Well, you see kids, during Republican administrations, the budget gets shifted from the sciences to defense. This has happened many times over the last 10 years or so, and therefore not much money has bent spent on space research. The space men don't have enough money to keep their space ship in perfect condition, so stuff like this happens. In fact, if space men don't get lots of money, we may never know what else is in the rest of the universe, and we'll be forever alone, killing each other for oil, land, gold and diamonds. YAY.
Considering that, at the time, the transition to pc100 was just beginning, I don't doubt that line at all.
Anyone who's had to install ram on old-school p200's and lower knows what I'm talking about. That ram was a real pain in the ass (and fingers) to get into the slots properly. Add to that the fact that there was usually at least one IDE cable in your way, possibly more, and it WAS an act of God to install ram prior to pc66/100 slots.
A good office suite, at this point in time, depends on how compatible it is with Microsoft's.doc format. Unfortunately we live in a world where technically inferior but commonly accepted software and hardware owns the market.
You're talking about competing on a level playing field. Everyone knows by now that Microsoft can't play ball without creating a hill for them to pitch from. That's why the.doc format is locked down and changes with each new version of Office and Word. Same goes for NTFS..I'm starting to think the file system changes so often not to add features but to create a moving target that's hard to interoperate with (read: kernel modules).
He could've snuck into his best friend's father's lab one night and accidentally mixed two things and decided it'll work as a web. Shit like this happens constantly in movies, it wouldn't be out of place in a movie like Spider Man. Also, if you think this movie is based in a reality similar to the one we experience today, and therefore expect 3M to NOT have a compound like this, then I guess I need to see what the DoD has cooking. In your world, 3M doesn't have a spiderweb compound, but it's totally plausible that an airborne surfboard with rockets and machine guns has a crazed madman in armor blowing up parts of NYC.
Nope, most of the weapons here are the legal variety. Unless you count that M1-A1 Abrams parked in the back.
BTW Texas has a nice little zero tolerance gun law that's pretty effective. Use a gun in a crime, get the maximum sentence, guaranteed, no questions asked. No plea bargaining, no special lawyer/judge chats, just handcuffs and a sore ass for the next 15-to-30 years (at the very least).
Too bad they left the stupid organic webshooters in. That was a big mistake IMHO. I grew up watching Spider Man on cartoons, on the Electric Company (yeah you old guys probably remember that), and in other stuff. In all the comics, he was a genius that built his own web shooters. The movie took that for granted and just 'gave' him the shooters. Foolish. How can he prove what a science geek he is without building anything? Instead we're left with the impression that he's a fabuloussss costume designer.
Gay.
I want Spidey with a vulnerability. What if he runs out of web juice? What if one breaks? Yeah, a real superhero vulnerability, one that's technological no less. That's what I expected, and the 'natural' web shooters were a mistake. If they really wanted to give him web shooters, make it a single one, and make his costume with a hole in the you-know-where so he can shoot it.:)
Athina gets $2.7bn on her 18th and $2bn on her 21st
Hopefully a little over half of that goes towards reconstructive surgery.
I've seen burn victims sexier than her. *duck* Seriously.
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You missed the point completely..I guess.
And no, Daikatana never ruled. It sucked from day one. Ask anybody. Ironically enough Mr. Romero is teaching the games class at SMU here in Dallas. I guess you can't do much worse than Daikatana, and about all he's good for at this point is teaching....
Let me bring something to light. Cutting-edge games are rarely made from big commercial software houses. It may have been true in the past but it's fading.
The problem: lack of innovation. How many first person shooters and mmorpg's do we need? The reason is that the cost of development has risen so sharply, that to recoup the cost of working on games, game houses have to make a sure fire hit. It's not an option to make a flop like Daikatana that 1. brings nothing new to the genre, 2. comes out late, and 3. sucks ass beyond compare. You have to make sure your game will sell.
In this scenario, companies will NOT venture into some new area or create a new paradigm of gaming. You'll get another FPS. You'll get another Quake, another Soldier of Fortune, another Civilization. Why? Because these are sure things. Not to go off on a tangent, but this type of thing has been ruling the music world in America and other countries for the last decade or so. You'll get nothing but more Britney Spears and other disposable stars because the cost of entry is so high, the industry bets on the easy winner. What sold yesterday? Package it up with a new paint job and sell it tomorrow.
