"In the 1950s David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of courage."
Yes and the expansion should be free! With monthly fees and some hard core gammers who have been playing for 3 + years we have paid for the games several times over.
American ejection seats work just as well as Russian ones. The reason you don't see footage in those sensationalist TV shows is a testament to American aricraft being fairly reliable.
Seriously, to think Earth is or could be the only planet capable of sustaining life is highly improbable. I am going to go out on a limb here and say, there is inteligent life out there and we are not ready to meet it. Or ready or not we better grow up and deal with it because we just became as insignificant as a grain of sand. These articles seem like they are written for those sensationalist magazines, let's write in more grown up terms. Think people are insane now? wait when you tell them aliens have landed on our planet.
You mean to tell me the millions of dollars that are taken in from all those poor people who play the lottery to pay for the education system was not able to help you purchase any educational software?
Of course not all geeks are so recognizable from thier physical stature and choice of clothing(wink wink, nudge nudge) but if they are looking to punish a subcluture of Burma why do I have this feeling anyone who looks like the description would be shot dead.
Vista is truly an evolution in what not to do with an OS.
Microsoft's incessant up sales of different versions of just about everything they offer is truly a lesson in extreme confusion.
I spend hours on trying to read through thier different product lines just so my company doesn't have to spend a fortune on crap we will never use or we overpay for.
MSDN? Action Pack? Cal's
I spent a week with it (Vista) and I was not going to spend any more time with an OS that was running on a top of the line Dell laptop with 2GB of memory and a 256mb graphics card that still had performance issues and software compatibility issues. Cisco VPN?
Win2k was a godsend from Windows 98 and NT4.0, XP and 2003 were an even better step up. But Vista? WTH? They need to recompile and optimize. If it takes till service pack 2 to do it then they need to do that before they unleash anymore of their BS unfinished products to the market.
Anytime I read anything that has to do with the moon and future predictions I just yawn.
I think I need to go dig out my old popular science magazines and read about all the stores about what we were going to be doing on the moon in 2007. NOTHING!
I am going to make a prediction. We are all going to be running coal burning cars and traveling on steam powered ships in 2020.
hmm Nope. Once you finish going to your nifty link and try amd log in,what happens is you get a nice error that says.
"Your account is authorized for an expansion that is newer than the installed version of World of Warcraft. Please download the required data here www.worldofwarcraft.com
The first line told me everything I needed to know. Like some people who read forums they automatically respond without reading the whole article and in this case I didn't make an exception and didn't need to read further. I really don't feel sorry for the company but I bet they were entrusted to safe guard some sort of important data?
If you go to the website and run the vulnerability checker you will find I.E. 6 has the same problem.
So to raise the sky is falling alert is premature in a sense, but any bad news is good news to alert people to the exisiting fact that I.E. is unsafe at any version.
I hope he gets to keep his job but you know how that sort of stuff works out in the end.
This is the sort of BS that pops up years latter when service men and women who are serving aboard these vessels and discover the gear is faulty,blowing up or sinking.
Makes for great politics and in the end nobody is to blame and it becomes yesterdays news and all you have to show for it is dead service men.
Then we will pledge a witty saying "we will never forget" Yeah we will.
A lot these government contracts are big freaking wastes of money due to the fact that a lot of companies short change the system or by the time the contracts are approved the specifications change and it takes another 2 years to approve the changes. That means more money for the companies who's 3 year contract is extended for 10years.
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I believe the correct tearm would be improved vine jumping.
He used modern materials to improve what is called vine jumping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungee_jumping
"In the 1950s David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of courage."
Slashdot allowed this question be posted?
Mod me to hell but I think honey and hubby can do things more worthwhile i.e. "Find the sausage". Than to figure out what video game stimulates them.
Yes and the expansion should be free! With monthly fees and some hard core gammers who have been playing for 3 + years we have paid for the games several times over.
American ejection seats work just as well as Russian ones. The reason you don't see footage in those sensationalist TV shows is a testament to American aricraft being fairly reliable.
Martin Baker
Pictures! or it didn't happen. :)
Seriously, to think Earth is or could be the only planet capable of sustaining life is highly improbable.
I am going to go out on a limb here and say, there is inteligent life out there and we are not ready to meet it.
