"...and return the samples to earth via. the next Soyuez capsule..."
Yeah, and what do you do once the comet samples get mixed in with the congealed foodstuffs that up most of the Russian space program rations? Once those babies get jumbled together, you'll have a hell of a time telling them apart.
Best solution to this problem comes from our pal Yakov: replace all the food rations with more vodka. Then you'll always be able to find space samples!
Your character runs around town, smashing into music stores and stealing CD's (a "Grand Theft Music"). If there is any Brittany Spears playing near by, health goes down. but Beatles music improves your health.
Monsters resembling Hilary Rosen and Orren Hatch bedevil you every step. The stolen CD's have to be trucked to a warehouse.
When you are through playing the game, you go look in the MyMusic folder and find it full of the music from the CDs you stole in the game.
What does he have to do with the tech world? Are you referring to the outrageous efforts by the RIAA to control our media content?....we might as well cut off our ears and mail them to Hilary Rosen (or her successor). She just about owns them anyway.
I remember reading that the 56K limit was legal, not technical (and that this legal limit is actually something like 53K:
"In the U.S., the FCC places a power ceiling on phone lines of -12dbm average per 3 second interval. X2 modems work within this by restricting throughput to 53kbps in the U.S. X2 modems can theoretically work at 56k, although they are constrained to operate 5% slower than this in the U.S. (Some users have reported occasional connections past 53kbps.)"
Where are the founders of the dial-up revolution? They're still trying to connect with their 2400 baud modems. Be patient, they'll be here and contributing to the conversation by the end of the day, once the carrier screech indicates handshake.
I know the guy who runs the site, and now I feel Slashguilt (the shame you get from slashdotting someone's site). It's pretty easy with Geocities and its razor-thin file transfer allowance, anyway.
Thanks for your comment, Patera. Of all the items in the whole wide whorl, you post at mine. Hope you aren't seeing faces in the sacrifice meat!
I once walked out of a toilet stall (or should you call it a Fecal Voting Booth with which you register your opinion of your least favorite candiate) with a paper audit trail stuck to my shoe. How embarassing.
It has nothing to do with sunspots, really. Those student riots and wars are somehow triggered by the Illuminati and the Gnomes of Zurich having their global conventions on the exact same day, which only occurs every 21 years.
Now they put out "Security Updates for Panther and Jaguar". It's just a little late to save Roy from that pain in the neck, but it's a step in the right direction! Make those big cats safer.
That is why I use a special version of WinZip that includes a reinformed titanium shell for my file downloads. You never known when one of these might detonate inside the modem or at the wall phone-plug outlet.
I'm sure glad the RIAA has not discovered exploding files. It could escalate their war against p2p to a new level.
Free software was common and useful in the days when Apple, Commodore, Atari, and CP/M dominates (and Microsoft was mainly a company that did a BASIC interpreter for a few of the platforms).
Free software has been common and useful during the Microsoft era (from DOS to Windows), and freeware for Windows PC's and other platforms abounds on Sourceforge and www.download.com (once you look past the crippleware falsely labelled as "Free").
There is no reason to believe that this will change, and we have Microsoft partially to thank for this: they promote Visual Basic, which is used to write a lot of programs which are given away to run on the Windows platform.
"Linux users, on average, are probably more educated than Windows users. (To avoid a flame war, note that I said "on average"."
You're right about this, and I'm more often a Windows user than not. This is because Windows has been mass marketted: you'll get Granny typing in cookie recipes, diehard computer gamers who have really only ever played Solitaire, and AOLamers by the millions on Windows, while the Linux world requires some technical know-how.
You've got the "Great unwashed" being drawn into the Windows world by putting in that free Cd and entering the initial passwords ("recite cougar") from the back of the CD, and Viola! they are in Windows. This is not happening in the Linux world yet.
It is not that the Linux users are game-starved, it is more like they are sex-starved and food-starved. Half of the subscribers think it is "A Piece of Tail in the Desert", and the rest think it is a "A Tale of Dessert".
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"...and return the samples to earth via. the next Soyuez capsule..."
Yeah, and what do you do once the comet samples get mixed in with the congealed foodstuffs that up most of the Russian space program rations? Once those babies get jumbled together, you'll have a hell of a time telling them apart.
Best solution to this problem comes from our pal Yakov: replace all the food rations with more vodka. Then you'll always be able to find space samples!
Is Bruce Willis aboard this thing, accompanied by a bunch of riggers and wearing the ugliest corduroy space suits in all sci fi dom?
`Pardon my ignorance, but the terrorists/gorilla fighters the US is fighting are not signatories to the Geneva Convention`
I don't know about the terrorists, but the gorillas are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
`What does the Geneva Convention say about this?`
General Urko and Dr. Zaius refused to be signators to this part of the convention.
A better game proposal: "NapLeech".
Your character runs around town, smashing into music stores and stealing CD's (a "Grand Theft Music"). If there is any Brittany Spears playing near by, health goes down. but Beatles music improves your health.
