I agree, perhaps we can "get rid" of those that don't hold the same ideals as us, eh?
And please define #1 nation, you seem to be a little to aggressive with that #1 stuff. Does anyone have to be #1? Why can't we all just get along. I will play my games, you will censor people and we will all be happy!
Let us go through these:
1) Then only criminals would have guns.
2) You would not be able to post your last comment becuase it might offend someone.
3) Kids working graveyard shifts would not be able to help their single mother pay bills
Does anyone need to respond to this? Are you trying to be the bait?
I spent many of my early years in front of beloved Tandy 1000, which was my only computer until 1994 BTW. And I seem to be in perfect health, able to carry on a conversation with someone and happily married. You make it sound like children who play games will be crippled socially. Now I will admit that there is alot more game playing then ever before, but this gross stereotype is wrong. There are always people in any one group that have problems. Be it a church group, gaming club, sewing group or anything else. You can't judge everyone by a few misfits.
I know MANY people that exercise everyday, are married with kids and also happen to love getting a headshot in TFC.
I will assume your account got hacked because anyone that says, "Things like this and television do them no good" I will assume is some 9 year old AOL kid who guessed your password and is trying to be flamebait.
It's going to be hard to keep track of early games. I know many people that flipped the score in Defender and other Atari 2600 games. Games that only went so far before reseting the score to zero will be next to impossible to record. Maybe I will have to take out a patent on one-click alien shooting and say that I did it first.
Seriously though, with all the security cameras, plainclothes security people, etc, I doubt anyone would be able to even sneeze on a machine before the casino got supicious. But I still would hate to be in charge of security during the Las Vegas Comdex if my machines ran an OS such as Windows, which isn't known for its security and is a favorite target of hacks.
I thought the Matrix style camera work needed a little work. They needed more cameras to make it smoother. Plus they didn't use it that much. They missed a few nice plays and then use it on little pass plays.
Of course I really wanted zero-G football scenes with everyone scrambling for the Pigskin Destiny, AKA, the football, but I did appreciate their attempt at it even if it needed some work.
Although the camara angles, mics, etc were neat, most people in the stands where there to see the cheerleaders giving lapdances and to see physics do its thing with a 350 pound guy running at a 200 pound guy and being paid a bonus to make football exciting. Can you say crash and smash?
The best use of technology in football is still to get the sounds of two fairly large people running into each other. After a particularly brutal collision, they will always play it back at full speed with sound so everyone can imagine the guy on the bottom being that punk that cut them off on the freeway. Bottom line: it's still all about the crash and smash. And how little clothes they can have the stripp...errr, cheerleaders wear on T.V.
Too bad for them that this company out there called Mother Nature Inc. has already been doing this for billions of years. Their main cloning success was a product marketed to bottom feeders called a paramecium.
Perhaps this new group needs to get a licensing agreement for one-cell ordering, errr.. I mean one-cell cloning.
Once again as an FYI, here is a simple page to use to get rid of various forms of commercial harrassment. I used this form 2 years ago and only have to check my snail mailbox once a week now and it's only good stuff. I also NEVER get called anymore....
Once again as an FYI, here is a simple page to use to get rid of various forms of commercial harrassment. I used this form 2 years ago and only have to check my snail mailbox once a week now and it's only good stuff. I also NEVER get called anymore....
After all the hassle of bad credit, JD decided that college was not for him and instead opened a nice little whiskey company down in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
He soon became very rich by selling whiskey that had been mellowed through 10 feet of hard maple charcoal.
If someone can hack that silly Bass fish, I'm sure the T.V. won't be far behind!!
As more and more of our lives become digital, this will be the natural progression of things... Companies will want to squeeze as much money as possible out of us, so they will want to copyright and protect everything.
Instead of complaining about this and that will buying the product, boycott the product. People protesting the WTO and The Gap while wearing designer clothes doesn't give themselves much credibility.
Form protest groups, tell your government offical, start your own sovereign nation, but don't just read it on/. and then go out and buy one. Personally I think we should start our own Political Action Committee (PAC) (or equivalant in non-USA places) and lobby the government on behalf of/.
A little offtopic and probably answered somewhere on slashdot already, but with all the people that frequent slashdot out buying domains, what is the best company to do business with. Who is stable, won't spam their customers and has very easy setup. Low fees aren't really an issue since $35 a year isn't anything as it is. Quality of service is much more important. Is there a real person somewhere that can answer quesitons when things go wrong? Can domains be added easily. Joker.com has had some good reviews, but has anyone out there had personal experience with them?
