When Blaster was going around, I decided I wanted a new email alias on my campus's email system. I chose just my first name, and to my surprise, it gave it to me.
As soon as it was set up, I started getting 50-100 messages from other servers saying that my address was spewing out viruses. Of course, this is impossible, seeing as my computer never even knew that I had this alias. Yet, I kept getting it time and time again.
The problem was, I couldn't delete the alias, and I ended up with hundreds of these messages per day. Incredibly frustrating. They must know that it serves no purpose.
Rumor has it that these flowers also change colors in the presence of orcs. Apparently, one of the deleted scenes on the extended edition of RotK is going to show Sam in action with his trusty flower.
The Virginia Tech listserv server has been spewing these out to everyone on campus it seems. I have received about 4-5, none of which have been recognized by my virus scanner. After talking to some other people, it appears that most everyone is on one of the listserv lists that is sending this out.
I can look at it right now...but not get in seeing as I haven't been invited. Was the main page down with that message or did it only pop up if you tried logging in?
Wal-Mart will give the item for free if it's less than $3, and take $3 off if it costs any more than that.
Most people never notice when a price is rung up wrong, though. My family ran into a product on sale during the holidays at Wal-Mart one year that kept ringing up wrong every time we went. At first we just took the sale price, but finally got fed up with it and started to request the free/$3 off thing.
Some of these stores will be ringing up the wrong price, be informed at the register that the database is wrong, and only fix it on your order.
Don't ever assume what the price in the store shows will be the price at the checkout.
I don't understand how there are so many people who say that have spilled so much crap over their computers and parts. I pity you if you are so clumsy and have a laptop.
I have come close just a couple of times to spilling something, but it's never happened. And I ALWAYS have something with me. Make sure whatever you're drinking is a safe distance from the computer where you have to stretch to reach it.
I don't really see anyone on here saying that these specs made SuSE any more secure. The gist of it is that by having this certification, they can now compete for government contracts previously unavailable to them.
Companies have to jump through hoops to get some of these contracts; the requirements may be rediculous, but achieving the requirements to compete for contracts is still important none-the-less.
Shouldn't we be spending this money on teaching people how NOT to kill each other, or adressing the issues that make it so people want to kill their fellow man in the first place?
Drill Instructor: Damn it! You hit the target! What are you trying to do? Kill the guy?
In all honesty, the point of this isn't to make soldiers insensitive to killing any more than any other kind of training. It's just another way of teaching tactics so that perhaps our soldiers' lives would be saved.
Don't get this confused with something like Quake. They're not going to be killing a four headed monster that shoots fireballs.
Well, if you read the article, you would see he likened it to a par 5 course. You're going to have five shots to get it to its target, and after each shot, you get to correct the direction of it to be headed where you want it.
It's the same thing with the probe- you launch it and subsequently have a number of chances to correct the course. By the "fourth shot" they had the "ball" headed right at the target, making it a birdie.
This entire mission has been an amazing success, no matter how you look at it. If the next probe that will land later this month is also a success, we are clearly headed in the right direction.
I have dealt with a number of Apex players, and even have a Cyberhome player. All of them have functioned without problem.
I have no doubt that a number of them will fail, but, I would be surprised if more than 10% of the total sold are returned defective. The idea is that you get it so cheap that if it does break after awhile, you can buy another and be at the same point. Odds are that the first won't break, and I would wager that the odds of both breaking before the time a player that costs twice as much is lower.
Lawyer: Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. No, minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
Well, in all honesty, Win 1-3 and Win95 allowed programs to run within their own environment. It was an operating system for all intents and purposes, although it wasn't a true OS (it ran on top of DOS).
Microsoft BOB, on the other hand, was more of a frontend that didn't really allow anything else to run, it just let you put your stuff in different rooms, making it next to impossible to find what you're looking for.
It was a terrible idea, but Microsoft BOB was more of an organization program for your entire computer than anything else. I think it actually still runs on even Windows XP.
You realize, of course, that buying stuff for these online MMORPGs is always going to be outrageous to a lot of people. New games are coming out all of the time, and as a game gets older, its items almost invariably devalue. What's the point of playing the game if you're just going to buy what would take time to get? The game doesn't sound awfully fun if you need to use real money to get something; if you have less time, the game should still find a way to make it fun.
Actually, what was said was that the game would allow you to run no higher than 60 FPS. However, players with lower frames per second would still execute commands at said 60 FPS, making for a level playing field. He said something to the effect of "you can't go higher than 60 FPS, because at that rate, your computer would just be duplicating frames" or something similar.
