So what you're saying is that trying to throw all the L337 kidz0rz off the network will make them *less* likely to get mad and try to DOS you?
Wait a minute, something doesn't look right!
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Check out the very end of the movie. With 29 seconds gone in the AVI file, there is an L-shaped piece ready to go. The AI decides to rotate it once clockwise and drop it on the far right, eliminating three lines.
The only problem is the red square is in the way. There's no way you can drop that piece into that space and make three lines disappear. Something's fishy.
Just look at the classic example of Half Life and Counter Strike
Does anyone remember DOOM? hm... ok, ok, put your hands down. Everyone remembers Doom. Remember how none of the wad files you could download from your local BBS or buy in a store would work with the demo version?
iD recognized the power of fan-created content, but they wanted to make sure they got their dime first. Who cares if people buy modchips if it means you can sell more XBoxes?
Right you are. All the hardware in my computer was made by Apple. Only Apple wrote the software that runs on my box, and my computer never cr$*@)__!!!!!
NO CARRIER
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You can't exactly hold a knife to a computer's throat
Well you can, but not for long. Apparently the drones running OS X are hijacked far less often because hijackers are too busy bitching about having to pay for iknife and the slashed throat patch.
Bah, you think you're so smart just b/c you know exactly what you're talking about and I don't;) I sit corrected. I still shudder a bit when I think about the Korean language, 'cause the last time I confused "chun jin" with "hoo jin" I nearly ended up with a concussion.
A two-finger typing system actually makes sense in Korean, where most phonemes are written as one-vowel-one-consonant digraphs. (or was that dipthongs...)
For the unitiated, Korean writing is (mostly) phonetic. A vowel is matched with a consonant to form a phoneme, and these sounds are arranged to form words in a very sensible manner.
Characters are usually pronounced exactly as they are written - the only exception my round eye has seen so far is that syllables that begin with vowels are instead preceded by the symbol that would otherwise be spoken as "ioong": O.
Although the language is read left-to-right, consonant or vowel sounds are sometimes written one on top of the other instead of side-by-each for aesthetic reasons. "Lee" would be initial vowel + | ("ee") for O|. "Boo" is simply B (|_|) and "oo" (T) linked together:
|_|
T
It's a dead easy alphabet to learn, and anyone with an hour and a pencil can learn to read (and more importantly, write) Korean phonetically.
Consumers' rights are pitted against industry copyright protection, with trillions of dollars at stake
In truth, they're talking about billions of dollars. It's just that some of these dollars spin REALLY quickly, so they're equivalent to three or four times as many.
gameplay consisted mainly of E.T. falling into an endless series of pits, and the game was much too frustrating for the young kids for whom it was intended
Really, this game wasn't so bad! Honestly, this isn't sarcasm here. I actually enjoyed this game. With Difficulty setting B it was bastardly hard to grab all 3 pieces, find the call zone and get the hell outta there before the FBI showed up.
So exactly what's so hard about looking inside every hole for a piece of the puzzle?
The puppet on my left hand is Palladium in all its glory. The puppet on the right hand is the Chinese government. Watch closely now as I move these puppets REALLY far apart. The whole point of the Dragon chip was to stop Wintel boxes from telling the PRC how to use their computers. I want one.
You're assuming these countries will even be using windows. I refer you to the earlier article that described the Chinese government working on the development of Yangfan Linux.
To paraphrase from THL/Sexylosers, "Your shit's fucked fuckshit." Feng Shui is most certainly Chinese. How could you attribute a science to a people who can't even pronounce its name?
Hadn't thought of that;) Would be a pisser to track down an advanced form of life in the Betelgeuse system and send them a "please don't kill us" message only to have the 'don't' part blocked by a cosmic dustfart.
What then? Gravitational signals? Pull other bodies out of their normal orbits to draw attention to their apparent source? (I wouldn't recommend using our OWN planet for this, perhaps a beacon on a remote moon/planet instead)
True, radio communications just aren't going to cut it. We can pick up radio-type signals from stars, but these are... well, not to put too fine a point on it, fucking stars. This probe is a walkie-talkie with a half-dead 9 volt battery in comparison.
