We shouldn't have to worry about nasties popping out our end. We'd be the nasties popping out the other end.
From what I've been reading in some technical Sci-Fi writing guides, to travel through you start by going through the black hole and exiting via a white hole.
So Orbox the 3 Headed would be sitting down to breakfast when a flood of nasty humans poured through the portal into his dining area. Poor Orbox:)
If you want to race that car you have to fit within the guidelines for that circuit. They don't call it Stock for nothing.
If you want to play on Live, then you play with Stock. If you wanna bugger around with your XBox and mod it, more power to you... but your car analogy doesn't fly.
Oh suuuure, Space Invaders. You watch, it gets all popular again, then ET and his buddies show up with a message of peace and gifts of technology and little Johnny and his school yard friends blow the crap out of them with a plasma cannon before they can land at the U.N. What about Gordon Freeman killing all those innocent headcrabs that are just trying to find something headlike to hump?
Video games are going to cause an intergalactic incident, and there's little we can do to stop it.
When contracted to the Ontario Ministry of Health for Y2K upgrading (replacing about 5000 machines), a routine backup of one of the managers of Institutional Health branch showed some rather large non-routine files being copied.
He'd put his collection of bestiality porn, and other stuff that may have been worse by the titles (I didn't have the stomach to browse it all) in a subdirectory nested deep inside his working files.
After reporting my find, not one thing was done or said to this guy as far as I know. And he still kept getting his fat government paycheck to surf doggie porn.
Maybe one of the raises I got in that time period was intended to keep my mouth shut. I quit shortly afterwards so I don't know.
The average user can navigate a website though. Even with something as simple as MIRC a lot of "average" users that I know couldn't figure out how to get on a server without being guided there.
Not the best way to find a new best friend I think, but if you wanted to commit a crime that needed accomplices it would be a lot easier to find like-minded individuals whose real names you wouldn't know.
A valid point, especially when the same accusations have been made about ATI's Quake3 benchmarks in the past.
I'm an eye-candy/FPS nut too, and I will spend the money on the card that blows me away. But do I really care if the benchmark gives me an extra 5 to 10% improvement over it's competition in a specific game? I read over what people have to say about the drivers stability instead. I know I'm going to have a fast card already if I spend top dollar. And getting stuck with drivers that make the card's performance unreliable is going to sway my opinion mightily. If they cheat a little, that's okay. As long as they perform well consistently.
That's why I stopped buying ATI a couple of years ago. Consistently crappy drivers on decent cards. Now they've improved significantly, and I'm probably going to buy their products again. It won't make me a better gamer either. But at least I'll have the visual quality I enjoy to go along with the speed:)
The Wachowski brothers did it again - literally. The kung fu action is just more of the same, and many of the bullet time effects and pans/dollys/etc. are put to use again. But then, it's the Matrix, why not? The 'burly brawl' scene is a lot of fun, and if you're not looking for it, it's hard to tell which characters are pure CG in some cuts, and which aren't. The car chase shown in the trailers is what makes the price of the tickets worthwhile though (if the slow spots put you to sleep, this will kick you in the ass and wake you up). There are time during the movie when there's so much spiritual talk you'd think you'd fallen into the middle of a hippie potfest, and it draaaags. But like any entertainment work, it must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. And as the middle piece in a trilogy they've done a fine job. Hugo Weaving could use some more screen time as Agent Smith, and Monica Belucci's character just seems to be an afterthought intended to draw in more horny 20-somethings. Once again there's not a lot of character development, and more questions than answers (and answers that raise more questions), but it's a kung-fu/gun/video game come to life. What's not to like? My expecations were way too high. It couldn't be helped. But I didn't walk out of the theatre feeling cheated. It wasn't mind-blowing, but it was fun. And that's what I paid for... an afternoon of entertainment.
I've only "Wined" a little bit, getting Trillian and the like to run, but wouldn't you have to go out of your way to execute the hostile code on your machine?
So if everyone were to just ramble on into a microphone about their favorite (or despised) artist, and then name it accordingly (eminem.mp3, madonna.mp3) and share it, the RIAA would have to keep paying lawyers for every warning they issue. The costs add up.
Americans are familiar with the "Crush your head" skits? Woohoo! Phase one of the Canadian invasion has begun! Once we get power to the lasers in Pamela Anderson's nipples, we'll be unstoppable!
There is currently a popular belief that Einstein was mildly autistic. This would indicate his reality, even if he had a good grasp on it, was quite different from our own.
Slashdot Mirror
So if you try to pump your own gas, he tickets you, and then if you can't pay right away goes postal?
Hey! Now you can sue him for calling you and your family "functionally retarded" :)
(see near the beginning)
+1 Insightful :)
But the clap is bacterial, so you might have to settle for something like Herpix instead :)
Hey, it worked. :)
500,000 people just stopped broadcasting!
We shouldn't have to worry about nasties popping out our end. We'd be the nasties popping out the other end.
:)
From what I've been reading in some technical Sci-Fi writing guides, to travel through you start by going through the black hole and exiting via a white hole.
So Orbox the 3 Headed would be sitting down to breakfast when a flood of nasty humans poured through the portal into his dining area. Poor Orbox
If you want to race that car you have to fit within the guidelines for that circuit. They don't call it Stock for nothing.