But...Half-Life definitely exhibits this behavior. It's particularly obvious if you use Team Fortress Classic and compare the times it takes to empty a heavy weapon guy's full auto cannon clip with a high frame rate (100) and then a low frame rate (40). It's quite the difference.
Before anyone says anything about when they actually filed it being important, the patent was filed May 20, 1999 while that Mozilla page on Chrome says it was last modified April 7, 1999.
You know, I thought the Kathleen Fent thing was some kind of dirty joke until I looked it up and realized that it's CmdrTaco's wife and that he proposed to her on/.; her website was subsequently slashdotted when they put up wedding pictures, or something.
But still, "looks like they're gotting slashdotted like Kathleen Fent on her wedding night..." definitely sounds like some kind of a dirty, dirty event.
We saw the price of Playstation software drop to levels that some of the better off Chinese could afford to buy. However, the system itself actually costs more (after converting currencies) than in the US and Japan. This is simply another way of recovering the cost of piracy- normally they sell them at or below cost of manufacture and make the money back on the software. With cheaper software and pirated copies everywhere, of course they will raise the price to cover their hide.
And all of this, mind you, has little to do with what happens to prices in the U.S.
If prices drop in SE Asia because of this, it's with reason; they are not willing and/or able to pay what Microsoft demands- you have to price your products to what the market is willing to pay. They make loads of money in the U.S.; by selling cheaper in SE Asia, they also maximize their revenue there.
But again, it's not going to change any of the prices in the U.S.
If people start using this extensively, and the DNS servers start getting clogged up by this, we'll just have to come up with a way to send DNS information over BitTorrent! That way, everything will balance out, right?
Yes, first we'll use the DNS servers to get the torrent file, and then we'll use BitTorrent to get DNS information!
You think the 'cool geeks' are the ones doing this? No, this is a small number of people who lack any morals and are not seen as cool to anyone, whereas the "cool kids" in school that made fun of people are now the ones bagging groceries. Let some time go and you'll see that these 'cool geeks' are no cooler than the bullies of elementary.
Valve's new content distribution system, Steam (www.steampowered.com), authorizes each client as it connects to the server, and each player has a username/password. I wonder if Half-Life is still vulnerable to this problem since it now has a login system.
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When Blaster was going around, I decided I wanted a new email alias on my campus's email system. I chose just my first name, and to my surprise, it gave it to me.
As soon as it was set up, I started getting 50-100 messages from other servers saying that my address was spewing out viruses. Of course, this is impossible, seeing as my computer never even knew that I had this alias. Yet, I kept getting it time and time again.
The problem was, I couldn't delete the alias, and I ended up with hundreds of these messages per day. Incredibly frustrating. They must know that it serves no purpose.
Rumor has it that these flowers also change colors in the presence of orcs. Apparently, one of the deleted scenes on the extended edition of RotK is going to show Sam in action with his trusty flower.
The Virginia Tech listserv server has been spewing these out to everyone on campus it seems. I have received about 4-5, none of which have been recognized by my virus scanner. After talking to some other people, it appears that most everyone is on one of the listserv lists that is sending this out.
I can look at it right now...but not get in seeing as I haven't been invited. Was the main page down with that message or did it only pop up if you tried logging in?
Wal-Mart will give the item for free if it's less than $3, and take $3 off if it costs any more than that.
Most people never notice when a price is rung up wrong, though. My family ran into a product on sale during the holidays at Wal-Mart one year that kept ringing up wrong every time we went. At first we just took the sale price, but finally got fed up with it and started to request the free/$3 off thing.
Some of these stores will be ringing up the wrong price, be informed at the register that the database is wrong, and only fix it on your order.
Don't ever assume what the price in the store shows will be the price at the checkout.
I don't understand how there are so many people who say that have spilled so much crap over their computers and parts. I pity you if you are so clumsy and have a laptop.
I have come close just a couple of times to spilling something, but it's never happened. And I ALWAYS have something with me. Make sure whatever you're drinking is a safe distance from the computer where you have to stretch to reach it.
I don't really see anyone on here saying that these specs made SuSE any more secure. The gist of it is that by having this certification, they can now compete for government contracts previously unavailable to them.
Companies have to jump through hoops to get some of these contracts; the requirements may be rediculous, but achieving the requirements to compete for contracts is still important none-the-less.
Shouldn't we be spending this money on teaching people how NOT to kill each other, or adressing the issues that make it so people want to kill their fellow man in the first place?
Drill Instructor: Damn it! You hit the target! What are you trying to do? Kill the guy?