No, friend, unfortunately the big game houses won't bring you the hidden nuggets of gaming goodness, unless another Quake or running-through-dungeons-swinging-swords is what you're after. Not to say these are bad things, but games like Uplink (fun and revolutionary) would have never rolled out the doors or made it through a proposal at Valve or Sierra or Activision or (fill in the blank). There are lots of games out there you've never imagined before, and you're missing out because your only source of amusement comes from the shelf at Best Buy.
Take a look at the mod community. Most of these guys work free on their mods but have other jobs paying the bills, just like alot of Open Source coders. Can it be argued that money and management is 100% necessary to produce quality software and quality games?
If you intended to troll, woops, I took the bait, but seriously, can you honestly say that every non-commercial HalfLife and Quake3 mod out there is worse than anything in a bargain bin? They may be commercial GAMES but they're 100% free MODS. All the mod makers are doing is using the engine.
Factor this into your reasoning and get back to me on that.
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Quake3 is still the best because of mods like Urban Terror and tons of others. It's the engine that counts, not the game itself.
I'm right there with you man. I've been playing UrT for a little over a year now. Anyone with Quake3 that's been bored with it forever should try it. Now that 2.6a is out they finally fixed all the crap that everyone was upset with. Weapon spread is good, recoil is fixed, spas doesn't overpower everything. Life is nice now.:)
Pop cans? Hell, a few years ago my friends and I used to use those tall tennis ball cans. Since we used tennis balls...hey, there's the logic for you. Get a 3 pack and some hairspray, and go terrorize the cat.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that since the Nitrogen is being used in the same manner as a CO2 cartridge, i.e. pressurized, inflammable gas propellant, that it's legal on that basis alone. Chemical propellant is probably classified as anything volatile that provides tremendous force when ignited, at least in this case.
True, true. Can you say 'bloated registry filled with errors' and 'time to kill some startup apps in the tray'? Both of those are critical factors for 2k's boot speed.
I've seen it on other's machines..I'd never run win2k myself but I've helped other people get their boot times trimmed down. Man, the registry sure can destroy itself in a hurry.
Er, I don't know how many of the reviews you read, or if you read any at all, but the GeforceFX was using beta drivers as well. Anandtech pointed this out many times, they still have over a month to finish tweaking the drivers.
I'll reserve final judgement for the day Nvidia releases the finalized drivers for this card and it's on the shelf. We all know how faulty reviewing or pitting cards head-to-head is when there's still a month left before it hits retail. Alot can happen in 30 days, good or bad, we've all seen it happen more than once.
I guess the author can argue with all the media outlets (your local TV news, etc) when it comes to image quality. They're the ones who did (and continue to, to some extent) buy into Betamax technology. Why? It was broadcast quality and continued to be broadcast quality after being copied or played many, many times. VHS can't hold a candle to it's staying power.
It really depends on where you live. In Dallas you'd need a moat, a pit of lava, and one of those logs with 12" spikes sticking out of it in front of the door. In some tiny town across the US, you don't need to lock your doors on anything.
Transients = anonymity = security threat. The theory is that you know everybody in a small town and everyone is aware of that, so it's a built-in deterrant.
"(hears booming voice of RMS shouting, "Go home, kid, and play with yer toys.")"
At least YOU get the booming voice. All I get from the mystical ghost of RMS is the Hackers song..it never fails to give me chills every time I hear it. The hair on my neck is still standing up after I heard it coming from my closet last night.
Ironically enough crap like this gets posted on the front page, while an article I submitted about the ATI CEO being in deep shit over insider trading in 2000 gets left by the wayside. Oh well, there's no rhyme or reason to/.'s news coverage.
From the article, "But Susan Kevorkian, a consumer technologies analyst at IDC, sees Overpeer as an effective tool for lessening P2P networks' appeal. She continually monitors file-swapping services and finds that "it has become much more difficult to find the file you're looking for the first time around."
Susan Kevorkian? Hopefully she starts feeling depressed and puts her father's machine to work on herself.
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Have you tried large doses of TetraHydroChloride? I heard that helps alot of people calm down so they can sleep..
Why not spell it out to them?
