. Imagine that!
Almost 2 decades later, it seems that whenever I need to do a calculation, there's always a silly Windows computer in front of me with a hotkey assigned to the built-in calculator applet. It's quick, easy, accurate, and completely precludes my need to do simple math in my head. My math skills have slowly withered away like a plant I forgot to water. So it goes.
Do you think I can bring suit against calculator.exe?
The Wayback Machine has this unfortunate soul's site archived (from 2003), with the offending links. I shan't be posting them here, but I will say that the links are to craptacular 0-day warez looking sites that install malicious crap, have reciprocal porno popups, ask you to vote for gawd-knows-what, three times.
Back in 2003 there were, like, a metric arseload of these sites. I'm also not sure that the end user would even get at the MP3s. If no one could actually access the tunes, then he wasn't linking to squat.
Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K, picks up a strange little disk (about 1" in diameter) and says with some distain, "These are going to replace CDs. Looks like I'm gonna have to buy The White Album again."
How do the Blu-Ray discs differ from Toshiba's DVD/HD-DVD Discs? The DVD/HD-DVD hybrid disc will play on today's DVD players, and tomorrow's. The Blu-Ray thingies might be great, but they will necessitate buying Disney's Aladdin on yet another format.
You see, Disney has this habit of withholding their products from the public. They're a little like an old rattlesnake, which will conserve it's precious venom for when it will be most useful: it will withhold it's venom until it wants to kill something.
Before Blockbuster Video squashed all the independent video rental shops, I was a clerk in one of those petite shops. Lots of VHS Disney titles were missing from the store, listed on the computer (a brand-new 486) as rented, and never returned. This was because Disney would only offer its titles (like "The Little Mermaid") for short periods of time, and after that time the only way a person could get that title would be to steal it in one way or another.
I won't pretend to have comprehensive knowledge of Disney's marketing voodoo, but it seems to me that Disney would like nothing better than a new video format, even though there may not be a good technical reason for it. They just want you to buy yet another copy of "The Little Mermaid" on yet another format. Blech.
I can confirm that gay men enjoy playing other games as well. After all I
always see people on CounterStrike calling each other 'Faggots' and 'Totally
Gay'. Infact I see that so much that I would go to estimate about 90% of
CounterStrike players must have a homosexual sexual preference.
There's some (at least) interesting things about Dragon's Lair 3D:
It was released for all major modern gaming platforms at the same time: PlayStaion 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Windows. To my knowledge, this was the first game to do that. There was no sitting in front of my PC, anxiously waiting for GTA3.
It includes Daphne. [/me bites fist] She's even cuter when rendered in cell-shaded 3D. I didn't know I could be so enchanted by a low-poly model.
Dragon's Lair 3D is sort of like a movie license. Movie license games tend to honk because they rely on the movie to sell the games, rather than gameplay. This game does not suffer from that problem because it ads huge elements to the original. For example, you get to use magic and stuff. Dirk slays the bad-ass dragon about half way through the game, and then there's more-- much more!
Great effort was made to keep the original 1983 flavour as much as possible. The textures on the walls are taken directly from the backgrounds of the 1983 version, whenever appropriate. The characters look almost identical, due to the good use of their cell-shading tech.
It includes ALL the scenes from the 1983 classic, albeit in the new 3D form. For example, that scene where the knight stabs the floor to electrify the tiles is there, but you have to maneuver Dirk with more than one joystick movement per "blip", sorta like Max Payne. It's now a real jumping puzzle. Wow.
The voice acting is excellent. Better than most games out there, probably because it's not all that integral to gameplay and used sparsely. Dirk's little "Ghah!" sounds are still hilarious.
The control occasionally honks. (NB: I'm being PC-centric here) Most of the game, you can control Dirk easily with WASD and a mouse. However, there are points where you are expected to steer Dirk with a joystick. But, you don't have one configured, do you? This can seem really weird if you've been playing Quake for years. This would probably not be noticeable on one of the consoles.
I think that Dragon's Lair 3D is a great game for those are nostalgic for 1983, or those who are very young. But, if you're looking for a rival for Mario, look elsewhere (and let me know if you find anything).
It took me several times through Neuromancer to understand everything that is
going on in the book in the grand sense of things thanks to unique verbal
constructions and new terminology that only makes sense on multiple readings,
and even then, there's probably small details that I'd catch on the next reading
I had much the same problem. I'm sot sure why, but one solution to comprehending Gibson's rather dense, James Joyceish prose is to suck up the book in audio format. There happens to be an excellent audiobook available for Neuromancer. It's read by the author. It features amazing, but subtle background music by U2 (sansBono, thank the Maker), amongst others. It's slightly abridged, yet not butchered.
