I was looking through some old 'desktop crap' folders the other day, when I found a screenshot I'd been looking for for a while now. I took this screenshot of an error message in the EVE-Online beta back in 2003. I'll tell ya, I laughed pretty damned hard the first time I read it. "Something is fucked." may be ambiguous, but it's certainly concise and to the point.;) http://media.giantpachinkomachineofdoom.com/blog/2011-02/images/evebetaerror.png
As crappy as their internet is, exactly who would notice if Australia suddenly fell off the net? While we're at it, Canada can shut off their internet after the first week of every month when everyone but grandparents hit their monthly quota.
Yeah, no. This isn't addiction. This is straight-up goddamn stupidity. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference, but there definitely IS a difference.
I'm still waiting to hear about someone tweeting "Robbin' a house~" using their iPhone, with location reporting turned on.
"...Soviet early-warning system that confused the sun for a missile and almost triggered World War III..."
Yeah, file this under 'shit I never want to know.' I have enough stupid crap in my head without having to worry about 'The time a computer error could have wiped out the whole of human existence.'
Geez. I don't even USE the Caps Lock to type all-caps, I just hold the Left-Shift down with my pinky finger. I _DO_ however, use the Caps Lock to switch between Katakana, Hiragana, and direct input modes in the Japanese IME. That's pretty damned important.:(
Besides, like many have pointed out, douchebags and fucktards are going to be douchebags and fucktards even if they have to communicate their douchebaggery and fucktardery by writing it on the wall in their own blood. Though, actually, that's not a bad idea, especially for the more long-winded ones...
I don't intend for it to be a permanent solution, it's just literally all the money I had at the time.
Though it does seem to be a perfectly fine board, so I'll definitely put it to use somewhere. Come tax rebate time, I fully expect to get a new mobo and plenty of memory.:D
Argh! They knocked down the price? I just bought a 1090T last month... Oh well, par for the course. The whole sequence of events was just FRAUGHT with BS.:(
The motherboard in my primary computer shit itself suddenly and for no apparent reason, and I had to RMA it. This took three weeks for some god-unknown reason considering they didn't 'repair' anything, but instead sent me a different board with a new s/n sticker on it with my serial.
I finally get the motherboard back only to DROP THE GODDAMN CPU DURING REINSTALLATION. So, when it DIDN'T WORK, I had reason to assume it was the chip. So I bought the 1090T, which I was going to do anyway come February. Since, amazingly, my 3-year old AM2+-based motherboard supports an AM3 hexacore with nothing more than a BIOS update...
Still nothing. Examining the board, I smelled burning semiconductors...and then burned my finger on a VREG... Yeah, I had WORDS with the tech support about my RMA, believe it.
Not having another three weeks to piss away, I got a cheap motherboard, and a couple sticks of RAM (Because it takes DDR3) and was back up and running with the 1090T.
The reason I'm saying all this, is so you have some appreciation for what I went through, to be rewarded with an absolute beauty of a machine with the 1090T at its core. And I'm not being sarcastic, for once. The CPU's a real monster. I have it overclocked to a perfectly stable 4.00GHz, with the STOCK COOLER.
Renders go fast as anything, and Photoshop CS5 x64 starts up in 2.5 seconds. (Unless I just added some new fonts.)
Right now, my only limitation is the 4GB of RAM, when my old machine had 8GB. I'll have to do something about that.
Some nimrods were calling me stupid for buying an AMD, but you look at the price of Intel's chips, and the hexacore offerings start at $900!!! What in all of fuckery?? My whole new mobo+CPU+RAM combo cost a THIRD that! Man, some people...
When I first saw the video of one Kinect, I immediately wondered how you could get multiple units working together.
It wasn't until I watched the video again later that day that it hit me. I had just explained to someone how 3D theater projection works, and so I had an epiphany: The most sensible course is to use polarizing filters.
With filters on the IR emitters and cameras, the units should be able to only see their own IR illumination. Of course, it would only work for two Kinects with maximum effectiveness, but considering how well this turned out with the units at right-angles from each other, I don't see why you couldn't combine the two ideas for 3-4 units and get sufficient quality.
I wish I had the money to get a couple Kinects and test my idea, but I'm no good with coding anyway.
It'd be awesome to see the Blender Foundation put out a bounty for a Kinect-based open source motion capture and 3D scanning suite though.:D
Wouldn't it be amusing if someone, born on that day, having heard this news from someone (A grandson who visits/. for instance), sets out to do something noteworthy? I didn't RTFA but I'm guessing the criteria used included whether or not anyone of note was born that day.
I'm all for freedom of speech and expression, but why can't people accept "No, you can't. Some people may find it deeply offensive." as an answer? I think we can all agree that it is reasonable to not want people running around on XBL with swastikas plastered everywhere.
