In case you don't know about it yet, you can type in your address in Mapquest, click on "Aerial photo," and see a pictue of your neighborhood in which it's quite easy to pick out your own house. Best of all, you can pan and zoom all you want and look at landmarks around where you live.
That wouldn't be that hard... just let several "camerapeople" in as observers, and tap their video-outs. And you can have one at CT base, one at T base, a couple at the most strategic spots on the map and a couple following the action, and continually alternate the view among all of them, including the players when appropriate.
Do I want to be there?
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Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...
Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.
Actually, if you do some research around lucid dreaming sites, you'll find it's a general concensus that only about 20% of the population are natural lucid dreamers. The rest of us still have to learn the skill. While it's surely possible for most of us, I wouldn't quite call it "easy." I've done it just a couple of times.
Some resources for learning how to lucid dream are here, , here, and anywhere you can find on google. There's plenty of info. Oh, and of course someone had to exploit it.;)
To put it in a nutshell, one of the most basic things you must do is to start a dream journal where you record your dreams in as much detail as you can remember and increase your "dream" awareness. Also, you need to make it a habit of performing reality checks, where you spend a minute or so several times a day sincerely trying to find out if you're dreaming or not, and hopefully this habit carries on into your dreams, you perform a reality check, and *boom* the results tell you you're dreaming, and you go lucid. Of course, there are a lot of intricacies to this and you should look at the actual web sites.
Re:What's so special about it?
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Looking at a mouse cursor jump around the screen and waiting for it to catch up to where it should be isn't my idea of convenience.
Sounds to me like you need to get a nice corded mouse (preferably optical), bump up the refresh rate with ps2rate, sit back, and enjoy the difference. Trust me, you'll like it. Give it a try.
What's so special about it?
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... besides the matching cute exteriors of the devices? We already have the "concept" of wireless mice and keyboards. Besides, why the hell would anyone want a wireless mouse, with its horriffic refresh rate?
I thought I'd have already seen this advice, but...
Package all of the components inside the computer separetly inside their own heaps of bubble wrap/foam peanuts/whatever you can think of. Especially the hard drive/s and the big chunky heatsink. That way no inter-component torque will exist.
If you wanna go for overkill, you can take the case apart, too.
Back in the good old fun days of Quake 1, 300ms was considered OK. 200 was the best you could generally hope for on dialup, and at the onset of someone in the double digits entering the server, said server would clear out.
Well, orbits aren't exactly stable. Even at the altitude most spacecraft orbit at, there's a tiny bit of air friction that would slow them down enough to come down when/where we don't want them to. Keeping it up would require fuel and resources, which cost money. Plus, in the future, who would want to dock with and enter this rusting junkbucket that could fall apart?
Automatic electronic inventions that seem to have something like intelligence integrate industrial production so that all the machines in a factory work as units in what is actually a single, colossal organism. In the Orwell Helicopter Corporation's plant only a few trouble shooters are visible, and these respond to lights that flare up on a board whenever a vacuum tube burns out or there is a short circuit. By holes punched in a roll of paper, every operation necessary to produce a helicopter is indicated.
Vacuum tubes? Punch tape? Heheh. This made my day.
Dale Todd, Evan's father, said he hooked up with Thompson through research he did on violent video games. He even obtained a copy of "Doom" and played it himself. He was appalled.
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"We need to wake up," Todd said.
Did he sign ANY sort of binding agreement with Monsanto concerning their seeds? If not, what basis does Monsanto have for forcing the farmer to so anything?
Employers are people, too. They have the right to snoop however much they please through THEIR computers, on THEIR networks. If someone who works there doesn't want want the e-mail he writes read, then he shouldn't be using that e-mail system.
Neon lights can have that much cooler of an effect if used inside a completely clear plexiglass, such as this one, which I sighted at a LANparty I was at just a couple of days ago. That pic, however, does not do it any justice -- the lights don't even seem to be on.
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Awesome, now when you accidentally ask girls for their IP instead of their phone number, you won't be that far in the hole this time.
In case you don't know about it yet, you can type in your address in Mapquest, click on "Aerial photo," and see a pictue of your neighborhood in which it's quite easy to pick out your own house. Best of all, you can pan and zoom all you want and look at landmarks around where you live.
That wouldn't be that hard... just let several "camerapeople" in as observers, and tap their video-outs. And you can have one at CT base, one at T base, a couple at the most strategic spots on the map and a couple following the action, and continually alternate the view among all of them, including the players when appropriate.
Pinch harmonics can be Shift-keystrokes... heheh.
Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...
Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.
Some resources for learning how to lucid dream are here, , here, and anywhere you can find on google. There's plenty of info. Oh, and of course someone had to exploit it.
To put it in a nutshell, one of the most basic things you must do is to start a dream journal where you record your dreams in as much detail as you can remember and increase your "dream" awareness. Also, you need to make it a habit of performing reality checks, where you spend a minute or so several times a day sincerely trying to find out if you're dreaming or not, and hopefully this habit carries on into your dreams, you perform a reality check, and *boom* the results tell you you're dreaming, and you go lucid. Of course, there are a lot of intricacies to this and you should look at the actual web sites.
You mean quotation marks and not parenthesis?
Looking at a mouse cursor jump around the screen and waiting for it to catch up to where it should be isn't my idea of convenience.
Sounds to me like you need to get a nice corded mouse (preferably optical), bump up the refresh rate with ps2rate, sit back, and enjoy the difference. Trust me, you'll like it. Give it a try.
... besides the matching cute exteriors of the devices? We already have the "concept" of wireless mice and keyboards. Besides, why the hell would anyone want a wireless mouse, with its horriffic refresh rate?
I thought I'd have already seen this advice, but...
Package all of the components inside the computer separetly inside their own heaps of bubble wrap/foam peanuts/whatever you can think of. Especially the hard drive/s and the big chunky heatsink. That way no inter-component torque will exist.
If you wanna go for overkill, you can take the case apart, too.
Around 150 you suffer heart arrhythmia and die.
-Vess
Shit continues to smell bad.
I got some "solar" wind of my own due to my last couple of meals, but rest assured that no one would wanna build a sail for it.
ass.lo.af crack.a.lo.af
Back in the good old fun days of Quake 1, 300ms was considered OK. 200 was the best you could generally hope for on dialup, and at the onset of someone in the double digits entering the server, said server would clear out.
Well, orbits aren't exactly stable. Even at the altitude most spacecraft orbit at, there's a tiny bit of air friction that would slow them down enough to come down when/where we don't want them to. Keeping it up would require fuel and resources, which cost money. Plus, in the future, who would want to dock with and enter this rusting junkbucket that could fall apart?
And he was definitely right about the mass-production robot factories that require only several humans to oversee the operations -- a BIG hit.
Vacuum tubes? Punch tape? Heheh. This made my day.
Time to go pick up a whole bunch before the hoarders get to them. Oh, wait...
That's the point, there would be no namespace conflicts... everyone could have the same name if they wanted.
Dale Todd, Evan's father, said he hooked up with Thompson through research he did on violent video games. He even obtained a copy of "Doom" and played it himself. He was appalled.
[...]
"We need to wake up," Todd said.
Did he sign ANY sort of binding agreement with Monsanto concerning their seeds? If not, what basis does Monsanto have for forcing the farmer to so anything?
Employers are people, too. They have the right to snoop however much they please through THEIR computers, on THEIR networks. If someone who works there doesn't want want the e-mail he writes read, then he shouldn't be using that e-mail system.
-Vess