On another note, they could add Sim bust-your-knuckles-repairing-track and Sim bang-the-crap-out-of-your-head-inside-the-tank, Sim fall-off-the-speed-rope, i.e., "you can get hurt without being shot" games.
Make the game good enough and carpal tunnel will take care of the pain part.
Almost all of the easy p2p options now come with spyware. Morph, KaZaa, Grokster, they're all making money installing hidden software on users' computers.
If I recall correctly, Mel Blanc, who was the voice actor for many of Chuck Jones' characters including Porky Pig has "That's All, Folks" on his tombstone.
WTF? I chose Poland, and a girl in her bra shows up on the Polish Logitech site.
Well, I'll be darned. It doesn't have that pic for any of the other countries, though the German page has a picture of a scantily-clad man and woman lounging under an ad for their iFeel Optical. Verrry subtle.
Two mighty warrior tribes went to war,
and touched off a blazed which engulfed them all.
Without fuel they were nothing.
They built a house of straw,
a thundering machine sputtered and stopped.
Their leaders talked, and talked, and talked.
But nothing could stem the avalanche.
Their world crumbled,
cities exploded,
a whirlwind of looting,
a firestorm of fear,
men begin to feed on men.
On the roads it was a white line nightmare,
only those mobile enough to scavenge,
brutal enough to pillage, would survive.
The gangs took over the highways,
ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
And in this maelstrom of decay
ordinary men were battered and smashed.
Men like Max.
The warrior Max.
In the roar of an engine, he lost everything.
And became the shell of a man.
A burnt out desolate man.
A man, haunted by the demons of his past.
A man who wandered out into the wasteland.
And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.
the IR for data transfer and the IR for controlling your TV are in different parts of the spectrum, that's why you Visor and most Palms for that matter don't do a good job at controlling your TV. You can get an IR transmitter for a Visor that fits into the springboard slot that's in the correct part of the spectrum.
True, but 60 bucks is a little steep when you can get a universal remote for around 10 at Radio Shack.
Now what these things would really be good for is cheating at laser tag. Too bad it's gone out of fashion.
There's already shareware out there that allows you to use a Palm's IR port as a remote control. I only get a range of about 10 feet with my Visor Deluxe though. Hopefully these new ones will work from across the room.
It has probably been said before, but when I hear "SuperDrive" in association with a macintosh, I still think of the first line of Mac 3.5" floppy drives that could read both Mac and PC formatted media. Of course, the filesystem wasn't supported in the OS of the first few machines with the drive, but eh.
The ones I thought of were internal hard drives that came in some Mac SEs. They were pretty cool at the time, though they were only 20 or 30 megs. I remember being very envious of a friend who had one when I was stuck with a Mac Plus with two floppy drives and an external HD.
This story was featured nearly a year ago at x-entertainment (see that link for the story without the page-by-page popups).
Aha! I was just thinking this sounded like an XE article. Postings have tapered off there lately, but at one time I was reading that site every day. My favorite is Mr. T and Undertaker Ice Cream: Recipe for Disaster. It had me falling down laughing...at work unfortunately.
This would seem to demonstrate that LoTR has satisfied its target audience, us geeks. It remains to be seen whether it will become a cultural juggernaut like Star Wars that appeals to all segments of the population.
It's worth remembering that newer films tend to achieve high ratings initially. By my count, 33 of the top 100 rated films at imdb were made in the last ten years. The database hasn't been around that long, and young people are more active on the net than older ones, so you're bound to see more votes for movies that have come out recently.
Lists like this are meaningless anyway. They only serve to stir up discussion and draw attention to good films that people may have forgotten.
From the OED page: This list is not meant to be a glossary of SF terminology: it is only a list of those terms that the OED has a particular need to have researched. Certain terms have been excluded from this list because we know beyond doubt that we have the earliest possible example, the circumstances of the coinage being known. These include dalek, robot, and grok. There is no need to point out the absence of these words.
Anyone have a NASA link of these things being tried in some of our (Earth) extreme environment
Odds are the military has been trying them out for a while, but not talking about it. The article says The Entomopter concept originated at GTRI with U.S. military interest in palm-sized "micro air vehicles" that could surreptitiously explore underground bunkers and other structures. For that mission, a 50-gram Entomopter with a 15-centimeter wingspan could fly through ventilation ducts and using insect-like legs, crawl through narrow passageways or half-open doors. Development of that version continues in parallel with the Mars version.
An insect-sized remote would be a formidible successor to Predator aircraft. They wouldn't be able to carry any weapons though.