Yes, the symbol in question has many other meanings, but in an online community where users dedicate no small percentage of their time to finding new ways to spell fa**ot and ni**er to get around content filters, you can bet your ass they probably don't care about any context the symbol had prior to WWII.
Some base amount like $500 to $5000 depending on the severity and circumstances and whatnot, but other than that, just make them pay for what they 'stole'?
Okay, maybe that's an oversimplification... After all, we're talking about people SHARING files, not just downloading... So they have to make up for the people who downloaded FROM them... But there's no real way to determine how many people did, or track down any of them. So, what? Ten times what the item would have cost? Well, maybe not, that still seems like an un-payable amount for many people... But you get the idea.
I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it? The **AA complain that they're losing money because people are stealing product. Make the thieves pay for it. Because the way things are now, it's just goddamn stupid.
The payouts they want in these cases are so ridiculously large it might as well be the death penalty. It'd take the average person a couple lifetimes to pay off even if the economy weren't circling the toilet bowl.
Of course, I'm talking about the average middle-class internet user who downloads songs or movies, and then knowingly or unknowingly shares them with others.
I'm all for stiff penalties for people who rip or leak the stuff in the first place.
If this were about car insurance ads instead of car loan ads, there'd be a great joke about linking what browser they use to the likelihood of crashes......but as it is, I've got nothing.:(
Who knows, with the help of this kind of technology, maybe I can play against Koreans without BEING HORRIBLY MURDERED! (Until they start doing it, at which point we're all proper-fucked.)
All the more ironic given that this is probably because of his son's blatant plagiarism of popular Japanese comics.
But while you're on the subject, I've always found Metallica's opposition of filesharing to be most amusing, since it's widely understood that they gained initial popularity from the circulation of bootlegs of their live performances. (In fact, if I remember the documentary I saw correctly, this bit of information may have come directly from their own mouths.)
I remember how much people complained about the price of the Playstation 3 when it first came out... (I still don't have one, or an Xbox 360, or a Wii, in case anyone wants to call me a fanboy.) I guess they forgot about the NEO-GEO. Hey, $599 is a pretty big chunk of change, no denying that. But the NEO-GEO home console debuted for $649...in 1990. (Which would make it over $990 in 2006 money.)
On the subject of game prices, NEO-GEO home cartridges were $200 and up at release, and the arcade operators were paying as much as $1000 a game for the arcade cartridges. (And that's in 1990 dollars!)
Ironically, right now, while NEO-GEO home console cartridges still go for between $100 and $500 for the more common games, those arcade cartridges can typically be had for under $100.
This would be why I bought a 4-slot NEO-GEO standup arcade cabinet for my birthday last year.;) Good deals on some of the best arcade games of the 1990s and early 2000s!
I can't even use Youtube anymore. Even 360p videos don't play smoothly, and when they go fullscreen (Which isn't really fullscreen anymore) it turns into a slideshow. Forget HD.
AND THERE'S NO WAY TO DISABLE IT. Way to go, Google.
Want to know WHY I'm not bothered by this? Because the achievement-whoring douchebags will probably just buy the items they want and get back to ACTUALLY PLAYING instead of burdening their teams with their ineffective half-assed play while they try and grind new HATS. And anything that lets Valve make more money off of the kind of people I detest is good for Valve, me, and the gaming ecosystem in-general.
I have some faith that Valve won't misuse this idea. Honestly, letting people buy the items if they want to benefits everyone. I don't really think they're going to do something like, say, start charging for molotovs in Left4Dead. Maybe they should charge for ragequitting. Let people buy $0.50 'get out of game free' cards, as it were, to keep them from getting a negative reputation for quitting in the middle of games!;P
Paper and pencils are pretty damned dangerous too! We'd better demolish all the schools before someone gets hurt! (Might actually make kids SMARTER the way things are going.)
Then lock up all the roleplayers. Forget the pencils! It's the dice, man! The DICE! You can choke on those things! (Nevermind the fact that if you started stuffing D20s into your mouth you probably deserve what happens.) And have you ever stepped on a D4?! They're goddamned CALTROPS!
Better lock me up, too! I'm obviously a dangerous and unbalanced individual; every time I hear about perfectly sane and rational decisions like these, I have an uncontrollable urge to set things on fire! Maybe people, too! We'll see.