Any signal that's actually going to get anywhere would either:
- be optical - be based on some kind of technology we haven't invented yet - be repeated through a series of probes orbiting around other celestial bodies that do not generate significant EM interference themselves
Why didn't NASA send out repeaters behind it ? I'd imagine that a series of repeaters behind it would be able to get information back to us on earth...:wq
Well if those pesky rebels hadn't destroyed the first fully-operational station, we wouldn't have to hobble along doing shoddy science with this partially completed one.
I'd prefer to think of it as a chance to get to know your neighbors.
More often than not, my neighbours are two nine year-olds who haven't read the manual, some gibbering idiot whose only binds are PATY PLZ!!! and YOU TRADING OF ITME ME!!!, and a half-dozen others who kill characters 1/3 their level for no apparent reason.
Thanks but I'd rather play alone. Find a way to weed out the complete fucknuts on a server (or at least uniquely identify them!) and we'll talk.
- Why don't you download my mod? - I have no reason to download your mod, but I do have many players. - Why do you have many players? - I learned how to win players from Bioware. Why don't you download me? - Are all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to know you learned from Bioware?
Yup. Should be on your nearest P2P network by the end of the week. Due to the marvel of 0-day war3z, we'll know what the verdict is before Johansen does.
True, but you'd also think that after 130 graphs and countless pages of whining about how the RocketRaid 133 had only two controllers he would've realized that the Highpoint 404 would've been a more appropriate choice for this benchmark!
(Still and all, the "404" is a lousy name for anything that's intended to make sure your data can always be found)
Great, ANOTHER video card manufacturer who goes buggering with standards. Here's hoping they get AGP right this time instead of hosing those with certain Intel motherboards.
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But then you'd need the trace-u busta busta busta busta... ...um... sorry, wrong movie. Where were we?
So what you're saying is that trying to throw all the L337 kidz0rz off the network will make them *less* likely to get mad and try to DOS you?
Check out the very end of the movie. With 29 seconds gone in the AVI file, there is an L-shaped piece ready to go. The AI decides to rotate it once clockwise and drop it on the far right, eliminating three lines.
The only problem is the red square is in the way. There's no way you can drop that piece into that space and make three lines disappear. Something's fishy.
What I'm talking about is illustrated here.
If people could make derivative works featuring the early Disney characters, would you necessarily watch the new ones produced by Disney?
;) Shall I take a message?
Mm-hmm? Ohayo, gozaimasu! Uh-huh... yeah... sec.
Alison, a few hundred thousand doujinshi artists and fans are on line there for you
Just look at the classic example of Half Life and Counter Strike
Does anyone remember DOOM? hm... ok, ok, put your hands down. Everyone remembers Doom. Remember how none of the wad files you could download from your local BBS or buy in a store would work with the demo version?
iD recognized the power of fan-created content, but they wanted to make sure they got their dime first. Who cares if people buy modchips if it means you can sell more XBoxes?
Right you are. All the hardware in my computer was made by Apple. Only Apple wrote the software that runs on my box, and my computer never cr$*@)__!!!!!
NO CARRIER
You can't exactly hold a knife to a computer's throat
Well you can, but not for long. Apparently the drones running OS X are hijacked far less often because hijackers are too busy bitching about having to pay for iknife and the slashed throat patch.
Bah, you think you're so smart just b/c you know exactly what you're talking about and I don't ;) I sit corrected. I still shudder a bit when I think about the Korean language, 'cause the last time I confused "chun jin" with "hoo jin" I nearly ended up with a concussion.
A two-finger typing system actually makes sense in Korean, where most phonemes are written as one-vowel-one-consonant digraphs. (or was that dipthongs...)
For the unitiated, Korean writing is (mostly) phonetic. A vowel is matched with a consonant to form a phoneme, and these sounds are arranged to form words in a very sensible manner.
Characters are usually pronounced exactly as they are written - the only exception my round eye has seen so far is that syllables that begin with vowels are instead preceded by the symbol that would otherwise be spoken as "ioong": O.