Or ready or not we better grow up and deal with it because we just became as insignificant as a grain of sand.
These articles seem like they are written for those sensationalist magazines, let's write in more grown up terms.
Think people are insane now? wait when you tell them aliens have landed on our planet.
Ninja's are Japanese, allthough the joke would have gone a lot further if you said he was a Shaolin Monk trained in China. ;)
Another use for dilithium crystals!
Great Scott!
You mean to tell me the millions of dollars that are taken in from all those poor people who play the lottery to pay for the education system was not able to help you purchase any educational software?
Have you seen the pre-interview? The guy seems to be on a permamnet mushroom trip.
As for marrying a Russian woman, I can say one thing about them, they know how to make money.
They aren't meak I'll tell you that.
If you are a weak man they are going to leave your ass.
Of course not all geeks are so recognizable from thier physical stature and choice of clothing(wink wink, nudge nudge) but if they are looking to punish a subcluture of Burma why do I have this feeling anyone who looks like the description would be shot dead.
Where is the freaking youtube video? I know they filmed it.
Her computer was not really old.
What did she want to do with it? Run WorldsOfWarcraft?
The Video Card was $395.00!!!
All she needed to do with her old machine was get a new Hard Drive and replace some of the colling fans. Total spent would have been less than
$100.00
How about lowering the price of the games themselves!
I have seen the prices of those PS3 games! Holy smoke! $60.00!
Vista is truly an evolution in what not to do with an OS.
Microsoft's incessant up sales of different versions of just about everything they offer is truly a lesson in extreme confusion.
I spend hours on trying to read through thier different product lines just so my company doesn't have to spend a fortune on crap we will never use or we overpay for.
MSDN?
Action Pack?
Cal's
I spent a week with it (Vista) and I was not going to spend any more time with an OS that was running on a top of the line Dell laptop with 2GB of memory and a 256mb graphics card that still had performance issues and software compatibility issues.
Cisco VPN?
Win2k was a godsend from Windows 98 and NT4.0, XP and 2003 were an even better step up. But Vista? WTH? They need to recompile and optimize. If it takes till service pack 2 to do it then they need to do that before they unleash anymore of their BS unfinished products to the market.
How bout my virtual cash goes into a 401k plan :)
It's a Pontiac!
149k for a 1982 fall apart car is outrageous.
And of course if this trend catches on what impact to the already dwindling forests will this have?
I am no tree hugger but wooden PC's are a bad idea.
Anytime I read anything that has to do with the moon and future predictions I just yawn.
I think I need to go dig out my old popular science magazines and read about all the stores about what we were going to be doing on the moon in 2007. NOTHING!
I am going to make a prediction. We are all going to be running coal burning cars and traveling on steam powered ships in 2020.
hmm Nope.
Once you finish going to your nifty link and try amd log in,what happens is you get a nice error that says.
"Your account is authorized for an expansion that is newer than the installed version of World of Warcraft. Please download the required data here www.worldofwarcraft.com
Ok where to now?
They need to eat Kim Jong Ill.
I think he's plenty fat enough.
The first line told me everything I needed to know.
Like some people who read forums they automatically respond without reading the whole article and in this case I didn't make an exception and didn't need to read further.
I really don't feel sorry for the company but I bet they were entrusted to safe guard some sort of important data?
Trying to navigate that site with 20 fucking auto add clicks per page is really annoying.
If you go to the website and run the vulnerability checker you will find I.E. 6 has the same problem.
So to raise the sky is falling alert is premature in a sense, but any bad news is good news to alert people to the exisiting fact that I.E. is unsafe at any version.
I hope he gets to keep his job but you know how that sort of stuff works out in the end.
This is the sort of BS that pops up years latter when service men and women who are serving aboard these vessels and discover the gear is faulty,blowing up or sinking.
Makes for great politics and in the end nobody is to blame and it becomes yesterdays news and all you have to show for it is dead service men.
Then we will pledge a witty saying "we will never forget" Yeah we will.
A lot these government contracts are big freaking wastes of money due to the fact that a lot of companies short change the system or by the time the contracts are approved the specifications change and it takes another 2 years to approve the changes. That means more money for the companies who's 3 year contract is extended for 10years.