IIRC, I was under the CapeCanaveral directory, number 9799. I haven't even checked it in years.
I used Sizzling HTML Jalfezi and hand-coding to make my Geocities page. When they brought in the WYSIWYG editor, I was still using notepad to edit my pages. Those HTML skills have paid more than one bill and translated very handily to XML.
But that's not all. The skills I learned kludging my way through Geocities (and with Jalfrezi) still get used today. I write a handful of websites for the volunteer organizations I'm with, and more than one employer's website has been upgraded with a few of the things I learned from GC. It was a great sandbox where you could learn the basics of the web framework and HTML coding. Yeah, you couldn't host fark or/. on there, but it let you see how tables worked, what a page of animated GIFs looked like, and how to insert javascript into a website. Hey, I wore teal clothing because it was in style. Don't mock the GIF / MIDI that was the style at the time.
Finally, and this is the best part, it indirectly put me into contact with a woman I'd never met. After a little bit of contact, we went on a date. Long story short, we've been married for eleven years and have two kids.
We joke that the Internet (and I will capitalize it until they give away all my parts) created life.
Now please bear in mind I am a Canadian so I am not positive as to what your system has in the way of rectification. My understanding is that you vote for members of the electoral college and they appoint the President. While they technically can (and occasionally have) choose against their state's wishes, they choose the candidate that belongs to their party.
So, even if the votes were fraudulently cast, one could argue that the electoral college was free to choose whom they wanted and that there would be no requirement to redo the election.
Also, you don't have time machines.
In Canada we would likely do nothing, but for a different reason. The winning party is chosen by acquiescence -- the leaders of the other parties call to admit defeat and hand over control of the country. We don't even count all the votes, we just count enough to get a statistical probability that each riding goes to a specific candidate.
Also, we've had 4 elections in the last 5 years and the next one means we're burning down Parliament.
Yes, that's usually tha case but it does not seem to be the case so far with this strain. This virus is so virulent that it doesn't merge with others, it simply dominates all reproduction.
Your OS shouldn't be shiny, showy, or dazzling. It shouldn't be interesting. It should exist simply as a framework for launching other programs, and it should do so in as unobtrustive and as small a manner as possible. If you're taking up resources that should otherwise go to productive programs, you are stealing from me.
When I'm diving, I wear fins so I can move around underwater and I use a regulator so I have air. I don't want to be thinking "wow, this is a great regulator" or "these fins are fantastic". I want to be thinking about what kind of fish that is, or how that coral looks in the light.
When I'm doing renovations on my house, I don't want to think about how nice or innovative the power company is. I want to think about how to cut the wood to fit or what colour to paint the finished product.
By the same token, I don't want to think about how my OS works. I want to use the tools that the OS allows me to use.
Common. I remember when Beenz did that for a grand prize, and someone found the URL and claimed the prize. They got the equivalent of $500USD in Beenz.
Younger readers are wondering, "what the fuck are Beenz?".
To be more specific, the physiology of humans. We can hear up to about 20kHz. Basic theory tells us that we require a sampling rate of twice the highest frequency, so that's 40kHz. You throw in 20% extra and you're sitting at 48kHz.
Anything more is filler.
Now, let me qualify that for a moment -- some codecs are terrible, and I can often hear the phasing on higher pitches, notably on cymbals. I have excellent hearing and have more than 20 year of musical training in both brass and choir. (I have to listen to mp3 players on minimal volume.)
However, when music is background music it doesn't really matter how perfect the sound is. If there's a hearing loss epidemic caused by the prevalence of, say, cheap mp3 players, then most people are probably halfway to tone deaf anyway.
DnD 3.0 (and really, the fixes in 3.5) were a way of taking all the organically grown rules from the previous editions, making it simpler, and then putting the game back together in a reasonably streamlined process. They opened up the core rules as an SRD, so you could run the game with no money down. The SRD didn't have all the rules, monsters, or flavour text, but it had the core rules.
The problem came from splat books. Anyone could write a book, and there were some terrible ones. You could combine the books and make ridiculously powerful characters. More to the point, WotC didn't get the money for lots of those books.
Along comes 4th edition. It took everyone by surprise. One day, they put it up on their website with no notice to game stores or players, lots of whom had amassed thousands of dollars of these splat books. Money that wasn't going to Hasbro.