It's also quite interesting to hear Gibson do a Jamaican accent, starting from his Western Canada surfer drawl. Definitely worth a day in court.
Canada in having a problem with brain drain, and this situation is only going to contribute to it. The only people who benefit from the drain are the actual (Canadian) employees who do it. The Canadian workforce suffers because the overall skill levels drop. The middlingly-abled American has to compete for jobs with Uber-Canadian expatriots.
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Nvidia already has rather whoop-ass drivers for stereoscopic viewing of OpenGL or D3D under Windows. (It's good to see such a major house supporting such a tiny niche.)
I bought a Geforce2 from MSI with an Elsa 3D Revelator bundle. The bundle contained polarised shutter glasses (dongled onto the VGA cable) that sync up to your CRT monitor's refresh rate, opening each eye in turn. The drivers show you a different picture for each eye.
These things rock. Almost all OpenGL or D3D games work with them. It's very useful for platformers where you have to judge distances to jump accurately (like in American McGee's Alice). It's good for heaving grenades accurately (like in Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto 3). It's good for flight simulators, where judging distance can be crucial (like in MS Combat Flight Simulator). Driving is great (!) in 3D.
If it doesn't actually improve the way you play certain games, then eye-candy alone makes it worth it.
You can do some weird things with stereoscopic gaming. Using GLDoom (or the like), you can play Doom in stereo. Using an emulator like ePSXe, you can play console games in stereo.
There can be some problems. Some games use 2D elements with their 3D games. GTA3, for example, has 3D cars, people, and architecture; but it uses 2D for most particles. This means that fire, smoke, and some debris appear at screen depth (along with the 2D hud elements).
The only really practical use of this system right now is games (is that really practical?). There are no workable 3D desktops/web browsers/word processors/etc., so the Snow Crash/Johnny Mnemonic metaverse-thingy isn't quite there yet. However, there is existing technology lying around to do it today.
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I want to know how they can get a users name when they only have the IP address. I was assuming that ISPs don't just hand over that info. Am I missing something?
The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paying the way for an instant moonbase!"
He's paying for it? Is Mr. Dini some sort of James Bond villain? (I think it could of meant paving the way.)
Looking over at my wife's Qwerty, A and S are are close.
Dvorak doesn't stop mistakes like that!
That sounds backwards. A Dvorak has, for example, A and S on opposite sides of the keyboard. In fact, all the vowels are on the left side of the home row. And all of your most popular consonants are the other side.
Looking over at my wife's Qwerty, A and S are are close. So are E and R.
[This is off topic in regards to the above quote] Please realize that there's hardly anyone that just types Dvorak. Those that have two weeks to learn the new layout type both Qwerty and Dvorak! Your Qwerty speed can't go down, unless you neglect Qwerty entirely for years.
Just put a timer on the buttons that won't let them click it for 10 seconds [like Firefox's plugin install method]
That's kinda neat. I thought it was allowing time for Firefox to download the plugin or somesuch. Had me fooled, to their credit.
Bwhen some idiot is breaking the rules to install some sort of software that they're already not allowed to install...
What sort of rules are you talking about exactly?
If you don't want any antibacterial in your soap, use cheap dish soap. It's cheaper than dirt (literally), and hastily degreases you. I use it refill the hand soap pump in the bathroom, and in the shower for body and hair. It can also be used to hand-wash your dishes!
I would like you to speak at my wedding.
The E2 "building" is right here. Dang kids; get off of my lawn.
This article was stratigically positioned so that any music geeks would already be at their Friday night gigs, and therefore unable to comment on it! Consider the user/contributor!
Where are the workers over thirty?
Listen: Many years ago, when I was in grade school, the calculator was totally verboten. This led me and my age-mates to learn all sorts of things, like long division and multiplication tables, by heart. Imagine that!
Almost 2 decades later, it seems that whenever I need to do a calculation, there's always a silly Windows computer in front of me with a hotkey assigned to the built-in calculator applet. It's quick, easy, accurate, and completely precludes my need to do simple math in my head. My math skills have slowly withered away like a plant I forgot to water. So it goes.
Do you think I can bring suit against calculator.exe?
Back in 2003 there were, like, a metric arseload of these sites. I'm also not sure that the end user would even get at the MP3s. If no one could actually access the tunes, then he wasn't linking to squat.
You see, Disney has this habit of withholding their products from the public. They're a little like an old rattlesnake, which will conserve it's precious venom for when it will be most useful: it will withhold it's venom until it wants to kill something.