Currently NSI seems to be the best bet since they know what they are doing and seem to have the favor of the big bad people that run the Internet.:P But with all their wacky tatics of late, I wonder what will happen to them when people realize you can use other companies.
What people don't want though is Uncle Bob's Deep Discount Domains (UBDDD) running on some Mac Classic in Patagonia.
This is one of the best ways to get rid of spam. I have the same configuration, although I have TWO hotmail accounts, one for spam and one for sites like Amazon and Yahoo who send me spam, but it is spam that I am occasionally interested in.
Email is a whole other ballpark, but to get rid of those phone calls, mail, etc is fairly easy. It will take about a year, but one day you will open up your mailbox and see JUST your important (do bills count?) mail in it. I remember the first day I saw no junk mail I almost wet myself.:)
Just keep sending back your junk mail AND get yourself off the direct marketing mailing list.
Go here to be able to create forms with the address already on it. I am not sure how other countries can do it, but I used this site and I get only a few pieces of junk a week now. Also, Junk Busters is good, but the other site is easier to use.
This article just oozes with hypocrisy. If this was Microsoft using a toolbar to track ALL the sites you were visiting, there would be rioting in the streets. Just because Google is a geek favorite, don't just give it free reign of your web surfing habits..
I don't care if it's the Vatican tracking my web suring habits, I don't like it. You could learn alot about me knowing I visit New Gumbrea and then the Jessica Alba page, followed by a trip to Yahoo! to buy a spycam that fits in a kleenex box!!
This is just another case of "The Man" just not getting it and overstepping other people's boundaries.
This is why we need more people in power that understand what technology can do for us and when it can be a bad thing.
By reading this you agree to not implant any memory of this on your brain and forget about it instantly. If you repeat this comment or post it in your cerebral cortex, you are guilty of violating the back-end user agreement which gives the owner of said agreement the right to violate your backend.
What's the deal? California is always low on something. Water, Gasoline, Electricity, when will it end? Why can't California use all that dot-com tax revenue to get the critical things they need. More importantly, when will we start raising babies for food, thereby providing for population control.:)
What they need to do is invent this machine, let us call it a telephone. And in this machine, they could make a feature called "memory" or "speed dial." Bear with me, I know this sounds wacky, but what it could do is remember the numbers you most frequently call, basically a DNS for the phone system.
Just think, no more numbers to remember, just look at your lovely list of names and punch one or two buttons!! Wow! I know I would buy one, I should call up RonCo and see if they will do an a television special! Buy one phone with "speed dial" and receive a FREE rotisserie oven!!
"who do not want their television and radio audiences undermined by internet coverage."
I personally did not watch them this year, but I would think that the Internet would actually help radio and T.V. coverage. They could show reruns of the best moments that would get people excited and want to watch them on the T.V.
They could show the events that no one ever puts on T.V. and get extra ad revenue for doing nothing. If they want to squeeze every last penny out of the world, they should embrace the Net...
But these are just more reasons why I should rule the world anyway:)
We need people like this to be exploring and researching the far-out things. In doing so, they may discover something totally unrealated or solve the problems of the universe. Only time will tell if he was right or wrong. But saying you shouldn't even try, well that's just silly!
"What Leonardo? A flying machine with blades that spin? You're an obsessed guy who should be concentrating on the problems we have today! Not on some crazy pipe dream!"
The fact is that until we actually go there and see it, it will be tough to validate results from our probes.
Without concrete evidence there will always be some high mucky-mucky (technical term) who will doubt the results, especially ones that will never see him as a true scientist, just a "sanitary engineer."
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And please define #1 nation, you seem to be a little to aggressive with that #1 stuff. Does anyone have to be #1? Why can't we all just get along. I will play my games, you will censor people and we will all be happy!
Let us go through these:
1) Then only criminals would have guns.
2) You would not be able to post your last comment becuase it might offend someone.
3) Kids working graveyard shifts would not be able to help their single mother pay bills
And that ends the lesson for today.
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I spent many of my early years in front of beloved Tandy 1000, which was my only computer until 1994 BTW. And I seem to be in perfect health, able to carry on a conversation with someone and happily married. You make it sound like children who play games will be crippled socially. Now I will admit that there is alot more game playing then ever before, but this gross stereotype is wrong. There are always people in any one group that have problems. Be it a church group, gaming club, sewing group or anything else. You can't judge everyone by a few misfits.