You must get tired of being asked the same things over and over. Do you relish the opportunity to embarrass unimaginative interviewers?
I ask because a friend gave me a video of a backstage Q&A session you had at an anime convention with a guy named Ray. Ray was reading his questions off a card, and it quickly became apparent that he knew nothing of you or your work. He blithely nodded in agreement as you assured him that you were most famous for your role as Yakko the Milkman. By the end of the interview you had completely turned things around and were asking him all the questions. The image started to get wobbly because the cameraman was laughing so hard. It was priceless.
I can't believe that they could have scored at F on any security test. Am I naive?
Well the following paragraph of the article gives some blatant examples of poor practices that were found:
The GAO routinely hacks into federal computers to test security and rarely fails. At the Commerce Department, for example, the GAO in August found some computers didn't require any passwords; some used "password" as the password; and entire lists of passwords were stored in plain view on the computers themselves. When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.
This isn't all that hard to believe. These networks are huge, and there will always be some people who value convenience over security. The question is whether the admins are understaffed, inexperienced, or simply lax in enforcing policies.
A dodgy looking page on earthlink, with no real references to back up its claims does not a mythbuster make...
The Straight Dope also addressed this story back in 1981. Cecil initially confirmed it, but then reversed himself when a reader sent in a well-researched article which showed that the QWERTY design was indeed intended to increase typing speed, not decrease it.
It also has a bit to say about the supposed advantages of Dvorak keyboards.
Slashdot Mirror
On another note, they could add Sim bust-your-knuckles-repairing-track and Sim bang-the-crap-out-of-your-head-inside-the-tank, Sim fall-off-the-speed-rope, i.e., "you can get hurt without being shot" games.
Make the game good enough and carpal tunnel will take care of the pain part.
Almost all of the easy p2p options now come with spyware. Morph, KaZaa, Grokster, they're all making money installing hidden software on users' computers.
Spyware in Morpheus? Do you have a cite for that?
It's the Mark I version of the Johnny Cab.
If I recall correctly, Mel Blanc, who was the voice actor for many of Chuck Jones' characters including Porky Pig has "That's All, Folks" on his tombstone.
Yep.
WTF? I chose Poland, and a girl in her bra shows up on the Polish Logitech site.
Well, I'll be darned. It doesn't have that pic for any of the other countries, though the German page has a picture of a scantily-clad man and woman lounging under an ad for their iFeel Optical. Verrry subtle.
Two mighty warrior tribes went to war,
and touched off a blazed which engulfed them all.
Without fuel they were nothing.
They built a house of straw,
a thundering machine sputtered and stopped.
Their leaders talked, and talked, and talked.
But nothing could stem the avalanche.
Their world crumbled,
cities exploded,
a whirlwind of looting,
a firestorm of fear,
men begin to feed on men.
On the roads it was a white line nightmare,
only those mobile enough to scavenge,
brutal enough to pillage, would survive.
The gangs took over the highways,
ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
And in this maelstrom of decay
ordinary men were battered and smashed.
Men like Max.
The warrior Max.
In the roar of an engine, he lost everything.
And became the shell of a man.
A burnt out desolate man.
A man, haunted by the demons of his past.
A man who wandered out into the wasteland.
And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.
"SPAM"(tm) in all caps is a trademark of Hormel, who has good humor and grace regarding the term used for bulk-email.
Perhaps, but they definitely don't approve of using it for domains or muppets.
the IR for data transfer and the IR for controlling your TV are in different parts of the spectrum, that's why you Visor and most Palms for that matter don't do a good job at controlling your TV. You can get an IR transmitter for a Visor that fits into the springboard slot that's in the correct part of the spectrum.
True, but 60 bucks is a little steep when you can get a universal remote for around 10 at Radio Shack.
Now what these things would really be good for is cheating at laser tag. Too bad it's gone out of fashion.
There's already shareware out there that allows you to use a Palm's IR port as a remote control. I only get a range of about 10 feet with my Visor Deluxe though. Hopefully these new ones will work from across the room.
I wonder, would Steve still get jobs if he prettied up his maw?
Well, it certainly wouldn't help any. Quirky looks are a big asset when you always get cast in the role of The Stinky Guy.
Trivia: he's the guy in one of the very first "got milk?" commercials. Awwon buwwwwr!
It looks like him, but the imdb and at least one other site say that it's Sean Whalen.
Whicj guy with really bad teeth?
I believe he's referring to Steve Buscemi
He's an entertaining actor, but his teeth are not pretty.
