It's good that they decided to pick a classic, but I would have made it a single-day marathon, not a week. That's just too much.
In the future, though, it would be great if they showed off new games as they are released, like Warcraft III, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and so on. That way, I'd be able to see how the game actually plays before I go out and buy it. Reading the back of boxes just doesn't give enough information on what the game is really like.
It really makes you ponder after you read this article about why Google did what they did. I'm sure it was just to pass the buck, or lower publicity about it.
The fact is, Xenu.net (the site in question here) is based in Norway. I highly doubt they could use the DMCA to have the links removed legally. Luckily for Google, however, this incident has put the DMCA on the spotlight. Now, more than just geeks care about it, especially when it ends up in the New York Times.
Hah! You think you've got problems, I've got one that looks very similar, only it's between 5 and 6 inches across! Oh, and there's no silver parts at all, but it does have a shiny black cut-out...
Anyone seen one of these? Should I just fold it in half and put it in my CD burner? Or maybe I have to take the plastic coating off the outside... hmm.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this, really. There was a little grocery shop across the street from my high school, everyone would go there to buy candy and pop for lunch, and it made for a popular hangout after school.
Once new management came in, it took approximately three hours for them to come up with a rule that changed all that. They were tired of stuff being shoplifted (can you blame them?), so they said nobody can wear coats or backpacks into the place. We all had to leave them outside the front door. And it wasn't their responsibility to watch the coats and bags, either.
The very first day, someone walked out and picked up two backpacks, the next day a leather coat was stolen. After that, nobody wanted to go.
The problem? They assumed everyone with a coat or a backpack was a shoplifter. Inconveniencing everyone in order to stop one or two people seems wrong to me. I imagine this new camera system will use some sort of stereotyping as well, like watching for people who bounce around nervously, looking all around them for escape routes or police (many armed robberies in gas stations are like this). But, will the software be able to tell that from someone who really has to use the bathroom, and is bouncing up and down impatiently, searching around the room for the nearest restroom? I think not.
At my school we hid all our games in the start menu on the local computers. They got deleted from time to time, because they would restore from backup periodically, but I always saved my characters to floppy every night. We would make a hidden directory in c:\windows\profiles\%login%\start menu\programs\, so it wouldn't show up in the start menu, and if the extra space looked suspicious there, they would assume it was actually in the desktop\ folder.
The game? Castle of the Winds by Epic Megagames. It was a great game to just sit down and play in windows, the entire game fit on a floppy, and it was easy to cheat if you knew how to use a hex editor. I miss those days (seriously). It's hard to find a good RPG now.
Get a degree AND have a social life? I would think that would cause a black hole or tear the fabric of space-time or something. That's probably why it's never happened before.
provide for an adult- only domain such as.prn where all non-child-safe sites (pr0n, hate speech, etc.) would be relegated
Question #2: Microsoft owns microsoft.com, microsoft.net, and microsoft.org (amongst many, many others, I know). Would they want to snatch up microsoft.prn, to keep other people from using it? Probably. What I want to know is how far would they go? If the new domain was.sex, would they buy microsoft.sex? I think that would cause a great deal of negative publicity that any company would be quick to avoid
Question #2: How long would it take before ISPs began blocking all.prn domain requests, to "protect the children"?
Question #3: How much impact would this actually have if it went through? The problem with hidden-camera videos is that once it is out on the internet, the only person that can be adequately identified is the subject, not the person who owns the camera. There isn't a science out yet of matching up videos to the camera they were taken with, unlike bullets.
it melted the foam between the cpu and the fan in seconds.
May I make a suggestion then? Next time, put a metal (aluminum, silver, copper, etc) heatsink in between the fan and CPU, it might hold out better than foam.
Let's see the story when they make one with 1,800 AMD processors!
Palo Alto, CA: In the news today, 26 researchers, who had been constructing a new super computer for the government running on 1,800 AMD processors, were killed today when they fired up the machine for a test run. Apparently, they had forgotten to turn on the water pumps for the computer's cooling system before starting up the computer. Thousands of megawatts of electricity were instantly turned into heat energy, resulting in a contained explosion that vaporized all the researchers instantly, and turned the building into a pile of melted plastic, metal, and concrete.
One local, who wishes to remain unknown, said when interviewed, "It was crazy! I mean, the whole building just melted. The heat waves coming out of the building were staggering, it was all I could do just to run into the nearest air-conditioned Starbucks and catch my breath."