Monsters resembling Hilary Rosen and Orren Hatch bedevil you every step. The stolen CD's have to be trucked to a warehouse.
When you are through playing the game, you go look in the MyMusic folder and find it full of the music from the CDs you stole in the game.
What does he have to do with the tech world? Are you referring to the outrageous efforts by the RIAA to control our media content? ....we might as well cut off our ears and mail them to Hilary Rosen (or her successor). She just about owns them anyway.
Do you mean the great girl bands of the past? The Supremes, the Ronettes, or even the GoGos?
Check "VH-1 Where Are They Now?" to find out the fate of those great Broad Bands of the past.
I know about "Heart". They look like Roseanne Barr now.
I remember reading that the 56K limit was legal, not technical (and that this legal limit is actually something like 53K:
"In the U.S., the FCC places a power ceiling on phone lines of -12dbm average per 3 second interval. X2 modems work within this by restricting throughput to 53kbps in the U.S. X2 modems can theoretically work at 56k, although they are constrained to operate 5% slower than this in the U.S. (Some users have reported occasional connections past 53kbps.)"
(from this page
Where are the founders of the dial-up revolution? They're still trying to connect with their 2400 baud modems. Be patient, they'll be here and contributing to the conversation by the end of the day, once the carrier screech indicates handshake.
Check Amazon.com. check google on both spellings. Look at your "Hop on Pop" for that matter.
Do you have suggestions for a better search engine than Google, one that does not censor content like this, but works well and indexes as many pages?
I sure hope it is cold fusion; I need a place to put my beer.
But if that tortilla is what it takes to strengthen your faith
I saw a commander in a Taco once. I'm not sure where, though, I think it was some web site not very far away.
I know the guy who runs the site, and now I feel Slashguilt (the shame you get from slashdotting someone's site). It's pretty easy with Geocities and its razor-thin file transfer allowance, anyway.
Thanks for your comment, Patera. Of all the items in the whole wide whorl, you post at mine. Hope you aren't seeing faces in the sacrifice meat!
Check out Stone Faces Gazetteer
Some of these, especially the sleeping giants and one particular offshore head, are downright eerie.
"And what's so great about paper audit trails?"
I once walked out of a toilet stall (or should you call it a Fecal Voting Booth with which you register your opinion of your least favorite candiate) with a paper audit trail stuck to my shoe. How embarassing.
It has nothing to do with sunspots, really. Those student riots and wars are somehow triggered by the Illuminati and the Gnomes of Zurich having their global conventions on the exact same day, which only occurs every 21 years.
"So, Mr Urchin, were you too put out when Moses made you get out of the way when he parted the Eed Sea?"
Now they put out "Security Updates for Panther and Jaguar". It's just a little late to save Roy from that pain in the neck, but it's a step in the right direction! Make those big cats safer.
Sheesh. There sure is a low amount if interest in this news item. It must have to do with the security reputation of the Apple OS.
:)
Why bother to put up another new electric fence around Fort Knox
"15. exploding cdrom drivers"
That is why I use a special version of WinZip that includes a reinformed titanium shell for my file downloads. You never known when one of these might detonate inside the modem or at the wall phone-plug outlet.
I'm sure glad the RIAA has not discovered exploding files. It could escalate their war against p2p to a new level.
"I'll subscribe to Slashdot as soon as I see one month w/o dupes, typos, or stories the editors didn't read."
February 30 Slashdot stories:
New G5 Benchmark Results [apple]
New G5 Results of Benchmark [apple]
New Microsfot lawsuit apeal [under the Borg icon]
Neal, please call home now! [Cowboy's Mother icon]
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Nope, there will never be typos, dupes, or unread submissions.
"It requires electronic machines to produce a receipt which is deposited in a lock box.... "
Lock box.
Free software was common and useful in the days when Apple, Commodore, Atari, and CP/M dominates (and Microsoft was mainly a company that did a BASIC interpreter for a few of the platforms).
Free software has been common and useful during the Microsoft era (from DOS to Windows), and freeware for Windows PC's and other platforms abounds on Sourceforge and www.download.com (once you look past the crippleware falsely labelled as "Free").
There is no reason to believe that this will change, and we have Microsoft partially to thank for this: they promote Visual Basic, which is used to write a lot of programs which are given away to run on the Windows platform.
"Linux users, on average, are probably more educated than Windows users. (To avoid a flame war, note that I said "on average"."
You're right about this, and I'm more often a Windows user than not. This is because Windows has been mass marketted: you'll get Granny typing in cookie recipes, diehard computer gamers who have really only ever played Solitaire, and AOLamers by the millions on Windows, while the Linux world requires some technical know-how.
You've got the "Great unwashed" being drawn into the Windows world by putting in that free Cd and entering the initial passwords ("recite cougar") from the back of the CD, and Viola! they are in Windows. This is not happening in the Linux world yet.
It is not that the Linux users are game-starved, it is more like they are sex-starved and food-starved. Half of the subscribers think it is "A Piece of Tail in the Desert", and the rest think it is a "A Tale of Dessert".