Before Blockbuster Video squashed all the independent video rental shops, I was a clerk in one of those petite shops. Lots of VHS Disney titles were missing from the store, listed on the computer (a brand-new 486) as rented, and never returned. This was because Disney would only offer its titles (like "The Little Mermaid") for short periods of time, and after that time the only way a person could get that title would be to steal it in one way or another.
I won't pretend to have comprehensive knowledge of Disney's marketing voodoo, but it seems to me that Disney would like nothing better than a new video format, even though there may not be a good technical reason for it. They just want you to buy yet another copy of "The Little Mermaid" on yet another format. Blech.
- It was released for all major modern gaming platforms at the same time: PlayStaion 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Windows. To my knowledge, this was the first game to do that. There was no sitting in front of my PC, anxiously waiting for GTA3.
- It includes Daphne. [/me bites fist] She's even cuter when rendered in cell-shaded 3D. I didn't know I could be so enchanted by a low-poly model.
Dragon's Lair 3D is sort of like a movie license. Movie license games tend to honk because they rely on the movie to sell the games, rather than gameplay. This game does not suffer from that problem because it ads huge elements to the original. For example, you get to use magic and stuff. Dirk slays the bad-ass dragon about half way through the game, and then there's more-- much more!Great effort was made to keep the original 1983 flavour as much as possible. The textures on the walls are taken directly from the backgrounds of the 1983 version, whenever appropriate. The characters look almost identical, due to the good use of their cell-shading tech.
It includes ALL the scenes from the 1983 classic, albeit in the new 3D form. For example, that scene where the knight stabs the floor to electrify the tiles is there, but you have to maneuver Dirk with more than one joystick movement per "blip", sorta like Max Payne. It's now a real jumping puzzle. Wow.
The voice acting is excellent. Better than most games out there, probably because it's not all that integral to gameplay and used sparsely. Dirk's little "Ghah!" sounds are still hilarious.
The control occasionally honks. (NB: I'm being PC-centric here) Most of the game, you can control Dirk easily with WASD and a mouse. However, there are points where you are expected to steer Dirk with a joystick. But, you don't have one configured, do you? This can seem really weird if you've been playing Quake for years. This would probably not be noticeable on one of the consoles.
I think that Dragon's Lair 3D is a great game for those are nostalgic for 1983, or those who are very young. But, if you're looking for a rival for Mario, look elsewhere (and let me know if you find anything).
I had much the same problem. I'm sot sure why, but one solution to comprehending Gibson's rather dense, James Joyceish prose is to suck up the book in audio format. There happens to be an excellent audiobook available for Neuromancer. It's read by the author. It features amazing, but subtle background music by U2 (sans Bono, thank the Maker), amongst others. It's slightly abridged, yet not butchered.
It's also quite interesting to hear Gibson do a Jamaican accent, starting from his Western Canada surfer drawl. Definitely worth a day in court.
It's seems like a loose-loose situation to me.
Why not cars?
I bought a Geforce2 from MSI with an Elsa 3D Revelator bundle. The bundle contained polarised shutter glasses (dongled onto the VGA cable) that sync up to your CRT monitor's refresh rate, opening each eye in turn. The drivers show you a different picture for each eye.
These things rock. Almost all OpenGL or D3D games work with them. It's very useful for platformers where you have to judge distances to jump accurately (like in American McGee's Alice). It's good for heaving grenades accurately (like in Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto 3). It's good for flight simulators, where judging distance can be crucial (like in MS Combat Flight Simulator). Driving is great (!) in 3D.
If it doesn't actually improve the way you play certain games, then eye-candy alone makes it worth it.
You can do some weird things with stereoscopic gaming. Using GLDoom (or the like), you can play Doom in stereo. Using an emulator like ePSXe, you can play console games in stereo.
There can be some problems. Some games use 2D elements with their 3D games. GTA3, for example, has 3D cars, people, and architecture; but it uses 2D for most particles. This means that fire, smoke, and some debris appear at screen depth (along with the 2D hud elements).
The only really practical use of this system right now is games (is that really practical?). There are no workable 3D desktops/web browsers/word processors/etc., so the Snow Crash/Johnny Mnemonic metaverse-thingy isn't quite there yet. However, there is existing technology lying around to do it today.
Another thing: These glasses are CHEAP! (
How to change a Starbucks T-Shirt into something filthy
Actuall, this is a pretty kick-ass bit of software. You could release a whole album of sounds using this software alone.
This sounds alot like Gene Ray, of Time Cube. Creepy, man.
Nvidia (amonst others) has kick-ass drivers that let you see all sorts of groovy stuff in real 3D (games, movies, pictures).
I am not a cyclops.