Everyone around me (friends, family, the whole bit) kept asking how much money I actually saved by not buying something off the shelf, but it's really not about money,
Actually, if I may throw in a comment here... for me, many times, it is about the money. I can buy a pre-built decent quality machine for around $2,000. Or, I can take the machine I have right now, spend a couple hundred bucks on a new motherboard and processor, and have the same power of the $2,000 machine, with better quality (I know, because I hand-picked all the components myself!).
What do I do with the old mobo and processor? Buy a cheap-ass empty case and throw it in, toss in some other components I've got laying around, and sell it to someone in my family for a few hundred bucks, with Linux and Windows both preinstalled.
End cost for me? Usually negative! How much time did I spend doing all of that work? A few hours, but, I wouldn't call it work. "Work is what you do when you'd rather be doing something else." There's really nothing I'd rather be doing than yanking out PCI cards and troubleshooting USB devices.
Oh, and on the parallel port thing, I don't use my parallel port on my main computer, but my workstation and laptop like to talk via parallel null-modem cable. A lot cheaper than buying a new laptop with eth0 installed (it's a Compaq LTE Elite 4/40CX, 486/40Mhz with 20Mb of RAM. The thing rocks the DOS games, baby!)
People these days would just rather have "somebody else" do it for them in most aspects of their lives.
I understand completely, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. The days when one man could do everything himself are nearing an end. There were days when you could make your own tools, chop your own wood, build your own house, hunt all your own food, make your clothes (etc ad nauseum). Now, it is much more advantageous to specialize in one particular skill, and use it to everyone's advantage.
For instance, if you're a really good computer programmer, and you specialize so much that you get paid well for it, then your time is worth more to you as a programmer, than, for instance, building a telescope or computer. If you want to study some astronomy in your spare time, it would take weeks of your "spare time" to make your own telescope first. Whereas, you could spend that time working, bring home some cash, and buy a telescope, so you can focus on what you're really interested in.
Specialization is a direct result of the complexity of our culture. Personally, I love gaming and building PCs, I don't really have the time to sit down and put together my own operating system, so I get pre-made distributions, usually here.
Other people, however, may be so interested in spending time coding that they would rather not put in the effort to build their own PC. So, they buy one (from Compaq, Dell, or, if you have the money, Alienware).
Do I hate people who buy pre-made machines? No. The fact is, I build my PCs out of pre-made parts, so I'm just as guilty, but on a different level. I have no idea how to make a sound card, and frankly, I don't really want to know. (And, there may be some guy out there that DOES know how, and thinks everyone is stupid for buying pre-made ones from Creative).
I can personally vouch for the radio. It is MUCH cheaper to buy a cheap little AM/FM radio than to build one. Try running down to Radio Shack and buying up all the parts you need to build a decent-sounding radio for under $10 (breadboard or circuit board, it really doesn't matter).
However, a good electronics technician has the ability to take an old broken stereo, yank all the good parts, and throw together a working model for a fraction of the cost of buying one. But then again, they generally end up looking something like this.
But, I refuse to buy a pre-built computer. I mean, sure, Compaq and Dell make some pretty decent pre-built machines (some which would be very difficult to build at home, such as the iPaq Legacy-Free system), but I would only use them as workstations in a business environment.
For pre-built machines, tech support is usually pretty crummy (I can troubleshoot my own hardware problems, thank you very much), and everything is integrated on board. Sound card dies? Send the whole system in for repairs for a month to get it fixed. Personally, I'd rather just yank the SoundBlaster out of my machine and buy another, and install it in the same day.
Don't get me wrong, pre-built machines have their place, but for the hardcore computer technicians, it is certainly not in their own home.
Yes, but unlike other mediums, SPAM can come in many different consistencies, can be used to make sculptures of small animals, and (rumor has it) is edible.
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Atari tennis? How about Tank? Space war?
It's good that they decided to pick a classic, but I would have made it a single-day marathon, not a week. That's just too much.
In the future, though, it would be great if they showed off new games as they are released, like Warcraft III, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and so on. That way, I'd be able to see how the game actually plays before I go out and buy it. Reading the back of boxes just doesn't give enough information on what the game is really like.
Yes, if you buy a color photocopier.
Ah, but the real question is, which technology makes the better money, inkjet or laser?
