After reading this article about the HEMI dodge I was curious what the rest of Mopar was cooking up. Turns out chrysler has a new HEMI concept car as well. Hmmm. in addition to various other concept cars that, well, look better than dodge's. Except the charger r/t. I like that one. If for nothing else than just that they're bringing the charger back!
I went and read the article and thought it looked quite neat. Brings back some of the great styling of the mid 1900's. Sure it's not absolutely amazing and the wheels are a bit excessive, but overall it's a pretty cool idea. Besides, they've finally brought back HEMI!
I think I'll stick to my '49 Dodge with it's bulletproof straight-six though. Despite this super8 sort of *looking* like a classic car. It's still a new car that most likely will be snapped up by trend-conscious yuppies.
I can't imagine them selling it for less than $40,000 so that rules out us ordinary folk who don't want to spend that much money on that thing when you can spend half that and get yourself a really nice street rod.
Regardless, I don't think it's that bad. Certainly not deserving of hundreds of "Oh barf!", "Horrible!" and "Hideous!" posts. Keep in mind that when compared with *most* cars these days it's brilliant. Honestly I'm really disapointed in the auto industry after about 1975. All these little mental boxes with no styling whatsoever. Oh well. I guess that's how it goes. Cudos to mopar for at least *trying* get some CHARACTER back into their cars. Even if it is just a cheap shot to get all the 50 year old ex-hotrodders turned corporate executives to buy overpriced cars...
I think, that after many minutes of deliberation, I am going to have to go with the idea of Unlocking something.
All instances and all forms of "unlocking."
Physical, theoretical, psychological, metaphorical, etc. This includes all forms of unlocking, including illegitimate forms such as cracking files or breaking windows.
Including but not limited to the following:
Unlocking cars, doors, windows, breifcases, safes, server cases, post office boxes, Unlocking the solution to a problem, deducing a password, or any other form of "figuring something out" so as to unlock a sort of solution or resolution, unlocking screensavers, entering user passwords, archive passwords, or any other form of password entry. Also including other less blatant forms of unlocking; such as unlocking some secret love, or unlocking the door to someone's mind, and other more metaphorical ideas that do not as directly connect to the lock/key idea but can still be applied metaphorically.
I know I always considered it a sort of portal to playing video games. Sort of like Zsnes is to snes roms; only on a larger scale. I never considered windows an actual operating system. Even back with 3.1, the only thing people really used it was to play solitaire and minesweeper.
I mean jeez, it's not THAT bad. I mean sure most mp3 WEB sites have porn banners, but it's just a picture or some animation. It's not like it's a terrifying experience by any means. Besides, who really uses the web to find mp3z? ftp is much better, even newgroups are better than websites. bah, take scour for instance: what kind of luny would WANT to use samba to get mp3s?!?!
At school we have a $3000+ projector thingy. It displays a computer screen on the wall (or whatever) very large and very crisp and clear, i mean you can read 8pt font on this thing, it's amazing...playing quake is a beauty
I think Lucas made a big mistake with TPM. When you have three movies (the original series) that are absolutely great and live on, and have a legacy like they do. You should not go and ruin it with a big money-making scheme like TPM. The movie itself was good in the movie sense, but it wasn't a starwars movie, it just didn't fit. It's like on sesame street -- "one of these things is not like the other doo doo doo"...anyway that's my rant.
boy oh boy, i can't wait until we get things like beats by more votes than the population of america, cause somebody hacked the voting program.
hey we could even set up a "vote for your friends" website. it'd be a form.
name of voter:________ vote:______
hahahahha...oh geez, the more of our government that gets controled through the internet, the more HUGE economic/political disasters will happen. i mean throughout computer history, the hackers and crackers have always been a step ahead of the big companies. i mean everything gets cracked sooner or later (usually sooner)...what are we gonna do once EVERYTHING is online. William Gibsons world is going to happen. very scary.
[rant] I'm no huge fan of microsoft, but despite they're having coded the page JUST for IE, I don't think they deserve all the shit you slashdoters are giving them. So what if they're a big rich company that produces not-so-great software, is that incentive to act childish and call names? Why don't we just show them that *nix is better? Why sit and whine and complain when you can just stand up and prove that windows 2k is an inferior OS. I mean they're giving us the chance to show 'em what's wrong before they release it. Maybe this (rather than name calling) will prompt them to make windoez2k better. 'Cause I know most of you care, whether you use windows at home or not is irrelevant because most of you probably have to use it at work, wouldn't it be nice if it was decent this time 'round? [/rant]
This is kinda funny, I still don't see the point of this site exactly? Are they just making some "internet company" that designs "adult" websites, or was that their previous attempt? Shouldn't they finish the site before putting it online? Oh well, I guess it's a semi-commendable effort at getting into people's wallets.