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I was looking through some old 'desktop crap' folders the other day, when I found a screenshot I'd been looking for for a while now. I took this screenshot of an error message in the EVE-Online beta back in 2003. I'll tell ya, I laughed pretty damned hard the first time I read it. "Something is fucked." may be ambiguous, but it's certainly concise and to the point. ;) http://media.giantpachinkomachineofdoom.com/blog/2011-02/images/evebetaerror.png
...and then acts surprised when they crucify him. :)
It'd be terribly amusing-- albeit not terribly productive --if all his years of, well...being Ballmer...finally caught up with him. :3
As crappy as their internet is, exactly who would notice if Australia suddenly fell off the net? While we're at it, Canada can shut off their internet after the first week of every month when everyone but grandparents hit their monthly quota.
Yeah, no. This isn't addiction. This is straight-up goddamn stupidity. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference, but there definitely IS a difference.
I'm still waiting to hear about someone tweeting "Robbin' a house~" using their iPhone, with location reporting turned on.
"...Soviet early-warning system that confused the sun for a missile and almost triggered World War III..."
Yeah, file this under 'shit I never want to know.' I have enough stupid crap in my head without having to worry about 'The time a computer error could have wiped out the whole of human existence.'
Geez. I don't even USE the Caps Lock to type all-caps, I just hold the Left-Shift down with my pinky finger. I _DO_ however, use the Caps Lock to switch between Katakana, Hiragana, and direct input modes in the Japanese IME. That's pretty damned important. :(
Besides, like many have pointed out, douchebags and fucktards are going to be douchebags and fucktards even if they have to communicate their douchebaggery and fucktardery by writing it on the wall in their own blood. Though, actually, that's not a bad idea, especially for the more long-winded ones...
I don't intend for it to be a permanent solution, it's just literally all the money I had at the time.
Though it does seem to be a perfectly fine board, so I'll definitely put it to use somewhere. Come tax rebate time, I fully expect to get a new mobo and plenty of memory. :D
Argh! They knocked down the price? I just bought a 1090T last month... Oh well, par for the course. The whole sequence of events was just FRAUGHT with BS. :(
The motherboard in my primary computer shit itself suddenly and for no apparent reason, and I had to RMA it. This took three weeks for some god-unknown reason considering they didn't 'repair' anything, but instead sent me a different board with a new s/n sticker on it with my serial.
I finally get the motherboard back only to DROP THE GODDAMN CPU DURING REINSTALLATION. So, when it DIDN'T WORK, I had reason to assume it was the chip. So I bought the 1090T, which I was going to do anyway come February. Since, amazingly, my 3-year old AM2+-based motherboard supports an AM3 hexacore with nothing more than a BIOS update...
Still nothing. Examining the board, I smelled burning semiconductors...and then burned my finger on a VREG... Yeah, I had WORDS with the tech support about my RMA, believe it.
Not having another three weeks to piss away, I got a cheap motherboard, and a couple sticks of RAM (Because it takes DDR3) and was back up and running with the 1090T.
The reason I'm saying all this, is so you have some appreciation for what I went through, to be rewarded with an absolute beauty of a machine with the 1090T at its core. And I'm not being sarcastic, for once. The CPU's a real monster. I have it overclocked to a perfectly stable 4.00GHz, with the STOCK COOLER.
Renders go fast as anything, and Photoshop CS5 x64 starts up in 2.5 seconds. (Unless I just added some new fonts.)
Right now, my only limitation is the 4GB of RAM, when my old machine had 8GB. I'll have to do something about that.
Some nimrods were calling me stupid for buying an AMD, but you look at the price of Intel's chips, and the hexacore offerings start at $900!!! What in all of fuckery?? My whole new mobo+CPU+RAM combo cost a THIRD that! Man, some people...
When I first saw the video of one Kinect, I immediately wondered how you could get multiple units working together.
It wasn't until I watched the video again later that day that it hit me. I had just explained to someone how 3D theater projection works, and so I had an epiphany: The most sensible course is to use polarizing filters.
With filters on the IR emitters and cameras, the units should be able to only see their own IR illumination. Of course, it would only work for two Kinects with maximum effectiveness, but considering how well this turned out with the units at right-angles from each other, I don't see why you couldn't combine the two ideas for 3-4 units and get sufficient quality.
I wish I had the money to get a couple Kinects and test my idea, but I'm no good with coding anyway.
It'd be awesome to see the Blender Foundation put out a bounty for a Kinect-based open source motion capture and 3D scanning suite though. :D
Wouldn't it be amusing if someone, born on that day, having heard this news from someone (A grandson who visits /. for instance), sets out to do something noteworthy? I didn't RTFA but I'm guessing the criteria used included whether or not anyone of note was born that day.
I'm all for freedom of speech and expression, but why can't people accept "No, you can't. Some people may find it deeply offensive." as an answer? I think we can all agree that it is reasonable to not want people running around on XBL with swastikas plastered everywhere.