WotC split up the core rules into a clever scheme wherein you couldn't get along with just one book. They put some characters in one book, others in another, and put out extra books that had parts for both characters. If you have a party with a bard and a paladin, you would have to have: 1. Player's Handbook (paladin) 2. Player's Handbook 2 (bard) 3. Martial Power (paladin supplementary) 4. Divine Power (paladin supplementary) 5. Arcane Power (bard supplementary) 6. Player's Handbook 1 miniatures 7. Player's Handbook 2 miniatures. 8. Subscription to D&D insider at $15/month. (Dragon Magazine has extra rules and benefits for players)
This is for a game that's been out for about a year, and that's JUST FOR THE CORE RULES FOR TWO CHARACTERS. This doesn't include the DMG 1 & 2, MM 1 & 2, maps, figures, etc.
For some _unimaginable_ reason, people said "WTF is this shit?" and just grabbed the torrents for the books. While they were still printing the PDFs, it was incredibly easy to just pack them up as a torrent and share. Now it takes an extra day with a flatbed scanner. Well, it does make for slightly larger files, but that's about it.
You and I clearly have a different idea of how much this costs. The $75 plan -- does that include access fees, 911 fees, and taxes? Ah, here we are, no. So it's really $85 plus taxes for 400 minutes, 100 SMS, and 2GB. ($93.52 with taxes.)
Is the $99 phone only with a 3-year contract? It appears that you can get one for $200 on "select 3-year plans".
In all fairness, I looked it up just now when posting this reply; perhaps the prices have gone up since you last checked.
My brother sold his iPhone last weekend. He got $350 in cash and had to turn down offers of $500+. The reason he sold it was that he was paying $100 a month for the phone service. (It's his own fault for being an idiot.)
It is unclear how you can provide accuracy on your reviews of iPhone apps when you aren't clear on how much the phones themselves cost.
One of the bonus objectives was to capture a Falcon-style freighter. (YT-1000?) The problem was that it hit hyperspace three seconds after you entered the mission and it was four seconds away.
I found out years later that you had to be super-fast on the draw, pulling all power to engines and hitting it with the tractor beam.
Did you ever blow up the Emperor's shuttle?
There was even a way to trigger a dogfight with Darth Vader; he was hands-down the hardest fight in the game.
TIE Fighter for the PC did this excellently. Other space combat sims had a difficulty level of "as it gets harder, the PC guns do less damage and the bogey guns do more damage".
TIE fighter had a ridiculous set of primary, secondary, and bonus objectives to complete each mission. If you wanted to get the best score, you'd have to play through once, then go through the missions in the simulator, then get the list of bonus objectives (which were hidden in the actual game), write them down, and then fly each mission over again. (This was before gamefaqs was ever dreamed up.)
You could go the other way; you could set the game to "easy" and "infinite ammo" and "invincible" but you'd get basically no points. Go the other way around and the Emperor would invite you into his inner circle.
Put a $2 deposit on them and you'll have most of them returned. The rest will be picked up by the same meth-heads who go through the garbage cans for pop bottles.
Meh, call it "material power", put it in a AA form factor, and sell it for $20 as a "forever battery".
Forever batteries -- now with 400,000 Ah capacity. Take pictures until your camera breaks. Never charge your Wiimotes. Keep your family safe with never-dying smoke detectors.
and the kicker:
your cell phone will never run out of power.
Joe Public will be lining up around the block to get their hands on these bad boys.
MY FB target ads have been passably good. Not great, and a few errors, but reasonably good.
They've got my hobbies marked off well enough, as I will often see ads for diving vacations or cheap gear. Clearly contacts shows up a lot too, but that's probably because I'm a "fan".
The "meet singles" is a little odd since I'm married, as are the "get a flat stomach" ads, for much the same reason.
(I actually HAVE a flat (not ripped) stomach; my wife doesn't care.)
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Assuming all the conspiracy theorists can be convinced it's true, at least this means I'll be dead before this idiocy crops up again.
That's exactly their point.
IIRC, I was under the CapeCanaveral directory, number 9799. I haven't even checked it in years.
I used Sizzling HTML Jalfezi and hand-coding to make my Geocities page. When they brought in the WYSIWYG editor, I was still using notepad to edit my pages. Those HTML skills have paid more than one bill and translated very handily to XML.
But that's not all. The skills I learned kludging my way through Geocities (and with Jalfrezi) still get used today. I write a handful of websites for the volunteer organizations I'm with, and more than one employer's website has been upgraded with a few of the things I learned from GC. It was a great sandbox where you could learn the basics of the web framework and HTML coding. Yeah, you couldn't host fark or /. on there, but it let you see how tables worked, what a page of animated GIFs looked like, and how to insert javascript into a website. Hey, I wore teal clothing because it was in style. Don't mock the GIF / MIDI that was the style at the time.