All in all, I'll donate $5 if I get any one or more of these rewards (that they listed):
a big hug from the girls (why not:) web-hosting (whoohoo, i always wanted a shell on a porn site) homemade lasagna (we love lasagna) stock options (stock is good, specially on porn sites) free T-shirt (depends on what is ON the t-shirt) good pizza (we love pizza) a little money (yeah 100%+ of what I gave them would be fine) free CD-ROM (of what? porn? warez? or a blank cd?)
I dunno, I guess we'll find out exactly what this thing is about when they re-write their "business plan"
Not to bash any one's opinions or anything, but seriously, if you would have had a better preview of the movie, would you have watched it? The filming is terrible, the plot is dull, nothing ever really happens, the movie just ends with no conclusion. I realize this is part of the idea but really it made for a boring movie. I found myself dosing off and talking to people next to me rather than watch that irritating girl squeal and mess everything up, way too predictable. If this is a true story it certainly proves there are some pretty thick people out there. Anyway, it was still OK, but I would never pay to see it again, and probably not even see it again at all.
Acer isn't exactly known to be a trustworthy company. A while back they had a class action lawsuit filed against them for using old/used hardware in their new computers. Though my old acer is still running alright. So who knows.
I have been using windows for a long time because that's what is most common where I work/learn/play so logically that would be the way to go. Recently I got so sick of all the crap it was giving me and I wiped my box and set out to install Linux. This was the first time I ever really used linux. I installed Debian and had it up and running (including X and various usefull daemons) in a couple of hours. This is from never having really used linux before. I found Debian fairly easy to install. In fact the install process is about the same as RedHat not to mention how great dselect is. I think Debian can easily be used by clueless users if those clueless users are willing to try a little bit. Oh well, people are lame.
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After reading this article about the HEMI dodge I was curious what the rest of Mopar was cooking up. Turns out chrysler has a new HEMI concept car as well. Hmmm. in addition to various other concept cars that, well, look better than dodge's. Except the charger r/t. I like that one. If for nothing else than just that they're bringing the charger back!
http://www.mopar.com
check it out.
I went and read the article and thought it looked quite neat. Brings back some of the great styling of the mid 1900's. Sure it's not absolutely amazing and the wheels are a bit excessive, but overall it's a pretty cool idea. Besides, they've finally brought back HEMI!
I think I'll stick to my '49 Dodge with it's bulletproof straight-six though. Despite this super8 sort of *looking* like a classic car. It's still a new car that most likely will be snapped up by trend-conscious yuppies.
I can't imagine them selling it for less than $40,000 so that rules out us ordinary folk who don't want to spend that much money on that thing when you can spend half that and get yourself a really nice street rod.
Regardless, I don't think it's that bad. Certainly not deserving of hundreds of "Oh barf!", "Horrible!" and "Hideous!" posts. Keep in mind that when compared with *most* cars these days it's brilliant. Honestly I'm really disapointed in the auto industry after about 1975. All these little mental boxes with no styling whatsoever. Oh well. I guess that's how it goes. Cudos to mopar for at least *trying* get some CHARACTER back into their cars. Even if it is just a cheap shot to get all the 50 year old ex-hotrodders turned corporate executives to buy overpriced cars...
Super 8, if I'm correct, is in reference to much older 8 cylinder engines. Not to the film.
I think, that after many minutes of deliberation, I am going to have to go with the idea of Unlocking something.
All instances and all forms of "unlocking."
Physical, theoretical, psychological, metaphorical, etc. This includes all forms of unlocking, including illegitimate forms such as cracking files or breaking windows.
Including but not limited to the following:
Unlocking cars, doors, windows, breifcases, safes, server cases, post office boxes, Unlocking the solution to a problem, deducing a password, or any other form of "figuring something out" so as to unlock a sort of solution or resolution, unlocking screensavers, entering user passwords, archive passwords, or any other form of password entry. Also including other less blatant forms of unlocking; such as unlocking some secret love, or unlocking the door to someone's mind, and other more metaphorical ideas that do not as directly connect to the lock/key idea but can still be applied metaphorically.