It has probably been said before, but when I hear "SuperDrive" in association with a macintosh, I still think of the first line of Mac 3.5" floppy drives that could read both Mac and PC formatted media. Of course, the filesystem wasn't supported in the OS of the first few machines with the drive, but eh.
The ones I thought of were internal hard drives that came in some Mac SEs. They were pretty cool at the time, though they were only 20 or 30 megs. I remember being very envious of a friend who had one when I was stuck with a Mac Plus with two floppy drives and an external HD.
This story was featured nearly a year ago at x-entertainment (see that link for the story without the page-by-page popups).
Aha! I was just thinking this sounded like an XE article. Postings have tapered off there lately, but at one time I was reading that site every day. My favorite is Mr. T and Undertaker Ice Cream: Recipe for Disaster. It had me falling down laughing...at work unfortunately.
IMDB is actually 12 years old. Read this for more information.
Thanks for the link. That's a couple of years longer than I thought.
It still isn't very long when compared with the history of film though.
This would seem to demonstrate that LoTR has satisfied its target audience, us geeks. It remains to be seen whether it will become a cultural juggernaut like Star Wars that appeals to all segments of the population.
It's worth remembering that newer films tend to achieve high ratings initially. By my count, 33 of the top 100 rated films at imdb were made in the last ten years. The database hasn't been around that long, and young people are more active on the net than older ones, so you're bound to see more votes for movies that have come out recently.
Lists like this are meaningless anyway. They only serve to stir up discussion and draw attention to good films that people may have forgotten.
And no, I haven't seen it yet, but I will.
No "grok"?
From the OED page:
This list is not meant to be a glossary of SF terminology: it is only a list of those terms that the OED has a particular need to have researched. Certain terms have been excluded from this list because we know beyond doubt that we have the earliest possible example, the circumstances of the coinage being known. These include dalek, robot, and grok. There is no need to point out the absence of these words.
Anyone have a NASA link of these things being tried in some of our (Earth) extreme environment
Odds are the military has been trying them out for a while, but not talking about it. The article says
The Entomopter concept originated at GTRI with U.S. military interest in palm-sized "micro air vehicles" that could surreptitiously explore underground bunkers and other structures. For that mission, a 50-gram Entomopter with a 15-centimeter wingspan could fly through ventilation ducts and using insect-like legs, crawl through narrow passageways or half-open doors. Development of that version continues in parallel with the Mars version.
An insect-sized remote would be a formidible successor to Predator aircraft. They wouldn't be able to carry any weapons though.
Try http://www.asus.com/Products/Notebook/B1000/index. html
You must get tired of being asked the same things over and over. Do you relish the opportunity to embarrass unimaginative interviewers?
I ask because a friend gave me a video of a backstage Q&A session you had at an anime convention with a guy named Ray. Ray was reading his questions off a card, and it quickly became apparent that he knew nothing of you or your work. He blithely nodded in agreement as you assured him that you were most famous for your role as Yakko the Milkman. By the end of the interview you had completely turned things around and were asking him all the questions. The image started to get wobbly because the cameraman was laughing so hard. It was priceless.
I can't believe that they could have scored at F on any security test. Am I naive?
Well the following paragraph of the article gives some blatant examples of poor practices that were found:
The GAO routinely hacks into federal computers to test security and rarely fails. At the Commerce Department, for example, the GAO in August found some computers didn't require any passwords; some used "password" as the password; and entire lists of passwords were stored in plain view on the computers themselves. When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.
This isn't all that hard to believe. These networks are huge, and there will always be some people who value convenience over security. The question is whether the admins are understaffed, inexperienced, or simply lax in enforcing policies.
A dodgy looking page on earthlink, with no real references to back up its claims does not a mythbuster make...
The Straight Dope also addressed this story back in 1981. Cecil initially confirmed it, but then reversed himself when a reader sent in a well-researched article which showed that the QWERTY design was indeed intended to increase typing speed, not decrease it.
It also has a bit to say about the supposed advantages of Dvorak keyboards.
What if a small, personal, rotational bed type apparatus could be used to provide centripetal acceleration to the fluids.
Say, they could test it by giving beer to their mice. After all, they're used to the room spinning when they wake up.
As if Coors wasn't light enough already
the Maxis team will be throwing a party around the bubble machine.
Word is that the project's failure is being blamed on damage caused by too many purple potions.
* A small icon of a hobbit (cf. GNU)?
* "LotR" letters?
How about a green lowercase h?
You'd save on bandwidth, but all the NetHack players would constantly have the urge to slay it and eat it.