Well, you see kids, during Republican administrations, the budget gets shifted from the sciences to defense. This has happened many times over the last 10 years or so, and therefore not much money has bent spent on space research. The space men don't have enough money to keep their space ship in perfect condition, so stuff like this happens. In fact, if space men don't get lots of money, we may never know what else is in the rest of the universe, and we'll be forever alone, killing each other for oil, land, gold and diamonds. YAY.
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Hey, that was actually a good one with dark undertones.
Considering that, at the time, the transition to pc100 was just beginning, I don't doubt that line at all.
Anyone who's had to install ram on old-school p200's and lower knows what I'm talking about. That ram was a real pain in the ass (and fingers) to get into the slots properly. Add to that the fact that there was usually at least one IDE cable in your way, possibly more, and it WAS an act of God to install ram prior to pc66/100 slots.
A good office suite, at this point in time, depends on how compatible it is with Microsoft's .doc format. Unfortunately we live in a world where technically inferior but commonly accepted software and hardware owns the market.
.doc format is locked down and changes with each new version of Office and Word. Same goes for NTFS..I'm starting to think the file system changes so often not to add features but to create a moving target that's hard to interoperate with (read: kernel modules).
You're talking about competing on a level playing field. Everyone knows by now that Microsoft can't play ball without creating a hill for them to pitch from. That's why the
He could've snuck into his best friend's father's lab one night and accidentally mixed two things and decided it'll work as a web. Shit like this happens constantly in movies, it wouldn't be out of place in a movie like Spider Man. Also, if you think this movie is based in a reality similar to the one we experience today, and therefore expect 3M to NOT have a compound like this, then I guess I need to see what the DoD has cooking. In your world, 3M doesn't have a spiderweb compound, but it's totally plausible that an airborne surfboard with rockets and machine guns has a crazed madman in armor blowing up parts of NYC.
YEAH, RIGHT.
Nope, most of the weapons here are the legal variety. Unless you count that M1-A1 Abrams parked in the back.
BTW Texas has a nice little zero tolerance gun law that's pretty effective. Use a gun in a crime, get the maximum sentence, guaranteed, no questions asked. No plea bargaining, no special lawyer/judge chats, just handcuffs and a sore ass for the next 15-to-30 years (at the very least).
Too bad they left the stupid organic webshooters in. That was a big mistake IMHO. I grew up watching Spider Man on cartoons, on the Electric Company (yeah you old guys probably remember that), and in other stuff. In all the comics, he was a genius that built his own web shooters. The movie took that for granted and just 'gave' him the shooters. Foolish. How can he prove what a science geek he is without building anything? Instead we're left with the impression that he's a fabuloussss costume designer.
:)
Gay.
I want Spidey with a vulnerability. What if he runs out of web juice? What if one breaks? Yeah, a real superhero vulnerability, one that's technological no less. That's what I expected, and the 'natural' web shooters were a mistake. If they really wanted to give him web shooters, make it a single one, and make his costume with a hole in the you-know-where so he can shoot it.
Athina gets $2.7bn on her 18th and $2bn on her 21st
Hopefully a little over half of that goes towards reconstructive surgery.
I've seen burn victims sexier than her. *duck* Seriously.
You missed the point completely..I guess.
And no, Daikatana never ruled. It sucked from day one. Ask anybody. Ironically enough Mr. Romero is teaching the games class at SMU here in Dallas. I guess you can't do much worse than Daikatana, and about all he's good for at this point is teaching....
English is retarded sometimes...look at this breakdown of infamous from dictionary.com:
:)
"Middle English infamis, from Latin nfmis : in-, not; see in-1 + fma, renown, fame; see bh-2 in Indo-European Roots.]"
So, if in- means not, then inflammable should mean 'not flammable'. Oh well, spelling nazi got me for the first time ever. Good eye.
Let me bring something to light. Cutting-edge games are rarely made from big commercial software houses. It may have been true in the past but it's fading.
The problem: lack of innovation. How many first person shooters and mmorpg's do we need? The reason is that the cost of development has risen so sharply, that to recoup the cost of working on games, game houses have to make a sure fire hit. It's not an option to make a flop like Daikatana that 1. brings nothing new to the genre, 2. comes out late, and 3. sucks ass beyond compare. You have to make sure your game will sell.
In this scenario, companies will NOT venture into some new area or create a new paradigm of gaming. You'll get another FPS. You'll get another Quake, another Soldier of Fortune, another Civilization. Why? Because these are sure things. Not to go off on a tangent, but this type of thing has been ruling the music world in America and other countries for the last decade or so. You'll get nothing but more Britney Spears and other disposable stars because the cost of entry is so high, the industry bets on the easy winner. What sold yesterday? Package it up with a new paint job and sell it tomorrow.