Yes, the symbol in question has many other meanings, but in an online community where users dedicate no small percentage of their time to finding new ways to spell fa**ot and ni**er to get around content filters, you can bet your ass they probably don't care about any context the symbol had prior to WWII.
...I can kinda understand their sentiment. After all, the computer I just built has me committing idolatry. :3
I can't speak for anyone else, but I know if -I'm- looking at a nice juicy steak, I'm pretty calm and content. :3
Some base amount like $500 to $5000 depending on the severity and circumstances and whatnot, but other than that, just make them pay for what they 'stole'?
Okay, maybe that's an oversimplification... After all, we're talking about people SHARING files, not just downloading... So they have to make up for the people who downloaded FROM them... But there's no real way to determine how many people did, or track down any of them. So, what? Ten times what the item would have cost? Well, maybe not, that still seems like an un-payable amount for many people... But you get the idea.
I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it? The **AA complain that they're losing money because people are stealing product. Make the thieves pay for it. Because the way things are now, it's just goddamn stupid.
The payouts they want in these cases are so ridiculously large it might as well be the death penalty. It'd take the average person a couple lifetimes to pay off even if the economy weren't circling the toilet bowl.
Of course, I'm talking about the average middle-class internet user who downloads songs or movies, and then knowingly or unknowingly shares them with others.
I'm all for stiff penalties for people who rip or leak the stuff in the first place.
Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before stuff like this happened. ;P
If this were about car insurance ads instead of car loan ads, there'd be a great joke about linking what browser they use to the likelihood of crashes... ...but as it is, I've got nothing. :(
Aaaaaand this is why I stick to things I can actually play...like FPSs and 20 year old arcade fighting games...
Who knows, with the help of this kind of technology, maybe I can play against Koreans without BEING HORRIBLY MURDERED! (Until they start doing it, at which point we're all proper-fucked.)
All the more ironic given that this is probably because of his son's blatant plagiarism of popular Japanese comics.
But while you're on the subject, I've always found Metallica's opposition of filesharing to be most amusing, since it's widely understood that they gained initial popularity from the circulation of bootlegs of their live performances. (In fact, if I remember the documentary I saw correctly, this bit of information may have come directly from their own mouths.)
Is it wrong that I'd actually be a little upset if the FBI told me that?
"Well shit. I guess we'd better go get it before he puts it on eBay..."
I remember how much people complained about the price of the Playstation 3 when it first came out... (I still don't have one, or an Xbox 360, or a Wii, in case anyone wants to call me a fanboy.) I guess they forgot about the NEO-GEO. Hey, $599 is a pretty big chunk of change, no denying that. But the NEO-GEO home console debuted for $649...in 1990. (Which would make it over $990 in 2006 money.)
On the subject of game prices, NEO-GEO home cartridges were $200 and up at release, and the arcade operators were paying as much as $1000 a game for the arcade cartridges. (And that's in 1990 dollars!)
Ironically, right now, while NEO-GEO home console cartridges still go for between $100 and $500 for the more common games, those arcade cartridges can typically be had for under $100.
This would be why I bought a 4-slot NEO-GEO standup arcade cabinet for my birthday last year. ;) Good deals on some of the best arcade games of the 1990s and early 2000s!
I can't even use Youtube anymore. Even 360p videos don't play smoothly, and when they go fullscreen (Which isn't really fullscreen anymore) it turns into a slideshow. Forget HD.
AND THERE'S NO WAY TO DISABLE IT. Way to go, Google.
Want to know WHY I'm not bothered by this? Because the achievement-whoring douchebags will probably just buy the items they want and get back to ACTUALLY PLAYING instead of burdening their teams with their ineffective half-assed play while they try and grind new HATS. And anything that lets Valve make more money off of the kind of people I detest is good for Valve, me, and the gaming ecosystem in-general.
I have some faith that Valve won't misuse this idea. Honestly, letting people buy the items if they want to benefits everyone. I don't really think they're going to do something like, say, start charging for molotovs in Left4Dead. Maybe they should charge for ragequitting. Let people buy $0.50 'get out of game free' cards, as it were, to keep them from getting a negative reputation for quitting in the middle of games! ;P
Paper and pencils are pretty damned dangerous too! We'd better demolish all the schools before someone gets hurt! (Might actually make kids SMARTER the way things are going.)
Then lock up all the roleplayers. Forget the pencils! It's the dice, man! The DICE! You can choke on those things! (Nevermind the fact that if you started stuffing D20s into your mouth you probably deserve what happens.) And have you ever stepped on a D4?! They're goddamned CALTROPS!
Better lock me up, too! I'm obviously a dangerous and unbalanced individual; every time I hear about perfectly sane and rational decisions like these, I have an uncontrollable urge to set things on fire! Maybe people, too! We'll see.