In all honesty, the point of this isn't to make soldiers insensitive to killing any more than any other kind of training. It's just another way of teaching tactics so that perhaps our soldiers' lives would be saved.
Don't get this confused with something like Quake. They're not going to be killing a four headed monster that shoots fireballs.
Well, if you read the article, you would see he likened it to a par 5 course. You're going to have five shots to get it to its target, and after each shot, you get to correct the direction of it to be headed where you want it.
It's the same thing with the probe- you launch it and subsequently have a number of chances to correct the course. By the "fourth shot" they had the "ball" headed right at the target, making it a birdie.
This entire mission has been an amazing success, no matter how you look at it. If the next probe that will land later this month is also a success, we are clearly headed in the right direction.
Oh, come now, 80%?
I have dealt with a number of Apex players, and even have a Cyberhome player. All of them have functioned without problem.
I have no doubt that a number of them will fail, but, I would be surprised if more than 10% of the total sold are returned defective. The idea is that you get it so cheap that if it does break after awhile, you can buy another and be at the same point. Odds are that the first won't break, and I would wager that the odds of both breaking before the time a player that costs twice as much is lower.
But, you get conjugal visits there, right?
Lawyer: Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. No, minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
Well, in all honesty, Win 1-3 and Win95 allowed programs to run within their own environment. It was an operating system for all intents and purposes, although it wasn't a true OS (it ran on top of DOS).
Microsoft BOB, on the other hand, was more of a frontend that didn't really allow anything else to run, it just let you put your stuff in different rooms, making it next to impossible to find what you're looking for.
It was a terrible idea, but Microsoft BOB was more of an organization program for your entire computer than anything else. I think it actually still runs on even Windows XP.
You realize, of course, that buying stuff for these online MMORPGs is always going to be outrageous to a lot of people. New games are coming out all of the time, and as a game gets older, its items almost invariably devalue. What's the point of playing the game if you're just going to buy what would take time to get? The game doesn't sound awfully fun if you need to use real money to get something; if you have less time, the game should still find a way to make it fun.
Actually, what was said was that the game would allow you to run no higher than 60 FPS. However, players with lower frames per second would still execute commands at said 60 FPS, making for a level playing field. He said something to the effect of "you can't go higher than 60 FPS, because at that rate, your computer would just be duplicating frames" or something similar.
But...Half-Life definitely exhibits this behavior. It's particularly obvious if you use Team Fortress Classic and compare the times it takes to empty a heavy weapon guy's full auto cannon clip with a high frame rate (100) and then a low frame rate (40). It's quite the difference.
Before anyone says anything about when they actually filed it being important, the patent was filed May 20, 1999 while that Mozilla page on Chrome says it was last modified April 7, 1999.
You know, I thought the Kathleen Fent thing was some kind of dirty joke until I looked it up and realized that it's CmdrTaco's wife and that he proposed to her on /.; her website was subsequently slashdotted when they put up wedding pictures, or something.
But still, "looks like they're gotting slashdotted like Kathleen Fent on her wedding night..." definitely sounds like some kind of a dirty, dirty event.
Where's my $20?
We saw the price of Playstation software drop to levels that some of the better off Chinese could afford to buy. However, the system itself actually costs more (after converting currencies) than in the US and Japan. This is simply another way of recovering the cost of piracy- normally they sell them at or below cost of manufacture and make the money back on the software. With cheaper software and pirated copies everywhere, of course they will raise the price to cover their hide.
And all of this, mind you, has little to do with what happens to prices in the U.S.
If prices drop in SE Asia because of this, it's with reason; they are not willing and/or able to pay what Microsoft demands- you have to price your products to what the market is willing to pay. They make loads of money in the U.S.; by selling cheaper in SE Asia, they also maximize their revenue there.
But again, it's not going to change any of the prices in the U.S.
Yes, first we'll use the DNS servers to get the torrent file, and then we'll use BitTorrent to get DNS information!
If these "enhancements" are helping the player to play chess better, in any way, then no, they would not be accepted- it would be cheating.
It's analogous to steroids and athletes.
Does anyone know what the 17 other cities are?
He was white today, which has the first move. Black has an inherent disadvantage that makes it much more difficult to win.
You think the 'cool geeks' are the ones doing this? No, this is a small number of people who lack any morals and are not seen as cool to anyone, whereas the "cool kids" in school that made fun of people are now the ones bagging groceries. Let some time go and you'll see that these 'cool geeks' are no cooler than the bullies of elementary.
Valve's new content distribution system, Steam (www.steampowered.com), authorizes each client as it connects to the server, and each player has a username/password. I wonder if Half-Life is still vulnerable to this problem since it now has a login system.