Although the language is read left-to-right, consonant or vowel sounds are sometimes written one on top of the other instead of side-by-each for aesthetic reasons. "Lee" would be initial vowel + | ("ee") for O|. "Boo" is simply B (|_|) and "oo" (T) linked together:
|_|
T
It's a dead easy alphabet to learn, and anyone with an hour and a pencil can learn to read (and more importantly, write) Korean phonetically.
blah, blah, blah...
Consumers' rights are pitted against industry copyright protection, with trillions of dollars at stake
In truth, they're talking about billions of dollars. It's just that some of these dollars spin REALLY quickly, so they're equivalent to three or four times as many.
gameplay consisted mainly of E.T. falling into an endless series of pits, and the game was much too frustrating for the young kids for whom it was intended
Really, this game wasn't so bad! Honestly, this isn't sarcasm here. I actually enjoyed this game. With Difficulty setting B it was bastardly hard to grab all 3 pieces, find the call zone and get the hell outta there before the FBI showed up.
So exactly what's so hard about looking inside every hole for a piece of the puzzle?
Sigh. Okay, I'll back up.
The puppet on my left hand is Palladium in all its glory. The puppet on the right hand is the Chinese government. Watch closely now as I move these puppets REALLY far apart. The whole point of the Dragon chip was to stop Wintel boxes from telling the PRC how to use their computers. I want one.
You're assuming these countries will even be using windows. I refer you to the earlier article that described the Chinese government working on the development of Yangfan Linux.
To paraphrase from THL/Sexylosers, "Your shit's fucked fuckshit." Feng Shui is most certainly Chinese. How could you attribute a science to a people who can't even pronounce its name?
Hadn't thought of that ;) Would be a pisser to track down an advanced form of life in the Betelgeuse system and send them a "please don't kill us" message only to have the 'don't' part blocked by a cosmic dustfart.
What then? Gravitational signals? Pull other bodies out of their normal orbits to draw attention to their apparent source? (I wouldn't recommend using our OWN planet for this, perhaps a beacon on a remote moon/planet instead)
Can't do it, I'm in the particle camp ;) Cept for that whole two-slit thing, I use de Broglie to explain that one away. Could be why I flunked physics.
True, radio communications just aren't going to cut it. We can pick up radio-type signals from stars, but these are... well, not to put too fine a point on it, fucking stars. This probe is a walkie-talkie with a half-dead 9 volt battery in comparison.
Any signal that's actually going to get anywhere would either:
- be optical
- be based on some kind of technology we haven't invented yet
- be repeated through a series of probes orbiting around other celestial bodies that do not generate significant EM interference themselves
Why didn't NASA send out repeaters behind it ? I'd imagine that a series of repeaters behind it would be able to get information back to us on earth... :wq
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(Sorry, couldn't resist
Well if those pesky rebels hadn't destroyed the first fully-operational station, we wouldn't have to hobble along doing shoddy science with this partially completed one.
I'd prefer to think of it as a chance to get to know your neighbors.
More often than not, my neighbours are two nine year-olds who haven't read the manual, some gibbering idiot whose only binds are PATY PLZ!!! and YOU TRADING OF ITME ME!!!, and a half-dozen others who kill characters 1/3 their level for no apparent reason.
Thanks but I'd rather play alone. Find a way to weed out the complete fucknuts on a server (or at least uniquely identify them!) and we'll talk.
- Why don't you download my mod?
- I have no reason to download your mod, but I do have many players.
- Why do you have many players?
- I learned how to win players from Bioware. Why don't you download me?
- Are all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to know you learned from Bioware?
Yup. Should be on your nearest P2P network by the end of the week. Due to the marvel of 0-day war3z, we'll know what the verdict is before Johansen does.
True, but you'd also think that after 130 graphs and countless pages of whining about how the RocketRaid 133 had only two controllers he would've realized that the Highpoint 404 would've been a more appropriate choice for this benchmark!
(Still and all, the "404" is a lousy name for anything that's intended to make sure your data can always be found)
Great, ANOTHER video card manufacturer who goes buggering with standards. Here's hoping they get AGP right this time instead of hosing those with certain Intel motherboards.
Pull this story immediately! If someone sees it and tells Justin Timberlake, we'll never get him on one of those things!