And remember, in the case of a water landing, your seat may be used as a floatation device.
Here, let me help you out on getting the Google rank up.
It really makes you ponder after you read this article about why Google did what they did. I'm sure it was just to pass the buck, or lower publicity about it.
The fact is, Xenu.net (the site in question here) is based in Norway. I highly doubt they could use the DMCA to have the links removed legally. Luckily for Google, however, this incident has put the DMCA on the spotlight. Now, more than just geeks care about it, especially when it ends up in the New York Times.
Ah! You seem well versed in the old stuff!
Perhaps you know where I could find a tape player that can run this??
Hah! You think you've got problems, I've got one that looks very similar, only it's between 5 and 6 inches across! Oh, and there's no silver parts at all, but it does have a shiny black cut-out...
Anyone seen one of these? Should I just fold it in half and put it in my CD burner? Or maybe I have to take the plastic coating off the outside... hmm.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this, really. There was a little grocery shop across the street from my high school, everyone would go there to buy candy and pop for lunch, and it made for a popular hangout after school.
Once new management came in, it took approximately three hours for them to come up with a rule that changed all that. They were tired of stuff being shoplifted (can you blame them?), so they said nobody can wear coats or backpacks into the place. We all had to leave them outside the front door. And it wasn't their responsibility to watch the coats and bags, either.
The very first day, someone walked out and picked up two backpacks, the next day a leather coat was stolen. After that, nobody wanted to go.
The problem? They assumed everyone with a coat or a backpack was a shoplifter. Inconveniencing everyone in order to stop one or two people seems wrong to me. I imagine this new camera system will use some sort of stereotyping as well, like watching for people who bounce around nervously, looking all around them for escape routes or police (many armed robberies in gas stations are like this). But, will the software be able to tell that from someone who really has to use the bathroom, and is bouncing up and down impatiently, searching around the room for the nearest restroom? I think not.
I admire the optimism, though.
At my school we hid all our games in the start menu on the local computers. They got deleted from time to time, because they would restore from backup periodically, but I always saved my characters to floppy every night. We would make a hidden directory in c:\windows\profiles\%login%\start menu\programs\, so it wouldn't show up in the start menu, and if the extra space looked suspicious there, they would assume it was actually in the desktop\ folder.
The game? Castle of the Winds by Epic Megagames. It was a great game to just sit down and play in windows, the entire game fit on a floppy, and it was easy to cheat if you knew how to use a hex editor. I miss those days (seriously). It's hard to find a good RPG now.
I heard you could make a battery out of a potato or a lemon, but a processor out of a banana?
This will mean a price drop on Durons still on the shelf, and used Duron processors will become really abundant and cheap.
Plus, once the Hammers are released, the price of Athlons should take a cut.
Where should we let you go today?
Uncle Steve! I didn't know they let you out of prison already!
Get a degree AND have a social life? I would think that would cause a black hole or tear the fabric of space-time or something. That's probably why it's never happened before.
I think you would time travel...
Yeah, in a "whoa, is it really August already?" kind of way.
provide for an adult- only domain such as .prn where all non-child-safe sites (pr0n, hate speech, etc.) would be relegated
.sex, would they buy microsoft.sex? I think that would cause a great deal of negative publicity that any company would be quick to avoid
.prn domain requests, to "protect the children"?
Question #2: Microsoft owns microsoft.com, microsoft.net, and microsoft.org (amongst many, many others, I know). Would they want to snatch up microsoft.prn, to keep other people from using it? Probably. What I want to know is how far would they go? If the new domain was
Question #2: How long would it take before ISPs began blocking all
Question #3: How much impact would this actually have if it went through? The problem with hidden-camera videos is that once it is out on the internet, the only person that can be adequately identified is the subject, not the person who owns the camera. There isn't a science out yet of matching up videos to the camera they were taken with, unlike bullets.
it melted the foam between the cpu and the fan in seconds.
May I make a suggestion then? Next time, put a metal (aluminum, silver, copper, etc) heatsink in between the fan and CPU, it might hold out better than foam.
Let's see the story when they make one with 1,800 AMD processors!
Palo Alto, CA: In the news today, 26 researchers, who had been constructing a new super computer for the government running on 1,800 AMD processors, were killed today when they fired up the machine for a test run. Apparently, they had forgotten to turn on the water pumps for the computer's cooling system before starting up the computer. Thousands of megawatts of electricity were instantly turned into heat energy, resulting in a contained explosion that vaporized all the researchers instantly, and turned the building into a pile of melted plastic, metal, and concrete.