I know I always considered it a sort of portal to playing video games. Sort of like Zsnes is to snes roms; only on a larger scale. I never considered windows an actual operating system.
Even back with 3.1, the only thing people really used it was to play solitaire and minesweeper.
I mean jeez, it's not THAT bad. I mean sure most mp3 WEB sites have porn banners, but it's just a picture or some animation. It's not like it's a terrifying experience by any means. Besides, who really uses the web to find mp3z? ftp is much better, even newgroups are better than websites. bah, take scour for instance: what kind of luny would WANT to use samba to get mp3s?!?!
At school we have a $3000+ projector thingy. It displays a computer screen on the wall (or whatever) very large and very crisp and clear, i mean you can read 8pt font on this thing, it's amazing...playing quake is a beauty
I think Lucas made a big mistake with TPM. When you have three movies (the original series) that are absolutely great and live on, and have a legacy like they do. You should not go and ruin it with a big money-making scheme like TPM. The movie itself was good in the movie sense, but it wasn't a starwars movie, it just didn't fit. It's like on sesame street -- "one of these things is not like the other doo doo doo"...anyway that's my rant.
boy oh boy, i can't wait until we get things like beats by more votes than the population of america, cause somebody hacked the voting program.
hey we could even set up a "vote for your friends" website. it'd be a form.
name of voter:________
vote:______
hahahahha...oh geez, the more of our government that gets controled through the internet, the more HUGE economic/political disasters will happen. i mean throughout computer history, the hackers and crackers have always been a step ahead of the big companies. i mean everything gets cracked sooner or later (usually sooner)...what are we gonna do once EVERYTHING is online. William Gibsons world is going to happen. very scary.
[rant]
I'm no huge fan of microsoft, but despite they're having coded the page JUST for IE, I don't think they deserve all the shit you slashdoters are giving them. So what if they're a big rich company that produces not-so-great software, is that incentive to act childish and call names? Why don't we just show them that *nix is better? Why sit and whine and complain when you can just stand up and prove that windows 2k is an inferior OS. I mean they're giving us the chance to show 'em what's wrong before they release it. Maybe this (rather than name calling) will prompt them to make windoez2k better. 'Cause I know most of you care, whether you use windows at home or not is irrelevant because most of you probably have to use it at work, wouldn't it be nice if it was decent this time 'round?
[/rant]
This is kinda funny, I still don't see the point of this site exactly? Are they just making some "internet company" that designs "adult" websites, or was that their previous attempt? Shouldn't they finish the site before putting it online? Oh well, I guess it's a semi-commendable effort at getting into people's wallets.
:)
All in all, I'll donate $5 if I get any one or more of these rewards (that they listed):
a big hug from the girls (why not
web-hosting (whoohoo, i always wanted a shell on a porn site)
homemade lasagna (we love lasagna)
stock options (stock is good, specially on porn sites)
free T-shirt (depends on what is ON the t-shirt)
good pizza (we love pizza)
a little money (yeah 100%+ of what I gave them would be fine)
free CD-ROM (of what? porn? warez? or a blank cd?)
I dunno, I guess we'll find out exactly what this thing is about when they re-write their "business plan"
Not to bash any one's opinions or anything, but seriously, if you would have had a better preview of the movie, would you have watched it? The filming is terrible, the plot is dull, nothing ever really happens, the movie just ends with no conclusion. I realize this is part of the idea but really it made for a boring movie. I found myself dosing off and talking to people next to me rather than watch that irritating girl squeal and mess everything up, way too predictable. If this is a true story it certainly proves there are some pretty thick people out there. Anyway, it was still OK, but I would never pay to see it again, and probably not even see it again at all.
Acer isn't exactly known to be a trustworthy company. A while back they had a class action lawsuit filed against them for using old/used hardware in their new computers. Though my old acer is still running alright. So who knows.
I have been using windows for a long time because that's what is most common where I work/learn/play so logically that would be the way to go. Recently I got so sick of all the crap it was giving me and I wiped my box and set out to install Linux. This was the first time I ever really used linux. I installed Debian and had it up and running (including X and various usefull daemons) in a couple of hours. This is from never having really used linux before. I found Debian fairly easy to install. In fact the install process is about the same as RedHat not to mention how great dselect is. I think Debian can easily be used by clueless users if those clueless users are willing to try a little bit. Oh well, people are lame.