Finally, and this is the best part, it indirectly put me into contact with a woman I'd never met. After a little bit of contact, we went on a date. Long story short, we've been married for eleven years and have two kids.
We joke that the Internet (and I will capitalize it until they give away all my parts) created life.
I call dibs on the prayer fans. 10% of sales and discoveries from prayer fans goes to me, the rest you keep.
In the US, nothing.
Now please bear in mind I am a Canadian so I am not positive as to what your system has in the way of rectification. My understanding is that you vote for members of the electoral college and they appoint the President. While they technically can (and occasionally have) choose against their state's wishes, they choose the candidate that belongs to their party.
So, even if the votes were fraudulently cast, one could argue that the electoral college was free to choose whom they wanted and that there would be no requirement to redo the election.
Also, you don't have time machines.
In Canada we would likely do nothing, but for a different reason. The winning party is chosen by acquiescence -- the leaders of the other parties call to admit defeat and hand over control of the country. We don't even count all the votes, we just count enough to get a statistical probability that each riding goes to a specific candidate.
Also, we've had 4 elections in the last 5 years and the next one means we're burning down Parliament.
Yes, that's usually tha case but it does not seem to be the case so far with this strain. This virus is so virulent that it doesn't merge with others, it simply dominates all reproduction.
I couldn't find the article, but here's another one that shows that it's not getting deadlier when the PB2-627 mutation takes place:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j6_E3QLV3fZErFPKqoBzutBeiWdA
It's all wrong.
Your OS shouldn't be shiny, showy, or dazzling. It shouldn't be interesting. It should exist simply as a framework for launching other programs, and it should do so in as unobtrustive and as small a manner as possible. If you're taking up resources that should otherwise go to productive programs, you are stealing from me.
When I'm diving, I wear fins so I can move around underwater and I use a regulator so I have air. I don't want to be thinking "wow, this is a great regulator" or "these fins are fantastic". I want to be thinking about what kind of fish that is, or how that coral looks in the light.
When I'm doing renovations on my house, I don't want to think about how nice or innovative the power company is. I want to think about how to cut the wood to fit or what colour to paint the finished product.
By the same token, I don't want to think about how my OS works. I want to use the tools that the OS allows me to use.
Common. I remember when Beenz did that for a grand prize, and someone found the URL and claimed the prize. They got the equivalent of $500USD in Beenz.
Younger readers are wondering, "what the fuck are Beenz?".
Blaming people is a pretty good start.
To be more specific, the physiology of humans. We can hear up to about 20kHz. Basic theory tells us that we require a sampling rate of twice the highest frequency, so that's 40kHz. You throw in 20% extra and you're sitting at 48kHz.
Anything more is filler.
Now, let me qualify that for a moment -- some codecs are terrible, and I can often hear the phasing on higher pitches, notably on cymbals. I have excellent hearing and have more than 20 year of musical training in both brass and choir. (I have to listen to mp3 players on minimal volume.)
However, when music is background music it doesn't really matter how perfect the sound is. If there's a hearing loss epidemic caused by the prevalence of, say, cheap mp3 players, then most people are probably halfway to tone deaf anyway.
Hey, thanks, I appreciate responses more than mod points anyway. ;)
The reason is that they fucked up their model.
DnD 3.0 (and really, the fixes in 3.5) were a way of taking all the organically grown rules from the previous editions, making it simpler, and then putting the game back together in a reasonably streamlined process. They opened up the core rules as an SRD, so you could run the game with no money down. The SRD didn't have all the rules, monsters, or flavour text, but it had the core rules.
The problem came from splat books. Anyone could write a book, and there were some terrible ones. You could combine the books and make ridiculously powerful characters. More to the point, WotC didn't get the money for lots of those books.
Along comes 4th edition. It took everyone by surprise. One day, they put it up on their website with no notice to game stores or players, lots of whom had amassed thousands of dollars of these splat books. Money that wasn't going to Hasbro.