One local, who wishes to remain unknown, said when interviewed, "It was crazy! I mean, the whole building just melted. The heat waves coming out of the building were staggering, it was all I could do just to run into the nearest air-conditioned Starbucks and catch my breath."
Almost Monopoly Dependant
Everyone around me (friends, family, the whole bit) kept asking how much money I actually saved by not buying something off the shelf, but it's really not about money,
Actually, if I may throw in a comment here... for me, many times, it is about the money. I can buy a pre-built decent quality machine for around $2,000. Or, I can take the machine I have right now, spend a couple hundred bucks on a new motherboard and processor, and have the same power of the $2,000 machine, with better quality (I know, because I hand-picked all the components myself!).
What do I do with the old mobo and processor? Buy a cheap-ass empty case and throw it in, toss in some other components I've got laying around, and sell it to someone in my family for a few hundred bucks, with Linux and Windows both preinstalled.
End cost for me? Usually negative! How much time did I spend doing all of that work? A few hours, but, I wouldn't call it work. "Work is what you do when you'd rather be doing something else." There's really nothing I'd rather be doing than yanking out PCI cards and troubleshooting USB devices.
Oh, and on the parallel port thing, I don't use my parallel port on my main computer, but my workstation and laptop like to talk via parallel null-modem cable. A lot cheaper than buying a new laptop with eth0 installed (it's a Compaq LTE Elite 4/40CX, 486/40Mhz with 20Mb of RAM. The thing rocks the DOS games, baby!)
People these days would just rather have "somebody else" do it for them in most aspects of their lives.
I understand completely, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. The days when one man could do everything himself are nearing an end. There were days when you could make your own tools, chop your own wood, build your own house, hunt all your own food, make your clothes (etc ad nauseum). Now, it is much more advantageous to specialize in one particular skill, and use it to everyone's advantage.
For instance, if you're a really good computer programmer, and you specialize so much that you get paid well for it, then your time is worth more to you as a programmer, than, for instance, building a telescope or computer. If you want to study some astronomy in your spare time, it would take weeks of your "spare time" to make your own telescope first. Whereas, you could spend that time working, bring home some cash, and buy a telescope, so you can focus on what you're really interested in.
Specialization is a direct result of the complexity of our culture. Personally, I love gaming and building PCs, I don't really have the time to sit down and put together my own operating system, so I get pre-made distributions, usually here.
Other people, however, may be so interested in spending time coding that they would rather not put in the effort to build their own PC. So, they buy one (from Compaq, Dell, or, if you have the money, Alienware).
Do I hate people who buy pre-made machines? No. The fact is, I build my PCs out of pre-made parts, so I'm just as guilty, but on a different level. I have no idea how to make a sound card, and frankly, I don't really want to know. (And, there may be some guy out there that DOES know how, and thinks everyone is stupid for buying pre-made ones from Creative).
Do you see where this argument goes?
A telescope or a radio, perhaps,
I can personally vouch for the radio. It is MUCH cheaper to buy a cheap little AM/FM radio than to build one. Try running down to Radio Shack and buying up all the parts you need to build a decent-sounding radio for under $10 (breadboard or circuit board, it really doesn't matter).
However, a good electronics technician has the ability to take an old broken stereo, yank all the good parts, and throw together a working model for a fraction of the cost of buying one. But then again, they generally end up looking something like this.
But, I refuse to buy a pre-built computer. I mean, sure, Compaq and Dell make some pretty decent pre-built machines (some which would be very difficult to build at home, such as the iPaq Legacy-Free system), but I would only use them as workstations in a business environment.
For pre-built machines, tech support is usually pretty crummy (I can troubleshoot my own hardware problems, thank you very much), and everything is integrated on board. Sound card dies? Send the whole system in for repairs for a month to get it fixed. Personally, I'd rather just yank the SoundBlaster out of my machine and buy another, and install it in the same day.
Don't get me wrong, pre-built machines have their place, but for the hardcore computer technicians, it is certainly not in their own home.
Spam, just another medium.
Yes, but unlike other mediums, SPAM can come in many different consistencies, can be used to make sculptures of small animals, and (rumor has it) is edible.
Certainly better than Microsoft, which is 90% lawyers.