I know MANY people that exercise everyday, are married with kids and also happen to love getting a headshot in TFC.
I will assume your account got hacked because anyone that says, "Things like this and television do them no good" I will assume is some 9 year old AOL kid who guessed your password and is trying to be flamebait.
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Ding, ding, ding. Jackpot!!
Seriously though, with all the security cameras, plainclothes security people, etc, I doubt anyone would be able to even sneeze on a machine before the casino got supicious. But I still would hate to be in charge of security during the Las Vegas Comdex if my machines ran an OS such as Windows, which isn't known for its security and is a favorite target of hacks.
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Maybe when they get these slots in, I should take a road trip to Vegas with some various software "tools."
Ding, ding, ding. Jackpot!!
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Of course I really wanted zero-G football scenes with everyone scrambling for the Pigskin Destiny, AKA, the football, but I did appreciate their attempt at it even if it needed some work.
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The best use of technology in football is still to get the sounds of two fairly large people running into each other. After a particularly brutal collision, they will always play it back at full speed with sound so everyone can imagine the guy on the bottom being that punk that cut them off on the freeway. Bottom line: it's still all about the crash and smash. And how little clothes they can have the stripp...errr, cheerleaders wear on T.V.
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Perhaps this new group needs to get a licensing agreement for one-cell ordering, errr.. I mean one-cell cloning.
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The horse is dead, stop beating it (don't be dirty), it's time to move on...
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He soon became very rich by selling whiskey that had been mellowed through 10 feet of hard maple charcoal.
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As more and more of our lives become digital, this will be the natural progression of things... Companies will want to squeeze as much money as possible out of us, so they will want to copyright and protect everything.
Instead of complaining about this and that will buying the product, boycott the product. People protesting the WTO and The Gap while wearing designer clothes doesn't give themselves much credibility.
Form protest groups, tell your government offical, start your own sovereign nation, but don't just read it on /. and then go out and buy one. Personally I think we should start our own Political Action Committee (PAC) (or equivalant in non-USA places) and lobby the government on behalf of /.
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Currently NSI seems to be the best bet since they know what they are doing and seem to have the favor of the big bad people that run the Internet. :P But with all their wacky tatics of late, I wonder what will happen to them when people realize you can use other companies.
What people don't want though is Uncle Bob's Deep Discount Domains (UBDDD) running on some Mac Classic in Patagonia.
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This helps me filter the good spam from the bad :)
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Just keep sending back your junk mail AND get yourself off the direct marketing mailing list.
Go here to be able to create forms with the address already on it. I am not sure how other countries can do it, but I used this site and I get only a few pieces of junk a week now. Also, Junk Busters is good, but the other site is easier to use.
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I don't care if it's the Vatican tracking my web suring habits, I don't like it. You could learn alot about me knowing I visit New Gumbrea and then the Jessica Alba page, followed by a trip to Yahoo! to buy a spycam that fits in a kleenex box!!
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"Do you hear the Slashdotters sing,
By reading this you agree to not implant any memory of this on your brain and forget about it instantly. If you repeat this comment or post it in your cerebral cortex, you are guilty of violating the back-end user agreement which gives the owner of said agreement the right to violate your backend.
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Just think, no more numbers to remember, just look at your lovely list of names and punch one or two buttons!! Wow! I know I would buy one, I should call up RonCo and see if they will do an a television special! Buy one phone with "speed dial" and receive a FREE rotisserie oven!!
Remember folks, you heard it hear first!
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This is why we need more people in power that understand what technology can do for us and when it can be a bad thing.
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I personally did not watch them this year, but I would think that the Internet would actually help radio and T.V. coverage. They could show reruns of the best moments that would get people excited and want to watch them on the T.V.
They could show the events that no one ever puts on T.V. and get extra ad revenue for doing nothing. If they want to squeeze every last penny out of the world, they should embrace the Net...
But these are just more reasons why I should rule the world anyway :)
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"What Leonardo? A flying machine with blades that spin? You're an obsessed guy who should be concentrating on the problems we have today! Not on some crazy pipe dream!"
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It is very obvious that we should have lawyers on Mars so for this sort of thing... Who needs scientists when lawyers can make decisons for us!
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Without concrete evidence there will always be some high mucky-mucky (technical term) who will doubt the results, especially ones that will never see him as a true scientist, just a "sanitary engineer."
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