WotC split up the core rules into a clever scheme wherein you couldn't get along with just one book. They put some characters in one book, others in another, and put out extra books that had parts for both characters. If you have a party with a bard and a paladin, you would have to have:
1. Player's Handbook (paladin)
2. Player's Handbook 2 (bard)
3. Martial Power (paladin supplementary)
4. Divine Power (paladin supplementary)
5. Arcane Power (bard supplementary)
6. Player's Handbook 1 miniatures
7. Player's Handbook 2 miniatures.
8. Subscription to D&D insider at $15/month. (Dragon Magazine has extra rules and benefits for players)
This is for a game that's been out for about a year, and that's JUST FOR THE CORE RULES FOR TWO CHARACTERS. This doesn't include the DMG 1 & 2, MM 1 & 2, maps, figures, etc.
For some _unimaginable_ reason, people said "WTF is this shit?" and just grabbed the torrents for the books. While they were still printing the PDFs, it was incredibly easy to just pack them up as a torrent and share. Now it takes an extra day with a flatbed scanner. Well, it does make for slightly larger files, but that's about it.
I guess you're right:
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages
There's no way the 3G (not the S) costs $200, only on select plans:
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_release
My brother had already accepted the $350 when he got the offers for $500. I would have told the first person it was time for tethered swimming too.
You and I clearly have a different idea of how much this costs. The $75 plan -- does that include access fees, 911 fees, and taxes? Ah, here we are, no. So it's really $85 plus taxes for 400 minutes, 100 SMS, and 2GB. ($93.52 with taxes.)
Is the $99 phone only with a 3-year contract? It appears that you can get one for $200 on "select 3-year plans".
In all fairness, I looked it up just now when posting this reply; perhaps the prices have gone up since you last checked.
My brother sold his iPhone last weekend. He got $350 in cash and had to turn down offers of $500+. The reason he sold it was that he was paying $100 a month for the phone service. (It's his own fault for being an idiot.)
It is unclear how you can provide accuracy on your reviews of iPhone apps when you aren't clear on how much the phones themselves cost.
Your $350 iPhone that costs you $100 a month for your service plan?
One of the bonus objectives was to capture a Falcon-style freighter. (YT-1000?) The problem was that it hit hyperspace three seconds after you entered the mission and it was four seconds away.
I found out years later that you had to be super-fast on the draw, pulling all power to engines and hitting it with the tractor beam.
Did you ever blow up the Emperor's shuttle?
There was even a way to trigger a dogfight with Darth Vader; he was hands-down the hardest fight in the game.
My biggest bug resulted in about a dozen tigers getting tranquilized.
TIE Fighter for the PC did this excellently. Other space combat sims had a difficulty level of "as it gets harder, the PC guns do less damage and the bogey guns do more damage".
TIE fighter had a ridiculous set of primary, secondary, and bonus objectives to complete each mission. If you wanted to get the best score, you'd have to play through once, then go through the missions in the simulator, then get the list of bonus objectives (which were hidden in the actual game), write them down, and then fly each mission over again. (This was before gamefaqs was ever dreamed up.)
You could go the other way; you could set the game to "easy" and "infinite ammo" and "invincible" but you'd get basically no points. Go the other way around and the Emperor would invite you into his inner circle.
(I could never get that freighter.)
Into orbit. RTFH before posting. ;)
Put a $2 deposit on them and you'll have most of them returned. The rest will be picked up by the same meth-heads who go through the garbage cans for pop bottles.
Military secrets are different from corporate cover-ups.
Meh, call it "material power", put it in a AA form factor, and sell it for $20 as a "forever battery".
Forever batteries -- now with 400,000 Ah capacity. Take pictures until your camera breaks. Never charge your Wiimotes. Keep your family safe with never-dying smoke detectors.
and the kicker:
your cell phone will never run out of power.
Joe Public will be lining up around the block to get their hands on these bad boys.
I do.
At least then I'd GET weather information. All I get is a -- C when I look at the summary screen.
Not that I live in an urban centre or the capital city or anything. Oh, wait, both of those ARE true.
How is that possible if Hitler is alive and well in Rio?
It could be that online game that was featured on Coding Horror a few weeks ago:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html
It's a pain in the ass since it gets classed as a game but shows women in bras on the ads.
MY FB target ads have been passably good. Not great, and a few errors, but reasonably good.
They've got my hobbies marked off well enough, as I will often see ads for diving vacations or cheap gear. Clearly contacts shows up a lot too, but that's probably because I'm a "fan".
The "meet singles" is a little odd since I'm married, as are the "get a flat stomach" ads, for much the same reason.
(I actually HAVE a flat (not ripped) stomach; my wife doesn't care.)