No, friend, unfortunately the big game houses won't bring you the hidden nuggets of gaming goodness, unless another Quake or running-through-dungeons-swinging-swords is what you're after. Not to say these are bad things, but games like Uplink (fun and revolutionary) would have never rolled out the doors or made it through a proposal at Valve or Sierra or Activision or (fill in the blank). There are lots of games out there you've never imagined before, and you're missing out because your only source of amusement comes from the shelf at Best Buy.
Take a look at the mod community. Most of these guys work free on their mods but have other jobs paying the bills, just like alot of Open Source coders. Can it be argued that money and management is 100% necessary to produce quality software and quality games?
If you intended to troll, woops, I took the bait, but seriously, can you honestly say that every non-commercial HalfLife and Quake3 mod out there is worse than anything in a bargain bin? They may be commercial GAMES but they're 100% free MODS. All the mod makers are doing is using the engine.
Factor this into your reasoning and get back to me on that.
Quake3 is still the best because of mods like Urban Terror and tons of others. It's the engine that counts, not the game itself.
I'm right there with you man. I've been playing UrT for a little over a year now. Anyone with Quake3 that's been bored with it forever should try it. Now that 2.6a is out they finally fixed all the crap that everyone was upset with. Weapon spread is good, recoil is fixed, spas doesn't overpower everything. Life is nice now. :)
Pop cans? Hell, a few years ago my friends and I used to use those tall tennis ball cans. Since we used tennis balls...hey, there's the logic for you. Get a 3 pack and some hairspray, and go terrorize the cat.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that since the Nitrogen is being used in the same manner as a CO2 cartridge, i.e. pressurized, inflammable gas propellant, that it's legal on that basis alone. Chemical propellant is probably classified as anything volatile that provides tremendous force when ignited, at least in this case.
True, true. Can you say 'bloated registry filled with errors' and 'time to kill some startup apps in the tray'? Both of those are critical factors for 2k's boot speed.
I've seen it on other's machines..I'd never run win2k myself but I've helped other people get their boot times trimmed down. Man, the registry sure can destroy itself in a hurry.
Er, I don't know how many of the reviews you read, or if you read any at all, but the GeforceFX was using beta drivers as well. Anandtech pointed this out many times, they still have over a month to finish tweaking the drivers.
I'll reserve final judgement for the day Nvidia releases the finalized drivers for this card and it's on the shelf. We all know how faulty reviewing or pitting cards head-to-head is when there's still a month left before it hits retail. Alot can happen in 30 days, good or bad, we've all seen it happen more than once.
I guess the author can argue with all the media outlets (your local TV news, etc) when it comes to image quality. They're the ones who did (and continue to, to some extent) buy into Betamax technology. Why? It was broadcast quality and continued to be broadcast quality after being copied or played many, many times. VHS can't hold a candle to it's staying power.
It really depends on where you live. In Dallas you'd need a moat, a pit of lava, and one of those logs with 12" spikes sticking out of it in front of the door. In some tiny town across the US, you don't need to lock your doors on anything.
Transients = anonymity = security threat. The theory is that you know everybody in a small town and everyone is aware of that, so it's a built-in deterrant.
Actually his sig was the victim of the Samoan Lesbian Alliance. They really enjoy cutting things off.
"(hears booming voice of RMS shouting, "Go home, kid, and play with yer toys.")"
At least YOU get the booming voice. All I get from the mystical ghost of RMS is the Hackers song..it never fails to give me chills every time I hear it. The hair on my neck is still standing up after I heard it coming from my closet last night.
Ironically enough crap like this gets posted on the front page, while an article I submitted about the ATI CEO being in deep shit over insider trading in 2000 gets left by the wayside. Oh well, there's no rhyme or reason to /.'s news coverage.
From the article, "But Susan Kevorkian, a consumer technologies analyst at IDC, sees Overpeer as an effective tool for lessening P2P networks' appeal. She continually monitors file-swapping services and finds that "it has become much more difficult to find the file you're looking for the first time around."
Susan Kevorkian? Hopefully she starts feeling depressed and puts her father's machine to work on herself.