If you want to play on Live, then you play with Stock. If you wanna bugger around with your XBox and mod it, more power to you... but your car analogy doesn't fly.
PSST... all previous references refer to the big blower fan on the unit... ;)
No it wouldn't... as long as people weren't closing the download immediately, it would still defeat the slashdot effect.
It wouldn't be the most efficient hash but at least people could still get it.
non-functional. it's a text file that says "nobody used it so sod it".
mod it back down please.
Well I got the FX hair dryer, and now I'm stuck with a highly anti-aliased mullet.
Ah well, if I'd gone with an SiS onboard I'd look like Justin from American Idol. *cringe*
Oh suuuure, Space Invaders. You watch, it gets all popular again, then ET and his buddies show up with a message of peace and gifts of technology and little Johnny and his school yard friends blow the crap out of them with a plasma cannon before they can land at the U.N.
What about Gordon Freeman killing all those innocent headcrabs that are just trying to find something headlike to hump?
Video games are going to cause an intergalactic incident, and there's little we can do to stop it.
When contracted to the Ontario Ministry of Health for Y2K upgrading (replacing about 5000 machines), a routine backup of one of the managers of Institutional Health branch showed some rather large non-routine files being copied.
He'd put his collection of bestiality porn, and other stuff that may have been worse by the titles (I didn't have the stomach to browse it all) in a subdirectory nested deep inside his working files.
After reporting my find, not one thing was done or said to this guy as far as I know. And he still kept getting his fat government paycheck to surf doggie porn.
Maybe one of the raises I got in that time period was intended to keep my mouth shut. I quit shortly afterwards so I don't know.
The average user can navigate a website though. Even with something as simple as MIRC a lot of "average" users that I know couldn't figure out how to get on a server without being guided there.
Not the best way to find a new best friend I think, but if you wanted to commit a crime that needed accomplices it would be a lot easier to find like-minded individuals whose real names you wouldn't know.
A valid point, especially when the same accusations have been made about ATI's Quake3 benchmarks in the past.
:)
I'm an eye-candy/FPS nut too, and I will spend the money on the card that blows me away. But do I really care if the benchmark gives me an extra 5 to 10% improvement over it's competition in a specific game? I read over what people have to say about the drivers stability instead. I know I'm going to have a fast card already if I spend top dollar. And getting stuck with drivers that make the card's performance unreliable is going to sway my opinion mightily. If they cheat a little, that's okay. As long as they perform well consistently.
That's why I stopped buying ATI a couple of years ago. Consistently crappy drivers on decent cards. Now they've improved significantly, and I'm probably going to buy their products again. It won't make me a better gamer either. But at least I'll have the visual quality I enjoy to go along with the speed
*no spoilers - just general commentary*
The Wachowski brothers did it again - literally. The kung fu action is just more of the same, and many of the bullet time effects and pans/dollys/etc. are put to use again. But then, it's the Matrix, why not? The 'burly brawl' scene is a lot of fun, and if you're not looking for it, it's hard to tell which characters are pure CG in some cuts, and which aren't. The car chase shown in the trailers is what makes the price of the tickets worthwhile though (if the slow spots put you to sleep, this will kick you in the ass and wake you up). There are time during the movie when there's so much spiritual talk you'd think you'd fallen into the middle of a hippie potfest, and it draaaags. But like any entertainment work, it must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. And as the middle piece in a trilogy they've done a fine job. Hugo Weaving could use some more screen time as Agent Smith, and Monica Belucci's character just seems to be an afterthought intended to draw in more horny 20-somethings.
Once again there's not a lot of character development, and more questions than answers (and answers that raise more questions), but it's a kung-fu/gun/video game come to life. What's not to like?
My expecations were way too high. It couldn't be helped. But I didn't walk out of the theatre feeling cheated.
It wasn't mind-blowing, but it was fun. And that's what I paid for... an afternoon of entertainment.
Worth the cost of a ticket.
I've only "Wined" a little bit, getting Trillian and the like to run, but wouldn't you have to go out of your way to execute the hostile code on your machine?
There was also some fanfare about Gyllenhaal being courted for the role of Carnage (3rd movie) a while back. Not a bad casting choice if it's true.
Hold it right there! I've got prior art!
For the true BSD afficionado, you'll be able to have your name sandblasted on to it and use it as a tombstone.
:)
With cool geek (oxymoron?) epitaphs like "Kill -9 JohnDoe"
So if everyone were to just ramble on into a microphone about their favorite (or despised) artist, and then name it accordingly (eminem.mp3, madonna.mp3) and share it, the RIAA would have to keep paying lawyers for every warning they issue. The costs add up.
Americans are familiar with the "Crush your head" skits? Woohoo! Phase one of the Canadian invasion has begun! Once we get power to the lasers in Pamela Anderson's nipples, we'll be unstoppable!
No, but people *were* hired to act as translators between Einstein, his peers, and the non-scientific government officials that funded the research.
There is currently a popular belief that Einstein was mildly autistic. This would indicate his reality, even if he had a good grasp on it, was quite different from our own.
And the word is stature, not statute.
Nice troll though.